Chapter 35: Mountain Ghosts and Determination

Mu Yuchen, who was not burdened, stood in place, his vision was greatly limited by the environment, so he simply closed his eyes tightly, and mobilized his ability to stimulate his hearing to the greatest extent. The ups and downs of the sound waves replaced the others, and they quickly combined in Mu Yuchen's thoughts, the hazy darkness still surrounded him, and the sound that came out in the distance was much clearer.

The sound of Sasha's stampede and friction, which was once integrated, was quietly divided into many levels under the pouring of Mu Yuchen's spirit, and the direction and volume of their respective transmissions gradually became clear in his consciousness, and the existence of those who used the forest and darkness as a cover to not know the face of the road finally revealed some traces.

"The other party didn't find out about my existence! This is not a premeditated encirclement and strangulation! "After judging the direction of the other party's movement and the trees, it was chaotic and unorganized, and Mu Yuchen, who was suddenly forcibly transferred from a height of thousands of meters and returned to the ground with his feet on the ground, his tense nerves eased a little. And the other side has no goal at all! It's just instinctively wandering! ”

Mu Yuchen suspected that if the operation of the formation was normal, then he tried to break through the limit of the formation from a height, but was passively transferred to this position by a similar spatial transfer trap or a defensive mechanism of the escape technique, theoretically he should have fallen into a lethal trap, and the auditory feedback captured the activity targets that existed on all sides was the biggest evidence of his guess.

"It's the thousand-year-old dryad's seal! Completely deprived it of control of the formation? It shouldn't be like that, right!? Mu Yuchen, who was completely puzzled, shook his head, and the ghostly light flashed in his eyes that he reopened, invisibly releasing an inexplicable dangerous luster. Never mind! Anyway, if you want to break the formation! It is necessary to trigger the operation of the formation itself ....... ”

In the dark, the air in Mu Yuchen's hands was distorted under the influence of invisible energy, the style was simple and the whole body was pitch black but cold and faint, the sword body was covered with star-like chaotic and pale Qin-style long swords, and the simple cylindrical hilt without any ornaments was quietly fitted together than his five knuckles, and suddenly an inexplicable sense of historical heaviness became invisible and heavy.

Subtlely perceiving the appearance of the magic sword on the body of the source thought, the pure curse magic power between the sword of life and death, Mu Yuchen, whose heartbeat and breath became more and more gentle, moved silently under his feet, and walked into the ghostly darkness like a ghost, no matter how you look at it.

With the true yuan internal strength to form a thick layer of air cushion, Mu Yuchen under his feet without revealing it, according to Ling Bo Microwave's unique light gong method of the I Ching, in the dim only a trace of light from the branches, leaving out the subtle moon shadow in the darkness, with the help of the natural barrier formed by the trees in the forest, he was silently moving forward in the shadows of the trees.

The target of Mu Yuchen's chosen point is the source of the nearest small salsa friction sound from himself, the unknown that is full of the black mountain at the moment, it is undoubtedly the biggest enemy for him, whether it is to get rid of the passivity in front of him as soon as possible, or to act more preparedly, it is necessary to experience but understand the opponent.

Mu Yuchen, who was looming in the forest, suddenly stopped behind a big tree. The special energy that exists in the forest space, and the suppression of range detection skills such as source perception are obviously stronger than those on the mountain paths outside the forest, but the five senses of the human body do not seem to be specially cared for.

"Since there is no suppression!! Then there is no doubt about it! It's just that you can be used by your opponents! Mu Yuchen, who was very proficient in the spiritual illusion world, speculated about this anomaly with the greatest malice, of course, before the guess was completely confirmed, he still concentrated on the various information revealed in the sound of the opponent's movement, this has nothing to do with confidence, it is just that it is not necessary, because it is natural to choke on food.

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"One, two, three...... seventeen in all! The height range of individuals is 1.4 to 1.5 meters, and the weight range is around 30 to 35 kilograms! Doll! Thin and short, like a dwarf! There is an unusual sound in the waving of the hands! It seems to hold some kind of small weapon......! Intuition and no obvious danger reaction! The surrounding terrain is ....... ”

Mu Yuchen, who stimulates his hearing to the limit state, seems to have turned into a bat in the dark, with the mutual cooperation of the relics and the brain, he vaguely outlines the form of the opponent in the brain, and his hearing has obviously surpassed the normal category, and he has touched the existence of another world in the haze.

Mu Yuchen, who was hidden in the shadows of the trees, quietly shot out a shining divine light in the short moment when his eyes opened, and his feet moved silently again, and the fluctuations of his breath became more and more convergent, no different from the gray and decaying trees beside him, and he completely integrated into this special environment.

In the silence, he cautiously and lightly continued to move forward more than 100 meters, and Mu Yuchen, who stopped moving forward with the help of the shadows of the trees again, suddenly tightened his dark and deep eyes slightly, and after the almost non-existent instantaneous flash, the dim glazed color that was slightly brighter with the environment was layered in his eyes.

Mu Yuchen, who was close to the rough skin of the tall trees behind him, cautiously did not look directly at the enemy's face, and glanced at the dark woods about ten meters away with the little afterglow that escaped from the corner of his eye, and suddenly reverted to the slight sound of footsteps, and finally revealed his original appearance in front of Mu Yuchen's eyes.

It was a group of shriveled gnomes whose upper bodies were completely naked, revealing their skin like the bark of old trees, and whose lower bodies were only obscured by a pitiful bib made of grass or other things, and their bodies were covered in a strange blue-gray hue, and the joints of their limbs were protruding.

Although morphologically speaking, they are still humanoids, but the head is thinner than the body, and the face is elongated from both sides of the skull, suddenly bulging like long horns to the skull, forming a sparse hair growing on the top of the head, and the depth is about the width of a fist to be sunken.

Their ears grow on either side of their skull, and are short, small, and pointed at the apex. The most representative of the five senses, the eyes, bulge like frogs on the long and narrow face, and seem to be rotating from side to side flexibly, but the color that occupies most of the eyeballs is chaotic white and red, and with the pupils that are only the size of a needle, the only breath released is extremely contradictory.

These wizened gnomes had no purpose, their pupils were filled with a dark blankness, as if they were merely following instincts. However, when Mu Yuchen and the dwarf's eyes touched slightly, he clearly perceived a suppressed mania in the seemingly silent red and white concave, which was full of infinite resentment and could not be vented, and then accumulated over time, as if these dwarfs had fused with their instinctive emotions.

In the cold and dark silent forest, these thin gnomes seem to be in groups, but they walk loosely and very casually, but if they are near or far, they seem to have a bit of a sense of order. If the dwarfs are agile enough, then this seemingly random loose formation is enough to turn into a tacit killing formation in the blink of an eye.

The dwarfs are relatively short in stature, and among the ten slender fingers, they hold a pair of very simple but obviously made of metal, forged mountain-shaped short fork-shaped weapons, and the arms that are very appropriate to match the footsteps during walking, the invisible rhythm implies that the thin dwarfs do not seem to be bad at the attainment of the weapons in their hands, and this rhythm is not an accidental phenomenon.

"Although it looks cluttered overall! But judging by the pair of gnomes in front of them! These guys seem to be organized and intelligent! But the way this guy looks! It looks familiar! I think I've seen it somewhere! Mu Yuchen, who had carefully observed his opponent, overturned his previous judgment, and he thought slightly about what he was looking for from his memories. It's very much like the monster mountain ghost in Xuanyuan Sword Sanli! ”

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After judging that the enemy has the basic wisdom of the conventional sense, the mountain ghost becomes a substitute for the dwarf, which in the conventional understanding there is absolutely a word that devalues the meaning. Mu Yuchen, who had stopped directly attacking Ji Lu, continued to carefully distinguish the sound of salsa nearby, and from the actions of the mountain ghosts, he felt that he seemed to have accidentally left something behind.

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In the intricate mountain roads in the Black Mountain, Zhao Xin and others, who had fallen into a lost way due to formation reasons and were very unlucky to discover the enemy's situation, finally gained the capital and ability to find the right path in the detour under the cover of Song Yan's continuous magic eye. However, the continuous repetition of the walk made the speed of the crowd completely unfast, and at this time the worse situation appeared.

"Hell! Slow down, everyone! Try not to make too much noise!! Song Yan, who was walking at the front of the team, guided the road with a slightly haggard expression, and warned the newcomers behind her to be as careful as possible. Watch your position! Pay attention to the position of 500 meters in front of the left, where a group of anomalous targets have appeared! Visually inspect over a hundred instances! ”

Zhao Xin and the others, who were completely disoriented in the dark, seemed to have been sent to the door by themselves for some reason, and approached the encirclement that seemed to be full of enemies. Fortunately, the magic power divine eye will be as intimate as radar for abnormal targets, marked in the spirit of the magician, so that Song Yan and the others can avoid it in advance, but even if it punishes endless enemies, it also makes everyone's limited situation gradually dangerous.

"Stop moving! Be quiet! A few minutes after the previous order was issued, Song Yan, who had the information, ordered again.

The only source of light on the dim mountain road is naturally the moon wrapped in clouds in the sky, and the people who seem to be shining without light adjust to the slow progress and decisively stop, as if the hallucinatory hazy color is like a hallucinatory for a moment, and the background of the people and the environment quietly merges.

A clear sound of Sasha's footsteps passed from the direction of Song Yan's colony, and the subtle vibration felt through the ground, silently in the subtle changes of strength and weakness, telling the approach and distance of the unknown centaur, five minutes passed in the blink of an eye, and then the dark forest seemed to regain its deep calm.

"Alarm cleared!" Song Yan, who confirmed that the distance between the two sides was safe, whispered. "Keep going!"

Once again, it was like walking a tightrope, using the closed loop and stealth system of nano armor to keep the other party quietly passing by at a distance of less than a hundred meters from the anomalous target. The veterans who have experienced far more dangerous situations than the immediate risks are naturally still in good condition, but the newcomers are somewhat inadequate.

Song Yan's magic blessing plus the nano suit, the physical endurance has been several times stronger for the newcomers, and they don't feel that there is much lack of physical strength. However, in the process of passing back and forth several times, the psychological endurance, mental stress resistance and self-regulation ability were roughly divided into the differences between He Qin, Yu Wenwei, Tan Jian and Zhou Zhichao.

Tan Jian and Zhou Zhichao, who are men, unconsciously spit out a depressed breath from their chests after Song Yan sounded the alarm to be lifted. The two of them, once again soaked in nervous clothes, stared out in the darkness with their eyes, hidden under the armored helmets, and the trembling horror was constantly twisting and changing, and they even forgot to remove their invisibility.

And Yu Wenwei and He Qin, who took the initiative to lift the stealth state, are obviously much better than Tan Jian and Zhou Zhichao, who are still clinging to the sense of stealth safety and subconsciously rejecting the launch. This difference is not the quality of the two female newcomers, but the essence of the two male newcomers, the secret of their relatively stable spirit is very simple, and it can be clearly seen almost at first sight.

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He Qin and Yu Wenwei, who were released from invisibility, supported each other, just as sharing happiness can double happiness, and sharing sadness can halve sadness, the two people who risked fear, panic and anxiety found comfort and support from each other, so this seemingly subtle gap, the psychological difference of mutual dependence and loneliness, opened the gap between the four newcomers.

Under normal conditions, of course! If Tan Jian and Zhou Zhichao are two! If you are not overwhelmed by your own fear and urgency to the point of collapse or confusion, and finally you can slowly reshape your will, then the seemingly bad state will turn in the direction of 'no pole Tailai', and everything has advantages and disadvantages! Nothing more than that!

"I don't know what to do! What are they? "I was very curious about the fierce fire of things that kept passing through the woods next to the mountain road, and the white Russian man said as he walked and looked back." It's so unclear and inexplicable! It's nerve-wracking! ”

"You're right!" Zhao Xin, who was standing in the middle of the line, was silent for a while, her crimson eyes swept over the newcomers, and then she shook her head and said. "But that's too risky! And there's no point in looking at it from afar! Not to mention the environment in front of you! If you get separated again....... ”

Hordes of unknown enemies, twists and turns, mountain paths that can be lost at any moment, harsh forest environments full of unknowns in the dark, or the four newcomers in the team...... and so on, all restricting the movements of Zhao Xin and other veterans, although everything proves that her judgment is correct, but the invisible uneasiness is approaching more and more urgently.

The eight people who continued to move forward were once again at their feet, and the seemingly ordinary but nine bends and eighteen bends, plus the interference of the supernatural ghost hitting the wall, inexplicably returned to another familiar intersection. Although Song Yan's magic eyes quickly found the correct path based on the wrong experience just now, the morale of the newcomers was still inevitable, and it was once again worn down.

"Stop!" Less than ten minutes after advancing on the right path, Song Yan, who was directly in front of the team, raised her hand again, looked back with a bitter smile on her face and said, "It's a pity! Looks like our good luck! It's run out! There is another oversized anomalous target limit in front of you! ”

"How many people are there!?" Song Yan's expression made Zhao Xin more and more uneasy, as if the unfortunate arm directly spread its five fingers, penetrated her towering hills and the flesh between her ribs, and directly held her heart tightly.

"A lot! Currently in the realm of magical vision perception! It's about another thousand or so! And the number of follow-ups is still growing! Song Yan's slightly pale face turned into helplessness, and she continued: "More my calculations! Even if we speed things up! According to the density of each other! The distance between the two sides will also be shortened to within 100 meters! ”

"Is that so!?" Reading the subtleties in Song Yan's expression, Zhao Xin, who judged that this data was only high or low, thought in a deep groan, she had to make a decision as soon as possible.

"Go back the way you came! It's still too late! Tan Jian said in a hurried tone.

"No! Song Yan's magic eyes! I have checked the terrain and environment around the original mountain road! There's no terrain around there at all! Go back! Instead, it will only lead us into a siege. Fierce fire said in a deep and distant voice: "It's better to wait for death!" I'd rather chase the only life that doesn't exist! ”

The solemn silence froze among the people, for the veterans to turn back and fall into the already prominent encirclement, it is simply a non-existent choice, Zhao Xin looked around at the newcomers who couldn't see their expressions clearly, and their beautiful faces were clearly revealed, with an incomparably decisive and resolute look.

"Let's go through the forest!" Zhao Xin said loudly.

Although such an outcome had been expected, the moment the decision was made, the newlyweds' breathing was still unnatural, and they sped up a little in the rapid breathing. However, as weak people, they have no right to veto, and the only thing they can do is to accept it silently.

The veterans who reached a consensus in an instant walked into the darker gray deep forest next to the mountain road under the leadership of Song Yan. At the end, the hesitant newcomers walked with great difficulty, but in the end, under the double pressure of physical and psychological, they had to follow the strange environment in front of them, and the only more familiar veteran approached the woods.