Before anyone could see them, a trumpet pierced the rain and drilled into their eardrums.

Those who were on guard received the signal and stopped patrolling and gathered.

The vision was hazy, and I saw a group of people coming from a distance, Ziwei and Tang Jiao were tied up, held in the front, their heads bowed, and they looked like they were helpless, and their limbs were completely weak, and they were dragged to the altar. The little mute was also there, supervised by two men, and brought to the center of the huge array, standing still in the face of the towering torture rack.

The three of us dived behind the nearest cover, waited for a while, and everything seemed to be ready in front of us, but the leader was nowhere to be seen.

Mu Jinshu looked at the little mute, couldn't hold it, and shook the dagger in his hand again and again.

"We all have important people present, and no matter what happens for a while, the time has not yet come, so remember not to act rashly." Jiang Xun opened his mouth, looking at me with a different kind of deep meaning in his eyes, and said emphatically: "We must act together to have a chance to leave together." ”

I answered, Mu Jinshu stared outside, restrained his emotions, and nodded.

Someone took Ziwei and Tang Jiao to the back of the high platform, walked up the stairs, and tied the people back to back on the torture frame above. In order to prevent them from breaking free, the chains were tightly bound several times, and all limbs were fixed, and there was no room for movement.

"They shouldn't be the only ones." Mu Jinshu looked anxious while waiting, "The three of them are just sacrifices to the phoenix, even if the ceremony is completed, someone will have to deal with the aftermath, and she should be present as the leader." ”

"Don't worry." Jiang Xun said: "Let's see what they will do." ”

I hung my heart in the air, and saw the little mute on the altar mechanically begin to step in a regular manner, walking around the high platform, flipping his hands and making strange movements, and the second circle, again repeating the steps, repeating the posture. It wasn't until the fourth circle that the guards and patrols took out a bucket from underneath, and someone else took a long cloth and soaked it in the black liquid in the bucket.

The wet cloth was taken out again, twisted into a twist shape by two people, pulled to the two ends of the altar respectively, and walked to the edge, where the two people knelt on the ground together and put down the cloth strips, just dividing the entire array from the middle.

Mu Jinshu let out an exclamation from his mouth, I don't understand, revealing a confused look, and heard Jiang Xun say, "It's blood." ”

I chuckled inwardly, and the little mute's steps were stopped by the blood-stained strip of cloth, and he no longer stepped forward, confined to the altar, and opened his mouth sneeringly, unable to make a sound, but only reciting something with his mouth.

The rain is non-stop, and there is a continuous sound of rustling in the forest, revealing a sinister atmosphere everywhere.

The little mute read as he walked, his childish face still full of ignorance, and he didn't know what was going to happen.

"Be careful." Jiang Xun reminded.

I cheered up, heard the rain falling on the leaves getting louder and louder, and when I realized that something was wrong, the dense centipedes had made a comeback, and they emerged from the damp darkness one after another, and crawled in the direction of the altar with their slender feet.

I felt itchy on my legs, lowered my head, and saw a few of them lying on my calves, and suddenly my scalp was numb, and I wanted to reach out to wave it away, but Jiang Xun grabbed my wrist and shook my head.

I gritted my teeth and got goosebumps. Jiang Xun looked at me a few times, slowly stepped back, leaned over in front of me, and put his left hand not far from my knee.

The centipedes, as if attracted by something, stopped their upward tendency to climb upwards and stuck their heads in his direction.

The body temperature cooled down from the rain could still feel the coldness of the touch of the index finger, and with just a light touch, a few centipedes climbed onto the back of his hand.

I couldn't help but touch the place where the centipede crawled over just now, and then I looked up and saw that the heads of the centipedes had just approached the Buddha beads on his wrists, so I turned back in excitement, was put on the ground by Jiang Xun, and crawled in the direction of the altar as if fleeing.

Jiang Xun withdrew his hand, hid the string of Buddhist beads under his long sleeves, avoided my sight, and said, "You two stand beside me, don't move." ”

Mu Jinshu and I leaned over as he said, staying in a relatively empty place, and could see most of the things that passed around us.

At the moment when those centipedes climbed onto the altar, the noise in the jungle was even worse, Jiang Xun took out the tart demon whip and dispersed, and a warm breath permeated his body, dispelling a little chill.

The foul air came to the top, and the sky was a little darker, and countless cockroaches poured out of the depths of the dense forest, of all sizes, frantically moving in the direction of the centipede. I observed that many of them were worms with abnormally swollen bellies and were about to start breeding, spitting out strands of mucus.

The cockroach passed by us, as if afraid of the breath of the tart whip, and did not dare to approach, so it turned around from a distance of about half a meter, and went up to the altar with all its heart.

When the commotion subsided a little, I saw that the cockroaches on the altar were attracted by the blood on the strip of cloth, and a large group of them were all entrenched here, while the centipedes who arrived first formed a circle along the periphery along the formation, guarding them.

The silent words in the little mute's mouth stopped, and his footsteps stopped in the center of the semicircle, and he looked up at the top of the high platform, his mouth open, and the meaning was unknown.

At this moment, the two people who had tied Ziwei and Tang Jiao to the torture rack suddenly pulled out two special arrows pinned to their waists, stood on the front and back sides of the torture rack, grabbed their necks with one hand, aimed the arrows at their heads, and raised them high.

As soon as I panicked, I immediately rushed out to stop their actions, ignoring Jiang Xun's obstruction, and shook off his hand vigorously.

At the same time as they noticed the movement on our side, the man standing next to Ziwei was grabbed by something, frozen there inexplicably, a pair of godless eyes were even more hollow, and when the raised hand fell, he actually pierced his neck with the arrow in his hand. At the same time, two arrows shot out from behind me at the same time, one hit the person in front of Tang Jiao, and the other missed the past because the person fell to the ground.

Blood poured out like a stream of water, falling down the high platform in the array below, attracting more cockroaches.

I have been observing the situation above in the process of approaching, and when I saw this scene, I shuddered, and when I turned around, I saw that Jiang Xun's face was cold, and I don't know when I had a bow in my hand.

In a short period of acquaintance, I still can't fully trust him, and only then can I understand what he means, but the steps have already been taken, regret is useless, and I don't have time to think about anything else, I approached in the fight, dodged those cockroaches, crossed through the guards of the centipedes on the periphery, and stepped on the stairs on the back.

Mu Jinshu followed closely the moment I rushed out, and went straight in the direction of the little mute to bring her out of it.

Jiang Xun had no choice but to be forced to cover us, fight and tart the demon whip, and use the yin qi of Muzhang County to transform it into his own attack and fight out, but it didn't work, and he couldn't stop the people who blocked him, but he was forced into the formation and joined Mu Jinshu and the two of them.

I climbed the stairs and, seeing that no one was catching up, hurried to find the key from the man who had died after knocking down the man with the wounded arm. When he turned around and was about to open the chains on the two of them, when he looked up, he was met by a pair of completely unfamiliar eyes in Ziwei's eye sockets.

Gray, silent, with a vigorous killing intent.

I was stunned, and subconsciously looked at Tang Jiao on the other side, also with my eyes open, and was fixed there, but it was only a soul-like hollow, and there was no such frightening chill.

The gaze in Ziwei's eyes only lasted for a short two seconds, and in the blink of an eye, he seemed to have just woken up from a nightmare, and everything turned into confusion, looking at me and not realizing what was going on, how could I be tied here.

"Master......"

He tried to move his arms and see his surroundings clearly, all with a nervous and helpless expression.

I settled down and stopped thinking about it, opened the lock on the chain, put the two of them down, supported Tang Jiao who collapsed, patted his face, saw that he had not reacted, bit his index finger and pressed it on his forehead, and drew a pure talisman to dispel some of the imprisoned confinements in his body, and opened up several of his acupuncture points, and finally saw his fingers twitch, and woke up leisurely.

Before we could breathe a sigh of relief, we saw several people in the fight in the audience hula and give up the attack at the same time, retreat dozens of steps one after another, leaving the range of the formation, and forming a new layer of encirclement network with manpower in addition to the guards of those centipedes.

Mu Jinshu protected the little mute and stood at the front of the formation with Jiang Xun, not knowing why they moved.

I asked Ziwei to take a good look at Tang Jiao, stood up in front of the torture rack, and saw the whole picture of the entire formation and the movements of the cockroaches below from a high place, and when I realized that the position of our two groups was not good, it was too late.

The formation was activated, and the edges around it emitted a patch of dark light, trapping us inside, and the cockroach in the middle was also active at this time, this animal with its own group gave up its original habits, and in this chaotic situation, many insect queens actually began to reproduce together, splitting dense eggs from the abdomen, soaked in shallow bloodstains, and soon gradually began to wriggle, frantically devouring the mother.

The leader, who had not been seen since the beginning, finally appeared at this time, standing alone in front of the altar, and when he saw Mu Jinshu, he spoke in an old and hoarse voice, and said, "I know that as long as this child is here, you will definitely come back." ”

Mu Jinshu's face changed, and the leader said slowly in the same tone: "I need her as my sacrifice, but I need more than her." I'm glad you didn't disappoint me. ”

"What the hell are you going to do?" Mu Jinshu took a few steps forward, smashed it with his fist, and stabbed it with a dagger, but he couldn't break the dark light around the formation, and scolded: "How many more people do you want to hurt?" How long will it be wrong? ”

"This is the last time." The leader's tone was calm, and he said in a kind voice: "Your sacrifice is valuable, I already know how to transform the 'qi' of the two places, as long as my sacrifice is successful, our people can leave here and return to the real sunshine, as you expect, to live the life that a person should have." Jinji, your hope is about to be fulfilled, you should be happy, and when the time comes, I will record what you have done for us, and you will be admired by future generations and become the hero of our clan. ”

"I have nothing to say if you want to kill me, but these people, they are innocent! This kind of life-for-life method is a kind of evil art, and you are going to continue it now? ”

"No one is innocent in the face of disaster."

"We've worked so hard to get to where we are today, and now we're nearing the end of the road, and we can't stop here." The leader's eyes sunken in the hole looked around us, his gaze wandered over me and Jiang Xun's bodies, and said: "The activation of the formation requires the different yin and yang qi of the people of the two realms, and that woman has a strong pure yang flame on her body, and this man is even more surprising to me." ”

She looked at Jiang Xun and said, "He is the same kind of person as us. ”

"Brocade." The leader raised his hand, looked at the glowing array, his forehead was bruised, and he tried his best to say: "They appeared at this time to help me complete my plan, this is fate, this is the will of heaven!" ”