Chapter 20 - The Survivors (Part I)

The flames formed a sinuous dragon that burned the attacking monsters to ashes along the path. The dragon's burning air brought up the air outside the cave to form a whirlwind that poured into the mine, but soon more black mist poured out from the depths of the mine. At this moment, Cang Yan suddenly noticed that black gas also came out of his ankle wound, and those black qi quickly fused with the black mist, forming a chain that firmly wrapped around his ankle.

Cangyan wanted to summon the fire again to burn the chains that were entwining him, but he suddenly felt powerless all over, and the fire spell that he was best at could no longer be summoned, so he was in a hurry, and he conjured a wolf type to bite off those black chains, but those chains also changed shape with his changes, first entangled the limbs of the huge blue wolf that he conjured, and then slowly rolled up to his body. Although Cangyan struggled and bit with all his might, it had no effect, and the black chains that wrapped around him continued to suck his physical strength until he could no longer move, and was dragged into the depths of the mine by the black mist.

Cangyan was in a daze in the depths of the mine, and I don't know how long it took, just before he was about to lose consciousness, he finally waited for his younger brother Canglan.

After Cang Yan finished telling his experience in the mine, he let out a long breath, feeling that his body was still very tired.

Cang Lan examined the wound on his ankle again, confirming that the demonic energy had been purified and the wound was slowly healing. At this time, a sparrow with a silver light suddenly flew in at a very fast speed outside the window, Cang Lan knew that it was a spiritual letter sent by Chi Muyan, so he reached out to catch the sparrow, and the sparrow flashed in his hand, turning into a string of glowing words and a transparent ball of light.

Cang Lan's face changed after reading the text, it turned out that Chi Muyan had sent him several spiritual letters in the days he was in the black fog, but he didn't receive them once, it can be seen that those black fogs can not only devour the physical strength of animals, but also devour spiritual letters.

Cang Lan then opened the memory light ball, and the memory screen appeared on the back of a person*, and a black raised scar on his back extended from his left shoulder to his right abdomen, which Cang Lan recognized at a glance as the same injury he had seen on Cang Yan's ankle in the mine.

Chi Muyan said in the letter that he had tried to use purification techniques to eliminate this scar, but he was unsuccessful, and that his skin that had returned to normal after purification would revert to the black scar after a period of time.

Cang Lan knew Chi Muyan's strength, and with his ability, there must be something strange about the demonic qi that he couldn't purify. Although the black fog in Izumo's Horn has been completely purified by him, Cang Lan has not confirmed whether the black fog has spread to other areas of Yingzhou Island, and he also has to inform the various spirit clans on Yingzhou Island of the specific situation of the black fog, and by the way, convey the invitation of the president to fight against the water demon together. Looking at his weak brother and younger siblings, Cang Lan sighed softly, he could never leave Yingzhou Island at this time.

So when Cang Lan replied to Chi Muyan, he first briefly recounted what happened on Yingzhou Island, and said that he had no time to withdraw now, and then suddenly remembered that the Ice Spirit Tiger helped the Star Rabbit King purify the demonic qi beforehand, and looked at the white jade staff in his hand, and felt that this matter might be related to the ability of that god, so he prompted Chi Muyan and asked him to go to the Sealing Tower to try it.

After replying to Chi Muyan's letter, it was already evening, Cang Lan went to discuss with the Wolf Emperor to prepare to set off early tomorrow morning to find an alliance with other spirit clans, and by the way, he also informed them of the information of the black fog, and the Wolf Emperor also felt that this matter should not be delayed, so he agreed to his proposal, let him go back to the room early to rest, pack his bags, and set off early tomorrow morning.

However, after Canglan walked out of her brother's room, she heard the wolf's complaint at the door, so she stopped to listen.

Ji Yuyan: "Lan'er has just come back for a day, and you let him go, can't you let him stay at home for a few more days?"

Qingyu Cang: ......

Ji Yuyan: "Last time, I was in a hurry to find Yan'er's whereabouts, but this time there is no urgency, and you are so anxious that he will leave tomorrow morning." ”

Qingyu Cang: ......

Ji Yuyan: "You are the Wolf Emperor, can't you call a meeting of all the clans or something? If you have to let Lan'er run in person, don't you know that your father feels sorry for his son?"

Cang Qingyu: "This ...... You can't mess around, the Wolf Emperor's convening of all clans can only be a big event like the Dark Guild attacking the city, you can't just open it if you want to. ”

Ji Yuyan: "The water demons have all escaped, isn't this a big deal?

Cang Qingyu: "Shhhh

Ji Yuyan: "Of course...... When I say there is a relationship, it means that there is a relationship!"

Qingyu Cang: ......

Cangyan: "I finally know today who these two noisy little guys look like......"

Cang Lan shook her head and smiled when she heard this, and walked to her room, but received another spiritual letter on the way. It turned out that Chi Muyan saw that there was no reply from him for a long time, so he went to ask Chubai about his whereabouts, and then Chubai also tried to contact him, but he didn't get a reply. Chu Bai and Cangyan were old acquaintances, and if they couldn't contact their younger brother, they would naturally ask their brother, but the spiritual letter that Chubai sent to Cangyan was also swallowed by the black fog.

Cang Lan knew that Chu Bai must be anxiously waiting for their news, so she also hurriedly replied to Chu Bai, explaining the specific situation of Yingzhou Island, and telling him that he and Cang Yan were safe and sound, so that he and the chairman could rest assured to do their own thing.

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Hong Jiu'er woke up from a nightmare of severe pain all over her body, and opened her eyes tiredly, only to find that the pain in the nightmare was still continuing, and the severe pain made her body unable to move, she could only turn her head slightly to check the surrounding environment.

It looked like an abandoned thatched hut, covered with dust and cobwebs, and the light could be seen from the sparse thatched roof, and she was lying on a dilapidated bamboo bed, and beside her lay a man with a bandage on her upper body, none other than her fellow disciple, Hong Shiyan.

Hong Jiu'er and Hong Shiyan are two of the many orphans picked up by Master Hong, and Master Hong named them in the order in which they were found, Hong Jiu'er ranked ninth, so it was called Jiu'er, and Hong Shiyan was ranked after Jiu'er, and because of the many words, it was called Shiyan. Although they are of the same age, they are very different in size due to different races, Hong Jiu'er is a spirit clan, petite, with a pair of cat ears and a slender tail, while Hong Shiyan is a dragon clan, tall and burly, with dark skin, and always likes to tease Hong Jiu'er, calling her small, and Hong Jiu'er is not to be outdone, calling him a big stone.

Although the two often quarrel, they are also friends who talk about everything, but they never thought that they would get together now in trouble.

Hong Jiu'er lay down for a while, and her lead-filled body seemed to have finally regained some consciousness, so she slowly sat up and pushed Hong Shiyan beside her.

"Big rock, wake up, where are we?"

Hong Shiyan also seemed to have pain all over his body, frowned and reluctantly raised his eyelids, glanced at the surrounding situation, and tried several times before sitting up, "How do I know, I only remember that we were caught by that woman, and then the third senior brother rescued us and pulled us to jump off the cliff of broken love together......"

Speaking of this, Hong Shiyan looked around again and asked, "What about the third senior brother?"

Hong Jiu'er suddenly fell silent, lowered her head, and her crystal tears smashed on the dilapidated bamboo bed, shattering and falling apart.

"Senior Brother is dead, Senior Sister Hong Lu is also dead, so many brothers and sisters have been killed, and Master is also ......" Hong Jiu'er hugged her knees and whimpered, unable to cry anymore.

Hong Jiu'er suddenly raised her head as if she remembered something while crying, grabbed her hair tightly with her hand, and shook her head with a painful and resentful expression, "It's all my fault! If I hadn't told Yin Mo about that bastard about the Hongmen cheats, he wouldn't have colluded with the people of the Dark Guild to rob him, Master and everyone else were because of me...... I killed them......"

Hong Shiyan couldn't bear to see her continue to blame herself, so he sighed, grabbed her hands and wrists, asked her to let go, and then carefully avoided the wounds on her body and pressed her into his arms, "Such a small person, how can you be so powerful, it's just that we all believe in the wrong person." ”

Indeed, they all believed the wrong person, Hong Jiu'er believed the wrong Yin Mo, and Hong Shiyan believed the wrong Youlan.

Hong Jiu'er cried bitterly in Hong Shiyan's arms for a while, the crying gradually subsided, Hong Shiyan saw that she was no longer as excited as before, and gradually relaxed the strength that pressed her, but at this time, there was a sharp pain behind him, which made him gasp.

Hearing Hong Shiyan inhale, Hong Jiu'er sobbed and raised his head, looking at Hong Shiyan's expression of pain, and his hand holding him suddenly felt a hot wetness, and when he put it in front of him, his hands were already full of blood.

Hong Jiu'er couldn't care about his pain anymore, got up and walked around behind Hong Shiyan, and saw that the bandages behind him were all soaked with blood.

At this moment, a boy about ten years old suddenly pushed the door in, saw them wake up and immediately shouted: "Mother! Come and see, the two people that Dad picked up are awake!"

Hearing the boy's shout, a woman also walked in, looked at the two who woke up, and showed a simple smile, "It's good to wake up, I've been asleep for seven days, you should be hungry, I'll go get you something to eat, Xiaodouzi, you go and get a bowl of water for these two brothers and sisters to drink first." ”

The boy nodded in response, and quickly went out and brought two bowls of water to them, and after a while, the woman also came in with a few steamed buns, washed bandages, and some grated herbs.

Hong Jiu'er and Hong Shiyan thanked them, then grabbed the steamed buns and ate them, if the woman didn't say it, they didn't know that they had been asleep for seven days, and their stomachs were already hungry.

When they had finished eating, the woman took the bandages and the ground herbs, and recounted how she had found them, as she changed the dressings.

"Xiaodouzi's father is a fisherman fishing near Yansong Island, and when he was about to go out to sea to fish that morning, he found you two lying next to my fishing boat with injuries, so he carried you back with two jujube red horses, who knew that you slept for seven days. ”

So saying, the woman took out of her bosom a tag and gave it to them.

"Two people came to see you when you were asleep, and they came together, one of them was a very good-looking young man, and he didn't say anything, but checked your injuries, and then left some money and medicinal herbs, so that I could take good care of you, and the other man who came with him, with a black cloth covering his face, and couldn't see his face clearly, he left you this sign, and asked me to tell you to go to the cave behind Gansong Temple on the first day of the next month, that is, eight days later. ”