Chapter 19 - The Horn of Izumo (Part II)
Seeing that the Star Rabbit King returned to normal, the Ice Spirit Tiger gradually let go of the tiger claws that held it, and the Star Rabbit King looked around for unknown reasons, and then ran away in a puff of smoke.
The soldiers were dumbfounded, and even Cang Lan herself only now knew that the cold air emitted from the Ice Spirit Tiger could also purify the demonic energy, which made Cang Lan suddenly think of the casual god who lived on the Sealing Tower, did she already know all this when she gave the Ice Spirit Tiger to Cang Lan?
At this time, two more soldiers were affected by the black fog and became unconscious, and the current situation did not allow Cang Lan to think about it any further, so he immediately asked the soldiers who came with him to surround the Ice Spirit Tiger, and continued to pass through the Izumo Mountain Road to the Horn of Izumo.
When they entered the Horn of Izumo, they found that the Star Rabbit King, who had been saved by the Ice Spirit Tiger, seemed to be waiting for them at the entrance. After seeing them coming, the Star Rabbit King ran to the Ice Spirit Tiger and jumped on the spot twice, then turned around and shook its pom-pom-like tail, seeing that it meant to lead the way for them, so the Ice Spirit Tiger groaned and followed, and Cang Lan also motioned for the soldiers to follow.
The more they entered the depths of the Horn of Izumo, the thicker the black fog became, and after walking for a while, the sky was almost dark close to night, when the soldiers could only see the blue fluorescence emitted by the Ice Spirit Tiger and a little light on the Canglan staff, the Ice Spirit Tiger finally stopped, and at this time the five fingers were no longer visible from the surroundings, only to hear Cang Lan's faint command.
"Don't leave the Ice Spirit Tiger, I'll follow the Star Rabbit King down to the mine to find out. ”
The soldiers were shocked when they heard this, after all, five days ago, their Highness Cangyan had left a similar sentence, and went down to the mine, and then disappeared, what if the same thing happened again. The soldiers were all anxious, and they couldn't distinguish the direction at all, so they had to shout loudly in place, but the black fog seemed to have the effect of isolating sound, and the soldiers' shouts did not reach Cang Lan's ears at all. A few anxious soldiers wanted to rush out of the black fog to find Canglan, but they were pressed under the claws of the Ice Spirit Tiger in time.
After Cang Lan asked the soldiers to stay in place, she followed the Star Rabbit King into the mine. After entering the narrow corridor of the mine, a smell of blood mixed with rancid stench rushed towards me.
Cang Lan raised the white jade staff, and the white purifying light illuminated everything around her. Cang Lan saw the remains of the soldiers who entered the mine a few days ago, which had already mutated at this time, with two black horns growing on the top of their heads, sharp barbs on the front of their limbs, red skin all over their bodies, and even black liquid oozing out from the rotten places. Just as Cang Lan walked in, the corpses of these soldiers who had been dead for a long time suddenly shook and stood up, waving their thorny limbs and rushing towards the Star Rabbit King and Cang Lan.
The Star Rabbit King had obviously never seen this kind of monster, and he didn't know how to deal with it for a while, so he was stunned in place, Cang Lan immediately flashed forward, protected the Star Rabbit King behind him, and used the staff in his hand to block the monster's claws.
At this time, Cang Lan saw that the part of the staff that the monster touched his hand just now began to melt and fall off, so he raised the staff again, and the white purifying light waves turned into sharp blades, smashing and disintegrating the monsters in front of him one by one, and finally turning into a pile of powder.
The path swept by the purifying light suddenly became clear, but it was soon filled again with black mist pouring from deeper into the cavern. The Star Rabbit King behind Cang Lan suddenly erected the ears that were originally attached to his body at this time, as if he heard something and turned his head back and forth to search for the source of the sound, Cang Lan also closed his eyes and listened carefully, and found that there was indeed a very faint sound coming from the depths of the mine.
Cang Lan once again illuminated the way forward with the light of purification, and walked deeper into the mine, and the Star Rabbit King also followed him with his ears pricked up, and the deeper he went, the more golden points of light on the cave wall became more and more of the Star Ore Rough Stone. When you reach the deepest part of the cave, the dense golden rough stones on the entire cave wall reflect the white fluorescence on the tip of the cane cane, intertwining into a magnificent giant net in the closed cave, which is dazzling.
However, the scene in front of him made Cang Lan have no intention of appreciating this gorgeous scene, he saw a huge blue blue wolf and several cubs of the Star Rabbit King firmly entangled in chains formed by a black mist, and the black mist seemed to be slowly wriggling as if it had come to life. It turned out that the Star Rabbit King wanted to take Cang Lan and others to save its cubs, and Cang Lan also recognized that the huge blue wolf was his missing brother Cang Yan.
Although the Star Rabbit King was in a hurry to turn in circles, he didn't dare to get close to the past. Canglan tried to get close to the blue wolf, wanting to check on his injuries, but as soon as his hand touched the blue wolf, the black mist suddenly reacted, and several newly formed black chains twisted around each other and attacked Canglan.
Cang Lan instantly changed to holding a staff in her left hand, and condensed a lightsaber with the purifying light in her right hand, cutting off all the chains that attacked, and stabbing the lightsaber into the wriggling black mist in the center. The black mist also understood Cang Lan's power, and after quickly dodging away, he scurried around the cave at high speed, Cang Lan raised the white jade staff high, and the white light on the tip of the staff appeared, dazzling. Then those white lights were reflected by the dense star-like ore on the cave wall, forming countless lightsabers and stabbing down like rain.
The countless lightsabers that rained down like a rain pierced the black mist, and then purified and dissipated, and the black chains that trapped Cangyan and the cubs of the Star Rabbit King also disappeared under the baptism of this rain of light.
Cang Lan watched the black mist completely dissipate, and then drew a huge purification circle on the ground where Cang Yan and the cubs were, and stood in the center of the formation, raising his staff to cast spells.
This time, the white light that emerged from the tip of the Canglan staff was no longer dazzling, but warm and soft, spreading out from the array in circles, and everything in its path was purified and no longer dirty.
The soldiers, who were waiting anxiously outside the mine, suddenly felt a fresh and soft wind blowing out of the inside of the mine. Wherever the breeze passed, the fog faded until it dissipated completely.
The fog subsided, and the soldiers saw the clear blue sky again, and immediately felt refreshed, and all the discomfort and irritability just now disappeared without a trace.
Just as the soldiers were about to go down to the mine to find Canglan, he walked out by himself, followed by the Star Rabbit King who helped him carry the unconscious Cang Smoke.
Seeing this, the soldiers hurriedly stepped forward and lifted the smoke down from the Xingchen Rabbit King, the Xingchen Rabbit King shook the hair on his body, ran to Canglan, rubbed Canglan's leg with his head, and spit out more than a dozen golden balls from his mouth and placed them in front of Canglan.
Cang Lan knew that these dozen Emperor Xingsha were a thank you gift from the Xingchen Rabbit King in order to thank Cang Lan for saving its cubs, so she showed a gentle smile, squatted down, stroked the body of the Xingchen Rabbit King, and said softly: "I also want to thank you, go back and take care of your children." ”
The Star Rabbit King rubbed on Cang Lan again, and jumped into the depths of the mine.
The demonic energy had been completely purified by Cang Lan, so on the way back to Izumo City, Cang Yan woke up on the back of the Ice Spirit Tiger, who also felt the movement of carrying people on his back, and stopped and whispered.
Seeing that Cangyan finally woke up, and the hanging hearts were finally put down, Cang Lan stepped forward and took out a water bag to feed the awakened Cangyan a few sips of water to drink, and he fell asleep again.
When Cang Lan returned to Izumo City with Cang Yan and a team of soldiers, they felt that they had only half an hour in the misty black fog, but in fact, fifteen days had passed, and just when the Wolf Emperor was about to give up hope, there was finally a report from the messenger that the demonic energy had been purified by Cang Lan, and Cang Yan was safe.
When Canglan and his entourage returned to Izumo City, almost the whole city was boiling, and the wolf emperor and queen wolf personally greeted them at the city gate, and the people of the city also formed a thick human wall on both sides of the road, cheering one after another. Although it was the first time for the Ice Spirit Tiger to see this kind of scene, he also understood that these people were welcoming them, so he raised his head to the sky and roared like a brave man had returned, carrying the still sleeping smoke with his head held high. And Cang Lan just smiled and walked quietly beside the wolf emperor and queen wolf.
When Cang Yan woke up, it was already noon the next day, and after opening his eyes tiredly, he found that his parents and younger siblings were anxiously guarding him.
Seeing him open his eyes, the youngest sister shouted excitedly: "Brother Yan is awake!"
Cang Yan smiled weakly, looked around, and finally landed on Cang Lan, "Brother Lan has really grown up, and I can come back alive this time thanks to you." ”
Cang Lan smiled back, then handed Cang Yan a glass of water, and asked, "Brother Yan, what happened, how did you get trapped in that mine?"
Cang Yan sat up from the couch, drank the water handed by Cang Lan, and began to tell what happened to him that day.
That day, Cangyan led a team of miners and porters to the Cape of Izumo to collect Star Ore and Imperial Star Sand, and when they arrived at the mine, they found that there was black smoke slowly overflowing from the mine, and at first they didn't think it was the dust raised by the Star Rabbit King when he was digging a tunnel in the mine. But as the miners entered, the black mist that overflowed not only did not decrease, but increased, and at this time, Cang Yan suddenly noticed the abnormality, but it was too late. There was a wailing and screaming of the miners in the cave, and the people outside the cave shouted and asked, but there was no movement in the cave. The soldiers outside the cave shouted again, but still did not get a response, and two brave veterans tried to enter the cave to check the situation, but were stopped by the smoke.
Cang Yan faintly sensed that these black fogs were not good things, and instead of letting these miners with insufficient combat ability go down to take risks, it was better to go down and find out by himself, so he let those miners guard outside the cave and entered the mine alone.
However, he underestimated the power of those black mists......
Not long after Cang Yan entered the mine, the shouts of the soldiers outside suddenly stopped, and there was a dead silence all around, and the more he went inside, the thicker the black fog became, so Cang Yan also took out his staff like Cang Lan and lit the light. I don't know how long I walked in the mine, but Cangyan suddenly felt that his ankle was grabbed by someone's sharp claws, and the sharp claw tips pierced into his skin and sent a tingling pain. Cangyan looked down and found that it was one of the miners who had just entered the mine who grabbed his ankle, only to see that the person's whole body was wrapped in a black net, and the remaining exposed skin had also turned dark red, a pair of black horns slowly grew on his head, and fangs were slowly growing in his mouth, and it was the man's fingers that were mutated into barbed hands that were holding Cangyan's ankles.
Cangyan immediately cut off the mutant miner's finger with his sword and took a few steps back, but the man was completely painless and continued to crawl towards him. At this moment, several more of the same monsters crawled out of the black mist, and Cangyan saw that the attack of the physics department did not seem to have any effect on these monsters, and he changed back to his staff again to summon fire to attack those monsters.