30. Red-eyed Gu Rat

Rong Zhongyuan followed behind with a scimitar in his hand and said, "The wizard will go first, and I will be behind." He naturally knew that his task this time was to protect the safety of the wizard, and if something happened to the wizard, he would not be able to deal with his father when he went back.

The cold moon marches fast ahead.

Rong Zhongyuan followed closely behind Leng Yue, and after running a few steps, he glanced back.

The voice from behind was getting closer, clearer, and more urgent.

Although the wizard Leng Yue has high mana, he is still old after all, and the forest path is very narrow, and it is mostly blocked by horizontal branches, so he needs to keep bending or turning sideways during the running process to prevent hitting the branches, which consumes more strength, and after running for a while, Leng Yue's physical strength is already a little exhausted.

ran for a while and came to the bottom of the Ghost Ridge, Leng Yue really couldn't run. Bent over, hands on knees, gasping for air.

Ghost Ridge is the steepest and most dangerous section of the road from Inurong to Jicheng for nearly 100 miles, winding and rugged on the halfway waist of a cliff, the widest point is less than one zhang, the narrowest point is only one foot, you need to firmly grasp the ancient vines and branches that grow on the cliff to pass, all day long the clouds and mist are shrouded, if you fall down, you must fall to pieces, the bones are difficult to find.

More than ten years ago, Rong Kun led the army to attack Jicheng from here, and he experienced the difficulty of this section, so he gave it such a name.

Rong Zhongyuan grabbed Leng Yue's arm and said, "Wizard, I'll carry you on my back." ”

Leng Yue shook her hand and said, "The Ghost Ridge Road is dangerous and difficult, and it is still difficult to pass alone, how can you act with me on your back?" ”

Rong Zhongyuan resolutely refused, saying: "No, the mission of my trip is to protect your safety, I am a warrior of the Dog Rong clan, and I will never give up my mission." ”

Leng Yue knew that Rong Zhongyuan had a stubborn personality and would never leave himself alone, so she said: "Young master, you are a young hero, and you have great plans in the future, so you don't have to die here for me." ”

Rong Zhongyuan smiled proudly and said, "Wizard, you don't have to persuade me, if I can't even protect you, what kind of grand cause can I talk about?" ”

As he was talking, a pair of red eyes suddenly appeared in the jungle behind him, like a little red ghost fire floating. Soon there was a second pair, a third pair... Then there were thousands of pairs, and soon the jungle behind them was full of such eyes, and they were less than ten feet away.

Leng Yue sighed and said, "They are finally here. ”

Rong Zhongyuan turned around, holding a scimitar in his hand, and used his body to protect the wizard.

These red-eyed creatures were getting closer and closer, their bodies the size of fat wild cats, only longer than wild cats, with jet-black fur, large, round eyes, red eyes, as if filled with blood, glowing crimson in the dark, ugly faces, and two fangs in their mouths.

They stopped less than a foot away from Rong Zhongyuan, and were densely packed together, their two front paws constantly kicking the ground, threatening to rush towards them at any moment.

Leng Yue looked at these terrifying guys in front of her, and suddenly remembered something, and blurted out: "Red-eyed Gu Rat." ”

"Red-eyed Gu Rat?" Rong Zhongyuan repeated, "Wizard, what is a red-eyed Gu Rat? ”

Leng Yue said: "The matter of the red-eyed Gu rat, I have read it in the "Qinling Wizard Record", this is a book in the wizarding world that specifically records strange things, it is about 10,000 years ago, a divine stone fell from the sky and fell into a primitive tribe in the deep hinterland of the Qinling Mountains, the tribal wizards exhausted more than 30 years, and finally discovered its ability and established a spell to control it, and that tribe became the most powerful tribe in the Qinling Mountains at that time. About a hundred years later, nearly 10,000 people of that tribe died in one night, all of them were stiff and died, but there were no scars on the body, and it was later verified that it was because of the attack of the red-eyed Gu rat, the red-eyed Gu rat is a terrible beast, although the body size is only as large as a cat, the mouth can spit out a red poisonous mist, the poisonous mist contains a very small insect that is difficult to see with ordinary human eyes, called the blood filament, once this insect touches the human body, it will bite through the skin and drill into the body, without half a pillar of incense, the person bitten by it, the blood of the whole body will coagulate, the body becomes stiff, and the death is extremely tragic。 The red-eyed Gu rat has not appeared in nearly 10,000 years since that appearance, but it unexpectedly appeared here today. ”

Rong Zhongyuan swung his knife to scare away a few red-eyed Gu rats who were about to pounce on him, and a sad smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, saying: "Being bitten to death by a group of guys the size of a cat is really enough, it is better to enter Ji City with Rong Da and the others, fight happily, and die like a hero." ”

Under the bright moonlight, the dense red-eyed Gu rats stared at the blood-red eyes, screaming, pushing each other, in an extreme commotion, they seemed to have been trying to attack the two, but they seemed to be afraid of something and did not dare to act rashly.

Leng Yue didn't respond to his words, but kept looking at the black stone in his hand, and suddenly said like an epiphany: "I know, the appearance of these red-eyed Gu rats must be related to this divine stone." The tribal disaster 10,000 years ago did not arouse people's suspicion because it was nearly a hundred years apart from the appearance of the Divine Stone, and this stone appeared only more than three years ago, and the red-eyed Gu rat appeared again. Could it be that Leng Yue hesitated for a moment, looked at Rong Zhongyuan, and said, "Could it be that the red-eyed Gu rat and the divine stone came at the same time?

Rong Zhongyuan said, "Will so many red-eyed Gu rats fall from nine days away?"

Leng Yue shook her head and said categorically: "Absolutely not, what fell with the Divine Stone may only be a red-eyed Gu rat, or just an egg of the red-eyed Gu Rat, it only began to reproduce after it fell, and it takes a while to reproduce, so the red-eyed Gu rat will only appear three years after the Divine Stone falls." ”

Rong Zhongyuan said loudly: "Even if we know that it is a red-eyed Gu rat, what can we do?" Wizard, you have to quickly think of a way, I don't want to be bitten alive by this group of guys." ”

Leng Yue said: "I can't think of a way not to drive them away for a while. ”

Rong Zhongyuan said: "Wizard, I'm guarding here, you hurry up and climb up, the ghost ridge road is narrow, easy to defend and difficult to attack, as long as you guard the entrance, these red-eyed Gu rats can't take us." ”

Leng Yue said loudly: "We can't go any further, not far from the Ghost Ridge is the Dog Rong King City, once these red-eyed Gu rats cross the Ghost Ridge, they will be able to reach the Dog Rong King City before dark tomorrow, at that time, tens of thousands of people of the Dog Rong Clan, I am afraid that they will be slaughtered by the red-eyed Gu rats overnight like the powerful tribe that has been in the past 10,000 years." ”

Rong Zhongyuan was taken aback and said, "You must not let them go to the Dog Rong King City, I will kill them all on the Ghost Ridge." Speaking of this, Rong Zhongyuan suddenly remembered something and said, "If we can lure the red-eyed Gu rats to Ji Cheng, we can use their power to destroy Ji Cheng." ”

Leng Yue never expected Rong Zhongyuan to have such thoughts, a chill rose in his heart, and he said resolutely: "The young master must not have this thought, the purpose of war is not to destroy the opponent, but to win the hearts of the people." ”

Rong Zhongyuan said disappreciably: "How can you win the war without destroying the opponent?"

Leng Yue asked, "Young Master, why did you seize the world?"

Rong Zhongyuan said: "Of course you want to be the king of the world?"

Leng Yue said: "The king of the world is the king of the world, if you want to be the king of the world, you must first win the hearts of the people of the world, if you can't win the hearts of the people of the world, how can you be the king of the world?"

Rong Zhongyuan said disapprenously: "War is war, and the only purpose of war is to win, and in order to win, you can do whatever it takes." ”

Leng Yue said: "If you win the war and lose the hearts of the people, such a win will soon turn into a loss, and the loss will be worse than your opponent." Young master, you have to think twice. ”

The two red-eyed Gu rats suddenly pounced towards Rong Zhongyuan, and each spit out a cloud of red mist towards him, the red mist was the size of a person's fist, the speed was not fast, and there were invisible bloodworms hidden in it, each red mist contained hundreds or thousands of bloodworms, as long as one of them was bitten, the blood would coagulate all over the body and the body stiffened and died. The red-eyed Gu rat's deadliest weapon is not its claws, but the bloodworms in the red mist.

Rong Zhongyuan knew that he must not be sprayed by the red mist, so he quickly swung the scimitar in his hand into a sword shadow, forced back the two clouds of red mist floating over with his sword qi, and split the two red-eyed Gu rats that pounced on him in half.

Seeing that the two companions were split in half in the blink of an eye, and the red mist they spit out did not hurt the opponent in the slightest, the red-eyed Gu rat couldn't help but feel afraid, and for a while it didn't dare to rush up again, but the scream was even louder than before, as if it wanted to use this cry to discourage itself and deter the opponent.

Rong Zhongyuan killed two red-eyed Gu rats at once, feeling that these guys were nothing more than that, and the fear in his heart suddenly became much smaller, but he didn't dare to be careless at all, because there were too many red-eyed Gu rats in front of him, and he could still deal with them if two pounced on them just now, what if they were dozens, or even hundreds, pounced on them at the same time? Even if he had the ability to reach the sky, in such a narrow place, he would have nothing to hide, nothing to hide, only to be sprayed by the red mist, and his whole body stiffened and died.

Rong Zhongyuan guessed that it must be an extremely painful way to die, but he had already made up his mind that if he was bitten by the blood nematode of the red-eyed Gu rat, before the blood coagulated all over his body and he lost his ability to move, he would first cut his throat with a scimitar and give himself a happy death. As a warrior, he would never allow himself to die in excruciating pain as his blood slowly clotted.

Leng Yue knew that today was inevitable, he had a super ability to predict danger, but he didn't know that he would never go back after leaving Inurong this time.

But he didn't feel the slightest fear, as a wizard, he was used to seeing life and death, and he had already put life and death aside, he had to do two things now, one was to kill all the red-eyed Gu rats, and never let them cross the Ghost Ridge and go to the Dog Rong King City, and the other was to find a way to let Rong Zhongyuan go back alive.

"Wizard. Rong Zhongyuan once again swung his knife and killed the three red-eyed Gu rats that pounced on him, and then said: "There are too many red-eyed Gu rats, they can't be killed at all, their courage seems to be getting bigger and bigger, and their desire to attack is getting stronger and stronger, if we wait for dozens of them to pounce together, we won't be able to deal with it." ”

Leng Yue has not been silent, and is thinking hard about the right way.