Chapter XXXVII: The Survivors
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Under the rotation of the giant axe, the strange tree that had just entered the barbarium naturally could not resist, and in less than half an hour, the roots of the strange tree from the ground had been cut off, and most of the branches of the crown had been broken, all scattered on the ground, and it looked no different from the dead trees around it. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
This is still the result of Ding Yao's stay, after all, he is still observing the strangeness of the strange tree, hoping to find the place where the missing people disappeared.
But gradually, he found that the strange tree began to be wrong, and let him cut off the roots and branches, the brute beast aura that emerged from it did not weaken, but it continued to strengthen, and in a short period of time, it was almost close to the level of a second-level beast soldier.
This strange phenomenon made Ding Yao dare not be careless, and after frantically urging his perception, he realized that the source of the power of the strange tree came precisely from the soil where the roots were located.
The red light flashed under the hood, he didn't want to let the strange tree's breath rise so wildly, the vitality in his body surged, and the giant axe was like a fiery red sunset, directly hitting the trunk of the strange tree, destroying it into bursts of soot in an instant, forming a gray smoke that enveloped the place where they were fighting.
"Huh?"
Ding Yao snorted with a slight surprise, under the full force, the strange tree was no longer spared, and the breath had disappeared cleanly, obviously dead, but Ding Yao's perception detected another thing.
When the smoke cleared, the strange tree and Ding Yao all disappeared, and there was nothing on the ground, only one more thing appeared where the strange tree had taken root before.
One, a bottomless pit!
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"I said, Ding Yao is not the real murderer, why do you continue to arrest him?"
Hualan looked at Little, as if he saw a stranger, not the hero who led the settlement to survive and thrived in the quicksands.
And Little's tone began to take on a bit of impatience: "According to Xiaolan, those missing members, including Lao Tie, have actually died a long time ago, but their bodies are parasitized by some kind of brute beasts, so they can be like us humans?"
Her eyes flashed, but Hua Lan nodded.
"Then let me ask you, is there any difference between a parasitic person and a normal person that can be seen directly?"
This question made Hua Lan frown and ponder for a while, and said: "This creature specializes in parasitic the corpses of other races, and the original owners are all dead, so they all exude a slight death aura, and they are not very sound in terms of sanity, and lack the ability to communicate with normal humans......"
"That is, the parasitic person is actually no different from a beast?"
Hua Lan, who was interrupted, was stunned for a moment and nodded.
"Hmph!" Litt suddenly snorted coldly: "Xiaolan, although you are the doctor of our quicksand spit, this does not prove that your ability in this area is much stronger than other people in the empire. ”
The sarcasm came suddenly, and Hua Lan couldn't help frowning, and her expression became unpleasant.
"Do you remember the missing people that Ding Yao killed at the entrance of the settlement a few days ago? Are you saying that they are all beasts too?"
"Strictly speaking, yes. ”
"Why don't you confront them for yourself and see how pitiful you think the beast is?"
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Ding Yao had already entered the pit where the strange tree was.
The air underneath wasn't as bad as he had thought at first, except for the dust he had stirred up by attacking the monster trees, it was also very dry, apparently well ventilated all the time.
The two of them walked and walked along the road under the hole, which suddenly made Ding Yao's heart flood with a strange familiar feeling.
This reminded him of the long path in the Void Yin Cave.
Thinking about it, he immediately found that there was also a trace of yin qi in this cave, and when it came to the use of this land, he quickly understood that the source of these yin qi was the countless corpses buried in the cemetery.
This made his heart skip a beat, because this familiarity couldn't help but make him start to think, why this pit is so similar to the Void Yin Cave, is the appearance of Yin Qi a coincidence, if not, then wouldn't it prove that someone is imitating the Void Yin Cave to arrange this pit?
Thinking of this, Ding Yao, whose eyes were flashing, simply took the giant axe off his back, and his steps began to become cautious.
After walking for a few minutes, his steps froze, because in his perception, the front began to change. A faint layer of light was covered with a giant axe in an instant, illuminating the scenery ahead, and after seeing it clearly, Ding Yao's heart was suddenly shocked.
The corridor has come to an end, and there is a stone chamber connected to it, which is exactly the same as the huge circular stone chamber seen in the Void Yin Cave!
A thought suddenly flashed in Ding Yao's mind, and under the surprise in his eyes, he immediately looked at the stone wall, his fingers touched slightly, and his breath suddenly changed.
This stone chamber is not only similar to the stone chamber in the Void Yin Cave, but if you look closely at the stone wall, this is the same stone chamber at all!
Entering the cave twice, Ding Yao didn't pay attention to the direction of the Yongdao, but just a moment later, he suddenly remembered that the Yongdao of the Xuyin Cave was to the south, and the Yongdao of the quicksand spit was to the north, and the stone chamber was precisely connected between the two Yongdao, becoming an underground passage from the quicksand spit to the Xuyin Cave!
"Hmm......"
As if seeing the light above the giant axe, a vague grunt suddenly came from the stone room, and the sound was extremely weak, just grunting exhausted all the strength of the other party.
The large group of 'dead clans' found when entering from the Void Yin Cave did not appear at this time, after all, most of them were killed by Ding Yao using guerrilla warfare, and only a few were left, and they didn't know where they went.
Ding Yao squinted slightly, and walked towards the source of the grunt with his axe.
Snap, pop...... Click!
The toe unexpectedly touched something strange, and Ding Yao paused, and the light on the giant axe magnified slightly. Looking down, his pupils suddenly froze.
What he encountered was a corpse, sitting on the ground against the stone wall at this time, his legs stretched out to block Ding Yao's way, and the most surprising thing for Ding Yao was that this person's face he knew was one of the members of his previous hunting team!
After disappearing for five days, he didn't expect that the people of his hunting team were also on the missing list, and his axe-wielding hands trembled a little, and he began to move forward again.
Suppressed......
As the path illuminated by the giant axe continued to extend, Ding Yao saw more and more corpses, some he had seen and some had not, some should have died, and some should have been alive, all of them were silently crooked on the ground, like dolls to be played with, scattered all over the place.
Patience......
The number of corpses was nearly hundred, all of them were not decomposed, and in the yin qi of the stone chamber, each corpse's body exuded a clear vitality, as if they were all still alive. It's just that Ding Yao knows that the vitality he perceives is not the vitality of the original owner of these corpses.
restrained......
His footsteps had reached the center of the stone chamber, and the light shone on a huge pillar support, on which several extremely thick chains were worn, and in the chains, a figure was tied, which was the person who had made the sound before.
Ding Yao raised his head, the hood was a little loose and fell from his head, and his wrists trembled irrepressibly, and the red light in his eyes flickered and dimmed, setting off his state of mind at the moment.
The figure on the stone pillar hung its head weakly, its whole body covered in blood, not only bound by chains, but also pierced by stone thorns as thick as its forearm, which were attached to the pillar support like a decoration. The light on the giant axe dispelled a little cold, and the figure trembled slightly, as if he wanted to open his eyes, but his weak face couldn't even control the muscles of his eyelids, and he couldn't see Ding Yao's appearance at this time.
"Killing is not guilty......" The hoarse voice didn't seem to be made by Ding Yao at all, it echoed in the stone room, with an illusory meaning, getting louder and louder, and finally roared out: "Cruelty is punished!"
The axe flashed, the chains on the stone pillar broke into pieces, and the figure fell from the stone pillar and was taken into Ding Yao's arms.
"I'll help you get revenge......"
The figure heard Ding Yao's words clearly, and a very faint smile suddenly appeared on his face, and then his head tilted, and there was no sound at all.
The stone room was suddenly silent, Ding Yao didn't even maintain the vitality light on the giant axe, in the pitch black, the atmosphere was terrifyingly depressed, accumulating, only the two red lights in his eyes continued to rise, shining in the darkness, as if a pair of blood-colored demon pupils were complete.
When the pupils are complete......
Rumble!
The vitality rushed out of Ding Yao's body, and the madness swept through the stone room, breaking the silence of the previous moment, and the giant axe exuded a demonic blood red and silver white, as if the blood sun and the demon moon were competing brightly.
An axe and a slash to the ground!
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"Xiaolan, do you still have to insist on your own statement?"
Litt and the others were no longer in the reception room of the General's Grotto, but also opened a secret passage on one side of the bedroom and entered another very small room, and in the room, apart from the very few necessities of life, there was one, it should be said, half of the people lying in it.
"Look at Lao Wu, is it like you said?"
Lao Wu, who can only be regarded as half a person, his legs and left forearm are all gone, and when he saw Litt with the others, his eyes couldn't help but become extremely vigilant, and he shrank into the corner of the wall with the rest of his right arm, obviously very scared.
And this Lao Wu was one of the few people who was killed by Ding Yao at the entrance of the settlement!
"That day, after Ding Yao escaped at the entrance of the settlement, Ruan Xue collected the bodies for several of them, but then Wang Si unexpectedly found that Lao Wu still had a chance to live, so we rescued him. But I was afraid that Ding Yao would come back to murder Lao Wu after learning the news, so I blocked the news and let Lao Wu live in this secret room to ensure his safety. ”
Hua Lan's eyes were fixed on Lao Wu, but she remained silent.
Lao Wu was extremely seriously injured, and it was indeed a miracle that he was able to survive, and at this moment, judging from his expression, he didn't look like an irrational character at all, which naturally had a great impact on the arguments that Hua Lan said when he came.
Seeing that Hua Lan was silent for a long time, a strange light flashed in his eyes, and he said in a cold voice: "Ding Yao killed the members of the settlement, and the human witness is in front of you, which he can't deny, so I won't allow the arrest of Ding Yao to stop." As for your investigation report, I think it's better to double-check it again!"
Hua Lan was silent for a while, then raised his head and said, "Regardless of whether Ding Yao is the real murderer or not, I still have to inform the people in the settlement of Lao Tie's investigation report, after all, if this parasitic brute beast is not paid more attention, it will easily cause casualties!"
Little snorted, "Then let's talk about it tomorrow!"
After speaking, he walked outside, and the rest of them each glanced at poor old Wu, and they all showed complicated emotions, and then walked out of the secret room behind Little.
After the secret passage was closed, Lao Wu, who was only half of his body left, suddenly collapsed and lay straight on the ground, even stopping to breathe.
If it weren't for the fact that the heart in his chest was still beating, he would be indistinguishable from a dead man!