Chapter 15: No Return for Heroes
Wow - Wow - Wow -
The ravens perched on the branches of the trees scrambled away, unaware that they would not be able to escape from this dark place.
Qiu Xiao, Falcon, Qin Zheng, Haiyue, and the rest of the survivors were still ten miles away from the eastern formation of the Panxiao City Protector Formation at this time.
The falcon rushed in front to open the way, and Qiu Xiao was behind the palace.
"Oh no, there are more and more ghouls."
The Falcon is agile and uses a short crossbow to kill the ghouls that come from the front.
But there was no way to kill them, and more and more ghouls were pouring towards the crowd.
It wasn't until there was still a mile away from the entrance that the ghouls gathered from all directions.
At this time, Qiu Xiao made a decision, he decided to resist the army of ghouls alone, and the rest of the survivors fled with the falcon to meet the brute bull.
After Qiu Xiao used the Five Elements Sword Technique to kill a wave of chasing ghouls, two more groups of ghouls appeared in the woods on both sides, and the two groups of ghouls gathered into an encirclement and surrounded Qiu Xiao.
His gaze swept over the group of ghouls, Qiu Xiao's face changed instantly, his eyelids trembled, and his heart fluttered rapidly.
This scene was exactly what he was most afraid of encountering.
The pale yellow-white dress was stained with blood and shabby.
Looking away from her face, although her face is hideous, it is not difficult to see who she is.
"Sister Sophora Flower..."
Qiu Xiao trembled, and the hand holding the sword trembled a little.
Look at her again.
A sparse and balding man, his body with broken flesh and bones.
"Father... Father! β
The sword fell to the ground, and Qiu Xiao's red and black pupils trembled, and he felt dizzy in an instant.
The falcon in the distance stopped and shouted to Qiu Xiao: "Red pupils! Run! β
Qiu Xiao's eyes were hollow, and he stood in place, and the ghoul Sister Huaihua and the ghoul Qin Ding pounced towards Qiu Xiao.
Shout!
A crossbow arrow shot from behind pierced the head of the ghoul Sister Huaihua, and her brain splattered all over the ground, and she fell to the ground.
With her white hands pulling out the crossbow bolts nailed to her skull, she stood up again, muttering bitterly: "Kill me, kill me..."
Although she has become one of the ghouls, she still retains a trace of human thought, which must have made her extremely painful.
Just when the ghoul Qin Ding almost pounced on Qiu Xiao.
"Red Hitomi! What happened to you? Sober up! β
A crossbow arrow shot from behind again with the falcon's shout, this time it missed, did not hit the head, and shot at the chest of the ghoul Qin Ding, the powerful crossbow arrow knocked him back a few steps, but at the same time he still waved his claw to cut a bloody hole in Qiu Xiao's shoulder.
The pain brought Qiu Xiao to his senses.
The past is gone, the familiar people in front of me have become ghouls, and since I can't save them, then I can only help them end this pain, and they don't want to be the horrible they are now.
Qiu Xiao finally looked back, the people behind him still needed my protection, and he shouted at the falcon group: "Leave me alone!" Get out of here! β
All I can do for you is buy you some more time to get out of here...
It's a race to death.
Qiu Xiao quickly picked up the long sword on the ground.
Two fingers brushed the blade of the sword, and the flames burst into flames.
"Father,,, Sister Huaihua, I'm sorry!"
The blade of the sword slashed through an arc of light, and the flames slammed into the ghoul Sister Huaihua and the ghoul Qin Ding like a galloping horse.
In the flames, Sister Huaihua showed a smile towards Qiu Xiao, and her mouth seemed to say, "Thank you..."
And Qin Ding had lost his mind from the moment he died before his death, and now he was just a walking corpse.
The flames eroded Sister Huaihua's long skirt, engulfed her flesh and skin, and burned her bones, and Sister Huaihua's pain ended, and she turned into dust and dissipated in the firelight.
The group of ghouls rushed up, rushing towards Qiu Xiao in the middle and the falcons on both sides.
"I'm not thinking about taking half a step forward!" Qiu Xiao gritted his teeth and plunged his sword into the soil, and his spiritual power worked, mobilizing the surrounding land.
With a bang, a half-circle of ten-zhang earthen walls rose from the ground, blocking the way of the ghouls.
This scene was seen by everyone, and after arriving at the entrance of the formation, the brute bull crushed the spirit square instrument in his hand, and the imperial army outside the magic circle received a signal to open a small gap in the magic circle.
Two rows of heavily armored imperial soldiers surrounded the gap, holding halberds.
Helan Zhen shouted at the barbarian bull and the others in the magic circle: "Come out quickly, there is not much time!" β
Survivor civilians swarmed into the gap and escaped the circle.
The wild bull carried the corpse of the white wolf on his back, looked at the snow deer, the falcon, and Qin Zheng, and said in a deep voice: "Let's go, don't let down the red pupil." β
Qin Zheng looked at the earthen wall, what kind of vicious battle was behind the earthen wall, he couldn't imagine the courage to fight against a hundred, and this self-sacrificing character, Qin Zheng understood that he couldn't learn, "Qiu Xiao... Do you really want to say goodbye this time? β
After eight years, Qin Zheng never thought that they would be separated again so soon, and this time, it may be the real difference between life and death.
The falcon was also unwilling in his heart, he wanted to save Qiu Xiao, but he couldn't, because Qiu Xiao had already put himself in a dead end in order to help everyone delay time, and his eyes left the cold earth wall, the falcon gritted his teeth and turned around, and escaped from the gap in the magic circle with Qin Zheng, the wild bull and snow deer.
Roar!!!
Countless ghouls roared angrily and turned their heads towards Qiu Xiao.
The sword body in Qiu Xiao's hand trembled, and the blade crackled with electricity.
He rolled backwards in a circle, walked up the earthen wall, and then leaped down.
"Drink!"
The long sword clenched in both hands and fell to the ground suddenly, reverberating a circle of purple and blue thunderbolts.
Wherever the thunder and lightning swung, all the ghouls fell to the ground, and their lower limbs were torn open by the lightning.
The wound on Qiu Xiao's shoulder that had been scratched earlier began to ache again, it felt like fire, and there was a strange tightness.
Plop - Qiu Xiao was suddenly stunned.
Burst!
A mouthful of blood gushed out, and the blood was black.
Qiu Xiao's gaze shifted to the wound on his shoulder, and he didn't know when the bulging blood vessels had completely turned black, and he could still feel something flowing rapidly in the blood vessels.
"Are you infected?"
Consciousness gradually blurred a little, and for some reason an angry roar sounded in his head, which continued to linger.
With the roar, Qiu Xiao's heart was assimilated into a very angry state, as if he couldn't control himself anymore.
He wanted to go berserk, he wanted to attack everything he could see.
Is this a precursor to mutant ghouls?
"No, I can't go on like this, I can't become a ghoul!"
Qiu Xiao's heart resisted, he decisively stabbed the blade of the sword into the outer thigh, and at this moment regained a brief lucidity from the pain, and he didn't know how long he could maintain this lucidity.
The ghouls really couldn't finish killing, the more they killed, the more they fell, they got up again, and the ones gathered from afar, and they kept coming.
The spiritual power to maintain the earthen wall is depleted, and the earthen wall continues to shrink until it returns to the ground.
Look behind you.
"Everyone escaped, and it looks like I succeeded..."
Qiu Xiao's body staggered, some of his feet were unstable, his spiritual power was exhausted, the infection spread throughout his body, and he was no longer able to resist.
A torrent of black, oppressive ghouls engulfed him in an instant.
Outside the magic circle of Panxiao Cityββ
The brute bull handed over the white dragon flag, which bound the blue-robed man, to He Lanzhen.
He Lanzhen's eyes swept over the fleeing crowd, but he didn't see Qiu Xiao who had saved him, so he asked Xiang Manniu: "Where is that kid with different pupils?" β
The brute cow sighed and shook his head, although he didn't answer, He Lanzhen already knew what it meant.
In any case, the task assigned to He Lanzhen by his superiors has been completed, and he can go back to hand over the mission, as for the current dead city, it is time to destroy it, and this ghoul rebellion should come to an end.
As for Qiu Xiao, who was still in the magic circle, no one knew whether he was dead or alive, and it was impossible to risk sending someone in to save him.
After Helan Zhen sent someone to escort the survivors away, he ordered: "Destroy the city." β
"Yes!"