Section XVI

said that he wanted to meet the monster hidden in the shadows for a while, but Li Yuntao didn't know how to find it at all.

But there's a very simple way to get it out.

The attacked van was attacked as it turned around to flee, and after it had previously shown intent to leave and began to move, it also attacked itself. Now just make a gesture of leaving, and if it is still on a mission to prevent people from leaving, then it will definitely attack itself again.

Li Yuntao made up his mind that of course, the bronze book gave him some confidence to fight, but more of the current situation made him have to give it a try, he had been forced into a corner, and if he didn't solve the monster, he could only die.

The sound coming from the small town can be inferred that someone is fighting the monster, but I don't know who they are, it is the guard warrior in the small town? Caravan guards? A brave ordinary man? Or is it an extraordinary cultivator who has a wealth of experience in fighting monsters like his master Song Tingyu?

If it weren't for the last option, the resistance in the city wouldn't last long.

After all, you can let a monster hide in the shadows and kill people to prevent the people around the town from leaving, and this monster attack is obviously premeditated, organized, and led by high-level monsters.

The high-level monster, the huge figure of the eight-eyed bared teeth, and the hideous appearance left a deep impression on Li Yuntao, and he subconsciously reflected its picture in his mind.

But according to the notes left by the master, the tooth is only the most common of the many monsters raised by the demon clan. Status is like a human dog.

You must kill the monster before the battle in the city is over, and then evacuate, otherwise you will be caught up by the fanged beasts in the city, and the fate is self-evident.

Li Yuntao turned around and left along the road in the direction of leaving the small city, when his footsteps stepped over the carriage, the sense of crisis came again, it was still strong, and the pain it brought to him was as real as it was, but this time Li Yuntao was fully prepared in his heart and would not be misled by his crisis warning and fall into passivity again.

As he walked, his eyes fixed on the shadow at his feet. At this time, the sun was in the middle of the sky near noon, and the shadow cast on the ground was limited, only slightly skewed to the south.

As he walked, a piece of black suddenly appeared in his shadow, like a brush stroke that was soaked in ink and then fell on the rice paper, and the excess juice did not have time to be absorbed by the rice paper and overflowed where it should have stayed, and a trace of ink flowed slowly and silently downward.

One step, two steps, three steps beyond the carriage, the ink mark quietly expanded, evolving into an arm. Then, a sharp knife shape appeared again at the top of the arm, and the ink-colored sharp knife that made Li Yuntao feel palpitations and deep memories was like a projection of the blade in reality.

桀桀桀桀~桀桀桀~桀桀

An eerie low, eerie laugh suddenly burst into Li Yuntao's mind, and he could be sure that he hadn't 'heard' it.

This laughter came straight into my head.

It feels as if the sound is coming from all directions, and no matter which direction you look, it seems to be the source of the sound. In fact, Li Yuntao really looked around vigilantly, and the scenery in his eyes was slightly distorted, and was dyed with a faint layer of purple, as if all the scenery he was anxious about had an extra purple-black oil paint hook.

The artist who painted the rim was clearly an unqualified novice, and the hook was crooked, and even a lot of purple and black spilled out of the border, contaminating the other color blocks, making the whole picture look dirty, dirty, and eerie.

Everything seems to be predestined, when the blade swings down again, Li Yuntao, who seems to be unaware, will die under the attack of the shadow.

As soon as he took the fifth step, the sharp knife in the shadow swung down, and his heart began to twitch and ache again for a moment, and the pain did not seem to come entirely from the warning of a premonition of crisis.

Kiss~

The bronze book did not disappoint Li Yuntao, and a circle of ripples spread in the air again, but this time the ripples were much dimmer than what Li Yuntao had seen before, and the scope of diffusion was also reduced, and the ripples completely dissipated after only half of his body was opened.

The second ripple is rippling, the third ripple is generating, and nothing can be seen on the singularity that triggered the ripple, as if nothing existed in the first place.

Sure enough, it's still here!

Li Yuntao ignored the ripples around him, squatted violently, holding the crossbow machine in his right hand, but his left hand smashed into the shadow of the ground.

Hiss~~~~He~~!!

A hoarse roar rang out from his head, coming from all directions like the eerie laughter. This time it was no longer gloomy, but full of pain, shock and anger.

The palm of the left hand that touched the ground opened, and the tip of the homemade luminous pendant pressed against the shadow, and when the palm opened, the light emitted by the pendant instantly illuminated Li Yuntao's shadow, making it look only slightly dimmer than the ground in direct sunlight.

Hiss!

Hiss!

Screams of pain rang out one after another, as if they were suffering some kind of lengthy torture, as if they had been stabbed again and again.

Finally, an ink shadow that did not belong to Li Yuntao suddenly broke free from the shadow under his feet, which was already so faint that it was almost the same color as the ground next to him.

As soon as it broke away from Li Yuntao's shadow, it turned into a deep purple-black, and then the distorted picture in Li Yuntao's eyes disappeared, and the voice of the painful roar could no longer be heard.

It quickly moved away before Li Yuntao could react and attack again, and almost in the blink of an eye, it sank into the shadows below the carriage a few meters behind him.

It fled in its path, leaving a faint trail of smoking corrosion.

Li Yuntao watched it leave, but he didn't have time to make any movements, the left hand holding the luminous pendant was only halfway raised at the moment, and the action of slamming under his feet had not yet begun.

In the shadow of the carriage, a solid shadow as black as ink rose from the shadows of the ground, and it seemed to be a flowing liquid, but it seemed to be a thick black mist condensed. It forms a humanoid figure with a shoulder on its back.

Eyes glowing with purple light opened from the cheeks of the humanoid head, and it stared at Li Yuntao quietly, a distorted smile seemed to be outlined on its thick inky cheeks.

The two looked at each other, and time flowed silently in this almost 'affectionate' gaze.

Maybe only a few seconds, maybe a dozen seconds, Li Yuntao couldn't calculate how long it lasted, it was silent like ink dripping into the pen wash, and the whole erect body once again merged into the shadow and disappeared.

It was a silent provocation, a warning, and a declaration of war. As if to say: You can't run, boy.

It wasn't until he was sure that it had left that Li Yuntao let out a long breath again. He had completely forgotten to breathe in the process of fighting this monster just now, and he was almost holding his breath until now.

Fortunately, the battle was not long, and it had not been more than a minute since it left.

"It's really a weird and powerful monster, it can not only blend into the shadow to kill people, but also directly invade the brain and affect hearing and vision." Li Yuntao gasped, silently analyzing the monster's ability in his heart, because he had a mental construction in advance, he was calm enough at this time, although the index finger of his right hand holding the crossbow machine was still shaking, and his legs were a little weak, but everything went according to plan, and it was quite smooth.

But now another multiple-choice question appeared in front of him, turn around and run away or go to the city to help?

It obviously doesn't intend to let itself go, and if it leaves at this time and is found by the monsters, it will have to fight alone, provided that they can find themselves. And with the help of the process, you may be able to gain some trustworthy temporary teammates.

Almost without hesitation, Li Yuntao turned around and strode in the direction of the city. He has no confidence in his ability to escape, just his two little short legs, can he run through the four-legged baring teeth? Not to mention the guy hiding in the shadows, I don't know how powerful it will be at night.

The night is definitely home to these monsters!

"Oh~ Thank Heavenly Father! That Donghuang man is back! Geyland lay under the carriage, his hands together in gratitude for his faith.

"Do you see that? He seemed to have done something just now, and a ghost shadow appeared under Lloyd's carriage, and it was definitely the legendary ghost! A woman in the carriage said, pointing to the bottom of the carriage, which was no longer ghostly.

The other women nodded to indicate that they had seen it too.

"He actually forced that monster to show up, it seems that this Donghuang man is very powerful." Said the older woman.

"Why didn't he take the opportunity to kill that demon just now?" Another said.

"That ghost doesn't even have a physical body, how can you fight it?" The older woman shook her head, broke away from the few small hands that were grasping her clothes, and plucked up her courage to walk out of the carriage to meet Li Yuntao, who was walking over.

She flipped out of the carriage with some awkward movements, and the brown robe that wrapped her body was caught by the nails in the carriage fence on the way down, tearing a small opening, and she couldn't care about the distress, and hurried to meet the short oriental.

After she left, the other women no longer hid in the deepest part of the carriage, but came to the fence at the back of the carriage, and poked their heads out of the fence with their hands to look at the short man, but did not dare to turn over.

"Great warrior, you... Did you drive that terrible monster away? The older woman said in an aria tone with her arms outstretched. It's a pity that she said the language of her own country, so Li Yuntao was slightly stunned, and then continued to move forward.

The woman who was the first to greet her when she came out of the carriage was a few years old, her hair was gray, her ungrayed hair was dark brown and black, her forehead and the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes were not many but noticeable, and she should be forty or fifty years old or even more. The slightly sunken eyes, the double eyelids and long eyelashes were beautiful, and the dark brown eyes had some emerald green at the edges of the pupils.

Bang Bang~

It was Jayland who climbed out of the car from the other side slapping the dirt and filth on his body. He hurried to the woman's side, and the scimitar he hastily picked up was upside down in his left hand.

He smiled slightly awkwardly at her, and then translated the woman's words in awkward Donghuang language.

Li Yuntao looked at the two people who stopped him and nodded: "It should be driven away, but I can't guarantee whether it is still lurking around." You'd better not leave in a hurry. ”

Then he pointed in the direction of the town: "I'll go over there and take a look, if the monsters in the city are eliminated, we will be truly safe." Since the monster didn't kill all of you in the first place, it must have some plan, and as long as you don't try to escape, there should be no danger for the time being. ”

"Oh, praise Heavenly Father, and thank you, warrior." The old woman said with a sincere smile on her face. She calmly withdrew her outstretched arms, and the other party clearly had no intention of hugging her, even if she had to endure the strong nausea smell from him.

It seems that this kind of etiquette really does not apply when communicating with Donghuang people.

Without waiting for Jayland to translate, another voice rang out.

"Thank you, Warrior. You saved us and saved us from the monster threat. The people who came from the convoy further ahead began to slowly gather in this direction, and a bearded old man who spoke fluent Donghuang led the crowd. His exposed bronzed skin was deeply wrinkled, his beard and hair were more than half white, but he was well-dressed and clean, and the handle of his scimitar hanging from his waist was inlaid with amber the size of a pigeon's egg.

Li Yuntao had to repeat what he had just said to the people who had just come up.

It was only then that the group discovered that the warrior who saved them, the warrior with the Golden Book, was actually just a child. A child from Donghuang.

Although he covered most of his face with a hood and deliberately lowered his voice, the child's voice could not deceive these shrewd businessmen, who were old because of their age.

Li Yuntao found that most of the men gathered were older, with the only exception being Jayland who climbed out from under the carriage.

"Oh, he can fight monsters at such a young age, and his parents must be the bravest eagles to soar in the sky."

"Brave young man, what reward do you want for me to thank Romy?"

"Honorable warrior, do you have a heavy crossbow in your hand? I've never seen such a delicate weapon. ”

"Young man, where are your parents? They're going to join you, right? ”

People enthusiastically wanted to communicate with the warriors who saved them, but more often than not, they sent words of gratitude and a hug.

But apparently the boy didn't want to hug, and the smell on him was really strong, as if he had swam in a dung pit.

Of course, in addition to the men, there were also several women who looked like warriors in tight-fitting outfits, including Ani, who wanted to squeeze in and say a few words. She had already recognized Li Yuntao, and the smell was still fresh in her memory at the moment.

But when she really tried hard to push away the strong men and squeeze them to the front row, she found that she couldn't speak Donghuang language, and she couldn't spit out a word when she opened her mouth in a hurry, so she could only do it in a hurry. She did learn Donghuang with Lao Mig, but until now she was limited to listening, and when she spoke, she was useless.

"Flat-chested." She ended up just popping the word out of her mouth and kept pointing her finger at herself. Although at this time she had removed the chest wrap belt, the position of her chest was no longer the real one.

"Flat-chested?" Li Yuntao was attracted by this word, cast his gaze, and then recognized the girl he saw in the old MiG camp this morning, and immediately nodded, revealing a crescent moon composed of two rows of snow-white teeth.

How can anyone really call herself a flat-chested person, isn't this girl stupid? Originally, the length was average, and the chest... It's small, it's stupid, it's still a man's wife, and whoever marries it in the future will be unlucky.

Li Yuntao glanced at her slightly bulging chest, and remembered the experience of being strangled by her sneak attack last night, and thought to himself.

"Ani!" She pointed to herself again.

"Ani." Li Yuntao nodded, signaling that he remembered.

The old men in the surrounding circle smiled knowingly, as if they had seen something they were happy to see. Of course, some people set their eyes on the copper book wrapped in a cloth on Li Yuntao's chest, wanting to ask if it was for sale.

"Alright, alright!" Li Yuntao raised his hands and pressed the exchange questions between the people around him and himself. Then he pointed in the direction of the town, where the shouting and screaming continued.

"I'll have to go over and help, and if the people inside lose, none of us want to run." Although he said it seriously, the teenager who no longer pretended to be deep and because he had not yet reached the period of voice change, the words he said not only could not make people nervous, but also because the voice of the child who pretended to be an adult made people want to laugh.

It's just that the wonderful momentum exuded from his body made everyone dare not underestimate this young man who was only up to his chest.

"Go warriors, the bravest warriors of our caravan are inside."

"My two sons are also in, please help them if you can."

"My dad is also in the city."

While talking, the crowd made way for Li Yuntao so that he could pass smoothly. Li Yuntao nodded and waved his hand at everyone as a farewell. Then he opened his legs and used the aura in his body, and he made a fierce force under his feet.

Bang~!

The ground exploded beneath his feet, and he rushed out like a cannonball. Behind him was an exclamation of admiration, which made him very proud.

There were only a dozen trucks blocked outside the city, so the queue was not long, only about 100 meters. Along the way, under the eyes of the women and left-behind men in the car, Li Yuntao rushed all the way to the city wall with the sound of the howling wind.

The walls of the town were not so much walls as a fence and a wall of earth, just over two meters high, not even as high as the roof of the four-wheeled wagons lining up.

Li Yuntao jumped over with just a slight lift of his body by taking advantage of the momentum.

When I came to the city, I was in chaos. The small city is very small, and when he jumped over the wall, the layout of the city was already roughly included in Li Yuntao's eyes. In the middle of the town is a relatively spacious prototype square, with two burning white buildings sitting opposite each other. Around the square, there are low, flat-roofed houses made of earth and stone, and the height is only two floors, but most of them have only one floor attached to the ground.

At this time, the chaos mainly took place in the central square, and there were also sporadic battles in the chaotic alleys, most of which were fought by several people working together to fight a monster, and a small number of brave warriors were fighting alone. But more often than not, monsters are chasing and killing ordinary people who have little combat power.

Especially in the alley, just in front of the place where Li Yuntao jumped in, a woman holding a child was biting with a bared tooth. Not far behind it, in a half-collapsed mud hut, the man with a kitchen knife in his hand collapsed on the edge of the wall, missing an arm and half of his neck. The doors of the earthen houses on both sides of this box are closed, and the doors made of broken wooden planks really give them a sense of security?

Li Yuntao raised his hand and shot an arrow.

Whoa~ Whoa!

The bolt sank into the neck of the tooth that had been bitten by the bow, leaving a bloody hole in the skin of its gray-white neck, deep into it. The aching teeth let go and bit the woman's upper and lower jaws, and looked up angrily and horrified in the direction where the attack came.

Laugh at~!

A second bolt mercilessly plunged into one of the blue-purple pupils.

"Lie on your stomach." Li Yuntao said lightly, he felt that he was a little arrogant, and when he saw his eyes and teeth, he felt that it was just a piece of cake, and he didn't feel afraid at all.

Shaking the winch handle to hand the arrow, Li Yuntao put on the arrow and walked to the side of the tooth that had already fallen to the ground and convulsed, kicked it in the body, and kicked it off the woman. Just now, he killed too fast with an arrow, and when it died, it pressed on the woman. So much so that the woman is still screaming, repeating words she doesn't understand.

Li Yutao leaned down and pulled up her body that was curled up on the ground and kept shaking, she closed her eyes tightly and hugged her child, and the swaddling clothes in her arms were about to be rubbed into her body. His lips were bloodless from fear, and his cheeks were white and blue.

I hope this little guy wasn't suffocated to death by his own mother. Li Yuntao thought maliciously.

"Alright, it's okay, you can find a place to hide." He said, not knowing if the other party could understand it.

Seeing that the woman was still repeating the words and screaming loudly, without the slightest hint of response, he could only shake his head and reach out to grab the swaddling clothes in her arms. Only then did she open her eyes, and her hands were still desperate to snatch with him.

It was at this time that she noticed that it was a human who snatched the child from her. Li Yuntao saw her open eyes, so he let go of the snatching hand and nodded to her. She was frightened, and was stunned for a while, only instinctively holding the swaddling clothes.

He sighed, according to the strength she had just fought with herself, the child might have been strangled to death by her own mother before suffocating to death. So he pointed to the swaddling clothes, then to his nose, and finally to the door next to him, and let go of the palm that was pulling the woman's collar.

The door of the earthen house next to him was still closed, and Li Yuntao was in a hurry now, so he rudely smashed the wooden door with the wooden body of the crossbow machine.

"Open the door! Let her go in and hide! He roared, perhaps a child's voice, and the wooden door opened from the inside only a few moments.

The woman holding the child obviously realized that her previous actions and strength might hurt her child, and at this moment she let go of the arms that tightly wrapped the swaddling clothes, and gently lifted the swaddling curtain to check the child's condition, and the tears gushing out of her eyes had broken the thread.

"Oh~ my God, Sasha Mi, you're still alive! I'm so scared, please forgive me for not opening the door to help you. ”

The door was opened by a slightly obese middle-aged woman, who looked out the door alertly with a rolling pin in her hand, and let out a scream when she saw the woman holding the child. The two children hiding behind him secretly looked out the door with seven parts fear and three parts curiosity, and when they saw the convulsive teeth on the ground, they shrank back into the room screaming.

"She's over to you." Li Yuntao didn't care if the other party understood it or not, he trotted away with the crossbow machine, there were other people who needed his help or even rescue, one more minute of delay here, maybe there would be a few more dead people, the less resistance on the human side, the more hope the monsters had to win, of course vice versa.

Li Yuntao ran a few steps and then jumped onto the roof next to the alley, and several screams rang out from inside the house, apparently there were people hiding in the house below.

This earthen house looks flat-roofed, but in fact, the roof is slightly tilted, which should be used to divert rainwater, but these do not affect his movements. Li Yuntao ignored the screams in the house and began to jump forward from roof to roof.

Except for the central square, the architectural layout of the small city obviously has no planning at all, and some of the alleys are narrow enough for him to take a light step to the other side, and some require him to jump over with a little effort.

As the saying goes, standing high and seeing far away, the advantage of moving on the roof is that you can get a rough idea of the battle situation in the small town, and it is more convenient to find monsters.

The power of the sniper crossbow is especially significant in the face of the two-eyed baring teeth, and the lengthened barrel also makes it more accurate, Li Yuntao often shoots a crossbow arrow to save a battle, and the double-eyed bared teeth that are shot are either greatly damaged, or expose enough fatal flaws, so that the fighters who fight with it can take the opportunity to expand the results of the battle and finally achieve victory.

When Li Yuntao's crossbow bolts in the second magazine were exhausted, the battle situation in the small town had already turned to the side of the humans. The monsters that had a slight advantage before were surrounded by human warriors who had their hands free, and the relatively weak eyes and teeth fell one after another.

Of course, it wasn't just the Tooth Beast that participated in the attack in the city.

One of them resembled a cow, with a thick, black carapace growing on its head and shoulders, and the skull, much smaller than its body, was completely encased in the carapace, and could not be found except for the eyes, the thinnest and nostrils. It had curved corners like the tip of a scimitar growing on the top of its head, dark and shiny half a meter long, and each time it slammed into a vent on its back, it emitted white hot smoke, and it was easy to destroy an earthen house. If it weren't for its attack, most of the time it would be straight and easy to dodge, and those who fought it wouldn't be able to block its blow at all.

“...... Here call upon your majesty from the heavens, Akumaphiles, harness our bodies to show majesty, hell and dragon fire. ”

Li Yuntao saw that in the central area of the square, four sturdy men holding round shields were tightly gathered together, put the handle of the short spear in their hands against the ground, and held the oblique finger forward with their hands, under the protection of their guards, a petite figure covered in a navy blue velvet robe and coat waved the small wooden stick in his hand, and pointed at a carapace bull with the ruby inlaid on the top of the wooden stick that turned his body and was ready to attack again.

Hoang~!

A strange roar suddenly enveloped the entire town, and this roar was mixed with a faint inviolable majesty. When it sounded, Li Yuntao frowned slightly, and for some reason it seemed that his breathing became a little difficult.

Whew~

Then, a straight line of fire burst out from the light of the ruby, with a speed similar to Li Yuntao's crossbow arrow, and it directly hit the carapace head of the brute monster that was spewing white gas, and then began to burn.

The line of fire was like a cable stained with oil, and the flames rose nearly a foot above the line of fire, occasionally spilling sparks to fall to the ground below, scorching the ground black.

The ruby-topped wand remained burning until it was lowered, a process that lasted nearly five seconds before the line of fire gradually dissipated.

The bull-like monster that was hit by the line of fire was still standing in place, the head, neck, and shoulders wrapped around the carapace had disappeared, as if the remaining flesh and blood were still burning in the burned chest, and the smell of burnt meat and the smell of roasted meat rose at the same time, making Li Yuntao, who was already a little hungry near noon, can't help but sniffle.

The petite figure who had finished casting the spell withdrew his wand, wiped his forehead a little tiredly, and lifted the filigree that hung down in front of his forehead to block his vision.

The long, curly brown hair glowed brightly in the midday sun, fluttering slightly with the wind carried by the hot air.

She seemed to sense something, and turned her head to look at Li Yuntao with some joy, but the pair of emerald and beautiful eyes that seemed to be able to speak flashed brightly. The joy that had filled him after seeing him gradually disappeared and was replaced by a faint disappointment.

Li Yuntao almost didn't jump.

' No need to do this, I'm just a passer-by who helps, are you disappointed? Li Yuntao looked at the change of emotions in her eyes, and thought of it in his heart.