The moon is dark and the wind is high.

The wind howled in the mountains, rolling up thousands of remnant leaves.

The trees around him shook and made a continuous rustling sound.

Under the darkness of the night, these trees swaying like ghosts, exuding an eerie atmosphere in the cheer of the screaming wind.

Mo You walked to the artificially constructed platform, and the guiding lights on both sides were in disrepair, barely releasing a faint light.

But in this pitch black environment, even if the light is faint, it is extremely eye-catching.

"It's a coincidence......"

"Or are you prepared?"

Feeling the seemingly nonexistent killing intent, Mo You remained silent.

He couldn't be sure if the other party had come for the big bounty or for the Nitolomi he had brought back from the Dark Continent.

If it was the former, then it must have been his itinerary in the past few days that was noticed by this group of people who regarded money as their fate, so that they planned to intercept him here.

If it's the latter......

That's not good news for Moyo.

That means that his action to go to the Dark Continent has been seen by some people with a heart a long time ago.

Then, as if believing that he could come back safely, or adhering to the idea that he would rather spend more manpower than miss it, he has been squatting for nearly a year.

Whatever the possibility, Moyu had to carefully consider Hawke's safety.

and the unknown person who is hidden in the darkness, in terms of strength, it is really not to be underestimated.

If it weren't for the fact that his perception had been tempered by the Dark Continent and was not what it used to be, I am afraid it would have been difficult to detect the breath in the first place.

The other party came prepared, and after all, he took the lead......

But it's hard to say right now.

"Shorten the distance to the top of the mountain first, and then send a shadow to the temple first."

Moyu stared ahead, his speed unchanged, and strode towards the wooden staircase leading to the top of the mountain.

Although he is ready to fight, he also has to take into account Hawke's safety.

Therefore, he planned to close the distance between him and the temple on the top of the mountain as much as possible before the other party made a move, so as to ensure the strength and precision of the shadow.

This is important.

For this reason, he didn't even send out the shadow in advance, and was in a position where he could use his "tactics".

"It's a lot of patience and a lot of caution."

Walking on the stairs in the mountains, Mo You remained silent, but he was slightly surprised in his heart.

There are a lot of opportunities to attack on this part of the road.

However, the man who was hidden in the darkness held back......

"Judging from the 'breath state', you shouldn't have noticed it yet, right?"

Moyu looked up diagonally upwards and could already see the lights of the temple on the top of the mountain.

"It doesn't matter, this distance...... It should be enough. ”

Visually measuring the distance with the naked eye, Mo You's heart moved, and he suddenly raised his hand, and the flowing water of his mind quickly gathered in his palm.

Black Knife –

Between the bright telekinesis, Yu Mo You's hand quickly condensed into a pitch-black long knife.

"Speed Gun"

The flat black knife suddenly stirred up an arc of telekinetic power, and shot into the darkness not far away with no charge.

Now.

In the darkness, a thin figure's eyes flashed a little surprised, obviously surprised by Mo You's first move.

"Hey...... My 'absolute' isn't rotten to this extent, is it? ”

Surprised thoughts flickered, and the lean figure stepped back a few steps sideways, avoiding the trajectory of the black knife's shot.

I saw that in the darkness, the black knife that stirred the aura of mental power broke through the air, swept past in front of the thin figure, and then crushed the trees along the way unabated, and disappeared into the darkness farther away in the blink of an eye.

Dodging this astonishing attack, the lean figure did not have the extra effort to pay attention to the black knife in the distance, but continued to sweep backwards.

As he retreated, a haunting sword light slashed down at his original location.

"Tsk, that's fast, but what's the use?"

The lean figure swept out of the range of the long knife, and the gaze that looked up at the front was mixed with a hint of banter.

"Now that you've sensed my position, you shouldn't have played so badly, Moyu Isaac, you guys missed the only chance to take me out easily."

As if he wasn't worried about Mo You's follow-up pursuit at all, the lean figure retreated, but he was interested in saying a few words.

Mo Yu didn't pursue, his eyes calmly staring at the lean figure glowing in the darkness.

The blow just now—

It's more to send the shadow to the hilltop temple faster.

Of course.

It is impossible for him to read out the motive for this action.

"You ......"

Mo Yuna had adapted to the darkness and could barely see the other person's appearance.

He was lean, with a face as long as a horse's face, a golden headband on his forehead, a hairstyle, and a heart shape deliberately shaved out on the top of his head near his forehead, just above the middle of the golden headband.

He wore a combat-style combat uniform on his upper body, bracers full of bronze on his elbows, and a large square of the word "Shen" on his chest.

It has a variety of characteristics that are very personal and personal, so that its identity is ready to be revealed.

"Twelve Earthly Branches, Shen Monkey Journey to the West......"

The peace in his eyes was broken, and Mo You's heart was slightly shocked, he didn't expect that the person who was ambushed here was actually the Shen Monkey in the Twelve Earth Branches.

Why are you squatting me here?

The doubts that had just emerged in my mind were quickly pierced by some information.

Monkey Journey to the West, Spy, Pariston, Biyande, Dark Continent......

After all, Mo You is a traverser, and with some prophetic intelligence, he quickly thinks of Shen Monkey's identity as a spy in the Twelve Earth Branches, as well as Pariston and Bijande standing behind him.

From this point of view, the other party's motive for squatting here to guard him was most likely to see what he had brought back from the Dark Continent.

Or—

It has already been concluded from his non-stop rush to the scenic temple that he did bring something back, and it is more likely that it was Nitolomi.

Because......

Hawke had been sent to the Hunters' Guild's exclusive hospital for treatment, and it wasn't too difficult to investigate the medical records.

Thinking quickly diverged, and a lot of information was speculated.

But Moyu quickly stopped his thoughts.

This speculation is not necessarily true, and the situation is not appropriate for further study at this time.

"Come on."

Mo You raised his hand and pointed directly at the westward journey with the tip of the knife.

"If you want to die, I will fulfill you."

His eyes were darker than the night around him, and there was a bone-chilling chill in his calm tone.

Seeing this, Journey to the West was not afraid at all, but grinned at the corners of his mouth, and said unscrupulously: "Why, looking at your sudden 'nervousness', you shouldn't be worried about the ...... in the temple?"

A sudden gust of wind in the night interrupted the journey to the west.

Mo You's body was like electricity, and the black knife in his hand flashed in front of Journey to the West.

Journey to the West's pupils shrank slightly, but he had already prepared.

Unscrupulous, unobtrusive......

This in itself is a unique display of his personality.

However, when applied to combat, these character displays do not bring any change in combat power.

The meaning of their existence is only for the tactical service.

"Talking Monkeys, Listening to Monkeys, Seeing Monkeys"

Just as Mo Yu stepped in front of Journey to the West, three monkeys emerged from the shadows and appeared behind Mo Yu with considerable precision.

Those three monkeys are the beasts of Journey to the West.

One is a mute monkey named Talking Monkey, and his ability is to directly deprive an enemy of speech when it successfully hits it.

One is a deaf monkey named Auditory Monkey, whose ability is to directly deprive an enemy of hearing when it successfully hits it.

One is a blind monkey named Sight Monkey, whose ability is that when he successfully hits an enemy, he can directly deprive him of vision.

Journey to the West's mouth just now was to wait for this moment.

Although the ambush was detected by Mo You as an unexpected development, he quickly came up with a new plan and acted on it while avoiding Mo You's attacks and tricks.

And Journey to the West not only prepared offensive means for Moyou, but also prepared defensive means that could resist Moyou's first wave of offensive.

"Wishful Stick"

The corners of Journey to the West's grinning mouth converged, and a golden rod with round ends like a ball appeared out of thin air in his hand.

He has two mindfulness abilities, one is the three mindfulness monkeys, and the other is this wishful stick.

The ability of this wishful stick is to be able to grow longer and shorter, thinner and thicker freely.

However, Journey to the West did not devote his mental power to mobilize the shape change ability of the wishful stick, but only put the wishful stick horizontally on the trajectory of the black knife.

It's not that he doesn't want to use his abilities, but he has to pour more of his manifestation energy into the three Nian Monkeys to ensure the implementation of this tactic.

In an instant, Mo You saw all the tactical arrangements of Journey to the West.

In the back is the attack of the three Nian Monkeys, and in front is the Journey to the West that clearly wants to stick to it and improve the fault tolerance rate.

When a normal person encounters this situation, he probably aborts the attack and tries to defuse the opponent's tactics.

After all, no one knew what abilities those three Nian Monkeys had, so no one was willing to challenge this unknown risk.

But Moyu knows.

Language, Hearing, Sight –

Tend to be functional deprivation, not lethal in the sense.

In other words, Mo You didn't have to worry about the three Nian Monkeys causing him substantial harm at all.

In this way, it is necessary to seize this offensive opportunity.

What about sticking to it with a wishful stick?

If the amount of manifestation qi is distributed on the three Nian Beasts and the Ruyi Stick, it is destined that the frontal offensive and defensive power will be significantly affected and weakened.

Moyo's instantaneous thinking ability exploded, processing all the information at lightning speed, and making corresponding decisions in an instant.

This is a necessary combat quality for those with first-class mental ability.

Mo You did not flinch, turning a blind eye to the attack of the three Nian Monkeys behind him, and the black knife in his hand lingered in his mind, slashing towards the west.

"This guy is crazy......"

Seeing Mo You's decision, Journey to the West's face changed.

Under normal circumstances, those who have the ability to telepathize would act recklessly before they can find out the information.

The question is –

You're not a reinforcement guy!

Journey to the West's heart shook, and although he was deeply surprised, he could only raise the wishful stick and retreat at the same time.

This response can be said to be an unreserved implementation of the intention of sticking to it, in order to block the knife from Mo You with the lowest risk zone.

In his opinion, as long as he guards against this knife......

Then, his three recitation monkeys can deprive Moyou of speech, hearing, and vision in one go, so as to lay the first chance of victory.

And yet—

The black knife fell on the wishful stick, and the expected collision did not happen.

Under the stunned gaze of Journey to the West, the wishful stick that should have been his first line of defense was easily cut off by the black knife.

Snort –

Losing the horizontal block of the wishful stick, the black blade cut the big "Shen" on the chest of Journey to the West from top to bottom.

But just as the pitch-black and sharp blade slashed along the middle of the word "Shen", the blade disappeared out of thin air.

Because Mo You used the ability of "Shapeshifting and Shadowing" at the timing of the Journey to the West to drive the black knife to slash the west, he instantly swapped places with the shadow clone who rushed to the temple on the top of the mountain.

And the shadow clone that was replaced did not have the ability to manifest the black knife, so the scene of the black knife disappearing out of thin air naturally occurred.

Bang bang bang......

At this time, the shadow clone that had just been replaced was attacked by three disabled Nian Monkeys.

It's just that the shadow clone that has been attacked has not suffered much damage, and it can still maintain its form intact.

This result was just as Moyo had judged at the beginning......

Although I can rely on a small amount of information in the original book to get the information of Journey to the West's mental ability.

However, the original book does not accurately show the scene of the battle of Journey to the West, so Mo You can only start from this information to have a deeper understanding of Journey to the West's ability.

He decided that the abilities of the three monkeys were biased towards the functional type, so the lethality must be lacking.

This is an unavoidable vow and restriction in the system of minds.

And another basis for this speculation is the wishful stick embodied by Journey to the West.

It is precisely because the three functional monkeys lack lethality that they need to be supplemented with wishful sticks.

After this speculation, even if the shadow clone doesn't have time to change at the last moment, Mo You doesn't have to worry about anything.

After all, the only wishful stick that can constitute substantial lethality is used for defense by Journey to the West......

This is the fundamental reason why Mo You dared to take risks all the way to the black.

And the shadow clone did not collapse due to the attack of the three Nian Monkeys, which gave Mo You a chance to come back and connect with the second wave of attacks.

However, Moyu did not do so.

Because the three Nian Monkeys activate their abilities by attacking them.

The shadow clone that was attacked suddenly lost its senses of speech, sight, and hearing.

And what Mo You didn't expect was ......

This curse-like ability actually directly affected him.

Without any hesitation, after Mo You lost his visual and other sensory abilities, he manipulated the shadow clone to withdraw from the front and back of the three Nian Monkeys and Journey to the West.

Journey to the West didn't mean to chase after the shadow clone, and looked down at the word "Shen" cracked on his chest, as well as the hideous knife wound from the flesh and blood, and his brows couldn't help but wrinkle slowly.

"What a mad dog."

Taking a deep breath, Journey to the West's eyes became cold.

"Forget it...... He has lost his hearing and sight, and the odds are on my side. ”

Journey to the West's gaze turned to the temple on the top of the mountain.

He roughly understands Mo You's ability information, and his three Nian Monkeys, whether they attack the Nian clone or the main body, can directly launch the deprivation of ability.

Strictly speaking, his ability is just to restrain the doppelganger system.

This is also the starting point of his tactics, so that he doesn't have to worry about Mo Yu using his clone and exchange ability to avoid attacks.

It's just that he didn't expect Mo You to make such an unsuitable decision without knowing the "ability to read monkeys".

If it weren't—

He would not have been stabbed like this, and if he hadn't resolutely defended and retreated early, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

But fortunately, the ability to read the monkey is activated, and then it is enough to finish the matter quickly.

Journey to the West dealt with the injury slowly, as if he had won the game.

After all—

He couldn't see the black hyphae spreading from the wound on his chest.

(End of chapter)