Chapter 44: The Hidden Secret
The skeleton monster smiled miserably, and its two long, black-iron-like claws kept scratching the bluestone on the ground, and the sound was sharp and piercing, and the stone powder fell in a torrent.
The snow eagle's remnants were tense to the extreme, and its two wings were fully opened, protecting the three young eagles that were still screaming without knowing why.
"You, how did you find me...... I'm hiding here, it's impossible......" Remnant Yu's voice was a mature and hoarse female voice, and there was an unconcealed tremor in her voice at this time, obviously terrified.
Lanya hid in the shadows, and secretly thought to himself, it seems that this skeleton monster is intentionally looking for revenge on the remnants of the snow sculpture.
But the strange thing is that the snow sculpture remnant feather, a mere spirit, even if it is considered powerful among the spirits, how dare you offend a suspected goblin-level monster, especially if this monster can fly.
The skeleton monster stared at her gloomily.
"I would have given up on looking for you, but you've built a new lair here...... Let's just say you're out of luck. β
As he spoke, a slender bone claw of the skeleton monster slowly raised, its nails intertwined with each other, slowly grinding, and there were actually sparks bursting out.
"You can spare me...... I won't say anything......"
The snow sculpture trembled, pleaded incessantly, and fell to the ground, as if it had completely given up resistance.
But the next moment, she spread her wings, the wind blows, her paws kick the ground, her wings flutter, and in the blink of an eye, she rises upwards three or four feet away, and she is about to flee from this place.
This guy showed weakness and begged for mercy turned out to be just an illusion, but in fact, he abandoned his cub and fled without hesitation.
However, Lanya only heard the skeleton monster snort softly, and a black line that was so fast that it couldn't be seen at all bounced out, instantly hitting the body of the remnant feather's extremely fast rise.
Remnant Feather let out a terrible scream, and her rapidly rising body was dragged down from the air, blood sprayed, and she was dragged back in front of the skeleton monster.
At this time, Lan Ya noticed that the black line was a dark sharp hook, and the hook stretched out from the back of the skeleton monster, and it was actually a bone tail composed of truncated pitch black bones, giving people an unusually cold feeling.
"Do you think I'm going to give you a chance to run away?"
The skeleton demon's voice was extremely cold, and the long bone tail continued to stretch out from the black robe behind him, clinging layer by layer like a big python, and soon strangled the neck of the remnant feather who was still struggling, and kept tightening.
Remnant Feather struggled violently, and shocking blood began to ooze from his eyes, obviously suffering from great pain, and there was a "click" overwhelmed bone popping sound from his neck.
Her sharp hind claws scratched the tail of the skeleton monster desperately, but the sharp bird claws that could easily disemboweled the Giant Tooth Pig were so weak and weak at this time that they could not shake the other party even the slightest.
"Click!"
Eventually, Remnant Feather's neck was torn off.
The corpse collapsed limply to the ground.
"Well, this guy's blood is barely working, so let's bring her body back with me. β
The skeleton monster whispered, and then the sharp tail hook flashed, and the bloody head of the remnant feather was suddenly easily cut off, leaving only the headless corpse in place, and blood sprayed.
The skeleton monster was quite distressed and hung the remnant of the feather with its tail hook, tightly strangled the wound of the blood gushing, and then glanced at the remnant feather head on the ground, which was still unsightly at this time, and suddenly said in a low voice:
"How can I let you go?, once this secret is leaked, even if even I have to be torn apart by those monster leaders, there is absolutely no chance of survival, how can I let you go......
Ranya's spirits lifted.
This snow sculpture was killed because it knew a secret?
And once this secret is revealed, even a skeleton monster suspected of being a goblin-level monster will definitely die?
Ranya couldn't imagine what kind of secret it sounded like it would anger all the powerful youkai in the Bone Forest.
In the snow sculpture nest, the three little snow sculptures seemed to realize the impending disaster at this time, and they all buried their heads under the nest, trembling all over, and did not dare to make any noise.
But death did come after all.
"Whoosh!" almost silently, the black tail hook flashed, and the three small snow sculptures were neatly worn on the long tailbone, and the three little snow sculptures had no time to scream, the tail hook shook slightly, and suddenly the flesh and blood flew sideways, and the three little snow sculptures turned into minced meat.
There was a sudden silence.
The skeleton monster's body did not move, and he turned his head in place to scan the surroundings, Lanya only felt a chill all over, and quickly hid his body deeper in the dark.
At this time, if Lanya was discovered by the other party, there was absolutely no reason to survive, especially after hearing the "unknown secret" of that star.
"Whew!" the heavy black wings cleared the air with the sound of it rising into the air.
Lanya's body was hidden deep in the darkness, but a pair of bright and deep eyes kept staring at the huge black shadow in the distance.
It wasn't until the dark shadow was gone that Lanya finally lowered his head, but he raised his head sharply, and with a surprised expression, he noticedβ
The skeleton monster actually stopped in the shadow of a certain snow peak not far away, and under the moonlight, Lanya clearly saw that the other party quickly pushed away a raised rock, revealing a huge black hole, he carried the corpse of the remnant feather into it, and then quickly pulled the rock back from the inside.
This monster's lair is actually around here!!
Somewhere in the shadow of that snowy peak!
No wonder Remnant Yu said that he had already hidden here, but he would still be discovered?
No wonder the skeleton monster said that he was going to give up looking for her......
It turned out that the nesting location she had inadvertently chosen happened to be around the other party's secret nest!
This is equivalent to hiding from the enemy but hiding in front of someone's house, the luck is too bad, and it is difficult not to die.
At this point,
Sensing that the danger was far away, the head of the demon bird suddenly jumped out from between Lanya's neck, and quickly jumped in front of the head of the remnant feather, and then opened his mouth wide and sucked hard.
A white, slowly dissipating ball of light suddenly emerged from the remnant feather's head, struggled for a moment, let out a soul-shaking scream, and then sank into the mouth of the demon head.
You can still extract souls?
Ranya was a little surprised, because there were too few examples, and he hadn't figured out too much about the mechanism of this demon bird head devouring souls.
It now seems that the soul is generally hidden in the head of the prey, and has little to do with the corpse, and can be drawn from it as long as it does not die for too long.
The head of the demon bird returned to Lanya's body and began to slowly digest the soul of the remnant feather.
Ranya stepped out of the shadows, his gaze flickering as he landed on the hole in the skeleton monster's hidden lair.
He thought about the conversation.
First of all, the Skeleton Youkai seems to be hiding a message that can shake the entire Bone Forest and make the big youkai angry or even scared, otherwise, he wouldn't use that tone, and he is sure that if his news leaks out, he will be torn apart by the youkai at the top of the Bone Forest.
Secondly, the skeleton monster also said, "This guy's blood is barely usable, so let's bring her corpse back too." β
This sentence may seem unremarkable, but the actual hidden information is very worth speculating.
First of all
"This guy's blood is barely working. β
Does this mean that the secrets held by the skeleton youkai may need to collect the blood of other youkai?
Is it to refine something terrible?
And, after the Skeleton Monster said "Let's take her body back with you", he brought the body of Remnant Feather back to his secret lair, so does that mean that the secret is hidden in his cave?
Ranya's mind was torn back, pondering what the message might be.
And Lanya herself, is it possible to benefit from it?