Chapter 5: Monsters

The clear light is dotted, and the cold moon hangs high. The mountain wind whistled by, and there was a faint murderous intent in this vast night.

Cheng Linyuan stood at the entrance of the village with a pale face, staring at the stone. Is this the bloodstone in the mouth of the old Taoist, and the blood in his body has already blended with it? If it were in normal times, this kind of talk would only be sneered at by him. But after seeing the strangeness of the two stone beads, I already believed a little in my heart.

He turned his head and saw that there were people running around in the village and asking from house to house, and his face turned a little paler. It was the family of Orion who had not returned to the village until now, and among them was a person he knew well - Lu Buxin, the son of the fourth uncle. This scene is exactly the same as the scene from more than ten years ago that his grandfather said, but the difference is that now he is an outsider. But how could he stay out of it?

Seeing that no one noticed this, Cheng Linyuan gritted his teeth and took out two stone beads that had calmed down from his arms, trembling and slowly walking towards the blood stone. At this moment, he still has some hope in his heart, if everything is normal, then they should not be in danger of their lives, right?

Then, as if against him, the stone, which had been silent for many years, moved gently in front of him. The next moment, the red glow on the surface of the stone skyrocketed, and a strange whistling sound spread from here. The bright moon in the sky seemed to be imprinted with a layer of blood in an instant. In the red light, Cheng Linyuan took a few steps back with a frightened face, and then he ran west in a cry of surprise, running into the darkness full of unknowns.

The trees danced wildly in the mountain wind, like thousands of evil spirits chasing souls for their lives. Cheng Linyuan looked at the entrance of the Boulevard Mountain, like a giant beast opening its bloody mouth in the dark night, and was about to choose people to devour. He gritted his teeth and rushed in without looking back. In my heart, I silently recalled the road I had traveled during the day, and re-passed one by one. On the mountain path, his shadow was getting longer and longer, but his body, which was trembling slightly in the mountain wind, looked inexplicably a little stronger.

He walked step by step to the spot where he had fallen into the dirt slope during the day, and looked down, and the moonlight was cold, shrouding the unnoticeable open field. Then he turned around with a blank face and walked towards the depths of the forest. In the faint light, he quietly clenched the stone bead in his hand. The rest of the way, you have to find it yourself. The rest of the way, you have to go by yourself.

Deep in the mountain forest, in front of a mountain wall, a man in black stood still, as if thinking about something. During this period, I occasionally wanted to reach out a few times, but after all, I held back and did not cross the last distance. The body shook, the man in black looked at the woods behind him, snorted coldly, bowed his head slightly, and a black shadow appeared on his side, roaring in a low voice and rising into the air, and in an instant, he swept into the woods and made no sound. The man in black watched the black shadow disappear, turned his gaze back to the mouth of the mountain wall, and whispered, "Isn't it ...... here?"

"Click", Cheng Linyuan laboriously broke the branch that hooked his clothes, and threw the branch to the side casually. As far as the eye can see, there are many clothes around him that are torn, and there is faint blood on his cheeks, wrists and other exposed parts, and he has suffered a lot. I don't know if the fourth uncle will come to such a remote place in the mountains, he thought so in his heart but did not stop.

Suddenly, Cheng Linyuan's eyes were dark, and a fishy breath came to his face, and before he could react, he saw two scarlet eyes staring at him tightly in front of him. A roar sounded in his ears, Cheng Linyuan was shocked, and subconsciously covered his head with both hands. A pair of claws as hard as iron gripped at him fiercely, and the sharp pain hit his shoulders, and his body was lifted into the air. Cheng Linyuan gritted his teeth desperately and didn't shout, in the sound of broken branches around him, he endured the severe pain and opened his eyes and looked up, an extremely strong humanoid monster grabbed him, and there was a fishy smell from time to time all over his blood-red body. As if feeling the gaze of the young man under his claws, the monster looked down and smiled at Cheng Linyuan with sharp teeth. I don't know if I was surprised that the boy didn't say a word, but the strength under the monster's claws gradually increased, and the warmth from the claws stimulated its bloodthirsty desire. With a bit of ecstasy, the monster let out a sharp roar, and its body fell sharply, rushing straight to the ground.

Everyone is afraid of death, let alone this sixteen-year-old boy?" Ah-" A terrible scream pierced the silence in the mountains and forests, and Cheng Linyuan only felt that the blood in his whole body was boiling up, burning hot, and the fear of death made him unable to suppress it anymore. The monster grinned, its claws striking harder, intending to tear the boy in half.

In his hand, a little bit of green light suddenly appeared, quietly bursting out in a silent place.

In the distance, the man in black swept his gaze over the young man who was still alive on the ground, and said with a slight puzzle: "Blood Charm, what's going on?" The monster known as the Blood Charm roared in a low voice, and there was a bit of pain in his voice, and then raised his claws. The pair of claws that made Cheng Linyuan suffer a lot, and at the moment they kept dripping with inexplicable liquid, it looked as if they had melted. The bloody face showed a look of pain, restless. The man in black frowned, he knew that although this blood charm was not a peerless monster, ordinary cultivators might not be able to defeat it, but he didn't expect that this time he would suffer a secret loss on a young man who had no Taoism, how could he not be surprised?

Cheng Linyuan was lying on the ground, and the pain from all over his body made him not have the slightest strength to move. Only a faint warmth came from the palms of the hands, slowly extending upwards along the arms. After about a cup of tea, his fingers moved lightly twice, and then he listened intently, except for the mountain wind, only the sound of his own heartbeat, he gasped and slowly stood up and sat up. By the moonlight, he silently looked at his right shoulder, three blood holes were clearly visible, and for some reason although the shoulder was still painful, the blood flow had stopped. But that's out of his mind. He looked around and saw that he was in an open field, but he had never seen it, and he didn't know if he had been taken deep into the forest by the monster. Thinking of that monster, Cheng Linyuan felt palpitations and looked around again. At this sight, his heart suddenly sank. A few feet away, a figure lay on the ground, motionless.

The sound of footsteps echoed here, out of place in the silence of the night. Cheng Linyuan tried his best to suppress his voice and said, "Hey, you, wake up." The figure was still lying there, silent. The darkness seemed to be sneering silently, watching the lonely young man forget the pain in his body, slowly stretched out his trembling hands, and gently turned over the figure in front of him.

What caught my eye was a bloodless, painfully distorted face, the skin under the torn clothes was covered with countless fine bite marks, and there was not a trace of blood on the body, and the death was so tragic that I couldn't bear to gamble. This person's surname is Guo, and he is one of the people who went up the mountain with Lu Si, and he also takes a lot of care of Cheng Linyuan on weekdays. Cheng Linyuan looked at the person who was still laughing with him this morning, and even the bruises on his face had not yet disappeared, lying here, lying in this familiar and unfamiliar mountain and dying. His face was miserable, he let go of his hand, and the corpse flipped to the side, revealing the slightly dark red ground, it turned out that this was the mark left by a person after death?

He raised his head suddenly, gasping fiercely at the sky, trying his best to suppress the emotions in his heart. It's just that the scene when the fourth uncle found him in the afternoon suddenly appeared in his mind - Lu Siyi pulled him over and kept asking, "Is there anything wrong?" Thinking of this, Cheng Linyuan's nose twitched, and he no longer cared about anything, and shouted loudly: "Fourth uncle, where are you?" He raised his head and shouted hard, over and over again. After a while, he sat down on the ground, even though his voice was hoarse and he couldn't hear what he was saying, but he still repeated it over and over again in a low voice, and did not give up.

The night breeze is light.

In the distance, the light moved slightly, and a cold and faint voice came: "Are they what you are looking for?"