Chapter 37: The Ghost Monkey
Wang Yicheng rode a horse and galloped on a forest path. This forest is not far from the Nantian Sect, and Wang Yicheng is familiar with it. But today the woods seemed to be a little different from the past, so quiet, it was a dead silence, and there was no sound.
In the past, walking in the woods, you could hear the crisp chirping of birds, the sound of the wind blowing the leaves, and the cries of various small animals. Now the voices are gone, and the silence makes people's hearts furious. Wang Yicheng observed vigilantly from all sides, and at the same time increased his speed, hoping to bypass those vines and get out of the forest as soon as possible.
Suddenly, Wang Yicheng pulled the reins of the horse sharply, and the galloping fast horse stood in place, raised its front hooves, and let out a rhythmic cry.
Wang Yicheng saw a very terrifying scene, several corpses hanging from a big tree. The corpses were long dead, the blood on their faces turned dark red, one vine tied around their necks, and the other wrapped around a branch. The cause of death was a small bloody hole in the head. Wang Yicheng observed carefully, and the blood hole seemed to have been scratched alive by a small claw. The most terrifying thing is that these dead people, both men and women, are all smiling, as if they were very happy in the moment before death.
Wang Yicheng was secretly frightened, looking at these dead bodies, it seemed that they were nearby villagers. It must have been a youkai who did it. What kind of monster is it, so vicious? Wang Yicheng slowed down his horse and moved forward slowly.
Such dead bodies could be seen everywhere in the woods, and some of them were wearing the clothes of the disciples of the Southern Heaven Sect. The bodies were all hung from trees, the tallest of which was twenty or thirty meters above the ground. Sometimes, when the breeze blows, these corpses shake gently like wind chimes, which is strange and terrifying.
Wang Yicheng has come into contact with many monsters, most of which are cruel and easy to kill, but he does not have a hobby of hanging corpses from trees.
Wang Yicheng cautiously moved forward, and a white mist drifted from the woods at some point. Slowly, the surrounding trees were hidden in the mist. Wang Yicheng raised his head and looked at the sky, it should be a sunny morning, but the sun was only a faint bright spot. Wang Yicheng carefully sniffed the smell in the mist. There is also a hint of floral fragrance in the fishy smell, which is not quite the same as the taste of ordinary demonic energy.
However, Wang Yicheng's vigilance is heavier, and the monsters he has never seen are even more dangerous.
"Quack!" Suddenly, there was a cry of a baby in my ears, very crisp, and it seemed to be in front of the left.
Wang Yicheng ignored it, which made it clear that the monster was doing it. Even if there is a baby, now is not the time to act bravely, it is better to protect yourself first.
After a while, the baby's cry was mixed with a woman's cry, "Help!"
Wang Yicheng ignored it and whipped the horses hard.
"Yicheng, come and save me!"
Wang Yicheng was shocked in his heart, this voice was clearly Zeng Wei's, but he had just broken up with him not long ago, how could he be here?
"Yicheng, Fei Fei and I came to look for you, but we were trapped in this bush, come and save me!"
Zeng Wei's voice kept coming from his ears.
Wang Yicheng gritted his teeth, but still ignored it, and continued to walk along the path, and the voice of the call quickly changed from the left front to the left rear.
"Yicheng, I'm not a monster, do you remember that I lent you my notes, and we took the adventure to fight tiger spirits together......"
Wang Yicheng's heart was shocked, these things were all experienced by him and Zeng Wei together, there are monsters pretending to be, it is absolutely impossible to know this, could it be that he and Fei Fei are really lost here.
Wang Yicheng immediately turned his horse's head and walked towards the place where the sound came from. The forest path immediately became rugged, and the dense branches blocked the road, so Wang Yicheng had to dismount and walk.
Fortunately, after walking a few steps, I saw Zeng Wei and Liu Feifei who were calling for help. I saw the two of them leaning on a big tree covered in blood. Seeing Wang Yicheng, his face showed an excited expression, and he shouted: "Yicheng, we came to look for you, but we met a monster, save me." ”
Wang Yicheng was also excited, and he stepped forward to hug Zeng Wei. Suddenly, the slate in his mind shone slightly, and Wang Yicheng's mind suddenly sobered up. reacted immediately, he was not in the right state, how could he suddenly faint with excitement.
Wang Yicheng immediately stopped and asked, "Where are you injured?"
Zeng Wei pointed to his abdomen with a trembling finger, where there was a bloody hole, still gurgling and bleeding.
"I'll bandage your wounds. Wang Yicheng pretended to take the pill to stop bleeding, but quietly took out the molten gold mirror from the back basket. Mirror-type magic weapons are generally top-notch in the cultivation realm, and they have many wonderful uses, and the Molten Gold Mirror is no exception. In Shen Ling's notes, it is recorded that one of the wonderful uses is to break illusions.
Wang Yicheng pointed the small mirror at Zeng Wei and Liu Feifei, and used the mirror to cast spells on the two according to Shen Ling's method. In an instant, the mirror reflected the faces of the two, which startled Wang Yicheng, where are Zeng Wei and Liu Feifei, they are clearly two monsters.
If you don't look at the faces, these two monsters are the golden snub-nosed monkeys of the earth, with golden fluff, slender and flexible tails, and sharp monkey claws. The most bizarre thing is the faces of the two monsters, these are the faces of two human teenagers and men, the men are handsome, the women are delicate, the skin is fair, and the expressions are rich, no different from ordinary boys and women.
Wang Yicheng didn't make a sound, took back the mirror, and the two monsters turned into the faces of Zeng Wei and Liu Feifei again.
"Whew!" two flying sword talismans came out of their hands, and after two screams, the two monsters were split in half.
Wang Yicheng turned around and left, he already knew what kind of monster this was. This monster is called a ghost monkey, but the monkey has a human face on its body, and is good at using illusions to confuse pedestrians, and its front claws are sharp enough to pierce through human skulls. Likes to hang loot high in trees.
Thinking of the corpses I had seen in the woods just now, it was clear that they were the work of these monkeys.
Wang Yicheng rode on a horse and galloped on the forest path, still recalling the information about the ghost monkey in his mind. Ghost Monkeys like to live in symbiosis with a kind of Phantom Fog Tree, and although they don't have strong defense, they move very quickly. The most terrifying thing is that ghost monkeys are social animals and often appear in groups. So Wang Yicheng had to leave this forest quickly. The ghost monkey does not leave the range of the Phantom Mist Tree, as long as it quickly rushes out of this mist, it can escape.
However, these ghost monkeys apparently discovered Wang Yicheng's intentions, and only listened to the screams in the woods echoing each other. These screams are very similar to those of humans, men and women, old and young, but the voices are high-pitched, like the roars of humans when they are at the height of their anger.
"Whew!" The two ghost monkeys grabbed two hanging branches, crossed from the air, and slammed into Wang Yicheng's head, two sharp front paws, the nails flashed with cold light, and there was blood on them, I don't know how many people's heads have been scratched with these claws.
Wang Yicheng did not rein in his horse, but leaned back sharply, and two monkeys crossed his face. The tip of the nail was only a few inches away from Wang Yicheng's face, and he could almost smell the blood on the nail. "Knock knock" two muffled sounds, which are the sound of the two ghost monkeys crashing against the trunk of the tree. The voices were dull, obviously powerful, and Wang Yicheng could almost imagine the appearance of their powerful front claws piercing the trunk through two small holes.
Suddenly, a ghost monkey swung in front of him and slammed directly into the horse's head. Wang Yicheng reached out and threw out a flying sword talisman and split it in half. In the mist, there were ghost monkeys grabbing at the branches and swinging around. Wang Yicheng can dodge if he can, and if he can't dodge, he will be hacked to death with a talisman. He is very worried now, these ordinary ghost monkeys are just that, and the most terrifying thing is that the monkey king doesn't know where they are. It stands to reason that the larger the group of monkeys, the higher the level of the Monkey King. Look at the number of monkeys in this area, his grandmother's! Could it be that the monkey king is a big demon again?
Wang Yicheng felt a pang of shock in his heart, and urged the horses urgently, as long as they rushed out of this fog, they would be safe.
Suddenly, the horses under their crotches let out a terrible roar, and then fell to their knees. I saw a ghost monkey hanging on the horse's belly, eating the horse's internal organs with its sharp claws, and its face and fur were covered with blood.
Wang Yicheng was not alarmed, he picked up the bamboo basket on his back, jumped up from the horse, changed his hands into magic seals, and shouted in his mouth, "Wind, disease!" At this time, Wang Yicheng was already able to reduce the levitation technique into two words.
I saw Wang Yicheng, who jumped into the air, did not fall to the ground, but floated in the air, gliding quickly. The ground was pitch black with the heads of ghost monkeys, and when they saw Wang Yicheng gliding in the air, the group of ghost monkeys waiting to hunt Wang Yicheng let out an unwilling roar.
Wang Yicheng secretly rejoiced, fortunately he was a wind spell and could walk in the air, otherwise if he fell to the ground, no matter how strong the spell was, he would be overwhelmed by these monkeys.
There were still a lot of ghost monkeys swinging in the air, and Wang Yicheng used up the first-level talisman in a blink of an eye. At this time, four or five ghost monkeys swung from all directions at the same time, forming a small encirclement.
With a "bang", Wang Yicheng's flying sword shot out, circled around his body, and pierced the heads of these ghost monkeys at the same time. The corpse of the ghost monkey fell along with the spurted blood. Wang Yicheng used his flying sword to open the way and killed all these swinging ghost monkeys.
Suddenly, a red light flashed in the mist, passing in front of Wang Yicheng. Suddenly, Wang Yicheng felt a sense of extreme danger in his heart, which was the vigilance of people who had walked on the edge of life and death countless times.
Wang Yicheng instantly withdrew the flying sword and blocked the heart of his chest. And this red light passed through Wang Yicheng's chest, and disappeared into the mist in an instant, so fast that he didn't even have time to react.
"Poof!" a puddle of blood splattered from Wang Yicheng's shoulder, and Wang Yicheng fell directly from the air.
At the moment when the red light flashed just now, although Wang Yicheng didn't have time to react, he could see it clearly. It was a small red monkey, much smaller than a normal ghost monkey. But the speed is incredible, and the attack just now, fortunately, he blocked the flying sword in his chest first. The red ghost monkey temporarily changed the direction of its attack, otherwise his heart would have been pierced.
The attack power of the red ghost monkey is very strong, it is very amazing, just now his own defensive shield has actually been opened, but it was broken in an instant, as if it did not exist, such a speed, such an attack power, this red little monkey must be the monkey king.
Wang Yicheng fell to the ground, and the monkeys instantly let out a cheer, and hundreds of ghost monkeys swarmed up, drowning Wang Yicheng.