The night is getting dark, the sky is dark, and on a moonless night, you can't see your fingers.
A crow flew up from the tree "flutteringly", turned around, and landed on the tree again, its small eyes staring at everything around it vigilantly.
Ron sat on a high rock on the hillside, closed his eyes and meditated, through the eyes of the crow, every move around him did not escape his surveillance.
There were several tents scattered at the foot of the hill, where the elves slept. The evening wind blew out the only spark in the campfire.
After an unknown amount of time, suddenly, Ron frowned. He was closing his eyes and resting his mind. He suddenly opened them, and his eyes were full of brilliance.
"There is a situation!"
A voice pierced the silence of the night sky, and Ron stood up, scanning his surroundings with a pair of dark eyes.
"what?"
The elves were also very vigilant. They turned over and got out of the tent. Opavila was even more terrified. She already had a sharp long sword in her hand. It seemed that she was used to keeping the sword by her side when she slept.
"By the river..." Ron shouted, pointing to the creek where they camped, and at the same time his body jumped high and fell to the ground.
"What's that?" Silia put her hand on her forehead, fog hung far above the river, it was gray, and she vaguely saw a gray thing.
"It seems to be a person..." Aurora's eyes were much sharper than everyone else's. She saw at a glance that it was a human being, half floating in the river, not knowing whether it was dead or alive.
Irian pondered for a while, "Who knows how to drink water? Go and see what happened?"
Elves are warm-hearted people, and generally speaking, they will not die.
"Let me go!" Scouting is the responsibility of thieves, and Phil is obliged to do so. He plunged into the water, and after a while, he rescued the person.
The one who was rescued was a young human woman, a magician, she looked very beautiful, she was dressed as a mercenary, her face was pale, her eyes were wide open, her fists were clenched tightly, as if she saw something terrible, She was stiff and motionless.
"She died?" Silia said, this is normal, anyone who sees this scene will think she is dead.
The situation was a bit weird, Yilian leaned down and put his hand into the young woman's nose. Suddenly, he frowned, and there was a hint of joy in his eyes, "No...she's still alive..."
"No..." Ron stood up, looking at the young female mercenary with sympathy in his eyes, "She's dead!"
Irian raised his head and said in astonishment, "How is it possible? She is still breathing weakly..."
Ron shook his head, "Her soul is gone, only her body is alive..."
Illian raised his head, fixed his eyes on Ron, and said in a hoarse voice, "How do you know?"
Ron nodded, "I'm a researcher of souls, so it's clearer..." As he spoke, he squatted down and tore off the clothes of the young female mercenary with a "shua-" sound, revealing a smooth back .
"Look..." Ron pointed to a blood hole the size of a coin, "it's here... I don't know what took her soul away..."
All the elves opened their eyes wide, with incredible expressions in their eyes, with a trace of fear on their faces, Opavilla swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said, "You can actually take the soul directly from the body, who did it?"
Ron shook his head blankly.
Irian gasped. It was hard to imagine a person without a soul, like a walking corpse. Although the body was alive, the person was already dead.
With a heavy heart, everyone fell silent and mourned for the young woman.
"It's a pity, she was so young and so beautiful, she died..." Irian's eyes revealed a look of pain.
Ron was silent for a while, "Let her go with peace of mind!" As he spoke, he lightly pressed the woman's nose with his hand, and after a while, the woman's eyes dimmed, and her twitching hands dropped feebly. There was a relieved smile on the face of the dead body.
"Bury her..." Opavilla said.
Everyone worked together, dug a hole, and buried the poor female mercenary who died unexpectedly. The wet soil gradually submerged her body, which symbolized the loss of life.
Just after the female mercenary was buried, a voice came from afar, breaking the tranquility of the night sky.
"Ah—help...help me..." The voice for help was extremely shrill, and it also implied extreme despair and fear.
Everyone raised their heads abruptly, with eight pairs of eyes staring at the direction of the sound.
"Over there..." Opavila said, pointing to the east.
"It's the upper reaches of the river..." Illian scowled.
"Go... go and see..." Ron said.
No matter who, for what purpose, forcibly sucking away human souls, this is inexcusable in Ron's view.
…
"Boom... Boom..."
A sound like thunder resounded through the earth, clouds and mist billowed in the sky, and the surrounding space seemed to collapse at any time.
"It's another day, and the holy artifact hasn't appeared yet..."
The scorpion fierce knight Ram frowned and looked at the sky, with a trace of irritability on his calm face. He had been waiting for several days. It seemed that the space was thundering but never raining, and the holy artifact hadn't appeared yet.
"Don't worry too much, Father!" Renault persuaded, "Since there are signs of instability in the space, the sacred artifact will appear sooner or later, it's just a matter of time..."
"Hey—" Ram slowly withdrew his gaze, and glanced at Lei Huangyuan, "I'm not worried about the holy artifact, but my heart feels like a big rock is pressing on it, as if... something bad happened! "
Renault smiled, "Maybe...Father, you are too tired, you will be fine after a rest!"
"I hope so!" Ram said with a sigh.
…
The eight figures rushed along the river bank, and after a while, Ron and the elf team came to a mercenary camp.
In the mercenary group's camp, the bonfire has not been extinguished, and it is "crackling", but the surroundings are as silent as death.
"Is anyone there?" Illian called out.
No one responded.
Ron frowned, "Something's wrong..." He quickly walked towards one of the tents, and when he opened it, a person rolled out of it.
That man was a male human mercenary. His eyes were closed tightly, and his expression was peaceful, as if he had fallen asleep.
The elves also quickly surrounded them.
"He's dead!" Ron's hand touched the man's body lightly, and he concluded, "It's exactly the same as the girl just now, the difference is that his soul was taken out in his sleep..."
Ron tore his clothes, and sure enough, there was a small hole the size of a coin on his chest.
"At this time there is also..." Illian lifted a tent again.
"There are also..."
"There are also..."
The tents were opened one by one, revealing dead bodies one by one. Maybe they can't be called corpses because their bodies are still alive, but in the end, they will die completely because their body functions are slowly cut off.
"Who did it?" Opavilla asked. A large mercenary regiment with thousands of people in the entire camp died without a sound, which made her angry and tinged with fear.
"I don't know..." Ron shook his head, "I'm pretty sure it's never a human..."
"Could it be a strange beast?" Phil asked. In this alien plane, there are dangerous strange beasts everywhere. This answer is convincing.
Irian pondered for a moment, shook his head and said, "I've never heard of any kind of beast that absorbs souls!"
"Look, this is where it just left..." Silia pointed to a human corpse and said, and she walked over quickly.
The man was maintaining a struggling posture, with a look of extreme horror before he died, as if something dragged him into the woods.
"That voice... I'm afraid it came from him..." Silia knelt down and looked at the human man's body quietly.
At this time, Edge frowned and sniffed in the air. Suddenly, his face changed drastically, "Silia, get out of here quickly?"
"Huh?" Silia turned her head to look, and she spoke too late, when there was a commotion on the ground.
With a sound of "唰—", a snake-like thing suddenly stood up from the ground, and suddenly rolled towards Silia.
"Silia..." All the elves shouted anxiously.
"Ah - what is this? Don't…"
Silia's feet were entangled, and her whole body was pulled to the ground. At the same time, a sharp thorn protruded from the tip of the tentacles, stabbing at Silia violently.
With a sound of "Porf—", it pierced into Silia's arm, pulling her tightly and crazily absorbing her soul.
With a sound of "Roar," Edge, who was closest to Silia, roared, and turned into a giant bear. He rushed up, stretched out his huge claws, and grabbed those tentacles fiercely.
The tentacles were snapped off, and bright red blood leaked from the cut, and the blood scattered everywhere. At this moment, there was a low growl like a beast.
Silia was so frightened that she pulled the broken tentacle out of her arm.
"You... are you okay?" Opavila rushed to Silia's side quickly, hugging her tightly.
"Sister Opavilla..."
Silia was still in shock, and threw herself into Opavilla's arms. Fortunately, Edge interrupted those tentacles as quickly as possible, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous.
Ron's face was tense, and his eyes searched around, not letting go of any clues. To his surprise, this mysterious guy escaped the crow's detection.
"That guy is underground..." At this moment, Ron's face changed, and he raised his hand. A bone spear suddenly appeared in his hand, and he stabbed at the ground below him.
"Porf—" Blood splashed from the ground as if pierced into some flesh and blood. At this moment, the ground suddenly exploded, and a black mist gushed out from the madness.
"Roar—" A roar shook everyone's souls slightly, it was a kind of fear from the depths of the soul.
Not long after, a human-like monster stood in front of everyone.
What appeared in front of everyone was a monster with an extremely terrifying appearance. The monster was about two meters tall and stood like a human being. smell. The gaping mouth is full of sharp teeth.
There are a pair of huge fleshy wings on his back, and his arms are tiny tentacles, just like the tentacles that attacked Silia just now, extremely terrifying.
"This... what is this thing?" Seeing the monster they saw, everyone was dumbfounded in horror.