At that time, although the dark castle fell into a brief period of calm after the confrontation between all parties, it made people feel even more perilous.
The Ghostless Sect, the Falcon Group, and the Holy Light Knights are like three beasts that hold their breath and sneak quietly. No one knows where they are or what they are doing, but the crisis they bring is gradually increasing as time goes by.
While Annie and I were sneaking quickly in the direction of the moonlight, we faintly heard sounds like branches being broken by the wind, coming from above our heads.
I waved my hand to block Annie, and looked up between the treetops. The branches on the towering ancient tree seemed to have been chopped off by the roots at the same time, and countless branches and leaves fell from the sky like dark clouds.
I grabbed Annie and ran back quickly. We retreated three meters away, and we were hit by air waves caused by branches.
When I instinctively turned my head to avoid the dust brought by the branches, the sound of countless branches being cut off was like a heavy rainstorm.
When I looked up again, the forest with a radius of a thousand meters had already broken in unison, branches fell wildly in the sky, and the dust kicked up by the leaves filled the fields like thick fog. Annie and I had to protect our eyes with our hands and stand still.
When my sight returned again, the branches and fallen leaves piled on the ground were already more than one meter thick. The woodland that was originally passable became full of obstacles. We wanted to walk there, but there was no other way but to wade through the branches.
When I raised my head to the sky again, I couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.
The branches above my head were not broken to the point where nothing was left. There were only two long horizontal branches left on each tree. Looking up from below, each tree turned into a cross reaching into the clouds.
I couldn't help but said to myself: "Is this the Cross Jungle?"
"Yes!" Annie's hand on my arm was also trembling slightly: "This is the Cross Jungle mentioned on the map. This is the area marked in yellow. There may be... there may be a way to survive."
While Annie was speaking, the moonlight in the sky seemed to be pulled by some kind of force and shot straight down from the sky, forcibly adding a layer of cold silvery white to the Cross Forest.
Looking from my perspective, the entire jungle has been divided into two layers of black and white by the moonlight. There are snow-white crosses on the top and undulating black shadows on the bottom. At first glance, the entire jungle seems to have turned into a silent cemetery, full of white crosses inserted into the dark waves,
I know clearly that those things that look like tombs are actually just shadows formed by branches on the ground, but I always feel that they are corpses hidden in barren tombs suppressed by crosses. Maybe at some point, corpses hiding underground will crawl out of the soil. Come out and drag Annie and me into the grave.
I said solemnly: "What else is there on the map of the Tulip family?"
Anne said with a trembling voice: "The map says that there are different crosses in the Cross Jungle. The only way to survive is to find the right one and go around it. Otherwise, you will be cursed."
I asked, “What cross is right?”
"It's not mentioned on the map!" Annie's face turned extremely pale and she said, "Because there is a road around here that can go around. So..."
While Annie was speaking, my ears twitched slightly: "Stop talking, follow me!"
I picked up Annie and flew down into the fallen leaves in the distance. I casually covered myself with some branches and then lurked quietly.
As soon as I stabilized my body, I heard two footsteps approaching us one after the other.
The footsteps in front seemed extremely chaotic, and sometimes there were a few staggering sounds. It should be that a group of prisoners were being escorted in front of the team.
Their steps behind them were uniform, and the distance of each step was very similar. The sound alone was enough to give people the illusion that an army was marching forward in unison.
The Knights of Light are coming!
Apart from them, probably no one can walk in such neat steps.
While I was holding my breath, I heard someone shouting in English: "Stop!"
When the two teams stopped about ten meters away from us, someone said, "It seemed like someone had been here just now? Judging from the traces on the ground, two people had stopped here."
That person must have discovered my and Annie's footprints.
I didn't hear the knight leader speak, but I heard the sound of a bowstring being drawn.
Before I was ready, the sound of trembling bowstrings rose to the sky. My first reaction was not to be on full alert, but to hold Annie down.
The Holy Light Knights are too close to us. With the power they use, at this distance, they can easily pierce us with an arrow.
Although the opponent may not be shooting with purpose, no one can guarantee that we will not be hit by arrows.
I can guarantee that I will remain silent when being hit by an arrow. Can Annie do that
Therefore, my first reaction was to hold the opponent down.
I had just turned sideways to suppress Annie, and the sound of crossbow arrows breaking through the wind suddenly started. Just after a blink of an eye, a sharp arrow flew past Anne's head.
I saw Annie wanted to scream loudly, but she could no longer use her hands to cover the other person's mouth. In desperation, she could only open her mouth to block the other person's mouth.
Annie's eyes widened, her breathing aggravated by fear was blocked in her mouth.
The knight commander in the distance also said slowly: "Let the prisoners explore the way forward and give them a few knives."
While the man was speaking, I gently patted Annie, whose breathing was gradually becoming steady, to signal her to be silent.
He quietly pushed aside the leaves and looked outside. As expected, the prisoners of the Holy Light Knights were Falcon adventurers. Only about half of the number of Falcons were left, and they were all taken with them. Even their chief and deputy leader Andre and Arnold was among the prisoners.
When the fighting power of the Holy Light Knights shocked me again, a prisoner objected: "You have no right to treat prisoners like this, we..."
Before the man finished speaking, the knight commander waved his hand gently, and one of them drew his sword and stabbed the two-handed knight's sword, which was more than 1.5 meters tall, into the opponent's stomach. It wasn't until the sword edge emerged from behind the man that he slowly drew out the bloody sword.
The knight commander said calmly: "We are not an army, and we are not in the mood to pay attention to any convention. In my opinion, you are all robbers and thieves who should be sent to the gallows. If you don't need a chance for redemption, I can use myself way to wash away your sins."
No one among the Falcon Adventurers dared to speak for a while, and a knight fell to the ground with the equipment on his back.
Those things were the original equipment of the Falcon Knights, but except for a few machetes, the Knights didn't bring anything. Based on this alone, it can be inferred that the Knights should know more about Cross Jungle.
Several adventurers were about to step forward to pick up the machete on the ground, but the knight commander said: "You guys, go back."
After those people stepped aside inexplicably, the knight commander raised his hand and pointed at a few of them: "You... you... and you! You guys move forward."
Those few people inexplicably picked up the machetes on the ground, swept away the branches in front of them and walked into the Cross Forest. The entire knights were watching each other motionless from a distance, until the three people gradually disappeared from my sight, but the knights still Indifferent, as if no one cared whether the three adventurers would take the opportunity to escape.
What do they want
While I was wondering, I heard a heart-rending scream coming from a distance. The sound clearly came from the mouths of three people, but their voices were concentrated in one place.
When I suddenly looked up at the Knights of Holy Light, all the knights had lowered their heads and made the sign of the cross on their chests.
Are they praying
An idea flashed in my mind, I grabbed Annie next to me and whispered softly: "Let's go!" I stood up among the fallen leaves, put Annie on my shoulders and jumped onto a branch, and then the force of the branch rebounded Jumped into the distance.
I know that my Qing Gong is not good. In order to keep up with Ye Xun, I have been learning Qing Gong from Mother Fox. She told me that there is no quick fix for Qing Gong. If I want to walk in the wind like Ye Xun, in addition to my basic skills and footwork, , at least ten years of hard training is required.
However, Qing Gong is not without its tricks, that is, "borrowing force". Borrowing all available power and converting it into force for one's own acceleration is a shortcut to practicing Qing Gong.
I stepped on the branches and bounced, just playing tricks.
The screams of the three people perfectly concealed the sound of me stepping on the branches, but they could not conceal my figure.
From the moment I appeared, the prisoners of the Falcon Adventure Group saw my back. Some wanted to shout, but Andre forcibly stopped them.
After I jumped out twice in a row, I stood on the branch and gave Andre a thumbs up. The latter also made a gesture of folding his hands to me.
Although I didn't understand what he meant, at this time, I was no longer allowed to stay and communicate with him. When the screams over there stop, the Knights of Holy Light will all raise their heads. At that time, I can't leave even if I want to.
When I quickly ran towards the direction where the screams came from, the voices of the three people gradually stopped, and all I saw were three corpses hanging in the air. Those three people's tongues were already sticking out of their mouths, and their eyes were turned white. Even if I wanted to save them, it was already too late, so I could only let them hang in the air and spin back and forth.
I took two steps back along the corpse and looked up again at the cross where the three adventurers were hanged.
I don't know when the top of the cross was missing a section. I could see that it was just a "T"-shaped frame with both sides flush, and three people were hung on the frame in the order of two on the left and one on the right.
I raised my head and said, "Sure enough, it's pretty much what I guessed. Check to see if there are any broken wooden stakes on the ground."
Anne looked at the ground with confusion, and the footsteps of the Holy Light Knight could be heard slowly in the distance.