I crawled forward quickly, and although I didn't speak, I didn't care about anything else and approached the opponent quietly. The sound of my two shoes scratching the rocks again and again spread in all directions through the surrounding holes, and finally attracted the attention of Sun Xiaomei and others.
Soon I heard someone shouting, "There's movement overhead, be careful!"
When I looked up, I saw a honeycomb-like hole.
Could it be that the poisonous insects that dug the wormholes had foraged for food on a large scale here
After this thought flashed through my mind, I quickly crawled to a cave entrance and tilted my head to look down. Although there were ropes hanging below the cave entrance, I didn't see many coffins because most of them had rotted and fallen to the ground.
Sun Xiaomei was leading the sorcerers from the Xuan Jing Division, holding crossbows and standing among the rotten wood on the ground, carefully monitoring the top of the cave.
At this time, the black fog coming from afar had rushed to a distance of less than fifty meters from us.
I lowered my voice and said, "Little Sugar, just show your face at the entrance of the cave. Just let them see you. Be careful of their crossbows."
Xiao Baitang nodded and poked his head out from the edge of the cave.
The flashlight of the Mirror Warlock happened to shine up from below at the same time, shining squarely on Xiao Baitang's face.
The dark cave, the beautiful woman's face, and a bright white beam of light, even from my perspective, it seemed spooky, let alone a warlock who was on guard.
The opponent pulled the trigger of the crossbow without hesitation. Xiao Baitang suddenly leaned to the side, and the whistling arrow brushed the opponent's temple and shot into the air. After hitting the top of the cave and creating a few sparks, it bounced towards me.
As I reached out to grab the crossbow, I whispered, "Dongbao, speak up, tell the cave god to let them die!"
"No, no..." Dong Bao was so scared that he kept shaking his head, "I dare not! That would offend the cave god, I..."
The concept of "cave god" was deeply rooted in Dongbao's mind. She had long regarded the things that Gu Piaoran had created to scare people as real gods, and was afraid of offending him and bringing disaster to the village. But I just didn't have time to explain what the so-called cave god was.
I was getting anxious when Xiao Baitang's voice suddenly changed and he imitated Dongbao and said, "Xie Jingwen, do you still want to live?"
Xie Jingwen said in a trembling voice: "Dongbao, why is it you? You are not..."
Xiao Baitang sneered: "Didn't you say that I am ugly? Don't you think I am not worthy of a Han man like you? It doesn't matter, I have the Cave God, that's enough."
Xie Jingwen exclaimed, "You fell into a cave?"
What Xie Jingwen called "falling into the cave" was marrying the cave god. Death can be said to be the last ceremony of a fallen cave girl's marriage, because it is impossible for a mortal to stay with the cave god or well god forever. Only by becoming a ghost can one be considered to have officially married a god.
Xie Jingwen and his men put Dongbao into the coffin with their own hands, but now she is looking down upon the crowd from above, which is indeed somewhat similar to the legend of the Fallen Flower Cave Girl. No wonder Xie Jingwen had a preconceived notion.
Xiao Baitang continued in a cold voice: "In this world, he is the god and I am the queen. You should know what the consequences of offending the god and queen are, right?"
“No, no, no…” Xie Jingwen’s teeth were chattering with fear. Even though he was usually eloquent, he couldn’t even utter a complete sentence now. “I didn’t mean to offend you, I just… just…”
Sun Xiaomei took over the conversation: "Dong Shen, Dong Bao is the sacrifice we offered to you as agreed. Now, you let her come to trouble us recklessly. From a moral point of view, it is a bit unreasonable, isn't it?"
Just as Xiao Baitang was about to speak, I reached out and touched her, and she quickly shut up. To Sun Xiaomei, this action seemed to make the cave god speechless.
Sun Xiaomei took the opportunity to say: "Mr. Dongshen, since you can't answer my question, then should we talk about..."
Just now, when Xiao Baitang and Sun Xiaomei were talking back and forth, I had been carefully observing the black air in the distance.
The black air like tides has now surged to a position ten meters away from us. If we move forward a little bit, we will become sacrifices.
I quickly touched Dongbao: "Quick! The ghosts are coming!"
Dongbao finally reacted, turned around and prostrated herself on the ground: "God, I, the witch Dongbao, am willing to offer blood and food as a sacrifice to the gods..."
Sun Xiaomei, who was standing below, heard Dong Bao's voice, but she didn't know that the god Dong Bao was talking about was not the cave god they thought of. She immediately shouted, "Dong Bao, what do you want to do? Sacrifice us to the gods? Do you think the gods would be so shameless and... "
Sun Xiaomei probably meant to say "a person who goes back on his word". If I am not mistaken, they must have reached some kind of agreement with the cave god played by Gu Piaoran not long ago, otherwise, she would not have come up with such a word.
She felt that gods all had dignity, and would be embarrassed to kill them if she bullied them with words. However, she never imagined that the being behind the black fog was not a cave god, but a ghost god ready to enjoy blood.
Any ghosts and gods who trade with people by asking for blood are not good people. They don't care whether the blood is innocent and was cheated or forcibly taken. As long as the sacrificer asks, they will devour the sacrifice without hesitation.
Even if those people died at their hands, the heaven would count the sins on the sacrificers, and would not punish the ghosts and gods who came to enjoy the blood food, because most of the cause and effect are not on the ghosts and gods. Therefore, the more vicious the ghosts and gods are, the less they will care about the origin of the blood food.
Sun Xiaomei's words offended the dignity of the ghosts and gods. The latter were furious and stirred up billowing black smoke that rushed down from the cave and covered the heads of Sun Xiaomei and others.
"Demon-killing arrows, fire—" Sun Xiaomei gave the order, and the bowstrings of more than ten powerful crossbows suddenly burst into pieces, and the red-light-flashing crossbows flew through the cave near us and shot into the air. At that moment, I felt that there were dazzling red lights shooting and dancing everywhere around me.
Just a moment later, the crossbow arrows that had penetrated the black fog hit the rocks on the top of the cave, and fell down with bursts of red light. Before the crossbow arrows landed, the runes engraved on the arrows suddenly burst into red light again, and the nearly foot-long crossbow arrows exploded repeatedly with the sound of firecrackers. Under the crazy dance of the broken arrows, the area within a radius of more than ten meters was like the scorching sun in the sky, the red light was so dazzling that it was impossible to open your eyes.
"Be careful!" I quickly pressed Xiao Baitang under me and closed my eyes. The last thing I saw before I fell was the dazzling beams of light that gathered into a raging fire that rolled wildly in all directions. I also knew that in a moment, the rolling sea of fire would completely engulf me, or even roll over my back and into the distance.
However, after a moment, I only felt like a pool of warm water was flowing through my body, and I didn't feel anything else. At the same time, a shocked and angry roar came from the black air opposite.
The runes on the Demon-Slaying Arrow should be like most of the talismans, which can only be used to deal with demons and monsters with evil spirits, but have no effect on humans at all. That's why I was able to escape the heavy fire without any danger.
Before I looked up, I heard Sun Xiaomei's stern voice: "It turns out that Wu Zhao was playing tricks up there! Change the arrows and blow him into pieces!"
Sun Xiaomei must have heard me shout "be careful" and concluded that I was hiding above the cave. However, she was only half right - someone was playing tricks up there, but no one was pretending to be a god.
If someone had shot another round of demon-killing arrows, perhaps the ghosts and gods would have been forced to retreat. However, she ordered a replacement of arrows, which could have killed me, but missed the opportunity to force the ghosts and gods to retreat.
After I heard the other party's order, I immediately pulled Xiao Baitang and crawled away. Dongbao followed at the same time: "Where are we going?"
"Hide quickly! The farther the better!" I knew what the *arrow Sun Xiaomei was talking about. The control of firearms in China was extremely strict, and even the Xuanjing Division could not have automatic firearms. The so-called *arrow was nothing more than a *arrow tied to the front of the arrow.
If we were in an open area, I might be able to deal with the other party, but in such a small space like the mezzanine, all I could do was run away.
Before the three of us had climbed far, we heard a hissing sound behind us. When I looked back, the fire from the fuse had almost illuminated half of the compartment. No matter how fast we were, we couldn't be faster than the fuse.
"Hurry up!" I grabbed a few ghost-killing coins from my body and raised my hand to hit the rocket, when suddenly a ghost's roar came from afar. The next moment, I saw rockets all over the ground suddenly fly into the air and fly in one direction.
A giant hand suddenly stretched out from the swirling black fog in the distance, grabbing more than ten rockets at the same time, clenching one hand into a fist, and extending the palm toward the ground through an opening...
"Cover your ears!" When I quickly covered my ears, the giant hand had already fallen flat on the ground.
At the moment when a loud bang violently rose from the palm of the ghost god, heavy flames also rolled in all directions along the edge of the ghost god's palm. Several warlocks who didn't have time to dodge were immediately broken their legs by the impact of the fire wave, and fell to the ground with a sharp scream.
At the same time, the ghost god's giant palm, which was filled with black smoke, suddenly rose into the air and slammed down hard on a sorcerer. As thick blood spurted out from the ghost god's palm, the sound of sharp teeth chewing bones came from under the ghost god's palm.
When the ghost raised his hand again, although blood could still be seen dripping slowly along his fingertips, the sorcerer who was originally held down by him had turned into a pile of gnawed bones.
Sun Xiaomei quickly retreated and issued orders: "Quick... switch to the Demon Slaying Arrow! Whoever has the Thunder Talisman, go ahead and give it to me, quick!" (To be continued)