"Yes..." Xiao Baitang wanted to say "someone is coming", but I waved my hand to stop him. I pointed at Ye Jin who was sitting on the ground, asking him to keep an eye on him. I quietly pulled out the dagger and moved towards the direction where the sound came from.
We both approached each other slowly across a curved wall. The other party's steps were neither fast nor slow, while I restrained my breath, squatted close to the wall, leaned sideways, held the dagger, and glanced at the edge of the wall with the corner of my eye.
The other party also suddenly stopped, and the tip of his shoe showed a little from the edge of the city wall. When my eyes fell on the other party's feet, I suddenly felt a heart-pounding chill on my side. This feeling has not appeared for many years. The first time I felt trembling was when my grandfather taught me to catch ghosts. I was suddenly attached to my body by a fierce ghost without any warning. This time, the trembling hidden deep in my memory came suddenly, my body tensed up, and my five knuckles tightly grasped the handle of the knife, as if only by holding the dagger tightly could I feel a little safe.
No, Xiao Baitang and Ye Jin are behind me. How can they watch me being approached by a ghost and remain indifferent
What happened to the two of them
As my thoughts were racing, I suddenly felt a cold hand pressing on my waist. The other person's hands went around my waist and clasped in front of me, and the cold body then pressed against my back.
I was shocked and subconsciously turned the blade, but the short blade in my hand was retracted before I could make a move - Little White Sugar!
The pair of small hands around me were clearly from Xiao Baitang. I recognized the pendant on her wrist.
Something happened to Xiao Baitang
I was shocked, and the hands around my waist suddenly tightened violently. I felt suffocated, and the hands wrapped around me suddenly showed a layer of dark green scales, and the five knuckles suddenly bulged high, and the horizontal scales like chicken claws covered the base of the fingers all the way to the fingertips, and the dark yellow nails also grew several inches - Xiao Baitang's two entangled palms turned into a pair of lizard claws in front of my eyes in an instant.
At the same time, the chill behind me suddenly brought a sensation of scales rubbing against my body, as if a poisonous snake was clinging to my back and twisting left and right. A moment later, a trembling tongue passed over my shoulder and stretched out in front of my eyes.
I watched as the two snakes' tongues trembled slightly in front of me for a few times before they hooked back to the tip of my nose. The bright red tongues only swept across the tip of my nose for a moment before sliding down my nose to my jaw, and finally stopped at my throat and vibrated back and forth.
Is that a monitor lizard or a poisonous snake behind me
Before I could recover from the cold and slippery shock, the toe in the distance slowly walked in front of me. Only then did I see that the other person was actually a hunchback holding a lantern.
The hunchback said calmly: "You three follow me."
Before I could say anything, Ye Jin came to my side and asked, "Who are you? Why should I follow you?"
The hunchback looked at Ye Jin coldly: "Either follow me or stay here and wait for death. It's your choice!"
Ye Jin turned to look at me and said, "Zhaozi, look..."
I shuddered suddenly: Can't Ye Jin see that there is something behind me
Although Ye Jin’s Taoist skills are not very proficient, his perception is very sharp. What on earth could this thing be that he can’t even see
I stood up and said, "Follow him!"
“Okay! Xiao Baitang, come here…” When Ye Jin called Xiao Baitang to come towards me, he suddenly pulled out a machete and chopped it down on my shoulder.
"Brother Ye Jin—" When Xiao Baitang screamed in fear, Ye Jin's machete had already chopped on my shoulder. The powerful energy bursting out from the blade instantly broke my clothes and cut a bloody mark on my body.
At the moment when blood spurted out of my shoulder, Ye Jin suddenly restrained his force and let the knife stop on me.
The monster that was entangled with me just now disappeared the moment Ye Jin swung his knife - Ye Jin's knife definitely did not hurt the opponent, but it suddenly scared the monster away.
Xiao Baitang turned pale with fear: "Brother Ye Jin, what are you doing? I asked you to..."
Ye Jin's hands were shaking: "Little Sugar, is the thing on Zhaozi gone?"
Xiao Baitang shook his head and said, "I can't feel it anymore, so he must be gone!"
I asked with lingering fear: "What did you see just now?"
Before I could finish my words, I heard the hunchback snort coldly: "It's those stinky bugs again. Come with me!"
I asked tentatively, "My friend in front, what was that thing just now?"
The hunchback, who was walking forward with his hands behind his back, replied coldly, "I don't know."
The other party's attitude clearly showed that he didn't want to say anything more, so there was no need for me to ask any more. I could only turn around and ask Xiao Baitang, "Did you see what that thing looked like?"
Xiao Baitang shook his head and said, "I didn't see anything, I just felt something on your body, and the fatal spot was on your left shoulder. I was still unsure at first, so I just told Brother Ye Jin that there was a ghost behind you. It wasn't until I came over that I was sure that the thing was on you. I pointed to my shoulder, and Brother Ye Jin took action."
Ye Jin also said, "We were watching you the whole time. I saw you suddenly hold your breath and straighten your body, and I thought you were going to attack. Later, Xiao Baitang told me that a ghost had possessed you. I didn't believe it at first, but I did believe it when I saw Xiao Baitang was so anxious that he was about to cry. Damn it, if I hadn't been so weak and my sword was too slow, that thing wouldn't have been able to escape!"
Of the three of us, I was the only one who could see the ghost; Xiao Baitang could feel it but couldn't see it; Ye Jin didn't feel anything at all. I had never heard of that kind of ghost. What on earth was it
As I was desperately trying to recall all kinds of ghosts and monsters, the hunchback in front of me suddenly stood up, stretched out his hand and patted the city wall twice, and a secret door soon appeared there: "Go in!"
"Wait a minute!" I said in a deep voice, "We still have a friend who hasn't arrived yet. We'll go in after it arrives."
I haven't seen Maozi since he went up into space. I can't just leave him and go into the city alone without knowing whether he is alive or dead!
The hunchback looked at me indifferently and said, "I am not in the mood to wait for you. Either go in now, or stand here and wait to die. Make your choice!"
I said calmly, "Since you have something to do, please go ahead! We won't go with you until my friend comes."
The hunchback looked me up and down for a long time before saying, "I'll give you one stick of incense time. I won't wait for you after that."
"Thank you!" While I was talking to the hunchback, I was trying to contact the cat, but there was no response from the cat. My heart sank.
While I was desperately trying to contact Maozi, there was a sudden sound of water in Fengling River. Bowl-sized waves rose from the bottom of the river and soon formed a continuous ripple in the center of the river. At first glance, it looked like a huge monster trying to break out of the water.
When I reached out to grab Luosha, the hunchback who was leading the way had already spoken: "The patrolling water god of Fengling River will come out soon. All living beings and dead souls within a hundred feet along the river will be unsuccessful. Do you still want to wait?"
I held the hilt of the knife and said, "Ye Jin, take Xiao Baitang in first. I'll wait for a while."
Ye Jin pulled out his machete nonchalantly and said, "I, Ye Jin, am afraid of everything except death. Xiao Baitang, go in by yourself!"
"I don't..." Xiao Baitang shook her head and reached into the deerskin bag beside her, where her poison should be. But could her poison really kill ghosts
Just as I was about to persuade him again, a column of water suddenly rushed out of the Fengling River. The several-meter-high column of water was like a white dragon rising into the sky, waving its horns and claws ferociously, roaring with frightening fury, and then it leaned over and rushed to the bottom of the water, splitting the river surface, diving into the water, and stirring the river water again.
After just a moment, the hundred-meter-long water surface of the Fengling River boiled and rolled at the same time, and the thick cold air surged up into the air from the bottom of the river, giving the already furious Fengling River an even more weird feeling.
The hunchback laughed coldly and said, "I'm afraid it will be too late in an incense stick of time. In another cup of tea, the river god will come out of the water. By then, you won't be able to leave even if you want to."
I stared at the river with an expressionless face. I was actually extremely nervous. Sweat had already begun to seep out of the palm of my hand holding the handle of the knife, but Maozi still didn't move at all.
Suddenly, hundreds of water columns burst out from the bottom of the river, straight up to the sky, and merged into a torrential rain and fell into the water. A crack instantly exploded in the center of Fengling River, and the rolling river water began to boil and surge to both sides...
The hunchback laughed coldly and said, "The river has already opened. If you don't leave now, you will never have a chance to leave again."
I responded calmly, "Since you are not afraid, why should I be afraid? Isn't it less than an incense stick?"
The hunchback sneered and closed his eyes, not even looking at me.
Cold sweat broke out on my forehead.
It would be a lie to say that I am not afraid. Those who are not afraid of the overwhelming force must have made up their minds to die, but the hunchback left a way out for us, and this way out became a choice that tested our true intentions.
Take a step back and you may survive.
If you wait any longer, you will surely die.
Anyone would hesitate!
I watched as countless skeleton soldiers emerged from the bottom of the river in formation, and countless pairs of blood-stained eyes simultaneously emitted red light that shot straight at us. The blood light was blinding and murderous.
My heart was trembling, but I saw the cat coming from the sky above the river, and the soldiers in the river also looked up at the cat. At the moment when countless blood lights filled the sky, the soldiers in the river immediately raised their bows and aimed at the sky.
At the same time, the cat suddenly accelerated and swooped down towards us. As the cat lowered its body, the longbow of the soldier also fell to the ground.
I shouted sternly: "Ye Jin, you go in first!" (To be continued)