The fog was so thick that it was impossible to see the road ahead. Kaxiu followed the shadow and rushed into the deepest part of the forest.
"Where the hell is it taking me?"
Kaxiu narrowed his eyes, and a faint stream of white air lingered between his nose.
Five minutes later.
Ta-da! A black boot stepped onto the open space.
Three adult men in ordinary clothes suddenly turned their heads and looked at the person coming from a distance. The strongest one glanced over and said, "Hunter? No, just an ordinary human."
Ta-da-da…
The man rushed straight towards him without any sign of stopping.
"Get out of the way! Get out of the way!"
Hearing this, the three vampires laughed in anger. The strong man in the lead said gloomily, "How dare you speak to me in this tone, you little human? I didn't want to have an extra meal today..."
roar!
A high-pitched cry came out of the man's mouth, and his entire body instantly swelled and his face became beast-like. His clothes were torn, revealing his strong black and red body and mane underneath.
The man had a bat face and a cold smile on his face. What he liked to see most was the fear and terror of humans when they saw the true form of the vampires.
"Die!"
With a whoosh, the man rushed out madly.
Bang! The next second, a shadow flew back at high speed.
The blood drew a flowing arc in the air.
"What!" The other two vampires were surprised to see this scene and simultaneously entered the transformation state of the gift of blood. They suddenly became half-human, half-body monsters like the strong man just now, with thick claws almost as big as a human head.
Swish! A huge black shadow rushed past the two of them in an instant.
Kaxiu didn't even turn his head. The white air currents that enveloped his hands quickly dissipated. He rushed deeper into the fog without saying a word.
Two heads behind him flew into the sky, spurting blood.
In the thick white fog, Kaxiu was very focused. He could feel that the shadow in front of him was speeding up, and he didn't care whether Kaxiu could keep up or not. If he wanted to follow it and find out what was going on, he had to maintain his speed.
Any vampire or human who stands in the way must get out of the way.
If you don't want to leave, then you can only die.
Another ten minutes passed, and in the endless fog, Kaxiu's hands were dripping with blood, and his steps were leaping. Every time he stepped hard, a deep hole would be left on the ground.
This allows for explosive forward speed.
The surrounding environment has hardly changed along the way.
The only thing that changed was that there were more vampires around. These isolated vampires didn't know what it meant to give way. In their eyes, Kashu was just a blood bag running towards them, and their first reaction was to rush over and intercept him.
Needless to say, the consequences of blocking the road are obvious.
Kaxiu has killed nearly double-digit number of vampires.
“Clatter… clatter…”
In the distance, there seemed to be a faint sound of water.
After a while, Kaxiu stopped beside a meadow. Although the surroundings were hazy with fog, he could still see the outline of the waterfall falling in front of him. Below the waterfall was an oval pool, and a stream flowed down from the gap in the pool.
There was green grass on the edge, and some gray-white stones covered with moss. There was a circle of empty space around it, and then there was the woods.
"The black shadow stopped..." Kaxiu looked up.
The shadow that led him here had slowed down its pace. It paced back and forth in the mist as if it was walking normally, as if it was looking for something. After a few seconds, the shadow walked in one direction again, and finally stopped beside a big tree.
Before Kaxiu could rush over, the shadow disappeared in an instant.
The next moment, Kaxiu stood beside the tree and slowly bent down. This old tree was very tall and big, and it looked like it had been growing here for a very long time, with its bark wrinkled like an old man's face.
The tree roots on the ground are twisted and strong, like huge gray-white pythons, winding and crawling under the soil.
Kaxiu half-crouched on a thick tree root, stretched out his hand to push out the leaves and soil between the roots. After a while, he found some gray stones inside. He wiped off the soil on the surface and took a closer look, and found that these were not ordinary stones, but looked like part of a wall or tiles.
He reached out his hand and dug for a while.
More stones appeared in front of Kaxiu, with many traces of erosion by wind and rain. However, some signs of civilization were still preserved, with traces of carving and painting on them.
He held the tile in his hand and pondered for a while.
Suddenly, his hands were enveloped by white air, and he dug into the gap between the tree roots. A large amount of soil piled up beside him. After a while, Kaxiu felt the dense soil below him empty.
Use both hands to pull it hard.
Suddenly, a hole appeared in front of him, dark and leading to nowhere. Kaxiu noticed that there was a rock wall next to the hole, with obvious signs of human construction.
"Is it a tomb? Or a relic?!"
Kaxiu frowned tightly, and he thought of the dark shadow that had just pointed the way. For a moment he hesitated whether to go in and take a look.
I moved closer to the cave entrance and the air inside seemed to be fine.
Kaxiu took a deep breath and stepped directly inside. As soon as he entered the cave wall, he slid downwards.
This is a gray-white landslide with an angle of about sixty degrees.
It was very dark inside and I could hardly see anything.
Tsk! Tsk! Tsk!
There seemed to be a sound of mechanical spraying coming from the surrounding cave walls. Kaxiu felt something shooting at his body, and he quickly closed his eyes and covered his face and neck with his arms.
Ding, ding, ding... a series of impact sounds went all the way down.
About fifteen seconds later, Kaxiu regained his balance, his feet on a solid and stable ground.
Phew~
A faint flame suddenly appeared on the upper edge of the cave wall, and spread along a line all the way inside. The flame was pale white, not very bright, and had a dim feeling.
Kaxiu was a little surprised, then he reached into his hair and took out a black arrow. It turned out that the weapon that had been attacking him was this kind of hidden weapon. He glanced at his right forearm, and saw white spots on the skin. Some places were almost broken, which showed the penetrating power of this kind of arrow.
You have to know that Kaxiu, who has mastered the Stone Armor Skill and is heavily armored, can even withstand bullets. The penetrating power of this arrow is comparable to that of a bullet.
He pressed hard with his right hand, and the arrow broke with a snap.
Suspecting that there might be a trap ahead, Kaxiu deliberately slowed down his pace and walked cautiously deeper into the passage.
About two minutes later, a corner appeared ahead.
He stepped forward.
Suddenly, the ground ahead cracked. It was a trap!
A square of neatly arranged spikes appeared at the bottom of a two-meter-deep pit, and Kaxiu immediately fell in. He turned around and stretched out his right hand to grab it, and he actually clamped the edge of the pit by force.
His body swung violently, and he raised his hands upwards. He returned to his original position and clenched his fists.
With one foot on the ground, his body suddenly flew over the entire trap.
Then, Kacha!
The ground cracked again.
Kaxiu was caught off guard and fell in.
A sound of winter came from the bottom of the pit.
"Fuck! So insidious!"
Kaxiu never thought that there would come a day when he would be tricked.
He lay on a pile of spikes, his face gloomy. At the moment of falling, although Kaxiu did not react as quickly as the first time, he also managed to control his body in mid-air.
A flip, landing on the muscular back.
The more spikes that come into contact at the same time, the lower the pressure, and the less likely it is to pierce Kasu's body. This is the right thing to do.
Although he fell to the bottom of the pit, he didn't feel any pain in his back, so he probably wasn't injured or bleeding. He turned over and stood up quickly. These spikes were almost as high as Kaxiu's thighs. If it was a person of average height, he wouldn't even be able to step on the bottom of the pit.
He looked at the place where he had just fallen. The top of the spikes was flattened. A closer look revealed that the spikes seemed to have been there for who knows how many years. The surface was severely corroded, and rust covered the entire spike head.
Its penetration is obviously not as strong as when it was new.
Kaxiu thought again of the sharp arrow that had just been shot.
Maybe the hidden weapons in the wall are better sealed...
Half a minute later, he was standing on the ground in the passage again.
This time, Kaxiu became more cautious. But he never encountered any traps or dangers again. He walked smoothly along the passage for hundreds of meters and then stopped.
What appeared before my eyes was a huge cave wall, a vast cylindrical cavity. The bottom seemed to be as big as a basketball court, and there were oval passage holes on the gray-white cave wall, which seemed to lead to different directions.
At a glance, the densely packed black holes extended to nowhere, giving people an inexplicably eerie and terrifying feeling.
Kaxiu's eyes were dazed for a moment, then he took a few steps outside and stood on the raised platform inside the cavity. He looked to the right and saw a series of isolated steps on the cave wall.
You can reach the bottom by jumping on the steps.
Kaxiu hesitated for a while, but still jumped over carefully. The steps were not traps, nor did they feel like they would collapse if he jumped on them. These platforms were very stable.
In this way, he descended to the bottom step by step.
The air around him began to drop sharply, and Kaxiu could clearly feel the loss of body temperature. He could even see the faint white mist in the air when he exhaled from his nostrils. His body shook, and blood began to circulate continuously in three nodes, providing heat for his naked upper body.
Five minutes later, Kaxiu reached the bottom.
At a glance, there are five huge holes on the bottom floor.
I don’t know where it leads.
In the very middle of the cave wall, a grayish-white fountain was working, and pale white water circulated around the pool.
"Can the fountain function for so long? Or is there anyone maintaining it?"
Kaxiu took two steps to the side, and suddenly he felt that he had stepped on something. When he loosened his foot, he saw that it was a bug.
The beetle was the size of a thumb and had a white shell. It had been crushed to death, and a pale green liquid was sizzling on the ground.
Kaxiu stamped his feet lightly, and suddenly the fountain in front of him began to tremble, and the white pool water kept shaking. Then a large number of white beetles spewed out of the fountain, squeaking non-stop.
“Whoosh…whoosh…whoosh…”
Streams of corrosive acid shot over one after another.
Kaxiu quickly dodged, then his right hand suddenly turned white and a swirling airflow quickly formed in the palm of his hand.
The flat spherical airflow made an extremely unstable humming sound.
Just when he was about to lose control, he threw it away.
The blue wind air mass hit the fountain with a whoosh and exploded with a loud bang. A fierce hurricane covered the surrounding one-meter area.
Many white beetles were crushed to pieces.
But more beetles continued to crawl out.
They move in groups.
On the other side, Kaxiu's figure was no longer on the bottom platform. A shadow flashed by one of the holes.
Half an hour later, hurried footsteps were heard in a quiet passage, and the white fire line at the top spread along with the footsteps.
"The style of this place seems to be similar to the ruins that Huanghun had visited..." Kaxiu thought as he ran as fast as he could.
The figure flashed at the end of the passage, and a moment later, the sound of densely swarming insects climbing was heard at the intersection of the gray-white passage.
This group of white beetles is truly persistent.
Five minutes later, Kaxiu rushed into a passage like a whirlwind. His eyes shrank slightly, but his steps did not stop for a moment. Instead, he burst out with all his strength and ran wildly.
In an instant, he appeared at the end of the passage.
The next second, twelve gray-white stone statues on both sides of the passage came to life. Stone chips fell off the joints, and the statues raised their heads, revealing twelve strange faces with different emotions.
Crying, laughing, angry, roaring...
Their movements quickly became smooth from being stiff, and each of their huge bodies took a step forward, chasing in the direction of Kashu's escape.
Unexpectedly, the next moment, there was a dense sound of climbing at the entrance of the passage. The last stone statue turned its head, and a white torrent squeezed in, instantly covering all the stone statues.
"Sizzle..."
The highly corrosive acid almost came as a continuous rain.
“Roar, roar, roar!”
I heard a deafening roar behind me.
Kaxiu walked faster.
A few hours later, Kaxiu, who was running barefoot, was almost speechless. What a big deal! He just stepped on a white beetle and killed it. Why would they come out in full force and chase him for three or four hours
He was in a state of disgrace now, with traces of acid corrosion on his body. In addition to a pair of shorts that were almost crotchless, Kaxiu even threw away the shoes that were suspected to be stained with pheromones. However, the swarm of insects was still persistent, and he suspected that he was also stained with pheromones. But there was no water source in the ruins to wash.
So Kaxiu could only run for his life, relying on the amazing physical strength of the three node cycles to keep running. During this time, he also encountered many other dangers in the ruins. For example, the blood-sucking vines hanging on the cave wall, the half-human-sized magic flower mantis, the human-faced flower with strong hallucinogenic pollen, the mutant three-headed python, etc.
It seems that all the dangers mentioned above were killed by the white beetle, and he seemed to have provoked an ultimate boss at the very beginning.
Squeak, squeak, squeak… Squeak, squeak…
In a hall full of plants, some monkey-like creatures were hanging on vines. As Kaxiu rushed forward, they kept attacking with weapons and frantically obstructing him.
Fortunately, Kaxiu had mastered the Qigong well and was able to break out.
The nasty monkey squeaked and screamed, as if wanting to chase.
The next second a white torrent swept across the entire hall.
The torrent receded, and a large number of monkey skeletons fell from the vines, smashing to pieces on the ground and emitting smoke.
Ten minutes later.
Kaxiu rushed to the end of a tunnel, but to his surprise, this was a dead end! There was a sound of climbing at the entrance of the tunnel behind, and a large number of white beetles poured in.
"Hold!"
He pounded his fist against the wall as if to vent his anger.
"Huh?! This wall seems to be empty?"
At the same time, in a vast hall.
The dome was vast and extended, and the top seemed to be an unknown mural painted with black and red pigments. In the center of the hall was a very, very large pool, and in the center of the pool was a submerged stone pillar.
On the ground between the hall and the pool, dense red rituals spread out like a spider web, with incomprehensible unknown symbols on them, like tadpoles.
And now, these symbols are lighting up one by one.
Ten mysterious people in black robes were kneeling on the ground devoutly, constantly mumbling something difficult to pronounce. It seemed to be some mysterious and strange prayer. Their fingers were pressed on the ground, and they were bleeding. The blood seeped into the ground ritual, as if it was stimulating and reviving something.
“ki tu gi a ba a ba…”
The prayers became louder and louder, reaching a certain limit.
Suddenly, all the rituals on the ground turned red.
The calm pool water turned into a transparent golden amber color. A cloud of steam rose up and the hall was filled with banging sounds.
Wait, bang, bang!? This has never happened before during the ceremony. Many people in black robes raised their heads and looked at the pool with doubtful eyes. Could it be? Could it be!
A man in black robes murmured excitedly: "Finally..."
Peng!
The dome exploded and a piece of the stone wall fell down with a crash.
Then a shadow jumped into the pool with a splash.
"What's going on?! Who is that person?!"
"He fell into the sacred pond!!!"
“Bold!”
"Oh no, the ritual has been completed and cannot be stopped!"
All the people in black robes stood up suddenly and shouted.
Crash...crash...crash...crash...
Above my head, there seemed to be a white river crawling down along the wall of the cave, and a hissing sound was made by the friction between the limbs and the wall.
The next second, the chaotic voices unified into shouts.
"Damn it, it's a scarab, run!!!"