Crackling... Crackling...
The wind whistled in my ears and my vision was blurry.
The black forest and the white moonlight mixed together, like an oil painting that had not yet dried. The tree trunks passed by like fleeting light, so fast that it was unbelievable. The content of the retina was still the jungle bushes, and the next second it was a green grassy open space.
While running at high speed, the air flow hit his face like a knife cutting through it. Ossi could hardly open his eyes. He wanted to speak, but the air flow filled his mouth and drooled.
I can't say anything.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh! Three shadows flashed and warped in the open space.
The bright moon hangs in the sky, surrounded by a few wisps of white clouds, rippling like water waves. The oval white porcelain plate is smooth and bright, spreading the faint moonlight on the surface of the mountain.
The shadows of the fir trees slanted and blended on the soil, forming a large black flat outline. The upper end of the shadow extended into the stream and was suddenly broken by the shimmering light reflected from the surface.
Pop.
The boots suddenly stopped, the soles sinking heavily into the mud beside the tree trunk. The three figures finally stopped and stood still.
Everything around was very quiet, with only the sound of flowing water and insects.
“Ugh~” “Ugh~”
Two retching sounds broke the rare silence. Ossi and Bingdao, who were put down by Kaxiu, looked pale, even a little green. At this moment, one of them leaned against a tree, lowered his head with a haggard face, and felt uncomfortable in his chest as if the sea was churning.
It took a while for the two to recover. They looked up at each other's beggar clothes with confused and empty eyes.
The forest was densely covered with branches and leaves, and running fast would inevitably cause one to be hit by branches. A good hunting windbreaker was torn into tatters, and there were also some red marks on the Osi ice skates.
The two took a deep breath and walked behind Kaxiu.
Ossi said breathlessly, "It's here. If you go up this stream, you will reach the site of the Immortal Blood Ceremony of the Direct Vampire Clan. But I guess there must be heavy troops guarding the place now. We have already alerted the enemy."
“Is this place far from the ceremony site?”
"Not far, maybe one or two kilometers."
Ossi looked at the environment carefully and answered truthfully.
"Okay, then the three of us will go and clean out all the vampires there first, and you two will follow slowly. Remember to move quickly, otherwise all the vampires will be dead by the time you arrive. I don't like others wasting my time when I'm executing the plan, do you understand?" Kaxiu didn't really want to take these two burdens with him, but he was very interested in the lair of his direct vampires.
We still need someone to lead the way.
“Understood.”
Oshie answered subconsciously, somewhat confusedly.
Bang, bang, bang... The soil on the ground shook. The three figures that were in sight a second ago flashed and disappeared like ghosts. He turned his head and looked upstream along the stream, and suddenly found three black spots in the far distance under the moonlight, gradually moving away.
"No... No, they just left like that?"
Bingdao, who had recovered a little, rubbed his eyes that were bloodshot from the wind and put down his hands that had been leaning on the tree.
"Based on the previous situation, it seems that the three of them really don't need us. The two of us are more like a burden..." Osi wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth: "Even the direct blood clan elders were killed. It seems that we have greatly underestimated their strength. They slaughtered the blood clan like a cat and a mouse..."
Bingdao was silent for a long time after hearing what Ossi said. After a long while, he said: "Doesn't that mean that we are useless?"
"Who said that!" The strong man Ossi subconsciously refuted, but soon got stuck. He stood there, speaking in a muffled voice, hesitating for a long time: "At least... at least you can lead the way, right?"
“…” Bingdao pursed his lips and stopped talking.
"Don't worry about it, let's catch up. Judging from the speed these people are going, a fight may have already started over there."
Ossi coughed twice and changed the subject.
Immediately, the two people who had just recovered a little ran all the way toward the top of the stream, much faster than ordinary people.
A minute later, Ossi and the other man were halfway through their run. They suddenly saw a body in a black robe floating down from the creek surface in front of them, which was reflecting the sparkling moonlight. He was lying flat on his back, with a dignified look on his face. His face was facing upwards, his hands folded on his lower abdomen, and he was sleeping very peacefully.
If you can ignore the big hole in your chest.
He ran a few more steps.
Several bodies floated down the stream one after another, but none of them looked as good as the first one. Most of them had missing limbs, or their arms were torn off, or their necks were twisted into a knot, and some were just upper bodies or headless. The blood had completely dyed half of the stream red.
Under the moonlight, there is a weird and bloody feeling.
The two men's eyelids twitched involuntarily, and they walked faster. As they went up, more and more bodies piled up in the water.
For a moment, it almost blocked the stream.
"Look what that is?!" Bingdao suddenly pointed to the stream surface. Ossi turned his head and looked at it, his eyes filled with deep blue.
There was a head floating in the water reflected in the image.
The head and face were ugly, unlike the usual handsome vampires. Instead, half of the face was covered with scars, as if burned by flames.
"Direct elder of the vampire clan, Blood Burning!"
Ossi was shocked. He had participated in the battle between the Blue Eye Hunter and the Blood Clan three years ago. He was deeply impressed by the several Blood Clan elders of Alfama who appeared. Each of them was extremely powerful and intended to kill.
It takes several elite hunter teams to cooperate tacitly and be willing to sacrifice in order to barely deal with it. If you are not careful, you will be completely defeated. It will collapse like a castle made of building blocks.
The scarred elder Xuefen was the strongest of the blood elders that appeared that time, and he almost slaughtered a quarter of the elite hunters. He stood in front of the ritual altar like a mountain, and anyone who wanted to disrupt the smooth progress of the Longevity Blood Ritual would be killed. The hunters failed in that battle three years ago.
However, now.
The severed head appeared before the two of them...
Ossi Bingdao's breathing hitched and he fell silent again.
The next second, the ice blade suddenly began to accelerate.
Ossi quickly followed and asked, "What's wrong?"
"Nothing, I just thought we should run faster."
"Those three gentlemen should still be waiting for us to lead the way..."
Half a minute later.
The two men ran hard until they were two kilometers away. Even from a distance, they could faintly hear a few loud screams.
By the time they arrived, all the screams had stopped, and the only sound they could hear was the strange cry of a night owl in the forest.
Bingdao looked ahead and subconsciously covered his nose. Ossi also stopped and twitched his nose, feeling a little uncomfortable.
The soil of the grassland in front of me is completely different from the surrounding area, and there is a clear red dividing line under the moonlight.
The soil within the dividing line was soaked with blood, like a sponge that had swallowed up a sticky liquid. The green grass was also stained with scarlet, and the blood-red dewdrops hanging from the leaves were shining with enchanting colors.
There were limbs and corpses everywhere. In some places, the corpses were piled up together to form a small hill.
At the top of the hill, a blond figure sat there. His eyes were slightly closed, as if he was taking a nap. His delicate face looked even whiter under the moonlight, with a sense of elegance. However, the bloody air that occasionally escaped from his body rolled and gathered around, even condensing on his shoulders to form an illusion similar to a fierce bird. His ferocious, evil, scarlet eyes looked at the two people.
Buzz!
My brain went blank, as if struck by lightning.
Osi Bingdao felt as if his heart was grabbed by a big hand and squeezed tightly, almost bursting it. The veins on his forehead were throbbing wildly, his fists were clenched, and cold sweat on his back soaked his clothes.
"Are you here? A dozen seconds late, but it's okay."
In the shadows nearby, Sheng Feinan came out, fiddling with the spiral eye sword in his hand. The grooves on the blade were soaked with blood, making it even more ferocious. The hole on the hilt was slightly bright, as if it had come alive.
In the darkness behind him, a tall figure leaned against a tree trunk, a cigarette flickering between his fingers.
The red and blue flame was bright and eye-catching.
Osi and the other man were finally brought back to their senses. They took a deep breath of air, not caring how strong the smell of blood was in the air.
"Huh..."
There was a whistling sound in the air, and it was the blond figure who jumped down, his feet stomping on the soil.
The blood that had been sucked inside was splashed out.
Two or three drops of blood rolled down the surface of the black leather boots.
With a flash, a figure appeared behind Osi and the other man.
Ossi seemed to sense the danger and twisted his shoulders subconsciously, but was still held by a hand like an iron clamp.
"wait… "
whoosh!
Whoosh whoosh whoosh…
The wind whistled, and the flesh in my mouth rolled. I finally recovered and my eyes became blurry and I couldn't open them.
But fortunately, Kaxiu would stop every few distances.
Let Osi and the other two point out the location.
Five minutes later, they arrived at the entrance of a canyon.
"There is a cave at the deepest part of the canyon, and inside is the lair of the Alfama direct blood clan. However, they have set up many traps and alarms in the canyon. It is extremely difficult to enter quietly, and there are many secret sentries in the bushes and woods..."
Bingdao explained the information that a large number of mercury hunters paid for their lives three years ago, that the failed battle was not meaningless.
"Is the location of that cave conspicuous? Is it in a straight direction?" Kaxiu asked thoughtfully after listening to certain information.
"It's just straight all the way. It's very conspicuous. There's a bare mountain wall with only a large cave on it..." said Bingdao.
"Okay." Kaxiu nodded and leaned forward slightly.
The front of the boot sank deep into the mud.
Osi and the other man's eyelids jumped, and they immediately understood what the three people in front of them were going to do. According to their habit along the way...
It's not hard to guess.
Rush in, kill them. Go straight and kill all the obstacles. In fact, they just need to know the location. Traps, sentries, and alarms are meaningless to the three of them...
“Ahhhh!”
“Boom!”
“Puff! Crack! Rip!”
"No… "
There were sounds coming from the canyon, and they were getting farther and farther away. Ossi and Bingdao looked at each other in silence.
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In the dense forest and bushes of the canyon, a straight trace plowed the ground, extending from the mouth of the canyon to the end of the stone wall.
Many traps were destroyed by brute force, dozens of trees collapsed and broke along the way, and several corpses were scattered in the bushes, crawling with mosquitoes, waiting to rot in the humid environment.
In front of the stone wall, Kaxiu and the other two slowly stopped.
In front of me was a wall of shadows with jagged rocks under the moonlight, bare, except for a giant tree that looked almost dead growing in the cracks at a height of five meters.
The trunk's skin is wrinkled like scales, full of traces of vicissitudes of time. The whole tree is twisted, and its gnarled roots are like pythons, entangled and rooted in the cracks of the rocks.
And under the roots of the tree, there was an arched cave.
The shape doesn't look like it was formed naturally, but rather like a man-made passage. However, after years of wind and rain, the traces have basically merged with the stone surface. Kaxiu approached and reached out to touch the surface of the cave wall.
The fingers have faint lines, depressions and protrusions.
This may be the pattern of a passage arch.
Kaxiu took out the Devil's Book from his bosom and turned to the page of the map. It depicted the entire ruins. The Aqaba ruins had a total of six floors, in the shape of an inverted pyramid. The first floor was the largest, with an area of more than a thousand square kilometers.
Then it gradually gets smaller from top to bottom.
Its overall structure is divided into three upper floors and three lower floors. Although the upper three floors are also dangerous, they are much safer. The lower three floors are twice as dangerous, with traps, alien species, poisons, etc. appearing one after another.
The Nan Dou secret that Kaxiu wants to obtain is on the lower three levels.
During this period of time, they constructed two routes according to the map plan, all the way from the first underground floor to the fifth underground floor. The first route was much longer and bypassed many dangerous and unknown areas. The second route was much faster and mostly selected dangerous areas within the acceptable range.
Under the moonlight, Kaxiu studied for a while and quickly found the location of this passage on the map. It was located on the west side of the ruins, while the passage he entered last time was located at the south end of the ruins. The relative positions of the two were clearly visible in his mind.
That's the benefit of having a map.
Don't enter the ruins like entering a maze, like a headless fly. Move forward with a purpose and avoid danger.
It can improve the search efficiency by many times.
“Tattah…tattah…”
In the cave passage, there were faint and hurried and powerful footsteps echoing. It seemed that the vampires stationed in the lair had reacted and sent out their elite troops to assist the secret sentries outside.
Plan to attack from both inside and outside and capture or kill the invaders.
"Hurry up, some scum have broken into the canyon!"
"I guess it's those blue-eyed thieves who are still determined to do it!"
"Kill them all and take off their heads! Hahahaha..."
Dozens of vampires were running wildly in the passage, the hems of their black robes rustling. The excitement of hunting filled the team.
Card!
Suddenly, a black boot crushed a stone.
Corner location.
The three figures blocked the way like a high wall.