I just kept concentrating on killing them. The effect was very good. Basically, I used two swords for each one. One chop and one stab could kill a shadow. When I heard the sound, I would chop him in the face. Then I would stab him to kill him. I was not very skilled at it at the beginning, but I gradually became proficient later. The speed of killing was also getting faster and faster.
About ten minutes passed. I had killed nearly twenty black shadows. But I was sweating profusely. I felt dizzy and my whole body was weak. This was probably because I was too focused and couldn't keep up with my physical strength.
"Brother Xiaojiu, are you okay? Do you want me to come in and support you?" Suddenly, the intercom on my body rang. I picked up the intercom and said, "No need. If you come in and get trapped, there will be nothing we can do."
Just after I finished speaking, I suddenly thought of a question. The Miao witches cast spells, or controlled so many blood butterflies, or even so many black shadows. Doesn't it need someone to control them? Where is that person? I immediately raised my head and shouted into the intercom: "Pengguang, drive immediately to check some places around where people are likely to hide. I suspect Qi Chaoyang is nearby. Otherwise, he can't control so many evil things."
I thought about it again. The more I thought about it, the more likely it was. Because he was alone, he could only control two shadows at most at the same time. This would explain why only two shadows came forward each time, instead of all of them rushing forward.
"Pengguang, call Uncle Fang immediately. Ask him to lead the police to look for them here. Also, ask him to bring a flamethrower. These blood butterflies are afraid of fire. Ask him to hurry up. I don't know how much longer I can do." I shouted into the intercom.
"OK."
Just as Fang Pengguang's voice fell, I suddenly felt something hard hitting my right face. My head swayed and I fell to the ground. I almost fainted. But I insisted not to faint. Because if I fainted, I would lose a lot of things. It could be Fatty Cao. It could be my own life. And I had promised Fatty Cao before that I would never let him die. This was my belief at the moment.
"Bang." I suddenly felt a sharp pain in my stomach. I already had a wound in my stomach that hadn't healed yet. Now it was like adding insult to injury. It was actually quite cold at night, but the pain still made me sweat profusely.
"Xiaojiu, you're okay." I was in so much pain that tears were streaming down my face. I couldn't even open my eyes. But I could hear Fatty Cao's voice in my ears.
"I'm fine~" I said while enduring the severe pain. But as soon as I finished speaking, I felt my neck tighten. Oops. I thought to myself, this thing that was pinching my neck was getting stronger and stronger. I saw that the other party not only wanted to suffocate me to death, but also wanted to strangle my neck alive.
My head was dizzy and heavy at this time. With the severe pain in my stomach, I had no strength to resist. I could only breathe as deeply as possible. Although I couldn't breathe any oxygen at all, I still didn't give up.
But, eventually, I felt that I was breathing out more than breathing in. Everything I saw was black.
Some people say that when a person dies, he or she will see everything in this life. In fact, that is just the attachment to this world that remains.
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"Master, I want to eat candied haws." I looked at the candied haws in front of me and said to my master greedily.
But the master did not generously buy a string of candied haws like the other children's parents. Instead, he looked at his scattered money and sighed deeply.
One day, I was finally admitted to a junior high school in our county. I went home happily and told my master. But the master looked at me and asked, "Xiaojiu, do you really like studying so much?"
I nodded: "Yes, the teacher said that studying is the only way out."
"I understand. Master will support you to study, even if it means sacrificing my life." From then on, Master started to leave early and come back late. I didn't know until later that he was doing one thing: catching ghosts. The purpose of doing this was to support me to go to school. And the price of doing this was to sacrifice his life.
"Master, please stop catching ghosts. It's not good for your health." It wasn't until I was in the first year of high school that I realized the five disadvantages and three shortcomings of the master. By then, the master was already very old.
"No, Xiaojiu. Just focus on your studies. You will have to support your master even if you get into college." The white-haired master said while touching my head.
At this point, I already knew that Master's actions would cost him his life: "Then I will learn to catch ghosts myself. This way I can earn my own tuition and Master won't have his life shortened."
"Nonsense. The master just wants you to be an ordinary person. If you learn Taoism, you will have five disadvantages and three shortcomings. Then you will be played by fate. You will become his puppet."
That day, my master got angry with me for the first time. It was also the last time.
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Countless past memories came to mind. The most common one was the time I spent with my master. At that time, I was really happy. But
Am I really going to die? I still have a lot of things to do. I haven't found my master yet. I said I would support him. He is there.
"Don't die. How can you live up to my reputation if you die like this?" Suddenly a voice appeared in my heart. It was strange, but also very familiar.
"Who are you? Are you a passing immortal?" I suddenly asked in confusion.
"I am you and you are me." Suddenly the voice said to me, "I am the Overlord."
Suddenly my eyes opened. I looked around and everything seemed to be quiet. I felt like there was a lot of energy in my body.
I looked at the shadow that was pinching me. This shadow was twice as big as the others. He was still pinching my neck hard. But I didn't feel anything on my neck. It felt like he was just air.
Suddenly, I felt a tightness in my chest. I shouted to the sky, "Ah." As I shouted, a red ripple spread out from me. Suddenly, a strong wind blew around me. The dark clouds in the sky were blown away, and the bright moonlight was emitted.
"Bang", "Bang", "Bang". Such muffled sounds were heard everywhere. I looked around and could see these black shadows. And with my long shout, there were about seventy black shadows. All the black shadows touched by the ripples of my shout exploded. And all the blood butterflies in the sky fell down.
I looked at my hands and felt strong. Now I can kill a cow with one punch.
"What happened to me?" I looked at my hands and asked in confusion. But as soon as I finished speaking, my eyes went dark and I fainted.