The moonlight illuminated the road. Wu Dongfang walked very fast. When he got here, he had escaped the Tu tribe's search, but he still did not dare to be careless. Unless he left the Kyushu region under the Tu tribe's jurisdiction, there would be no safety at all.
The dead wizard of the Jin tribe that the fox girl mentioned was most likely the White Tiger Celestial Master of the Jin tribe who had been missing for many years. As for whether it was true or not, we would have to wait until we met the three Celestial Masters of the Jin tribe to be sure. There is no use thinking too much now.
In the middle of the night, I met another ghost. This time it was a young female ghost who was wandering in the wilderness beside the road. After seeing him, she floated to the road and followed him for half the night. She did not disappear until three or four in the morning.
To follow is to follow, it cannot speak, its expression is very confused, a bit like it has lost its mind and is just following him from a distance.
If you walk too much at night, you will always encounter ghosts. If you see too many ghosts, you won’t be afraid anymore. Most ghosts are confused, to be precise, they are dazed. Their minds are not very clear and they do things based on the parts of their lives. instinct.
Of course, there are still a small number of ghosts that are conscious and can harm people, but he has never seen such ghosts, and he doesn't want to see them.
After dawn, he climbed up a big tree and slept in the tree. After waking up, he continued on the road. He didn't go far and found a peach tree beside the road. Thinking of the folklore that peach trees can drive away ghosts, he cut off a branch. I made a wooden stick, and met a wandering ghost again at night. I went up and tried it, and it was gone with just one stick. The legend turned out to be true.
This road may not be the main road. There are few pedestrians on the road and there are few villages along the way. The road is full of withered weeds and looks very desolate.
Just when he thought he had gone the wrong way, the road began to get wider and there were more pedestrians. After walking for a few days, he saw the city again.
The pattern was found slowly, and the environment gradually became familiar. After walking for more than ten days and this happened many times, he finally found the pattern. At this time, people lived relatively scattered, usually with a city as the center. The following There are a number of villages of different sizes. The larger the city, the more villages are surrounding it. The smaller the city, the fewer villages it surrounded.
Residents of two different cities may rarely move around each other. There are uninhabited areas of varying sizes in the junction areas between cities, which are areas where neither city cares about.
It often rains after the beginning of spring. It has rained for seven or eight days in the past ten days. In the evening, dark clouds appeared in the sky again. Wu Dongfang sped up and tried to find shelter before it rained.
Passing through a jungle, he saw a large village in the distance. Judging from the number of houses, it might be a small city without walls. There was a circular building in the wild five or six miles west of the village.
At this time, light rain had begun to fall. Wu Dongfang ran towards the building. When he got closer, he found that the building made of stones was very strange. It covered an area of four or five acres and was almost completely sealed. It was surrounded by It is a stone wall with a dome covering the top. There is a stone passage directly south, about two meters high and wide, and more than ten meters long.
This was the first time he had seen this kind of building, but he had seen similar buildings many times before. Modern cemeteries will have a small arch in front of the tomb, some made of stones, and some made of stacked bricks.
Wu Dongfang walked to the entrance of the passage and shined a flashlight in. He found that the passage was more than ten meters long and led all the way to the inside of the circular building.
"Fuck you, uncle." Wu Dongfang cursed and ran into the rain. This place was too evil. Only a fool would live here.
After walking a few steps, I suddenly heard crying coming from the passage. I listened carefully and found that it was the cry of a child.
"What?!" Wu Dongfang yelled. At this time, in this kind of place, the sound of children crying is most likely caused by monsters.
After he shouted, the children in the passage cried louder and heartbreakingly.
Wu Dongfang felt suspicious. He lowered his head to check the surrounding grass and found that there were traces of trampling on the weeds on the grass, which meant that someone had been here before.
Wu Dongfang returned to the passage and shined a flashlight in, "Who are you?".
The child inside saw the light again and cried louder. This child may not be old and only knows how to call mother.
Wu Dongfang did not go in, but shouted loudly, "Come out, come out."
The child just cried, hysterically.
He could tell whether the child was really crying or fake. After a brief hesitation, he walked into the passage with a flashlight. When he reached the end of the passage, he found that the inside of the circular building was not a tomb, but a pool. South of the pool There is a slope on the side edge, half of which is in the water and half of which is above the water. On the top of the slope, there is a protrusion similar to a horse bolt. A little boy of five or six years old has his hands tied and hangs down the slope into the pool. The little boy He struggled to climb up, but the slope was slippery and his hands were tied again, making it impossible to get ashore.
The boy saw Wu Dongfang's appearance clearly through the light of the pearl reflected on the water, and shouted for help, "Uncle, help me, help me."
"I'll save you." Wu Dongfang grabbed the rope and lifted the little boy up, drew his knife and cut the hemp rope, and quickly retreated with him in his arms.
Survived from desperate situation, the boy couldn't stop crying.
"Don't cry, I'll take you out of here." Wu Dongfang held the boy and ran north. The boy's clothes were very shabby, and there was a slave mark on his chest, indicating that he was a little slave. The reason why he appeared here was probably It was used for sacrifices. There should be something like a water monster dormant in that pool.
The little boy may have been soaked in the water for a long time, and his whole body was cold. Wu Dongfang untied his coat and wrapped him in his arms, softly comforting him while running wildly. Although the child was small, he was sensible and cried and said thank you to him.
"Don't cry, don't let the bad guys hear it." Wu Dongfang ran quickly. The strange building before was very close to the village to the east. This sacrifice was probably performed by them. If they were noticed, they would definitely stop it.
The child was very obedient, hugging Wu Dongfang's neck tightly and suppressing any more crying.
Back on the road, Wu Dongfang stopped. It had rained too much during this period, and the meadow north of the road was already overflowing with water. He could not run north, so he could only escape east, but going east would have to pass by the village. Head, it is possible that they will find it.
Just when he was hesitating whether to run east, a shrill cry came from the south. The sound was like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, but the one who made the sound was definitely not a cat, because the sound was too loud and extremely harsh.
"Don't be afraid." Wu Dongfang comforted the trembling boy while quickly considering an escape route. The sound made by the monster was very harsh, and people in the village could definitely hear it. If the sacrifice was really carried out by them, they would definitely come to see what happened. .
It's definitely not possible to run west. It's an open area with no shelter. No matter how far you run, you'll be overtaken. It is even more impossible to go south, that is to fall into a trap. There is water to the north and villages to the east.
After thinking quickly, Wu Dongfang hugged the child and ran eastward. If the people in the village really wanted to come out to check, they would first go to the pool in the west. The pursuers would go west, and he would go east. This is the safest escape. route.
The monsters in the waterhole made shrill screams one after another, and soon people rushed from the village to the east to the waterhole covered by stone walls. There was only one person who went to check. It was not clear whether he was a man or a woman. He could only see a line. Black shadows moved quickly on the ground.
Wizard, judging from his body skills, this person should be a wizard from the Tu tribe.
Seeing the wizard appear, Wu Dongfang ran faster. The child was very light, only twenty or thirty pounds, and holding the child did not affect his speed.
The black shadow disappeared in front of the circular building. At this time, he had run four or five miles to the north of the village. He passed by the village head and no one noticed him. Five minutes later, he passed through the village smoothly. While running, Looking around, trying to find a large forest, there are no mountains in this area, and the only way to hide is through woods, but there are no woods around the village.
Run, there is no other way but to run.
Ten minutes later, he found woods appearing on the right side of the road ahead. He was overjoyed and ran towards the woods in the distance with his child in his arms.
Less than a hundred meters away from the woods, a black shadow appeared at the edge of the woods and said in a deep voice, "Stop!"
Wu Dongfang did not stop, and while running quickly, he drew out the copper knife from his waist. He could not kill the opponent, so long as he could force the opponent back, he would win.
Thirty meters, twenty meters, ten meters, the black shadow stood still. When he was less than five meters away from the black shadow, Wu Dongfang found that his feet were empty. No matter how he ran, he would always stay where he was.
Before he could recover, the child in his arms had been snatched away.
"He's still a child, don't kill him." Wu Dongfang shouted anxiously. The other party undoubtedly used Tu's magic. He took repeated steps but could not shorten the distance between the two.
The other party didn't answer, but stepped forward, snatched away his copper knife, and thrust it into his chest and abdomen with his backhand.
As he got closer, Wu Dongfang saw the appearance of this man clearly. He was a middle-aged man in his forties, and his robe was blue.
Only then did he realize that the previous village was not a village, but a small city, because there were usually no wizards in the villages of the Tu tribe, and even if there were, they were ordinary wizards, and only cities had mages.
The other party didn't wait long. He inserted the copper knife into his chest and abdomen, then turned around and headed west with the frightened child.
Wu Dongfang gritted his teeth and fell to his side. After he fell, he turned over and lay down. Since the opponent did not pull out the copper knife, he was not discouraged even though he was seriously injured. After lying down, he endured the severe pain and tore open his shirt and took out the porcelain bottle given to him in July. , bit off the cork and poured the powder on his chest. After taking a deep breath, he held the blade of the knife with both hands and pulled out the copper knife.
The copper knife separated from the body, and blood immediately spurted out. Wu Dongfang hurriedly raised his hand to apply the powder on his chest to the wound. The wound was too big, bleeding too much, and most of the powder applied was washed away by the blood.
Seeing that Baihe Ganoderma Powder might not be able to save his life, Wu Dongfang took out the stone box, grabbed the remaining ground resin in the stone box and stuffed it into his mouth before he became unconscious.
The ground fat melted in your mouth, your consciousness immediately cleared, the pain and heat in your chest eased, and the blood stopped flowing out, but the wound did not heal.
Seeing that the ground grease could not heal the wound, Wu Dongfang applied the white crane Ganoderma powder remaining on his chest to the wound, and then closed his coat to prevent the rain from washing away the powder.
After a few minutes, he stood up carefully. He now had two completely different feelings, one was that he was extremely energetic, and the other was the pain coming from the wound. This situation showed that ground fat can replenish physical strength, which is good for Trauma does not have much effect.
After briefly stopping to look west, Wu Dongfang took his things and walked into the woods in frustration. He was no match for the Tu mage and could not save the poor child...