The blindfolded girl hugging Qi Leren's thigh trembled and shook her head again and again: "No, no, no, don't leave me! Please!"
Qi Leren felt a headache and couldn't move his thighs that were tightly hugged by people. If he meets another monster later...
"Let go of your hand first, I promise I won't leave you behind." Qi Leren said.
The girl was dubious: "You swear?"
Qi Leren thought about it seriously, and then said: "I swear."
Only then did the brown-skinned girl let go of her hand, raised her head, and seemed to be looking at Qi Le people with her eyes covered with black cloth, as if she realized that this kind of peeping was impolite, she shrank and lowered her head again, and whispered: " Thank you."
Seeing the girl recover from her panic, Qi Leren took the opportunity to ask, "What's your name? Why are you here?"
"My name is Aya, and I am the Holy Fire Maiden of the Dragon Ant Queen." The girl shivered, as if she was full of fear for the queen, "I don't know what happened, the entire holy fire guard suddenly collapsed, and I came here , what is this place? Why are there so many monsters?"
"It's not very clear now..." Qi Leren asked, "Do all of you holy fire maidens wear blindfolds?"
"I... the chief priest said that we must not look directly at the light of the holy fire, otherwise our eyes will be blind, and all the virgins of the holy fire must be blindfolded." Aya said.
"Now you can't see the holy flame, you can take off the blindfold, it's very dangerous here." Qi Leren persuaded.
"No, no, no! You can't take it off!" Aya covered the blindfold in horror, "You can't take it off! This is an inviolable commandment!"
Feeling baffled, Qi Leren looked at Aya carefully.
This girl seems to be an aborigine from the nightmare world, but her complexion is the color of wheat like honey. She said that she used to live in a tribe in the Tranquility Sea desert. She was chosen as a sacrifice to the Dragon Ant Queen when she was a child. Sent to the palace of the underground ant city. She thought she was going to be drained of blood and die tragically, but she didn't want to be chosen as the virgin of the holy fire. As long as she blindfolded and served the holy fire devoutly, she could live in peace.
No wonder she was so resistant to taking off the blindfold.
"My tribe is called Valentine, and it's near the underground ant city. All the merchants who come and go are resting in our tribe... Unfortunately, I'm afraid I'll never see my tribe again when I come here." Aya said disappointedly.
Qi Le's heart froze, Valentine tribe, he knew this tribe. Ning Zhou mentioned this hospitable tribe in his letter, and the Qi Le people also passed through this tribe on their way to the underground ant city—but at that time, Valentine had already been slaughtered by demons.
The tribal girl in front of her doesn't know the bad news that her homeland no longer exists, and feels the loneliness and helplessness of being away from her homeland, but she doesn't know that she is already a rare lucky one for those tribesmen who have died in the attack of monsters.
"What's your name?" Aya felt that Qi Leren was a very kind person, so she asked boldly.
Qi Leren instinctively wanted to report his name, but the words came to his mouth and turned around again. He is no longer a rookie, and he knows that it is not a wise choice to report his real name at will in this world: " Zhou Ning, you can call me Zhou Ning."
"Are you a foreigner?" Aya showed a curious look.
"Hmm." Qi Leren didn't mean to say too much, and hurriedly left the street with Aya.
[99.]
[98.]
[97, 96.]
The number prompted by the system is constantly decreasing. When I first entered the underground ant city, there were four digits, but now it has dropped to two digits. This means that the number of candidates for the Dragon Ant Queen is decreasing sharply. More than a thousand people have died silently in the mausoleum...
The Queen's Tomb in the mist is deep and treacherous. Qi Le feels that it is different from the Queen's Tomb he and Ning Zhou visited before, but he can't tell what is different. It is obviously deep fog, infinite The endlessly repeated streets, the dim lights at the end of the street... and the monsters hiding in the mist, just around the corner.
[Clothes in the rain] Currently, the remaining induction times are 2/3.
"Be careful!" The early warning card in the card slot warned him, and the Qi Le people shouted, pushing the confused Aya to the wall, stabbing the dagger in his hand hard at the sensed wind, and the blade pierced into the flesh , a small demon screamed and fled back into the mist.
Qi Leren pulled Aya, and slowly backed away, leaning against the wall.
The street ahead was full of fog, he was not sure about the monster's position, and the attack distance of the dagger was too short, if the monster's speed was too fast, he might not be able to parry it.
Still have to use a gun.
Qi Leren replaced the dagger with the pistol Chen Baiqi gave him, took a deep breath, concentrated all his energy, and only waited for the moment the monster pounced on him to pull the trigger!
"Da da da da..." A strange sticky sound sounded in the mist, as if wet feet were walking on the ground, the sound became more and more, getting closer, this is definitely not a sound that a monster can make! Qi Leren's hairs were counted down, and he couldn't help imagining a scene of monsters gathering and surrounding them, and the more he thought about it, the more creepy he became.
"A lot... a lot...they are... more and more." Aya, who was blindfolded, has no less hearing power than the Qi Le people after breaking their shells. People who have lost their eyesight will only be more sensitive and timid. After feeling that they are surrounded , her fingers gripped the wall behind her tightly, her teeth chattering uncontrollably.
In the mist, indistinct figures of different heights blocked the entrance of the alley. Even the low courtyard walls were crawled with ghostly evil creatures. They seemed to be waiting for an order to attack, and then He would pounce straight up and gnaw the two of them until their flesh was torn apart.
"Tsk, they're all gathered around."
Suddenly, a thin female voice came from the top of the head, it was the voice of a child!
Qi Leren, who was already nervous, really jumped up from the ground, pulled the trigger with his finger, and shot a monster in the mist!
This shot was the order to start the war, and the dormant demon that was about to move was like a river breaking its embankment and tilted down here. Aya hugged her head and screamed, Qi Leren's mind went blank, and he shot one shot at a time almost relying on instinct, knocking the monster rushing to the front to the ground.
"Go up!" The bullets ran out, and it was too late to reload. Qi Le stepped on the depression in the wall and turned over to the roof. There was indeed a little girl on the top, who looked like a human being. She stood quietly and looked at it coldly. staring at him, neither intending to attack nor leaving.
Feeling that the other party had no malicious intentions, Qi Leren quickly dragged Aya up to the roof, loaded the bullets and shot condescendingly.
"Idiot, set it on fire." The little girl said coldly.
"Who are you?" Qi Leren asked while shooting.
"Don't ask such stupid questions when you are about to die." The little girl sneered, "If you don't light the fire, you will all die here."
"Fire! Yes! Demons are afraid of flames!" Aya shouted while sobbing.
It just so happened that there was some fuel in the props bar, Qi Le immediately threw a barrel of oil out, and shot it in the air—with a loud bang, the shot through oil barrel exploded in mid-air, and the burning sparks were like fireworks As it fell, the monsters within the range of the flames let out strange howls and fled away one after another.
The fuel continued to burn and scattered on the ground, lighting up the land surrounded by demons.
"Let's run now!" The little girl left this sentence and ran away first.
Qi Leren pulled up Aya, who was limp on the ground, and quickly chased after her.
Escaping from the encirclement of demons, the mysterious little girl stopped, and stopped on a rooftop terrace. She didn't look tired, she didn't look out of breath at all, and she seemed to be waiting Qi Leren and Aya stopped.
"Who are you?" Qi Leren asked again.
Only now did he have time to look at this mysterious little girl. She looked to be only six or seven years old, definitely not more than ten years old. She was wearing a well-crafted long court dress, and there was a circle of diamond-studded hair pinned in her hair. Hoop, like a little crown.
The little girl raised her chin high, looked at the two with disdain, and let out a contemptuous smile.
"It's so funny that you're running amok in my tomb and asking who am I?"
she...she is...
Before Qi Leren could speak, Aya knelt down with a plop, and lowered her head in fear: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty..."
The young dragon ant queen smiled coldly: "I am not some kind of majesty, I am just a dead person."