Chapter five hundred and thirty fourth: sudden mutation
War is always accompanied by bloody storms, and no war is without death. Especially ancient wars, their cruelty is beyond the imagination of modern people, and the killings caused are not comparable to modern wars. For the sake of power, successive dynasties fought against each other, and fought against each other.
Attacking the emperor will cause unspeakable suffering to the people of the world. As the saying goes, people will suffer when they rise, and when they fall, people will suffer. There is no war like this in the past.
However, there are no absolutes. Not all wars are for the purpose of fighting for power. Sometimes, in order to defend the country, even if the ruler does not want to go to war, he can only be forced to defend himself. When the country is weak, it must mobilize as much force as possible to fight against those who have no power
The barbaric invaders of human nature fight to the death, win, the country is protected, and the people are healthy, but lose, the lives of all people are in ruins, and the world is destroyed!
………
The mountain wind howled endlessly, making the surrounding vegetation rustle.
It has not cleared up after the rain, and the sky is still dark, which is indeed in line with the name of Yinshan Mountain.
In a dark environment, somewhere in the mountains, Yao Fujiang was hiding behind a tree and devouring the bread in his hand.
Yes, the flat-headed young man has been running non-stop since escaping from the grove. Although his physical strength limit means that he does not move very fast, in order to run as far as possible before the white-faced female locust resumes action, Yao Fujiang still bites the bullet and holds on.
The weak body fled one after another, running for nearly half an hour at a breath, until the physical energy was completely exhausted, until he could no longer move, and he had no choice but to hide on the side of the road and stop to rest.
Fortunately, I had some food in my backpack before going up the mountain. I ate without hesitation during the break. I have to say that eating food is the best way to restore physical strength. I ate all the bread in three times, five by two, and Yao Fujiang clearly felt that
The physical energy I had consumed earlier had been partially replenished, and it was impossible to fully recover. But at least my ability to move was restored. I believe that as long as I am not in a running state, it will not be a big problem to keep going.
Time was tight, so he did what he thought of. After drinking the last bottle of mineral water, Yao Fujiang felt that he had regained a certain amount of strength and planned to get up and continue on his way. For no other reason than he needed to meet up with Chen and Zhao as soon as possible.
(Well, the area of Yinshan Mountain is really not small. Fortunately, I know the general direction of the Judge Temple. But now I have no way out. All the Taoist symbols and props on my body have been consumed. I have also completely lost my defense ability. In addition, my physical strength has been greatly reduced and I can’t move.
The speed is limited, now even a lonely soul can easily catch up with me and kill me, if I don't find my teammates for shelter as soon as possible...)
After thinking about this, Yao Fujiang, who had already stood up, did not hesitate anymore, and continued to move forward relying on the slight physical energy brought by the food, stepping on the muddy and rugged mountain road under his feet, trying to find his teammates as soon as possible. Yes, he knew it very well.
Having used up all the Taoist talismans and props, I have lost the ability to return the same way, so I can only search for it by force, even if it gets dark.
………
While walking through the mountains and forests, nothing happened except the howling mountain wind and the cold chill.
This is good news for Yao Fujiang.
Because he had just eaten two pieces of bread, Yao Fujiang's walking pace this time was much smoother than when he escaped from the woods earlier. He was no longer staggering, no longer vain, and overall he was quite strong. He was currently walking along a path that could barely be considered a road.
We were walking through the jungle in the mountains, not very fast. Firstly, the sight was blocked due to the cloudy sky, and secondly, the mountain road was uneven, so we had to carefully look around while walking.
While paying attention to his feet to avoid tripping over gravel vines, this will undoubtedly affect his speed, but at least it will keep him alert enough. After all, what worries Yao Fujiang most now, who has lost his protective gear, is not the long journey but the halfway point.
When encountering a locust, he was extremely afraid of the group of solitary wild locusts wandering in the mountains. Once encountered, everything would be over, and he would be exhausted and unable to even escape.
Therefore, no matter what, we must be alert and tense to the extreme. If there is any disturbance, we must immediately avoid and evacuate immediately.
Closer to home, as the walk continues, the current time has reached 16:15 pm, and almost an hour has passed since the initial walk. Although there is no denying that the heavy rain has stopped long ago, the sky has never cleared up after the rain. In addition, in the past two days,
It was going to be dark in three hours. Seeing this, Yao Fujiang became more and more uneasy as he walked. He couldn't help but become anxious. He doubted whether he could reach the Judge's Temple before dark, and his will was slightly shaken.
Ta, da, da.
His breathing was suppressed and heavy, and his steps were slow and delicate. Yao Fujiang was still walking cautiously on this mountain path, looking left and right all the way, constantly on guard for fear of encountering danger. As he said earlier, the young man has now been extremely vigilant.
, just move and observe at the same time, always paying attention to the surroundings, looking around.
only……
Just as there is no absolutely perfect defense in the world, people often tend to be sparse and sparse.
Others are like this, and Yao Fujiang is also like this.
I don’t deny that the young man with a flat head was really focused and alert, and I don’t deny that he did frequently look left and right along the way, but...
He ignored what was behind him.
It was precisely because of this negligence that he unknowingly fell into crisis again and fell into a life and death crisis.
because……
As I was walking, I saw something appearing a hundred meters behind me.
A woman slowly floated out of the grass somewhere behind, a woman with disheveled hair and a pale body.
The pale face was completely bloodless, and the black eye sockets were like abyss. It floated to the road silently, and then began to follow him, gradually getting closer with the whole body off the ground, getting closer to the young man in front, and getting closer to Yao Fujiang who ignored him behind him.
White-faced female locust!
Yes, it was the white-faced female wolf, the evil wolf that almost killed Yao Fujiang through a trap more than an hour ago!
No one knows when the female locust resumed her actions, and no one knows what method the female locust used to find the traces of the young man. The only thing they know is... At this moment, the white-faced female locust appeared again without making any noise.
In this case, he quietly followed Yao Fujiang, getting closer and closer.
The screen shifts to the front.
While walking silently, Yao Fujiang did not notice anything unusual behind him, nor did he know that there was a mantis approaching him little by little. Even so, the strange thing was that, for some reason, as he walked, the young man frowned and his expression changed slightly.
He immediately stopped moving and crouched down, taking advantage of the cover of vegetation while looking forward, directly ahead of the mountain road.
Sure enough, the vigilance that he had maintained for a long time really worked, and it took a little while but it was fast. Just when he hurriedly possessed and hid in the same place, he raised his head and looked up. Although the distance was far away, he managed to catch something with his eyes wide open.
In the picture, you can vaguely see a group of people approaching dozens of meters away in front of you. A group of dozens of people are collectively lowering their heads and moving forward slowly, and the movement is silent.
Lonely soul!
Obviously, unless you are a fool, unless you have never experienced the Yin Yang Road mission, you can find out the true identity of that group of people just by taking a look. There is no doubt that those so-called people are all lonely souls, a group of lonely people who wander in the mountains all day long.
Soul worm.
Seeing a group of lonely souls floating in front of the road, Yao Fujiang dared to neglect him? He jumped to the grass on the roadside, and then curled up like a stone, solidified and hid, hiding on the side of the road silently with the help of dense vegetation.
As expected, thanks to the timely reaction and concealment, as time passed by, soon, the swarms of hawks gradually floated in, passing through the path one after another, and then disappeared behind the road and disappeared into the distant woods.
"call!"
Finally, after the dozens of lonely souls gradually drifted away and it was confirmed that there was no more danger, Yao Fujiang emerged from the grass and returned to the road. First he took a long breath, and then rejoiced and reached out to wipe the cold sweat from his forehead. Yes, he had just
Successfully avoid a danger, successfully avoid a life and death disaster.
But unfortunately...
In many cases, the danger is not just once, and the threat is not limited to just one time. Just like the old saying, you can't escape on the first day of the lunar month, but you can't escape on the 15th day of the lunar month. Life should be so unavoidable. The King of Hell will let you die at the third watch, but will not let you survive until the fifth watch.
On the mountain road, Yao Fujiang stared at the swarm of hawks on the right that was getting further and further away until only a vague outline remained. He wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, turned around and left, intending to continue moving forward, but...
Just when he instinctively turned around, just when he was about to walk away...
"Come here!"
Suddenly, a voice, a sentence, and a woman's voice that seemed similar and extremely familiar came to mind from behind.
The sound was not like a human voice, but full of echoes, like a ferocious roar coming from the abyss of the underworld, echoing around the ears instantly, filling the eardrums on the spot.
Not only that, judging from the loudness of the sound, it’s like...
It's like it's appearing directly next to your ears, so close that you can't hide, so close that it's right in front of you!
As a sudden voice came from behind, my heart suddenly stopped at this moment, the hairs on my hair stood on end collectively, and my entire scalp became numb.
Out of instinct, the moment the voice sounded, he was confused, mixed with trembling, and stunned. Yao Fujiang turned around suddenly, and then he saw white. In other words, as soon as he turned around, the first thing that caught his eye was a face.
The entire field of vision is occupied by a pale face, especially the pair of black eye sockets in the white face, which are extremely clearly displayed in the sight and reflected in the pupils!!!
This is……
The female locust, the white-faced female locust, is the evil locust that almost killed her earlier!
He never expected that the female locust would find him again, chase him again, and even come up behind him silently!
"Whaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!"
Seeing this scene, seeing the female sorrel so close to him, even so close that he was face to face, Yao Fujiang's pupils tightened instantly, and he screamed immediately. Under the stimulation of unprecedented fear, he suddenly burst into a shrill scream, too close.
It was too close, too close to hide, too close to escape. His subconscious told him that he was finished, and in reality the young man was indeed about to be finished. The reason was very simple. At this moment, even if he was in front of him,
If the white-faced female locust didn't kill him, the howl he just made would be enough to cause him to fall to death in an instant, because as the screams echoed through the surrounding mountains and forests, on the right side of the mountain road, the group of people who were supposed to be drifting away were about to disappear.
The lonely souls stopped, stopped floating, stopped moving, and immediately turned around like a group of wild beasts that found their prey, turned back one after another, and floated toward Yao Fujiang at an astonishing speed several times faster than before, gathering together!
!!
As for Yao Fujiang...
Cai Kankan screamed, and then he stopped screaming and shut up. The shrill scream only lasted for two seconds and then stopped abruptly.
It wasn't that he didn't want to scream or that he suppressed his fear, but that he couldn't scream because two seconds later, the white-faced female hawk's pale hands suddenly stretched out and sank into his body, making it impossible to hide at such a close distance.
While hiding, he stretched directly into the young man's chest.
"Woo..."
Plop.
The familiar feeling of cold numbness, the familiar loss of physical energy, the irresistible blur of the brain, and the little energy in the body seemed to be drained out in an instant, causing the whole person to fall to the ground and fall on the road.
This is the absorption of life force, and it is a life force absorption that will never stop until the person is sucked into the mummy.
(Why? Why is this happening? I have struggled countless times, I have avoided countless times, but I didn’t expect that I couldn’t avoid being killed by a hawk in the end. Is this my destined ending? Is it destined that I will die in Yinshan?)
Different from the previous time, different from being in the wooden house, this time, Yao Fujiang lost his ability to resist, and there was no possibility of resistance at all. His physical strength had long been exhausted, and his energy had been exhausted, so it was natural that he should be the white-faced woman.
When the tiger attacked him for the second time, the flat-headed young man fell down on the spot, like a corpse falling on his back.
However, Rao suddenly fell to the ground. Even though he seemed to be dead, the extremely vicious female locust still did not give up, and her arms still did not withdraw from the young man's body. It was obvious that the female locust had made it clear that she wanted to kill the opponent and not absorb all the life force of the prey.
I will never give up until Yao Fujiang is completely transformed into a mummy!
Just like the first time he was in the wooden house, Yao Fujiang not only fell into the hands of the white-faced female ghost again, but also had his life force sucked away by the female ghost immediately like last time. What made Yao Fujiang even more desperate was...
This time, it was not just the white-faced female locust that attacked him. At the moment when the flat-headed young man fell on his back due to weakness in his body, in a daze, through the corner of his eye, he also saw a large number of people floating out of the grass on both sides.
When the lonely soul saw a human being lying motionless on the road, all the lonely souls suddenly accelerated as if on stimulants and surrounded him who could not move!!!
Seeing this scene, Yao Fujiang, who was unable to move due to the white-faced female locust sucking his life force from the ground, despaired.
Completely desperate.
This could not help him not to be desperate, and even more so not to be pessimistic. He once again fell into the control of the white-faced female locust, and this time he also lost all possibility of resistance. In addition, the props were exhausted. The only thing he could do now was to wait for death.
He was surrounded by lonely souls and was sucked into a mummy in an instant.
On the muddy road, I felt my body gradually getting colder, my consciousness gradually blurring, and I saw the waves of lonely souls on both sides of the road that were still a few meters away from reaching me. Strangely enough, maybe it was because I was 100% certain that there would be no more life.
Yao Fujiang was not afraid anymore. The fear that originally enveloped his heart disappeared, and his whole person calmed down. He closed his eyes and chose to wait for death, his heart full of regrets...
(I don’t have much physical strength left, and I was caught by the female locust again this time. In a few seconds, the lonely souls on both sides will probably absorb my life force like the female locust. Hey, it seems, it seems that I am really doomed this time.
Regrettable, sad, and extremely unlucky. Yes, I, Yao Fujiang, am unlucky in this life...
Unprecedented misfortune, first he was inexplicably drawn into the cursed space, and then he was forced to perform a supernatural mission. Isn't this miserable enough? I didn't expect that he would end up being killed and turned into an ugly corpse.
Mummy, my God, I’m not willing to give in. I didn’t expect this to be my final ending.)
(But, what if you don’t give in? Can you avoid death if you don’t give in? Stop dreaming, hey, that’s it, just die...)
Wrapped in that unparalleled despair, before his consciousness completely disappeared, Yao Fujiang took the initiative to close his eyes and waited for death. At the same time, a large group of lonely souls swarming around him finally floated in front of him, and then, not long after, he closed his eyes and waited for death.
Unexpectedly, as soon as they arrived, the lonely souls, like the white-faced female locusts, stretched out their arms and stretched their hands towards Yao Fujiang's body.
Yao Fujiang also knew that he would definitely die this time no matter what.
Next…
Gotta, gotta, gotta.
I don’t know if I heard it wrong or if my brain was too fuzzy and I had auditory hallucinations. Not long after I closed my eyes, I heard a sound next to my ears and heard a series of rhythmic horse hoof trampling sounds.
(Um?)
As mentioned above, at first Yao Fujiang thought he was hearing hallucinations because he was about to die. It was not until the sound of horse hoofbeats continued to grow louder and became clearer that he had to believe that he had indeed heard a series of louder horse hoofbeats.
So he was a little puzzled as to why he would hear such noises before he died. It is true that hearing the sound of horse hooves is nothing to be surprised about, but please don't forget where this is.
This is Yinshan Mountain, a fierce mountain that few people have visited for more than a hundred years!
It is conceivable that in the past, even people could not come to the mountains, so how could there be horses?
The growing confusion in his heart led to suspicion, which prompted Yao Fujiang to plan to see what happened before he died. Then, he opened his eyes again, but who would have thought...
As soon as I opened my eyes, the first thing I saw was stillness and silence. In my field of vision, I saw that the lonely souls surrounding me and even about to extend their arms to me stopped their movements without exception. Not only the lonely souls, but also the souls.
The white-faced female locust who had been keeping her hands on her body and sucking life also stopped moving. In addition, the terrifying and horrifying pale locust's face showed fear for the first time, faintly revealing a trace of nervousness and fear similar to that of a human being!
The turtle actually showed a fearful expression!?
What's going on? What's going on? Is there anything in this world that can scare the wolf? Even if the wolf is conscious and knows how to be afraid, why are all the unconscious souls around it also stuck at a standstill?
?As if they instantly sensed some kind of danger approaching, they stopped killing and looked up to observe their surroundings.
Seeing this scene, Yao Fujiang was shocked. At the same time, the confusion and confusion in his heart became more and more intense. Before he could find out the answer, something happened that shocked him even more...
Gotta, gotta, gotta.
As the horse's hooves in the distance gradually approached, and the stamping sound became louder and louder, the next moment, the white-faced female locust moved, the first one to move, and actually took the initiative to pull her arm out of Yao Fujiang's body, then turned around and drifted away, scattering together with a large number of lonely souls around her.
Piaowu, just like birds and beasts scattered, retreated in all directions, and dispersed completely in just a few seconds!
This, this...
Seeing this scene, Yao Fujiang was completely confused this time. He was stunned on the spot. Yes, he had no idea what was going on. The only thing he couldn't deny was that it was precisely because of the string of people getting closer and closer.
The sound of horse hooves saved me
, saved himself from the hopeless situation where he was destined to die, so that he was not killed by the swarm of hawks. In addition, thinking about the fearful reaction of the white-faced female hawks and the lonely souls just now, he guessed that these hawks were probably very scared.
ran away from something.
To be afraid of something, something that even a wolf is afraid of...
Ding!
Thinking of this, he suddenly came back to his senses. In an instant, with his heart beating wildly, Yao Fujiang, who was still suspicious just now, was once again wrapped in fear, and fear enveloped his whole body again!
Although he managed to survive because of the swarm of worms escaping, it was also because he was not dead that his fear that had just disappeared returned due to the desire to survive. The reason is very simple. Let me ask, what even the worms are afraid of, he, a human being, has
How not to be afraid? In addition, the sound of horse hooves is getting closer and closer. If he still stays here, he knows what will happen to him without even thinking about it.
escape!
Run away immediately and get away before the unknown thing that is getting closer and closer arrives!
The thoughts are correct, but the reality is cruel.
He wanted to escape, but he couldn't. He couldn't even move his body.
Since he didn't have much physical strength left, and he had been sucked hard by the white-faced female cockroach just now, Yao Fujiang was completely useless at this time, lying on his back on the ground unable to move.
"Oh, ah ah..."
Blah, blah.
That was true, but when he heard the increasingly loud trampling of horse hooves in front of him, he was driven by his will to survive and gritted his teeth. The boy with a flat head still struggled to roll over without being able to get up, and then he slowly rolled over like a puddle of mud.
Squirming, gnashing teeth and crawling to the roadside, crawling to the grass on the roadside...
Yes, when he thought about it, even if he had no physical strength and no hope of escaping, he still had to hide anyway. Although he didn't know what would come this way next and he didn't know if the other party would find him, there was at least a glimmer of hope in hiding.
"Hoo, ho, ho."
Blah, blah, blah.
So, dragging his weak body and gasping for breath, Yao Fujiang crawled hard and slowly on the mountain path filled with muddy water. His target was a bush on the right side of the trail, where the terrain was low and covered by grass.
I believe that as long as I lie there motionless, it should not be easily discovered by unknown things passing by here.
Not far away, the sound of horse hooves became louder, which also meant that things ahead were coming. As for Yao Fujiang, after a lot of effort, the young man also successfully climbed to the roadside, got into the grass, and immediately did not dare to move. That's it.
While hiding in the grass, I stared upward with curious eyes, staring at the path, and the sound of horse hooves could be heard in my ears.