The moment the Touch of the Abyss entangled the totem, almost all the surrounding ghouls pounced on it and began to attack and tear apart the huge tentacles frantically, trying to free the totem from it.
Chen Ziang pulled Tsukinomiya Suzuna and fled. With just a cursory light sweep, he saw at least six more ghouls. There was no chance of winning in a head-on confrontation.
But the other side didn't intend to let go of the culprit. The two ghouls closest to the entrance of the cave quickly outflanked and attacked him.
The bounce of their hind legs was extremely powerful, and they jumped to the side in three or two leaps, with some ominous, scalp-numbing sounds of bone and joint movement, and an extremely foul-smelling smell of decay.
One of them lowered his body and approached quickly, the sharp claws of his hands passing through like a gust of wind, tearing into Tsukimiya Suzuna's soft abdomen.
The other one jumped up high, opened its claws like a sword made of steel, and struck Chen Ziang hard with its whole body weight.
Chen Ziang raised the Mandala Magic Sword with his backhand, trying to withstand the attack from the air. A huge force came from the sword, forcing him to stagger back, and his right arm seemed to be dislocated in an instant.
But years of fighting experience with weird things still came into play. When his right hand was unable to hold the sword, Chen Ziang quickly reached down with his left hand, and with the help of the Mandala Sword that fell when his right hand was released, Leng Buding stabbed upward diagonally again.
The ghoul didn't expect that the counterattack would come so quickly. Just as he was about to take advantage of the situation and rush forward to pursue him, the magic sword had already pierced its shoulder, and the skin around the wound quickly shriveled up.
Without enough time to step forward to confirm, Chen Ziang quickly turned his head and looked to his side, only to see that half of the body of another ghoul had flown out. The shadow warrior flashed past in the light of the emergency flashlight and quickly disappeared into Yuegiya Suina.
The feet are missing.
"Beautiful!" Chen Ziang couldn't help but say.
Then he reacted suddenly and continued to pull Tsukimiya Suzuna out of the cave and fled in the direction of the way he came.
"Give the book back!" came the screams of the ghouls from behind.
Their voices were rough and harsh, as if their vocal cords had been polished by sandpaper, with some kind of cruel and thick malice, rapidly approaching in the echoes from all directions of the cave.
Chen Ziang felt fierce in his heart and activated his thoughts. The touch of the abyss wrapped around the bone totem immediately contracted violently.
The entangled skeleton totem also made an overwhelmed sound.
"Stop! Stop!" the ghouls shouted again in panic.
But how can Chen Ziang stop? He can only maintain the summoning of one tentacle at the same time. Unless the thick tentacle in the blood pool is removed, this skill is equivalent to being sealed and cannot be used.
The ghouls, however, were able to divide their forces calmly, with some trying to help the Bone Totem out of trouble, and the other chasing them without any worries at all.
Therefore, the moment he rushed out of the cave and entered the tunnel, he gave the trigger of the Abyss the command to "destroy the totem".
Along with the notification that 100 points of fire from the Shadow Cloak had been received, a roar of rage came from behind. The ghouls had all gone berserk and vowed to cut the two intruders into pieces.
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Chen Ziang had already made a desperate move and ran for his life along the passage he came from, feeling as if the ground beneath his feet was shaking crazily.
Fortunately, Suzuna Tsukimiya quickly followed him, and did not suddenly twist her foot or fall to the ground, or a series of blood-pressure-raising behaviors like the common stupid heroines in movies.
The two of them rushed to the blockage of the tunnel. Chen Ziang pushed Suzuna Tsukinomiya into the slit, and he raised his hand again.
A huge Touch of the Abyss rose from the ground, blocking the path of the ghouls who were chasing behind them.
Suddenly, footsteps, screams, fighting sounds, curses, and the sound of tentacles whipping the rock wall and flesh all mixed into a huge, disorderly sound, and chaos swallowed up everything around it like a tide.
After getting into the slit, Suzuna Tsukimiya stretched out her hand and was about to pull Chen Ziang in too, when the latter suddenly froze on the spot and couldn't move.
Coming from a distant and deep unknown dimension, the ghoul king's cold gaze was attracted by the destruction of the bone totem, followed the location of the old book, and finally locked onto Chen Ziang's existence from a distance.
Under the influence of an unknown force, his heart suddenly stopped beating, his blood stagnated, his muscles stiffened and rotted, his bones decayed and rotted, and the whole person lost his life in an instant.
Tsukimiya Suzuna hugged him hard, and the shadow wrapped Chen Ziang's body.
"Lord of the Great Deep Sea! I know you are watching!" She shouted with a trembling voice, "The rise and fall of the tide are also regulated by rules. How can the person who carries out your will be swallowed by that rotten thing?"
There was another deep, old chuckle, and Chen Ziang's body was revived again at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The heart beats again, the blood begins to flow, the muscles return to ruddy color, the bones solidify and take shape, and the chest gradually begins to rise and fall.
Tsukimiya Suzuna breathed a sigh of relief and quickly pushed Chen Ziang through the slit. The shadow pulled hard on the other side, carrying him through the collapsed and blocked tunnel, and then rushed outside with him on his back.
After leaving the mine and returning to the surface, she saw a figure standing not far away, holding a flashlight and shining it.
The two people's lights shone on each other's faces at the same time, and Tsukimiya Suzuna saw clearly that the person waiting for her here was none other than Mrs. Fuyutsuki, the proprietress of the hotel.
"I thought you were dead down there." Mrs. Dongyue said with a smile.
"I disappoint you." Tsukimiya Suzuna supported Chen Ziang, "You are Nishikawa Mie, right?"
"Yes, it's me." The other party asked with a calm expression, "Do you recognize me? You know my story, right?"
"I'm not interested in your story." Tsukimiya Suzuna said coldly.
"But you should be able to feel that despair." Mihui Nishikawa said with a smile, "That kind of... the pain and despair of watching the person you love lose and being unable to do anything about it. Are you willing to listen to me?"
Tsukimiya Suzuna stopped talking and just concentrated on checking Chen Ziang's physical condition.
"They were killed by me." Nishikawa Mie's smile gradually turned pale, with a stiff look that was almost numb, "My husband would push the stall cart out after get off work every day and sell tempura in front of the school. Wait until he gets there soon. When school is over, I will drive the family truck to pick them up."
"But that day... I had an argument with my husband on the phone, and I was angry with him and told him not to pick him up. When school was over, he and the children didn't wait for me, so he had to push the stall cart slowly back from the town. As a result,
I met those beasts on the road..."
Her face suddenly spasmed violently, as if she wanted to cry out, but she didn't shed any tears, but her eyes seemed to bulge out of their sockets.
"So it's your fault." Tsukimiya Suzuna said coldly, "But you plan to vent your anger on others, which is really ridiculous."
"Who says it's not the case?" Nishikawa Mie's smile has completely disappeared, leaving only a weird, twisted expression, "I originally planned to find a place to kill myself after avenging them."
"But, even my small and humble wish cannot be realized."
She said in a joking tone, her thin cheeks twitched for a moment, and then she continued:
"I once placed my hope in the town office and Jibei City to avenge me, but the town office forced me to withdraw the lawsuit, and the city ruled that I lost the case, forcing me to a desperate situation."
"Even if I fall to hell, all I want in my heart is to avenge my family and kill all the wolves in the wild..."
Speaking of this, she suddenly showed a weird smile:
"Then I discovered that most of the so-called wild wolves are just abandoned stray dogs that escaped from Jibei City and were completely wild."