There was no time to waste on a stone now. The young man turned his head and looked at the source of the scream.
"this?"
As a result, what appeared in front of the young man was a scene that made him even more confused.
Since most of the surrounding lampposts were lit, the situation in the basement could be seen clearly.
At this time, Katis, whose face was pale, bent her limbs and lay on the ground. Her left hand was holding the ground hard, trying to get rid of something, but her right hand seemed to be caught by something, no matter how hard she tried, it could not
I can only barely stay in place.
When the young man took a closer look, he found that what was wrapped around Katis's hand was... a pale bone hand!
That's not a living thing, right? What is it?
At the moment when the young man was stunned, a huge force visible to the naked eye pulled the delicate woman towards the entrance of a cave.
Oops!!
The young man immediately threw away the iron spoon in his hand, and when he took a big step forward with his legs spread out, his intact left hand was already on the hilt of the sword, and he rushed towards Katis with all his strength.
But...is it too late?
"Save...uh!"
Katis, who was just about to call for help, only had time to scream. In order to resist the huge force that she could not resist, her fingers dragged out bloody traces on the floor. However, the terrifying bone hand was still pulling her into the depths.
In the bottomed cave.
Can't be saved?
He had tried his best, and his legs were moving with all their strength.
However, there were still five steps left before he could enter the attack range of the dagger in his hand.
But Katis will be pulled into the unknown cave in two seconds. Can he catch up?
A bright gaze flashed across the young man's dark eyes, and the mental power in his mind was instantly concentrated to the extreme.
Talent - [Static Gaze] activates!
Under the effect of "Static Gaze", the speed of everything is slowed down. However, this ability cannot allow the boy to distort time and space and reverse the future. When his own speed is also slowed down, the boy only buys himself time.
Just...time to think.
Can Katis be saved by throwing the dagger like before? The young man thought.
Even though the strength of this bone hand is unknown, based on the fact that it can withstand a force strong enough to drag an adult, it can be determined that it is not a fragile object that can be destroyed by throwing a dagger like the previously solved mouse.
Moreover, throwing the dagger will temporarily lose him the means to carry out more effective attacks. If the throwing is fruitless, it will completely eliminate the possibility of him saving Katis.
The frightened expression of the woman reflected in her pupils gradually turned to despair, but the boy still had no way to save her.
If his calculations were correct, he would witness Katis being swallowed by the cave at the moment before he met her.
hateful!
The feeling of powerlessness is this feeling of powerlessness that spreads throughout the body.
How many times has he missed the person he wanted to save?
It's not that he didn't try his best, but that even if he tried his best, he couldn't save anyone.
Feelings of powerlessness and despair creep into my heart.
Still unwilling to give in, the young man mobilized the fighting energy in his body as much as possible to speed up his pace. Even though his muscles and veins were swollen and painful, he still could not make up for the gap of the last second.
"Well?!"
Just when the young man was about to throw the dagger away and make a final desperate move, things suddenly took a turn for the better.
Seeing that Katis was about to be dragged into the cave, a blue figure rushed towards Katis as fast as she could.
Yes, it's not just the teenager who plans to save Katniss.
Lan Ji, who was closer to Katis, did not intend to just watch her friend who had been with her for more than ten years being dragged into the abyss. She risked being dragged into the cave together and threw herself on Katis to help her.
Resist the huge force of the bone hand.
With the support of Lan Ji and Katis' own weight, the speed of the bone hand's drag finally slowed down a bit.
Although it was only slowed down a little, just delayed for a second, it was enough for the boy.
Boom!
The rubber-soled shoes made a dull sound on the stone floor, taking the fifth step!
The young man stared with his eyes wide open, and the sword blade in his hand was already locked onto the pale bone hand.
"Drink!!"
The young man roared angrily, and the cyclone in his Dantian began to rotate crazily. His injury had not healed, and he was still running his fighting energy with such high power that some of his tendons began to collapse and bleed.
Almost in just one breath, all the fighting energy in his body was gathered in his left hand. The boy had only been able to mobilize the fighting energy in his body so quickly in a duel with Bai Feng. At such a critical moment, his potential was once again stimulated.
In fact, this is also the result of the young man's practice of the "Dark Magic Sutra". The editor of the "Dark Magic Sutra" has a profound understanding of the dark fighting spirit. The young man just followed the example and learned how it works, and the speed of his fighting spirit.
It is much faster than before. Although there is no breakthrough in terms of quantity, the progress cannot be underestimated.
However, the boy's situation now was different from when he fought against Bai Feng. This time, his energy was more concentrated than that time. When the fighting spirit gathered in his left hand, it even began to flow towards the dagger in his hand.
This unknown dagger has been with the boy for nearly two years. These days, he and the dagger have been almost inseparable, taking it with him whether he is eating, sleeping or even washing.
The shape, size, material and even the sharpness of the dagger were all kept in his mind. Apart from the forger of the dagger, the boy was probably the one who was most familiar with it.
Now when the boy holds the dagger, it feels as if his arm has grown a little longer and he can swing it very naturally and smoothly.
In the young man's perception, the dagger was no longer a piece of cold iron, but a part connected with his own flesh and blood.
But now, without the young man noticing it, the dark fighting energy gathered in his left hand quietly surged towards the dagger.
It is not difficult to make fighting spirit temporarily adhere to the surface of a weapon. Fighting spirit can spread to the outside with the help of foreign objects, thus increasing the attack range of the weapon. This skill has been mastered by the young man very early.
However, at this time, the dark fighting energy from the boy's body poured into the inside of the dagger, as if this dead thing had veins inside it, and the dark fighting energy that poured in flowed rapidly inside the dagger.
The dagger that was infused with dark fighting spirit also immediately changed. The bright white blade became as deep as the night, as if it was made of fine obsidian.
However, the young man did not notice this change. Without any distractions, he slashed the changed dagger at the bone hand that had almost retracted into the hole.
The blade of the dagger cut the metacarpal bone of the bony hand into two pieces like a hot knife cutting cheese, leaving only the severed palm with four bony fingers attached to Katiss's hand.
With a crisp "clang" sound, half of the pale bone claw fell on the floor tiles and shattered into pieces of joints.
roar!
The skeletal hand that had lost half of its palm retracted into the cave. There was an unwilling roar in the unfathomable cave that stirred everyone's souls.
"Ha ha..."
Katis, who was surviving the disaster, gasped heavily and curled up her trembling body into a ball. Her pupils were lifeless, as if her thoughts were still fixed on the fear of being dragged into the cave by bone hands, and she had not recovered.
"Okay! Okay! That thing is gone, it's okay! It's okay..."
Lan Ji held Katis and comforted her like a baby.
"It's okay...I'm okay."
Katis took a deep breath and shook her head again, her eyes glowing again.
She was an adult after all. Although she was frightened out of her mind by this sudden attack, she did not lose her mind.
"That's good, I'll help you up."
Lan Ji was relieved to see Katis come back. When she was about to help Katis up, Katis suddenly stared at the hole and shouted:
"Then, that thing...quickly, close the hole!"
At the entrance of the cave, there were several skeletal hands eager to reach out to them, and at the same time, there was a looming skull face grinning at the living people.
brush!!
There was only a sharp sound of wind, and two pale bone claws grabbed the two people's necks respectively.
"Aha!"
Before the bone hand reached out of the hole, the young man banged the wine barrel next to it hard, immediately blocking most of the hole.
Boom! Boom!
There were two muffled sounds from the iron base of the wine barrel, and the boy pushed harder to completely block the hole.
"Phew! It's really dangerous!"
The young man wiped the hot sweat from his forehead, and the two of them had already taken the opportunity to leave this dangerous place.
Lan Ji helped Katis sit down next to the statue and said, "Fortunately you are here, otherwise I don't know what we would have encountered..."
"It's nothing, I just try my best."
The boy's face looked very bad, and his heartbeat was still beating very fast. His intuition told him that this was not that simple.
"I don't even know how to thank you. I thought I was dead."
Katis sighed. She knew her situation very well. Without the help of the young man and Lanji, she would have died just now.
While Lan Ji helped Katis bandage the wound, she said: "You have helped me so many times before, and you only encountered this kind of thing because you were with me. If you want to thank me this time, thank the young man!"
"Oh! If you have any requests, young man, just ask me. Sister, as long as I can do it, I will satisfy you."
After saying that, Katiss winked at the boy meaningfully.
"Well..."
The young man was just thinking about how to respond when Lan Ji suddenly said:
"After you go back this time, you can also make a request to me as a reward. The scope is the same as Katis's. As long as it is something I can do, I will help you achieve it."
The scope of this reward...is too broad?
The young man was speechless. These two women were simply saying that they would agree to whatever he asked for.
In fact, the boy has always had difficulty choosing. The options he can normally deal with are usually within three, and four is too many. Even when he goes to the cafeteria to eat, he chooses a dish that he is satisfied with and eats it until he is tired of it.
Since he is asking for the remuneration he deserves, he will not be polite, but what kind of remuneration should he ask for from these two people?
Money?
I always feel that asking for money from prostitutes is embarrassing...and this choice is too vulgar. He obviously has a wider range of choices.
But apart from that, what else can he ask of these two people?
but......
Since any request is acceptable, even if it seems to be an excessive request, they are likely to agree to it in this case, right?
But...that's not good, right?
The young man began to get entangled. To be honest, with the young man's temperament, he obviously preferred straightforward returns, which made him embarrassed.
"You can think about these later."
Lan Ji realized what the boy was worried about. She originally thought that the boy would give some rewards that they could easily give, but now it seemed that the boy had many other ideas.
"We'd better get out of here now."
"Um."
The young man agreed very much with Lanji's proposal. Now was not the time to relax completely. He analyzed:
"The "man-eating hole" was probably dug by rats. It seems to be connected to the underground tomb, and there is an unknown monster entrenched at the entrance of the hole. From the size of a bone hand to the size of the monster, it insists on pulling people into the hole.
Judging from the performance, this monster should, perhaps, probably not be able to come..."
Just as he was talking about the final conclusion, the boy's voice became smaller and smaller, and his words became more uncertain.
There is no other reason. The wine barrel blocking the entrance of the hole is still making a "dong-dong" knocking sound, and the sound is getting louder and louder, and the frequency of the knocking is getting higher and higher.
"......here."
As soon as the boy finished speaking, he held his head and shouted: "Back off!"
At this time, the heavy wine barrel rushed upward like a cork when opening champagne.
With a loud "clang" sound, the wine in the barrel spilled all over the floor, and all the wooden boards that made up the barrel were broken and scattered throughout the basement.
"Giggle..."
In the messy basement, before the embarrassed three people could recover, a burst of cold laughter enveloped them with a chill that was so cold that it penetrated the bone marrow.
And what exactly is this chill? The boy is all too familiar with it.