Darkness shrouded the surroundings, and embers-like flying ash floated in the air, but what they brought was streaks of chill.
They hid in a crevice in a rock and set up a magic barrier to completely block everyone's breath. Only ghosts carrying lanterns flew past.
The dementors did not leave, but kept hovering in the sky like a whirlpool... dozens, hundreds, densely packed.
Kong Yun and his party, whose scalp was numb, did not dare to take a breath at this time. Because not only the breath, but also the smell, these dementors are extremely sensitive.
"Lao Kong, the last wave of investigation teams must have encountered dementors, right?" Liang Lu looked horrified, and he had to say something to divert the fear in his heart.
This narrow gap was crowded with Kong Yun and his subordinates... At this time, everyone was looking at him, and Kong Yun knew that as the backbone, he had to say something at this time.
"The investigation team formed are all elites, and they have very rich experience in traveling on foreign battlefields." Kong Yun said slowly: "Even we can find a hiding place in a hurry..."
"But why is there no news until now?"
Kong Yun pondered: "Maybe it's because of the chaotic magnetic field in [Canyon of Kings] itself."
Lianglu shook his head: "Since they are going into the canyon to investigate, they should have prepared anti-magnetic props beforehand... Lao Kong, your idea is too optimistic."
Kong Yun muttered: "The investigation team has a large number of people, and there are also investigators from the headquarters, so there won't be any survivors."
At this moment, a subordinate suddenly said: "Director, Boss Lianglu, if you go forward through this gap, it seems that it can lead to the Recovery Spring... There should be a branch road near here. I remember it should be a competition three years ago.
It was destroyed and was never opened, so it was abandoned."
Lianglu thought for a while and said: "There are Dementors outside, we can't go out for the time being... Let's go and explore! But where is Miss Investigator?"
Kong Yun smiled bitterly and said: "We have no more options... and we can't care too much anymore. Sooner or later, the spell will be used up, but the dementors will always exist. We can only wait for death."
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The recovery spring is like some kind of life liquid. No matter how serious the injury is, as long as you can soak in it and the person is not dead, you can recover... The recovery time depends on the severity of the injury.
This is originally an extremely precious treasure. It stands to reason that it will not always be placed in the [King's Canyon] - at the worst, mining facilities should be built here to protect it... But in fact, it is not.
Just because the spring water of the Recovery Spring, once it leaves the spiritual spring, the spiritual energy will be quickly lost and turned into a mortal object... and because [King's Canyon] is extremely dangerous, the value of development is greatly reduced.
However, the university alliance privately has a business of picking up external patients and escorting them to the recovery spring for treatment...the fees are naturally not cheap.
However, since the appearance of the "Odd Demon King" in the canyon thirty years ago and a bloody battle, this kind of business has also been stopped by the Supreme Council.
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The branch road mentioned by Kong Yun's subordinate was quickly found. After the group of people worked together to open up a gap that could barely pass through the blocked passage, they quickly walked onto the passage leading to the Recovery Spring.
Kong Yun seemed a little absent-minded at this time, and Lianglu knew that he was worried about the missing investigator lady who disappeared in the cold fog.
But so what?
Putting aside the fact that Miss Youye has so much wealth, it is impossible for a middle-level civil servant in a major league to support her. Let’s just talk about how many men can control her aura.
Suddenly, some sizzling sounds came into Lianglu's ears.
"what sound?"
"It's the communicator! Boss Lianglu, my communicator seems to have received a signal!"
Kong Yun and Liang Lu looked at each other, and Liang Lu quickly took the communicator and put it to his ear...Kong Yun also put his ear to it at this time.
Amidst the chaotic sizzling sounds, the two of them heard an intermittent weak voice.
——"Save...me...save me...save..."
The two of them stared at each other.
Kong Yun almost asserted: "It's the missing person investigating!"
Liang Lu pondered: "The antimagnetic properties of this communicator are already the best. It seems that the magnetic field of [Kings Canyon] has strengthened a lot in the past year. I don't know what the reason is..."
Kong Yun looked at the team members and said, "Can you find the source direction of the signal?"
"Director, let me try it."
Kong Yun nodded and handed the communicator to his subordinate. He immediately glanced at the team members around him, but subconsciously frowned, "Lianglu, how many people were there when we came in?"
"How many?" Lianglu was stunned for a moment, then subconsciously said: "Not counting Miss Investigator, and a few people who unfortunately died on the road, there should have been nine people when they came in... Why is there one missing?"
Here, at this moment, there are only eight people!
There are really only eight.
In the passage, it was as if you could hear the heartbeats of the people around you, and an uneasy chill slowly spread behind everyone's backs.
This made the "hissing" sound in the communicator appear so clear.
"Zifeng! It's Zifeng! Zifeng is missing!" A team member's expression changed drastically at this time: "He has been behind me... just now!"
"Don't panic!" Kong Yun said calmly at this time: "There are no side roads along the way... Zifeng can't go in front of us, let's go back the same way and take a look!"
Compared with asking for help in the communicator, the members of this team obviously have higher priority.
At this moment, Kong Yun took a deep breath and suddenly struck out with his palm. Instantly, a beam of light filled the passage and flowed into the distance...Kong Yun immediately chased the light and rushed away, and everyone quickly followed.
soon.
"Look, there's a bag here...it's Zifeng's backpack!"
The light had dissipated at this time, and the surroundings became dark again... But there was only a tactical backpack left on the ground. There were no traces of fighting at the scene, and not even footprints were left. It was as if the person had disappeared out of thin air.
What's even more weird is that this is clearly the place where the group took a brief rest during the march - even if there are no traces of the missing members, there should be traces left by them anyway!
Kong Yun suddenly felt a sense of uneasiness in his heart. He picked up the tactical backpack on the ground and shot out a beam of light to illuminate the surroundings.
The surrounding light was as bright as day, and any hiding place was invisible... Kong Yun carefully observed every inch of the place, but he was suddenly startled and turned back instinctively!
"Lao Kong?" Liang Lu said with a look of surprise on his face, "What's wrong?"
"It just seemed like something was approaching me..." Kong Yun frowned as if he wasn't sure.
"What is it?" Lianglu pondered: "Air flow?"
"No... there must be something." Kong Yun breathed out slowly, then closed his eyes and released all his inspiration.
In the silence, the positions of everyone's breathing and heartbeats were instantly grasped by him...one, two, eight...nine, ten.
Fifteen, twenty...thirty...
Boom, boom, boom!
That’s a lot of breathing and heartbeats!
Kong Yun suddenly opened his eyes, but there were still seven of his team members beside him... But Kong Yun's expression changed drastically at this moment: "Another... one less."
"What?" Liang Lu's expression changed and he looked around instinctively.
When we returned, there were eight people in total. When we came here, there were only seven people left... Another person disappeared quietly!
"How could this happen..."
"Have we fallen into some illusion?"
"What, what should I do...what should I do!"
Even though they are all elite practitioners in the society and have cultivation skills...but the regional management offices under the College Alliance Organizing Committee are all institutions with high welfare and leisure...if it hadn't been for the portal that appeared this time.
The problem is, they don't even have to go to the front line, they can live a happy life in the office.
It shows that the investigation team has always been there, and then he and his party encountered dementors... Next, in this corridor, two companions who had been getting along with each other for a long time mysteriously disappeared one after another. I wanted to calm down, I wanted to calm down - but fear did not
allow.
"Don't be messy!" Kong Yun suddenly shouted loudly at this time. His voice contained the order of heaven and earth, which instantly broke the fear in everyone's hearts, "Everyone is connected with ropes...get out of here first!"
Saying that, Kong Yun quickly took out a rope from his backpack and handed it to Lianglu first... But the moment the hand holding the rope stretched out, Kong Yun was stunned.
His eyes instantly wandered away.
Because Lianglu, who was obviously beside him, was also missing!
Kong Yun suddenly trembled, and when he turned around, all the remaining team members had disappeared... Strangely, he was the only one left in this place!
Kong Yun took a breath of cold air and frantically shot out streaks of light around him. He wanted to make this ghost place no longer dark, and wanted the light to drive away all uneasiness.
"Where are you! Come out! Come out!"
The numerous heartbeats and breathing sounds he felt seemed to have already been around him, as if they were all watching him...many, many.
"Come out! Don't be sneaky! I'm not afraid of you!"
"come out!!"
"get out!"
He consumed strength crazily until his body could no longer bear the load and had to stop temporarily... Kong Yun gasped for breath, but suddenly his heart moved. It was impossible for so many people to disappear for no reason.
Is there a possibility that it is not his team members who disappeared this time, but...himself?
"But...where is this?"
He looked around in fear, seeing the exact same environment - had he disappeared to another exactly the same place?
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"Boss Lianglu, Director..."
"Go! Go quickly! Get out of this place!" Liang Lu bit the tip of his tongue at this time, using the stinging pain to increase the hormone levels in his body. "When we are all gone, we won't even be able to save ourselves!"
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In the darkness, several black flame butterflies were flying slowly... The edge of the dark flames actually had a ray of white light, just like the edge of the sun during a solar eclipse.
The light it could illuminate was limited, but it was enough for her to understand everything here... In the narrow passage, the maid lady walked behind the butterflies.
She suddenly stopped and looked down at the ground.
On the ground were a bunch of messy footprints, a rope, and a tactical backpack.
"Um…"
The maid girl pondered for a while, then opened her palm - and saw a glasses case suddenly appeared in her palm.
What was inside was a pair of pince-nez monocles.
The glasses were placed on the left eye, and the maid lady began to twist the frame of the glasses slightly... Soon, the maid lady walked in the other direction.
"This way...the boss room."
There was an uneven rock wall in front of her, but she walked straight into it... and passed through it with her body.
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Houyi tribe.
On the edge of the cliff above the river gorge.
Song Jiaoxi smoothed back his hair that was blown by the wind, and saw a smaller figure landing quickly from the sky... the girl Ying Long.
"Have you found it?" Professor Song asked directly.
The girl Yinglong shook her head: "I turned around and couldn't see any trace of the Heavenly Warrior... I can't feel his breath at all."
Teacher Song was silent, Xiao Luo SIR left as soon as she said so, so she had to walk out of Chang'e's library - of course what she cared about was not about injecting pure yang energy.
There is no difference when it comes to animal reproduction. Her physical defect is that she cannot produce water, which means she will not react to anything she looks at.
What she cared about was the [received an email] mentioned by Xiao Luo SIR before disappearing.
Did he investigate the content of the email?
Unfortunately, I didn’t have time to ask him what the content of the email was.
While she was meditating, she saw the young girl Ying Long holding the bamboo tube left by Xiao Luo SIR, her mouth trembling from time to time as if facing a formidable enemy.
Without saying anything, Song Jiaoxi suddenly patted the girl Yinglong on the shoulder.
The girl Yinglong subconsciously raised her head, opened her mouth, and saw Song Jiaoxi take action like lightning, pouring the bamboo tube into her mouth!
The girl Yinglong's eyes widened immediately, and a stream of sticky liquid flowed out from the gap between her mouth and the bamboo tube... She choked and almost shed tears!
Cough cough, cough cough!!
"That's too much! This thing tastes so bad!" The girl Yinglong looked pitiful, "It's all sticky and it's dripping down my neck!"
At this moment, Jiaoxi Song suddenly made a gesture of silence, and then pointed to the other side of the river gorge.
The girl Yinglong was startled, and subconsciously looked over, only to see a vague figure climbing up the plank road, "That one seems to be...Chang'e?"
"And him." Professor Song said again at this time.
The girl Yinglong suddenly frowned and saw a man standing on the top of the cliff opposite the river gorge...Hou Yi!
"Why did the two of them go there to meet?" The girl Yinglong couldn't help but frowned in surprise... As he said that, the girl Yinglong suddenly pulled Professor Song aside and squatted down behind the stone.
I saw her casually placing more than ten or twenty barriers, all with various functions.
"You...what are you going to do?"
"What are you doing..." the girl Yinglong said seriously, "Of course it's eavesdropping! You're stupid!"
Teacher Song was silent for a while, shook his head and said, "It's too far away, I can't hear you."
"I can do that!" The young girl Yinglong paused slightly, and then made a gesture of listening. Then she saw that one of her ears instantly swelled more than ten times...
Song Jiaoxi remained silent for a while, then said, "What did they say?"
"Let me listen." The girl Yinglong listened carefully for a while and then said slowly: "Chang'e said: Yi, why are you here? Hou Yi said: It's relatively quiet here, I really want to think about things. It's windy here.
Come into my arms. Chang'e said: Yi, are you worried about the decisive battle with Chi You? Hou Yi: Chang'e, stop talking, I want you! Chang'e: Hmm...ah? Don't, don't be here... Hou Yi said
:No, I will just... ugh?"
I saw Professor Song directly reaching out and covering the girl Yinglong's mouth.
She said calmly: "Can you pick out some useful information to share?"
The girl Yinglong shrugged and said: "Wait a minute, they started, it will take a while? Oh, I really don't understand these guys in the human world, they have to do this kind of thing before every battle, they are so annoying!
Xuanyuan, Feng Bo, Shennong... all of them are like this, it's true!"
Teacher Song couldn't help but open his mouth slightly.
——So how many people have you eavesdropped on?
She shook her head, expressing her ignorance, and said: "Before every war, there must be one. This seems to be a rule originating from instinct and hidden in the human heart... Just think of it as an established convention.
"
"Is there such a thing?" The girl Yinglong blinked, shook his head and said, "If we dragons want to fight, we won't use up our energy beforehand. After all, it will take a long time for us to do this, and we will consume a lot of energy.
"
"How long?" Professor Song's strange thirst for knowledge broke out again.
"It's hard to say. Some of them can last for several years, right? But some can be finished in ten or eight days...and it also depends on what race the other person is." The girl Yinglong thought for a moment and said: "A dragon gives birth to nine sons.
Have you heard of it? Let me tell you..."
Listening to the girl Ying Long's words seemed to have opened a floodgate, Professor Song's strange knowledge points began to increase.
On the cliff on the other side of the river gorge, the sound of breathing gradually dissipated...
