Night without Borders

Chapter 81 Abnormality
Behind Qin Ming, Xu Sheng and the others, Chixia City was as bright as day, and the tall and thick city walls built of bluestone were brightly lit.

In front of them was the night fog, towering mountains stood tall, dark shadows were heavy, and the scenery was gloomy.

The worlds in front of and behind them are like two completely different worlds.

Xu Sheng said: "After the first movement of spring thunder, the mountain has temporarily dimmed again, but in a few days, when the underground fire springs are completely revived and surge, the wild will be another wonder."

Even now it is different. Most of the ice and snow have melted, you can smell the scent of soil, and new buds have even appeared on the branches of some old trees.

"Is my luck coming?" Zhou Lin was a little excited and pointed the spear in his hand forward.

At this point, they were already deep in the mountains.

"Is that an alien plant? My luck is about to change!" Zhou Lin is only in her twenties, but she calls herself that because she has always had a bold personality.

"It really seems to be a special plant that is pregnant with rich spirituality, and it has just been born. We should be able to catch up with it!" Xu Sheng was also surprised.

There was no need to say anything more now, the three of them ran forward.

In the woods, on a special ancient tree, silver flowers bloomed and continued to glow, gradually illuminating the dense forest.

Alienated plants can cause all kinds of birds and animals to mutate. If humans take them, they can also improve their physical fitness and quickly be reborn.

This was not the first time Qin Ming had seen mutated plants. Once, he and Xu Yueping went to Yinteng Town and saw red clouds rising and "red butterflies" flying on the road.

Unfortunately, they were far apart at that time, and the petals had already been blown into the night sky by the strong wind.

"I really caught up!" Xu Sheng was overjoyed.

In the forest ahead, an old tree is sprouting and blooming rapidly, with the rosy glow of the sun all around and a refreshing fragrance filling the air.

When the breeze blows, some petals fall off, and they look like fireflies dancing in the night.

Alienated plants "bloom" regardless of season and without any regularity, making them difficult to find actively. After blooming, they will completely wither and die.

It is precisely because of this that Zhou Lin and Xu Sheng are so excited. It can be said that they have hit the jackpot.

"Xiao Qin, don't hesitate, don't leave even a single petal!" Xu Sheng reminded.

"The monsters in the mountains will be here soon, so hurry up." Zhou Lin stabbed out with a gun, and with a click, a thick branch fell off.

"Roar!" The beast roared, and all the creatures nearby were alarmed.

Although Qin Ming and Xu Sheng wanted to carry the entire old tree and run away, it was unrealistic because a huge bird of prey appeared in the sky and swooped down towards them.

The appearance of alienated plants will inevitably cause chaos, and no one will be able to take it all on their own.

"Ugh, why does it smell like blood?" Zhou Lin just put a glowing flower bud into his mouth and spat it out again.

"Puff!" Xu Sheng also vomited, his face changed slightly. He quickly lowered his head and checked the roots of the tree, and felt something was not good.

"It smells very strong of blood!" Qin Ming also spoke.

Xu Sheng looked solemn and said, "This is not an alienated plant, it is artificially stimulated. Could it be that someone from outside the world wants to attract the beast here to use it to refine medicine?"

He used to be a traveling merchant and had a wide range of experience. He immediately bowed to the depths of the forest and said, "I'm sorry, senior. We came here unintentionally and offended you."

"Let's go!" Zhou Lin whispered.

A huge claw reached down from the sky and grabbed them.

Zhou Lin thrust out a spear, and after colliding with the claw, sparks flew everywhere. It was a nearly ten-meter-long bird of prey, with black wings like steel knives. When flying at low altitude, it cut off some treetops, and its eyes were flowing with golden light.

"Roar!"

In the forest under the cover of night, a large number of mountain beasts rushed over and dense black shadows flew over.

"It's only been a short time, and the birds and beasts are almost overwhelming. Let's break out quickly!"

The three of them looked changed.

The last time Qin Ming discovered an alien plant, it was outside the mountains, very close to Yinteng Town, so there were no powerful alien species at all.

At this time they were in the mountains and were in a very dangerous situation.

"A poisonous python that has mutated five times has crawled out from the ground in early spring!" Xu Sheng's face turned dark as he encountered a huge python as thick as a water tank, which was coming towards him.

"Is it a spiritual creature?" Qin Ming took the initiative to kill it.

"No, it is highly poisonous. Be careful of its poisonous mist!" Xu Sheng quickly reminded.

The python opened its mouth, stirring up a strong wind, and a large piece of colorful light mist rushed out.

There was heavenly light flowing on Qin Ming's body, and he dodged it at the first opportunity. Since he was not a spiritual creature, there was no need for him to fight.

The python was very ferocious. It swung its tail, breaking some trees as thick as thighs and rolled towards Qin Ming.

puff!
Qin Ming brought down his hammer, and the python's tail instantly became bloody and broke off.

On the other side, Zhou Lin collided with a golden leopard twice with his spear.

Xu Sheng encountered a four-meter-tall black bear and angrily said, "I've been so unlucky lately. Something happened every time I went into the mountains. How dare you, a blind bear, bully me? I'll take your bear gall!"

He went straight ahead and knocked the black bear down.

"Brother Xu, run away quickly, there is a big bear!" Qin Ming shouted.

Xu Sheng was stunned at first, then his face changed. There is a bigger bear?
With a roar of an animal, a six-meter-tall big bear appeared in the forest behind the four-meter-tall "little bear", looking down at Xu Sheng grimly.

"Ah!" The four-meter-tall black bear seemed to be complaining.

"Could it be a creature that has mutated six or seven times?" Xu Sheng's scalp tingled. A huge black shadow was already rushing over, and a terrifying bear paw smashed down.

He turned and ran.

If there was only one big bear, Qin Ming could still consider it, but now the area was full of birds and beasts, and he couldn't stay here for long.

The most important thing is that these alien creatures regard the three of them as flesh and blood elixirs, and are eyeing them covetously.

"Boom!"

In the end, Qin Ming still collided with the big bear once. He smashed one of the bear's paws into a bloody mess with his long-handled black gold hammer, and only then did it stop chasing him.

At the same time, this also frightened the other aliens. Even so, the three of them were in a very awkward situation, and they almost fell into the army of birds and beasts.

"I thought I was lucky, but I was unlucky this year and almost died in the belly of a beast." Zhou Lin felt that things were not going well for him recently.

"Is there really someone from outside the world there?" Qin Ming asked.

Xu Sheng shook his head and said, "That's not necessarily the case. Perhaps it's a blood-colored potion that leaked out from the outside world and was used by others to lure the beast."

Zhou Lin asked, "Xu Sheng, did you get into trouble with something dirty when you were a traveling merchant? Why do I feel like I'm unlucky just by being with you?"

"How can it be!"

After a fierce battle, Zhou Lin and Xu Sheng were both very tired and decided to go back to recuperate and go into the mountains again tomorrow.

"Tomorrow, we just need to find that kind of spiritual shell. There's no need to fight hard because its fighting power is very weak."

The next day, Xu Sheng and Zhou Lin led the way, and Qin Ming followed them to a swamp to look for a very rare shellfish.

The forests in this area are sparse, with puddles and widespread swamps, and a faint black mist lingering.

"See? That glowing substance in the mud is the trace left by the spirit shell." Xu Sheng pointed at the blue mucus in the mud.

"Be careful. We were ambushed here last time." Zhou Lin said.

This time, they were not attacked from behind.

But an hour later, they started to flee, and a group of "mud dragons" chased them like dogs, and the whole swamp was boiling.

Deep in the seemingly peaceful swamp there is actually a large nest of mud dragons. They look like crocodiles, but have a single horn on their heads and four very long legs, and they run much faster than crocodiles.

Each adult mud dragon weighs several thousand pounds. They chased them with red eyes, mistakenly thinking that they were coming to steal their eggs. With the arrival of early spring, some mud dragons have begun to lay eggs.

"Ahhh..." After escaping from the mud, Zhou Lin screamed in anger because she was covered in mud, and her hair and face were stuck with mud.

Originally a heroic beauty, now turned into a mud monkey. She was furious and said, "Xu Sheng, there is definitely something wrong with you. You always have bad luck when you go out recently!"

"You can't blame me. Who knew that the traces left by the spirit shell would lead directly to the mud dragon's nest!" Xu Sheng was also very angry and even suspected that someone was deliberately harming him.

Qin Ming was also very depressed. He rolled in the mud a few times. Now all three of them looked the same.

There is no doubt that Zhou Lin turned into Sister Fenfang again and cursed all the way from the mountains to the city.

Xu Sheng advised: "Don't be angry, I will go to my traveling merchant master tonight and ask him where spiritual creatures have appeared recently and where it is safe enough."

Many people in the city looked at the clay monkey Zhou Lin, which made her even more angry.

"Brother Xu, why don't you let your master take a look first to see if there is anything wrong with you." Qin Ming said as he wiped the mud off his face.

In fact, Xu Sheng himself was beginning to doubt his life, so he nodded and said, "Okay, I'll have him check it out tonight."

In the early morning, Chixia City was bright and beautiful, and the three of them set out on their journey again.

"My master said that there's nothing wrong with me." Xu Sheng started explaining as soon as they met. It was definitely not his problem.

"Are we going to the Red Mist Cave this time? There is a large group of fire bats there, the number is so huge that it's scary. We can't afford to offend them!" Zhou Lin shook his head.

Xu Sheng said: "It's not that we are going to provoke the fire bats. There is a cold pond there, connected to an underground river, and spirit eels have appeared in it."

The Red Mist Cave was in the belly of the mountain. The three of them went deeper along the crack in the ground. It was not very dark inside because there was a spring of fire reviving inside the mountain.

“I hope it won’t alarm the fire bats in the Red Mist Cave.” Qin Ming worried.

Xu Shengdao shook his head and said, "Don't worry, the Red Mist Cave is very big. We are heading in the opposite direction of the Bat's Nest."

They came to a cold pond in the Red Mist Cave. The black water in the pond was icy cold, and there were flashes of colorful light in it. It was certain that there were indeed spirit eels.

"I have brought bait, fishing rod, harpoon and big net. Everything is ready. It's time to harvest!" Xu Sheng said confidently.

Zhou Lin looked at me with disdain and said, "Don't say such things. Now that I'm out with you, I'm traumatized."

Half an hour later, the entire Red Mist Cave was filled with flapping sounds. A large number of fire bats came out, covering the sky and rushing across the area.

"Why are there so many of them?" Qin Ming felt horrified as they could never be killed all.

Xu Sheng said, "There are too many mutated insects in the mountains. This is a nest of fire bats that the City Lord's Mansion specifically ordered everyone not to touch. They are used to kill the insects. As a result, the number of fire bats here is growing."

Eventually, the three dug a hole for themselves, jumped into the cold pond, and fled along the underground river.

Along the way they kept looking for an exit, trying to return to the surface, but they only found a few places to breathe. They swam for more than ten miles before emerging from a lake in the mountains.

"Ahhh..." Zhou Lin couldn't help it again and warned Xu Sheng not to look for her again next time.

"It's not Brother Xu's business. I'll go back and check it out!" Qin Ming said with a cold look in his eyes. He felt that it couldn't be such a coincidence. It seemed like someone was deliberately targeting them.

Although they escaped safely every time, they could die if they were not careful.

Moreover, judging from these incidents, if someone was secretly interfering, it was because they wanted them, or rather, he, to naturally lose his life in the mountains.

"Is there an invisible giant hand reaching out from the distance?" Qin Ming felt that it was not likely, because if it really was those people, it would be ten times more intense and terrifying than what is happening now.

"Could it be that some little bastard has come? I took care of him in the past, and now he's using this method to humiliate me?" He guessed secretly.

"What did you say? He could possibly absorb six or seven waves of skylight?!" In the City Lord's Mansion, Meng Xinghai stood up suddenly after hearing the report from a man in black.

On that day, he was accompanied by a group of nobles, drinking in the mountain temple and watching the wonders above the Thunder and Fire Alchemy Palace. He had no idea about the specific situation inside the Golden Palace.

"Is the news reliable?"

The man in black said, "The corpse collector Xu Hai vomited blood and died two days ago. Before he died, he told his family that it was probably because of his greed that he killed a genius. He deliberately let the boy bear six or seven waves of skylight impact, so in the end he also suffered retribution."

"This is terrible! Well, you better keep this matter to yourself and never mention it again!" Meng Xinghai said to his confidant.

He waved his hand and asked the man in black to retreat.

Meng Xinghai stood in front of the window and said, "Being able to withstand many impacts of the skylight without dying, this kind of talent... will make the Cui family regret it."

He smiled and said, "A group of the most outstanding disciples from the outside world are competing for the legendary item, which is said to be in a spiritual cave with unusually dense skylight. So it seems that if Qingyue changes to a golden armored guard, she may be able to obtain it and become the final winner."

(End of this chapter)