Eternal Night.

Chapter 166 The Corpse Beckons

“…There is great terror between life and death.”

"My life span will last for these seven days. I must make one last stand."

This was Zhou Qingqing's last impression of her master's grandfather. She was just over three years old at that time. From then on, she never saw that kind master's grandfather again.

It was not until she was fifteen years old and her hidden power was fully developed that she saw her master's incorruptible body behind the ancestral temple and listened to her master narrating the last few days of her master.

"Your master felt that his destiny was coming, so he sat in a deathly retreat on Chaoyang Peak for the last seven days, practicing the method of ascending to heaven, hoping to gather all the strength of his spirit and body to break free and roam freely in the world. However, he failed in the end, and died sadly, leaving behind only the words 'road is over'..."

"This is the great sorrow of the martial arts, the road has come to an end..."

This is Zhou Qingqing’s biggest obsession and fear in her life so far.

Fear of the great terror between life and death.

The second fear is that the road of martial arts will end from now on.

A warrior is not afraid of difficulties, heights, or dangers. If he doesn't even have the awareness to overcome difficulties, then what kind of warrior is he and what kind of martial arts is he practicing?
But I am afraid that I will die before I reach the top. I am also afraid that I will reach the top but find that there is no way forward, and I can only sit on the top of the mountain in despair, and can no longer find the way forward...

That's why, as soon as she saw that Wu Xianxiao had another way out, she immediately rushed over regardless of everything. In fact, it wasn't just her. Anyone who had surpassed the peak of Hua Jin and reached the stage of Bao Dan Zuo Kua, as long as they knew about it, would rush over regardless of everything, even if it meant kneeling down and kowtow to Wu Xianxiao and acknowledging him as their master.

If not, what kind of warrior would you be?
Although Zhou Qingqing was terrified by these strange things, she immediately closed her eyes and said to Wu Xianxiao, "Mr. Wu, please come here."

Wu Xianxiao frowned, but still walked in front of Zhou Qingqing, and then Zhou Qingqing reached out and grabbed Wu Xianxiao's hand. She said at the same time: "Mr. Wu, we have seen dead people all the way here, and suddenly there are corpses. These corpses look exactly like one of us. As long as the corpses appear, there is no fighting or attack, but the person suddenly dies. This kind of evil magic is unheard of by Qingqing."

"I just saw Mr. Wu coming with this fairy. He seems to be quite familiar with this place. I think he knows how to avoid this evil magic. Today, Qingqing's life and death are entrusted to Mr. Wu. I will close my ears and eyes. If I can survive, it will be Mr. Wu's great kindness and the mercy of heaven. If I die... I will die."

After saying that, Zhou Qingqing stood there motionless. If Wu Xunxiao exerted a little force on her hands, she would take a step forward. If her hands were weak, she would close her eyes and stand still again.

Wu Xianxiao looked at Zhou Qingqing for a long time, and then he really admired her in his heart.

This woman is truly extraordinary. She is so young. Even with the maintenance power of traditional Chinese martial arts, she is probably only in her thirties or forties at most. Not only is she at the Baodan realm, but after fighting with her, one can vaguely feel a sense of heaviness from her traditional Chinese martial arts. Dan Jin must have a sense of heaviness, and this is actually touching the edge of Gang Jin.

Regardless of her other achievements, she was the only female hero Wu Xianxiao had ever seen in his life.

However, no matter how heroic they are, there are many who fall short in the face of life and death. However, Zhou Qingqing was obviously terrified by the strangeness of this place. At this time, she still closed her eyes and ears, and entrusted her life and death to Wu Xianxiao, whom she had only met once.

This kind of heroism is really to Wu Xianxiao's liking.

He immediately held Zhou Qingqing's hand tightly, and at the same time looked at the four bodyguards and said, "I will take you out of danger, but you must close your eyes and don't listen to any noise."

The four bodyguards looked at each other. Although they were puzzled about the origins of the two people in front of them and were full of fear about everything here, they also knew that the situation was urgent. The four of them held hands and closed their eyes cautiously. Then Wu Xianxiao grabbed the arm of one of them with his other hand and pulled them out of the forest.

But after walking less than ten meters, Wu Xianxiao saw four bodyguards stumbling on the ground and frowned for a moment.

Unlike Zhou Qingqing, these four male bodyguards are ordinary people. Once they close their eyes, even if someone is leading them, they will fall and fall after walking only two steps in this mountainous area. They can't even keep their balance, and a small stone on the ground will twist their ankles. In comparison, although Zhou Qingqing has blocked her vision and hearing, as long as Wu Xianxiao pulls her to walk, as long as her feet touch the ground, even if it's just for a moment, she can immediately feel the foreign objects and slope under her feet. Her walking is no different from that of ordinary people, and her center of gravity is even more stable.

This is a difficult problem. He wouldn't carry these four grown men on his back, right?
Although it is definitely a lot to memorize, it is too disgusting and not easy to memorize.

Then at this moment, one of the people who fell to the ground jumped up as if his buttocks were on fire, and shouted loudly: "There is something, there is something...what is this..."

"Ah, yes, I love you too..." After saying that, the man fell to the ground and died. Then the second bodyguard fell straight to the ground. After hearing the sound, the third bodyguard also fell to the ground. Only the last bodyguard was left squatting on the ground, shivering and not daring to move.

Wu Xianxiao and Hao Cheng looked over quickly and saw a body on the ground where the first person who died was standing...

But there was only this one corpse, and this corpse did not look like his, but he still showed the characteristics of death and died on the spot. The other two also died immediately after realizing what was going on. It was not until then that two more corpses emerged from the ground, hugging the three dead people in pairs.

The two men looked at each other and saw horror in each other's eyes. This kind of thing once again went beyond the previous phenomenon. People died first, and then corpses began to appear in pairs. And how did they die? After closing their eyes, they just felt their own corpses appear, and then they died?

"Did you scare yourself to death?" Hao Cheng asked in a low voice.

Wu Xianxiao shook his head and said, "No, I have been paying attention to them just now. The moment before they died, their heart and pulse conditions were not to the point of being frightened to death. That would require a very intense shock in a very short period of time. It would be better to say that they died in an instant rather than being frightened to death."

Hao Cheng was so scared that he subconsciously held Wu Xianxiao's other hand and said, "Is it some kind of rule? If you violate it, you will die immediately. Then...what about us? Will we be subject to this rule too?"

Wu Xianxiao couldn't answer. Looking at this mountain village and this forest at this time, he felt a huge sense of fear.

Even so, Wu Xianxiao still walked towards the last man in a suit. But he had just taken two steps when the man in the suit heard his footsteps and suddenly started screaming like crazy. He jumped up like a madman, and didn't care about closing his eyes. He rolled and crawled down the forest, shouting as he ran: "It's fake, it's all fake, I don't believe it, I don't believe it..."

After running out for dozens of meters, the sound suddenly disappeared. Wu Xianxiao and Hao Cheng looked at each other. Then Wu Xianxiao took one person on each side and led Hao Cheng and Zhou Qingqing down the hillside. Then the first thing they saw was the last man in a suit hugging a big tree. When they got closer, they found that there was a corpse embedded in the big tree he was hugging, and that corpse was that of the man in the suit.

Wu Xianxiao just took a look, then turned around and walked towards the weak point of the curtain with the two of them.

To be honest, at this point, he was feeling very nervous.

Fortunately, there was nothing unusual along the way, so he led the two of them out of the forest. There was a road ahead, and he did not dare to delay. He led the two of them directly to the side of the road. Here they had already left the weak point of the curtain, and the strange situation they felt in the curtain point, that is, the feeling of waking up from a lucid dream, was no longer there.

Wu Xianxiao heaved a sigh of relief, and looking around, he saw that Hao Cheng was so scared that tears were streaming down his face, while Zhou Qingqing was still standing there with her eyes closed, still looking like a fairy.

"it is good……"

Wu Xianxiao was about to wake them up when he suddenly felt something was wrong. He turned his head and looked behind him. Then he saw a row of pairs of corpses standing at the edge of the forest. One had a strange smile, and the other looked horrified. Among all the corpses, there was only one exception...

Zhou Qingqing's body was actually standing among them, but only the one with the weird smile appeared. The body with the other expression did not appear. It was obviously Zhou Qingqing who was still alive and standing next to him.

Suddenly, all the corpses began to wave towards Wu Xianxian, one after another, dully but rhythmically. Although it was silent, this silence was the greatest terror at the moment.

Hao Cheng let out a delicate scream and suddenly rushed out a hundred meters away, got into the sports car parked on the side of the road, and started the car immediately. Wu Xianxiao didn't say much, he felt a chill in his heart when he saw this situation. Even though he was powerful, skilled and brave, he still didn't dare to look back and continue to watch. He pulled Zhou Qingqing to the sports car, opened the door and got in. As the sports car started, they completely left the mountain forest area behind, and Wu Xianxiao and Hao Cheng both breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.

Hao Cheng immediately pressed a few buttons on the car, and a burst of rock music suddenly sounded. She then said in a very small voice: "Just now, those corpses... were all waving at us, right? Did I see it right?"

Wu Xianxiao hummed, and after a while he said, "No, maybe there is a little mistake. Those corpses are indeed waving, but they are not waving at us."

Hao Cheng and Wu Xianxiao looked at Zhou Qingqing, who still had her eyes closed, at the same time. Only after they had completely escaped from the weak spot of the curtain did they remember an important detail.

If the appearance of the corpse is the death signal of the people who entered this time, then what about the bodies of the two of them?

Where are the bodies of Wu Xianxiao and Hao Cheng? Or...

In fact, they both died a long time ago? ?

(End of this chapter)