In the Clouds: Mulan Line

Chapter 31
This is a desert, there is no water source at all, the air is extremely dry, and the foggy weather is so unusual.

"Why is this fog black?"

Kai said in a deep voice, these fogs are like floating black veils, covering the earth quickly, and even the sand on the ground is dyed black by the fog.

The black area became larger and deeper, and the sand in the distance seemed to be infected by the plague, and soon the desert as far as the eye could see turned black.

Black sand sea!
These three words popped up in everyone's mind.

It is rumored that in the desert, there is a black desert, which is the Black Sand Sea.

The black sand sea is like a mirage, appearing and disappearing from time to time, without a trace.

It is also rumored that there is a priceless jade mine in the Black Sand Sea. Some people tried to enter the Black Sand Sea to find the jade mine, but they could not find it. Some people were inexplicably sucked into the Black Sand Sea and disappeared.

Seeing that the black mist was getting thicker and thicker, the black sand under their feet was getting darker and blacker until it was as black as thick ink, as if it was going to swallow everything.

"This black mist..."

Wu Nan's heart sank. Many years ago, he strayed into the sea of ​​black sand and saw this endless black mist. It was simply a nightmare.

There is no doubt that they have indeed stepped into the sea of ​​black sand.

Baili kept the promise and said: "It seems...the so-called Black Sand Sea is not a fixed black desert, but this black mist. And because of the black mist, the ordinary desert will turn black, That’s why it’s called the Black Sand Sea, no wonder the Black Sand Sea is hard to find.”

"Don't talk about these useless things, let's find a way to get out!" The Golden Ring Snake Girl said hurriedly. Although she was cruel, she was still a woman after all. Facing the strange scene in front of her, she felt a little flustered.

"Do you feel that the scope of this jade mine is wider than before?"

Hua Mulan suddenly said that although the black mist blocked the view, within the visible range, the jade mine felt much wider.

"It's wider." Baili Shouyue said with certainty, "We walked about fifty steps from the edge of the jade mine into the hinterland of the jade mine, but now we have retreated eighty steps. But not only did we not reach the edge of the jade mine, we didn’t even see the edge.”

"How can the jade mine expand?" Hearing the conversation between Baili Shouyue and Hua Mulan, the voice of the Golden Ring Snake trembled slightly.

Wu Nan also frowned, "It feels like...we are trapped by jade, these jade, or this area, trapped us..."

"How to do?"

Everyone looked at Wu Nan, and at this moment, only Wu Nan might have made up his mind.

However, Wu Nan also had a dignified face. He looked around and said in a deep voice: "The jade mine itself contains energy, and these jades are condensed into a natural formation. There will only be one way out, and the rest will be destroyed." It's a dead end."

"Where is the way of life?" The Golden Ring Snake asked anxiously.

"I don't know. If I knew, you would take you away."

"This……"

Everyone's heart sank, Wu Nan couldn't help it?
Wu Nan took the hookah off the camel and took a deep breath.

"Uncle, do you still want to smoke at this time?" The Golden Ring Snake was speechless.

"Don't make noise!" Amu Boa yelled at Golden Ring Snake Girl. He saw Wu Nan squatting on the ground, using a branch to write and draw on the sand.

All the lines he drew were incomprehensible to everyone, and some of them could barely distinguish the location of the jade mine.

The lines became more and more, and Wu Nan's cigarette became more and more urgent. He didn't care how the hookah without water was choking his throat.

No one dared to disturb Wu Nan at this time. People just looked around anxiously. At this time, the black fog was already very thick, and the visibility was less than three meters away.

A quarter of an hour later, Wu Nan was already drenched in sweat, he exhaled a puff of smoke heavily, and finally stood up.

"Uncle, what's the matter?" Li Gu helped Wu Nan who was exhausted and a little unsteady.

"I figured out several possible ways to survive, but only one of them is true. If we go wrong, we won't be able to get out."

"How many are those?" Amu Boa asked eagerly.

"22."

Amu Boa: "..."

22 How many more do you say! ?

Isn't that only a 22 in [-] chance of survival?Nine deaths are not enough to describe it, so let's just commit suicide!

Hua Mulan took a piece of cloth and tied her hair that was blown slightly by the strong wind: "Staying here is waiting for death. Even if the chance of survival is slim, I can only make a dash for it. After all..."

"Wait a minute..." Baili Shouyue waved his hand suddenly, he turned his head slightly, and looked at a figure in one direction in bewilderment, "You..." Baili Shouyue pointed at that person: "Aren't you... do you died?"

what?
The words of Baili keeping the promise scared everyone into a cold sweat.

"Who!? Who died!?" Amu Bona immediately drew out the scimitar, the blade was divided into four, and almost shot.

And Hua Mulan had already slapped the epee, and the powerful sword energy slightly dispersed the thick fog, and people could see the figure clearly.

A Son of Sand Sea who had died in the ruins, his eyes were empty and his expression was blank. He didn't seem to be standing there, but was more like a stake, because his body was slightly slanted.

The skin on his body and face had many breaks, and many whiskers protruded from the breaks, like soft worms.

"puff!"

Hearing a soft sound, the dead man suddenly stretched out his palm. This palm was like a knife, and it was directly inserted into the chest of a man not far away!

This person is also Amu Bona's subordinate. He reacted immediately and wanted to fight back with a knife, but the speed of the dead body was too fast!
It ignored the man's blade at all, and directly resisted the knife. At the same time, his palm also penetrated into the man's heart!
The man's knife cut into the body of the dead body, but did not cause any harm to it.

He lowered his head blankly, looking in disbelief at the black and stiff arm inserted into his chest.

A mouthful of blood slowly overflowed from the corner of his mouth, and the blood he spit out was also black.

"The Demon God!! It's the Demon God!!"

The mandrill said in horror.

Although the sons of Sha Hai are all desperadoes, most of them believe in ghosts and gods because of their birth in the cloud. If they encounter ordinary enemies, they can still fight bravely, but when they encounter this kind of ghost-like thing, it is really shocking. People dare not face it.

Isn't resurrecting the dead a means of a demon god?

"Don't make a mess! Don't make a mess!" Wu Nan shouted hastily. If there is a mess at this time, the loss will be even more serious.

"Go to hell!"

Hua Mulan yelled, holding the dagger in her right hand and extending it behind her, her spine was bent like a tight bow, and then she took a sudden step forward, the sand splashed up with her right foot, and all the power exploded , as she swung her right hand, the dagger flew out whistling!

"puff!"

The short sword, which was one foot long, pierced directly into the face of the dead body, completely piercing through it!
The body of the dead body shook violently and trembled strangely, as if it had lost its ability to move.

At the same time, Kai rushed out from the side, picked up the dead body with a single knife, and then slashed heavily at the waist of the dead body.

"Crack!"

It didn't sound like the sound of a human body being chopped at all, but a crisp sound when it hit something of gold or stone.

This corpse had its spine chopped off by armor!Only a small half of the skin and flesh are left.

But then, the corpse that was almost cut into two pieces did not die. It pulled out its bloody palm, and its body completely violated the laws of physics and suddenly jumped up to a height of more than ten meters.

After this vertical jump, his figure distanced itself from Kai, blurred in the black mist.

Kai jumped to keep up, but Hua Mulan shouted anxiously, "Don't chase!"

From afar, one could see that the upper body of the corpse was about to break off and fall off, but it dragged its strangely distorted body like this, made another vertical jump, and disappeared into the black mist directly.

Ran!

"It's a pity!" Kai shook his head, but he also knew that in this dangerous environment, it would be nice to be able to beat the opponent away. If he chased him out, he didn't know what would happen.

After the dead body was repelled by Hua Mulan and Kai, the man whose heart was pierced also slowly fell down.

Blood gurgled from his torn heart and mouth.

The blood has completely turned black, blending with the black sand.

"Chardan! Are you okay?" Golden Ring Snake hurried over, she also knew that what she said was nonsense, and seeing Chardan in this state, it was obvious that he would not survive.

"Don't get close to him, the color of the blood on his body may be poisonous." Amu Boa grabbed the Golden Ring Snake Girl.

"If it's poisoning, it's too fast. What kind of poison is so overbearing. It only takes a few breaths, and the blood in the whole body turns black."

Baili Shouyue was muttering to himself, but at this moment, Chardin twitched a few times and lost his breath completely.

died.

With the heart pierced and poisoned, ten lives are not enough to die.

The rabbit died and the fox was sad, even Ligu, who was at odds with Amu Boa and others, felt sad because of Chardin's death at this time, because seeing his miserable end, he would inevitably think of himself.

"What was that just now? A zombie?" Hua Mulan asked Wu Nan.

The resurrection of the dead sounds unbelievable, and it is almost cut in two with a knife, which is very similar to the legendary zombie.

"It's a servant of the Demon God. After our companion was killed, he became a servant of the Demon God..." Wu Nan said with a worried expression. He drew a snake pattern on his chest and muttered something in his mouth. The way the sand people in the cloud pray for forgiveness from the black sand king snake.

The Sons of Sand Sea believe in the god of sand boats, but at the same time they are also afraid of the demon god who has turned into a black sand king snake. According to their religious books, even the god of sand boats cannot protect them under the minions of the demon god.

"Slaves of the Demon God?" Hua Mulan frowned. In her understanding, those powerful gods in ancient times should be those with extraordinary strength. They were almost gods, so they were recognized as gods.

This is also normal.

But resurrecting the dead...

This ability is really weird.

"Wait... wait! We seem to be missing two people!"

After this fierce battle, Baili Shouyue suddenly realized that there were fewer people!

Because of the limited visibility in the thick fog, he didn't realize it until now.

Ok?
Amu Bona looked around, and found that the two missing people were his subordinates.

"Where's Kura Khan? There's also Ali Mu!" Amana soon found out who the missing person was, and he began to call the names of these two subordinates anxiously.

However, there was silence in the black mist, and there was no response.

"Don't shout! I don't know what will attract it!" Wu Nan stopped the anaconda.

Amu Boa is depressed, he brought a lot of people with him this time, but there are not many left now, and what's more unfortunate is that the probability of them surviving is extremely slim.

Everyone was at a loss, they didn't even know how people disappeared.

Murderous threats are everywhere in the black mist, and they can't go out to search and rescue, they can only wait passively.

But after waiting for a long time, there was no sign of anyone.

The huge black desert was deathly silent, only the body of Chardin who had just died lay there silently.

"He... he won't... come back to life, right?" The Golden Ring Snake Girl said tremblingly, which made everyone's hearts tighten.

These originally sounded absurd words, but in this situation, it is not impossible.

The corpse fraud has just happened.

For a while, people looked at the corpse not far away, and felt more and more chilly behind them.

"I'm afraid Kura Khan and Alim won't be able to come back. We can't stay here anymore. It's too dangerous to stay with this corpse. It's uncertain when something will go wrong." Wu Nan said with a frown.

"Then where should we go? Do we really choose one of the 22 paths?" Hua Mulan asked.

Wu Nan thought for a while, then squatted on the ground and began to write and draw.

Amu Boa is speechless, haven't you done the calculation before?Why start counting again?Can this old man still do it?

Hua Mulan didn't look at Wu Nan, he found Baili Shouyue squatting on it, as if he was investigating something, with an observation eye in his right hand.

Hua Mulan stepped forward and asked, "Shou promise, did you find anything?"

"This is something special." Baili Shouyue spread out his hands. He held some black sand and a few fragments in his hand. Some of these fragments were crystal clear, like broken jade, and some were silvery and covered with With a strange texture, like metal.

These lines are very beautiful. They cross each other obliquely at a fixed angle, full of dreaminess.

"What is this?" Hua Mulan asked.

"They are black crystal sand, fragments of jade, and star pattern iron."

"Star grain iron?"

"Well, it is a special kind of meteorite. This kind of meteorite is composed of interwoven conical iron and nickel iron. Except for natural meteorite, no matter how good an alchemist in the human world can reproduce it. It is very Precious, it is an excellent material for alchemists."

"What does this mean? It means that a meteorite fell here?" Hua Mulan asked suspiciously.

"I don't know..." Baili Shouyue shook his head.

Hua Mulan stroked her sharp chin, lost in thought.

at this time--

"what--!!"

A scream suddenly sounded from the depths of the mist, followed by intermittent voices——

"Help... help..."

Everyone's heart tightened suddenly.

"It's Alimu's voice..." Amu Bona recognized it, and he exchanged glances with the other brothers. Originally, it was the rule of their team to help each other in times of crisis, but at this moment, no one could summon up the courage to rescue them. Alimu.

Reason tells them that if they go to save them, [-]% of them will never return.

"Uncle... have you figured out anything?" Ligu couldn't wait anymore, he asked Wu Nan in a low voice.

But at this time, Wu Nan's forehead was sweating more and more, and the expression on his face became more and more dignified.

"The structure of the jade mine seems... to have changed..." Wu Nan said in a deep voice.

"What... what do you mean?" Anaconda held his breath.

But Wu Nan didn't answer.

Amu Bo was anxious: "Where are Kurahan and Alimu? They..."

Amu Boa pointed to the direction of the shouting in the dense fog.

Wu Nan hesitated for a moment, stood up, and walked to the place where he just called for help.

Everyone's hearts tightened, and some dared not follow.

But Hua Mulan and Kai, armed with weapons, followed Wu Nan first.

Seeing that everyone was fine, Amu Bo and the others followed hesitantly.

After walking for about a hundred breaths, Wu Nan stopped in front of two clusters of jade mines.

Seeing these two clusters of jade mines, everyone gasped.

Because among these two clusters of jade mines, two people were sealed off!
One is Kura Khan. He has been completely sealed by the jade mine, and his whole head is buried in the jade. It can be seen that his expression is distorted, as if he is suffering great pain.

And his eyelids are still moving!
The other one is of course Alimu, whose jade is buried under his chin, because his throat and chest are sealed by jade, he can no longer breathe or make a sound.

He stared at the crowd with wide eyes, and made a vague "uh uh uh" sound in his throat, and his eyes were full of pleading looks.

"Save...save him?" Seeing that the person she knew was so miserable, the charming face of the Golden Ring Snake Girl turned pale with fright.

"It can't be saved." Wu Nan shook his head, "These jades have been polluted and demonized. They are not ordinary jade mines at all. If you try to pull them out, you will end up in the same way. As for smashing this piece of jade, you are courting death." , These jades must not be touched, otherwise it will cause disaster."

Hearing Wu Nan's words, Golden Ring Snake Girl had no choice but to give up.The anaconda had no choice but to watch the tiny jade crystals grow upwards along Alimu's cheeks, sealing Alimu's mouth, nose, and eyes.

"Save...save...me...don't...leave...me..." Alimu said with difficulty.

Amu Boa wanted to pat Alimu on the shoulder to comfort him, but he hesitated for a moment, and he took his hand back.

"Brother... It's not that I can't save you. You heard it just now. It's because I can't save you."

"Save...help me..." Alimu's eyes were full of pain and pleading.

However, Anaconda just sighed, and subconsciously took a step back to distance himself from Alimu.

As a result, Alimu's eyes changed from pleading at the beginning, to despair later, and finally, there was only hatred left in his eyes!
"Brother, don't hate me. I will die if I save you. Rest in peace." Amu Boa shook his head.

But Alimu still stared at Wu Nan and the brother and sister Amu Bo, with those stern eyes, as if he wanted to devour them!
After a while, Alimu was completely swallowed by the jade mine and died of exhaustion.

And beside Alimu, Batu, who died for a while, began to shrink visible to the naked eye.

This feeling was like his blood was sucked away by jade!
(End of this chapter)