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"Xu Ming!?"

The little piglet quickly looked at Xu Ming.

Xu Ming nodded with a serious expression.

"Begin the operation!"

"Hi!"

A dazzling silver light immediately enveloped the piglet. When the light faded, Silver Crow, dressed in silver armor, wearing a mask, and looking like a Kamen Rider, appeared before everyone.

Chapter 385 The Forest of Lost Paths

"I go first!"

The silver crow waved to Xu Ming, then spread its wings, took a running start, and soared into the sky, transforming into a silver meteor as it flew towards the dense forest at the foot of the mountain...

Asagami Fujino nodded to Xu Ming as a greeting, and then disappeared silently into the night.

Xu Ming took a deep breath and said to Erina:

"Let's get started."

After saying that, he led the way toward the shrine.

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Swish!

Haruyuki Arita flew around the Forest of Lost Paths two or three times but did not find anything unusual.

The Lost Forest remained calm and peaceful under the cover of night, even exuding a unique sense of tranquility and beauty in the darkness.

Such a beautiful place doesn't look like an ominous place at all.

So he spoke to Xu Ming telepathically:

'Xu Ming, I didn't find anything strange in the sky.'

After a moment of silence, Xu Ming replied:

"Spring Snow, if I'm not mistaken, you might need to land inside the forest to discover what's unusual."

'this……'

Haruyuki Arita hesitated noticeably.

Venturing alone into the forest at night was undoubtedly a huge challenge for Haruyuki Arita, who was easily frightened.

After a while, Haruyuki Arita gritted his teeth.

"I understand, I'll go down right away!"

After saying that, he ended the call with Xu Ming and then slowly descended to the foot of Yanluo Mountain.

Behind him was the stone path that Xu Ming had taken to climb the mountain.

Rather than aimlessly wandering around, the expert player Haruyuki Arita prefers to follow the path and look for relevant clues.

He quickly followed the path Xu Ming had taken and entered the forest.

However, Haruyuki Arita had only gone less than ten meters into the forest when he was suddenly startled to find that fog had suddenly rolled in.

Within seconds, thick fog spread around him.

Haruyuki Arita quickly retreated the way he came, wanting to leave the Forest of Lost Paths first and observe the changes in the forest from the outside.

To his utter surprise, he found himself unable to get out!

He had only gone less than ten meters into the forest, but now he couldn't find his way back.

Haruyuki Arita looked around. In the thick white fog, he could only vaguely see one or two straight tree trunks nearby, and nothing could be seen beyond that.

Midnight, thick fog, a forest with no way out... all these conditions combined almost scared Haruyuki Arita to death.

He tried to spread his wings and fly into the sky, but found that there seemed to be an invisible net in the sky, and he could not fly at all.

Haruyuki Arita's legs started trembling.

He began to call out aloud in his mind.

'Xu Ming! Xu Ming! I'm trapped in the forest and can't get out!'

After a while, Xu Ming's slightly hurried voice came through the telepathic communication.

'I'm in trouble too. These areas seem to be like a barrier; we have to find a way to destroy the core of the formation!'

After hastily leaving those words, Xu Ming fell silent.

'Xu Ming? Xu Ming!'

Haruyuki Arita called out again, but this time there was no response.

Clearly, just as Xu Ming said, they were also encountering trouble, and it seemed to be quite a big problem.

Haruyuki Arita immediately realized that he could only rely on himself now.

He immediately put his mind to work and began to think seriously.

The fact that everyone encountered trouble at the same time indicates that there are problems at all three locations.

The required offerings corresponded precisely to these three locations.

The offering is clearly very important; it's very likely the key. If I find the offering, there's a high chance I can break the barrier and escape...

A resolute glint flashed in Haruyuki Arita's eyes.

Since becoming Xu Ming's shikigami, he has always relied on Xu Ming's command to act, but this time, he must rely on himself!

The offerings couldn't simply appear before him; leaving them in place was pointless.

Haruyuki Arita strode into the depths of the thick fog.

The fog grew thicker and thicker. At first, you could still see some trees a dozen meters away, but later Haruyuki Arita could only see about four or five meters around him.

There's definitely something wrong with this thick fog.

He is a demon; if it were ordinary fog, no matter how thick the fog was, it wouldn't obstruct his vision.

But this fog made him feel as if he had returned to the time when he was still human.

Haruyuki Arita walked forward cautiously, while keeping an eye on his surroundings.

Strange sounds occasionally drifted from the forest shrouded in thick fog, like footsteps or the rustling of clothes against bushes, as if countless people were moving back and forth behind the fog.

Whoosh!

Suddenly, the sound of flowing water came from not far away.

With no landmarks in the thick white fog, Haruyuki Arita instinctively walked towards the direction from which the sound of flowing water came from.

After walking about several dozen meters, a wave of dampness hit me.

Immediately afterwards, Haruyuki Arita felt the mist in front of him gradually dissipate, and a miniature waterfall appeared before him.

Water cascades down a cliff three or four meters high, crashing into the pool below and splashing up countless bubbles and droplets.

However, the pool seemed very deep, and except for the area where the waterfall cascaded down, the surface of the water was as black as ink.

In a daze, Haruyuki Arita suddenly saw a white shadow flash across the pool in front of him, and it seemed that there was something under the surface of the water.

He subconsciously squatted down, reached out, and scooped up a handful of water from the pool.

"Is it an illusion?"

Haruyuki Arita was taken aback.

Just then, a white shadow quickly rose from the water's surface.

By the time Haruyuki Arita noticed, the white shadow was already almost emerging from the water.

A scene that Arita Haruyuki would never forget unfolded.

A female corpse, dressed entirely in white gauze, with a swollen body, pale skin devoid of any color, and headless, quickly surfaced from the water.

The bowl-sized wound on the woman's neck was directly facing Haruyuki Arita; the pale wound was pitted and uneven, and seemed to still have granulation tissue...

Splash! Splash!

One sound after another echoed from the pool.

With each sound, a white-clad female corpse floated to the surface from the water.

In the blink of an eye, the surface of the pool was covered with the white-clad female corpse!

They lay down, reclined, or lay on their sides, each with a different posture and body shape, but the only thing they had in common was that none of them had heads...

Looking at the countless headless female corpses on the water's surface.

"what!"

Haruyuki Arita let out a strange scream and collapsed to the ground.

His shouts seemed to wake the headless female corpse.

One by one, the headless female corpses in the pond sat up from the water, facing the direction of Haruyuki Arita.

Haruyuki Arita could no longer hold back, got up, turned around and ran away.

The headless female corpses stood silently in the water, gazing silently in the direction where Haruyuki Arita had disappeared...

Chapter 386 Arita Haruyuki's Rampage

He didn't know how long he had been running. Haruyuki Arita would look back from time to time to make sure the headless female corpse wasn't chasing him before he slowly stopped.

Although monsters don't have stamina.

However, Haruyuki Arita still felt extremely tired.

He suffered a severe mental shock.

Click!

Just then, Haruyuki Arita suddenly heard a noise above his head, as if someone had stepped on and broken the branch above his head.

Haruyuki Arita subconsciously raised his head.

A woman wearing a yukata and with disheveled hair jumped down from the treetop.