"What...what sound!?" Dong Muge suddenly exclaimed. Only then did she realize what had happened.
Bad! Ye Xiao thought something was wrong: "Stupid, don't make any noise!"
"Ha! There is another sinner here!" Arnold, who was a little crazy, heard the girl's scream behind him, and turned around to rush towards Dong Muge.
There was no time to chase the hunter who had already distanced himself from him, so Ye Xiao hurried back, listened to the sound and identified the location, and decisively threw the knife in his hand.
Sensing the sound of breaking air behind him, Arnold turned around and swung his rapier to block the flying sword.
The long knife spun and got nailed into the stone floor nearby.
While Arnold was blocking the knife, Ye Xiao kicked the fallen sword of the beheaded swordsman, sprinted a few steps and threw it again.
"Ding"
Arnold disdainfully parried the second sword that was flying towards him, then rushed towards Ye Xiao after hearing his hurried footsteps.
He had been calculating Ye Xiao's condition in his heart, "You're using two swords as flying knives. Are you planning to beat me with your fists?"
"Oh, that may not be the case."
There was another sound of breaking air in the darkness.
How come he still has a weapon?
Arnold's sharp eyesight caught the approaching shadow in the nearby darkness, and the rapier in his hand changed from charging forward to blocking.
A dull sound was heard, and this time the swords were not colliding with metal, but a piece of heavy wood.
The tip of the wood just stopped in front of Arnold and could not move any further.
"Hahaha, you picked up a branch?" Arnold laughed crazily. It turned out to be a broken stick. The other party would die next. "You think you can kill me with this!?"
"How about you take a closer look?"
"Buzz" Arnold saw that a faint flame suddenly lit up on the top of the wooden stick not far from his nose.
His smile faltered.
At this moment, Ye Xiao was holding the staff as if he was holding a rifle, and the muzzle of the gun was already pointing at Arnold's face.
"Bang." Ye Xiao said softly.
The fireball sprayed close to the face hit the head.
The splashing flames were like gorgeous fireworks, and sparks were scattered all over the ground.
But it’s not over yet. The light of the fire gave the hunter hiding in the dark in the distance a clear target.
The sound of an arrow breaking through the air was heard again. Ye Xiao grabbed Arnold's body as a shield to block the arrow.
Taking advantage of the opportunity when the opponent was drawing the bow, he dodged and leaped into the darkness where the firelight could not reach.
"what!!"
Just as Ye Xiao raised his staff to fight back, a miserable cry suddenly came from the direction of the hunter.
"Woo——" A familiar whistling sound was heard, but this time the sound was so close that it almost pierced Ye Xiao's eardrum.
He vaguely felt something wet sliding across his feet, and quickly lit up the fluorescent light on the tip of his staff, and suddenly saw a group of dark tentacles wrapped around his ankle.
What the hell!
Ye Xiao quickly hit the tentacles hard with his stick, and after pulling his feet away, he did not forget to throw a fireball at the tentacles.
The blooming firelight also allowed him to see the surrounding scene - the surrounding ground had been covered with dense tentacles that were wriggling towards this place.
His scalp suddenly went numb and he threw several fireballs in succession to illuminate the large area. Then he saw tentacles falling down from the canals extending from all directions like dumplings.
Countless tentacles, like black waves, were rushing towards the holy spring in the center of the room from all directions.
“This is too outrageous!” Ye Xiao hurriedly turned around, picked up the blade stuck in the ground, and rushed towards Dong Muge, grabbing the girl who was still in shock and shouting, “Run! Stop daydreaming!”
"But... where can I run?" Dong Muge looked at the scene around him that looked like a picture scroll from hell, and couldn't help feeling a little desperate.
Ye Xiao's forehead was covered with sweat and he shot a fireball into the air. He remembered that when he saw the pile of corpses at the Holy Spring just now, the dome above the pile of corpses was not sealed.
Sure enough, as the light from the fireball flashed, above the towering mountain of corpses in the center of the holy spring, there was a circular vertical shaft located at the top of the vaulted ceiling of the room.
"Go up, there is a passage above!" Ye Xiao pointed his staff at the vertical shaft on the ceiling.
“How do we get up here…” Dong Muge looked at the direction Ye Xiao pointed with a pale face, “…We don’t have to climb that mountain of corpses, do we??”
"Either crawl or play tentacle play, you choose one." Ye Xiao came to the edge of the red holy spring and jumped into the water decisively.
Dong Muge looked around, saw the surging tentacles, and finally gritted his teeth and jumped into the water.
The two swam hard in the crimson spring, which seemed to be deeper than they had imagined.
The surrounding tentacles had already filled the entire hall. Arnold, who was lying on the ground with flames coming out of his head not far away, twisted his joints and slowly stood up after the tentacles tore open his surface skin and drilled into him.
"Woo——"
There was another shriek, and this time, milky white mist rose from the crimson springs.
The air was filled with mist, just like the hazy scene seen in the holy spring of Loren Cathedral.
Ye Xiao's body had been soaked in the crimson water, and he finally grabbed hold of the huge mountain of corpses when the mist enveloped the water surface.
After dragging his body up, he did not forget to turn around and pull Dong Muge, who was choking, out of the water.
At the same time, Ye Xiao also saw the black tentacles pouring into the holy spring and swimming towards this side.
And there was Arnold's body, with a burnt head but unusually flexible limbs. He jumped into the red spring like a monkey and swam towards the pile of corpses using his hands and feet.
Ye Xiao hurriedly turned around and prepared to climb up, but inadvertently saw Dong Muge looking at a corpse with horror on his face.
"What are you doing again!??"
"This...this corpse..." Dong Muge's voice was trembling.
Ye Xiao took a glance and saw the brown cloak on the corpse, and the familiar face that was still recognizable even after turning blue and rotting.
The corpse's face looked exactly like Dong Muge's.
Ye Xiao suddenly seemed to understand something, but this was not the time to think or be in a daze. He grabbed the girl's arm and shouted, "Don't worry about it! Let's go first!!"
The two of them struggled to crawl to the top, climbing over the layers of corpses.
This huge and smelly mountain of corpses would occasionally beat slightly like a beating heart.
The stench, the blood, the stains... Ye Xiao no longer cared about all this mess. He just stared at the vertical shaft on the top ceiling and crawled numbly.
While crawling, he seemed to vaguely see several identical corpses, but the tentacles that began to surge upwards at the foot of the pile of corpses did not allow him to think about these strange things.
After the tentacles touched the corpses at the bottom, they twisted their bodies and drilled into the skin of those corpses as if they had touched Arnold. In a short while, the corpses climbed out of the pile of corpses as if they were controlled, twisting their limbs like nimble monkeys to chase Ye Xiao and Dong Muge on the top of the mountain.
Chapter 60: Breakaway
With Ye Xiao's constant pulling and pushing, Dong Muge and he finally successfully climbed to the top of the mountain of corpses.
Looking at the corpses and tentacles rushing towards the top of the mountain like a tide, Ye Xiao took out the staff on his back and asked Dong Muge to hug his neck, "Hold on tight!"
Then he thrust his staff downwards, "Wind Calling!"
The whistling air current carried the bodies of the two men up as the tentacles and corpses reached the top of the mountain.
Rushing vertically up to a height of more than ten meters, he barely reached the edge of the vertical shaft on the arched dome.
Ye Xiao put the staff back behind his back in the air, pulled out the long sword he had picked up, held it with both hands, and stabbed it hard into the wall of the shaft.
The blade pierced through the wall and hung the two men above the dome, and the pile of corpses more than ten meters below their feet was now covered by dense tentacles. The corpses that moved after being penetrated by the tentacles were like countless spiders crawling around along the surface of the pile of corpses.
But perhaps because Ye Xiao's actions just now were a little too intense, Dong Muge's hand slipped and suddenly fell off Ye Xiao's body.
"what!"
Ye Xiao was quick-witted and quick-handed. He quickly released the hand holding the knife and grabbed the girl who was about to fall off the dome.
But he only had his right hand left holding the hilt of the knife, bearing the weight of two people. With Ye Xiao's current physical condition, he could not bear it, and veins on his forehead immediately became visible.
What’s even more terrible is that with one hand holding the knife and the other holding Dong Muge’s arm, Ye Xiao had no way to reach for the staff behind him to cast the Wind Summoning Spell.
The two of them were stuck at the edge of the shaft for a moment.
This is too bad...
Ye Xiao, who was almost exhausted, felt his scalp tingling. Looking at the densely packed objects surging under his feet and the milky white mist gradually climbing up the mountain of corpses, he felt an indescribable sense of unbearable pain.
Dong Muge, who was holding on with one hand, was shaky and might fall at any time while hanging in the air.
"Don't be in a daze... Can you... climb up..." Ye Xiao gritted his teeth and uttered a few words. Now the posture of his body being almost pulled in half was almost suffocating him.
"I..." Dong Muge looked at Ye Xiao's expression, opened his mouth slightly, and smiled bitterly, "Sorry... I'm always clumsy."
After saying that, she actually let go of her hand.
Ye Xiao didn't react for a moment, and the girl's hand slipped from his palm, floating towards the group of corpses below like a fallen leaf in the wind.
What a joke!
Ye Xiao loosened his right hand without thinking and fell towards the group of zombies along with Dong Muge.
As he was falling, he took out his staff and muttered:
"Great God, I pray to you, please grant me the body of a beast to tear apart the invading enemies!"
A blood-red magic circle immediately spread out around his body, and white hair grew wildly along Ye Xiao's arms. The moment he landed, he grabbed Dong Muge and stomped his feet on the top of the pile of corpses, creating a blood mist.
The tentacles and corpses around were all scattered. This was naturally the beast transformation spell that Cynthia borrowed from Ella.
Feeling his mental strength decreasing rapidly, Ye Xiao clamped Dong Muge around his waist and kicked his feet, relying on his enormous strength to rush up the shaft again.
He simply bit out the blade that was stuck on the edge of the shaft with his mouth, and climbed to the top with his right hand that had turned into a wolf's claw, clinging to the stone brick wall.
As if sensing something, the white mist below suddenly rose up like an erupting volcano and poured into the shaft with a scream.
The wide vertical shaft was immediately filled with milky white mist, which surged upwards along with Ye Xiao who was struggling to climb.
With the support of the beast power, this steep and long passage soon reached the end with a little light.
There has never been a moment when Ye Xiao longed to see the deep and bright night sky so much.
He rushed out of the shaft and was shocked to find that it was a black hill with a honeycomb-like terrain. He just rushed out from one of the countless holes.
White mist also gushed out of these holes, gushing out like a boiling kettle with a long-lasting whistling sound.
Before the fog spread, Ye Xiao found that he seemed to be at the bottom of a huge basin, and he could see that he was surrounded by towering and steep cliffs.
There was no time to think about all these. While his mental strength had not yet been exhausted to the limit, Ye Xiao jumped onto a cliff and continued to climb up.
But this time the gathering and surging fog was faster than his speed and it actually submerged his body and surged upwards.
bad!
Just when Ye Xiao, whose vision was blocked, thought it would be difficult to find the way, his hand touched a rope.
Why is there a climbing rope here?
Ye Xiao looked around and found that there were four empty ropes hanging on the cliff. He quickly carried Dong Muge on his back and climbed up quickly while grabbing two ropes with one claw.
With the help of the rope, Ye Xiao no longer needed to use his claws to dig out the rocks. He quickly rushed to the top of the cliff with the greatly enhanced physical fitness caused by his beast transformation.
He ran through the hazy mist, and with his enhanced strength he keenly captured a familiar figure.
Oh, that's not...
Looking at Irene being grabbed by a zombie covered with tentacles, Ye Xiao jumped up without hesitation and grabbed the tentacle-covered face with his claws.
The blood plasma that spurted out from the torn body splashed all over the stunned young lady's face. Ye Xiao was too lazy to say anything. He simply held the dazed girl under his arm and continued to run down the mountain.
With his beast-like perception and reaction ability, he jumped over the towering and rugged mountain roads and rocks. Even the dense fog could not hinder his speed of going down the mountain.
"Woo——"
Another scream was heard, this time accompanied by the shaking of the mountain. Ye Xiao saw that there seemed to be rotten palms or black tentacles breaking out of the ground along the way.
But fortunately, his enhanced speed made him run very fast, and his fierce physical fitness made him run on this steep mountain road as if it were flat ground.
Finally, at the moment when his mental strength reached its limit, he broke through the barrier of the white fog and once again saw the night sky that he missed so much.
After running for a short distance, he threw the two girls to the ground rudely, then leaned against a stone, used his restored hands to unscrew the bottle of medicine he took out from the space ring, and drank it down in one gulp.
Not far behind me was a forest shrouded in fog, but the fog seemed to be blocked by something, and it stopped clearly in that area and no longer spread towards this side.
The two girls sat on the ground, staring at each other, not knowing what to do.
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