Chapter 14: Crisis in the air (First shift, 5000 words)
"The purple crystal, what exactly is it? And the shadow that possesses the meaning of evil infestation, what is it? The disappearance of the alienation point, is it related to it?"
Xu Qing couldn't figure it out, and as he pondered and analyzed, the figures of Team Lei and the others returned from him one after another, each of them gazing at him as they swept past.
Xu Qing gathered his mind, and his eyes flashed with a brilliant aura.
Whatever that was, it didn't matter at the moment.
After practicing, it was his turn to continue striking.
Xu Qing stood up and rubbed the iron sign on his body, causing its cold aura to shine once more before he violently rushed out the instant the cross walked by his side.
The speed was so fast that he was close to the pursuing wolves in a flash.
The sounds of killing, screams, mixed together as if a baptism for the teenager.
So that he who had survived the opening of the eyes of the gods, who had survived the rain of blood, reflected the sharpness that had been gradually sharpened away in the scattered afterglow of this sunset!
This time, he lasted longer.
And time also slowly passed under the constant retreat and rotating resistance of the Thunder Squad.
The setting sun disappeared, the bright moon hung high, and darkness descended in the restricted area, but the killing sound continued.
Until ...... when their exhaustion reached its limit, the white pills were all consumed, and the heterogeneous concentration in their bodies was about to approach the critical point of alienation, dawn arrived.
The wolves finally began to retreat.
As the morning sun sprinkled down, the last black-scaled wolf within the forbidden jungle, gave them a tired look and disappeared into the distance, and the surroundings slowly quieted down.
Everyone was covered in thick plasma, and were currently lying on the ground, panting for breath.
Xu Qing was no exception, even with the recovery from the purple crystal, the tension from his spirit still made his entire body exhausted.
"Finally ...... survived." Luan Ya, who was at the side, murmured and whispered as he struggled to climb up, speaking softly as he looked at Xu Qing.
"Thanks."
The Barbarian Ghost was also panting as he stretched out his thumb at Xu Qing.
In this night's killing, Xu Qing's strikes and time exceeded that of the Thunder Team and the Cross, and it could even be said that if it wasn't for him, it was feared that before the wolves retreated, some of them would have already been alienated.
Only Xu Qing, he lay there looking at the sky, tired and at the same time with deep doubts in his heart.
This night's battle, the speed at which the ectoplasm was accumulating in his body was obviously too much slower than before.
He even had a feeling as if his heterogeneous quality was disappearing on its own at all times.
While the crowd was resting, Team Lei rubbed his brow, swept his serious gaze over Cross and the others, and hoarsely opened his mouth.
"This matter can't be a coincidence, the Black Scaled Wolf's continuous pursuit, it's more like there's something that's attracting them, so, you guys take out the exotic items that you've acquired on your bodies during this period of time, let's examine them carefully, I suspect that this matter ...... is caused by human beings."
As Team Lei opened their mouths, Cross and the others also thought deeply, so they all inspected themselves and took out the foreign objects.
Xu Qing's heart was also thumping, as he was considering whether it was the cause of that iron block in Ma Si's relics, Luan Ya, who was on the side, suddenly let out a cry of surprise and pointed over to the Barbarian Ghost's side.
Among the items that Barbarian Ghost took out, there was a wooden box.
The wooden box was dilapidated and seemed to be continuously corroding on its own, there was a faint wisp of scent emanating from it, and because of the mixed odors within the forbidden jungle, it was hard to distinguish without carefully sniffing it.
"How this thing corroded itself." Barbarian Ghost was surprised.
Lei team immediately went forward, after picking up the wooden box, and then handed it to Luan teeth, Luan teeth carefully smelled, face ugly nodded.
"This thing, how did you get it?" Team Lei looked at the Barbarian Ghost.
"I came back the day I bought it at the campground stall ah, it's filled with insect repellent powder ...... " Barbarian ghost scratched his head.
"This is made from the feces of the butterfly rabbit, and it will ignite on its own when it encounters an external stimulus, and it can attract scaly creatures ...... black scaled wolves, which are also considered a type of scaly creature."
Luan Ya looked at the barbarian ghost and slowly opened his mouth.
The savage ghost stayed there.
The atmosphere around them also froze all of a sudden, and Xu Qing also narrowed his eyes.
It wasn't until a long time later that Team Lei shook his head.
"The Barbarian Ghost was tricked, and it's easy to imagine who it is that could lay such a trap against us in the camp."
"Blood Shadow Squad!" Cross spoke from the side, in a cold voice.
"Blood Shadow Squad is so set up, it's hard to say that there's no backhand, and we're in a poor state ...... at the moment," Luan Tooth said hesitantly.
"Then, whether to continue forward to the picking ground to complete the mission, or to withdraw there, what do you guys think?" Team Lei raised his head to look into the distance, slowly passing out words.
Xu Qing's eyes were thoughtful and he did not speak.
The others also gazed at each other for a while, and finally Cross spoke with difficulty.
"Captain, this is not very far from our picking point, and everyone has lost too much this time, if we return empty handed ......"
Team Lei was silent, sweeping over Barbarian Ghost and Luan Teeth, the former bowed his head guiltily, the latter's eyes had a reluctance, in the middle of the day he let out a light sigh.
"Continue forward, to the picking point to be collected as soon as possible, then everyone scattered different roads, each left, in the camp rendezvous."
Team Lei sealed the deal, and after a simple trimming, the crowd moved forward again within this forbidden jungle.
On the way, Xu Qing approached Luan Ya and took out the amber he had obtained from Fat Mountain, consulting to ask what it was.
After seeing this amber, Luan Ya was startled and took it for a closer look, informing Xu Qing that it was the poisonous tail of the Ghostface Scorpion.
This scorpion is poisonous, but not irresolvable, and has good medicinal properties, after poisoning can instantly explode their potential, but can not be sustained, after the outbreak of the need to immediately detoxification, so most of them are kept, the value is not expensive.
Xu Qing realized and thanked him before putting it away.
The crowd then remained vigilant, closely observing their surroundings while flying forward.
Only compared to before, this time they were more silent along the way.
Perhaps it was due to the Black Scaled Wolf's appearance yesterday, causing most of the other ferocious beasts in this area to be dispersed.
So along the way, the Thunder Squad did not encounter any dangers, and in this way, after two hours, they finally arrived at the junction between the periphery and the depths of the forbidden zone.
The landscape here was no longer just jungle, there were also some small mountains and streams, only that the streams were black and undrinkable.
And in a place where the jungle was dense, there was a small path that ended in a cave, actually a small canyon.
When Xu Qing and the others walked into this canyon, what appeared in his eyes was like another world.
The upper part of this place was covered by the dense vines that grew around it, as if it was a roof, and the sunlight couldn't completely fall in, while there were no big trees within it, and flowers and grasses were everywhere.
Fist-sized flowers of different colors filled the entire canyon, accompanied by many grasses that emitted blue crystal light.
Each of them, had seven leaves.
The light they emitted was like stars, making the quiet canyon seem to be transformed into a serene starry sky, with a very unique beauty.
Here, was the picking spot that Thunder Squad had once discovered, and every such picking spot was a top secret, the root of the squad's survival.
After arriving at this place, since picking required special techniques, they didn't let Xu Qing participate, but instead spread out and picked on their own, which was faster and without loss.
Xu Qing paid attention to their techniques and didn't force himself to join in, but sat down on his knees and silently exhaled.
After experiencing yesterday's battle, he realized that his cultivation level, which seemed to have risen quite a bit from the constant refining, had now reached the tipping point for a breakthrough.
In order to have a better ability to survive the next crisis, Xu Qing didn't waste any time, even within the forbidden zone, he was still running the Hai Shan Skill within his body, absorbing the spiritual energy from the surroundings.
As the spiritual energy surged, a wind rose within the canyon.
Team Lei looked towards Xu Qing and didn't bother to stop it, he knew very well that the possibility of an ambush appearing on the way back was extremely high. At this time, the growth of strength was a guarantee of survival.
Not long after, in the midst of their picking, Xu Qing's body gradually emitted a thumping sound.
Bursts of dirt overflowed from the sweaty pores of his entire body, melting the plasma on the outside, and as it fused with the dirt, the flesh and blood of his entire body was also absorbing spiritual energy at a rapid pace, being nourished to become tougher and tougher.
Until the sound grew stronger and stronger, and after reaching its limit, it abruptly stopped, and a rumble emanated from Xu Qing's mind.
The blood vessels in his entire body bulged violently under his skin, his flesh and blood were filled with spiritual energy at this moment, as if they contained more astonishing strength and speed than ever before.
All of this turned into a sharp aura that permeated his body, while the fluctuations of spiritual energy outside his body spread in all directions.
Hai Shan Skill, third level.
Xu Qing slowly lowered his head and opened his eyes.
The slightly fleeting purple light in his eyes was visible to no one, but instead of the joy of a breakthrough, it was replaced by deep doubt in his eyes.
What he was looking at when he lowered his head was the refractory shadows of himself that appeared under the scattered sunlight.
He clearly felt something was wrong when he practiced just now, the spiritual energy that was absorbed by his exhaling, after the separation of the Hai Shan Technique, the pure part nourished his whole body.
And the heterogeneous ...... quality actually did not flow into his arm to form an alienation point, but ...... flowed into his shadow.
It was as if the shadow, taking that part of the heterogeneous mass, swallowed it.
It was only after a long time that Xu Qing raised his head and pressed all his doubts to the bottom of his heart.
He looked at Team Lei and the others, who were about to finish picking, and gazed away, following the end of the canyon to the depths of the jungle.
Vaguely, he could see that far ahead, some buildings seemed to exist, as if a temple was linked together, silent in time, permeated with an ancient aura.
"That is a building left behind from an unknown era, and is the furthest boundary that we scavengers can go to, not to be surpassed, but if we encounter a fierce danger in the neighborhood, we can also go there to take shelter."
The Lei Team, who had finished picking their own share, came to Xu Qing's side, following his gaze towards the temple complex, and slowly spoke.
"Boundaries?" Xu Qing nodded.
"That's right, some people say that once upon a time, the reason this forbidden area was formed was due to the gods looking towards these temples, and there were also scavengers who went over to explore, and there was nothing there, except for a special kind of small stone that could appear from time to time."
The Thunder Team took out a portion of the Seven Leaf Grass they had picked and put it in another leather pouch.
"How special?" Xu Qing asked curiously.
"Ground into powder and sprinkled on scars that weren't formed for a long time, it can get rid of the scars without leaving the slightest trace, but it's useless for us scavengers, but occasionally there are some big shots who need it." Team Lei finished speaking and looked at Cross and the others.
At this moment, Cross and Barbarian Ghost, as well as Luan Tooth, had also finished picking, and each of them took out a portion under Team Lei's arrangement, and placed it in the leather bag that Team Lei was holding.
In the end, after dividing the Seven Leaf Grass into five portions, Team Lei handed the fifth leather bag to Xu Qing.
"This is yours, from now on everyone spreads out and leaves, turning the whole thing into pieces, the probability of getting out is greater." After Lei Team finished speaking, he looked at Xu Qing and gave him another map.
"Kid, I'm too big of a target, I'm bound to be the focus of Blood Shadow's attention, and as the captain, I'll have to cover for you guys, so get out as soon as you can and go back to the camp and wait for me."
Team Lei spoke in a deep voice, and under the silent gaze of his other teammates, he walked out of the canyon and disappeared in a flash.
Xu Qing wanted to say something, but before he could, Lei Team was already far away.
Cross patted Xu Qing's shoulder and departed just the same.
Lastly, there was Barbarian Ghost and Luan Tooth, each of them leaving in a hurry after detailing their own experiences to him.
Xu Qing silently watched them, placing the Seven Leaf Grass away and looking back at the temple complex in the distance.
After a long time, Xu Qing turned around, took a deep breath, and sped towards the entrance of the canyon, his speed was obviously faster than before after reaching the third layer of Body Refinement, and he disappeared at the entrance in a flash.
Inside the forbidden jungle, Xu Qing was like a nimble ape, constantly weaving, he didn't take the path he came from before, instead, he followed the map markings and made a detour.
What's more, he followed the lessons he learned on the way here to differentiate between crises, occasionally encountering a few foreign beasts, all of which he resolved smoothly.
At the same time, he also paid attention to his shadow in the sunlight many times, and a strange color flashed in his eyes.
He had already tried, whether it was absorbing spiritual energy or taking a big breath, the heterogeneous qualities contained in everything slowly surged into the shadow after entering his body, the same as what he had felt during his previous breakthrough!
Tracing the words, the matter began to appear after the purple crystal scattered cold currents.
It wasn't until he reached the third layer of the Hai Shan Technique that it became more and more apparent.
His own shadow, it seemed to have ...... mutated after the purple crystal swept away the shadow of the black scaled wolf.
This strangeness caused Xu Qing s eyes to slowly narrow.
He rolled up the sleeve of his left arm to look at it, and the alienation point on his arm, which was only one, was extremely faint at the moment, and if he didn't look carefully, it would be hard to see the traces.
According to this development, the heterogeneity in his body, will become less and less, until it reaches the level of pure perfection.
And this kind of perfection ...... Xu Qing had seen on the Hai Shan Secrets bamboo slips that only those with extremely honorable status in the human origins of the Wang Gu continent could enjoy it.
"Purple crystal's role?" Xu Qing muttered, squatting on a tree branch and staring at the sky for a while.
For a long time, he touched the place in his chest where the purple crystal was buried, and after a moment of silence, when he raised his head, he pressed all of his doubts to the bottom of his heart, and with a sway of his figure, he burrowed into the jungle and continued to move forward.
Although the heterogeneity was no longer a threat to him for the time being, this was only one of the many dangers in the forbidden zone, and on the road afterward, Xu Qing still encountered some crises.
For example, at this moment, he saw two Bears of Alienation whose breath surpassed that of the Thunder Team.
The backs of these bears were actually covered with colorful giant spiders, and countless silk threads were scattered from the spiders' abdomens, drilling into the bears' bodies, as if they were manipulating them.
Making these two violent bears, they lost control of themselves as they ran.
Trees were directly smashed by them, and if they encountered other alien beasts in their way, they were also directly torn in half, their brutality was incomparably obvious.
If it wasn't for the fact that the target of their pursuit was a red tiger, and they didn't bother with Xu Qing, and that Xu Qing was also the first to flee in a hurry, they were afraid that it would be extremely dangerous.
The danger from the forbidden zone was not only that.
One hour later, Xu Qing was in a tree canopy, cautiously checking the direction of the surroundings, when he saw a creature from afar that didn't seem like it should appear in the jungle.
It was a ...... jellyfish whose entire body emitted icy cold and whose body was huge like a mountain peak.
Its entire body emitted a ghostly light and floated in midair above the forbidden zone.
Translucent body in the sunlight penetration, can see that there are actually countless corroding beasts inside.
A large number of tentacles fluttered about, each of which was covered with bizarre eyes, only that most of these eyes were now closed and not open.
At this moment, it leisurely flew towards the depths of the forbidden zone, and wherever the jungle below it passed through, it was frozen in a flash, and all existences could not escape the cold.
The breath on its body is so strong, I don't know how much beyond Xu Qing, in Xu Qing's feelings even those two violent bears, in front of this jellyfish are also fragile and incomparable.
Even at this moment, just a glance from afar, Xu Qing's body stiffened, from the depths of the soul flooded with a strong crisis.
Until the jellyfish disappeared in the distance, only then did Xu Qing exhale a breath, palpitating as he looked towards the distant jungle area that was frozen, like a straight line spreading into the depths.
"If the direction of this jellyfish, is me here ......," Xu Qing inhaled.
He understood that within this crisis-ridden forbidden jungle, he had a bit more of an advantage over others due to the fact that his heterogeneity could be absorbed by the shadow.
But this advantage was only able to allow him to stay in the forbidden zone for a longer period of time nowadays.
Unless one day, one became stronger, at that time, this advantage would be infinitely magnified.
When Xu Qing left in the middle of the morning, he was even more cautious within this forbidden zone.
Just like this, time passed, and soon the sun was about to set, with only the remaining sunshine reflecting.
More hissing sounds slowly came from within the jungle, and Xu Qing, who was speeding within, silently estimated the map's location within his heart, knowing that if he hurried all night, he should be able to get out of the forbidden zone before dawn.
And just as he was contemplating whether or not to take the night road, suddenly, there was a roar coming from the jungle in the distance, accompanied by almost mournful screams, and the sound was familiar.
"Barbarian Ghost?" Xu Qing's eyes stared, recognizing the sound.
He immediately leapt up and carefully approached, his thin figure nimble and hidden in the jungle, making it difficult to be discovered.
Soon after, he arrived at the place where the hissing sound was emitted, hiding within a tree canopy, and saw six or seven corpses below, one of which ...... was none other than the Barbarian Ghost!
His whole body was green and black, obviously alienated, and his corpse was separated, his death was extremely miserable.
Huge steel shield is also divided into two, into a large and small two pieces, wolf tooth stick is also scattered on the side, stained with blood.
Obviously, they had fought with everything they had in their lives, and died with their opponents in the alienation.
Xu Qing was silent, the bottom of his heart was flooded with sadness, but also saw that not far away, is being surrounded by five people, the whole body green, gradually not support is also approaching the alienation of the Lei team!
This scene, let Xu Qing pupils closed, the hand of the iron sign dead grip, eyes within the stern killing opportunity, instantly erupted.
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