Chapter 17: Rakshasa Ghost Market (V)

Lu Ren was not so ignorant as to ask Lu Qingzhou why he saved him at this critical moment. He just nestled in Lu Qingzhou's arms like a quail, waiting to be put down.

Surprisingly, Lu Qingzhou seemed to have no intention of letting him go. He kept holding Lu Ren with one hand and danced with the black sword vigorously.

The flames on Lu Qingzhou's body also spread to Lu Ren's body, but strangely, Lu Ren did not feel the heat.

Lu Ren raised his left hand curiously and looked at it. There was a vacuum distance between the flame and his skin. It was obvious that Lu Qingzhou did not intend to really let Lu Ren barbecue himself.

It can be said that Lu Ren was well protected.

Although Lu Qingzhou looked skinny, he was actually full of tendon muscles, and his arms were as hard as two steel bars. His strong long arms were around Lu Ren's waist, just tightly encircling Lu Ren's stomach, and his snake-like movements made Lu Ren's stomach churn.

Lu Ren wanted to vomit, but he didn't dare.

Quiet as a chicken.

The man in black robe was gradually losing to his opponent and he became slower.

Coincidentally, at this moment Lu Qingzhou jumped under the eaves of a nearby shop to avoid the previous attack.

The black-robed man's tentacles started to use their clever little brains, and they decided to make a feint to the east and attack in the west. So, one tentacle rushed towards Lu Ren quickly and accurately. While Lu Qingzhou swung his sword to cut it in order to save Lu Ren, another tentacle slapped the eaves of the shop with force.

The fragile shop could not withstand such a devastating blow and collapsed as expected. The falling wood and stone fragments went straight towards Lu Qingzhou and Lu Ren.

Of course, this can't hurt Lu Qingzhou.

The flames surrounding the two of them burned the wood, stone and bricks clean. However, the huge smoke and dust raised by the falling stones still blocked Lu Qingzhou's vision for a moment. Although it was only a moment, it was enough for the man in black to escape.

After the dust settled, a man was lying where the man in black robe had stood.

The man's face was extremely ferocious: messy short hair, thick eyebrows, and high brow bones. The most terrifying thing was his mouth, which was split upwards to his ear. Although he was unconscious, his mouth was still slightly open, and the fine and sharp shark teeth could be seen inside. He was only wearing an open vest, and the dark skin on his chest could be seen.

This is a male Rakshasa.

Lu Qingzhou only took a glance, then extinguished the fire on his body and said, "He ran away."

Lu Ren was wondering in his heart: "Isn't he just lying there? Could it be that Team Leader Lu wouldn't recognize him after he took off his clothes?"

Of course, he didn't have the guts to say it.

Lu Qingzhou seemed to see the doubt in Lu Ren's heart, and he even patiently explained to him: "The remains have no real form. They were just attached to that Rakshasa just now."

As he spoke, he put Lu Ren down. Finally, his feet were on the ground and he was out of Lu Qingzhou's "clamp". Lu Ren felt like he was finally alive.

Lu Ren then realized that the black mist on the black robe man was his true body, called the ruins. He knew that he could not defeat Lu Qingzhou, so he took advantage of the moment when Lu Qingzhou was blocked from view and fled.

The crisis was resolved, and Lu Ren bowed to Lu Qingzhou obediently: "Thank you, Team Leader Lu, for saving my life."

Lu Qingzhou just nodded slightly at Lu Ren and didn't want to say more.

Lu Ren racked his brains, trying to use his not-so-solid literary skills to come up with a few compliments so that he could exchange a few words with Lu Qingzhou.

He was so stifled that his face turned red, but he couldn't utter a single word.

But at this moment, a strange sound was heard in the air.

A column of black smoke shot straight up into the sky and leapt directly into the vast ocean in the sky.

The calm water surface was broken, and due to external force, a giant hollow tunnel was formed in the water. A carp happened to be in the path of the black fog, and was directly penetrated. It fell all the way down from the sea, directly out of the water and fell onto the roof of a shop in the distance, crushing the house.

People in the ghost market began to scream.

Seeing this, Lu Qingzhou's expression changed instantly. He reached out and touched Lu Ren's head, then quickly said, "When the corpse escaped, it distorted the boundary monument between Guixu and Beiming. The Ghost Market is about to collapse. This cluster of fire can temporarily protect you. Go quickly."

Then Lu Ren saw Lu Qingzhou flying directly towards the hollow tunnel in the sea.

From fire?

Lu Ren blinked, unable to digest the meaning of Lu Qingzhou's words for a moment. But he felt that since Lu Qingzhou touched his head, his vision had become faintly brighter, as if there was a light above his head.

Wait, maybe not as if.

…

Let me introduce myself: I am the walking torch, Lu Ren.

Although he complained, Lu Ren didn't dare to stay in this place any longer, so he started running and headed towards the archway with the words "Rakshasa Ghost Market" inscribed on it. As he walked, he looked around for any trace of Jiao Jiao. After all, they came here together, and it would not be good for him to escape alone.

He actually found it.

Jiao Yao is climbing the tower.

The tower is the tallest building in the entire ghost market, and is located on the road that Lu Ren must take to get to the archway.

Jiao Jiao was climbing up the tower's facade, and after climbing more than a meter, he was just at the level of Lu Ren's eyes. While climbing up with all his might, Jiao Jiao saw Lu Ren looking at him with a puzzled look on his face.

Looked at each other.

…

If life is a horror movie, Lu Ren must be the protagonist.

He felt that when the space was collapsing, he was courting death by taking Jiao Jiao up the stairs as if they were visiting a tourist attraction, but he could not resist Jiao Jiao's pleading.

Jiao Jiao swore that his cousin must be imprisoned on the top of the tower, and said that he would not leave until he could rescue his cousin, so he might as well die here with his cousin.

Lu Ren wanted to leave for a moment, but a voice popped up in his mind: "I was the one who brought Jiao Jiao to the ghost market. Do I really want to leave him alone to escape? He may never be able to run out again in his lifetime."

Lu Ren was defeated by his conscience.

Lu Ren looked at the sky above his head. Lu Qingzhou had become as small as a dot. He was standing in front of the underwater tunnel, trying hard to make amends.

I think there's still some time.

At this moment, the tower door had fallen off in front of the two people due to disrepair.

Jiao Jiao looked at the lock, then at Lu Ren.

Tears in my eyes.

…

Good physical fitness may be one of Lu Ren’s few advantages. He ran up the stairs in the tower in two steps at a time.

We have reached the top floor.

There was no one on the top floor of the tower, only the dusty black marble floor and white gauze curtains fluttering in the wind.

Lu Ren was just about to comfort Jiao Jiao.

Then I heard Jiao Jiao say in my ear: "My cousin is there!" He said this while pointing to the railing outside the tower.

There's nothing there.

Reason told Lu Ren that it was still not too late to turn back and run away.

But a voice in my heart said, "But he has been waiting for two hundred years. There must be time for him to confirm it."

Perhaps fate is indeed cruel, because it only provides multiple-choice questions and then watches all living beings rush towards their own destiny.

Lu Ren stood at the fence at the top of the tower, as if he could touch the sea water in the sky with just his hand.

The scene here

The tunnel formed by the sea water cavity has turned black and is expanding the black sea water outward.

The sky seemed to split open, no, it should be said that the sea was split open.

Lu Qingzhou, with green flames, looked like a firefly falling into the sea.

One after another, huge black water balls fell from the sky and landed in the ghost market. People who were hit by the water disappeared as if they were swallowed up.

This is the water that comes from Guixu, foreshadowing the end of all things.

Lu Ren listened to the wailing coming from under the tower and looked at Lu Qingzhou whose light was gradually fading. Suddenly, he felt a fear from the bottom of his heart.

"Am I going to die?" he thought helplessly.

"Cousin!" Lu Ren heard Jiao Jiao calling from his shoulder.

He saw Jiao Jiaosheng reaching out to embrace the sinking moon in the sky and the sea.

"Despair really can make people crazy."

Lu Ren pulled up a bitter smile, and felt a little sad that Jiao Jiao couldn't see his beloved cousin.

"Oh, that's too bad."

A voice filled with joy and excitement broke it all. The girl's voice rang in everyone's ears: "Cousin!"

Everyone in the ghost market couldn't help but look up and look towards the source of the sound: the full moon immersed in the sea water.

"No, that's not the moon." Lu Ren suddenly understood.

It was not the moon that he saw, nor was it the sound of the tide that he heard.

The moon is an eye, the eye of a huge monster.

The sound of the sea waves is her breathing.