Chapter 41 Blood and Roses (VII)
Xiang Liangyu originally wanted to investigate Jianyue Lake in person. Just as he turned around and wanted Lu Jifeng to help cover for him, he was told by Quan Shengyan that he was disobedient and tried to threaten him.
The village had returned to normal. The NPCs that had not died left the scene and went into undamaged houses to recover. The broken houses scattered on the ground were restored to their original state by the spring smoke, as if the explosion was just an illusion.
In the red sunrise, countless fragments were reassembled in his hands. Xiang Liangyu looked at his back and murmured for no reason: "Remodeler..."
Lu Jifeng: "Hmm? What did you say?"
Xiang Liangyu suddenly came back to her senses, and she didn't know why she said this word. This feeling was like a dream she had a long time ago, the content of the dream had been forgotten, but there was a faint feeling left, lingering in her heart.
When she saw Quan Shengyan's back, she was almost instantly immersed in the remaining feelings, like fragments of shattered dreams hanging in the Milky Way, becoming a part of her memory, unable to tell whether it was reality or illusion.
However, she vaguely realized that it seemed to be an earth-shattering dream.
Seeing her dazed expression, Lu Jifeng became even more confused: " Wasn't it ?"
Xiang Liangyu held Lu Jifeng back and said, "I want to go see Yuehu, so I won't go to the confinement room."
After saying that, she turned into a bird and flew towards Jianyue Lake.
Lu Jifeng looked at her from behind, a little shocked: "Can you just not go if you want to?"
His muttering was obviously heard by Quan Shengyan in front of him. Adhering to the principle that they were friends of the same origin and there was no need to rush into conflict, he did not take the initiative to tell the village chief where Xiang Liangyu was.
Quan Shengyan turned around: "Where did she go?"
If he was asked, he would have to tell him. Lu Jifeng pointed out a clear way for him: "She went to see Yuehu."
Quan Shengyan nodded, and before leaving, he said, "The confinement room is on the second floor."
Lu Jifeng: “…”
Jianyue Lake seemed to be boiling, but there was no heat rising.
The monsters who returned to the mound saw Xiang Liangyu and naturally recognized her as the newcomer who had been in the limelight recently. They just regained their consciousness and huddled in the mound, whispering to each other:
"What is she doing here?"
"She must have seen me being so stupid just now. How embarrassing."
"Could she be here to rescue us?"
"What are you thinking? She's a new person. This is her second world. How can she have the time to save us?"
Xiang Liangyu paused and asked hesitantly, "How do we save him?"
"Of course you're using your blood to save us. Wait, can you hear me?"
"How can she hear us?"
Xiang Liangyu pursed his lips, looked past the mound and towards the lake: "Why is it boiling all of a sudden?"
Monsters: “…”
The monsters were wilted, huddled together and continued to whisper.
Xiang Liangyu squatted on a pile of earth, staring at the boiling lake. She somehow reached out and touched the lake surface. Her fingertips happened to touch a bulging bubble, and the bubble burst at her fingertips.
She rubbed her fingers, and a hot and sour feeling spread from there.
Xiang Liangyu suddenly remembered Huangfu Wanglai. The first time they met was on the path at the end of the village, and he was walking towards the lake.
She was very hungry at the time and did not see carefully where he came from. Perhaps he came from the lake and wanted to return to the lake.
"Do you want to jump in?"
Xiang Liangyu was startled, and looked back. Quan Shengyan was standing under the mound, looking up at him. He had changed into a new set of clothes, a long blue suit that was meticulously put on, with every button fastened tightly, adding a bit of unique old-fashioned and seriousness to him.
The scarf wrapped around the head was also changed to light blue to match the color of the clothes.
Doesn't it look like they're going to put me in solitary confinement?
Quan Shengyan reminded: "You haven't been put in solitary confinement yet."
Well, Xiang Liangyu turned around and was about to tell some lies to fool him, but when she saw his face, she was still stunned.
Although she knew the villagers' true appearance, when Xiang Liangyu suddenly saw Quan Shengyan, a bad idea flashed through her mind. She had seen people in the form of mermaids, but had never seen Quan Shengyan look like that.
Beneath the appearance of a prim and proper gentleman, he suppresses his sadistic nature. When his nature is exposed, what expression will he use to face it?
But Xiang Liangyu chose to jump into the lake out of respect and crossing the line: "Wait until I come up before putting you in solitary confinement."
She had to find out what was under the lake.
The skill she acquired from the previous world allowed her to breathe freely regardless of the scene. Her body fell into the lake, but she felt nothing strange and was still able to breathe freely.
She swam underwater. Unlike the boiling lake surface, the water below was relatively calm without a single ripple. The thick vines growing straight from the bottom of the lake were as motionless as pillars, and there were so many of them that one would get entangled by the floating small vines if not careful.
She grabbed a vine and found that the underwater vines here were composed of four thin vines. She pulled apart the vines and a swollen face appeared in front of her.
His mouth was pouting as if he was sucking something.
As soon as Xiang Liangyu let go, the vines that had been torn apart automatically wrapped around each other and returned to their original appearance.
Xiang Liangyu poked the system: "If the water monster kills a player, will the kill be counted on me?"
System: [There is no water monster NPC in this world. ]
Xiang Liangyu had a general understanding in his mind and waved his arms to swam upwards.
When she was halfway up, her ankle was suddenly entangled by a soft root, which pulled her down.
Xiang Liangyu looked down and said "tsk". There were countless thin vines climbing up under her feet. The highest ones had restricted her movements. If she didn't break free, she would be pulled to the bottom of the lake by countless vines.
There was a sudden stinging pain and blood spread in the water.
[You have been attacked and your health has been reduced. ]
Those vines have tiny thorns, and when they entangle their prey, they will release the toxins on the thorns, thus making the prey lose the strength to struggle.
Xiang Liangyu curled the corner of his mouth, turned over, grabbed the vine, and swam along the vine to the bottom of the lake.
The vines that came to grab her all paused for a second, as if shocked by her action, and then changed direction and swam towards Xiang Liangyu at the bottom of the water.
After seeing the true appearance of the lake bottom, all of Xiang Liangyu's confusion was resolved.
Round heads were exposed at the bottom of the lake, evenly spaced, as if they were deliberately buried there. They looked painful, their mouths opened and closed, but they did not seem to be dead.
Based on the personal information that emerged around them, Xiang Liangyu knew that they were players who had entered this world before.
Before the vines rushed up and wrapped around her, the wings that had been tucked up behind her suddenly spread out. The bright feathers were the only color on the bottom of the lake. As they flapped, they led Xiang Liangyu to fly out of the bottom of the lake.
Lu Jifeng did not go to the confinement room. He had completed four-fifths of his mission. He only needed one drop of the player's blood to complete his mission.
Thinking of this, he changed direction and went to the spine forest instead of the village chief's house at the lower side of the village.
It was already bright outside, but it was still dark in the spine forest.
The strange smell had dissipated, and the seven people stood at the entrance without going deeper.
When Wu Yun was treating other people, she stepped on something round and tripped to the ground, breaking the skin on her head. When she pushed aside the grass under her feet, she heard a roar from the front.
She was puzzled, and while treating her head, she reached out to push aside the grass for a closer look.
A hand suddenly reached out to intercept her movements, and Prince Huangfu helped her up: "Beautiful lady, are you okay?"
Wu Yun looked into his eyes. Under his confident and affectionate gaze, he lowered his head a little awkwardly and gently withdrew his hand: "Thank you."
After she finished speaking, she didn't care whether Prince Huangfu wanted to say anything else or not, and turned around to treat other people as if she was escaping.
After Jiang Cangshu finished his rest, he stood up, tidied his clothes, and came to the place where Wu Yun had just fallen. He pushed aside the haystack and could clearly see that it was a flashlight.
A very familiar flashlight. She opened the system store and saw the same flashlight in the "Groceries" section.
It is not difficult to see that this is where He Yu left it. Jiang Cangshu turned on the switch, and the light beam flickered for a moment, then returned to normal, with a green light.
Three-color flashlight, white light for safety, green light for approaching danger, and red light for approaching danger.
The start is green, which is quite exciting.
Zuo Lie was feeling listless, and suddenly Jiang Cangshu was about to move forward, and he couldn't help but shout, "Sister, where are you going?"
Jiang Cangshu: "Do the mission."
Zuo Lie looked at the dark forest road and couldn't help swallowing his saliva, calming down the panic in his heart: "Sister, aren't you afraid ?"
Jiang Cangshu stopped and tilted his head: "Aren't you just waiting for a pioneer to open the way?"
Some were lying down, some were sitting, and they all looked like they had nothing to do, but they had all put the task behind them, as if they hadn't heard it.
Zuo Lie's face changed, and an indescribable feeling of shame filled his heart, which was no less shameful and embarrassing than when his secret was revealed.
Fear does not usually appear alone, it is always accompanied by timidity. When the two appear at the same time, they will create cowardice.
Zuo Lie was indeed waiting for a pioneer, so that he would breathe a sigh of relief and think that someone was finally going to complete the task, but that person was not him.
He was speechless after hearing Jiang Cangshu's words. His heart was pounding and he shouted that he should stand up. He was a man and should be brave!
Finally, under Jiang Cangshu's puzzled gaze, he took out the scratch card with a serious expression and scratched a divination.
In the end, Jiang Cangshu, Cui Daoping, and Huangfu Wang formed a team and went deep into the spine forest.
Light shines down from the gaps in the branches above, forming tens of millions of beams of light that crisscross the circular path like an infrared alarm.
Jiang Cangshu held his mobile phone tightly and stepped into the dangerous spine forest.
The flashlight in his hand turned red in an instant. Prince Huangfu stretched out his hand to stop the two from moving forward and led them to a tree.
The tree was hit by countless beams of light, several of which converged at one unusually bright point.
Prince Huangfu quickly pushed aside the leaves without any surprise.
A face was hanging on the tree trunk, now shriveled like a skeleton. Above his forehead, there was a pair of wolf ears with sparse hair, but there were bloodstains at the connection points.
[Congratulations to the player for finding the number of wolf slaves x2. You are still a long way from completing the main quest, so keep up the good work.]
The face and mouth moved, as if it was dazzled by the sudden light. After seeing the three people in front of it clearly, it looked terrified and opened its mouth to make an "ah ah" sound.
Prince Huangfu pinched his chin and pulled it down, then after a quick glance, he said, "The tongue is gone."
Jiang Cangshu: "Is that how they treat wolf slaves?"
"What else? Will you provide us with delicious food and drink?" A voice came from the sky.
Rustling leaves fell from above, and Lu Jifeng's figure appeared beside the tree.
He played with the claw knife flexibly on his fingertips: "The wolf slaves sent to the kingdom can be so obedient, all thanks to Wutou Village."
Cui Daoping lowered the brim of his hat and whispered, "Mad man."
Lu Jifeng had no expression. Instead, he flipped his fingers, held the claw knife in his palm, and used the curved blade of his backhand to dig out the wolf slave's eyes.
The bloody eyeball was still shaking slightly, and Lu Jifeng swallowed it in one gulp and licked the blood that flowed from the corner of his mouth. After hearing the sound of the wind above the spine forest, he gloated: "I have good news for you."
"We have starved the wolf slaves here for a long time. The price of entering the Spine Forest is to become food for these slaves."
"I'm sorry, fellow wolf hunters, but your story ends here."
The branches twisted, and this confined forest path seemed to come alive in an instant. Countless blades of grass moved on their own, revealing the faces of countless wolf slaves hidden in the trees.
The system broadcast had gone crazy, the numbers kept soaring, and finally stopped at the highest value.
[Congratulations to the player for discovering the number of wolf slaves X125. Please select high-quality wolf slaves and bring them back to the kingdom.]
Jiang Cangshu curled his lips in contempt: "If you hunt werewolves, you won't be eaten by werewolves."
