Chapter 85 Crisis Arrives
Guona paused in the middle of his words, and Fu continued, "The only possible place is this huge tower of Mansmei."
After a moment of silence, Fu said to Shalan, "Shalan, we saw your flashlight fall to the ground, and you seemed to be running non-stop. Were you avoiding these strange snakes just now?"
The temporary resting camp is quite far away from the Mansmei Tower, or the Silaya Tower. The flashlight cannot reach such a long distance, so they can only judge what Shalan is doing by the flashlight. Therefore, they are unaware of the existence of the male teacher.
Hearing Fu's words, Shalan turned around and shone the flashlight on the male teacher's mutilated body after the explosion, as well as the location of his head.
"Just now I didn't encounter those strange snakes, but I encountered the missing teacher. However, he didn't recognize me at that time, and he kept attacking me like a wild beast. These strange snakes were originally parasitic on his body, but after his death, his body exploded and these strange snakes were shot out, which is why I was hit by these strange snakes."
Looking at the corpse not far away, Fu was about to walk over, but was suddenly grabbed by Shalan's arm.
"Teacher Fu, for safety's sake, you'd better not go over there. We can't guarantee whether there are any of these strange snakes on his body. Even if the body didn't explode just now, a large number of strange snakes would have been ejected and disappeared. If you rashly go over there, once you are attacked by the strange snakes, you may die at their hands."
"But his body..."
"Teacher Fu, let's leave it like this for now. How about we find someone to collect the bodies after we get out?"
After taking a deep breath, Fu nodded and said, "This is the only way."
"Teacher Fu, this place is not safe. Let's go back to the resting place and talk about it."
Hearing what Guona said, Fu nodded, and the group walked towards the resting place. Just as they left the bottom of the Mansmei Tower and returned to the resting place, some tiny sand and stones fell from the top of the Mansmei Tower. Due to their small size, they did not make any sound, so the people in the resting place did not notice that a huge and slender shadow was slowly swimming above the Mansmei Tower and moving towards the ground little by little.
After returning to the resting place, Fu and Guona told everyone else what had happened, which made most people feel a little creepy.
"Teacher Fu, should we rest in batches for a while to prevent those strange snakes from coming to us without anyone noticing?"
Nodding, Fu said, "That's right, we should do that, and the number of guards cannot be too small, otherwise one or two people won't be able to guard properly in this place without any light source."
"Okay, I'll make the arrangements then."
The result of Guona's arrangement was to work in three shifts, with the eighteen people divided into three groups of six each to guard the temporary camp.
Originally, Shalan could have been exempted from the guard duty because of his injury, but he did not request so and chose the task of the first guard shift, guarding the area near the temporary camp.
It was not known whether it was because the temporary camp was too far from the Mansmei Tower, or because the strange snake had been in a parasitic state for too long and could not survive without its parasite, but Shalan did not see anything special while guarding. When the time came, he sat cross-legged on the blanket, closed his eyes, silently practiced the "Magic Bull Breathing Method" to restore his strength, and used the force of shock to promote the rapid healing of wounds.
While Shalan was practicing the "Magic Bull Breathing Method", he suddenly felt two weak but real strands of external life energy in his body. These two strands of external life energy were different from the life energy he produced himself, and there was a slight difference between them, so they could not be absorbed.
However, under the continuous bombardment of the shock force, the two strands of external life energy were quickly broken up and restored to the original life energy, which was absorbed by Shalan's body and gradually merged into the tenth vertebra, preparing to condense the tenth seed of life.
Shalan let out a breath, opened her eyes, and frowned slightly. Although the two strands of life energy were very weak, they came too strangely.
It is also explained in the "Magic Bull Breathing Method" that external life energy may come from medicine or from some special means. As long as the life energy is not mixed with energy or impurities that are harmful to the body, it can be absorbed into the body to condense the seed of life.
However, items and means that can increase life energy are already scarce, and external life energy without harmful energy and impurities is even rarer. At least among the ancestors of the Moonlight Knight, no one has ever seen or used such a thing.
"What on earth is this? These two strands of life energy are so strange. The only thing I touched was..."
Thinking of this, Shalan suddenly realized that if she thought so, the only things that could have entered his body were the two strange snakes. Moreover, there were two strange snakes that drilled into his flesh, and there were also two strands of external life energy. If someone said that there was no connection between them, Shalan would never believe it.
"The life energy from the two strange snakes couldn't have entered my body for no reason. I remember that the shock force once caused the bodies of the strange snakes to explode, so part of the blood in the bodies of the strange snakes must have entered my body as well. In this way, the blood in the bodies of the strange snakes may contain life energy.
But how could a mere drop of blood contain enough life energy for me to discover? Judging from the proportions, the life energy in these two strange snakes is a little too abundant. Instead, they don't seem like creatures that evolved naturally. Could it be that these strange snakes were deliberately cultivated by that small country in the Bronze Age?"
Thinking of this, Shalan was actually looking forward to seeing those strange snakes again. He wanted to catch one and study it carefully. If he could find out the truth, then Shalan could use this method to quickly condense the seed of life and achieve transcendence. Of course, becoming transcendent is not that easy, but it is always possible to take a big step forward.
Calming her mind, Shalan took out the second blanket and covered herself with it, resting her head on the backpack.
However, just when Shalan closed her eyes, she suddenly heard a series of friction sounds of a fixed frequency. She stood up, picked up the flashlight and shone it in the direction of the friction sounds. Shalan immediately saw Amanda and Gro, who were supposed to be guards, sleeping soundly in each other's arms. In the direction they were supposed to be guarding, a huge shadow was approaching the temporary camp at high speed!