Returning from the abyss

Chapter 131 The Time of the Promise
Shi Xiaolang looked at the clay pots on the table, and for the first time, his face lost his smile.

"You found this in the fourth brother's house?"

"Actually, there are two pots." Lu Ning also escaped the other two clay pots, put them on the table, and pushed them towards Shi Xiaolang.

At this time, the huntress was carrying a kettle to add water, and when she saw the four clay pots on the table, she also showed a look of horror in her eyes.

"Five, fifth brother, this is..."

"Hehe, you read that right. That's why the fourth brother disappeared... I said how could someone as strong as him just disappear!"

"But, but that's fourth brother, can he do it? No matter how difficult it is..."

"Calm down!" Shi Xiaolang yelled sharply, and then swiped four pots towards her, "Take these back to the storage room and put them away! We will have a meeting to discuss this tonight!"

The huntress responded immediately, put down the kettle, picked up four clay pots, and left quickly.

On the other hand, Shi Xiaolang took a deep breath, and opened his eyes after a while, his emotions just now had been completely covered up.

"These things have nothing to do with what you're going to do, I'm pretty sure."

——No, it must have something to do with what I want to do, and I'm sure.

Lu Ning nodded calmly.

"Then, one last question. I know that once we leave this mountain, one third of our organs will fail. Since you are willing to let me live, at least let me go to the end."

"You want the dirty blood ritual." Shi Xiaolang nodded slowly, and after thinking for a moment, he took out two metal objects from his pocket and threw them on the table.

Those are a pair of very special utensils. It looks like several iron rings are connected with iron chains to form a cylinder, which can be opened like handcuffs. Two metal chains are connected to each other, and a thicker quadrangular prism is melted and cast between the iron ring column and the iron chain, and is vertically attached to the side of the iron ring for use as a fixation.

If you look carefully, you can see that there are complicated patterns on both the iron ring and the thin square prism.

"This is the prop for the dirty blood ceremony."

Shi Xiaolang picked up the two metal rings, looked at the expression on Lu Ning's face, and said with a smile, "Do you not believe it? It looks simple? Look."

He closed the metal rings on one side, and along with a row of metal rings formed a circle, a row of extremely thin needles suddenly popped out from the side of the square prism facing the opening.

When Lu Ning saw the row of needles, she immediately remembered the row of red dots on her arm.

"If I didn't tell you this secret, you might not understand the difference. Look here."

Shi Xiaolang took the iron ring on the other side and closed it, and a needle protruded from it as well.

"The side with an odd number of needles is the blood collection end, and the even-numbered side is the blood supply end. That is to say, if you want to replace the 'rotten blood' in your body, you have to pierce the even-numbered end into your arm, and the odd-numbered side is the blood supply end. The end of the blood bag is pierced into the arm of the blood bag. Once reversed, the 'clean blood' in your body will be sent out. In addition, the ritual needs to be kept for 5 minutes, and after 5 minutes, one-third of the blood in the blood bag will be gone. It will be sent into your body, and at this time no blood collection can be done anyway, and the blood bag must be rested for 24 hours before the next blood collection can be performed."

"It's... this thing?"

"Ritual, sounds mysterious, right? Actually, it's not worth mentioning." Shi Xiaolang chuckled, threw the tool towards Lu Ning, then took the pipe from the window sill and lit it, stood up and went to outside.

"Wait, when..."

"Wait until night! Now you rest and recover your strength, Xiao Zilan will prepare food for you, and find her in the guest room. We are quite generous to our collaborators-provided that we don't do anything that we can't tolerate!"

Shi Xiaolang laughed and walked out the door, while the huntress quickly came over and asked Lu Ning in a low voice what she would like to eat.

Mu Zilan is the name of this huntress.She is not a novice, she is just resting on shift today, and she just stayed here in the wooden house. Although she was a bit out of control when she saw the clay pot, now she is still a big sister with a friendly tone... Although Lu Ning doesn't know how old she is .

The food here is only meat and wild fruits and vegetables picked from the mountains, and there is no shortage of condiments. Lu Ning has eaten one and a half fruits so far, and she is very hungry.In the face of the hunters who have already shown their cards and know their identities, she doesn't have to worry about what medicine the other party puts in the food, and she starts to fill her rumbling stomach as soon as the food is served.

During this time, Mu Zilan was also sitting at the table and was carving wood carvings with a short knife.When Lu Ning chatted with her, she avoided those sensitive topics, and gradually learned some of the stories here.

The hunters are sorted according to the order they were sent here. Mu Zilan was the No.11 sent here. In fact, her seniority is very old. The current leader here is Shi Xiaolang, also known as the "fifth brother" in the population. .

Since there is the fifth child, there are of course four other people in front of her. Mu Zilan is still very vigilant about this, and she didn't elaborate, only knowing that they are "big brother, second sister, third sister, and fourth brother", and she doesn't even know their names.And these four most qualified people have successively entered the mountains to build hunter's huts in the past 20 years, looking for something with a purpose, and finally there is no news.

And they once strictly prohibited their companions from inquiring about their whereabouts. This kind of prohibition is still obeyed even if they disappear or die in the group of hunters whose order of seniority is very important. Therefore, no one has ever moved the hunter's hut on the mountain. The people in the village didn't even know there was such a thing.

By the way, what Mu Zilan said also belongs to the "can say" part.

Her superficial gentleness cannot conceal the aura of a hunter, and as the eleventh-ranked senior hunter, Lu Ning can even feel how many deaths she has caused by herself, and how many people's blood has been used to continue her current youth .

From this point of view, the short man and the fat man we met last night might really be novice hunters.

After eating and being taken to the guest room for a good night's sleep, Lu Ning felt that her body was full of vitality again.As a guarantee for her smooth movement, Mu Zilan also prepared a backpack for her, which contained props such as pliers, daggers, ointment, and flint.

This is to make her make as much noise as possible.

Lu Ning thanked her, picked up her backpack, counted her belongings, and walked out of the guest room.

At dusk, the sun was slowly setting, and a bright moon had already risen in the east. Two bright celestial bodies were hanging in the sky at the same time, which seemed a bit emotional.Shi Xiaolang was standing outside the house, still smoking a pipe, and many hunters who had gone out to hunt came back one after another. Naturally, their strong physical fitness and unpredictable abilities would not return empty-handed. There is still one on the road.

"Have you rested?"

Shi Xiaolang didn't even need to turn around to know that Lu Ning had come out, which made Lu Ning even more afraid.

"Okay, I'm leaving."

"Well...Look, this harvest scene."

The man in the officer uniform slowly opened his arms.

"No matter what, nature still takes care of us. The sight of returning home with a full load every day is probably my favorite time, so don't let me down, 'clean blood'."

"You didn't call me by my name." Lu Ning also smiled, "Then, I hope we won't see each other again, Mr. Hunter."

"You're wrong! You should be praying never to see you again! Hahaha!"

Shi Xiaolang laughed loudly, and then took a step to meet the returning hunters.Lu Ning walked in another direction. Before leaving, she turned her head and glanced at a short figure in the crowd.

"So that's how it is. This is the fact that you concealed... Mo Xiren."

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When the sun sank below the horizon, Lu Ning finally returned to the mountain village.Now it was meal time, and every household smoked from cooking, and there was no one on the road, even the children were called back to help.Lu Ning followed the ups and downs of the field to the door of the dungeon not far from a house, and quietly cut the iron chain that locked the outer door, but did not go down, but quickly moved to the next house.

For her, she has the basic knowledge of silent action and lurking, and following this will be foolproof for the unsuspecting villagers.

Soon, Lu Ning picked the locks of seven or eight dungeons. She didn't know where there were tourists, but at this time, she only needed to do the shotgun homework. The only thing she needed was to find the most important one.

The scene in front of her became more and more familiar, and Lu Ning's mood gradually became calm.

It should be.

The moon slowly climbed into the sky, and Lu Ning returned to her starting point.

There were two battered planks that made up the plank door, and it was fastened with finger-thick chains and a padlock, and nothing was different—except for the fact that she was standing outside.

"time……"

Lu Ning murmured in a low voice, took out a tool and cut off the chain.

It's much better than the previous violent break-in.

"...reset."

She opened the door lightly, and walked into the dimly lit underground cell.

——"You will die! I will kill you with my own hands!"

A familiar yell came, and the long-faced man still spewed anger into the opposite cell with the same anger as "last night", and the outermost part of the opposite cell was the person who was facing such scolding, she heard Lu Ning deliberately made the sound of footsteps, and raised her head.

"It's time for the appointment, Cheng Wuling."

Lu Ning smiled at the man and showed the pliers in her hand.

"Hope it's not too late."

"It's still early, and Ye Yi hasn't woken up yet. Considering the physical problems, why don't we wait a bit."

Cheng Wuling's face was still expressionless, Lu Ning approached the cell, and saw Zhao Chenshuang's proud smile, and Ning Yeyi, who was leaning against the wall of the dungeon and fell into a deep sleep.

"Then, let's make sure first, what's left in your memory?"

"Nothing, it's a complete reset." Cheng Wuling tilted her head, "But this is also a good thing, at least it won't cause confusion in the sense of time."

"I'm afraid this simple time trick can't disturb you at all? Also, don't think that I'm the only one who escaped from time."

Lu Ning gestured to the cell on the opposite corner.

"The four killers over there didn't come back either."

(End of this chapter)