Returning from the abyss

Chapter 138 Blood Loss
This morning, a burly villager walked to his underground cell with a bucket of porridge to deliver food to the "blood bags".

The dirty blood ceremony does not need to be performed multiple times in a short period of time. Generally speaking, the blood exchanged once is enough to maintain youth for six or seven years.It's just that the feature of immortality keeps the population growing, and the demand for blood is also increasing. The villagers must also reserve a certain amount of emergency blood bags.

Soon, the villager ran out in a panic.

The dungeon is almost empty.

This has never happened before. Among the captured people, there are many clever ones who can escape. If there are only one or two, the villagers will give up if they can't find it for two days. Shan, they can tolerate this loss.

But now that all the "blood bags" are gone, how can this not make them panic?

Soon, the news spread throughout the village. Even if these isolated villagers were hundreds of years old, their poor brains could not think about what happened.Perhaps only a few patriarchs who knew the inside story probably knew something else, but they also had no idea about time reset.

All they could guess was the fact that "the man had already run away", and then they assembled a team, yelling and cursing while searching the surrounding forests.

But the tourists are not vegetarians. If confrontation is difficult, they will not lack people who are good at making traps. The individual suffered minor injuries on the mountain road.

"Let's invite hunters! This time it's not a simple escape! So many people disappeared at the same time!"

Several patriarchs gathered together to discuss.

"This is something that has never happened before."

The patriarch surnamed Wu looked serious.

"Some wounded have been brought home. These people seem to have experienced some training, but are there so many people with this quality from outside the mountain? Also, the doors and locks of the cells have not been damaged , how did they escape?"

"The most important thing now is to catch people back! There is not enough blood left in the village, and at least one fifth of them will age in half a year if this continues!"

"The hunters have to pay for their blood too! Our losses are heavy with such a large amount!"

"Then discuss it with them... This time the reward will be slightly reduced. After all, they are also from the village. We must help with such an unprecedented thing!"

"The people in the village?" Patriarch Wu sneered, "They have already drawn a boundary line with the village. Since the No.20 five hunters were taken away six years ago, no hunter has ever set foot in the village."

"But our people have gained nothing so far!"

The disputes continued endlessly, and even the villagers could not guarantee the same opinion in the face of such emergencies. They were not good at going into the mountains to catch people, especially in the deep mountains where the villagers did not want to set foot.Only hunters dare to go to those places, but few people are willing to pay such a large amount of blood for them to catch people.

"Anyway, keep an eye on the remaining blood first. It hasn't been long, maybe there will be good news."

This is the result of the final compromise.

There will be no good news, however.

After noon, in the afternoon, news of someone missing came back to the village.

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Cheng Wuling and Shu Xingruo looked left and right, and Ye Tisi put the pig mask on the face of a struggling villager.

"He's screaming?" Shu Xingruo frowned, she had no extra sympathy for the enemy, she just asked Cheng Wuling to prove a fact.

"Because of fear, not because of the influence of the mask." Cheng Wuling easily discerned the emotion in the villager's shout, "If the mask doesn't change the mind, then we can try it a little bit."

Yetisi slowly let go of her hand, the pig's face had grown on the villager's face, and his shouting gradually died down.

"You can hear us. Now you answer what I ask. If you tell a lie, I will cut off one of your fingers. After cutting off your fingers, you will cut off your toes. Anyway, you can grow back, and I can chop off in a circle." Cheng Wuling spoke terrifying words coldly, walked to the side of the villager who was tied to the table, and put the dagger on his finger.

"I, I don't know anything—ahhhhh!"

With just a slight movement of Cheng Wuling's hand, the hunter's usual dagger easily cut off one of his fingers.

"I haven't asked yet, so don't rush to answer."

She placed the dagger above the second finger, at an angle that the villagers could even tilt their heads slightly to see.

"Do you remember who you are?"

"I, my name is Wu Dazhuang, I'm from the Wu family in the village, I, I'm here to catch the escaped blood bag..."

Before he finished speaking, his voice turned into a scream again.

"I advise you to think carefully about what you call us before you speak."

"You! You! We want to catch everyone who escaped! I say! My patriarch is..."

"I haven't asked yet."

"Yes Yes……"

Shu Xingruo and Ye Tisi stood not far away, quietly watching Cheng Wuling implant fear into the villager's heart.

Facts have proved that when the attribute of immortality falls into the hands of the enemy, it will only increase the pain.

It took Cheng Wuling an hour and a half to cut off a total of 22 fingers and toes of the villager, and finally used a bloody dagger to peel off the pig mask from the villager's head in a very sharp and rough way.The severe pain caused him to faint directly, and then he was woken up by a bucket of sticky blood plasma - in the previous torture, Cheng Wuling also found a bucket to collect all the blood he bleed out.

"Forgive me, please forgive me... I have said everything I should say..."

"You just said what I asked, but I haven't finished asking, don't worry."

The cruel and ruthless voice, almost like that of an executioner, made the villager on the verge of collapse.

And Cheng Wuling stopped here just right, put the barrel back to his feet that had started to grow, and gestured to the other two people in the room, and the three left the room.

"His sanity is still clear, and he even has time to chat with me about some things. Pig face should not affect people's normal thinking, so we can use it. However, the side effects are still unclear, and there are still certain dangers. Are you sure you want to try?" she asked Shu Xingruo.

"Everyone of you is accumulating strength now, and I can't fall behind. You, Lu Ning, and Ye Yi and Zhao Chenshuang, at least the four of you have found the 'method', right? I'm only a little educated, and all I can think of is this Pig mask." Shu Xingruo said with a smile.

"There is still danger." Yetisi said worriedly, "The pig mask may provide some support, but the more problem is whether its harm will be long-term... If it is not for our lack of cards, I do not recommend trying it." .”

"It's a big deal to learn from Yeyi." Shu Xingruo said, "Even as an experiment, we should consider the order of priorities, right? Cheng Wuling, you actually want to do this experiment, right?"

"I don't want my teammates to take this risk." Cheng Wuling retorted, "If I'm really asked to do it, just grab a tourist at random, force or trick him, or let him try wearing a mask. Having a plan doesn't put your teammates at risk of the unknown."

"But you respect your teammates' decisions, don't you? Also..."

Shu Xingruo lowered his head and whispered in Cheng Wuling's ear.

"...You also have to change your temperament of not being a person outside of this teammate. This is why you have made too many enemies."

"Thanks for the reminder, I will try my best."

After hearing this sentence, Shu Xingruo felt that the implication was "I know, I won't change", so she could only smile helplessly.Not far away, there were some noises in the bamboo forest ahead.

Lu Ning is practicing in this bamboo forest.

Several wounds on her body are healing at an accelerated rate, while the coagulated blood on the outside is under the guidance of the "catalyst" and is under control. In fact, the basic requirements of "Blood Art" are extremely simple. A fixed art can be activated through blood and a catalyst, and the difference in the catalyst corresponds to the difference in the art.

"How was the test?" Shu Xingruo asked from a distance that would not disturb her.

"Now I know what these four catalysts correspond to. First of all, the white ointment corresponds to self-healing. It is a technique that can accelerate wound healing and even regenerate organs by absorbing nutrients in the blood. A small injury like mine directly activates the body. The power of blood is enough, but if the injury is serious, external blood supply is required. The green ointment is an active skin, which converts the surface layer of the skin into an absorber that directly absorbs various energies such as light energy for a concentrated burst of use. The powders are for weapons—the blue ones would be lightning, the lavender ones poison."

Lu Ning raised the curved dagger and wiped the wound on the side of the dagger, and a faint purple mist suddenly formed on it.

"Sounds like you've got a good handle on it."

"So the catalyst in the form of paste should be used on oneself, and the catalyst in powder form should be used as a weapon. In addition, the blood technique has the biggest feature, which I just discovered."

"what?"

"It should have no effect on the 'homogeneous' blood type used. For example, the toxin on this has no effect on me, because it is my blood."

Lu Ning turned the dagger and retracted it to her waist.

"Is this how you feel?" Cheng Wuling asked.

"Let's just say, this type of technique will feel a little bit when you learn it..."

"Let's verify it just to be on the safe side."

Cheng Wuling tilted her head.

The conditions for performing the blood technique are very simple, and Lu Ning doesn't necessarily need her own blood—then Cheng Wuling can prepare a lot of materials during this period.

Like that poor villager.

These guys clamoring for blood bags can now be considered to have tasted the pain they inflicted on others.A merciless person like Cheng Wuling naturally didn't care about taking two buckets of blood to experiment with Lu Ning.On the other hand, Chu Jianting, Zhu Hongye, Mo Lianren, and Tu Men were also on the mountain waiting for an opportunity to catch the lonely villagers back. This matter was not particularly conspicuous among the many players lurking on the mountain for revenge, so there were two more in the afternoon. A villager who was tied up and couldn't move was sent to the front of the hunter's hut.

And seeing the two companions coming, the Wu Dazhuang who was arrested first actually showed a relieved expression, as if the hand that was cut off didn't hurt so much anymore.

"You're pretty smart. With those two sharing it, your pain will probably end here."

Cheng Wuling lowered her head slightly so that Wu Dazhuang could see her face.

That was probably the gentlest smile he had ever seen in his life.

(End of this chapter)