secret dice.

Chapter 517: Human or ghost?

The sudden appearance of the figure was extremely fast, catching everyone off guard. Most of them didn't even have time to react and could only vaguely see a shadow!
But Luo Jun, who was standing at the front, saw it clearly!
That's a strange bird!

A strange bird that is bigger than a human, and it has no feathers on its body. It is bald and slippery, with only an outline similar to a bird!

Like the rough-modeled humanoid monster before, this one is also a chaotic creature!

But unlike the slow weirdo before, this one was extremely fast. Judging from the other people around him, they probably couldn't react in time.

Want to take action?

A ball of energy rose from Luo Jun's hand. At this moment, an old hand grabbed his wrist, pressed his energy back, then passed by him, as if to rush towards the strange bird!

Master!

Luo Jun was naturally aware of Master Yuan's strength, but he also had not forgotten the death that Xiao Min had seen. This strange bird was obviously not an ordinary monster. Would it be dangerous for the master to go up to deal with it?

Thinking of this, Luo Jun flipped his hand and grabbed Yuan Lao's wrist to prevent him from rushing out. With his other hand, he took out the magic wand that could build a wall.

He planned to use this thing to build a wall to stop the strange bird!

However, Old Yuan did not seem to intend to give him a chance. After realizing that he was being held by Luo Jun, Old Yuan twisted his wrist and suddenly a strange force was generated. Even though Luo Jun's wrist strength was much better than his, he was still able to slip his hand away. Old Yuan shook off Luo Jun and was about to move forward when he suddenly realized that a cold light flashed in the darkness ahead!
This cold light was faster than the strange bird. It actually caught up with the strange bird. Then it suddenly changed direction and pierced the strange bird horizontally. With a clang, it nailed the strange bird to the wall!
It turned out to be a sharp sword!
It is so sharp and domineering that it can even penetrate into the walls of a maze!
The strange bird was nailed by the sword, but it did not give up struggling. It exerted its semi-liquid properties like plasticine, and its body began to split into two halves along the sword edge, and it was about to break free.

But at this moment, a ray of lightning flashed from the black fog and hit the hilt of the sword. A dazzling arc flashed, and the strange bird began to twitch while entwining the sword. After a moment, the lightning dissipated, and the strange bird turned into a ball of charcoal and disintegrated, and a gold ingot rolled out.

Great!

Luo Jun secretly admired in his heart, whether it was the speed and accuracy of this sword, or the strength of the subsequent lightning strike, they were all first-class. The two abilities worked together seamlessly, and the effect of one plus one being greater than two was achieved!

"Wow! What happened?"

At this time, Sun Xiaowei and others finally reacted: "Why is there a sudden burst of lightning and thunder? What on earth is this..."

Before he finished his words, the sword shook slightly, then it was pulled out from the wall and flew backwards.

At the same time, a thin figure walked out from the dimness in the distance, caught the sword, and shook off the charcoal ash on it.

"Ling Jian?!" Everyone recognized the person who came. It was Ling Jian who had always acted alone!

"I didn't expect to meet you here!" Ma Qiao laughed, "You ran quite far, this place is more than 100 kilometers away from the origin, right?"

Ling Jian looked at the few people without saying anything. Suddenly, his face changed, he opened his mouth and coughed, and actually vomited blood.

"Are you injured?" Everyone hurried forward. Ling Jian waved his hand and said, "It's okay. I just encountered two of these monsters and suffered a little loss... I killed one and the other one ran away, so I chased it here."

"You are so amazing!" Sun Xiaowei handed over a bottle of healing potion and exclaimed: "These chaos monsters are very difficult to deal with. How could you deal with two by yourself?"

"It's just that it's immune to physical attacks." Ling Jian took the potion and drank it, his face looking better: "I can easily deal with it by switching to elemental power..."

"The lightning strike just now..." Elder Yuan looked at Ling Jian and said, "Boy, you are really from the Ling family, right?"

Ling Jian looked up at Mr. Yuan and nodded: "Do you know me?"

“You can’t say you know them.” Elder Yuan laughed and said, “The Ling family has many bloodlines. Ling Ao himself may not be able to recognize them all, let alone an outsider like me.”

"I really don't know the name Ling Jian, and I've never heard of a master of operations in the Ling family. But I have heard of a young man who refused to become a member of the Ling family."

Ling Jian frowned, and Elder Yuan continued, "I heard that because Ling Xin went to Ningdong to study and refused to obey the orders of the clan, the Ling family planned to recruit a young clan member. The first person chosen was a young man from the Element School. It is said that he is extremely talented and has multiple elemental talents. But for some reason, during the assessment, this young man rejected the invitation of the clan, on the grounds that his abilities were not yet perfect..."

"I don't know the specific process, but I know that in the end, the clan didn't force the young man to recruit. Instead, they chose another young man named Ling Yu. But that guy was impatient and not very competitive. He was killed in the previous recruitment mission, and because of the mission rules, he couldn't unlock the resurrection item. It's a pity that he gave up the spot just a few months after becoming a clan member."

At this point, Elder Yuan glanced at Ling Jian and said, "You are the young man who rejected the invitation from the royal family. You said you are a manipulator, but in fact, you should be an elementalist, right?"

Ling Jian sighed, "Old Yuan is indeed well-informed... But I didn't lie. I am indeed an elementalist, but I also have the ability of the control school... The reason why I rejected the royal family is also true. As an elementalist, I found that my melee and physical attack abilities are too weak, which is a shortcoming that is difficult to make up for by practicing the elemental school alone. But I really don't have the talent for fighting, so I can only settle for the second best and turn to studying the ability of the control school, and match it with treasures to improve my combat system."

As he spoke, Ling Jian threw the long sword in his hand into the air. Under his control, the long sword was like a swimming fish, tumbling up and down in the air, agile and free.

Everyone's eyes widened when they heard what he said.

What does it mean to switch to studying the abilities of the control faction? Generally, the talents of a cultivator faction are difficult to master, but you switch immediately, practicing the abilities of both factions, and mastering them to such a high level. How can this be justified?

"You are indeed a genius who can practice multiple elements at the same time." Seeing this sword-controlling technique, Elder Yuan nodded in admiration: "Compared to other factions, the internal classification of the Elemental School is the most numerous and the most complex. Although in essence, they all use Yuan Qi to simulate natural elements, because the properties of different elements are very different, most practitioners of the Elemental School can only specialize in one system. Those who can practice multiple elements at the same time are all geniuses with a very thorough understanding of Yuan Qi. This cannot be achieved through acquired efforts, but is an innate feeling and talent!"

"Thank you for your compliment, senior." Ling Jian said modestly.

"Whatever talent it is, now that you have met it, join us in the action." Ma Qiao said with a smile: "We have already found a lot of clues, and we have enough supplies. This time we have two more gold ingots."

"Gold ingots?" Ling Jian was slightly stunned. "You don't know yet?" Sun Xiaowei controlled Xiao Hei to walk over and pick up the gold ingots on the ground: "Killing this kind of chaos monster will drop gold ingots, which can be exchanged for treasures in the black shop. Didn't you kill one before? Didn't you see it?"

"I didn't notice..." Ling Jian shook his head.

"How could you not notice this glittering gold?" Ma Qiao curled his lips: "After all, he is the son of a big family, with a rich family background, and he regards money as dirt."

"It's okay, the gold ingot can't get away." Luo Jun came up, raised his hand and patted Ling Jian on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "Since you can chase all the way here, it means that the place where you killed the monster before is not far away, right? Take us to see it, can't we pick it up?"

Ling Jian nodded: "Okay, follow me."

The group followed Ling Jian forward, and after turning a few corners, they came to a T-junction.

"It's right here..." Ling Jian said, pointing at a patch of charred debris on the ground.

"Just now I walked here and saw the strange bird. I was confronting it when I was suddenly attacked from behind by a monster. I immediately fought back with fire and thunderbolt and smashed the guy into pieces. This is the wreckage."

As he said this, he used his sword to dig through the pile of dregs, and indeed there were no gold ingots inside.

"That's weird..." Sun Xiaowei frowned and said, "We shot it, and the strange bird just now, we obviously have it all."

"Could it be that there are not two monsters?" Mao Xintong analyzed, "This monster is very changeable, maybe it can split into two. Its original body attracts your attention, and it uses its own split to attack you. In fact, from beginning to end, there is only one monster, the strange bird?"

Ling Jian nodded: "It is possible..."

"This monster is really cunning and hard to deal with!" Luo Jun touched his chin and said, "Anyway, I've earned a gold ingot. Brother Ling Jian is injured, so we won't be in a hurry to continue exploring. Let's take a rest for a while."

"It's okay." Ling Jian waved his hand: "After drinking the potion, my injuries are almost healed. There's no need to accommodate me..."

Before he could finish his words, his stomach suddenly growled...

Luo Jun laughed and took out a portion of food: "Even if the injury is not serious, you can't explore on an empty stomach. There are many dangers in this maze, and you can't fight a battle unprepared."

Ling Jian sighed, took the food handed over by Luo Jun, nodded: "Thank you, then sat in the corner and started eating."

Everyone continued to rest in the same place. Luo Jun stared at Ling Jian who was eating not far away, muttering in a low voice: "This is a human..."

As he spoke, he looked at Li Ying who was chatting with others not far away.

"Not this one……"

Luo Jun narrowed his eyes.

When he patted Ling Jian's shoulder just now, he actually used the Heaven's Secret dice to make a judgment in his mind: "I patted the real Ling Jian."

The result was an event with only a little difficulty, which was easily successful. This showed that Ling Jian was real, and the difficulty was probably due to his hand slipping and missing the target.

When Li Ying appeared, Luo Jun also patted him on the shoulder and made the same judgment at that time, but the result was "inevitable event"!
When Luo Jun saw this result, he was just skeptical and could not make a firm decision. After all, it seemed that Li Ying was right in front of him and he could take a picture of him with just his hand. If this inevitable event meant that he would definitely be able to take the picture, then he would be wrongly accusing a good person.

But now, with Ling Jian as a control group, Luo Jun finally confirmed that the inevitable event at that time meant inevitable failure!
When Li Ying reappeared, his personality and behavior were somewhat different from when he first entered the maze. Although this could be explained by him being frightened by the monster, Luo Jun had just read the diary, and during Zhuge Qian's round, there was a girl named Aliang, whose experience was almost exactly the same as what Li Ying described, which made Luo Jun suspicious.

Of course, if these were the only clues, they would not be enough to explain anything. What really made Luo Jun wary of Li Ying was the process of his narration.

He and Zheng Yu encountered a monster. When long-range attacks failed, Zheng Yu rushed forward and was swallowed. Li Ying took advantage of the chaos to escape...

This story doesn't make sense because when they first introduced themselves, Luo Jun clearly remembered that Zheng Yu was an elementalist and Li Ying was a fighting person.

When encountering monsters, shouldn't the fighting faction take the lead, with the elemental faction providing output in the back?
Even if Li Ying was frightened and didn't dare to go up, they should have run away together. It doesn't make sense for Zheng Yu, a fragile mage, to go up and fight head-on, right?
Therefore, Luo Jun suspected that this story was fabricated.

And now it's finally confirmed. Luo Jun stared at Li Ying, who seemed to be something unknown, with murderous intent in his eyes.

"What's the matter?" Elder Yuan sat next to Luo Jun: "Why did you secretly call me over here?"

"Master, I still suspect that there is something wrong with Li Ying."

When Li Ying came back a few days ago, Yuan Lao also noticed that Luo Jun was always staring at him, and secretly asked him the reason. Of course, Luo Jun couldn't tell him the result of the dice verification, so he could only use Li Ying's various unnatural things as arguments. After hearing this, Yuan Lao also thought it made sense, and secretly used the treasure to test him. The result proved that Li Ying's identity was not a problem.

Of course, his identity was fine, and it was possible that he was brainwashed or mentally controlled, so Yuan Lao had been on guard against Li Ying these days. But the problem was that when Li Ying talked about the past, his memory and logic were very clear. And as they spent the past few days together, his unnatural state at the beginning disappeared, and his communication with others became more and more normal, and even his mercenary and smooth spirit was restored, with no flaws at all.

"I understand your concerns... but in my opinion, there is nothing wrong with Li Ying. His unnatural behavior that day was just because he was scared." Old Yuan shook his head and said, "As for the unreasonableness of that story, people can do anything absurd when they are in a desperate situation. Taking a step back, even if Li Ying really lied, the truth is that he abandoned Zheng Yu and ran away alone. It is human nature to want to cover up such a disgraceful behavior..."

Luo Jun frowned. What Mr. Yuan said made sense, and this was exactly the most troublesome thing.

Now, except for the Tianji dice, all other signs indicate that there is no problem with Li Ying.

But Luo Jun knew that the dice's judgment would not be wrong!
The key is how to make Mr. Yuan believe it!
(End of this chapter)