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There was no blood, only half a scream.

The ferocious attack suddenly came behind us, making it impossible for everyone to react.But when everyone was startled by the half-scream and turned around suddenly, they were immediately overwhelmed by what they saw, and could only stand there like a statue.

In fact, a statue actually appeared before our eyes, not a metaphor, but a fact.The appearance of this statue is both weird and ferocious, which makes people feel chills down their spines and tremble with fear.Because, everyone knew that this statue was the one who had just let out a half-scream—a warrior from the Ilias tribe.

The formation of the statue does not end abruptly, although it is swift, it is still visible to the naked eye.Everyone clearly saw the whole process, first the shoulders, then the chest, and then spread to the head and limbs, until finally turned into a khaki stone sculpture.This situation undoubtedly explained the reason why the screams were only half-voiced, and at the same time increased the fear in everyone's hearts.

We've had an attack!

Everyone understood this after being stunned in horror, but the muzzles of those raised guns didn't know where to point.We can't find the enemy.There is nothing in the passage behind us except for this statue that has just been transformed from a living person in front of us.

I had to find an explanation for the strange phenomenon in front of me, not only for myself, but also for everyone around me.Otherwise, our team will surely fall apart in a panic.Ironically, at such a tense moment, the first answer that popped into my mind was Medusa, the witch in Greek mythology.

witch?

Maybe it was because Jiu'er, who was always in my mind, was mixed with the petrification phenomenon I saw with my own eyes, so that I subconsciously drew her together with the legendary Gorgon.However, I am very clear.This is not a reasonable explanation, there is nothing around us that can be related to snake hair.The passage in sight is the same as when we came in. There are no living things at all, only the same earthy yellow things, the ground, walls, statues, murals...

etc!mural!

My eyes widened suddenly, and I fixed my gaze on the mural.The dark red light made everything in front of him look extremely dim.The horrifying changes just presented before my eyes made people unable to help but be shocked, so for a while, I didn't notice any changes in the murals on the side of the statue.

In the mural, a hand stretched out.

Yes, that is a hand.The color is earthy yellow, almost blending with the surrounding space, and it is extremely inconspicuous under the dark red light.The palm of the hand is hidden behind the statue, and the part above the elbow is suspended in mid-air.Until it is connected to the shoulders of the figures in the murals.

That's the culprit!

I was very sure of this in my heart, so Ma Shan raised his rifle and pulled the trigger towards the mural.The scorching bullet flew out of the muzzle with crimson flames, and the eyes of the man in the painting opened suddenly at this moment, bursting out with a crimson color just like the flames.

"Da-da-da! Da-da-da!"

Fierce gunshots suddenly sounded around, like a sudden storm.Driven by me, the bewildered people poured bullets at the mural, although they didn't know the reason for doing so at first.However, the change in the mural quickly made them understand, and the rhythm of the shooting also changed from a messy one venting fear to a gradually stable one.Unfortunately.Our attacks had little effect.

The characters in the mural did not stop their activities because of the bite of the bullets, but moved more and more intensely.The movement is also more and more flexible.Not only the figure with his arm behind the statue, but also the figure opposite him in the frame started to move after a few seconds, as if our bullets had awakened them.There was a constant crackling of rock breaking, some from our bullets, but more from the mural itself.Gravels of different sizes kept falling from the murals.Aroused a piece of smoke and dust.The characters in the mural writhed their limbs crazily in the smoke and dust, as if they were engaged in some kind of violent struggle.

Suddenly, a muffled sound rang in my ears, and a figure in the mural suddenly broke free from the shackles of the rock wall, and jumped down from the wall with the splashing gravel.Immediately afterwards.The figure opposite him in the painting also broke free from the rock wall and landed on the ground with a "bang".

At this moment, the originally fierce gunfire seemed to be shattered by those two muffled sounds. It was messy at first, and then stopped abruptly.Everyone was so startled by the two stone men jumping out of the mural that their limbs became stiff, and they couldn't help but stood there dumbfounded.

In fact, calling them "stone men" is not correct, or at least half correct.The bodies of these two "stone men" are very strange.If you connect their noses and navels with a line, and use this as the center line, then their bodies are neatly divided into two completely different parts.The part that was originally facing the outside of the mural was stone, and the part that was originally embedded in the wall was a half-skeleton, like the kind of medical mannequin used to display bones and muscles.Only, what they show is bone and stone.

Since the two figures are standing facing each other in the original picture, their strange bodies after jumping out of the mural are correspondingly opposite, just like mirror images.I don't know if the part of their bodies that are now stones originally had flesh and blood. From the gaps in the gray-white bones, I can only see some lumps of black matter, and I can't tell whether it is flesh or internal organs.However, these black substances made me understand one very important thing, that is, their stone bodies are just a layer of shell. Although it seems to be at least four or five centimeters thick, if the firepower is strong, it may not be Can not be broken.

"Whoa!"

There was a sudden explosion, and the broken stones splashed everywhere.What is terrifying is that not only smoke and dust flew out together with these stones, but also scarlet blood and minced meat.No one expected that the two stone monsters jumping out of the mural did not regard us as the first target of attack, but fiercely swung their fists, smashing the sculpture of the Ilias warrior first. .

The red flesh and blood tightly adhered to the stone flakes and fell to the ground. A large amount of blood and internal organs quickly flowed out from the broken sculpture body, with a trace of heat steaming faintly. It looked cruel, bloody, and full of monsters.The pungent stench penetrated into our nostrils in an instant, arousing everyone's blood while raising our brows.The body frightened by fear suddenly broke away from its stiffness under this stimulation, and the fierce gunshots exploded under the dome again.

There is no doubt that the bullet of vengeance is always more vicious.Besides, our group of people is more or less experienced in fighting skeletons.So, from the moment the attack started, almost all the bullets without exception rushed towards the skeletons of the two mural stone monsters.The two opposing skeletons, which were like mirror images, couldn't resist the torrent of steel, and were torn to pieces in a very short period of time, scattered everywhere.

"Bang!" "Bang!"

Two muffled bangs sounded one after another, and the intense gunshots died down, replaced by a gasp that implied the pleasure of revenge.No matter how weird the appearance of the two mural stone monsters is, they are still human figures standing on two legs.Therefore, after everyone's bullets tore up those bones, the monster with only half of its body could only crash to the ground.No matter how cruel their ability to turn living people into statues is, the monsters that fell on the ground could only wave their arms in vain and roar silently, like a tiger whose teeth had been pulled out.

Everyone's eyes locked on the ground in unison, nervously observing the still struggling stone monster.Since the previous experience in Sand Bandit's lair was really unforgettable, when facing the skeleton again, everyone was worried that the "recovery" situation would repeat itself before their eyes.Fortunately, the mural stone monster in front of him obviously has nothing to do with the skeleton in the sand robber's lair.Although they were still struggling on the ground with teeth and claws, making one's scalp tingle, but the broken bones showed no signs of "recovery".

Seeing this, everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.After a brief discussion, everyone picked up their guns again and attacked the stone monster still writhing on the ground.For a time, the crisp sound of metal and rock colliding resounded everywhere, like a noisy percussion music; dazzling sparks and broken rocks splashed continuously, like a weird fireworks.The thick rock shell is extremely solid. With such strong firepower in our hands, we can't completely wipe out these two mural stone monsters in a short period of time.However, no matter how hard a rock is, it can't resist the concentrated shooting of bullets.As the stone shells continue to shatter, the struggle of the stone monsters is slowly exhausting. As long as the attack continues, they will definitely not be able to escape the fate of being broken and dying.

It's a pity that the sky doesn't follow people's wishes.Just as we were trying our best to hit the two stone monsters on the ground, there was a sudden sound of footsteps in the passage in front of us.This burst of footsteps was very strange, sometimes as heavy as a drum, and sometimes as quiet as silent.The only thing that is certain is that the footsteps are rapidly approaching us.

I hurriedly raised my head to look at the passage, and then I was instantly swept over by a feeling like thousands of needles being pricked.I saw countless strange figures rapidly approaching us in the dark red light, like an army from hell.The thing I was most worried about happened. The mural stone monsters that can move are really more than the two in front of me! (To be continued..)