ghost market

A red light broke through the air, flying straight forward like lightning.At that moment, the entire child's time and space seemed to be in a very strange state, and it began to become sticky.

Everything starts in an instant and ends in an instant.But in my eyes, every trace of change around me is extremely clear, like a series of continuous static pictures.

I saw that the dagger was detached from my hand, and the sacred tablet tied to the handle was thrown backward by the force of the forward rush, dragging behind the dagger like a tail.The red light originally wrapped around my right hand flew out with the short knife, forming a spiral light band around the blade.The short knife moved forward straight, and the black hair bundles it passed were all smashed by this circle of red light, like a rapidly forming vortex.I felt that my senses extended along the red light, and the dagger flying in mid-air seemed to become a part of me.I can't control it, but I can touch it, hear it, see it.I felt the resistance and friction of the air, as if I was flying in the air at an extremely fast speed.I felt the hardness and elasticity of the hair, as if I was tearing them apart with my body.Then, I saw Jiu'er.

Her figure is constantly zooming in.Full body, upper body, face, forehead, blood.

Time stopped suddenly.The surrounding air no longer flows, the teammates in mid-air no longer struggle, and the entangled hair no longer twists.

In the next second, a miracle happened.

With a crisp sound of "pop", the black hair strands that almost filled the entire room suddenly collapsed and shattered into a black powder in an instant.The people who were held up in the air by the bundles of hair immediately fell down, and fell to the ground amidst the groans of pain one after another.In the distance, another body fell to the ground, silently.

That's Jiu'er.

On her forehead was the dagger I projected, and her eyes were staring.My whole body was stiff.She fell backwards straight, until she fell to the ground without making any sound.Those incomparably long black hair were broken from her body, and slowly fell on her body like a sacrifice.Afterwards, the black powder began to corrode her clothes, and Jiu'er's body also began to shrink rapidly at this moment, when everyone stood up from the ground one after another.She has turned into a white stone statue only twenty centimeters in size, lying quietly in a piece of black powder.

The battle ended like this, and it was so abrupt that people were a little at a loss.Everyone was stunned for a while before recovering their basic mobility, but they still didn't know how to speak, so they kept silent.

I raised my legs and walked towards Jiu'er, who had turned into a stone statue, intending to get back the dagger and the holy tablet, and take a look at the condition of the statue by the way.However, Ruan Yu, who was closest to the statue, had already walked to the side of the statue, and she looked down.Then, he grasped the handle of the knife as if he was going to draw it out.The moment she held the dagger, Jiu'er's statue suddenly shattered, turning into a pile of white fragments in the blink of an eye.

I hurried over and squatted down, just about to take a closer look at the fragments, but unexpectedly, the black powder surrounding the fragments suddenly moved, as if being swept by an invisible wind, and quickly scattered around.I was taken aback.As soon as I pulled Ruan Yu, I backed away, only to find that the active powder was not the only one in front of us.Instead, the black powder in the whole room became active.

The sudden change immediately caused everyone to panic. Everyone quickly raised their weapons and looked around, but found nothing.After tense vigilance for a while, there was still no dangerous thing around us, but the black powder disappeared after moving to the corner.

I breathed a sigh of relief, but I still didn't want to stay in this weird place any longer.So he yelled to his teammates a few times, and then pulled Ruan Yu up to get out of the room.As soon as I turned around, I couldn't help being taken aback.I found that Ruan Yu's expression was very strange. Not only did she look a little dazed, but there was a trace of tears in the corner of her eyes.

I shook her slightly.calling her name.Ruan Yu suddenly regained her senses when she heard the sound, and then looked around in a daze, as if she didn't know what happened at all.I was puzzled, so I asked her about the situation.But Ruan Yu frowned and thought for a long time, but in the end she couldn't say anything specific, she just shook her head and said "it's okay", and then stopped talking.I looked at her seriously, but didn't find anything dangerous about her. I thought it was not suitable to stay here for a long time, so I temporarily suppressed my doubts and dragged her towards the exit.

Stepping through the weird door to the outside room, I first ran to my godfather to check his situation.The godfather is still in a coma, but the bandaged wound on his chest is no longer oozing blood, and his breathing has also stabilized. It seems that there is nothing serious.When I saw this, I didn't delay anymore, I reached out and hugged my godfather, and then I wanted to take everyone out of the room.

At this moment, Xiaoqian suddenly stopped, pointed to the hexagonal platform beside her, and said, "Big wood, I want to try this."

I knew she was referring to the pebble ball suspected to be the "Sage's Stone", but the others didn't understand what she meant, so they couldn't help looking at her with doubts.When I saw this, I briefly described what Xiaoqian and I discovered to everyone, and at the same time took the opportunity to discuss a few words with everyone to discuss whether we should make this attempt.

Everyone's opinions were very unified, and they all felt that it should be tried, but the reasons were different.Uncle Carter has an extraordinary obsession with the holy language, seeing this opportunity for Xiaoqian to further understand the holy language, he is naturally unwilling to let it go.Ruan Yu and Yan Daojie think that the "Sage's Stone" that can store a lot of information is very likely to contain the secrets of this ancient city. If the stone ball in front of us is such a thing, it will be very important for us to escape from here. Definitely helps a lot.After all, there are a group of mural stone monsters roaming the bottom of this spiral tower, and we haven't been able to find a way to restrain them so far. Making this attempt may help us solve this problem.

These reasons do contain many elements that we cannot resist, so it is imperative to make this attempt.However, we unexpectedly disagreed on who to execute.Among all the people present, only Ruan Yu, Xiaoqian and I could make this attempt.I originally thought that this somewhat dangerous thing should be done by me, but unexpectedly, it was unanimously opposed by everyone.

Yan Daojie and others believe that I am the team leader and the strongest fighting force in the team. If this stone ball does not help us escape from here, and if something happens to me, then for me Our subsequent actions must have enormous consequences, so it shouldn't be up to me to try.In addition to approving this idea, Uncle Carter also put forward another opinion.That is, Xiaoqian's understanding of holy words is much higher than mine, and the effect that she can achieve in this attempt is likely to be more effective than my attempt.Obviously, the opinion put forward by Uncle Carter has a decisive effect, and the candidate for execution has also been determined.

Everyone quickly surrounded the platform and made preparations. In addition to guarding against possible enemies, they must also be prepared to cut off Xiaoqian's contact with the stone ball immediately if something happens.According to the situation we encountered last time, as long as this contact is stopped, Xiaoqian should not be in any danger.Of course, this is also the most fundamental reason why I can agree to let her try.If I felt that such an action would be life-threatening, then I would certainly not allow anyone to carry it out.

Xiaoqian stood in front of the platform and took a deep breath, then stretched out her palm and gently pressed it on the pebble ball.Suddenly, a red light burst out from the top of the boulder ball, and then quickly circled down the stone ball like a sliding snake, and finally disappeared at the bottom of the stone ball.The place where the red light passed immediately lit up, and a red film of light quickly appeared on the surface of the pebble ball.Immediately afterwards, countless large and small silver runes emerged on the light film.They are like fish swimming in the water, constantly sliding on the spherical light film. The color changes from thick to light, and the size changes from big to small, which looks amazing.

The strange change made everyone around the platform show a little joy. The state of this cobblestone ball is very consistent with the description that Uncle Carter has seen in ancient books. It must be the kind of "Sage's Stone" "undoubtedly.Only Xiaoqian's expression did not change because of this strange phenomenon, but looked a little numb.Her eyes were fixed on the surface of the pebble sphere, as if she had some connection with it.I looked at her worriedly, and found that there was no sign of danger in her expression, so I relaxed a little and waited quietly for the final result.

We didn't wait long, or in other words, the waiting time was much shorter than we imagined, and it even made people feel a little caught off guard.Maybe five seconds, maybe even less.It seemed that before I could take my eyes off Xiaoqian's face, her expression suddenly returned to normal, and the pebble ball with the runes flashing on it suddenly lost all its light and became It became a black stone ball.

"Clap!"

A light sound suddenly came from the table, which immediately caught my attention.I turned my gaze hastily, and was immediately stunned by what I saw in my eyes.

That's... the Holy Card!

The piece of holy card that was snatched by blood gangsters appeared in front of my eyes inexplicably, and immediately dragged me into great confusion.However, I didn't know at the time that this lost holy card brought more than just confusion.The fear that penetrates the bone marrow is quietly approaching me following the footsteps of confusion. (to be continued..)