Kyushu · Endless Nagato

Chapter 28
——Their skin and flesh began to corrode quickly, and it was different from the corrosion that slowly eroded through the skin and flesh to expose the bones. The toxicity of this blue venom seemed to be several times stronger, and the body of the poisoned person seemed to be thrown into the water Like a sugar man, it melted and deformed at an incredible speed, almost turning into a pool of blood and pus in the blink of an eye.When the corpse servants were completely melted by the venom, their masters also disappeared permanently.

Almost at the same moment, other corpse servants also rushed down the earth platform and started to attack the corpse dancers.It was only at this time that people really realized how unfathomable Xumizi's skill was: these fifty corpse servants could be divided into several teams and use different attack methods to attack the enemy.Except for Xuanyuan Wuxin and Tan Xiao, who were originally used as poison sacs, some corpse servants have a body of steel and iron and great strength, and can fight with bare hands; some corpse servants have agility and pure moves, and can use weapons Injure people; the rest use spiritual resonance to cast secret techniques, while providing assistance to other corpse servants, they can also directly kill and injure the enemy.

Facing this sudden and powerful attack, the corpse dancers were a little at a loss. As soon as they came up, several people were killed or injured, and dozens of corpse servants were damaged.But after all, these corpse dancers have been trained in various harsh and extreme environments. After the initial panic, they immediately stabilized their positions and began to counterattack.Although their individual strength is far inferior to Xumizi's, but after all, there are so many people, hundreds of corpse servants rushed over like a tide, and quickly reversed the disadvantages and gained the upper hand. Xumizi's corpse servants began to be restrained gradually, not only All of them were wounded, and three of them had been completely destroyed.

But Xu Mizi obviously didn't care.Xue Huaiqing guessed right, for him, losing Jiang Qinyin was a much heavier blow than he imagined.He was originally a monster with an unruly personality and who acted according to his will, but now he was so mad that he didn't want to think about the consequences at all. All he thought about in his mind was killing fiercely and venting fiercely.

"You all make funeral objects for her!" He shouted viciously.

Only Xue Huaiqing and An Xingmian knew who the "she" he was referring to was, they originally planned to get close to Xu Mizi, so when he started to kill, they didn't retreat, they just mixed in the crowd, still with each other Sumiko kept a relatively close distance.Fortunately, An Xingmian is a living person, and Xue Huaiqing only brought a corpse servant, so it would be convenient for him to dodge.

The corpse dancers were completely enraged.Although none of them are willing to take the initiative to provoke such a powerful enemy as Xu Mizi, they will never let others bully them.Xu Mizi's insolent words and deeds before had made them furious, and now that they have made a move, there is no need to leave any retreat.The stronger corpse dancers all took the initiative to go forward to fight, and those who knew they were weaker also quickly set up encirclement circles around the periphery.It seems that they are determined, no matter how much they pay, they must completely abolish Xu Mizi on the spot today, and solve a serious problem for everyone.

There was no shouting, no shouting, no exciting speeches, and no commanding. The corpse dancers performed their respective missions silently. The corpse servants were like their arms, and the venue was quickly surrounded by water.

This was a fierce battle that An Xingmian had never heard of.The living people stood at the far end, directing countless dead people to run and strike. This was a bit like a scene from a nightmare, but the scene looked as if it should be so.Of course, this scene looked much bloodier than a normal battle, because the corpse servants didn't know fatigue or pain.They won't even grunt when their arms have been chopped off, or their faces have been mutilated with venom.Unless they are completely damaged or abandoned by their masters, they will continue to fight even if all limbs are broken.

Xu Mizi fully demonstrated his strength at this moment.Although he only has more than forty corpse servants in his hand, there are hundreds of enemies to face, but these more than 40 corpse servants cooperate closely with each other, have a degree of attack and defense, and a tight formation. opponent's combat power.Under the control of his corpse dance technique, although these corpse servants faced the enemy's surging attack round after round, they were never defeated. On the contrary, more and more walking corpses fell from the opponent.

However, after all, there is a disparity between the few and the few.After the blood and flesh flew all over the place, the number of Xumizi's corpse servants became smaller and smaller, and the corresponding support for each other became weaker and weaker, while the other corpse dancers had a steady stream of corpse servants to supplement them.This is destined to be a battle with heavy losses, but it is also destined to be a battle with clear winners and losers.Sumeru is not a god, maybe he can defeat five, ten, or even twenty or thirty corpse dancers at the same time, but when facing hundreds of angry enemies, failure is only a matter of time.But he didn't flinch, didn't give in, and still urged the corpse dancer with all his strength, commanding his corpse servants to fight.

"He seems to want to send his life here." An Xingmian frowned, "A person who is smart enough should not do such a thing."

"I also think so," Xue Huaiqing was also a little puzzled, "He and my master love each other, but I don't think it's enough to die for love. If my master died, he would abandon himself and go underground. I'm afraid we Master himself will never believe it."

"You really look like a love expert," An Xingmian smiled, and then said seriously, "We should go."

"Go? Why?" Xue Huaiqing said, "I'm still wondering if we can find a way to rescue Xu Mizi. If he dies, there will be no answers to the questions we wanted to ask."

"In my opinion, he doesn't need us to save him," An Xingmian said. "If he is neither a saccharine, nor a reckless fool, then he must have stayed behind, very badly. We It might be dangerous to stay here."

Xue Huaiqing thought for a moment, then nodded: "You are right. I will listen to you."

Taking advantage of the chaos, the two retreated quietly. The corpse dancers were all focused on the battle situation, and no one noticed Xue Huaiqing, an insignificant person, and her two corpse servants.The two retreated to the edge of the Ten Thousand Snake Pool in one breath, jumped onto a tree, and watched the battle from a distance from the top of the tree.Among the crowds of people, they could barely see that Xumizi's corpse servants were less than half left, and they had already shrunk into a small circle. The outside was tightly surrounded by layers, and it was impossible to break through and escape.

"It's really hard for me to imagine that Sumeru can have any tricks to escape," Xue Huaiqing said, "unless there is some soul-imprinted weapon that surpasses human power or even a legendary artifact hidden on his body... Strange! Do you feel it?"

"I can feel it," An Xingmian said solemnly, "The ground is trembling, and I suddenly understand what kind of trick Xu Mizi is playing. He is indeed a genius."

Both of them felt the tree shaking slightly, and the strength of the shaking came from the ground.The ground near Wansnake Lake was shaking slightly, as if it was a natural phenomenon with great destructive power - an earthquake.But An Xingmian didn't think so, he had already guessed the correct answer.

"Xu Mizi is really a genius," An Xingmian repeated this sentence again, "He actually knows how to wake up those snakes."

"Snake?" Xue Huaiqing was startled.

"The source of the name Wan Snake Pool," An Xingmian said with a gloomy expression, "there are those monsters that look like snakes but not snakes hiding underground. Judging from the momentum, there are more than one or two such monsters."

The corpse dancers also felt the tremor of the earth during the fierce battle.They didn't understand where the tremor came from, but for the sake of safety, they temporarily stopped the offensive.Of course, the encirclement still exists, and it is impossible for Xu Mizi, who has only nineteen corpse servants, to escape from it.But Xu Mizi looked very calm, as if he was not surrounded by deadly corpse servants, but just some insignificant wooden stakes.He even took out a simple Xun from his pocket, and played it in style.

The blown Xun made a very strange sound, sharp and high-pitched, like a lunatic shouting at the top of his throat, completely different from the deep, mournful, bleak and long sound that the Xun should have.And accompanied by the piercing sound of the Xun, the ground shook more and more violently.

Another sound was mixed into the Xun sound, which was not loud, just like the sound of tree branches swaying after the night wind blows in a spring night, but it came from the ground.People who hear the sound will inevitably have some kind of illusion, as if there is a big tree growing rapidly upwards deep in the ground, and countless branches are branched from the main trunk.

This strange association was quickly confirmed.A young corpse dancer is leading his seven corpse servants, nervously guarding the southeast direction to prevent Xu Mizi from escaping from this direction.His experience was not very rich. Although he knew that Xu Mizi was already under heavy siege, and it was almost impossible to rush in front of him, he was still quite nervous, staring at the distance with all his attention, completely ignoring his own feet.

Suddenly, he felt a slight softness in the soles of his feet, and when he looked down, a small piece of the ground had sunk.Before he could react, a black mass broke through the ground suddenly and rolled him up.He let out an exclamation, and his body was already rolled into the air.Due to his inexperience, after suffering this sudden attack, he briefly forgot to continue using the corpse dance technique, and the corpse servants he brought stagnated one by one.

He struggled to lower his head, wanting to see clearly what it was, while the surrounding corpse dancers raised their heads one after another, and everyone was shocked by the indescribably grotesque scene in front of them.They saw a soft columnar object like a boa constrictor, with a huge body and a pitch-black body, coming out of the ground, engulfing the corpse dancer like a boa constrictor hunting.But to say that this is a python, it has no eyes and mouth on its body.

The poor corpse dancer hadn't had time to reactivate the corpse dance technique in order to call his corpse servant to rescue him. This "gigantic python" had already exerted its strength suddenly, and it really began to crush him tightly like a python strangling its prey.The corpse dancer's eyes were protruding, his facial features were twisted together, and there was a crisp clicking sound all over his body, and all his bones had been crushed.With a snap, he was thrown to the ground, limp and motionless, already dead.As he died, the mental power injected into the corpse servants dissipated immediately, and the seven corpse servants also fell to the ground together, turning into carrion corpses.

An even more astonishing scene is yet to come.This "giant python" slowly bent down, and suddenly its body split apart and turned into several slender tentacles. It turned out that its huge body was composed of such tentacles.One of the tentacles came to the dead man, opened a big hole, and wrapped the body completely.The tentacles are much thinner than the ones gathered together before, so after the corpse is wrapped in, the shape of the human body can be clearly seen on the tentacles. Many prey are swallowed whole.

Immediately afterwards, the large bulge on the tentacles began to retract towards the ground, and quickly disappeared underground, as if it had completed a feeding process.While other tentacles danced in the air like whips, and began to attack other corpse dancers.

To make matters worse, hundreds of such pits appeared on the ground of Wansnake Lake, hundreds of "giant pythons" broke through the ground, some maintained their original shape, and some quickly split into tentacles.All the corpse dancers fell into their siege for a while.

The corpse dancers were all in an uproar. Facing this strange murderous creature that no one had ever seen before, they no longer cared about dealing with Sumeru.

But these tentacles are not easy to deal with. They are amazingly powerful and extremely fast, and they really look like living whips.If a tentacle is cut off with a weapon, corrosive poison will be sprayed from the cut, burning the human skin.To make matters worse, the venom slowly turns into a gas, making the inhaler dizzy.For a moment, poisonous gas filled the Ten Thousand Snake Pool, and the corpse dancers fell into a bitter fight.

An Xingmian and Xue Huaiqing were secretly rejoicing at this time.They escaped from the encirclement of the tentacles in advance, and now they are temporarily in a safe zone, where they can sit back and watch the tigers fight.Otherwise, neither of them is sure that they can deal with such an unknown monster.

"I have guessed before what this legendary 'subterranean poisonous snake' is, and now it seems that my guess is probably correct," An Xingmian said, "This is Thorn Charm."

"What is Thorn Charm?" Xue Huaiqing asked.

"I also read about it in some strange books," An Xingmian said, "The Thorn Charm is a very strange creature that lives underground, acts like an animal, but has roots like a plant. The body of the thorny ghost is like a strip of octopus tentacles, which can be twisted together to form a larger matrix. They usually live in groups and are very aggressive. It is said that they are native to Yunzhou. Of course, Yunzhou has been It is still an inaccessible lost land, and these legends about Yunzhou are just legends after all, and no one can prove it."

"But now, at least the existence of Thorn Charm has been confirmed." Xue Huaiqing said.

"And the horror of this creature has also been proven." An Xingmian looked into the distance, "To be honest, if the people present were not corpse dancers but ordinary mortals, even if the number was doubled, I'm afraid it would be overwhelming. "

An Xingmian did not exaggerate, the characteristics of the corpse dancer did help them a lot.First of all, the corpse dancers have dealt with poisons all year round, and their resistance to poisons is far stronger than ordinary people. Therefore, even though the Ten Thousand Snake Lake is already filled with poisonous fog, they can still persevere.What's more, it is the corpse servant who fights directly. The corpse servant will not be intimidated by the terrifying appearance and amazing power of the thorn charm, will not be infested by poisonous gas, and will not feel pain if the skin is corroded or hit by tentacles. , so although the corpse dancers are in a hard fight, at least they are not in chaos.The experienced Yun Guhe also stepped forward at this time, and began to direct the people to gather little by little, and then gradually broke through the encirclement of Thorns and Demons, waiting for an opportunity to rush out of the Ten Thousand Snakes Pool.

It's just that many corpse dancers found out in the spare time of the fierce battle that there was a person who hadn't been attacked by the thorn charm from the beginning to the end, and this person was Xu Mizi.Now he was standing leisurely in the center of Ten Thousand Snake Lake, holding the strange-sounding Xun in his hand, looking at the corpse dancers who were fighting hard with a look of schadenfreude.People realized that the appearance of these underground monsters was just after Xu Mizi blew this Xun.

But now they couldn't take care of themselves, and they didn't have any room for distraction to question Sumeru, they could only watch him retreat with the remaining dozen or so corpse servants as if there was no one else around.It was very strange, those vicious tentacles attacked everyone on the ground indiscriminately, but they didn't move at all against Xu Mizi, as if Xu Mizi and his corpse servant didn't exist at all.

"He really came prepared," Xue Huaiqing said, "This is the style of Xu Mizi. Although he is bold and reckless, he will plan carefully in advance no matter what he does."

"However, no matter how well-planned he is, he would never have imagined that there are two people in this seminar who specifically want to find him," An Xingmian said, "Let's follow."

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Xu Mizi's movement speed is not fast, maybe because he has a plan in mind, the corpse dancers behind him have already been too busy to take care of themselves, and it is impossible to chase him any more.So he left easily, and there were only thirteen corpse servants left, closely following behind him.

An Xingmian and Xue Huaiqing followed from a distance, not daring to approach easily.The two groups of people moved away from Ten Thousand Snake Pool one by one, and the sound of fighting behind them could no longer be heard.Xue Huaiqing stopped suddenly. An Xingmian was very surprised, but she also stopped.

"What's wrong?" An Xingmian asked.

"Do you think Xu Mizi will let us follow behind him unconsciously?" Xue Huaiqing said, "In that case, he will not be Xu Mizi. If we continue to follow, maybe he will kill first indiscriminately Besides, you and I can't resist it."

(End of this chapter)