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"You ask me?" Jiang Lu narrowed his eyes: "Are you serious?"
Sometimes Ghost-Faced Fox really couldn't understand why Jiang Lu could be so confident about the fact that he knew nothing.
Sighing, the ghost-faced fox explained: "I'm not asking you. What I mean is that the key lies in the altar. Turning the evil spirit's body into ashes is the last step, so the altar must be the last target location."
Seeing that Jiang Lu didn't seem to understand, he further explained:
“What if, I mean what if, the lair where the evil spirits appear is at the southernmost of the two areas on the map, and the nearest altar is even further south, then when they come out, will they be closer to the evacuation point in the south?
If this is the case, we are at the northernmost part, and they will reveal their position on the map after getting the ashes. They will definitely not delay, but evacuate as quickly as possible, and then it will be too late for us to chase them. "
Jiang Lu suddenly had an epiphany.
"Hiss...Are you really a genius?"
He was almost unreserved in his praise for the Ghost-Faced Fox.
Although Jiang Lu is very smart most of the time, it is undeniable that he is not as rigorous as the Ghost-faced Fox.
But this is not surprising. As a leader, most of the time, things like making plans and strategies are left to his subordinates. He is only responsible for managing the people who do the work. He has a grasp of the overall situation, but when it comes to being more detailed, he still lacks experience and comprehensiveness in thinking about problems.
Specifically, he only needs to formulate the macro-strategy for grabbing the ashes, and leave the rest to the Ghost-faced Fox.
“So we’re the best here.”
The ghost-faced fox pointed to a well-connected traffic route on the map that he had long spotted:
"The locations of the three nearest altars are almost the same. No matter where they are praying for the bodies, we can get there as soon as possible."
"it is good."
Jiang Lu handed the map to Huang Xiu'e who was running wildly: "The plan has changed, go here!"
The ghost-faced fox twitched his lips: "Can it understand the map?"
"Who are you looking down on?"
"I didn't look... eh?" The ghost-faced fox suddenly realized that Jiang Lu had not opened his mouth from beginning to end, and the voice was obviously much sharper than Jiang Lu's: "Aren't you talking?"
"Shabi."
"hiss..."
Jiang Lu patted Huang Xiu'e's head as if to teach her a lesson: "How can a kitten swear?"
"Meow~"
The ghost-faced fox frowned and muttered humbly: "Why are you treating us differently..."
......
temple.
This is a huge pyramid.
Its base is square, and its steps face due north, due south, due east and due west, with ninety-one steps on each side. The number of steps and platforms seems to represent something.
At its entrance is a reclining human figure carved from a huge stone, and behind it are two feathered serpents with their mouths wide open.
The entire pyramid is grayish white and not completely conical. The temple used for worshiping gods is located on its top.
Two middle-aged men climbed out of the temple with difficulty. Behind them was the corpse of a winged dragon snake with a spear stuck in its chest.
"It's done!" A man lay on the ground and shouted to the sky.
"Don't worry." The other man panted, took out the map, and confirmed that there was no team that exposed their tracks after getting the ashes on the map. Then he breathed a sigh of relief: "It really worked!"
There is a rule in bounty confrontation.
The second team to win the Ashes is less likely to walk away unscathed than the first.
The two of them believed in this law even more firmly.
The reason is very simple, although they are quite powerful, they seem to be under a curse and can only be the eternal runner-up, becoming the second team to obtain the Ashes.
Before today, their chances of actually getting the second place if they became the second team to get the Ashes were 30%, and the rest of the time they would either be robbed, robbed, or robbed.
So today is a special day for them.
Because they achieved a major breakthrough, for the first time after destroying the evil spirits, there was no trace of ashes on the map.
If the bill hadn't been settled yet, they would have wanted to open the champagne.
The man holding the map looked at the corpse of the dragon snake and said with a satisfied smile: "Now all that's left is to save its soul. Could it be today?"
The man lying on the ground excitedly punched the sky.
"Just today!"
Chapter 62 Not Today!
The two men worked together to drag the evil spirit's body to the altar about one kilometer away from the temple, and then skillfully piled the body into a huge groove that looked like a wishing well.
As the evil spirit's corpse sank to the bottom, sticky black mucus gushed out from the spring at the bottom of the altar, gradually spreading from bottom to top until it submerged the entire corpse.
Soon, blue flames began to rise from the outside to the inside, enveloping the entire pool of black slime.
The flames, fueled by the black slime, burned the corpse wrapped within.
The two waited patiently.
About ten minutes later, as the black mucus dried up, a ball of crystal clear colorless sand appeared at the bottom of the altar.
This is the ashes that the evil spirits turned into.
One of them slid from the edge of the altar to the bottom, gathered the ashes and wrapped them in his arms.
Not until they actually got the ashes did they finally let go of the worry in their hearts.
"It's done! It's really done!"
Just at the moment they got the ashes, the airflow above the altar suddenly became unstable, and soon the violent convection of the air created a strong, large-scale air vortex.
Lightning streaked across the dark night sky from the eye of the storm, and a moment later the roar arrived as expected.
The symbol of the altar that successfully exorcised evil spirits appears on every map.
Jiang Lu compared the locations marked on the three maps and rubbed his chin: "They are really the same."
"It would be strange if they were different..." Ghost-faced Fox complained, then looked towards the center of the storm in the distance: "It's over there."
Jiang Lu stared at the map and nodded: "It has started to move, heading east."
"East?" The ghost-faced fox's face darkened.
The area where the remaining team is located is the temple area, while the east side borders on the canyon area. The canyon area is not only rocky but also has very narrow roads.
Their advantage is that Huang Xiu'e can take them to catch up at a very fast speed, but with its huge size, it cannot move at all in the canyon area. In many cases, it is very likely that it will need to take a long detour, which will inevitably waste a lot of time, and it is hard to say whether it can catch up.
"If we enter the canyon, we may not be able to catch up."
However, Jiang Lu seemed to be confident and shook his head: "No, I can catch up!"
As he spoke, he shouted passionately: "Huang Xiu'e, use that move!"
"Wait a minute, what's that move?" The ghost-faced fox, who was also sitting on Huang Xiu'e's back, suddenly felt a little uneasy.
When Huang Xiu'e heard this, it was as if some key words were triggered. Her body sank down, almost touching the ground, and her four pairs of slender foot joints were tense.
The next moment, it soared into the sky!
The ground where Huang Xiu'e was standing had already visibly sunk. One can imagine how terrifying the explosive power contained in such a jump is.
Its instantaneous speed exceeded the speed of sound, and the huge sonic boom caused the ghost-faced fox's eardrums to tear with severe pain.
"Is this... a jumping spider?"
The ghost-faced fox grabbed Huang Xiu'e's fur tightly, and his face was stretched out under such a violent impact.
Jiang Lu was not much better. The two of them were like Shar-Pei dogs with their heads sticking out of the window on the highway, with the person flying in front and the face chasing behind.
The potential energy was gradually exhausted, and Huang Xiu'e's speed in sprinting towards the sky gradually slowed down, and she was about to fall back.
The ghost-faced fox looked down and estimated that it was already several hundred meters above the ground.
He was surprised at Huang Xiu'e's terrifying jumping ability, but he couldn't understand what was the point of Jiang Lu making it jump so high?
Because Huang Xiu'e was just jumping in place, even if she fell down now, the error from the jumping point would probably not exceed ten meters.
"What's the point of this?!"
The ghost-faced fox roared.
Jiang Lu didn't look back.
But Huang Xiu'e used her actual actions to tell the Ghost-faced Fox what the significance of this was.
I saw all its legs turned up, two by two, combined into a group, and then it waved its flower hands.
In this way, his four pairs of legs turned into four high-speed rotating propellers, carrying Jiang Lu and the ghost-faced fox suspended in the air.
Then, its body leaned forward slightly, with its head low and its tail high, and it flew straight towards the direction of the ashes marked on the map.
"Grass!"
The ghost-faced fox was so shocked that he couldn't help but swear.
At this moment, Jiang Lu turned around and smiled, revealing a row of white teeth.
"Don't underestimate the bond between us, asshole!"
However, the ghost-faced fox did not respond to this sentence. He just stared at Jiang Lu's face in shock.
He finally understood why he didn't answer when talking to Jiang Lu just now.
If the terrifying impact brought by breaking the speed of sound just now almost tore the eardrum of the Ghost-faced Fox, which was almost ten levels higher than Jiang Lu, then Jiang Lu's eardrum had already been torn.
Jiang Lu, who was facing the ghost-faced fox, had blood oozing out of his ears and his eyes were bloodshot. As Huang Xiu'e's propeller stirred the air around him, the blood oozing out of his ears was like a gymnast's ribbon or the twin ponytails of a red-haired lolita, hanging on his head. It was truly horrifying.
“You’re bleeding!!”
The frightened ghost-faced fox screamed like a girl.
But Jiang Lu naturally couldn't hear anything.
From his perspective, the Ghost-faced Fox was already dancing with joy.