Chapter 153 The Girl in the Corpse Tree
Chapter 153 The Girl in the Corpse Tree
"What's wrong? Is there a monster nearby?" Gua Gua was stunned, then became alert, ready to transform into an iron-faced sorcerer at any time.
"There's a cry for help."
Tianji's eyes were fixed in one direction.
Upon hearing this, Guagua frowned and listened attentively.
Sure enough, a faint cry for help came from a distance.
"help me……"
Someone is indeed calling for help!
Gua Gua's eyes focused, and then he looked sharply towards the source of the sound.
In the front left, there is a place where the corpse trees are most luxuriant.
"Over there!" ×2
The two spoke at the same time, but pointed in two completely different directions.
"..."
Their eyes met and there was silence for a moment.
"...Let's go to the place you mentioned first." Tianji coughed lightly and nodded calmly.
His sense of direction is indeed a little bit bad, so he should just follow Gua Gua.
"Let's ride a horse. Brother Niu said that many monsters in the map can be skipped directly."
After Gua Gua finished speaking, he took out the candlelight bone whistle and blew it.
"Woo——"
A melodious whistle sounded, the power of the spiritual candle condensed into a horse, and the candle flame burned.
"Eh-"
The candlelight spirit horse raised its front hooves and its neigh echoed.
Gua Gua jumped on his horse and was about to set off, but he saw that the sky behind him did not respond at all.
"What are you doing, where is your horse?"
Guagua felt uneasy.
"I don't have a horse." As expected, Tianji's answer hit the nail on the head.
Gua Gua covered his face. He should have thought of it earlier. Although this guy is a master in technology, he is just a newbie in other aspects.
“Forget it.” Guagua stretched out his hand towards him unhappily: “Come up!”
“This…” Upon hearing this, Tianji’s calm expression suddenly disappeared, and he waved his hands in panic: “A man and a woman riding on the same horse, how can this be…”
"It's okay, I don't mind, come up quickly." Gua Gua frowned slightly.
"No, no, no." Tianji shook his head.
"It's just a game, hurry up, if some important NPC dies we'll be doomed." Gua Gua was a little impatient.
"No, my mother said..." Tianji still refused.
"..."
Guagua's teeth were chattering as he gnawed.
"Stop talking bullshit! I told you to come up!"
Gua Gua finally couldn't help but explode and roared, with the delicate voice gone.
She didn't mind anything, but this kid even went to Tang Seng to kill him.
You didn’t seem embarrassed when you kicked my butt just now!
The sudden roar frightened Tianji so much that his whole body trembled.
After a moment, he swallowed, not daring to refuse again, and quickly jumped on the horse.
But his hands were very obedient, holding the horse's butt firmly.
"You're afraid you won't be able to fall, right?"
"Hold your waist!"
Gua Gua glared at him and yelled again.
Tianji's neck shrank again, and then he quickly reached out and grabbed her waist.
"Can't stand it..."
Gua Gua took a deep breath... This sweet girl really can't pretend anymore.
"Hey!"
In an instant, the candlelight spirit horse's four hooves crossed and carried the two of them at a high speed towards the source of the sound.
Wow!
From time to time along the way, corpses and tree trunks broke open, and parasitic insects appeared, but they could not catch up with the incredibly fast and agile Candlefire Spirit Horse.
Some unlucky parasites were even trampled hard by the horse's hooves and turned into a pool of bloody mud.
The corpse trees on both sides were retreating backwards at a high speed. The branches made of fingers and hand bones were twisting and turning strangely, like evil spirits in hell, trying to pull people into the abyss.
"Hold on tight!"
Snapped!
Seeing a huge skeleton tree root blocking the way ahead, Gua Gua gave a reminder without thinking for a moment, and then directly pulled the reins.
The candlelight spirit horse also instantly raised its hooves and leaped high.
In mid-air, two people and a horse passed through the shadows, their hair flying, and time seemed to freeze at this moment.
This scene made Tianji stunned.
This... is simply... heroic!
Boom!
But the next moment, the heavy and bumpy feeling physically brought him back to reality.
The two began to run wildly in the forest of corpses again.
The faint cry for help became clearer and clearer.
It seemed to be a girl's voice.
Guagua was concentrating on finding the source and direction of the sound.
Not long after, a huge corpse tree appeared in their sight, and its trunk and branches were even thicker.
And in the nearby ground and winding tree roots, there was a bulge, as if something was brewing.
Da da……
The speed of the Candlefire Spirit Horse gradually slowed down and finally stopped.
As Guagua put away the Candlefire Bone Whistle, the Candlefire Spirit Horse also turned into tiny sparks of fire and dissipated.
As soon as he got off the horse, Tianji quickly moved to the side.
I don't know if it was out of fear or shyness.
His behavior was naturally noticed by Gua Gua. Her face darkened and she warned him, "Don't tell anyone else a word about what happened just now. Do you hear me?"
The Tyrannosaurus voice emitted by the sweet girl's appearance makes the sky feel torn and a little scary.
"Okay." Tianji nodded vigorously.
"That's right." Upon hearing this, Guagua, who had a sullen face just now, suddenly smiled brightly.
Gudong.
The speed at which his expression changed, like flipping the pages of a book, made Tianji swallow his saliva secretly.
This woman's true appearance is really scary...
After warning Tianji, Guagua came to the milestone spirit candle nearby and touched the fire.
Then, the two of them set their sights on the huge corpse tree in front of them.
Gua Gua frowned slightly.
There are almost no other corpse trees around this giant corpse tree, but its roots and branches almost cover the entire site, and the depth of their entanglements is truly shocking.
And under those bulging tree roots, something would surge from time to time.
"help me……"
The girl's weak call came from the trunk of this corpse tree.
No information is displayed.
There were no monsters popping up suddenly around.
But the atmosphere was strangely weird.
"Something's wrong." Tianji also frowned at this time: "How can this cry for help be transmitted so far? I'm afraid it's a trap."
"Do you need me to tell you?" Gua Gua rolled her eyes. She was a newbie, but not stupid. She didn't need a newbie to remind her.
"Anyway, that's how you play games. Even if you know it's a trap, you still have to step on it and test it out."
Gua Gua spread his hands.
Tianji fell silent after hearing this.
That's true.
It's like you know that this treasure chest might jump up and bite you, but you still have to open the box or attack it to trigger... the mechanism.
"However, we may be able to choose a safer approach."
Guagua started thinking.
"Have it!"
"It's just right to use this magic, no wonder everyone recommends it." Gua Gua looked excited, and the next moment, she turned into an iron-faced sorcerer, raised her hand wearing the execution gloves, burned with flames of war, and activated the magic.
Soon, mental power flew out from her hand and condensed, forming an incarnation whose appearance was slightly blurred and whose power was constantly dissipating.
"What is this?" Tianji was a little confused.
"See for yourself." Gua Gua directly shared the information on the team channel.
[Magic: Thief's Illusion]
[Type: Embers]
[Effect: Consume mental power to construct a phantom under your control. It has no attacking ability, but is compatible with the characteristics of your body.]
[Explanation: Although most mages are kind-hearted and have noble character, there are always some who do not like to follow the ordinary path. They are keen on the treasures buried in ancient tombs, but are troubled by the dangers hidden in them, so they use their talents in some strange places...]
Phantom thief!
This spell has no attack capability, nor does it have the ability to force taunting or attract aggro, and it cannot carry anything. Its main function is to explore the way.
But in the mage discussion post in the Lingzhu forum, many mage players highly recommended it and asserted that this spell would definitely be very useful.
Sure enough, Guagua is putting it to use now.
"on!"
Gua Gua directed his thief phantom and walked up carelessly.
The phantom of the thief arrogantly circled around the giant corpse tree again and again.
Then, when it reached a flat ground not covered by tree roots, the ground exploded with a bang, and several parasitic insect sacs crawled out with a hiss and attacked the thief phantom.
Bang!
The thief's phantom dissipated immediately after being attacked.
"There is indeed a trap!"
As expected, the area around the giant corpse tree is not safe.
"hiss?"
The parasitic insect sac, which had found nothing, cried out twice and looked around, but Gua Gua and Tian Ji were quite far away and were not seen by the parasitic insect sac.
After a fruitless search, the parasitic cyst returned empty-handed and burrowed once again into the roots of the buried skeleton tree.
then.
Guagua made several more attempts.
Tianji watched silently from the side. The magic used by the wizard was quite interesting.
After a while.
Guagua finally discovered the dangerous location near the corpse tree.
Many parasitic insect cysts hide in the roots of the corpse trees, covering the ground and forming soft and sticky insect nests.
If there was no thief's phantom to test them, they would probably feel a wave of parasites swallowing them alive on the spot...
"help me……"
The cries for help from the giant corpse tree still echoed in their ears.
"What should we do next?" Tianji looked at Guagua and asked.
"What else can I do? Let's go up and see if I can open the tree."
Gua Gua rolled his eyes.
The thief's phantom played its greatest role, and from then on they could only rely on their own strength.
Then, Gua Gua carefully used the Mytelos Starlight to attack the giant corpse tree.
The bark was broken and black blood flowed out, but there was no special reaction from the corpse tree.
It seems that this giant corpse tree may not be a monster.
Gua Gua originally planned to continue her efforts and smash it directly, but the giant corpse tree quickly began to repair itself, and her attack speed could never outstrip the giant corpse tree's repair speed.
And, as if disturbed by the attack on the giant corpse tree, the parasitic insect sacs jumped out one after another and began to move towards her, trying to find the source of the attack.
"No, we still have to find a way to get rid of these parasitic cysts."
Tianji shook his head and said.
If they just attack the giant corpse tree all at once, they will most likely be attacked by a group of parasitic insect sacs, and they will face great risks in that case.
Guagua also realizes this.
But this is also relatively easy to solve.
Soon, the two began to cooperate, one close and one far. Guagua was responsible for pulling the monsters, while Tianji was responsible for dealing with the parasitic insect sacs and parasitic insects among them.
Although there were quite a few of these bugs, one of them was a hardcore gamer and the other had excellent skills, so they were completely cleared out after a while.
The refresh time of these parasitic insect sacs seems to be very long, which gives them plenty of time to do the next thing.
"I'll go."
Tianji exhaled and said, looking at the giant corpse tree.
"I'll leave it to you." He volunteered, and Gua Gua naturally agreed... She really didn't want to go through the experience of having a parasite hit her face and drill into her mouth a second time.
Tianji soon arrived under the giant corpse tree.
Tianji's arrival did not cause any reaction from the corpse tree.
The cry for help from the corpse tree became clearer and clearer, and it could be confirmed that it came from the thickest part of the trunk.
Tianji pulled out a reinforced candlelight scimitar.
He bought this weapon, which was discarded by some players and it was just right for him.
call!
The flames of war instantly spread across the entire blade.
The next moment, Tianji found the right position and stabbed with a knife.
The black blood in the corpse tree immediately flowed down, and the broken bones in it rubbed against the blade, making a slight sound.
The giant corpse tree still did not respond.
Seeing this, Tianji gripped the hilt of the knife with both hands, fighting even more fiercely, and slashed it fiercely downwards.
Accompanied by a chilling sound of flesh tearing, more black blood flowed out, just like the "sap" stored in the heart of the Corpse Tree.
After tearing a big hole.
Tianji immediately retracted the candlelight scimitar and inserted his hands burning with war flames into the gap.
The giant corpse tree has a strong recovery ability. If you just want to use weapons to cut a hole in it, the bottom will probably heal after you cut the top.
So Tianji chose to tear it apart by hand.
Wow... la...
More black blood gushed out, mixed with a large amount of broken bones and flesh tissue, and the foul smell made people's scalps numb.
Tianji, whose senses were indistinguishable from reality, suffered multiple attacks on his senses of touch, vision and smell, and his face turned pale.
But he still gritted his teeth and held his breath, tearing the gap bigger and bigger.
Until the black blood is completely drained away.
A black-haired girl curled up with her knees hugged also appeared in the sky's sight, her simple clothes soaked with black blood.
She seemed to be unconscious, but her lips were still moving unconsciously for help.
"This... there really is someone in there!"
At this time, Guagua also carefully came to Tianji's side. After seeing the girl in the giant corpse tree, he was shocked.
[The human girl in the tree of bones]
There was only this almost useless message in their eyes.
"Save her first."
Gua Gua walked forward without saying a word and prepared to reach out and lead her out of the corpse tree.
"Let me do it." Tianji said.
Then he held out his hand.
Seeing this, Gua Gua nodded secretly, thinking that this little brother is still very reliable.
During the process of contacting the girl, Tianji was also very cautious.
A girl in a tree of bones, no matter how you think about it, cannot be safe.
There is a high possibility that she will turn into a terrible monster in the next second.
However, his worries seemed to be unnecessary.
The two of them quickly brought it out of the giant corpse tree in an instant.
However, the several tree umbilical cord-like things on the girl's back spine once again attracted the attention of the two.
"This...it shouldn't be a problem if I cut it off, right?" Gua Gua was a little hesitant, not knowing whether he should do this.
But what happened next made her not worry about it.
With a loud crash, perhaps because all the black blood in the heart of the tree was lost, the giant corpse tree seemed to have lost its vitality, collapsed with a loud bang, and turned into a pool of barbecue.
The umbilical cord-like objects also withered and fell off.
I must fight tomorrow!
(End of this chapter)