Chapter 451
Underneath the dim gloomy sky was the endless scorched land. There were a few rivers curved and twisted through the black earth until they reached a huge sinkhole in a distance; on the vast land, countless strange steep hills were risen from the ground and scattered around as if they were nails trying to stop the ground from rising.
Behind a row of hills that seemed to be forcibly cut into half by something, clouds of deadly dust were flying in the air; and in those dust clouds, groups of strange glowing things formed a crooked line and slowly swayed around the broken hills like a glowing dragon.
The night was deadly quiet and filled with the smells of danger and blood. Deep inside a mysterious field appeared strange and creepy noises from time to time.
A figure that was completely covered by a black cloak and moving fast in the dark suddenly raised one of its hands and stopped moving. Instantly, all the seven black shadows that were behind it all stopped and quickly leaned against the steep hill next to them.
The figure that seemed to be the leader of the group climbed up to a secret wind gap, removed the black glove from its hand. It pointed its index finger at the direction of the wind. A moment later its index finger began to glow the dim green light.
It kept its finger in the wind for a few seconds before it moved back and put its finger in its mouth and on its tongue. It then frowned all of sudden and slowly claimed back down.
“He is in this area, Kill on sight! This is the order!” the figure said sternly.
“Captain Yi, does he really have The Will of Cambrian, the Will was left by that legendary man?” One of the shadows couldn’t help but ask.
It was not the first time that the surviving village under the broken mountain peak had done something like this. The last time they did it was a few years ago. It was after the village was attacked by a group of monsters. All their food was destroyed during that attack. At that time, only less than half of the kids that had been gathered together came out alive!
But what would happen this time?
The father whose face was covered with wrinkles was constantly sighing. Just when he was ready to go back to prepare firewoods for the winter, he heard a few people rushing into the village from outside. The person that led the group was the eldest son of Old Wang’s family, and behind him was a group of people carrying a young man that was covered with blood.
He immediately asked his son to go home, but he himself approached them and took a close look carefully. What he saw instantly sent a chill down his spine.
“Quick, Mom, it is Second Brother, he is back. But he… injured… injured… ” the eldest son of Old Wang’s family shouted hurriedly.
The young man tried very hard to open his eyes. The blood flowed into his eyes, making him look fierce and scary. Many villagers were scared away and ran back to their home in panic.
The young man took out a bloodstained paper from his arms and said intermittently with all his remaining strength, “Old Seven… take… take… this is… I risked… my life… they… are coming… I have…. to go… immediately… to… lure… them… awa…”
Before he was able to finish it, he passed out.
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In the forest that was filled with huge mushrooms, all the little girls followed the adults along the less-traveled path carefully. The deeper they went into the forest, the more scared they were.
About an hour later, the tall mushroom-like plants disappeared from their sights. What appeared before them was the deadly quiet and vast forbidden land.
It was very easy to tell the boundary of the forbidden land because no animals or plants here dared to cross the boundary of the forbidden land half a step. Hence where the plants stopped growing was the forbidden land.
The forbidden land was covered with a dense black mist. When standing outside, no one was able to see through it, even if one had the best eyesight. So except for the children who had been in there and were still alive, nobody knew exactly what was inside.
Adults were extremely afraid of the strange noises that had appeared in the deep forest from time to time. Once they arrived here, they quickly tied the rope to the children and prepared hooks.
The youngest daughter of Elder Yu’s family was tied up the last. At the urging of adults, although she was extremely frightened, she could not ask help from anyone. Because the village chief deliberately refused to let all the kids’ parents and relatives follow them. So she had to follow the other children with a thick rope in her arms and get into the thick black fog.
Once the children went into the dark fog, they began to run desperately. They knew from the adults that the faster they ran, the higher the chance that they would come out alive. Although they would become a monster, they could still live.
For the first time, the elder Yu’s little daughter saw so many scary monsters. They were piling up like mountains. Some monsters were even several times larger than the size of her village!
Her mind went completely blank when she saw them. When she finally came back from the shock, the bodies of the little monsters that were near her had already been hooked by the other children that were with her. The rest of the monsters were either too big or stuck on the ground.
She had no other choice but to walk deeper into the forbidden land through many huge monsters’ bodies. If she did not hook anything before she went back, she would be thrown back in again.
Maybe she had walked a long way, or maybe he was too frightened to walk, or maybe she had already become an old monster like her older sister. She felt weak and could not walk anymore.
It was at this moment, a rope near her suddenly bounced up from the ground and stretched to its limit. It was the adults outside the forbidden land who began to pull the monster’s body out. However, the rope that was near her seemed to be hooked on a monster that was stuck in the pile of monsters’ bodies. As soon as the adults began to pull it, many monsters’ bodies began to fall down…
All the kids were scared by the collapsing of the pile of bodies. All of them were running around in panic.
The Elder Yu’s little daughter was tripped over, and before she was able to get up, a strange thing rolled down from the top of the pile of the monsters’ bodies.
Seeing other kids had already run far away from her, and after failing to get up, she instantly burst out crying.
“Ha…. Where… is… this… place?” The thing was covered with broken armor-like skin. It looked a lot like a monster. After letting out a long breath, it began to talk using a stiff, hoarse and extremely scary voice.
The little girl’s cry was instantly stopped by the scary voice. She tried very hard not to cry, but her body was still constantly shivering in fear.
…note…
Back in Jin Ling city, Jia, Yi, Bing, Ding, are four ranks that people gave to Dark Warriors.