"This is a phoenix feather."
Mu You took out three fiery red feathers from the ring and gave one to each of Lin Xue and Shadow Wolf.
Among the three phoenix feathers, one was obtained by Mu You earlier and has never been used, and the other two were newly grown on Huo Huo's body.
Not all the feathers on the phoenix have a resurrection effect. Only mature phoenix feathers can be resurrected. The little phoenix was just born. After so many days, it has only these two qualified feathers on its body. Yesterday, it was coaxed by Mu You. They were brought down by deceivers.
Now each person has one feather. In this place where resurrection is impossible, it can be regarded as adding a layer of insurance to everyone. Moreover, this resurrection item has a public cooldown and can only be triggered once in a day. It is useless to have more.
Then Mu You took out the map fragment and looked at it.
The direction of the arrow has indeed changed this time!
The arrow was pointing in a certain direction to their left and was moving slightly in small increments.
This at least shows that the red sleeve has indeed come here. As for the distance, it is difficult to tell from this map alone.
Mu You subconsciously summoned the war eagle, wanting to send it to patrol in that direction.
However, the war eagle had just appeared and before setting off, Mu You suddenly found that the war eagle was in a strange state.
The war eagle was hanging in the air, but its figure was swaying. Its wings were flapping desperately, as if trying to stabilize, but it was constantly being pulled higher by a strange force. When it reached about a hundred meters in the air, the war eagle suddenly let out a Wailing, blood suddenly splattered all over his body, and in the blink of an eye, it exploded into a ball of blood mist at high altitude and disappeared.
"What's going on?" The people below hurriedly avoided the dripping blood and looked up to the sky in surprise, but they didn't see anything unusual. The top of their head was just the same black sky as elsewhere.
"You will understand if you look at it with your inner eye." Vivian said at this time.
Mu You hurriedly closed his eyes and meditated. After standing still for a few seconds, he opened his inner eyes.
The picture he saw immediately surprised him.
I saw that the space around them was filled with countless illusory ghosts. The upper body was a human-shaped ghost-faced ghost, and the lower half was smoke. They were densely floating on the ground, above their heads and in the air, occupying almost all the surrounding space.
Looking further up, more than a hundred meters above the head, there are masses of space turbulence invisible to the naked eye. The war eagle just flew into the turbulence and was instantly strangled by the space turbulence.
"What's this?"
Mu You asked about the illusory ghosts around him.
These things are not ordinary ghosts, because they cannot be seen or touched, and they do not have any energy in their bodies. Mu You would not be able to discover their existence if he did not open his mind.
However, the appearance of this thing reminded him of the Silent Beast in the Red Rose Library.
"This is the soul-eating beast." Vivian said: "You can understand that the souls that were once swallowed by the God of Death were all released after the death of the God of Death, forming these things."
"Soul-eating beasts have a natural obsession with living things. When they encounter living beings, they will follow them, wait for their death, and then eat the souls of the dead."
Vivian also raised her head and looked around, then shook her head and said: "But don't worry, the soul-eating beasts are invisible. As long as we don't die, they can't touch us, but we can't attack them either."
"Shadowless?"
Mu You was stunned for a moment when he heard this: "Then what happened to War Eagle just now?"
The abnormality of War Eagle just now was obviously caused by something forcibly pulling him into the high-altitude turbulence before he died.
"What I just talked about is the ordinary Soul-Eating Beast, but there is a very small chance that a mutated Soul-Eating Beast will appear. This kind of Soul-Eating Beast is usually inaccessible like other Soul-Eating Beasts, but they can switch to physical form at any time. state, thereby gaining the ability to attack real creatures..."
Before Vivian finished speaking, Mu You suddenly looked somewhere high in the sky with his inner eye.
Among the countless gray ghosts there, there was a blood-red ghost, which was obviously larger than the other soul-eating beasts. It was staring at the three people below with a fierce look, exuding a strong murderous aura.
This one is obviously the mutated soul-eating beast that Vivian mentioned, and it is also the culprit who killed the war eagle just now.
Looking at the expressions on the things, it was clear that he wanted to pounce on them and bite them to death, but there was some hesitation in his movements, as if he was afraid of something, and he always lingered more than ten meters away from them, not daring to get close.
Mu You carefully observed the behavior of this thing and found that what it was always avoiding was not something else, but Lin Xue. To be precise, it was the sickle in her hand.
In other words, what this thing is afraid of is the inheritance of the God of Death. If they had not been with Lin Xue after coming in, they might have been attacked by this thing.
Thinking of this, Mu You took out his wand and tried to stay away from Lin Xue.
After walking about fifteen or six meters away, the thing finally couldn't hold back anymore and rushed towards Muyou with its teeth and claws.
Mu You was not in a hurry, and waited until the opponent rushed in front of him and raised his claws to swing at his face, then he suddenly took action, and sure enough, he grabbed the opponent's body and threw it heavily to the ground. Thunder surged from the tip of the wand, and raging red lightning struck directly at the ghost figure.
The ghost screamed miserably, and instantly shrank in size, becoming extremely weak. At the same time, it looked frightened, and it hurriedly wanted to fall into a state of nothingness again.
It's a pity that Mu You didn't let it escape. A ray of holy light and a blast of dark fire completely made the ghost shadow completely disappear.
The ghost disappeared, but the remaining energy in his body condensed into a crystal the size of a fingernail in mid-air and fell to the ground.
Mu You picked it up and took a look.
[Soul-Calming Stone: A special crystal crystal condensed by the energy released after the death of the Soul-eating Beast. After use, it can calm the soul and calm the mind, and permanently increase the magic limit by 10 points. 】
"Permanently increases magic power..."
Mu You was stunned.
One can only increase the magic limit by 10 points, which is actually very little, but the problem is that the limit is not mentioned in the description.
This means that as long as you continue to obtain this thing, wouldn't it be possible to increase the magic value infinitely?
Of course, soul-eating beasts can only be found in this place, and the probability of such mutants appearing is also very low. There are at least thousands of ghosts on the scene, and just one mutant appears. Even if the soul-suppressing stone itself has no limit, its The sources are quite limited.
"Let's go on our way first..." Mu You shook his head and put away the stone.
"Go this way." Lin Xue nodded and pointed in a direction, which was the final destination guided by the sickle.
Mu You glanced at the map fragments. This direction was quite different from the arrow on the map, but the destination on both sides was the same, and they would definitely reach the same destination by different routes.
While the next few people were walking on their way, Mu You was also constantly searching for the mutated soul-eating beasts around him. Every time he found one, he would do the same thing: stay away from Lin Xue, lure the opponent over, and then fight back.
It's a pity that the quantity of this thing is really rare. After a few people drove for more than two hours, they only encountered more than 120 mutants. Even if they were all fused, they would only increase the magic limit by more than a thousand points.
If Mu You had enough time, he wouldn't mind catching all the soul-eating beasts in this space, but unfortunately not, they only have five short hours, and once they leave, they will probably never have the chance to enter here again...
Closer to home, after two hours of driving, they finally approached their destination.
Looking up, a huge mountain peak rises from the ground ahead. Its overall shape resembles a giant skull, which is particularly conspicuous in this barren plain.
However, Wangshan ran to death. Although he saw the target, he still had a long way to go.
At this time, Mu You suddenly noticed that the pointer on the map fragment stopped moving and began to shake slightly in the same direction.
"It seems that the other party has come over on his own initiative!" Mu You looked at Lin Xue and said.
He had experienced this situation twice before, and another piece of debris must be heading straight for him.
Obviously, the other party saw that they were not far away at this time, so they directly chose to kill them!
"How to deal with it?" Lin Xue asked, holding the sickle slightly.
The other party's actions were obviously preparing for a decisive battle before approaching the core area.
"Well...you guys hide for a while, and I'll ambush you and find out." Mu You thought for a while and said.
The opponent is heading straight for the fragments, and their number is unknown. Without ascertaining the opponent's capabilities, it is best not to reveal too much information about one's own side.
Mu You also relied on his many life-saving methods and planned to test it with the robot skin first.
Mu You handed the pocket watch to Vivian, and then watched the three of them go away, hiding under a hill a few hundred meters away.
He himself switched into a mecha skin, released a large number of sand spiders, and explored the surroundings along the ground.
Soon the Sand Spider sent back an image of the target: it was a woman in red, with an obvious bulge in her lower abdomen, and the ID above her head: Hongxiu Qiluo. It seemed that this was the other party's real initial ID.
Mu You asked Sand Spider to continue exploring, but the woman seemed to be alone, and no one else was found around her.
He didn't know how this woman could act alone, but that was good news for them.
Mu You directly activated the camouflage form of the sweeping robot, but he deliberately disguised the appearance into a severely rusted state that was about to be scrapped. The body was half-buried in the soil irregularly, looking like a piece of garbage that had been abandoned for many years.
As for the map fragments, he threw them on the ground in front of him.
Through the sand spider's reconnaissance perspective, the woman soon appeared nearby, running over with a map in one hand and a chain in the other.
However, when she got within a hundred meters and saw the map fragments discarded randomly on the ground in front of her, she was stunned for a moment and hurriedly stopped in the distance, looking around vigilantly.
There's nothing I can do about it, this scene looks too much like a trap!
The woman in red walked around in the distance for a short half circle, but still didn't see any problems. The chain in her hand showed no response, telling her that there was no living thing in front of her, which made her feel more relieved.
But the woman in red still did not choose to get closer. Instead, she stood far away and threw out the chain in her hand.
The chain was like a spiritual snake, suddenly extending a hundred meters in length, heading straight towards the fragments on the ground, as if it wanted to hook the map back directly.
Mu You was waiting for this opportunity. The moment the chain flew towards him, he suddenly burst out and grabbed the chain with his left mechanical arm.
The moment he touched the chain, Mu You deliberately let the spikes of the chain scratch his arm, leaving a scratch.
As a result, there was no reaction from the body, and there was no abnormality in his soul.
Mu You immediately felt confident.
He had given the pocket watch to Vivian before, just to let her help control the situation. If the chain could cause crippling damage to the mecha's skin, he would immediately backtrack and he would take other actions.
But now it seems that it is no longer necessary. Lin Xue's guess is right. The opponent's chain is only effective on the flesh and blood of living creatures. When facing the mechanical body, it is just an ordinary chain, so Mu You doesn't have to worry about anything.
"Do it!"
Mu You shouted directly into the distance, and at the same time, the mechanical arm exerted force to pull the chain back with all its strength.
The other party's strength is not as strong as his. Under this pull, the other party will either let go or be pulled over by him.
Of course, Hong Xiu couldn't let go of such an important weapon, so he flew straight towards Mu You.
This sudden change made Hongxiu exclaim. He really didn't expect that the piece of scrap metal on the ground was actually a human being. But why would the chain be ineffective on him?
There was no time to figure this out. In the blink of an eye, the two sides were in close combat. Hongxiu's other hand urgently took out a gleaming short knife from his waist and slashed at the mecha's arms, trying to forcefully break free.
However, now Mu You is not equipped with a chaos circuit, but a fighting circuit. It would be a tragedy if this woman had to use magic. She had to fight him in close combat.
Mu You ducked out of the way, narrowly avoiding the knife, and then quickly bumped into him with his iron shoulder, using a large windmill with one arm to slam the opponent to the ground.
Immediately before the opponent could get up, an iron foot stepped on him and forced him back. At the same time, two spiral gun barrels appeared on his arms, tongues of fire spurted out, and two shotguns came close. Shoot randomly at the opponent from a distance.
Hongxiu was extremely angry at this time, because half of the opponent's bullets were aimed at her stomach. She could not protect her fully, and her health dropped sharply.
I don't know if it was the power of maternal love that played a role. The woman actually broke out in this adversity. She turned around and forcibly pulled the chain back, and kicked the mecha in front of her away.
The woman was so happy that she jumped up and ran away. However, before she could take a step, she saw a grenade rolling down at her feet.
The next second, the repulsion grenade exploded, and the woman was thrown away by the huge repulsion force, flying back uncontrollably, and the impact point happened to be in the direction where the mecha was kicked away just now. All this was so similar to before, she once again threw herself into the arms of that weird mecha man...
But this time, the mecha did not wait for her to land slowly. A launching device appeared on her chest while she was in mid-air. The next moment, a touch of frost energy hit her. The woman only felt cold all over, and her whole body was frozen into a lump of ice. , rolled to the ground in a panic, unable to move.
During the entire process above, Mu You never stopped firing bullets from his hands. When the woman landed, he threw three Eva robots to her.
Boom boom boom, there were three more explosions, and the woman's blood volume dropped sharply.
The freezing device can only last three seconds for creatures, but it is enough. When Mu You's crazy output, teammates from afar have already arrived to support him.
Hong Xiu had just broken out of the ice, and the first thing to greet her were three sharp arrows.
Hongxiu was unable to dodge the long-range attack from the shadow wolf. He was shot all over and his blood volume continued to decrease.
At the same time, Lin Xue had also arrived, waving a sickle and slashing at him from the side.
Hongxiu saw the image of the man holding a sickle in an iron bucket, and when he looked at the ID above his head, he immediately vomited blood: Should he be so targeted?
The opponent seems to have guessed the weakness of her weapon. Not only did he send a fleshless robot to ambush her in advance, but he also armed himself as an iron barrel. There was even an archer hidden in the distance. The range was ridiculously long. So far, she can't even reach the opponent. The location is not grasped.
The three people who appeared were all targeting her characteristics, making her weapons completely ineffective and she could only be beaten passively.
"mean!"
The woman cursed as she struggled in the hail of bullets.
However, the three of them were busy outputting, and no one paid attention to her.
The woman had no choice but to look at Lin Xue again: "Girl Red Scythe, today is the inheritance competition between the two of us. If you have the ability, you can go one on one!"
This excitement is too straightforward, how could Lin Xue pay attention to this? Silently, he speeded up his hand a little more.
"Speed, speed!" Mu You was still shouting from the side, the various mechanical weapons in his hands switching smoothly like magic, always maintaining maximum power output.
Under such targeted fire, the woman was really powerless to resist. After struggling for a long time, she was still flattened from head to tail, and she did not make any effective resistance until her blood volume was emptied.
However, as soon as the woman died, the imagined scene of things exploding all over the ground did not appear. Only a dispensable prop fell out of the scene, and the woman herself turned directly into a cross buried in the ground.
(End of chapter)
