If the pure-blood hunters sent by the mountain village still feel like humans, these tall pig-faced people feel like pure butchers.
Zhang Fengxi's hiding in the bushes did not fool their eyes at all, but they were not in a hurry to deal with it. The pig-faced man holding the wolf squatted down, reached out and grasped the long arrow on the vest of the corpse on the ground, and pulled it out with a strong force. He wiped the arrowhead on the corpse and put it back into the quiver on his back. His companion walked toward the woods. Surprisingly, the trees illuminated by blue torches actually separated a path.
Seeing this scene, there was nothing to say at all. The four people turned around and ran away in unison. This uniform movement made the pig-faced man stunned for a moment, and then he hung the mace on his waist. On an iron ring, he reached out and took off the long bow from behind.
"This way! The trees are denser here!"
Lu Ning jumped over a tree root sticking out of the soil, but Ye Tisi, who was chasing after him, didn't pay attention. She tripped and fell into the bushes.
"Don't stop!"
Zhang Fengxi shouted hurriedly when he saw Lu Ning and Shu Xingruo turning around to pull them away. At this moment, the three of them heard the sound of a bowstring and hurriedly made evasive movements.
However, the usually agile avoidance was ineffective at this moment.
The long arrow circled an arc in the air and plunged straight into the abdomen of Shu Xingruo, who was hiding behind a tree.
Lu Ning's eyes widened. She could see the pig-faced man behind the archer shooting the bow and arrow in the distance. He was holding something that was lighting up with blue light in his hand and made a praying gesture. The arrow was exactly where he was squatting. He turned around while praying.
"Are you OK!"
Ye Tisi had already climbed up and happened to see this scene, so she quickly ran towards Shu Xingruo.
This is a very wrong decision.
"Second arrow!"
Shu Xingruo slowly sat down against the tree, but the pig-faced man had already set another arrow, and the prayer was still going on. Lu Ning only had time to shout out -
Whoosh!
This time the arrow was faster and penetrated Ye Tisi's shoulder in the blink of an eye, even lifting her up and nailing her to the same tree.
"Run! Leave them alone! It's all over! It's all over!"
Zhang Fengxi shouted while running up and dragging Lu Ning together into the woods. Lu Ning gritted her teeth and finally turned around and ran away.
But even running was of no use. The archer behind set up a third arrow and aimed at the depths of the woods.
But when Lu Ning and Zhang Fengxi jumped out from behind a bush, what they saw was a steep slope with an angle of nearly 30 degrees!
The bow string sounded slightly, and the arrow's light came later.
Zhang Fengxi's body trembled suddenly, and when Lu Ning turned around to look, he saw a sharp arrow tip piercing his waist and abdomen, and warm blood was dripping.
"Run...let's..."
The thin man muttered the last two words and fell to his knees.
Lu Ning didn't bother to check his injuries. She stretched out her hand and pulled off a few bushes. She put them under her body and reached down the slope with her feet, sliding down directly!
The rocks, dead branches, and gravel-covered slopes quickly scratched her hands, and even her clothes were torn, but Lu Ning still raised her head and looked upward——
A pig-faced man stood on the slope, holding Zhang Fengxi, who was not sure whether he was alive or dead, in one hand. He lowered his head and stared at himself as he slid down the slope.
He didn't come after me.
But Lu Ning firmly remembered all the clothes on this person.
"Damn it!"
Lu Ning looked up, but didn't notice that there was suddenly nothing underneath her.
Below the slope, there is actually a low cliff, and below the cliff is a rapid river.
Unprepared, Lu Ning fell into the water in a completely incorrect posture. Her head came into close contact with the rocks at the bottom of the river, and then she fell into a coma.
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After waking up in a daze, I felt severe pain in my head, hands, legs and under my ribs. I felt discomfort in my nose as if I had choked on water. My whole body was soaked. My clothes felt sticky and uncomfortable when they stuck to my body. .
Lu Ning slowly sat up and found that her current position was on a shallow beach. The river turned a corner from here and flowed into a cave not far away that was larger than the one she had seen before. Because the water gradually slowed down, she finally Was washed up on the river beach.
She raised her left hand. The side of the little finger and a piece of her forearm were bloody and bloody. The sand and gravel inside had been washed away by the river, but there was no risk of infection. I'm afraid the injuries were the same in other parts of her body. She couldn't do emergency treatment, so she could only tear off a piece of clothing and wrap it around her hand to avoid contact with any dirty things. Then, she looked at the cave in front of her.
"Take a chance...how long has it been?"
Lu Ning pressed her forehead, but her hand was stained with blood clots that had begun to solidify. She stretched her hands into the river to wash them, and then walked along the river in the direction of the cave.
Think of something good, at least you are still alive and have a chance.
She didn't have time to think about what happened to Shu Xingruo and Ye Tisi, and she was forcing herself to divert her attention. The difficulty of the opening test of the upgrade test directly gave her a disincentive. The endless pursuit and various strange enemies formed an overwhelming attack, and even her own injuries failed to obtain any information.
"Why is this cave downstream..."
Lu Ning walked into the cave. The road she had to walk this time was longer than the previous cave, which even gave her the illusion that there was nothing at the end.
Then, light appeared.
Lu Ning stopped and looked at the glowing moss in front of her. He hesitated for a moment, then lightened his steps and continued to move forward step by step.
Here is a more dazzling "Moon Lake", with an area at least three times that of the previous one. The houses by the lake are no longer empty, but there is a faint light shining from them, reflecting the shadow of the fishman.
This road is blocked.
Lu Ning smiled bitterly, turned around and slowly left the Moon Lake without disturbing the fishmen inside.
Therefore, "Moon Lake" is not a place name, at least it is the name of multiple places, or even...a phenomenon.
She didn't know what the secret behind this information was, but she felt that her physical strength was losing, and her forehead began to feel a little dizzy. Maybe it was getting hot?
His eyes were probably a little bloodshot, and even the faint light he saw when he approached the cave entrance was red...
Red?
Lu Ning stopped and looked down at a stone with glowing moss that he picked out when he left.
The blue light still looked extremely magnificent, but there was no red color. However, the moonlight reflected on the stone not far in front of her was indeed soaked in blood-like bright red.
Before Lu Ning could think carefully about the changes, a suffocating force pressed down on her head, and she lost consciousness again before she could even make a sound.
At this time, the outside world has been shrouded in the bright red moonlight like a doomsday. There is no place to hide in the entire mountain range. Even in the woods, the light is scattered in a completely contrary to the optical principles, turning the originally dark woods into darkness. It shines a blood-red color.
The moon in the sky is no longer a bright jade plate. It has completely turned into a heart flowing with blood, spilling blood on the earth wantonly, and the stars in the sky have also turned into evil ones. Eyes, if you accidentally look into them, inexplicable fear will immediately dominate your mind.
When the light gradually changed from bright red to copper red, the sound of heartbeats sounded between heaven and earth. However, the ground at this time has turned into a dead silence, and there is no longer a sound that can be heard like the doomsday bell.
Plop, plop, plop...
The heartbeat beat fifteen times and returned to silence.
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Lu Ning stood under the warm and pleasant sunshine. The birds in the forest were singing happily, and he could even see a wild deer running quickly into the distance. Her forehead was slightly hot, the wound on her hand was scabbing, but pus was flowing out due to inflammation, and there was a clot of blood on her head.
What happened last night?
She only remembered the bright red moonlight at the end. When she regained consciousness, she woke up from the cave. The brightness around her had increased a lot, and it was daytime.
"It can't be that...the Red Moon Ceremony has been completed this time, right? When will the next one be? Oops...it wasted too much time..."
No matter how anxious Lu Ning was, her physical condition did not allow her to do too much physical activity. She hadn't eaten anything since last night, running around and getting injured, not to mention the blood ritual that had taken away a third of her physical fitness.
She slowly walked upstream along the flow of the river. The sun shining on her body made her feel a little hot, but she wasn't sure if it was because she had a fever.
After turning two corners, a pavilion appeared in front of me. In the pavilion, three or four men with hoes and shovels were sitting, chatting. Lu Ning suddenly realized that it was too late to hide, and several people over there also saw her.
They stood up immediately, picked up the farm tools at hand and walked over here.
"People over there! Come out!"
One of the men shouted.
Lu Ning leaned against the stone in the corner and took a deep breath slowly. She couldn't run at all now, and she probably couldn't run away from the cursed villagers in this village.
Now I can only pray that my appearance is not known to everyone, after all, so many people ran away last night. In addition, it seems that these villagers will not attack outsiders directly?
Lu Ning gritted her teeth, turned around and walked out.
"Sorry, I went exploring into the mountains with my friends and accidentally rolled down the cliff. Can you give me some trauma medicine? I will pay for it."
The villagers were stunned for a moment, seeing Lu Ning's embarrassed posture, and smiled after a moment.
"Are you going to explore the mountains?"
"Um."
"How many friends do you have? They must be very anxious. The terrain in the mountains is complicated and it is difficult to get out if you get lost." A man next to him helped.
"There are about ten of them. They are also veterans of jungle exploration. I fell into a river. They will definitely be able to follow the river to find me."
"Oh, that's great." The man at the front seemed really happy, "But sister, you are seriously injured, and you really need to bandage it. You see, we won't be injured when we go out to work. Medicine, you think otherwise, my house is not far ahead, let my brother take you back to apply for medicine, while we work in the fields, if we meet your friends, I will inform you, how about it?"
"…That would be great, thank you very much."
The man immediately patted the person next to him on the shoulder and asked him to take Lu Ning back with him.
