Ji Zangyu shook his body. Yalayliga thought he was going to fall, but immediately he retreated into the corridor, leaving enough space for Yalayliga to pass. The ghostly face marks on his skin began to swim and bite, gnawing at his flesh and blood just like last time. They are so greedy and numerous that in less than ten seconds a person will fall down covered in blood.
No matter what Yaleriga could do, he seemed to be defeated. This thought was not only shared by Yareliga, but Wutouweng and the jailers also obviously thought so. They were obviously relaxed, and Wu Touwen even took two steps forward, moving forward enough to talk to Ji Zangyu head-on.
"The farce is over, kid." He said, "It seems that you have no intention of voluntarily serving the paradise. But we can still use the remaining parts of you..."
His words stopped abruptly because Ji Zangyu shook his sleeves again. A film of colored light appeared on his skin.
The transparent blister-like membrane expanded rapidly, and in a blink of an eye it had stretched out of his body. It looked so fragile that it couldn't withstand the pricks of fingers, but it ended up isolating those grimaces from Ji Zangyu's skin. The hell spirits clung to the bubble of light relentlessly, carving deep pits in it, but they were unable to injure the young man in the bubble at all.
Ji Zangyu looked at those ghost faces, then turned to look at Yaleriga.
"Half a moment," he said.
He stepped out again and crashed into the jailers with the bubbles of light outside him. The light film that blocked the hell spirit had no effect on him. While the jailers were overwhelmed by the bubbles, Ji Zangyu could freely extend his sleeves outside the light film and sweep away his opponents.
He didn't exactly have the upper hand. The depressions in the light bubble are deepening, almost reflecting the outline of the necks and shoulders of the hell spirits. Anyone could see that it was not enough to provide lasting protection. Wu Tou Weng immediately stepped back, while his guards stepped forward fearlessly to buy time, and started fighting with Ji Zangyu in the small space.
The battle situation reached a stalemate. Only Ji Zangyu could flexibly attack the guards with his sleeves, but the latter's weapons could not penetrate the thin layer of protection. But at the same time, Ji Zangyu always avoided letting them hit the colored light surface too much.
Their fight was like a gust of wind sweeping away flying leaves, causing violent air currents in the narrow passage, making it difficult for the jailers to step forward to help. Yaleriga took this opportunity to get out of the cage and ran towards the pregnant woman who fell on the ground.
Half a moment. She was not familiar with this unit of time measurement, but she estimated that it was the limit of Ji Zangyu's ability to resist the hell spirit.
Everything happened very quickly. When she grabbed the bottle and ran to the woman's side, it felt like only a few breaths. The woman fell to the ground, twitching and moaning. A small amount of blood was mixed with a large pool of amniotic fluid, completely soaking her skirt.
The iron chain pulled Yaleriga's horns, making her almost unable to reach the woman. She endured their struggle like a gust of wind sweeping away flying leaves, causing violent airflow in the narrow passage, making it difficult for the jailers to get in. help before. Yaleriga took this opportunity to get out of the cage and ran towards the pregnant woman who fell on the ground.
Half a moment. She was not familiar with this unit of time measurement, but she estimated that it was the limit of Ji Zangyu's ability to resist the hell spirit.
Everything happened very quickly. When she grabbed the bottle and ran to the woman's side, it felt like only a few breaths. The woman fell to the ground, twitching and moaning. A small amount of blood was mixed with a large pool of amniotic fluid, completely soaking her skirt.
The iron chain pulled Yaleriga's horns, making her almost unable to reach the woman. She endured the pain of her skull being pulled and squatted down to check the condition of the pregnant woman. She judged from the race of the pregnant woman that a normal birth process would take at least several hours, but the other party's various performances told Yaleriga that her uterus had begun to contract - and the fetus was about to come out.
Yaleriga was still not completely sure of Ji Zangyu's plan, but she could no longer wait and see, so she had to adapt to circumstances. She heard the clang of the guard's sword slashing through the air, the jailers shouting loudly, and the aconite man reciting some kind of scripture. She didn't have time to look back and take a look at the battle, but put her hand into the woman's skirt to help her widen the passage.
The situation is terrible. The results of the examination told Yaleriga that this woman was probably giving birth for the first time, which meant greater risks and longer time. She didn't know how long "half a moment" would be, but if it was long enough to allow a pregnant woman to give birth naturally, then it would obviously be enough for Ji Zangyu to hit the exit of Tiejuanhong from here.
Her eyes couldn't help but fall on the other person's bulging belly. The sacrificial knife thrown down by Ji Zangyu was not far away, and she could reach it with her feet. She knew enough to accurately remove the fetus, but there were no medical tools to help the mother later.
The thought flashed through her mind. She felt her heart beat heavily. Villar's face flashed before her eyes.
She bit her lip, opened the jade bottle Ji Zangyu threw to her, and shook the liquid inside. It was much heavier than it looked, and when Yaleriga shook it, she heard a slight sound of water inside.
The pregnant woman was screaming intermittently, breathing like her lungs were on fire. Yaleriga helped her lift her body up a little, pried open her lips with the mouth of the bottle, and poured the reddish liquid in the bottle into her mouth. Yaleriga couldn't recognize the composition of the liquid, so she could only hope that she had fed the pregnant woman the right amount.
The liquid in the bottle flows into the mouth of the pregnant woman. There was no response for the first few seconds, but then the woman's screams became louder. Her body was hot, and she clutched Yaleriga's arm in the confusion, causing Yaleriga to feel a burst of pain.
Her strength was still growing, her eyes were wide open, showing panic and fear, but the pain on her face was greatly reduced. The contractions and cramps in her abdomen began to intensify, but became more regular and forceful, proving that she was consciously expelling the fetus from her body.
Yalerga realized that the woman was gradually regaining her strength, even a little too much. Not only could she not be of any help, but she had to dodge to avoid being scratched by the other party in her abnormal excitement. What made her even more uneasy was that when the woman's breathing completely returned to rhythm, she could clearly see the frenzied joy in the other person's dilated pupils. It was different from the confusion of consciousness after taking a certain anesthetic drug, but like being intoxicated by some scene that Yaleriga couldn't see.
In this extremely painful moment of childbirth, Yaleriga couldn't imagine why she had such an expression. The abnormality made her pause for a moment, and then she saw a small bloody head from under the woman's lifted skirt.
The fetus is about to come out. Thinking of this, she forgot the shadow that the scene had left on her, and reached out to help the fetus come out of her mouth. The sound of the wind behind her has become very soft, but the annoying sound of the aconite chanting has become louder. Yaleriga heard a sense of confidence in his voice.
She controlled herself not to look back and watch the battle, and just lowered her head to deliver the baby. There was nothing else she could do, the cursed iron chain through her horns not allowing her to go that far.
A piece of fresh meat stained with blood rolled into Yaleriga's hand. She was a little surprised to find that the baby's feet were turned back and was much larger than an ordinary human baby. When Yaleriga picked him up, he began to laugh strangely in a very harsh voice, and grabbed his hands in the air, as if he was playing with something invisible.
Yaleriga felt slightly nauseous. She thought she would love any living cub, but deep down she recognized that this baby was not a lovable baby. When she turned to look at the baby's mother, she found that the disgust on that woman's face was ten times stronger than hers. This was not a child she conceived voluntarily, and it did not seem to inspire the slightest maternal love in her.
That fact shocked Yaleriga slightly, but she had no time to think about it. She turned around while holding the fetus, and found that Ji Zangyu was already kneeling in the passage, letting the two guards beat his shield. The light film that protected him from contact with the hell spirits was crowded with the thin bodies of the hell spirits, so close that they could almost touch his skin. In addition, his sleeves were covered with some kind of rust-like plaque, like some kind of fatal curse that was gradually spreading towards him.
That plaque was undoubtedly the reason why Ji Zangyu couldn't move. He hit the guard with his sleeve, and at the same time brought the curse into his own protection. Yaleriga held the baby and called him.
Ji Zangyu turned around, and his chin was already stained with a bit of gray rot.
"Throw it over," he said.
Yaleriga complied. She threw the baby at Ji Zangyu, expecting him to reach out to catch it, but the white rope came out, hung the baby over Ji Zangyu, and threw it between the two guards.
The guards hesitated for a moment at the unexpected situation, and the baby's laughter grew shriller and more terrifying. In just a few seconds, his voice had reached an unbearably high pitch.
"E---"
The baby seemed to be howling and laughing strangely. His two heels kicked excitedly, and his pupils moved and expanded irregularly, finally filling his entire eye socket.
"E-Eri-Elites!"
Yaleriga felt like she heard a name from the baby's cry and laughter. It wasn't like an illusion, because the baby's voice was becoming clearer and clearer, as if his vocal cords had matured in just a few breaths. The sound became increasingly painful, as if someone was scratching inside her skull.
Aconite also couldn't stand the sound. He blocked his ears in vain and ordered sternly: "Kill that little bastard."
The guards obeyed his order and poked the baby's head and heart with the tip of their swords. At the same time as the aconite gave the order, the baby screamed as if he was conscious.
"Get out!" he howled. "Get out!"
Ji Zangyu, who was kneeling on the ground, suddenly moved. His body that was eroded by the curse suddenly became extremely light. He floated into the middle of the two guards, and the two opponents who had overwhelmed him fell. Their cursed iron sword blades glowed palely, softening and melting in front of everyone's sight, turning into a pool of pitch-black iron juice.
Jing Huang picked up the baby on the ground. At this time, strong and twisted flames emitted from his body. Under the interference of that light, Yaleriga could not even see the outline of his body clearly, and could only distinguish a fiery red and flowing color block. A ridiculous illusion invaded her, making her feel that the heat source in her field of vision was just a chaotic color, not a real living person.
She heard the aconite talking. No longer confident, this time he was filled with anger, hesitation, and panic.
"You," he said, "what is this?"
"Can't you understand?"
From the light came an answer that looked exactly like Ji Zangyu's. Yareliga vaguely felt that the voice was more mature than what she had heard in the past, not like the voice of a teenager. But she had never heard the second person have that awkward and unfamiliar pronunciation of Alliance language.
The voice was calm and slow, with a bit of mocking ease, and then said: "The place where ghosts are born, open the ghost eyes. Drink the red spring, and have endless awareness... The master here wants to revive, and wants to drive you out. understand?"
Wutouweng began to recite scriptures again.
"Deleven, stop!" Mrs. Dead Leaf behind him suddenly stopped him, "There is something wrong with the baby and the child. You have already summoned the hell spirits. You cannot be taken in... they are interfering with your thinking!"
The baby laughed secretly in Ji Zangyu's arms, making those who heard it tremble with fear. The sound seemed to intensify the aconite's determination to destroy him, so he completely ignored Mrs. Dead Leaf's warning. He recited the spell faster and stepped back to let the jailers buy time for him.
That's not really necessary. Ji Zangyu seemed to have no intention of pursuing him, and just stood quietly on the spot. Even the baby no longer tortured people with his loud and weird noises, but just sucked and gasped lowly, but it still sounded like a weird laugh. Wutouweng finished reading the scripture in his low voice of "咿-咿-".
Nothing happened. Ji Zangyu still stood there, like a red spot hanging in the air. Iron Skull Rainbow's spell that imprisoned countless people has failed.
The baby laughed happily.
"Hey, hey, Yili!" He said like singing in Ji Zangyu's arms, "Yilites! Come back! Come back!"
Wu Touweng said no more. The sound of his heavy breathing and swallowing of saliva fell into Yaleriga's ears, which should have made her feel happy, but at this moment everyone in the prison remained strangely silent.
"That's it." Ji Zangyu said, "Then go back."
The strong wind blew out of the flowing red mass and spread in all directions. Yaleriga saw countless emerald green light spots dancing in the wind. They were so bright and beautiful that they were so dazzling that Yaleriga lost her vision. Some kind of dark, long and narrow object mixed in the wind and passed through her head. She heard the sound of metal tearing behind her, and when she turned around, she discovered that it was the small window used for ventilation.
Now we can no longer call it a "small window". It turned into a big round hole, and the strong wind rushed out of the prison through it, blowing Yaleriga towards the bright and dazzling entrance of the hole.
Yaleriga tried her best to stabilize her body and went against the wind direction to check Ji Zangyu's condition. During the process, she was surprised to find that the iron chain on her corner had been cut off flatly at some point, leaving only a short length swinging in the wind.
She was free at this completely unexpected moment, and even the exit was right in front of her. Although the ground outside was not flat, she could climb out by the Iron Skull Rainbow. But at this moment she had no intention of running away, until the white rope floated out, one end hung around her waist, and the other end wrapped around the pregnant woman's feet.
The rope dragged the two of them towards the window with astonishing force, and Yaleriga couldn't pull it at all. In the annoyance that she couldn't resist, she was even confused by its harmlessness - according to the strength of this rope, even if it was just wrapped around the waist, it would probably be enough to squeeze the aconite into two pieces.
She and the pregnant woman were dragged out of the window and thrown into the air. The mountain wind from high places made them spin so fast that they couldn't tell the difference between up and down. In the chaos, Yaleriga saw that the end of the endless rope was still stuck in the window, and three blind monks were dragged out from it.
This scene flashed across her field of vision, and in the blink of an eye it was already thousands of meters away. In the end, both she and the pregnant woman landed on a wet field. Her face was pricked by the soft and fragrant grass, and the sun was so bright that she couldn't raise her head for a while.
Three blind monks also fell, landing next to her. They had limited knowledge of what had just happened in the prison, and at this moment they could only touch the green grass beneath them blankly and ask each other how they were doing. Those conversations finally brought Yaleriga back to reality. She thought of Ji Zangyu and Wu Touweng, and immediately raised her head and looked around.
They landed on a low, gentle hillside. In front are woods and streams, gradually leading to flat wilderness. The peaks rise up from behind, and in the center are two cracked peaks as high as the flowing clouds. Over the huge rift valley in their center hangs a slender black arch, like a rainbow bridge connecting the two peaks.
Yaleriga stared at it intently. She found that she never took a serious look at Tieguanyong when she was in love with Villar, perhaps to prevent herself from having any psychological burden. Now she finally had the chance to take a closer look at its true appearance. There are countless spikes and hanging chains on its curved surface, small windows with outlines like ghost faces, and dead tree roots creeping out from the gaps in various interfaces... When those daunting details are so far apart From a distance, they look slender and delicate, like decorations carved out of the Hongqiao itself.
There were only a few dried corpses hanging on the roots and thorns of the dead trees, but there was a faint green light flashing behind those small windows. The unnatural green light became stronger and stronger, and finally filled the entire sky.
The sun that once stung Yaleriga's eyes became dim and misty. The mountain clouds stained with green color twisted and rolled, surging and leaping like flames. They gathered near the dark Hong Bridge, making it difficult for Yaleriga to tell whether someone was escaping from inside.
The woman next to her also slowed down, panting and crawled to her side, and together they looked at the strangely colored sky. When the woman saw the black rainbow, she shivered violently, but her face showed a look of fascination.
"That's where we were just now?" she asked Yaleriga, a little unsure.
Yaleriga nodded.
"It looks... strange." The woman murmured, "How are the people inside?"
Yaleriga couldn't answer. The dark Rainbow Bridge appeared and disappeared in the green clouds, seeming to emit a twisted halo. When the clouds were blown away by the mountain wind, they finally realized that it was not an illusion. The black rainbow itself is burning.
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