Mian frowned and said, "What did you say?"
"Whether mankind wins or not has nothing to do with me. I just want to find him and bring him back, that's all." Lumen stared at the mist in the distance with stern eyes, "I have a hunch that we are not far from him."
The viscous sound of flowing mud became harsh, and those mysterious wet gasps seemed to be close to the ears, making people's hair stand on end, but Lumen's eyes became sharper and colder. The further they walked in the direction he led, the more ferocious the mud whips that hit them became, making them more difficult to deal with than when they first landed.
Continuous sound waves spread out from under Lumen's erected collar, and the disturbed mud whip waved randomly in the air, whipping up mud that splashed all over the sky. And he quickly shuttled through the mud formation, the splashing mud torn his clothes into tatters, and the blood from the wound was also mixed with the mud. The terminal repeatedly switched between two alarms, indicating that his mental power and survival value had dropped significantly, but he did not. Indifferent, he took the terminal out of his pocket and threw it cleanly——
The terminal plunged into the swamp and sank rapidly.
Mian was impressed by Lumen's terminal, which was customized by Tianyan himself the first time he came to the Spire. On the back of the terminal is a small blood sparrow inlaid with rubies.
The equipment all over his body was custom-made by Yan, which was outrageously expensive, but he scorned it. Even now, he could only watch the terminal being swallowed up by the mud coldly, without any pain in his face.
But for some reason, Mian felt that his heart had been stabbed hard.
Mud Whip's attack is so crazy that it would be difficult for her to get close to Lumen, otherwise she would like to say to Lumen: Actually, you can tell it.
Tell the people around you that you are worried about him and that you hope he comes back. It will feel much better if you say it.
Mian was looking at him when she saw Lu Ming suddenly look towards her and shouted: "Be careful!"
A burst of crazy whispers suddenly squeezed into her ears, and Mian's mind was buzzing for a second. She subconsciously felt that she was being controlled by the black goat, but she saw Lu Ming staring at this side, and the lips under the collar seemed to be moving rapidly. Then, there was a dense splashing sound behind her, like boiling volcanic lava.
Her mind finally cleared, and she turned around suddenly. Mud whips sprung up behind her like mushrooms after a rain. Although they were disturbed by the lumens, they still rushed up to engulf her in a crazy manner.
How come there are so many!
Mian immediately dodged, and a large number of lotus seeds emitted from her hair and skin, flicking away the mud whips. Her body rotated in the air, but with her peripheral vision, she saw mud whips denser than those behind her, flowing out from all directions like waves. Pounce - and Lumen, like a bird on fire, even though it has grown sharp claws, is helpless under the surging waves.
Countless dark whip shadows shrouded his head, but Lu Ming put down his transformed claws.
He is a person who assesses situations and knows that he cannot avoid this situation.
He looked up at the mud whips and recognized the ones with rose branches, and raised his lips and smiled.
This was the first time Mian saw Lu Ming show a real smile. She almost stopped moving because for a moment, she suddenly understood Jin Xuyan's obsession.
The commander must have seen his sincere smile, even if it was a long time ago - she thought. Because this man was so beautiful, his usual coldness made this short-lived smile hit people's hearts even more, making him unforgettable as soon as he saw it.
Several rose buds struggled to break out of the black mud, and fiercely opened the surrounding mud whips, as if to protect Lumen. But there were too many mud whips, and they quickly withered and fell. Lu Ming stretched out his hand, and a petal flying in the air fell on his palm. He clasped his hands together, and a tear fell on his finger unexpectedly.
Even he himself was a little dazed.
He never thought that he would shed tears for Jin Xuyan.
The breath of death came towards him from all directions, but death did not come.
The water lily seeds splashing into the sky suddenly surrounded him, and the mud whips were blocked. They twisted crazily and tried to rush in, but the water lily seeds quickly penetrated into the swamp mud. Almost in an instant, the moist and bitter mist was refreshed by a burst of water. The smell dissipated, endless water lilies sprouted from the swamp, and the flower branches instantly rose up. Large snow-white water lilies sprouted from the branches, stretched out, and formed a dense barrier to protect the lumens. .
Along the way, Miao used seeds to create a path, but those seeds grew very slowly, and Lumen had not seen them bloom yet. He looked at Mian in the distance, only to see that Mian was also stunned.
In the flash of lightning, Lu Ming suddenly understood. He looked down at the wounds on his body that were dripping with blood. At this time, the serious injuries had quickly festered and rotted deeply, while the shallower ones had healed.
An Yu used time to speed up.
Communication within the team was paralyzed. Although they did not know each other's situation, they were probably close to the Black Goat and encountered this sudden mud formation.
An Yu was nowhere to be seen, but he still tried his best for his teammates from a distance.
Lu Ming chuckled, clenched the dry rose in his hand, and whispered: "It seems I have to go see you."
But as soon as he finished speaking, a dizzying murmur suddenly exploded from the depths of the swamp. It was like countless humans and animals were cursing at the same time. Arms covered in mud stretched out from the swamp, frantically reaching for his ankle. Catch.
He looked around and saw that under the mist, there was no open space in the swamp. Densely packed black hands came out of the mud, roaring to drag the intruders into doom.
This was a situation that we had never experienced in the swamp last time. Although the black goat integrated with inflammation had been suppressed by the inflammation, it also developed stronger abilities.
Lu Ming's heart trembled with fear for a moment, but then, the rich fragrance of water lilies once again dissipated the sudden surge of bitter odor.
Amidst the bursts of fragrance, Mian's cool voice suddenly reached his ears.
"Let's go find him."
With that clear drink, endless water lily seeds poured out of the sky and fell into the swamp one after another. The water lilies grew and swayed in the wind, and they tried their best to extract their joints. Those flower branches firmly pressed against Lu Ming's waist, pushing him forward. Send it. Thousands of black hands roared behind him, but they were trapped behind him by the water lilies, and they could only roar and watch him go away.
Lumen realized something was wrong after he was sent far away - no matter where he went, a steady stream of water lily seeds spurted out from behind him, taking root and sprouting in advance, opening up a path for him. However, the sound of another flight assist device running had already been heard. Disappeared for a long time.
He turned back and found that Mian had not followed. In the mist, she was already far away from him.
Lumen pressed the switch of the device, hovered in the air, and stared at the figure blankly.
Thick hair was flying in the mist, as white as a water lily, but the endless mud whips and black hands wrapped around the strands of hair, and also bound her limbs.
Mian has stopped moving, but still maintains the posture of leaning forward and escorting forward.
In the minaret, few people remember that Mian is just a young girl, because she is too much like a cold weapon. Even now, there is no trace of panic in her eyes, and she is still as firm and calm as a weapon.
Mian could no longer move forward. Black hands grabbed her slender ankles and dragged her inch by inch into the swamp. The ends of her hair and ankles were already gone.
But the water lily seeds howling like the wind are still spreading out, seemingly endless, rushing forward, crossing the lumen and paving the way to the Black Goat in advance.
Sleeping outside the mist curled her lips at Lu Ming. After that smile bloomed, two lotus flowers suddenly burst out in her eyes. The silver-white petals fluttered in the mist, resolute and gentle.
She exhausted the purifying power given to her by this gene, emptied out all the seeds, and completely transformed into a water lily.
Just like the plant itself, it finally plunged into the mud.
A water lily with a silvery blue halo was carried by the wind to Lu Ming's palm, and the fresh smell dispelled the fog that had been disturbing his mental power.
He also sent the last words to his ears.
"Lumen, maybe we can't get out. But I hope you can find him. At least, you can sink with him."
The words disappeared, and Mian, who had given away the last water lily, lay quietly on the swamp, letting the millions of sinful hands tear her limbs and long hair away, leading her into the abyss.
Lumen's chest seemed to have been hollowed out, leaving only the heavy beating of his heart.
The first and only time he went on a mission with Mian, he was still arguing with Jin Xuyan about his code name.
At that time, he stared at Jin Xuyan coldly, "I have the right to decide my own code name."
"No need to talk." Jin Xuyan didn't even look at him, "I don't care about other officers' rules. In my case, I don't have the right to name the people under supervision."
Later he learned that Mian had named himself "Silent Sound" when he first came here, which came from an Eastern poem. But Jin Xuyan felt that this girl's background had already brought together the longest loneliness in the world, and her temper was cold enough. If she had such a cold name again, she would never be able to get out of her loneliness. So after looking at the Water Lily file for a long time, he forcibly changed it to a warm word "sleep" for her.
At this moment, the roars and whispers in the swamp stopped abruptly, and only the swaying water lilies made the air vibrate and send out long echoes.
Lu Ming had never learned any Eastern or Western poetry, but for some reason, as he listened to the echoes, he suddenly remembered the verse that Jin Xuyan casually mentioned during that mission -
Everything is silent, except for the sound of bells and pans.
Mian's body has been completely submerged in the mud and is no longer visible.
However, the continuous blooming water lilies in the swamp still have great vitality. At a glance, people will think that this is not a swamp at all, but a beautiful lotus pond.
The water lilies are constantly pulling out new buds, and the black hands in the swamp are beginning to peel off the mud, revealing the already rotten animal limbs.
A large black rose broke through the black mud and bloomed from the mud whip. It turned around and whipped towards other similar people who were still trying to get closer to Lumen.
Black roses and water lilies quickly occupied the space as far as the eye could see, intertwining and entangled, completely opening a passage in front of Lumen.
Leading to the center of the swamp.
Send him to Jin Xuyan.
Lu Ming suddenly turned around, never looking behind him again, not looking at the vigorous but withered water lilies, and ignoring the cruelty of the roses cutting off their branches.
He moved forward resolutely, following the path that was opened, all the way into the depths.
Until the end of the fog.
At the end of the mist, in the veins of the swamp, the shape of the black goat was nowhere to be seen.
A black rose that reaches the sky is standing quietly and majesticly on the mud.
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【Snowflakes】Shen Che (1/1) returns the favor
An orphan, once a mercenary, now a lawman.
The mission of mercenaries is to kill, while the mission of lawmen is to protect.
But there is not much difference between the two.
Because before and after the distortion, I had no sense of being a human being.
Maybe I'm destined to be just a weapon.
Cold, hard, refusing to come near.
My existence is only to achieve my mission and is not tied down by emotions.
Water lilies were often used as offerings to the gods.
It has purifying power.
After mastering this ability, I knew that this was my mission in this life.
Return the world to cleanliness, and be willing to go alone into the muddy abyss.
I certainly never feel alone.
But if you have someone to tie you to, don't die alone.
Chapter 98 World Line·98
An unprecedented chaos of time and space appeared in the swamp. Time was accelerated in sections. After countless folding and collisions in space, the mud whip and black hand stumps were like confetti in a kaleidoscope, stuck in various strange places.
An Yu was panting, and he had to admit that he was becoming more and more rough in his actions, because those black hands with their claws and teeth had really worn away his patience.
When he finally arrived at the center of the swamp, he saw a man dressed in red standing alone in front of the black rose that reached the sky. Lu Ming looked up quietly, with a peaceful expression even containing a hint of childlike novelty.
"Mian——" Qin Zhilu paused for a moment. The freshness of the water lilies almost washed away the damp smell of the swamp, but the only thing missing was the slender and cold figure.
He was silent for a moment, took off his gloves towards the mist behind Lumen, and nodded in silence.
An Yu paid his condolences along with his superiors, but his ears were still ringing with the sound of breathing all over the swamp. He had listened to this mysterious breathing all the way, and it was only at this moment that he finally heard the pain and forbearance in it.
Lu Ming turned his back to them and took another step forward, murmuring to the black rose: "He feels very uncomfortable."
The outcome of the battle between Yan and the Black Goat has been decided. There is no doubt that he has the upper hand. Although the mud whips he encountered along the way are still competing with the black rose for power, the fine branches are insignificant. In the center of the swamp, the black cloud meat of the black goat's body has turned into the roots of the black rose. The veins and the shape of the central flower root are very stable.
