161. Chapter 161 – Calm Down
Chapter 161 – Calm Down
Three days later, Blighted Trace.
If one were to look down from a high altitude, one would realize that this area covered in yellow-green fog was roughly triangular in shape.
Apart from the large area in the center that was completely covered by the dense fog, even the sky was densely covered in green clouds.
The three areas directly north, southwest and southeast all had distinct boundaries.
Among them, the fog in the southwestern region was a yellowish-green color.
This area was a dead flower garden, but the ground was covered with chicly shaped flowers.
The flowers were both large and small, with the large ones resembling giant trees and the small ones only the size of a fist.
But each flower has fat petals and thick stems, and whether the color is dark purple, crimson or dark green, they all carry a fishy smell, as if there are corpses buried under the flowers.
Suddenly, a sharp bird song broke the dead silence, and then black shadows swept through the flowers.
This was followed by the sound of disorganized footsteps.
Seven or eight figures followed the bird’s call through the flowers, oblivious to the fact that every time they passed by, the plants behind them would abruptly close up, completely blocking the previous empty space.
“Look, it’s about to leave!”
Someone said excitedly.
Directly ahead were sparse flowers and a wide gap.
Outward could be seen the dark forest shrouded in twilight.
“Stop! Something’s wrong!”
The leader, Gray Moon, suddenly raised his hand.
Under the silver-gray eyebrows, a gaze like that of a falcon was looking around.
More than a month of hunting games had long since allowed her to understand this cunning enemy thoroughly.
As the manager of this labyrinth, how could that giant cannibal flower let them leave so easily?
“Big sister, what’s wrong?” A young elf couldn’t help but ask, “Isn’t the exit just ahead?”
“Prepare for battle, we may have been tricked!”
Gray Moon’s face was gloomy.
“What? This is the path that Maimi led, huh?”
“Does that mean he’s also ……”
“Where’s Mamie?”
As if in response to this chatter, bird calls rang out as if in mockery.
“Kirikiri~~”
The area in front of the crowd that was supposed to be a flat road suddenly squirmed.
The illusion disappeared.
In its place was a black swamp that emitted a putrid odor and tumbled with bubbles.
At the same time, the path behind them closed as the flowers moved.
A huge cannibalistic flower rose from behind them, the flower’s bones splitting into two petals like a mouth densely packed with sharp teeth.
It was clearly that shadowy old rival.
Only this time, an elf’s head poked out from its massive petals.
This young shapeshifter’s body was covered in slime, and its hair was stuck to its head.
He wore a wry smile, and the little bird that had guided the crowd landed on top of his head, letting out a gust of mockery.
“Maimi!”
Someone let out a cry of surprise.
Apparently, the shapeshifter had met an untimely end, and the two bodies were still being utilized separately.
The human form became the new carrier of this cannibalistic flower, while the flying form continued to act as bait in the air, leading its prey to extinction.
The group of elves were unaware of the shapeshifter’s secret, and thought that the small bird flying in the sky was their fellow shapeshifter in disguise.
Unfortunately, it was close.
Graymoon drew his blight bow full at the cannibal flower the first moment it appeared.
“Let us go and I promise I won’t do anything to you!”
“Kikikikikikikikikikikikikikikikikikikikikikiku~~”
The palm-sized bird was still taunting.
Gray Moon no longer hesitated and immediately scattered.
Whoosh!
An arrow wrapped by a combination of strong wind and withering power nimbly wrapped around the layers of encircling vine stems and leaves and pierced into Maimi’s forehead.
The latter stumbled backwards, and then his body dissolved like a wax statue.
However, the eerie smile on his face did not disappear until it was completely gone.
The crowd was wondering how come they didn’t hear the other party’s miserable roar this time.
Suddenly, a pitch-black question mark descended from the sky and smashed over towards Gray Moon’s body!
Feeling the strong annihilation power on it, Gray Moon hastily retreated.
The moment she retreated, a vine emitting a deathly aura broke out of the ground and sprang up more than three meters high.
The splattered dirt hit Gray Moon’s body, and the cold, shadowy death aura that was close at hand seemed to lick her skin.
Gray Moon’s heart was horrified. If it wasn’t for this bizarre question mark, she would be seriously injured right now without dying ……
Where did this vine come from?
And where did this question mark come from?
However, this was not all!
As the first question mark dissipated, more question marks fell from the sky.
One after another, they burrowed into the crowd, moving so fast that they seemed to be connected!
The crowd that was still in a state of bewilderment was like pigs being driven away, instantly evacuating.
Then just where they had just left, a row of hideous spiky vines immediately rose ……
It was then that Ashitsuki realized that the question mark seemed to be some sort of guide.
At that moment, “brainstorming” Maimi re-emerged from the petals.
But this time, he was furious, and his eyes clearly took on the ghostly light of undead creatures.
“Kirikiri!!!”
The equally undead-ized bird screeched angrily.
Gray Moon also instantly understood.
This Cannibal Flower had actually borrowed its own hand to complete its metamorphosis from a withered plant to an undead, so that it would have no fear of the Withered Bow…….
Thinking of this, Gray Moon couldn’t help but face despair.
They had long since run out of ammunition and food, relying on the Withered Bow to repeatedly sabotage the other party’s trickery.
What was she supposed to do now?
She pinned her last hope on the black flames that appeared out of nowhere.
Suddenly, a dark armor flew towards the cannibal flower.
It was immediately followed by a blinding golden light!
It descended from the sky and landed heavily on the head of the cannibal flower, golden flames falling in all directions and blazing.
Once again she heard the heartbreaking roar.
There was a taste of annoyance and awe mixed in with it.
–How is it that just after turning into an undead creature, a holy light comes to her door!
Right oh ……
How can there be holy light here?
…
Time retreated a few moments ago.
The sky fifty meters above the ground was also shrouded in thick fog, which was the lowest altitude the airship could land at.
From afar, it looked as if there were strings of things slowly descending.
Getting closer, one could realize that it was actually four people.
Four skeletons to be exact.
At the top was Chief Sa, who was using a flying ring, with Guardian Iris holding his leg.
Mr. Xia was holding Wei Diankui’s leg, and Goat was at the bottom.
After Tiny Sa’s confirmation, the airship airdropped the four of them here.
There were still two gliders left from the last time they brought back from Eagle Wing City.
However, all four of them said that they wanted a hook-eight glider for a 50 meter height, so they might as well give it to someone in need.
They still had their flight rings anyway.
So it came to this.
SA: “Crooked? Can we jump now? Northeasterners talk!”
Weidian Kite: “Why are you in a hurry ah, the perception only touched the ground, I see people, this cannibalism in the flower why there is a person?”
Mr. Xia: “Dead or alive? If you’re dead, it’s going to instantly launch White Bone Thorns and then a two-phase pursuit attack, which is a large AOE, so you have to remind Big Sister.”
“Crap just died!”
The question mark instantly floated out from the top of Guardian Kite’s head and swished down rubbing Catch Sheep.
Catching sheep to see straight wondering: “strange, a while not seen, you this question mark how to fly faster and faster?”
Weidian Kite: “That must be, the tone is not the same technique is not the same. When the shadow javelin thrown out is ‘you have a problem’, when the shadow flame thrown out is ‘I have a problem’.”
Catching Sheep was speechless for a moment.
That’s when Mr. Xia started yelling:
“Twenty meters up twenty meters up, are you ok with this height, Goat?”
Catching Goat sighed: “No, don’t ask if you’ve spilled the beans.”
Mr. Xia: “Ask doesn’t look like a team, we are a TEAM!”
“Ah yes yes yes, TEAM.”
Catch the Goat said as he flung out his brand new flying shield – made from the black heavy shell of Wahoo.
After ruling out numerous counter-intuitive names, it was finally named ‘Calm’
Black stood for calm!
And this golden kick of dedication stood for “I can’t calm down anymore”!
(End of chapter)