"The little mice that got in the way, are you finally willing to come out?"

Elder Qianji looked coldly at the three people who leaped into the hall with lightning speed, and let out an ear-piercing mocking sound.

Standing in the center, the person who entangled the stench and sticky tentacles with tender green branches is naturally Jia Ruo, but at this moment he is quite different from his usual appearance.The lush and dense branches and vines spread out from under the pale skin, imprinting a slight green mark on Jia Ruo's body, the delicate leaves are growing vigorously, and the too fresh and thick greenery is so vibrant that it is inexplicably frightening. the point.

Even Jia Ruo's bright red pupils seemed to be faintly stained with emerald green.

If Lin Mao still had time to observe Jia Ruo carefully, he would find that the emerald color was because every hair of the latter had turned into young plant roots.

And the one on Jiaruo's left is naturally Yao Xianxian with a human body and a snake tail, who looks like a demon.The remaining person, with a stooped figure and an old and haggard appearance, seemed to be about to fall to the ground and die in the next second, it was the unknown old man.

All Lin Mao's thoughts now, inexplicably, fell on the old man who seemed to be the weakest among the three.

He really couldn't tell what the reason was, it was obvious that this situation was the most critical moment in the world, but the unknown old man just looked back and looked at Lin Mao, Lin Mao felt his chest tightened, In an instant, the whole world seemed to fade away completely.

those eyes...

Lin Mao stared intently at the nameless old man's eyes covered by drooping eyelids and fine wrinkles, and his heart was filled with indescribable fear and confusion.

Those eyes made him feel familiar.

What made him even more at a loss was what the unknown old man said to him next.

"Don't be afraid, I'm here."

The nameless old man seemed to have exhausted almost all his strength to stop his cough, and barely managed to utter this sentence of relief.His voice was hoarse and low, like a harp struggling to let out a loose string.

But it was just such a sentence that made Lin Mao feel at ease involuntarily.

It is an instinct that has nothing to do with reason and experience, a kind of trust that comes from the bones...

But why did he have such affection for the unknown old man?

Lin Mao felt extremely confused.

No matter how emotionally turbulent it is, time has only passed by for a moment.But this split second of effort was enough for old man Qianji to break Jia Ruo's vines, and once again crazily attacked the three newly appeared in front of him.

The surging swarm of insects was like a black veil that was unfurled, and rushed towards everyone in the hall. For a while, there was a gust of wind, and it fell on people like a knife.

It was too late to say that, Jia Ruo narrowed his eyes slightly, the vines on his body suddenly surged up, flying back and forth in mid-air, and swept most of the Gu insects to the ground.

And that Yao Xianxian didn't say a word, directly took out a bamboo flute from his bosom, and put it to his lips.

A strange and mournful flute sound came from the bamboo flute, and the originally extremely restless insect swarm suddenly became quiet for a moment.

This is the unique insect-taming sound of the Poison King Clan in Southern Border—in an instant, Lin Mao remembered how he escaped from the entanglement of the colorful dragon in the river below, and the person who helped him back then Sure enough, it was Yao Xianxian!

That is to take advantage of this moment, the nameless old man suddenly flashed his body, and like an arrow from the string, he struck towards the old man Qianji who had no Gu insect protection.

The old man Qianji flashed his red pupils, and laughed loudly: "Good time—"

Then, he stretched out his forelimbs and moved towards the unknown old man, and dozens of new flesh limbs followed closely behind, and they were about to wrap the unknown old man's whole body into the deformed body.

"call--"

The nameless old man had a calm expression, he did not dodge or dodge, and let the monster poke towards him.

Then, a stinky rain of blood suddenly flashed in midair.

Lin Mao's pupils shrank slightly, and he stared at the long sword in the hand of the unknown old man.

If he hadn't heard the piercing sword cry, and if Qianji's beard and half of his forearm hadn't been cut off with a sword, Lin Mao wouldn't even have been able to detect that the unknown old man was still holding a sword in his hand.

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah--"

As a cold-eyed bystander, if he failed to detect it in time, Na Qianji was even more defenseless.He hadn't received such a serious injury for many years, and he couldn't help screaming in pain.

But it was precisely because of this that the Gu worms he controlled suddenly became tyrannical under the emotional agitation, and within a short while, the worm wave reappeared.

Yao Xianxian's face suddenly turned pale, even though the sound of the flute had not stopped, a bloodstain was slowly running down his lips, and the bamboo flute in his hand even made a "crack" and a crack appeared.

In an instant, the melody of the insect taming flute was out of tune, and a dark mist slowly rose from the ground—it was those Gu worms that moved slowly but kept making small chirps.

Seeing that the situation was not right, more vines grew on Jia Ruo's body and drew towards the Gu insects, but compared to the previous vines that were as agile as living creatures, the movements of these new vines were obviously much slower.And due to the nature of Konghua as a plant, the Gu worm was more like heaven and earth to him.

He only heard old man Qianji whistle from a distance, and countless worms as thick as thumbs climbed up Jia Ruo's body, and devoured the branches and young leaves on Jia Ruo's body wantonly. Because of the corrosive juice contained in Jia Ruo's body, he fell to the ground stiff, but there were so many worms that each one only took a few bites, and Jia Ruo was also seriously injured.

After some tricks, only the nameless old man was left in the arena, relying on his supernatural, almost ghostly superb swordsmanship to fight against Qianji, who was getting more and more courageous, but after some tricks, the nameless old man kept coughing, Although every move still has the power to shake the world, but looking at his stooped body and gray face, anyone with a discerning eye can detect that he can't last long.

Seeing the situation getting worse, Yao Xianxian suddenly stopped playing the flute.

"I'll fuck your mother (*&...%¥——"

Lin Mao heard him swear an extremely vicious swear word in the southern Xinjiang dialect.

Then I saw him throw the flute in his hand to the ground, and found out a shorter and weirder bone flute in a blink of an eye.

And with the weird sound of the bone flute rising, those overwhelming Gu worms were not suppressed as before, but they couldn't cause any more damage to Lin Mao's people in a short period of time. big damage.

Because, the snake tide is coming.

It was a terrifying scene that could no longer be described in words, thick or thin, poisonous or non-toxic... Countless long snakes emerged continuously from all the gaps visible to the naked eye, holding their triangular heads high, spitting The scarlet Xinzi was entwined with the Gu worm.The unique fishy smell emanating from this cold-blooded scaled creature almost covered the stench of the Gu worm in a short time.

A snake is wrapped around another snake, and one layer of snakes is wriggling on top of another layer of snakes.

Looking from a distance, the original colors of the floors, doors and windows can no longer be seen in the palace of the underground imperial city, only the wriggling long snake and the Gu worm struggling to kill it.

"You said... why are you so ignorant? Why do you have to make me angry?"

Undoubtedly, Old Man Qianji was also seriously affected by the snake tide's attack on the Gu insects. While waving his severed tentacles that regenerated quickly to fight against the unknown old man, he let out an angry scream. Call.

When Lin Mao heard the scream, he was concentrating on helping Jia Ruo to tear off the Gu worms on his body - the latter's actions were obviously abnormal, and Lin Mao clearly felt that Jia Ruo's movements were getting slower and slower, even the eyes in his eyes His expression gradually became dull.

As soon as Old Man Qianji spoke such a strange tone, Lin Mao's heart suddenly thumped, and his intuition was not good.

"Get out of the way—"

With his eyes fixed, he yelled at the unknown old man.

Almost at the same time as he finished speaking, the nameless old man who was fighting Qianji personally retreated in response, but it was still too late...

"Hoohoo!"

An unusually loud and terrifying tremor sounded from behind Qianji.

"What the hell do I rely on!"

Yao Xianxian's face was livid, and he muttered to himself.

The tip of his tongue has been split because of playing the flute, and every time he speaks a word, a mouthful of blood will gush out.

Looking at his snake tail, there are countless Gu worms hanging on it, biting continuously.And because he had to hold the flute with both hands, he didn't even have the time to shake those Gu worms off his body. At this time, some parts of his snake's tail had exposed white bones.

Lin Mao looked at Qianji in disbelief. Even though he knew that Qianji had become human, inhuman, insect, and insect after years of co-existing with Gu worms, he never imagined that he would encounter such a person one day. A disgusting, twisted creature.

The dark green worm sheath with an icy-cold metallic aura opened up Old Man Qianji's tattered skin that looked like cotton wool, and slowly covered his whole body. Behind his back, jet-black scales were flapping rapidly, forming a There was a dark gray shadow.

"Chi Chi Chi Chi—"

He was probably laughing, but it sounded like the chirping of insects.

Immediately afterwards, he was flying a little bit higher, dragging his cumbersome body like that, and a slender bone spur protruded from the broken section of his arm, piercing straight towards the unknown old man.

At this time, the nameless old man was still in mid-air, without any leverage, he was directly stabbed through the chest by the bone spur.

"puff--"

Even though it was so far away, Lin Mao clearly heard the muffled sound of the nameless old man being pierced by the bone spur.

It was obvious that he was not the one who was injured, but at this moment, his heart felt like a knife, and the pain was so painful that he could hardly breathe.

"No! Don't touch him!"

Before his brain started working, Lin Mao had already subconsciously yelled.

Is this what despair feels like?

Lin Mao felt that his world was pitch black.

All that filled his field of vision were the crumbling companions around him, and the terrifying thousand chances of the demon.

"Can't……"

Lin Mao didn't know how shrill his voice was when he shouted.

At this time, the unknown old man cut off the bone spur with a backhand sword, and the whole person fell to the ground with a terrifying bone spur on his chest.

Hearing Lin Mao's shout, he suddenly turned his head to look at Lin Mao, his face was as pale as death, but his eyes were brighter than before.

"Well, it's strange..."

The Qianji bone spur was cut off, as if he had expected it and was not moved. Instead, he heard the strong bloody smell gushing out from the unknown old man, which made him pause slightly.

After pondering for only a moment, the old man Qianji's wormy face showed one point of astonishment and two points of surprise.

"Hee hee hee it turns out to be so, it's so so ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh so you too..."

"呲-"

The sound of a weapon piercing through the air came from behind Old Man Qianji, directly interrupting his topsy-turvy scream.

It was a long sword, nailed precisely to the center of Old Man Qianji's back.

And it was obvious that this sword had caused quite a lot of damage to Old Man Qianji, otherwise he would not have been caught off guard and spewed a mouthful of black and red mucus from his mouth.

"Xiaoqing!"

Lin Mao looked in the direction where the weapon came from, and let out a cry of surprise.

The person who threw this fierce sword can only be Chang Xiaoqing.

Although judging from his current appearance, he really doesn't look like someone who can throw such a fierce sword.

In fact, he doesn't even look like he should be getting up from the ground.

There is almost no complete piece of skin in his whole body. Among the bright red face, only a pair of eyes are still so clear in black and white.

With his shoulders slumped, he stood precariously behind the old man Qianji, and then, through Qianji and the unknown old man, he glanced at Lin Mao infatuatedly.

"Master...you...don't be afraid..."

"Xiaoqing?"

"I will guard you, Master..."

Chang Xiaoqing spoke intermittently.

Lin Mao listened to Chang Xiaoqing's whispers, every word, every sentence was what Chang Xiaoqing often said to him in the past.

【"I will guard you, Master."】

【"I will take good care of Master, Master, don't worry about it."】

【"I will not leave Master, where Master is, I will be there."】

……

Lin Mao was almost out of breath.

Because he has realized at this time that Chang Xiaoqing is not even awake at this time.

He just...he just heard Lin Mao's shrill cry for the nameless old man.

Probably because he felt Lin Mao's despair and helplessness?Therefore, Chang Xiaoqing was obviously seriously injured and died, but Chang Xiaoqing still stood up with the last sliver of anger in the dark.

Then, in the chaos, he told Lin Mao infatuatedly that he would always guard Lin Mao, and he would...

"...I will protect...Master..."

Lin Mao was so shocked that he didn't notice the complex and difficult look in Chang Xiaoqing's eyes when the unknown old man lying on the ground looked at Chang Xiaoqing at this moment.

"Hee hee hee it's funny, poof... so funny!"

On the contrary, Qianji's bright red and cold eyes glanced back and forth between the unknown old man and Chang Xiaoqing, and then laughed wildly.

"It's the funniest thing ever."

The nameless old man was obviously also seriously injured, but at this moment he seemed to be completely unaware of the pain. Holding the long sword in his hand, he stood up, jumped up from the ground, and pointed the sword at Qianji.

"on!"

He glanced coldly at Chang Xiaoqing, who was almost out of shape, his lips moved slightly, and then he ignored it, and unexpectedly rushed towards Qianji again.

And when he moved, Chang Xiaoqing actually moved at the same time.

There was a tacit understanding between the two people's gestures, every move, as if they had a heart-to-heart, all four hands stretched out together, and for a moment, the winged Qianji behind him had no time to fight back.

But let alone Chang Xiaoqing's blood stains, the nameless old man has a shining bone spur on his chest, half of his body is soaked in black blood every time he moves.

Lin Mao watched from the sidelines, and became more and more anxious, knowing that even if this continued, he would not be able to win a thousand chances.

As for Yao Xianxian, just to control the flute to suppress the Gu worms, he has no time to clone himself, let alone help him.

How to do……

In the end how to do……

Lin Mao grabbed the magic lamp in his hand, sighed secretly, and said to himself softly in his heart: I'm afraid that after such a futile struggle, we can only rely on this thing in the end.

Thinking of this, Lin Mao staggered and walked towards somewhere.

But at this moment, Jia Ruo gently grabbed his wrist.

"do not go……"

The voice that came out of Jia Ruo's mouth also became extremely dry and blunt.

Inevitably, he's becoming more and more of an empty star.

It was precisely because of this that the spiritual connection between him and Lin Mao became closer.Those plans that no one else knew, but this monk who was about to become inhuman was aware of it.

"It can't be helped, Jiaruo."

It's not that Lin Mao didn't notice the emotions pouring from Jia Ruo's side. His lips trembled slightly, and then he made a weak sound.

"If we don't, we're all going to die... everybody's going to die here."

Jia Ruo blinked his eyes slowly, a tear slowly seeped out of his eye socket, and then slid down his cheek covered with criss-crossed bruises.

"No."

He said.

"Is it because I'm too weak to protect you?"

Jia Ruo asked in despair.

For some reason, at such a moment, Lin Mao found himself smiling.

"No," Lin Mao said with a soft smile, "I just want to protect you."

After finishing speaking, he slammed Jia Ruo's hand away, and ran towards the path he had already hoped for before——

He didn't run to the three who were fighting endlessly, but ran to the brightly lit corridor outside the narrow hall door.

"Lin Sheng—"

"Master?!"

"Brother Lin?"

Behind him, Old Man Qianji screamed in shock, Chang Xiaoqing's hoarse call, and Yao Xianxian's astonished growl sounded at the same time.

Immediately afterwards, Lin Mao heard the deafening sound of insect wings flapping.

He took the opportunity to glance back quickly as he ran wildly.

Sure enough, Qianji, who was still entangled with Chang Xiaoqing and the unknown old man, after seeing Lin Mao running away, left the two of them and chased after him without hesitation.

Unlike the two who were seriously injured, they have always been able to perform with ease, and there is Qianji with inhuman insect wings behind him, which makes it easier and easier to chase Lin Maolai.But in just a few breaths, Lin Mao could already smell the stench from Old Man Qianji's body, and his slender tentacles almost reached Lin Mao's clothes.

But at this time, Chang Xiaoqing and the unknown old man could only look pale, and they barely clung to Qianji's back, and the distance from Qianji and Lin Mao was visible to the naked eye.

This situation is very complicated to describe, but from Lin Mao running out of the palace gate to Qianji almost catching up with him, Chang Xiaoqing and the unknown old man followed, it was actually only a moment's work.

But in this so-called short period of time, the situation in the arena was already extremely dangerous.

Since Chang Xiaoqing and the nameless old man have distanced themselves from Lin Mao and Qianji, it means that once Qianji really catches Lin Mao, Lin Mao will never wait for those two to rescue him.

But rather...

This is really what Lin Mao wanted.

The Demon Extinguisher Lamp is very powerful, if one breaks in and turns on it when the three are fighting, it is likely that both Chang Xiaoqing and the unknown old man will be involved in the white flame that destroys everything.

But if he could lure Qianji away from the two of them, it would be an opportunity for Lin Mao to take advantage of.

"Hee hee hee, baby Lin Sheng, I caught you!"

The pungent stench, the hoarse and strange scream, and the sticky but extremely strong tentacles wrapped around his waist and shoulders.

Lin Mao's running posture froze suddenly, and the whole person was grabbed by the old man Qianji, and then dragged into his ferocious embrace.

A faint smile flickered across the corner of Lin Mao's mouth.

He turned around abruptly, followed the strength of the tentacle without dodging or evading, and slammed into Qianji's arms more quickly.

It was at this very moment that he flipped his hands over and showed the extinguishing lamp that he had been tightly wrapped around his sleeve.

His fingers stuck to the cold mechanism, and then pressed down hard.

The shape of the vessel is beautiful and exquisite, and it can even be called a slender and dexterous lamp, and a piercing white light instantly lit up——

And this white light seems to have some magical power, it will lengthen the time bit by bit, and slow down bit by bit.

Lin Mao saw the bewildered expression of old man Qianji at that moment.

Obviously, he who has been trapped for a hundred years does not know what is in Lin Mao's hands.

But among the people present, some people knew.

"No no no no - cat - don't -"

Lin Mao heard a voice that was distorted because it was too sad.

That was the mournful cry from the unknown old man.

The old man's old and desperate face became blurred and melted in the white light, only the facial features became exceptionally clear.

Those are such familiar lips, such familiar eyes.

Also, what a familiar tone.

cat.

Even at this moment, that mournful cry had been completely distorted, but Lin Mao still keenly recognized that it was the tone of that person.

This is……

Brother Chang.

At that moment, Lin Mao finally realized that he should have recognized him a long time ago.

In the lamp, the gleaming white light suddenly bloomed.

At that moment, Lin Mao closed his eyes.

He heard old man Qianji's scream.

It was a real scream, because it was only after being severely injured.

It is the scream that is uncontrollable in the face of death when life is about to perish.

He could also feel the burning sensation from his hand holding the lamp, that hand should have been turned into powder at this moment.

Lin Mao didn't know why he still had time to think about this.

He thought he would be in severe pain, but after waiting for a moment, Bai Yan, who was supposed to come, did not arrive as promised.

A shriveled chest covered Lin Mao with the smell of blood.

He stood between Bai Yan and Lin Mao, completely blocking all the damage with his body.

Until a long time later, the people present still couldn't explain clearly, in that short moment, the unknown old man...or how Chang Qing did that.

The moment Lin Mao pressed the switch of the magic lamp, there was still a short distance between him and Lin Mao.

But, he just did it.

Before the white flame that could burn everything and swallow everything wrapped Lin Mao in the dazzling white light, he flashed between Lin Mao and the extinguishing lamp, blocking all the white flame with his body as much as possible.

The dazzling light swallowed Chang Qing almost instantly.

When the light dimmed, Chang Qing had only a thin layer of skin covering Lin Mao's body.

Lin Mao opened his eyes in a daze.

Even with Chang Qing protecting him, he was still seriously injured.

The parts burned by the demon-killing lights were all blackened, which made him almost lose half of his body.

But at this moment, he strangely didn't feel any pain.

This is probably because... all his attention was on the nameless old man in front of him who was almost hard to describe as a "person".

Most of that person's body has been turned into scorched black.

The remaining half of the chest was attached to the head that seemed to be melting, and it fell on Lin Mao's lap.

What is surprising is that under such an injury, that person still has a weak breath - although anyone can see that this weak breath will dissipate at any time.

The nameless old man opened his only remaining eye and looked straight at Lin Mao.

"You stupid."

Already unrecognizable, fragmented syllables fell from his split lips.

"Master... senior brother..."

really weird.

It was clearly coming from his own throat, but why did it sound so far away?

Lin Mao thought so.

He stared blankly at the wreckage on his knee, his vision became strangely blurred.

"I was wrong...Senior brother...I was wrong, don't be angry..."

The crying from his mouth also became so strange, Lin Mao felt that no one could understand what he said.

But the person in his arms understood without any hindrance.

"Don't do this kind of worrying thing again."

He said.

Yao Xianxian rushed over, he looked at Chang Qing in Lin Mao's arms in shock, and the next second, he looked at Chang Xiaoqing who staggered and followed behind Lin Mao.

"you--"

Yao Xianxian believes that Chang Qing must have also seen Chang Xiaoqing, this body he has been preparing for a long time, and everything he has is only owed to Dongfeng.

Although Chang Xiaoqing was seriously injured at this time, it was obvious that Chang Xiaoqing had a much higher chance of surviving than Chang Qing.

But just when Yao Xianxian was about to speak, he heard Chang Qing's next words.

"Also, I'm not, your senior brother."

Chang Qing stared straight at Lin Mao with the only remaining eye, he greedily outlined Lin Mao's face, even though half of the other side's hair had been burnt now, there were burn marks on his cheeks and shoulders, full of His face was black and gray, and his face was still full of staggered tear stains.

Lin Mao no longer looks like a peerless beauty, but Chang Qing feels that his little junior has never looked so good-looking.

Of course he also knew about Chang Xiaoqing's existence.

But he didn't intend to do that.

Time is running out.

Chang Qing knew this very well. If it wasn't for the special physical constitution of the meat pupa, he might not even be able to have this last short period of time, which can be called a luxury.

Moreover, at the last moment of his life, he changed his mind.

"You, mistaken person, little fool."

Chang Qing said slowly.

Looking at Lin Mao's face, he knew very clearly that from now on, no one would be able to beat him.

Chang Qing grinned, but because the injury was too serious, almost no one could see that it was a satisfied smile.

Then, his eyes dimmed.

He died in Lin Mao's arms.

The author has something to say: Well...

In fact, Chang Qing is really a scary person.

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