jdhmnovel Chapter 1172 Shock
Chapter 1172 Shock
"Stop the beetles from hatching and spreading at all costs! Those black beetles are afraid of light and fire! Prioritize protecting water sources; we absolutely cannot allow the beetle corpses to contaminate them! Hurry! It's too late, and it will be all over!"
Chu Ying no longer hesitated, drew his sword and rushed out of the tent, his roar resounding throughout the camp that was plunged into purgatory:
"Send the message! Rocket salvo! Burn the bodies!! At all costs! Stop the insect tide!!"
Flames rose over the camp once again, this time not to ward off the cold or bring hope, but to prevent it from being completely transformed into a worm's nest.
Make a desperate final stand, burning the corpses of your comrades!
Thick smoke, mixed with the stench of burning flesh and the strange smell of burning beetles, covered the sky and the sun.
Just then, in the shadows on the edge of chaos, near the direction of Jackdaw Valley.
A figure wearing a tattered herdsman's fur coat and with a wooden face.
Kaligon, the true messenger of Toru Khan, was watching the flames and chaos in the camp with indifference.
His ears moved slightly, as if trying to catch some subtle hissing that ordinary people could not hear.
It was near the pool of dirty blood with purple-gold fluorescence that spurted out from the depths of the camp, Changbai Mountain. A black beetle that had luckily avoided the flames, got stained with the dirty blood, and swallowed some of the fluorescent residue was madly emitting strong pheromone waves in a certain direction.
The corners of Carrigon's mouth curled up into an almost invisible, cold and satisfied arc.
In his hand, he was stroking a small prop that looked like a clay xun but had no holes.
The plan had exceeded expectations. The Gu had been planted, but this "mother seed" seemed to have landed in the most inappropriate place.
The destructive fire of the camp and the direction of Jackdaw Valley lit up ominous response fires at the same time.
A silent cavalry, as if made of black shadows, was rapidly encircling the camp shrouded in despair.
Chang Baishan's violent breathing was like the hissing of an old bellows. Every breath he inhaled pulled at his chest that was on the verge of breaking, and every exhalation was accompanied by the smell of burning blood.
The dirty blood that spurted out flashed with a strange and dazzling purple-gold fluorescence, staining the ground, bedding, and even the hem of Liu Yueli's white dress, like a strange flower blooming in hell.
The price of this miraculous survival was so heavy that it froze the air.
Outside the tent, Chu Ying's roars and the explosions of flames intertwined, the flames of the cremating corpses shot up into the sky, thick smoke billowed, with a disgusting burnt smell and the "crackling" sound of beetles being burned.
Every time a rocket fell, it was accompanied by the soldiers' heart-wrenching cries. What burned were not only corpses, but also the comrades who had fought side by side just a moment ago and had just given birth to hope after taking the medicine! Despair was like an icy venomous snake, winding around the neck of every survivor.
"He...he's still alive?"
The military doctor looked at Chang Baishan's heaving chest in shock, and glanced in horror at the pool of dirty blood that exuded an ominous smell.
"Temporary!" Liu Yueli's voice was colder than the frozen Jackdaw Valley.
She staggered to her knees beside the bed, ignoring the filth, and her slender but extremely steady fingers quickly touched Chang Baishan's hot neck pulse, then pulled open his eyelids to observe his pupils.
Deep in the pupils, in addition to the scattered weakness, there was still a very faint but stubborn purple-gold tinge!
"The extremely yang red blood counteracted the poisonous cold evil, preserving a glimmer of life in his heart meridians, but..."
Before she finished speaking, her fingertips trembled violently!
Suddenly, an extremely subtle but creepy "buzzing" sound came from inside Chang Baishan's body!
It's as if something is resonating and vibrating!
It was not a heartbeat, nor the flow of blood, but a high-frequency vibration coming from an unknown valley!
Almost at the same time, Chu Ying's roar of shock and anger came from outside the tent: "Form a formation! Enemy attack!!"
Liu Yueli suddenly raised her head, her eyes that had burned out all her fatigue penetrated the gap in the curtains.
Under the ominous response firelight from the direction of Jackdaw Valley, a cavalry without flags, without shouting, and even their horses were wrapped in dark cloth, was like a silently surging black tide, engulfing the outer defense line of the camp at an alarming speed!
The sound of their horses' hooves hitting the ground was cleverly masked, or rather swallowed up by the howling and rustling of insects that came from the camp.
Shadow Pharmacist Shadow Rider!
What makes people even more chilled is that those shadow cavalrymen seem to turn a blind eye to the rotten shell insects wreaking havoc in the camp!
The black beetles even paused briefly when they came into contact with their dark armor or mounts, as if attracted by some aura, or perhaps... afraid!
"Carrigon!"
Liu Yueli clenched her blood-stained fingers, and her fingertips pierced into her palms.
She understood instantly that Toru Khan's plan was not only to destroy, but also to "harvest"!
These shadow riders are not only terminators, but also reapers!
They are here to harvest the "materials" for successful Gu refining, and... the most important thing!
Her eyes suddenly locked onto the pool of blood on the ground!
The beetle that had luckily avoided the flames, was stained with purple-gold blood and emitted pheromones, was now lying on the edge of the pool of blood, its shell emitting a faint purple-gold dark glow similar to the one in the depths of Chang Baishan's pupils!
It was no longer afraid of the fire circle like its other species. Instead, it anxiously and greedily devoured the fluorescent spots in the dirty blood!
The cold and satisfied smile on the corner of Carrigon's mouth suddenly froze, and for the first time, a crack of astonishment appeared on his wooden face!
The clay ocarina in his hand emitted a resonance that was far beyond his expectations, a piercing heat and so strong that it made his soul tremble!
That is definitely not the breath of an ordinary mother species!
"The Wolf God... No!"
Caligon's pupils contracted, and he suddenly looked up, his cloudy eyes fixed on the direction of Chang Baishan's tent, filled with disbelief and a hint of greed that he himself had not even noticed!
"The sacred tree blood was actually ignited... This is impossible! Unless... unless the blood itself is..."
He understood. The plan had indeed exceeded expectations.
It was sliding towards a dangerous abyss that even he could not predict!
What Chang Baishan spit out was not pure poisonous blood, but the forbidden blood that was stimulated by the Red Blood Pill and contaminated by Toru Khan and offered to the "sacred tree".
A mixture of core secret medicines used by Shadow Pharmacist to control and refine poisonous insects!
That purple-gold fluorescence is the power of blood! The material that should have cultivated the strongest corpse Gu,
As a result of a series of unexpected events, it was catalyzed and contaminated by the extremely tenacious vitality in Chang Baishan's body and the power of the Red Blood Pill.
The mother species that was supposed to be integrated into the corpse was transformed into an unknown and more active "living body"!
"General! The west fence has been breached! The Shadow Riders are charging in! Bugs...bugs are following them!"
The captain of the guards rushed into the tent covered in blood, his voice filled with desperate cries.
"Brothers, we can't hold on any longer!"
Chu Ying's eyes were as red as blood, and the steel knife in his hand reflected a resolute cold light under the firelight.
He looked at Changbaishan, whose breathing was still painful but who was miraculously alive, and then looked at the sporadic resistance in the camp that was almost drowned in the shadow riders' sword lights and the sea of insects.