That little bit of golden brilliance, the light is not very strong.
If it is in that kind of light situation, it is very likely that people will ignore its existence.
That is to say, after entering the Death Valley, the wind was howling and the surroundings were dark. The flashes of golden brilliance seemed a little more conspicuous.
But even so, Jiang Yao didn't realize the existence of this thing until now, using the trick of possessing the sheep and using the sheep's eyes.
A rough estimate is that the distance between that little bit of golden light and him should be about thirty or forty meters.
He wanted to control the sheep and drive all the way straight to where those golden brilliance were to see clearly.
However, the idea is an idea, and if you really want to do it, it seems a bit unrealistic.
After all, on the ground a step or two ahead were the fragments of the fat pig that had been driven into this place before.
Knowing that there might be a crack in the void ahead, and that there was a huge risk, he rushed forward recklessly, which was no different than seeking death.
Although Jiang Yao was in a strange state at the moment, even if he encountered a crack in the void, he would not really die. At most, he would lose some energy and a sheep.
But the group of livestock that their group had brought over had been basically lost, and the sheep he possessed was the last one.
If this sheep dies in an accident, and Jiang Yao wants to explore the situation of those golden brilliance ahead, he will either use his life to test it, or he will have no choice but to go back to the camp and get another group of animals.
In a foreign land, human life is like a piece of grass, but here is the real world. Let Jiang Yao investigate the situation in Death Valley at the cost of the lives of Fang Weidong and others. He will definitely not be able to do such a cruel thing.
After all, although he had a lot of lives in his hands, in the end, he was not a bad person.
He controlled the sheep and stood there for a while, but unfortunately, the light was not good and the distance was a bit far away. He stared at the location of those golden brilliance for a long time, but he never understood what it was.
If you want to do something, the sheep body is not as convenient as the human body.
He tilted his head and hesitated for a moment. He controlled the sheep's body and carefully moved a small step forward. Then he opened his mouth and picked up half of the pig leg from the ground.
With a fierce flick of his head, the pig leg that was originally in the sheep's mouth shot straight to the left.
There was nothing unusual in the first three or four steps. When the pig leg flew forward again, a black line suddenly appeared in the void.
A black line that was no more than an inch long swallowed up most of the pig leg in an instant. The remaining bit was shattered and cut into countless pieces.
"This range of three or four steps to the left should be considered safe."
"The black line that suddenly appeared should be a crack in the void."
"Don't talk about the goat I possess. Even if my body is here, if I encounter this thing, I will definitely be injured and die if I touch it."
"There are still some broken parts of the pig on the ground. I hope I can use this to find a safe path!"
……
The scene in front of him appeared in Jiang Yao's sight, and circles began to spin rapidly in his mind.
The only regret is that, possessed by this sheep, he can't grab anything with his four hooves. He can only hold the pig's bits and pieces in his mouth and throw them in all directions, which is really inconvenient.
However, it is much more cost-effective for a gentleman not to stand behind a dangerous wall and possess this sheep to test a safe path than to take risks by entering this place himself.
After making a decision in his mind, Jiang Yao took a deep breath. He controlled the sheep, picked up a piece of pig offal, moved a few steps to the area on the left that had been confirmed to be safe, and began to test again.
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Outside Death Valley, in the area where Fang Weidong and others are located.
Three or four soldiers, with obvious panic on their faces, were trotting all the way, their steps seemed to be a little staggering, and they were rushing in this direction.
When they saw Fang Weidong and others who had lit a bonfire and were roasting whole lambs, it was as if they had seen a savior. The strong man at the head had an eager face and said immediately: "Mr. Jiang, where is Mr. Jiang?"< br>
"Oh no, something happened to Deputy Huang and the others!"
"After entering this area, due to certain things, the few of us and Deputy Huang and the others were slightly separated."
"But after we returned, we followed their traces and found some stumps and broken arms. We didn't see a single living person at all. I'm sure they definitely encountered that kind of mantis monster."
"Please give Mr. Jiang a helping hand and help us!"
……
This strong man is naturally the guy called Da Zhuang.
After discovering the second mantis monster corpse, under Huang Yongqiang's instructions, he led a few people and dragged the monster corpse back to the safe area outside.
When they returned, they could no longer find Huang Yongqiang and others, and only saw some extremely bloody residual traces.
After returning to the camp, Da Zhuang and others had no way to explain to their superiors.
Besides, the soldiers in the camp seemed unable to deal with the mantis monster that was obviously inhuman.
He may have very limited knowledge about Jiang Yao, but as a close confidant of Huang Yongqiang, he knew that the monster corpses they found were all made by this person.
After knowing that Jiang Yao and others were near the entrance of Death Valley, they had no choice but to rush here naturally and try to seek help.
"Something happened to Deputy Huang and the others. When did it happen?"
"Mr. Jiang is over there, he seems to be resting with his eyes closed!" When these words fell into Fang Weidong's ears, he was obviously stunned.
For the first time, he had thought of the bursts of screams that the group of them had heard before.
However, he thought about this matter in his mind and decided to leave it at that. He would definitely not say it outright in front of Da Zhuang without any hesitation.
With a slightly weird look on his face, he sighed softly and led Da Zhuang and others to Jiang Yao, who was only a dozen or twenty steps away from the bonfire.
"Mr. Jiang, help!"
"Mr. Jiang, please take action and save Deputy Huang and others!"
"The monsters are ferocious. Only you, Mr. Jiang, have the ability to deal with them!"
……
Seeing Jiang Yao, Da Zhuang and others spoke repeatedly, and their tone of voice was almost pleading.
With his eyes closed, Jiang Yao quietly sat cross-legged on the flat stone like a statue.
At this moment, his attention was focused on the sheep he possessed in Death Valley.
The repeated requests from Da Zhuang and others made it difficult for him to gather his energy, and they had already had some negative effects on his spell casting.
With a displeased look on his face, he calmed down and slowly opened his eyes: "Go away, don't disturb me by riding on your horse!"
"Before leaving, I have repeatedly told people in the camp not to set foot in this area."
"Then Deputy Huang came here with a group of people and wanted to search for the corpse of the monster that died in my hands. What does he mean by this, does he think I am farting?"
"He is looking for death. Even if he encounters a mantis monster in an accident, it will be his own fault."
"You guys, if you continue to gibber in front of me, you don't even need monsters to take action. I will definitely kill you first!"
With eyes like daggers, Jiang Yao glanced coldly at Da Zhuang and the others.
He was filled with murderous aura, and after snorting softly, his newly opened eyes began to slowly close again.
"Jiang..." Da Zhuang and the others were obviously stunned.
When he came to his senses and wanted to say something else, Fang Weidong, who was standing next to him, had already covered his mouth and pulled him to the campfire.
"Mr. Jiang has a bad temper. He has already given warnings. If you still don't listen, he is really good at killing people!"
"If Deputy Huang and others really encounter a monster, it will definitely be very dangerous at this moment. It will be too late to rescue them."
"Presumably, you guys have already thought of this result, but you just don't want to accept it. Instead of going back to the camp, you came directly to us just because you don't know how to explain it to the superiors."
"Don't worry, with Mr. Jiang here, even if the leaders above want to punish you, they will definitely not go too far."
"At this moment, if you still want to confront Mr. Jiang, then you are really tired of living and want to die on your own!"
……
At the same time, Fang Weidong asked his subordinates to take good care of Da Zhuang and others, and began to persuade them with sincerity.
Being able to be sent by Zhao Zhengping, the camp's highest officer, to Jiang Yao's side to accept the mission, he is still very capable.
To put the facts into perspective, what he said could almost be said to have hit the hearts of the big guys.
At first, Da Zhuang wanted to make a few excuses.
After just a few words, and after looking at each other with several companions, he lowered his head, let out a long sigh, and fell silent.
Almost at the same time, in Death Valley.
After possessing the sheep, after a period of testing, although it went around a bit, the distance between Jiang Yao and those few golden brilliance had been shortened to only ten or twenty meters. Although the light in Death Valley is extremely dim, standing at his current location, he can already see the specific situation there clearly.
It was an unknown plant that was only one or two feet tall, with only six or seven green leaves left.
The so-called golden brilliance is the golden light rippling on a finger-sized fruit growing on this plant.
There are only three fruits of this kind hanging in total.
Although there was a strong wind howling around them, the three fruits and the unknown plant remained as steady as a mountain, motionless.
"This is...the Heavenly Dao Fruit?"
"Over there in the foreign world, the legendary supreme holy fruit actually exists here!"
"Fuck..."
I don't know which great sage summed up the idiom "Extreme joy brings sorrow", but the fact that it has been passed down to this day shows that this idiom can really be very practical under certain circumstances.
Jiang Yao seemed to be like this at this moment.
After confirming that the three fruits with rippling golden light were probably the legendary fruits of heaven, he was ecstatic and a little distracted.
After being possessed by him, the sheep, which was under good control, staggered and moved a step or two to the right.
The next moment, he only had time to mutter "f*ck" in his heart, and his whole vision went dark. When he came back to his senses, this ray of spirit had returned to his original body.
The splitting headache came again, and the indescribable extreme pain made him hold his head, and he almost fell to the ground and started rolling.
A dozen steps away, beside a bonfire.
Although he followed Fang Weidong's advice and never thought about disturbing Jiang Yao's peace again, that guy Da Zhuang still glanced here from the corner of his eye from time to time.
"Mr. Jiang, what's going on..." Seeing Jiang Yao, who was sitting cross-legged on the stone with his eyes closed, suddenly changed into such a look, he was startled, looked at Fang Weidong next to him, and asked in a low voice.
"Do you know why Mr. Jiang told you to get out when you ran to him just now for help?"
"If I guess correctly, at that time, he should be casting some kind of magical spell that we can't understand at all."
"It would be really strange if he ignored you if you came over to disturb him while he was casting the spell."
"He suddenly became like this. It may be some sequelae of over-casting the spell."
"Don't worry, it's okay. Take a little rest and Mr. Jiang will recover soon."
Glancing at Jiang Yao's position, Fang Weidong lowered his voice and explained in a low voice.
Before, when he saw Jiang Yao holding his head with a painful look on his face for the first time, he was also puzzled and his face was filled with astonishment.
However, after seeing similar situations more than ten times in a row, he has already become accustomed to it and it has become natural.
If Jiang Yao didn't take the initiative to talk about the specific situation, it would naturally be inconvenient for Fang Weidong to ask more questions.
At this moment, the explanation he gave Da Zhuang was just something he made up on his own.
According to his own estimation, even if his guess has some discrepancies with the facts, the difference should not be very big.
"I see, I understand!" Da Zhuang nodded as if he suddenly understood.
He knew that the corpses of the mantis monsters in this area were all made by Jiang Yao. Although he didn't know much about this person, judging from the little things he knew, this person did have great supernatural powers and was extremely mysterious.
Although Da Zhuang didn't believe all of Fang Weidong's explanation, he believed it at least eight points.
While talking to Fang Weidong, he glanced at Jiang Yao over there from the corner of his eyes from time to time.
Soon, Jiang Yao, who was holding his head just now and looking a little ferocious because of the pain, stood up again as if nothing had happened.
"Has the whole lamb been roasted? Are you useless with the seasonings I brought out?"
“Roasted whole lamb without chili and cumin has no soul at all!”
"Forget it, step aside and let me do it myself!"
After taking a few steps to the bonfire, while asking Fang Weidong, Jiang Yao's eyes fell directly on the whole sheep that was being roasted on top of the fire and dripping oil.
Seeing Fang Weidong and others roasting the sheep like this, he seemed a little dissatisfied.
After scanning around, he found the bottles and jars he had taken out before. Then he sat down by the fire and roasted the lamb. spread.
His obviously bold actions, in the eyes of others, are full of charm, like flowing clouds and flowing water, making people feel that they have a unique beauty that is difficult to describe.
Da Zhuang didn't know what other people thought. When he saw Jiang Yao's behavior of barbecue, he just felt that such a proficient person could almost be said to be a master of barbecue skills. He didn't set up a stall on the street to sell barbecue. Yeah, that's really a pity.
He was like this. Fang Weidong and others beside the bonfire were also speechless and stunned, and their performance was not much better than him.
"Okay, the meat is almost done. This is the heat, it's just right!"
"I stayed in Xiangjiang a few days ago, and I have always been pampered. I haven't done this for a few days."
"Try my skills, I'll eat first, you can do whatever you want!"
In less than ten minutes, Jiang Yao nodded with satisfaction as he looked at the golden roasted lamb in front of him.
While greeting everyone, he tore off a leg of lamb and started to feast on it.
Although the excruciating pain caused by his spirit being cut off was quickly relieved, Jiang Yao still felt a little numb when he thought about it.
A large piece of roast meat entered his mouth and began to stimulate his taste buds crazily, making him temporarily forget the excruciating pain he had endured before, and his whole mood began to become much more pleasurable.
With his huge appetite, if he really wanted to eat, he could eat the entire sheep in front of him.
However, being alone is not as good as sharing the joy of everyone. The roasted whole lamb that he made by himself had the intention of rewarding everyone present. At this moment, after eating the leg of lamb, he had stopped talking.
After scanning the crowd present, his eyes fell on Da Zhuang: "It's hard to persuade those damn ghosts with easy words. Then Vice-Tuan Huang ignored my previous warning. He wants to seek death on his own, and he can't blame anyone else."< br>
"Originally, I have already cleaned up this area once, and there are still some fish that slipped through the net, probably only two or three big cats and kittens."
"But now, if something happens to those guys, some of them will transform into new mantis monsters."
"Compared to before, this area is definitely much more dangerous."
"If you don't want to die, just stay here and don't run around."
"As long as I'm here, it's just some mantis monsters. Don't worry, they won't be able to cause much trouble!"
……
Da Zhuang and others had no enmity or enmity against him, so Jiang Yao couldn't say he had any bad feelings towards them.
In the past, he would be very rude with his words, mainly because at that time, he was possessing the only remaining sheep and exploring a safe path in Death Valley.
He was busy with his business, but the big and strong guys were shouting and yelling next to him, which had already caused some negative effects on him. Jiang Yao would naturally feel a little unhappy.
"Yeah, I know, Mr. Jiang!"
"Don't worry, we're not going anywhere, we're just going to stay here."
"After Mr. Jiang has finished your work, we will follow you back to the camp."
Jiang Yao's warning made Da Zhuang and others turn pale.
The eagerness in their hearts before had already gone to their heads.
After some persuasion by Fang Weidong, Da Zhuang and others thought a lot and finally accepted the reality.
If possible, they would rather go back to the camp and be held accountable by the superiors than face the terrifying mantis monster.
"It's good to know!" Jiang Yao nodded and looked back.
He frowned slightly and began to think about what happened in Death Valley.
As a formal pharmacist, although he has never seen the real Heavenly Dao Fruit, he still has some impressions of the records related to it.
This supreme holy fruit, after taking it, can make people enter the state of enlightenment.
If an innate master wants to cross the threshold and step into the realm of heaven and man, he needs to understand the rules of heaven and earth and be able to enter a state of harmony with heaven and earth at any time.
The Heavenly Dao Fruit is one of the best sacred objects that helps the innate master to understand the world when he attacks the realm of heaven and man.
If they didn't find this thing, then that's it. When the last sheep died in Death Valley, Jiang Yao might have led his people back home.
But now, knowing that there is Heavenly Dao Fruit inside, he is really unwilling to just turn around and leave without getting it. (End of chapter)