Chapter 289 The First Victim
Damn it, indiscriminate attack.
Lin Qi’s heart beat wildly.
Fortunately, I had the foresight to hide behind the stone, otherwise I would have been exposed even if I didn't die. Look now... Damn, that's not right.
Lin Qi's muscles suddenly tightened, and his pupils shrank like needles. In the flash of lightning, he noticed several pale spikes, as if they had no body, directly penetrating through the thick rocks on the shore.
Can't guard against it.
In the blink of an eye, a dozen spikes had passed through the rock and appeared directly in front of Lynch, covering his entire body.
He didn't know the consequences of being stabbed, and he didn't want to know. Because of the speed of the spikes, he didn't even have time to react, and his body had already reacted unconsciously and instinctively.
Chi.
All the spikes penetrated Lynch's body without any hindrance, and Lynch seemed to feel the coldness and weirdness from the spikes.
The twisted and terrifying pressure was constantly coming from the spikes, weighing Lynch down so much that he could hardly breathe.
But no blood flowed out from all the places where it was stabbed. The spike penetrated the body just like it penetrated the stone easily, just like piercing a welcome.
[Nolan's Phase Barrier] was activated at the last moment.
The spikes that were fired paused in Lynch's body for a moment, and then were quickly recovered. Only then did Lynch recover from the shock and have enough time to notice the changes around him.
The poor mouse's body was hit by a sharp thorn. It hung on the thorn and kept twitching. However, the sharp thorn did not pierce its body. It just buried the tip into the mouse's body, and the sharp thorn itself continued to shrink. It swelled. I don’t know if it was absorbing something or injecting something into the mouse.
And Salin... Salin has disappeared.
At the last moment, his body suddenly exploded and turned into large fireflies flying in all directions.
[Power, stagnant water, ability, fireflies in the pool. 】
However, the fireflies failed to fly away.
The spikes in other directions have been retracted. Only the one that stabbed the mouse and the dozens of spikes that stabbed Salin remain at the lakeside.
Especially among them, the spikes around Salin, which were originally going straight, suddenly popped up countless thinner branches horizontally from the tips, like branches of trees, like a three-dimensional net, catching all the fireflies in one go. All stuck online.
Snap.
The rat that had been twitching suddenly froze, and then its small body exploded into a ball of flesh and blood. The sharp thorn that stabbed the rat lost its target and was immediately withdrawn into the center of the lake.
But Salin's position was different. The fireflies in the sky quickly returned to human form. Salin was hanging on the spiked net in a very twisted posture. His torso was not damaged, but his limbs were still damaged several times. The root apex was scratched, just abrased and not penetrated into the body.
After a moment of stalemate, a blackened dagger slipped out of Salin's sleeve and slashed hard at a main thorn.
The sound of the collision was like the clash of gold and iron, but despite the full force, the spikes were not damaged. However, as if they were stimulated, these spikes quickly retracted into the body of the monster in the middle of the lake, causing Salin in the net... to fall directly towards the monster in the lake.
“Ah~~”
Caught off guard, Salin had nowhere to use his strength and let out a suppressed exclamation, then danced and fell into the lake.
However, seeing that Salin was about to fall into the water, he suddenly stretched out his legs and stepped on the water with his toes, but it seemed as if he had stepped on an entity.
[Power, water, ability, riding waves. 】
Stepping on the surface of the lake to gain strength, he rose upward again and quickly distanced himself from the monster in the lake. But just as he jumped up, a black shadow suddenly shot over from the lake.
It was a long vine, moving very fast, like an arrow. Salin didn't even have time to react before he was hit head-on by the vine. He let out another low scream and fell down again. Back to the lake.
No, no.
In the process of falling again, the sound of metal collision suddenly sounded from the lakeside.
A multi-jointed metal-like whip suddenly stretched out from the darkness and was thrown directly to Salin's hand, like the last straw before drowning.
The vine twisted and was about to turn again, but Salin had already grabbed the multi-jointed whip and used the force to rush to the shore. The multi-jointed whip was as abrupt and ghostly as it appeared. Back into the darkness.
With the sound of footsteps, Salin successfully landed and quickly shrank into the darkness by the lake. The life-like vines froze in the air, then suddenly broke and fell into the lake.
For a time, the breeze blew gently, the grass shadows swayed, and the lakeside returned to silence. Only an increasingly solemn atmosphere slowly brewed in the darkness.
Gurgling.
With the sound of bubbling in the center of the lake, the heavy pressure suddenly stopped. At the same time, the spiked monster that had surfaced dragged its bloated and weird body back into the lake again. Peace was restored in the darkness, the moonlight was like water, and the waves were calm. The camp was still as quiet as before, as if no one knew that in just a few seconds, at least four people were attacking and defending at the lakeside several times like lightning, although there was no winner. Negative, but it almost made the difference between life and death.
No, at least Lynch knew.
Just now, it was not that the Holy Mother's heart was overflowing to save people rashly, but a decision made after careful consideration.
Although Salin is a double agent and is not suitable for cooperation, in fact, careful analysis shows that his two known employers do not pose a great threat to Lynch. Trinleth did not ask Salin to kill him. Selene, and Walker are relatively friendly.
Therefore, this man's threat to Lynch is relatively minimal, and the advantages of keeping him far outweigh the disadvantages.
So Lynch took action decisively and ran away without looking back after rescuing the man.
It must not be discovered by others, let alone the monster in the lake. As for whether Salin can survive, it depends on his own ability.
Almost without touching the ground, Lynch quickly retreated into the camp.
The lake is at least a few hundred meters away from the camp. Salin's two sounds just now did not alarm anyone in the camp. The workers were still patrolling normally, and there was already a sound of snoring in the barracks.
Huh, this place is still reassuring. Although it is full of dangers, it is at least more normal than the lakeside. It can be compared to a horror movie.
Lin Qi did not return to the barracks right away, but lay down on the roof and waited with bated breath, watching a few fireflies get in through a cracked window, and heard a rustle like small animals. There was a crawling sound, and the surrounding tree shadows swayed for a while, and then everything became calm.
After waiting for a long time to make sure there was nothing unusual, Lin Qi lurked back to the door. After a moment's hesitation, he opened the door and got in.
There was no movement in the room. Lynch looked towards Judy's bed. Judy could be seen lying on the bed in the moonlight.
Lin Qi breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that the girl was not tricked by him. Lin Qi finally felt relieved and no longer had a guilty conscience.
However, as soon as Lynch walked up to Judy and leaned down to wake her up, his ankle suddenly tightened, and then a strong force knocked him over and dragged him directly into the bed.
Holy shit.
I was thinking about horror movies and came right away.
The speed was so fast that before Lynch's brain had time to react, he was already dragged under the bed, and his mouth was covered with a hand.
However, Lin Qi did not struggle immediately, letting the soft body behind him cover his mouth and hug him. Seeing that he had no reaction, the person behind him also let go of his arms and huddled under the bed with him.
The only person who can make Lynch's soul burn just by touching him is Judy, the apostle of the Blazing Lady.
"It's safer here. I feel that there are extremely dangerous things outside. I can at least have one more chance here." Judy whispered in her ear, "What happened over there?"
Lynch did not hide anything. , recounted everything that happened by the lake: "In short, it was a four-way melee caused by monsters."
"No, at least five." Judy whispered softly, "No matter how big it is, Firefly, the light cannot reach here and be seen by me.”
"So the light source at the beginning was man-made?" Lynch immediately understood what Judy meant, "So someone discovered Salin's movements and used the light source to trigger this encounter? Haha, it was really lively, fortunately In the end, he stopped in time and was not killed by the monster. By the way, do you know what kind of monster it was? Will we chase it together?"
"No, from your description, it was Gra. Ji, a very powerful mysterious creature, can’t leave the lake, so don’t worry.”
Judy breathed a sigh of relief and explained:
"Glaki has a long life, at least thousands of years, and lives in the lake all year round. He lures victims to the lake through the transmission of mysterious filth, then pierces them with spikes and injects his will into the victim. The injected The victim will have the same lifespan as Glaaki, but will lose his own will and be completely controlled by Glaaki. It is also called the servant of Glaaki. It is a bit strange. This kind of thing is very rare, how can one appear here. ? No one noticed in the afternoon. "
"Could it be caused by the six people who died in the afternoon?" Lin Qi thought of the information he just overheard, "This thing is also part of the ritual? What exactly is it? "
"I don't know. The employer keeps it strictly confidential. It can only be announced at the destination, which is the main tomb. Before that, the two leaders, Jenna and Karl, know the details. "< br>
Carl Jones... The vine in the darkness appeared in front of his eyes, and Lynch nodded.
"I understand, let's wait and see for a while. Don't worry, I have not forgotten the agreement I made with the Blazing Lady, and I will do my best to destroy the Swollen Daughter's conspiracy."
"Well, A lady won't doubt her own people." Judy smiled gently, "I'm almost at my limit, so I'll go back today. Thank you for chatting with me. Those people who were accidentally frightened today won't do anything for the time being. Yes, you should take the time to have a good rest.”
It's a pity that Lynch didn't rest well. He had a nightmare. He kept dreaming about the dark lake and the pale and strange figures in the water. It seemed that there was always a voice whispering in his ear: "Come on." , come on, merge into the lake. "
When I opened my eyes again from under the bed, the sky outside was gray, as if filled with fog, and a loud shout came from the yard outside the barracks. came.
Six workers suddenly disappeared, and Salin, who was rescued last night, also had an accident at the same time.
His body fell to the lake for unknown reasons.
(End of this chapter)