Chapter 327 The Palace of Naga Kapoulos
Lucian looked meaningfully at Huo Jixing, who was always smiling, with a complicated look in his eyes.
During the battle just now, he had been secretly observing this guy's strength.
He originally thought that although Huo Jixing was extraordinary in skill, he might be in a desperate situation when faced with the legendary Shadow of War Hecarim.
But the reality was beyond his imagination.
Huojixing not only went head-to-head with Hecarim, but also showed no signs of falling behind.
This shocked Lucian. It can be said that Huo Jixing is one of the most powerful humans he has encountered since he embarked on the road of revenge.
Later, Lucian couldn't help but recall his recent experience in the reef waters of Slaughter Pier.
While dealing with the dark energy left by Pike, he realized that there was a supernatural being hiding in the dark.
It is very similar to Huo Jixing's current aura.
Only he can avoid his own keen sense.
"May good luck follow you. I have other things to do, so I won't be with you."
Lucian took back the sacred pistol he took out and prepared to step into the black mist again.
"Wait a minute, Black Mist is very unsafe now, come with us."
Miss Fortune made a plea to stay, her eyes fell on the two sacred pistols on Lucian's waist. .
Curiosity and inquiry arose within her.
Because she has never seen a similar weapon on her mother's workbench, but it has the power to repel the black mist.
“No need, I do still have things to do.” Lucian shook his head slightly and subconsciously refused.
He seems to have forgotten how to get along with others and has long been accustomed to being alone.
“There is a ghost waiting for me in the black mist, Soullock Warden Thresh, and I want to send him to death.”
Thinking of Thresh who had just left, the corners of Lucian's eyes wrinkled slightly.
Miss Fortune's eyes narrowed and she recognized the expression on Lucian's face.
That was the expression she had been wearing since her mother died.
"He killed the person you miss, right?"
Lucian nodded slowly, without saying a word, and his eyes fell on the silver jewelry box hanging around his neck.
And his silence spoke more clearly than any words.
Seeing this, Miss Fortune looked at Gangplank beside her and resisted the urge to draw her gun and shoot.
"If it were just you, I can guarantee that you won't survive tonight."
Huo Jixing walked slowly to Lucian, looked into Ripple's sad eyes, and pointed at the surging The undulating black mist.
"You just saw that there is not only Thresh in the black mist, but also Hecarim."
"Even some ancient beings on the Shadow Island may also join in this soul-eating night carnival."
Lucian's eyes lowered slightly, looking a little hesitant.
"Let's find a safe place with Miss Fortune first."
Huo Jixing noticed Lucian's mood changes and struck while the iron was hot.
“Before the Soul Eating Night ends, they will definitely launch a final attack.”
"At that time, it will be the real life and death crisis that we need to face."
The reason why Huo Jixing retained Lucian was also for his own consideration.
As he said, two terrifying entities, Soul Lock Warden Thresh and Shadow of War Hecarim, have appeared in this Soul-eating Night.
And with the strength Hecarim showed just now.
If a similar being comes to Bilgewater in the second half of the night of Soul Haunting, he may really want to stay in the black mist.
"Well, I'll go with you."
After pondering for a while, Lucian nodded slowly to Huo Jixing.
Perhaps with his help, Senna can be rescued from Thresh.
Miss Fortune's expression changed, and she looked at Huo Jixing, waiting for a reply.
Among all the people present, Huo Jixing is the most powerful.
At the same time, he maintains a good relationship with Feder and Sock and can win them over to his side.
"Please wait a moment."
Huo Jixing looked slightly apologetic and called Miss Fortune and Raven.
"I have some friends on the way."
As soon as Huo Jixing finished speaking, there were rapid footsteps from the far end of the Pirate Street.
It's Drizzt and Graves.
They led Yosip and the soldiers of the Reser Guard Corps over quickly, adding some strength to the temporary team.
The two groups of people met together and quickly introduced themselves and got to know each other.
People from the Noxus Empire!
Plank's heart sank when he heard Josip's words and saw his appraising eyes.
He would never forget his plunder of the Noxian Imperial fleet.
There is also the existence of Huo Jixing.
Ganglank's movements became cautious, hoping to reach Lady Bearded's temple quickly and see Illaoi.
Immediately, everyone followed Miss Fortune and Raven to the Butcher's Bridge.
Although the team was vaguely divided into three different camps as they moved forward, at this moment they were closely united because of the arrival of Soul Eating Night.
Under the dark night, the red-gold brilliance drove back the surging black mist.
"Hey, what's going on?"
Graves approached Huojixing, looked at Fedel and Sok who were following closely, and couldn't help but feel curious. Ask.
His eyes wandered between Sarah and Gangplank, full of gossip.
“Who would have thought that Sarah, Miss Fortune, and Gangplank, the Bandit King, would be on the same team and be fine with each other?”
As a person who experienced the Tide of Fire, Graves remembered it very clearly.
During the bloody operation to depose Gangplank, Miss Fortune Sarah really wanted to kill Gangplank.
Although the two of them looked a little embarrassed now, they worked together and walked in the dark fog.
“In the face of life and death, personal grudges can be put aside temporarily.”
Huo Jixing thought of the bloody feud between Sarah and Plank, and had to admire Sarah.
But he is not a generous person and will not forget Gangplank's robbery of the Noxian Empire ship.
"What instructions does fate have now?"
Huo Jixing's eyes fell on Drizzt and saw the cards in his hand dancing non-stop.
"Fate. Twisted."
Drizzt looked gloomy and replied in a solemn voice.
"All I see is black mist."
Huo Jixing left the lower city tavern partly because of Drizzt.
Between cutting and shuffling the cards, he gained some insight into the direction of fate and sensed the impending fatal danger.
Then, under the leadership of Drizzt, everyone followed the direction guided by fate and arrived at this luxury dock located in the uptown area.
Huo Jixing noticed the abnormal energy fluctuations near the dock from a distance.
In the black mist of the surging steel waves, he saw Sok and Fedel.
He was not worried about Sok before because he had a backup plan for Sok.
Also, Sok's mother Aretha is a believer of Nagakapoulos and should be protected by Nagakapoulos.
But they didn’t want them to encounter the Shadow of War Hecarim and the Soullock Warden Thresh. In the end, before death came, Huo Jixing took action in time, beat Hecarim hard, and saved Miss Fortune, Thok and others.
"Black fog. Soul-eating night"
Hearing Drizzt's words, Huo Jixing looked at the endless black fog ahead, and his heart was filled with a layer of haze.
Fate has been completely twisted!
Even if Drizzt used the power of fate, he could not see the way forward clearly.
Sky over Bilgewater.
The black mist was slowly surging, and between each ups and downs, faint green flames could be seen.
The sharp smile of resentment is like a rusty blade scraping against a grindstone, echoing among the buildings.
On the dome of the dilapidated building, rows of Styx surveillance owls gathered together, squawking and wanting to have another feast in the second half of the night.
In the deep alley near the street, you can occasionally see some faint spots of light, like ghosts in the swamp that are tempting people.
“Don’t look at them.”
Lucian walked in front of the team, noticed the red eyes of the Styx surveillance owl, and spoke in a solemn voice.
“They are the rotting birds on the Shadow Island, they like cold corpses and lonely souls.”
Hearing this, everyone immediately avoided the red eyes of the Styx supervisor and walked forward slowly. OK.
Huo Jixing didn't care at all. His red-gold eyes looked at the Styx Monitoring Owl, causing these crow-like black birds to frighten and flutter their wings away.
Sock heard the sound of flapping wings, and from the corner of his eye noticed the Styx Monitor Owl leaving in panic, and was once again surprised by Huo Jixing's strength.
In other words, his surprise has never stopped since the two met.
Even if he had an estimate of Huo Jixing's strength.
But the strength shown by Huo Jixing far exceeded Suoke's imagination.
And because of Huo Jixing's protection, he was at the center of the team.
The team moved forward slowly and finally reached the Butcher's Bridge.
Huo Jixing, Lucian and others were guarding them along the way, so the number of people did not decrease much.
Miss Fortune quickly came to the end of the bridge, looked back at the almost invisible uptown area, and her subordinates who were following her, and sighed softly.
In fact, during the soul-eating night, if they just want to live a stable life, they can hide in a room with closed doors and windows, or hide behind strange reliefs, holding the bearded lady's amulet and everything to protect their peace of mind. The thing prays wildly.
But this Soul Eating Night is different.
The once relatively safe method no longer works.
Along the way, they saw countless broken houses.
The window panes were shattered and the door hung precariously on the leather rope, leaving behind gnawed cold corpses.
Miss Fortune only stared forward, trying not to pay attention to the resentful eyes of those cold corpses and the remaining fear.
When they passed by the door of a house, they saw only the cold corpses of a family and a child left inside.
The cozy huts have now become ossuaries.
"Black Mist will get its comeuppance." Gangplank spoke in a low voice, his eyes gloomy.
This is his city.
I don’t know how many people survived this soul-eating night.
Miss Fortune turned to look at Gangplank. She had spent the previous Soul Haunting Nights safely under his leadership.
Only this time, because he was deposed, the soul-eating night became not simple.
She looked at these resigned dead people, feeling inexplicably angry in her heart.
Just like her mother.
But what’s the use of talking about this now? In the final analysis, their strength is too weak.
"You can't wear the crown unless the king dies, little girl."
Ganglank noticed Miss Fortune's dark eyes and grinned.
"Crown? Your crown has already fallen to the bottom of the sea." Miss Fortune said sarcastically, not liking Gangplank at all.
"You are just a down-and-out captain now."
"Haha!"
Glank didn't care about Miss Fortune Sarah's words, and laughed evilly, Keep your head down and move forward.
Huo Jixing shook his head slightly when he heard the two men's sarcastic words.
These two former and former rulers of Bilgewater rarely cooperated because of a black fog.
Crossing the Butcher's Bridge, a long line of people moved forward slowly, and the red-gold flames purified a safe area.
Huo Jixing looked at the cliff opposite the bridge, and the outline of a building caught his attention.
The building sits in a crater-shaped pit on the cliff. It looks like a piece of the top of the mountain has been chewed off by a giant sea beast.
Like most houses in Bilgewater, the construction materials were taken from the ocean.
The walls are made of boards drifted from distant continents, and the window frames are made of sunken ship wood salvaged from the seabed.
There is no straight line from top to bottom in the whole building, which looks very strange.
Those weird arcs make it seem to be in motion all the time, as if one day it will uproot itself and run to another place to settle.
The curved spire stretches into the air, like the tusks of a narwhal.
There is a spiral sign at the top, surrounded by a circle of faint light. Wherever it shines, the black mist recedes to one side, and you dare not step forward.
"Where is that place?" Huo Jixing asked.
"The Temple of the Bearded Lady, the Palace of Nagakapoulos." Suok replied.
"This is also what Miss Fortune said is a safe place."
"Safe?"
"Better than staying outside." Thok said without thinking.
Drizzt walked over slowly, looked at Nagakapoulos' palace, pulled out three cards of different colors, and opened them directly.
"Destiny gives guidance, it is relatively safe here."
Huo Jixing nodded and followed Miss Fortune, walking along the ancient road.
The road is flat, and there are fences woven with wire ropes on both sides, like waves pushing forward.
Huo Jixing stopped in front of the fence and saw the cold underground river rushing forward.
Looking along the river, he saw that most of Bilgewater had been completely submerged in the black fog, and several docks that were usually bustling were no longer alive.
Bilgewater is suffocating as tentacles of mist seep into the heart of the city.
The screams came intermittently, and every sound meant the end of a life, and also meant that there was a new member in the army of the dead in the black fog.
"Maybe if we come a few more times, Bilgewater will all be lost to the black mist." Drizzt sighed softly.
As a river wanderer, he had been to Bilgewater when he was young.
This port city is unlike other places.
Everywhere his tribe goes, the local people only care about the exotic goods they bring.
But they stay away from them because of their special living customs.
So no matter where they anchor, their colorful sailboats can only get a very short courtesy.
The elders always shrugged helplessly and said that this is the way of the world.
Only Bilgewater is different, accepting visitors from all directions, as well as river nomads.
It turns out Drizzt screwed everything up.
He stayed alone in Bilgewater, and under the guidance of fate, he met Graves.
"Sarah, take everyone there immediately!"
Huo Jixing seemed to have noticed something, turned around, looked at the surging black fog, and spoke in a deep voice.
Lucian also drew out the sacred pistol from his waist at about the same time and turned to look at the black mist.
(End of this chapter)