Chapter Eighty-Fifth Lighting Environment

  A moment later, two men turned from the front bend, and Liang Xin swiftly pounced on them. The two men had no time to react before Liang Xin's hands firmly pressed against their chest, and he asked in a low voice: "Who are you?"

  The two men had not expected to be ambushed and, in their shock, instinctively swung their fists at Liang Xin. Liang Xin exerted a slight force with both hands, and the two men let out a muffled groan in unison, collapsing softly to the ground. They felt their chest heaving with blood and energy, their limbs numb and weak, unable to muster any strength.

  Zhao Qing's voice also came from behind Liang Xin: "Slow down, it's one of us!"

  The two men's foreheads were covered in big sweat, their pale faces frightening, but after seeing Zhao Qing, they immediately let out a sigh of relief, and a comforting expression appeared on their faces.

  Zhao Qing asked in a low voice: "How did you get here? Something happened at the exit?" These two men were also insiders, and their team was responsible for guarding the exit of the hidden passage.

  The two men did not answer Zhao Qing's question, but instead furrowed their brows, as if they had just contracted a strange illness. They looked at each other, their eyes becoming confused and disoriented. At this moment, the yellow gourd in the green robe sniffed his nose, took a deep sniff, and suddenly shouted: "The scent of grass!"

  Just as the exclamation rose, Liang Xin clearly saw that one of the two men had a faint greenish tint flash across his eyes, like a very fine vine crawling from his left eye to his right.

  Xiao Hai also discovered the anomaly of the two men, and with a clear shout, his body flew up, his right hand flipped over, and a silver snake appeared, striking the two men's heads with a loud crash, smashing their skulls. It wasn't until the two headless corpses fell to the ground that Qing Yi, who was familiar with them, let out a low cry from behind.

  Two skulls lay crookedly to one side, yet not a single drop of blood had spilled out. Their craniums were shattered into seven or eight pieces, the skull cavities empty and hollow, as if they were broken terracotta figurines.

  The situation was eerie and silent, and the newly appointed commander Xiong Dawei immediately issued an order: "Burn the bodies! Withdraw!"

  Everyone understood his vague order, and several men in green coats rushed up, smashing the sealed oil cans on the corpse, followed by throwing out fire sparks, a big fire broke out, and everyone immediately turned around and retreated!

  Only Zhao Qing's face was filled with incredulity, muttering: "Impossible, the secret passage is the lifeblood of the entire school, it can't be discovered by the enemy..."

  Although I didn't understand what kind of spell was cast on those two men, the exit of the secret passage must have been breached. The guards in green clothes hadn't even had time to send out a signal or activate the mechanism to send people from the hidden passage to the ground before they were killed.

  Just as the crowd had turned around, two charred and flaming coffins suddenly burst out with a series of mournful wails, like live ducks scalded by hot oil, jumping up frantically and running wildly in the dark passageway. The two children were so frightened that they almost fainted, but Liang Xin quickly rushed over, grabbing one child in each hand and tossing them back into the group, loudly urging everyone: "Don't mind it, let's go...!"

  The sound had barely faded when a strange, piercing noise suddenly filled the air, and countless thin vines, thinner than hair, twisted and burst out, rapidly growing along the dark passage walls, crawling all over them in an instant. Before Xiaotai's angry shout could even rise, she was swallowed up by the endless fine vines. Liang Xin's eyes were wide with fear, but before he could rush to save Xiaotai, the hair-like vines had already attacked him, wrapping around him layer by layer.

  Liáng Xīn only felt that those fine vines were like leeches, his ears, eyes, nose, mouth and even the pores of his skin, wherever there was a gap, they would desperately drill in. Under the attack on his body, his Seven Corpse Evil Spirit immediately rotated, the power of the seven evil earths suppressed the Beidou Star Chart, rolling over his limbs again and again.

  These 'Hair Vines' are disgusting and terrifying, but their strength is quite ordinary, barely enough to compare with the Star Souls of the Four Steps True Yuan, they let out a shrill cry as they were shattered.

  Liang Xin saw that Tong Zi was no match for herself, and she also knew that she wasn't Xiao Chuan's opponent either. She felt a lot more at ease. At the same time, she was afraid that they would go after ordinary people in green clothes again. Without caring about her whole body being covered in goosebumps, she stretched out her hand and leg to occupy half of the dark passageway, desperately wrapping herself around the thin vines before they broke off layer by layer.

  The men in green didn't run away either, they all stood still, staring at the strange fight in front of them... In the dark alley, half of it was occupied by Liang Xin, firmly blocking Tongzi's attack.

  And the other half was Xiaotai, a green-clothed girl spinning rapidly, all the thin vines that tried to pass by her side were entwined around her body. The more vines wrapped around her, the faster Xiaotai spun, like a green spinning top, until after a while, a palm-shaped protrusion suddenly emerged from the "spinning top"... Left Palm!

  Clear cry: Seize!

  A loud explosion, all the hair whips were seized by the power of the evil claws, and they were all blown to pieces, with thousands of broken vines, none of which exceeded an inch in length.

  Xiao Hai's expression didn't change, standing quietly in place, while Liang Xin was like a bear trapped in a pile of hemp, wailing and yelping as he grasped the rattan strips one by one, snapping them off...

  These vines were nourished by the two dark stakes as soil nutrients, and after they grew out, they couldn't snatch new human bodies, quickly consuming the nutrients and dying soon. Liang Xin finally shook off the dead vine fragments and came out, seeing Xiao Tai still standing in the same place, looking lively and laughing happily.

  Xiao Sai narrowed his eyes and looked towards the exit, saying in a low voice: "No need to run, get ready to fight!"

  As soon as the words fell, a dull thud sounded, and all the phosphorescent lamps went out, plunging the dark passage into total darkness. Liang Xinsu smiled wryly and stomped his foot, saying something that no one could understand: "Here we go again!" The situation was eerily familiar, and he immediately thought of the man-eating jade disc he had encountered five years ago in the Kunai Mountain mine.

  Officer Xiong Dawei, who was wearing a green uniform, seemed to think that Liang Xin's words were not difficult to understand. He continued in a stern and serious tone, giving an even more bewildering order: "Pig cat drinks wine!"

  The locals were all stunned, no one knew what the boss was saying. Huang Gua reacted the fastest and burst out laughing, translating for Xiong Dawei: "Lighting environment!"

  Everyone suddenly realized, just as they were about to take action, Liang Xin gave a low order: "Don't move, seal yourselves in with red mud, each of you hide well. Without my, our orders, no one is allowed to make a move."

  Those deaf young soldiers couldn't hear the commands, so the secret sentry of Jie Town used hand gestures to convey orders...

  The men in green immediately took out the red mud they carried with them and applied it to their bodies, sealing their orifices. Even if their movements were light, they couldn't help but make a rustling sound.

  After everyone had applied the red mud and protected Old Man Cheng, who was hiding in a prone position, the rustling sound continued unabated.

  From under their feet, beside them, above their heads... a faint strange noise, gradually spread to all directions. Two children sat together, hand in hand, desperately trying not to let their teeth chatter. The cucumber in the grinding hands was lightly writing: grassy smell, very strong.

  He didn't care if his companions could see him, and with a sorrowful face he nodded and grabbed the cucumber to write: Shishishuo, it's the sound of plants growing, be careful that grass will grow under your butt.

  Cucumber grabbed back grinding teeth: What did you write?

  Two riders sat back to back, quietly listening and searching for the enemy's trail. Liang Xin was also restless, while Xiao Quan looked cold as ice, but his body was actually very relaxed and soft.

  In the absolute darkness, thread-like roots of plants quietly cracked through the stone slabs and emerged, like alert snakes, swaying back and forth, probing for human breath.

  The crowd of green-robed figures all sealed themselves with a special red mud, except for the extremely low frequency of gas exchange, they had already merged with the earth and rocks, but Liang Xin's heart was now racing...

  The roots finally determined the most obvious goal, and with some effort, they began to crawl clumsily towards the place where Liang Xin and Xiao Qu were.

  In the dark alley, the phosphorescent algae used for lighting also came alive at this moment, silently swimming and gathering, more and more...

  At that time, Li Jiao specially used this plant phosphorus which was not afraid of wind and water and could hardly be extinguished for lighting. However, no matter how hard he tried to guess, he couldn't have imagined that today's enemy would use a strange magic technique like a spring breeze, where all plants and trees become soldiers. Under this magic technique, as long as it is a plant, it will be driven and can transform into a sharp blade!

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  Haha, triumphant laughter, Pig Cat's drinking guest appearance has ended~~~~