Chapter 53: Bouncing and Leaping White Bone

  The white skulls that jumped from the corner, up and down, looked quite rhythmic, but this rhythm was terrifying when it appeared on human skulls.

  They started with just three or five, and now there are fifty or sixty of them. Of course, the number is not limited to that, and more white skulls jumped out from around the bend...

  "What the hell is this thing?" Liu Yi shouted, his eyes fixed intently on it.

  "Who the hell do you think I'm asking, who the hell else?!" Malacca this guy also learned Korksi's catchphrase, and he saw him holding a knife and looking up at the surrounding carvings, afraid that there would be human skulls jumping down from them.

  "I'll protect Professor Zhou Tao and Kexi, I'll meet them ahead of time!"

  Liu Yi let out a loud cry and rushed forward, his feet kicking against the statue. He flipped over in mid-air and just as he was about to land, he kicked out with one foot, striking the skull of the leading skeleton soldier. The skull flew backward, hitting the side of the statue with a loud "crack" and let out a faint cry before falling to the ground, where it rolled away, muttering to itself.

  At this time, Liu Yi also fell to the ground, and shone a flashlight on it. Seeing the white skull lying motionless on the ground, he thought: "These ghosts are just scary in appearance, but they don't have any real abilities!"

  Just thinking of this, but seeing the white skull that fell on the ground, it jumped up again and made an even more unpleasant and noisy cackling sound.

  "Damn it!" The curses had just fallen, and the other white skulls that had already rushed to his front six meters away suddenly sprayed ** from their mouths. The sky was dark and couldn't be seen clearly, but Liu Yi also knew that it must not be something good. Once this ** stuck on him, he would definitely not end well.

  Only Liu Yi was seen, and then several consecutive empty flips were made, barely avoiding the attack of the white-headed bone.

  Those white skulls, seeing one strike not hitting, were very dissatisfied, and continued to jump up and down towards Liu Yi's attack.

  The situation was critical, Liu Yi touched his pocket and found a few more red fruits picked from the Tongtian Tree. He hastily took them out as weapons, running while throwing them back, one by one, each hitting its mark, momentarily stopping them in their tracks.

  Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh! Several red fruits were thrown out in just a few seconds. At this time, a burst of strange and mournful sounds suddenly came from the surrounding stone statues, making Liu Yi's scalp explode with fear.

  "Liu Yi, look!" shouted Malacca in front of him, pointing behind him.

  Liu Yi heard this and didn't know what had happened behind him, so he turned around and swung his sword as a precaution, but it was a wasted effort. The White Bone Spirits hadn't followed him after all.

  And above him, many white skulls appeared again, but these monsters did not attack him and instead rushed to the place where the first wave of white skulls had gathered earlier. Something unknown happened there.

  Liu Yi was puzzled, wondering if these guys were having a meeting or not. He took out his flashlight and shone it towards the pile of skulls, only to see that they had stretched out their long tongues, holding the red fruit he had just thrown away.

  Their tongues are bright red, and with one lick, the fruit loses a layer, but I don't know what it feels like to have this tongue on human skin.

  "These guys love fruit, hurry up and throw all the fruit on you into it!"

  Liu Yi shouted and rushed to the front of Professor Zhou Tao. In fact, without his instruction, everyone had already taken out the fruit they had picked earlier and threw it at the pile of white skulls, then took advantage of their frantic scramble for food to find a statue where a white skull had just jumped down from, climbed up, and jumped into another small path.

  As soon as they landed on the ground, they heard a loud crash. A white skull suddenly appeared from somewhere and jumped down with them, blocking their way forward. It seemed to be saying: "This road was opened by me, leave your toll money."

  Malacca rubbed his palms together and spat out a mouthful of words: "Just one, let me take care of it!"

  He drew his curved sword from his waist and stared at the faintly red eyes of the white skull, shouting loudly: "Youngster, I'm coming!" Then he charged forward with his sword.

  That white skull didn't move, only blinked its eyes. When Malacca held the knife and chopped down, just as it was about to land, the white skull dodged to the left, simply resolving this attack.

  Ma Liuji let out a cry, his technique not yet old, transforming the splitting motion into a sweeping one, striking towards the white skull in mid-air. But then he saw that white skull suddenly sink down and land on the ground with a loud crack.

  "Your grandma's! Can you still wield a thousand jin drop?" Ma Liuji was slightly impatient, took two quick steps forward and chopped at the White Bone Demon with his knife. This time he really hit the mark.

  "A chopping sound... 'Ka ka...' The white skull was chopped once, but it didn't crack open. However, a fissure appeared. Perhaps this white skull had been around for too long and wasn't very hard anymore."

  He felt triumphant in his heart, took a step forward, lifted his foot, and was about to kick it away when suddenly an arrow-shaped object shot out of the white skull's mouth and sprayed towards Ma Liuji's body.

  Malacca would not let it get away with it, a sidestep, the horse immediately turned around, hugged its head and scurried away, looking disheveled, barely avoiding.

  "Hiss, croak......"

  After the sound passed, Malacca turned back and saw that Liu Yi had quietly moved to the back of the white skull at some point. Taking advantage of its spray, one knife was inserted directly from the top of the white skull to the bottom.

  That white skull, after jumping up and down on the spot a couple of times, stopped moving altogether, clearly dead. Thanks to Liu Yi's sword, which was razor-sharp and unstoppable, it had been easy to thrust into place; an ordinary knife or sword probably wouldn't have made it in so easily.

  Everyone saw that the white skull was no longer moving, and they thought it was no longer a threat, so they all gathered around. But when they saw Liu Yi's black obsidian sword pointing downwards at the white ***, which fell to the ground, an imprint suddenly appeared, clearly showing that this *** had corrosive properties.

  "Crack! Snap!"

  That white skull was chopped by Ma Liuji with one knife, and then added a knife from the top by Liu Yi, which actually broke open in the middle. Under the flashlight, a "triangular face" monster appeared before everyone.

  The monster's body was like a frog, with a green body mixed with black vertical stripes, but the entire face was as flat as if it had been cut by a knife. A pair of small eyes were red, and at this time they had already bulged out, hanging on the strange triangular face, plus the long tongue sticking out, making it look very terrifying.

  "What is this thing?" Malacca asked as he went.

  Liu Yi said with a heroic tone: "What's the difference what it is, as long as we can kill it, that's all that matters!"

  He looked at Koxing and saw that he was also surprised, so he gave up the idea of asking.

  Even Professor Zhou Tao, who knows the heavens and the earth, is completely ignorant of this thing. He said: "This thing seems to be deliberately placed in the skull of a dead person, it looks like a frog, let's call it 'Triangle Ghost Face Frog'!"

  It's clear that since giving the big mouse the name "Corpse Oil Mouse", Professor Zhou Tao has fallen in love with "custom naming".

  At this time, Malacca said: "Professor, I wanted to climb the statue earlier, why did you say 'not suitable'?"

  Professor Zhou chuckled and said, "If the maze can be exited by simply going to a high place, then you're underestimating the ancients. When they set up the maze, they had already thought of this point, and would generally set up some mechanisms or place some monsters at the top or middle of the obstacles to prevent people from breaking through the maze from above. It's much safer to find a way out in the maze than to walk on those stone statues. Legend has it that once you enter this 'dead array', the environment inside will change. It seems that this formation is unmanned, which is why we were able to find our way out so easily. Otherwise... heh heh..."

  Malacca scratched his head and asked: "But where did all these dead skulls come from? And who put them inside?"

  Professor Zhou thought for a moment and speculated: "There must have been many people who came here before us, like Wang Mang's army, Ma Bufang's men, and many others we don't know about. Maybe they died here and had their heads cut off, and then someone raised this strange creature inside."

  Liu Yi's head turned: "Could it be those guarding the sheep army who did this?"

  Keke Xi Dao said, "No, Father has said that although he knows this place exists in the Lingyang Jade Palace, he can't find a way to enter. As the Great Discerner of the clan, even he doesn't know, so it's certain others won't either."

  Liu Yi let out a sound, thinking to himself: "Could it be that this last layer still has another guardian?"

  As they spoke, the crowd turned a corner and suddenly found a corpse in front of them. The corpse had been pierced through the head by a homemade bow and arrow and was nailed to the statue.

  They were worried that it was the missing Lu Zonghan and others, so they walked forward and shone their flashlight. The corpse's eyes bulged out, died of suffocation, and judging from the clothes he wore, he should be a member of the poaching gang.

  "I know him!" cried Malacca.

  Everyone looked at him, and Koxi said innocently on the side: "Oh, so you're with them?"

  "Cough... what was I thinking!" Ma Liuji looked at Liu Yi and said, "Do you still remember when we first came to Qinghai and stayed in a hotel, I sneaked into the national aviation database to query relevant information?"

  Liu Yi nodded and said: "Is this person the one who ambushed Wang Dachuan and stole the sheepskin map?"

  "Absolutely not wrong!" Malacca said, and then touched the corpse all over, except for finding a Desert Eagle and several clips, he actually found a embroidered piece of cloth on him, which looked like the map that was robbed.

  Ma Liuji's heart skipped a beat as he handed the map to Liu Yi, saying: "It seems that this map is not the one leading to the Death Valley, it must be somewhere else!"

  It's not the time to study the map, Liu Yi put it in his bosom and looked at the man's face with surprise: "The arrow wound didn't even bleed, it seems that the person who shot the arrow has a lot of strength!"

  Hearing Liu Yi say this, Professor Zhou Tao worried: "Is there another group of people nearby besides the poachers and us?"

  "It's possible!" Malacca nodded in agreement.

  Liu Yi furrowed his brow: "But it's unclear whether they're friend or foe, we must be cautious and on guard!"

  ……

  The moon wanders listlessly among the dark clouds, occasionally revealing half of its face, although not very bright, it also casts down a faint light from time to time.

  They walked to the end of this road, turned left again, and another corpse nailed to a statue appeared. The next journey was surprisingly smooth, they used these corpses as reference objects, turning left and right, along the increasingly narrow road, advancing forward.

  Finally, they saw them with their hands raised above their heads, sideways from an exit, squeezing out of the maze, looking like after exiting this exit, it was the central area of the stone forest.

  Malacca, who was leading the way in front, finally squeezed out of the exit with great difficulty due to his obesity. Just as he was about to take a deep breath, he found a group of ancient soldiers standing far away, wearing armor and holding long spears.