Chapter 254 Thick Fog

Zhang Yuanqing subconsciously pulled Guan Ya to his side, saying in a serious tone:

"Don't stay away from me!"

The tall mixed-blood lady staggered when he pulled her. Through a layer of mist, Guan Ya saw Yuan Shi's face was solemn and nervous, like a child protecting his favorite toy. The nervous and cautious emotions were completely written on his face.

His reaction was the most real instinctive reaction. He would realize that I had a suit to protect myself. According to Yuan Shi's character, he would definitely check the cause of death of the poor girl immediately and change the subject.

"Sister Guan Ya, be careful. I'll go see what's going on." Zhang Yuanqing said in a deep voice.

Guan Ya thought that I had seen through you a long time ago.

She followed Zhang Yuanqing to the body. At this time, the team members had already completed the preliminary "autopsy" around the girl's body, and discussed with a sad face.

"It was beheaded by a sharp weapon. Ai Ai had no chance to react." Peony Fairy said sadly.

She seemed to know this girl named "Ai Ai".

"I was next to her just now, and I didn't feel any movement, the sound of the knife swinging, and the sound of the fog surging, all of them." The little fairy from Niulanshan with a bun frowned.

No movement, this is a bit scary

Unknown enemies are the most terrifying. The spiritual realm walkers quietly tightened their nerves and took out their own props to prevent accidents.

Tianxia Guihuo squatted on the ground, examining the head and the corpse, observing and speaking out his analysis:

"The attack should come from the front, decapitating instantly, strange, the interval between the team members is not large, there is no space for the "murderer" to swing the blade. But looking at the fracture, the "murderer" must swing a semicircle to see this effect."

"How to judge that the attack came from the front." Jiang Jingwei was puzzled.

Guan Ya explained in a low voice: "If the attack comes from behind, the body will fall forward due to inertia when walking. But now the body is lying on its back, which means that the throat was attacked and it instinctively leaned back."

Except for the Fire Master who nodded repeatedly, the other Spirit Realm Walkers were all captain-level. These simple on-site inspections did not require explanations from others.

Jiang Jingwei understood and frowned:

"Everyone was so close just now. If someone swung a knife from the front, a lot of people would have died. Why did she die alone?"

Tianxia Guihuo exhaled and said, "This is why I can't figure it out."

Not being able to hear the enemy, or even know how the other party attacks, but being able to kill a level 3 wood demon in seconds, this is a bit scary.

Zhang Yuanqing hesitated for a moment, darkness surged in his eyes, and in front of everyone, he summoned the remaining spirit of the corpse and swallowed it in one gulp.

He planned to ask the spirit directly to see if there were any clues.

The official walkers watched silently, and no one stopped him.

In this dangerous dungeon, staying alive is the first task. As long as the method works, you can have a flexible moral bottom line.

After more than ten seconds, Zhang Yuanqing opened his eyes and shook his head.

Ai Ai didn't know how she died. She just lost consciousness and lost her life in an instant.

"Can't find the murderer even if you ask the spirit?" Asano Ryo's face changed.

At this time, the fog was getting thicker and thicker, and the visibility was getting lower and lower. Even with torches, the people around him became blurred.

Invisible fear was brewing in everyone's hearts, and the team had a dispute.

"This fog is weird. The longer you stay, the more dangerous it is. Leave quickly and you will be safe after penetrating the fog."

"No, we must find out the reason and solve the problem. The fog covers a wide area, which affects our exploration of the maze. Moreover, if someone dies on the way, the map will be more seriously missing."

Both sides insisted on their own opinions, and finally shouted:

"Yuanshi Tianzun, where are you? Say something and you will decide this matter."

Zhang Yuanqing pondered for a moment and said:

"First of all, we don't know the frequency of the crisis. If this frequency is very short and the fog covers a wide area, then most of the members will be killed before we get out.

"Being an ostrich will not solve the problem. My suggestion is to deal with the crisis before moving on. "

At this time, the benefits of reputation are highlighted. If the same words are said by others, the team members will not be convinced.

But when Yuanshi Tianzun speaks, everyone is willing to obey.

Seeing that no one objects, Zhang Yuanqing looks at the girl with a bun in her hair and says:

"Little fairy, you were with Ai Ai before. Did she do anything before she died?"

He wants to know whether Ai Ai's death was pure bad luck or some "mechanism" was accidentally triggered.

The little fairy of Niulanshan frowned, thought for a while, and shook her head:

"Probably not, I didn't pay attention to her deliberately."

Zhang Yuanqing nodded, and looked at Tianxia Guihuo, Jiang Jingwei and other fire masters, and said:

"Try to create an explosion to see if the flames can be dispersed."

Hearing this, the fire masters showed strong execution, rubbing a ball of fire with both hands and throwing it far away.

"Boom! "

Explosions sounded one after another, shock waves rolled up red flames, raging in all directions, and the thick fog was violently turbulent, like muddy water.

But the vision did not become clear. The fog here was too thick. The shock wave generated by the explosion only made the slowly floating fog chaotic and disordered.

In order to disperse the thick fog, fresh air must come in.

I remember that the Rain Master has the ability to blow wind and rain. If I can have this means, I can blow away the thick fog. No, if I have the ability of the Rain Master, I don't need to be afraid of the strange fog. Zhang Yuanqing immediately tried several methods, but none of them could disperse the mountain fog.

"Yuanshi, the fog is getting thicker and thicker, and we can't stay any longer."

Guan Ya looked around and found that the thick fog was so "heavy" that she could hardly see the people around her.

Zhang Yuanqing nodded silently and said loudly:

"Everyone, hold hands and move forward. From now on, keep counting to ensure that no one gets separated or dies. Who is behind Ai Ai? Report the route. "

The crowd quickly moved, holding hands, led by Zhang Yuanqing.

The team counted as they advanced along the route.

"1, 2, 313, 14."

After one person died, the total number of people in the team was fourteen.

The second round of counting began:

"1, 2, 312, 13"

The counting stopped abruptly, and 14 was not heard for a long time.

Everyone's heart sank, and then they heard a trembling voice from the end of the team:

"I, I am number 14, I was attacked."

The speaker was Yu Nu Wu Gua, a young man in his early thirties, a level 3 water ghost.

Everyone quickly surrounded them, and several fire masters lit torches, trying to gather the firelight to enhance visibility.

Zhang Yuanqing asked:

"What happened?"

Yu Nu Wu Gua looked terrified, "Just now, I was suddenly attacked, something cut my neck and hit my passive. "

The passive skill of the water ghost ignores physical attacks.

If there was no passive skill, Yu Nu Wu Gua would have died.

"Did you see the attacker? What was the attack method?"

Everyone asked hurriedly.

Yu Nu Wu Gua touched her neck and recalled:

"I didn't see the attacker at all, and I didn't feel anything unusual. I just felt a pain in my neck, and then I found that the passive skill was activated. However, I sensed that a foreign object had invaded my body. After my head turned into water, its withdrawal trajectory was upward. "

Upward?

The official walkers raised their heads instantly, but all they saw was thick fog.

Zhang Yuanqing shook open the Yin-Yang robe, draped it on his shoulders, and his spirit left his body and floated towards the treetops.

When he approached the treetops, he was blocked again and could not continue to rise.

Zhang Yuanqing stuck to the barrier and floated back and forth under the treetops, looking for the crisis hidden among the lush branches and leaves.

The experience of Yu Nu Wu Gua shows that spirits without a physical body can also be immune to the attacker's damage.

Zhang Yuanqing quickly patrolled the circle and found no abnormalities. He immediately sank his spirit and returned to his physical body.

"Nothing was found!"

His answer disappointed everyone, and they collapsed immediately.

This invisible enemy is more difficult to deal with than the tree king. The latter is at least visible and tangible, and the danger is clearly in front of us.

"This won't work. We don't have the passiveness of the water ghost. If we are targeted, we will definitely die. "Long live the White Tiger, frowning.

Tianxia Guihuo pondered:

"I have calculated the time. From the death of Ai Ai to the attack on Yu Nu Wu Gua, the interval is five minutes. If this is the frequency of danger, then five minutes later, it will be the next attack."

The official practitioners were silent. They were like lambs to be slaughtered, silently waiting for death to come.

The next one might be himself.

Only the official practitioners have high quality, strong discipline, and can keep calm. If they were casual practitioners, they would probably have a dispute and fall into mental consumption.

Zhang Yuanqing approached Guan Ya and whispered in her ear:

"Is Yu Nu Wu Gua telling the truth?"

Guan Ya's ears were hot and she frowned:

"Judging from the tone, it should be true, but I can't see his face clearly and can't observe it."

At this time, Peony Fairy took a deep breath:

"Yuanshi Tianzun, what should we do now? No matter what you say, I will listen to you. "

Everyone looked at the captain in silence in the thick fog, and only a silhouette was left.

There is no clear captain position in the copy, but Yuanshi Tianzun is the recognized captain.

Is this handing over my life to me? Zhang Yuanqing was under great pressure. He looked around and said, "Keep going!"

Keep going. Everyone sighed in their hearts. Keep going, it means doing nothing. It seems that Yuanshi Tianzun has no tricks.

The team walked slowly and heavily through the maze forest. The thick fog obscured the vision. The road could not be seen clearly, let alone the fork in the road. In order not to go wrong, Zhang Yuanqing asked his colleague Tuguai to walk in the front.

They can effectively distinguish how many roads there are at the fork in the road.

"Two minutes. "

Someone suddenly said in the team.

Three minutes left. Zhang Yuanqing muttered to himself, actively using his brain to think about countermeasures.

After Ai Ai died, Zhang Yuanqing first thought that the crisis came from the copy, but when several explorations failed, he turned his suspicion to the traitor of Dark Night Rose.

Could it be that the thick fog simply blocked the vision and increased the difficulty of the maze?

Is it the traitor who took advantage of the copy to kill people secretly?

So he proposed to hold hands and count, all to limit the possible existence of traitors.

But now it seems that the possibility of traitors killing people is not high.

"Three minutes. "

Someone else said.

Zhang Yuanqing's mind turned quickly:

"At present, we can only conclude that the attacker attacks once every five minutes. If we want to find more patterns, we have to continue to observe. Every observation is a life, which cannot withstand such consumption."

"The danger comes from the tree canopy, but I didn't find anything abnormal. It's impossible to judge whether Yu Nu Wu Gua is lying or not. The fog is too thick, and Guan Ya can't see his face clearly."

"How did the attacker hide? The attack method is also unclear, but one thing is certain, that is, it is related to the strange fog. The danger from the fog"

Thinking of this, a face suddenly jumped out of Zhang Yuanqing's mind.

-Li Xianzong!

The thick fog at this moment evoked an unpleasant memory for him. At the beginning, he was trapped in the thick fog in his aunt's hospital, suffered a great loss, and was almost beaten into autism.

This is a typical stress disorder.

Wait!

Zhang Yuanqing suddenly realized what was going on with the thick fog in the maze forest.

In the introduction to the side quest, it was mentioned that the power of the evil cultivators had infiltrated the forest, and the road to the top of the mountain was full of dangers.

The mountain god is the name of the earth monster after the job change, so what is the job of the evil cultivator?

It is the bewitching demon!

Because the bewitching demon is called the mist master after the first job change, which is the name of the saint realm!

"Four minutes."

The voice of the person who reported the time became low.

The mood of the people in the team also became solemn, their muscles were tense, and they were in a state of alert and tension.

There is one minute left, and the attacker hiding in the dark will make a move.

Zhang Yuanqing was excited.

After figuring out the details of the crisis, it would be much easier to think about the response strategy.

I remember that when I fought with Li Xianzong in the hospital, he judged my position based on the flow of fog, and the attacker must have done the same.

So, as long as I was forbidden to move, could I avoid the crisis?

Let's give it a try. Zhang Yuanqing stopped and shouted:

"Stop! Everyone stop."

The team stopped as well.

Zhang Yuanqing didn't give them a chance to ask questions, and said: "From now on, don't move, slow down your breathing, and it's best not to breathe. Don't make any noise. Don't ask why. Just believe me and do it."

If there are still deaths, then the attackers are traitors like the copy's five senses. In this case, use Guan Ya's mask to investigate.

The team members didn't ask any questions, held their breath, and didn't move.

They counted the time silently, and every second was extremely painful.

Finally, five minutes were up.

The team still didn't move. Half a minute later, they heard Yuanshi Tianzun say:

"Start counting!"

"1, 2, 313, 14."

No one died in this round.

The spiritual realm walkers of the lawful camp were divided into three groups, each heading to a mountain path.

The team led by Zhao Chenghuang, with 23 members, was walking silently through the dark forest.

The paths under their feet were crisscrossed and intertwined. If they took the wrong turn at any fork in the road, this team composed of officials and independent cultivators would be trapped in the maze forest.

The method they adopted was the same as Zhang Yuanqing's team. Each person remembered part of the route, and 23 brains remembered the maze route together.

And because of the advantage in numbers, some people remembered the same route, which could well prevent someone from accidentally dying and causing the route to be lost.

The chaotic footsteps echoed in the quiet forest, and the layers of branches and leaves would occasionally make a "rustling" sound due to the night wind.

It became more and more quiet and gloomy.

Several fire masters held up "torches" and selflessly dedicated themselves to bring light to everyone.

As he walked, Sun Miaomiao frowned and whispered:

"The yin energy nearby has increased."

Zhao Chenghuang said, "It seems that there are other dangers in the maze. If it is a vengeful spirit, it is easy."

There are eight night wandering gods here. Even a vengeful spirit in the saint realm can make it fly away.

Just as Sun Miaomiao was about to speak, he suddenly saw a black shadow hanging on the treetop in front of him.

Looking carefully, it was a hanged corpse, wearing a gray mountaineering suit, hanging straight in the air, dead for a long time.

The face of the corpse was covered with corpse spots, the skin was blue-gray, and the eyes were closed, which looked extremely creepy.

"Hey, there seems to be a corpse there."

The orderly walkers behind him saw the hanged ghost hanging in the air with the light of the torch.

"It seems to be a climber. Uh, I saw a climber in the outer layer. I didn't expect there would be one in the maze."

"Be careful. The climber is not from our mountain god camp."

Everyone approached slowly and cautiously.

Suddenly, the corpse hanging on the treetop opened its eyes.

A pair of blood-red pupils with twisted and strange runes printed in the pupils.

Sun Miaomiao felt a "boom" in her brain, as if she was hit on the head with a stick, and lost all consciousness.

The next moment, her scattered pupils regained their spiritual light and she broke free from the dizziness.

At the critical moment, she transferred all the negative effects to the spirit servant.

Is it the Eye of Bewitching? Is this corpse affected by the power of evil cultivators? As Sun Miaomiao's thoughts turned, she heard heavy breathing beside and behind her.

She was startled and looked back.

I saw the lawful walkers behind me, each with a distorted expression and heavy breathing, and the desire to kill flashed in their red eyes.

Beside her, except for the Maoshan Warlock, Yuan Ting and Zhao Chenghuang, who completed the extreme operation (letting the spirit servant take the blame), the other night wandering gods were all caught.

"These guys are bewitched."

The river soldier came with a serious face. Except for Sun Miaomiao and the other four, he was the only one who was awake.

As Xiao Qingyang, no one could sneak attack under his nose, even the corpse.

"What should we do?" said the Maoshan Warlock.

Zhao Chenghuang's expression was grim: "Try to control them, try not to kill them."

"Just the five of us?" The Maoshan Warlock glared.

Zhao Chenghuang looked at him and said: "You have no choice."

Hmm? Fourteen people?

After hearing the count, the team members almost didn't react.

They had prepared for the sacrifice of their colleagues, but they didn't expect it to be a peaceful Christmas Eve.

The excitement spread among the crowd, the heavy mood faded, and joy returned to their faces.

"No, no one died this time."

The Peony Fairy counted the number of people herself and confirmed that there were fourteen people, confirming that everyone was still alive.

Asano Ryo also counted them.

The Japanese JK and the young woman Peony were full of surprise: "How do you know that you won't be attacked if you stand still?"

Guan Ya and Tianxia Guihuo were thoughtful.

The official travelers all looked at Yuanshi Tianzun, with expectations in their eyes.

Yuanshi Tianzun must have conquered the thick fog crisis, so no one would die next.