Chapter 137
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Dark Female said, “The game is simple: before I kill you, let’s see if your companion can come in and save you, okay?”
With that, Dark Female raised the rabbit doll’s other arm.
At the same time, Ye Buyan’s other arm seemed to be lifted by an invisible force, the entire shoulder and arm straight up in the air. Ye Buyan’s face turned pale with pain as his arm was pressed down at a horrifying angle.
“Stop it!!!” Lu Haoxiu shouted.
Although Ye Buyan was facing Dark Female directly, Lu Haoxiu outside the invisible wall was under even greater pressure and pain. If Lu Haoxiu couldn’t get inside the invisible wall before Ye Buyan was killed, he could only watch Ye Buyan being tortured to death by Dark Female in front of him. If that happened, Lu Haoxiu would never forgive himself.
“D*mn it…” Lu Haoxiu’s eyes reddened, the veins on the back of his hand bulging as he pounded on the air wall. “Who wants to play this boring game with you!”
He placed his palm against the air wall, and a black hole appeared in his hand.
【Spiritual Power 10/20】
A white rabbit plush toy… held in Dark Female’s arms, a white rabbit plush toy… with red eyes, a white rabbit plush toy…
He placed his palm on the invisible wall, and a black hole appeared in his palm.
[Spiritual Power: 10/20]
A white rabbit doll… the white rabbit doll Dark Female was holding… its eyes were red…
Dark Female: “Huh?”
She looked down, but the white rabbit doll that was just in her arms disappeared. Dark Female looked up and saw Lu Haoxiu outside the invisible wall holding her rabbit doll, while beside Lu Haoxiu, Ye Buyan was slowly transforming from a paper figure into a normal body.
When Lu Haoxiu used his ability “Void Grab,” Ye Buyan cleverly transformed into a paper figure and drilled out of the black hole in Lu Haoxiu’s palm.
Lu Haoxiu held the rabbit in one hand and pulled Ye Buyan’s hand in the other, turning around and running. “Run!”
The two of them ran swiftly, charging forward for thirty meters, then suddenly Lu Haoxiu collided with an invisible wall of air.
Lu Haoxiu was hit so hard that he saw stars, and blood started flowing from his nose. He hurriedly wiped his nose and glanced back, only to see Dark Female slowly walking towards them, curiously looking at Lu Haoxiu. “How did you steal my rabbit doll?”
Lu Haoxiu’s heart sank. He realized that there was no escaping now. If they wanted to leave, they had to kill this cultist.
Taking a deep breath, he clenched his fist, his youthful face showing determination. “Little Ye, we have to subdue her.”
Regardless of whether they could win or not, they had to give it a try. They had come to the mountain to kill the cultist! Even if it meant death, they had to drag this cultist down with them! They couldn’t hold back the team!
Ye Buyan didn’t expect Lu Haoxiu to be so resolute and serious. He was slightly surprised but also had the same thought. Ye Buyan covered his broken arm, his lips turning blue, but his expression remained calm. “Okay.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Ye Buyan launched the first attack on Dark Female. His intact arm transformed into a sharp, paper-like limb, instantly elongating to over ten meters and fiercely attempting to pierce Dark Female’s chest.
Dark Female’s gray-white eyes without pupils firmly locked onto Ye Buyan. She made a tearing motion in the air, and the next moment, Ye Buyan’s sturdy and sharp paper arm was torn apart like shredded paper and fell to the ground!
!!!
Ye Buyan looked pale as he stared at his broken paper arm. “How is this possible…”
Although the “Paper Ghost” turned the host’s body into paper, it didn’t mean that the part turned into paper would be as fragile as ordinary paper. In fact, the part of Ye Buyan transformed into paper was thin yet hard, and could change freely. Its sharpness was like a thin blade, capable of easily cutting through an entire tree!
Dark Female chuckled, raising her hand towards Ye Buyan, and slowly closing her palm. Ye Buyan suddenly felt as if he were enveloped by a giant hand, lifted off the ground. The air around him squeezed him like a closed wall, making it difficult for Ye Buyan to breathe. He struggled desperately but couldn’t break free.
Dark Female tightened her hand, saying, “I can crush you into minced meat.”
While they were fighting, Lu Haoxiu had already run behind Dark Female. He took out his handgun and aimed at Dark Female’s back. His palm was sweating, his heart pounding fast and steady as he firmly pulled the trigger.
“Swoosh!”
The bullet shot towards Dark Female with great speed but collided with an invisible wall before reaching her, falling to the ground.
Dark Female laughed twice, tightening her hand even more. Ye Buyan curled up in the narrow air cage, his whole body in excruciating pain as his bones were crushed. His hands and feet were starting to deform under the pressure.
Struggling to speak, Ye Buyan looked at Dark Female and said, “Your ability… involves using air… You must watch me to… control me… The rabbit doll is just a distraction…”
The smile on Dark Female’s face seemed like it was welded on like a mask. “You’re quite clever. You’ve already figured out my ability so quickly.”
“Hurry, go,” Ye Buyan groaned in pain. One of his fingers had been crushed into pulp. His face was flushed, and he was starting to feel dizzy. He struggled to speak to Lu Haoxiu, “Quick… get away, before she… kills me…”
Tears welled up in Lu Haoxiu’s eyes. “D*mn it!!!”
He quickly holstered his handgun, not turning to flee but instead charging towards Dark Female and Ye Buyan. As he ran, he reached out his hand, continuously chanting, “Give me something to kill her, please, give me something to kill Dark Female, I beg you, Void Grab!!!”
Another black hole appeared under his hand. Tears streamed down Lu Haoxiu’s face as he desperately prayed in his mind: Please, please give me something to kill Dark Female and save Ye Buyan!!!
Something came through the black hole. Lu Haoxiu reached in and pulled out the object, but before he could see what it was, he threw it at Dark Female like a madman.
After throwing it, Lu Haoxiu felt despair because what he touched in the black hole turned out to be a half-rotten apple!!!
Gritting his teeth, Lu Haoxiu prepared to use his last 5 points of spiritual power to use Void Grab one last time. But what he and Ye Buyan didn’t expect was that the rotten apple actually pierced through Dark Female’s air barrier and hit her!
Dark Female’s hand froze, and she also looked down in surprise, seeing the half-rotten red apple rolling off her and onto the ground.
Under her gaze, the red apple slowly turned into a puddle of red liquid.
As if alive, the liquid wriggled and crawled towards Dark Female’s feet. The moment it touched Dark Female’s foot, the red liquid suddenly began to grow wildly, wrapping around Dark Female’s entire body in an instant!
Dark Female let out a chilling scream from within the red liquid: “Ahhh!!!”
The air barrier restraining Ye Buyan disappeared, and he fell heavily from the air, his broken hands and feet receiving a second blow. He convulsed, but kept his eyes fixed on Dark Female, astonished by this sudden turn of events.
Lu Haoxiu didn’t know what was happening, he quickly ran to Ye Buyan’s side, dragging him back away from Dark Female. Tears fell freely on Ye Buyan’s face and body as Lu Haoxiu choked, “Are you okay, Ye Buyan? I’m sorry, it’s all my fault.”
Ye Buyan said, “No… it’s okay, it’s not your fault. What is the red liquid on Dark Female? Do you know?”
Lu Haoxiu dragged Ye Buyan to a nearby tree before looking back at Dark Female, shaking his head hesitantly, “I don’t know what that is… when I pulled it out, it was a rotten apple.”
The red liquid on Dark Female’s body undulated like boiling water, slowly, her screams grew softer until they disappeared entirely. The red liquid returned to a calm state, shrinking smaller and smaller until it turned into a palm-sized puddle of red liquid on the ground. Under the gaze of Lu Haoxiu and Ye Buyan, the puddle of red liquid slowly turned into a half-rotten apple.
Upon closer inspection, the apple seemed to be more rotten than before.
Lu Haoxiu’s eyes lit up, and he moved forward to pick up the apple. Ye Buyan, sweating profusely, stopped him, “Lu Haoxiu, this apple is very dangerous.”
“I know it’s dangerous, but with it, we’ll have some protection,” Lu Haoxiu said seriously. “I took it out of the black hole, I touched it, and it didn’t harm me. Don’t worry, if there’s danger, I’ll throw it away.”
Hearing this, Ye Buyan stopped objecting. It was just the two of them here, and his body was in bad shape, while Lu Haoxiu’s spiritual power was almost depleted. They really needed this mysterious half-rotten apple.
Lu Haoxiu cautiously approached the rotten apple and reached out to pick it up. The dark red rotten apple laid quietly in his hand, emitting a scent of apple mixed with the smell of decay.
Suddenly, Ye Buyan raised his voice, almost trembling, “Lu Haoxiu, did you just pick it up with your bare hands???”
Lu Haoxiu turned his head to look at Ye Buyan, scratching his head innocently. His eyes, still red from crying, were as clear and innocent as those of a puppy or a rabbit. “If not with my hands, what should I use?”
Ye Buyan: “…”
Although Lu Haoxiu’s action was very dangerous, it at least proved that this rotten red apple posed no danger to him.
Carefully, Lu Haoxiu put the rotten red apple into his pocket, heaved a long sigh of relief, and couldn’t believe that he had taken out this thing himself: “This apple is so miraculous, where did I get it from?”
He had previously felt disappointed with his talent, Void Grab, thinking it wasn’t powerful at all. The most dangerous thing he had done so far was retrieving a phone from someone’s stomach in Liushu Village. He never expected, Lu Haoxiu really never expected, that he could retrieve something so powerful!
Just as Lu Haoxiu was about to chuckle foolishly, he remembered Ye Buyan’s injuries, as well as Duan Zhege and Li Sanxin who had disappeared somewhere. He suddenly lost his joy and hurriedly walked towards Ye Buyan, asking anxiously, “Little Ye, how are you?!”
Ye Buyan’s condition was very bad, with one arm broken, two fingers crushed, and both ankles fractured, completely losing the ability to move. He was pale, trembling in pain, but still relatively calm, “I’m okay… wait, was there a card on the ground where you just took out the apple?”
Lu Haoxiu’s running steps halted, and he turned to look. Sure enough, there was a gray-black card lying in the muddy ground.
This card should have been taken out along with the rotten red apple.
Lu Haoxiu ran over to pick up the card, wiped off the mud and leaves on it, and saw fairy-tale-like words printed on it: Count Grey’s Shop.
“Count Grey’s Shop?” Lu Haoxiu puzzled, “What kind of shop is this?”
He collected the card without understanding and walked back to check on Ye Buyan’s condition. Seeing Ye Buyan’s injuries made Lu Haoxiu’s eyes turn red again, feeling guilty and distressed. He squatted down, lifted Ye Buyan onto his back, and carried him towards the direction where Duan Zege and Li Sanxin had disappeared.
“Ye Buyan, I’m sorry,” Lu Haoxiu lowered his head, feeling despondent, “If I hadn’t transported you to the other side of the air barrier, you wouldn’t have faced Dark Female directly, and you wouldn’t have been targeted and injured by her…”
Ye Buyan said, “She would have targeted someone sooner or later, either me or you. It’s actually better for her to target me than you.”
Lu Haoxiu didn’t expect Ye Buyan, who was aloof and cold at school, to say such self-sacrificing words. He was touched to tears, “Why? Little Ye, you’re really a good person!”
Ye Buyan’s tone was stiff, somewhat uncomfortable, “Don’t think too much, it’s just because I’m a half-anomaly, and my self-healing ability is much stronger than yours.”
Lu Haoxiu didn’t care about Ye Buyan’s stiff tone at all, but instead became happier, “Oh yeah, I almost forgot about this. Hehe, that’s great, Little Ye, I hope you recover quickly!”
Ye Buyan said, “….Mmm, thank you.”
Lu Haoxiu wanted to say something else, but his footsteps gradually stopped, his smile fading away, replaced by confusion and panic.
Ye Buyan asked, “What’s wrong, Lu Haoxiu?”
Lu Haoxiu’s throat tightened, he widened his eyes, but found himself surrounded by darkness: “I… Little Ye, I think I can’t see…”
Ye Buyan: “What?!”
The darkness made Lu Haoxiu particularly uneasy. He swallowed hard, his heartbeat getting faster and faster. Just when he was at a loss, Lu Haoxiu found that the voices he could hear were also diminishing.
“Lu Haoxiu, you should put me down first, let me see what’s wrong with your eyes. Don’t worry, I can still see. I’ll teach you how to walk, you…”
Ye Buyan’s voice gradually faded away, until it disappeared completely. Lu Haoxiu was plunged into a suffocating silence.
He couldn’t see anything, couldn’t hear anything. But he could feel that he was still carrying Ye Buyan on his back, still walking on this dangerous mountain road.
“Ye… Ye Buyan…” Lu Haoxiu’s voice trembled, full of helplessness, “I… I can’t hear anything either.”
Author’s note:
Lu Haoxiu took goods from “Count Grey’s Shop”, and this is the price for taking goods.
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