Chapter 14 Danger Lurking (First Update, 5000 words)

"What is the purple crystal? And what is the shadow that has the meaning of evil invasion? Is the disappearance of the alienation point related to it?"

Xu Qing couldn't understand it, and when he pondered and analyzed, the figures of Team Lei and others returned from him one after another, and everyone was paying attention to him as they passed by.

Xu Qing put away his mind, his eyes flashed.

Whatever that was, it didn't matter at the moment.

After trimming, it was his turn to continue to shoot.

Xu Qing stood up and wiped the iron skewer on his body, making it shine again, and the moment Yu Cross walked beside him, he rushed out.

The speed was so fast that it was close to the chasing wolves in an instant.

The sounds of fighting and screams were mixed together, like a baptism of a young man.

He survived the blood rain with the eyes of the god Yu open, and in the afterglow of the sunset, he reflected the edge that was gradually sharpened!

This time, he held on longer.

And time also passed slowly under the continuous retreat and rotation resistance of the Thunder Squad.

The sunset disappeared, the bright moon hung high, and the night fell in the forbidden area, but the sound of fighting continued.

Until ...... When their exhaustion reached its limit, the white pill was all eaten, and the concentration of heterogeneity in their bodies was about to approach the critical point of alienation, dawn came.

The wolves finally began to retreat.

As the morning light fell, the last black-scaled wolf in the jungle of the forbidden area glanced at them tiredly, disappeared into the distance, and the surroundings slowly became quiet.

Everyone was covered with a thick layer of plasma, lying on the ground at the moment, panting.

Xu Qing was no exception, even if there was a recovery of the purple crystal, it still made him exhausted from mental tension.

"Finally...... survived." Luan Ya on the side murmured, struggled to get up, looked at Xu Qingshi, and spoke softly.

"Thank you."

The barbarian ghost was also panting and stretched out his thumb at Xu Qing.

In this night's fight, Xu Qing's shot and time exceeded that of the Thunder Team and the Cross, and it could even be said that without him, I am afraid that some of them would have been alienated before the wolves had retreated.

Only Xu Qing, he lay there looking at the sky, tired and deeply puzzled in his heart.

In this night's battle, the speed at which heterogeneity accumulated in his body was obviously much slower than before.

He even had a feeling that his heterogeneity was disappearing on its own all the time.

While everyone was resting, Team Lei rubbed his eyebrows, his serious eyes swept over the cross and the others, and he spoke hoarsely.

"This matter can't be accidental, the continuous pursuit of the black-scaled wolf is more like something attracting them, so you take out the foreign items you have obtained during this time, let's check it carefully, I suspect this matter...... It is man-made."

As Team Lei spoke, Cross and the others were also deeply convinced, so they checked themselves and took out the foreign objects.

Xu Qing also chuckled in his heart, when he was considering whether it was the iron block in Ma Si's relics, Luan Ya on the side suddenly let out an exclamation and pointed at the barbarian ghost.

Among the items taken out by the barbarian ghost, there was a wooden box.

The wooden box was broken, as if it was continuously corroding on its own, and a wisp of breath was emitted, because the smell in the jungle in the forbidden area was mixed, so it was difficult to distinguish if you didn't smell it carefully.

"Why is this thing corroding itself?" The barbarian ghost was surprised.

Team Lei immediately stepped forward, picked up the wooden box, and handed it to Luan Ya, who sniffed carefully and nodded ugly.

"How did you get this thing?" Team Thunder looked at the barbarians.

"I bought it at the camp stall on the day I came back, and it contained insect repellent powder......" The ghost scratched his head.

"This is made from the feces of butterfly rabbits, which will ignite on their own when encountering external stimuli, which can attract scaly organisms...... The black-scaled wolf is also a type of scale creature."

Luan Ya looked at the barbarian ghost and spoke slowly.

The barbarians stayed there.

The surrounding atmosphere also froze all of a sudden, and Xu Qing also narrowed his eyes.

Until after a while, Team Lei shook his head.

"The barbarian ghost was deceived, and you can imagine who he is who can set such a trap for us in the camp."

"Blood Shadow Squad!" Cross was on the side and spoke in a cold voice.

"The Blood Shadow Squad is arranged like this, it's hard to say that there is no backhand, and we are not in a good state at the moment......" Luan Ya hesitated.

"So, what do you think about whether to continue to complete the task at the picking ground or just evacuate?" Team Lei looked up into the distance, and slowly words came out.

Xu Qing's eyes were thoughtful and he didn't speak.

The others looked at each other for a while, and finally Cross spoke with difficulty.

"Captain, this is not very far from our picking point, and everyone has lost too much this time, if you come back empty-handed......"

Team Lei was silent, sweeping over the barbarian ghost and Luan Ya, the former bowed his head guiltily, and the latter looked unwilling, and he sighed lightly for a while.

"Keep going, collect it as soon as you reach the picking point, and then everyone will disperse on different paths, leave separately, and meet at the camp."

The Thunder Team made a final decision, and after simple repairs, everyone moved forward again in the jungle of this forbidden area.

On the way, Xu Qing approached Luan Ya and took out the amber he had obtained from Fat Mountain, asking what it was.

After seeing this amber, Luan Ya was shocked, took it and examined it carefully, and told Xu Qing that this thing was the poisonous tail of the ghost-faced scorpion.

This scorpion is poisonous, but not indissolvable, and has good medicinal properties, after poisoning, it can explode its own potential in an instant, but it cannot be sustained, and it needs to be detoxified immediately after the outbreak, so most of them are raised by people, and they are valuable.

Xu Qing understood, thanked him, and put it away.

Then everyone remained vigilant, closely observing their surroundings while rapidly moving forward.

It's just that compared to before, this time they were more silent all the way.

Perhaps because of the appearance of the black-scaled wolf yesterday, most of the other fierce beasts in this area were dispersed.

So along the way, the Thunder Squad did not encounter any danger, and after two hours, they finally came to the junction of the outskirts of the penalty area and the depths.

The landform here is not only a jungle, but also some hills and streams, but the stream water is black and undrinkable.

In a dense jungle place, there was a trail hidden, and there was a cave at the end, which turned out to be a small canyon.

When Xu Qing and the others walked into this canyon, what came into his eyes was like another world.

The top of this place is covered by dense canes growing all around, like a top, and the sunlight cannot fully fall into it, and there are no big trees inside, and flowers and plants are everywhere.

Fist-sized flowers, of different colors, filled the entire canyon, accompanied by a lot of grass emitting blue crystal light.

Each plant has seven leaves.

The light they emit is like stars, making the quiet canyon seem to turn into a quiet starry sky, which has a very unique beauty.

This is the picking point that the Thunder Squad once discovered, and every such picking point is top secret and the foundation of the team's survival.

After arriving here, because picking required special techniques, they did not let Xu Qing participate, but dispersed and picked by themselves, which was faster and had no loss.

Xu Qing paid attention to their techniques, did not force them to join, but sat cross-legged and exhaled silently.

After experiencing yesterday's battle, he found that his cultivation seemed to have improved a lot through continuous tempering, and now he had reached the critical point of breakthrough.

In order to have better survivability in the next crisis, Xu Qing wasted no time, even in the forbidden area, he still operated the Sea and Mountain Technique in his body to absorb the spiritual energy from the surroundings.

With the emergence of spiritual energy, a wind rose in the canyon.

Team Lei looked at Xu Qing and did not stop him, he knew very well that there was a great possibility of being ambushed on the way back. At this time, the growth of strength is the guarantee of survival.

Not long after, while they were picking, Xu Qing's body gradually heard a banging sound.

Bursts of dirt overflowed from the sweat pores of his body, melting the plasma outside, and when it merged with the dirt, the flesh and blood of his whole body were also rapidly absorbing spiritual energy, becoming more and more tenacious as they were nourished.

Until this sound became stronger and stronger, after reaching the limit, there was a sudden pause, and a roar came out of Xu Qing's mind.

The blood vessels in his body swelled under his skin, and his flesh and blood were filled with psychic energy at this moment, as if it contained more amazing power and speed than before.

All of this turned into a sharp aura that permeated his body, and the spiritual energy fluctuations outside his body also spread in all directions.

Haishan Jue, the third level.

Xu Qing slowly lowered his head and opened his eyes.

No one could see the fleeting purple light in his eyes, but there was no joy of breakthrough in his eyes, but was replaced by deep doubts.

What he looked down at was the mixed shadows he appeared in the scattered sunlight.

When he was practicing just now, he obviously felt something was wrong, and the spiritual energy absorbed by him was nourished by the pure part after being separated by the Haishan Technique.

and heterogeneous...... It did not flow into his arm to form an alienation point, but ...... flowed into his own shadow.

It was like a shadow, devouring that part of the heterogeneity.

After a long time, Xu Qing raised his head and suppressed all his doubts to the bottom of his heart.

He looked at the Thunder Team and the others who were about to finish picking, looked into the distance, and followed the end of the canyon to the depths of the jungle.

Faintly, he could see that far ahead, there seemed to be some buildings, as if temples were connected, silent in time, filled with an ancient atmosphere.

"It is a building left from an unknown era, and it is also the farthest limit that we scavengers can go to, and we cannot surpass it, but if we encounter danger nearby, we can also go there to hide."

After picking the self-identified team, the thunder team came to Xu Qing's side, followed his gaze to the temple group, and slowly spoke.

"Boundaries?" Xu Qing nodded.

"Yes, some people say that in that era, the reason why this forbidden area was formed was because the gods looked at these temples, and some scavengers had explored them in the past, and there was nothing there, except for a special small stone that sometimes appeared."

Team Lei took out part of the picked horse chestnut and put it in another leather bag.

"Why is it special?" Xu Qing asked curiously.

"Grind it into powder and sprinkle it on scars that have not been formed for a long time, it can remove scars without leaving the slightest trace, but it is useless for us scavengers, but occasionally some big people need it." After Team Lei finished speaking, he looked at Cross and the others.

At this moment, the cross, the barbarian ghost, and the Luan Tooth were all picked, and under the arrangement of the Thunder team, everyone took out a part and put it in the leather bag held by the Thunder team.

In the end, after dividing the buckeye into five parts, Team Lei handed the fifth leather bag to Xu Qing.

"This is yours, from now on, everyone will disperse and leave, and the probability of going out will be greater." After Team Lei finished speaking, he looked at Xu Qing and gave him another map.

"Child, my goal is too big, it must be the focus of the blood shadow's attention, and as the captain, I also have to cover for you, you go out and go back to the camp as soon as possible to wait for me."

Team Lei spoke in a deep voice, and under the silent gaze of other teammates, he walked out of the canyon and disappeared in an instant.

Xu Qing wanted to say something, but before he could say it, the Thunder team had already left.

Cross patted Xu Qing on the shoulder and left as well.

Finally, there were the barbarian ghost and Luan Ya, each of whom told him in detail about their own experiences, and then left in a hurry.

Xu Qing looked at them silently, put the buckeye clover, and looked back at the temple group in the distance.

After a while, Xu Qing turned around, took a deep breath, and galloped towards the entrance of the canyon, his speed was obviously faster than before after reaching the third layer of body refining, and he disappeared at the entrance in an instant.

In the jungle of the forbidden area, Xu Qingru was like a flexible ape, constantly shuttling, he did not take the road he came from before, but followed the map markings and took a detour.

According to the experience he learned on the way here, he distinguished crises, and occasionally encountered a few strange beasts, all of which were successfully resolved by him.

At the same time, he also paid attention to his shadow in the sun many times, and strange colors flashed in his eyes.

He had already tried, whether it was absorbing psychic energy or taking a big breath, the heterogeneity contained in all things was slowly pouring into the shadow after entering his body, just like what he felt when he broke through before!

In terms of chasing Shuo, this matter began to appear after the purple crystal emitted a cold wave.

Until he reached the third level of the sea and mountain technique, it became more and more obviously revealed.

His own shadow seemed to have swept away the shadow of the black-scaled wolf after the purple crystal swept away...... mutated.

This kind of weirdness made Xu Qing's eyes slowly narrow.

He rolled up the sleeve of his left arm and looked at it, there was only one alienation point on his arm, which was extremely weak at the moment, and it was difficult to see the traces if he didn't look closely.

According to this development, the heterogeneity in his body will become less and less until it reaches the level of purity and perfection.

And this perfection ...... Xu Qing had seen it on the Haishan Jue Bamboo Slip, and only those with extremely noble status in the origin of the human race in the ancient continent could enjoy it.

"Does purple crystal work?" Xu Qing muttered, squatting on a branch, looking at the sky for a while.

For a long time, he touched the place where the purple crystal was buried in his chest, was silent for a moment, and when he looked up, he suppressed all his doubts to the bottom of his heart.

Although the heterogeneity was no longer a threat to him for the time being, this was just one of the many dangers in the forbidden area, and Xu Qing still encountered some crises on the way afterwards.

At this moment, he saw the alienated bear whose two aura surpassed the Thunder Team.

This kind of bear actually lies on the back of a huge colorful spider, and countless silk threads emanate from the spider's abdomen and burrow into the bear's body, as if manipulating it.

These two violent bears lost control of themselves while running.

The trees were directly smashed by them, and if they encountered other strange beasts that blocked them, they would also be torn in half directly, and the brutality was extremely obvious.

If it weren't for the fact that the target they were chasing was a red tiger, they didn't care about Xu Qing, and Xu Qing also fled quickly as soon as possible, I am afraid it would be extremely dangerous.

And the danger from the restricted area is not only that.

An hour later, when Xu Qing was in a canopy and carefully checked his surroundings, he saw a creature from a distance that seemed to not appear in the jungle.

It was a body that exuded cold all over its body, and its body was as large as a mountain peak...... Jellyfish.

It emitted a ghostly light all over its body, floating in mid-air above the forbidden area.

The translucent body was penetrated by the sunlight, and it could be seen that there were countless corroding beastly corpses inside.

In the large number of tentacles fluttering, each tentacle was covered with strange eyes, but most of these eyes were now closed and not opened.

At this moment, it flew leisurely towards the depths of the forbidden area, and the place where the jungle below passed was frozen in an instant, and all existence could not escape the cold tribulation.

The strength of the aura on its body did not know how much it surpassed Xu Qing, and in Xu Qing's feelings, even those two violent bears were extremely fragile in front of this jellyfish.

Even at this moment, just a glance at Xu Qing's body stiffened, and a strong crisis erupted from the depths of his soul.

It wasn't until the jellyfish disappeared that Xu Qing exhaled and looked at the frozen jungle area in the distance, like a straight line that spread to the depths.

"If the direction of this jellyfish is mine......" Xu Qing took a breath.

He understood that in this dangerous forbidden jungle, he had some advantages over others because his heterogeneity could be absorbed by shadows.

But this advantage now only allows him to stay in the penalty area longer.

Unless one day, you become stronger, at that time, this advantage will be infinitely magnified.

When Xu Qing left after a while, he became more cautious in this forbidden area.

In this way, time passed, and soon the sunset was about to set, leaving only the remaining sunlight.

Xu Qing, who was galloping inside, silently estimated the direction of the map in his heart, knowing that if he rushed overnight, he should be able to get out of the restricted area before dawn.

And just as he was pondering whether to walk at night, suddenly, there was a roar from the jungle in the distance, accompanied by an almost scream, and the sound was very familiar.

"Barbarian?" Xu Qing's eyes froze, and he recognized the voice.

He immediately jumped up and approached carefully, his thin figure was agile and hidden in the jungle, making it difficult for anyone to detect.

So soon after, he came to the place where the roar came from, hid in a canopy, and saw six or seven corpses below, one of which was ...... It's a barbaric ghost!

His whole body was dark and blue, obviously alienated, his body was separated, and his death was extremely miserable.

The huge steel shields were also split in two, turning into two pieces, one large and one small, and the maces were also scattered around, covered in blood.

Obviously, he fought everything during his lifetime, and died with his opponent in alienation.

Xu Qing was silent, his heart was filled with sadness, and he saw that not far away, he was being besieged by five people, his whole body was blue, and he was gradually losing his support and was approaching the alienated thunder team!

This scene made Xu Qingtong close his eyes, and he held the iron stick in his hand tightly, and the fierce murderous intent in his eyes exploded instantly.

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