Chapter 21 Marshal White Hair, you died so miserably...
The woods in front of the village entrance are no different from the mountains behind. They are densely packed with all kinds of trees. The dense leaves are intertwined, blocking the sunlight completely. Only a few beams of light pass through the occasional gap to dispel the darkness.
The path in the woods was equally difficult to walk on. From time to time, strange-shaped vines and branches would sprout from the ground, and there were rocks and holes everywhere hidden under the fallen leaves like traps.
So, Chu Xiuyan once again? Climbed? Up to the treetops,? Jumping? Freely? In the air, his figure loomed, like...
[I seem to hear you saying that I am like a monkey. ]
Grabbing a vine from the air? Swinging to a tree trunk a few meters away? Chu Xiuyan calmly? Forcefully tore off the vine that was twisting and screaming wildly, and said to the system: [From just now, you have fallen into a silence that makes me very uneasy. ]
The system thought for a moment, weighed its words, and said: [You don’t actually have to use vine branches.]
Chu Xiuyan said as a matter of course: [Seeing a long object dangling in front of me, isn't it normal to grab it and swing it? Hiss, suddenly thought of it? Found my magical gift......]
He lowered his head and looked towards the base of the tree, where a group of rodent-like creatures with sharp, standing hair were huddled. Each one was the size of a football, and a quick glance revealed that there were at least five or six of them in the nest.
He squatted on a tree branch, his eyes thoughtful.
The system had a bad feeling, and it interrupted his thoughts: [By the way, why did you come to this forest of strange beasts? Are you tired of wandering around the back mountain? ]
Chu Xiuyan ignored it, his eyes wandering over the vines hanging helplessly in his palm, and then he moved his gaze to the group of sleeping rodents, his eyes suddenly showing interest: [Uncle must like skewers!]
[What the hell is Chuan Chuan Xiang!] The system cursed, and then quickly said, [Stop persecuting Zhang Chun. If you continue like this, you are really going to be crowdfunded by readers to mail you razor blades!]
Chu Xiuyan curled his lips, [Okay? Yeah, okay? Yeah, System Mama-san. But speaking of which, I looked around nearby and didn't seem to see any large-scale alien beasts. Could they be deeper in the cave? It seems that my plan to build an army of alien beasts has to be temporarily put on hold...]
System question: [What plan? ]
Chu Xiuyan pretended not to hear and looked into the darker depths of the woods in the distance. At the same time, he raised his hand and waved it. Six blood swords fell from the sky and pierced straight through the skulls of the rodent-like beasts at the bottom of the tree, killing them instantly.
A few seconds later, the soil began to wriggle slightly, and small black insects crawled onto the corpse of the strange beast, gnawing at it quickly.
[I have an idea.] Chu Xiuyan's mind became very fast. One second he was still thinking about whether to go deeper, and the next second he was attracted by those dark little bugs.
He looked at the horrifying scene of people gnawing at corpses under the tree, and said to the system in a distressed manner: [The uncle is unwilling to give me the task bracelet, mainly because he is worried that he will involve me in his troubles. So, if I have the ability to create more dangerous troubles and successfully solve them, will he be able to give me his bracelet with confidence?]
System: [I think he will? Give you the bracelet to play with in order to prevent you from causing more damage.]
Chu Xiuyan pinched his chin and continued to frown: [So what do you think I should do? Riding a wild boar to kidnap Huang Hun’s convoy, and then threaten the uncle? ]
[…Why? There are wild boars?] The system still doesn’t understand what the host is thinking? What.
[Because I want to...]
When Chu Xiuyan was about to express his thoughts, a white wild boar suddenly appeared under the tree and rushed away recklessly, raising a large cloud of dust along the way.
Then, from a place further away, a sharp scream suddenly erupted.
“Help—”
【There are pigs! 】
Chu Xiuyan immediately caught up? Go.
The system soul asked: [Are you completely indifferent to that human's screams? ]
......
“Help! Dad, Mom, brother—ah!”
Feng Feichi was running away in the woods, tumbling and crawling, occasionally tripping over rocks and vines on the ground, but he would quickly get up and continue running.
Above his head, a bird with scarlet eyes was staring at him and pecking at him. Three or four branches were dancing wildly behind him. A white wild boar was chasing him ten meters away. From time to time, a few worms appeared from the ground, watching the back of the human fleeing.
The densely packed leaves were spinning in the air, and the intense atmosphere seemed to have triggered the hunting instincts of many creatures in the dark.
The pursuit team behind Feng Feichi has grown larger.
"Waaaaaaaa why did even the monkey throw fruit at me? I didn't steal anything from the monkey?!"
Feng Feichi continued to scream and run for his life.
Along the way? , smoke and dust rolled, and beasts roared continuously.
Chu Xiuyan, who was standing on the treetop, saw this scene and fell into a long silence.
After a long moment, he showed an expression of amazement.
"I found a magical gift."
He clapped his hands and laughed.
The system alerted: [Wait? Will? The magical gift you mentioned shouldn’t be that human? ? ]
Chu Xiuyan didn't respond. He tapped his toes on the branch and then leaped forward. His wolfskin cloak was slightly lifted by the wind, and half of his face was exposed to the air. The cold wind made him look a little pale. At first glance, he looked delicate and handsome.
[The wind blows across my cheeks, so gentle, so free, as if I have been freed from all the constraints of the world... No, maybe I can't? Stay in the sky? For too long, I belong to the ground? I belong to the world, the time of freedom? is very short, let me indulge in it for a short time...]
The system was puzzled: [What nonsense are you talking about? ]
[Ah, didn’t I tell you that I wanted to read the comics? To prevent the system from changing my thoughts, I just said it directly...]
System: [? Are you sick?]
The boy jumped forward with a smile, and before the branch under his feet trembled, the person above him appeared on the top of another branch.
His sight was always following the movement of the fleeing human. After confirming that the other person was still alive and well, he calmly argued with the system and, by the way, looked for the right opportunity to take action.
About four or five minutes later, after noticing that the man who was escaping was a little exhausted and even his screams became weak, a vine appeared in Chu Xiuyan's hand, and the man was still screaming and struggling.
He skillfully broke the vines, then quickly tied a lasso, swung it in the air, and the loop on the top of the vines flew towards the pursuing team.
The wolf-head hat on his head fell heavily, and then his vision became pitch black.
"Ah, the eyes are covered."
He spoke a little late, but the alien vine version of the lasso in his hand had already flown out.
The next second, a scream of terror suddenly rang out.
"Ahhh, what is this? Why would the vines tie a knot around me? Ah! Mother, this is too scary. Even alien plants can do this. They wrap themselves up and kill prey—"
Chu Xiuyan: “…”
Chu Xiuyan: "Oh, why is it suddenly dark? Is it night? System Sang System Sang, the sun has set, we should go home."
The system went crazy: [Don’t act like nothing happened! Go save him! Is that human about to be caught by a wild boar?! ]
......
Feng Feichi tripped again, and this time it was even more troublesome, as he sprained his ankle.
He fell to the ground? On the ground? Birds fluttered their wings and pecked at his head frantically. Three vines waved in the air? Making a sharp explosion sound, approaching step by step. Not far away, there were also wild boars and various small beasts rushing towards him.
Feng Feichi slowly shed tears of pain and despair.
He was originally heading to a small rural settlement with his companions, but somehow his teammates forgot about him on the way, so he had to rush to the small settlement by himself.
However, the outside world was too scary. When he was in the inner area, his fate was not that terrible.
"It's over..."
He looked at the beasts getting closer and closer, trembling all over, muttering to himself: "If I die, my family will definitely send someone to look for my body. If I am eaten by the beasts, they will definitely dissect the beasts' stomachs to look for my bones... No, by the time they get here, I should have been digested! I've turned into a ghost! Help! I don't want to turn into shit--"
He held his head and wailed. For a moment, he could not even care about the white wild boar slowly approaching him. His mind was filled with the image of his usually very serious family members crying while holding the mosaic.
"Wait? Will? It doesn't seem impossible? To accept."
He suddenly regained consciousness, a smile that was so bright that it was weird appeared on his face. Just as he was about to open his arms to welcome his own death, a gust of wind suddenly blew around him, and smoke and dust rose up all over the ground in an instant.
With a loud rumbling sound, the ferocious beasts around were pierced in the head by countless sharp blood-red blades, and their bodies convulsed and fell to the ground. Only the white wild boar was trembling and lying on the ground. A young man in strange clothes stood on its back.
The boy's upper body? Half of his face was hidden in the dark, and the huge wolf head was facing Feng Feichi. The pair of cold animal eyes seemed to be alive, which made people feel cold in their hearts.
"Hey, you dare to look me in the face? Lower your head, you lowly human."
Feng Feichi was trembling with fear, trembling with terror...
Then he said, "You were the one who put a rope around me just now, right? I saw a white monkey chasing me in the tree."
“…”
He whispered to the system: [Something is wrong, why did this person suddenly become smarter? Is he online?]
System: [Great wisdom appears foolish. By the way? He called you a monkey.]
Chu Xiu realized it after the banquet: [Yes. ]
His expression quickly turned cold... before he was pretending to be indifferent, now it was indifferent from the bottom of his heart.
Feng Feichi seemed not to notice the boy's sudden drop in mood. He stood up with difficulty, bowed deeply to the person in front of him and thanked him: "Anyway, thank you very much for saving me. Although you look strange and don't look like a good person, I won't tell others about your whereabouts. My name is Feng Feichi. I have some say in the ruined city... although it is my parents' power. But if you need help, you can contact the Feng family in the ruined city. Just call my name, my parents will help you solve the problem. By the way, do you know where the Yellowstone settlement is?"
After finishing speaking in one breath, he looked expectantly at the mysterious young man in front of him.
Chu Xiuyan began to observe Feng Feichi, who looked grey and miserable. When he looked closely, he found that the unlucky guy was wearing a white windbreaker uniform. The material seemed to be very good, and it looked close-fitting and comfortable... Most importantly, this white windbreaker was inlaid with blood-colored quicksand!
He pulled Feng Feichi's sleeve and looked at him carefully, then he understood one thing.
Dog owner.
Grind the blood crystal into fine quicksand and embed it on the clothes? No wonder? Being chased by a strange beast.
Feng Feichi looked at the young man in the wolf cloak who was almost sticking his face to the sleeve of his clothes, and said in confusion: "Do you like this kind of clothes? I have a lot of them over there, I can give you a few sets..."
His eyes moved back and forth on the wolf cloak, wondering if the boy was one of those poor people who lived alone, so he was curious about and liked the handsome human clothes.
"Yellowstone Settlement?? There seems to be a small human settlement nearby?, I'll take you there."
Feng Feichi's eyes lit up: "Really? Thank you very much! It turns out that what mom said is wrong, there are still many good people in remote areas."
Ten minutes later.
“Ahhhhhh help me—Mom, I believe you, I believe what you say!!”
In the dim woods, a white wild boar was running wildly, and on its back sat a young man wearing a wolf skin. In his hand, the young man held a branch as thick as his wrist, and on the other end of the branch hung a seal tied tightly with vines.
He shouted, "That's wrong! The white wild boar's back is so wide that it can accommodate two or three people!"
Chu Xiuyan scratched his ears and said in a tone, "What white wild boar? This is the number one general under our army - Marshal Baimao! And you are just a stranger who you just met once? How can you sit on the back of our general?"
Feng Feichi was almost going crazy, "Are you suffering from Chuunibyou? This wild boar was chasing me just a few minutes ago. He is a complete liberal!"
Chu Xiuyan complained: "You are so annoying! I have already told you that this wild boar of mine is different from other liberal wild boars. It has very special quirks! You can't even tolerate this little quirk, and you still say it is from a big city? Apologize to the niche XP enthusiasts!"
"What are you talking about! No matter how you look at it now, it seems more like I was forced to have a niche XP! Ah, mom, help me, I will never talk back at you again. It's really like you said, the countryside is so scary these days, even humans have mutated-"
......
At the same time, five kilometers east of the back mountain of the Huangshi settlement, three black off-road vehicles with various cool pictures on them were driving slowly. The exciting music came through the gaps in the windows and spread far away, attracting many curious animals.
In one of the cars, except for the cool driver with a cold face who was concentrating on driving, the other three people were sleeping soundly, and even the exciting music could not wake them up.
Suddenly, the driver seemed to think of something, turned off the music, took out a dagger, and smashed the handle of the knife at the passenger seat. After seeing the passenger shaking violently and screaming and waking up, he said slowly, "Captain, did we forget something?"
"Ah? I don't think so. I took the tent, the package, and even the garbage with me." Ye Huahui yawned angrily and weakly, then glared at the driver and complained, "Jian Shang, I'm the captain when we're out, so please be polite to me."
The driver sneered.
The two people behind were awakened by their captain's screams. They looked somewhat similar and were leaning their heads against the window, one on each side.
The girl on the left seemed to be still asleep, and said gloomily, "So why do we have to go to such a remote place? It's obviously safer in the inner area of the district, and there are more points... Ah, so annoying. I received an urgent task in the middle of the night and didn't even sleep well. What if I get dark circles under my eyes?"
The boy on the right said, "Sister, Dad told us not to talk nonsense when we get there and to be careful about what we say and do. We also need to investigate the local area to see if there are any mysterious people."
Captain Ye, the co-pilot, turned around and said, "Hey? Have you also been asked by your family? My brother has always disliked me. After hearing that the survivor team designated us to take over their mission, he suddenly held a big banquet for me... a long-distance banquet. He put my photo on the table. At first glance, I thought it was a portrait of a deceased person. He said that my good days were coming. I thought it was a sarcastic tone at the time, but later, my father sent me a private message saying that after I arrived at the Yellowstone settlement, I must record in detail any living creatures there and write a report to him... Ah, I'm already tired. I'll just pretend I didn't see it."
The girl on the left still felt a little unmotivated. "Usually, she dislikes us in various ways, but when she needs us, she starts to make comments and point fingers... Anyway, I have thrown away the communicator, so don't even think about contacting me again."
The boy on the right: "Sister, should I throw the communicator?"
The girl on the left waved her hand: "It's up to you. Speaking of which, I heard rumors that the environment in this small place is terrible, the ground is full of garbage, all kinds of feces can be seen everywhere, the atmosphere is also very bad, and they like to quarrel a lot. We won't be kidnapped and asked for a large amount of property..."
The car suddenly fell into silence.
Captain Ye hesitated and said, "If I take the initiative, can I? Can I? Split the money with the kidnappers 40% to 60%? 30%? 70% is also fine?"
The siblings in the back seat: “…”
The cold-blooded driver suddenly spoke up, "I remember that we forgot about Feng Feichi. He should still be at the temporary rest area thirty kilometers away, with no food, no water, and no weapons."
There was dead silence in the car again.
At this moment? After a long while, the boy in the back seat spoke cautiously.
"Do you think his desperate escaping trick can work?"
Soon, three voices rang out simultaneously.
"He can do it!"
…
As dusk approached, the convoy finally crossed the mountains and arrived at the Huangshi settlement.
The village looked very ordinary under the setting sun. The paths were clean and free of garbage. The villagers spontaneously gathered on the path leading to the back mountain, waiting for the second team of psychics.
"Feeling okay? Not as bad as I thought."
The girl in the back seat of the first SUV got out carefully, and after seeing the surrounding scene, she was somewhat relieved. Her brother, on the other hand, was holding the communicator, and seemed to be hesitating about something.
Captain Ye took a deep breath, put on a serious expression, and walked towards the old man who was at the front of the villagers.
"Hello, I'm Ye Huahui. We are the team that replaced the survivors..." His voice was vague for a moment, hiding the team name, and then it became louder again, "Please rest assured, we are also A-level, we will definitely be able to protect the protective shield here."
Zhang Chun stared at Captain Ye's face, which looked vaguely familiar. He was silent for a while and said, "Thank you for coming all the way here. Please take a rest in the guest room for a while. We will bring dinner to you."
"Okay, thank you very much."
Captain Ye said in a serious tone. After Zhang Chun turned his back, he suddenly turned his face to his companion with an extremely painful expression and mouthed: "Help, it hurts so much. Why would I speak like this subconsciously!"
The eight teammates behind him glanced at him and continued to whisper to each other, chatting about their own things, and ignored their captain.
Captain Ye's expression became ferocious. As people in the same circle, getting too familiar with each other is not a good thing.
Some people in the team looked around, some sighed, some felt weak, and some almost fell asleep and were dragged to the ground. Go? Go...
It was a completely third-rate team without any rules, with an extremely lazy style and no tense or serious atmosphere at all.
Zhang Chun's blood pressure went up and down, but suddenly he thought of Yun Yan, and his blood pressure dropped rapidly and remained stable.
He led this team of supernatural beings to the protective shield at the entrance of the village and said, "This is it. Do you need to check it out?"
Captain Ye subconsciously said, "No need. Qiu Wei and his men are very powerful. Should we trust them?"
Zhang Chun: "...but before you arrived here, there was a period of time when no one was guarding it."
Captain Ye realized belatedly: "That makes sense."
He turned around and said to the group of teammates standing crookedly behind him: "Hey, you guys? Who can check it out?"
Still no one paid attention to him, and finally the twin brother who was traveling with him was considerate and said, "Let me do it."
A few minutes later, he squatted beside the silver-white metal pole in confusion, scratched his hair, and said, "It seems to be cracked a little here?"
After he finished speaking, the teammates who were doing their own things suddenly gathered around him and noticed that there were several tiny black cracks where the metal pole touched the soil, and they were slowly moving like living things.
"Ah, it doesn't seem to be cracked, it's a living thing. But the shield is not damaged... Is this normal or abnormal?"
Captain Ye looked confused.
Zhang Chun: "...That's a special pattern, it comes with the metal rod, it's responsible for strengthening the stability of the protective shield."
The air solidified instantly, and the A-level ability team members gathered around the metal pole were silent for a short time, then pretended nothing happened and returned to their original positions to continue doing their own things.
Captain Ye was left alone to face Zhang Chun.
He struggled to force a smile, "It's like this, we are very strong. Although we seem unreliable, we are actually very reliable..."
Before he could finish, a loud scream was heard from the woods outside the protective shield.
“Help—!!!”
Captain Ye quickly assumed a fighting stance, as if intending to redeem himself and restore the image of his team. He shouted "Hurry up and save people" and rushed out of the protective shield first, followed by a group of chattering team members.
Zhang Chun didn't even have time to stop them? .
His memory still lingered on the scene of a large number of strange beasts attacking the village not long ago. Even though the strange beasts stopped attacking after the protective shield was raised, the horror of this scene did not diminish at all.
A pair of scarlet eyes lit up in the depths of the woods, and rustling noises were heard, as if some horrible monster was about to appear.
All kinds of thoughts flashed through Zhang Chun's mind. Using his supernatural powers would expose his identity. But if he didn't take action, these idiots would most likely die in the mouth of the monster!
The noise in the bushes was growing louder.
He quickly made up his mind and was about to rescue her. When a scream was heard, a figure jumped out from the bushes and suddenly appeared in his sight.
At that moment, it was as if my brain went blank.
In the afterglow of the setting sun, a white wild boar is flying in the air, making pig-like sounds. A mysterious boy who is riding on the wild boar’s back with a wolf’s head on his shoulders seems to be laughing. A screaming man is tied up like a caterpillar by vines and hung in front of the white wild boar’s head with a branch...
Time seemed to stand still, and this scene was deeply imprinted in the minds of everyone present.
This time, it was Captain Ye who reacted first.
He saw the unfortunate figure hanging on the tree branch. He looked familiar. It was his teammate. So he rushed over and shouted—
"I knew humans could tame strange beasts!!! Teach me, teach me!"
This was the first sound to break the silence.
The second sound followed.
"Wild boar charge! Wild boar attack! Pervert, get out of here—"
The third voice quickly followed: "Captain, ah ah ah, look at me! Someone come and save me! My pants are going to tear——"
Then, outside the shield and in the fields and paths between the woods, a great fight broke out.
The boy riding the white wild boar ran away madly, and Captain Ye, with an excited face, chased the white wild boar and the boy. Behind them? Were the team members who wanted to persuade the captain to calm down but somehow ended up fighting each other? .
The eight superpowers' battle range became larger and larger, and they were finally dispersed by the young man riding a white wild boar, successfully attracting the hatred of the whole audience.
So half an hour later, Captain Ye, who had finally calmed down, faced his team members with a guilty look on his face.
"I'm sorry, I don't want to do this either, but..."
"You? Can't? Hurt the King and the White-haired Marshal!!"
He opened his arms to block the boy and the white boar, and shouted at his team members who were holding weapons a few meters away, his words full of helplessness and struggle.
BANG!!
A person fell heavily on Captain Ye's head, and he immediately fell to the ground, feeling dizzy and dazed.
And the person lying on top of him was the unlucky Feng Feichi who was tied up by vines.
Not far away were eight superpowers who were watching eagerly.
Chu Xiuyan looked at them and snorted coldly, "If you want to fight, then come on!"
As soon as these words came out, Zhang Chun, who was trapped on the other side of the protective shield and unable to come out, took out a stone with an expressionless face and threw it heavily, directly piercing the white wild boar's head, causing it to fall to the ground and die on the spot.
The young man who had said the harsh words suddenly? Lost his will to fight, knelt on the ground? Cried bitterly: "My white-haired marshal——"
…
"According to the time, the 10-member idiot group should have arrived at the Yellowstone settlement."
As night fell, in a forest in the south, the team of supernatural beings stationed by the stream began to take turns on alert.
Bai Yan sat by the fire and grilled fish, with a faint smile on his face. "Although it can only delay for a while, it should be enough. The idiots who took up the only support position must be disgusted by the temptations of the ruined city's high-level officials, so even if they find something, they will probably not reveal it to those hypocritical strategists - they are geniuses who call themselves wastes."
Qiu Wei was sitting on the other side of the fire. Hearing this, his face suddenly changed: "Wait? Wait? At that time? Didn't you say they were the closest?!"
"Well, I lied to you."
Bai Yan stood up and stretched, as if talking to himself: "Captain, I often told you before that we are all the same, deeply hating someone. But I guess you are just being stubborn, and you can never guess who I really hate..."
He pointed at himself in the direction of Qiu Wei.
"In the initial stage when Brother Zhang was contaminated and turned into an alien, I had the opportunity to kill him. He asked me to do it, but I was defeated by my cowardice and could not make up my mind."
"Everything that happened later, the root of his suffering, was my fault."
"So what I hate is actually myself. I hate that coward who doesn't even dare to make a choice."
Qiu Wei suddenly felt confused and his vision blurred. Suddenly, he felt something was wrong: "You..."
Bai Yan had his back to him, and under the light of the fire, the shadow under his feet seemed to be distorted.
"From the Yellowstone Settlement? After I came out, I told myself that I had to make a decision. I had to kill the cowardly me."
"Zhang Chun wants to live, but he can't. Too many people have died for him. There are also many people like you, the captain, who say things that are completely different from what they think. I am very distressed, but I don't have time to sort them out one by one, so I can only make a clean break... The ruined city is already decayed, and those old men occupy the most important positions and are unwilling to let go. Even their own descendants are wary... Boss Lion is carrying a mountain that is about to collapse. If this continues, everyone will die."
"Before daybreak, there won't be any danger in this area."
He uttered the last words softly and walked deeper into the woods. There seemed to be a figure standing in the dim woods. Gray hair and scarlet eyes could be vaguely seen.
"——Captain, goodbye."
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