Chapter 26 Chapter 26 "Just wait, I'll save you.
"What happened?" The three people who had spent a long time collecting an energy node felt a violent shaking coming from the cave.
Then came the rubble from above.
The nodes were also flashing and emitting faint light.
"Look down." Li Xiu pointed below the slanted cave entrance.
"The ones in the middle are... Jiang Qing and Zhu Tianba?!" Zhao Peng narrowed his eyes, carefully distinguishing the two tiny figures wrapped in green, blue and black below.
"Bang--"
Another rock fell and hit where the three people were standing.
"Be careful!" Two balls of purple lightning shot out from Meng Yanlang's hands, shattering the stones so that they would not hit Li Xiu and Zhao Peng.
In addition to being confused and shocked, Li Xiu's eyes suddenly swept back and forth across the energy nodes in the cave. She pointed at the node behind her, and fear flashed in her eyes.
Meng Yanlang and Zhao Peng immediately understood and turned around to look.
I saw that the dark blue crystal was fading at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The instrument in Meng Yanlang's hand also beeped twice at this time. He looked down and saw that the value on the instrument was also dropping rapidly.
"It's amazing. The energy in the dark crystal nodes all weakened at the same time, even..." He paused and said, "disappeared..."
Meng Yanlang's gaze was fixed on Zhu Tianba, who was in the center of the light below, and a moment of thought flashed across his eyes.
“Bang, bang, bang—”
"No, we have to leave here. More and more rocks are falling down. This place is going to collapse!" Li Xiu held onto the rock wall and finally managed to steady himself. Then he rushed to the exit without stopping.
Meng Yanlang and Zhao Peng obviously also realized this.
Several people bent over, lowered their bodies as much as possible, and tried to climb out using their hands and feet.
......
At the same time, the Dark Valley Abnormal Energy Monitoring Team was far away in the academy.
"Hey, why can't I open it? That's impossible."
The monitoring screens went dark almost instantly, as if all the devices were affected at the same time.
After repeated attempts, the monitor finally determined that the problem was in the Dark Valley.
"With so many instruments failing, I've basically ruled out the possibility of alien beasts causing the problem," the monitor thought rationally. "Something might have happened in Dark Valley."
Such an important matter should be reported to the college's abnormality investigation team, and they should go and investigate the situation.
However, the monitor always felt that he had forgotten one thing.
She pulled up the node energy device's retrieval records and carefully compared the information on them. She held her eye sockets, her expression suddenly becoming serious. "Not good! Four more students are collecting abnormal nodes in the Dark Valley today!"
The monitor quickly dialed the number of the Abnormal Investigation Team and asked them to send someone to rescue.
......
In the dark valley.
Jiang Qing stood there in a daze, almost trying to escape. She stared blankly at the center where the light came from.
Just now, the faint blue light around seemed to have substance and all gathered into Zhu Tianba's body.
Zhu Tianba's tiny body was stretched several times larger, and its little pig face was twisted in pain.
And those blue lights seemed to have no end and continued to flow into Zhu Tianba's body.
It raised its claws with difficulty and pointed towards Jiang Qing.
The surrounding air seemed to stagnate for two seconds, and then the tentacles within a two-meter diameter with Jiang Qing as the center were instantly cut by a knife, breaking collectively and pouring out green juice.
The tentacles shrank and stopped attacking.
Jiang Qing, who was temporarily safe, frowned. She stared at Zhu Tianba without blinking, with unstoppable worry in her eyes.
The energy in the blue dark crystal comes from the highly active and unique "alien beast source power", and Zhu Tianba's body probably cannot absorb so much energy at one time.
If it continues like this, its stomach will burst sooner or later!
Suddenly, there was a noise from the bottom of the water, as if something was about to come out. The next second, five or six tentacles of the giant vine king broke out of the water together. Together with the tentacles that had just been cut off and grew again, eight tentacles rushed towards Zhu Tianba.
Realizing what was going to happen next, Jiang Qing swallowed his saliva, reacted quickly and ran after the tentacles.
The noise made by Zhu Tianba caused the entire Dark Valley to shake, and rocks kept falling from above.
It was precisely because of these falling rocks that the shadow leeches in the water were afraid of being hit, so they swam away, giving Jiang Qing the opportunity to go into the water again.
But there are always surprises.
Some of the fleeing leeches fell into her clothes, and some leeches, desperate to suck some blood even at the brink of death, crawled directly onto the back of her hand, enjoying this last dinner.
But compared to the previous ones, these are nothing.
The blood was sucked away mouthful by mouthful, and Jiang Qing finally followed the water flow to the bottom of the crystal.
While torturing Zhu Tianba, the blue light was also preventing the giant seal from approaching.
The tentacles spasmed violently and twitched the moment they touched the ball of light, and dark green mucus splattered like pus and blood. Even though it was hurt, it still rushed to that place again and again without caring about its life, as if there was something in it that it cared about very much.
Beneath the deep pool, its huge body twisted wildly in the water, and its eyes hidden deep in the shadows now contained only fear and anger.
Jiang Qing took a deep breath, and expressionlessly pulled out the shadow leech that was attached to his hand. He stretched out a hand, hesitated in the air for a moment, and tentatively pressed it on the dark crystal.
The exploding dark crystal did not hurt her.
Jiang Qing had a plan in mind.
The texture of the dark crystal was uneven, and she could climb up by carefully using the leverage.
The ideal is very good, but in fact, as soon as she climbed onto the first foothold, the blood flowing on her hands stained the dark crystal and underwent a qualitative change.
Jiang Qing was once again blown into the water by the shattered dark crystal.
She struggled to her feet, wanting to see what was going on, and saw that the mirror-like crystal material was inlaid with a piece of rough sand gold stone.
Moreover, this yellow area shows obvious signs of spreading to other places.
Her mind raced.
The essence of the "Turning Stone into Gold" talent is "resource conversion". When her blood first came into contact with the pearl, it successfully converted into gold, but only partially; when it came into contact with the ceramic clay sculpture for the second time, the conversion failed; the third time it came into contact with the pearl, it was still only partially converted; this was the fourth time, the blood was contaminated with the dark crystal and directly fissioned successfully, and the part converted was even larger than the previous part obtained from the pearl because it was still spreading.
What is the difference between gold, pearls, ceramic clay sculptures and dark crystals?
Suddenly, an idea flashed in her mind, and the words were almost on the verge of coming out.
It's value!
When she wants to convert something of low value into something of high value, the price she needs to pay is more blood, and the conversion is more difficult.
And when something of high value is converted into something of low value, the amount of blood she needs to pay is no longer necessary.
After realizing this, Jiang Qing stared straight at the huge blue stone in front of him.
The energy absorbed by Zhu Tianba comes from dark crystals. If she uses her talent of "turning stone into gold" to convert some of the dark crystals into gold, can she interrupt its energy transmission?
"Just wait, I'll save you."
Jiang Qing immediately took out a small knife and scratched his palm. A wet feeling instantly permeated his palm.
She placed her palm against the dark crystal, and the feeling she felt in her palm was not a cold one, but a burning, greedy, devouring feeling that seemed to suck all her blood away.
As soon as the blood touched the surface of the dark crystal, the deep blue light instantly wrapped around it like a living thing, madly sucking her life force.
Jiang Qing groaned, her face turning visibly pale. She could clearly feel the blood flowing out of the wound on her palm and being swallowed by this huge energy core.
The talent totem on the wrist suddenly became hot, and the two slightly twisted nested rings seemed to come alive, and the starlight inside rotated rapidly.
“Click—”
With Jiang Qing's blood-stained palm as the center, a visible golden ripple suddenly spread out.
Wherever it passed, the deep blue color was like ice thrown into a raging fire, making a shattering "crack" sound, and instantly lost its luster, solidified and hardened, presenting a lifeless, gray-yellow rock texture without any energy fluctuations.
It was like a priceless sapphire that was instantly reduced to its original rough state.
This "petrified" area spread rapidly on the surface of the huge dark crystal like a plague. The gray-yellow rock texture, with Jiang Qing's palm as the center, greedily devoured the dark blue light. Wherever it went, the energy pulsation came to an abrupt halt.
Zhu Tianba let out a whine of extreme pain.
The dark blue energy torrents that had originally been pouring into its body like rivers flowing into the sea, turned into violent and uncontrollable turbulence the moment their core source was forcibly "cut off".
Its swollen body suddenly stiffened, and the light on its surface flickered violently, flickering unsteadily, as if it would be blown to pieces by the residual energy raging inside its body in the next moment.
But at the same time, the fatal energy infusion finally stopped.
"puff!"
Jiang Qing himself was also hit hard and spat out a mouthful of blood.
The backlash from forcibly using one's talent on such a huge dark crystal core with such a high energy level would be far beyond imagination.
She felt that all the bones in her body were groaning, and most of her mental strength was drained in an instant. Her vision went dark, and she was only able to hold on and not fall down because of her strong willpower. However, her palms seemed to be welded to the stone and could not move at all.
The transformation of her talent was still ongoing, madly consuming her blood and spirit. The gray-yellow "petrified" area was still expanding tenaciously, competing fiercely for territory with the remaining dark blue energy.
Beneath the deep pool, the giant eagle suddenly let out a roar.
The energy core that it guards and relies on is being "polluted" and "killed".
It's not allowed!
The eight tentacles that had originally rolled towards Zhu Tianba were now like crazy whips, carrying a destructive momentum, carrying the fishy pool water and dark green mucus, and violently lashing towards Jiang Qing.
The breath of death instantly enveloped the place.
Jiang Qing's pupils suddenly shrank as she saw a huge shadow like a mountain emerging from the water.
She wanted to hide, but her body felt like it was filled with lead, her mental strength was exhausted, her broken arm was in excruciating pain, and under her feet were slippery rocks and icy water. There was nowhere to escape.
"Jiang Qing!"
At this critical moment, three shouts exploded almost simultaneously from the cave entrance above.
They are Meng Yanlang, Zhao Peng and Li Xiu.
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