Chapter 96: Dead Tree Revived 15
Gojo Satoru's progress was also going smoothly.
Xingye Wang turned on his phone and received a text message from him: [All solved. ]
The attached picture shows Gojo Satoru making a V sign with one hand and the vampires piled up like a mountain.
Xingye Wang's gaze fell on his brilliant smiling face, and the corners of his mouth rose involuntarily.
"Did Lady Nashida encounter anything happy?" Lansaka asked.
"Why do you say that?"
"Because you smiled."
Xingye Wang was startled, and he raised the corner of his mouth, feeling the arc that had not yet retracted.
He laughed, and he didn't even realize it.
This is an experience I have never had before. It is not a carefully crafted smile during role-playing, but a smile that comes from the heart.
"What are you discussing in whispers?" From a distance, Nakahara Chuuya asked loudly.
"We are discussing how to distribute the Lanzaca cakes."
The girl waved the bag in her hand and smiled as usual, but with a little more warmth, like the melting snow in spring and the blooming flowers.
Nakahara Chuuya was stunned for a moment.
His intuition told him that Nashida seemed more relaxed now. The barrier that had originally stood between her and the others had quietly disappeared, and she had truly walked into the human world.
Is it because she is a god that she feels distant from them? Nakahara Chuuya was thinking about this when a strawberry-flavored dessert was suddenly stuffed into his hand.
Lanzaca tiptoed and stuffed snacks to Q and Akutagawa Ryunosuke: "This is the taste of happiness, taste it well! Then become happy!"
Hoshino Moto took a bite of the soft pastry and said seriously, "Well, everyone should be happy."
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As the original vampire, Plum can sense the general situation of all his descendants. After confirming Hoshino Nozomi's strength, he simply backstabbed Fukuchi Sakurachi and said that they are now in the mountains near Tokyo.
Plum: "There's a lot of miasma around here, and there are walking mushrooms that can hit people, so you have to be careful."
Hoshino Nozomi: ...So familiar.
Isn't this the dead zone? What are they doing in the dead zone?
He guessed that it might be related to forbidden knowledge, but unfortunately Fukuchi Sakurachi never shared his plans with Plum, and the vampire knew nothing about his purpose. Seeing that he could not get more information, Hoshino Nozomi exited the dream and prepared for action.
The final participants were decided to be Chuuya Nakahara, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, and Gojo Satoru.
Yumeno Hisasaku shouted, "I want to go too!"
Hoshino Momo refuted mercilessly: "Your advantage is that you can attack unexpectedly, but I guess Fukuchi Sakura will not believe that you are just a little girl picking mushrooms."
Nakahara Chuuya: "Why did this white-haired guy come too? Isn't it enough to have me?"
Gojo Satoru: "I am the strongest. You little dwarf should not compete with me. You should first know your own strengths and weaknesses."
"Say that again?!"
"I am the strongest, little guy..."
"Okay, stop!" Xingye Wang clapped his hands and pushed the two people away, "Get along harmoniously and don't fight among yourselves, otherwise I will..."
He thought for a long time and realized that he couldn't really do anything to them: "I just hate you."
"Are you serious?" Nakahara Chuuya complained, but he finally succumbed to Nashida's stern look.
On the way to the Dead Zone by helicopter, Nashida explained, "The vampire incident involves the Jujutsu High School. The principal hopes that someone from the Jujutsu world can be present to understand the situation, so Gojo Satoru was ordered to come."
"That's right, you can rely on the reliable Gojo teacher as much as you can."
"Tsk." Nakahara Chuuya snorted coldly.
The air was filled with gunpowder and Nashida was helpless. The next second, a pair of hands suddenly passed through her armpits and picked her up.
Nashida: “?”
Akutagawa Ryunosuke learned from his last experience and explained, "To prevent them from getting separated."
Nashida was deeply moved. She didn't expect that the one who was the least worried now was Akutagawa, while the other two adults who claimed to be reliable were arguing with each other.
In order to avoid making a surprise, Nashida gave up the plan of descending directly from the air to the center to cleanse the dead zone. She planned to advance from the periphery first, determine the location of Fuchi Sakurachi, and then act separately.
Fifteen minutes later, the helicopter hovered about three hundred meters away from the dead zone.
Akutagawa Ryunosuke jumped down first, holding Nashida. After landing, two green vines wrapped around the wrists of Nakahara Chuuya and Gojo Satoru respectively to prevent anyone from being left alone.
“Click, click.”
The soles of shoes crushed the fallen leaves, and the noise, which was usually so small that it could not be ignored, was amplified countless times by the silent environment, like a heavy hammer hitting everyone's ears.
The miasma in the dead zone became thicker and thicker, almost condensing into a solid substance, swaying in the air like a scarlet veil. Visibility was getting lower and lower, and Nashida stared at a particularly glaring red in a certain place, feeling dizzy.
Narcita closed her eyes, her heart pounding in her chest.
She had a bad feeling, as if she had encountered a natural enemy, and every cell in her body was screaming for alert.
Nashida thought: [System, conduct detection and identification.]
【Detection and identification, success.】
Nashida opened her eyes again and looked at the place she had just been at.
At this glance, her pupils shrank and her hair stood on end.
A pair of huge scarlet beast eyes flickered in the dimness, and then more and more eyes opened, approached, and locked onto the prey!
"Hide..." Nashida quickly changed her words, "Lanzaca! Use the Langala pear!"
Almost at the same time, the sharp claws of the beast slammed into Lanzaka's shield with a sound of breaking through the air!
Catch up!
"Everyone, we are under enemy attack," Nashida said solemnly, "The enemy is... a pack of beast hounds."
Beastiality hound, a monster that tears through the cracks in the world and emerges from the abyss.
The system was dumbfounded: [No, that shouldn't be the case. Although Beast Hounds often appear in the Dead Zone of Teyvat, this world is not connected to the Abyss. At most, only mutated Fungus Beasts should appear.]
System: [Also, your current spiritual perception is too strong, and you are easily eroded by the power of the abyss.]
[We’ll talk about this later,] Hoshino Nozomi’s premonition grew stronger, [Let’s think of a way to break out first.]
【Strength appraisal, success. 】
Nashida raised her hands, and several vines entangled a beasthound like snakes, removing its power to rush forward. Akutagawa Ryunosuke seized the opportunity and used his supernatural power to cut it into pieces in an instant.
The hound's body did not fall to the ground, but was sucked into a black vortex in mid-air and disappeared without a trace.
Nashida breathed uncomfortably, and dense black spots flashed before her eyes from time to time.
"Quick battle, quick decision." Gojo Satoru noticed her abnormality and immediately used his domain to clear out the beast hounds around him as quickly as possible.
Nashida felt better. "Things have changed. These beasts are not part of my plan."
"Do you want to go deeper?"
"Keep going. We can't let the beasts roam free."
"But your body..."
"Don't worry, I can hold on." Nashida took a deep breath. "If something unexpected happens, I will activate the backup plan."
[System, is there a way to find out the distribution of the abyss power in the dead zone? ]
【Host, please conduct a spiritual appraisal. 】
【Inspiration, success.】
Nashida carefully felt the anti-elemental force in the space: the area nearby had been cleared in the previous battle, and there were groups of black shadows gathered at 10 o'clock and 3 o'clock respectively, slightly smaller than the beasts that attacked them before, but right in front of them, there was a thin and long black shadow, whose energy was stronger than all the others combined.
Just a quick glance and Nashida felt a slight sting in her eyes.
Narcida: "...Let's go. I'm afraid he has discovered us."
"Him?" Gojo Satoru asked.
Soon, his questions were answered.
The one who appeared before them was Fukuchi Sakurachi.