"Li Xuan, retreat!"
Fang Qian's voice followed closely behind Zhang Sheng's, but the actual situation seemed more complicated. After a few seconds of silence in the communication, Li Xuan's voice rang out: "You guys go!"
"Run!"
Lin Feng didn't know what had happened, but after hearing Li Xuan's voice, the two red dots on the control panel had already run dozens of meters away from the City God Temple.
At the same time, the monks and their followers met, but the former could not find the taste of a live sheep in the monks, and the monks could not get any spiritual connection from the group of madmen.
After a brief entanglement, the two sides suddenly separated.
The monks turned back, seemingly forgetting Lin Feng's presence. At this moment, the followers also lost track of the scent and returned to the direction of the City God Temple, walking towards it together.
"Let's retreat first." Lin Feng immediately abandoned any further probing: "Go find someone else."
The car changed direction, silently accelerated, and sped hundreds of meters in another direction.
He could sense that these 'things' were no longer human. In the brief moment they turned their heads at each other, everything about them seemed to go into a shutdown state, becoming extremely calm, like a stagnant pool, and even the aggressive aura was gone.
As they approached the two returning, Lin Feng hid his car and waited.
Suddenly, a headless, pitch-black figure appeared beside Zhang Sheng, carrying an unconscious young man on its back, hopping and skipping across dozens of meters.
Fang Qian was covered in blood, and her expression was somewhat listless.
"Where are the followers?" Zhang Sheng demanded as soon as he returned. Lin Feng flipped his hand and took out the control panel, replaying the scene of the system crashing when the followers lost their scent. He asked with a slightly strange tone, "Where is Li Xuan? Is he dead?"
The red dot representing Li Xuan on the control panel disappeared, and the signal vanished shortly after they left.
Zhang Sheng's eyes flashed coldly, and he blurted out, "I don't know."
Lin Feng gave the other person a few increasingly strange looks, then looked at Fang Qian. Seeing that she seemed dazed, he gave up asking questions and turned to look at the headless figure under Zhang Sheng's command.
Its jet-black body, fingernails longer than fingers, stiff posture, clean cut on its neck, and chilling aura clearly suggest it's something from folklore, somewhat like a zombie, though its exact nature remains a mystery.
When Zhang Sheng saw Lin Feng examining his treasure, a barely perceptible hint of resistance flashed in his eyes. He then manipulated the headless figure to throw the young man on the ground.
Thud... The young man rolled a few times on the ground, his body pressing down on his arm, and he lay face down in a pile of rubble with his head tilted to the side.
'Why aren't you awake yet...'
Lin Feng approached and squatted down next to the other person to examine them.
His breathing was smooth, his eyes were closed, and his face had been scratched quite a bit by pebbles, the blood was red, his body was warm, and his hands and feet were not abnormal; when he opened the other person's eyelids, his pupils were dilated to the extreme; he tried to pinch the philtrum hard, but still to no avail.
Could it be that in the end we have to follow the hoofprints left by the skinny monk to find the others?
Or... let the jade extract its soul...
Lin Feng frowned and stepped back a few paces.
"That monster is unkillable. Li Xuan's gun only grazed its skin when it hit it," Fang Qian suddenly spoke, her hands clenched tightly, her eyes filled with fear. "That's not human, it's a monster!"
A hint of hesitation appeared in her eyes, but after a long while, she gritted her teeth and remained silent.
There are also... in our team.
As she thought about it, her gaze swept over Zhang Sheng and Yu.
At the same time, Lin Feng's gaze almost fell on Yu, but the latter seemed to already know, and responded with a very cold gaze.
"Tell me more..."
"His body just stood there. Li Xuan and I attacked him more than ten times, but we couldn't let him move an inch!" Fang Qian said almost hoarsely, her eyes filled with increasing fear. "Li Xuan told me to hold on for a few seconds, then unleashed a flying kick that punched a hole in his chest... Skinny Monk... Skinny Monk grabbed a nearby cult member, crushed him, stuffed the hole back in, and patched it up again!!!"
Hearing Fang Qian's terrified voice, Zhang Sheng said while arranging the young man's body, "The horses outside the temple are all transformed from humans. Some of them retain human features. There are clues when you get close, indicating that they have eaten the Leopard Embryo Tendon-Changing Pill from the Divine Dragon Sect."
"Ugh..." As she listened, Fang Qian couldn't help but lower her head and dry heave. Murder was nothing to her, but she never thought she would see something like this, especially since she had taken a few glances at it before going in. Now that she thought about it, how could it not drive her crazy?
The Leopard Fetus Tendon-Changing Pill of the Divine Dragon Sect can strengthen the body after ingestion, but if the antidote is not taken after a certain period of time, the effects of the medicine will reverse the body's characteristics.
It's likely that the Leopard Fetus Tendon-Changing Pill has long since transformed into something even more bizarre.
Lin Feng remained silent, and seeing Zhang Sheng write and draw a proper talisman on the young man's head, he decided not to ask any further questions.
Sizzle!
The young man's tattered clothes were torn off, and Zhang Sheng, holding the man's bones, straightened his unresisting upper body and continued to draw complex talismans on his dusty chest and back.
Fang Qian vomited several times before collapsing to the ground. Among the group, only Yu seemed somewhat normal, focusing on Zhang Sheng's painting.
Just as the painting was finished, a frog croak suddenly broke the silence. Immediately afterward, Zhang Sheng made a hand seal and shouted sternly, "Guide the soul, rise!"
With a whoosh, the young man covered in talismans suddenly jumped up into the air.
Upon closer inspection, the other person's eyes were still tightly closed, but their mouth was wide open, and a pair of small eyeballs were quietly moving around inside.
Frog? Toad? Or toad?
"Croak!"
The croaking of frogs filled the air. Zhang Sheng pointed a finger at the young man's head and shouted again, "Go!"
The manipulated young man took large strides, his hands frozen at his sides, his feet stomping heavily on the ground.
Snap! Snap! Snap! Just as he was about to fall, his body suddenly stopped, and he strangely straightened up, hooking half of his body.
"Quack quack!"
The toad in his mouth gave off a strange feeling. His controlled body spun around a few times, and after regaining its footing, it took normal steps like a doll.
Lin Feng glanced at Fang Qian, who had silently stood up, then at the blank map on the control panel in his hand, and hesitated for a moment: 'If Li Xuan is still alive, he'll likely go back... Let the mechanical dog stay in the village for now...'
Following the young man's stiff steps, none of the group spoke again.
After marching in silence for several hours, they arrived at a piece of land resembling the Gobi Desert. The previously indifferent air suddenly became hot and dry, penetrating deep into their skin.
"Cough cough..." Fang Qian couldn't help but cough a few times.
The land ahead was cracked and parched, with scattered black vines growing on it. A few withered trees standing in the distance showed signs of having been burned by a fire. Looking around, there was still no one in sight.
"Quack quack!"
The young man croaked like a frog, raised an arm, and pointed to the right side of the wasteland.
At this moment, Yu jumped out, ran several dozen meters in the direction indicated by the arm, and stopped, looking at the ground.
The others followed closely behind, and saw half of an arm twitching on the ground. Just as they approached, the arm bounced a few times before Yu stomped it down.
"Click-clack..."
The sound of breaking apart came one after another, starting from the broken part of the arm, the skin continued to peel away, and even the bones shattered into pieces.
As Yu saw the group approaching, she pointed to the side, where a tire track was hidden in the cracked earth not far away, leading into the depths of the desert.
So... those monsters are afraid of losing moisture?
Lin Feng squatted down, took out a bottle of water, and poured it onto the broken bones scattered on the ground.
No response? Or is it just taking time?
After thinking for a moment, I poked a piece of dried meat into the bottle opening, watched it slowly sink, and then screwed on the cap.
The young man then continued walking, following the tire tracks deeper into the Gobi Desert.
The crowd remained silent, occasionally glancing at the bottle in Lin Feng's hand, their thoughts unreadable.
After walking for a long time, they had no choice but to stop behind a small hill. Lin Feng and Fang Qian were exhausted and sat down on the ground, while Zhang Sheng was the only one who was still standing up.
"I'll go scout ahead." Seemingly not wanting to linger here, Zhang Sheng took out the communicator Lin Feng had given him, gestured to it, and continued walking forward.
His body must have undergone some kind of Taoist transformation?
Lin Feng looked at Zhang Sheng's back and thought about it carefully; it seemed that the other person hadn't even been breathing heavily.
After Zhang Sheng left, Fang Qian, who had been silent for a long time, raised her head and said, "According to the original work, the skinny monk's strength ranks at the bottom of the strong."
Lin Feng nodded as he listened to the other person's voice, chewing on an energy bar and shaking the bottle of jerky in his hand. His gaze inadvertently swept over the red dot on the control panel at his feet before turning to Fang Qian, whose voice was low.
"I want to quit..."
"If a skinny monk and a few followers are this difficult to deal with, how could we possibly defeat the number one monk in the world..."
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