Chapter 489: Recruiting Guards
The place in front of us, which is called a palace, is actually a huge and complete animal corpse spanning an open space.
The head of this animal's corpse alone was as big as the entire body of the Golden Crow. It was hard to imagine how big it would be if it were a living creature.
Guliao is a mythical beast that lives in a dead land. It has a huge body, horns on its head, a pair of fangs in its upper and lower mouth, and thick bone spurs on every section of its spine.
"You'd better hide yourself, you strange bird that looks like a living creature. It's fine for us to go into this Gu Liao Palace. If the king sees you and gets interested, you'll be in big trouble."
"Trouble? Could it be that the king has a hobby of taking away other people's pets?"
"Hush! Are you going to kill yourself? Don't talk nonsense! How could the king be the one who steals other people's pets? It's just that I heard that the king is particularly fond of eating the essence of animal pets recently. Since some time ago, he has been sending people out to look for wild animals. I'm afraid he has a special interest in wild animals.
so……"
Likes to eat wild animals? Does the king of this dead land have such a perverted hobby?
The Golden Crow flapped its wings and flew away immediately, causing the two Undead to laugh and say, "This bird is really smart. It can even understand us. I wonder where you caught it and tamed it. Next time, take us to catch one!"
Hua Yang was shocked but still said calmly, "Okay, let's go in." Take you to catch it? If everyone can get one of these Golden Crows, the scene of taking them out would probably scare a lot of people to death.
The three of them walked closer to the interior of the Bone Palace. The palace was about thirty to forty meters wide. The bones on both sides of the Bone Palace were extremely thick and white, and were surrounded by layers of deathly aura.
They came to a bone gate, and two men dressed as guards suddenly came out of the gate. "Are you here to apply for the position of guard?"
"Yes, yes, big brother, are you here to pick us up?"
The two guards looked at each other with complicated emotions in their eyes, then stepped aside and said, "Go straight after you enter the door, and someone will lead you to do the test."
"By the way, this palace has a complicated structure, so don't run around and get yourself into trouble."
Something was wrong. Hua Yang saw some pity and indifference in their eyes. This was not the attitude one would use to treat a few recruited guards.
The two people with Hua Yang walked forward excitedly, and urged Hua Yang to catch up.
But Hua Yang noticed the emotions in the eyes of the two guards.
After passing through the bone gate, there was only a white bone ground ahead leading to an unknown location, but the road was too long, so long that she couldn't see the real scene at the bottom.
No one knew what was at the bottom, which made Hua Yang alert and she always felt that something was wrong.
There didn't seem to be as many applicants as they had imagined. They only saw groups of three or four waiting by the roadside, chatting together.
Although they were at the end of the line, the speed of progress was not slow, so it should be their turn soon.
Three days ago, outside the Land of Death, in the Xing Family Mansion of the Ancient Universe, Hua Lunong's poison had not yet been resolved. Although she had recovered, her health was getting worse. The most obvious thing was that she had to stay in bed and sleep for more than half of the day, but she could not sleep deeply.
Once you fall asleep, your body's activity level is too low, the activity level of toxins will increase, and it will be hard to say whether you can wake up or not.
Yan Chongshan returned to the Yan family a year ago. He had deduced for Xing Lie the cause of Hua Lunong's poisoning. The finger of blame was pointed at two places.
One is the Rong family, and the other is a dead silent place.
The Rong family was the last to diagnose the poison for Hua Lunong and also suppressed it for her, so it was not surprising that the deduction results pointed the finger at them.
But he could never figure out why it pointed to the place of death.
Xing Lie was eager to save his mother. No matter whether the deduction result pointed to the Land of Death because the person who poisoned was related to the Land of Death, or whether there was a way to detoxify in the Land of Death, as a son, he had to go there.
At the border of the Star Universe, Xing Lie, dressed in black, walked out of a black cosmic crack. He hid his body and face in the black cloak. Behind him was the territory of the Universe Kingdom, which was bright and full of life. In front of him was the endless darkness that was unique to a dead land.
It is very simple to enter the Land of Death. Just find an area that is not guarded by undead creatures, then use your supernatural powers to protect your body and jump into the Land of Death to enter.
The Ancient Universe Kingdom and the Land of Death are in the same universe, with no obvious boundaries. Stepping out of the Star Universe area is the Land of Death.
He summoned a tall and mighty black-headed horse and mounted its back swiftly. The black devouring force enveloped him and the black horse, and they rushed into the darkness of the dead land.
"Uncle Yan, I never doubt your deduction results, but if I go to the Land of Death, how can I find people and things that correspond to your deduction results?"
"Go south to the Land of Death. My deduction is correct. Once you get there, keep going south. The clues related to your mother's poisoning are there!"
"Uncle Yan, what are the chances of finding an antidote?"
"According to my calculations, ninety-nine percent."
This was the last conversation between Xing Lie and Yan Chongshan before he left the Ancient Universe. In other words, there must be an antidote to his mother's poison in the Land of Death.
But he didn't know what that one percent was.
Originally, he should have dealt with Xing Lan and his son first, but when he went to find Xing Lan after meeting his mother Hua Lunong that day, he was told that he was no longer in the mansion.
Han Dan was dying and didn't know where Xing Lan was. He locked her up in her own yard under guard.
My mother's Rain and Mist Terrace is protected by my grandfather's God of War Guards, and no one dares to provoke her. The most important thing now is to detoxify my mother.
All the way south from the Land of Death, he observed the terrain, which was no different from the Ancient Universe Kingdom and other places, except that it was only black and lacked some color.
He also encountered some undead creatures along the way. In order not to alert them, he hid himself in the devouring power and no one noticed.
However, on this day, a huge bone-burning palace appeared before his eyes. The palace was surrounded by broken bones, full of death and gloom. But he was not affected by such an environment at all.
Bone Liao Palace.
Apart from the cliff in the south, the most conspicuous and dazzling place is the Gu Liao Palace.
The antidote might be in here.
He walked into the Bone Liao Palace hidden in the devouring power and found that although the appearance of the palace was an extremely dense bone Liao, inside, there were pavilions, waterside pavilions, houses and buildings.
It's just that everything in front of me is the result of the abundant dead air in the dead land. It seems real, but it's not fake either.
All the dead energy around him seemed to be consciously controlled by something, so in order to avoid alerting the enemy, he was cautious with every step and every movement, fearing that he would be discovered by the person controlling the Bone Liao Palace.
He walked along every wide and narrow bone road, carefully noted down every tall and short house, and passed through a wide open space like a martial arts arena. There was a bone-burning throne on the high platform in the front.
Finally, something unusual was discovered outside a bone house behind the martial arts arena.
There are strong energy fluctuations in the room, and it feels like death is everywhere.
He approached quietly and entered the room.
In front of him was a man in black clothes and a black robe who was almost as tall as him. He was currently holding a fellow undead with one hand. All his strength was concentrated on the body of that undead. The undead energy was flowing out of the victim's body through his hand and then gathered on him for him to absorb.
The body of the undead that was sucked away slowly collapsed to the ground, and finally the inside of his clothes was empty, with a string of skeletons of unknown animals falling out from inside.
Xing Lie's eyes flickered. The bodies of the Undead were made up of dead air. Unlike humans, they did not have flesh and blood that could bleed.
Although this black-robed man was very powerful, Xing Lie knew from his perception that this man was also at the god of war level, and his energy level was higher than his own.
But the strong aura was not so stable. Seeing his body swaying slightly after absorbing the death energy of his own kind, he must have been injured.
Using their own kind to devour and heal wounds is indeed the style of the undead.
At this moment, an undead guard came in from outside. He knelt in front of the man in black robe, looking at the clothes and a bunch of bones on the ground, his body couldn't help but tremble slightly.
"Speak." The man's voice was a little haggard, but sounded majestic.
"King, the new members of the tribe who are applying for the guard position are already waiting outside. Do you think we should let them in?"
"What are their backgrounds? Have you checked them out?"
"Yes, yes... the tribesmen who came from the remote areas of the Dead Silence Land, and also some individual investors, some whose bodies have not yet fully formed."
"Very good, bring two more up."
"yes."
After the guard finished speaking, he resisted the trembling of his legs and walked out. Once he got outside, he immediately put on a relaxed look. When he saw the man and two women who came to apply for the position of guard, he looked like he was in luck and beamed with joy.
"The king wants you to come in. It seems that he is very fond of you, the applicants."
Hua Yang looked at the two men and women dancing excitedly in front of her and sighed in her heart. These two seemed to have no sense of defense at all. She always felt that something would happen if she went in like this.
However, she didn't know whether the person who came out to speak "you" included her, so she looked at the guard hesitantly.
The guard turned to look at her with some seriousness, sighed and said, "Well, you should stay here for now. The king said to see two people first, you will be the next one in line."
Hua Yang wanted to say something to the two of them, but when she saw the guard suddenly inserted himself between her and the two of them, it seemed that he didn't want her to have too much contact with them.
The two of them had been gone for a long time. If we roughly estimated it based on Earth time, they had been gone for more than two hours.
It's been so long and there's still no reply. Is it so complicated to apply for a guard? Will it also test your ability to respond on the spot and your strength?
Until about the same amount of time passed, the two still hadn't returned, and even the guards who had gone in before didn't come out again. Hua Yang was getting impatient and suddenly became more alert.
This place is a dead place. Whether it is the swamp abyss or here, the life here is all dead. Upgrading and advancing are all achieved by cannibalism and devouring each other.
If the owner of this Bone Liao Palace suddenly wants to offer a sacrifice to himself, then not only will all my previous efforts be wasted.
The reason why she was able to escape from the Purple Eyes of the Abyss time and time again was entirely because she knew that it could not get too far away from the abyss.
But the king of this dead land is much stronger than Zimou anyway. If you accidentally fall into his hands, I don't think the end will be good.
No, I'd better leave first. Even if the king here guards the passage back, I still have to think carefully.
Just as she turned around and took two steps, she was suddenly stopped by a voice behind her.
"stop."
It's the guard from before.
"It's your turn, come in."
Hua Yang wanted to run, but at this moment, the guard suddenly came over to her and looked her up and down.
"You have just been formed not long ago, right? Originally, the king looked down on people like you with low quality, but recently the king is happy and is willing to give people like you a chance.
Go in, the king is waiting for you inside!"
Hua Yang paused. Behind her was the so-called king's chamber. For some reason, two rows of guards suddenly appeared on both sides. In front of her was the road she had just come from. If she ran at full speed at this moment, she wondered if she could escape those guards who were at least cosmic level.
Her body has not fully recovered yet. According to the energy intensity, her current strength is barely enough for the initial stage of Nebula level.
I can’t beat him!
It would be a terrible thing to escape and be caught. Why don't you go meet the king and try to convince him to let you go?
"Where are my two friends?"
"They have been assigned by the king to guard another area of the palace. Please go in first, and the king will test you personally."
Just as the guard finished speaking, another guard suddenly appeared beside him and walked up to him. They asked with alert faces, "There was an energy disturbance in the king's bedroom just now. We are afraid something is wrong. We must go in and take a look."
"What could possibly happen to the king? You guys are making a fuss out of nothing."
The guards looked serious. "The king keeps us guards to protect the safety of the Bone Liao Palace. Lead the way!"
The guard looked at Hua Yang, looking somewhat embarrassed. But suddenly, a man in a black robe, tall and with his face covered tightly in a black cloak, spoke with a slightly cold voice, but still looked desolate and haggard overall.
"I was testing the strength of the new guards just now and accidentally triggered the alarm. You!" He suddenly turned to Hua Yang's position, but when he saw the skeleton in front of him that was not yet fully transformed into a human shape, his heart inexplicably tightened.
The fight just now did not hurt my heart, so why did my heart ache? Could it be that the King of the Dead Land had some poison in his attack just now?
It seems that I need to check my injuries carefully after I finish dealing with things here.
"Follow me!" He pointed at Hua Yang, then walked into the bedroom first.
Hua Yang took hesitant steps, but finally walked into the king's bedroom under the gazes of a group of cosmic-class powerful beings around her.
She walked obediently behind, always keeping a distance from the king.
"I wonder how the king will test my strength?"
She had it in mind that if the other party hit her once, she would pretend to be defeated and fall to the ground, then beg for mercy and act weak, saying that she was not worthy of being his bodyguard and leave first.
This king had an indescribable aura of power and oppression that made her feel uncomfortable and suppressed in her soul.
The opponent's strength is unfathomable, and even I can't sense his true strength at all.
Not only because his soul was incomplete or something else, but in order to avoid exposing his true identity, it would be better to postpone leaving the exit of the Dead Silence Land for the time being.
Thanks for the monthly ticket thrown to me by Swallow My Heart, biubiubiu~
(End of this chapter)
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