safe place
Ruixia on the other side also heard the sound of breaking air. She just turned her head and almost came face to face with the blue-gray head!
But just as he was about to be hit by the speeding headbutt, something followed closely behind it from the fog and hit it with a "bang". Although it didn't seem to cause any damage, it still caused it to pause briefly.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Ruixia immediately retreated and quickly distanced herself from the monster that was so close.
The next moment, the silver-haired girl arrived in an instant, caught the staff that bounced into the air, then turned the weapon, with the heavier end facing downward, and using her own weight and the potential energy of falling, smashed the still moving head to the ground with one blow!
It was dark at night, and he couldn't see Xi Mu's expression clearly. He only vaguely caught a glimpse of the cold sweat under the corner of her jaw and her slightly trembling hands.
Her heart suddenly tightened. Ruixia raised her hand, gathering energy while shouting, "Ximu, hurry up, come behind me!"
With the help of the detection lens, he had already made some preliminary judgments about the surrounding situation during the few steps he took. The most important thing at the moment was to quickly escape the monster's pursuit and find a safe place to settle down.
This monster has a blurry face and obviously doesn't use its facial features to determine the target's location. It can still find the target accurately even in the fog - in this case, the only way to stop it is physically!
Hearing this, Xi Mu, who was not far away, guessed that he must be preparing to attack, and immediately jumped off the monster's head and quickly moved towards his teammates to join them.
But at this moment, a strange roar that was difficult to describe in words suddenly came from behind.
The moment she heard it, Ximu suddenly felt her mind go blank, as if the world she could perceive had never really existed from the beginning to the end.
When all her consciousness returned to its place, she found herself lying on the ground, and the cold and hard grass pricked her cheeks painfully.
But although the consciousness was awake, the body did not seem to wake up with it.
She struggled to get up, but received no response at all. Only her eyeballs could move freely.
What's going on? Is this some kind of mental attack?
But she didn't feel any headache... How long had she been down? Where was Ruixia?
Twisting his sight as far as he could at the moment, Ximu looked around and found that this was still the place where the battle had just taken place. Even the hole made by the monster's head was still as clear as ever.
Great, it seems it was just a momentary trance.
But in this situation, it was obviously not the time to completely relax - the head that she had knocked down was now rising again, and Ruixia on the other side was kneeling on one knee. Although she did not fall completely, her condition did not seem optimistic.
Did it fail?
A trace of frustration crept into Ximu's heart, but before Ximu could start calculating the cost of starting over, Ruixia, who was struggling to hold on, suddenly glowed with golden light!
A complicated magic circle unfolded under him and then quickly dissipated. With the sound of metal breaking, the black-haired boy seemed to break free from some restraints. He stood up suddenly and fired a shot at the head in the air!
The power of this shot was so astonishing that it not only shattered the blue-gray head instantly, but also dispersed a lot of the surrounding fog, revealing the lonely body of the monster rushing towards this side from a distance.
An ordinary person would have been dead after receiving this blow.
But the empty neck only paused, and then with the help of some invisible force, the gray flesh and blood began to grow out of thin air, and it seemed that a new head would soon grow out.
Ruixia didn't continue to attack, but rushed to Ximu, took out two scrolls and threw them at her.
A warm power surged through his body, and the emptiness that had frozen his body receded like a tide. Under the intertwining golden and green lights, Ximu immediately regained his ability to move, and even the dull ache that had been like a maggot in his tarsal bones almost disappeared.
She glanced at him, surprised and a little bit unbelievable.
"Walk!"
But there was obviously no time to explain now. Ruixia put her monoculars on her nose, pointed in a direction, and quickly instructed: "Look over there. Do you see a golden light? We're going there now, but we must avoid any places that show blurry vortices on the way. Do you understand?"
If it were someone else, they would probably be confused for a while.
But Ximu is really good at reading commands in an emergency situation——
She understood his intention almost instantly. While familiarizing herself with the various energy symbols transmitted by the lenses, she pulled up Ruixia, jumped up, and quickly planned the fastest route to the target location.
Seeing that the prey was still unwilling to give up, the head, which had already basically taken shape, opened its mouth, as if it wanted to use the same trick again.
But the next second, a small, shining gem suddenly shot out and flew right into its mouth.
"Bang——"
The head that had just been repaired was shattered into pieces again by the "melt-in-the-mouth" explosion. In this short while, Ximu led Ruixia to move in the fog and gradually ran out of the opponent's attack range.
Ruixia put away the small crossbow in her hand, feeling very painful in her heart.
Although he is not at the end of his rope yet, if he cannot reunite with his companions as soon as possible, given the strength of this monster, the few items he has left will soon be used up.
Just now, in order to get rid of the abnormal state similar to "forced exhaustion", he used up a disposable prop and a scroll of similar purpose... If similar situations happen a few more times, even for him, it will be difficult to escape with his teammates.
but……
Looking at the girl's agile and running back, Ruixia couldn't help but sigh in her heart while panting.
...Run, run so fast!
It was obvious that the other party had somewhat reduced his maximum speed in order to take care of him. Otherwise, just looking at the sharp lines of the fog around him being cut by the speed, his feet would have been off the ground for a moment when he turned.
Although the footsteps behind me were far away, they did not stop and still lingered in the woods, as if a head would suddenly fly out from a corner at any time.
Fortunately, they arrived at their destination before Ruixia became exhausted.
In the place where the golden light shines in the lens, there stands a seemingly ordinary tree, but its surroundings are slightly glowing, and its silvery color makes it stand out among the gloomy vegetation.
Although they didn't understand why, the moment the two of them ran under the tree, the heavy footsteps that had been chasing them suddenly stopped.
They all turned around at the same time and almost met the head that emerged from the fog - but as if it had lost its target, the monster looked around blankly, stopped for a moment, then slowly stood up and went in another direction.
Only then did she finally relax. Ruixia breathed a sigh of relief and immediately slid down to the ground, leaning against the tree trunk.
Ximu was not as relaxed as him. He first looked around to see if there was anything unusual on and under the tree. After confirming that everything was fine, he leaned against the tree to rest for a while and returned the single mirror to him.
"How do you know you can escape danger here?"
She was still a little curious.
"hey-hey."
Every time he talked about his area of expertise, the boy couldn't help but show a proud expression.
He took the lens and projected the image, just as he had done in prison before. Pointing at the strange spots, he explained, "You see, this dense forest is very strange. There are distorted energy fields scattered everywhere. We currently have very little intelligence, so I asked you to avoid them as much as possible."
After explaining the existence of those blurry vortices, he slightly adjusted the image, reducing the originally magnified areas and highlighting some traces of flickering light.
"Look at this again. Isn't it very similar to the magic circle fluctuations we detected in the dungeon before?"
Ximu looked at it carefully and nodded quickly.
Indeed, judging from the color fluctuations alone, they are almost identical - that is to say, does the magic circle that can possibly capture a person's energy still exist in this dense forest?
Ruixia obviously had the same opinion on this point, so his expression was not very good at the moment.
I had gone to great lengths to escape from the prison in order to get out of this strange magic circle as quickly as possible, but I didn't expect that there was another cage outside the cage.
“But the energy field here is very unique.”
Having said this, he suddenly became more energetic and magnified some details again.
In the image, the originally continuous flow of light was abruptly cut off where it touched the golden light, and then connected nonchalantly on the other side, as if ignoring the extra obstruction out of thin air.
"Those monsters can accurately locate their targets without using their eyes. It's likely due to the induction provided by this omnipresent magic circle... Although I don't know where this golden gap comes from, the fact that the magic circle's power is cut off here means this must be a blind spot. Hiding here will give us some breathing space."
Ximu understood, and his impression of Ruixia also upgraded from "a simple-minded rich young man" to "a fairly reliable young mechanic."
They had encountered monsters at the dungeon entrance before, and they had not been separated for long, and soon entered into combat.
In such a short time, he was able to find such a retreat and take advantage of the situation to get rid of the pursuit. He was really quick-witted.
"Don't stand there all the time. You don't know what will happen next. Sit down and rest for a while."
Facing Ruixia's persuasion, Ximu shook his head and still looked around from time to time.
"Hey, just sit down."
The boy did not give up and even reached out to pull her clothes.
"While the pain-relieving scroll's effect has not yet worn off, you should take some time to recover."
As soon as these words were spoken, Xi Mu's expression changed slightly, and there was once again some scrutiny in the look he gave him.
Yes, the pain that affected her movements suddenly disappeared, and she guessed the purpose of the second scroll that was used on her.
——But why?
When did he realize this?
Is it that she didn't hide it well enough?
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