Suddenly, Nazha next to him closed her eyes, opened her arms, tilted her head back, and mumbled something. However, she was speaking a language from the grasslands, which he couldn't understand, but it seemed like some kind of ritual...
Li Zhu didn't interrupt Nazha; it's their ethnic custom, and it's something to respect...
"Nazha, what were you doing just now?"
The moment Nazha stopped, Li Zhu couldn't help but ask curiously!
"I am praying for the warriors of Xiliang, hoping that their souls can return to the embrace of the gods!"
Naza replied sadly, and Li Zhu could tell that this Polo and Naza must be very familiar with each other, otherwise she wouldn't be so sad!
"Whoever killed Polo, we will avenge him..."
Li Zhu comforted Nazha, telling her not to be too sad!
“Your Highness, Polo wasn’t killed. Judging from his posture, he must have run into it himself…”
The Marquis pointed to the posture of Polo's head and said, "Li Zhu nodded, agreeing with the Marquis's guess..."
"Polo must have died recently; his blood hasn't even dried up yet..."
Looking at the blood that was still dripping, Li Zhu voiced his guess!
"But why is his blood dark black?"
Naza asked, puzzled, "The blood of a normal person after death should be dark red. This is clearly abnormal; it looks more like poisoning!"
"Don't touch it..."
The Marquis stopped Li Zhu from touching the blood, fearing that if the blood was indeed poisonous, it might enter Li Zhu's body and cause him poisoning!
Li Zhu stopped moving, watching the dark blood drip onto the ground. But what puzzled the three of them was that the blood quickly disappeared into the ground after hitting the ground, followed by a faint mist spreading out from where the blood had dripped...
Upon seeing this, the three people's expressions immediately changed; they all saw shock in each other's eyes…
Because they had already guessed where the mist that permeated the city came from—it was all formed from the evaporation of blood!
How much blood would it take to create the fog that permeates the entire city?
"Your Highness..."
The Marquis called out to Li Zhu, which made Li Zhu a little impatient. Just as he was about to scold him, he saw that the Marquis seemed to have seen something extraordinary!
This made Li Zhu swallow back the words he was about to say, and then he looked in the direction the Marquis was looking...
The thick fog from just moments ago suddenly thinned out, and it was precisely because the fog thinned that they were able to see what had happened in the city…
Not far ahead was a military camp, which had now been transformed into a massive altar. What was terrifying was that the altar was covered with countless rotting corpses…
These corpses had one thing in common: they were all upside down, and they were arranged as if they had been placed on top of each other, one on top of the other, creating a dense and unsettling scene.
"Brother Zhu, could it be... could it be that everyone is dead?"
Naza has always had a mischievous personality and is very brave. She has also seen real battlefields, but she was still frightened by the scene before her. Her grip on Li Zhu's arm tightened involuntarily...
The scene was incredibly visually striking. Looking down from the altar, the corpses seemed endless. Even a king or marquis, who was used to seeing death, could not remain calm as he watched this spectacle.
"brute!"
The king roared in fury, pointing out that the corpses included elderly people, children, infants in swaddling clothes, and pregnant women with protruding bellies…
What kind of heart could kill all these people without any emotional fluctuation?
"Look at their necks..."
Li Zhu discovered the source of these people's fatal wounds: all of them were on their necks, where their major arteries had been severed, causing them to bleed to death!
"Brother Zhu, this...this is just too cruel..."
Naza murmured.
Li Zhu's eyes turned red. This was more than just a beast; calling the murderer a beast was an insult to the very word "beast"...
"Gods, I saw gods..."
Naza suddenly looked up at the altar and spoke. Li Zhu, enraged, paused, staring at the empty altar, wondering where this god had come from…
"No... God, forgive me! I am your most devout servant, why have you abandoned us?"
Naza suddenly burst into tears, looking as if she had suffered a great injustice, her gaze fixed on the altar as if her god were there...
Suddenly, Nazha's eyes widened in terror, as if she had witnessed something horrifying. Her body trembled involuntarily, and she screamed excitedly.
"The devil is coming! Everyone run!"
Li Zhu was pulling on Nazha, but she couldn't feel his presence at all and kept struggling, screaming in fear as she struggled.
"Devil, let me go... I am a descendant of the gods, the gods will kill you, kill you..."
Naza completely lost her mind, as if endless demons were rushing towards her, forcing her to keep retreating!
At this moment, Li Zhu finally understood how Polo had died. It must have happened to someone like Nazha, but Polo's strength was even weaker than Nazha's, and his willpower was definitely weaker. He was frightened by his own imagination...
"Little monkey, what's going on?"
Li Zhu couldn't help but shout at the Marquis, hoping he could answer his question. However, the Marquis not only didn't answer him, but his eyes were sometimes blank and sometimes clear, as if he was fighting against some unknown force...
"Little monkey..."
Li Zhu had used his Lion's Roar technique in this shout, hoping to bring the Marquis back to his senses...
Influenced by Li Zhu's internal energy, the Marquis indeed regained a moment of clarity, and his eyes returned to their normal state...
"Your Highness, it's that mist. That mist can ensnare people, stirring up their deepest fears..."
Li Zhu could see the pain in the Marquis's eyes; he was struggling with the power of the mist within him…
"Devil, let me go... the gods will kill you..."
Naza was still screaming; her consciousness had been completely affected by the power of the mist…
Looking at the endless corpses on the altar, Li Zhu was frantic with worry. If a solution wasn't found, those corpses would be their fate...
"Your Highness, why were you unaffected?"
The Marquis's words startled Li Zhu. Looking at the dragon tattoo on his arm that emitted a faint glow, Li Zhu immediately understood that the Dragon Ring was helping him resist the effects of the mist...
Without the Dragon Ring to shield them from the mist's power, Nazha and the King were affected mentally after inhaling a large amount of it…
"The power of the Dragon Ring! The Dragon Ring can block out the mist..."
Li Zhu quickly explained...
Despair filled the king's eyes; there was only one dragon ring, but there were three of them…
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