Chapter 344 The most cherished thing
At the foot of the Skull Mountain, it was shrouded in a layer of white mist, lingering misty, and the visibility was less than ten meters.
In a red robe with red sleeves, sitting on the monster statue in front of the cave door, hugging one knee, the other foot hanging down, swinging unconsciously on the toes, playing with the hair ends with both hands in a daze.
Until there was a sound of footsteps in the fog.
Hong Xiu raised his head immediately, a look of joy appeared on the corner of his mouth, but he frowned soon.
This voice was not the footsteps she was familiar with.
Soon a figure came through the mist.
The person who came was holding a sickle, with a graceful figure, obviously a woman.
"It's you?" Hong Xiu frowned and looked at Lin Xue who appeared in front of her eyes.
"It's me who let you down." Lin Xue said, and quickly tidied up the remaining armor on her body.
“Nothing to disappoint.”
Hongxiu shook her head and looked forward: "On the contrary, you came just in time, saving me from wasting my own flesh and blood."
"Huh?" Lin Xue was puzzled.
"Here."
Hongxiu raised his chin and clicked on the closed cave gate in front of him. On the mountain walls on both sides of the gate, the depressions of a sickle and a chain were respectively carved, about ten meters apart.
"It's still the old rule. You need to collect two weapons to enter the door, and each side needs to absorb the blood of the contractor's blood to activate it. If Brother Nan kills you, I have to donate the blood of both sides alone."
Lin Xue gave her a strange look: "You don't worry about what's going on there when you see me coming?"
"Hehe, there is nothing to worry about. Anyway, the result is the same. It is impossible for Brother Nan to lose."
Hong Xiu shook his head indifferently, jumped off the stone carving, and walked to the side of the mountain wall where the chain stone carving was.
Immediately, he turned his head and signaled Lin Xue with his eyes, telling her to go to the other side.
Lin Xue also walked up to the stone carving of the sickle, and first observed it carefully to make sure that Hongxiu was not lying before putting the sickle on it.
Opposite, Hong Xiu also put in the chain at the same time.
The two weapons coincided perfectly with the grooves on the mountain wall.
Immediately, the two looked at each other, each made a cut in the palm, and put the palm on the weapon.
The blood was automatically sucked out from the wound, and flowed down the groove until the entire groove was filled with bright red, then the absorption stopped.
The two weapons, which were full of blood, suddenly burst into bright blood-colored light.
At the same time, the cave gate between the two carvings also quietly opened amidst a rumbling sound.
Behind the arched hole, it was as dark as ink, bottomless, without any light coming through, like a black hole leading to another dimension.
Seeing the entrance open, the two looked at each other again, both immediately put away the weapons on the wall, and came to the cave by coincidence.
"I don't know if you have heard of it? The blood of the contractor, there was only one family many years ago."
Hong Xiu looked at Lin Xue and said, "That is to say, a few generations ago, our ancestors were probably blood relatives."
"So?" Lin Xue gave her a strange look.
"So, for the sake of our ancestors being a family, I will not kill you, but leave the sickle behind. You can go, and I will let Brother Nan let you go." Hongxiu said.
Lin Xue was stunned for a moment. She originally thought that the smell of gunpowder would be stronger at this moment, but she didn't expect the other party to say that suddenly.
"Thank you, but there's no need..." Lin Xue shook her head.
Hongxiu immediately frowned and looked at her: "Think about it, once you enter here, if you don't get the death inheritance, you won't have a chance to leave."
"I know." Lin Xue nodded. This is one of the descriptions of the inheritance mission. If you enter the final area but fail to get the inheritance, you will stay in the tomb of the **** of death forever.
"However, I also have reasons for getting the inheritance..." Lin Xue said.
Hong Xiu took a careful look at her, and didn't persuade her any more: "You chose it yourself. If you enter it, I won't hold back."
"Me too." Lin Xue nodded.
Hong Xiu said no more, turned around and jumped into the entrance of the cave, and disappeared into the darkness.
Lin Xue also walked quickly to the entrance of the cave, but before entering, she still hesitated, and the inexplicable uneasiness in her heart struck again.
But when she thought that Mu You and Vivian were still in an uncertain battle in the distance, she still took a breath, stepped forward, and jumped into the cave.
After a long period of falling in the dark, Lin Xue suddenly felt a light in front of her, which made her see clearly that she was falling to the ground quickly, and hurriedly adjusted her posture, rolled over, and lost the forward momentum.
When she looked up again, she had already appeared in an underground tomb.
This place looks like a dry underground riverbed. Judging from the scoured marks on the surrounding rock walls, it has been soaked in the bottom of the water for a long time.
The riverbed is surrounded by rocks and sand, and occasionally some giant animal bones and fish bones that have rotted for many years are dotted among them, forming a natural bone passage along the riverbed.
Hongxiu was standing not far from Lin Xue at this time, but she didn't look at her, but stared forward in a daze.
Lin Xue followed her gaze subconsciously, and was shocked immediately.
At the end of the pathway made of bones, there is a throne made of white bones.
A figure wearing a large cloak is sitting on the throne, but the inside of the cloak is empty, but outside the cloak, there is a large circle of faint blue energy enchantment, like a ball of water, the surface Ripples appear from time to time, completely covering the entire Throne of Bones. It seems that it is this energy group that supports the cloak inside, making it look like it is being worn by a person.
But what really shocked the two of them was that behind the throne stood a huge skeleton with a height of more than 20 meters.
Grim Reaper...a giant?
The two were surprised by this. Judging from the situation at the scene, the skeleton at the back was obviously the remains of the God of Death, but he never expected that the real God of Death would be so huge.
At this time, a thick voice came from the front, but it was not from the giant skeleton, but from the cloak of the throne.
"Contractors who want to inherit my power, first of all, congratulations. After many tests, you found this place. My inheritance is indeed buried here..."
"Next, you only need to put your hands into this blue energy cluster, and you can easily obtain my power..."
This voice didn't beat around the bush, it directly explained the way to get the inheritance as soon as it appeared.
Different from the complicated ritual imagined by the two of them, the receiving of the final inheritance is as simple as death. You only need to put your hand deep into the energy group, and there are no restrictions. It seems that whoever grabs it first will get it.
Hongxiu and Lin Xue subconsciously looked at each other, each raising their weapons, wary of each other.
If there are really no other obstacles on the road ahead, then their only opponents now are each other. Whoever can kill the other first will have the inheritance.
However, just as the swords were tense between the two, the voice sounded again.
"I am the watcher, responsible for punishing sins and suppressing all evils in the world, and my successors should also pursue the purpose of the watcher. Whether it is a person who is mentally depraved or a person with compassion, he is not worthy of the name of the **** of death. No... If you want to gain strength and walk the world on behalf of the **** of death, you need to sacrifice your most precious things first, so that you can be recognized by inheritance..."
"The most cherished thing..."
The new voice surprised both of them.
Her most cherished thing is undoubtedly the child in her womb.
Although she has not yet been born, she has been pregnant for seven months after all. During this period, she has fully experienced the feeling of being a mother.
But now she wants to give up her own child to gain strength...
Just thinking about it makes Hongxiu feel so painful that he can't breathe.
But she still calmed down forcibly and patted her face. Now is not the time to hesitate, she has already paid too much for this moment, no matter how reluctant she is, she cannot waver!
Hongxiu quickly made up his mind in his heart. When he came back to his senses, he subconsciously turned his head to look, only to find that Lin Xue's hands were shaking and his face was pale.
Facing Hongxiu's gaze, she suddenly turned around and ran towards the exit, as if she wanted to go back the same way.
However, from the moment they entered here, the entrance had disappeared, and all that was left was the icy mountain wall with no peak.
Lin Xue could only slap the mountain wall helplessly, but couldn't find any place to leave.
Seeing the other party's unbearable performance, Hongxiu sneered suddenly: "I don't even have this awareness, why are you here to compete for the death inheritance?"
While speaking, she had lifted the chain and walked towards Lin Xue step by step.
"I told you earlier that you wanted to come in. Do you think that you came here to play with each other? So you who have been pampered since childhood are really, you have never experienced any suffering, and you will go back to be your big brother honestly." Miss, how are you?"
Facing her sarcasm, Lin Xue didn't seem to hear it, and just fumbled more anxiously on the wall, but still couldn't find anything.
"If you are so unwilling, let me help you out!"
Hongxiu sneered, rushed forward quickly, and pulled down the chain in his hand.
The sound of breaking through the air roared from behind, and Lin Xue subconsciously waved her sickle to block back.
The sickle collided with the chain, making a crisp sound.
These two weapons of the **** of death should be equal, but at this time Lin Xue is in the midst of a huge shake, and she was a bit reluctant to block it.
Coupled with Hong Xiu's full-strength shot, under the impact, Lin Xue suddenly lost his balance, was thrown flying by the force, hit the mountain wall, and the sickle in his hand came out and fell to the ground.
Hongxiu, on the other hand, was in a position of unrelenting power. Seeing that the opponent's weapon was out of his hands, it was an excellent opportunity to attack. He turned back in mid-air, and the long chain in his hand shrank and piled up into a hard chain sword more than three meters long, heading straight towards Lin Snow thorns come.
At this time, Lin Xue had no time to get up, and the weapon was still out of hand, so it was inevitable.
"Rest in peace honestly!"
Seeing Jianfeng getting closer to the opponent's heart, and the smile on the corner of Hongxiu's mouth gradually widening, she is completely convinced that today's winner will be herself.
However, what she never expected was that when the sword was about to stab, a figure suddenly jumped out of the package around the opponent's waist and blocked between the two of them.
"Poof!"
The next moment, the sword edge pierced into the human body, but failed to pierce Lin Xue, but was blocked by the figure that appeared in front of her, and the sharp lock-pointed blade passed through the chest.
"What the hell?"
When Hongxiu saw what was in front of him clearly, his hands trembled in fright, and he even forgot to pull back the chain for a while.
What appeared in front of her was a person, an old man with exquisite makeup, but the problem was that this was not a living person, but a dead body, because her face was painted with dark makeup!
It is easy to tell the difference between a living person and a dead person even if they put on dark makeup at the same time. There is no vitality at all on this person, so Hongxiu was convinced at first glance that it was a dead person.
The question is, without any magical support around the other party, a dead person actually "lived" on his own initiative and blocked her chain sword?
Lin Xue stared blankly at the figure appearing in front of her. At this time, the figure standing in front of her was the body of grandma.
Everything in front of her was just like the day she and Mu You first entered the house, and grandma was also like this, when she was in danger, she suddenly appeared and helped her block the snow monster.
It's just that, with their help, the grandma at that time regained her young body, and could easily resist the power of the snow monster and play the enemy with her palms.
Now, all she has left is an old body, and she has no speed to be proud of. She can only use her body as a shield to directly block her attack.
Lin Xue looked at the rickety and emaciated body pierced in front of her.
A real dead body, of course, cannot be resurrected for no reason. It will suddenly be resurrected at this time because there is actually a weak remnant soul in the body in front of it.
On the snow field that day, Lin Xue once told Mu You and Vivian that the remnant soul of grandma disappeared completely after teaching her how to use the sickle. But in fact, she lied, the remnant soul did not disappear, but became extremely weak, sleeping in the deepest part of the body.
She didn't tell anyone about it, she even lied to herself, and sealed it up in the depths of her subconscious mind, because she knew at that time that the purpose of grandma's leaving behind two remnant souls was to help her control The sickle, and getting something more important in the future, grandma has paved all the way for her before she died, so when the last remaining soul wakes up again, it must be the time for her to bid farewell to grandma.
Before, the reason why she always panicked subconsciously was because she subconsciously knew that the real day of parting was coming.
At this time, the part of the body stabbed by the chain had already begun to appear purple spots, and it spread rapidly towards the surroundings.
The two hands of the corpse slowly raised up, one left and one right, holding the chains on the chest.
The red sleeve in front saw the old man's movements, and then he reacted, and hurriedly pulled out the chain.
However, under the forceful pull, the chain did not move at all. Those two old hands, like two iron tongs, firmly fixed her chain.
Hong Xiu suddenly became a little anxious, kicking on the mountain wall with both feet, and pulling back even harder.
After all this hard work, it finally worked, but instead of pulling out the chain, it pulled the half-empty body together with the chain.
Hong Xiu stepped back a few steps and fell to the ground. Before she could get up, she saw the dead body flying towards her, and finally landed on her body.
"Well…"
Hongxiu let out a muffled grunt, bleeding from the corner of his pressed mouth.
At first, she thought it was an ordinary corpse, but she didn't realize until now that she had endured the strength of the corpse: How could this corpse be so heavy?
Turning her head to take a closer look, she discovered that the dead body was not only pressing on her body at this moment, but her hands and ten fingers were also deeply inserted into the ground at the same time. The whole body was like a human-shaped lock, locking her firmly in the Not only that, this buckle seemed to seal off the space around her, making it impossible for her to teleport and escape.
Hongxiu subconsciously wanted to push the body away, but suddenly heard the movement from the opposite side. Looking out of the corner of her eye, she found that Lin Xue had climbed up in the distance, and quickly picked up the sickle on the ground.
Red Sleeve was startled, instinctively thinking that the opponent was about to take the opportunity to attack her, hurriedly took out the wand from the ring, and prepared to defend.
Unexpectedly, after Lin Xue got up over there, she didn't even look at her, but ran forward without looking back.
"Hey, wait..."
Hong Xiu was taken aback for a moment, and immediately understood that the other party was going to take the opportunity to directly take the inheritance!
The other party doesn’t need to fight her at all. As long as the death inheritance is in hand, she will die as the loser of the competition, and not only her, but also the child in her belly...
"Are you kidding me!"
Hongxiu was anxious and angry at once, this is the real moment of life and death, she still has time to delay here.
The red-sleeved hands pushed even harder, but it was useless. Although Grandma Lin Xue was already a corpse, after all, she had the foundation of a legendary-level physique, and it was not so easy to destroy.
Seeing that the pushing and pushing failed, Hong Xiu hurriedly reached behind the corpse, pulled out the chain that penetrated the old man's back, and stabbed the old man with the tip of the blade facing down.
"Get out of the way..."
The sharp blade kept stabbing down, and there were more and more necrotic purple plaques on the old man's body.
With all her strength, Hongxiu finally made the pressure on her body less and less...
And hearing the sound of sharp blades piercing from behind, tears dripped silently on Lin Xue's face. Although her heart was twisted, she still stepped on the bones all over the ground unswervingly, rushing to the throne of bones ahead.
(end of this chapter)