Chapter 280: Cutting Lushan Mountain (13)
Before, Sun Xiaoshu relied on the vines to "disguise" as the old monster of the Black Mountain, and successfully entered the Dream Chasing Tower. He looked around and saw that there was no one to guard the house, so he continued to walk inward. He soon came to a side door. Seeing that the door was open and there were downward stone steps behind him, he concluded that this door was the entrance to the lower underground level. The reason why it was not closed was that the jailer in the dungeon rushed upstairs to support the battlefield. He forgot to bring it with him and walked down without hesitation.
After entering the dungeon, seeing the tortured unindividual aunt, she greeted each other without any suspicion or hesitation. Sun Xiaoshu took off the key on the wall and couldn't wait to run to Nie Xiaoqian, opening the iron lock on her hands and feet with tears in her eyes.
"Xiaoshu, it's great that you can come! What's going on outside?" Nie Xiaoqian regained her freedom, relaxed her muscles and bones, and simply sorted out her messy hair, with her tone full of emotion.
Sun Xiaoshu replied: "Brother Pu Zixuan, sister Chen Shuqing, and a group of their partners, as well as thousands of water monsters in Poyang Lake, are besieging Chongshi City. At present, the old monsters in the Black Mountain and the Red Yasha have gone, and everything is still going smoothly. Aunt, it's a good opportunity to escape now!"
Nie Xiaoqian still remembered the scenes of the day when he escaped from prison with Yu Yuanshuang, and asked with lingering fear: "But once we go up, we will be discovered. How do we escape from this Chongshi City?"
Sun Xiaoshu looked around and found that there was no wood around to travel through. He said, "This is simple. When I came, I stretched out the vines all the way and pretended to be one of them. I mingled in without knowing it. Aunt, you can do it as well. No one will pay attention to us." After that, he took Nie Xiaoqian's hand and wanted to go to the outsider.
Nie Xiaoqian did not respond positively, but instead widened her eyes and pointed to the direction of the stone stairs and asked, "What are those things?"
Sun Xiaoshu was stunned and looked back and saw a large amount of mud flowing down the stone stairs. He responded: "It's mud. For some reason, a large stream of water spurted in from time to time. I thought I had brought some mud in and penetrated the ground, which was fine."
Nie Xiaoqian did not calm down because of Sun Xiaoshu's explanation and frowned: "But I remember that this Dream Chasing Tower was built on a high platform and had a threshold of about one foot. If silt seeped in from the ground, would the entire Chongshi City be covered with silt?"
"This..." Nie Xiaoqian's words woke Sun Xiaoshu up. Seeing the mud spreading in the dungeon, Sun Xiaoshu said with concern, "There is no mud on the ground. Could it be that the monsters do it? In short, we can't care about that much, just rush out with the mud."
The two of them had just run away, and suddenly, the elderly inmate next to them trembled and said, "Wait, two... You are so good, please untie my lock, I don't want to die..."
Nie Xiaoqian was stunned and turned to look at the inmates. Under the guidance of the first seeker, more and more inmates begged.
"Yes, two good people will do it to the end and rescue us together!"
"I don't want to die here. I have children in my family waiting for me to go back..."
"Please save me!"
This time, if you don't leave in time, the mud will sooner or later swallow the dungeon. You will also hear that many "masters" on the ground are struggling to fight monsters. So, unlike last time, none of the 16 inmates present, who were both young and old, were willing to stay here and cried.
At this time, the mud had spread to where the two were, and the situation was urgent. Nie Xiaoqian shouted: "I'm sorry for everyone, time is urgent, let's save the keys." After that, he ordered Sun Xiaoshu: "Give them the keys."
Sun Xiaoshu threw the key at a nearest inmate, but the locked hands were difficult to control and failed to catch it successfully. Everyone watched the large bunch of keys fall to the ground with a "click".
"Ah? Oh my God!"
"The key has fallen, hurry up, pick it up!"
At this moment, only Nie Xiaoqian and Sun Xiaoshu were able to do this. When the two were hesitating, the mud on the ground seemed to have life, and suddenly accelerated the spreading speed. In an instant, the key was swallowed up, and then continued to move forward and spread towards the deepest corner of the dungeon.
It is no longer difficult to imagine that mud is the power of a monster. Although everyone has no worries about their lives, if they go back to find the key at this time, every time they delay for a moment, they will be more dangerous.
"Two heroes, please don't give up on us!"
"Save us, I'll kowtow to you!"
As he said that, some inmates hit the wall with the back of their heads to show their intention of kowtowing.
Sun Xiaoshu was sad and asked Nie Xiaoqian: "Auntie, do you think you should go back to save them or escape? I'll listen to you!"
If it were the past, Nie Xiaoqian would have chosen to escape. After experiencing thousands of sails, he would have realized it and said, "Xiaoshu, let's go and save them."
Sun Xiaoshu was stunned: "Auntie is sure?"
Nie Xiaoqian smiled sadly and said, "I have done too many sins in the past, so I should regard it as atonement."
Sun Xiaoshu looked at his aunt's flawless smile and felt a sincere admiration for her, as if the entire tree demon family also seemed so great at this moment. He nodded with understanding and ran back.
In the mud that was over her ankle, Sun Xiaoshu reached into the mud. Soon, he touched the string of keys, picked it up, and unswervingly unleashed the iron chains of the elderly inmates.
The iron cables on the hands are naturally easy to untie, but now the mud has gradually covered the iron locks on everyone's feet, and it needs to be repeatedly explored, which is extremely difficult. When the thirty-two locks on the hands and feet of the sixteen inmates were untied, the mud has already disappeared half of everyone's body. The entire underground layer has also become a mud.
It was extremely difficult to move the steps. At this time, there was a young man dragging his wooden body to remove the wooden people in the painted leather to the other direction of the underground layer, and he wanted to destroy the painted leather.
Nie Xiaoqian shouted: "Qiu Yimin, don't worry about the painted skins, the soil will destroy them, and escaping is important!"
The man named Qiu Yimin shouted: "You go first, I will chase you if I destroy these ghosts! I am young and strong, let go..."
Perhaps it was the word "heart" before it could be said, suddenly, the man seemed to be possessed and instantly fell into the quagmire.
"Qiu Yimin!" The crowd became panicked and cried, "What's going on?"
Nie Xiaoqian clearly saw Qiu Yimin disappearing, a red light flashed on the mud, and sweat beads oozing out of his forehead, and said in panic: "No, this mud was indeed done by a monster. We were still discovered!"
"Everyone is coming behind us!" Sun Xiaoshu didn't care about his mediocre strength, and activated his demonic power, stretched out two vines, and moved towards the place where Qiu Yimin disappeared without hesitation.
Nie Xiaoqian also activated the demonic power and tried to keep up with Sun Xiaoshu's pace. At this time, the two of them had the only "combat power", and they had no choice but to take on the task of cutting off the rear.
At this time, the mud had risen to the waists of everyone. For the short Sun Xiaoshu, it was even deeper and it was hard to move in the mud. Before the two could get to the "broken back", the last old woman who rushed over also screamed in a red light and fell into the mud.
The enemy is dark and I am clear. Before I can figure out the truth, two people have died here one after another.
"Wow... two masters, save us!"
"Help! Help!"
The crowd became more and more panicked, rather than escaping from life, struggling desperately.
Nie Xiaoqian and Sun Xiaoshu also understood that if they did not find out the true body of the monster in time and eliminated it, not to mention that one person after another would be pulled into the mud, and with this unmovable speed, before reaching the first floor, everyone would be completely swallowed by the mud.
After moving a little more, the third person - another young man - became a dry bone in the tomb in this mud.
Sun Xiaoshu said at a loss: "Where is this monster?"
"Looking at the positions where the three people disappeared, they are all in the same direction, which means that the mud is not the monster itself, but the monster lurking under the mud..." Nie Xiaoqian suddenly realized, "I understand, it must be a mud owl. When I heard the prison guards talk, I mentioned that this monster walking through the mud is ranked ninth among the Creator under the Old Monster of the Black Mountain. His strength should not be very strong, otherwise he would not only pull one person down at a time. Once the soil is gone, we will definitely not be afraid of him!"
"But...but the problem is that there is mud everywhere now!"
The two of them talked and moved, and finally blocked the remaining thirteen people behind them.
At this time, a red light suddenly appeared on the mud beside Nie Xiaoqian, and immediately, Nie Xiaoqian's body fell into the mud!
"Auntie, be careful!" Sun Xiaoshu shouted, and before the vines on Nie Xiaoqian's body entered the mud, he tangled them with his vines, and pulled Nie Xiaoqian's head out of the mud desperately.
At this moment, a strange voice came from under the mud: "Hehe, Nie Xiaoqian, I finally caught you! I want to run away, but I don't ask me if Ni Xiao agrees!"
"It's indeed a mud owl!" Nie Xiaoqian struggled upwards while shouting, "Xiaoshu, don't worry about me, the enemy is pulling me under my feet, you can deal with him quickly!"
At this time, if Pu Zixuan or other companions were replaced, it would not be difficult to pull the mud away and find the mud. However, for Sun Xiaoshu, this task was too arduous and I don’t know where to start.
Of course, Nie Xiaoqian is also not strong enough and cannot solve the problem with the Ni Xiao by herself.
Chapter completed!