Chapter 51 - The price that has to be paid
The sky has gradually darkened.
In the bleak twilight, the abandoned building in front of you became more and more desolate, with a terrible gloomy feeling.
A member of the Combat Division turned his head to look at Chen Qingye, who was standing at the end of the team in a regular manner: “This is the last one, how about it? Are you still used to today’s work?”
Chen Qingye did not answer.
He looked up at the abandoned building in front of him, thoughtfully.
“How is the probe reading?” the member of the combat section asked.
Chen Qingye retracted his gaze, lowered his head and swept the detector hung around his waist: “Very low…”
Up to now, they have cleaned the other two wells, and the above worries are indeed correct. Due to the recent Hyakki Night Walk in M City, a large amount of Yin Qi has accumulated in the well that was not cleaned up. Although it has not yet reached the point where the detector placed in it will sound an alarm, such a high concentration of yin gas is enough to cause an anomaly and add some trouble to their clean-up work, but it is still within the controllable range.
To be precise, the concentration of yin gas in the last yin well was already the lowest of the three.
The faces of the members of the Combat Division showed a relaxed expression: “Walk around, you can call it a day after you have dealt with this!”
However, Chen Qingye said nonchalantly: “Sorry, senior, I think there is something wrong here.”
The other party was stunned: “What’s wrong? Did you find something wrong?”
Chen Qingye shook his head: “No…”
He put his fingertips into his sleeves and touched the restless head of the Gu worm, trying to calm them down.
His brows frowned slightly, seeming to be a little troubled: “But my darlings seem to react a bit violently.”
The other members of the Combat Division looked at each other, and they looked at each other. Finally, the leader among them said: “I understand that you have some special talents, but if there is no very tangible evidence, we can’t be so direct. The mission was terminated, so besides your… baby, do you have any other evidence that can support your idea?”
Chen Qingye shook his head honestly: “Sorry, no.”
In fact, even he himself did not feel any weird place from outside this building, but I don’t know why, the Gu worm he raised was in a state of restlessness, just like the situation this afternoon—he obviously didn’t follow. The member of the logistics department named Ye Jia felt anything abnormal in his body, but Ah Chang was very hostile.
Could it be that you broke your stomach today?
“Then let’s go in.” The team leader said: “But everyone should be vigilant and ensure that communication with the outside world is open at all times.”
Everyone nodded.
The team headed towards the Yinjing.
The light in the abandoned building is very dark, the exposed concrete walls are covered with messy graffiti, and the rusty pipes are exposed, which looks very gloomy and strange.
Everyone moved forward cautiously, checking the readings on the detectors from time to time.
However, as they went deeper, although the value on the detector increased, it was still in a normal state. The whole way did not encounter any abnormal changes caused by Yin Qi, let alone encounter ghosts wandering in disorder. , Compared to the other two shady wells, it is a bit too peaceful.
The team quickly came to the center of the building.
Chen Qingye opened his hand, but the Gu worm did not jump out as before and began to **** the yin in the air. Instead, it wrapped tightly around his wrist and made a hissing sound in the surrounding darkness.
He frowned and raised his head again to look at the members of the combat section standing aside, trying to say something: “Senior, I…”
However, before he could finish his words, a member of the front team exclaimed and interrupted Chen Qingye: “Let’s see what this is!”
The iron door in front was covered with rust marks, the paint on the surface was peeling off, and it was almost impossible to recognize the previous color. It was ajar, and the members who looked inward were shocked.
Chen Qingye retracted his hand, walked forward quickly, and followed the direction the member pointed.
In front is a huge and open clearing. The ground is full of dust and rubble. In the depths of the empty site, there is a translucent, one-person chrysalis floating. Its surface looks exceptionally soft, with lines in circles. Circle, something seems to be creeping slowly underneath it, and the air around it is covered with some kind of weird colloid, emitting a faint stench outwards.
Chen Qingye was taken aback for a moment, and then, there was a sharp flash in his eyes: “Go away!”
Almost as soon as his voice fell, the viscous glue wrapped around the chrysalis suddenly rolled over, and the glue split into a huge tentacle with lightning speed, and it slammed into everyone!
In the next second, the members of the Combat Division felt their eyes go dark.
A black centipede appeared in front of them. The huge body almost filled the entire corridor. The carapace shone with cold metal luster. Several eyeballs on the body were turning wildly. It waved a huge pliers. He made a clicking sound, and then slammed into the colloidal tentacles in front of him!
The whole building shook, and dust and bricks fell sternly, fascinating everyone’s eyes.
Chen Qingye turned his head and shouted at the combat team members: “Run!”
However, it seems that everything is too late. At the moment when it collided with the centipede, the gelatinous substances scattered quickly as if they had lost their cohesion. They melted into the air, spreading at a speed that could not catch up. , And wrapped the whole building in it in an instant.
After everything was over, the scene before him had completely changed.
It is still an empty corridor of the building, but it becomes unfathomable before and after, as if there is no beginning and end. The place where the pupae floated before becomes empty again, and the air becomes dirty and dim, as if shrouded in it. Like in the thick smog, I looked out along the window frame, only to find that the scenery outside the window was no longer the former deserted open space, but turned into a fog that can’t see my fingers.
The leader looked pale, and reached out his hand to take out his mobile phone-there was no signal.
After the radio communicator was turned on, there was still a noisy hum inside, and it was impossible to contact the outside world.
Chen Qingye stretched out his hand and touched Ah Chang’s huge body, but the expression on that plain face was unusually solemn.
Yin pupa…
Cultivating a complete Yin pupa requires extremely large Yin Qi, so it will be placed here. It absorbs the Yin Qi that continuously flows into the Yin Well, so the Yin Qi index here is lower than the other two. so much.
Before fully grown, a Yin pupa will not be detected by detection at all. The layer of glue that is wrapped around it can not only shield its breath, but also wipe out any humans who have witnessed the existence of the Yin pupa.
Before the pupa hatches, there is no way to figure out what kind of monster it is inside.
However, once the Yin chrysalis grows up and the monsters hatch out, things will be out of control.
—The lowest b-level, the highest may even exceed s-level.
But now, this pupa is obviously close to the state of hatching, so the glue around its body is so aggressive, and it will transfer the pupa itself after a miss.
Fortunately, what it produces now is just an unformed ghost.
Although it looks scary and the space seems larger than before, as long as you return along the same path, you can still leave.
Chen Qingye turned his head to look at the other members of the Combat Division and said solemnly: “Senior, you’d better leave now. In order to protect the pupa, it will release its yin energy to attract surrounding ghosts and monsters. “
The leader was a little anxious: “Then, what do you do?”
Chen Qingye touched Ah Chang’s shell next to him: “I’ll see if I can find the pupa before it hatches.”
Yin pupa cannot be traced, only his Gu worm can find it.
He said: “After you leave, hurry up and contact the members of the Combat Division and ask them to come here to take over.”
The team leader’s face became paler: “Very serious, isn’t it?”
“Yes…” Chen Qingye nodded: “And I am only in charge of tracking, not planning to participate in the battle, so I hope the seniors of the combat department can arrive before I find the pupa, otherwise things will become even better after it hatches. Difficult to deal with.”
The members of the Combat Division nodded solemnly, then turned and ran in the direction they came.
The road ahead seemed long and distant, as if it would never reach its end.
The bleak corridor was extremely narrow, and only the patter of footsteps could be heard in the dead silence.
They turned a turn again, but almost ran into a spooky ghost who was roaring at them.
“Ready to fight!” the team leader shouted sharply.
Although this squad of the Combat Division is all newcomers, it has received systematic training after all. After a brief period of panic, they quickly regrouped and began to face the young crops and fangs in front of them, with a fierce ghost on the face.
The roars, gunshots, and the sound of the opening of combat techniques were intertwined noisily, echoing in the hazy fog and narrow corridors.
At this moment, one of the members felt his neck itchy.
He touched it.
But she felt a few strands of long dark hair in her palm.
There was a slight gurgling sound from above the head.
The members slowly raised their heads and looked in the direction of the sound.
A female ghost on all fours, with her head hanging upside down, was lying on the ceiling with her dark hair hanging down, staring at him with a pair of scarlet eyes.
“Ahhhhhhh!”
Several positions in the squad heard members’ screams one after another.
The leader took the time to turn his head and look behind him.
An extremely terrifying sight appeared in front of him-the female ghost lying on the ceiling, the skull leaning in from the corridor window, the carrion slowly emerging from the ground, including the spooky ghost with blue face and fangs they were dealing with now.
Before they knew it, they had been surrounded by ghosts.
Chen Qingye’s warning was fulfilled-that weird pupa attracted too many ghosts.
Under attack from all sides, they can only cope with it reluctantly, unable to move.
The leader was particularly anxious.
Chen Qingye said earlier that his main task was to find the location of the pupa, not to fight.
But they are now deep in the mud. Unable to leave, there is no way to seek support-the situation is stuck here for a while, it is like a dead end.
Suddenly, without warning, the skeleton lying on the window seemed to perceive something. He suddenly lifted his body and looked in a certain direction. There was a gurgling sound of bone rubbing in his throat, and then in the next second, he turned around. The shape disappeared in the mist outside the window.
The leader was surprised.
How is this going?
Before he could think of a reason, the next second, a huge figure floated in the darkness not far in front.
Senbai’s skeleton approached, and his big mouth full of sharp jagged teeth opened, and he bit the green-faced and fangs Ligui’s leg and swallowed it whole.
Li Gui could hardly fight back.
That level of oppression is too terrifying, and it makes people feel chills out of control.
The leader’s voice changed a little because of panic and trembling: “Back! Back!”
However, after eating the ghost, the huge monster did not launch an attack on them. Instead, it pulled out the carrion under the ground, chew it and eat it.
Team leader: “…”
He slowly took a deep breath, and then fixed his eyes on the monster that gradually revealed its figure.
Goat skulls, black eye sockets, blood-colored body, and boned tail.
Why… so familiar?
The leader suddenly realized: “It’s you!”
That day when Hyakki was walking in the night, that strange fish that cleaned up the ghost on the street!
Now that it has appeared, then…
Before the leader could think deeply, the female ghost above her head made a sharp cry. She glanced at the fish on the ground in fear, and then ran along the ceiling towards the dark depths, seeming to want to bypass and upstream on the ground. The moving blood gu fish, although her limbs were twisted, she crawled fast, disappearing into the thicker mist almost instantly.
“Bah—”
The sound of the sharp blade breaking through the air sounded, and a bright white light flashed through the darkness, and then, the female ghost let out a scream, and the corridor in front became quiet again.
Da Da footsteps approached.
The slender figure of the youth gradually emerged from the darkness, but in the eyes of everyone, it was like a torch that pierced the night in the middle of the night. The invisible light and heat dissipated the cold and fear, giving people a kind of reassurance. Strong sense of security.
The blood gu fish moving on the ground leaned forward and swam forward with him in an intimate manner.
The leader’s eyes lit up: “Great God! The Great God is really you!”
The other members of the Fighting Division behind them were also very excited. Everyone’s eyes lit up like a 200-watt electric light bulb: “God, you are here!”
Ye Jia: “…”
Although I don’t know what happened, but…
It’s a bit dazzling.
During this period of time, Ye Jia has been in the logistics department, completely unaware that he has become some kind of urban legendary existence in the hearts of most of the combat department members-it will exist in the critical juncture of the entire city, and then it will be silent again. The earth disappeared, as if the shadows could not find any traces, especially with the several propaganda of the group of members rescued by him, he was about to become a living **** that everyone must worship before they set out on a mission.
Seeing everyone’s excited eyes as if seeing a living fossil, Ye Jia felt a little hairy in his heart.
He coughed slightly, “Where is the monster here?”
“A member of ours is tracking it!”
The team leader was a little bit incoherent with excitement. He stretched out his hand nervously, trying to shake hands with Ye Jia, but he suddenly woke up within a few seconds after reaching out, so he hurriedly withdrew his hand, pretending to be calm and said: “I, we are now. Ready to go out and contact support!”
Ye Jia nodded.
Indeed, to track down the pupa that hasn’t hatched, I’m afraid only Chen Qingye’s Gu worm can do it.
“After this matter is over, can we ask for an autograph?” one of the members asked eagerly.
The others nodded frantically.
Ye Jia: “…”
He said uncertainly: “Yes?”
“Then we won’t interrupt your work now!” Each of the members of the Combat Division had bright eyes: “Let’s ask for support now!”
strange.
Ye Jia glanced at the disappearing back of the team inexplicably.
However, now is not the time to struggle with this.
According to the information provided by the puppet master, the chrysalis is an S-level ghost, and the incubation time is today. The reason why he told them this news today is probably because he hoped that they would fail.
Ye Jia retracted his gaze and raised his eyes to a certain direction upstairs.
Although he also couldn’t perceive the smell of Yin chrysalis, he could trace the smell of Chen Qingye Gu worm.
—He should be on the third floor now, and he is still going up.
The fourth floor, the fifth floor, and the sixth floor.
Chen Qingye stopped abruptly.
A-Chang beside him tapped twice with his claws, and then stepped aside his long and thin legs and crawled towards the roof.
Chen Qingye hurriedly grabbed one of Ah Chang’s feet and said in a low voice, “Wait, come back.”
A Chang turned his head, stared at him with a few grunting eyeballs on his body, then shrunk to the size of a palm at the beginning, and crawled back into Chen Qingye’s cuff along his fingers.
Chen Qingye breathed a sigh of relief.
Xiaobai is a female Gu, which means that as long as Xiaobai is there, even if all of his Gu worms are fatally wounded in the battle, even if they are in a state of dying, as long as Xiaobai is there, they can do the most Recovered quickly, but…
Chen Qingye’s face was gloomy for a few seconds.
ace.
That man is simply the most vicious existence in the world!
He, he actually trampled his Xiaobai to death!
Since that day, Chen Qingye has never dared to let his favorite Gu worms participate in the battle.
The reason why he joined the logistics department is also because of this.
Fighting Corey fights too frequently, although he is enough to deal with it, but…maybe something will happen that day. It is very difficult to cultivate a human-like gu worm, and he doesn’t want to lose any of his treasures.
Chen Qingye opened the door cautiously and looked into the room.
The huge pupa was suspended in mid-air.
The shell is now almost completely transparent, and you can almost see the winding capillaries and the disgusting and ugly thin limbs squirming under the pupa.
According to experience, it may only take ten minutes to break the shell.
Chen Qingye lowered his head, stroking Ah Chang’s head in his sleeve, hesitating in his heart.
He didn’t want to participate in the battle.
However, there are still ten minutes left… I also know that the support of the Fighting Division probably can’t come so soon. If he doesn’t fight, let the Yin pupa break its shell, and the consequences afterwards may be even more unimaginable.
While Chen Qingye was struggling, a voice suddenly came from behind: “Hey, let me come next.”
The young man’s voice was soft and gentle, which was particularly abrupt in the deadly corridor.
-Extraordinarily familiar.
Even when he dreamed back at midnight, his teeth were tickled with hate.
Chen Qingye’s face was slightly distorted, anger gushing from the bottom of his eyes, he turned his head, his eyes locked on the hooded young man, gritted his teeth: “ace!”
New hatred and old hatred broke out together.
Seventy or eighty colorful Gu worms suddenly sprayed out from his cuffs, rushing in the direction of Ye Jia!
Ye Jia dodges the Gu worm that is chasing him, and said helplessly, “This is not the time to talk about this…”
However, Chen Qingye had already been dazzled by anger. He shouted: “I want you to pay for my Xiaobai!”
More gu worms gushing out of his cuffs, madly attacking Ye Jia.
Ye Jia: “…”
Yes, again.
Every time he tries to communicate with red in the game, such a situation will appear. No matter what kind of situation it is at the time and what kind of crisis he is facing, as long as Chen Qingye sees him, he will inevitably focus on him first. Let’s talk about revenge first, and then talk about other things.
Although every player has a lot of paranoid quirks, red is the worst player he has ever seen.
Ye Jia sighed.
—He is used to it.
During the dodge interval, Ye Jia looked into the half-covered door.
The peristalsis under the chrysalis became more and more violent, and the thin limbs were trying to pierce the layer of sac that envelops them. The already completely transparent pupa shell softened like a plastic bag, tightly fitting to Li Gui’s body-at most. It will take a minute or two to break the shell.
There is no time to deal with it now.
Ye Jia was short, and at an extremely tricky angle, he passed through the heavy encirclement of the Gu worm group and rushed to Chen Qingye.
Chen Qingye’s pupils tightened: “!”
The opponent’s speed was too fast, he didn’t even have time to release Ah Chang, he felt the opponent’s cold and powerful palm grabbing his wrist.
Oops!
It seems that he will die in the hands of this person just like Xiaobai this time.
This idea flashed through Chen Qingye’s mind.
However, in the next second, he felt the other party grabbing him, and then slammed him out of the rooftop!
The icy air whizzed in his ears, Chen Qingye fell freely in the air, he blinked blankly, and suddenly he weighed under his body—A-chang’s figure grew bigger again, wrapping him around his back, and slowing his fall. speed.
Before Chen Qingye landed safely, he felt a surge of hostility erupting from the rooftop above his head.
In an instant, the wind and clouds changed color, and the world was dim.
-The chrysalis is broken.
Only s-level ghosts can have such a terrible birth ceremony.
And the first thing the other party did… was to throw him out of the danger zone?
Why?
On the rooftop…
Ye Jia was waiting for this opportunity.
He summoned the bleeding gu fish.
At the moment when the pupa broke open, Ye Jia showed his blade and slashed at the weakest place!
Wow!
Countless viscous liquid poured out, and the newly born S-level ghost showed an ugly figure.
“Now!” Ye Jia said sharply.
The blood gu fish opened its mouth, and violently bit the Li Gui between the sharp teeth-Li Gui tried to struggle, but it did not fully experience the moment of its cocoon breaking, and its skin remained soft as it was wrapped in the pupa. It will take four to five seconds to form. In the face of the blood gu fish that has already fought for a long time, there is almost no resistance at all, and it is chewed and swallowed in an instant.
The pupa bag in front of him lost its host and began to shrink quickly.
Ye Jia knelt down and drew it into his pocket.
downstairs…
The mist has completely dissipated, but the concentration of yin in the air is still strong and breathless.
Chen Qingye raised his head and looked towards the rooftop, the twilight reflected on his black-rimmed glasses, making it difficult to see the expression in his eyes.
He stood still downstairs, seeming to be thinking about something.
After a long time.
The young man’s slender figure appeared from the darkness inside the building. He stepped through the smoke and walked straight towards Chen Qingye.
Chen Qingye’s fingers moved reflexively.
“Wait!” Ye Jia said: “Don’t attack me in a hurry!”
The colorful Gu worms circled Chen Qingye’s cuffs, and for the first time they did not fly directly towards the opposite youth.
Ye Jia took a deep breath and walked slowly to Chen Qingye: “I’m very sorry about Xiaobai.”
He stretched out his hand and opened his palm.
A white and tender worm was wrapped in translucent Gu membrane, lying quietly in the center of his palm.
Ye Jia said: “This is a Gu mother larva. When it is cultivated from the pupa of an s-level ghost, it can grow into a Gu mother again—I know it can’t replace Xiao Bai’s position in your heart, but I still hope It can make up for a little bit of the damage I caused.”
Chen Qingye’s eyes widened.
He almost forgot to breathe.
Even in the game, mother Gu larvae are extremely difficult to obtain, not to mention, to cultivate a mother Gu larva into a mother Gu, you need at least the pupa membrane of a ghost of grade A or above-he has already cultivated Xiaobai. After all the hardships, the right time and place, the people gathered together, and it took all the luck to have one. No matter how much he wanted to try later, he couldn’t replicate the previous success.
Especially now that the game crashes, he actually hasn’t reported any hope of cultivating Gu Mother.
And…and now…
Chen Qingye stretched out his hand tremblingly, and took the white larva from Ye Jia’s hand.
He held it cautiously, holding it like a treasure, and looked at it carefully for a long time.
After a long time, Chen Qingye raised his head, looked at Ye Jia with tears in his eyes, choked up and said, “I want to call her Xiaoxiaobai.”
Ye Jia: “It sounds good…”
Seeing Red crying silently in front of him, he let out a sigh of relief slowly.
Finally ended this old grievance in the game-although he also paid a lot of money.
After all, mother Gu larva… it’s really hard to get.
Ye Jia couldn’t bear to think about it.
The other side.
Ji Xuan squinted a pair of scarlet eyes, with a faint smile on his lips, obviously in a good mood.
He stared at the room in front of him, his eyes full of joy.
The room that was originally empty now has a person’s personal belongings, which looks full and full of life-like atmosphere.
-finally.
My brother agreed to move in.