MMB Chapter 136 Leaving the City
Chapter 136 Leaving the City
Chapter 136 Leaving the City
Guan Chuanda felt a chill run down his spine and was plunged into despair.
He suddenly realized that his current predicament was most likely the "fateful calamity" that Guan Yu had foretold for him.
In this dark night when the city is full of vengeful ghosts, if one's body suddenly glows, even if ten Guan Chuandao's skills were combined, one would probably not survive!
Most importantly, this light is very strange; he cannot control or suppress it.
In despair, Guan Chuandao knew his time was up. He reached into his robes, pulled out a silver-white metal ball, and shoved it into Guan Jikun's hand.
"Ji Kun, take this! Detonate it at the crucial moment. This artifact won't kill the vengeful ghost, but it will wipe out every non-Guan family member within seventy meters. It won't kill any of my Guan family bloodlines, but it will severely injure them. Remember, don't use it unless absolutely necessary!"
Before Guan Jikun could speak, he spat out a mouthful of blood, pushing his potential to its limit.
The air in front of him rippled, and he tossed Guan Jikun, who was on his back, into this space.
"dad!"
The air fluctuations disappeared, and Guan Jikun disappeared with them.
He was teleported to the west gate of the city. In other words, even with Guan Chuandao's best efforts, Guan Jikun might arrive at the west gate before Li Jiuhe and the other person.
boom!
A cloud of blood mist surged from behind, instantly enveloping Guan Chuandao, and the terrifying blood demon approached at that moment.
Originally, Guan Chuandao's spatial teleportation was already suppressed after being stained by the pus-spitting vengeful ghost. Now, enveloped in blood mist, he suddenly discovered that his spatial abilities were almost completely ineffective.
Let alone teleportation, they were already powerless to even use spatial powers to deal with these ever-surging vengeful ghosts.
A moment later, the light from Guan Chuandao dimmed considerably, not because the time limit was about to expire, but because too many ghosts were surging in from the surrounding area, which had already blocked the light.
As the even more terrifying ghost finally arrived, the light vanished completely.
Ye City, West Gate.
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There were seven or eight city gate guards here, and a candle was lit to ward off evil spirits.
At this moment, the guards did not leave anywhere; they all stayed around the candlelight, inside a guardhouse near the entrance.
Since it was already night, none of them went out. Sometimes, when they looked up unintentionally, they would see ghosts passing by in front of the stone house.
However, since there were warding-off candles lit inside the house, and the guards dared not make any rash moves, few evil spirits would approach the stone house on their own initiative.
Next to the stone house is the west gate, and thick fog can still be seen seeping in from time to time through the cracks in the tightly closed gate.
These mists seemed to have solidified into a tangible form; they could be instantly altered by pulling on them, just like spider silk, which was extremely eerie.
Li Jiuhe and Ning Chong arrived at the city gate.
The city gate was tightly closed, and not far away there was a stone guardhouse, from which candlelight emanated to ward off evil spirits.
Behind the city gate is a heavy door panel that can be pushed to open or close the gate. Originally, there were sometimes a few door bar supports, but now that people inside the city can't get out and people outside the city can't get in, the door bar supports have been thrown aside and have no chance of being used.
The door can be opened simply by pushing the heavy door panel.
Turning his head to look at the stone house, the guards inside also noticed Li Jiuhe and his companion. They stared at them in surprise, realizing that the two were human, not ghosts. They just didn't know why they dared to wander around outside at this time.
But no matter how much noise they make, no one will come out to stop them.
"Should we just open the door?" Li Jiuhe asked.
"Yes." Ning Chong nodded.
As soon as the two entered the city gate passage, they saw a figure standing on one leg in the dim light, leaning against the corner between the city gate and the wall, holding something silvery-white in his hand.
Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be Guan Jikun.
Li Jiuhe immediately realized that Guan Chuandao must have used his spatial abilities to send him here, and that Guan Chuandao himself was most likely already dead.
Now that the biggest obstacle has been removed, the only remaining threat is Guan Jikun's mental control.
Ning Chong suddenly spoke softly: "This person has strong mental power, but as long as you are with me, he cannot control us."
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Li Jiuhe had already guessed that Ning Chong must possess some kind of treasure, otherwise those ghosts would have already approached him and torn him to pieces.
Therefore, this treasure can also resist mental attacks.
Guan Jikun raised a silver metal ball in his hand and said coldly, "If you attack me, I'll detonate it. You can run now, but its blast radius is seventy meters. Let's see if your feet are faster than my hands."
As soon as he finished speaking, the silver metal ball in his hand emitted a beeping electronic sound, like a bomb that was about to explode at any moment.
This thing looks very powerful.
Although Ning Chong didn't understand what it was, he could sense the threat emanating from the metal sphere.
Li Jiuhe said to Guan Jikun, "Let's talk this out. This young master and I need to work together to push that plank so we can open the city gate and leave."
Guan Jikun glanced at the city gate, said nothing, and nodded.
The two walked over and together pushed the heavy wooden plank aside, and the tall city gate opened with a sound.
Before long, a crack in the door appeared, large enough for one person to pass through. At the same time, wisps of ghostly mist from outside the city also seeped into the crack, giving people an eerie feeling of a large number of spider silks tangled together.
"Should we go straight out? Is it dangerous?" Li Jiuhe asked Ning Chong.
Ning Chong shook his head: "Try to slow your breathing and don't inhale too much ghost mist. Just follow me."
After saying that, he walked out.
"Wait." Guan Jikun hopped closer, leaning against the wall. The severed leg was still dripping blood from the break, but most of it had already congealed.
He was pale and looked to be in very poor condition.
He held the metal ball tightly in one hand, and placed the other hand directly on Li Jiuhe's shoulder, standing behind him.
Give me all the weapons you have.
Li Jiuhe glanced at the exquisitely designed metal sphere, which didn't look like a grenade, but it seemed to sense his gaze.
When you look at it, the beeping sound immediately becomes rapid, and when you look away, the sound quickly slows down, as if it was warning you in this way just now.
Li Jiuhe slowly reached to his waist, pulled out a silver-plated dagger, held the hilt with his thumb and forefinger, and replied, "This is the only dagger I have."
Guan Jikun took the silver-corroded dagger, still standing behind him, pressing down on the other's shoulder with his wrist, while turning the dagger over and holding it horizontally in front of Li Jiuhe's neck.
"And you too," he said to Ning Chong, who was standing in front of him.
Ning Chong spread his hands: "I have no weapon."
"No?" Guan Jikun looked him up and down suspiciously. "Then why don't those vengeful ghosts dare to approach you?"
Ning Chong loosened his collar and took out the pendant hanging around his neck: "Is this what you mean?"
Li Jiuhe and Guan Jikun looked at it and saw that the pendant was probably an animal tooth, about the length of a little finger, crescent-shaped, and completely black.
So this thing acts like a talisman, which is why Ning Chong is protected from being attacked by those ghosts?
Guan Jikun's eyes lit up slightly, and he immediately said, "Take it off and give it to me."
Ning Chong shook his head: "It's not that I don't want to give it to you, but the Nine Abyss Beast Fang has already recognized me as its master. It will only have any effect when it's with me. In your hands, it's just an ordinary item."
At this moment, the beast tooth was emitting a faint black light.
If this black light were inside Ning Chong's clothes, no one else could see it; only when he took it out would they notice it.
As expected, the wispy ghostly mist immediately detoured and left just as it was about to approach Ning Chong.
As he spoke, Ning Chong removed the beast tooth from his neck and gently placed it in Guan Jikun's hand holding the knife.
Sure enough, the black light emanating from the beast's teeth vanished in an instant, and there was no further reaction.
"Take it." Guan Jikun frowned and said, "Lead the way! Remember, don't go more than five meters ahead of me."
Ning Chong nodded: "No, you all need to stay close to me, otherwise none of us will be able to get out."
After saying that, he put the beast tooth back around his neck, grabbed Li Jiuhe, and walked forward.
Behind Li Jiuhe was Guan Jikun, who had lost a leg and had difficulty moving, so he used Li Jiuhe as a crutch.
The three of them quickly entered the ghostly mist, which enveloped them in layers of spiderweb-like mist. After walking for a while, they could see nothing but the ghostly mist in all directions.
If Li Jiuhe or Guan Jikun had been leading the way, they would have already lost their way.
But Li Jiuhe noticed that Ning Chong wasn't looking where he was going. Instead, he was staring down at his feet, muttering to himself. He would take ten steps forward, then seven steps to the left, and then three steps backward at an angle.
They move forward or backward, sometimes diagonally, as if following a certain pattern.
Ning Chong said as he walked, "This is the Moon-Guiding Step, which only works in a maze. But I couldn't pinpoint the location of this maze before. If we can get out, it proves that the old peddler was deliberately blocking the west gate to prevent me from leaving. But if we can't get out, it means this isn't a maze, and we'll be trapped inside, never to leave the Ghost Mist again."
Li Jiuhe was alright at this moment, but Guan Jikun was jumping around and feeling very uncomfortable. In addition, his body was already weak, and he was only holding on by sheer willpower.
In his plan, once he was able to leave this place, he would immediately kill Li Jiuhe.
If a knife doesn't work, use any sequence items you have, even if it will seriously injure you.
But the body is no longer important, as long as the black box can be opened.
Besides, his father, Guan Chuandao, had already said that after leaving this world, his niece, Xiaoxin, was guarding this space stone and had not come in; she would meet him outside.
They walked for another ten minutes or so.
Guan Jikun couldn't help but ask Ning Chong, "How much longer until we leave?"
Ning Chong frowned, seemingly calculating, and replied after a moment, "There's about half an incense stick's time left."
As soon as he finished speaking, Li Jiuhe felt Ning Chong's hand, which was holding his, move slightly, his fingers gently scratching his palm, as if he were secretly reminding him.
This made Li Jiuhe instantly realize that the exit should be just ahead, and they would arrive at it soon, instead of what Ning Chong had deliberately said earlier, that it would take half an incense stick's time to get out.
He quickly glanced behind him and spotted the black box that Guan Jikun had hidden on his person.
Guan Jikun was unaware that Li Jiuhe had already figured out their purpose, nor did he know that Li Jiuhe had seen the black box more than once.
He even thought that Li Jiuhe was completely unaware of the existence of the black box, because he had never taken it out in front of him.
The black box is about the size of a fist. It will bulge slightly no matter where you put it, making it easy to spot at a glance.
The only thing Li Jiuhe needs to be careful about now is that Guan Jikun won't immediately detonate the strange metal ball when he's trying to seize the black box.
He suspected that the metal sphere possessed its own consciousness and was most likely a sequence object, meaning it could distinguish between friend and foe.
After taking a few more steps, Ning Chong stopped and scratched Li Jiuhe's palm twice more, clearly reminding him to be careful as they were about to leave the Ghost Mist.
At this moment, Li Jiuhe was certain that he could leave Yecheng through the West Gate. He turned around and reached for Guan Jikun's slightly bulging waist.
Guan Jikun's wrist was originally on Li Jiuhe's shoulder, but the moment he turned around, he realized what was happening and immediately slashed Li Jiuhe's neck with the blade.
However, because he turned around, the knife cut directly onto the back of Li Jiuhe's neck, tearing open the flesh and causing blood to flow, but it was not fatal.
Guan Jikun then realized that Li Jiuhe actually wanted to steal the black box from his body.
Before he could even think about why the other party knew about the existence of this black box, and seeing that the slash hadn't seriously injured Li Jiuhe, he directly crushed the metal ball sequence item in his other hand.
There was a loud bang.
Li Jiuhe's body was instantly torn to pieces, but Ning Chong was not blown to pieces. Instead, his body was intact and pushed out of the ghostly mist by the shockwave of the explosion, disappearing from sight.
The powerful blast of air knocked Guan Jikun to the ground, his head hitting the floor and his head ringing.
As a member of the Guan family, he was indeed not killed by the explosion, but his body was impacted, his skin was torn open, his internal organs were damaged, and he was seriously injured.
After falling to the ground, Guan Jikun glanced at the spot where Ning Chong had just disappeared. He knew that the other party had just lied to him. The exit was clearly just ahead, and he could have left in just two or three steps.
But the most crucial thing right now isn't that, but rather—
He quickly grabbed the black box that Li Jiuhe had failed to take. At this moment, Li Jiuhe's bloody and mangled flesh was scattered all over the ground. He immediately stuck the black box onto one of the pieces of flesh.
With a click, the mental imprint that Si Mingyu had planted on the black box was activated.
The top half of the originally tightly sealed black box opened slightly, and an immense power poured out from within.
Guan Jikun's expression turned excited, but then it changed to surprise, and he uttered a sound of astonishment.
The darkness before my eyes quickly dissipated.
Li Jiuhe pulled Ning Chong to a stop just as they were about to reach the west gate.
Ning Chong is now very vigilant because he had just managed to use those vengeful ghosts to escape Guan Chuandao's pursuit.
He paused slightly, then asked, "What's wrong? Is there still danger near the city gate?"
Li Jiuhe knew he was intelligent and had already guessed part of it, so he nodded: "Yes, I found someone inside the city gate passage."
"Who?" Ning Chong asked in surprise, glancing back in the direction they had come from.
Li Jiuhe said, "It should be one of the Guan family father and son. You were just saying that the old man from the Guan family has mastered the same 'golden cicada shedding its shell' trick as the old peddler?"
Ning Chong nodded: "If he gets ahead, things will really get a bit tricky."
"It's not a problem." Li Jiuhe shook his head. "Just let him stay there."
Ning Chong looked at him in surprise: "Aren't we going out through the west gate?"
Li Jiuhe countered, "Do the methods you know for leaving Yecheng require certain conditions to be met before they can be used?"
"Yes, all four city gates could be the way out, but the old peddler is guarding the west gate, so the success rate here should be the highest," Ning Chong said truthfully.
"What if we don't go out through the city gate?"
"If we don't go through the city gate, where will we go?"
Li Jiuhe pointed to the nearest city wall: "We'll bypass the city gate and go directly up the city wall. We'll lower down from the side closest to the west gate. The city wall isn't high; four or five bed sheets strung together can easily do it."
At this moment, all the guards nearby were in the stone houses, and none of them dared to come out. They could have easily gone up the city wall openly.
The city wall of Ye City is only about five meters high.
"We can give it a try," Ning Chong nodded.
Li Jiuhe immediately chose an empty room and went inside.
The evil spirits in the vicinity have all been attracted away by the glowing Guan Chuandao, so it is safe for them for the time being, and there is no need to light exorcism candles.
After a quick search, they found five sheets and tied them together.
They then came to a stone staircase next to the city gate and tiptoed up to the city wall.
The town's defenses are now practically nonexistent; the city walls are deathly silent, and not a single person can be seen.
Arriving near the top of the city gate, I tied one end of the bed sheet to the battlement and let the other end hang down outside the city. I found that it was less than a meter from the ground, so the city wall was indeed not high.
Ning Chong then climbed down and disappeared into the ghostly mist.
Li Jiuhe secured the black box he was holding in his arms. Seeing Ning Chong shaking the bed sheet below, indicating that he could climb up, he then pulled on the bed sheet and slid down.
That's right, he had actually succeeded in stealing the black box from Guan Jikun's waist before the mission was reset.
For Guan Jikun, the black box would only be considered a successful robbery if he actually snatched it, but for Li Jiuhe, he would consider it a success as long as he touched it.
He has already copied the black box, consuming one chance to carry any item from before the mission reset.
So there's no need to meet with Guan Jikun anymore. Let him keep the original black box and stay with this world forever.
After all, the sequence bomb in that guy's hand was too abnormal. Once it entered the blast radius, Li Jiuhe had no way to stop it from exploding.
Even if the bomb is snatched from Guan Jikun's hands, it clearly has its own mind and will most likely still explode.
So he simply stopped playing with this guy.
As the sheets fell to the ground, Ning Chong immediately grabbed Li Jiuhe's hand, glanced at the west gate on the left, and then walked forward.
Li Jiuhe also noticed that Ning Chong's pace was slightly different from when he left the city gate last time, with subtle changes in direction and angle.
But after walking a few dozen steps, they returned to the same state as before, clearly indicating that they were on the right track.
In fact, this ghostly mist is not only a maze, but also contains a large number of fierce ghosts.
However, Ning Chong wore animal teeth for self-defense, which was even more powerful than the exorcising candles, so those fierce ghosts dared not approach him.
After walking for a while, Li Jiuhe looked back.
Behind them was a strange, wispy white mist, obscuring everything. Guan Jikun, with one leg missing, was still waiting in the corner of the passageway at the West Gate.
However, Li Jiuhe knew that after leaving this world, there might still be members of the Guan family outside, and he had to be careful.
"We've arrived." Ning Chong suddenly spoke from ahead.
The two stepped out one after the other, and all the ghostly mist in front of them vanished instantly.
Standing on an official road with Ning Chong, Li Jiuhe looked back and saw that the west gate of Ye City was clearly visible two hundred meters away, with no obstructions around it.
Ning Chong smiled and looked up at the sky, feeling relieved. He couldn't help but think to himself, "Brother, I only killed your trusted confidant. Our infighting is just a way to let the third brother ascend to the throne!"
Then, as he turned around, he said, "The ghost formation was broken after I left the city. To be honest, I am—"
The next second, Ning Chong was shocked to find that Li Jiuhe, who had just been standing behind him, had disappeared.
At the same moment, inside the west gate, bright moonlight appeared, illuminating both the inside and outside of the gate.
The ghostly mist outside Ye City had completely disappeared at this moment, and the eerie winds and strange atmosphere that had previously enveloped the city were gone.
Guan Jikun, who had been guarding the city gate passage, looked around in bewilderment.
"It seems like... something happened?!"
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