Chapter 58: Hunter and Prey

The flame jumped in front of my eyes, and it descended little by little at an

extremely slow speed.

Perhaps I know that the Privy Council is here to get rid of the troubles, and

the outside clocking has stopped, as if no one dared to step closer here-in

fact, let alone the clocking. From night to this moment, the whole county is

silent, even the usual ones. Dogs barking insects can hardly be heard.

How long have they waited?

One hour or three hours?

Xia Fan lost control of time. The only proof he could feel that time was

passing was the half-burned candles on the candlestick.

Sitting in the middle, Zhang Shenzheng hadn't moved from the beginning to the

end. Looking from the corner, he seemed to have turned into a statue.

This kind of waiting makes people worry, and even makes Xia Fan wonder if

Yuangui will really choose them and his party in a forest with many prey as

the gods said.

At this moment, Xia Fan heard a string of crisp bells.

It is incompatible with this dull and anxious atmosphere, and it broke the

silence of the night in an instant.

The sound source seems to come from... inside the box!

Almost instantly, Zhang Shenzhen suddenly opened his eyes.

He grabbed the wooden sword beside him, and lightly picked it up, and the lid

of the box came up. Xia Fan, who was guarding the corner, saw the contents of

the box at this moment.

It was a face without a nose. The most obvious mouth stood upright, pulling

its face into two halves. On both sides of the mouth, there were three eyes of

different sizes. These eyes have neither eye sockets nor eyebrow

embellishments, they are like fleshy beads embedded in the epidermis!

The moment the lid was lifted, two skinny arms also stretched out, grabbing at

the alchemist in front of them at a very fast speed!

But Zhang Shenzheng was faster.

Pulling with his left hand, he took a rope, and the other end of it was

connected to the box-as if some mechanism had been opened, the original wooden

box suddenly fell apart.

The reason why the container is a container is precisely because the bottom

and the walls fit each other to form a closed space. However, as the box

becomes pieces of wood, this space no longer exists.

The moment Yuangui's body was exposed, its open arms instantly lost their

strength and fell softly.

This is the weakness of Yuangui!

Once it loses its hiding place, its deadly deterrence will also be wiped out.

Xia Fan, who had witnessed this rapid change, understood why Zhang Shenzheng

was so calm and composed—he didn’t have to wait like they did. There were

bells in the box. Once a foreign object entered, it would trigger an alarm.

Just wait until the bell rings and then concentrate on responding. Before

that, he knew that the mansion was safe.

Without the concealment of the box, Yuangui fully revealed its true body. As

the survivor said, its body was about the size of a baby, but that did not

include the four slender limbs. In other words, apart from the head, it only

has limbs. Both hands and feet are more than two meters long, and the joints

are all bent upwards, like a water strider running in the water.

It panicked and wanted to bypass the alchemist in front of him, but Zhang

Shenzhen, who had already stood up, obviously did not intend to give it this

opportunity.

He threw out a talisman, which was in the middle of Yuangui's head, and the

latter suddenly froze in place. Then he pierced the talisman with a straight

stab, and continued to move forward, piercing the ghost without resistance

like a tofu.

Only two soft sounds of "Boom, Boom" were heard, Yuangui's head burst open,

and the black liquid splashed all over the floor.

So fast, Xia Fan said in his heart.

The opponent's shot was fluent, neither could he see the action of digging out

the medicinal materials, nor did he use voice to strengthen the intention of

the operation, it only took a few seconds from the target to the ground.

The strength of the Sixth Rank Alchemist cannot be underestimated.

"Thanks for your hard work, this task is over here." Zhang Shenzhen wiped the

wooden sword and retracted his waist. "After that, let the magistrate take

care of the aftermath. We will leave for Jinxia tomorrow."

"It turns out that ghosts are nothing more than this... How difficult it is

for me to be the head of evil." Wang Renzhi walked to the remains of the

ghosts, kicked with a look of disgust, "Tsk, it's really deformed. "

"Is it... dead?" Wei Wushuang stepped forward and asked.

"Dead? It hasn't lived at all, okay?" Wang Renzhi gave him a white look. "This

thing is just being reorganized and driven by Qi. If the hostility is strong

enough, some evil spirits can make repeated comebacks, such as the Great

Desolation. Night. But what a ghost... it's just one chance."

"Where did this deep ghost come from?" Shangguan Cai suddenly asked.

"What do you mean?" The Prince Wang looked at her puzzled.

"Don't you know? The biggest difference between ghosts and other evil

creatures is that they are transformed from corpses. In other words \-" She

turned her gaze to Yuangui, "This thing was once a person."

"Uh, who knows..." Wang Renzhi was a little stuck, "and its origin is not

important at all, right?"

Zhang Shenping looked at Shangguancai unexpectedly for a long time before he

took up the topic, "Yes, the mission of the alchemist in the Privy Council is

to eliminate the evil monster, and it doesn't matter where it came from. For

example, this deep ghost, maybe It's a medicine farmer who went up the

mountain to gather and lost her way, or it might be a hunter who fell into a

valley and died of many geniuses~www.mtlnovel.com~ Knowing that these can't

prevent ghosts from harming people, you only need to destroy them ."

"That's what I meant," Wang Renzhi coughed twice, "Let's go, I can sleep well

now when I go back."

It seems that Li doesn't have to play tonight.

Xia Fan waved to the dark place as a greeting, then turned and walked towards

the door.

But what made him a little strange was that although several people walked in

front, no one pushed open the closed hall door, as if everyone was waiting for

him.

If only Wei Wushuang and Luo You'er understand it, when will the others be so

united?

He speeded up subconsciously, and at the same time saw Wei Wushuang seem to be

doing his best to turn around, staring at him wide, as if urging him.

Wait, is that a urging look?

With the help of the swaying candle, Xia Fan seemed to see bloodshot in his

eyes-how impatient would he be to this level?

Wei Wushuang in his impression is not such a person.

Xia Fan couldn't help but stop.

At this time, the abnormal situation appeared without warning-he found that

the lowered front foot could no longer be retracted, as if he was nailed to

the spot. Soon, this feeling of something wrong spread to his whole body, and

he suddenly realized that it was not just his feet, but that he had lost

control of his body!

Is this an illusion?

No... No, he was stared at by something.

And not just him, everyone present was so, so that after the vision, no one

looked back or issued a warning-because when they noticed the problem, they

could no longer open their mouths to make a sound.

Just under the dim firelight, a figure two meters tall appeared in front of

Xia Fan little by little.