The "monster" that the little fog spirit mentioned should refer to the black things that are running rampant in this underground space.
They have no fixed shape.
It looks very much like the mist form of the fog elves, but each of them is as black as if they were covered in ink, and there is a dissipated black air around them, as if they were wearing a layer of ominous gauze.
As Lao Jiang had seen before, there were several red spots of light shining inside the bodies of these strange-looking bad things.
It was like a fire was lit in the fog.
The light looked very much like the dark red light emitted by high-temperature ashes that have not completely burned out. Looking directly at it would make people feel very uncomfortable.
It was like a source of malice, constantly spreading disgust in all directions.
These black things were howling, but incoherently, like the mad roars of wild beasts. They had obviously lost their minds and only cared about attacking in all directions.
But their means of attack are lackluster.
They can only transform into animals or birds and attack using the most primitive methods.
Su and his men retreated and formed a temporary defense line in the front, continuously throwing out spirit-possessed grenades and using flames and explosions to repel those ferocious guys.
Gu Miao held the Fiery Sun Seal tightly. She felt very uncomfortable in this underground space full of malice, and angry emotions kept beating in her heart.
It was as if there was an invisible hand stirring up her emotions.
"These...are fog elves?"
Lao Jiang was protected by Ruyue, and he was regulating his breathing and recovering his spiritual power in the back. He kept swallowing Spirit Gathering Pills, squeezing the spiritual power into his body to practice his skills.
He squinted his eyes, looking at the howling monsters that gathered into a vast black fog in front of him, and turned to the trembling little fog spirit Yun Xiaoliu beside him and asked:
"Those are your companions?"
"I don't know."
There was a tremor in the little mist elf's voice. It curled itself into a ball and called out:
"Yes, they are very similar to us fog elves in every aspect, but they are all crazy. I have never seen us fog elves so violent. They are not fog elves!
I don’t believe it.”
The little guy is about to collapse mentally.
Asking it wouldn't get him anything useful, so Lao Jiang looked at Ruyue beside him. The secretary flicked her hair and held a rope in her hand, using it as a whip.
She whispered:
"It's probably the fog spirits. I don't know what the evil cultivators of the Yinhun Cult did to them to turn them into this. Boss, did you notice?
Most of the little mist elves don't enter the Qi training stage, they are just spiritual beings, but now the strength of these blackened mist elves... has more than doubled, and the stronger ones have been directly promoted to the Qi training stage.
But they only have strength, but they are still fighting instinctively."
“Defective product.”
Boss Jiang breathed a sigh of relief, rubbed his forehead, and said:
“This should be the garbage dump where the evil cultivators deal with their defective products. No matter from which perspective, these blackened mist spirits cannot be considered successful works.
Catch a few alive, and then we'll go find pomegranates.
Gu Miao, use the magic weapon!"
"receive!"
The bait rabbit licked its lips immediately and raised the Fiery Sun Seal in its hand. Su and his group of mercenaries immediately retreated behind Gu Miao. The flat-chested girl stimulated her spiritual power, and the burning masculine aura surged rapidly.
Those brainless blackened mist spirits that rushed over seemed to sense the crisis.
They screamed and backed away, but it was too late.
"boom"
The scorching golden sky fire shot out like rays, blasting into the underground space filled with black air in front of him, melting countless black air in an instant, and as Gu Miao's wrist rotated, it swept across a 360° large circle like a sickle.
This scene was extremely exciting.
Wherever the heavenly fire went, the black air disappeared without a trace, just like dirty snow meeting the sun. As the heavenly fire disappeared, the space also became quiet in an instant.
"Ash……"
Jiang Xia stood up and wiped the place that was emitting a burning atmosphere with his hand. There was a layer of hot ash left on the ground. He turned around and looked at the little mist spirit held in Ruyue's hand.
ask:
"When your lifespan ends and you die, will there be such ashes left?"
"Won't."
Yun Xiaoliu trembled and said:
"When we fog spirits die, we will turn into fog and return to the heaven and earth, leaving nothing behind. You see, I told you that these bad guys are not us fog spirits!
Right?
They leave ash, so they are not mist spirits!
My brothers are still alive, right?
They must be alive...
Speak up!
Speak up!"
The little mist elf shouted a little crazily, but got no response.
The entire underground dungeon was covered in black ash, with smoke billowing everywhere.
Gu Miao's face turned pale as he retracted the scorching Sun Seal. He moved the spiritual beads of the Red Cloud Magical Instruments in both hands a few times to isolate the heat that was enough to burn a human body.
In the sea of ​​burning black ash, Jiang Xia looked around and strode into the melted corner of the dungeon.
Ruyue seemed to have sensed something and followed closely behind.
"Oh, it hurts. It hurts so much."
A faint cry of pain came from in front of him. Jiang Xia walked to the stone platform that was mostly burned. He could see that the stone platform was made of a special material, with a cold and sinister stone forming an array.
But now that cruel formation has been destroyed by the heavenly fire.
He lowered his head and looked at the remaining stone platform, where there was an illusory little mist elf lying.
Half of the body of this little mist spirit was contaminated by the strange black air, and half of its body was evaporated in the raging sun fire. It was seriously injured.
It still maintained its transformed state, but it looked like a rabbit that had been torn in half, lying on a broken stone platform waiting to die. Its voice was soft and sticky.
Much like a child.
Maybe he was as naughty as other fog elves before, but now, the miserable appearance of this naughty kid who was almost dismembered still made Ruyue behind Lao Jiang unable to bear to look at it.
This was an evil experiment that was halfway through, and this little mist elf was the tragic victim.
"pain……"
The little mist elf tried hard to open its eyes, looked at Jiang Xia standing in front of it, and then stretched out its hand tremblingly and said to Jiang Xia:
"I feel so bad... I didn't, I didn't hurt anyone... Why... Why do you humans treat me like this... We, we just... ah, it hurts."
Its spirit was twitching.
After realizing that the surrounding scorching heat had dissipated, the black gas that had contaminated half of its body became restless again, like ink covering the body of the fog spirit.
It is devouring its remaining life in big mouthfuls.
The rate of pollution is very fast.
After being completely contaminated by this strange black gas, it will turn into a strange ghost like the group that just besieged Jiang Xia. At that time, it will lose all its sanity and become a monster.
"Xiaojiu! Xiaojiu! What's wrong with you?"
Yun Xiaoliu, the little mist spirit lying on Gu Miao's shoulder, rushed towards Jiang Xia despite the lingering heat in the air. He immediately saw the little mist spirit lying in the rubble suffering.
Yun Xiaoliu screamed, and its misty body turned into a cat and pounced on the stone platform. It grabbed the wailing little mist spirit with its claws and tried to drag it out of the broken stone table.
but……
“Don’t touch it!”
Lao Jiang said in a deep voice, and shot out a dazzling arc of electricity, which hit Yun Xiaoliu's claws, forcibly separating it from the polluted little mist spirit.
The spiritual energy gathered around him like the moon, turning into a ring like water waves, trapping Yun Xiaoliu inside.
"Let me go!"
The little mist elf screamed angrily and shouted:
"I want to save Xiaojiu! Let me go, he is my brother!"
"It's hopeless."
Boss Jiang said this in a slightly indifferent tone, like a sharp sword, cutting off the words Yun Xiaoliu wanted to shout out. It seemed as if it was awakened by the cruel reality.
Looking at Xiaojiu in front of him who had been mostly contaminated by the black air.
Xiaojiu also saw his companions when he was dying.
The two little mist elf brothers who were born from the spiritual spring at the same time looked at each other at this moment, and the next second, Xiaoliu's miserable cry sounded in this dead silent cave.
So helpless.
So desolate.
Even Su and other wasteland warriors who were used to seeing death and pain turned their eyes away at this moment. Gu Miao was in tears and hugged her sister Ruyue.
Bury your head in Kisaragi's abdomen .
"Click"
Jiang Xia pulled out a spirit-infused pistol from his waist and loaded it with the sound of a spring. He looked at the little mist spirit in front of him who was screaming in pain and waiting to die, and said:
"I'm sorry, Xiaojiu, I can't save you, but I can help you end your pain."
"Kill me."
The little mist elf was mostly contaminated by the black air and couldn't even maintain its rabbit-like shape.
It tried hard to look at Jiang Xia and said in a trembling voice:
“I… I saw it all… They poured… dirty stuff… on us… Big Brother Heiyun… and others… We begged for mercy, we begged for mercy.
We...have never provoked them, we...have never seen them...Why?
We are just a bunch of... little fog elves. We... haven't done anything bad. We are just singing and playing... at home. We didn't bully... them.
Why do you do this to us?
Why does it have to be us?
pain.
ah……
It hurts so much! "
These words are very childish.
It's like a hurt child, questioning the cowardly strong man why he bullies them?
Jiang Xia's expression also changed slightly at this moment.
He remembered when he first entered the Southern Wilderness, the black cloud brought a group of chirping little mist elves to cause trouble for the Kunlunfang caravan, but what they called "causing trouble" was...
It was just a prank.
The worst that could happen was stealing some snacks from the convoy.
really.
These mist elves are noisy and naughty.
But they should be happy, living foolishly in the jungle. They are not interested in competing with the world. They don't think about birth, old age, sickness and death, nor do they think about the difficulties of daily life like humans do.
Their little brains.
Probably not actively thinking too much.
Jiang Xia doesn't like these chirping little guys, but a big villain like him will not point his butcher knife at these harmless little guys just because of his inner likes and dislikes.
"Among us humans, there are always some cowards who like to bully the weak to show how strong they are. Don't worry about them, they are just rats who survive on the scraps under the rules.
They think they are so evil and powerful...how ridiculous!
No need to cry anymore.
I will kill you and avenge you, little one."
Lao Jiang pointed the gun at the crying Yun Xiaojiu.
His voice was low and gentle, just like coaxing a child to sleep. He reached out and stroked Yun Xiaojiu's uncontaminated body a few times.
explain:
"Be good, we will rescue your big brother Black Cloud and bring him back to Yandang Pond, and ask the mountain-guarding grandmother to cure him. We will also bring all the remaining little mist elves back to Lingquan.
good.
Close your eyes.
It won’t hurt any more soon…”
Yun Xiaojiu was shaking, and he tried hard to open his eyes that had been polluted and turned black, and he looked at Jiang Xia.
explain:
"Really?"
"Yes, really."
Lao Jiang nodded to it.
The next moment, Xiaojiu laughed, but the crisp sound that should be in the laughter of the little mist elf was no longer there.
Just as Lao Jiang said, it gently closed its eyes, as if trying to endure the pain and fall asleep, then return to the warm spiritual spring, and laugh and play with its brothers in its dream.
"Bang"
The muzzle of the gun jumped and then emitted green smoke.
Several bullets imbued with spirits penetrated the little mist spirit's body and shattered its spiritual foundation before it was completely contaminated by the black air.
Smoke rises.
Turned to ashes.
"Xiao Jiu!!!"
Yun Xiaoliu screamed miserably, Ruyue held it in her arms as it kept changing its shape, the sentimental secretary's eyes were red, and Gu Miao was crying.
"I'm in a bad mood."
Lao Jiang lit a cigarette, took a look at the gun in his hand, and threw it into the stone ruins in front of him, as if it were some dirty thing.
He reached out his hand again and grabbed the ashes left after the little mist spirit dissipated.
Looking at the ashes in his hand, he turned back and said to Su and the others:
"I just reached an unplanned agreement with a little fool, but since the promise has been made, I can't just pretend that I didn't hear it, so let's end it in another way.
Let us raze this place to the ground!"