Chapter 339 Red Sleeves and Gorgeous Silk

"This is a phoenix feather."

Mu You took out three fiery red feathers from the ring and gave one to Lin Xue and Ying Lang.

One of the three phoenix feathers was obtained by Mu You earlier and has never been used. The other two are newly grown on Huo Huo.

Not all feathers on the phoenix have the effect of resurrection. Only mature phoenix feathers can be resurrected. The little phoenix has just been born. After so many days, it has only produced these two qualified feathers. Mu You coaxed and tricked it out yesterday.

Now each person has a feather, which is a layer of insurance for everyone in this place where resurrection is not allowed. Moreover, this resurrection item has a public cooldown and can only be triggered once a day. It is useless if it is triggered more than once.

Then Mu You took out the map fragment and took a look.

The direction of the arrow has indeed changed this time!

The arrow is now pointing to a certain direction on their left hand side and is moving slightly.

This at least shows that Hong Xiu has indeed come in here. As for the distance, it is difficult to tell from this map alone.

Mu You subconsciously summoned the war eagle and wanted to send it to patrol in that direction.

However, just as the war eagle appeared and before it set off, Mu You suddenly found that the war eagle was in a strange state.

The war eagle was suspended in the air, but its body was shaking. Its wings flapped desperately, as if it wanted to stabilize, but it was constantly pulled up by a strange force. When it rose to about 100 meters in the air, the war eagle suddenly let out a wail, and blood suddenly splattered all over its body. In the blink of an eye, it exploded into a blood mist in the sky and disappeared.

"What's the situation?" Several people below were hurriedly avoiding the dripping blood, and at the same time looked up in surprise, but they didn't see anything unusual. Above their heads was just the same black sky as other places.

"You will understand if you use your mind's eyes." At this time, Vivian spoke.

Mu You hurriedly closed his eyes and calmed his mind. After standing still for a few seconds, he opened his mind's eyes.

The scene he saw immediately surprised him.

The space around them was filled with countless illusory ghosts, with human-shaped ghost faces on the upper body and smoke on the lower body, floating densely on the ground, above the head and in the air, almost filling up all the surrounding space.

And looking up, more than a hundred meters above the head, there were clusters of space turbulence that were invisible to the naked eye. The war eagle just flew into the turbulence and was instantly strangled by the space turbulence.

"What is this?"

Mu You asked about the illusory ghosts around him.

These things are not ordinary ghosts, because they cannot be seen or touched, and there is no energy in their bodies. If Mu You hadn't opened his mind, he would not have been able to discover their existence.

However, the appearance of this thing reminded him of the silent beast in the Red Rose Library.

"This is a soul-devouring beast." Vivian said, "You can understand it as, those souls that were once devoured by the god of death were all released after the death of the god of death, forming these things."

"Soul-devouring beasts have a natural obsession with living beings. When they encounter living beings, they will follow them, wait for them to die, and then share the souls of the dead."

Vivian also looked up and looked around, and shook her head and said, "But don't worry, soul-devouring beasts are invisible. As long as we don't die, they can't touch us, but we can't attack them either."

"Invisible?"

Mu You was stunned when he heard it: "Then what happened to the war eagle just now?"

The abnormality of the war eagle just now was obviously that it was forcibly pulled into the high-altitude turbulence by something and died.

"Just now I was talking about ordinary soul-devouring beasts, but there is a very small probability that a mutant soul-devouring beast will appear. This kind of soul-devouring beast is usually untouchable like other soul-devouring beasts, but they can switch to a physical state at any time, thereby gaining the ability to attack real creatures..."

Before Vivian finished speaking, Mu You suddenly looked at a place in the sky with his mind's eyes.

Among the countless gray ghosts there, there was a blood-red ghost. Its body was obviously larger than other soul-devouring beasts. It was staring at the three people below with fierce eyes, exuding a strong murderous aura.

This was obviously the mutant soul-devouring beast mentioned by Vivian, and it was also the culprit who killed the war eagle just now.

Looking at the expression of the thing, it was obvious that it wanted to pounce on them immediately and bite them to death, but it was a little hesitant in its movements, as if it was afraid of something, and it always kept wandering more than ten meters away from them, not daring to get close.

Mu You carefully observed the behavior of this thing and found that it was not something else that it was avoiding, but Lin Xue, to be precise, the sickle in her hand.

In other words, this thing was afraid of the inheritance of the god of death. If they were not with Lin Xue after coming in, they might have been attacked by this thing long ago.

Thinking of this, Mu You took out his wand and tried to stay away from Lin Xue.

After walking about fifteen or sixteen meters away, the thing finally couldn't hold back and pounced on Mu You with its fangs and claws.

Mu You was not in a hurry. He waited until the opponent rushed to him and raised his claws to wave at his face. Then he suddenly made a move. As expected, he grabbed the opponent's entity and threw it heavily to the ground. The tip of the magic wand was surging with lightning, and the surging red lightning struck the ghost.

The ghost howled miserably, and its body shrank a circle in an instant, becoming extremely weak. At the same time, it was terrified and hurriedly wanted to fall into the state of nothingness again.

Unfortunately, Mu You would never let it escape. A holy light spell and a nether fire explosion directly made the ghost disappear completely.

The ghost disappeared, but the remaining energy of the body condensed into a crystal the size of a fingernail in mid-air and fell to the ground.

Mu You picked it up and took a look.

[Soul-Calming Stone: A special crystal condensed from the energy released by the Soul Devouring Beast after its death. After use, it can calm the soul and soothe the mind, and permanently increase the magic limit by 10 points. 】

"Permanently increase magic power..."

Mu You was stunned.

One can only increase the magic limit by 10 points, which is actually very little, but the problem is that there is no limit mentioned in the instructions.

This means that as long as this thing is continuously obtained, can't it increase the magic value infinitely?

Of course, the Soul Devouring Beast can only be found in this place, and the probability of this mutant appearing is also very low. There are at least thousands of ghosts at the scene, and only one mutant appeared. Even if the Soul-Calming Stone itself has no limit, its source is quite limited.

"Let's hurry on..." Mu You shook his head and put away the stone.

"Go this way." Lin Xue nodded and pointed in a direction, which was the final destination that the sickle guided her to.

Mu You glanced at the fragment of the map. The direction was quite different from the arrow on the map, but the destinations on both sides were the same, and they would definitely end up in the same place.

Next, while the few people were rushing on the road, Mu You was also constantly looking for the mutant soul-devouring beasts around him. Every time he found one, he would do the same thing: stay away from Lin Xue, lure the other party over, and then kill him.

Unfortunately, the number of these things is really rare. After more than two hours of continuous travel, the few people only encountered more than 120 mutants. Even if all of them were fused, it would only increase the magic limit by more than 1,000 points.

If Mu You had enough time, he would not mind catching all the soul-devouring beasts in this space, but unfortunately, they only had five hours. Once they left, they would probably never have the chance to enter here again in the future...

Let's get back to the point. After two hours of rushing, they finally approached their destination.

Looking up, a huge mountain rose from the ground in front of them. The overall shape resembled a giant skull, which was particularly conspicuous on this barren plain.

However, although they saw the goal, they still had a long way to go to get there.

At this time, Mu You suddenly found that the pointer on the map fragment stopped moving and began to shake slightly in the same direction.

"It seems that the other party has taken the initiative to come!" Mu You looked at Lin Xue and said.

He had experienced this situation twice before. It must be that another fragment was approaching him directly.

Obviously, the other party saw that they were not far away from them, so they chose to kill them directly!

"How to deal with it?" Lin Xue asked, slightly tightening her sickle.

The other party's actions were obviously preparing for a decisive battle before approaching the core area.

"Well... you hide first, I will ambush and test the bottom." Mu You thought for a while and said.

The other party came directly to the fragment, and the number of people was unknown. Without finding out the other party's ability, it is best not to reveal too much information about your own side.

Mu You also relied on many means of saving his life and prepared to test it with the robot skin first.

Mu You handed the pocket watch to Vivian, and then watched the three people go away and hid under a hill a few hundred meters away.

He switched to mecha skin, released a large number of sand spiders, and explored the surroundings along the ground.

Soon the sand spider sent back the image of the target: it was a woman in red, with a prominent bulge in her lower abdomen, and the ID on her head: Hongxiu Qiluo, which seemed to be the other party's real initial ID.

Mu You asked the sand spider to continue to explore, but the woman seemed to be alone, and no other people were found around.

He didn't know why the woman acted alone, but this was good news for them.

Mu You directly activated the camouflage form of the sweeping robot, but he deliberately disguised the appearance into a severely rusted state that was about to be scrapped. The body was irregularly half buried in the soil, looking like a piece of garbage that had been abandoned for many years.

As for the map fragments, he threw them on the ground in front of him.

Through the sand spider's reconnaissance perspective, soon, the woman appeared nearby, holding a map in one hand and a chain in the other, rushing over.

However, when she approached within a hundred meters, she saw the map fragments thrown away on the ground in front of her, but she was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly stopped in the distance, looking around vigilantly.

There was no way, this scene was too much like a trap!

The woman in red circled around in the distance for a little while, but still didn't see any problems, and the chain in her hand had no reaction, which also told her that there was no creature in front, which made her feel relieved.

But the woman in red still didn't choose to get close, but stood in the distance and threw the chain in her hand.

The chain was like a spirit snake, suddenly extending a hundred meters in length, heading straight for the fragments on the ground, as if trying to hook the map back directly.

Mu You was waiting for this opportunity. At the moment the chain flew over, he suddenly jumped up, and his left mechanical arm grabbed the chain.

At the moment of touching the chain, Mu You deliberately let the spikes of the chain scratch his arm, leaving a scratch.

As a result, the body did not react at all, and his soul did not have any abnormalities.

Mu You immediately had a bottom line.

He had given the pocket watch to Vivian before so that she could help control the situation. If the chain could cause crippling damage to the mecha skin, then he would go back immediately and take other actions.

But now it seems that it is no longer necessary. Lin Xue's guess is right. The opponent's chain is only effective against biological flesh and blood. When facing a mechanical body, it is just an ordinary chain. Mu You doesn't have to worry about anything.

"Do it!"

Mu You shouted directly to the distance, and at the same time, the mechanical arm exerted force to pull the chain back with all his strength.

The opponent's strength is not as good as his. Under this pull, the opponent either lets go or can only be pulled over by him.

Hong Xiu certainly can't let go of such an important weapon, so the whole person flew straight towards Mu You.

This sudden change made Hong Xiu exclaimed. I really didn't expect that the piece of scrap metal on the ground turned out to be a person, but why would the chain be ineffective against him?

There was no time to figure this out. In the blink of an eye, the two sides had already engaged in close combat. Hong Xiu's other hand urgently took out a short knife from his waist with a cold light and chopped at the mecha's arms, trying to break free by force.

However, Mu You is not equipped with a chaos circuit now, but a combat circuit. If this woman uses magic, it will be fine. If she insists on fighting him in close combat, it will naturally be a tragedy.

Mu You dodged and barely avoided the knife, then quickly rushed over with his iron shoulder, and smashed the opponent to the ground with a single arm.

Then, before the opponent could get up, an iron foot stepped on him and pressed him back. At the same time, two spiral gun barrels appeared on his arms, and flames spurted out. The two shotguns fired at the opponent at close range.

Hong Xiu was extremely angry at this time, because half of the opponent's bullets were aimed at her stomach. She couldn't protect it well, and her health dropped sharply.

And I don't know if it was the power of maternal love that worked. The woman actually broke out in this adversity, turned around and forcibly pulled the chain back, and kicked the mecha in front of her away.

The woman was delighted and jumped up to run away, but before she could run a step, she saw a grenade rolling right at her feet.

The next second, the repulsion grenade exploded, and the woman was blown away by the huge repulsion force, flying back uncontrollably, and the landing point was exactly the direction where the mecha was kicked away just now. All this was so similar to what happened just now, she once again "threw herself into the arms" of the weird mecha man...

But this time the mecha did not wait for her to land slowly. The person was in mid-air, and a launch device appeared on his chest. The next moment, a touch of frost energy hit, and the woman felt cold all over, and the whole person was frozen into an ice ball, rolling on the ground in embarrassment, unable to move.

During the whole process above, Mu You's shotgun rapid fire with both hands never stopped. When the woman landed, he also threw three Eva robots to her.

Boom boom boom, there were three more explosions, and the woman's blood volume dropped wildly.

The freezing device can only last for three seconds for creatures, but it is enough. When Mu You was madly outputting here, the support of teammates in the distance had already arrived.

Hong Xiu had just broken through the ice, and the first thing to greet her was three sharp arrows.

Hongxiu had nowhere to hide from the long-range attack from Shadow Wolf, and was shot through, and her health continued to decrease.

At the same time, Lin Xue had also arrived, swinging her sickle from the side.

Hongxiu saw the iron barrel image of the man holding the sickle, and then looked at the ID above her head, and immediately vomited blood: Do you want to target her like this!

The opponent seemed to have guessed the weakness of her weapon. Not only did he send a fleshless robot to ambush in advance, he also armed himself like an iron barrel, and even hid an archer in the distance, with an absurdly long range. So far, she has not even grasped the opponent's position.

The three people who appeared were all targeting her characteristics, making her weapons completely ineffective, and she could only passively take the beating.

"Despicable!"

The woman cursed while struggling in the hail of bullets.

However, the three were busy outputting, and no one paid attention to her.

The woman had to look at Lin Xue again: "Red sickle girl, today is our inheritance competition, one-on-one if you have the ability!"

This provocation was too straightforward, how could Lin Xue care about this? Silently, the speed of her hands increased a few points.

"Speed, speed!" Mu You was still shouting, and the various mechanical weapons in his hands were switched smoothly like magic, always maintaining the maximum power output.

Under this targeted concentrated fire, the woman really had no power to resist. She struggled for a long time but was still beaten from head to tail. She did not make any effective resistance until her blood volume was emptied.

However, when the woman died, the imagined scene of things bursting all over the ground did not appear. Only a dispensable prop fell at the scene, and the woman herself turned directly into a cross buried in the ground.