Chapter 493 What the Hell Is This?

The window was not closed deliberately, and the evening breeze blew in, but the smoke from the burning was lingering above the tribute candles, gathering and getting thicker.

After just a dozen breaths, the thick smoke gathered into a gray shadow.

Looking closely, the shape of the shadow was similar to the wood carving on the table, but there were only seven or eight faces on it. The face in the middle even turned its eyes and stared at the child soul below.

Although the child soul was ignorant, it instinctively knew that something was wrong and gave up the incense to get back into the wooden ball.

The smoke shadow pounced down and swallowed it in one bite.

Such a small and weak residual soul was not even an appetizer for it, but instead aroused its appetite.

It opened and closed its mouth, as if saying something to the caster. The spellcaster prostrated himself on the ground and said respectfully: "The mark has been made, please go and enjoy the rich offering!"

When the smoke shadow heard it, it circled half a circle in the room and disappeared into the air the next second.

The caster stood up and saw that the number of faces on the wood carving had correspondingly decreased by seven or eight.

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He Lingchuan always had a good sleep. Even if he didn’t enter Panlong City, he could still have a good night’s sleep.

This ability to sleep anytime and anywhere made Shi Er Dangjia very envious.

In the northern part of Panlong Desert, several conflicts broke out in succession, both large and small.

The coalition forces of Baling and Xianyou kept probing at the border.

This was the sequelae of Panlong Army’s capture of Xiqie State.

The Broken Blade Squad was therefore transferred to the northern battlefield and fought six battles in more than 30 days.

Two of them were fierce, and both sides were bloodthirsty, almost escalating from local conflicts to full-scale wars.

Both battles were particularly difficult. In one of them, the three hundred Dafeng soldiers relied on the terrain to hold off two thousand opponents for two days and one night.

The entire Broken Blade Squad survived several times.

He Lingchuan relied on his immortality to fight bravely and suffered countless injuries. He also served as a shield for Liu Tiao and A Luo.

Even so, the two new members were unable to stay and died in battle.

On the last day, even He Lingchuan could not survive. He vomited the last mouthful of blood and was forced to log off the line.

Fortunately, he finally received good news when he entered his dream next time. The reinforcements arrived after his death, and they attacked from both inside and outside to repel the enemy.

When he fell down and stopped breathing, Liu Tiao thought he was dead. It is said that this female warrior, who is tougher than men, burst into tears on the spot.

Of course, this is just a rumor. Liu Tiao herself did not admit it at all. She would beat anyone who said it.

After these battles, He Lingchuan was nicknamed "Crazy Knife".

Not getting any advantage on the border, the Xianba coalition retreated in dismay.

This fulfilled He Lingchuan's prediction. The other side did not intend to invade on a large scale. They just wanted to force General Hong, who was on the Eastern Expedition, back to Panlong City, and by the way, take advantage of the empty defense of Panlong Desert to occupy some territory.

They only achieved the first goal, and paid a lot of price.

Panlong City also withdrew its troops from the border, returned to the city, and rewarded them according to their merits.

The Broken Blade Squad led by He Lingchuan was loyal, brave, and smart, with excellent quality. They killed the most enemies and killed the highest-ranking enemy leaders, making great contributions to the victory of the northwest wing. In addition to Xi Qi's military merits, everyone was rewarded generously.

As for He Lingchuan himself, he was promoted two levels and directly promoted to brigade commander, with a hundred people under his command.

Willow Door Panel, as his deputy, began to reorganize this hundred-man team after returning to the city.

After several battles, He Lingchuan benefited a lot.

The battlefield is indeed the most challenging place. It is full of endless surprises and variables. You may be shot into a sieve in the next second while you are killing people in the last second.

He walked out of the sea of ​​blood and corpses, and walked out of the grinding wheel of blood and flesh. He learned to keep an eye on all directions and listen to all directions, to judge the situation and preserve his strength, to learn that the brave wins when encountering a narrow road, and to still be clear-headed at the critical moment of life and death.

A rookie who has just entered the battlefield may be frightened, but if he fights for too long, he will be easily overwhelmed by the killing intent and blood, and forget that there is often only a fine line between bravery and recklessness, agility and cowardice.

That is the line between life and death.

The more dangerous the situation is, the more calm and restrained it is. This is not a human talent, but the result of countless death tests.

After carefully reviewing and consolidating, He Lingchuan had a clear feeling:

His state of mind and swordsmanship have improved again.

His swordsmanship has become more practical.

His state of mind has become calmer and more stable.

This kind of precious test on the battlefield can only be provided by Panlong Soul Town for the time being. Dafanghu was also ruthless to He Lingchuan. While he worked hard to solve the case and mediate between all parties during the day, he forced him into a sea of ​​blood and corpses at night and kept torturing him.

If it weren't for his firm determination, he would have collapsed mentally long ago.

Well, after this inhuman abuse, his soul seemed to be stronger.

In any case, after this wave of turmoil, Panlong Wasteland temporarily returned to peace.

At this moment, He Lingchuan was in the northwest of Chiba Plateau, capturing a strange creature for A Luo -

Monkey bat.

According to A Luo, this is an alien invasive species. It is omnivorous, but it is likely to carry barnyard grass seeds that harm plateau wheat. Once it falls to the ground, it will drill into the soil and parasitize on the roots of wheat to absorb nutrients. After the wheat withers, it will grow and grow.

This kind of thing is very hidden in the early stage of growth, and it is not easy to be discovered and controlled.

The Dan Bureau of Panlong City also shoulders some of the tasks of crop prevention and control, and is particularly vigilant against various invasive creatures.

A Luo also issued a related task to the Pengcheng Bureau, but the soldiers seem to be very busy recently, and no one has taken up this task. So he simply came to He Lingchuan for help.

"Anyway, you are free."

These are A Luo's original words.

So He Lingchuan came.

The monkey bat is very big, as big as a duck, but with a pointed beak and puffy cheeks, it does look like a monkey.

Most bats move in groups, but monkey bats only travel in pairs, with a bunch of cubs at most, so their whereabouts are relatively hidden and difficult to track.

He Lingchuan searched for a whole day based on the clues provided by A Luo, and finally found the feces of monkey bats on the stalactite column of a karst cave.

He still has to go in. He sighed as he looked at the dark pool in front of him. Was he blinded by lard? Why did he leave his beautiful neighbor alone and come to this dark water cave to catch bats for A Luo?

Of course there is water in the karst cave, and it is running water, because he could feel the strong wind blowing on his face when he entered the cave just now.

In the midsummer, it is only 11 or 12 degrees here, and he will sneeze if he stays there for a long time.

Still water runs deep, and only shallows will make a gurgling sound.

He Lingchuan could hardly hear the sound of flowing water when he entered the cave, and he knew that the water here was very deep.

He had no choice but to grab a water crib and put it on his body and jump into the pool.

The monkey bat can fly in, but he can only swim in.

There are many forks and caves here, and unknown creatures often appear in the water.

He Lingchuan swam for more than a quarter of an hour, and finally found the figure of the monkey bat on the top of the rock with the help of the fluorescent grass!

"This ghost thing!" Catch it as soon as possible and go back to report as soon as possible.

He Lingchuan didn't have eyes behind his head, so he naturally didn't notice that there was a flash of blue light in the deep water behind him.

The monkey bat was hanging upside down on the rock wall just above him. The whole family of seven was here. They were probably full and sleeping with their heads covered.

How to catch this thing?

Of course, He Lingchuan had thought about it before he came in, that is, he grabbed two sets of underground spider webs from his body, climbed up the stalactite and tied them up.

In Panlong City in this time and space, General Hong and Zhu Erniang revised the agreement, and the Crypt Spiders had to give Panlong City the exclusive agency rights of their products.

In this way, Panlong City had one more flagship product for export, and the Crypt Spiders did not have to bother dealing with human profiteers.

Since then, the equipment distributed to the warriors of Panlong City, as well as the selection columns that can be exchanged and traded, have added Crypt Spider silk special products, such as nets, flying ropes and spider silk soft armor, and they have been well received.

He Lingchuan replaced his original rope net with spider webs because it is lighter, stronger and more durable.

These two nets blocked the direction of the exit from the cave, forming an "L" shape.

After the layout was completed, He Lingchuan grabbed a few stones and hit them in front of the monkey bats, making a few dong dong dong sounds.

The monkey bats woke up in response, spread their wings and began to fly away.

Of course, He Lingchuan also picked the right direction and drove them towards the net.

The spider web still retains the characteristics of spider silk. The more the prey struggles when it pounces on it, the deeper it will sink.

According to A Luo's request, the more monkey bats are caught, the better.

After He Lingchuan's threats, four bats hit the web, and the others went in all directions.

He jumped over and caught them all in one net.

It was done, and he could go out to report.

At this moment, a cold wind suddenly blew behind him, and He Lingchuan felt a chill on his back.

Warning sign.

Without thinking, he took a step forward two feet, stopped on another stalactite and looked back.

He was shocked when he saw it:

There was a ragged man in the place where he stood before.

It was a bit of a stretch to say that he was a man, because he not only had healthy limbs, but also had several heads, men and women, old and young, with distorted faces, and more than a dozen eyes staring at He Lingchuan at the same time.

That kind of look, probably... greedy?

Only wolves that have been hungry for seven days and seven nights would have green eyes like this.

What the hell is this thing?

"Tribute!" the head on the monster's neck shouted, "Come and eat me!"

He Lingchuan frowned. Who was it calling for tribute?

He raised his wrist and first rewarded the other party with a sleeve arrow: "Eat this."

"Eat! Eat! Eat!" This man didn't dodge, only a baby's head moved from the belly to the heart. The sleeve arrow would have pierced through the heart, but it opened its mouth and the arrow went into its mouth.

The mouth seemed to be a bottomless pit, and the arrow did not cause any damage.

"Not delicious!" The baby face said angrily, "I want to eat meat!"

The head on his shoulder turned and saw bats flying around. Suddenly, his mouth opened and spit out hundreds of bats at He Lingchuan!

These bats are two sizes smaller than monkey bats, but they have human heads, green eyes, sharp teeth, and front claws like human hands.

This cave was not big to begin with, and with hundreds of bats squeezed in, there were flapping wings and piercing screams everywhere.