Chapter 289 The First Sacrifice

Damn it, indiscriminate attack.

Lynch's heart was beating wildly.

Fortunately, I had foresight and hid behind the stone. Otherwise, I would be exposed if I didn't die. Now it depends... Shit, it's not right.

Lynch's muscles suddenly tensed up, and his pupils shrank like needles. In a flash, he noticed several pale spikes, which seemed to have no shape and directly penetrated the thick rocks on the shore.

Unable to defend.

In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen spikes had penetrated the rocks and appeared directly in front of Lynch, covering his entire body.

He didn't know what the consequences of being stabbed would be, and he didn't want to know. The spikes were so fast that he didn't even have time to react to how to deal with it. His body had already reacted instinctively unconsciously.

Tsk.

All the spikes pierced Lynch's body without any hindrance. Lynch seemed to have felt the coldness and weirdness from the spikes.

The twisted and terrifying pressure came from the spikes continuously, weighing Lynch's heart down and making him almost unable to breathe.

But no blood flowed from all the places that were stabbed. The spikes penetrated the body just as easily as they penetrated the stone just now, just like piercing a welcome.

[Nolan's Phase Barrier] was activated at the last moment.

The spikes that shot into the air paused in Lynch's body for a moment, and then quickly retracted. Only then did Lynch recover from the shock and have time to notice the changes around him.

The poor mouse was hit by a spike and kept twitching on the spike, but the spike did not pierce its body. It just buried the tip into the mouse's body, and the spike itself kept shrinking and expanding. I don't know if it was absorbing something or injecting something into the mouse.

And Salin... Salin was gone.

At the last moment, his body suddenly exploded and turned into a large group of fireflies flying in all directions.

[Power, dead water, ability, fireflies in the pond. ]

However, the fireflies did not fly away.

The spikes in other directions had been retracted, and only the one that pierced the mouse and the dozens of spikes that pierced Salin remained by the lake.

Especially the ones around Salin, the spikes that were originally straight and straight suddenly popped out countless thinner branches from the tip, like the branches of a tree, like a three-dimensional net, catching all the fireflies in one net and sticking them all on the net.

Snap.

The mouse that was originally twitching suddenly froze, and then its small body exploded into a ball of flesh and blood, and the spikes that pierced the mouse lost their target and immediately retracted to the center of the lake.

But Salin's position was different. The fireflies in the sky quickly returned to human form. Salin was hanging on the spike net in a very twisted posture. His torso was not damaged, but his limbs were still scratched by several spikes. They were just scratches and did not penetrate into the body.

After a moment of stalemate, a black dagger slipped out of Salin's sleeve and cut fiercely at a main spike.

The collision sounded like the sound of metal clashing, but under full force, the spikes were intact. However, as if stimulated, these spikes quickly retracted into the body of the monster in the center of the lake, causing Salin in the net to fall directly into the monster in the lake.

"Ah~~"

Caught off guard, Salin had nowhere to get support, and uttered a suppressed cry, dancing and falling into the lake.

However, seeing that Salin was about to fall into the water, he suddenly stretched out his legs and stepped on the water with his toes, but it seemed as if he stepped on a solid object.

[Power, water, ability, stepping on waves. ]

Stepping on the surface of the lake to get support, he rose up again, and quickly distanced himself from the monster in the lake. But he just jumped up a little bit, and a black shadow suddenly shot over from the lake.

It was a long vine, and it was very fast, like an arrow. Salin didn't even have time to react, and was hit by the vine head-on. He screamed again and fell back into the lake.

No, it didn't.

During the process of falling again, the sound of metal collision suddenly sounded by the lake.

A metal-like multi-section whip suddenly stretched out from the darkness and swung directly to Salin's hand, like the last straw before drowning.

The vine twisted and was about to turn again, but Salin had already grabbed the multi-section whip and took advantage of the momentum, rushing to the shore quickly, and the multi-section whip also retracted into the darkness like a ghost as abruptly as it appeared.

With the sound of footsteps, Salin successfully landed and quickly retracted into the darkness of the lakeside, while the living vine froze in the air, and then suddenly broke and fell into the lake.

For a while, the breeze blew gently, the shadows of the grass swayed, and the lakeside returned to silence. Only the increasingly solemn atmosphere slowly brewed in the darkness.

Gurgle.

With the sound of bubbles in the center of the lake, the solemn oppressive force suddenly stopped, and at the same time, the spiked monster that had surfaced, dragged its bloated and weird body, and retracted into the lake again.

Peace returned to the darkness, the moonlight was like water, and the camp was still as quiet as before, as if no one knew that just in a few seconds, at least four people had a lightning attack and defense at the lakeside. Although there was no winner, it almost decided life and death.

No, at least Lynch knew.

It was not that he was reckless to save people just now because of his chastity, but that he made the decision after weighing the pros and cons.

Although Salin was a double agent and was not suitable for cooperation, in fact, after careful analysis, his two known employers did not pose a great threat to Lynch. Trinless did not ask Salin to kill Selene, and Walker was relatively friendly.

Therefore, this person posed the least threat to Lynch, and saving him would have far more benefits than disadvantages.

So Lynch acted decisively, and after saving the person, he ran away without looking back.

He must not be discovered by others, let alone the monsters in the lake. As for whether Salin can survive, it depends on his own ability.

Barely touching the ground, Lynch quickly retreated into the camp.

The lake is at least a few hundred meters away from the camp. Salin's two sounds just now did not alarm anyone in the camp. The workers were still patrolling normally, and there was already a sound of snoring in the barracks.

Huh, this place still makes people feel at ease. Although it is full of dangers, it is at least more normal than the lakeside. It can be compared to a horror movie.

Lynch did not return to the barracks immediately, but lay down on the roof and waited with bated breath, watching a few fireflies get in through a cracked window, listening to a rustling sound like a crawling small animal, and looking at The surrounding tree shadows swayed for a while, and then everything became calm.

After waiting for a long time to make sure there was nothing unusual, Lin Qi lurked back to the door. After a moment's hesitation, he opened the door and got in.

There was no movement in the room. Lynch looked towards Judy's bed. Judy could be seen lying on the bed in the moonlight.

Lin Qi breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that the girl had not been tricked by him. Lin Qi finally felt relieved and no longer had a guilty conscience.

However, as soon as Lynch walked up to Judy and leaned down to wake her up, his ankle suddenly tightened, and then a strong force knocked him over and dragged him directly into the bed.

Damn it.

I was thinking about a horror movie and it came right away.

The speed was so fast that before Lynch's brain had time to react, he was already dragged under the bed, and his mouth was covered with a hand.

However, Lin Qi did not struggle immediately. He let the soft body behind him cover his mouth and hug him. Seeing that he had no reaction, the person behind him also let go of his arms and huddled under the bed with him.

The only person who can make Lynch's soul burn just by touching him is Judy, the apostle of the Blazing Lady.

"It's safer here. I feel that there are extremely dangerous things outside. I can at least have one more chance here." Judy whispered in her ear, "What happened over there?"

Lynch did not hide anything and recounted everything that happened by the lake: "In short, it was a four-way melee caused by a monster."

"No, at least five." Judy whispered softly, "No matter how big the fireflies are, the light cannot reach here and be seen by me."

"So the light source at the beginning was man-made?" Lynch immediately understood what Judy meant, "So someone discovered Salin's movements and used the light source to trigger this encounter? Haha, it was really lively, fortunately In the end, I stopped in time and was not killed by the monster. By the way, do you know what kind of monster it is? Will you chase it together? "

"No, from your description, it's Glaki, a very powerful mysterious creature. It can't leave the lake, so don't worry."

Judy breathed a sigh of relief and explained:

"Glaki has a long life, at least thousands of years, and lives in the lake all year round. He lures victims to the lake through the transmission of mysterious filth, then pierces them with spikes and injects his will into the victim. The injected The victim will have the same lifespan as Glaaki, but will lose his own will and be completely controlled by Glaaki. It is also called the servant of Glaaki. It is a bit strange. This kind of thing is very rare, how can one appear here. ?No one noticed this afternoon.”

"Could it be done by the six people who died in the afternoon?" Lynch thought of the information he just overheard. "This thing is also part of the ritual? What exactly is the ritual?"

"I don't know. The employer keeps it strictly confidential. It can only be announced at the destination, which is the main tomb. Before that, the two people leading the team, Jenna and Karl, know the details."

Carl Jones... The vine in the darkness appeared in front of his eyes, and Lynch nodded.

"I understand, then just wait and see for a while. Don't worry, I have not forgotten the agreement I made with the Blazing Lady. I will do my best to destroy the Swollen Daughter's conspiracy."

"Well, a lady won't doubt her own people." Judy smiled gently, "I'm almost at my limit, so I'll go back today. Thank you for chatting with me. Those people who were accidentally frightened today should not be afraid for the time being. If there is any action, you should take the time to have a good rest."

It's a pity that Lynch didn't rest well. He had a nightmare. He kept dreaming about the dark lake and the pale and strange figures in the water. It seemed that there was always a voice whispering in his ear: "Come on." , come on, blend into the lake.”

When he opened his eyes again from under the bed, the sky outside was gray and seemed to be filled with fog, and a loud shout was coming from the yard outside the barracks.

Six workers suddenly disappeared, and Salin, who was rescued last night, was also involved in the accident.

His body fell to the lake for unknown reasons.