Next, no matter how Li Muyuan pressed him, Zhou Ye refused to continue talking about this topic.
The atmosphere in the car became silent. After a while, as if feeling embarrassed, Zhou Ye looked at the night outside the window and said to himself, "Is it almost there?"
"It's almost done..." Li Muyuan slowed down the car, "It's okay to park here."
The car stopped on the spot, the two opened the door and got out of the car.
Zhou Ye cautiously followed Li Muyuan and looked around carefully.
There was desolation nearby, and the night wind brought strange sounds in the distance, which sounded like whimpering.
"Let's hurry up..." Zhou Ye shivered, "I don't think it's safe here."
"Of course we have to hurry up," Li Muyuan walked forward calmly, "This is the time they have fought so hard for."
Zhou Ye stared blankly at Li Muyuan's back. After a long time, Li Muyuan realized that there was no sound behind him and turned around to remind him. Only then did Zhou Ye start to move again.
"What's wrong?" Li Muyuan looked at him, "What are you looking at?"
"Ah? Oh...it's nothing," Zhou Ye walked to Li Muyuan, but didn't get too close to him, "I just feel...you seem to have changed."
"A different person?" Li Muyuan sneered, "Who was I before?"
"That's not what I meant. Speaking of which... I actually don't know you guys very well," Zhou Ye rubbed his shoulders, "but the way you behaved in front of them before... is very different from what you are doing now.
"
"Ah, of course it will be different," Li Muyuan said with a very calm attitude, "because I need them to protect me."
"What about you now?"
"They are not here now," Li Muyuan stopped in the middle of the road, squatted down, and looked for something on the ground, "and I have to protect you..."
"But you... aren't you quite powerful?" Zhou Ye asked tentatively, "Do you need them to protect you?"
"Please, don't give me free protection," Li Muyuan rolled his eyes at Zhou Ye helplessly, "Since there is someone to protect me, why should I bother to protect myself?"
Zhou Yeban opened his mouth, feeling that the character of Li Muyuan he had built in his mind had completely collapsed.
He looked... even a little cold.
"Actually... Shuangqian has always had this attitude," Li Muyuan squatted on the ground, raised his head and looked at Zhou Ye, and said, "Shuangqian has no sense of belonging to the nine sects. We can be the givers or the recipients.
However, most of the time...our choices are the ones that are most beneficial to us."
Li Muyuan's words sounded cold, arrogant and lonely, but for some reason, looking at Li Muyuan's eyes reflecting the golden moonlight, Zhou Ye always felt that Li Muyuan wanted to say something else.
Zhou Ye hesitated for a while, and when he was about to speak, he was interrupted by Li Muyuan's words.
"Don't be stunned," Li Muyuan pointed to the ground at his feet, "Are you here to listen to a story? Get to work quickly!"
Zhou Ye quickly squatted down and started searching on the ground like Li Muyuan.
After all, Li Muyuan only pretends to be docile when he needs protection from others, and he is now the one being protected by him.
Zhou Ye sighed quietly in his heart.
The real Li Muyuan seems to have a bad temper.
"So... what are we looking for?" Zhou Ye finally asked timidly after pretending to search for a long time.
"Of course it's hair," Li Muyuan said angrily, "Didn't I tell you the first time we met that thing?"
"Are we looking for the traces it left?" Zhou Ye boldly asked.
"Look for evidence that it exists here," Li Muyuan simply stood up and raised his hand to point towards the groves on both sides of the road, "Go and look there."
"Huh? Me?" Zhou Ye took half a step back, "Are you serious?"
"Do you think I'm joking?" Li Muyuan narrowed his eyes and looked at him, "Hurry up, we are in a hurry."
"Didn't you just say you would protect me?" Zhou Ye lost all face and shouted in a crying voice, "It's too dark inside, I'm scared!"
Li Muyuan waved his hand and threw him a flashlight, his action was actually a bit cool.
"Is one enough?"
"Why did you let me go in by myself?" Zhou Ye held a flashlight and started to tremble before he even reached the edge of the woods. "I don't even know what you are looking for."
Li Muyuan turned around, his eyes dark, and he stared at Zhou Ye, which made Zhou Ye feel a little scared.
"When you get in, you'll know what we're looking for."
A few minutes later, the stubborn Zhou Ye held up the flashlight tremblingly and stepped into the woods. Several rows of trees separated the two of them. Li Muyuan stood on the road and watched him.
Ye reluctantly looked at the bright car lights outside the trees, and at the same time, forced by Li Muyuan's eyes, he walked into the depths of the woods aggrievedly.
The good news is that no other weird creatures have been seen here yet.
The bad news is that it's darker, deeper, and scarier than imagined.
As he walked, Zhou Ye suddenly felt that the light behind him disappeared. He turned around and saw that Li Muyuan's face had been submerged in the night and could not be seen. He could only vaguely see a faint light moving around.
"Li...Li Muyuan?..."
Zhou Ye's voice was so quiet that only he could hear it.
Li Muyuan obviously didn't hear it.
Zhou Ye gained a little bit of strength from this call. Although it was more of a self-comfort for him, in any case, he regrouped and planned to conscientiously complete the task assigned to him by Li Muyuan.
No matter what, he was the one who saved him.
After all, they are the ones currently protecting him.
Zhou Ye tried hard not to think about the harm he had suffered from this group of people. After all, if he thought about it now, he would not be able to continue his work. Just like that, Zhou Ye kept talking about how good these people were to him.
While trying his best to focus on his feet, he looked for what Li Muyuan was talking about.
He said... he would know what it was after he came in.
But I still don’t know.
Why is Li Muyuan's words so unclear?
It felt like... I was rushing to get myself into the woods.
Zhou Ye suddenly stopped.
A huge sense of uneasiness came over him.
If you think about it carefully, Zhou Ye's behavior has been a bit suspicious since just now.
Why do you clearly assign tasks to yourself but don’t explain them clearly?
Why do you insist on entering the woods alone even though you know you have no ability to protect yourself?
Zhou Ye turned around stiffly, staring at the light in the distance.
Zhou Ye's pupils suddenly dilated.
He is looking at himself!
Why?
Li Muyuan did not search on the road as he said, he just stood on the road and looked at himself from a distance.
What does he want to see?
Zhou Ye didn't dare to think about it anymore. He bit his lower lip, resolutely took steps and ran back along the way he came.
Hurry up... Hurry up...
He wanted to ask clearly, he wanted to ask Li Muyuan...
More importantly, he wants to escape from here...
The light is getting brighter and brighter.
Li Muyuan's appearance gradually became clearer, his brows were furrowed and his face was full of gloom.
He was very dissatisfied.
But I don't care anymore.
I just want to run over and ask him...
Suddenly, Li Muyuan's expression changed.
smile.
He laughed.
He smiled with relief.
Suddenly, Zhou Ye felt a chill in his heart.
Then, before he could think through the meaning behind the smile, the same coolness appeared behind him.
The first thing the coolness touched was his calves.
His injured leg.
It was as if a thousand needles had pierced his wound at the same time. Severe pain instantly surrounded his calf. Zhou Ye's lower body went limp and he fell heavily to the wet ground. The flashlight also fell into the grass beside him.
middle.
pain!
The pain is enough to kill.
Zhou Ye stretched out his hand helplessly toward the light in the distance.
"Li Muyuan!..." Zhou Ye's scream was so harsh that he thought it was not his voice, "Help...save me!..."
Li Muyuan's body trembled, and the next second, he started running at top speed.
He is coming.
A glimmer of hope ignited in Zhou Ye's heart, but he didn't dare to throw too much hope into it.
Will he really save himself?
But...it was obviously him who pushed him in.
Hope, despair, confusion, pain...
Countless feelings filled Zhou Ye's chest at the same time. He tried hard to stretch his hands, trying not to let the gradually expanding pain occupy his remaining consciousness.
He didn't even dare to look back and see what the thing behind him was.
Those needles had climbed to the top of his thighs. Zhou Ye felt that his internal organs began to twitch. The content and tune of the moans in his mouth could no longer be distinguished. There was only one thought left, which was the approaching bunch of
Light.
Push yourself into the abyss, and what is about to come to you...
"Li...Li..."
"Zhou Ye! Close your eyes!"
Li Muyuan's shout was so loud that it almost echoed through the entire forest.
Zhou Ye, who was struggling in pain, did not miss the cry. In fact, he was going to close his eyes even without Li Muyuan's order.
I can't hold on anymore...
The moment his upper and lower eyelids touched, Zhou Ye felt a golden light explode beside him. The golden light was so bright that he could feel the glare even with his eyes closed. After the golden light emerged, the stinging pain in his lower body began to subside.
, as if those thousand needles began to return crazily along the original path that invaded his body.
Zhou Ye was paralyzed and had no strength to react.
Many sounds rang in his ears, the tingling sound of electricity, the rustling of footsteps.
Finally, there was Li Muyuan's breathless voice.
"Zhou Ye...Zhou Ye," Li Muyuan held his shoulders and turned his body over, "Wake up, are you okay?..."
Zhou Ye's eyelids were still glued together, as if they would never be opened again.
Li Muyuan tested Zhou Ye's breathing and let out a long sigh of relief.
"It's okay, it's okay..." Li Muyuan's voice contained a slight smile, "Zhou Ye, open your eyes."
Zhou Ye's eyelids began to tremble, and after a while, he opened them slowly and with difficulty.
In front of him was Li Muyuan's sweaty face, which was pale and thin. Zhou Ye didn't even recognize it as Li Muyuan at the first time.
"I'm sorry," the smile on Li Muyuan's face was sincere, sincere and apologetic, "it must hurt."
"I..." Zhou Ye suddenly understood something, "You are..."
"I took advantage of you," Li Muyuan said with unbearable eyes, "I'm really sorry, but I have no other way. I really only thought of this one way, so I can only..."
Zhou Ye looked at Li Muyuan's face dumbly.
I see.
He became a bait.
"You...you caught it?" Zhou Ye felt the strength in his body come back little by little, "Did you catch it?"
Li Muyuan helped him up and nodded, "I caught him. It's all thanks to you."
Zhou Ye looked Li Muyuan up and down and said softly, "You look bad."
"After all...catching it is not an easy task," Li Muyuan said with a smile, "But no matter how bad I am, I am still much better than you."
"That's true," Zhou Ye sat on the ground, coughed twice weakly, and complained with a smile, "I'm really angry this time."
"I'm sorry, I'm really sorry," Li Muyuan clasped his hands, "but if I didn't lie to you, you wouldn't have walked into the woods obediently."
"How do you know I don't know how?" This time it was Zhou Ye's turn to roll his eyes at Li Muyuan arrogantly, "Don't I even have this overall perspective? In your eyes, am I so selfish?"
"After all, you and us..." Li Muyuan did not continue. He helped Zhou Ye stand up, "Let's go back quickly. If we wait a little longer, I'm afraid they will all be beaten to death by that guy."
The two finally returned to the car. Lying on the soft seat of the passenger seat on Zhou Ye, looking at the dark night ahead, they felt as if they had been reborn.
"Can you let me see what that thing looks like?" Zhou Ye turned his head weakly, looked at Li Muyuan, and said, "Let me see what kind of fish I caught with this bait."
Li Muyuan fastened his seat belt and fumbled around on himself. After a while, he took out something like a card and handed it to Li Muyuan.
Li Muyuan took the card hesitantly and looked over it.
The card had a certain thickness and had a dark mass drawn on it.
"Is this what it is?"
Li Muyuan stepped on the accelerator and said firmly, "Zombie Insect."
"Why did it become like this?" Zhou Ye looked at both sides of the card, "Is this your ability?"
"One of the abilities," Li Muyuan raised an index finger to show off and shook it, "I don't know if it's because I haven't used this ability for a long time, or because the zombie is really powerful and it cost me a lot this time.
How about the work..."
"Then is it still alive?" Zhou Ye asked.
"Of course," Li Muyuan said, "otherwise, how are we going to use it to kill its companions? Are you right?"