Shushan: Extinction

Chapter 102 Saving the Demon

Therefore, Gong Tianwu almost dared to conclude that the first few guys who tried to leave were the most unlucky and would definitely accidentally step on a landmine. This was a high probability event.

Of course, Gong Tianwu’s hard work in saving people was also intended to send someone ahead to attract fire. Otherwise, would people really think he was a hero who was eager to help others and save people from danger?
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At this time, it can be seen that the rain outside is getting heavier. Gong Tianwu also feels that it is time to escape, so he turns and walks towards the exit.

But after hesitating for a few seconds at the exit, Gong Tianwu somehow came back, and then came to the C floor and said to the dog demon:
"What's your name?"

This dog demon looked skinny and had a deep scar on its neck. It was obviously very lucky to have survived such a severe blow.

At the same time, there is a black spot the size of a copper coin on its face with a few curved black hairs on it, which makes it very recognizable.

In response to Gong Tianwu's question, this guy glared at him and let out a threatening growl from his throat.

Gong Tianwu sighed and said:
"When I was in the dark cell below, I was nearly seriously injured by a flying sword thrown by a jailer. But at the critical moment, someone spat out a mouthful of blood and phlegm to save me."

"Although no one noticed this at the time, I saw it clearly. It was the ancestor you mentioned: Qingshi Rongjian who helped."

"I don't like to owe anyone anything. If you can convince him to let me out and not attack me, then I will repay him for this favor."

After hearing this, the dog demon choked for a long time before saying:

"Are you willing to believe me? Are you willing to believe Master Rong?"

Gong Tianwu said calmly:
"There are many conflicts between humans and demons, and even blood feuds. It is common for humans to eat demons or demons to eat humans. But putting aside the hatred accumulated over generations, dog demons have always had a good reputation for loyalty."

"I'll give you one last chance. What's your name?"

The dog demon was silent for a while and said:
"Ahua."

Gong Tianwu looked in amazement at the fangs in the man's mouth and the bulging bulge in his fur pants:

"Ah Hua?! What you took out is bigger than mine, and you call me Ah Hua??"

The dog demon Ah Hua became angry and barked:

"I was born a spotted dog, so I've been called Ah Hua since I was little! There's no way I can't be called this name! Besides, you can also call me Hua Man Lou."

Gong Tianwu suppressed his laughter and said:
"Okay, okay, Ah Hua, I'll let you out first. You go and talk to Lu Zu. I will only remove the spiritual power shackles from him if he promises it in person."

After saying this, Gong Tianwu released the guy, let him rest for a while, and then went to the dark prison with him.

In fact, Gong Tianwu is such a cautious person, it is impossible for him to believe people based on just a few words. Instead, he chose to believe it because he had used his divine reading technique before and heard the voice of the dog demon Ahua when it angrily refuted Qin De.

After entering the black cell, the dog demon Ah Hua only exchanged a few words with the green corpse Rong Jian, and Rong Jian said indifferently:
"I am Lu Qingwen. If this young friend can help me escape this calamity, I swear by my heart that I will not attack this young friend who saved me, and I will owe him a favor in the future."

Gong Tianwu nodded, took a step forward, and slashed at the padlock with his sword, intending to force the door open, but at this time Rong Jian shouted:
"Be careful, there is a trap on my cell door!"

But Gong Tianwu's movements were too fast, and the purple bamboo dagger in his hand had already cut the lock in half!
Suddenly, something lit up in the corner of the wall nearby, and a large number of needle-like hidden weapons made sharp whistling sounds and shot towards this area violently. Gong Tianwu's pupils shrank instantly, and he could only retreat with all his strength, but it was already too late to avoid them.

But at this moment, he suddenly felt a huge pulling force coming from his back. With the help of this pulling force, Gong Tianwu was able to narrowly avoid the disaster.

Gong Tianwu looked back with lingering fear and found that the opposite wall was densely packed with small holes, and it was emitting a strange and unique blue light. It was obvious that there was poison on it.

Then Gong Tianwu looked at the dog demon Ahua behind him and found that he was holding a bloodstained light yellow leather rope in his hand, with the end wrapped around his waist. It should be this thing that Ahua used to save him.

After wiping the cold sweat from his forehead, Gong Tianwu threw over a golden-patterned pill that could remove the shackles in the body, and also gave one to the dog demon Ahua.

After the dog demon Ahua took the pill to release the shackles, he immediately closed his eyes and began to regulate his breathing. However, Qingshi Rongjian only took a few breaths to exhale a long breath and then walked out of the prison door.

Gong Tianwu was also shocked when he saw the speed at which the drug took effect. You know, Hu Jin and Qing Ling Zhenren's cultivation had already reached the perfection of foundation building and had begun to impact the golden elixir stage, but it still took them at least five minutes to recover successfully after taking the medicine.

Could it be that Qingshi Rongjian's strength is much higher than both of them?

But Gong Tianwu immediately thought of the bloody phlegm that Qing Shi Rong had spit out before, and he immediately understood:

This person/monster is truly a hidden talent. He has probably been using his own skills to break through the spiritual power shackles in his body, and has been 70% to 80% successful. The bloody sputum is proof of this.

The effect of the golden-patterned elixir that I gave him was most likely just to help him break through the last shackles!

After figuring this out, the story in Gong Tianwu's memory emerged again - if he had not come here, then this dark prison might not be able to hold Rong Jian for long.

Therefore, it is possible that a large part of the legend is true: the secret base of the Void Eye Organization has become an extremely dark place with only ice corpses and icebergs, and it is probably related to Rong Jian!!

However, if the whole process was not properly told, it might cause the Xutong Organization to lose its defense, so they fabricated an ordinary story.

"Thank you very much."

Qingshi Rong saw himself standing in front of Gong Tianwu and said lightly.

Before this, Qing Shi Rong had been standing in the dark corner of the cell, so his face could not be seen clearly. Now that his whole body was exposed to the firelight, his true face was revealed, which directly scared Gong Tianwu!
It turned out that Rong Jian at this time could only be described as skin and bones.

To be even more specific, it is a skeleton covered with a layer of strange skin, with the skin drooping in some places, which looks creepy. Only the eyes are like faint fire, which is unforgettable at first sight.

But the strange thing is that Rong Jian's voice is gentle and mellow. If you just listen to the voice and close your eyes, it sounds like a middle-aged scholar who has experienced the world and seen through the affairs of the world, living in seclusion in the countryside with full of knowledge and gentleness.

Gong Tianwu forced a smile and said:

"We are in the same boat, so there is no need to thank or not. At least in the current situation, saving others is saving yourself. Moreover, Master Rong has helped me before."

Faced with such a strange Rong Jian at this time, Gong Tianwu couldn't help but learn from Ahua and used the honorific "Rong Shi" to him.

While Gong Tianwu was speaking, Rong Jian had already stretched out a skinny finger and drew a strange rune in the air.

After seeing this rune, Gong Tianwu suddenly felt an indescribable palpitation, as if all the blood in his body was completely out of control and flowing wildly and rapidly, but he immediately took a deep breath to calm it down.

However, behind the bodies of the four jailers in this black prison, a number of translucent soul phantoms suddenly floated out. They looked exactly like the real people, with distorted and painful expressions, and then they dissipated one after another.

The corpses were obviously affected by the rune. They dried up and shrank rapidly in an instant. Their originally elastic skin became like dried bark. In just a few seconds, they turned into mummies-like corpses, and their torsos shrunk by at least half!

A marble-sized blood bead appeared in the air. It was crystal clear and as bright as agate. The key point was that it was twitching like a heartbeat.

This is Rong Jian's world-famous Blood Soul Extraction Technique: Blood Soul Grasp! !
Then the blood bead flew into the center of Rong Jian's eyebrows. The latter closed his eyes, couldn't help but let out a low sigh of pleasure, and then slowly walked upwards.

At this time, Gong Tianwu noticed that Rong Jian had changed from his previous mummy appearance to an old man in his eighties. After going up from the Black Prison, he came to the C floor. In addition to the body of the jailer, there were two unconscious prisoners. It was unknown whether they were seriously injured or sick.

Needless to say, they all immediately became Rong Jian's food.

It is worth mentioning that before Rong Jian took action, Ah Hua actually came to a corpse, stretched out her long nails and scratched its leg, and then pulled out a tendon of the corpse.

Then Ah Hua held the ball in her hand and chanted a magic spell to refine it, and it became the light yellow leather rope that she had used to pull herself.

It was then that Gong Tianwu suddenly realized: after all, no matter how lax the security was in this place, they would definitely search the prisoners. He had been wondering where Ah Hua got the magic weapon to help rescue him, and it turned out that she used local materials.

By the time Rong Jian arrived at the exit of Level A, he had transformed back into the appearance of a gentle scholar in his forties. His skin had become smooth and elastic, and only his eyes seemed even deeper.

It was raining heavily and windy outside, which was a perfect cover for those who wanted to escape, but Gong Tianwu didn't want to leave at this time.

Because he felt that what Hu Laodao said made some sense, so he figured out the direction, then he bowed to Rong Jian and the other man and said:
"Thank you for your help, Brother Ahua and Master Rong. When we meet again in the future, we should drink and chat happily."

In Gong Tianwu's mind, there was nothing wrong with this statement, but both the dog demon Ahua and the green corpse Rong Jian looked a little surprised.

The dog demon Ah Hua said even more straightforwardly:
"You call me Brother Hua?"

Gong Tianwu shrugged and said:
"What else? If Master Rong hadn't helped me with his bloody spit, I would have been seriously injured."

"Not to mention that I accidentally triggered the trap before. If it weren't for you, Ah Hua, who intervened in time, I would have died. So what's so strange about me calling you brother and respectfully addressing you as Master Rong?"

The dog demon Ah Hua said in shock:

"But I'm a monster, and you're a human. There's almost a generational blood feud between humans and monsters. Normally, the humans I see are the ones who want to kill me."

Gong Tianwu suddenly remembered a sentence he had seen on Earth, so he put it into practice and pointed his finger to the sky:

"Race cannot determine the quality of a life. It is the soul that lives inside the body that determines high and low, good and evil, beauty and ugliness."

"Look at the brilliance of the sun and the moon, shining upon the earth. They give me a little more light just because I am a human, and they give me a little less warmth just because you are a demon. All living beings are equal."

After hearing what Gong Tianwu said, the dog demon Ah Hua was stunned. It was estimated that his brain had been a little frozen, but Qing Shi Rongjian nodded slightly and said:
"It's really rare. There is great wisdom in your words. Many great monks and sages cannot express it."

Gong Tianwu laughed and said:

"This is probably related to my own special experience. I have remembered some fragments of my past life since I was a child. I even dreamed that I had a love affair with a little spider spirit in my past life. So I can look at the difference between humans and monsters as equals."

The dog demon Ah Hua scratched his head and said:

"Your words sound very interesting, but I am too stupid to say anything."

"Since you call me brother, and you are the first human to call me brother, would you like this thing? We are all going to run away, and you should be able to use it."

After saying this, the dog demon Ahua handed over the light yellow leather rope in his hand.

Other people might feel uncomfortable, but a pragmatist like Gong Tianwu would not refuse.

This thing is made of the tendons of jailers, and Gong Tianwu has killed many jailers, so what's the problem?
Seeing that Gong Tianwu accepted it generously and asked about the specific uses of this thing, the dog demon Ahua was also very happy. After giving instructions one by one, he said goodbye to Gong Tianwu and made an appointment to drink together in the future.

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After parting with the two, oh no, the two demons, Gong Tianwu took out the map Qin De had drawn and examined it carefully.

He immediately discovered that although the map Qin De had taken out earlier was hastily drawn, it was actually very detailed, with the main buildings and routes marked out. Of course, it was also firmly memorized by Gong Tianwu at this time.

The secret base built by the mysterious organization Xutong is extremely magnificent and is divided into two parts: land buildings and underwater buildings!
The two are connected by an undersea tunnel. The land buildings have been completed and put into use, but the underwater buildings are only 70% completed and are under construction in full swing.

To the northwest of where Gong Tianwu was heading, there was a huge towering building, which Qin De marked as "Yinxing Tower" with two words written next to it: Xiu and Ku.

"Xiu" means cultivation and "Ku" means warehouse, which explains the two main uses of this building.

To be honest, facing such a place, Gong Tianwu didn't want to go there at all. The jailers here were already quite powerful. He would surely be defeated if three or four of them rushed over.

What's more, a guy who can practice in such a high-end place? I guess he can teach me a lesson as soon as he sees me!
Not to mention that the place also serves as a warehouse, so it must be equipped with additional mechanisms and guards, and the security must be extremely strict.

Thinking of this, Gong Tianwu immediately backed down: after all, although the disaster was approaching this time, he still had a 70% chance of getting through it.

Although the remaining 30% chance of failure is also quite high, it is better than rushing directly into the forbidden area and committing death.

But at this moment, a dull explosion suddenly came from the wind and rain in the distance!
The sound was at least five or six miles away, and it came through the strong wind and heavy rain, but it contained a huge power. The earth was shaking slightly, and even Gong Tianwu felt suffocated and stuffy in his chest, and he felt so sad that he wanted to vomit blood.

Gong Tianwu immediately turned his head and found that where the explosion came from, red flames had begun to rise into the sky. There were also large amounts of burning debris that were blown into the sky by the blast and were slowly falling down, appearing even more cruel and magnificent in the dark night sky.

With the help of the light, one could even see that a huge mushroom cloud had appeared at the explosion site. In the center of the mushroom cloud, there was a terrifying red light that was constantly flashing and was still expanding rapidly.

"Oh my god, this is a big deal!"

Gong Tianwu murmured.

When he saw such a grand scene, Qin De's name immediately came to his mind.

Only he, a designer who knows this place well, has the ability to strike with such precision, just like hitting a snake at its most vulnerable part, hitting its vital point cleanly and neatly.

At the same time, only someone like Qin De, who had been imprisoned for more than ten years and was full of resentment, would take great risks to do this to vent his anger after gaining his freedom!
It turned out that Gong Tianwu was indeed right, because a prompt soon appeared on his retina:
"Your actions changed the fate of Qin Zhen (Qin De). He should have died on the Mid-Autumn Festival two and a half years later, having his essence and blood sucked dry by Rong Jian."

"However, after Qin Zhen was released early today, he successfully entered the Dan Hall and had a fortuitous encounter, which greatly improved his strength. As a result, he successfully detonated the Tianbu Furnace that was under construction, and was also listed on the hunting list within the Xutong Organization. His fate began to be shrouded in mystery."

"You have obtained a causal bodhi seed."

"Ahahaha!" Gong Tianwu smiled. His prediction was correct! All his hard work was not in vain!
Not only that, Gong Tianwu also noticed the normal way Qin De died. He was actually sucked dry of his blood by Rong Jian.

So Rong Jian was indeed as he had guessed, he had been enduring and trying to break the shackles of spiritual power in his body, and he finally succeeded, and the time point of success should be two and a half years later.

When Rong Jian escaped from the trap, he probably killed indiscriminately in order to quickly recover his strength. Whether it was the jailer or the prisoner, he ate them all! !

After making this inference, Gong Tianwu suddenly had an idea:
"Could it be that in normal history, the destruction of this secret base of the Void Pupil Organization would occur two and a half years later?"

"After Rong saw this guy escape, he took revenge wantonly, causing the destruction of the entire secret base, and even turning this place into a corpse-raising place with icebergs all year round?"

(End of this chapter)