Zongman, can you be immortal with me for the rest of your life?

Was it on the way down the mountain as they'd said? Or was it even earlier? This child named Xiao Wei hadn't even made it down the mountain.

374

Chapter 374: A shallow bond but deep sorrow.

"No need, big brother, I already know."

Xiao Wei, who was dragged away by Kazuma, stared blankly over there, tears running across her round little face like pearls from a broken string.

Her clear pupils trembled. Just now, facing Xiaoyao's lack of reaction after waking up, she realized it.

Xiaoyao could neither see nor hear her own voice or her own appearance.

No wonder, no wonder I didn’t feel any fear when I saw those ghosts. No wonder Xiaoyao said he heard whispers when we were going down the mountain, but I couldn’t hear anything.

And she quickly realized why.

She is dead.

But she herself had forgotten the fact of death.

Until now, she could only vaguely remember an extremely confused state, and could only recall a little bit of... a little bit of resentment about her own death.

By the way, Xiaoyao’s parents found jobs in the city, so Xiaoyao has to move away. No matter how much I beg, it’s all decided by the adults, and I can’t change anything.

Yes, I can’t accept it…

Xiao Wei covered her head, forcing herself not to recall that memory, and at the same time spoke to Kazuma with difficulty.

"Brother, I already know. Thank you for your kindness in wanting me to avoid realizing my own mortality.

But I understand now. Thank you. You led me all the way to find Xiaoyao. Please take me back. As long as I can stay by her side, even if I can't see her or me, it's okay..."

Looking at Xiao Wei who was squatting down with her hands covering her head.

Kazuma rubbed his chin in embarrassment.

Huh? Is that what this kid thinks?

What about taking the person away to prevent her from realizing that she was dead? In fact, Kazuma didn’t think that much.

At this point, he just discovered that Xiao Wei was actually a spirit. He was afraid that she would suddenly become visible to Xiao Yao, and then he would have to exorcise the spirit in front of the little girl. He then explained for a long time. In order to avoid trouble, he was ready to take her to the side and solve the problem quickly if she had an attack. He could no longer say it.

He frowned and connected with Zhen in his mind. Kerry explained that nothing happened to Xiaowei here.

Kazuma pursed his lips. A man who could push away a little stranger girl just because she thought she was about to be hit would not be unmoved by such a thing. However, he didn't want to show it in front of a young soul who had just learned that she was dead.

Moreover, the fact that Xiao Wei was a soul did not seem real to him. After all, she looked like this when they met her.

But apart from that, anger still flashed in his eyes.

But whether he was angry or sympathetic, Kazuma couldn't let a spirit go to the little girl over there. Even though they were friends in life, he was afraid that something might happen to her.

So he thought about it and decided that since it was a spirit, he might as well pretend to be one.

He rummaged through his bag and found the cell phone that Miss Mary had left behind.

"Well, big brother, let me use magic to put you inside this."

Kazuma took out his cell phone and waved it at Xiaowei. Kazuma thought that since it was a supernatural item, it should be able to hold souls.

"Huh? Pretending?"

Xiao Wei was surprisingly calm about the fact of death, and instead she kept resisting the resentment that arose in her mind.

However, Kazuma's words diverted her attention.

Then her attention shifted from the phone in Kazuma's hand to the half of the doll emitting black air that was sticking out of Kazuma's bag.

"Um... Big Brother, what is that?"

Xiao Wei pointed at the doll in Kazuma's bag.

"Oh, well, those are the souls of some poor children. I took them in out of kindness."

After hearing Kazuma's explanation, Xiao Wei not only did not relax but swallowed her saliva.

"Then... Big Brother, why did I see black air coming out of the doll, and I seemed to hear someone inside saying they didn't want to toil for the Necromancer forever and wanted to get out?"

Kazuma was stunned when he heard this. He could occasionally hear some strange noises coming from the doll, but he didn't expect that these strange noises were interesting. It seemed that the spirits had some special way of communicating.

Then his expression changed, he picked up the doll, put it to his mouth, and soothed it in a gentle voice.

"Can you guys just shut up? Whoever makes noise will be the first to come out and work."

The doll fell silent instantly.

Then Kazuma smiled brightly again.

"It's okay, brother. I'm saving African children, so it's normal for me to have some black energy. Wait a moment, brother will draw a magic circle."

Under the gaze of a group of little devils who had been expelled from Japanese nationality, Kazuma squatted down, took out a piece of Hilichurl's shoulder bone from his pocket, and prepared to draw the formation.

But at the same time, Xiao Wei's body suddenly began to shake uncontrollably.

"Ok?"

Kazuma, who realized something was wrong, stood up suddenly, and then he saw Xiaowei's spirit floating up uncontrollably, with her fingers and hands bound by red silk threads. Then, like a puppet, she was pulled by the threads and pointed in the direction of Bieai Mountain.

Xiao Wei's body kept shaking, and then red cracks appeared above her body. Countless red eyes grew between those cracks, looking at Kazuma, and words that did not sound like a human voice came out of her opening and closing mouth.

"Are you going to take my offering?"

At the same time, Xiaoyao on Kerry's side also showed abnormalities.

Her hands also rose uncontrollably, and an invisible red thread appeared at this moment, wrapping around and tightening her originally fair wrists.

The little girl didn't seem to understand why this happened and tried to shake her hand away in panic, but her finger was still pointing in that direction.

If Kerry and He Zhen could compare the intelligence at this time, they would find out.

It was like there were many red threads wrapped around Xiaoyao and Xiaowei, but the threads were only vague and elusive.

At this time, a finger pressed the lines in the direction of the mountain. Like a fisherman fishing, it gently moved its finger, trying to hook the bait it had released and the "food" that had bitten the bait back to its side.

As a living person, Xiaoyao could not seem to be easily pulled by the string, but as a dead person, Xiaowei was pulled by the string like a kite and flew quickly towards the mountains.

"Sacrifice?"

I couldn't understand where the voice came from or what it was saying.

However, at this moment, a clear theme had overwhelmed all rational thinking and appeared in Kazuma's mind.

kill!

Kazuma immediately notified Keri in his mind and chased after Xiao Wei, who was being pulled in the air like a kite, with half of her human face revealing pain.

"Walk."

Kerry called out to Yujiro beside him. Worried about Xiaoyao staying alone in this town full of demons, Kerry simply picked up Xiaoyao again and headed into the mountains.

Kerry and Kazuma met at the foot of the mountain almost at the same time. Kazuma, who had been searching for the red rope in his sight, noticed a hint of red appearing on the tree at the foot of the mountain.

Kazuma immediately turned the flashlight and shone it there, only to discover that it was not a red line like the one on Xiaowei's body, but an old ema. The wish written on the ema long ago had faded, but was still visible.

"I hope that the God of Matchmaking can tie a red string between me and Wuguijun, so that we will never be separated..."

Kazuma took a quick look and walked past without stopping, but he finally knew what that thing on the mountain might be.

375

Chapter 375: What happened?

The unstable steps on the approach road, which had been abandoned for many years, had become loose.

There are mostly lush summer meadows and dirt roads with less grass.

As the mountain road goes up, the lush trees below are no longer there, replaced by bamboo forests that turn yellow in the summer.

The high-intensity flashlight illuminates the dense forest that becomes pitch black at night, but sometimes seeing too clearly may not be a good thing.

When the flashlight swung into the woods, there seemed to be two huge strange shadows moving, one heading towards the way they came, and the other heading straight in front of them.

Looking up with the flashlight, you can see the huge deer antlers moving quickly in the bamboo forest. The ferocious horns at a glance remind people of the Nordic warships with exposed bows, making people wonder whether the evil Loki left an illegitimate child here.

And when the thing appeared along the light, all the majestic speculations about the creature turned into a shadow.

On the huge black furry ball, about 15 to 20 meters tall, there was an ugly and ferocious face that looked like a bird but not a human.

Its pointed beak, like a bird's beak, was opened but covered with human skin, revealing huge teeth with a fishy smell inside. Its whole body moved by two deformed black arms growing on the sides of the hair ball, and the majestic antlers grew on both sides of the hair ball.

There is no doubt that the thing hiding in the mountains has begun to send out its minions to drive away the people who arrived here.

A monster? A fallen servant of God? Or perhaps a collection of resentful undead spirits?

No one knows the origin of these corrupted things, but no matter where they come from, when fighting against them, all we have to do is fight!

And what awaits them is only... death!

Hanma Yongjiro, whose hands were still stained with blood, was full of anger. When he saw this thing rushing out of the bamboo forest with its mouth wide open like a bull, causing the forest to shake and the bamboo leaves to fly, he actually opened his hands and adopted his favorite stance to meet the attack.

The monster seemed to feel the absurdity of the tiny creature in front of it. It opened its huge mouth and made a sneering and mocking sound. The sharp laughter echoed in the bamboo forest, attracting the chirping of birds.

"Chichi! Hehe..."

But the strange laughter stopped abruptly before it could even reach two sounds. This damn useless old man finally showed his terrifying side.

The monster, which was even bigger than an elephant, was actually pulled up from the ground by him, just like an ant moving a ball of paper that was dozens of times bigger than itself.

"boom!"

As an entire area of bamboo was crushed, the thing was thrown onto the forest floor by the enraged giant.

The bamboos' resilience, unable to bear the weight, supported the thing, but the next moment, the powerful hands began to tear its body apart, regardless of its hair and limbs, tearing it into a bloody mess.

The hairy monster let out a ferocious ghostly howl.

Attract another companion to come to the rescue.

Kazuma raised his hand and took out the doll. Dozens of reluctant little ghosts flowed out like spirits. However, after seeing the delicious meal, they twisted their bodies and stretched out their resentful tentacles to bite it.

It was just a test to see if it worked. Kazuma nodded in satisfaction when he saw some results. After the giant thing was bitten half to death, he waved his hand to signal the little ghosts to come back.

Because the little ghosts were earthbound spirits, they couldn't leave the anchored dolls and reluctantly crawled back in.

Then Kazuma took out his axe and went up to finish off the enemy.

After dealing with the two vicious beasts guarding the gate, the group continued to climb the mountain.

The journey was not smooth. It was okay at the beginning, as there were many wronged souls and ghosts.

And when they got to the Tao, some things that were obviously animal spirits also appeared.

Some are fat rats, and some are strange mosquitoes the size of humans, making people doubt that this is not Hokkaido at all.

Instead, they arrived at a place where spiritual energy was revived, and judging from the appearance of some ghostly things, it was not surprising that the revival of spiritual energy was probably a side effect of the dumping of nuclear waste water.

Some of those things scattered and tried to escape when they saw a few people turn around, while others rushed forward regardless of anything.

When there are a large number of them, all you see are these strange and evil demons.

But it doesn’t matter how many come, we will just kill them!

The monster corpses were killed like a waterfall, and the white light in front of his eyes was like a stream, with no time to stop.

The combat power of these things is far less than that of biological monsters of the same size, but they are also very evil.

Since entering the mountains, the four of them had felt a strange sensation, as if there was a fly buzzing in their ears.

But after rushing up the mountain for about 20 minutes, the sound became clearer and clearer.

It's like a group of katydids buzzing in the ears of someone who is trying to sleep.

The feeling of discomfort makes people want to go crazy.

The longer I stayed, the more the noise sounded like words, and all kinds of decadent and depressing content appeared, and that content was like a torture to my inner self.

"You don't dare to see your parents. You are afraid..."

"You've wondered more than once whether your resurrection was truly a resurrection, or whether each time you simply copied a new you, and now you're about to die in battle..."

"You don't want to be a hero who changes the world, you just do it because everyone around you is doing it and you use your brain to cater to them!

You're just a coward! Just because a useless person like you finally gained the precious friendship and trust that you didn't have in the previous 16 years, so even if you have no motivation, you still have to cater to the people around you and do that..."