Chapter 443 Blood River and Paper Bridge
“It’s no use taking any path, it will all lead to a dead end.”

“Behind every road is a purgatory of no return. Once you enter, you will inevitably endure endless torture and will never be free. It is better for you to stay here and let us give you a quick death!”

“Yes, don’t waste your time and energy messing around. No matter how you mess around, your fate will not change. Remove the magic circle quickly. We will be quick and gentle.”

“Give up, give up…”

The human-skin kite hidden in the blood mist, seeing Shang Lu and the others starting to choose a path, started chattering again, trying to disrupt everyone’s thoughts and confuse their minds.

Perhaps they were afraid that Shang Lu and the others had really found a way to leave, so the voices of this group of human skin kites became louder than before, and their tone of voice was more seductive. Not to mention Lu Yang, Bai Lingxu and others, even Zishu Patrol felt upset and angry when he heard it.

“Shut them up!” Rat Patrolman turned around, with a gloomy face, and ordered Shang Lu.

Shang Lu crossed his hands and accepted the order, and began to scold people… no, he scolded ghosts.

The human skin kites had experienced the power of Shang Lu’s mouth before, but after he opened his mouth, they all shut up, fearing that they would be caught by Shang Lu and sprayed. They even floated away on purpose and stirred up the blood mist to speed up its flow, making the “woohoo” sound louder and louder, thereby covering up Shang Lu’s crazy spray.

In other words, these human skin kites were afraid of further angering Shang Lu, otherwise they would definitely shout “I don’t want to listen to you, bastard.”

This time, Lu Dao and Xu Shan no longer felt that Shang Lu’s scolding was unpleasant and had the suspicion of lowering the quality of the Baiyi County Witch Academy. Instead, after exhaling a breath of foul air, they all gave him a thumbs up and said, “You have a really sharp tongue. If you continue to practice and strengthen it, I’m afraid you can scold the enemy leader to death on the battlefield!”

It has to be said that when the troll is an enemy, it can really make people feel annoyed. But when the troll becomes a teammate, every word he spits out will make people feel like the sound of nature, pleasant to the ears.

Shang Lu’s heart couldn’t help but move after hearing what the two teachers said.

He suddenly felt that he had not fully utilized his eloquence before, and perhaps he could really work harder in this area in the future.

After all, among the famous debaters, there are some who can use their eloquent tongue to make the enemies “lay down their weapons” or “turn their guns around”.

There is even precedent for “scolding” the enemy to death.

Shang Lu did not expect that he could use his eloquence to scold his enemies to death.

As long as you can scold the enemy’s morale and make them restless, you will be successful. If you combine this with the “deprivation of will” of the soldier wizard, it will definitely play some unexpected and wonderful roles.

The human-skin kite is no longer noisy, and the Rat can calm down and chant spells during his patrol.

After chanting a few spells, he reached out and plucked a tuft of hair from his head. He blew some witch air and the hair rustled and grew bigger.

In the blink of an eye, they turned into eight shiny gray-haired little mice.

“go.”

The Rat Patrolman waved his hand, and eight little gray mice jumped out obediently and set foot on different paths.

Then he put his hand back in front of his chest and made a stroke. Eight balls of black flame formed by witchcraft energy appeared out of thin air and hovered in front of him.

Although the idea of ​​the Rat Patrol is the same as Xu Shan and Shang Lu, they all think that one should live towards death and enter from the gate of death.

But this is a dangerous place after all, so for safety reasons, he released the witch rat to explore the way in case of any accidents.

Shang Lu thought this was a good idea, but when he saw Rat Xunshou’s sparse hair, he thought a paper man would be better.

At least you won’t become bald by pulling out too much hair.

“Puff puff puff puff…”

Not long after the witch rats on patrol set foot on the road shrouded in blood mist and resentment, several witch fires representing their status went out one after another.

There are also waves of vicious and resentful energy that try to get through the witch fire, reach this place, and attack the rats on their hunt.

Fortunately, the Rat Patrol had been prepared. The moment the witch fire went out, he formed a witch seal with his hands and slapped it, shouting, “Ha!”

The two sounds of “Heng” and “Ha” are the original sounds of heaven and earth, which have the effect of dispelling evil spirits and suppressing violence. Later, these two sounds possessed divinity and became the two divine generals Heng and Ha.

With the help of the witch seal and witch power, the Rat Patrol dispersed the resentments as soon as they appeared, without giving them any chance to get in and attack people.

Soon several more balls of witch fire exploded, and finally only one ball of witch fire was still burning.

The witch rat represented by this ball of witch fire is taking the path to the gate of death.

“Go to the death gate.” The Rat Patrol said.

“My wife has already told you to go through the dead end, but you still don’t believe it.” Shang Lu complained in his heart.

But he only complained in his heart. After all, other people were not like him. They knew how powerful Sanniang was and could not believe her words unconditionally. It was normal for him to have doubts and worries.

The seven people soon set foot on the road that represented the gate of death.

It passed through the blood mist and resentment that covered the road and disappeared.

Seeing that they refused to listen and really left, the human skin kites started cursing at them but did not follow them.

It seems that on the road that Shang Lu and others are embarking on, there is something that makes them fearful and scared.

Shang Lu and others also noticed this situation after they passed through the blood mist and walked along the hardened road under their feet.

On the back of Gongshu Ling’s witch armor, there were two things similar to antennas, constantly detecting the surrounding situation.

Gongshu Ling discovered something through Wu Jia’s pair of antennas and said coldly, “The human skin kite didn’t catch up.”

Shang Lu had just heard the news from Sanniang and was about to report it, but Gongshu Ling beat him to it.

Lu Yang was a little worried when he heard this. He looked behind him and saw nothing but blood mist. “Those human skin kites had been sticking to us before and we couldn’t get rid of them no matter how hard we tried. But now they are not following us. Did we choose the wrong road?”

Rat Patrolman obviously has experience in exploring dangerous places. Not only was he not panicked, he wasn’t even surprised. He said without turning his head, “You should have chosen the right path. If you had taken the other paths, one of you would have died suddenly when you passed through the blood mist. But this is a dangerous place after all. Even if you took the right path, there are definitely many dangers along the way. Although those human skin kites are strange, they are not very powerful. It’s normal that they don’t dare to follow us.”

Lu Dao agreed: “Master Patrol is right. The group of human skin kites dare not come over, which means there are more vicious and cruel ghosts hiding on this road. You must not think that we have chosen the right road and let your guard down. In a dangerous place, any negligence will give ghosts an opportunity to take advantage and ruin your life!”

He had just finished speaking, and before anyone else could respond, they heard another muffled “puff” sound.

However, the last witch fire in front of Zishu Xunshou was also extinguished.

This scene just proved what Zishu Xunshou and Lu Dao said.

Even if they embarked on the right path, this place is still full of strangeness and dangers.

“Continue to go.”

The Rat Patrol snorted coldly and crushed the witch fire along with the resentment that emanated from it.

“Next, we have to explore the way ourselves.”

The voices of the crowd were that they were all extremely alert.

Fortunately, after they set foot on this road, they did not encounter all bad news. After carefully walking forward for a while, Shang Lu and his companions found that although the chaotic Yin Qi around them still existed, the blood mist was gradually dissipating.

This restored their vision, allowing them to see what was happening in the distance – even if it wasn’t particularly clear, it was better than before when all they could see was blood red and they couldn’t see anything else.

However, as they walked, Shang Lu and his friends discovered that there was no road ahead.

A bloody river blocked their path.

Standing by the river and looking into the distance, the other side of the river is at least several miles away.

Although the river seems to have a calm flow and is not turbulent, the floating corpses and bones, countless rotten internal organs, and the pungent stench it emits are reminding everyone that this river of blood is definitely not as calm as it appears on the surface, and must be extremely dangerous inside.

“Look, there’s a bridge over there!”

Shang Lu had a keen eye and soon spotted a bridge in the distance, spanning the strange river of blood.

But this bridge is made of bamboo strips as beams and white paper as the body…

It turned out to be a completely paper bridge.

It is not difficult to see that although this paper bridge spans the Blood River, it is not stable and keeps shaking, which makes people worry that it may collapse at any time.

Even if it didn’t collapse, with everyone’s weight, once they stepped on it, the paper bridge would probably be crushed in an instant.

“I’m afraid this bridge is not passable.”

Lu Yang took a look, shook his head repeatedly, then raised his hand and slapped the sword case.

“It’s better for us to fly directly across this blood river. Junior Brother Shang, if you don’t have a flying magic weapon, just follow me and fly the sword together.”

“and many more.”

Shang Lu reached out and grabbed him: “This river is strange. I’m afraid it won’t work if we fly over it directly.”

Lu Dao turned around and asked Lu Yang to be calm and not to act impulsively.

“Shang Lu’s judgment is not without reason. This is a dangerous place. The calmer it looks, the more dangerous it is likely to be.”

“You’ll know if there’s any problem if you try it.”

Steam gushed out from the cracks in the witch armor, carrying out Gongshu Ling’s words.

Immediately afterwards, Wu Jia’s back opened and a wooden kite flew out from it, instantly reaching above the Blood River.

Gongshu Ling controlled Wu Jia and flew back and forth above the blood river without encountering any problems.

Seeing this, Lu Yang said, “It seems that you are worrying too much this time. Although this blood river looks strange, it is not dangerous.”

“Not really.”

This time, not only Lu Dao and Shang Lu, but even the Rat Patrol noticed something strange.

The Rat Patrolman pondered for a moment, then pulled out another strand of hair and used his magic power to transform it into a flying squirrel with wings.

At the same time, Shang Lu took out a paper man from his arms and poured essence and vitality into it.

But after seeing the flying squirrel transformed by the Rat Patrol, Shang Lu wanted to put the paper man back into his pocket.

Gongshu Ling saw this through Wu Jia and stopped him, saying, “Don’t take it. Let your paper figurine go as well. The more test subjects we have, the more problems we can see.”

“Gongshu Ling is right. Let your paper man out.” Lu Dao said in agreement. At the same time, he and Xu Shan also released some puppets to test the situation of the blood river.

Seeing this, Bai Lingxu wanted to take out the scroll and release a few witch beasts. But after taking out the scroll, he hesitated. After all, witch beasts were different from paper figures and puppets. If the blood river was really strange and hurt the witch beasts, his loss would be great.

Soon, the flying squirrel of Zishu’s patrol, Shang Lu’s paper man, and the puppets released by Lu Dao and Xu Shan all flew above the blood river.

The blood river, which had been calm until then, suddenly changed.

The smelly and sticky blood was like smelling something delicious. In an instant, it surged up into waves! It rolled up huge waves and hit the flying squirrels, paper figures, and puppets in the air. It was like a bloody giant python, trying to swallow these things with vitality and human energy in one gulp!
Only the clay puppet released by Supervisor Xu was not attacked.

Because this clay doll was a residual spirit, it had no vitality or vitality. Supervisor Xu did not cast a spell to infuse it with these things, so the huge waves in the blood river directly ignored the existence of this puppet clay doll.

At the same time, the broken corpses and bones floating in the blood also “came to life” one after another.

They struggled to rise from the blood, stretching out their arms, necks, and even their tattered, pus-filled bodies, trying to grab the “living creatures” in the air and drag them into the filthy river of blood.

Soon, the flying squirrel of Zishu’s patrol, Shanglu’s paper man, and the puppet leather doll released by Lu Dao were all dragged into the blood river and disappeared in an instant.

Rat Patrolman had a gloomy expression on his face and said slowly, “This blood river can distinguish living things. Once a living thing flies over it, it will ‘wake up’ it.”

Lu Dao’s face was also not looking good. “The Yin Qi in the blood river is extremely dense, and there are also very strong curses. Not to mention these paper figures and puppets, even if we go in person, we may not be able to escape the swallowing of the blood river. And once we fall into the blood river, our souls will be polluted by the resentment in an instant, and our bodies will be corroded by the curse in an instant. Unless you have extremely strong cultivation, you can withstand the Yin Qi and curses in the blood river. I don’t have such cultivation.”

Zishu Xunshu and Lu Dao had finished speaking, leaving Shang Lu unable to say what was on the tip of his tongue.

In the end, I could only utter: “That’s what I think.”

At the same time, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief, because he finally didn’t say “I am the same” or “The two teachers are right”, otherwise he would not be the third brother, but the third junior brother.

Lu Yang frowned, “What should we do? Do we really need to cross the river on a paper bridge? Can the bridge support us?”

Bai Lingxu said: “Even if the paper bridge can bear the weight, there might be something strange hidden on it.”

“Most likely there is something strange.”

After a moment of hesitation, the Rat Patrolman made a decision: “No matter what, let’s go over and take a look. Judging from the current situation, I’m afraid we can only cross it by the paper bridge.”

Everyone nodded. It seemed that the key to breaking the impasse was the fragile paper bridge.

As for how to cross the paper bridge and what kind of strangeness and dangers are on the paper bridge, it is impossible to guess here. We can only go and take a look.

The group moved very quickly, and in a short while they arrived in front of the paper bridge and looked at it carefully.

“what?”

Suddenly, Shang Lu noticed something strange on the ground.

The shape and style of this thing are completely different from the eerie and strange things in the haunted place. It doesn’t look like an object that was originally found in the haunted place.

Shang Lu wanted to walk over to take a closer look, but just as he took a step, he felt that he should be more cautious, so he stopped, pointed at the object and shouted:

“Master Patrol, two uncles, look quickly, what is that thing?”

(End of this chapter)