klisemfg Chapter 333 It's Time to Settle the Accounts
Chapter 333 It's Time to Settle the Accounts
"Chase!" Yu Mo made a decisive move and quickly advanced along the direction of the bloodstains.
The bloodstains were intermittent, sometimes on the stones, sometimes among the fallen leaves, and sometimes on the drooping vines.
It was clear that the person who left the bloodstains was in a hurry and even staggered, and didn't bother to clean up the traces.
This made their tracking speed much faster.
They continued deeper, walking for about an hour.
The trees ahead thinned out, and the sound of water could be faintly heard.
After passing through a low thicket of bushes with leaves as sharp as knives, the view suddenly opened up before me.
A narrow but fast-flowing stream stretched across the view, its water an unnatural dark gray, with a light mist floating on its surface.
Across the stream was a rocky beach, and beyond that, a hillside covered with jagged rocks and sparse shrubs stretched upwards.
The bloodstains became denser here, with a few larger drops of blood splashing onto the pebbles by the stream, their color dark.
Chi Miao walked to the stream, carefully observed the water flow and both banks, and whispered, "He crossed the river; he must have gone up the hillside."
He paused, then added, "Judging from the amount and condition of the blood, he suffered serious internal injuries and shouldn't have gone far."
Yu Mo looked at the rocky beach and hillside on the opposite bank and said to them, "Separate to search, and be careful. Xiao Xiao, you and Ao Shuang stay here, Chi Miao and I will go over."
"Okay, you guys be careful too." Yuan Xiao nodded and gripped the bone knife in her hand tightly.
Little White also pricked up its ears warily, letting out a low whimper.
Yu Mo and Chi Miao exchanged a glance, then leaped up simultaneously, gracefully skimming across the several-meter-wide stream and landing on the rocky beach on the opposite bank.
The two men, one on the left and one on the right, began searching the rocky beach and the lower edge of the hillside.
Yuan Xiao and Ao Shuang stayed on this side of the stream, keeping their eyes fixed on the opposite bank while also keeping an eye on the movements behind them.
Time passed slowly, and the silence in the forest seemed to gain weight, making it hard to breathe.
Suddenly, from the middle of the opposite hillside, behind a huge rock, came an extremely faint sound, like gravel rolling down.
Almost simultaneously, Yu Mo and Chi Miao shot towards the boulder from two different directions like arrows released from a bow.
"They've found them!" Ao Shuang shouted, flapping her wings as she prepared to fly over.
"Wait!" Yuan Xiao grabbed him. "Don't rush. Yu Mo told us to stay here and wait for them."
Before he finished speaking, a thick, pungent, dark red mist suddenly burst open from behind the boulder.
The mist spread rapidly, enveloping an area of several feet around the boulder, and also obscuring the figures of Yu Mo and Chi Miao.
Immediately following were several short, violent collisions, mixed with the muffled thud of rocks shattering and a deep, angry roar.
The dark red mist churned violently, indicating that the battle inside was exceptionally intense.
"It's the demonic energy of the Blood Demon..." Ao Shuang's expression changed. "Hui has really gone mad!"
Just then, a dark shadow shot out from the churning mist like a cannonball, crashing hard into another smaller rock and shattering it into pieces.
The shadowy figure landed and transformed into a human form; it was Yu Mo.
A trickle of blood spilled from the corner of his mouth, and his breathing was very unstable, making it impossible for him to maintain the enormous size of the python-transformed Black Mamba.
Almost simultaneously, another figure staggered out of the mist; it was Chi Miao.
His face was pale, and there was a clear scratch on his chest from which blood was gushing out, but he still stared intently at the center of the fog.
The fog slowly dissipated, revealing the comet's silhouette.
He was indeed here.
At this moment, Comet's condition looked worse than they had anticipated.
He maintained his human form, but his face was as pale as paper, his lips were bloodless, and his already sinister face was slightly distorted by pain and blood loss.
He had a bloody, mangled wound on his left shoulder, deep enough to expose the bone, as if it had been ripped apart by the claws of some ferocious beast.
The skin and flesh at the edges of the wound were turned outwards, making it appear unlikely to heal easily.
His aura was disordered and weak, and the originally dense blood-red demonic energy around him had become much thinner, like a candle flickering in the wind.
Even so, his blood-red eyes still burned with madness, resentment, and unbelievable shock.
He stared intently at Yu Mo and Chi Miao as they emerged from the mist, then suddenly looked at Yuan Xiao and Ao Shuang on the opposite bank of the stream, his eyes wide open.
"You...you actually survived the Sea Feast unscathed?!" Hui's voice was hoarse and dry, he was breathing heavily, his astonishment overflowing. "This is impossible! This is absolutely impossible! How could you..."
He simply couldn't believe his eyes.
He was well aware of the dangers of the Sea Feast, especially the deep-sea overlord that he had deliberately provoked to intercept them; its terrifying strength was enough to kill any intruder.
He barely managed to escape the entanglement and get here despite being injured, thinking he could finally relax and wait for reinforcements, or at least buy himself enough time...
But these people caught up so quickly, and they don't seem to have been seriously injured!
This completely disrupted his plans.
"Surprised?" Yu Mo wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, his voice icy cold. "Surprised is to be expected. Now, it's time to settle the score."
Before he finished speaking, Yu Mo pounced on Hui again.
This time, he held nothing back. His body rapidly expanded and deformed, transforming in the blink of an eye into the enormous and ferocious python-like Black Mamba.
The jet-black scales gleamed with a cold, eerie light in the dim light. The abyss-like maw opened wide, its venomous fangs flashing with a deadly glint, and a stench of blood swept straight toward the comet's head.
At the same time, Chi Miao also moved.
He drew up the moisture in the surrounding air and the streams on the ground, condensing it into several sharp water blades that blocked the comet's chance to evade from the side and rear.
Faced with this deadly pincer attack, Hui panicked.
He knew that with his severely injured body, he had absolutely no chance of winning in a direct confrontation.
He suddenly bit his tongue, spitting out a mouthful of blood essence. The blood mist instantly merged into the thin blood-colored demonic energy around him, making it suddenly more concentrated.
"Trying to catch me? Not so easy!"
With a savage grin, Hui neither dodged nor evaded, but instead faced the bite of the python-transformed black mamba head-on. His entire body transformed into a bloody shadow, retreating rapidly towards the dark gray stream at an astonishing speed.
The venomous fangs of the python-transformed black mamba grazed the edge of the blood shadow, tearing away only a wisp of dissipated blood energy.
Most of Chi Miao's water blades missed their mark, with only one grazing Hui's back, leaving a shallow wound from which blood splattered.
With a muffled groan, Hui continued its speed without slowing down, and with a splash, plunged straight into the rushing stream, sending up a spray of muddy water.
"Follow him!"
Without hesitation, Yu Mo slithered and swam in the stream, following closely behind. Chi Miao also immediately leaped into the water, her mermaid instincts maximizing their effectiveness in the water.