Monument of Life and Death

   Chapter 1022 Footsteps

   "Are you really all right?"

   "We may have a problem," said the Taoist priest, "but you can't leave them behind no matter what."

   "...Are you worried about the tiger leaving the mountain?" Xia Hua's voice was serious.

   "There is that possibility," said the Taoist priest, "Me and Jiutian will handle this place, and Muyuan's side..."

   "It'll be ready soon," Li Muyuan said, shaking the orange liquid in the test tube, "Ten minutes."

   "Okay," said the Taoist priest, "Patriarch Xiahua, you should also pay attention to safety."

   "I really don't need to take action? I can send a snake scout to help you."

   "So be it, if..."

   The priest's voice stopped abruptly.

   stopped abruptly at the same time, and there were still the movements of the three of them.

  The faces of the three of them slowly showed the same seriousness.

   "What if?" Xia Hua on the other end of the phone also noticed something was wrong, "Daoist Master? Nine days? What happened?"

   "He's here," the Taoist chief said quickly in a voice, "Patriarch Xiahua, I'll die first."

  The phone hangs up, and the surroundings return to silence.

   Only the sound of electric current and the hissing sound of the chemically reacting reagents in the test tube.

   In this silence, there is a voice that does not belong here.

  Swish…Swish…

   In the corridor outside the door, there was a familiar sound of footsteps.

   Luo Jiutian recognized it almost immediately.

   "I've heard this sound before," Luo Jiutian said, "This is the sound of footsteps we heard when we were on the road..."

   Daoist Chief nodded, "This footstep sound is very characteristic."

  Slow, long, as if it had its own echo…

   "What should we do?" Luo Jiutian lost his mind and looked at the Taoist priest.

  The Taoist priest looked back at Li Muyuan.

  Li Muyuan understood what they wanted to ask, he stretched out five fingers and pressed his throat, "Five minutes left."

   "Stay here for at least five minutes," said the Taoist priest. "When Mu Yuan has prepared the medicine, we will escape through the window."

  Luo Jiutian gave a resolute "um". The tacit understanding between them was self-evident. The two of them ran to the table next to them almost at the same time, picked up the iron table and moved it to the door.

   The heavy iron door was firmly stuck on the door. As long as the thing outside was not some kind of monster, it would take at least a few minutes to open the door.

  Just after the table was moved, the handle on the door snapped a few times. The Taoist priest and Luo Jiutian stepped back cautiously, staring at the door intently.

After the    sounded twice, the handle stopped.

   The footsteps outside the door also stopped.

   Outside the door, it is completely unknown.

  In the door, they were trembling.

  The silence outside the door lasted for a long time, but they all knew that the thing had not left.

  Luo Jiutian swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

   Suddenly, a black shadow appeared outside the small window on the door. The small window was made of frosted glass. The three of them couldn't see what the thing looked like, but they could only make out that it was a dark mass.

   At the same time, the rustling sound spread under the door.

   The Taoist priest looked down and was shocked.

   "Jiutian, step back!" The Taoist priest pulled Luo Jiutian behind him and pointed the other hand to the bottom of the gate, "Look!"

   There was only an invisible gap under the snow-white metal door, and countless black hairs squeezed in through the gap. The black hair was like thick black ink, instantly covering the space under the iron table.

   "What is this?!" Luo Jiutian jumped away, "It's all hair!"

   "Muyuan, how long!" the Taoist chief shouted as he rushed to the window.

   "One minute, just over a minute!" Li Muyuan said, staring at the test tube in front of him.

"it is good!"

   The Taoist priest rushed to the window, grabbed the handle of the window, and pressed down hard.

   The window handle didn't move.

"what happened…"

   "Daoist, what's wrong? Is the window broken?" Luo Jiutian also ran over and grabbed the other window, "Look at this...strange, it can't be opened at all...Ah! Be careful, Daoist!"

Along with Luo Jiutian's loud cry, the black ink was like a huge black net, covering the window in front of the two of them. touch sound.

   "Okay, the medicine is ready!" Li Muyuan held the jar in his hand and ran to the two of them. He looked up and saw the scene outside the window. The bottle in his hand almost fell, "What is this?!"

   "It should be something we encountered on the way here," the Taoist leader led the two of them and retreated to the center of the room, "I'm afraid this is what it really looks like."

   "That black dumpling?" Luo Jiutian said in disbelief, "So...that's actually a bunch of hair?"

   The black hair was still spreading into the laboratory, and the three were forced to stand on the table.

   "Because we don't know what this thing is, we'd better not touch these hairs easily," said the Taoist priest. "We can only guess what this thing is afraid of."

The Taoist priest ignited a charm with his backhand, and the charm instantly turned into an orange flame, which burned on his fingertips. The Taoist priest threw the fire with his hand, and the flame instantly rolled onto the black hair on the ground. .

   The black hair ignited instantly.

   However, those hair strands did not show any signs of flinching, but instead accelerated their climbing speed on the ground, and some strands of hair had already discovered their existence and wrapped around the corner of the table.

   The black smoke from the burning black hair enveloped the whole room, and the three of them were choked and coughed.

"Daoist, no...cough...cough...no..." Luo Jiutian covered his mouth and nose with one hand, and called out Panlongchi with the other, "You have to put out the fire... put out the fire... or we will choke to death first... now..."

"Jiutian, you can't use your water dragon! Kekeke..." Li Muyuan grabbed Luo Jiutian's arm and shouted, "Your Qianyuan dragon was born by absorbing all the liquids around, and the liquid in this room is almost all Chemicals, if they are mixed together, will produce toxic gases, and then we will die faster!  …”

   "Then what should we do?" Luo Jiutian squatted down with the Panlong Pond between him, looking extremely embarrassed, "Daoist, don't you have a water talisman? Use it quickly!"

As soon as the words fell, the Taoist priest's water talisman was shot out. The water talisman hit the place where the fire was most intense, and a crystal blue water ball smashed into the fire. Finally, before the three were smoked to death, the white smoke expelled the black smoke and rescued the three people who were dying.

   But... it was rescued, but not completely.

   For those hair strands, the fire just now seemed to be just a small episode, and soon, they continued their footsteps and came towards the three of them.

   (end of this chapter)