Chapter 57: Life hangs by a thread

I knew I couldn’t escape, but that wasn’t my goal. All I needed to do was get to the door of the tomb.

The distance of less than ten meters was like an endless bridge for me. If I could cross it, I would live; if I couldn’t, I would die!

I was running in a panic, almost crawling. I could hear my heart beating furiously. I felt so nervous that my mouth was dry and my tongue was parched. I could even hear the wind. I didn’t need to turn around to know that it was the Hungry Ghost King who had stretched out his arm to grab me, causing the wind to blow.

5 meters, 3 meters, 1 meter… I almost used all my strength to jump over, at the same time, I reached into my pocket and took out the strange jade, quickly placing it on the ground.

The next thing I did was roll over and gasp for air. Su Rou was right next to me, very close. His blood soaked my clothes. I glanced at him, and then I saw the hand of the King of the Hungry Ghosts pause for a moment, then shrink back.

This was lucky for me and Su Rou. Its first reaction was to extend its claws to grab me, rather than pounce on me. After all, the arm has a limited range of motion, and it retracted, otherwise I would not have been able to escape so easily.

I looked at the hungry ghost king coldly. Compared to him, Su Rou and I were very weak, but we had wisdom to rely on. This time, I looked at him with a mocking smile.

Then I got up without a care in the world and started dragging Su Rou. Maybe it read my taunt, but it only paused for less than three seconds before it pounced out. As expected, the door stopped it for a moment. After all, it had squeezed in, so it couldn’t pounce out so easily.

This gave me time to move the crispy meat to a relatively safe place. This secret room was deliberately chosen by me, and it finally came into play.

But I also admit that my wisdom is not perfect after all. I did not expect that the arm of the hungry ghost king could be extended and retracted.

Dragging the crispy meat away from the door, about 5 meters away, I stopped and tried it. The crispy meat’s breathing was still relatively stable. The blood was caused by a large area of abrasions on his chest and a large area of abrasions on his head. His body of fat was the best cushion, saving his life!

The hungry ghost king looked at me with hatred and impatience in his eyes. He was desperately trying to squeeze out of the secret room. This secret room was at the end of the corridor. Except for the door, the limited space on both sides of the door was hollow, and the rest of the place was solid. This is why I chose this secret room. As long as me and Su Rou can escape, we can restrict the hungry ghost king to a certain extent in terms of terrain.

I stood up, looked at the hungry ghost king, slowly took out my gun, and held the cleaver in my hand. I wasn’t sure I could kill it, but if I couldn’t escape, I would try to make it as difficult as possible for it.

The hungry ghost king was very angry. Perhaps with its limited intelligence, it could not understand why these two ants had not taken the opportunity to escape, but instead waited for its behavior. It did not understand that we could not escape by running in the tomb passage, that kind of desperate feeling!

The hungry ghost king is out!

It crouched down again, its eyes narrowed slightly. It looked as if it was going to rush over and give me a fatal blow.

It moved, but the next moment, it fell to the ground with a thud.

I pinched my middle finger again, which was still a bit sore. It seemed that my simple Yang-gathering formation was effective! It was a very simple formation, which simply concentrated the Yang energy. Anyone with a basic knowledge of drawing could do it, but it was not very useful, especially in a place like a tomb, where the Yin energy was strong and the Yang energy was weak.

But I drew it anyway. To avoid the disadvantages of insufficient yang energy, I drew it with the blood of my middle finger and placed it at the entrance to the secret chamber. I didn’t have a magic weapon to activate the formation, but I got an ancient jade at the fork in the road. It wasn’t very powerful, but it still had some power.

This is the fate of the fateful arrangement!

In fact, I don’t know the weak points of the hungry ghost king, or how to fight it, but I at least understand one truth, that is, yin and yang can both be reconciled and can also be mutually restrained. The cultivation of hungry ghosts requires a full amount of yin energy, so much so that a gathering of yin energy is required, and the gathering of yang energy will cause great harm to it.

I’m gambling! The stakes are my life and the life of the crispy meat!

In order to avoid arousing the suspicion of the King of the Hungry Ghosts, I deliberately did not put the key magic weapon into the formation before, in order to catch it off guard. After all, I had no idea whether the Yang Gathering Formation could hurt it when it was on guard!

As a result of this arrangement, I and Su Rou won. I saw that the two arms of the hungry ghost king that were stepping on the formation actually emitted blue smoke.

It was so angry that its emotions caused it to be injured!

Almost without hesitation, I raised my gun. The distance between me and the hungry ghost king was only 6 or 7 meters. It was such a big target that I wouldn’t miss it. Almost like an outburst, I fired all the bullets in my gun one by one.

The hungry ghost king seemed extremely weak, allowing the bullets to hit its body without dodging, but I clearly saw that the bullets were almost embedded in its body and didn’t go in at all.

In contrast, the shallow wound I made with the cleaver was still on its face, oozing a greenish blood.

What should I do? The bullet didn’t have much effect? I looked back, and the deep, seemingly endless tomb passage was a deep black. I clenched the kitchen knife in my hand and walked over step by step.

Su Rou is still unconscious and can’t run away. Our plan was to injure it with the “Yang Gathering Array” and then run away…

“San… Sanwa… don’t go over there…” The voice of Su Rou came from behind. He had finally woken up and realized my intentions.

I smiled to myself. The kid wasn’t too badly hurt, and he woke up quickly. But I didn’t stop, I ran. I bit my tongue and raised the cleaver.

In the blink of an eye, I had finished drawing the characters with my tongue, and a mouthful of blood sprayed onto the head of the hungry ghost king. The next moment, the kitchen knife fell heavily on its head.

It was still like cutting into an iron block, but I hacked at it almost frantically.

The hungry ghost king, who had not reacted at all, suddenly opened his eyes. The next moment, his claws pierced through the small Yang Gathering Array, grabbed my calf, and pulled hard. I fell to the ground.

I saw its eyes full of fiery anger. I suddenly realized that the Yang Gathering Array was harmful to it, but not that terrible. It was tricking me!

It probably didn’t want to go through the sun-gathering formation with the rest of its body and suffer further damage. It probably wanted to play a trick on me. You tricked me once, so I’ll trick you once. It probably wanted to wait until I and the crispy meat escaped, then decide to chase after us and make us feel mentally broken…

In short, I was caught by it!

Its anger seemed to have turned into a solid substance. Whether the ant was crushed to death in the end or not, it had hurt it. I glanced at the endless tunnel of tombs. I felt my body rising rapidly. I saw the hungry ghost king standing up with my leg in his grasp. I felt his sharp claws piercing into my flesh…

I saw Su Rou cry and shout something, and I didn’t know whether the hungry ghost king was going to throw me out or directly into his mouth. In any case, there was only one thing I could do now. I took out two talismans from my pocket and stuck them firmly onto the wound on the hungry ghost king’s forehead.

“Sanwa, Sanwa… ah, ah…” Finally, when the paper was stuck down, I heard the cry of Su Rou.

I looked at him and wondered if it was the last time I would hear the voice of my good friend, who I had been with since childhood, wearing open-crotch pants.

I saw him struggling to stand up, and I wanted to say no, but I didn’t have the chance.

Because the next moment, a howl that seemed to come from the mouth of the hungry ghost king, I felt myself floating up, then falling heavily, I was about to lose consciousness, the last moment, I saw the hungry ghost king pounce on me, and it seemed like something weird was flying over.

Am I going to be eaten? I was so tired that I finally closed my eyes!