Chapter 39: The Ghost Dancer
I don't know how long it took to run, but the three of them had caught up with the ghost in the pit four or five times in a row, but after being hit by Lu Xi's exorcism ray, Sai Xiliu's acid arrow, and Primla's two knives, although the ghost continued to let out painful screams, and the mist-like body almost collapsed, it still escaped in a shaky manner.
After doing this a few times in a row, Lu Xi couldn't help but get irritable. If it goes on like this, I really don't know when it will be a head; Fortunately, the tunnel is not large, and if it is a large mine like a labyrinth, Lu Xi may begin to doubt that he will follow in the footsteps of the boys and girls in the Cretan labyrinth.
"Lim, you run fast, just go around the left, and block it at the next intersection anyway!"
"Sehiru, bless your puppet with a flaming sword, otherwise, it will be difficult to inflict damage on the ghost with physical attacks alone."
"Well, I majored in alchemy and summoning in school...... Plastic energy is a minor......"
ââŚâŚ Uh, what kind of sculptor magic do you know about elemental linking? â
"Only one rudimentary shock link."
"Well, it's a little less powerful, but you can give it a try."
After assigning the task to everyone, Lu Xi came to the intersection on the right again, took out a little pigeon blood, and drew a small magic circle at the hidden corner of the rock wall.
"Hmph, damn ghost, see where you can escape this time!"
There was a loud commotion on the other side of the crossing, and it seemed that Primra and Sehireux had once again caught up with the ghost and had exchanged fire again. Lu Xi showed a satisfied smile, lifted his staff, and rushed in the direction of the sound.
In a seemingly wide mine, Primla, Sehiru, and the golem have blocked the ghost from three directions.
Primra held the long knife in her right hand, and with her left hand leaned on the chain, she danced the short knife into a dangerous windmill. Forced by the fiery red windmill, the ghost flinched, almost clinging its misty body to the rock wall.
The silver golem approached the opponent step by step from the right, and although the speed was slow, the huge size and the luster of the metal around it gave the enemy a more terrifying sense of oppression. The fists of its hands rose out, and a manic arc of electricity pulsed across the blade. This is the electric link that the master Saihiru blessed him, so that the puppet's attack on the enemy is not only its own physical attack, but also the effect of electric shock.
Seyriliu raised his staff and aimed at the ghost, an arcane missile stored in a Shaped Crystal, ready to unleash a deadly attack on his enemies.
"Surrender. The Federation has always treated captives preferentially, and uh, even though you're no longer human, you can still enjoy humanitarian treatment. Lu Xi's voice came from behind the three of them, and he had already rushed over.
"Unforgivable......" the ghost suddenly let out a scream.
"Huh?"
"I just want to experience the leisurely life in a quiet way, and feel the true meaning of art without being disturbed. Why, why are you pushing me so much! Why do you always want to break into my private space with Ping An Xiang! Why do you attack me suddenly! You robbers, murderers! The Holy Spirit will punish you! â
Lu Xi was suddenly dazzled by the ghost's long series of analogies and sudden accusations, he let out a long sigh, and couldn't help but say: "I said you, you are obviously a ghost, but you pray to the Holy Spirit, don't you think it's too incompatible?" And this is already a federal mine, since you want to play a prank first, we naturally have the obligation to expel you. â
"I don't care what the Federation is, I've lived here for years, and this is my home. You're the ones who disturb my life, why can't I scare you away. Even if it is to the Holy Spirit, I have a point! ââŚ,
"Just a ghost, there's so much nonsense there! It's not a life or a death, so please disappear quickly. Whether you go to heaven or hell, it's up to you, reincarnation is in line with the laws of nature! Sesileu plucked up the courage to stare at the drifting mist and retorted loudly.
"Don't don't don't don't ...... Before my art is accepted by everyone, I must not disappear, I must not be reincarnated, absolutely not! â
"Paranoia is a real nuisance." Lu Xi smiled and spread his hands and picked up the staff, "Since you don't want to, then I have to help you on a ride." Don't sue me after you ascend to heaven. â
"Help, kill people, there is no heavenly reason, there is no royal law, there is no justice!" The ghost croaked incessantly.
ââŚâŚ You're already dead. â
After saying this, Lu Xi had already decided to hurry up, otherwise he didn't know when this disconnected ghost would make trouble. At this moment, the misty body suddenly shook, and suddenly, blood-red ripples appeared on the ground like water waves, with the ghost as the center, spreading out in a circle.
"Death Ripple?!" Lu Xi was dumbfounded, and the records he had seen in the book suddenly appeared clearly in his mind. The biting chill suddenly leaked from the depths of his heart, and the coldness spread to his whole body.
This is one of the most powerful spells in necromancy. With the help of the death aura and resentment of countless undead, it is released in ripples with powerful dark magic. In the path of the ripple advance, no matter whether it is friend or foe, as long as it is a living being, it will be eroded by the terrifying breath of death, the light one will be plagued by epidemics, and the heavy one will be killed on the spot.
The most important thing to cast Death Ripple is a large amount of undead resentment, and in order not to be eaten by this cold and painful force, powerful magic and extremely strong will are indispensable. Therefore, even in the realm of the undead in Heras, only the top necromancer masters can use this dark magic.
I really didn't expect that this ghost could actually use the best dark magic, Lu Xi felt for the first time: the Grim Reaper had appeared on his head, and he was holding a cold scythe ready to swing it at any time.
O Mother of Heaven, it seems that I am really going to see you......
The blood-red ripples had already touched Lu Xi's feet, and he closed his eyes helplessly.
After a few seconds, nothing happened......
Hey, it is said that when you are hit by the death ripples, you will immediately feel a cold and biting chill spread from the soles of your feet to your whole body, and then you will have symptoms such as dizziness, vomiting, and bleeding from seven holes, but Lu Xi didn't feel anything.
He seemed to realize something and immediately opened his eyes. It was too late, and the ghost had already escaped the crowd's encirclement and rushed towards a mine.
Oh! It was put on the table.
Think about it, if you can use the powerful storage zĂ i of death ripples, how can you be driven by these rookies to the sky and the ground. The so-called blood-red ripples are just a little trick with sound and light effects, but actually no lethality.
Lu Xi and Sai Xiliu glanced at each other, and they both saw the expressions of crying and laughing on each other's faces.
"It's a shame this time." Lu Xi sighed.
"I was actually deceived by this little trick, as a magician...... It's such a gaffe. Let's chase it. Sehireu said.
"Don't worry. This time, even the Holy Spirit couldn't save him. Lu Xi said.
Sure enough, a few minutes later, there was a rumbling explosion and a terrible scream from the other end of the passage. Lu Xi smiled at the two girls and walked over slowly.
Perhaps using up his good fortune, the ghost rushed into the passage where Lu Xibu had set a trap like a fly. âŚ,
By the time we reached the scene, the entire passage was in shambles, with rubble, wood, and the remnants of tools everywhere. Lu Xi has chosen the materials very precisely, ensuring that the power of this trap is not so great that even the mine will be blown up, but it will also cause enough damage to the enemy.
Sure enough, the ghost had shrunk into a mass wrapped in the confinement caused by the spell, and could only float motionless in the air, and the mist had become thinner and thinner, as if it was about to dissipate at any moment. However, even so, it still exists.
"Are you Xiaoqiang?" At this point, Lu Xi couldn't help but be in awe of the other party's vitality.
The life force of a ghost? Why does it sound so awkward?
"Woo woo, my life, my future, have been ruined by you bandits......" The ghost was visibly battered and incapacitated, but still complained.
"You're just a ghost, where else is there a life and a future?"
"Even though I'm just a ghost, the pursuit of my dreams will never stop...... If you don't have a dream, it's better to die. â
"You're dead."
"That's not a reason to give up on your dreams. I can't accept it if I want to forget everything and be reincarnated or something! â
"Well, it sounds reasonable, but it always feels a little weird. By the way, what is your dream? â
The ghost was silent for a few minutes, and finally spoke slowly: "Actually, I was a dancer when I was alive. â
"Dancer?" With your coffee table face and Jingqi's bones, do you want to kill your father?
"That's right." The ghost nodded, then noticed the expressions of the crowd, "What I said is true! Now is what I was when I died, and in fact, I should have been when I was alive! â
It shook its body, changing into a different shape in the mist.
It was a flawless delicate face and a toned and slender body, although because of the ghost's translucent state, everyone could not really feel her 100% beauty, but it could be seen that this ghost must have been a great beauty in the country and the city during his lifetime.
It's a pity that such a beauty doesn't know what kind of tragedy she encountered before she died, and she actually twisted into this.
Miss Ghost introduces herself as Vinica Haroa. Just when Lu Xi was still thinking that the name seemed a little familiar, Miss Vinica had already begun to tell about her life with a resentful expression and tone.
Miss Ghost grew up in an orphanage, but because she was naturally beautiful and cheerful since she was a child, the old grandmothers in the hospital liked her very much, so she was not abused. She had a very happy childhood.
When she was six years old, a well-known song and dance troupe from the mainland came to the orphanage to perform. The little girl looked at the colorful expressions in those songs and dances, and couldn't help but be fascinated, and a small sprout began to take root in her heart. That night, she was alone in the courtyard imitating the dancer of the lead dancer, and to her astonishment, after watching it once, Vinica did the same thing.
What she didn't know was that the head of the song and dance troupe happened to be in the courtyard at that time, and had a full view of the little girl's movements.
Knowing that he might have met the best genius he had ever seen in his life, the head of the regiment went to the dean the next day and asked for the adoption of Vinika.
In the song and dance troupe, Miss Ghost started as an apprentice and slowly worked her way up from a backup dancer and lead dancer to the protagonist of a stage play. Little by little, she accumulated her stage experience, and finally became the leading dance master in the mainland. Her fans are all over the world, from the poor to the wealthy, from the princes and nobles to the royal family, and under the pomegranate skirt of the "crystal rose", she has worshiped countless suitors. âŚ,
Vinika, however, was not satisfied.
"I always feel that my dancing skills are all sorted out from the experience and fixed routines left by my predecessors, and there is no sublimation or breakthrough. If this continues, I will not be able to achieve great success in my dance, let alone surpass my predecessors. â
"So, your dream is to improve your dancing skills?" Seyriku looked at Miss Ghost, her eyes no longer afraid, but full of a hint of admiration and pity.
"Yes, then, to bring the world's dance art to a more glorious temple!"
"Well, it's not that I can't understand you, but, as a ghost, if you continue to exist like this, it will also cause trouble to other people. If it continues for a while, your sanity will soon be obsessed and dead, and you may become an extremely terrifying monster. You don't want that either, do you? Lu Xi covered his forehead with a headache and patiently persuaded the other party.
"Don't, I don't want to be a monster!"
"Then hurry up and ascend to heaven."
"No, I will never ascend to heaven until my dancing skills have been sublimated!"
"Hey, there's a limit to your willfulness."
"Anyway, I don't want to become a monster, and I don't want to ascend to heaven."
ââŚâŚ You don't want me to use force, do you? Lu Xi gritted his teeth and raised his staff, but was stopped by Primla, and Sehiru looked at him with an indescribably complicated gaze.
"Lim, what are you doing here? And, Sehiru, what is your expression when you see the dragon in Mamenxi? â
"She's pathetic...... Don't hurt her......" Lim said.
"Yes. You loveless barbarian! Sehireu said.
I don't care, what do you like.
"Actually, after I became a ghost, I have been thinking about my life. Maybe it's because my skills can't satisfy the last spectator, so I die. So, in the time after I died, I finally re-choreographed a dance that was completely different from the existing repertoire. If I can get everyone's approval, my life should be satisfied. â
"Oh, that's really remarkable......" Lu Xi replied listlessly.
"By the way, do you want to see it?" Vinika's expression suddenly became vivid, and she stared at the three of them with a hot gaze, a look full of anticipation.
Primra and Saishiliu nodded without hesitation, their faces full of anticipation, what could Lu Xi say? He sighed helplessly, and could only acquiesce.
The dance began. The toned body danced flexibly along the soft joints, like a coiling snake. The eerie and dynamic tremor spread from the fingertips to the shoulders and then to the whole body. She rises and falls with light and vain steps, as if feeling the rhythm between heaven and earth. At that moment, Vinika's smile accompanied the dance steps, as if she was one with the sun, moon and stars.
The two girls were fascinated by it, but Lu Xi felt that his jaw was about to fall to the ground.
TM, isn't this MJ Okami's space step?
The dance stopped, and Lu Xi fell into some unknown depression and entered the vertigo stage, but Primra and Saihiru clapped so hard that their hands turned red.
"It's great that my new dance has finally been recognized by everyone." Miss Ghost looked up at the sky and let out a leisurely sigh, and a trace of tears appeared in the corner of her eye.
"Do you think this dance can bring the world's dance skills to a new level?"
Primra remained expressionless, but nodded like a chick pecking rice.
"It can't be said that it is necessarily more beautiful than the current dance, but it has created a new way of performance, and it has also brought a new realm and thinking to the art of dance. Miss Vinika, you are truly remarkable. Sehireu also commented pertinently. âŚ,
"Really? Thank you. In this way, I have no regrets in my life. Vinika's voice was very ethereal, and the color of her translucent body was even fainter. This is the sign before the ghost ascends to heaven.
(System Prompt: Solve the D-class quest "Haunted Mine" and gain 1000 experience)
Your sister! I knew that letting her dance would solve the problem, so why bother to fight to the death?
"Wait, I have a few more questions to ask before you leave safely." Lu Xi hurriedly shouted.
"Well, just ask, I'm in a good mood right now, and I'll tell you anything."
"You say you've been living here for a few years. But why did you start pranking this month? â
"You know, ghosts can't be too far from the place where they died, and I've been hovering around this place for years. It's a dark hole, and it's just right for me to hide and choreograph my new dance. Lately, though, the mine has been digging deeper and deeper, and it's getting closer to the cave I'm in, where besides me, lives a horrible fellow. I really can't help it, so I have to come out and scare you away. â
"You mean, there's still someone there?"
"It was the last audience I ever had. He was careless and couldn't feel my save, so I just stayed. But that's not human. â
"Not human...... So, how did you learn this dark magic? â
"That audience would occasionally have guests come to visit. That guest seemed to be a very powerful magician, and he could feel my save. As I came and went, I got to know him, and he taught me a few hands of magic. Of course, it's a ...... from the owner."
Good relationship with necromancer, not human, Vinika, in the cave...... Lu Xi kept turning his brain, and seemed to have caught a clear vein of things: "The audience you just talked about, what is ......?"
"Hehe~~ That's an audience who likes art very much, although it's also terrifying. Maybe because they weren't very satisfied with my performance, they ate me ......"
"Eaten?!" Sehiru's voice couldn't help but raise an octave.
"Alright, it's pretty much over. It's time for me to leave, thank you so much. Expressionless girl, you are actually a very warm-hearted person; A serious girl, in fact, whether you cry or laugh, it's very cute; And the fierce girl, in fact, you have a very kind heart. Beautiful girls, you are all good people, and the Holy Spirit will bless you......"
Vinika's voice faded in the ethereal spirit, and the translucent body turned into countless flickering points of light, floating around.
"Are you gone?"
"I guess so, let's go. Well, actually, I really want to sue her that I am a pure man, not a girl. â
"Hehe, but, anyway, it's great that things can be resolved satisfactorily."
"It's not so easy to end." Lu Xi smiled helplessly.
Vinika, Crypt, Dark Magic, Powerful Inhuman Creature, Artist, Eat...... This series of key elements already reminded Lu Xi of what happened in Norda Forest more than a year ago. It wasn't a wonderful memory.
"Boom!" With a loud bang, a large hole broke open in the rock wall, and a huge half-beetle, half-spider creature crawled out of the mouth.
"I said why I kept bumping and bumping lately, and I couldn't even listen to the tune properly. It turns out that there are humans mining here! The big bug spat out and said loudly.
Then, the pair of bright red compound eyes caught the three stunned humans. The big insect's gaze swept over these few small objects like ants in its eyes, and finally stopped on Lu Xi's face.
"This face, it looks like I've seen it somewhere......"
"Hehe, look at what you said, how can I be blessed to know you, such a handsome crypt lord." Lu Xi smiled dryly.
"Hmm, is that so?" The bug tilted his head and fell into deep thought.
"Well, if you think slowly, we won't bother." After saying this, Lu Xi pulled the two girls and ran towards the pit leading to the outside as fast as he could.
"Ahh It's you! The Crypt Lord's roar was heard from afar.