Monument of Life and Death

   Chapter 1033 Decoy (4000 words)

   Next, no matter how Li Muyuan asked, Zhou Ye refused to talk about this topic.

  The atmosphere in the car fell silent. After a while, as if feeling embarrassed, Zhou Ye looked at the night outside the window and said to himself, "Is it coming soon?"

   "It's almost there..." Li Muyuan slowed down, "It's okay to stop here."

  The car stopped in place, the two of them opened the door and got out of the car.

   Zhou Ye followed Li Muyuan cautiously, carefully looking around.

   The neighborhood was desolate, and the night wind brought a strange sound in the distance, which sounded like a whimper.

   "Let's hurry up..." Zhou Ye shuddered, "I don't think it's safe here."

   "Of course we have to hurry up," Li Muyuan walked forward calmly, "This is the time they desperately bought."

   Zhou Ye stared blankly at Li Muyuan's back. After a long time, Li Muyuan realized that there was no voice behind him. He turned around and reminded him, and Zhou Ye started to move again.

   "What's the matter?" Li Muyuan looked at him, "What are you looking at?"

   "Ah? Oh...it's nothing," Zhou Ye walked up to Li Muyuan, but didn't get too close to him, "I just think...you seem to be a different person."

   "A person changed?" Li Muyuan sneered, "Who was I before?"

   "I didn't mean that. Speaking of which... I didn't know you very well at first," Zhou Ye rubbed his shoulders. "But the way you acted in front of them before...is very different from what you are now."

   "Ah, of course it would be different," Li Muyuan said with a very calm attitude, "because I need them to protect me."

   "What about you now?"

   "Now they're not here," Li Muyuan stopped in the middle of the road, crouched down, and searched for something on the ground, "and I have to protect you..."

   "But you... aren't you very powerful?" Zhou Ye asked tentatively, "Do you need them to protect you?"

   "Please, protection is free, don't be in vain," Li Muyuan gave Zhou Ye a helpless look, "Since there is someone to protect me, why should I bother to protect myself."

   Zhou Ye opened his mouth in the middle of the night, feeling that the character of Li Muyuan that he had built up in his mind had completely collapsed.

   He looked...even a little indifferent.

"Actually... Shuangyu has always had this attitude," Li Muyuan squatted on the ground, raised his head to look at Zhou Ye, and said, "Shuangyu has no sense of belonging to the Nine Sects, we can be the donors or the recipients. , most of the time...our choices are the ones that are best for us."

   Li Muyuan's words sounded arrogant and lonely, but for some reason, looking at Li Muyuan's eyes that reflected the golden moonlight, Zhou Ye always felt that Li Muyuan wanted to say something else.

   Zhou Ye hesitated for a while, but just as he was about to speak, he was interrupted by Li Muyuan's words.

   "Don't stand still," Li Muyuan pointed to the ground under his feet, "Did you come here to hear the story? Work hard!"

   Zhou Ye squatted down nimbly and searched the ground like Li Muyuan.

   After all, Li Muyuan only pretends to be docile when he needs the protection of others, and now he is the one being protected by him.

   Zhou Ye sighed quietly in his heart.

   The real Li Muyuan seems to have a bad temper.

   "So...what are we looking for?" Zhou Ye pretended to search for a long time, and finally asked timidly.

   "Of course it's the hair," Li Muyuan said angrily, "Didn't I tell you about the first time we met that thing?"

   "We're looking for the traces it left?" Zhou Ye boldly asked.

   "Look for the evidence that it exists here," Li Muyuan simply stood up, raised his hand and pointed to the groves on both sides of the road, "Go there and look for it."

   "Huh? Me?" Zhou Ye took a half step back, "Are you serious?"

   "You think I'm joking?" Li Muyuan narrowed his eyes and looked at him, "Hurry up, we're in a hurry."

   "Didn't you just say you would protect me?" Zhou Ye lost face at all, and cried out, "It's too dark inside, I'm scared!"

  Li Muyuan threw a flashlight to him, and his movements were actually quite handsome.

   "Is one enough?"

   "Why did you let me in by myself?" Zhou Ye held the flashlight and began to tremble before he reached the edge of the woods, "I don't even know what you are looking for."

   Li Muyuan turned around, his eyes were pitch black, he stared at Zhou Ye, and Zhou Ye couldn't help but feel a little scared.

   "When you go in, you'll know what we're looking for."

A few minutes later, Zhou Ye, who was biting his head, held up the flashlight tremblingly and stepped into the woods one step at a time. Several rows of trees separated the two. Li Muyuan stood on the road and watched him. Ye looked reluctantly at the bright lights outside the bushes, while under the pressure of Li Muyuan's eyes, he walked into the depths of the woods aggrieved.

  The good news is that there are no other weird creatures here.

  The bad news is that it's darker, deeper, and scarier than expected.

   Walking, Zhou Ye suddenly felt that the light behind him disappeared, he turned his head, Li Muyuan's face had disappeared into the night, he could not see, only a faint beam of light could be seen moving around.

   "Li...Li Muyuan?..."

   Zhou Ye's voice was so small that only he could hear it.

   Li Muyuan obviously didn't hear it.

   Zhou Ye gained a trace of strength from this call. Although it was more of his self-comfort, in any case, he still regained his spirit and planned to earnestly complete the task given to him by Li Muyuan.

   After all, he was the one who saved himself.

   After all, they are the ones who are currently protecting them.

Zhou Ye tried his best not to think about the hurt he got from this group of people. After all, if he thought about it now, he wouldn't be able to do the job. That's it, Zhou Ye talked about how good these people were to him. At the same time, he tried his best to focus on his feet, looking for what Li Muyuan said.

   He said... After he came in, he knew what it was.

   But I still don’t know.

  Why is Li Muyuan's words incomprehensible?

   It felt like… hurrying to drive myself into the woods.

   Zhou Ye stopped abruptly.

   A huge sense of unease hit his heart.

   Thinking about it carefully, Zhou Ye’s behavior has been a little suspicious since just now.

  Why did you clearly give yourself the task, but didn't make it clear?

  Why do you insist on letting yourself enter this forest alone, knowing that you have no ability to protect yourself?

   Zhou Ye turned his head back stiffly, staring at the light in the distance.

   Zhou Ye's pupils suddenly dilated.

   He is looking at himself!

Why?

   Li Muyuan didn't look on the road as he said, he just stood on the road and looked at himself from a distance.

   What does he want to see?

   Zhou Ye didn't dare to think about it anymore, he bit his lower lip, took a step forward resolutely, and ran back along the way he came.

   Hurry up… Hurry up…

   He wants to ask clearly, he wants to ask Li Muyuan...

   More importantly, he wants to escape from here...

   That light is getting brighter and brighter.

   Li Muyuan's appearance gradually became clear, his brows were furrowed, and his face was full of gloom.

   He was very dissatisfied.

   But I don't care anymore.

  I just want to run over, I just want to ask him...

   Suddenly, Li Muyuan's expression changed.

   Smile.

   He laughed.

   He smiled with relief.

  In that moment, Zhou Ye felt a chill in his heart.

   Then, before he could think about the meaning behind the smile, the same coolness appeared behind him.

   That coolness first touched his calf.

   His injured leg.

It was as if a thousand needles had pierced his wound at the same time. The severe pain instantly surrounded his calf. Zhou Ye's lower body softened and he fell heavily on the wet ground. The flashlight also fell into the grass beside him. middle.

pain!

   is a fatal pain.

   Zhou Ye reached out his hand helplessly towards the light in the distance.

   "Li Muyuan!..." Zhou Ye's scream was so harsh that he thought it was not his voice, "Save...Save me!..."

   Li Muyuan's body trembled, and in the next second, he ran very fast.

  He is coming.

   There was a glimmer of hope in Zhou Ye's heart, but he didn't dare to throw too much hope into it.

   Will he really save himself?

  But... he clearly pushed himself here.

   Hope, despair, confusion, pain…

   Countless feelings filled Zhou Ye's chest at the same time. He tried to stretch his hand, trying not to let the gradually expanding pain occupy his remaining consciousness.

   He didn't even dare to look back to see what was behind it.

Those needles had climbed to the base of his thigh, Zhou Ye felt that his internal organs began to twitch, and the moans in his mouth could no longer distinguish the content and tune, and there was only one thought left, that is the bunch that was approaching. Light.

   Pushes himself into the abyss, and is about to come to his side...

"Li Li…"

   "Weekly Night! Close your eyes!"

   Li Muyuan's cry was so loud that it almost rang through the entire forest.

   Zhou Ye, who was struggling in pain, did not miss this shout. In fact, even without Li Muyuan's order, he planned to close his eyes.

  Can't hold on anymore...

The moment the upper and lower eyelids touched, Zhou Ye felt a golden light bursting beside him. The golden light was so bright that he could feel the dazzling eyes even with his eyes closed. After the golden light surfaced, the stinging pain in his lower body began to ebb. , as if the thousand needles began to madly return along the same path that invaded their body.

   Zhou Ye's body was paralyzed, and he had long lost the strength to react.

   Many voices rang in his ears, the sound of electric current, the sound of rustling footsteps.

   Finally, Li Muyuan's breathless voice.

   "Zhou Ye... Zhou Ye," Li Muyuan supported his shoulder and turned his body over, "Wake up, are you alright?..."

   Zhou Ye's eyelids were still stuck together, as if they would never be opened again.

   Li Muyuan tested Zhou Ye's breath and let out a sigh of relief.

   "It's okay..." Li Muyuan's voice contained a slight smile, "Zhou Ye, open your eyes."

   Zhou Ye's eyelids began to tremble, and for a long while, they slowly opened with difficulty.

In front of    was Li Muyuan's sweaty face, that face was pale and thin, and Zhou Ye didn't even recognize Li Muyuan right away.

   "I'm sorry." The smile on Li Muyuan's face was sincere, with regret in his sincerity, "It hurts."

   "I..." Zhou Ye suddenly understood something, "You are..."

   "I took advantage of you," Li Muyuan said with eyes full of indifference, "I'm really sorry, but I have no other way, I really only thought of this one way, so I can only..."

   Zhou Ye looked at Li Muyuan's face dumbly.

I see.

   himself became a bait.

   "You...you caught it?" Zhou Ye felt a little bit of strength coming back, "Did you catch it?"

  Li Muyuan helped him up, nodded and said, "Caught, thanks to you."

   Zhou Ye looked Li Muyuan up and down and said softly, "You don't look good."

   "After all... it's not easy to catch it," Li Muyuan laughed, "but no matter how bad I am, I'm still much better than you."

   "That's right," Zhou Ye sat on the ground, coughed weakly, and complained with a smile, "I'm really angry this time."

   "I'm sorry, I'm really sorry," Li Muyuan put his hands together, "but if I didn't lie to you, you wouldn't go into the woods obediently."

   "How do you know I can't?" This time, it was Zhou Ye's turn to roll his eyes arrogantly at Li Muyuan, "I don't even have the big picture? In your eyes, am I so selfish?"

   "After all, you and us..." Li Muyuan didn't continue, he helped Zhou Ye to stand up, "Let's go back, wait a while, I'm afraid they will all be killed by that guy."

   The two finally returned to the car, lying on the soft seat of the passenger seat on Zhou Ye, looking at the dark night ahead, they felt as if they had been reborn.

   "Can you show me what that thing looks like?" Zhou Ye turned his head weakly, looked at Li Muyuan, and said, "Let me see what kind of fish I caught with this bait."

   Li Muyuan buckled his seat belt and fumbled around himself. After a while, he took out a card-like thing and handed it to Li Muyuan.

  Li Muyuan hesitantly took the card and looked at it.

  The card has a certain thickness, and there is a black mass drawn on it.

   "Is this the thing?"

  Li Muyuan stepped on the accelerator and said firmly, "Turn into a corpse worm."

   "Why did it become like this?" Zhou Ye looked at both sides of the card, "Is this your ability?"

"One of the abilities," Li Muyuan put up a forefinger and shook it, "I don't know if it's because I haven't used this ability for a long time, or because this corpse worm is really powerful, and it cost me a lot this time. Work hard..."

   "Then is it still alive?" Zhou Ye asked.

   "Of course," Li Muyuan said, "otherwise how are we going to use it to get its companions? Are you right?"

   (end of this chapter)