Outside of Time

There were corpses everywhere in the temple complex.

There were guards, followers, and a few corpses of young people who knew the dangers of the restricted area. They were resting on books. They retained the fear of their lives and looked at the sky godlessly.

Beyond that, there are dead jellyfish.

Unlike humans, jellyfish will turn into a gray mud after death, filled with stench, which is completely different from the colorful life.

At the same time, it also exudes extremely rich heterogeneity, invading the surroundings and eroding everything.

And this sudden disaster is still going on.

As the young men and women retreated in panic, the jellyfish roared in pursuit. Killing and death were still taking place outside the jungle restricted area.

When Xu Qing arrived at the temple complex, it was already an hour later.

Walking in the temple complex, Xu Qing looked at the corpses everywhere, without much change in his expression.

He had seen too many corpses.

Passing by the corpses of guards and followers everywhere, Xu Qing collected some dead jellyfish and prepared to go back and study them.

As for the items on these corpses, almost all of them were invaded by the rich heterogeneity formed after the jellyfish died and were no longer usable.

Until Xu Qing came to a corpse, his footsteps stopped.

This is the corpse of an old man. There is a big hole in his chest. The blood flowing out has dried up. The regrets of his life still seem to remain in the dim eyes that are open.

Looking at the corpse, Xu Qing sighed softly.

He is not a god, so even if the other party buys his own insurance, he cannot completely guarantee his safety, especially when the mist does not appear.

After silence, Xu Qing squatted down, covered the old Shitou's open eyes, and buried him again.

There is no monument, because the Lei Brigade said that most of the scavengers had no relatives during their lifetimes, and there was no need to pay homage.

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.

This is the life of a scavenger. He struggles in the world during his lifetime, and after death... he just needs to be quiet.

This kind of desolation is actually the fate of most waste pickers.

Standing in front of Lao Shitou's grave, Xu Qing looked in the direction of the camp outside the restricted area in the distance, recalling his life over the past few months.

It has been four months since he came to this scavenger camp.

Captain Blood Shadow is dead, Fire Crow is dead, Fat Mountain Horse is dead, Barbarian Ghost is dead, Old Stone is dead, Thunder Team retreats, Bone Knife escapes, and more scavengers also die silently.

In cruel troubled times, human life is like a piece of grass.

"Only by becoming stronger can you survive." Xu Qing murmured, his expression gradually became indifferent, and he turned and left.

At this moment, in the afterglow of the setting sun, the wind blew, blowing the clothes of the departing young man.

This voice seemed to have some coldness, and gradually became fainter, until it disappeared into the jungle along with its figure.

The afterglow fell, and the light gradually became fainter, but it still strained through the dense leaves, trying to shine the sparse light on the young man running in the jungle.

But the young man's speed was too fast, and it seemed that Guang was unable to catch up.

Until not long after, Xu Qing's footsteps suddenly stopped. After stopping, he looked down at the ground, doubts in his eyes.

Soon, Xu Qing knelt down and smelled carefully, and finally his eyes fell on a blade of grass, with a touch of powder on it that was difficult to detect.

If it weren't for Xu Qing's better grasp of poisonous weeds and his good understanding of the smell of this restricted area, it would be difficult to detect the abnormality.

After a long period of identification, he picked up the leaf covered with a layer of powder, concentrated for a moment and murmured.

"The specific ingredients are unknown, but there must be centipede blood in it!"

There was a twinkle in Xu Qing's eyes. Master Bai's course included an introduction to Centipede Blood.

This kind of blood has certain medicinal properties, but it is more of a catalytic agent. Therefore, when combined with other drugs, it can be prepared into a drug that attracts specific animals, which is often needed during hunting.

"Is the arrival of those jellyfish related to this?" Xu Qing narrowed his eyes, put down the leaf with fatal danger, took out a packet of poisonous powder and sprinkled it on his body.

After using this to dispel the aura of the centipede blood that he had just been tainted with, he swayed and moved forward in a different direction.

Xu Qing has no intention of going to the place where the boys and girls brought by Lao Shitou have evacuated. This matter has nothing to do with him and he is unwilling to participate in it.

Even if there are friends of Chen Feiyuan among these people, he has no obligation to help, and these people are surrounded by strong men who can fight big jellyfish, which is equally dangerous to Xu Qing.

The most important thing is that among these young men and women, there is a high probability that someone deliberately attracted jellyfish, and the purpose is unknown.

So after noticing their location, Xu Qing changed direction, made a circle, and returned to the pharmacy in the canyon when it was getting dark.

After putting away the picked herbs, he continued to study the white elixir.

It's just that although Xu Qing didn't go to the retreat of those young men and women, when late at night came, Xu Qing, who was mixing herbs in the pharmacy, still heard the roaring and fighting sounds in the distance, getting closer and closer, which made him frown. rise.

After the sound of footsteps was heard, Xu Qing sighed secretly.

He stood up, walked out of the pharmacy, and saw the direction of the entrance of the canyon through the moonlight, where there was a sound of surprise.

“There is a road here!!”

"Everyone, come in quickly."

Following the sound, several young men in tattered and embarrassed clothes appeared.

There was fear on their faces, and there were more than a dozen people behind them, most of whom were companions of similar age, as well as seven or eight guards who were all injured.

A total of more than 20 people ran into the canyon one after another. When the guards guarded the entrance, the young men and women who had survived the disaster also breathed a sigh of relief and noticed the environment in the canyon.

They soon saw Xu Qing's pharmacy and Xu Qing standing there.

"Someone!"

The moment they saw Xu Qing, these young men and women were frightened and immediately backed up while screaming. Three of the guards behind them also arrived quickly, looking at Xu Qing with vigilance and murderous intent.

This murderous intention made Xu Qing's eyes a little cold. After he glanced at the guards coldly, he looked at the group of young men and women. There were two people among them, and he paid special attention to them.

One of them was a little older than him, about sixteen or seventeen years old. Although he was also in a state of embarrassment, unlike the others, his face showed little panic, but more vigilance.

The other one was a young girl with a very sweet appearance. Although her clothes were dirty and she was frightened, Xu Qing, who was used to seeing all kinds of life, could tell at a glance that this person was frightened and fake.

Especially... This woman is wearing a glove on her right hand. It seems to be for cleaning purposes, but for Xu Qing, who uses poison, the glove has many functions.

For example, spray powder.

"The eight guards, whose cultivation level is between the sixth and seventh level of Qi Ning, and the others whose cultivation level is below the fifth level, are divided into three small teams."

"Only those two people, the man is at the seventh level of cultivation, and the woman... should be the ones who lure the jellyfish. As for the few strong men who fought with the big jellyfish, they are not among them. There is a high probability that they lured the big jellyfish. Walk."

This was Xu Qing's habit, and those young men and women could not imagine that Xu Qing could see so many details with just a glance.

But these guards were obviously different from those young men and women. They felt the coldness in Xu Qing's eyes, and looked at the pharmacy again, with strong vigilance in their hearts.

Being able to find such a canyon in the restricted area and build a house in the canyon means that the young man in front of him is not only familiar with the restricted area, but also lives here.

Such people are extremely dangerous.

"Fellow Taoist, are your adults here? We have no ill intentions, we are just being chased by strange beasts outside, so we take shelter here."

"We will leave as soon as daybreak. Please forgive me for disturbing you."

These guards were instinctively polite in their words.

Their words also made the frightened young men and women behind them feel that something was wrong, and they all looked at Xu Qing.

The oldest boy among them looked at Xu Qing a few more times, his expression solemn, while the girl wearing gloves narrowed her eyes.

She scanned the pharmacy and smelled the faint smell of herbs around her, and came to understand the young man in front of her.

Xu Qing frowned, looked at them, and then looked at the entrance. After a while, he didn't speak, acquiescing to their existence, and turned towards the pharmacy.

His acquiescence made the guards sigh in relief, while most of the young men and women behind them were uneasy.

Only the girl wearing gloves spoke in a low voice with a cautious and aggrieved voice after a strange light flashed in her eyes.

"You...you are so rude. We just want to take shelter here. There are strange beasts outside. We will definitely die if we go out."

Her voice had a heart-warming and loving tone, which made several young men around her who admired her also muster the courage to speak to Xu Qing one after another.

"Yes, why are you so cold-blooded?"

"We don't have any bad intentions, we are just taking a rest here."

"The restricted area doesn't belong to him, why should we ask him!"

A simple sentence aroused some people's hostility towards Xu Qing. Although the hostility was not much, it still made the girl feel a little proud.

She wanted to use others to test the depth of the young man in front of her.

But the next moment, a cold light suddenly shined from Xu Qing, a whistling sound suddenly came out, and a dagger was like lightning approaching the proud girl in an instant.

Her expression changed and she was about to dodge when the dagger flew past her ear and cut off some of her hair. With a bang, it stabbed deeply into the stone wall behind her, causing some sparks to burst out.

The girl's heart was shaken, and she instinctively raised her right hand while breathing rapidly. When she looked at Xu Qing, what she saw was the boy in front of her, with cold, wolf-like eyes, and murderous intent.

This look made her heart tremble, and the guards and other young men and women around her were shocked. The former were extremely vigilant, and many of the latter screamed in surprise.

"We meet by chance, don't test me." Xu Qing took a deep look at the girl, suppressed the murderous intention in his heart, spoke slowly, turned around and walked towards the pharmacy.

Under the moonlight, his figure seemed to merge with the moonlight, revealing the coldness of the night, flowing into the hearts of everyone in the canyon, causing these people to slowly become silent.

To many people, the canyon seems to be as dangerous as the jellyfish swarm outside.

In this silence, the moment Xu Qing walked to the door of the pharmacy, a shrill scream suddenly came from the entrance.

A small jellyfish found the entrance, penetrated the body of a guard, swallowed his internal organs, and then rushed into the canyon.

Behind him, a group of jellyfish roared towards him.

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