Chapter 63 The Great River Flows East (7/10)
At the end of the corridor, a gold-plated staircase emerged out of thin air.
It has about dozens of steps, and the one leading to the upper floor is in a blurred shadow. Even though fires ignited on both sides of the stairs, it still failed to illuminate it.
Lu Jing suddenly stopped thinking about taking action. He wanted to see what was hidden behind the shadow. His eyes moved up and landed on the person who was walking up the stairs again. Because it was the upward stairs, he was the first to walk. Then Lu Jing, who was in the middle of the team, could naturally see clearly that he had already entered the range of the fire at this time.
The man was covered with a layer of gray robe, and even his head was completely covered. It was not the common gray cloth. This layer of gray robe looked grey and shiny, and it looked more like a fur robe made of some kind of creature's fur.
Because the gray robe was too wide, Lu Jing could see only a human figure hunched under the gray robe, even half the height of Fu Ju, who was strolling up the stairs with difficulty.
Is an elderly person?
Lu Jing couldn't help but guess.
The team took action again and followed the figure up on the stairs until they arrived at the dark curtain. Lu Jing thought this would be an existence similar to a space gate formed by some kind of energy change, because even though it was only two or three steps away from the dark curtain, Lu Jing still couldn't see what was behind it.
However, when he stepped in, his body neither felt any discomfort nor the mysterious changes he imagined, it was like simply crossing a door.
But when Lu Jing saw what was inside the door clearly, his pupils suddenly contracted again, and his eyes were filled with surprise.
Although the corridor just now made Lu Jing guess here, when he saw the magnificent palace in front of him, he subconsciously took a breath of air conditioning.
This is a palace that is at least nearly 100 meters high. Even the lights in the palace cannot completely illuminate the top of the palace, leaving only a blurry shadow. Two stone pillars of about five people hugging each other stand on the left and right, and there are also exquisite carvings on it. In the center of the palace, a magic circle with a diameter of at least more than ten meters was engraved on the ground, which inevitably attracted Lu Jing's attention.
Those talismans that Lu Jing had never seen before existed at all corners of the magic circle with twisted lines. After watching for a long time, Liuli finally maintained her awake spirit and became in a daze again. She quickly withdrew her gaze and stopped looking, and began to observe the gray-robed man who was appearing from the shadows of the corners of the palace at this time.
After a rough count, there were at least a dozen, which made Lu Jing feel nervous. He didn't know how powerful these people were. He didn't figure out the status of Fu Ju and Xu Zhuo and how to restore them to normal. He could only continue to remain silent and pay attention to the progress of the situation.
After these gray-robed men appeared, they gathered together directly. Except for the gray-robed man who led them over, who was still playing music, the other black-robed men were swaying in each other, probably in a conversation. Lu Jing moved forward without a trace, hoping to hear the content of the conversation.
But no matter how he tried to get closer and concentrate, he never heard even a trace of words, and was completely covered by the sound of music...
In any case, at least one thing Lu Jing can be sure of.
The guy who played the music still did not stop in this situation. It was undoubtedly the key to controlling them. He had to find a way to kill it!
But just as Lu Jing had this idea, he suddenly heard a new music sound, and his eyes turned to the gray-robed men who had just dispersed, but saw that they were holding different instruments in their hands.
Is this going to open a symphony orchestra?
Lu Jing soon found that he might have guessed correctly... These guys looked for their own positions around the magic circle in the center, and each picked up the instruments in his hands and started playing.
At the same time, Lu Jing also noticed that the hands of the gray-robed men holding musical instruments were not human hands at all, but long claws composed of slender and brown knuckles. At this moment, Lu Jing felt a chill rising from his spine.
The already weird tunes were flooded with new notes, adding a bit of madness. The sound that seemed to be howling thousands of ghosts in the abyss made Lu Jing feel that he was trapped in a strange and crazy atmosphere.
At this moment, the team that was originally stationary in the palace began to move towards the magic circle in the center. Lu Jing, who realized that the opportunity to counterattack appeared, immediately forced himself not to listen to the voices from the outside world, and instead focused his attention on the gray-robed men around the magic circle.
But what Lu Jing expected was that the team stopped again when approaching the magic circle. Because Lu Jing was at the back of the middle, the nearest gray-robed man was nearly ten meters away from the nearest gray-robed man.
It's not enough. If you can barely kill one at this distance, it will make other gray-robed men react. You must get closer.
Lu Jing was making an assessment in his heart, and then he saw six people in front of the team suddenly walked into the magic circle, which made the entire team move forward a few meters. At the same time, Lu Jing also saw a particularly tall gray-robed man walking out of the shadow directly in front of the team.
Of course, the tall figure here is compared to the gray-robed men around the magic circle. In fact, the newly emerged guy's back is still hunched, and the height is only on Lu Jing's shoulders.
These guys are definitely not humans!
One, two hunchbacks can be regarded as elderly people, but there are more than a dozen people in gray robes, all of them bent over and hunched?
This is not an activity center for the elderly!
There is only one possibility, these guys under the gray robe are born like this.
Lu Jing is right.
When the guy facing the team approached the magic circle, his height made the lights in the palace shine into the gray robe hood for the first time, and Lu Jing saw the face...
At this moment, an indescribable sense of horror filled Lu Jing's mind. He finally understood why these gray robes have always been in this form, and he also realized why the gray robes they wore always gave him a strange feeling.
Because that is not a real robe at all, but a grey flesh covered with wrinkles!
The face revealed in the palace lights was a degenerate and terrifying imitation of the human face. Its facial features were crowded, and the drooping curse and black and green hair made Lu Jing feel extremely frightened even when he was just a glance.
A mouse with a humanoid face!
It walked into the magic circle with the sound of music. Facing the six people, a gray-white flute suddenly appeared in its hands, and played a more bizarre note to respond to the music that was already inexplicably crazy.
The next second, white mist was pulled out from those people, and then sucked into the guy's body.
Their bodies gradually faded, but their bodies were raised as if they were filled with air, and the wrinkles on their faces also showed signs of melting... It was transforming people in this way!
The feeling of over-electricity surged all over Lu Jing's body.
He rushed out of the team without hesitation, and the dark blue light exploded in front of him, and the blue and purple patterns spread throughout his body in an instant.
In order to block the interference of music around him, Lu Jing also opened his mouth and shouted:
"The river flows eastward! The stars in the sky are surrounded by the Beidou!"
Chapter completed!