The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#603 - Madman and the Yard

Yu Zhen watched helplessly as Lu Jing jumped into the crowd. Immediately, all the surrounding figures were drawn to him, rushing forward eagerly.

For a brief moment, Yu Zhen couldn't even see Lu Jing anymore. He seemed to have been swallowed up by the surging tide of people.

Seeing this, Yu Zhen's brow twitched wildly. She had already prepared to run, but then she saw a flash of cold light and the crisscrossing of sword qi!

Wherever Yu Zhen's eyes fell, heads were rolling and blood was splattering. Lu Jing, with his sword, had forcefully carved out a vacuum around himself.

However, what shocked Yu Zhen even more was that the people down the slope seemed to completely ignore the flying heads of their companions, continuing to rush towards Lu Jing relentlessly.

Yu Zhen had once heard a legend that in some places, antelopes would suddenly jump off cliffs in droves to commit suicide, and no one knew why they suddenly ended their lives.

Now, looking at the people below the slope, Yu Zhen felt the same way.

Didn't they know they were going to their deaths? Or were they trying to exhaust Lu Jing in this way?

But even the bravest and most fearless person would still hesitate when faced with such a thing. Yet, until now, Yu Zhen hadn't seen even one person slow down.

Whether men or women, from white-haired old people to children with their hair in tufts, all were filled with a strange frenzy, chasing each other and eagerly offering their precious heads to Lu Jing to chop off.

This was also what Yu Zhen found most incredible.

Seeing this, Yu Zhen didn't dare to be careless. She didn't have Lu Jing's skills. She wouldn't be afraid of these strangely behaving guys in a one-on-one fight, but if there were too many, she would have some difficulty dealing with them.

And Yu Zhen was also very decisive. Without saying a word, she turned around and ran. She didn't run too far, and after seeing a large rock, she dodged behind it.

After a while, she saw a figure appear on the hillside, looking around. Then the second person appeared, and then the third... In the end, a total of seven people chased after her.

They lost track of Yu Zhen's location and seemed a little confused, but soon they twitched their noses and began to sniff, just like hunting dogs.

Then, one of them moved his feet and began to move towards the boulder where Yu Zhen was hiding.

Yu Zhen held the small sword that Lu Jing had lent her, her palms already full of sweat.

But she still tried to prick up her ears, listening to the footsteps outside, and at the same time, she silently calculated in her heart. When the footsteps were less than two zhang away from her, Yu Zhen didn't wait any longer.

She took the initiative to attack, jumping out from behind the boulder and slashing her sword at the person's head, cutting off half of his head, and the person fell to the ground, unable to move again.

Before she could admire her masterpiece, this sword also exposed Yu Zhen.

The remaining six people let out a low roar and rushed towards her.

Yu Zhen forced herself to calm down, telling herself that this was just an ordinary battle, trying not to look into the eyes of the six people opposite her. Then she took a step forward, met the first person, dodged the other's outstretched hand, and stabbed the person's brow with her sword.

As a result, at the critical moment, the person tilted his head, causing Yu Zhen's sword to miss.

Yu Zhen secretly cried out in her heart what a pity. At this time, she could retract her sword and continue to chop off the person's head, but if she did, it was hard to say whether she could kill the person, and the other five would definitely take the opportunity to surround her.

If she was surrounded, Yu Zhen knew she would be in danger. So she didn't linger, decisively retracted her sword, kicked the person in front of her in the chest, and then used the force of the recoil to jump back onto the boulder.

As soon as Yu Zhen stood firm on the rock, she saw someone jumping up with her.

And this time, the sword in her hand didn't miss again. Taking advantage of the fact that the person jumped into the air and had nowhere to borrow strength, she easily pierced the person's head.

Then she saw the second person jumping up, and Yu Zhen followed suit, finding the right time to strike with her sword, and then solved another enemy.

Speaking of which, this was the inspiration she had found from watching Lu Jing's battle before. Although these people were much stronger in strength and speed than before, their brains seemed to have become much dumber in comparison, leaving only one muscle, and they would not adapt to changes at all.

For ordinary opponents, Yu Zhen's jump onto the rock would not have any effect except to make herself a target.

But this trick was especially useful against these people, because they would not use bows and crossbows to shoot her, or even pick up stones to smash her, let alone agree to jump up together, so that she could not parry.

Although they were together, everyone was just fighting alone, acting on instinct, so they were lined up and killed cleanly by Yu Zhen with the help of the terrain.

After chopping off the head of the last person, Yu Zhen's tense nerves finally relaxed, and then she felt a burst of weakness in her hands and feet.

The battle just now was not too dangerous, mainly because the opponent's performance was too abnormal and strange, which made Yu Zhen's heart always hang in her throat.

Fortunately, in the end, there was no accident. She was only slightly exhausted, and thinking of this, Yu Zhen couldn't help but worry about Lu Jing again.

Although the two could not be said to be friends, and from Yu Zhen's point of view, she obviously preferred Qinglong Village without Lu Jing, but at this moment, located in this strange valley, surrounded by these guys with obviously abnormal brains.

Then the only normal companion naturally became particularly close.

Besides, if Lu Jing hadn't used himself as bait and taken the initiative to jump down the hillside to attract most of the people, then the ones who would be chasing Yu Zhen now would not be a mere seven people.

Yu Zhen had already used up all her strength after killing seven people, and she couldn't imagine how terrifying Lu Jing's consumption would be when facing so many people at the same time.

Could that guy have been unable to hold on?

Yu Zhen thought, panting a few breaths, and still cautiously moved back to the top of the slope.

As a result, she was dumbfounded when she saw it. The black mass of people before had disappeared at this moment, replaced by headless corpses all over the ground, the scene looked extremely bloody.

And also missing was the instigator of all this.

Yu Zhen couldn't help but thump in her heart. She widened her eyes and tried to find the familiar figure from the corpses all over the ground, but she found nothing.

It wasn't until a loud noise suddenly came from the small courtyard not far away that Yu Zhen's attention was drawn back.