136: Chapter 136 Song Yiqing cannot die! Absolutely not!

The airtight wall of people caused Song Yiqing to frown slightly.

Lu Ziliang's return was unexpected, but it also made sense.

After all, he was the one who had truly cleared the Taklamakan Desert Forbidden Zone.

Protection was only logical.

Just as Song Yiqing was thinking this,

Suddenly!!!

Thump! Thump! Thump!!

He suddenly felt his heart racing, and the blood in his body began to boil wildly.

The Qi he had accumulated through the Qiankun Technique completely dissipated in that instant!!

It was as if it had never existed; the Qi in his body was gone!

In an instant, Song Yiqing understood the reason.

"The air!"

Scanning his surroundings, he immediately saw a small head of a Blue-faced Buddha Man emerging from one of the special forces soldiers.

This head was clearly different from the Blue-faced Buddha Men fighting outside.

A disturbingly human-like smile was plastered on its face.

"Hee hee hee—"

"You have no strength left, do you?"

"Did you think I didn't know you were faking? Hee hee hee—"

"You're finished!"

Sentence after sentence poured from the mouth of the Blue-faced Buddha Man.

In the next second, the special forces soldiers who had formed the perimeter

suddenly froze, as if they had received some kind of command.

Then, tentacles began to sprout and tear through the skin on each of their necks.

These tentacles were covered in densely packed eyes, and beneath the eyes were mouths filled with sharp, thin teeth that emitted eerie sounds.

"Hee hee hee! I see you,"

"I'm going to eat you!"

"Hee hee hee—"

This sudden abnormality instantly drew everyone's attention.

"Lord Song!! Lord Song!!"

Fatty cried out in alarm. After slashing away a small Blue-faced Buddha Man, he rushed over, intending to break through the wall of tentacles formed by the soldiers' bodies.

But the moment he charged, the soldiers' uniforms were torn open by tentacles extending from within.

A single blow sent Fatty flying back.

Bang!!

"Damn it!!"

Fatty cursed and attempted to charge again.

However, those tentacles were emerging frantically, just like when they had faced Hou Kun.

The tentacles could interweave with each other to form a much larger one,

and their strength far exceeded the Demon Shadow Beasts they had just fought.

Wang Xianzhi unleashed a powerful sword strike, quickly resolving her own trouble before rushing over with great speed, determined to rescue Song Yiqing in that instant.

But just as she was about to strike with her sword,

Zhe Ningchuan's figure suddenly darted out from the side.

"Don't use your sword! Don't get close!"

"You!"

Wang Xianzhi was about to strike him, but she also sensed the abnormality surrounding the trapped Song Yiqing.

Zhe Ningchuan spoke rapidly,

"The air where Song Yiqing is located is poisonous. If you approach recklessly, the Qi in your bodies will be instantly dissipated."

He then threw out a bottle of medicine.

"One pill each; it can provide temporary resistance!"

"..."

Wang Xianzhi looked at the pill in her hand and then at Zhe Ningchuan. Only after seeing the jade bracelet on his wrist did she swallow the pill.

...

In the bullet chat section,

[Holy crap!! What a shocking twist!! Those special forces soldiers were actually parasitized long ago?]

[This is a nightmare! They're completely focused on capturing Song Yiqing! Oh my god!]

[Damn it, I really didn't expect this. I originally thought it was Zhe Ningchuan and his group,]

[but it turned out to be the special forces soldiers!]

[So is this whole thing a trap?]

...

Meanwhile,

inside the warship's command center,

Bai Yu was also watching the live stream.

When he saw the soldiers being parasitized into monsters, he smashed his fist onto the table in fury.

Bang!!

"A bunch of animals! I'll kill you all sooner or later!"

He spoke angrily, while also noticing several more waves of people rushing out from the direction of Penglai.

Bai Yu roared in rage,

"Open fire!! Blast those inhuman bastards to death!!

Their Penglai cannot fall, and we humans certainly cannot either!!"

As the order was given, artillery fire erupted from the warships, lighting up the sky.

...

On the other side, a youth wearing a 'Penglai' Daoist robe was already playing video games in an arcade.

Only after he had reached the top rank on every machine did he leave reluctantly, waving his hand repeatedly to signal his boredom.

When he took out his phone, he noticed the predicament Song Yiqing and the others were in.

"Tsk tsk tsk! Old Man Wei is as ruthless as ever, actually parasitizing the special forces soldiers.

They're just ordinary people!"

The Daoist-robed youth lamented, shaking his head slightly.

He then took out a few stones and tossed them onto the ground.

"Eeny, meeny, miny, moe... wherever it points, that's where I'll go."

Clatter!

As the stones landed,

the youth rubbed his chin, thinking carefully.

"The Snowy Mountain Forbidden Zone? Hmm... but if I go there and Song Yiqing dies at the Black Sand Great Buddha Temple, that could be a bit problematic."

After thinking it over, he prepared to head to Black Sand.

...

On the live stream screen,

the battle was in full swing.

Lin Tianyi and the others swallowed the pills

and quickly moved in for close-quarters combat.

The longer the situation dragged on, the more dangerous it would become.

The members of the Archaeological Team, who had no combat ability, naturally hid as far away as possible.

Ding Sixing said nervously,

"What should we do! Song Yiqing was already very weak to begin with.

Given his previous condition, there's no way he can escape!"

"He brought this on himself, you know?"

Shi Yao spoke up at this moment.

"I thought it was strange earlier why he refused so decisively. Thinking about it now, it's clearly because he had already discovered that something was wrong with these special forces soldiers.

That's why he refused to act with us.

Unfortunately for him, the mastermind was targeting Song Yiqing from the start!"

"Wait, what??"

The more Ding Sixing listened, the more ridiculous it sounded.

"Professor Shi, isn't your speculation a bit too far-fetched?"

"Only this makes the most sense."

Shi Yao had an expression as if he had seen through everything. He then made a suggestion to Lu Ziliang.

"Elder Lu, I think we should leave first. With them distracting this monster, perhaps we can head deeper inside more quickly!"

"..."

Lu Ziliang didn't say a word, his eyes fixed intently on the intense scene over there.

However, Shi Yao continued persistently,

"Elder Lu, uncovering the secret behind the formation of the forbidden zone is the most important thing.

The disappearance of the Taklamakan Desert Forbidden Zone might have just been a coincidence.

It might not be replicable!"

"It can be replicated,"

Lu Ziliang said something that stunned everyone in the Archaeological Team.

"Therefore, Song Yiqing cannot die! Absolutely not!"