Chapter 308: Berserker (2/2)

If they did nothing, then their friends would lose their lives, and that would forever bring pain to them. They would rather fight with all they had to protect their friends and family than to be a coward who hid away from danger.

Since they had made a decision, Xue Wei rushed back to the lost city. He was careful and alert at all times, but they did not come across anyone on the way.

As they were just about to reach the lost city, Xue Wei fished out another three soul-calming pills. He consumed one and gave the other two to his companions, who quickly swallowed them and sat down.

When their minds were as calm and collected as they could be, they moved on towards the lost city, this time not as fast, and not as obviously.

The lost city had previously been completely deserted and silent, but now that they returned they could hear the sound of people chanting, as to what they were chanting, it was hard to make out the words, but there was no interruption in the chants.

While still being within the forest, Xue Wei saw that the sleeping experts were all awake now. They had been bound and placed in a line that was being pushed towards the altar. Even Luoluo was there.

Xue Wei felt his blood boil. Lin Xiao and the King were there as well, but they were not in good shape. Blood was flowing all over their clothes, and open wounds and gashes could be seen in their skin. They were pale, and the five eyes of the King were all glassy.

Hei Gou was uncomfortable seeing them like this, and he was about to charge forward, only to be stopped by Xue Wei. He shook his head without saying anything, and Hei Gou could only gnash his teeth before suppressing his urge to run over and save them.

”They will not execute them now,” Bai Tianyi whispered with certainty, and Xue Wei looked at him, silently inquiring why he thought so.

”They used some sort of drug to knock them all out. This drug is in their blood right now. If they were to let the drugged blood into the river, does that not mean that they will drug themselves?”

The question was incredibly logical and reasonable, and Xue Wei nodded his head. Since they depended on the blood, they would not let drugged blood join the river.

Although they had already woken up from their drugged sleep, there was very little chance of their blood being pure already. They would wait at least a day with executing them.

Since this was the case, the sense of urgency slowly evaporated, and Xue Wei began planning what to do.

The river was carved into the ground, there was no way to get beneath it, and he was unsure of how to make all of it spill.

Bai Tianyi was aware of the problem as well, but he had no sudden ideas either.

Hei Gou looked at the river in front of him and observed his surroundings. ”Why not lead the river out of the city during the night?” he asked, and both Bai Tianyi and Xue Wei looked at him with great curiosity.

”I mean, we can't let it stay in the lost city, but if we make an extension of the river and the lake, make it flow out of the city and into the ground here in the forest, then they will be incapable of fighting back.”

”there is a lot of blood,” Xue Wei muttered as he looked at it, but they had no better idea, and thus they waited for night to fall.

As the darkness blanketed the entire forest and the lost city, Xue Wei, Hei Gou, and Bai Tianyi began moving.

They went to the large lake that was at the end of the city and started digging. They quietly destroyed the tall dam that kept the blood in place and watched as it started to slowly but surely drain into the forest.

More and more blood started running into the forest, and as the soil absorbed it, a tremble ran through the ground.

The hole in the dam was getting larger and larger, more and more blood was being lost, but no one in the city seemed to notice.

Xue Wei was constantly on high alert. He was using his spiritual energy to keep an eye on everything, but no one was guarding the lake of blood, neither were they guarding the rivers, and it allowed for Xue Wei and his two friends to act so presumptuously and slowly but steadily empty their lost city for blood.

The blood was flowing into the forest, and the leaves of the trees started changing their color from green to red. The scent of blood was everywhere in the air, and the intoxicating smell was invading the senses of Xue Wei, Hei Gou, and Bai Tianyi. It was even worse than the first time they had been there, and their nails were dug tightly into their palms, making it so that the pain kept them sane.

Blood was dripping from their palms down on the ground, and when Xue Wei's blood came into contact with the blood of the lost city, a magnificent sight happened.

The blood of the lost city had been red, but the moment it came into contact with Xue Wei's it turned blue.

Before, the blood had been slowly seeping out of the hole they had made in the dam, but now the blood was, as if acting with a consciousness, hurrying out of the river and lake and rushing towards Xue Wei where it gathered underneath him, greedily mixing with the drops of blood that fell from his hand.

Xue Wei looked at Bai Tianyi and Hei Gou, and then he realized what had happened. Bai Tianyi had previously explained to them that all different races came from the union of a mix between beasts and humans.

This race was exactly the same as all other races, and it was obvious that there was happening a mutation to the blood.

Previously a mutation had happened to Hei Gou, but this time it was the Berserker blood which was changing. It was abandoning the Lost City for the sake of absorbing just a drop more blood of Xue Wei, before slowly seeping into the ground below.

The treetops which had slowly turned red from the blood were now changing their colors to blue. The entire forest was changing at a rapid speed.