Pinch! (Part 1)
“Is something the matter, Elder?” inquired Gui Yeming, stopping.
Gui Yuzi kept staring at Mu Yu’s spot for a while before shifting it to his Divine Lunar Stone. “This one is full. I need a new one.”
Mu Yu and Qiao Xue, palms sweaty, let out long and soft breaths.
“Full?! What are the rest of us going to do?”
“Bring another stone here, then, you two ghost slaves!”
“Relax, we’ll think of something,” Gui Yuzi responded to the lunar gods, showing a tinge of disgust for them unlike the previous members of Ghost Gate since he could defeat them in a fiend king’s body once he adapted to it.
Gui Yuzi stowed away the stone and descended onto the path in the prison. “Gui Yeming, is Mu Yu still on this floor?”
“Gui Ximing reported Mu Yu can use his formations to approach the pillars that Reverend Xuan Jizi set up, while we are unlikely able to without that knowledge. I believe we need to seek an alternative.”
“Xuan Jizi certainly is an admirable formation caster. Nevertheless, I have enough souls on me to convert to blood souls. We can corrode the formation to get to him,” declared Gui Yuzi, holding out his hand to show the shrieking red energy on it.
With Gui Yuzi and Gui Yeming strolling side by side, Mu Yu and Qiao Xue had to press their backs firmly to the cage to Gui Yeming’s right Otherwise, Gui Yeming would bump into them. To reduce the space they took up even further, Qiao Xue squatted half way down as well as pressed her head up against Mu Yu’s arm. Mu Yu and Qiao Xue held their breaths again.
Mu Yu and Qiao Xue felt those were those longest seconds of their life as they counted down the steps Ghost Gate’s duo would take to reach them. Gui Yeming came extremely close to grazing Mu Yu’s clothing, but they made it.
“I’m just realising that big breasts aren’t always a good thing,” Mu Yu joked to ease the tension after they made it.
“Is this the time and place for that?! That was hard holding that half squat!”
“There’s no point rushing outside since we can’t flee the island, and we don’t have any assistance outside, either. Their blood souls render Open Marsh Shore useless, too. Let’s hurry to the forty-sixth floor. That’s the only place we’d have a chance against Gui Yuzi and Gui Yeming. Floor eighty-one could work, but it’d take longer to get there, so forty-sixth is our best bet.”
As Mu Yu and Qiao Xue started sneaking off, a lunar god verbalised, “Ghost slaves, two lowly humans just passed by and disparaged us. Did you kill them for us?”
“Yeah, rip them to pieces.”
Oh, crud, Mu Yu cursed in his mind.
Gui Yuzi and Gui Yeming changed their direction to a cage. “When was this?”
“Less than thirty minutes ago.”
Gui Yuzi and Gui Yeming turned to each other, both understanding the other was thinking, “We didn’t see them, which means they’re very likely still here.”
“We didn’t sense anything, meaning they aren’t fleeing using spiritual energy. There’s no way they could make it out in thirty minutes. All of the exits are destroyed for an hour. Gui Yeming, destroy the entrance we came in via now.”
“On it.”
Gui Yeming flitted to the entrance, while Gui Yuzi had the lunar gods point him to the door Mu Yu entered via, corroding the exit using his red ghost qi, which would corrode it again when it was restored.
“We have to get to the other exit n-”
Gui Yeming zipped past Mu Yu and Qiao Xue before they could move and smashed the exit apart.
“We’re trapped now,” lamented Mu Yu.
“Damn it, not only are they ugly but talkative, too, now? Reverend Xuan Jizi not consider cutting their tongues off when he locked them up?” Xiaoshuai cursed.
“I actually agree with you for once, Rodent,” commented the Dragon Vine.
Gui Yuzi couldn’t detect the two scouring away. Nonetheless, he readied his ghost qi as he soared through the prison, shouting, “Mu Yu, you found yourself the express route to hell. You have nowhere to run to now!”
Usually, Mu Yu would have complained the criss-cross path design was a pain, but it worked in their favour this time – that was until all of the lunar gods decided to press their grotesque faces up against their cages to aid their ghost slaves’ search. In addition, Gui Yuzi decided to have his blood souls join the search. One wrong step now and it was all over for Mu Yu and Qiao Xue.
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