The three people rushing over from the front seemed to be saying something, but Doctor An couldn't hear clearly.

He felt that all the sounds coming from there were noise, and all he could hear was tinnitus.

His breathing became rapid, and his heart gradually accelerated.

At this moment, time seemed to slow down.

Doctor An felt his whole body trembling. He stiffened his neck and slowly, slowly, looked down.

Just now... when running wildly... he seemed to have stepped on something soft...

Under his feet, illuminated by a faint fluorescent light, a black flower was being crushed by his right foot, pressed tightly against the ground.

His pupils constricted, and Doctor An's brain went blank with a buzzing sound.

"Doctor An, don't stop! Run..."

Hearing the voice coming from behind, Doctor An dazedly regained his senses and stiffly turned his head.

Looking at Fang Yue's vivid expression, from confusion to astonishment to anxious roar, he slowly showed a bleak smile...

Boom!

The next moment.

Blood splattered.

Doctor An's leg, the one stepping on the black flower, directly exploded into blood mist, and he tilted and fell.

In that instant, time seemed to slow down.

Doctor An saw the light.

A very faint black light, almost merging with the night.

Unlike the closed loop formed by shallow ditches he saw during the day.

This time, what Doctor An saw was a pillar of light, a cylindrical black pillar of light reaching straight into the night sky.

The range of the black light pillar was very small, only crushing his right leg, but the activation time was instantaneous, without any warning!

At the same time... he saw the black light pillar spreading, spreading quickly!

Every part of his flesh that came into contact with the black light pillar was crushed into powder by the heavy pressure.

In the tilting and falling motion, the next thing to come into contact with the black light pillar would be his head, then his chest. Finally, the black light pillar would pierce through his body, like a high-speed rotating saw, dividing his body in half from the middle, and swallowing his corpse as the black light pillar spread.

Death had never been so close!

Doctor An's brain was blank. Faced with true life and death, he didn't know how to react. Or rather, things were happening too fast, and even his thoughts couldn't keep up before the end arrived.

Then, he felt a force.

A strange force!

At the moment when his tilting body and head were about to hit the black light pillar, this strange force pulled him back violently.

The surrounding scenery blurred and moved.

Accompanied by a painful landing and rolling, and the intense pain coming from his right leg, Doctor An, like a person rescued after drowning, suddenly took a deep breath and gasped for air.

"I, I'm still alive?"

His brain became active again.

The black light in front of him spread rapidly, and Doctor An looked at the man next to him.

"Yueye?"

Obviously, the strange force that had saved his life just now came from Fang Yue's hand.

"Doctor An, are you alright?"

Fang Yue stared at the wilted black flower in front of him, his face ugly.

"Doctor An!"

"Vice Captain Yue!"

"Let's go over and help!"

The three people riding horses at the end of the team, who had just arrived, saw this scene and instead anxiously accelerated their approach.

Fang Yue's face changed, and he quickly shouted, "Stop! Don't come over!"

Boom!

Fang Yue's shout and the scene of the horse's head exploding into blood mist were almost simultaneous.

Immediately afterwards, the team member riding on the horse, and the front half of the horse's body, were crushed into blood mist.

Blood splattered on the other two team members, scaring them into screaming in terror, tightly gripping the horses under their crotches to turn around.

But it was too late. With a moment's pause, the second team member, along with the horse under him, exploded together, flesh and blood mixed together, and was firmly pressed on the ground, turning into a pile of filth.

The third team member, at this time, urged his horse to run back.

"A'Liang, A'Yan... how could this happen, how could this happen..."

The team member ran while wiping tears, trembling.

Fang Yue quickly roared, "That's right! That's how it is! Run, go back to the team, and let the team members go to Manshui Village for help!! The lives of the three of us depend on you to save us!"

The black light pillar separated the team from Fang Yue and the other two.

The terrifying light pillar, which could not be seen clearly in the night, made people afraid to act rashly.

"Okay, okay! I'll go for help! Vice Captain Yue, you must hold on!!"

The man wiped away his tears, shouted loudly, and spurred his horse to gallop away.

"Giddy up! Giddy up!!"

As the man rode away, the black light pillar continued to spread rapidly from the black flower as the center.

Fang Yue looked at this scene, his face ugly, and silently helped the legless Doctor An back.

"Doctor An, are you okay?"

"I can hold on..."

Doctor An's forehead was covered in fine sweat, and even speaking became difficult, his breathing extremely heavy.

In the previous battle with the Yangxu Wraith, he had already taken a lot of medicine, accumulating dan poison.

Now, he was taking medicine again to save his life, and the dan poison and the pain of losing his right leg erupted together, almost costing him his life. He was able to stay conscious only by gritting his teeth and holding on.

"Woof!"

The Blood Hunter and the Jushou Xuequan (Giant-Headed Bloodhound) had just arrived at this time. Seeing Doctor An's miserable state, and the black flower in front, their expressions changed.

"How did it run in front of us?!"

"I don't know."

Fang Yue shook his head.

"Then let's just bypass it and reunite with the team?"

Fang Yue was about to nod in agreement when he saw Doctor An suddenly grab his hand forcefully, shaking his head with difficulty.

"It's useless! Didn't you ask me before why the Chonggui Flower doesn't use the Chongya Quan (Heavy Pressure Circle) as soon as it appears? Actually, the answer is very simple... because what's controlling the Chonggui Flower now is the Chongya Gui (Heavy Pressure Wraith)! It's no longer acting according to the rules of the Chonggui Flower!"

"If we act rashly, it may appear under our feet at any time, accompanied by..."

Doctor An coughed violently, showing a painful expression, and continued with difficulty, "Accompanied by its black light pillar, the three of us will be crushed into blood mist in an instant, without any chance to resist!"

Fang Yue said anxiously, "Then what do we do?"

Doctor An's expression dimmed, and he said bitterly, "...You two run forward in two directions, left and right. As long as you can run to Manshui Village, you'll be safe. Although it has become a Chongya Gui (Heavy Pressure Wraith), as long as it hasn't changed its form yet, and is still parasitized in the Chonggui Flower, its movement speed won't be too fast. Pay more attention to your feet to avoid danger... By sacrificing one person, there is still a chance to escape to Manshui Village."

"What about you?"

"Me?"

Doctor An's expression darkened, "I... I'll just wait here to die."

This was the method Doctor An used to escape death back then.

That time, he sacrificed others and survived.

And now... it was like a cycle, and he had become the person who stayed behind to die in order for others to live.

It wasn't that he didn't want to escape, but his leg was gone. Even if someone carried him to escape, the probability of two people acting together becoming a target for the Chongya Gui (Heavy Pressure Wraith) to hunt would only be higher, and the chances of survival would be slim.

Is this... the so-called redemption...

Doctor An lowered his head.