Chapter 304 — The Giant's Body Lies Athwart
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 4
The two white bats shot away every hair on their bodies, then tried to call their white hairs back, but could not draw them in at all; in an instant they were like two great rats stripped of fur, standing there shivering. The darkness still came on, unhurried, and from within it came a soft laugh and a phrase whose meaning none could tell.
It was not the tongue of the gods, nor the tongue of demons, nor yet a Buddhist true word. Suddenly Shen Mu's expression shifted, and he spoke the only sentence of the Nether Capital tongue he knew.
The darkness halted at once and no longer surged toward them, but receded swiftly; then countless hairs came flying back, hissing as they buried themselves all over the two white bats, until the two were bristling like hedgehogs.
The two white bats, startled and uncertain, hastily shook themselves and drew the white hairs back into their pores.