The name of the ruined town is no longer known. As the town closest to the refuge, it was evacuated early and nothing of value was left. Because of this, there is no need to worry about any losses when fighting here.
However, just as the van passed the archway outside the town, a "T" shaped pillar wrapped with iron pipes caught Lu Ning's attention. As the car slowly approached, she could also see the vines on it through the headlights. A tightly wound corpse.
That was Pang Heng.
His face was pale, his eyes were bulging, his entire expression was distorted, his skin had shriveled up, and the extremely cold air had turned him into an ice sculpture. Some red blood ice could still be seen under his dark blue lips, probably before death. Because he bit his lip.
Lu Ning could confirm that he was dead without getting out of the car.
The traces of the battle here in Ruins Town still remain. Black traces burned by the flames remain on the buildings, and dirty snow mixed with soil is everywhere.
"Already, used."
Xuan Zhitong stretched out her hand and pulled Lu Ning's sleeve, showing a pleading look.
"Let's go, I can't."
"You stay here."
Lu Ning did not turn off the engine, and her voice became much softer.
"I don't know how to pull out the key. Now turn the key to the bottom to start. The gear is automatic. The only three things you need to remember are reverse, empty and advance, which correspond to front, middle and rear. Is it easy to understand?"
The calmer her tone was, the more frightened Xuan Zhitong became.
"The controls under your feet are the accelerator and the brake. Even people who don't drive know that the accelerator is on the right... You'll know after you try it."
"Lu Ning, don't leave, I..."
"You don't want to go. It's the same as what we discussed before. Did you see the vines on Pang Heng? It's hard for us to leave this time. We are old rivals."
Lu Ning slowly took out her sleeves. After checking all the throwing objects, sabers, pistols, and protective gear, she opened the door and jumped out of the car.
Amnesia... although it is difficult, it is not completely unthinkable.
Lu Ning stepped on the ankle-deep snow and walked step by step towards the center of the ruined town.
Judging from the result that he still launched an attack before amnesia, he will lose his memory after a period of time, which means that during that period of time, he can completely fight back. To be honest, the other party just has the advantage of being able to take the initiative to sneak attack every time.
Burning the trees is a reminder. If nothing else, this evil claw looks like that plant. Then it can probably control plants to a certain extent. But even so, it is impossible to guarantee such a huge body in order to achieve a "sneak attack". .
Mo Lianren used explosive bombs to kill a stone man who had shrunk and sneaked into the shelter, proving that their bodies would also die immediately if they were fatally injured. Although the evil claws are all different, they are still "creatures".
Lu Ning walked to a square, which was a place used by the town for group activities. It covered an area of about one thousand square meters and was completely unobstructed. A sneak attack in such an environment is very difficult, and no matter where he appears from, Lu Ning can have some time to deal with it.
As darkness fell, everything fell into silence. The lantern hanging from Lu Ning's waist became the only light in this world, small but bright.
The fragrance rose quietly and infiltrated the surrounding area silently. When Lu Ning smelled the fragrance, she immediately jumped back. The two vines under her feet were emptied on the snow and quickly retracted into the snow.
"The reaction was very quick. It seems that they anticipated my sneak attack."
The sound of that evil claw soon echoed in the square.
"Are you still hiding and can't come out? With Evil Claw's physical strength, you should be able to crush me head-on, right?"
Lu Ning didn't know why the other party was still hiding under such an obvious strength gap.
"You almost killed one of my compatriots, and I am more delicate than other compatriots. In this case, why do I hunt unsafely?"
"I really dare to say it directly..."
"It doesn't matter if you say it, you will forget it anyway. You know, the fear that humans feel when they step into the confusion and unknown again and again is more evocative than their own flesh and blood."
With the words, the fragrance dissipated, and Lu Ning's eyes returned to their previous alert state.
She lowered her head and saw that snow had begun to accumulate where her previous footprints had been, and she was more than half a meter away.
was attacked.
Lu Ning turned around and looked around, shook her wrist, took out a watch from her sleeve, and glanced at the time on it.
"Thirteen to fourteen seconds..."
This is the approximate time when he lost his memory. It is not precise, but it can also give Lu Ning an idea of what he can do during this period.
"It has already launched an attack. I don't know what cover it used to carry out it. But after a missed hit, it will definitely not use the same attack method again. That will always be the 'first' attack for me. The most effective ones can be found through exhaustive means..."
Lu Ning stayed awake by talking to herself, her fingers constantly swinging back and forth on the holster and grenades. She had gradually mastered the weakness of amnesia, which was that she could not remove the traces left during this period. If her hand There can be a video recorder or something like that inside, so it's actually very simple to know what happened during amnesia.
But she didn't, and she didn't think the other party would give her time to play it again.
The scent slowly emerged. Lu Ning dodged to the side this time. At the same time, she took out the grenade and threw it to her side. Several vines rushed out from under the snow. The snow blocks blocked Lu Ning's sight. At the same time, she suddenly felt There was pain in the ankle area, and the body tilted involuntarily, half kneeling on the ground.
Then, after disturbing the surroundings, the vines retreated back into the snow.
Lu Ning was half-kneeling on the ground. The pain in her ankle came suddenly. She knew it was at least swollen without looking. The surrounding snow was a mess, and it was impossible to tell what had just happened. She lowered her head and pushed her goggles up, hiding her emotions.
At this time, a figure with a graceful posture like a woman walked out from behind the low wall more than ten meters behind her. There are just a large number of vines coming out from behind it, floating slowly like waves. These vines hang down to the ground and burrow into the snow. Only a few vines on the top of the head are special.
They are so short that they don’t even look like vines, but rather plant stems. The buds, which are only about the size of a thumb, are scattered on these stems in an orderly manner, and they look very beautiful.
Then one of the buds bloomed.
There are no stamens like ordinary flowers inside, but they are empty. As the flowers bloomed, the amnesia-inducing fragrance was spread once again.
Lu Ning didn't react at all this time. It should be said that her ankle injury also made her unable to dodge flexibly.
"You gave up resistance... Do you think I would think so?"
After the Evil Claw released its scent, it did not attack immediately, but instead carefully looked around.
"You finally showed up."
Lu Ning slowly stood up with her trembling legs. Now one of her feet was under pressure and her posture was obviously a little crooked. However, she had already picked up another grenade in her hand.
"You still have seven explosives left on you. Do you plan to use these to leave a mark? Just like the grenade just now?"
The ability of human beings to use marks to remember things is deep in their blood, from counting knots to slate murals. Because memories cannot be retained forever by the brain, using other methods to record them has become an inevitable path for intelligent creatures.
Now, Lu Ning relies on the grenade in her hand and can also convey some simple messages by thinking about the direction and distance of the impact point in advance.
"Has it been discovered?"
Lu Ning opened her mouth and bit off the pull ring, but she didn't look panicked.
"Two times... As long as you attack twice more, I will know the secret of your ability. By then, your advantage of preemptive attack will be gone. How about it? How are you going to deal with it?"
After saying that, she threw the grenade in her hand in another direction. An explosion sounded, and a blackened snow pit appeared not far away. Such a conspicuous trace of the explosion could not disappear in the short dozen seconds that the scent lasted.
"You are different from many people I have met, no, I should say - you."
Evil Claw's figure slowly disappeared behind the low wall.
"In this case, next time, I will kill you, as you wish, by crushing you head-on."
The scent dissipates.
The moment Lu Ning realized it, she immediately turned around and looked around, and immediately found new traces of the explosion.
"The attack method is scent, and the distance is less than twenty meters... right?"
In this way, the other party's secrets could no longer be kept. At least in terms of intelligence, Lu Ning barely brought the two sides to the same starting line.
For the last time, she has to find out where the enemy is and where the weak point is!
After a while, the fragrance of flowers came!
A huge body nearly three meters high suddenly grew out from behind the low wall. Although it still maintained the same shape, a large number of vines were wrapped around it as armor, leaving only a few long vines as means of attack. The Evil Claw, which had grown to this point in its body, had regained its strength and defense. It easily kicked the low wall apart, and then used the rattan to hold itself up and rushed towards Lu Ning quickly!
"Your intuition is indeed accurate, but humans rely far more on memory than you imagine!"
Two vines swept down and hit the ground hard, raising large chunks of snow and blocking Lu Ning's sight.
"There is a short interval between forgetting and re-memorizing. That is the limitation of human reaction ability! It is also a limit that no matter how much you prepare in advance, you cannot surpass it!"
The explosion of the grenade sounded from under the cover of snow. Lu Ning took out his pistol and quickly pointed it forward and fired all the bullets. The green slurry of the plant splashed in the air, and the two incoming vines were all cut off, but this was not enough for him. The evil claw's body was not damaged at all.
In the blink of an eye, the evil claw had already entered a distance of less than one meter from Lu Ning. The vines wrapped around its arms spiraled out, revealing the brown arms inside and the jagged blades on the front of the arms.
Lu Ning's body was knocked off balance by the strong wind brought by the Evil Claw's charge. When it struck down with a wave of his hand, he could only raise his left arm and tilt his body slightly to resist.
Blood spurted out from his arm in an instant, sacrificing half of his arm to buy Lu Ning a moment of time, but even this moment of time was within Evil Claw's expectation.
"The response has been good, but it's about time."
