A large cloud of black smoke exploded from the back of the monster's neck, but Yan Rong stretched out his hands and pulled Lu Ning and Yuan Jie under the knife out of its attack range. She had already released her hands after one shot. The damage caused caused the butcher to stagger back a step.
"Not even close!" Lian Bisheng shouted.
"Zhu Qinyuan, the last sword is left to you!" Yan Rong shouted while quickly retreating, and Zhu Qinyuan had already gone around to the back, his invisibility was released, and he jumped up instantly. Letting throw the shield out with her hand, Zhu Qinyuan provided a foothold in the air. She pointed her toes and lightly crossed the nearly three-meter ice blade ground. Pressing the handle of the knife in the air, she drew the knife and slashed over the butcher's head. fall.
Black smoke exploded. This time, the butcher finally exhaled the smoke all over his body, and the ice blade on the ground slowly disappeared together. After Zhu Qinyuan landed, he shook his cold arms. The knife just now inevitably touched When it comes to the ice-made arm, if it's just a little worse, I'm afraid I'll be killed.
Within ten seconds, the butcher disappeared, leaving only some remnants on the ground. Jean walked over to pick up his shield and glanced at Lu Ning: "How are your arms?"
"not bad."
Lu Ning raised her arm with only the elbow part left. The frozen and necrotic bones and flesh were rapidly detaching. The surrounding black smoke had not yet dissipated. Her arm was also recovering at an extraordinary speed in this environment. It wasn't painful, just a little itchy. The granulations quickly connected around the new bones, and the blood vessels and nerves also grew rapidly. Finally, they were covered with a new layer of skin - which looked a bit whiter.
On the other side, Yuan Jie's arms have also been repaired automatically.
"This should be a manifestation of our absorption of immortality... But it seems that a butcher must die nearby so that we can regenerate like this." Even Bi Sheng climbed to the high platform, "I can see that your vitality has just increased a little. It’s back to normal now.”
"It's not bad. Doesn't it mean that even if we die, we can be resurrected? Until the lines turn red?" Yan Rong glanced at his arm, "But it shouldn't be too many times. After all, the distribution center has to set the difficulty. You'd better cherish it more." own life.”
"Isn't it to save you? You were too reckless just now!" Lu Ning said angrily, "You rushed in front of the butcher even though you knew he would freeze!"
"It's not that easy. I have discovered that its attack is transmitted through the weapon. If it doesn't work, I will give up the weapon. As a result, you two rushed after me and I couldn't give in." Yan Rong said with his arms crossed.
"That means Zhou Weiyuan and you have a tacit understanding." Lu Ning shook her head. The cold air gave her a headache, and she still felt a little uncomfortable even after it dissipated. She knew what Yan Rong said. After all, she knew Yan Rong's fighting style after communicating with Zhou Weiyuan many times. The problem was that she would always doubt whether Yan Rong's strength could handle everything... Unlike Zhou Weiyuan, she could accurately judge Yan Rong's fighting style. Is Rong fighting within the scope of his own strength or is he really in danger?
Such a tacit understanding didn't happen overnight. Lu Ning moved his arms, and the clothes began to slowly grow back from the tear, and covered his arms again. Now it seemed that he didn't even have to worry about equipment issues.
"It was such a tough battle, what did you lose?" Yuan Jie didn't care that much, but instead asked carelessly about the gains from killing the butcher. Jean squatted down at the place where the butcher died, collected the things and brought them to everyone.
A black core, which was the most important thing, proving that a butcher had actually been killed. What remained were two iron nails, a splinter of wood, and a piece of cloth stained with blood.
"They are all items from the butcher's body." Zhu Qinyuan said thoughtfully, "There must be a purpose for them to collect this."
"Materials or something like that? Alex's gun doesn't look like an ordinary weapon." Yan Rong curled his lips, "But it seems we can't use it directly."
"Let's go out now that we've rested. It's true that this butcher is not particularly difficult to deal with. It would be much more comfortable if he had a gun." Yuan Jie looked a little disappointed after seeing the harvest, and everyone didn't care. They packed up their things and returned. .
At the entrance of the cave, Alex was dozing off against the rock with his gun in his arms. When he heard the noise, he immediately opened his eyes. Jean raised his hand and placed the light shield, then said: "It's us."
"Solved? What's the loss?"
"It can be regarded as no loss. After all, we are all black." Jean took out the black core and handed it to Alex, "This is the result, but if we join the bonfire, we may be able to get it from you. Some means of long-range attack?”
Alex checked the core and handed it back. He saw that several people were looking at his gun, so he explained: "New weapons need to be purchased the next time we go to the inner city. These butcher cores are what we use." With the money, they only provide necessary assistance to the Heikes who work hard, so the more of this core, the better.”
"Understood." Jean laughed. Being able to tell this information showed that Alex had regarded everyone as his companions.
The wasteland at night was not particularly dark. There was a long river of light in the sky, but there were no celestial bodies like stars and moon. When they returned, everyone felt relaxed and took a closer look at the scenery around the wasteland. There were still figures of some butchers in the distance, but Alex didn't pay special attention to them.
"Wandering butchers do not have to be eliminated. Generally, the remaining bonfires will intercept and kill the butchers who enter their territory. We are not that capable yet. As long as we fix the fixed location first and develop the armed forces, the rest will be done. It’ll be easier to handle.”
"Why are there so many people in the campfire who can't fight?" Zhu Qinyuan asked.
"Providing arms to Heike... Although this is an order from the nobles, the order is not detailed. People with excellent equipment like you are considered armed, and giving an ordinary knife is also considered armed. The birth of Heike is random. Many Hei Ke’s family backgrounds and the like are not enough to provide qualified weapons.”
"Since the nobles issued such an order, why don't they take care of it as well? The increase in black marks outside is also good for resisting the butcher, right?" Yuan Jie was a little strange.
"I don't know..." Alex lowered his head, "We just know some of what Heike is going through, but we can't find out the deeper reasons."
"It doesn't matter, we will learn about this gradually." Lu Ning said softly, "Since you mentioned the nobility...can you tell us about this? It sounds like a very dominant group."
"After all, the nobles are the king's agents, and this kingdom can continue to prosper under the governance of the nobles." Alex glanced in a certain direction, "There is a king living in the royal city, and the one who guards the royal capital is Four legions, seven noble families govern the kingdom, and it is surrounded by ten outer cities.”
"Sounds like a poem."
"It should be, but I don't know exactly when it started. It's just that these numbers have never changed."
After obtaining the core, Alex was willing to talk more, and seemed to want to train everyone into qualified Heike as soon as possible. The outer city can be seen from a distance, and there is a little bit of light shining there, which is completely different from the wasteland.
But the name of the scene "Once Upon a Time in a Dead Country" still weighs on everyone's mind.
Just such a decayed and decadent environmental style and a depressing-looking background are enough to call it a dead country? No one believes that any tourist has seen scenes that are countless times more miserable than what they have seen so far. It is already good that the people here can still survive and fight against those harmful things.
Just when the atmosphere returned to silence, a bell suddenly sounded.
Alex's expression changed when he heard the bell ringing. Everyone saw that under the distant horizon, a red light pillar soared into the sky, breaking through the clouds, creating a red diffuse halo on the clouds, and quickly swept across it. The whole sky.
"Oops! It happens to be at this time..." Alex started running. Everyone didn't know what was going on, so they could only run after him. The red halo spread in the air twelve times in a row, and the bell rang twelve times. Lu Ning suddenly felt a boiling sound in the wasteland, and the butchers screamed. Seeing that the situation was not good, Alex looked around, made a sharp turn and jumped down the hillside, then turned around and waved: "Come here quickly! There is something here. A shelter!”
Lu Ning ran closer and saw that the so-called shelter was a pit covered by grass. She jumped down directly, opened it and landed lightly, and then discovered that the place here was actually very small, only about two square meters. More people slipped down from above, and she hurriedly avoided them. She only heard a few screams of pain. It seemed that she didn't expect to be so small and crowded together underneath.
"Is such a small place also a shelter?" Yuan Jie shouted.
"Just hide if you can! Don't make a sound! Breathe softly!" Alex squeezed out of the crowd and warned through his teeth.
"Listen to him." Lian Bisheng whispered, "There are several extremely strong life signals outside."
Everyone quickly calmed down, and after the initial panic, a two-square-meter place was more than enough for seven people. Everyone stood quietly against the wall, with only Lian Bisheng scanning the surroundings with his lenses, and Alex occasionally. Twitch your nose.
I don't know how long it took before the boiling feeling that Lu Ning felt gradually disappeared.
"It seems... normal." Lian Bisheng confirmed in a low voice to Alex.
"Well, the smell of death has returned, and the alarm didn't last long this time. But... why are they so close to the mist? Don't they know that they can't clean out all the resurrected butchers in such a short period of time?"
"Explain?" Yan Rong looked sideways at Alex.
"The red alarm bell. To be honest, I don't know what it is for. It's just that every time the alarm bell rings, the butchers and imps in the wasteland will become excited and their strength will be greatly improved. Of course, killing them at this time will also You can get better returns..."
"Is this also a periodic emergency? What else haven't you told us?" Zhu Qinyuan frowned, "Since we have proven ourselves, is it now your turn to prove it?"
"Uncle Cai will explain everything to you. I...I can't sort everything out at once. And there is no big problem this time. Let's go back. If you have any questions, I think Uncle Cai will answer them for you." Ai Lix was still a child after all, and he hesitated for a while.
"Very good, we will definitely ask, I think it won't be too late." Jean still maintained a gentle expression, but his tone was also a bit stern, "I think you should know that the lack of intelligence will make us who know nothing The newbie dies in vain.”
Alex simply stopped talking, climbed out of the pit, and continued to lead the way back with everyone.
But when approaching the low cliff, Lu Ning already saw something not good. There was no fire there.
The bonfire should have been burning all the time, which was proof of their group. Alex also discovered this a few seconds later. The warm firelight that usually waited for him to return did not exist.
"No...impossible..."
He ran out. Zhu Qinyuan and Lu Ning hurriedly started their bodies and followed him. The two of them were faster and reached the bonfire in a few minutes.
There were stumps and broken arms on the ground, the bonfire was extinguished with blood, broken crude weapons were scattered on the ground, and dead heads looked at the sky. There are also several totems made of white bones. The bones have been twisted into weird states, and it is completely impossible to tell what they were originally.
Cai Shen was not far from the bonfire. His entire abdominal cavity was exploded by something like a wooden thorn, and it seemed to turn into a bloody mouth. His head fell about one meter away, his teeth clenched, and his eyes Look ahead. One of the two knives was broken, and the hand holding the knife held a forearm like a puppet arm, which was probably the part he tore off the murderer.
"Uncle Cai?"
Alex knelt down in front of Cai Shen and hurriedly lifted up his sleeves, but his movement stopped immediately. The bright red mark was extremely dazzling.
"Did the butcher do it? The alarm just now...may have caused some wandering butchers to come over." Zhu Qinyuan was still patrolling the scene calmly.
"If it was a butcher, what would happen to the severed limbs? Did they disappear into black mist or did they stay because the butcher was not dead? Since they were left behind, why not take them away?" Lu Ning pointed at the limbs in Cai Shen's hand. That arm.
"It's not clear, we still know too little. We don't know if arms are necessary for butchers, but for ordinary people, such arms should be something that can be replaced at any time, right?"
The people behind had also rushed over, and everyone was not surprised by such a tragedy. Rang and Yan Rong were kind enough to comfort Alex, and Yuan Jie and Lian Bisheng came directly to help check the scene.
"The murderer with bad taste..." Lian Bisheng looked at the bone totem, "This thing itself doesn't seem to have any special functions. It is just placed here to show off its power. The butcher doesn't seem to have this awareness."
"No way. We were told before that butchers would use humans to make all kinds of strange things." Zhu Qinyuan retorted, "Who else is wandering in the wasteland at this time?"
"What if it's another black moment? For example... I encountered an alarm and came here to avoid it, but Cai Shen didn't allow it, and the two sides had a dispute and started fighting?" Lu Ning said.
"Stop talking about that now, I didn't see the bodies of that girl and that boy!" Yuan Jie shouted loudly in the distance.
