The strong aroma of chili peppers floated in the air, and in front of me was a pot of hot pot that was rolling. However, the vegetables and meat used to cook it were slightly different from what you usually see.
Ana took a deep breath of satisfaction. She did have a taste for spicy food. If the candies in her pocket were not considered sugar but concentrated dishes, they actually tasted pretty good.
However, Lu Ning really couldn't accept the spiciness. After a few bites, she started to use light side dishes to relieve the spicy feeling in her mouth. On the other hand, Yan Rong and Ana ate enthusiastically. Lu Ning saw that the two of them had no time to talk, so she turned around and looked at this small shop that was operated without a license.
The store is not large, with only six tables inside, all of which are square tables that can only seat six people. The boss’s surname is Deng. Judging from his appearance, he is quite old. However, in the city, even if you are this age and have no money, you still have to earn a living. A few people in their fifties and sixties helping here really cannot take care of more people. guest.
Currently, there is only one table empty here, and the other tables are occupied by several office workers; some people dressed similarly to the axe-wielding gangsters we saw before; four students; and three members of a small group with weapons on their backs. The reputation of Red Soup Lao Guo here is pretty good, and at least the food Lu Ning eats is pretty normal.
But this night actually developed into such a situation... Looking back on today, I dealt with the school incident from morning to noon, then started wandering on the street in the afternoon, and encountered things like Steel Heart and Iron Seal, and then I came here again in the evening.
"Ana, what is the frequency of major events that happen in the outer city? For example, the one we had today, and other similar things?"
"It seems that it is not low overall. After all, the rewards from the nobles have never stopped. If nothing happens, we can't live on these." Ana swallowed what was in her mouth and quickly replied, "Even busy Sometimes we go back and forth, and we have dealt with five incidents in two days. But generally speaking, the impact of these incidents is not that big. At most, a few people die or a building is bombed. The incident on campus today The scale is quite large.”
"With such a high frequency, how can people from other cities still go to work with peace of mind?" Yan Rong also said something casually.
"I always feel that those things are far away until they happen to me. There was an incident before, and people from a block away could joke about it and didn't take it seriously at all." Ana put a plate of meat slices into her hands. Pour it into the pot, "Lan Tu told me that several people in Mercury Trigger are actually survivors, including him, Dorothy, and Dan Sheng. Maybe their feelings will be deeper."
"Survivor?" Lu Ning repeated in a low voice. This is not surprising. It is normal for people to seek changes when they encounter major changes in life. Those incidents that can be rewarded will definitely have a profound impact on the parties concerned, no matter how big or small they are.
She thought about these things and glanced outside the door, but she felt something strange outside.
The spicy smell in the air was mixed with a feeling of anxiety. Lu Ning frowned and raised his hand to push up the electronic eyeball. In the digital vision, the outside environment had already entered a very subtle high-synchronization state. This reaction is not normal.
Lu Ning reached out and grabbed his two knives. His action also caused the two people who were enjoying their meal to stop.
"What...what happened?" Uncle Deng, who was pushing some vegetables on a cart, saw the movements of the three people and stopped and looked at the door.
At the same time, the three people with weapons on their backs were also aware of the problem. They also stopped what they were holding. One of them stood up and said, "Don't move yet. I'll go and check the situation."
"Robin, the situation is unusual, don't take risks." Another man with braids on his head crossed his arms, "Chai Ying, use the reconnaissance robot."
"That thing is so expensive!" The woman sitting opposite muttered. She took out a palm-sized square box from her pocket and twisted it with a key. Four wheels and a full-width square box immediately protruded from it. The camera slowly moves towards the door.
At this time, other diners also noticed that something was wrong with the atmosphere. The office workers looked confused, the students shrank into the corner, and the gangsters looked nervous.
"Lu Ning, what's going on outside?" Yan Rong asked in a low voice.
"You can't tell. It's just that all kinds of data are converging. Temperature, light, energy... This should be obviously reflected in visual observation, but in fact we don't see anything, right?"
You can see through the window next to the door that it is indeed the usual dark night outside.
The iron box robot passed through the curtain and came outside. The woman named Chai Ying took out a mobile phone-sized surveillance screen and began to observe the situation outside. After a few seconds, she raised her head and said, "I didn't see anything."
"No, there is definitely something wrong outside." Robert grabbed the hilt of the sword behind his back with his backhand, "What if-"
Bang!
Someone bumped into the door frame, as if it came suddenly. Chai Ying didn't even see where he came from. The man raised the door curtain halfway, with a drunken look on his face, and scratched his arms with his hands. He grinned when he saw the people in the store: "Hey... where are you guys... eating...?"
Only then did Lu Ning remember the appearance of these three people. They were also the first tourists to gather at the martial arts venue at the distribution center. However, Lu Ning was not focused on remembering the faces of these people at the time, so it took so long to remember these people. personal.
But now even though she recognized him, she still focused on the drunkard who broke in first. This man's strength doesn't look strong at all, and he even seems to be just an unemployed vagrant wandering nearby, but some crumb-like things are constantly falling from his hands that are trying hard to scratch.
-That's skin.
"Hey! Tell me your name! Otherwise, don't blame me for kicking you out!" Ana stood up directly, pulled out her saber and pointed it at the drunken man. The drunk man acted as if he hadn't seen it, still leaning against the door and smiling strangely, but his brows slowly wrinkled.
"It's so itchy... Tsk, I guess I drank fake wine again... That dead wine seller, I know he can't sell anything good... Huh? Huh?"
He finally stopped what he was doing and raised his hands. The dirty fingernails were filled with thread-like things, and some were even outside.
"Robin, Ise... Am I right?" Chai Ying had already retreated to the side, her hands reaching behind her back, ready to attack.
At this time, everyone could clearly see that the drunkard had scratched most of the skin off his forearm, but the strange thing was that he didn't shed a drop of blood. Through a thin layer of fat, you could see the bright red color inside. muscles.
"Hey! Report to the boss quickly! Something must have happened here!" A gangster picked up a stool with his backhand and shouted at the people next to him while carefully watching the drunken man's movements.
"My face...it's itchy too! My legs are itchy too! Have I not taken a shower for too long? I'm really..." The drunk man scratched a handful of his face, and this time it was no longer stripes, but all The entire piece of skin was pulled off by him. He was stunned for a moment when he looked at the piece of skin, "What is this rag-like thing?"
At this moment, Ana's cell phone rang in her pocket. The ringtone startled several people. She quickly took out her phone and connected it. Lu Ning saw Ana's expression quickly change from doubtful to nervous.
"Lan Tu...I'm here now."
Lan Tu on the other side of the phone said something hastily, and after Ana hummed a few times, she hung up the phone.
"Is it Lan Tu?" Yan Rong asked.
"Yes, just now..." Ana looked at the people around her. Even she hesitated before continuing, "A new reward was just released, which included a glorious sacrifice warning issued by Sacrifice."
"I guess it's at our place?" Lu Ning asked.
"Yes, it covers about three blocks. Everyone in this area is currently treated as 'dead'. This glorious sacrifice is tentatively named 'Shedding', and the nobles will directly send people to deal with it." Cold sweat broke out on Ana's forehead, "It's really bad this time..."
"what is going on?"
The drunk man had already torn off a large area of his skin and looked like a living mannequin. However, he continued to scratch the parts of his body without realizing it. If he was bleeding, it would look normal. Not a drop of blood was shed.
"Get out!" The gangster didn't know where the courage came from. He picked up the stool and rushed forward. The stool hit the drunk man. It was obvious that he had used strength. The stool made a clicking sound and broke one of his legs. Han took a step back, staggered and fell outside.
"Haha, haha... But that's it..." The gangster gasped and laughed, "Let me see you again..."
At this moment, Chai Ying shouted: "Get out of the door!"
The gangster obviously couldn't react to these words. Instead, he turned his head and glanced at Chai Ying. Then his head flew out with the force of turning his head, spinning twice on the ground before stopping.
With a "gudong" sound, the headless body fell down. Then the door curtain was violently torn apart, and a man nearly two meters tall with bulging blood-red muscles and no skin stood at the door. His eyes were bloodshot. He stuck out his tongue and licked his skinless lips, and glanced around the room. , then opened his mouth and said some words with weird pronunciation.
"Chai Ying! What weapon did he use to cut off his head?" Robbe asked in a low voice.
"Blow! This guy just blew into the door curtain! This is no longer a normal monster! We have to retreat!" Chai Ying screamed.
The business also attracted the attention of the muscle geek. He looked at Chai Ying with his eyelidless eyes, showing an ugly smile. His muscles shrank, and he burst out with incredible speed in an instant. Even Lu Ning could only see There was a red afterimage, and Ise and Robbe were unable to react to his sudden sprint!
In an instant, a roar and explosion came from behind Lu Ning. The iron-gray giant shadow hit the muscular weirdo who launched the sudden attack first. The huge blunderbuss spit out indigo blue tail flames and led him towards He took the unoccupied table and smashed all the tables and chairs, but Chai Ying was still able to be saved.
Yan Rong stepped on the stool, pointed his spear at the muscular weirdo, and said, "Uncle Deng, I'm sorry for breaking some of your things. I'll make amends after everything is settled here. "
"Yan Rong! We can't defeat this monster!" Lu Ning glanced at the muscular weirdo who was getting up, "Now we have to find a way to escape from this area, not here..."
"Lu Ning, there are some monsters that you can tell at a glance that you can't beat them, but this one is certainly not the case." Yan Rong was not prepared to retreat at all, "Yes, we have to leave here, but I must go through the main entrance. We can beat it." If you can’t beat him, you still have to fight him head-on to find out!”
As soon as he finished speaking, Yan Rong had already jumped up on the stool, and the dark red light attached to the spear was pointed at the strange man who had not yet gotten up and raised the door cover!
"Ouch!!!"
As the weirdo roared, he pulled out the musket stuck on his body and intercepted Yan Rong's attack laterally. Unexpectedly, Yan Rong couldn't compete with him. The force of his spear changed midway, and he retracted like a snake, and stabbed into the weirdo's chest with unparalleled ferocity!
The weirdo was originally caught off guard by the blunderbuss. At this moment, he didn't have time to defend himself. He was stabbed in the heart by a gunshot. He staggered back a few steps. The blunderbuss in his hand also flew away. Yan Rong jumped up and used his left hand. He also took the blunderbuss gun.
"That's all." She sneered.
Lu Ning had to admit that Yan Rong could always break her perception of military tourists.
But at the same time, even if he was shot in the heart, the weirdo did not shed any blood. Instead, his muscles quickly closed to block the wound, and he stabilized his figure again, staring at Yan Rong with a pair of eyes.
"The heart is not fatal? It seems that he is no longer a human being..." Yan Rong raised his guns and rushed forward again. The muscular weirdo immediately bulged his cheeks and stretched out his arms to grab Yan Rong's guns. No matter what, His speed and strength are still higher than Yan Rong, and it is quite easy to seize weapons.
"Don't have a long memory!"
The gun gun exploded and ignited again. The built-in micro-reactor provided extremely strong thrust. Yan Rong deliberately moved the gun gun forward, and the monster just grabbed it. The moment he pinched it, he was carried away by the sudden increase in power. With his body free, Yan Rong twisted around at high speed, jumped up slightly, and the spear in his right hand plunged from his mouth like lightning, straight into his throat!
"Gu... click!"
The breath was stuck back into his mouth, and the weirdo had to let go of the gun again, but this time he put his hands together and directly held the handle of Yan Rong's gun, and then suddenly inhaled the air, his head was like a balloon The same expansion - his throat was blocked, but he could still accumulate air!
Yan Rong was caught with the weapon in mid-air. He immediately used his hands to hold it up, and used the power of the monster to flip to a higher place. When he let go, his hands slightly staggered. The two weapons were carved like flutes, but the tips were equipped with sharp guns. The pointed city-breaking spear suddenly appeared and was aimed at the weirdo in the air.
If you pierce the heart, you won't die, if you pierce the throat, you won't die?
Yan Rong narrowed his eyes slightly and waved his hands together. With a strong sound vibration, the twelve-note city-breaking spear made a loud noise like a mountain collapsing and the earth was cracking. At this time, the weirdo also exhaled sharp invisible gas through his nose. Sharp knives, the two sides' attacks staggered past each other. A broken halo flashed around Yan Rong, and the two giant spears pierced directly into the weirdo's head, and the "balloon" exploded instantly!
