After a night's rest, people left early the next day. When Lu Ning woke up, she saw that most people's tents had been taken away, and only the bearded man was still there leisurely heating a can of breakfast.
"Uncle, have everyone left?" Lu Ning asked.
"Many people get up early in this place. After all, you never know when you may no longer have to worry about sleeping." The bearded man stirred the contents of the jar and replied with a smile.
Lu Ning didn't know what these people were thinking. Even though they knew the danger here, they still flocked to them like moths to a flame. But the reasons why a question was asked last night were also different.
"Then it's time for me to set off."
"Haha, okay, little girl, see you later." The bearded man waved his hand, and Lu Ning left the camp.
Shortly after Lu Ning left, another person came to the camp, this time it was still one person. In the spirit of hospitality, the bearded man raised his head and then froze.
The person who came was wearing a heavy coat, with dark red and black as the main colors. He looked elegant and luxurious. He was holding an unusual tobacco pipe in his hand. He had a long beard and a ruddy complexion. These are all normal parts.
But there are many holes on his face, not the holes caused by some popular piercing elements that Big Beard knows, but some irregular, large and small black holes, one is even in the eye area, which makes His appearance became even more terrifying.
"How are you doing, man."
Before the bearded man could speak, the man spoke first. The rough voice was like a grinding wheel in the throat, but the tone sounded gentle.
"Hello...Hello." The bearded man forced a smile, "You are..."
"I look scary, don't I? Don't worry, how many people in this world have changed their appearance now? As long as our hearts have not changed, we are still who we are, right?"
The man smoked a cigarette and blew out a puff of white smoke into the air. At the same time, a large amount of smoke came out of the hole in his face.
"Are you okay?"
"I'm fine, friend. It's just that I think your condition may not be very good. You come here because you have an attitude of being indifferent to death and want to see things you haven't seen before. Isn’t it?”
"Uh...your superpower is mind reading? How do you know?"
This man walked to where Lu Ning was sitting before, sat down, and tapped the pipe lightly on the stone.
"You can call me a puncher, friend. My ability is not to read minds, but I have seen a lot of different people and different things. In fact, you are still full of passion for life, and now it is just the way forward. The confusion makes you feel a little confused. But people like you shouldn't pay the price of your life because of this. You don't deserve to die, and you can't die."
"Me... me?" The bearded man was a little confused.
"Yes, you had dreams, but they were buried by society. You had family, but they were taken away by the cruel reality. My friend, you just succumbed to this resigned fate, but you never thought about it. It's reasonable. Does this world really love you? Have you ever thought about getting rid of the shackles of fate from this opportunity and regaining control of your own freedom?"
The bearded man slowly raised his hands to cover his face.
"But I don't feel like I..."
"Give me your hand, we are friends, and I can lead you out of this misery. You are the one we are looking for, 'The Poet'."
The puncher raised his hand, and after about a minute, he received the hand he was waiting for.
"Thus……"
Behind him, there was the sound of chaotic footsteps.
The leader was dressed in white robes, with a split forehead and a starry sky rotating in a place that looked like an eye. The astrologer put his hands behind his back with a serious expression: "We can also regroup the power of the ten believers. No matter what, we God cannot be taken away in any way. We may not be able to participate in the war between gods and false gods, but we can still destroy the believers of false gods."
The puncher stood up, and at this time, the bearded man behind him also stood up. There are many wrinkles added to his face, as if it can be easily opened. He was still a little confused, but when the astrologer handed him a token made of unknown material, he suddenly showed an expression of realization.
"So this is you...so this is..."
The puncher laughed and looked at the astrologer: "Your divination is indeed never wrong. He is indeed a suitable person."
"Of course." The astrologer also nodded, "Now, all we have to do is to sort out the people around us. We are the largest force here, and even the official power cannot accept it. Compared with us who have been baptized by the gods. As for us, as long as we can watch over our gods, we will one day be able to move towards our own happiness."
What Lu Ning didn't expect was that after the "invisible void" moved, it would become very difficult to distinguish.
This type A virus individual was originally on a high mountain. The cavity itself will turn the surrounding things close to it into a state similar to the accretion disk around the black hole. There are many dead branches on the mountain, and there is a circle of this kind of thing around it. Easy to identify. But when it moves, those previous things are restored to their original state and are not taken away. The reason why the invisible void is so named is itself completely unobservable.
The group of believers were not stupid. They did not follow the invisible void and kept moving. Lu Ning couldn't just take a bag of sand and scatter it everywhere. The area that needed to be searched was too big.
After the Lanhai Tomb Lantern arrived last night, the Invisible Hollow was the last individual that had not yet arrived. The light from the semi-crystal pillars had made the town completely inaccessible, pure light pollution.
But even if they don't know, people know that the invisible void is definitely on the way.
Lu Ning found some blood stains around an extinguished campfire. They still looked fresh. They were definitely blood stains left after this morning. Due to the pressure of various monsters around, people rarely break out into fights. Now that everyone is in a stable period, the possibility of bloodshed is very low.
She squatted down, checked the fresh dead air here, and then followed the dead air that had not dissipated. About five hundred meters away from the campfire, a muddy pool of water had been dyed red with blood. Lu Ning glanced over and saw that about eight people had been dismembered and dumped here.
The corpse had just died in the morning, but it was already swollen due to the water soaking, not to mention that it was all corpse parts. Lu Ning reluctantly recognized the weapons used based on a few pieces that were relatively close to the shore. They were all used by ordinary humans, and some of the wounds on them showed that this seemed to be just an ordinary weapon fight.
But would ordinary fighting men go to great lengths to bring the body here and dump it? This is the end of the world, and it is normal to have a few corpses in the wilderness. There may even be monsters passing by to help clean up the scene.
The most important thing is that the scene is full of death, with no life left. According to common sense, there is no living person involved in this matter. Although it is not ruled out that super powers similar to necromancy are at work, this matter still feels a bit strange no matter how I think about it.
At this moment, she heard calls for help coming from afar.
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Chu Wei is running for his life.
He and Lu Chunxiao had met with people who knew Meng Bin before, and after discussion, they finally decided to ask Zhao Xihua to leave the convoy, and Zhao Xihua quickly agreed. She does not force everyone to stay under her, and she will not retain those who have already begun to intend to leave.
The two of them were originally very happy about this. After all, in their psychology, Zhao Xihua's team was still not an orthodox organization. Only Meng Bin and what he represented were the ones that really deserved to go. When leaving, they didn't tell anyone about meeting Meng Bin, they just said goodbye.
But when they rushed to the station where Meng Bin and others were stationed today, they encountered a group of strange guys.
The bodies of these people have undergone more or less changes, and their superpowers have become very powerful, and they are also proficient in fighting. When they saw Chu Wei and Lu Chunxiao, they just stayed there for a moment, then waved their weapons to kill them, not listening to a word of explanation. The two knew at a glance that they could not fight, so they had no choice but to flee. When passing through a place with complex terrain, Chu Wei asked Lu Chunxiao to hide and wait for an opportunity to ask for help, while he lured the people away.
Then he realized that he could no longer outrun these people.
As a former superpower reserve team, Chu Wei was not bad in terms of ability or physical training, otherwise he would not have been the main force of the track and field team before. But now he found that he was a little tired from running, and the group of people behind him were still shouting and catching up as if they had been given blood. Even the distance between them was not much wider, and they obviously had about the same physical strength.
In desperation, Chu Wei could only shout for help.
When Lu Ning arrived, he was awkwardly avoiding the stones thrown by the people behind him. When those stones were thrown out, they were covered with a layer of blue fire, and they were also very fast. Chu Wei's body It had been burned in several places, but he was quick and the fire was extinguished before it burned.
Lu Ning pulled out Bailu Weishuang, raising a cold mist and blocking Chu Wei's back. Upon seeing this, the group of pursuers immediately threw a piece of flint, which actually suppressed the coldness that turned white dew into frost.
These people all have varying degrees of alienation on their bodies. Their condition is only slightly better than the people who were completely alienated by the Silent Pagoda before. However, their appearance is much better. Most of them have changes such as wings, metalization, and bone formation. It's very different from those with flesh and blood.
"Lu Ning?" Chu Wei was overjoyed to see her. Then he realized that she was alone and shouted: "Don't come over here! Run away! There's something wrong with these people!"
"Why isn't Sister Lu with you?"
"She's hiding! I can't stand it anymore, so get out of here quickly!"
Chu Wei had cooperated with Lu Ning. In his mind, Lu Ning's strength was that of a person with superpowers before the apocalypse. Even if he made progress in the apocalypse, he would still be unable to face this group of cruel people.
But Lu Ning did not retreat. Since the cold could be suppressed, he might as well try other methods. She put her hand into her arms and put on a previously captured Distortion Point Glove. She held the air in the air, and then swung it towards the group of people. The movement was not fast, but it caused a clear sound of breaking through the air.
Even if conventional weapons are invisible, they won't have much effect against some special enemies. However, Lu Ning's advantage is that she has used a variety of strange weapons during simulation training, such as a whip blade with a length of more than 20 meters.
She can simulate the feel of a weapon that would be useless to ordinary people. Of course, she can also simulate such an attack through deformed gloves. Although there was still some distance between the two sides, the sound of breaking through the sky was already approaching, and the group of believers were also stunned. A few raised their weapons and tried to hold up the weapons that came from unknown directions, but the weapons in their hands were instantly knocked away by the huge force.
Lu Ning immediately canceled the whip blade after hitting the first blow, condensed the second one with his backhand, and swept it out close to the ground. At this time, Chu Wei also immediately turned around, pulled out the long sword from behind, wiped his finger on the sword's edge, and the blood immediately activated the thunder on the sword.
"let me help you!"
Compared to those believers, Chu Wei had more combat experience. After Lu Ning's first attack, he roughly judged the shape and attack direction of the weapon used by Lu Ning. At this moment, with a finger of the sword, thunder and lightning immediately struck the weapon. The bodies of the believers went numb, followed by a burst of blood.
The invisible blade cut off several people's feet, but they did not make any cry of pain. The person behind stepped over the fallen person in front and continued to move forward ruthlessly, but held the weapon in his hand tighter, and a ignited fireball appeared in his hand instead of a stone attached to the fire. .
"Who are these people..." Chu Wei frowned. He could see that the fallen people were attaching their broken feet back to the broken surface, and growing something from their bodies to connect them. Their eyes were slightly dull, but they were definitely not stupid, and their movements and reactions were very quick.
...like a controlled puppet.
Lu Ning split a fireball with a sword, feeling slightly surprised. She wasn't surprised that these believers would eventually have some problems with their minds, but they were in this state. Although the changes that have occurred in this group of believers are different, if you look closely, you can still find that there are still many things in common.
She didn't know that this was a new believer organization headed by three core believers: "Astrologer", "Puncher" and "Shrouder", and after recruiting ten new believers and working with the invisible hollow.
Literally crafted.
The skin began to be replaced by their own characteristic substances, and the hollow faces of the believers began to peel off and crumble like old wallpaper over the years, revealing the ruined skulls inside.
