The people around him were stunned. There were so many powerful characters in today's brawl, first Zhou Jin, Yang Xiaoxiao, then Yang Bensheng, Lin Qian, and now even the always inconspicuous Chen Xinyan has hidden such strength.
Xia Shuang and Qin Xiaowen couldn't help but look at each other. It turned out that the people here were not easy to deal with, and each one was hiding deeper than the other. On the contrary, the two of them were ignorant and naive.
They couldn't help but imagine that maybe even if Yang Bensheng didn't fight back in time, maybe a few of these people would be able to protect themselves...
In the eyes of outsiders, Lin Qian and Chen Xinyan are actually somewhat similar in appearance, especially their eyebrows. Two beauties who have also learned kung fu and have incredible fighting prowess, one as passionate as fire and the other as cold as iceberg, now collide in one place, and naturally they are about to compete.
The two played ping-pong together. Although Lin Qian was prepared this time, the victory was still decided quickly.
Since the cold weapon era, martial arts schools have spread all over the country. As a martial arts family, Chen Xinyan is involved in many common boxing schools. It is said that I learned it out of interest, but it is surprisingly fast to learn, and the actual results are surprisingly good. People have to lament the gap between geniuses and ordinary people.
Compared with her, Lin Qian, who has three years of experience in modern fighting, looks like an ordinary person who has never learned kung fu.
Until Lin Qian faced her and used a similar set of punches. The punches are hard and soft, fast and slow, fast and still, with a clear rhythm of punches, chops, teases, and thrusts, and the power between the big opening and closing is quite good. This set of boxing techniques can restrain many changes of Five Elements Jiu-Jitsu in a blink of an eye, and it is obviously a small success.
"Chen Family Boxing, where did you steal it?" Chen Xinyan's face suddenly changed color. Their family knowledge has always been strictly prohibited from spreading to outsiders, and there is no reason for it to be left outside.
"Can you care?" Although Lin Qian was surprised by the other party's reaction, she refused to let it go.
"Chen Style Tai Chi, you are from the Chen family." Lin Wenjin walked over from a distance, and it turned out that he also saw Chen Xinyan's footsteps.
"Dad, what nonsense are you talking about? Her surname is Chen, so she belongs to the Chen family."
"It's not an ordinary Chen family," Lin Wenjin shook his head. "It's the Chen family in northern Wenzhou, one of the eight major families in Asia and the Pacific. It's an interstate tycoon with a seat on the Federal Autonomous Council. Your mother was also a Chen family."
When she heard him mention her deceased mother, Lin Qian was shocked and speechless.
Why...you've never mentioned anything like this in all these years.
As early as eighteen years ago, Lin Wenjin had seen the Chen family's rigidity and stubbornness. In order to prevent the new team from getting into trouble with the Chen family, he had no choice but to explain and tell the truth.
"Girl, who are you, Chen Xiwu?" Lin Wenjin sighed.
"Do you know my sister-in-law?" Chen Xinyan was even more shocked when she heard this, and she believed 80% of what she said.
She stared at Lin Wenjin's face carefully and suddenly exclaimed: "Your surname is Lin, you are the young man in my sister-in-law's photo album!"
Chen Xinyan remembered that it was the most secretive past event of the previous generation in her family. It is said that her sister-in-law Chen Xiwu, the most intelligent and cheerful little princess of the Chen family at the time, broke up with the family because she broke off the engagement without permission when she was eighteen years old. The root cause was this man.
It's just that Chen Xiwu never came back after leaving the Chen family. I heard that Chen Xinyan died unexpectedly when she was still one year old...
"But now I am old." Lin Wenjin smiled bitterly, "But in my memory, she has always maintained her youthful appearance. If possible, I would like to go with her, but at that time we already had a daughter……"
"dad."
Lin Qian snuggled into Lin Wenjin's arms, recalling her unimpressed mother, her expression suddenly a little incomprehensible.
"Qian'er, it's okay if you're okay, it's okay if you're okay."
Lin Wenjin was also quite emotional. Fortunately, he and Yang Bensheng came back in time. Otherwise, if Lin Qian did something bad, he would regret it for the rest of his life. Although the daughter once again suffered from a strange madness, she was not injured, and she still remembered her father, so there was nothing more to say.
He could feel it - no matter what changes happened, this was still his Lin Wenjin's daughter.
"Ah, I know! You are the genius sister of the Chen family. I often hear my family mention you." Qin Xiaowen in the crowd suddenly became excited, as if she had discovered a great treasure.
"It turns out to be Miss Xinyan from the Chen family in North Wenzhou." Xia Qing had obviously heard this name many times. "I wondered how it was such a coincidence that we met someone with the same name."
"I've met Miss Chen." The Chen and Qin families are family friends, so Xia Shuang hurriedly greeted her.
Lei Li also said: "Three years ago, the Chen family hosted the Shanghe Summit. I and my little friend also met once. I wonder if Lord Chen is in good health now?"
Chen Xinyan nodded in greeting: "Elder Laurel is worried about me. My father has passed away from his old illness. Please send my regards to Mr. Qin for me."
Her response was polite, but her expression seemed distant. She only smiled when she faced the eager Qin Xiaowen.
…
Lin Qian and Chen Xinyan just ended the last battle on the battlefield.
Without the sound of gunshots, explosions and the clash of metal and iron, the Taifeng gas station on the outskirts of the city fell into silence for the first time in a long time.
It had only been half a day since Zhou Jin's sneak attack in the afternoon. People were surprised to discover this fact, but they still couldn't help but feel that the hour or two during which the two sides faced off seemed to be longer than a year combined.
After this battle, except for Zhou Jin who was seriously injured and escaped, the other comrades Lao Hu, Wang Ming, and Chen Chong have all surrendered. It may be regarded as a tragic victory for Lang Hua and others. After this battle, many of our own ability users were injured. Ordinary evolved people were killed or injured in the later melee and pursuit. Now the team is falling apart and has lost nearly 80% of its strength. If we encounter a group of corpses again, everyone will die without a burial place. Fortunately, they had already escaped from the city, and the possibility of being unexpectedly surrounded by corpses was extremely low.
It is now dark in the west, and when the last twilight hours pass, the night will come soon.
Lang Hua stood up with his own strength and looked around. The ruins and bloodstains after the battle were everywhere. The people who had walked all the way from the hospital rooftop were almost all dead now.
He couldn't help but wonder - if he hadn't rescued these people, would the team's journey have been so bumpy? After all, if there were fewer people, they might have arrived at the base by now...
A high fever of nearly 40 degrees made Lang Hua feel dizzy. Even every breath takes a lot of effort. After waking up from this coma, Lang Hua understood that during the rebirth two years ago, his conscious body was not intact after traveling through the time and space blockchain. Not only was it riddled with holes, but it also suffered a lot of hidden injuries.
Crossing time and space has always been a theoretical possibility, and no one knows what hidden dangers and consequences it will cause. But one thing is certain - there is no longer enough time left for Lang Hua.
There is always repulsion between the uncoordinated dimensions of time and space, and the load on the consciousness level exceeds the limit... Perhaps the existence of my own consciousness in the previous life is causing damage to this body every moment...
He may no longer be able to support another "thirteen years" like he did in his previous life.
And whether it is the future of the race or his lover and friends who died early in the disaster, if he continues to waste precious time as casually as before, it is very likely that... nothing can be done.
Thinking of this, Lang Hua's heart gradually became cold and gradually turned into a stone without temperature.
He grabbed Hai Ping's horizontal sword, walked to the wounded enemy, and killed the most seriously injured person with one blow. The physiques of evolvers in the apocalypse are much stronger. Although these people are not of a high level, they can accelerate wound recovery by absorbing floating energy in the atmosphere. But the man had been hit by a bullet through the chest, and his evolutionary level was only at the early stage of the first level. Even if Lang Hua didn't kill him, he probably wouldn't be able to survive for a few more days.
Lang Hua's sudden attack really frightened many people present. No matter Yang Bensheng, Lin Wenjin, or the rooftop survivors, they were almost speechless.
Yang Bensheng originally wanted to eliminate the root cause and eliminate future troubles, so he didn't want Lang Hua to hold back.
But according to his opinion, Lang Hua shouldn't do this kind of thing himself. After all, there were some outsiders such as the Armed Forces and the Qin family at the scene. As the apparent leader of the team, Lang Hua still had to do some superficial work.
Fortunately, Lang Hua did not use the sword again. He walked to Haiping, who was still in a state of despair, and coldly said:
"Kill them, and I will use their brains to refine my sword."
One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and after a brief hesitation, the survivors on the rooftop fled like crazy.
Haiping also silently picked up the knife and caught up with those people one by one. No matter how they cried and confessed and begged, he neatly wiped their necks with the knife. In the end, the two people were completely desperate, and while cursing everything, they were stabbed through the heart.
No one knows what Haiping was thinking in the last minute before he picked up the knife, staring at the bloody knife surface.
…
The doomsday world after the disaster is a brand new and most incredible world. After the black mist spores invaded the world, the various phenomena caused and the various products derived completely broke ordinary human beings' understanding of the natural world for thousands of years.
And if we want to rank these magical things, the first thing that bears the brunt is "crystalline energy".
As the most miraculous phenomenon-level product in the cataclysmic world, it can promote the evolution of all things, delay death, and even indirectly lead to the creation of various evolutionary abilities and ability users. It seems that as long as anything is involved with the energy of the crystal core, there will always be some unexpected changes.
In addition to the killing physical skills, evolutionary abilities, and new weapons produced after the explosive development of crystal energy technology, the cold weapons in the cataclysmic world also have their own unique ways to shine.
The crystal core energy that can make living things evolve also has a miraculous effect on cold weapons.
In the apocalypse, there are often two ways to strengthen cold weapons, forging and sacrificing.
The former uses new materials produced after the end of the world to create new and stronger weapons. For example, rare materials with crystal energy attributes are added during smelting or later forging.
The theoretical basis of the latter is based on brand-new "biochemical physics". It uses "parts" rich in crystal energy and stronger catalytic properties in crystalline organisms as materials to warm and refine the formed cold weapons, making them It comes with crystal energy properties.
Among the two methods, the first one seems to be more orthodox, but fewer people use it. The second method of sacrificial refining, often called "blood sacrifice", is actually more widely used.
During the precarious thirteen years of the apocalypse, mankind struggled to survive after falling from the altar at the top of the biological chain, and the moral bottom line was much blurred.
Of course, normal battles in the apocalypse are also a type of sacrifice. Whether it is a battle between people or between people and other creatures, the more evolved creatures the cold weapon kills and the more abundant crystal energy flesh and blood it comes into contact with, the more it will naturally complete the sacrifice and increase its quality.
No one would object to a knife being too sharp and powerful, and the same goes for Lang Hua. At night, he concentrated the crystal nuclei he could collect, crushed them all into particles, mixed them with the brains of evolved creatures, and wrapped them overnight. Finally, with the help of Lin Wenjin's energy flame, he completed the initial care of Mo Dao.
A few hours later, Lang Hua removed the cloth wrapping on the surface of Mo Dao and saw that the original "lotion" had turned into a lot of useless powder with a dark color. In contrast, the Modao blade after the blood sacrifice was crystal clear, and the blade flashed with a blue-purple light from time to time. Just by looking at it, there is a sense of urgency that it is being targeted by a wild beast. It is obvious that the weapon level has been raised by at least one level.
Lang Hua took the knife in his hand and walked out of the door. Without looking at the fragmented human corpses, he climbed straight up the steel ladder to the rooftop.
According to Chen Xinyan, he had a high fever after he fell into coma and may develop intracranial infection over time. He relied on the energy of "Bing Qinglian" to keep him going until now. In accordance with Chen Xinyan's request, Yang Bensheng brought back a large bag of 10 mg torisidine intravenous injection solution, a variety of broad-spectrum antibacterial and anti-inflammatory drugs, and special antipyretics that she needed.
That night, after receiving treatment, Lang Hua's mind gradually became clear and quiet, his limbs were warm, his cyanosis disappeared, his blood pressure rose and his pulse pressure widened, indicating that he was recovering well.
Although only Lang Hua himself knows the real cause of this illness, it is undeniable that his life was saved by modern medicine this time. In the catastrophic world, pathogenic bacteria mutate rapidly, and the cytotoxins they produce are particularly strong. If the human body is taken advantage of when it is weak, even low-level ability users will be in danger of death.
After climbing up a rusty steel ladder, Lang Hua arrived at the central rooftop of Taifeng Gas Station. It is said to be a rooftop, but in fact it is just a flat roof. The roof covered with silver-black waterproof membrane was surrounded by a circle of low walls and railings more than one meter high, and Lin Qian was waiting for him in the center of the roof.
"You came very slowly." Lin Qian's voice was very impatient.
"Really?" Lang Hua smiled, showing an indifferent look, "We have to take care of the injured."
"Then you don't have to come."
"How can that be done?" Lang Hua spread his hands, "I can't do that."
"Oh? Then why do you, a 'former patient', want to see me? You can't invite me to a place like this to celebrate your recovery, right?"
Lin Qian suddenly smiled charmingly, and her slender phoenix eyes made a faint glance, and continued teasing: "The cool breeze here makes the little girl shiver, so it is not a good place to fall in love~ "
"In your opinion, would I be so romantic?" Lang Hua grinned and asked, his white teeth looking very dazzling in the morning light.
"Hey, he is such an ignorant little man." Lin Qian said leisurely, and unknowingly walked towards Lang Hua, and soon the two of them were almost face to face.
"I don't know, you called me here, a man and a woman...what do you want to do?"
Lin Qian's hot breath, with a faint fragrance that seemed to be nothing, hit the side of Lang Hua's face, making the latter feel his earlobes itching.
"ah."
With a coquettish cry, Lang Hua took advantage of her unpreparedness and suddenly grabbed the other person's waist and leaned over him condescendingly. The two people's eyes met, and the tips of their noses were almost touching. With their skin touching each other, you can clearly feel each other's warmth.
"What do you think?" Lang Hua exhaled, "Don't you know better?"
Lin Qian's beautiful eyes rolled around, her long eyelashes flickered slightly, and there seemed to be a hint of surprise and a hint of smile in her eyes.
She suddenly stood up straight, forcing Lang Hua to slowly let go. Lin Qian took three steps back and came to the fence. She raised her head and looked at Lang Hua and said, "Why don't you tell me and listen."
Lang Hua looked at the person in front of him, at the light blue eye shadow she applied with glaze makeup he didn't know where, and at the bright red lip gloss on her lips under the smoky makeup. She had her long wavy hair with red edges tied into a high bun, looking full of arrogance.
Lang Hua couldn't help but said in a deep voice: "Who are you?"
Lin Qian flipped her long hair around her ears, revealing a section of her neck as white as a swan, and asked, "Why do you ask like that?"
"At least I think you are not the Sister Qian I know."
"Oh, that's so intimate." Lin Qian sneered, "Any Lin Qian can do it. But instead of this, let's have a chat. I should ask you this question for her. So. Leader Lang Hua, who always knows everything, who are you?"
"Her? Are you talking about Lin Qian?" Lang Hua asked, but when Lin Qian waved her hand, a line of sand in the distance was pulled by it, and finally a tomahawk that was the same as before condensed in her hand.
The only difference is that the ax is not made of steel. However, after Lin Qian devoured the earth pulse that captured Chen Chong, she was able to pressurize ordinary sand and forge it, and the resulting hardness was far superior to ordinary metal.
You know, if both pressure and temperature conditions are met, humans were able to extract diamonds from ordinary sand before the disaster!
Faced with the ax suddenly struck by the red-haired Lin Qian, Lang Hua didn't think anything else. He stepped back and took the Mo Dao that he had been carrying behind him to block it in front of him. The next moment, the sound of gold and iron clashing was heard, and the stone ax collided heavily with Mo Dao with unparalleled power.
In a head-on battle, the strength of power-type ability users cannot be underestimated. Lang Hua was instantly knocked away and did not stop until his back hit another section of railing.
"It's Bashan!"
He did not expect that after merging and absorbing Chen Chong's earth ability, Earth Pulse, Lin Qian's original power would be promoted to the second stage. As a higher-level evolutionary ability, mountain climbing is no longer limited by the time of use of hegemony. Not only is it more powerful and explosive, it also has a permanent increase in the user's speed.
Today, Lin Qian has reached the level of a first-class warrior. If he were to fight Chen Xinyan again at this time, he would definitely not lose!
"You ask me who I am, and if I tell you, are you qualified to listen?"
The red-haired Lin Qian raised her chin high and walked over step by step.
"Why are you still calling 'Sister Qian'? What do you know about this child?"
"Did you know that when she was a child, she was bullied by others because she had no mother?"
"Do you know the wounds she buried deep in her heart? Do you know how many times she woke up from nightmares in the middle of the night and cried quietly?"
"Do you think you understand her? But in Lin's Club, when those men wanted to bully her, where were you? Where did you go when she needed you most?"
The red-haired Lin Qian struck at Lang Hua with one axe after another. Each axe was filled with sharp questioning and poured into Lang Hua with huge force.
Lang Hua understood at this moment that it turned out that this second personality had been generated when Lin Qian was a child. She was Lin Qian's protective shield when she was weak. Whenever Lin Qian encounters an unbearable dilemma, her true personality will close itself, and the second personality is the spiked armor that stays outside to fight everything on her behalf.
I just don’t know if Sister Qian is aware of the existence of this personality...
"I have been the only one protecting her all these years. You just attacked her two years ago. Who do you think you are? Ask me who you are. Do you have the qualifications?"
The stone ax struck the Mo Dao with great force, causing Lang Hua's arms to go numb.
Of course, although the stone ax is hard, the Mo Dao is no longer what it used to be after being strengthened. Under the action of the strange blue-purple sword light, the evolutionary crystal energy mobilized by the ability blade invaded the stone ax along the junction and wreaked havoc, causing the stone ax to fly apart, and many fine cracks quickly appeared on the ax surface. crack.
But Lang Hua was recovering from a long illness, and his strength had completely diminished, and he was completely suppressed for a while.
Slowly, he also lost his temper.
"clang!"
Under Lang Hua's control, Mo Dao suddenly exerted force and lifted up fiercely, directly smashing the stone ax into pieces. The rubble instantly scattered in all directions, hitting the low wall with ping-ping-pong-pong-pong-pong-pong-pong-pong, and countless white dots immediately appeared.
"Blade! Charge forward!"
Lang Hua holds the knife with one arm, his speed surges, and he counterattacks the opponent in an instant.
He looked down at the other person from a high position, the tip of the knife hanging in front of the red-haired Lin Qian's throat. The distance was so close that the latter seemed to feel a pinprick-like chill on his skin.
"Qualifications? I never thought I had any qualifications."
"I admit that I am not a good person, and I don't want to be a good person." Lang Hua said seriously, "I have sworn that I will save people in this life. Anyone who blocks my way will die!"
"And you'd better return the real Lin Qian before my patience runs out!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Lang Hua put away the Mo Dao and returned the same way without looking back.
Only the red-haired Lin Qian still slumped on the ground and scratched her neck: "That child believes in you so much and believes that you will come to save her? It really makes me feel incredible. Lang Hua, I really can't see through you. , I don’t understand you as a person, and I don’t understand your past. But you’d better be honest, because I’m always watching you!”
"You don't have to worry about it now!"
The voice coming from Lang Hua was cold. Since the other party is not Sister Qian, there is no need to waste your goodwill...
After returning to the ground from the rooftop, it was time for others to pack their luggage.
It is said to be luggage, but in fact it is just some weapons and equipment that can be used in the base in the future, and some limited food. Since we are only one step away from the base, there is no need to let these rifles rot with the corpses, right?
At the front of the team, Lin Wenjin was carrying a mountaineering bag and casually asked the two of them: "Daughter, what are you and Xiaohua doing table tennis on the roof?"
"It's nothing. I'm just a sparring partner." Lin Qian spread her hands and said nonchalantly, and then took a hard look at Lang Hua's back with her eyes.
Bah, a cruel man who doesn't know how to show mercy to a woman.
Red-haired Lin Qian thought as she rubbed her red wrists.
