Early morning.
The empty streets were filled with bright moonlight, reflecting the remains of many corpses lying on the streets.
Dozens of bronze-bone warriors were diligently digging holes, dragging corpses, and burying them.
Qi Lin walked out of the temporary residence and led Heifeng towards Lei Street Park.
The ghost reported: The demon blood bud has appeared!
Qi Lin couldn't wait to use this demon to test the SSS-level skills of the mage leader.
Originally, he wanted to find a billboard or something to test it out.
But now that the Blood Bud has appeared, Qi Lin will temporarily let go of the billboard.
One person and one undead were walking leisurely when suddenly a survivor carrying a mountaineering backpack appeared in front of them and ran towards them.
Heifeng, who was behind Qi Lin, immediately stepped forward and blocked Qi Lin's body.
"Back off, Black Wind, it's okay."
Qi Lin used general investigation skills to investigate and found that he was only a level four Chosen One, and then told Hei Feng not to be so nervous.
Although this survivor looked haggard, there was an undisguised joy in his withered eyebrows.
The survivor came all the way from the east. He was originally blocked in the building by the corpse beast and was about to starve to death due to exhaustion of survival supplies.
But as luck would have it, a large number of skeletons appeared nearby at nightfall!
The skeletons swaying with will-o'-the-wisps killed the corpse beast neatly, then dragged the corpse away and left.
The survivor also used this to plunder some supplies nearby and ran out.
He saw Qi Lin coming slowly.
In the sparse moonlight, the survivor felt that the two men in tattered clothes might be like him, taking advantage of the skeletons' prestige to seize the opportunity to run out in search of supplies.
Then he lowered his voice to Qi Lin and said, "Hey! Those two buddies!"
Qi Lin was stunned when he heard this. He also met several survivors along the way.
But no one would choose to chat with passers-by at this time like this survivor.
The survivor trotted to Qi Lin. After keeping a certain distance from Qi Lin, he wiped the sweat on his forehead and reminded him kindly: "Don't go to Lei Street Park, there are monsters over there!"
"There just happened to be a group of skeletons coming nearby. While they are frantically killing corpse beasts and surrounding the park, you should go back quickly!"
"There is a military safety zone over there in Beicheng, and I heard there is another safety zone over there in Shushan. Going to either place is safer than staying here!"
Qi Lin looked at this kind-hearted survivor in surprise, smiled and said nothing, just nodded politely, and then led Heifeng to continue towards Lei Street Park.
After discovering the appearance of the Blood Bud, Qi Lin asked the nearby undead who were spreading vigilance to approach it and clear the area to prevent the incident of the man in the peaked hat from happening again.
In fact, most of the survivors did not need to be driven away by the undead. After seeing the arrival of the undead, they happily took the opportunity to go to nearby stores to search for supplies.
Sometimes when encountering brave survivors, the ghosts reported that they would pay respect to the bronze bones with their hands clasped together and bobbing up and down.
This discovery made Qi Lin feel an indescribable feeling.
Qi Lin is a person who never cares about what others think of him.
But this discovery made him feel a lot better.
Perhaps the undead gradually radiated into the city, and many survivors were benefited.
Or maybe the undead never harmed the survivors, and even solved the danger for them and protected them.
In addition, Qi Lin's undead did not need survival materials as much as human forces, and the survivors also obtained valuable survival materials.
Under the influence of various factors, especially the survivors' word of mouth that the skeletons are so awesome and good.
Qi Lin's skeletons have become the patron saints of the survivors who ran eastward in the city!
Seeing Qi Lin and Heifeng continue to walk towards the park, the survivors looked confused for a while and then shouted at Qi Lin's thin back: "Why are you still going there? There is no way to survive there!"
Qi Lin, who was in a good mood at the moment, did not look back. He kept walking and just raised his hand above his head, waved it and said with a smile, "My home is in front."
"Hey! Look at how weak your legs are!" The survivor stamped his feet, as if he had seen Qi Lin's fate of being eaten by the monster. He emphasized again and again: "You will die if you go there!"
If it were normal, Qi Lin might not pay attention to the other party. He didn't have free time to focus on things that had nothing to do with his own development.
Qi Lin doesn't care about anything else except blood drawing and development.
Qi Lin smiled again and replied: "It's okay, I want to die closer to home."
The survivor who heard this was silent and pursed his lips as if he was recalling something bad. He looked at Qi Lin's retreating back with an extremely lonely expression.
He thought that Qi Lin, like him, had his whole family killed by the corpse beast.
"Why"
The survivor sighed: "Another one is driven crazy!"
"This fucking world!"
"Draw it up, for God's sake!"
Immediately, the survivors ran towards Shushan carrying huge mountaineering bags.
It is useless to remember, the dead are irreparable, and the survivors will continue to struggle to survive in this world.
He heard that there was a Palace of Purity there.
It is said that its base camp is rooted in Shushan. It has thousands of chosen ones, as well as firearms and other weapons. It is said that it has a particularly good relationship with the military!
The survivors are ready to go to the Palace of the Past, which is backed by skeletons and actively befriended by the military.
"I don't know what kind of job I can get, as long as I don't starve to death."
The survivor touched the huge backpack on his back, which was filled with cigarettes, alcohol and other luxury goods, as well as several boxes of condoms.
In his opinion, these might help him successfully enter the great power of the Palace of Purity.
Lei Street Park.
The park area here is quite considerable, and it is said to be one of the key projects for landscape renovation of the high-voltage corridor.
On the basis of retaining the original vegetation, the park uses local materials to create a uniquely creative and modern urban park.
Before the disaster, many people liked to come here for a walk or something after dining in the evening.
The park, which originally had a good atmosphere, became filled with corpses after the disaster.
The corpses that were originally destined to rot began to move again after the demon blood sprouts appeared.
A ghost floated quietly in the park, carefully observing the rotting corpses with even half their heads left.
The fat white maggots may have felt the chill emanating from the ghost, and twisted their fat bodies back into the corroded skull.
These carrions controlled by the Blood Buds are not aggressive in any way.
Their only purpose is to seduce scavengers.
Qi Lin controlled the ghost and turned his attention elsewhere.
The originally lush green plants all turned into bright red and delicate magic plants with a faint fluorescent light.
This kind of delicate magical plant will be called: Blood Vine Grove after the end of the world.
The Blood Bud is not a plant monster, but an ultra-small monster with both soft body and soul, only the size of an ordinary insect.
Their consciousness is dispersed into clusters and they live in large numbers in the blood vine forest. They live in the shadows during the day and float around the forest at night. They especially like to occupy the carrion corpses and then seduce the carrion eaters to come and devour their souls. Evolution and growth.
The structure of the Blood Bud is very peculiar, consisting of an orange-yellow egg-shaped soul sac and a red base plate with tentacles.
Blood Buds have no eyes. They have suckers on the top of their tentacles that can sense souls and magic.
There are tentacles on both the upper and lower sides of the base plate. The upper tentacles hold the soul capsule, while the lower tentacles float freely in the air to support itself and grab objects.
Generally speaking, the overall appearance of the Blood Bud is like a cuttlefish floating in the air.
As its name suggests, the Blood Bud's soul capsule contains its own soul, but it can also hold the soul of other creatures.
When a nearby creature dies, the Blood Buds will swim over and dance around in the air.
Although I don’t know what happened specifically, with the help of this dance-like movement, the Blood Bud can store the fresh soul into the soul capsule, and then start to assimilate it with its own soul. At this time, the soul capsule will emit a faint glow. Light.
Absorption and assimilation can be carried out at the same time. At night, the blood buds turn into firefly-like light spots dancing in the air, which does have a somewhat weird beauty.
Qi Lin canceled his consciousness and activated his detection skills on the little things flying around.
[Demon Seed]: Blood Bud
[Status]: Sub-level demon species, in the development stage.
Note: The growth period of the blood buds depends on the amount of soul plunder. As long as the supply of souls is constant, the blood buds will continue to grow.
Note: Sub-level demons are the weakest type of demons among regular demons.
The two most significant classification characteristics of sub-level monsters are: they are either extremely fragile monsters, or they are the larvae or summons of other higher-level monsters.
[Occupation]: None
[Level]: 16 (Soul 23.54%) (Bronze Rank)
[Physique]: 1
【Spirit】：23
[Talent]: Soul occupation, soul storage
Note: After the blood buds occupy the soul of the prey for a period of time, it will devour and assimilate the soul of the prey until it is completely devoured and control the opponent's body.
Note: Blood Buds can invade and control soulless carrion.
Note: The number of souls contained in the soul capsule of the Blood Bud is limited. The assimilated soul residue will be discharged in the form of magic power and fill the air.
These subtle magical powers will attract other monsters to the bloodvine forest, and can also attract scavengers to eat the remaining corpses.
Once the assimilation begins, it cannot be stopped. Even if the soul capsule is broken midway and the soul overflows, the blood bud will try to swallow these incomplete soul fragments at the last moment of its life.
Note: For special cluster-like demon species, each cluster of Blood Buds shares a collective consciousness.
[Skills]: None
The benefits gained from the giant octopus, besides intelligence.
Qi Lin's biggest help right now is this universal detective skill.
At this moment, after reading the investigation information of Blood Bud, Qi Lin thoughtfully touched his chin and thought about it a lot.
"soul."
"This thing can store souls."
"Well"
Qi Lin raised his eyebrows, as if thinking of flesh and blood.
No, it should be the bud of the Soul Arsenal Project!
In her previous life, Qi Lin had only heard that the demon species in this park were very strange.
There were once chosen ones who came to kill the demon species, but just after meeting these seemingly harmless little guys, the little guys disappeared, and the chosen ones fell to the ground.
When the companions rushed back to the safe area for treatment, they found that the chosen one had no wounds at all.
Later, a chosen one with investigation skills came over to launch an investigation and learned that this thing was an unpreventable soul-type damage!
Later, Qi Lin heard that the park had been razed to the ground by the military's mass destruction techniques.
Qi Lin thought for a while and put the plan for the soul arsenal on hold for now.
Things like souls were too obscure, so he planned to leave this job to the Corpse Witch.
What he needs most now is experience and various currencies, materials and other things that have been revealed.
Whether it's the God of Blacksmith's fire or the treasure of the giant octopus, he needs to start preparing for a rainy day from now on.
After thinking about it, Qi Lin put his hands behind his back and waited quietly for the arrival of the mage group.
After another meeting, five black warriors quickly arrived at Qi Lin's side.
The black warriors carry a bone mage under each arm.
These mages were originally arranged by Qi Lin to summon skeletons in the stadium.
Qi Lin even found a huge billboard target near the stadium.
However, after discovering the blood buds, Qi Lin temporarily let go of the billboard and used the blood buds as a target.
Qi Lin turned to look at the mage leader who was moving his body and said with a smile, "Thank you for your hard work."
The leader of the mage group quickly knelt down on one knee and said seriously: "Everything is for your Majesty!"
"It's not a problem to be pushed around by the black warriors like this. I'll find a way to get you some mounts later."
"How about the frost dragon?" Qi Lin asked with a smile.
The leader of the mage group said in fear: "Your Majesty! I don't dare to do this."
Qi Lin smiled and waved his hand: "Okay, let me see your SSS-level skills. You said before that joint casting can share mental power, right?"
The mage leader quickly replied: "Yes, Your Majesty, even if other mages do not master the same skill, our joint spellcasting can still be used. However, without the same skill, the effect of the magic can be strengthened, and it can only replace the consumption."
"Well." Qi Lin glanced at the other nine mages who were waiting for him and nodded with satisfaction: "This is very good."
Qi Lin originally thought that joint casting could only produce high-level effects from low-level skills.
However, I learned from my previous communication with the mage that joint casting of spells seems to be able to transfer the mental power of other mages to one's own use.
Of course, this transfer can only be used by mages with joint spellcasting talents.
In Qi Lin's view, this ability is a bit like an oversized 'power bank'.
The power of magic skills, in addition to the level of the skill itself, largely depends on the value of mental power.
If the mental power is not instilled enough, not only will the spell casting fail, but in serious cases, death may occur due to excessive mental power overdraft.
"Get ready, let me see how your SSS-level skill Fire Storm performs in practice."
Qi Lin turned around and pointed at Leijie Park: "The target park."
"I will obey your Majesty's will!"
The mage leader took a step forward and slowly raised the staff in his hand. The soul fire in his eyes kept flashing, as if he was extremely excited.
He opened his arms wide and was extremely excited: "Burn all things, all for the crown!"
At the same time, the other nine bone mages also immediately came to the mage leader's side, and the bone staffs in their hands pointed at the mage leader.
They did not act like they did when they jointly summoned the skeletons before. They just pointed the staff at the leader, and nine green fluorescent chains quickly extended from their soul fire to the mage leader!
Qi Lin, who had been observing their mental values, soon discovered that
After the fluorescent chains of the other nine mages were linked to the group leader,
As the leader of the main caster, its rapidly declining mental power slowed down in an instant!
Instead, the mental power of other mages also declined at the same time!
This discovery once again confirmed Qi Lin's previous guess: a mental power bank.
The only thing that makes Qi Lin regretful is that he does not have the talent of joint casting. Otherwise, maybe the mental problem he has been suffering from will be solved at this moment.
As time passed, the mage leader chanted for about twenty seconds.
Suddenly, the surrounding air became extremely heavy and muggy.
At this time, as the mage leader's spells gradually became louder, the surrounding temperature also began to gradually rise.
Soon, countless small sparks appeared in the originally peaceful park, as if foreshadowing the coming destruction.
The surrounding air began to become hot as the sparks covering the huge area of the park appeared, and the amusement facilities and trees began to make creaking and overwhelmed sounds.
Suddenly, these small sparks began to gather towards the center, and with a crackling sound, a huge flame burst out, forming a spinning tornado!
This tornado rises from the ground!
Howling and turning!
It brought about raging flames and strong storms! ! !
The strange demon blood sprout in Leijie Park also sensed the impending disaster, and danced uneasily in an attempt to escape.
However, the huge suction force of the tornado prevented Blood Bud from escaping. Instead, his body quickly fell backwards and was sucked into the tornado!
In the face of this suction force, the blood bud was sucked into the violent tornado and crushed without even the strength to resist, and then was dissolved by the terrifying high temperature, leaving only a trace of gray smoke!
Qi Lin squinted his eyes and stretched out his hand to block the hot wind coming towards his face.
Hei Feng, who had been silently acting as a bodyguard beside him, also pulled out his silver sword very considerately. Encircled by blue ice flames, a huge transparent blue ice wall appeared in front of Qi Lin.
Through this ice wall, Qi Lin saw the power of this SSS-level skill.
The flaming tornado shot straight into the blue sky and entangled the black clouds, completely subverting the originally peaceful sky scene.
Viewed from a distance, it looks like a giant dragon hovering in the sky, as if it wants to swallow the entire world.
At this time, Qi Lin had already seen the experience value of the increase in the panel.
I know in my heart that the bud of blood is dead.
But he still didn't call the mage to stop casting spells.
He wanted to see how effective this SSS-level skill was.
This skill will add a huge win rate to his escape plan.
The heat wave rolled up by the flame tornado instantly swallowed up the surrounding trees, and even the air was roasted and let out a slight whine. Every time the flame tornado rotates, its powerful energy will form a huge fireball, rolling and shining like a windmill.
Qi Lin looked up at the flaming cloud-like sky.
The flying flames and swirling cyclones form a shocking picture, making people feel as if they are in the midst of burning lava and a torrent that is about to collapse.
The cool night wind also becomes warm and fiery due to the flame tornado.
The mental strength of all the members of the mage group is about to reach rock bottom, and the leader's arms are trembling with white bones, as if he is struggling to master this power that is beyond the control of his current rank.
The Bone Mage knew that if they continued to cast spells, they might die suddenly on the spot.
But they still carried out Qi Lin's orders silently and uncompromisingly, just like when the mage was summoned in the first place.
Qi Lin, who was always observing the spiritual values of the mage group, saw that the spirits of the mages were about to fall into negative numbers.
In order to prevent them from losing rank or even dying suddenly on the spot when the soul fire dissipates.
Qi Lin quickly stopped the test: "Okay, cancel the spell casting."
After receiving the order, the leader slowed down the chanting speed of the spell, and when he suddenly waved his staff, a tornado of flames roared up, spread around, and radiated light.
The flame tornado exploded, and hundreds of fireballs scattered in the air like stars. As the spell casting ended, the fireballs exploded with a loud noise, and huge amounts of heat dispersed in the air.
At this moment, everyone or demon species in and outside Nanzhili saw this scene that was like daylight!
On this night, countless people will not be able to sleep due to this horrific and terrifying sight.
But what they wouldn't know is that if the spell casting was not interrupted by Qi Lin.
Then these fireballs will hit the city vigorously!
The entire city will be engulfed in flames in an instant!
Although this test casting was interrupted by Qi Lin and the power was not as good as the full version, Qi Lin could already predict that if it were a complete spell casting, the scene would be very exciting.
Qi Lin looked at the military safety zone in the southeast, staring silently and grinning.
The smile is extremely sincere and harmless to humans and animals.
As warm and sunny as a boy next door.
Thanks to: Fenghua under the Tree for the reward of 500 starting coins
