The sound of footsteps echoed in his ears. Banli worked hard to adjust his emotions, and finally calmed down when he ran to the next intersection - even though he knew this was a game, but faced with the extremely real bloody scenes, ordinary people It is difficult for players to recover immediately and then return to normal combat status. However, this is not a situation that a professional player should have. Whether it is normal training or actual combat experience, they should be used to such scenes after experiencing hundreds of battles. As a standard professional player, Banli still spent the time of sprinting 100 meters to calm down, just because the previous three throws during the run had proved that the opponent's seemingly hasty counterattack was indeed not a coincide.
Banli, who had regained his composure, immediately analyzed the series of attacks in his mind: no matter the strength, angle, timing, or even effect, those few projections... seemed to be flawless.
"But...as long as I can catch you!"
All the sounds in his ears seemed to have disappeared - as the running stopped, Banli steadied his body after the corner, then he lowered his waist and exhaled, raised his long face with both hands, and then rushed out suddenly.
"Even if I win!"
The bright sword light burst out as Banli expected, the moment he dodged, and it struck right in front of his eyes in an instant. But what was different from what he expected was that the sword light that hit his face was not one, but two.
Amid the sound of wind and thunder, two white lines crossed to form a standard cross in the air.
"Kenpachi!"
With a hoarse roar, Banli hurriedly moved his weapon towards the middle of the cross-shaped sword light, then flew backwards with the harsh sound of metal collision, and fell into the depths on the other side of the alley. In the flying dust, Chestnut rolled at an extremely fast speed. Finally, when all his strength was about to be exhausted, he suddenly jumped up and regained his defensive posture. However, the imaginary follow-up attacks did not continue to come to him - the masked guy seemed to have given up the advantage established by his sudden attack, and continued to escape deeper into the street.
Don't you want to reveal your identity? Banli felt a chill in his heart, and then hurriedly chased after him: "Don't run!"
The distance of tens of meters was almost nothing to a player of his level, but when he ran to the next corner, Banli hesitated again.
That cross cut just now...
Using two swords in an instant to create a crisscross effect in the air - this very simple and effective skill registered by the alliance has become an unachievable skill in the free world. After research and summary by many professional players, the reason for this phenomenon is mainly due to the word "instant".
In this game, everything that needs to be done against physical reality is extremely difficult. However, a few days ago, Jian Beidong had just proved the existence of sword energy, but today he saw the gap between consecutive cuts disappear...
Gritting his teeth secretly, Banli raised his sword and rushed forward, simply crossing the space at the corner, hoping to get out of the way of the opponent's next sneak attack. The afternoon sun suddenly shone down, covering the alley that turned from east to west, but Chestnut, who had just stabilized his figure, did not feel the slightest warmth from it - the red and black poisonous snakes were like In essence, it stabbed towards his location.
Oops, oops...
"Sword Thirteen!"
Amid another hoarse shout, Banli, who was still weak, held the sword in one hand and thrust it towards the black sword light under the sun. He slapped back with the other hand, using the force of the repulsion, Trying to avoid this fatal attack.
If this hit something strange...
There was a chilling chill in the air, and the red and black light was like the head of a poisonous snake. It trembled rapidly in the air, and then turned in a strange arc and passed by the tip of Banli's long sword. .
Bah--
The figure flashed, and blood suddenly appeared. The black sword light passed through the gap in Banli's brown armor, drawing a blood line on his waist, and then rotated in the air with his about-to-leave figure. got up.
"Drink ah ah ah -"
Different from the screams of ordinary players, Chestnut, who threw away a piece of blood, let out a deafening roar, then shrank back the moment he fell to the ground, holding his right waist and getting up. With his attributes increasing after being injured, he did not give up the desire to fight easily because of continuous setbacks. However, when he hurriedly checked his remaining health points, he still discovered a frustrating fact - he seemed to be poisoned.
"Huh...huh...damn it!" Looking at the figure who had distanced himself again, Banli's mood became inexplicably complicated: "Who are you?"
The masked man turned around, hiding his ID in the shadow where the other party couldn't see, and then... as if he was laughing at him, he paused at the next corner, seeming to be looking at the situation here.
"You..." Brother Banli, who had not had such an experience for a long time, felt hot and rushed towards the black figure with a face drawn on his face: "Stop!"
Since the chase began, the chief swordsman of the Sword of Justice took the initiative to launch an attack for the first time, and of course, this charge full of anger failed.
"Despicable and shameless guy, even if I am poisoned to death..." Unlike the previous two times, he turned the corner without hesitation with his sword in both hands: "You can't even think about it easy!"
"Eat me..."
He choked on his loud shout.
In front of him, in the air behind the corner, countless huge blades were condensed and formed, scattered unevenly in the narrow alley. The bright knife edges reflected the brilliance of the sun and pointed directly at Banli's eyes.
"Oh my god..." As the huge blade trembled more and more violently, Banli's hands gradually dropped down: "Is this game... turned out to be a fairy game?"
The next moment, the giant knife fell like a shower——
"Sword twenty-seven!"
He curled up as much as possible and raised his sword with a simple move. The brown-armored warrior seemed to have given up resistance and retreated to the corner, waiting for death to come in a symbolic posture. The dazzling light exploded when the dazzling knife shadow was about to approach, and then turned into starlight that filled the sky, swaying down in front of Banli.
"Wha...what?"
Slowly loosening the arms that protected his face, he stared blankly into the distance of the alleyway - the mysterious masked man who had escaped all the way, or the masked master, was also looking at this place.
"Want to know my name? Your grandfather's name is Jian Beidong, so I can teach you to remember it."
The hoarse voice left the last words, and then disappeared into the darkness around the corner again.
"You think I don't know Jian Beidong..." Banli breathed out, then leaned against the wall and slowly sat on the ground. After checking the condition of his body and confirming that the danger was gone, he turned his eyes to the clear sky.
"I'm not as wretched as you... stop fooling people around."
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"It's really difficult..."
After passing through a few more alleys, Duan Qing checked again and again to make sure that the guy was not persistent in catching up with him, and then he walked in the direction he came in with some confidence. The sunshine in the afternoon still gave people a lazy feeling as always, but unlike the towns Duan Qing passed through before, almost every street in Tania was full of busy atmosphere. It seemed to be related to the hot season. There were far fewer pedestrians on the streets in the afternoon than when he first entered the city. However, Duan Qing, who had just experienced an escape, his sharp nerves reminded him - what was there? Something is brewing.
It was a tense atmosphere that was spreading.
"Why did it become like this?" Muttering these words, Duan Qing, who had returned to his normal appearance, finally found the path of the Adventurers Association through the discrimination of the scene: "Why don't we have to be so thrilling every time..."
He looked around, then started to touch the door of the Adventurers Association: "There should be no problem...eh?"
A familiar figure suddenly appeared in front of the gate. The figure waved to Duan Qing, and then flashed back to the inside of the Adventurers Association.
"call……"
Something dropped in his heart. Duan Qing wiped his face and quickly walked into the association hall. Then following his memory, he found the room that Mengzhu pointed out to him before, which was the Fool's Adventure Group. Temporary accommodation location.
"Wow, uncle——"
"Hey, hey, hey, don't be excited, don't be excited. Aren't everyone fine?" Duan Qing pushed the little girl's body away with force, looked at Xiao Hongchen who had also returned here, and asked with some surprise: "You actually Are you back to normal?"
"Am I that disobedient, brother?" the latter replied angrily: "I was the first one to come back."
"Huh? Didn't we agree on a meeting place before?"
"I also went to that place, but I waited there for a long time and didn't see anyone." The shirtless Xiao Hongchen twisted his body and raised his head to recall: "Later, there was movement from your side. As soon as I saw that things seemed to be getting serious, I ran away quickly."
"Don't you care about us?" Mengzhu, who was still wiping tears, immediately shouted: "What if we die like this..."
"Game, it's just a game." Xiao Hongchen waved his hand: "How can a man call himself Xiao Hongchen if he can't even see through this bit of Hongchen... What's more, I have you here, big brother."
He gave Duan Qing a thumbs up: "With big brother here, what problem can't be solved!"
"Haha." The answer was Duan Qing's muffled laugh: "I don't have the consciousness to go back to the rescue... How did you escape, Mengzhu?"
The little girl glanced at Duan Qing, then wiped away her tears, and finally told the story of her experience intermittently: "...That's it, and then I ran away."
"That bard...where is he from?" Duan Qing muttered this question, and turned to look at Xiao Hongchen: "How did you... come into contact with him before?"
"The one who sings?" Xiao Hongchen said with disdain on his face: "I thought he was a gangster before, and I was more interested in him, but before he could only sing there, so I didn't want to ask, I just went up and followed him. Two times..."
"Stop, stop, just tell him what he is doing."
"He has been singing." Xiao Hongchen answered simply this time: "What are they singing? I sing better than him... What, you don't believe it? Do you want me to sing it to you now?"
"No need." Duan Qing said expressionlessly, and then looked at Mengzhu again: "According to your description... the poet suddenly appeared in front of you, and then the fireball disappeared?"
"Yes, I must have read it correctly. I felt the feeling of barbecue." The little girl nodded hurriedly: "But what happened next, maybe I was too scared, so I didn't remember much..."
"Don't you remember how you ran away?"
"You just ran away like that?" Mengzhu's answer contained some doubts: "Now that I think about it... I got up and ran away. I thought they would chase me, but no one noticed me at all. "
"Those people seem to have focused all their attention on the bard." She thought for a while and then concluded.
"interesting……"
Duan Qing nodded thoughtfully and asked again: "In other words, you didn't go to that meeting point, right?"
"Yeah, how can you go back in that situation?" Mengzhu nodded and said, "And I think you should come back."
"Then... there is a very important question." Duan Qing held his chin in one hand: "Where did that Hongshan Taoist... go?"
The other two people looked at me and I looked at you, and they all showed puzzled expressions: "He...should have run away too, right?"
"When we finally separated, he meant to stay outside the hospital." Duan Qing recalled: "And he also said he would wait for us there."
"But then the alarm was sounded. If it were me, I would run away, right?"
"By the way, how were you discovered?" Duan Qing asked: "Fortunately, I praised you before..."
"Ah?" He was answered with an even bigger question mark on his face: "I was discovered? Weren't you discovered?"
"What...what did you say? How could I be discovered? I was hiding well in the storage room at that time, and I almost heard important information..."
"That's not me. I just walked to the kitchen on the first floor, and there was no one there..."
The silence lasted for a while in the small room. As each other's eyes met, Duan Qing's deep voice slowly sounded: "It seems... there are some twists and turns in this matter."
"You mean...there's something wrong with that guy?"
"We're not sure yet. After the storm outside calms down, let's go find the old man and ask..."
"Freestone! Come out!"
The words of several people were choked - outside their rooms, in front of the door of the Adventurers Association, a majestic roar rose from the ground, passed into the hall with extremely strong penetrating power, and then echoed in everyone's ears .
