Chapter 23: Dead City(2/4)
‘torn pages’
'Damn Healing Church, they deserve to die, deserve to die!'
‘torn pages’
‘torn pages’
'Should I join them? I kind of... want to join them. No, I want to accompany my wife and daughter until the end. I can't become a dead people.'
'Little Ivy is dead. She who used to be cute and warm has turned cold and pale. There is no need to persist. But I don't want to become a monster. Although I am just a tailor, not an extraordinary hunter or a knight of the church, but
I have my own dignity, I will not become a monster, and I will not hurt other people.'
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The diary ends abruptly at this point. You can imagine the despair of the residents here when the power of death spread. They both love and hate the Healing Church, their only reliance.
As soon as Su Xiao put down the diary, he heard Gulu, who was still sitting on the ground beside him, asking:
"You guys, why are you okay?"
After grunting, he threw away the empty medicine bottle in his hand and took out a wet wipe to wipe away the blood on his face.
Hearing Gulu's question, Baha smiled like an experienced person and said: "There is no other but familiarity."
"What?"
Gulu was even more confused. In terms of survivability in fighting an attack, she didn't know which one was better, between herself and Baha, but she was sure that she was definitely better than Bubuwang.
Gulu didn't know that there was something called a demonic teleportation array. When Bubo Wang experienced the demonic teleportation array, he was shocked the first few times, and then his space resistance increased sharply.
Ignoring the growing psychological shadow of Gulu, Su Xiao came to the front of the store, wiped off a trace of dust on the glass, and the lonely street came into view.
Although this is the outskirts of Dead City, it has already left the outermost white fog area. The streets are not paved with stone slabs. There is very little land in the entire Dead City, and the ground is made of limestone.
If you look at the outer area of Dead City from above, you will find that the terrain here is very simple. In the middle is a main street more than ten meters wide, with multi-story buildings of uneven height on both sides. Most of these buildings have spires and gray exterior walls.
There is thick moss climbing at the base of the wall.
The clothing store is directly connected to the main street. Compared to taking other side streets or paths, taking the main street will undoubtedly lead you to the depths of the Silent City faster. Of course, you will definitely die faster.
To a certain extent, the branch, Deathly Silence City, is a part of the reflection of the root, Deathly Silence City, but it is fundamentally different from this place.
On the main street at this moment, Su Xiao saw a lot of scratch marks on the ground, as if something was often dragged across it. If you guessed correctly, these were the marks left by 'old acquaintances', that is,
Tree erosion.
Su Xiao has seen the tree erosion in Branch Dead City. The only way to deal with the tree erosion is to avoid it and fight with the tree erosion. Win or lose will be a loss of blood. Moreover, while fighting, you may be chased by a group of tree erosion. That kind of
Under such circumstances, there is no way to escape.
And Su Xiao suspected that the tree erosion that he had seen before was a weakened version of the copycat version, and the tree erosion in the root of Dead Silence City was now the complete version.
Just when Su Xiao was thinking about how to explore deeper, the sound of walking came. When he heard the sound and looked around, a group of people came into view.
This team... no, to be precise, they are a strange team formed by one person and several monsters.
The man walking in front was about 40 years old. Judging from his clothes, he was a member of the Steam God Cult. It didn’t take much to figure out that he must have wanted to come to the City of Death to look for the secret treasure, but he ended up here.
Behind this man were two dead people in ragged clothes with withered exposed forearms and faces, and a little girl with unusually long hair and dark eye holes.
Behind these three is a monster that is more than 10 meters tall, with rough skin all over its body showing black gray, and it looks like a humanoid monster overall.
The monster's chest is covered with black rusty armor, and its head has no facial features, just like a bulging gray pustule. There is only a row of air holes of different sizes at the mouth. The most conspicuous thing is the monster's right arm, which is 10 years old.
The big guy was about 3 meters tall, and his right arm was so long that it hung down to the ground. The entire arm was made of tree roots. Some of the hanging tree roots were covered with barbs. They dragged across the street and made a friction sound, leaving behind black wet marks.
In this strange five-person team, the member of the Steam God Cult walked at the front, but he looked like he was following every step. If you look closely, you will find that several hair strands pierced the back of his head and penetrated deeply into his brain.
Control him to move forward.
The owner of these hairs is the little girl with black eyes. She looks like a human, but is actually more like an idea, or a collection of negative emotions such as resentment, which makes her wise and imitate the appearance of a human race.
It is the twisted soul at the center of its body.
"God will...protect us, don't...be...fearful, the healing church...will not give up on us."
The members of the Cult of Steam who staggered ahead shouted loudly, their voices numb and dull, obviously a decoy.
Su Xiao noticed that the two dead people in the team each held a lantern. The lantern was full of solution, soaking the eyeballs that were stuck together.
This eyeball was about the size of a fist. The moment he looked into one of the pupils, Su Xiao felt as if needles were pricking his scalp. This thing was a trap for the soul.
Su Xiao withdrew his gaze. He further understood the passion of the Source City of Dead Silence. After the monsters here were awakened, they did not just wait in place or wander around. These people of death actually came out to hunt those who broke into the Dead City.
The living.
Right now, this monster team is using the member of the Steam Cult as a bait. There is no need to attract other people to show up. As long as they look into the eyes of the lantern, those whose soul strength is less than 400 points will hold their heads and wail on the spot.
, this is not something that can be suppressed by perseverance, but a stress response at the soul level.
Su Xiao's soul strength is as high as 650 points. After looking at the evil eyeball lantern, his scalp feels like being pricked by needles. If the soul strength is lower than 500 points, or even 400 points, the consequences can be imagined.
As long as you are attracted by the sound and take a look at the monster team in the dark, you will be successfully attacked. After that, you will face the pursuit of 2 dead people + a black-eyed little girl + a tree eclipse. Please don't get me wrong, this is just a preliminary pursuit.
Kill, when one of the dead people roars, a large number of dead people will swarm from the nearby area.
No wonder the contractors were crying like wolves and howling like ghosts in the World Contact Platform last night. Considering the current situation of the Source and Silence City, no one with normal sense would enter this ghost place.
"What's going on?"
Gulu quietly came to the side, trying to stand up and look out through the glass on the door, but was pushed down by Su Xiao with one hand.
"what!"
Gulu looked at Su Xiao, she had not forgotten about the ancient mask being taken away before.
"..."
Su Xiao didn't say anything. Based on her understanding of Gulu's little lunatic, he wouldn't be in awe of the Deadly City from the bottom of his heart unless he suffered a lot.
Seeing that Su Xiao stopped talking, Gulu hesitated for a moment, first put on a protective mask, and then stuffed a suppressor into his mouth. Apparently he had suffered the disadvantage of being briefly mentally controlled before, thus revealing his position by speaking out.
Gulu looked out, and then looked into the pupil in the eye lantern. She immediately rolled her eyes, grabbed her throat with both hands, and tried to scream, but the suppressor in her mouth was activated, making her unable to make any sound.
Unable to release it, he fell to the ground.
Su Xiao looked at Gulu who curled up and fell to the ground, holding his head in his hands, and felt quite satisfied. Although Gulu had his own ideas, he knew how to prevent himself from becoming a pig teammate, which was a good character.
Gulu woke up after a few minutes of shock. She was not feeling well. She had never been to dangerous areas, but this was the first time she had experienced such a dangerous area as the Dead City. The chaotic space force field at the entrance was very harmful to the assassination system.
His small body is full of malice, and later he learns about the evil methods of the people of death.
"Is this the trial to advance to the ninth level?"
When Gulu asked this, she seemed a little doubtful about life, because in the next world, she would also be promoted to the ninth level.
"Let's call it that."
Bach's answer was somewhat vague.
"Don't worry, my progress will be promoted in the next world. If the promotion is so difficult, then I will eat better every now and then and buy whatever sweets I want."
"Don't think too much. The specific explanation is quite complicated. However, when you get promoted, it won't be so dangerous."
While Baha lowered his voice and spoke, he looked around the window to make sure that the group of dead people and tree eclipses were gone. He quietly opened the door, transformed from an aerial overlord into a running chicken, and peeked out to watch.
A moment later, Baha walked toward the main street. As soon as one of his eagle talons stepped onto the street, a harsh sound broke through the air.
Bang!!
The explosion spread, and a full-metal arrow was nailed in front of Baha. The sound and attack fluctuations were extremely shocking, but it did not damage the streets and buildings of the Dead City.
Baha was so shocked by this arrow that he almost sat on the ground. He was 100% sure that if this arrow hit its head, it would die instantly.
Gudu~
Baha swallowed, and it suddenly rushed out, arced at a very low altitude on the main street, and then turned back to the clothing store as quickly as possible.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang...
One after another, ancient but strong metal arrows were nailed to the position where Baha had just flown. That is to say, Baha was fast and could be called the fastest in Su Xiao's team. Otherwise, it would have been nailed to death by these arrows.
On the street.
According to the direction in which the metal arrow flew, Su Xiao looked at the tall tower in the distance. This tall tower was cylindrical and tens of meters high. Looking at it, there was one about half a kilometer away.
The tower's lookout hole was pitch black, as if there were pairs of pale eyes overlooking everything on the main street.
Walking down the main street is asking for death. With the arrows of these Pale Hunters, even the top eight tanks may enter a dying state after resisting two arrows. Not to mention the rate of fire and attack frequency of this thing are too abnormal |
A little more.
What is gratifying is that the roar caused by the arrows fired by these pale hunters did not attract a large group of dead people. This shows one thing that the dead people will only be attracted by specific sounds, such as the roars of other dead people.
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After roughly confirming this, Su Xiao looked at the high wall in the distance. The first thing at the moment was to pass through the periphery of Dead Silence City and enter the inner city, which was the key area.
At this moment, footsteps came from the window. When Su Xiao heard the sound and looked around, she saw Wood walking on the main street. What was strange was that the pale hunters in the tall towers seemed as if they had not seen Wood.
Su Xiao guessed what was going on. The Pale Hunter was also a type of dead people, so he was more inclined to attack the living, or living creatures.
At this time, Wood has retreated from "three-dimensional" to "two-dimensional". In the two-dimensional state, he is not a living thing, but more like a combination of a bunch of walking lines, graphics, etc. It can only be said that the other three
To be continued...