Returning from the abyss

Chapter 198
Lu Ning gradually felt the comfort of getting along with these people.

It has almost become a habit for people in the action team to care about each other. Although some people who came over later did not have as good a relationship with Jimmy as the few people present, they also put down their work and came to see him.

And now these people haven't even confirmed their true identities.

"Sister Mu, isn't there something wrong with me? If I've already died once..."

"You have lost your ability. You are not dangerous to us. If someone else wants to play tricks under our noses, we can also see it."

Mu Lianrong found Lu Ning a suit of Jimmy's usual clothes, and asked Lu Ning to change, and then the two left the hotel together.

"You were thrown to me by Solite when you first came here, it's okay to take care of you again."

"Uh... Sister Mu, you are not very old."

Mu Lianrong smiled.

"Everyone was small at the time except Sollet."

Taking care of Lu Ning's "curiosity", Mu Lianrong planned to take her to the street to see the activity of finding evil scriptures.

"Evil code... what is it?"

"Pieces of ability, derivatives of evil origin, ordinary people can only rely on luck, but these things are very obvious in front of the capable person, so the city will prohibit the capable person from participating in this event."

"what?"

"But... you don't have the ability right now. As long as I don't search, the alert won't be triggered." Mu Lianrong looked around the street corner and pointed in one direction, "This way."

Together they crossed two or three streets and came to a bridge.

"right here?"

"In the water, with the current flowing far away, our goal is not this." Mu Lianrong glanced under the bridge, and Lu Ning followed, but found nothing.

"I can't see."

"It's a fragment of a test tube." Mu Lianrong replied, "It's probably the ability of some poison maker. Let's move on."

The two were on the side of the road, and waited for a long time before they stopped a taxi. The driver was a very old man. On such a day, such a person has no extra energy to find evil scriptures.

"District five."

Mu Lianrong just gave orders, and ignored the old man's several attempts to strike up a conversation, and just sat in the co-pilot with his eyes closed.

Museum Quarter.

"Sister Mu's perception range is so far away?"

Lu Ning asked suspiciously after getting out of the car.

"It's not counted as perception. Without the master's ability, we will feel uncomfortable, just like seeing human organs abandoned on the road." Mu Lianrong didn't go to those two famous museums, but I walked into an exhibition hall that opened a painting exhibition.

Now there are only two old employees here. Although young people come and go here in an endless stream, none of these people are here for the paintings.

"it's here?"

"Here is the one that doesn't move."

Mu Lianrong led the way and led Lu Ning into the exhibition hall inside. When she rounded a corner, she stopped suddenly and reached out to stop Lu Ning.

"Someone got there first."

Lu Ning looked over. This corner is a small exhibition hall. A huge portrait of a knight charging is hung on the wall. It seems to be used as a reference. There is also a real knight armor next to it. The details are as consistent as possible with the knight in the painting.A man stood next to the armor, holding a sharp sawtooth dagger in his hand.

"Find the difference? It's really interesting..." The man muttered to himself, turned around, and saw Lu Ning and Mu Lianrong at the corner.

"You two, why are you spying on me?"

"It just happened to be here."

"On such a day, instead of looking for evil scriptures, come here to look at paintings? I don't think most people have that leisurely mind."

"What about you?" Lu Ning asked.

The man smiled.

"My name is Zhang Yufeng. You may have heard of me. I am a painter. Evil codes or something... It doesn't appeal to me who is successful and famous. In contrast, this kind of art full of violence and darkness is more in line with my style." grade."

If Mu Lianrong hadn't confirmed that the dagger in Zhang Yufeng's hand was an evil code, Lu Ning would not have been able to find any flaws in this person.

"I've heard of you, but you don't seem to have any works published recently." Mu Lianrong folded her arms and glanced at the dagger in his hand, "Is the inspiration exhausted?"

"Artistic creation always has such troughs, you have to understand." Zhang Yufeng looked at the dagger carefully, "This armor is well restored, but knights at that time would not wear such a sawtooth sword, and a saber is similar. Also I don’t know if the author of this painting will be angry when he sees it.”

After speaking, he put the jagged sword back into the knight's scabbard, clapped his hands, shook his head and left with a sigh.

"He... doesn't seem to know?"

Lu Ning was also not sure whether the painter's last contrived appearance was a true art sickness or intentional.

Mu Lianrong walked over, grabbed the hilt of the dagger and pulled it out. Unexpectedly, the dagger turned into a broken sword with a length of only about two inches.

"A painter? A magician is about the same. I'm afraid he has already discovered something, and he has already prepared for it."

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Zhang Yufeng left the exhibition in a hurry.

He doesn't know how long his blindness will last, but that doesn't matter, he can gain the ability after confirming the content of the evil code, and then retreat in this scene unscathed.

Fortunately, after discovering the problem with the short sword, he didn't take it away immediately, but prepared a fake first, and then rushed over to find a chance to take it off when no one was around. Although a couple of men and women came at last, he himself left, didn't you?

The hand hidden under the clothes has gradually felt the heat of the dagger, and a strange memory has gradually flowed into his mind, allowing him to understand more details about the dagger.

This is a murder weapon used by a famous murderer. It originally belonged to a soldier. When the soldier spared the murderer, he pulled out his short sword and stabbed it in the back of the head when he was still a child.

Afterwards, carrying this dagger, he targeted the soldiers who were alone on the battlefield to carry out assassinations. It seemed that facing the strong would make the murderer more excited, and under the influence of his ability, such assassinations often succeeded.

Until his ability was exposed, he was covered by artillery fire and killed in one of his lairs. This short sword was also taken into the sin city as his "evil code".

The countless killing scenes that flashed for a while did not allow Zhang Yufeng to determine the strength of this person's ability. Although the assassination sounded very strong, but after experiencing many scenes, Zhang Yufeng certainly knew very well that not only the ability that looks strong, but the ability must be powerful.

A person can only inherit one evil code.

This made Zhang Yufeng a little undecided, should he choose to inherit, or should he look for something else?
He walked into the subway station while thinking, and the crowd was rushing out of the platform as a train arrived. Zhang Yufeng couldn't escape when he walked in, and the crowd was crowded together.

At this moment, a sense of horror rose all over his body, as if he was being stared at by something.

At this moment, he didn't care so much, and hurriedly began to accept all the information in the dagger, trying to inherit the ability of the murderer. However, just before he learned the principle of the ability and had no time to get excited, a sudden buzz came from his heart. There was a sharp pain.

Zhang Yufeng let out a muffled snort, bleeding from the corner of his mouth, but his body still walked forward involuntarily surrounded by the crowd.

The dagger hidden under the clothes also fell to the ground the moment he was powerless to let go, making a crisp sound.

Shang Chi, who passed by him, raised his hand and pulled off his mask, stuffed it into his suit pocket, and walked out of the platform with the crowd.

"It's sunny."

He helped an old man with disabilities walk across the sidewalk outside the platform, said goodbye to him, and raised his head to look at the sky.Then he took out a map from the pocket on the other side, walked to the bench by the side of the road, sat down, and unfolded the map.

"Usually, when people can only get one weapon, they will focus on the power of the weapon and always think that the stronger the better."

There was commotion in the station, presumably Zhang Yufeng had been discovered.

Shang Chi looked at the map, there was a small red dot on it, marking Zhang Yufeng's name, and now this dot is slowly turning gray.

"As everyone knows, killing people can be done with any ability."

Shang Chi put away the map when the little dot completely turned gray and disappeared.

"The mission is complete, shall we go back next, or... go for a walk?"

He flipped through the briefcase, took out a lunch box from it, opened it, took out a sandwich from it, and took a bite.

"Chicken cheese, fast food... really office worker simplicity."

Although complaining in his mouth, Shang Chi ate up the sandwich in two mouthfuls.

"Hello, can I ask the way?"

Hearing the voice of inquiry, Shangchi raised his head, and saw a short-haired woman and a red-haired boy standing in front of him.

"Okay, where are you going?" Shang Chi picked up the map.

"No, I'm familiar with most of the places in the city. I just want to ask...where does this subway go?" the red-haired boy asked.

"This is Line [-]. It starts from the museum and passes through District [-] to the terminal at the foot of the mountain in District [-]. The line is not particularly long. In addition, Line [-] stops at the subway station below the Queen's Golden Crown in District [-]."

"Thank you."

Shangchi smiled and nodded, indicating that it's okay.

Immediately, the woman and the boy walked into the subway station.Shangchi refolded the map and put it in his pocket, and stroked his chin lightly.

"His gaze stayed on my map for a short while. Could it be that he guessed that I killed people, and then deduced my ability? It's just... why are you so suspicious?"

On the other side, not far from Zhang Yufeng's body, Lu Ning picked up the sawtooth dagger.

"Shang Chi is probably the murderer. He stabbed a dart into his heart, and then confirmed his death outside... There is nothing wrong with his map, so why did he look at the map for so long? I guess I was noticed as well."

"Jimmy, why did you just ask that man those questions?"

"I just want to know where he is going, but it seems that I don't need it now." Lu Ning glanced at Zhang Yufeng's body from a distance. Since it was Shang Chi who came here to kill him, it was probably a tourist. Never heard of this person.

"But you also got the dagger, nothing else matters." Mu Lianrong didn't care about Zhang Yufeng's death either, as corpses would be dealt with soon, and it didn't violate any rules for the two of them to pick up a corpse.

"Sister Mu, I want...to visit my parents. There is a cemetery in my memory. It should be the place where my parents are buried?" Lu Ning looked at the short sword and quickly lost interest.Naturally, Mu Lianrong would not disagree with her request, bought two tickets and took the subway to the third district.

The cemetery is on the outskirts of the third district, near the central axis. This area was originally a wasteland, and many unidentified corpses were buried. After deep filling, it was used as a cemetery.Lu Ning found that the cemetery was actually not too far from the viaduct where she met Mo La.

"Remember that the third district is... an orphanage?"

"The third district and the first district are almost mysterious. Even if we are in it, we shouldn't go in casually. Although we are very dissatisfied with the actions of the Heavenly Kingdom Council, we still don't have the ability to break in directly." Mu Lianrong walked in the direction of the orphanage Looked, "But it won't be too long, sooner or later we will uproot this place."

The two walked into the cemetery, and Lu Ning quickly found the tombstone of Jimmy's parents according to her memory. The two were lucky that someone would collect the body after death.Just judging from the blackened soil in front of the tombstone, Jimmy did a lot of worship here during his lifetime.

The place so close to Mo La's territory actually has members of the Victims' Club often active, making Lu Ning more and more suspicious of whether she is really managing this area.

No, probably...don't care.

"I didn't bring sacrifices today, so let's just look at them. It's also strange, you are obviously dead, and I don't know how long this situation can last...Sorry, I seem to be preaching again."

"I don't seem to be alive, and you're right. Sister Mu, I don't know how we got along in the past. In the future... maybe there won't be too much. Wait until the boss finds the person who revived me , maybe there will be another variable.”

"We'll try to keep you alive."

"I know, I can feel that each of you is treating me sincerely, but I am at a loss... It makes me feel a little guilty."

"There is no guilt between us." Mu Lianrong pressed Lu Ning's shoulders, staring at her eyes and said, "We gathered together because of the heart of revenge, and only we can hug each other to keep warm. We are Family members, don’t need any guilt at all.”

Lu Ning opened her mouth, her eyes suddenly passed over Mu Lianrong's shoulder, and she saw a curled up person squatting on the tombstone not far away.

"Sister Mu! Who is that!"

And Mu Lianrong noticed Lu Ning's gaze earlier than Lu Ning's shout, and immediately turned his head.At the same time, Lu Ning had been sent to a grave ten meters away, and a tombstone appeared in her hand, and she turned around and dodged behind the tombstone.

"I feel... moved... ah... you..."

Above the not-so-wide tombstone, the man squatted firmly with his head in his arms, but his body was constantly shaking, as if he was enduring some pain.

"who are you?"

"Ooooh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh !!!"

The man suddenly raised his head and roared like a beast.

(End of this chapter)