Returning from the abyss

Chapter 585 Red Alarm Bell
The black smoke of the large canopy exploded from the back of the monster's neck, but Yan Rong stretched out his hands, pulling Lu Ning and Yuan Jie under the knife out of its attack range, and she released her hands with a single shot. The damage dealt by one shot also pushed the butcher back a staggering step.

"It's almost there!" Lian Bisheng shouted.

"Zhu Qinyuan, I leave the last knife to you!" Yan Rong yelled as he retreated quickly, and Zhu Qinyuan had already circled to the rear, his invisibility was released, and he jumped up instantly.Let Zhu Qinyuan throw the shield with his hands, providing Zhu Qinyuan with a foothold in the air. With her toes pointing, she lightly crossed the nearly three-meter ice blade ground, pressed the handle of the knife in the air, and drew the knife to slash from the top of the butcher's head. fall.

The black smoke exploded, and this time, the butcher finally spit out the smoke all over his body, and the ice blades on the ground also disappeared slowly. After Zhu Qinyuan landed, he shook his cold arm. When it comes to the arm made of ice, if it is even a little bit worse, I am afraid that I will be killed.

But within ten seconds, the butcher disappeared, leaving only some remnants on the ground. Jean came over and picked up his shield, and glanced at Lu Ning: "How about your arms?"

"not bad."

Lu Ning raised the arm that was left with only the elbow, and the flesh and bones that had been frozen to death were rapidly falling away. The surrounding black smoke had not dissipated, and her arm was also recovering at an extraordinary speed under this environment. It wasn't painful, just very itchy. The granulation spliced ​​up around the new bones, blood vessels and nerves grew rapidly, and finally covered with a new layer of skin—it looked whiter.

On the other side, Yuan Jie's arms have also been repaired automatically.

"This should be a manifestation of our absorption of immortality... But it seems that a butcher must die nearby before we can regenerate like this." Lian Bisheng also climbed to the high platform, "I can see that your vitality has just increased a little, It's back to normal now."

"It's not bad, doesn't it mean that we can be resurrected even if we die? Until this line turns red?" Yan Rong glanced at his arm, "But the number of times should not be too many, after all, the distribution center has to set the difficulty, you better cherish it own life."

"Isn't it to save you? You were too reckless just now!" Lu Ning said angrily, "You rushed to the butcher even though you knew you would freeze!"

"It's not that easy. I've discovered that its attack is transmitted through the weapon. If it doesn't work, I'll give up the weapon. In the end, the two of you rushed over after me, and it's hard for me to give in." Yan Rong said, crossing his arms.

"It means that Zhou Weiyuan has a tacit understanding with you." Lu Ning shook her head, the cold air gave her a headache, even if it dissipated now, she still felt a little uncomfortable.She knows what Yan Rong said, after all, she also knows Yan Rong's fighting style after communicating with Zhou Weiyuan many times. The problem is that she will always doubt whether Yan Rong's strength can settle everything... Unlike Zhou Weiyuan, she can accurately judge Yan Rong Whether Rong is fighting within his own strength or is it really dangerous.

Such a tacit understanding did not happen overnight. Lu Ning moved her arm, and the clothes slowly grew back from the torn part, and covered her arm again. Now she didn't even need to think about equipment.

"It was a tough battle, what did you lose?" Yuan Jie didn't care so much, but asked casually about the harvest of killing the butcher.Jean squatted down at the place where the butcher died, collected the things and brought them in front of everyone.

A black core, which is the most important thing, proves that a butcher has indeed been killed.All that was left were two nails, a splinter of wood, and a strip of cloth stained with blood.

"They are all belongings of the butcher." Zhu Qinyuan said thoughtfully, "They must have a use for collecting this."

"Materials or something? Alex's gun doesn't look like an ordinary weapon." Yan Rong pouted, "But we don't seem to be able to use it directly."

"Let's go out after resting. It's true that this butcher is not particularly difficult to deal with. It would be much more comfortable if he had a gun." Yuan Jie looked a little disappointed after seeing the harvest, and everyone didn't care. They each packed up their things and returned. .

At the entrance of the cave, Alex was dozing off against the rock with his gun in his hand, and opened his eyes immediately when he heard the movement.Jean raised his hand and put down the light shield, then said, "It's us."

"Solved? What's the loss?"

"It can be regarded as no loss, after all, we are all black engravings." Jean took out the black core and handed it to Alex, "This is the result, but if we join the bonfire, maybe we can get it from you." Some means of long-range attack?"

Alex checked the cores and handed them back. Seeing that several people were looking at his guns, he explained: "New weapons need to be purchased when we go to the inner city next time. These butcher cores are the ones we use. They only provide the necessary support for those who work hard, so the more this core, the better."

"Understood." Jean laughed, being able to tell this information meant that Alex had regarded everyone as his companions.

The wilderness at night is not particularly dark. There is a long river of light in the sky, but there are no celestial bodies such as stars and moons.When they returned, everyone was relaxed, so they took a closer look at the scenery around the wasteland.There were still some butchers in the distance, but Alex didn't pay special attention to them.

"Wandering butchers don't have to be wiped out. Generally, campfires that still have enough power will intercept and kill those butchers who enter their own territory. We don't have that much ability. We just need to fix the fixed location first and develop our armed forces. The rest It's easy."

"Why are there so many people who can't fight in the campfire?" Zhu Qinyuan asked.

"Provide arms for Hei Ke... Although this is an order from the nobles, the order is not detailed. Those with excellent equipment like you are considered armed, and giving an ordinary knife is also considered armed. The birth of Hei Ke is a random A lot of black-and-white family backgrounds are not enough to provide qualified weapons.”

"Since the nobles have issued such an order, why not take care of it together? The increase of black engravings outside is also good for resisting the butcher, right?" Yuan Jie was a little surprised.

"I don't know..." Alex lowered his head, "We just know what Heike is going through, but we can't find out the deeper reasons."

"It's okay, we'll get to know these things gradually." Lu Ning said softly, "Since you mentioned nobles...can you tell me about this? It sounds like a very dominant group."

"After all, the nobles are the representatives of the king, and this kingdom can continue to prosper under the governance of the nobles." Alex glanced in a certain direction, "There is a king living in the king's city, and the guards of the king's capital are There are four legions, seven noble families governing the kingdom, surrounded by ten outer cities."

"Sounds like a poem."

"It should be, but I don't know when it started, but these numbers have never changed."

After obtaining the core, Alex is willing to say more things, and it seems that he also wants to train everyone to be a qualified black engraver as soon as possible.The outer city can be seen from a distance, and there is a little bit of light shining there, which is completely different from the wasteland.

But the name of the scene "Once Upon a Dead Country" is still on everyone's mind.

Just such a decadent and decadent environment style, as well as a depressing background, is this enough to be called a dead country?No one believes that any tourist has seen scenes that are countless times more miserable than what he has seen so far. People here can still survive and fight against those harmful things. This is already very good.

Just when the atmosphere returned to silence, a bell rang suddenly.

Alex's face changed when he heard the bell ringing, and everyone saw that under the distant horizon, a red beam of light shot up into the sky, broke through the sky, and formed a red diffuse halo on the cloud layer, quickly sweeping away The whole sky.

"Oops! It's just this time..." Alex started to run, but everyone didn't know what to do, so they could only follow him.The red halo spread twelve times in a row in the air, and the bell also struck twelve times.Lu Ning suddenly felt a boiling sound on the wasteland, and the butchers screamed. Alex saw that the situation was not good, looked left and right, made a sharp turn and jumped down the hillside, then turned his head and waved: "Come here! There are a shelter!"

Lu Ning took a closer look, and found that the so-called shelter was a hole covered by grass. She jumped directly, opened it lightly and landed lightly, and found that the place here was actually very small, only about two square meters.More people slid down from above, she hurriedly avoided, only heard a few screams of pain, it seemed that she didn't expect to be so small and crowded together.

"Such a small place is also a shelter?" Yuan Jie yelled.

"Hide if you can! Don't make a sound! Breathe lightly!" Alex squeezed out of the crowd, warning with a voice between his teeth.

"Listen to him." Lian Bisheng whispered, "There are several extremely strong signs of life outside."

Everyone quickly quieted down, and after the initial panic, it was more than enough for seven people to stand in a space of two square meters. Everyone stood quietly against the wall, only Lian Bisheng scanned the surroundings with the lens, and Alex occasionally Twitch your nose.

I don't know how long it took before the boiling feeling that Lu Ning felt gradually disappeared.

"It seems... normal." Lian Bisheng confirmed to Alex in a low voice.

"Well, the smell of death has returned, and the alarm bell didn't take long this time. But...why are they so close to the mist? Don't they know that they can't clean up all the revived butchers in such a short period of time?"

"Explain?" Yan Rong squinted at Alex.

"The red alarm bell, to be honest, I don't know what it is for. It's just that every time the alarm bell rings, the butchers and little ghosts on the wasteland will become excited, and their strength will also increase greatly. Of course, killing them at this time will Can get a better return..."

"This is also a periodic emergency? What else did you not tell us?" Zhu Qinyuan frowned, "Since we have proved ourselves, is it your turn to prove ourselves now?"

"Uncle Cai will explain everything to you. I...I can't sort everything out at once. And there is no big problem this time. Let's go back. I think Uncle Cai will answer you any questions you have." Ai Lix was still a child after all, so he hesitated for a while.

"Very well, we will definitely ask, I think it's not too late." Jean still maintained a gentle look, but his tone was a little harsh, "I think you should be clear that the lack of information will make us who know nothing Rookies die in vain."

Alex simply stopped talking, climbed out of the pit, and continued to lead the way back with everyone.

But when approaching the low cliff, Lu Ning already saw something not so good, there was no fire there.

The bonfire should have been burning all the time, and that was the proof of their group. Alex also discovered this after a few seconds. The warm fire that usually waited for him to go back did not exist.

"No...impossible..."

He rushed out, and Zhu Qinyuan and Lu Ning hurriedly started to lighten their bodies and followed behind him. They were faster and ran to the place where Zhufeng bonfire was in a few minutes.

The bonfire was extinguished with blood, the broken limbs and arms were scattered on the ground, and the dead head looked at the sky.There are also several totems made of white bones. The bones have been distorted into a weird state, and it is impossible to tell what they were originally.

Cai Shen was not far from the bonfire. His entire abdominal cavity was blasted by something like a wooden thorn, as if it had turned into a big bloody mouth, and his head rolled down about a meter away. Look ahead.One of the two knives had been snapped off, and the hand holding the knife held a puppet-like forearm, which he had presumably torn off from the killer.

"Uncle Cai?"

Alex squatted down in front of Cai Shen, and hurriedly lifted up his sleeves, but the movement stopped immediately, and the bright red engraving was extremely glaring.

"Did the butcher do it? The alarm just now...maybe caused some wandering butchers to come over." Zhu Qinyuan still calmly inspected the scene.

"If it was a butcher, what would happen to the severed limbs? It turned into black mist and disappeared, or did it stay because the butcher didn't die? Since it was left, why didn't it be taken away?" Lu Ning pointed to the pistol in Cai Shen's hand. That part of the arm.

"I don't know, we still know too little. I don't know if the arm is necessary for the butcher, but if such an arm is something that can be replaced at any time for ordinary people, right?"

The people behind have also rushed over, and everyone is not surprised by such a tragedy. Rang and Yan Rong could kindly comfort Alex a little bit, and Yuan Jie and Lian Bisheng came directly to help check the scene.

"A wicked murderer..." Lian Bisheng looked at the bone totem, "This thing itself doesn't seem to have any special functions, it's just placed here to show off its power. The butcher doesn't seem to have this awareness."

"No way, we were told that butchers would use humans to make all kinds of strange things." Zhu Qinyuan retorted, "Who else is wandering in the wasteland at this time?"

"What if it's another black moment? For example...the alarm bell came here and I wanted to escape, but Cai Shen didn't allow it, and the two sides started fighting when they had a dispute?" Lu Ning said.

"Stop talking about that, I didn't see the bodies of that girl and that kid!" Yuan Jie yelled loudly in the distance.

(End of this chapter)