I rely on you all to cultivate

Chapter 499 The Shadow
Xu Ling took the drawing, looked at the number of the building plot, and then found the corresponding location in the city planning map given by the headquarters.

"Drake Block, North Suburbs, let's go now."

It had been a long time since the three of them set off from Marcus Town, and now they had to catch up. Even though Xu Ling felt very tired, he couldn't wait any longer and had to set off immediately.

The team walked out of the city hall lightly and returned to the empty streets. Although there were many abandoned vehicles on the road, and there might be one or two sleeping orcs sitting inside, the whole city was still silent.

They are already very familiar with Huo Xingnai City. After all, they rummaged through the files in the archives before, and they even knew the planning by heart.

For the first time, Xu Ling experienced the feeling of moving fast on the city's elevated road without traffic jams. He ran at the forefront and jumped back and forth with the physique of a warrior. speed.

After another few hours, the three of them approached the north of the city, but unlike the city center, aberrations appeared in this direction.

Xu Ling chopped off the head of a monster, went to the side and squatted down to observe carefully. The black blood would fall off after smelling it. It was still a familiar formula and a familiar smell.

"At least the good news is that we have food replenishment."

"But why not in the city?" Frigg asked.

Xu Ling stood up, looked around, walked to a van that was flattened by a boulder, and opened the cab to take a look inside.

empty.

He took a few more steps to the periphery, checked some corners where humans might have existed in the past, and found no sleeping orcs.

"Could we have gone the wrong way?"

Xu Ling thought, looking at it this way, this place is more like the ordinary wilderness before entering Huo Xingnai City, as if they have left the target range of this trip.

He walked back, trying to find the other two to express his thoughts, but found that Luo Ji was gone.

"What about her?"

"It is said to go to the front to explore the road." Frigg pointed to an iron tower in front of him with his chin. It looked like it was used to transmit high-voltage electricity in the past, but it was covered by plants, so the real appearance could not be seen clearly.

"Well, it's right to go and see."

Xu Ling said, "I suspect we've gone the wrong way."

He expressed his thoughts, and Frigg agreed, maybe they really went the wrong way in the fog, and left the range of Huo Xingnai City without knowing it.

At this moment, Luo Ji ran over from a distance, and said after listening, "No, there is something weird ahead, you guys come and take a look first."

Xu Ling and the others followed her and ran towards the electric tower, but Luo Ji did not stop at the bottom of the tower, but walked around it, indicating that the thing to see was tens of meters away, which was beyond the visible range in the fog.

They ran forward for a further distance, and finally stopped on a cliff.

Xu Ling looked at his feet with an incredulous expression on his face: "The surroundings of Huo Xingnai City are all plains, where are the cliffs?"

He moved his eyes and saw a cliff stretching out to both sides, disappearing into the fog dozens of meters away without reaching an end. He lowered his head again and saw that the cliff was not steep and straight, but a relatively smooth curved surface extending downward , showing a slightly outward curved arc, but the deeper one is also shrouded in fog, and the depth cannot be seen clearly.

"Going down?" Loki asked.

"No hurry, let's walk on both sides first."

Xu Ling led the two of them along the cliff for a few hundred meters, and sure enough, they made a new discovery.

There was half a villa tens of meters in front of the three of them, but its base disappeared straight from the middle part, perfectly connecting with the "cliff".

"It's not a cliff at all."

Xu Ling made a judgment in his heart, "This is a big hole, like a bowl being dunked into the ground."

"That's right!"

The other two also understood, isn't the curved surface that extends downwards the wall of the bowl?
"Sure enough, it's not that we can't find the way, but that the way is gone."

Xu Ling said, "Since this is the case, it seems that there is no other way but to go down."

The three discussed for a while, and in the end, Frigg, who was currently the lowest in combat power, was the one to do the dirty work. He went down to investigate first, and then sent a signal to let the other two go down after making sure there was no problem.

"Be careful." Xu Ling said, "Hold the signal flare."

Frigg nodded, tied the rope, and slid down the cliff resolutely.

Although the rope may break in the fog, but in case it works, be prepared.

However, there were no twists and turns, and the rope did not break, and it didn't take long for Frigg to confirm the safety of the signal.

Xu Ling and Luo Ji also slid down.

This not-so-smooth but also not-so-rough cliff is just steep at the beginning, and becomes gentler as it gets closer to the bottom, so that the road behind it is not much different from flat ground.

Soon, the two found Frigg along the rope.

"This 'bowl' doesn't look small."

Xu Ling looked around, only the vast black mist and the bare earth, it really looked like a crater, "I said, is your experiment back then a large meteorite summoning technique? You smashed this place, and then some dark matter spread, causing Demonized?"

He joked, not expecting a reply.

However, Luo Ji fell into thinking.

"...Isn't that right, can I be right?" Xu Ling thought to himself.

Luo Ji thought for a while, then frowned and said: "It's not a meteorite, but I seem to vaguely remember that we are indeed studying something in the universe."

Xu Ling coughed dryly: "Let's go ahead and see, this fog really gets in the way."

Although there is a high probability that their target laboratory is gone, judging from the current situation, the real culprit must be ahead.

As the three of them approached, the mist seemed to feel uneasy, gradually flowing, and it was no longer as calm as before.

Xu Ling pulled out the knife for no reason, but he always felt that something would appear in front of him.

Just when a thought flashed by, a black figure several meters high appeared in the mist, roughly in the shape of a human being, but hunched over, with unusually long arms hanging below the knees.

A malice came from that black figure. It wasn't a killing intent, and it didn't have a strong sense of threat, but it made people feel creepy.

Xu Ling knew that this thing in front of him might be more difficult to deal with than those monsters or aberrations.

The three of them separated quickly and surrounded the enemy in a fan shape, but they didn't directly attack.

As if the black figure hadn't seen them, it strolled slowly and approached.

Xu Ling couldn't bear it anymore, so he decided to test it first, so he threw out the throwing knife and shot it roaring.

Sombra's action method is different from ordinary people. During the process of throwing the knife, it didn't react at all. When the danger was approaching, two clusters of red lights suddenly lit up in its eyes, and then it moved, but the speed made all three of them stumble. shock.

Even Xu Ling didn't see how the monster moved, it disappeared in its place, and then appeared in front of Luo Ji and slapped it.

Bang.

Luo Ji hurriedly raised her gun to block, and then was slapped and flew out.

The warlord, moreover a mid-to-high warlord, could suppress He Tianji's powerful warlord, but he was sent flying with just one slap. The speed and strength were truly terrifying.

Then, the black shadow turned his head and looked at Xu Ling with red eyes.

Whoosh.

When it rushed over, Xu Ling activated the Ninth Transformation without even thinking about it.

choke.

With one slash, Sombra's right arm was directly removed.

Xu Ling frowned, and found that the speed and strength of this thing were indeed the limit, but there was almost no means of defense. Simply put, it was a high-attack crispy skin.

Although he was surprised, his movements were not affected, he took another step forward and cut the thing in half.

At this time, Luo Ji, who was shot flying, came back from the fog: "Be careful, that thing is surprisingly powerful, huh? Dead?"

Xu Ling nodded and said, "Well, it moves quickly and is very powerful, but its body is also very fragile. That is to say, if it meets you face to face, it will either kill you or be killed by you."

Luo Ji pointed at herself with her index finger: "I'm not dead."

"...I can't exaggerate!"

Xu Ling didn't care about him, and turned his head to see that Frigg was already squatting on the ground to inspect the corpse of Sombra. The appearance of this thing was somewhat similar to that of an aberration, with a pitch-black outer skin and black blood inside, and pitifully few organs. .

"I've never seen a monster like this outside. The power of chaos is very strong." He just stood by the side, and the SAN value was already slowly decreasing.

Luo Ji said: "Fortunately, there is only one. If there are more, it will be very bad."

"Shut up! Don't say anything!"

Xu Ling immediately interrupted Crow's mouth, but it was too late.

In the direction that several people came, dense red light spots appeared in the mist, all of which were the eyes of black shadows.

(End of this chapter)