Survival in the game world begins with Biochemical 2

Chapter 545: Species Collection, an old friend appears?

“Aa ...

The hippopotamus let out an unpleasant roar and ran back and forth in the main entrance square in vain, but could not catch any sight of Li You.

However, compared to before, the hippo's posture has also changed. Now, large and long golden thorns have grown on its body, making it look like a porcupine in addition to a hippo and a rhinoceros.

Those thorns are not just for decoration, they have small thorns on them. And with the hippopotamus roar, these thorns are shot out like arrows, densely packed towards Li You!

The hippopotamus performed a move that a real porcupine couldn't do, but it still couldn't hit Li You.

"...With all its various appearances, it seems that this thing is also a product of the Hundred Phases of the Furnace."

Li You spread his wings and dodged the shot thorns, then swung the Blood Immortal Slash with his backhand. A blood-red blade flew out, leaving a conspicuous wound on the flank of the golden hippopotamus.

The two sides fought for only a short while, and the golden hippo was already covered in wounds.

But its vitality is very strong, and its howl is still very loud. The thorns on its back will grow rapidly, and at this moment, thorns are coming out one by one.

When the thorns grew back, the golden hippopotamus stamped its four feet on the ground, looked up to the sky and roared! The thorns on its back stood up, ready to shoot into the sky like missiles and then fall down densely.

However, Li You had already seen this move of its, and his figure flashed and he came to the front of the golden hippopotamus, with a deep red flame rising from the Blood Immortal Slash in his hand!
"drink--!!"

Li You swung the Blood Immortal Slash violently horizontally, and an exaggerated arc-shaped dark red light blade spread out, passing over the head of the golden hippopotamus almost instantly!
This knife not only cut off the golden hippo's scalp, but more importantly, it cut off all the numerous thorns that stood up on its back and sides!
"Ouch!!"

Sudden heavy damage, the golden hippopotamus screamed and jumped around wildly, and then a red light flashed, and Li You was already above its head, and the Blood Immortal Slash pierced into the thick skull with his backhand.

The skull of the golden hippopotamus was indeed thick, and Li You's knife couldn't even penetrate it immediately. But this did not affect his ability. He exerted a little force, and the blood shadow of a cherry dragon instantly emerged and drilled into the body of the golden hippopotamus along the blade!

"Roar--!!"

Accompanied by mixed roars, the Dragon of Resentment almost instantly pierced through the entire body of the Golden Hippopotamus from the inside, completely shattering its huge body!
"puff--"

The golden hippopotamus turned into scattered pieces of meat of different sizes in front of Li You's eyes. Li You landed lightly on the ground and swung the Blood Immortal Sword. The Dragon of Resentment also flew back very obediently, its body shrank rapidly and wrapped around the sword.

It even hummed softly towards Li You before returning to the Blood Immortal Slash.

Li You then sheathed the knife and ended his transformation.

Recently, when Li You used the Blood Immortal Slash, the number of times he summoned the Sakura Dragon Blood Shadow increased significantly. In the past, he would not dare to use this trick unless he was fighting a key BOSS, for fear that the Dragon of Resentment would absorb too much power and he would not be able to suppress it.

But that was in the past. Now he was in the world of the Ring of Law, and there were many strong people in this world, which made him gradually feel the pressure, so he began to seek various means to increase his own strength. He summoned the Sakura Dragon Blood Shadow many times for this purpose, of course, under the premise that he felt he could suppress it.

After putting away the Immortal Slash, Li You looked at the golden hippopotamus meat scattered all over the ground, raised his hand and summoned a teleportation array, and the figures of Yuzu and the other two immediately emerged from it.

“…What’s that smell?”

As soon as she came out, Aggie frowned. The blood of the golden hippo had a strong odor, which was obviously a torture to her sensitive senses.

"I just killed a big hippopotamus." Li You pointed at the heart left by the golden hippopotamus. "The source of its power is somewhat special. That might be useful."

Youzi immediately understood what Li You meant, nodded, walked forward, and held the huge heart fragment in his hands. He held the fragment up, but did not open his mouth to bite it like before. Instead, tentacles grew out of his hands and pierced into the heart.

The tentacles moved, absorbing the power of the heart, and soon turned it into a shrunken piece of meat. Yuzu threw the meat, which had shrunk several times, down and looked at Li You and the other two: "Alright."

Li You raised his eyebrows: "When did you develop this new way of eating?"

Yuzu tilted her head, glanced at Edge and V, and then answered, "They said it was too weird for me to bite a corpse while holding your face, and suggested we try a different method."

Li You looked at the two of them. Edge looked normal, and V said, "If you think it doesn't matter, then let Yuzu change it back."

Li You laughed: "I don't really care...it's up to you, Yuzu. Okay, this side should be the city, let's go."

At the main entrance square, there is a big door on each side. The one on the left can be opened, but the one on the right is locked and seems impossible to open from this side.

It is certainly not impossible to break the door, but Li You knows nothing about the DLC map design after all. These classic one-way doors are basically shortcuts, and he is here to find someone, so he did not choose to open the door violently this time.

Leida didn't give him any contact information or a meeting place, she just asked him to go to Shadow City to find someone. The letter was used to introduce him to Kara, but he had to find the person first.

So Li You really wanted to complain. Even if he had never entered the city, a normal person could see how big Shadow City was. It was such a big city, and Leida let him bury his head in a mess?

When will it be found?
Unfortunately, when faced with Li You's inquiry, Leida responded: "Lady Michaela will guide your destiny."

Li You: "......"

Fine.

She had said so much, Li You could only swallow his dissatisfaction and slowly search in the city. At the same time, he was also thankful that he had a humanoid radar with him, otherwise the search would be even more difficult.

The roads in Shadow City were not that complicated. Starting from the square, after passing the patrolling and guarding soldiers and knights, there was a small courtyard where there was even a small golden tree.

But this small tree is relatively thin, and there are no golden tree seeds or other things to pick up under the tree, but there are still many Black Iron Knights patrolling nearby.

Aggie did not sense any different aura here, so Li You and his group tried their best to avoid those knights and continued to move forward. They soon passed through a banquet hall and came to a place that seemed to be the crossroads of Shadow City.

Going down the stairs from here leads to the main entrance square. On the roads on both sides, there are ship-shaped stoves placed in sequence, with the emblems of the Messermo Crusade inserted in them, burning with golden flames.

On the left is the road Li You came from, and if you look up from this intersection, you will see a black building with a tower-like appearance, towering into the clouds.

The building stood silently, but from its location it was clearly the center of Shadow City.

Li You had already explored the area surrounding the main entrance square and found almost nothing valuable, so at this point, it seemed that the only way left was to enter the building.

After coming to this area, Aggie seemed to have noticed something and said with a frown: "There seems to be a lot of auras in this building. I... can't tell it."

"It's okay. You don't have to force it." Li You raised the spiral sword, "Let's go in and take a look. Just pay attention to whether there are any ambushes."

Everyone was about to head to the black building, but just as they reached the front door, they saw a knight with a strange appearance slowly walking out. He was a tall knight, wearing a bright and heavy red cloak over his silver-grey armor, and carrying a slender and large sword with a wavy blade like a flame on his shoulder.

"Another knight I haven't seen before?"

Before Li You was surprised, the red-robed knight in front had already spotted them. The knight raised his hand and a crimson flame flew out of his hand, lingering in the air for a moment before flying towards Li You!

"boom."

Li You was not very afraid. He swung the spiral sword and put out the flying fire snake. However, the knight carrying the big sword had already rushed up quickly and stabbed Li You's head with the sword!

"Roar!!"

Yuzu suddenly roared, raised his shield and rushed out, blocking Li You. The red knight's sword fell on the dragon hunting shield and was also fiercely bounced off. Yuzu did not hesitate to backhand the axe and cut the enemy in two.

However, the Red Knight reacted very quickly, and retreated immediately after the attack missed, narrowly avoiding Yuzu's counterattack, and even wanted to attack again. But a figure flashed by, and V had already stabbed him in the chest from the side and back with a knife.

"Pfft."

V drew his knife, shook off the blood, and watched the red knight fall. Li You checked his equipment and took away his worn-out unique giant sword.

Although this sword is obviously not a weapon with special powers, its shape is very unique, and Li You plans to give it a try.

Afterwards, the group took the elevator in the hall behind the Red Knight, went all the way up, and finally arrived at the interior of a tower-shaped space.

As soon as I walked out of the elevator room, I saw a huge specimen placed in the middle of the first floor of the building. The specimen looked like some kind of giant bison, but it had curved horns all over its body, which looked quite strange.

If you look up, you can see several other large specimens hanging in the air. The building is divided into several floors, and on each floor, you can find a large number of bookshelves and storage racks.

On the wall near the entrance, Li You found a stone tablet with a name engraved on it. He took out a portable translator that he hadn't used for a long time and read out the name of the building.

"——A collection of species."

This name and the scene here have already made Li You curious, but he did not delve into it at this time, because what attracted his attention more was that at the entrance of the hall, there was a conspicuous blessing that was slowly floating.

When Li You saw this blessing, his eyes lit up.

He walked forward and touched the blessing, which gently fluctuated in response - this blessing had already been lit.

The expression on Li You's face became more obvious. He immediately raised his head and looked higher up in the building, but unfortunately he still found nothing.

Instead, Edge tugged at his robe and said, "...Be careful. There are an exaggerated amount of life energy in this tower, and many of them are very powerful. Don't be careless."

Li You nodded, then looked at Yuzu and V: "Then let's search patiently. Since all the blessings here are lit up, we should be able to find something."

That being said, Li You and others soon discovered that actually finding it was another matter.

The roads inside this tower are very complicated and crisscross, and just as Edge had sensed, there are a large number of enemies guarding here.

There were the black ghosts seen before, immersed in studying in front of the bookshelf, there were also short evil soldiers standing guard and ambushing everywhere, and more red-robed knights could be seen patrolling back and forth.

Because the road is narrow and rugged, it is very unfriendly to outsiders, but these people can take advantage of their home field. If one person discovers the enemy, others will rush to besiege him, which is very troublesome. Moreover, even those black ghosts will use annoying fire snakes to attack, so Li You and his team's exploration speed is slowed down.

"…This bunch of monsters is a bit too serious!"

After piercing a short evil soldier who tried to escape and call for help again, Li You swung the gun, throwing out the evil soldier's body, then raised his hand and threw out several glass shurikens, piercing and dispersing the ghost of a scholar beside a bookshelf in the distance.

At the same time, he couldn't help but complain: "Another pile of monsters, the old thief is dead again? He wants to fall from the altar again, right?"

"Stop talking about those inexplicable things. Don't you have any other magic items? Use them!"

V on the side turned Pandora into a light machine gun, assisting Yuzu who was at the front, and shouted to Li You while shooting continuously.

"As for props... oh, I got them!"

Li You thought for a moment which prop would be suitable for use here, and not far away, the scene of a black ghost turning into smoke and dissipating under Edge's attack reminded him of something.

"These guys all look like souls, so this should be useful!"

As soon as he raised his hand, the ninja tool on his wristband changed from a glass shuriken to a whistle for summoning gods. This whistle now combined the functions of multiple props, but the most basic ability was still retained.

Li You put the whistle to his lips and blew it gently. The clear whistle sound immediately echoed throughout this floor of the tower!
Suddenly, the bodies of all the black ghosts who heard the whistle began to shake violently, and they all trembled as if they were in great pain.

Not only them, but even the evil soldiers and the red-robed knights couldn't help but hold their heads and were greatly affected.

"It works so well?" V showed a surprised look, and then immediately pushed Li You, "Try blowing it again!"

Li You glanced at her. Could it be that this girl treated his whistle as a toy?
However, the effect of the whistle to summon gods was indeed beyond Li You's expectations, so he didn't mind trying it again.

So, he poured magic power into it and blew the whistle again!

"Whoosh-"

The whistle sounded again, and the red-robed knight, who was about to get rid of its influence, covered his head again. This time the pain seemed even more severe.

"Can you blow it again?" V observed the enemies around him and pointed at the black ghosts and said, "I think if you blow it again, they will probably disappear directly."

Li You looked at the ghosts and actually came to the same conclusion, but he always felt that V was more of a play. But he didn't care too much and brought the whistle close to his mouth for the third time.

And just at this moment, a loud shout suddenly came from upstairs: "Stop blowing!"

Then, several black magic rubbles flew out from a corner of the second floor of the storage vault and headed straight for Li You!

(End of this chapter)