The rising sun shatters the darkness!

Chapter 342 The World is Evil and Dangerous (6K words, monthly ticket requested)

Uh, a gift from a forbidden level existence?
That group of scripture insects, no, corpse cicadas, are actually involved in a god-level secret?
Tsk tsk tsk, it seems that the background of Nuxu Palace is not simple.

But this has nothing to do with me. Xie Xiaochan has already gotten rid of the threat of corpse worms, and I did it through the Taichu Scroll.

So what if the taboo exists? If you can't find me, just follow the Taichu scroll and hit me!
——After going through all the hardships, Xu Shu has already become a man with a big heart.

Even when encountering strong enemies, he always remains calm.

Even after learning that the enemy was actually connected to a forbidden level existence, his face remained calm.

Instead, when he looked at the newly obtained reward, the corners of his mouth curled up and revealed a faint smile.

"Taotie, the legendary Xuanzhang! Haha, I finally got it!"

I originally thought that I would have to wait for a few more days and upgrade the Dao sign "Wang Teng" to the second level before I could obtain another legendary Xuanzhang.

If that is the case, it will naturally take a lot of effort - of course, the epic mark of "Martial Artist" and the epic chapter [Bloodline] corresponding to the "Martial Artist" path have actually been prepared long ago.

But this was the result of Xu Shu's precautions. If it were someone else, it would take who knows when the money would be collected.

Unexpectedly, there are surprises in the legend. Today, a miracle really happened and another mysterious seal of the "Hercules" path was obtained.

He took out [Taotie] and looked at it from left to right without letting it go.

This mysterious seal, in general, is in the shape of a strange animal head. It is made of neither gold nor wood, and is engraved with all kinds of mysterious and unfamiliar strange fonts. The red light on it that looks like bloodshot lines represents its top level - Red Legend!
Overall, with Xu Shu's level of Chinese, he couldn't accurately describe what this thing looked like.

In short, its appearance is very strange and complicated, and the animal head is most likely the appearance of the legendary ancient ferocious beast "Taotie".

“Haha, although my knowledge in the supernatural field is not very high, at least after so much time, I have mastered the basic knowledge to perfection! At least I know it is called Taotie, not Cancan.”

"In this way, the materials I need to break through the third level, 'Dragon Elephant', are now completely complete!"

"Well, I'll go back tonight to prepare and then find a safe place to advance."

"Most people will have bottlenecks, and there is even a high probability that they will fail to advance, causing the curse to go out of control and lead to death."

“But for me, there is obviously no pressure before the fourth realm. Once the sit-ups start, it is not difficult to force a breakthrough!”

"There will be no physical problem. The only thing to pay attention to is the mentality and spirit. No matter how good I am at sit-ups, I am not truly invincible. I must always maintain the state of doing sit-ups to ensure that I will not be harmed by erosion."

"Alas, even a one-in-a-million genius like me has to go through so many difficulties and dangers. For ordinary people, it is really harder than climbing to the sky to make further progress on the extraordinary path. It is like walking on a tightrope at high altitude. If you are not careful, you will be doomed."

"But even so, the heroes of the world are still like the surging river, moving forward endlessly. The practice of cultivation is truly endless!"

Xu Shu put away Xuan Zhang and sighed.
After experiencing the final opening of the nine orifices in this legendary event, his six senses are now pure and there are no unnecessary worldly desires in his mind.

The only desire is to improve oneself and pursue a higher, faster and stronger realm.

His entire temperament seemed to be sublimated in this legend, like a wise man who had figured out the mystery.

At this moment, although it is just past six o'clock, if you are in the noble upper city area, you can see the sunset on the edge of the sky and wait for the stars.

But this is the gloomy lower town area, and it has long been pitch black. Fortunately, the local government is not stingy with electricity resources, so the street lights are turned on early, and the road is bright in some places and dark in others, which looks quite festive.

Xu Shu did not stay any longer and immediately walked out of the alley and headed briskly towards the building where he lived.

When passing by Sunshine Welfare School, you can see that the children have not yet all had time to go home, and there are still about twenty children of different ages playing and having fun on the playground.

Several children were playing a card-slapping game on the ground. They played against each other in pairs, stacking the character cards they had collected on top of each other and placing them on the ground. As a bet and as part of the game, they clapped their hands on the ground like heroes, using the wind to blow the cards around in an attempt to win rewards.

It looked dirty, but everyone was having a lot of fun. Of course, the loser was not so happy.

The total amount of happiness in the same group of children is fixed. It will neither increase nor decrease, but will only be transferred from one person to another.

Most of their parents work in factories in more remote locations, so if they can arrive to pick them up after eight o'clock, it's already considered good. Many of them may even have to wait until nine or ten o'clock.

Fortunately, this welfare school demonstrates the kind side of human nature. As long as the children stay in school that day, they can enjoy free dinner provided by the school cafeteria. It only charges a symbolic service fee of five yuan. In Penglai District, where prices are soaring and a vegetarian pancake costs 10 yuan, this is equivalent to free dinner.

Of course, this dinner would not be rich or delicious, it was just to keep the children from going hungry while waiting in school.

After all, these are welfare supplies and the benefits cannot be very high.

However, perhaps today was a good day and the food conditions were decent. A few people still had half-eaten fried chicken legs in their hands, and they were playing with the remaining meat while eating it, reluctant to throw it away.

Xu Shu found it funny and happily passed by a fence. He subconsciously stopped and glanced at the swing inside.

The swings there were empty, and the silly little girl who had brought him all kinds of leftover food was not there.

"Tsk~ Why aren't you here again? Are you going home so early today?"

Xu Shu muttered something at first, then suddenly laughed to himself.

I used to think that this little girl was annoying because she always sent me food scraps, but now that she stopped sending me food scraps, I feel a little empty instead.

Sure enough, no one in the world can escape the law of true fragrance.

He continued walking with a wry smile. After walking for a while, he passed by the main entrance of the school and saw the old principal with gray hair and almost lost teeth also cleaning the floor with a broom. Although he looked very old, he seemed to still have some strength.

After a slight hesitation, Xu Shu walked over.

The old principal stopped and looked at Xu Shu. Seeing that he didn't recognize him, he asked politely, "Who are you looking for?"

Xu Shu asked casually, "Principal, has Xiaoya left?"

"Um, looking for Zhong Xiaoya?"

The old principal was slightly surprised, then he looked at Xu Shu again and said with a cough, "Zhong Xiaoya didn't come to school."

"You didn't come today?"

Xu Shu nodded without thinking too much. Before leaving, he asked casually, "Kids these days are really bad. Not going to school is not a good habit. Are they sick or something..."

"Uh, didn't you know?" The old principal shook his head and explained, "She dropped out of school last night."

"Dropping out of school?" Xu Shu stopped when he heard that.

The old principal said, "It's probably because of family problems. The economic conditions of these children's families are not very good. It's common for them to not come to school when they have to move. This is especially true for Zhong Xiaoya. Her mother is a widow who is raising a daughter alone. She was laid off a few days ago and has a hard time making a living. She has already moved out."

"So that's how it is. That's true. The air in this shabby place isn't very good, and it's not cheap to live here."

Xu Shu nodded slightly and sighed inwardly, never having expected that Xiaoya's family conditions were so difficult that she had trouble finding a place to live and had to drop out of school.

Alas, look at my own family and those neighbors, who of them does not live a wealthy life?

And those residents who live in better places and closer to the upper city can even spend thousands or tens of thousands of dollars to go to the rooftop to bask in the sun. Who would believe this if you told them?
The saying that rich people live in luxury while others freeze to death on the streets is never empty talk.

Looking at the old principal's wrinkled hands, Xu Shu thought to himself, "It must be hard for you to take care of these children, right?"

The old principal smiled warmly and sighed, "What's so hard about it? I'm already old, and I have one foot in the coffin. I can make some contributions to the children, which can be regarded as making use of my remaining energy. When I am buried in the ground, it can be regarded as an honorable retirement."

"Okay, you're busy then, I won't interrupt you."

Xu Shu did not stay any longer and turned to leave.

After walking a few steps, I saw a fat woman in an apron walking towards the cafeteria in a hurry and aggressive manner.

In her greasy hands she was holding a form on a folder, on which was a densely packed list of names and check marks (×), which looked like a sign-in sheet of some kind.

The fat woman glanced at Xu Shu, but since she didn't know him, she ignored him and walked straight to the principal, threw the form in front of him, and said in a loud voice:

"Principal, please judge for yourself! Zhong Xiaoya and the other three are not coming today, and no one notified me? I prepared dinner as planned, and I did nothing wrong! Now, there are more than a dozen extra dishes, but Director Yang said he would deduct my bonus. Why is that?"

She looked aggrieved, with several pieces of fat squeezed together, making her look very funny. She had a loud voice and a big body, which immediately attracted the attention of many children around her.

Xu Shu stopped immediately.

The old principal over there didn't look at Xu Shu, but just stood there as if his body was frozen in the air, motionless.

It was not until the fat woman asked, "Principal? Principal?" that the old principal smiled and said, "Oh, look at my brain. It's useless at my age. Zhong Xiaoya dropped out of school last night. I forgot to tell you. Put this on me."

"Ah? She dropped out of school? When…"

When the woman heard this, she slapped her head and said, "Principal, how can this be blamed on you? Oh, that's not what I meant. I just think that I shouldn't be fined..."

"Okay, okay, let's just handle it this way. I'm busy." The old principal stopped her chattering, picked up the form, scribbled a few words in the column for "Zhong Xiaoya", signed it as a note, and prepared to go back to the office.

But the fat woman stopped him and pointed to the two rows below and said, "Hey, principal, there's more. These two kids didn't come today, and no one notified me."

"Are there two more who haven't come yet?"

The principal frowned slightly, with a hint of surprise.

Obviously, he was unaware that the other two were not coming.

But he must be really busy. The surprise on his face flashed away and then he put it away. Without asking any more questions, he immediately took the responsibility for the extra food for the other two children and returned the form to the woman.

After doing all this, he stopped sweeping the floor and walked towards the teaching building and his office with slightly light steps, like a candle in the wind.

The fat woman achieved her goal, and happily handed the form to the middle-aged man who came panting after her, and said arrogantly: "Director Yang, you can't punish me now, right?"

Director Yang was a tall, thin man with a goatee and droopy eyebrows. Seeing this, he pointed at the woman and was so angry that he couldn't speak. He hurriedly chased after the principal to apologize.

——All of this was naturally seen by Xu Shu. It was just a daily episode of the lower-class civilians in the lower city area of ​​No. 12.

However, Xu Shu looked at the principal who was staggering away, touched his chin, and his eyes gradually narrowed.

He originally didn't care much about these ordinary people, but now, when this "Director Yang" appeared in front of him for the first time, he finally realized that something was wrong.

Under the effect of "spiritual perception", Xu Shu easily discovered that the light gray mist representing the spiritual life on Director Yang's body was abnormally thin. It was too thin, even thinner than the snot he blew when he died of exhaustion in the Black Widow's body after the end of the Ten Days!

You know, the life spirit of an average person is about the thickness of a finger, and most of it is quite viscous, like fogged glass.

This kind of spirituality has nothing to do with whether one is a supernatural person, but only has to do with whether the person’s current life state is good.

When Xu Shu was ambushed by Song Nanshou of the Song family in area D8B3, he later discovered the second-level "Impermanence" hiding upstairs and sneaking away. He used his spiritual perception ability to find that the speed and trajectory of this human's movement were abnormal, so he judged that he was a transcendent and further chased him to catch him.

And now, judging from the thinness of Director Yang's life spirit, this guy should be an old man who is over 100 years old, dying and taking his last breath - no, even worse.

In other words, he should be almost dead by now, because only dead people would have so little spirituality.

But in fact, although Director Yang is thin, he has a ruddy complexion and is only about forty years old. He is energetic, walks briskly, and is full of vitality.

This is obviously inconsistent with his spiritual state and contradicts his actual situation!
"has a problem……"

Xu Shu rolled his eyes, and when the principal and Director Yang were out of sight, he walked over, called the woman, and asked casually, "Hello, sister. My name is Zhong Xiaoshan, and I'm Xiaoya's brother. I just helped Xiaoya withdraw from school."

The woman originally didn't want to pay attention to the stranger, but after seeing Xu Shu's dazzling appearance and his name that made people feel happy, she stopped and said with a hint of blame:

"So that silly girl is from your family? Hey, young man, didn't your sister tell you to drop out of school earlier next time? Aren't you just wasting time? Fortunately, I didn't suffer any loss today."

"Yeah, sorry sis."

Xu Shu nodded, admitted his mistake, and then asked, "I heard you say just now that besides Xiaoya, there are two other children who didn't come to school today?"

The woman said, "Yes, it's just that usually with that silly... um, the two little boys who usually follow your sister. They eat a lot, one of them eats five portions of the others. If it weren't for that, I wouldn't have made so many mistakes today."

"The little boy who followed her?"

Xu Shu was slightly surprised, and after thinking for a moment, he said, "Is he a boy with a pointy head and bright eyes?"

"Yes, yes, it's him. His name is Tang Xiaocang, and there's a fat boy named Feng Xiaohuang. They are the two who eat the most in the whole school!" the woman said angrily.

Xu Shu said "Oh" and thought that Xiao Cang had seen him before. He was the boy who brought half a piece of eaten cake to Xiaoya on her birthday last time, and he gave it away because he was disgusted with it.

As for the other person, Feng Xiaohuang, I have never seen him before.

He immediately asked, "I don't think the principal knows that they didn't come to school, so how come he knows about Xiaoya?"

The fat woman said, "I don't know. Someone should tell me about Xiaoya's matter. Those two dirty kids have never met their parents. I guess no one is in charge of them. They just say they won't come to school. Really, they always cause trouble for others!"

She muttered a few more reproaches in an unpleasant tone, and soon stopped talking to Xu Shu and went back to work for the next day.

Xu Shu did not ask any more questions because he had already obtained the preliminary information he wanted.

It is almost certain that there are big problems with both the principal and Director Yang.

Director Yang's problem is self-evident. His thin and almost nonexistent life force indicates that he is not a normal human being.
And the old principal...

Xu Shu recalled some of the previous exchanges as if playing a slide show in his mind, and also discovered the problems.

He knew too much about Xiaoya's situation, but too little about the other two children!

Even the cook knows that the other two children and Xiaoya are inseparable good friends. As the principal, if he didn't know this, he should not know much about them.

It was not like what happened just now, where he knew everything about Xiaoya's family situation, but he didn't know the other two playmates at all and had never paid any attention to them.

Even if the old guy is a pervert who likes loli, it is impossible for him to ignore the people around Xiaoya to this extent, right?
Looking at his normal behavior just now, his reaction was actually somewhat deliberate...

Now we can be sure that there must be something fishy going on here, and these two people are jointly planning something shameful.

It's related to the child, and the director and the principal have shown abnormalities that vaguely involve the extraordinary field...

Uh, is this some kind of cult ritual?
Xu Shu instantly perked up.

This is not because he is suffering from paranoid delusions or has an overactive imagination. It is simply because he has encountered too many such "hidden in the city" evil sacrifice incidents along the way.

Yang Chong from the first refuge, the human traffickers from the Cao Gang, and the snake cultivators from Xinglong Village...

Compared with these guys who treated the lives of civilians as worthless in order to satisfy their own selfish desires, Xu Shu felt that a pervert like himself seemed like a righteous saint!
When Xu Shu thought that the principal might be abusing his position to secretly perform sacrifices to evil gods, he could no longer suppress his murderous intent.

In fact, in most cases, when encountering other dirty things, Xu Shu always decides whether to take action based on his mood.

For example, there was prostitution in the Jinbaoshan dance hall, and he just watched the head prostitute being killed, and didn't care about the rest;

As for the snake cultivators in Xinglong Village who used human fetuses as medicine, he killed them all.

To put it bluntly, the world is difficult and human nature is unpredictable. He has long learned to let go of the desire to help others and respect the fate of others.

Only when he was in a bad mood and couldn't bear it anymore, or when the other party rushed in front of him, would he not be able to help but "meddle in other people's business" and take action to let them know what the most righteous golden gun in the doomsday was.

Strictly speaking, Xu Shu is not a "good guy" in the traditional sense. He is too arbitrary and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is both good and evil.

But - the only thing that is not allowed is cults.

The hometown D8B3 area where he had lived for more than ten years would be destroyed by the Tzeentch sect. Although his family was saved, how many friends and old acquaintances died? It was simply impossible to count them.

This is a deep blood feud, this is a huge grudge!

Xu Shu will not let go of any cultists in this world.

If we see one, we will kill him. If we see a nest, we will kill the whole nest. This is absolutely intolerable!
Well, of course, feeding that silly girl with several days’ worth of leftovers… This could also be considered one of Xu Shu’s motives.

She was more or less one of the “people I knew”.

At this moment, Xu Shu no longer hesitated as he had the murderous intent in his heart.

He is always decisive in doing things. He does what he wants to do and never hesitates.

At that moment, he walked to a secluded place, and his body suddenly transformed into a ball of blood that was inconspicuous in the night.

"Yangshen·Blood Sky", start!

He turned into a liquid man, wriggling rapidly on the ground, and soon crawled into the school, crawled into the teaching building, hid on the ceiling, and moved around along the wall.

After a while, Xu Shu heard the sound of a door opening in the distance.

When I got closer, I heard whispers, very softly.

However, Xu Shu still vaguely heard the slightly old voice saying, "Watch the door, don't let anyone disturb me, if anyone breaks in, kill them directly. Don't eat secretly for a while, wait a while, so as not to attract attention."

When Xu Shu heard this, he slowly moved over and found that a bookshelf had been moved away not far away, and there was actually a secret door.

Outside the secret door, Director Yang half-knelt on the ground and humbly said to the shadows: "Yes... I respect your wishes. I will do it well, Master."

Bang!

Director Yang moved the bookshelf, closed the secret door, and turned to leave.

As soon as he walked out of the library, he heard the creaking sound of the electric fan blades above his head.

"Who turns on the electric fan in the middle of winter?"

Director Yang suddenly felt something was wrong and looked up, but his sight suddenly rose a few centimeters and then drifted back.

The next second, Director Yang felt himself falling to the ground. After rolling a few times, he saw a thin and skinny body standing precariously in front of him.

He was wearing a suit, his head missing, and three meters high of thick purple blood spurting out from his bald neck.

This is clearly me!
"?"

Director Yang showed a look of astonishment. When he saw the fan blade stuck in the ground, he quickly understood what had happened and realized that he had been attacked. The other party used the fan blade as a blade and cut off his head.

"Who is coming out——"

Director Yang was about to open his mouth to shout, but he found that his mouth was covered with a ball of white spider web, making it impossible for him to open his mouth and make any sound.

His eyes rolled around, then focused on his own body.

The body suddenly disintegrated, bones and fat fell apart, and flesh and blood shot out in all directions like money raining down from the sky, causing holes to appear on the walls one after another, and making hissing sounds, as if the walls were corroded.

His abilities are extremely strange. Not to mention that he can survive without a head, it seems that this body is just one of his weapons.

But even so, Director Yang still couldn't find where the attacker was.

This made him feel an intense sense of crisis and oppression.

The next second, its head exploded, and a half-meter-long figure with shiny fur shot out from it.

This is actually a huge gray-haired rat!

It has a fat body, shifty eyes, sharp yellow teeth, and a strange face that looks neither human nor inhuman. It gives people goose bumps when they see it, and is full of the uncanny valley effect.

After rolling on the ground for several times, its head shook violently, and its tail immediately lifted up high, revealing an oval-shaped tail, and it spewed out a large cloud of foul-smelling yellow-brown gas!

Puff puff puff puff!

The yellowish-brown gas spread wildly in the air, covering everything around it, and soon reached the ceiling.

There was a slight bang, and a light blue flame burned in the air.

Xu Shu, who was "burning with murderous intent", immediately revealed his true form from the bloody sky state, covered his nose, and cursed with nausea:
"Fuck! How the hell is there a gray-haired weasel!"

(End of this chapter)