Infinite Road Warrior Road

Since the food problem was satisfactorily resolved, the tavern in the Rogge Camp has become even more prosperous, and it is full of mercenaries, merchants, and waitresses all day long.But as the sky was still overcast with clouds and the sun was obscured, candles were lit all day long in the tavern.The smell of the burning candles, the perfume of the dancers, the sweat of the rude drinkers, and so on.It was mixed together in a mess like a sound, but not only was it unexpectedly not unpleasant, but it also had the effect of instantly lifting any customer's spirits and entering a state of excitement.

While eating a large piece of meat and drinking wine in a big glass, bragging about the brave and rude mercenaries on the battlefield and on the woman's bed, chatting coquettishly with the gaudy waitresses of part-time prostitutes, haggling and haggling, and sometimes there are adventures of jealousy or misapprehension All kinds of physical collisions occur between the participants, forming the unique atmosphere of the tavern.

Although the scene was noisy and chaotic, there were basically no incidents of mercenaries molesting waitresses or even overlords. Some were just voluntary transactions with each other.Not far from the counter, those rough guys with yellow accents even seemed to restrain their speech a lot, and they rarely used too explicit words, as if they had some scruples.

I saw a young girl with black hair and black eyes sitting behind the counter quietly mixing cocktails for customers. Five or six wine bottles seemed to be alive on her slender fingers, and the colorful liquors were intertwined and mixed. It becomes a more colorful scenery, just looking at all this gives people an artistic enjoyment.Unlike other barmaids with heavy makeup, she doesn't have any makeup on her face, but her beautiful appearance is enough to make people's eyes shine.And wearing a pair of tight soft armor with magic patterns, the curves of his body are extremely attractive.Especially those legs, straight and slender.Although the texture and color of the skin cannot be seen, the streamlined beauty is enough to make people admire.

In the eyes of the men in the tavern, this girl not only has nothing to say about her beauty, but also has a kind of temperament that only noble ladies can possess, which makes those Liuying with dirty mouth and spitting everywhere unmatched.But with such an attractive girl, no one dared to strike up a conversation or even molested her, because many guys with brains have already told everyone with their own painful experiences that this girl is not to be messed with!

It's fine if it's just a verbal flirtation.But if there is any obscenity or even direct hands and feet, then the skills and inferior weapons of people below the elite cannot withstand the fine gold arrows fired at close range.Although most of them will not die because of this, but they will often lose one or two important parts forever-if these unlucky ghosts haven't carried enough good life potions with them.As for the people at the elite level, most of them know the powerful relationship, and they will not casually provoke people from the core team of Rogue Archers.

With a knock, the door of the tavern was pushed open, and a person strode in.Immediately afterwards, all the atmosphere and restlessness in the entire tavern stopped, and suddenly became silent.

"It's Lord Brave..."

Unexpectedly, the recent boom in the limelight, the newly promoted legendary brave man, who looks like an invincible savior, would come to such an unremarkable tavern of low-to-medium level.The drinkers were stunned collectively at first.Some were agitated, some were restless, most of them woke up from drunkenness, and only a few who were still calm boldly came forward to salute and say hello.

Zheng Zha just smiled and nodded, and went straight to the counter.Sitting down in front of the girl bartending, the customers who were closer moved or left one after another, leaving a large space around.After all, even elite-level people rarely come to this tavern.The arrival of Zheng Zha is like a dragon coming from a hen's coop, although on the surface his words and deeds are kind.But the invisible aura emanating from his body alone is enough to make those who are closer to him feel like sitting on pins and needles, and it is good to avoid it.

"What do you want?" Ming Yanwei, who was still mixing the wine, asked without raising her head.

"Whatever. Just try to be as strong as possible." Zheng Zha replied casually, and frowned again: "I thought archers were generally not suitable for contact with alcohol."

"I didn't do it before, but I learned it half a year ago..." Ming Yanwei responded coldly: "Then I found out that I drink a lot, and sometimes being slightly drunk can make me perform super well in archery. But the national team didn’t recognize this, and in the end I was expelled. If I hadn’t read the wrong pop-up box while drinking at home while chatting naked, I probably wouldn’t have come here.”

"Okay, I won't interfere with my personal hobbies..." Zheng Zha couldn't help but froze when he heard the words, and then said: "But I don't think it is necessary to stay in the wine for too long at this stage, I hope you have time to practice more The bow and arrow skills that match all kinds of special arrows in the team, and specialize in the two sets of bow and arrow skills of "Unintentional Shooting" and "Phoenix Dance for Nine Heavens". There are many related videos and experience notes in the team, and Lao Wang can also Provide guidance, these are the fastest ways to improve combat effectiveness."

"When I first arrived here, I worked in this tavern to make a living. I'm already a little accustomed to the atmosphere here. I just come back to help out after completing the monster-killing mission every day." Ming Yanwei responded coldly.In fact, even if there were no monsters at the beginning, their newcomers had a difficult time in a medieval world like Diablo, especially as a woman with a pretty appearance, if it weren’t for the tavern owner who took her in She is kind, thinks that she should be some troubled noble lady and takes good care of her, maybe she is not where she is today.

After mixing the wine, Ming Yanwei pushed a glass of wine in front of Zheng Zha, and said indifferently: "As for archery, I have my own practice method. I haven't learned many archery skills in the dark world yet, so there is no need to learn cowardly archery skills." !"

"A coward?" Zheng Zha repeated in a murmur, nodded and said, "It seems that you still hate him."

"Hate?" Ming Yanwei's originally indifferent tone suddenly became a little bit sharper, "Yes, I used to hate, wishing to die with him. But now, I just simply despise. When I learned that he I also entered the world of reincarnation and died after the last mission. I really didn't feel anything, neither happy nor sad.

In the city of Tristram, I have witnessed several times when facing monsters, many men left the wives and children they were supposed to protect and fled for their own lives.There's even scum who pushes his wife off a galloping carriage so he can escape faster!Most men are so hypocritical and ugly.So maybe it wasn't him who was wrong.The only thing wrong is that I shouldn't be so naive to expect human nature! "

"Maybe you really made a mistake... According to my contact with him, he is definitely a reliable partner and comrade-in-arms. How many times in battle. Facing those simple thoughts can make people tremble His arrows have never disappointed everyone." Zheng Zha sighed, and he knew a little about the entanglement between Zhang Heng and his ex-girlfriend Ming Yanwei, so he continued to persuade, "His only shortcoming is his severe bloodsickness, but this kind of disease and the fear of heights are not related to courage, and it is impossible to overcome mental illness with ordinary courage. You can't expect a person to be A patient with bloodsickness who was hit on the head with a stick can still maintain enough sobriety and reason to do what he should do. Just like you can't expect a patient who is paralyzed in bed to be able to jump because of the power of love. It's like acting as your flower protector."

Ming Yanwei sneered: "So, you should blame me for this matter? Blame me for attracting bees and butterflies?"

"Of course I don't blame you, and it can't be regarded as his fault. It can only be said that God's will tricks people. Both of you are victims of this incident, and the pain caused to him is no less than yours. But he also thinks that this incident It was all his fault, and he was so guilty that he didn't even have the courage to meet you afterwards, but he just quietly took his bow and arrows and killed those hooligans one by one..." Zheng Zha shook his head. "Although the two of you are quite consistent in understanding the person responsible for that incident, judging from your current attitude towards him, I think you really don't understand him, not at the beginning."

Ming Yanwei just sneered.Ignoring Zheng Zha, I lowered my head and continued to mix drinks.

Zheng Zha began to talk tirelessly about what he knew about Zhang Heng, and talked about the depression and self-blame that he often expressed in his daily speech and behavior.Talk about every joint training and every experience of fighting side by side.In the end, he talked about how he desperately blocked the terrifying "Purgatory Vulcan Sword" from flying back to his master with arrow after arrow in the battle of Dragon Island, until he finally lost his strength and was killed...

There was a mocking sneer on the corner of Ming Yanwei's mouth.He didn't speak all the time, but his eyes gradually became a little red.

The drinkers around have already left and scattered, only a few drunk guys are left lying on the table or lying under the table and sleeping soundly. Zha kept a considerable distance.From their point of view—since the Brave-sama seems to be interested in this beautiful girl, it's better not to get close to her.In addition, Zheng Zha has always used internal force to control the range of sound transmission, so basically no one can hear the content of the conversation between the two.

It seems that because of the sighs and emotions of recalling the past, Zheng Zha kept drinking while talking, and the candle light made his face flush. Some get drunk.

"Whether you appreciate it or not, for his sake, I will take more care of your safety within reason." Zheng Zha finally said, "After all, he still has a chance to be resurrected. I didn't expect It's not a good time to explain to him."

After finishing speaking, Zheng Zha was about to stand up, but his body swayed slightly, and he laughed at himself, "This wine seems to have a lot of stamina..."

"That's not right..." Ming Yanwei didn't realize that the color of the wine in Zheng Zha's drinking glass was different until Zheng Zha had something strange.This kind of abnormality cannot actually be judged by the naked eye of ordinary people. Only holograms can analyze the abnormality from the slight difference in pigmentation.

But unfortunately, it was too late!

Everyone suddenly fell into a state of blindness, like a sudden power failure, and boundless thick darkness suddenly descended on the entire tavern.However, Ming Yanwei could clearly feel the temperature of the burning candlestick and the slight crackling of the flame, as if she had suddenly lost her sight.

This is the "Shadow Cloak", the assassin's favorite assassination technique, which can block light and make enemies within a certain range temporarily blind.

Immediately afterwards there was a loud bang as the wooden table shattered. Although Ming Yanwei could not recover her eyesight for a while, she could tell by hearing alone that a drinker who was drunk under the table suddenly jumped up not far away. While smashing the wooden table, the whole person rushed towards Zheng Zha like a curved arrow off the string. It seemed that the shrill scream piercing the air from the two-handed fist and sword even reminded Ming Yanwei of the Luoge archer team firing all arrows. momentum.

Almost instinctively took the bow and shot an arrow at the position where the scream was issued.Ming Yanwei's nerves were instantly stretched to the limit like a longbow stretched to the limit, and her eyes first entered a dazed state.Immediately afterwards, an invisible light that could penetrate the darkness faintly bloomed...

With the instant opening of the first-order gene lock, and a pair of extremely sharp eyes.Ming Yanwei finally recovered some vision at the critical moment, even if she could not see clearly, she was able to barely make an effective judgment in the dark.

The arrow she shot just now wiped out a series of dark blue magic pattern fluctuations on the back of the opponent's unprotected neck, but it couldn't go in.Obviously, it was a high-level magic equipment with a self-defense force field. Even if there was no real armor, it still had armor condensed with magic power, which was enough to withstand the arrow she missed.As for the assassin disguised as a drunkard, the two dark blue, obviously poisonous boxing swords in both hands were crossed into scissors, twisting straight towards Zheng Zha's neck.

Even though he just drank poisoned wine.But Zheng Zha still made a knife with his palms upright, and hit two crossed fist swords, and the assassin's arms folded at once, and the two fist swords flew back upside down, forming a deep cross in a burst of shattered magic lines. It was deeply embedded in the leather armor on his chest, and his whole body flew backwards in the spurt of blood.

However, Zheng Zha was hit by the plot first, and although he repelled his opponent, his figure also wobbled for a while.At the same time, the handle of the blade was black.The dagger that perfectly blended with the shadow suddenly protruded from the shadow under the wine cabinet. Under Ming Yanwei's horrified gaze, the wavy thin blade cleanly wiped Zheng Zha's neck, bringing up a spray of blood. flower.

General conditioning.Zheng Zha grabbed his neck tightly with one hand, desperately blocking the fatal wound, and blood slowly flowed down the palm of his hand.The other hand quickly reached out to his waist, as if he wanted to take out the life potion.

Like a bloodthirsty shark leaping out of a dark sea.One was wrapped in black, and it was hard to tell whether it was a man or a woman.A figure of a man or a ghost leaped out from the shadow beside Zheng Zha, and launched a deadly attack on Zheng Zha in mid-air that was as erratic as the wind and as fast as a leopard.

The pitch-black arm holding the dagger turned into black waves as if without bones, waving in the air, leaving circle after circle of ink-like afterimages.Wherever the trajectory of the blade went, all the wine tables, chairs, and counters were silently shattered into fragments as if piled with butter, and those fragments were still rapidly turning black, gradually melting into the shadow of the ground like melting .

Zheng Zha's body was obviously much tougher than the tables and chairs, but he was still killed in a series of horrifying sounds of cutting muscles and bones, with stab wounds all over his body, and blood was scattered all over the surrounding floors, walls, and ceilings. Seeing that the situation is critical!

"It's a shadow assassin..." Ming Yanwei's face changed tragically. She had also heard of this kind of terrible killer who was transformed from a fallen elite assassin. Through a special sacrifice ceremony, they used the power of hell to transform themselves into half-shadows. As a result, they can easily shuttle and lurk in the shadows, and can freely twist and stretch their bodies like shadows. Although the lethality of the holy light on them has increased sharply, under the right circumstances, they are absolutely The most insidious and deadly harvester of life, countless powerful brave men are all hated by the butcher's knife from the shadows!

Trying to calm down the fear in his heart, he fired arrows at the most dangerous killer jumping out of the shadows.But her arrows are a limited threat to the Shadow Assassin who merges with the shadow, twists her body like a ghost, and jumps and shifts with the help of the shadow.After attacking Zheng Zha ferociously and knocking down her two arrows with a knife, the opponent still had time to grin at her. His big, flexible mouth stretched all the way to his ears, revealing a few uneven hairs. black teeth.The eyes full of darkness, obscenity and malice were like a cold and slippery hand, caressing Ming Yanwei's whole body from top to bottom.

Under the creepy smile of the other party, the originally stubborn and strong girl felt that her courage was gradually lost. The strength of her whole body seemed to be taken away by her sight, and her trembling hands could hardly even draw the bow.

But this was not enough, another terrifying force appeared that made her feel even more desperate - in a dark corner of the hotel, the darkness gathered like steaming black smoke to form a terrifying figure in a black robe.Skinny joints like dead trees stretched out from the tattered black robe, holding a scorched cane that was also made of countless shadows and darkness.

The dry sound of incantations that seemed to cut the soul echoed from the bone-like mouth, followed by countless ghostly distorted shadows that could not distinguish between humans and beasts.From the shadows under the tables, from the corners of the tavern.From all the places where it can hide its figure, it gushes out like a tide at the same time, like a wolf like a tiger.He charged at Zheng Zha, who was already in serious danger!

At the same time, another assassin who had just been knocked into the air by Zheng Zha also recovered by drinking the life potion. A dozen or so sharp knife wheels revolving around him appeared all over his body. With fists and swords in both hands, the whole person turned into a metal storm that could smash everything to pieces and killed Zheng Zha.

After casting the spell, the evil mage who emerged from the shadows just glanced at Ming Yanwei who was walking mechanically and retreating step by step, smiled mockingly, and touched a piece of paper next to him with his cane. table.The shadows under the table twisted and tangled like octopuses.In the snickering and wailing of countless shadows, it wrapped and devoured the table, and squirmed into a black spider the size of a table, exuding a sense of eerie horror.

The spider quickly crawled towards Ming Yanwei while spitting out the jet-black spider silk intertwined with thick shadows.The slender and twisted spider claws slashed across the ground, bringing out a series of creepy, weird and sharp creaking sounds.Before the spider arrived, the incomparable terror had grabbed the girl tightly like an invisible web!

The girl firmly held back the scream that was about to burst out of her throat, representing weakness and collapse, mustered the last ounce of courage, and drew the bow with trembling hands.But it wasn't until she aimed her arrow at the evil mage.A pitch-black spider thread had protruded from a shadow in the corner of the ceiling behind her, entangled the bow and arrow in her hand tightly from top to bottom.The disgustingly cold and viscous spider silk was still wrapped around her hands, slowly dragging her whole body up and hanging her in an extremely humiliating gesture.As the life force and magic power continued to drain through the spider web, her eyes began to turn black.The turbid breath is transpiring in the dark air, and in the darkness that is getting more and more chaotic, Nightmare is showing a ferocious smile...

at this moment.Zheng Zha, who was trapped in a muddy swamp-like shadow, flew out with blood all over his body, and in the splash of blood, he slammed the spider that was crawling towards Ming Yanwei into the evil mage in the corner.The spider silk that originally wrapped her bow and arrow and her hands also snapped...

Ming Yanwei, who was in a state of extreme panic, didn't notice that the blood spattered from Zheng Zha's body was evenly covering every place around him.All the assassins were circled in.Moreover, every drop and every trace of blood exudes a murderous sharpness like a knife blade. As it flows, deep knife marks are cut on the ground, wall, and ceiling, and even the invisible shadows are cut. Fragmented...

When Ming Yanwei came back to her senses, she found that she was already outside the tavern, and the bow and arrow that had been inseparable from her had been lost somewhere.From the outside, the tavern was still calm, as if it had just turned off the lights suddenly and became dim, and there was no strange sound, but in her eyes, this familiar tavern was no different from a sinister abyss.

She didn't know how she stumbled and escaped. Before escaping, she seemed to hear Zheng Zha shouting "Run!", and she seemed to hear him begging her for help. It seems that there is nothing...

An unfamiliar man desperately rescued him at a critical moment, but he left his dying savior alone and fled... Tears filled his eyes, and the fire of shame and remorse burned in his chest, even surpassing the coldness of fear for a time , but she really couldn't muster the courage to go back to the tavern immediately.

Although she has seen many ugly and terrifying monsters in the dark world, although she has shot and killed many monsters with her own hands, although she has shown unparalleled archery talent, and even unlocked the gene lock in a previous battle.But how can those low-level monsters compare to the shadow assassins and dark mages whose aura and malice alone are enough to collapse low-level professionals?Facing the unparalleled horror of death and irresistible despair, it turns out that a person's courage and belief are so pathetic and ridiculous!

She really couldn't turn around and fight back to the tavern immediately, but she still held back the tears in her eyes, and tried her best to restrain her legs from turning around and flying away immediately, because she knew that if she did something like this If you move, it's really over.

For a moment, the girl just stood motionless, letting the cruel reality strip her heart to pieces, and confirmed her identity in the incomparable pain: a stupid, brave, self-righteous, self-righteous woman who has no ability to protect Own.He is even less qualified to despise his ex-lover.

It wasn't until a patrol of Rogue archers turned the corner that the dazed girl realized what she was supposed to do.Can't wait to open the mouth and shout with a clearly shifted voice: "Save..."

But the words for help stopped after only one syllable was highlighted, because she saw Zheng Zha holding a black staff, dagger, fist sword and her own bow and arrow in one hand.Dragging three muddy assassins with one hand, he strode out of the tavern. There was no injury on his body, not even a drop of blood. Instead, the bones of the three assassins were all shattered, or their limbs were broken. That was a horrible sight.

"This staff is Urschem, the shadow snake..." The leader, Captain Rogge, rushed over after hearing the news, and saw the staff in Zheng Zha's hand, and the man in black robe and black leather armor. Three assassins.Can't help exclaiming aloud.

Urschem is a notorious degenerate mage. Not only is he sinister, he specializes in degenerate magic that summons shadow monsters. Assassin transforms into quasi-Master Shadow Assassin to form his band of thieves.At the same time, he also has a bad habit of gnashing his teeth: if he is not sure, he will never take action himself, and if the situation is slightly wrong, he will immediately abandon his companions and use shadow walking to escape without hesitation.

So even though he killed countless people, the "partner" changed several batches during the period.The cumulative rewards for the head in the Adventurer's Guild have reached five figures, and even provoked a legend-level paladin to chase him down, but he is still alive and well.Of course, this also has something to do with his uncompromising master-level strength.With years of continuous killing and sacrifice, especially the killing of priests, he has gained a lot of evil power.Even among the master-level characters, they belonged to the middle and upper levels.

If the Holy Light was withdrawn from the Rogge camp, Erstchem would not dare to kill people in the camp anyway.Although the revocation of the Holy Light had obviously relieved him of many worries, he was so courageous that he targeted the legendary brave man.Moreover, the entire army was wiped out and dragged by Zheng Zha's hands like a dead dog with two accomplices, which is undoubtedly enough to surprise people, and it is also enough to make everyone who has witnessed all this respect Zheng Zha.

"These guys are cunning enough, and it's not easy to lure them out." Zheng Zha just smiled. In fact, whether it's the poisoned wine pretending not to drink, or the poison on the assassin's weapon, for the fourth-order It's nothing, maybe it can play some negative effects the first time, but the second time it will be fully adaptive and immune.However, with the fourth level of perfect control over various physiological phenomena, it is not difficult to simulate the signs of deep poisoning.As for the splashed blood, it was just a way for him to lure the opponent into taking the bait, and at the same time use the blood as a knife to cut off his back path.Anyway, no matter how much bleeding there is, all of it will return to the body automatically.The biggest difficulty in the whole process is at best to act a scene that is similar enough, and there is no price to be paid at all.

As a result, the three unlucky guys were dragged and dragged to the "Pentagon" by the Rogue archer team amidst the cheers of the people along the way, like a parade in the street.After seeing them leave, Zheng Zha turned around and handed back the bow and arrow to Ming Yanwei who was standing blankly beside him, "Don't worry, everyone else in the tavern is fine, it's just that they were a little frightened, just these three guys, I want to protect them." It's not a problem for others to be thorough."

Ming Yanwei's eyes were dull and absent-minded, her lips trembled, and she asked after a while: "You... what do you mean?"

Zheng Zha shrugged and said, "It's nothing special. I can feel that these guys have been staring at me for a long time, but they still dare not make a move. In order to catch them all, I had to perform a scene of leading a snake out of the hole at the right time. Let You are a little frightened, please don't mind..."

After a pause, Zheng Zha put on another serious tone and said: "Of course, if you want to understand other aspects, it's okay! You can interpret it as a kind warning, so as to make you engage in trouble. Know what kind of enemies you are about to face, and don't expect to be able to fight against such existences with courage and training in the ordinary sense. Although for Zhang Heng's sake, I will pay more attention to you. Look after you, but it definitely doesn’t mean that I and other people in the team will accommodate you unprincipled. If you don’t want to die, it’s better to abandon unnecessary bravado and paranoia, try to make good use of every resource provided by the team, and desperately let yourself Become stronger as soon as possible!

You can also regard this incident as an ideological education: there is no natural brave man in the world, and it is inevitable for anyone to have dark and ugly corners in his heart that he does not want to face.Even I have hesitated, retreated, evaded, indulged, and even lay ugly on the ground begging for mercy... Therefore, instead of waiting for the cancer on my body to suddenly burst into a wound that killed me at a critical moment, It's better to bear the pain and pierce it in advance, cut it off! "

The last cry made the girl who had been in a state of despair suddenly tremble. She snatched the bow and arrow Zheng Zha handed over like grabbing a life-saving straw, held it tightly, and did not let go for a long time...

………………………<)”, “Eld”, and “lem” are embedded in the grooves of the two-handed sword in the hand. Every time a rune is embedded, the magic pattern of the two-handed sword will be flooded. There was a wave of strange-colored ripples that seemed to be flexible and everlasting, and finally the four runes were completely integrated into the body of the sword, causing the material of the whole sword to change accordingly, and the whole body was neither gold nor stone, becoming a sword in the true sense rune weapons.

Wang Zongchao just held the rune sword in both hands, and remained silent for a long time. Everything seemed normal, and there was no mysterious enlightenment scene such as "a strange fragrance from the sky, and a golden lotus from the ground".

After a while, he showed a meaningful smile, handed the rune sword to Qin Zhuiyu and said, "Try it and see." (To be continued...)