Infernal Artist

When the sun rises.

Liu Ping stood on a tree in the town, looking towards the wilderness.

The distance of 800 meters outside the town has been shrouded in darkness, revealing the deep night.

But Liu Ping clearly remembered that when he came from the wilderness to Dark Mist Town, he had obviously traveled hundreds of miles.

Yesterday, darkness was far away from Dark Mist Town.

After just one night, the sun passed through Dark Fog Town, but could not shine into the night outside the town.

"The world of death..."

Liu Ping whispered.

The world is divided into two parts, black and white.

The other side of darkness is the scope of the world of death.

After the invasion last night, it has been approaching Dark Mist Town, almost covering the town.

——If no one resists the darkness tonight, will the eternal night continue to advance and swallow the entire town into the world of death?

A sense of urgency arose in Liu Ping's heart.

He jumped off the tree and walked through the ruins according to the town pattern he remembered in his mind.

"Let's go to the bar first..."

He walked through the ruins and soon arrived at the bar.

The place has been completely destroyed, with broken bricks and tiles everywhere. You can even see a huge claw mark on the ground that goes several meters underground.

A layer of black powder-like substance spread along the edge of the claw marks and spread throughout the ruins of the bar.

"Fire... still very powerful fire."

Liu Ping groaned.

As if he sensed something, he quickly walked to the original location of the bar and removed the masonry from a collapsed area.

A charred corpse lay beneath the masonry.

This is not a world of death, so Liu Ping stepped forward with confidence and turned the body over and looked at it carefully.

It's the bartender.

He died hastily, one arm spread out, making a motion of grabbing something forward.

Grab——

Liu Ping looked in the direction of the corpse.

I saw a corner of the bar not far away, and there was nothing there.

"Disperse!"

Liu Ping made a gesture and blew away the bricks, stones and ashes on the flat ground.

The original wooden floor of the bar was revealed, but there was nothing on the bare floor.

This small area is actually intact!

Liu Ping stepped forward and knocked on the floor, finding that it was hollow inside.

Do you want to punch through the floor and see what's underneath?

Liu Ping turned his attention to the bartender.

The bartender had been dead for a long time, and the look of despair had already solidified on his face, while his body maintained a climbing posture with all his strength, as if he wanted to crawl to the corner before he died.

Liu Ping pressed his hand on the ground.

Suddenly, a mechanical voice came from the ground:

"Identity verification passed, night watchman, you can enter."

The ground suddenly cracked.

Liu Ping fell down, flipped several times in mid-air, and stood on the ground.

I saw here is a relatively spacious underground secret room, hiding a lot of daily necessities, and a vertical glass pavilion.

In the void, two lines of small characters gave instructions:

"You found the phone booth."

"This is a long-distance communication tool that may have some special functions."

Liu Ping sighed.

Without the sequence reminder, I knew what it was. After all, I had acquired the basic common sense of this era.

——Now we know what the bartender wants to do.

The bartender probably wanted to report the situation in Dark Mist Town and seek rescue.

The bartender is a receptionist numbered 03687 and has the authority to conduct transactions and issue official identities.

There must be a powerful organization behind such a person.

But it stands to reason that people like the bartender should already be familiar with things in the wilderness and should be prepared for dangers.

The leader of the night watchman also said that the night at the end of the month is the most dangerous.

Why did they wait until the end to seek rescue, and why didn't they succeed?

...It seems that basic common sense is not enough.

The sequence also said that this phone booth may have other special functions.

But I don’t know.

Liu Ping was just thinking when he suddenly saw movement in the void again.

A line of small words quickly appeared in front of his eyes:

"Remind again:"

"A strange wave appeared in the north of Dark Mist Town."

Last night, Sequence asked himself to interrupt his practice and go find out.

Since the sequence is so urgent...

Liu Ping looked at the phone booth, hesitant.

——Can this be sold for money?

The storage bag on my body is of ordinary style and has limited storage capacity, but it cannot hold such a large item.

The piggy bank also only accepts currency, not the phone booth.

The only option is to put the phone booth here first, wait until you finish exploring the north side of the town, and then go back and see how to deal with it.

Liu Ping turned around and left the ruins of the bar, heading all the way to the north of the town.

On the road, I saw many charred human-shaped black marks. These black marks clung to the ground, emitting a foul smell of burning.

After walking only a few hundred meters, sporadic noises suddenly came from a collapsed building several stories high in front of them.

"Who is it? Is there anyone?" Liu Ping tried to speak out.

no respond.

But the noise was louder.

Liu Ping became cautious.

He slowly took a few steps back, hid behind a stone stool, and then made a secret gesture.

Waited for a few breaths.

A shaky figure climbed out of the ruins.

Old K.

His legs were broken, and he could only rely on his hands to support the ground and crawl towards the place where the sound came from.

Liu Jing looked at the other party calmly, looking at Old K's crazy expression, his crooked mouth dripping with saliva and black blood, and his sharpened hands——

"Losing consciousness...becoming crazy...I'm sorry, my healing skills can't save you."

Liu Ping murmured and put away the magic formula.

But he couldn't leave the other party alone. He vaguely felt that there was some danger hidden in the other party's body.

But in this situation, every ounce of spiritual power is quite precious, so——

Liu Ping drew his pistol and pointed it at Old K.

Old K seemed unaware, he just opened his mouth and crawled towards Liu Ping with all his strength, as if Liu Ping was the most delicious food in the world.

Liu Ping pulled the trigger.

boom!

A hole opened in Old K's heart, his body was shaken, and he lay on the same spot and stopped crawling forward.

At this moment, something seemed to have changed in him, and his eyes became a little clearer.

"It's you... Hurry, hit me on the head, I will die only if I get a headshot!"

Old K said hoarsely.

"What happened last night?" Liu Ping asked.

Old K's face showed fear, then turned into madness, and was finally covered by despair.

"Quick! Kill me! Otherwise I will be finished!" he shouted.

After saying this, Old K's whole body twitched crazily, and within a few breaths, sharp bone spurs grew out of his body.

"Please, hurry-"

he begged.

His eyes turned completely milky white, his forehead split open, and another pair of dark eyes grew again.

boom!

A bullet exploded in his head.

All movement stopped immediately.

The body lay motionless on the ground.

Liu Ping looked at the corpse calmly.

Kill me or I'm dead -

To paraphrase this sentence, it can be interpreted as: If you kill me, I will not be finished.

...Are you afraid of becoming a monster? Or something else?

Liu Ping was a little confused.

Between heaven and earth, the wind roared through the town.

The world gradually turned into deathly silence.

a long time.

The body was motionless.

Liu Ping slowly put away his gun, took a few steps back, and continued to move forward.

Half a quarter of an hour later, he arrived at the north of Dark Mist Town.

A line of small words floats in the void:

"A strange fluctuation is shrouded five hundred meters in front of you. You need to find the source of this fluctuation. This sequence will analyze it."

Liu Ping stepped on a pile of rubble and looked in that direction.

I remembered.

When he first entered Dark Mist Town, he walked around the entire town and passed by it.

There is a collapsed building there, which I heard was called a "church."

It looks like it has been abandoned for a long time, but it has a different feel than other buildings.

Liu Ping stepped forward and made a spell.

All the bricks and stones that had buried the passage flew out and piled up in a pile opposite the church.

Liu Ping looked into the church.

——He knew why the church felt different from other buildings.

Although other buildings have collapsed, a quick inspection reveals that most of the contents have been evacuated.

But the church is different.

Even though it was abandoned, everything inside was neatly arranged and had not been taken away.

No one touched anything in the church.

Liu Ping walked in, circled around, and finally stopped in front of a wall.

This wall is leaky, and you can hear someone inside the wall praying softly, with an extremely pious tone.

——There is more than one person.

Liu Ping listened carefully, but found that as he concentrated his attention, he could hear more and more sounds.

He calmed down and punched the wall hard.

Wow!

The bricks fell to the ground, revealing a secret room inside.

Liu Ping immediately saw clearly the structure of the entire secret room.

The secret room is very small, with smooth stone surfaces on all four walls and on the floor, densely etched with mysterious runes, forming a beautiful circle, surrounding a statue with a metal base.

It was a statue of a woman wearing a colorful robe.

She looked compassionate and dignified, with her eyes closed and holding a piece of black iron rope in her hands.

Black iron ropes bound her hands and wrapped around her body, forming a pair of heavy shackles at her ankles, tightly binding her feet.