Zhou Lin

Four-ten, "forbidden zone".

At this time, the battle between Qiu Zhengyi and Lie Ba has become fierce, and the two men's combat prowess can be said to be evenly matched.

In terms of advantages: Hunter Ba is stronger in his fighting instincts and has many abilities; Qiu Zhengyi is stronger in his rich combat experience and calm judgment.

Disadvantages: Hunter Ba's body, which has just swallowed several types of high-strength DNA, is still unstable, and his brain is still in a state where he cannot think; Qiu Zhengyi has lost his sense of touch, and can only use 80% of his strength at most (the last 20% if Even if he uses it, he cannot control the scale of "destruction").

The two fought for more than ten minutes, and the rhythm increased instead of falling. The battle became faster and more intense. The changing uses of abilities and offensive and defensive moves were also dizzying.

If their battlefield hadn't been the "forbidden zone" with the strongest walls among the nine prisons, they would have leveled an area of ​​several miles around.

"It's not good..." Finally, after another round of close combat, Qiu Zhengyi came to a very bad conclusion in his heart - if he continued to fight, he might lose due to lack of physical strength.

Although in the EAS test system, the physical stamina of a mad-level ability user has been confirmed to be "close to infinite", that is only relative to the amount of exercise of an ordinary person; when two mad-level ability users of equal strength start a battle, the physical strength The speed of consumption is actually not much different from that of ordinary people fighting.

And we all know... Normally, if two people fight with high concentration and at a fast pace for more than ten minutes, that is already the intensity of the confrontation between professional boxers.

The same is true when it comes to battles between ability users. After these ten minutes of fighting, at least physically, Qiu Zhengyi was beginning to feel tired.

But...Hunter doesn't seem to have this problem.

This is all caused by the difference in "physical recovery mechanism".

As we all know, people need "fuel" when exercising, such as glycogen, salt, water, etc. The vast majority of non-variant ability users still have to follow this rule; however, when the energy in the person's body reaches a certain level, After the amount, the body will automatically use energy to replace or suppress these consumption, because "energy" is a more high-quality and efficient fuel.

The reason why high-level ability users have physical abilities that far exceed those of ordinary people is because they have more energy, are purer, and recover faster.

However, as mentioned just now, when there is a war between two ability users, the situation changes... For the body, the priority of "combat needs" must be higher than "low blood sugar"; if it is fighting, If they use energy continuously or intermittently, their bodies will naturally feel "tired".

But Hunter Ba is different. Now he has at least five or more "physical variation" abilities, so he can use pure "physiological mechanisms" to solve the problem of consumption. In addition, he is now "unable to "Thinking" state, the consumption of mental energy is zero.

If this battle continues, Qiu Zhengyi will be the first to collapse, both physically and mentally.

"That's it..." After walking back and forth with the other party for a few more times, Qiu Zheng finally made up his mind, "Destroy it..."

He has settled his accounts.

He knew that today's invasion of the Nine Prisons was different from anything he had encountered in the past. Its scale and thorough preparation were unprecedented in his experience.

He also knew that the ten minutes he spent with Hunter Tyrant here were enough for the prisoners above who had recovered their powers to escape far away, and some of them might even have gone to the other side of the world.

He also knew that at this moment, it was impossible to "calm down the situation and control the losses within a certain range". Even whether he could save his own life and escape from this place of right and wrong... he had to put a check on it. question mark.

To sum up, Qiu Zhengyi decided... to use his fists to unleash 100% of the power of "destruction" on Hunter Tyrant.

The worst result of this move is: the impact force reaches the core of the earth, causing the planet to explode... Of course, that is just a theory, and the possibility is infinitely close to zero.

The more likely outcome is: Hunter Tyrant dies, and the entire Nine Hells begin to collapse from this bottom level. In this way, most of the prisoners and intruders who have not escaped from the wall of the abyss will be buried with the Nine Prisons, and Qiu Zhengyi can also regain his sense of touch, and then forcefully use his abilities to open a passage and escape.

Considering the current situation, this is already an excellent ending. Anyway, it is better than all the prisoners in the prison escaping...

Bang——

The next second, Qiu Zheng stepped forward, suddenly jumped up, looked down at the ground, raised his arms and clenched his fists.

On his right fist, the power of "destruction" suddenly gathered, and the violent energy made bursts of strange sounds.

When the hunter, who was driven by fighting instinct, saw this, he immediately curled up and formed a diamond-shaped carapace outside his skin. It looked... like a crystal dung beetle.

"Everything...destroy it!" After all, it was a blow with an unpredictable result. Qiu Zhengyi himself was also feeling anxious. He whispered self-suggestion while swinging the punch towards the ground.

unexpectedly! At this critical moment...

Time has stopped.

In the few seconds when the whole world stopped, Jack nimbly climbed down from the hole in the ceiling of the "forbidden zone", tapped the wall with his foot, and bounced to where Qiu Zhengyi was.

At the last moment, he happened to be close to the opponent.

Bang bang bang——

This is the sound that Qiu Zhengyi "heard" when time flows again.

It was obvious that this was a gunshot - not from the ear, but directly from the skull.

In the situation where Qiu Zhengyi couldn't react at all, Jack fired three special "dark alloys" (alloys made directly from "doomsday rough stones"), which are stronger than pure alloys. Net alloys can only be regarded as "dark alloys with incomplete formulas" )" The bullet penetrated Qiu Zhengyi's brainstem and hit his brain directly.

At the same second, a hidden sword wrapped in energy also cut off the wrist of Qiu Zhengyi's right hand.

This is the "God of Killing". Either he doesn't do it, or he does it thoroughly and neatly... Even the possibility that "the body still instinctively punches out the fist when the head is shot" has been eliminated by him.

A few seconds later, Qiu Zhengyi's body fell to the ground, and Jack also fell down suddenly. After a few seconds, Uncle Xue also got down from the ceiling, took a look at the situation at the scene, and said in a complaining tone: "It's easier than imagined. Well."

Today, their "ultimate mission" is actually this - Jack is responsible for "assassinating Qiu Zhengyi", while Uncle Xue is "insurance after the assassination fails."

"Ouch——" It seemed that the hunter in the distance did not intend to give them a chance to chat. After Qiu Zheng hung up, he immediately re-opened his body, changed from the "all-out defensive posture" to the normal one, and looked at the new situation in front of him. The two "prey" that appeared howled.

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At the same time, on the side of the female prison, in the third prison, "chasing ghosts in the underworld".

Bang bang bang——

A man's leg kicked open the welded alloy vent baffle.

Then, the man jumped out of the ventilation duct.

He was a blue-haired young man who looked to be only about twenty years old. He had a handsome face and long hair shawl, but there was a sense of vicissitudes of life between his eyebrows that was obviously inconsistent with his age.

His name is Krauser Wittstock, the man Lilia brought back from the "underworld".

More than twenty minutes ago, he and Lilia returned from the Gate of the Underworld; after arriving in this world, Lilia simply explained to him for a few minutes, and he quickly understood what was happening.

At that time, the "neutralizer" had not spread in the ventilation system, but Krauser, who had never taken any medicine, went over and destroyed the hunter's cage.

Later, at Krauser's suggestion, Lilia took a spare shot of neutralizer from the box and gave it to Huntsman. Then they left Huntsman alone in the restricted area, and blasted open a wall. Sneaked into the ventilation duct.

Krauser's power seems to be to drive "wind", so he and Lilia can move very easily in the ventilation ducts. They are basically like two "humanoid maglev trains", able to travel freely and quickly through the ducts extending in all directions. .

In the next ten minutes or so, Krause only left the pipe once, because he didn't even have a pair of underwear on him when he came back from the underworld, so he went to pick up a set of clothes to wear; of course... when he was naked , Lilia, who is a hard-core feminist, did not express any objection to this, and even glanced at him from time to time with a dirty uncle-like look, almost chewing tobacco leaves and whistled at him, and said "NICE" by the way. .

And Krauser did not respond to Lilia's behavior. After all, his actual age is much older than his appearance. No matter what people of Lilia's age do in front of him, he basically has the same idea. ——"I can no longer understand young people today."

Long story short, after using the wind to move and search for a while, they discovered Shadow Weave spreading the neutralizer layer by layer, zone by zone, in the ventilation ducts.

With Krause's help, this job naturally doesn't have to be so troublesome. He can directly use the power of "wind" to spread the neutralizing agents evenly and quickly throughout the Nine Hells.

After doing this, they happened to see two prisoners carrying Nini outside the ventilation duct. At Shadow Weaver's request, they came out of the duct.

After questioning, they learned that the group of prisoners in the first prison ran away for their lives after Qiu Zheng was "dragged away"; this group of people were basically top-level and fierce-level ability users. It is not difficult to break open the building.

As for the two people in front of them, although they claimed that they took Nini with them to escape because of "repaying kindness and kindness," Krauser quickly understood the real reason during the conversation... These two people, one is a political prisoner and the other is a scientist, are not able people. Without knowing what the conditions are like on the upper floors and without the help of people with abilities, they obviously don't have much confidence in escaping; Therefore, they carried Nini. If they could find some medical treatment or wait for Nini to recover on his own, they would have a backer... And if anything happened, they could use Nini as a "bargain". Hand it over.

Krauser saw through these ideas, but he didn't tell them. He just told the two people that "the escape route is open, you can go up without worries", and then said, "We can take over this alien."

After hearing the words, the two exchanged glances, then accepted them all, said a few thanks and left.

They are all smart people and know that they have no room for bargaining in front of capable people. Since they are showing off and politely letting you go, then leave quickly.

Krauser and the others took the dying Nini back into the ventilation duct and went directly to the exit level through this "shortcut".

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On the other hand, on the side of the female prison, the sixth prison, "Youquan Shafu".

Like the men's wing, the "fourth, fifth, and sixth" prisons here are also on the same floor.

Due to the large gap in combat effectiveness among the members of the reverse cross who broke into the women's prison, Anshui and Kaijiu had already passed by this floor early and went straight to the bottom.

Although the remaining three people, Che Wuchen, Sakaki Wuhuan, and Meng Zhenhan, came to this floor at the same time, for some reason... they got separated.

At this moment, in the sixth prison, Che Wuchen was walking alone.

In the dark floor, the red alarm light was still on, but the alarm bell had stopped ringing long ago.

Che Wuchen walked slowly between the corpses of the prison guards and the wreckage of the building, his wary eyes scanning the dark corners one after another.

A few minutes ago, he realized that he had encountered an enemy.

Agent Che is a person who is used to being fully prepared before acting. This is also the quality that a professional undercover agent should have. Therefore, before today's operation, he firmly memorized the structural diagram of each floor of the Nine Prisons; currently, according to him, Calculating, after arriving at this level, the distance of my path has far exceeded the range recorded on the drawing, and the surrounding heavy air full of strange aura also reveals a unique texture of "energy".

"Xiaochen, is that you?"

In the darkness, a call suddenly sounded.

A woman's voice, a familiar voice.

"Xiaochen, have you come to see us?"

Then, there was a man's voice.

Che Wuchen quickly recognized that these were the voices of his parents who had been dead for many years.

So, following the sound, he turned around and looked back.

Sure enough, two figures that were exactly the same as in his memory were standing just two meters behind him.

His parents were still the same as when he was a child. They looked relatively young and wore ordinary clothes. However, their faces looked very pale, which was not the kind of white that "humans" should have.

"He is really a nasty guy..." After looking at the two people for a few seconds, Che Wuchen looked away and looked to the side at a deserted place, then calmly continued, "It's a pity... this This kind of trick is useless to me. Instead of creating this illusion that 'it is absolutely impossible to appear here', you might as well create the illusion of a prison guard. Maybe the probability of me being fooled will be higher."