Chapter 24 Lily of the Valley: I said I forgot something, damn! Damn it! This is an escape game, find the token!
"Anyway, thank you for your comfort."
Shuise turned his head awkwardly, and the bow in his hand flashed, and water ripples with musical symbols bloomed directly under the feet of the three people. Looking at Shuise's red ears, Bai Ye couldn't help but widen the curve of his mouth. It was indeed interesting to tease someone like Shuise who was too upright and serious. No wonder Linglan and Youyu couldn't help themselves.
He couldn't help it either.
The three boys stood up with difficulty, and when they looked around, they realized that the danger caused by the fire wave just now was more terrible than they had imagined.
The buildings in the projection of the other world corresponding to Solomon Academy had completely disappeared, and collapsed into terrible ruins under the attack of the fire wave. There were only broken stones after the damaged buildings, except for the burning fire. The other students and the fire beasts had all disappeared within the range of the hellfire, and only the sound of burning explosions continued to explode in the ears.
Other than that, there was dead silence, as if they were the only three left in the world.
"Boss! Squid? Classmates? Anyone, please reply to me! Are you all right?"
Yang Yan couldn't help it and shouted a few words at the top of his lungs. The wind mixed with the fire flow carried his voice to a very far place. Soon, sporadic sounds of unclear battles were heard in the sea of fire. The crisp metallic sounds of the tagged weapons colliding with the weapons of unknown enemies even suppressed the faint violin music coming from the water nocturne formation.
"Hu... Don't worry," Shuise adjusted his breathing and tried to think rationally. Although he was talking to Bai Ye, it was more like comforting himself: "They must be fine. What we need to do now is to find the whereabouts of the most important enemy in advance -
"I'm here! Here!"
You Yu's voice came from very close by. The boy was still full of energy, without any sign of weakness from injury.
Linglan did not speak. The unique clashing sound of the metal forks had already exposed her and Youyu's location together. On the other side, a huge emerald door with eye-patterns spun open in the sky, and black and red sparks rained down on the deserted ruins. Emerald did not speak, but she directly threw a sea of fire into the sky by using the skill of [Emerald Jade Door Key]. The next second, most of the flames on the ground that blocked the view were gone, and the ruins destroyed by the fire waves were hideously displayed in front of everyone.
Feicui gently spun the long key in her hand, and the last piece of fire and rain fell. As her emerald key flashed with bright luster, Bai Ye and his classmates finally saw the enemy that the other students had just confronted.
That was... several demon apostles in black robes, who had already surrounded all the students in the barrier when the fire blocked their view.
"Are they coming out in full force? Aren't they looking down on us high school students too much?"
Yang Yan's face turned grim: "Is the list of tokens so important? The DM system will explain it after the game is over!"
Shuise sneered and took an attacking stance towards the demon apostle closest to him: "What he is looking up to is not us at all, but the Sun Law Enforcement Bureau. With this number of people... the demon apostle is simply planning to rob us!"
Bai Ye suddenly laughed: "I seem to know what that skeleton is doing by bringing the entire Demon Apostle Organization here with such fanfare."
He raised his head, the firelight illuminated the pupils of those cobalt blue eyes, the visual conflict of red and blue was too familiar, Shui Se was in a trance for a moment, almost subconsciously wanting to attack with the bow - he really thought that he had just seen wonder's special eyes for a moment.
Eyes with blood red pupils and blue pupils.
He is too suspicious. Recently, he has been a little mentally unstable because of that bastard thief. Shuise pressed down his hand holding the bow with his other hand. The label particles of Bai Ye and Wonder are different, one is a black and blue halo, and the other is a red and blue pixel. Besides, how can there be a player with two labels in this world?
"The fragments of the Ten Commandments are scattered to every corner of the surface world by the DM system, but the Ten Commandments need objects as carriers and support, such as the Heart of Night. After the demon apostles get the list of the tokens, they can steal and collect the Ten Commandments in advance, and naturally become the winner of the [Reunion] season held around the Ten Commandments, get a huge amount of extra points, and get the wish promised by the DM system."
Bai Ye was not used to pretending to be profound, so he simply stated all his guesses: "As for the wish that the demon apostle wants to fulfill, it is probably related to dominating the inner world, connecting the inner and outer worlds, and releasing all the demons in the inner world."
“Pah, pah, pah—”
The demon apostle closest to the three people laughed and clapped his hands. Bai Ye and Shuise noticed that the hands stretched out from under the other party's black robe were clearly a pair of white skeletons: "You are indeed very smart."
Amy's master, the black-robed skeleton who had just tried to threaten them with Lily of the Valley as a hostage, had almost become a different person. Although he still had an irritable tone, his temperament was obviously no longer the reckless, impulsive, and easy to deal with person he was just now.
"Well, to show your sincerity, let me introduce myself. My code name is Huo Gu, and my familiar, as you can see, is a demon-level Hellfire Amy."
Most of the Demon Apostles have abandoned their original names before they found their true faith, but even so, among the Demon Apostles, only very few who can command demon-level demons are qualified to have code names.
That is a summary of the disasters brought by all the labeled ability users. From the perspective of the devil apostles, it is a praise for the purity of their beliefs.
After all, the code-named Demon Apostle, like the leader of the Law Enforcement Bureau, is the strongest among the group of people who believe in demons.
"But I guessed wrong. We, the Demon Apostles, are not stupid enough to send me and these puppets to obtain such secrets. It will take at least three codename members to take action. I just tricked you. If I can get it, that's the best. If I can't, it doesn't matter to me. My real target is a student—"
Huo Gu shrugged, but his sense of oppression soon shattered. He gritted his teeth and looked at Bai Ye, who seemed to be in a trance during class, and pointed at Bai Ye angrily: "What's with that expression?!"
Bai Ye: "Ah? I just think it's a bit strange."
Huo Gu couldn't help but said, "It's so obvious, why are you still wondering?"
Bai Ye shook his head: "I just don't understand. This demon is at least a demon god-level demon. Why would he choose you?"
Huo Gu gritted his teeth and regained his comedian temperament when he appeared before: "Of course it's because only I can make it burn."
Now it was not just Bai Ye, the other students around also cast indescribable looks at Huo Gu.
Bai Ye Bang Du: "...Don't say that. You sound like some kind of combustible fuel. It's so scary."
Shuise: "...You have such a vicious tongue. Were you planning to poison Faust to death?"
Yang Yan: "I don't think you are harmless."
Huo Guqi was really angry: "It's my familiar, how could it not do its best to fulfill my wish! Don't be so proud, it's just a high school student--"
Huo Gu seemed to have thought of something, and his tone quickly calmed down. The temperament of the demon apostle that he almost couldn't hold back just now returned to him.
A huge humanoid demon slowly landed behind him. Bai Ye frowned and looked up, only to find that the sky was no longer blood red, but completely black, belonging to the other world. The entire spider web barrier seemed to be contaminated by the power of the devil and turned into pure black.
"Forget it, as the master of the demon god, I will forgive your rudeness for now. I just discovered something very interesting."
Huo Gu stared at Bai Ye: "The two students next to you are doomed to die in Huo Lang's incident just now. The ability of your new classmate is kept secret by the Law Enforcement Bureau..."
Bai Ye held his breath. His ability as "Bai Ye" was indeed special, so special that even if he wanted to "kill" the law enforcer captain Faust, the Sun General Administration still chose to "take care of" him at the Solomon Academy under their noses. Otherwise, Faust could have made up some false evidence and thrown an ordinary high school student into a temporary prison.
A skill that can be immune to all label skills, such a description sounds like a skill that will cause bloodshed. If possible, Bai Ye does not want to let the Demon Apostle who is keen on studying label skill conversion know about it.
"Could it be the rarest type of healing?"
Bai Ye breathed a sigh of relief.
Bai was nervous.
Huo Gu pretended to be mysterious for a long time and finally only threw out the most common guess. Even Shuise, who was highly cultured and overly polite to others, showed an indescribable expression.
Huo Gu can sign a contract with a demon-god-level devil. Could it be that fools have good luck?
Shuise silently glanced at Youyu who was still struggling to fight the devil's apostle on the other side, and felt that perhaps this was the truth.
Bai Ye was too lazy to waste time with Huo Gu: "Whatever you say, it's true. Anyway, you can't drive your demon for the time being."
Amy's strength should now be concentrated on dealing with the office director of Solomon Academy, the first barrier master [Blood Spider] Zhenhong's spider web barrier. Unlike the demon followers in the Demon God-level Demon Game who can directly enter the surface world through the game anchor points that link the two worlds, the barrier of Solomon Academy has a layer of isolation effect for safety reasons. The demon apostle now wants to use Amy's power to open the way to the surface world through the connection of the barrier. Now Amy can no longer carry out large-scale attacks, otherwise if there is another world-destroying fire wave like the one just now, all of them students will die here.
Huo Gu gnashed his teeth and looked at Bai Ye: "I will definitely kill you. After Amy dismantles this damn security barrier, I will burn the entire Solomon Academy to ashes! No... your skills are very special. It's just right to take you back to that flesh-and-blood lover for research. That ending is more suitable for you. After all, letting you die directly is too easy for you."
Yang Yan didn't like what he heard. Without Bai Ye saying anything, he had already jumped in front of Bai Ye and said, "How dare you! Did I ask you to kill someone?! Then let's see who is my Huo Lie or your Huo Lie!"
Shuise's face was also as cold as ice: "You don't know how high the sky is and how deep the earth is." He and Yangyan stood on the left and right, protecting Bai Ye. There was no verbal communication, but his actions said it all.
Bai Ye stood steadily behind the two gamers on the Eden list, with one hand behind his back, continuing to provoke Huo Gu with a disdainful expression, but his fingers blindly typed a message in the dialogue box with You Yu: [Remember to look for the token. 】
On the other side, Linglan and Youyu fought side by side with their backs to each other. Although the movements of those demon apostles were stiff, they were extremely fast and more difficult to deal with than the fire beasts made of flames just now.
"Youyu, I always feel like I've forgotten something..."
After hitting a demon apostle with a fork, Suzuran suddenly spoke.
At this moment, You Yu's cell phone beeped. The boy lowered his head and took out his cell phone from his pocket, just avoiding the fist of a demon apostle. He glanced at the notification in the message box on his cell phone: "Let me see what message Bai Ye sent me... Hmm? Looking for a token?"
Linglan's face turned pale. "...I was wondering if I forgot something. This is an escape-type devil game! Youyu, Shuise and the others should be buying time for us now. Let's go find the keepsake fragments!"
"Right away, right away, there's something that concerns me."
You Yu stopped, turned around, and dodged another attack from a demon apostle. The boy turned around and pressed the demon apostle who had lost his balance to the ground, then pulled off his hood as Linglan had an indescribable expression.
"Youyu, although you can play at other times, the token is more important now——What is this?"
Linglan's urging voice was swallowed into her throat. She looked at the scene in front of her and for the first time showed an expression of shock that made her unable to control her expression.
Those demon apostles were not human beings at all, but living dead whose flesh and blood had completely disappeared, leaving only a thin layer of skin on the outside, but they could still move.
That's a dead body.
A moving, fleshless, living corpse.
"I just felt something was wrong. No wonder... They are not demon apostles, but nutrients. The nutrients of their flesh and blood have been sucked away by some monster."
You Yu touched his chin. He sat on the fallen but still struggling body of the demon apostle and carefully observed the other's distorted face.
Linglan's voice was trembling: "The skeletons of the living dead without flesh and blood... This reminds me of the record in the Dead Sea Scrolls, that the Demon Apostle once offered a sacrifice to one of the four demon kings of the other world, [The Demon King of Tang Hong and Mu Huo: The Serpent of Eden]... What on earth is the Demon Apostle doing?!"
You Yu sighed, his black eyes flickering in the firelight, dark and unclear: "Even if they have come to this point, these guys will not succeed in achieving their goal."
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