Chapter 431: Reunion and the Awakened
Yu Sheng and others were shocked when they saw the figure of the woman in black dress on the top of the mountain.
A normal person! A "sane person" who was obviously out of tune with the chaotic and crazy environment around him! However, just as the woman on the top of the mountain opened her mouth as if to say something, a shadow suddenly appeared behind her. Before anyone could react, the shadow had already penetrated the woman's body. The latter only had time to turn her head in surprise before she died and fell to the ground on the mountain.
"Hey... Shit!" Irene exclaimed when she saw this scene, "Isn't this the wrong start?!"
Yu Shengze immediately grabbed the fox fur beside him and said, "Go over and take a look!"
Hu Li ran towards the "mountain" formed by countless twisted buildings and raised city roads.
The next second, the "mountain" seemed to come alive, and the buildings and roads piled on its surface began to rise and fall and wriggle like a turbulent dream, rapidly changing its own structure. Hu Li tried to fly up in the middle of the flight, but found that the moment she took off, she had inexplicably entered a fully enclosed "garage". The surrounding walls continued to collapse and flow like melted wax, and the road surface was broken into large holes. She hurriedly crossed the large holes, but ran into a corridor - the corridor extended upward like a staircase, but suddenly broke at the end. A rusty staircase that could not be reached hung at the opposite intersection, and the road surface under her feet seemed to be made of loose bricks and began to shake violently.
Hu Li screamed in surprise and subconsciously jumped forward, but found that her body had lost support. No matter how hard she tried, she could not jump up or fly high. She narrowly passed a building lying flat on the ground and found herself back on the strange "hill". The road in front of her extended infinitely forward, and both sides were filled with seemingly real buildings - all like empty shells, with randomly piled up stairs and corridors inside the empty doors and windows.
However, just as everything around was rapidly falling into this "disorder in a dream" and all roads were about to collapse, a rapidly spreading spider silk suddenly appeared in the wind and rain.
"What a mess!"
Irene was annoyed by the chaotic dream scenes around her. She raised her hand without hesitation and released her "silk threads". These dark and cold lines instantly penetrated into the rain curtain like living things, and expanded rapidly in this area woven by a confused mind. As the spider silk spread, the turbulent "mountain" also froze instantly.
Yu Sheng's heart moved and he subconsciously looked back.
He saw that the swaying human silhouettes at the foot of the mountain also decreased by half at the same time.
Hu Li took advantage of this opportunity and rushed over the hillside to the top of the mountain in the blink of an eye.
Where Irene's spider silk covered, the mountain that seemed unreachable and kept "growing" upwards just now seemed to have suddenly turned into a small hill. The huge nine-tailed silver fox could jump to the top of the mountain with just a few steps. Those twisted and stacked buildings and long roads seemed to be "skipped" directly, and turned into a pile of shrunken miniature backgrounds behind the fox.
Many strange and huge "pillars" stood on the top of the mountain. The pillars formed a circle, and in the middle was a very wide open space shrouded in darkness.
Yu Sheng didn't pay attention to the surrounding pillars at first, but was looking for the woman in black dress who had just fallen.
He didn't find it.
The wind and rain swept over the top of the mountain, and where the woman had fallen just now there was only a piece of clean rock.
Yu Sheng frowned, and at this moment, he suddenly heard a sound of breaking air coming from far away.
He suddenly looked up and saw the woman in black skirt who had just died on the top of the mountain rushing towards him with a sharp sword in her hand. Her expression was cold and the blade of the sword was flashing with misty light. The surrounding wind and rain seemed to avoid the sharpness of the sword and retreated to the surroundings without the need for the Qi to dispel it.
But the next second, another ghostly figure came forward.
Luna walked gracefully through the rain with steps as graceful as dancing. The blade of her fingertips instantly cut off the sword of the woman in the black dress, and then the sharp blade went straight to her throat. The woman in the black dress was forced to fall to the ground and took a few steps back. Just as she was about to regroup, she saw twelve bronze knights rushing out from the rain and beating her up without any martial ethics...
The woman in the black dress retreated again and again, looking a little dazed, and at that moment of trance, a sharp sword with a flashing cold light pierced her chest from behind.
Even Luna and the brass knights were stunned when they saw this scene.
The woman in the black dress twitched and fell down. Another woman who looked and dressed exactly like her stood behind her. She slowly drew back the sword in her hand, wiped it on her sleeve expressionlessly, and muttered softly -
"The thirty-seventh..."
The figures of the Bronze Knights disappeared in the wind and rain, and Luna immediately returned to Yu Sheng's side, looking vigilantly at the woman who was standing not far away with a sword in her hand.
The woman in black dress who had just been "killed" gradually turned into a wriggling shadow in the rain, and then flowed down as if melting, and was washed clean by the rain.
Yu Sheng seemed to have thought of something. He motioned Luna to step back. At the same time, his eyes fell on the sword-wielding woman and he asked tentatively, "...Are you the 'Mo Ran City Lord' that Xuan Che mentioned?"
Mo Ran raised his head and squinted his eyes in the rain to carefully look at the group of... strange people in strange costumes in front of him.
A nine-tailed silver fox (as big as two cars), a "nun" dressed like a maid of the stars, a male human who looks like an ordinary person but whose true identity is hard to tell, and a very small puppet with a very cool expression.
Distinctive features.
"I am," she nodded, and then raised her hand and pointed in the direction of the huge pillars, "There is another person over here, he should be your friend."
Yu Sheng was stunned for a moment, and then he turned around and saw a familiar figure poking his head out from behind a pillar, greeting him nervously: "Brother Yu! Hey, you finally showed up..."
"Nephew!" Irene looked at him in surprise, "Why are you here?!"
"Ah, this..." Zheng Zhi's mouth trembled, "This is a long story..."
As they were talking, Mo Ran came over. She glanced between Yu Sheng and the others and Zheng Zhi, and nodded slightly: "It seems that this is indeed your friend - he described your appearance to me, and it was quite accurate."
Yu Sheng blinked and pointed at Zheng Zhi: "He is..."
"He was wandering around the city and attracted a group of wandering 'shadows' chasing him. He ran here in a panic," Mo Ran said in a subtle tone, as if he was 30% emotional, 70% confused, and 90% tired of "when will this thing end?" "Don't ask for details. I was trapped on this 'mountain' and couldn't help. I don't know how he could run all the way here without any fighting power... I only saw that he somehow ran all the way up from the foot of the mountain and avoided the strangulation of my 'heart demons' near the top of the mountain. Only then did I have the opportunity to protect him in the formation."
Listening to Mo Ran's story, Yu Sheng and the others couldn't help but look at Zheng Zhi - the latter just scratched his head awkwardly and looked at Yu Sheng with an innocent face: "I don't know what happened. I was in the hotel room not long ago, and then I looked out the window and saw that a refining tower on the edge of the city was suddenly covered with crystals. Before I could react, I was trapped in the city..."
Before his nephew finished speaking, Yu Sheng's eyes widened: "Wait a minute! You said you saw a refining tower on the edge of the city suddenly covered with crystals?!"
Zheng Zhi: "Ah, yes. They were gray and white, like tree branches, and there seemed to be some in the city - but before I could see them clearly, the surroundings were in chaos, and even Master Yuan Hao disappeared."
Yu Sheng and Irene looked at each other immediately, and both saw the sigh of at least 200 words in each other's eyes.
"So you are the 'penetration point'!" Yu Sheng turned his head to look at Zheng Zhi. He felt that this was outrageous, but after thinking about it, it seemed reasonable. Then he couldn't help but sigh, "You... are really lucky."
"I think this matter is hard to explain from the perspective of luck... It must have some spiritual energy," Irene said, staring at her nephew not far away, and marveled, "He saw through the cognitive barrier created by the 'Evolutionary Star', even if it was only for a moment - but he pierced a hole in the barrier, and then was thrown into this 'nightmare border' and survived until now..."
She paused for a moment, her face wrinkled. "No, let's not talk about those wandering 'shadows'. After all, we didn't provoke them, and we don't know why they were chasing you. How did you avoid those 'inner demons' that Mo Ran mentioned? C-shaped buckle fought back and forth with that thing..."
Zheng Zhi spread his hands: "I don't know, anyway, if they chase me, I will hide, and if they don't chase me, you know my fighting ability, I haven't even been promoted..."
Yu Sheng was stunned, and finally he could only sigh in his heart - the experience of this guy during his internship for a few days is already a lifetime experience for many legendary investigators. I really can't imagine what it will be like if he becomes a regular employee...
Meanwhile, Mo Ran just listened to Yu Sheng and the others' conversation in silence, listening to them talk about things like "breakthrough point", "derivative star body", "cognitive barrier" and so on. At this moment, he suddenly frowned and broke the silence: "So, you really know something... Can you tell me what happened in Mo City? Why did this city become like this when I was just in a trance?"
Yu Sheng stared at Mo Ran for a few seconds, and then after a little consideration, he slowly spoke: "It's not Mo City - it's the entire Shuji. Your planet has been controlled by a dark angel named 'Star Derivative'."
(End of this chapter)
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