Chapter 152 Power, Demon Chess, Black Pupa's Prey (asking for monthly ticket)
July 23, in a double bed room in a five-star hotel in Venice.
The white curtains swayed gently, blocking the bright afternoon sunlight. The mottled light and shadows fell on the floor, swaying slightly like fish swimming under the water.
Ayase Origami and Natsuhira Hiru both stayed in bed for the first time in a long time, and both slept until two in the afternoon.
They slept in a crooked and horrible posture: one of them was lying on the edge of the bed with his hands stretched out of the bed, and his loose kimono sleeves hung down; the other one rolled directly to the floor of the room with his face buried in the carpet, and his right hand was still making chess gestures.
After a while, Xia Pingzhou woke up, slowly turned over, looked at the ceiling, then looked at Ayase Origami's sleeping face, and then picked up the phone that had fallen on the ground.
Enter the password, unlock the screen, click on the APP with the skull pattern, and then a map of Venice will appear on the screen with a light spot jumping on it.
"demon……"
Xia Pingzhu breathed a sigh of relief, slowly stood up and walked to the bathroom, turned on the faucet, splashed water on his cheeks, wiped them with a towel, and then left the hotel. His movements were very quiet and did not wake up Ayase Origami.
Soon, he arrived at the location of the red dot according to the instructions on the map.
It was a dilapidated and quiet alley, with a black liquid that looked like blood flowing in the gutter. The lid of the trash can was vibrating strangely as if it was blown by a strong wind, and there were continuous "bang bang" sounds.
It seemed as if some monster was about to jump out of it.
Sure enough, the next moment two giant blue rats jumped out of the trash can.
They were fully charged with electricity, and shot through the air like two lightning footballs, constantly hitting the walls of the alley and bouncing back at high speed. As they bounced back and forth, their afterimages turned into crisscrossing blue beams of light in the air, pressing towards Xia Pingzhou.
Xia Pingzhou was silent for a moment, and suddenly felt fortunate that he did not call other people from the brigade to help.
"Fortunately, I didn't call other team members. I must deal with these two demons myself to make it a ritual..." he muttered.
You have to kill your own brother with your own hands. Die, Blue Arc!
Thinking of this, Xia Pingzhou's expression changed, and he suddenly released Tianqu. A Möbius-shaped black and white ring appeared outside his body, and the chess shadows slowly rotated around the ring like a satellite.
He raised his hand and grabbed one of the chess pieces, and the piece broke with a "crack" sound. Then a chess piece that had never appeared in actual combat came in.
That is the "Knight", a "Cavalry Chess Type" evolved from an ordinary "Soldier Chess Type" after adding the "Group" branch's [Cavalry Training].
He was wearing silver armor, holding a shield in his left hand and a luxurious silver spear in his right hand. He was riding a horse with empty eye sockets but burning with will-o'-the-wisp fire. The horse was silver from head to toe, and its hooves burned two black pits on the ground of the alley.
The elegant silver knight remained unmoved, sitting quietly on his horse, waiting for his monarch's orders.
Xia Pingzhou raised his head and stared intently at the two blue electric balls that kept bouncing towards him in the alley, as if he was trying to capture the trajectory of the two blue demons.
He quickly closed his eyes and used the "chessboard perspective" to overlook the scene in the alley.
At this moment, the speed of the two giant electrified rats seemed to slow down. Their bodies were no longer just afterimages in his eyes, but a complete outline, as if he had pressed the "slow motion button" while watching a video tape.
In fact, not only the two giant rats, but even the fallen leaves swirling in the air and the black liquid flowing in the ditch were so slow that they were almost still in Xia Pingzhou's eyes.
Therefore, he could see the trajectory of the two giant rats, their every ejection and collision, and he could also predict where they would land in the next second, and even the scene a few seconds later.
Suddenly, this stillness was broken, and Xia Pingzhou realized that he seemed to have just entered an extremely fast thinking mode. Compared with his thinking speed, the whole world was so slow that it seemed as if time had stopped.
This should be a certain ability of Tianqu. The triggering condition is that he must close his eyes and focus on the "chessboard perspective".
The world began to move again. The fallen leaves in the air continued to spin and fall, cutting the sunlight into pieces. The dirty water in the ditch also began to gurgle, making a "splashing" sound.
Two giant blue rats bounced off the wall at high speed and turned into electrified beams of light that swept towards him.
However, Xia Pingzhou had already understood the pattern and direction of their movement, so their astonishing speed lost its original meaning and instead became the guillotine that destroyed them.
The next second, he gave the order expressionlessly: "Power, charge."
The moment he heard the order, the knight suddenly lowered his body and slapped the saddle!
The horse under him let out a long neigh, then charged forward with unstoppable force, its body gradually becoming so fast that only its afterimage could be seen. From afar, the two seemed to have merged into one, turning into a silver meteor!
[Cavalry Power: “Charge” - Cavalry charges forward on horseback, turning into a high-speed meteor, entering an “unstoppable” state within two seconds (the charge will not stop), and will drag enemies that collide along the way to the end.]
I still remember when I first saw the cavalry's power, Xia Pingzhou couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, thinking, isn't this just a skill to gather monsters? However, this is the first time he has used this power in actual combat, and I hope it can play out the effect as described in the text.
The next moment, the cavalryman accurately collided with the two lightning rats when they were about to cross each other in midair. Even if there was only a millisecond difference, it would be impossible to collide with the two rats at the same time - this was the timing Xia Pingzhou found after precise calculation.
Then, the silver meteor completely absorbed the two lightning beams. The cavalry's spears dragged the shadows of the two demons and continued to run forward, aiming directly at the end of the alley.
The sound of horse hooves swept across the sky, as if to drown the entire world.
No matter how the two giant blue rats discharged electricity, they could not escape the fierce and overbearing silver light. They could only be engulfed by the figure of the knight like a background board, adding a touch of blue electric light to the silver meteor, making its light look even more dazzling.
Xia Pingzhou thought: "This move can really gather monsters... It will be much easier to fight those demons that live in groups in the future."
Seizing this moment, Xia Pingzhou raised his hand and grabbed the chess shadows of the two cannon carts.
The chess piece shattered, and two silver cannon carts arrived. They twisted the muzzles stiffly and filled them with shells with a click. Then flames burst out from the muzzles at the same time, shooting towards the direction of the horse's forward movement.
“Bang!” “Bang!”
Two deafening noises sounded at the same time, accompanied by the hissing of the air. Two dark shells rushed forward, collided with each other in mid-air, exploded completely, and turned into a terrifying column of fire that swept forward.
At the same time, the cavalry's charge reached its end, and the silver electric stars slowly stopped at the end of the alley, and the two giant lightning rats were freed.
They were dizzy and were about to distance themselves from the cavalry, but in an instant they were engulfed by the surging column of fire behind them and burned into pieces of debris.
As the flames faded, even the cavalry were inevitably affected. He and the horse under him turned into chess shadows and returned to Xia Pingzhou's circular chessboard.
Immediately afterwards, a series of reward prompt boxes popped up in Xia Pingzhou's pupils.
[Detected that two C-level or above demons were killed. The cumulative kill count of the "Wild Hunt Winter" system has been updated: 19/18 (the task has been completed, please claim the reward as soon as possible)]
Xia Pingzhou poked at the interface expressionlessly, and then the reward prompt sound popped up.
[You have obtained "1" attribute point as a reward for the training task. The training task of "Wild Hunt Winter" has been upgraded to the next stage - the cumulative number of kills has reached "40"! ]
[Current kill count: 19, 21 more kills are needed to complete the goal of this stage. ]
[The current progress of the second character's Sky Drive "Chess" is: 5%/100% (after reaching 100% progress, your Sky Drive will automatically evolve to the third-order form. After the advancement, you can make a contract with a brand new demon to fully enhance the ability of the Sky Drive)]
"What new mechanism will be born when my Sky Drive is promoted to the third level..." Xia Pingzhou thought, "Maybe I can form a chessboard field and confine the enemy within the field, so that my shortcomings can be made up."
At this moment, a relatively unfamiliar prompt box suddenly popped up in front of him.
[Due to the influence of the passive skill "Demon Hunter", a one-time chess type - "Blue Electric Rat Demon" has been obtained. 】
Xia Pingzhou glanced sideways and saw a chess shadow appear on his black and white circle. This chess shadow was out of tune with the other chess pieces. It looked like a blue little mouse with buck teeth, and its entire body was glowing with blue electric light.
"I'm pretty lucky. I remember that the 'Demon Hunter' only has a chance to turn the killed demons into disposable chess pieces." Xia Pingzhou thought, "I'll try to trigger the 'time pause' thinking mode when I go back... With that trick, I'll be able to handle the enemy's surprise attacks with ease in the future."
Thinking of this, he retracted the two artillery carriages into the ring, then raised his hand to grab the chess shadow of the queen's stone statue. The elegant and tall queen arrived as expected amid the clear sound of the chess shadow shattering.
The stone statue of the queen put the dagger back into her sleeve, picked up Xia Pingzhou's body, and then ran across the surface of the residential building like a ninja who could climb walls and climb onto the roof.
Soon, members of the Venice Exorcist Association branch arrived at the alley, but they only saw the scene after a battle: the wall was covered with holes, with faintly visible arcs of electricity remaining in the holes; the ground was covered with horseshoe-shaped marks.
The most exaggerated thing was that at the end of the alley, a fierce flame left a charred mark on the wall like a curtain. The burn mark continued to climb up to the top of the building.
At the same time, it was still afternoon in Venice, but Lijing, China was already shrouded in darkness.
The black pupa quietly hung upside down under a high-altitude construction platform of a 100-meter-high building, wrapped in a restraint belt to become a pupa, and then quietly played with the phone in the pupa. The message notification sound set to the sound of running water kept coming out from the pupa.
[Blue Arc: I still want to ask, did you beat up Tunyin because you wanted to protect him? ]
[Black Pupa: Of course, you also know what would have happened if Tunyin had caught up with Guizhong at that time.]
【Blue Arc: But you were too harsh.】
[Black Pupa: You have to be gentle, otherwise Mr. Tunyin will be so arrogant next time and challenge someone who is much higher than him. His fate is self-evident.]
[Black Pupa: I am just helping him recognize his own strength. ]
"Dad won't beat Tunyin to death, but he will definitely be more cruel than me. Tunyin may lose one or two arms or one or two legs." Hei Pu thought.
[Black Pupa: Okay, I won’t pretend anymore. Actually, I just want to test my abilities and beat him up.]
【Blue Arc: Then you really are a good person. If you want to fight someone, why don't you come to me?】
[Black Pupa: I know you guys are good friends and have a deep relationship, but there’s no need to be so gay, right?]
[Black Pupa: Excuse me, I just arrested two species that look very similar to you in Venice, so I have lost interest in fighting you. ]
[Blue Arc: A species very similar to me? ]
[Black Pupa: You can go to the Exorcist Association and search for photos of "Blue Electric Rat Demons". I doubt they are your twin brothers.]
【Blue Arc: I'm not kidding you anymore. I have a serious question now.】
[Black Pupa: What's the problem? ]
[Blue Arc: Who exactly is my dad? You've been keeping me in suspense for a long time.]
[Black Pupa: Don't worry, Mr. Blue Arc. Your top priority is to find a way to accumulate more merits and be promoted to a member of "Rainbow Wing" as soon as possible. Finding out his identity will not do you any good, at least not for now.]
[Blue Arc: I knew you were unreliable. I'll just follow him myself. Goodbye.]
At this point, Hei Pu realized that he had exhausted the topic of conversation. Since things had come to this point, he might as well find someone else to talk to. So he opened Gui Zhong's chat interface.
[Black Pupa: Mr. Ghost Bell, your eldest son is planning to follow you and find out your identity.]
【Ghost Bell: Thank you for your reminder.】
[Black Pupa: Run, Mr. Ghost Bell, Run, please don't let your good son know your identity. ]
After sending this message, Hei Pupa silently put away his phone and used the senses of the restraint belt to observe the scenes around him. His senses were like a black gauze covering the entire long street.
At this moment, a group of armed gangsters jumped out of the back of the truck and rushed towards the bank.
But Hei Pupa's attention was not on them, but on a clear shadow wearing a black high-necked tights on the top of a tall building not far away.
His prey has appeared.
(End of this chapter)
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