Chapter 139 The Wanderer
In order to avoid having to kowtow three times, Lu Yan resolutely chose to open the door and kill when the countdown lasted for ten seconds. He opened the door with the intention of going to die, and with the dim light in the room, he finally saw the man's appearance clearly, and his pupils couldn't help but shrink.
The person outside the door... no, to be exact, it's not a person, but a "monster".
Inside the black hooded jacket was the face of a short and fat man. His skin was as pale as a dead person, but his mouth was red as if dripping blood. He looked funny in his gorgeousness. Where his eyes should have been were now only two dark holes. When someone was staring at him, he inexplicably felt as if he was possessed by a ghost.
Moving his gaze downward, he seemed to have no legs, his trousers hanging loosely on the ground, obviously without support, and the bottom was twisted together like a pretzel, soaked with dust and mud. The whole person was completely floating in the air. It was not difficult to imagine that the other party probably "floated" all the way here like this.
What the hell did Lu Xiaozhao fall in love with online? !
The scene in front of him was so terrifying that Lu Yan didn't know what to say for a moment. When the man saw Lu Yan's handsome appearance, he grinned with satisfaction, revealing a mouthful of white teeth that could rival a shark: "Brother Xiao Zhao, I'm here~"
Lu Yan: “…”
Lu Yan grasped the knife hidden at his waist tightly, his heart was surprisingly calm. After thinking for a while, he finally whispered: "I want to go downstairs for a walk, how about you come with me?"
There is a useless college student in the room. If a fight breaks out, it will be difficult to end. Let's get this monster out of the way first.
"Okay~"
Brother Feiyu was quite easy to talk to. After he finished speaking, he turned around and walked downstairs. His empty pants legs dragged on the ground. The silent corridor was filled with the rustling sound of fabric rubbing against the ground, which sounded eerie.
Lu Yan followed closely behind, and finally confirmed that he had encountered the legendary "Wanderer".
No one knows how the "Wanderers" were born. Their original form is a dark ghost that can change into different appearances according to the strength of their abilities. Every night, they wander around the Devil City, deceiving humans and then devouring their vitality. Only the "Night Watchers" can strangle them.
Most of the Night Watchmen live in the Sky City. They possess powerful supernatural powers and are of high status. They come down to the Devil City for patrols every once in a while and regularly clear out vagrants. Three days ago, almost all the vagrants on this street had been strangled to death. No one knew how this unlucky Lu Xiaozhao ran into them.
When Lu Yan was lamenting his shitty luck for the ten thousandth time, Brother Fat Fish, who was walking in front of him, suddenly stopped, slowly turned around in the dark corridor and looked at him, revealing a weird smile:
"I can't walk anymore."
His voice was very soft, but it carried an echo, which sounded a little scary if you listened carefully.
"Brother Xiaozhao, I'm so hungry, can I eat you?"
The body under his clothes suddenly began to swell and twist, as if there were countless tentacles hidden inside that could burst through the clothes at any time. His originally tightly closed mouth opened wider and wider, and was torn apart from both sides. A scarlet tongue attacked Lu Yan directly.
“Swish!”
It happened in a flash. Lu Yan dodged and pulled out the knife hidden behind his waist and slashed diagonally. His move was powerful and fierce, but the expected bloody scene did not appear. His hand actually went through the opponent's body as if it had touched a ball of air.
The wanderer's body suddenly turned into a ball of black smoke and rose up. The clothes wrapped outside also piled up softly on the ground. He flew around Lu Yan in circles, forming a tornado, as if it wanted to swallow him into its belly.
Lu Yan's face changed, and he finally realized that physical damage was useless against the monster in front of him. He remembered the lightning power he had redeemed today, and he stretched out his palm in the air. A purple lightning as thick as a finger shot out instantly, and the black smoke around it finally retreated three meters away.
“Ahhhhh! I’m going to kill you!!!”
The twisted ghost felt pain and let out a terrifying scream. Seeing that the situation was not good, Lu Yan immediately flipped over the fence and jumped directly from the second floor.
He landed nimbly in the darkness and was about to find a place to hide, but at this moment, the system issued a second task:
[Ding! Congratulations to the host for triggering a random mission. Please defeat this low-level wanderer within half an hour. If you succeed in the mission, you will be rewarded with a supernatural power upgrade. If you fail the mission, there will be no punishment. Do you accept it? ]
Lu Yan's face turned pale. After he threw out that lightning, he felt physically exhausted and it was difficult for him to condense a second lightning. When Lu Yan heard that the system had announced that the mission reward could improve his superpowers, he gritted his teeth and said two words: "Accept!"
He finally realized that this world was incredibly dangerous, and since there was no punishment if he failed, he just accepted it.
Devil City is a city full of holes. In rotten buildings, in sewers, and anywhere you can imagine, there live the poor who are struggling to survive. But after nightfall, they will close the doors and windows and never step out of the house. Even if they hear strange movements on the street, they will never stick their heads out.
Lu Yan fought with the monster in the empty street for more than ten minutes, nimbly dodging each other's attacks. However, as time passed, his physical strength gradually became exhausted.
"Bang!"
The long whip transformed from the black smoke hit Lu Yan's right leg directly. He rolled on the ground to avoid the attack, but a blood mark was still left on his leg. At that moment, Lu Yan clearly heard a prompt sound in his ear:
[Drop, vitality -50 hours! ]
Lu Yan subconsciously looked at his wrist, only to see that his health points, which originally showed more than 140 left, had dropped directly to "94" because of the whip just now!
Fuck him!
Lu Yan cursed in his heart. Seeing that he was running out of time, he immediately looked around to see if there was anything that could save his life. Finally, he found a street light not far away and ran over immediately. As expected, the black shadow monster behind him followed and swung the long whip at Lu Yan fiercely -
"Bang!"
Lu Yan dodged sideways, and the black shadow transformed into a whip and hit the street lamp exactly. The rusty iron pole fell down with a bang, revealing the dense wires inside. Sparks flew, and the black shadow was electrocuted and let out a painful scream.
Normal people would have avoided this situation, but Lu Yan felt that the electric currents that sizzled in the dark had a great attraction to him, and his body was clamoring for this power. He saw that the monster was electrocuted and had no way to escape, and he got the courage from nowhere, and once again condensed a weak lightning in his palm, covering the blade, and chopped directly at the monster with a strong wind.
“Wow!”
Along with the sharp sound of breaking wind, the scenery in front of him seemed to have been slowed down. A gash was cut in the middle of the monster's body, and it screamed in pain and turned into a pool of black powder. Lu Yan only felt a current running through his body, causing pain and numbness. Finally, the street lamp exploded with a bang, and he flew three meters away, and the exposed skin turned black.
The street lights that had stood quietly on this street for more than a decade finally went out. The night was endless, and there were broken walls all around. The sound of wind blew from afar, blowing away the dust on the ground.
[Ding! Congratulations to the host for completing the mission and surviving successfully! ]
[Ding! Congratulations to the host for completing the random task. You will be rewarded with an upgraded ability. Please keep up the good work! ]
As the system's prompt sounded, a light blue light flew into Lu Yan's body. He was dizzy from the electric shock and finally got up from the ground with difficulty after a while. He saw that the monster had turned into a pile of black powder, most of which was blown away by the wind.
Lu Yan picked up the knife expressionlessly: "Is it dead?"
A black and red heart quietly flew in front of him, and said in a seductive voice: "Of course, not only is it dead, but its life also belongs to you."
Upon hearing this, Lu Yan looked at his wrist subconsciously, and saw that the life that was originally left for more than ninety hours suddenly became seven hundred and twenty hours, exactly thirty days.
Lu Yan frowned and asked, "Can I gain health points by strangling a wanderer?"
The system trembled, and it looked like a human laughing: [Of course, and the higher the level of the strangled wanderer, the higher the health points will be. Otherwise, why do you think those high and mighty night watchmen would come to the Devil City regularly to clear out monsters? Are they kind? ]
It threw out a huge temptation: [As long as you accumulate enough health points, you can get the qualification to settle in the Sky City and don't have to stay in this shabby Devil City. ]
Lu Yan asked back: "So I have to keep strangling monsters to gain health points, right?"
The system choked, and it was regarded as the default.
Lu Yan sneered, knowing that the system had bad intentions. He was worried that staying outside for too long would attract other vagrants, so he immediately returned home dragging his injured leg. Little did he know that not long after he left, a few mysterious figures suddenly appeared at the end of the long street. They hardly moved, and in the next second they teleported to the damaged street lamp.
"Strange, the detector clearly showed that there was a wanderer nearby, but how come he disappeared when I chased him here?"
The man who was speaking was about twenty years old, with fair skin, handsome features, and looked quite innocent and sunny. However, his black uniform and pistol showed that he was not as harmless as he appeared. He was fiddling with an instrument in his hand, and the red dot on it would not move.
"Oh no, there's no fun anymore. I thought I could hunt a few more tonight. What a bummer!"
The companions behind him were dressed in the same way, with pure black uniforms that gave off an air of being hard to mess with. They all wore a badge on their chests, with a strange dark thorn totem on it, trapping a bird with its head raised high and screaming at the top of its lungs. Their military boots were shiny and clean, which was out of place in the shabby streets around them.
Luo Yang put away the detector, somewhat unwilling to go back like this: "Maybe the instrument is broken, let's look for it again, the wanderer must still be nearby."
Yan Feng didn't know what he had discovered. He walked over and kicked a pile of black ashes not far away. "Don't look for it anymore. The wanderer has been strangled to death. The body has turned to ashes."
As soon as these words came out, Luo Yang and the others rushed forward and surrounded them, looking suspicious: "How is it possible? Is there another night watchman nearby?!"
Yan Feng knelt down and picked up a handful of ashes and looked at it, frowning slightly: "There is residual thunder and lightning aura, but there is only one thunder power user in Sky City, Xing Yuan, how could it be..."
Before he finished speaking, a low and cold voice suddenly sounded above his head:
"The game time is over. Is it time for a low-level wanderer to waste so much time?"
A tall figure appeared on the top of the tall building opposite. He was not wearing a uniform like Yan Feng and the others. He was wearing a white shirt with the collar loosely opened, revealing his muscular chest, showing his unruly nature. Against the backdrop of the night, he looked like a sword unsheathed, his eyebrows were sharp and flying, but at this moment they were slightly frowned, hiding his impatience.
The number one powerful man in Sky City, Xing Yuan.
Seeing this, Yan Feng patted the dust off his hands and said, "Xing Yuan, when did you come here?"
“Just now.”
Xing Yuan stood on the edge of the rooftop, the night wind blew the corners of his clothes rustling. He slowly leaned over and squatted, looking at Yan Feng and the others and said, "I have already hunted all of the East City District, but you have only hunted half of the West City District. The game has been won and lost, let's go back to the city."
Luo Yang was furious when he heard this: "I will never play night hunting games with you again. You always win. It's so boring. You might as well go back to sleep!"
Xing Yuan raised his eyelids nonchalantly: "Even if you win, you cheated with an instrument. Is that interesting?"
Luo Yang blushed upon hearing this, and subconsciously hid the detector behind him, hesitating: "I... I didn't cheat..."
Xing Yuan said nothing. He made a gun gesture with his hand, aimed at Luo Yang from a distance, then narrowed one eye and silently uttered a word: "Bang."
"Bang--!!!"
The detector hidden behind Luo Yang exploded without warning. Sparks and lightning scared him so much that he jumped three feet high: "Oh my god! Xing Yuan, if you blow my butt off, I will never forgive you!"
“Hahahahaha!!”
The others burst into laughter. Xing Yuan stood up and pretended to cool the barrel of a gun. He said calmly, "It's better if it explodes. It will save you from harming others."
Luo Yang was furious: "I don't believe you will never fall in love in your life!"
Xing Yuan sneered: "If you mean those vases in Devil City that look good but are not useful, then you should keep them for your own enjoyment."
I don't know what's going on recently, but the powerful people in Sky City are particularly keen on online romance, especially those young and beautiful poor people in Devil City. Xing Yuan feels very disdainful of this.
Yan Feng winked at him and made a knowing expression: "Xing Yuan, life is hard enough, why don't you find some fun? Those 'vases' are a little weak, but they are well-behaved and obedient, and they are good for entertaining you."
Luo Yang rubbed his butt and complained angrily: "Maybe he has no one to vent his energy on, so he comes to bully us every day."
Xing Yuan glanced at him calmly and said, "That's better than having your energy drained out in bed. It's getting late, let's go back to the city."
As soon as he finished speaking, his figure flashed and he disappeared from the spot in an instant, like a gust of swift wind. Luo Yang and Yan Feng looked at each other, and flew up to follow him, intending to ask what was going on with the pile of ashes on the ground.
The death of an insignificant wanderer did not cause any commotion in the city. Lu Yan had a dreamless night and slept until dawn.
The next morning, he was woken up by that bastard Lu Xiaozhao: "Brother, wake up, get up and work!"
Lu Yan was almost electrocuted yesterday, and he survived by exchanging his points for a flesh-regenerating pill. He lay on the bed with his eyes closed, covering his eyes with the back of his hand. His voice was hoarse and magnetic, and he said lightly: "Get lost. If you make any more noise, I will kill you."
Lu Xiaozhao was stunned for a moment, then shook even more crazily: "Brother, the rent is due soon. If we don't hurry up and sell goods to make money, we'll be dead. Hurry up!"
The time on their wrists does not freeze, but passes slowly like a clock, and every minute and every second is a waste of life.
Lu Yan realized something belatedly and sat up from the bed with a somersault: Yes, he almost forgot that the life value in this world is constantly decreasing, and he might really die if he continued to sleep.
Lu Yan closed his eyes and wiped his face. He felt a headache. His memory of his past life was beginning to blur, as if an invisible hand had erased it. "How much?"
Lu Xiaozhao made the arrangements very clear: "You were almost discovered yesterday. Those people probably recognized your face. I will go out to sell today, and you can sell online."
Lu Yan's temples started throbbing when he heard the word "surfing the Internet". He grabbed Lu Xiaozhao by the collar and said through gritted teeth, "How dare you mention surfing the Internet? Those people you chat about online are nothing but ghosts!"
Lu Xiaozhao was confused: "I was only talking about the sponsors."
Lu Yan: “…”
Never try to reason with stupid college students, or you'll only make yourself mad.
Lu Yan had no place to vent his anger at Lu Xiaozhao, so he had to get up to brush his teeth and wash up. When he came out, Lu Xiaozhao was already sitting in front of the computer and waved to him excitedly: "Brother, come here, I will teach you how to fall in love online."
"?"
Do I need to be taught how to fall in love?
Lu Yan raised his eyebrows slightly. Although he felt it was unnecessary, he still dragged a chair and sat in front of the computer, saying perfunctorily: "Okay, you teach me."
Lu Xiaozhao didn't notice his perfunctory attitude at all and taught him very seriously: "The old account is full, I will register a new one for you, and the nickname will be... By the way, what nickname do you want?"
Facing Lu Xiaozhao's stupid gaze, Lu Yan casually uttered two words: "All is fine."
Lu Xiaozhao: "Not all of them are acceptable. We should choose a seductive nickname to make it easier for us to sell goods."
Lu Yan raised his eyelids: "Then what's your name?"
Lu Xiaozhao's nickname is "185cm tall, introverted, socially anxious, innocent male college student". What good nickname can he come up with based on his aesthetic taste?
Lu Xiaozhao thought for a moment, operated the computer for a while, and finally hit the enter key with satisfaction, and said proudly: "How about the handsome Xiaolu who is 187cm tall, enthusiastic, cheerful, and has eight-pack abs?"
Lu Yan: “…”
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