Chapter 77 The Soul-Snatching Song He stood amidst the ruins, looking around in bewilderment...
With Bian Shaoyan's actions, the opponents they had previously spent so much effort weakening immediately regained their strength.
Du Yu was certainly not the villain in the novel who would wait for his opponent to make all the preparations before making a move, only to see his opponent suddenly unleash their full power. She was unable to stop Bian Shaoyan simply because a figure suddenly appeared in front of her.
Although the figure looked very much like a human, probably no one would mistake it for one—its skin gleamed with a cold, silvery-white light, and its scalp was covered with what appeared to be tufts of "hair" that, upon closer inspection, were actually long, thin electrical wires. As its eyes moved, they cast a cold, lifeless light.
Du Yu's eyes flickered. Although the avatar he had hastily condensed could only mobilize less than one-fifth of its spiritual power, the thing in front of him was clearly not weak. It could actually make this avatar with divine fire feel a sense of oppression.
What is that?
Seeing her hard-won maximum fighting force blocked, Cai Chunyu took a deep breath to calm the surging blood in her chest. The black cat licked its paw, and a whisker floated down, turning into a silver light and disappearing upon landing.
"They are protectors of the Way."
Du Yu raised an eyebrow and glanced at the black cat whose fur was becoming increasingly dull. Not to mention in the lower city, very few people in the upper city knew about this creature.
This thing is a security-type android manufactured by Sacred Heart Hospital, the top hospital and biological research institute in Sun City. It has powerful functions and is specifically designed to prevent all kinds of assassinations.
Du Yu knew that in the original owner's memories, the head of the Du family, who once jointly managed Blue Grid Communications with the Gu family, had ordered one. The original owner was startled when he accidentally saw it as a child.
How could a Mist Hunter who has never even been to the Upper City know the secrets of the Upper City?
It should be noted that due to the limited availability of raw materials, the production of this product is extremely low. If she hadn't seen it by chance, the original owner of this body, the young lady of a wealthy family, probably wouldn't have known about it.
We'll discuss that later. Du Yu narrowed her eyes, and the purple flame at her fingertips flickered slightly. This thing truly lived up to its high cost. Before it suddenly jumped out to block Du Yu, even she hadn't noticed its existence. Where exactly was it hiding before?
It's no wonder he's one of the protagonists of the novel; he even possesses such extraordinary things.
What are you still standing there for?
Bian Shaoyan rubbed the space button in his hand, his eyes shifting between light and shadow. He had not yet fully mastered Quark, and using the Guardian was a last resort. Once the button was pressed, regardless of whether he could capture a prisoner today, this trip to the lower city would be a huge loss.
Du Yu quickly noticed the unusual behavior of the protector opposite him.
This protector wasn't as intelligent as the one the original owner had seen before. Apart from initially stopping her from attacking Bian Shaoyan, it didn't do anything else after it appeared.
Du Yu tentatively ignited a cluster of purple flames and blasted it towards Quark's security guards. Sure enough, the guardian did not react to Du Yu's probing at all. He twisted his neck 180 degrees, and seeing that the attack did not go towards Bian Shaoyan, he twisted it back 180 degrees.
The annual production of protectors is measured in units, so it's really strange that Bian Shaoyan has a protector! His protector's condition is off!
Bian Shaoyan felt a surge of resentment when he saw that the other party had figured out the protector's condition so quickly, but this thing did not belong to him in the first place, and the order the protector received was only to protect his life.
He could only watch helplessly as the other side knocked the security guards away one by one. No matter how much he used his supernatural abilities, it was useless against the purple flames.
"Bang!"
As the captain, Ramsden was the strongest and the last security guard to lose his fighting ability. He had more than a dozen bullet holes in his chest, and his mental energy surged continuously, trying to repair the wounds. However, the fluctuations of his mental energy became dimmer and dimmer under the illumination of the purple flames, until he completely lost his balance and collapsed to the ground like a corpse.
"Useless thing."
Bian Shaoyan coldly cursed. He did not give up and wait to die. In those few seconds, he controlled the protector to flash behind him and put one hand on his shoulder.
A flash of silver light appeared before Du Yu's eyes, and the two figures disappeared from their original positions. They reappeared in his perception a second later. The protectors were outside, and Bian Shaoyan slammed the door of the armored truck shut with a "bang".
"Tsk."
She could say she didn't notice the first time, but she still didn't sense the second time the protector took Bian Shaoyan away.
What exactly is the principle behind the movement of this protector? Fortunately, the other party's movement must also be restricted, otherwise Bian Shaoyan would have simply let the protector take him away, and wouldn't his assassination attempt have been in vain?
Du Yu suppressed his irritation and raised an eyebrow at the armored truck.
Of the three vehicles Bian Shaoyan had driven out before, two had been damaged in the battle and were now practically scrap metal. However, the largest of the three, the armored truck, was miraculously unharmed. Before Bian Shaoyan hid inside the truck, no one even noticed this.
"call."
Bian Shaoyan pressed the red button in the center of the cockpit, let out a long breath, and then realized that he had been so nervous that he had forgotten to breathe. Through the explosion-proof crystal, the figure wrapped in wild purple flames in mid-air suddenly disappeared. In the blink of an eye, a face with a huge pixelated question mark was suddenly pressed against the glass.
"!"
"Hey! Is this truck your trump card?"
The other person's face was pressed against the glass, her cheeks bulging out from the pressure. She even waved to me, while fiddling with the car door handle, seemingly curious as to why I couldn't get in.
Bian Shaoyan's heart rate soared. He forcibly ignored the inhuman monster by the window, ordered the guardians outside to fly into the carriage, and shakily pulled down the brake lever to start the truck.
Now he had to admit that the attackers were indeed quite capable, and they were extremely familiar with the distribution of the security personnel he had brought... Being too far from headquarters meant that there were more and more corrupt elements in the branch offices.
The truck started with a roar, and a sinister glint flashed in Bian Shaoyan's eyes. Fortunately, both the armored truck modified with superpowers and the protector assigned to him by his father were trump cards that even the security team captain, Ramsden, did not know about.
"Sizzle—"
"Isn't it boring hiding in there? Didn't you just want to capture prisoners?"
The sickening sound of metal corroding echoed continuously, and the temperature inside the car soared. Bian Shaoyan didn't even want to turn his head to look. A dazzling purple light rose up, roared forward, and occupied the entire space in front of him, giving him the illusion that no matter where he fled, he could not escape the palm of the other side.
Bian Shaoyan bit his tongue hard, snapping out of his daze. He realized that he had been spiritually corrupted by an evil god. If he weren't in the city-state, the evil god's corrupting power would be greatly reduced under the illumination of civilization. He would probably have already opened the car door and willingly gone to his death.
Bian Shaoyan, disregarding everything, pressed the starter to the floor with his head covered, much to Du Yu's surprise.
Curious, she poked at the black coating of the armored truck. The purple flame eagerly moved forward, but it slid away as if skating on ice, unable to burn through it for a moment.
What material is this made of?
Du Yu knew nothing about materials science, but with her mysticism to make up for it, she could now activate her spiritual vision without entering the spirit world. In her "vision," the light emanating from the entire truck was strange, a mixture of seven incongruous colors: black, gray, red, silver, brown, pink, and green, creating a nauseating mess—just like the light emanating from the so-called protector.
In Du Yu's perception, the entire truck didn't seem like metal, but rather like a large lump of jelly. The purple flames were bounced back exactly as they were applied. Although this bounce obviously had a critical point, she didn't have much time and had to deal with Bian Shaoyan before the [Twin Reversal] ended.
The noisy sounds around him disappeared at some point, and the rising purple flames gradually weakened. Bian Shaoyan took a deep breath, took a bottle of tranquilizer from the shelf and drank it. He looked back and made sure that there was no problem with the isolation layer of the carriage before he breathed a sigh of relief and loosened his collar in annoyance.
Thank goodness we had this car today, otherwise...
A hint of relief flashed in Bian Shaoyan's eyes. Strictly speaking, this car and the guardian were not things he could possess at his current level. The fact that he could temporarily borrow these things had nothing to do with Quark's power. It was only because he was chosen as a candidate by the "Sun Chasing Project" that he was able to escape this calamity today.
However, why would he be here if it weren't for Project Sun Chaser? Damn it... Once we can contact Alpha, we'll immediately have it send a security team to support us.
"Chirp."
Bian Shaoyan was calculating in his mind. Without letting go of his mental energy, he remained highly vigilant outside the vehicle. When he saw a black dot rapidly approaching the truck, he didn't hesitate and immediately ordered the guardians on the roof to launch an attack.
A flash of silver light suddenly appeared, and Bian Shaoyan finally saw what was about to be split in two by the silver light. Even in his extreme calmness, a hint of astonishment flashed in his eyes.
Those evil god's minions threw...a dog at him?
It was a small, black-furred puppy, barely the size of a palm, and probably still nursing.
This thing has absolutely no spiritual energy fluctuations throughout its body, so what use is it?
etc--
In an instant, Bian Shaoyan felt as if he had been struck by lightning. The bewilderment of the situation being completely out of control, and the shock of having his solidified knowledge, which could be called common sense, shattered, swept over his mind at the same time. It was as if a hundred-story building had collapsed in front of him. He stood in the ruins, looking around in confusion at the world that seemed unchanged, yet had undergone earth-shattering changes.
"impossible……"
He couldn't help but mutter to himself, and with all his might, he pressed a silver button beside him, but he was still a step too late—
Just before the laser fired by the guardian was about to pierce the black puppy, the puppy whimpered and turned into a thin shadow, instantly flowing into the ground and disappearing. At the same time, a "click" sound came from behind Bian Shaoyan, as if some lock was being gently pried open. A sticky black substance enveloped his hand, and the silver light in his eyes jumped wildly, but he could no longer move an inch.
"Splash, crackle..."
The faint sounds, like bookworms, burrowed into my ear canal, buzzing around my eardrum. I was paralyzed, as if even my consciousness had been frozen. My thoughts staggered a few steps, then I belatedly remembered where I had heard this sound before—
Yesterday, when I looked down at that grotesque monster, which resembled a corpse, through layers of protective shields and isolation nets, the dark gold metal fragments that had deeply pierced the monster's spine collided with each other as the monster breathed, and when they rang out behind me, they sounded like the intermittently strummed requiem of death.
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Author's Note: While writing this chapter, I felt that Sister Du was kind of scary, like a villain (×)
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Because I have a very important exam in December, I simply don't have the energy to focus on writing, so updates will be irregular lately.
However, it seems like three or four weeks a week is no problem right now. If I really can't manage it all later on, then I'll just have to kneel down in frustration.
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