Chapter 154
"Sir..."
The observer reported aloud, sweat dripping from his face since the beginning: "Eight hours have passed, and just ten minutes ago, the portal suddenly produced a huge magical fluctuation, which seemed to be a sign of collapse..."
The commander stood on a high place, staring at the huge whirlpool on the sea without saying a word.
The observer gritted his teeth and said, "Sir, we really need to make a decision. We must evacuate! It will be too late if the portal collapses!"
“Bang!”
Hearing this, the commander finally slammed his fist on the table and said angrily: "Evacuate, evacuate, evacuate! Do you know how much we will lose if this city is lost?! Those losses are just a small matter. What will we do internationally? How can we gain a foothold? We can't even suppress a small portal?!"
The observer opened his mouth, wanting to say that this was not the so-called "small portal", nor was it one of those advanced portals that had appeared in other countries in the past and that they had sought help from Country A at a sky-high price because they were unable to deal with it themselves - this was a special form of S-class portal that had never appeared before!
What is this concept? Don’t you understand it clearly?
But he did not dare to contradict his furious superior, so he could only swallow his words silently, feeling a little annoyed.
The commander was still annoyed and said: "I promised Su Xingyuan to pay him 6 million magic crystals, but he can't even do this? What qualifications does he have to be called the strongest hunter?!"
After letting out a deep breath of anger, he issued an order: "In order to avoid causing panic, evacuate in batches!"
The dignitaries had already prepared a set of preventive measures to deal with the collapse of the portal, and some had even fled abroad for refuge before Su Xingyuan entered the portal. The commander thought to himself that he had done his best, and quickly walked onto the helicopter, ready to set off early in case the strange portal caused any bad weather that would prevent the helicopter from flying.
But just before he was about to step into the helicopter, something strange happened!
The huge portal that opened above the sea seemed to be stirred fiercely from the inside by someone with a sharp knife. The splashing waves looked like broken flesh and blood, rushing straight into the sky in the violent collision, forming huge waves as high as more than ten meters!
The huge waves rushed towards the shore with infinite destructive power. The senior hunters who had been guarding the coast for a long time tried their best to keep the terrifying waves outside the city and prevent them from destroying the houses. However, it was obvious that they could not hold on for more than a few seconds.
Even the reporter who had been reporting on the status of the portal fell silent and stopped talking. Although the sounds of huge waves and wind blowing through trees were heard all around, the people sitting in front of the electronic screens watching the live broadcast felt a kind of almost desperate silence.
"The portal is really about to collapse..."
"This is an S-class portal! What should we do if it collapses?! Are we going to die?!"
"Will I, will I die...?"
"Run now, run now!"
"Did Suexingyuan die in the portal...? Even a hunter as powerful as him..."
The reporter put down the microphone.
She sighed softly, closed her eyes, and then reached out to tidy up her hair that was messed up by the strong wind. The strong wind that almost made it impossible to open one's eyes did not change her expression at all. She carefully arranged her hair, put on her lipstick, and then smiled at the camera:
"Residents living on the outskirts of the city please escape as soon as possible, you still have a chance of survival; residents living in the city center please do not leave your houses, the streets are probably blocked now, if you are caught in the middle of the traffic, you will be stuck in a dilemma and there is only one way to go. Please close the doors and windows, do not make any noise, and wait for rescue - I believe that support will come, please believe in those hunters who still have a pure heart."
"But I probably can't escape," she smiled calmly, "I will tell you the characteristics of the monsters in the portal as soon as possible so that you can survive better. Before I die, we will turn off the camera."
The cameraman seemed to nod.
They have seen the truth clearly - once the S-level portal explodes, they, the ordinary hunters located in the center, will have no chance of escape.
In this case, it is better to leave in a dignified manner and leave more information to help your compatriots.
For a moment, some people resigned themselves to death, while others struggled to survive. The streets and lanes in the city were soon blocked, people's panic became more and more serious, and they wanted to take advantage of the last chance to retaliate. // Extremists in society also appeared on the streets. Even more people were standing in front of the screen, almost stiffly waiting for the moment the portal collapsed.
This moment will come soon.
Huge waves, more violent than any previous ones, rose into the sky, as if a harbinger of an unprecedented disaster. The vortex, the source of the panic, spun faster and faster, and finally, like a broken mirror, the regular flow of water was suddenly interrupted by a strange force and shattered into pieces in an instant!
There seemed to be a white storm, erupting from the center of the vortex like a volcanic eruption!
The reporter picked up the microphone again.
She had been prepared for the first creature to appear in the portal, a monster that would take her life, but at this moment her pupils shrank slightly, and she said in disbelief:
"Is it... snow?"
——It’s Blizzard.
What gushed out from the depths of the whirlpool in the sea was actually a sky full of pale white snow!
For some reason, this strange scene not only did not scare the reporter, but instead gave her an inexplicable glimmer of hope.
She held the microphone tightly, steadied her voice, and said carefully: "Snow poured out from the portal - it was pure white snow at first. But now the white is mixed with red... It looks like there has been a fierce battle inside the portal."
The next second, she took a deep breath and said in a trembling voice, "The sea surface... turned red."
The camera immediately focused on the sea surface with the vortex at the center.
I saw strands of blood overflowing from the center of the broken portal. The color was extremely dark, but it became lighter due to the dilution of the sea water. But even with the dilution of seawater, the red blood continued to flow out as if it were endless, and the originally deep blue sea surface turned into a horrible blood red!
"This can't be... This can't be the blood that a few hunters can shed."
The reporter could no longer control her voice. She trembled, her lips almost shaking as she spoke: "This is the blood of monsters... This is the blood of the monsters in the gate!"
Her lake-blue eyes were fixed on the center of the portal, and an extremely dazzling light suddenly burst out from the depths of her pupils! That light was like a moth searching in the dark seeing a burning candle; it was a tragic hope that was almost desperate.
Finally, in her eyes filled with a mixture of despair and hope, a staggering figure suddenly rushed out from the depths of the vortex-shaped portal!
At this moment, the brains of the reporters and all the people who were watching the live broadcast went blank for a moment. Some of them even dared not to watch any further. But when he realized that the figure was not a monster but a real human being, this blankness instantly turned into relief and ecstasy for escaping death!
"Someone, someone came out of the portal...!"
"What does this mean? The portal was successfully attacked...but the portal didn't collapse?!"
"God bless, God bless...!"
"Who is this hunter? We should give him the highest medal of honor. He is a hero!"
No one would not be excited about the luck of having their life saved, especially the reporter who was ready to die.
She couldn't help but have red eyes, and almost lost her composure in front of the camera. She took a few steps forward anxiously, wanting to get closer to the hunter rushing to the shore.
But when she really got closer, she found that the only hunter who rushed out of the portal was not alone. Behind him, there was another hunter who seemed to be covered in blood.
However, because it was too dark, for a moment, even the reporter closest to the scene could not get a full view of the hunter.
The photographer understood and raised the camera, zooming in on the hunter who had escaped from the portal, which also indicated that the portal had been successfully captured.
He was a man who looked to be in his twenties or thirties. His body was covered with white snowflakes that were constantly melting. There were tiny wounds on his face and hands, and he looked extremely disheveled. He held a lantern in his hand, which emitted a faint light in the thick darkness, and also clearly reflected his expression -
It was an expression mixed with excitement, relief, shame, and...sorrow.
The reporter's heart skipped a beat.
She slowed down her pace. She saw the hunter holding the lantern squatting down cautiously, unbuttoning his coat and spreading it on the ground, putting down the unconscious hunter behind him, and then shouting angrily at the hunters who were almost running away:
"Where are the people?! Where are all the people?! It is your duty to provide logistical services for the hunters who are attacking the portal, but now you are running away?!"
His eyeballs were bloodshot, his eyes were red, his lips had lost their color, and were trembling slightly. He was obviously coming for the reporters and the camera. He said to the camera, "Are there any healers here? Are there any repair hunters or healing hunters?"
"It was Su Xingyuan who saved you. It was Su Xingyuan who saved everyone..."
His voice gradually choked.
"You must save him too... You must..."
The reporter's body gradually became cold.
She lowered her head almost stiffly, inch by inch, and looked down at the hunter with long black hair who she thought was unconscious.
…
How could she have thought that he was simply unconscious?
Obviously...
Blood.
It's all blood.
Large amounts of blood flowed out of the black-haired boy's fair skin, as if all the blood vessels under his skin and flesh had burst. All the blood stored in an adult's body rushed out, as if unwilling to stay in his body for even a minute longer, unwilling to help this young man with his eyes closed retain the last bit of body temperature.
His face was pale - it was an extremely abnormal paleness, the kind that came after all the blood had disappeared. His beautiful turquoise cat's eyes were tightly closed, and there was a horrible flow of blood at the corners of his eyes. There was no intact part of his body that could make people dare to recognize him.
The reporter actually didn't speak to Su Xingyuan.
But she knew that the black-haired boy used to be extremely energetic, with rosy lips and white teeth, and a lively look. He should never lie here like he is now... like a dead body that will never wake up again.
"…What happened to him?" the reporter murmured.
The hunter holding the lantern held it tightly, and the radiation range of the light miraculously only fell on the black-haired boy. Even though the black-haired boy was covered in blood and flesh at this time, it was almost unbearable to look at him closely, but the faint light made him look so sacred that he seemed like a god in deep sleep.
The hunter seemed to look a little older than before.
He said in a hoarse voice: "...Su Xingyuan saved me. He killed... a demon king in this portal."
"I have never seen a being that powerful. If it weren't for Su Xingyuan, everyone would have to wait for death when the Demon King stepped out of this door... but the price is."
The hunter's voice began to become unstable. He trembled and touched the black-haired boy's pulse, as if he was afraid to confirm it:
"…his death."
Use your life to exchange for the fall of the demon king.
The wind and waves calmed down completely.
The reporter froze in place.
The lawyer, who was listening to the live broadcast, paused for a moment, and accidentally tore a hole in the fine and resilient paper of "Theism".
There was complete silence in all the families, big and small, in Country C.
"Su Xingyuan... is he dead?"
As if jokingly, someone came up with this sentence.
No one dares to believe it, no one will believe it.
Especially the people of Country C, they will never believe it!
How could Su Xingyuan die?
Such a good person should live happily and happily until he is a hundred years old, and when he is a hundred years old, he should still play with the younger generations like their unreliable president of the Hunter Association.
He has never been a person who would suffer a loss. Before he entered this portal, he asked Country A for a commission of 6 million magic crystals. Su Xingyuan would never let the task be completed but he would not get the commission money... He would never work in vain.
Absolutely not.
"But," someone spoke in a hoarse voice amidst the dead silence, "the hunter said that they encountered... the Demon King."
That is the Demon King, the being above all demons, the lord of hell, the mastermind behind the invasion of the human world.
Seven years ago, when the portal first appeared, only people saw the silhouette of the Demon King and the insignificant magic power to the Demon King - which caused countless hunters at that time to become useless people who could not use their abilities.
Because they cannot get rid of the deadly fear in their hearts, it is an eternal shadow, so that every time they think of using their abilities, they can't help but think of the demon king who once frightened them.
For humans, if they encounter such a creature, they are lucky to be able to escape, let alone kill the devil.
But what if... I have to kill?
A special form of S-class portal.
Sitting in the middle of it is a veritable demon king.
Should have thought of it earlier...
They should have thought of it earlier.
Some people have already accepted this fact. Some of them have even started crying. The ecstasy just now disappeared, and was replaced by a moment of silence.
But Orion didn't give up.
He continued to use [Pause], and even in order to accurately position himself and reduce the consumption of magic power, he forced himself to learn how to cover Su Xingyuan's body with the range of pause so that he could maintain this state all the time - what if? What if it can still be saved? If I give up now, there will be nothing I can do!
So what if it shortens my life?
Su Xingyuan saved his life and brought him out of that damn portal, leaving him almost unharmed - except for his lifespan! There is no way he can pay back what he owes Su Xingyuan!
The officials of Country A remained indifferent. No healer came, and no one even brought props to heal the injuries.
Hatred gradually grew in Orion's heart - towards the officials of Country A who had sent him to the portal as a vanguard to die, and who now had taken advantage and ignored their savior.
However, the next moment, hurried footsteps suddenly came from the city, accompanied by panting caused by the hasty journey.
"I-I can fix broken things, can I help?"
"This is the potion I saved... Please give it to the Xingyuan Hunter!"
"I'm a healer, and I brought my tools!"
The black-haired boy lay there quietly, and he was gradually surrounded by people who wanted him to live.
The reporter couldn't bear to watch this scene, so she quickly turned around and calmed her breathing.
...From the looks of those people, she could roughly guess that those methods probably had no effect on the black-haired boy.
She always faces reality early, and this time is no exception.
The greatest hunter of all time...fell today.
But it's okay this way.
He did not die alone in the portal, he died surrounded by people.
Just as the reporter was thinking about how to compile a report on the trip to Suxingyuan, a calm and familiar voice suddenly rang out.
“…Please don’t stay around me when I’m not fully conscious,” the voice was so soft and weak, “I’ll be unable to resist drawing my sword and slashing at you.”
"And Orion," this time his voice had that familiar, slightly elongated tone with a hint of sarcasm at the end, "If you use your powers on me again, I might really die."
Orion was startled. He subconsciously withdrew his ability and was unable to react for a moment. He only realized that he seemed to have done something stupid.
……Oops!
He only remembered to extend Su Xingyuan's life, and forgot that his ability had been covering Su Xingyuan and suspending Su Xingyuan's physical condition. Of course, all treatments were useless, and Su Xingyuan's body could only remain in that injured state!
so……
Orion held his breath gently.
Under everyone's gaze, the black-haired boy covered in blood slowly stood up. He didn't seem to feel that there was anything wrong with him at all. He didn't even take out the potion to restore his vitality. Instead, he tilted his head slightly, looked at the reporter, and asked very gently:
"Where is the officer in charge of the portal strategy?"
Unexpectedly, the other party's first question would be like this. The reporter said blankly: "I don't know... He hasn't shown up. I think he may have left Country A to seek refuge."
This is basically what happens when these dignitaries are in danger, and reporters have become accustomed to it.
Su Xingyuan nodded in agreement and casually drew out his knife.
The knife was very beautiful, silver-white all over. The only flaw was that it was stained with the flesh of an unknown creature. As the reporter looked at it, he suddenly remembered the blood on the sea that could not be diluted by the sea water.
"Of course I have no objection to him seeking refuge. After all, I am not a devil," the black-haired boy said with a smile, "I only want six million magic crystals. What have I done wrong?"
He was covered in blood, and he shook off the blood and flesh on the blade lightly, saying cheerfully: "If you can't give it to me, use his head to pay the debt."
"Or maybe... more than just his head is needed."
The black-haired boy exhaled softly.
His wounds had not healed yet, and anyone with a discerning eye could see that this hunter who had just returned from the portal needed rest. However, he seemed like a killing machine that could not feel any pain at all. The first thing he did after waking up was to once again grasp the knife whose blade was already a little bent, and shifted his gaze towards the office building of Country A's Hunter Agency.
"Xingyuan Hunter!" The reporter's eyebrows jumped: "You need..."
"Cultivate yourself, right?" Su Xingyuan said, "That's true. If another demon king comes, I will definitely not survive. But places like office buildings and hunter bases... I can still go there."
He threw the blade away, and the rolled blade stabbed into the cement floor with a clang, accompanied by a cold and calm boy's voice.
"It just so happens that I need a new knife."
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