Chapter 92
The dark-haired boy put away his shovel.
He looks really calm, with no expression on his face. If in other circumstances he was quiet with his hair spread out behind him, people would only think that he has a calm temperament, like a steady and good student - at least that's how many people have misunderstood him.
"...Where are you going, Su Xingyuan?"
——But when his high ponytail was lifted up and his eyes fell on the person who spoke without any emotion, Xu Banmeng, who asked this question, even felt regretful for a moment.
This guy...
She couldn't tell for a moment how she felt. Was it because she was shocked by seeing a glimpse of the other person's true self, or was it incredible that he actually cared so much about that city?
There was just one feeling that was particularly strong, and that was the annoyance towards the person who had orchestrated this whole thing.
She certainly wouldn't be so foolish as to think that there was no human driving force behind this matter, otherwise how could everything happen so coincidentally?
Let’s go to the ball, isn’t it good to live in peace? Do we really have to provoke Su Xingyuan?
Do you know how much of a sense of security Su Xingyuan's lively and outgoing appearance, yet a sense of normality in his abnormality, can give people?
Why do we have to tear this appearance apart? ?
Xu Banmeng cursed in her heart. She was not a good-tempered person to begin with. The series of things that happened made her want to kill the mastermind behind the scenes. But reason made her brain clear and she quickly accepted the sudden bad news. She told herself that she must comfort Xingyuan.
He is one of the top fighters in Country C. At a time like this, he must not lose his composure.
Xu Banmeng said quickly: "It's still a long way from here to Country C. If you want to get there as quickly as possible, a plane is the best choice—"
She hadn't finished her words, because the black-haired boy who was walking in the opposite direction of the tarmac seemed to have found a target. He suddenly increased his speed, bent his knees, jumped up, and at the same time a slender bamboo fishing rod appeared in his right hand, and he swung it towards the few surviving buildings!
[Features: Toughness]
After the barrier was broken, the real sky was revealed. Dark clouds blocked the sunlight, but the silver fishing hook was like a lightning bolt across the sky, thrown towards the rooftop fence and entangled on it. The fishing line was instantly taut, giving the black-haired boy hanging in the air a force pulling him upwards.
And he has always been good at seizing every opportunity.
The black-haired boy holding a fishing rod landed on the glass outer wall of the office building as lightly as a swallow. At that moment, a purple magical reaction seemed to come from his shoes. Something that only players could see was reflected on the glass outer wall for a moment. He began to rush upwards as if he was walking on flat ground.
"What on earth is he going to do..."
What is he doing?
No one answered the questions of the people who were looking up at Su Xingyuan's actions.
He came to the rooftop without any hesitation, swung his long arm to retract the fishing hook, and then, as if he had brought himself to the highest point without hesitation, he jumped directly from the top of the building without any pause!
"Xingxingyuan Hunter——"
As soon as Yang Qi uttered the horrified cry, another voice rang out.
No one is unfamiliar with this sound.
The voice, which was always relaxed, steady, and as if floating in the air, changed for the first time today.
They heard the black-haired boy say as he fell rapidly from the top of the building:
"dragon!"
Almost at the same time, a loud dragon roar suddenly sounded, perfectly matching the black-haired boy's cold call!
That is a...
A real dragon!
As he was falling, a huge black shadow rose into the sky behind him, with wings like black clouds spread out. Its huge body completely obscured the building and cast a terrifying shadow on the ground!
Xu Banmeng's pupils suddenly shrank.
The fear of giants deep in human genes was easily aroused. Shadows completely enveloped their bodies, blocking the scenery from their vision, leaving only the dark scales that seemed to be close at hand, but she did not feel fear - perhaps she did feel fear, but she trembled constantly because of the excitement, and the chill spread across the surface of her skin because of the shock that struck her heart directly.
She heard a sound like a hurricane sweeping by, it was the dragon flapping its wings.
She heard a thunderous rumble, the dragon's breath.
Xu Banmeng took a few steps back, trying his best to distance himself, and looked up. Standing on the huge legendary ancient creature that symbolized destruction was a human boy with a jet-black ponytail.
His long ponytail was blown back by the oncoming wind, like a long tassel made of ink.
"He is Su Xingyuan."
Xu Banmeng heard the secretary behind him say this calmly.
With just five words, she felt as if she was suddenly pulled out of a dirty water tank and breathed the long-lost, life-saving air.
Because he is Su Xingyuan.
He is the savior appointed in prophecy.
"Xingyuan! I'll give you one million magic crystals—"
Xu Banmeng injected magic into his voice and conveyed it to the black-haired boy thousands of miles above the sky. His eyes were filled with cold anger and burning fighting spirit, tearing the woman's exquisite and perfect mask into a savage one.
"I hire you to chop off the culprit's head!"
She and the black-haired boy's falling gaze met.
"As you wish," he said.
The dragon's roar sounded again, its wings stirred up a hurricane and disappeared into the clouds.
Xu Banmeng also withdrew his gaze.
Secretary Gao said, "Do you need me to prepare one million magic crystals, boss?"
"Of course." Xu Banmeng let out a deep breath.
She has no fighting ability, but she has money.
She has lots and lots of money.
Wanting to be the mastermind behind her trip to Country S, Xu Banmeng showed a gloomy smile on his face: "Notify them, the Demon King's City, right?"
"From now on, a bounty of 10,000 magic crystals will be offered for the heads of members of the Demon King's City!"
If she doesn't kill them, she won't be named Xu!
…
[Ding Dong!] Congratulations to the player for triggering the limited-time mission! 】
[You followed Xu Banmeng to Country S. Although you were plotted against by the Demon King's City, everything went smoothly. However, just as you were about to leave, you found yourself involved in a bigger conspiracy...]
[Mission Objective: Close the S-level portal in J City]
[Task Reward: Blessing of ■■; Career Upgrade; EXP*100000]
In front of the black-haired boy, in addition to the triggered task pop-up window, there is also a pet panel with new items added.
[Race: Black Dragon]
[Level: lv.20]
【Phase: Transformation Period】
…
[Special: After accumulating enough magic power, you can switch to adult form for 1 hour]
"One hour..." Su Xingyuan swept his eyes across the black dragon's panel.
Su Xingyuan: "We'll get there in fifteen minutes, no more."
Black Dragon: “!”
Su Xingyuan: "About ten minutes."
The adult form of a black dragon cannot be used entirely on the road.
It must be faster, faster——
He closed the pet panel and task interface, and looked towards the novice village where a strong demonic aura could already be faintly detected.
At this moment, in front of him, there was only the lonely friend interface, which continued to display the NPC's blood-stained smile.
…
J City.
The rich smell of blood and foul demonic energy lingered in the air, interweaving together to form a disgusting smell.
“Help—Help!!”
"I don't want to die... wuwuwuwu..."
The portal appeared too suddenly, and ordinary citizens had no time to evacuate. They had been protected by hunters all year round and had no ability to fight against the enemy. In addition, they were frightened and had no way to protect themselves or fight back.
More hunters were teleported from all over the country to join the rescue and confrontation without saying a word. However, the number of hunters was not enough to effectively stop the advance of the demons and monsters that continued to pour out of the dungeon.
In the midst of chaos, J City, which was not prosperous but warm enough, now seemed like a living purgatory on earth.
“Save me——!!”
An extremely sharp voice suddenly came from the ruins.
The hunter closest to the voice turned his head sharply and saw at a glance the direction of the person calling for help and the drooling, wide-mouthed insect-shaped monster behind him.
"Fan Ling!"
He shouted.
Almost at the moment the sound was heard, a short-haired woman suddenly fell from above. She raised the gun in her hand high, and a wave of magic flashed, and a bright silver bayonet appeared on the black gun!
“Squeak——”
As she fell, the bayonet pierced directly into the insect-shaped monster's brain, nailing it to the ground!
At the same time, the hunter who called the woman for support quickly formed seals with his hands and transferred out several ordinary people hiding nearby.
"Behind him! Fang Mujian!"
He had just placed the ordinary people in a relatively safe area when Fan Ling's stern shout sounded like thunder behind him.
In an instant, an extremely dangerous intuition spread across Mu Jian's back. He had no time to think and rolled on the ground almost by instinct. He heard the ground where he had just been standing being pierced directly by a blunt object. If the purple heavy sword had hit him a second earlier, it would have smashed his head.
“Bang, bang, bang!”
A series of large-caliber enchanted bullets hit the monster's back, only to embed into its armor, which attracted its attention and gave Fang Mujian a chance to catch his breath.
The man changed his posture as quickly as possible and stepped back a distance, only then did he see the full picture of the monster that suddenly moved behind him.
"Underground Palace Knight..."
Fan Ling clenched her gun tightly, her face cold.
The Dungeon Knight is extremely outstanding among all monsters in terms of both defense and attack capabilities. It has been said before that if the Dungeon Knight did not often appear in low-level dungeons, whenever a high-level Dungeon Knight appeared, it would instantly become one of the top ten monsters that hunters least want to encounter.
Agility seems to be their only shortcoming, but judging from the situation just now, the speed of this Dungeon Knight even far exceeds those jungle monsters whose main feature is high attack speed!
This only proves one thing, that is, the level of the knight who attacked them is probably much higher than they imagined.
Fang Mujian clenched his back teeth, his mind was completely tense, and magic power surged throughout his body, just waiting to be released instantly.
Unimaginably powerful monsters, the screams and cries of companions, life-threatening attacks that could come at any time, a complex and ever-changing battlefield, and land that has been trampled into ruins...
This is the S-level portal explosion.
Fang Mujian was already prepared to be buried here.
"Fang Hunter."
He heard Fan Ling say, "There are ordinary people around here. They can't get involved in the battle between A-level hunters and high-level monsters."
Fang Mujian instantly understood what she wanted to say.
His mind went blank for a moment, and he was suddenly terrified by the implication in the woman's words.
"No, I'll hold it back," Fang Mujian stepped forward and said through gritted teeth, "Your ability is restrained, you can't--"
"Bang!"
A bullet landed at his feet, stopping him from going any further.
At the same time, Fan Ling did not completely avoid the slashing of the Underground Palace Knight. As bright red blood gushed out, her right arm holding the gun was like a puppet that had lost its traction rope. It was raised high with such terrifying force, and then fell heavily on the broken ground beside her.
Fang Mujian's eyes instantly turned red.
His breathing almost became broken, but at this point, he searched for ordinary people trapped by the rubble without any hesitation, and used his abilities to transfer them to a safe place.
He knows it very well.
He knew very well that in this kind of battlefield, an A-level combat hunter was far less valuable than an A-level auxiliary hunter.
But...that's his friend.
The child trapped under the rubble raised his head. The hunter held him in his warm arms and wiped the water stains off his face in a daze.
"Uncle, don't cry. Mom said boys have to be strong."
Fang Mujian asked, "Where's your mother?"
The child points in a direction.
Fang Mujian looked over and saw that the woman whose body was broken at the waist was still pushing away. Her eyes were still open, looking in the direction of the child in his arms.
She is smiling.
Fang Mujian covered his eyes.
"…I'll take you to a safe place."
Watching the man's back as he left, Fan Ling slowly blinked her blood-stained eyes. Her vision seemed to become much clearer, which was the most important thing to her.
She stood up, blood still gushing out from the cut right arm, but her expression did not change at all, as if she was a frozen sculpture.
The gun appears in her left hand for the first time.
Fan Ling let out a breath, she thought of her family members who left her a long time ago. When they died, would they be as desperate as these ordinary people who were suddenly attacked by monsters?
But none of that matters anymore.
Be it her family or ordinary people nearby, none of them can affect her now. She doesn't need a partner or bystanders.
Fan Ling swallowed the two pills whole.
The slow-thinking Dungeon Knight didn't understand what she was doing, and for a moment he didn't launch an attack, but just stared at her in silence.
Fan Ling gave a somewhat unfamiliar smile.
"Let me play with you..." She took the bayonet off the gun and held it in the palm of her left hand. To be honest, the loss of her right hand made her balance a little unstable, but she ignored these little things, licked her cracked lips with the tip of her tongue, and added to her previous sentence -
"Until death."
*
Fang Mujian was running at the fastest speed of his life, using his ability to stuff the ordinary people he rescued into the safe area temporarily cleared by the hunters, namely the J City Hunter Association branch and the underground air-raid shelter.
Ordinary people who were rescued stumbled here one after another. Some members of the Hunter Association who had ordinary abilities and could not play a role in the battlefield were also busy transporting medical supplies and boxes of potions. The fearless guys then carried them on their bodies and rushed to the uncleaned areas where monsters might jump out at any time, bringing them to the hunters who were in urgent need of life-saving potions.
Fang Mujian could even see the hunter, whose chest was almost deflated, being carried back by the anxious staff. He could only use external application items and was unable to even take the life-saving potion.
Without any pause, he turned around and headed back to the place he had just been at. He was still planning to get two high-level hunters for support on the way when he caught a glimpse of the life detection equipment placed in the Hunter Association.
As if in the blink of an eye, the faint light on the life monitor went out.
Fang Mujian opened his mouth, but no sound came out. He lowered his eyes and looked at the owner of the instrument.
[A-level Hunter-Fan Ling]
Fang Mujian stood there in a daze for a second.
Then he lowered his head, calmed himself down, and once again stepped into this hell on earth.
As an A-level assistant with the ability to transfer ordinary people on a large scale, Fang Mujian worked extremely hard to maintain his personal safety and sanity on the battlefield, roaming around to support the hunters who were fighting the enemy, and transferring the ordinary people they were protecting to the rear.
Sufficiently powerful combat hunters fight against more terrifying guys, while more ordinary hunters, like worker ants who refuse to admit defeat, continue to make insignificant impacts on the battlefield.
Fang Mujian also wanted to save their lives.
More than ten minutes passed, but in his perception it felt like several hours. He had lost the feeling in his legs and could only keep moving. The magic power in his body had long been exhausted. Because of excessive extraction, even if he poured in more magic recovery potions, it would not be of much use. At most, it would only make the pond that was dry and cracked become moist.
Do you want to go back? Return to the safe area and serve as a logistics officer.
He can no longer play any role.
Fang Mujian's eyes went dark for a moment, but he vaguely saw a lone child in his field of vision again.
In such a natural disaster, the elderly and children are the most difficult to escape and the most likely to be abandoned.
He controlled his legs and moved forward. With every step he took, the darkness seemed to completely cover his vision. He even tripped over a pebble halfway through his walk and fell flat on his face, hitting his knee hard on the ground.
“…”
Fang Mujian thought drowsily that even a small stone could knock him down. He was really an incompetent A-level hunter. If Fan Ling was still his partner now, she would probably have given him a look of disdain.
But who will take that child away?
He's going to stand up...
Fang Mujian was trying hard, even though it seemed to be ineffective.
A slow and lifeless footsteps approached from behind him. It seemed that his life had come to an end. Fang Mujian accepted it well, but the child was still there.
Maybe the monster could buy some time while killing him?
Fang Mujian decided to learn from Su Xingyuan. Since the situation was like this, he could only be optimistic.
Moreover, several powerful hunters also rushed to the battlefield one after another, including Fu Duoxing, who was known as the number one hunter in Country C before Su Xingyuan appeared. It can be imagined that the pressure on the hunters will be greatly reduced.
As long as we can hold on until Su Xingyuan comes back, all these sacrifices will be meaningful.
—Footsteps passed him.
Only then did Fang Mujian see the owner of the footsteps, who seemed to be a humanoid creature.
It walked towards the child who was standing there at a loss, squatted down almost gently, stretched out its hand, and uttered a few incoherent syllables with the broken tape: "Walk... Walk..."
When the child saw it, his pupils suddenly shrank, he let out a shrill scream, subconsciously opened its hand, and backed away in horror.
"……?"
It raised its head in confusion, not knowing why its hand was slapped away. It clearly wanted to help, it clearly wanted to save him...
It saw his eyes.
The pair of black and white eyes belonging to the child were washed by tears, and were extremely clear, reflecting its appearance clearly.
——The flesh on his cheeks had turned blue and rotten, and dark blood was flowing from the round wounds of varying sizes. His originally smooth black hair was wriggling as if it had life, and one could even see the straw-like opening at the end, as if it couldn't wait to draw out some liquid.
The hand it stretched out was even more terrifying. Its fingers were covered with things that looked like tree tumors, and you could even vaguely see a human-like face.
It was scared.
But its brain was still blank, and there was only a voice in its heart asking, why is it like this, why?
...Why?
"Xin Yunxi...?"
A weak, trembling and unbelievable voice came from behind her.
Like a spell, its brain suddenly became clear, and the white barrier covering its eyes faded away little by little. It lowered its head and saw the blood-stained school badge sewn on its school uniform, and remembered more.
Then she began to tremble.
She looked around at everything, broken limbs, debris, ruins...
The white spot spread back into her eyes.
She doesn't want to watch it anymore.
She didn't want to listen, didn't want to see, didn't want to know, and it was best for her to continue as she was just now. As long as you don't wake up, nothing has happened yet.
She doesn’t want to…
[Want to add a friend? 】
Xin Yunxi opened her eyes, and she returned to that night when everything seemed to be getting better and better, and heard the hunter who seemed so distant in a trance say this.
She knew it was another illusion, but she couldn't help but say, "But I... am weak."
The black-haired hunter didn't care at all. He said, "You will be Su Xingyuan's friend."
The future top hunter would not let a mediocre guy into his list, Xin Yunxi knew what he meant.
"You're lying to me, you didn't add anything."
Black-haired hunter: "No."
He said seriously: "You are my only good friend."
…
Xin Yunxi has actually been wondering what makes her special.
Was it luck that I met Su Xingyuan? A somewhat ridiculous ambition? still……
Xin Yunxi opened her eyes and saw her home in ruins. The tragic reality hit her brain, the beautiful illusion was torn apart, and she returned to hell.
…It’s courage, she thought.
"Fang Mu Sword Hunter."
Xin Yunxi turned her head and looked at the hunter who was staring at her stiffly, as if he hadn't noticed anything. She raised her hand and pointed at the huge portal in the sky.
"Can you take me there?"
Her voice went from trembling to calm: "I think I can close the portal."
Fang Mujian's rationality was forcibly pulled back by these words.
He lost his voice and said, "What do you mean? How did you become like this? What happened... and Xin Yunting--"
"My brother is inside." Xin Yunxi said, "He is in the portal."
Fang Mujian paused.
"Let me go, Fang Mujian Hunter."
She struggled to breathe.
There was something else important, very important, but she couldn't remember it even though it hurt like her brain was splitting.
"By the way, be careful of someone... a man." Xin Yunxi stretched out her hand and pulled the corners of her lips apart, allowing her stiff facial muscles to form a smile. "Please tell the Suxingyuan hunter, he will definitely be able to find out who he is."
Fang Mujian: "Stop talking, this will get you killed."
"How could that be?" Xin Yunxi said, "They won't hurt me. I know my limits, Hunter Fang Mujian."
She was an ordinary person. Even though her hunter abilities were awakened, she couldn't contribute on the battlefield. She was also taken advantage of and harmed so many people. If there was nothing she could do, she would be tortured by her own guilt and collapse.
Let her die on the battlefield. This might be her only chance to die as a hero, just like the countless hunters who died in the collapse of the portal in J City.
Fang Mujian agreed.
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