Chapter 102
The trembling person in charge looked at the chaos in the room and made up his mind to let his child, who would have to choose a major in two years, avoid this major.
No matter how popular they are, if this mental state really affects their family, even their parents cannot bear it.
From the moment the second "material" was located, good news came one after another. Within six hours, they found the locations of another four "materials".
But starting from the seventh "material", the damage to the occupying tools in this room began to increase. For example, a crystal ball suddenly exploded, and the whole room was filled with freely gushing fragments. At the same time, everyone's body was lit up with light of different colors, protecting them from these external harms - except for the person in charge.
He quickly grabbed the empty wooden table next to him and lifted it up. After hearing a few "clicks", he stuck his head out and saw that the lifted wooden table was covered with glittering fragments.
Person in charge: “…”
He finally understood why messengers were required to be articulate, courageous, careful, and quick to react!
If he's any slower, he'll get a work-related injury!
The explosion of the crystal ball was like an ominous beginning. One by one, the precious tools for taking possession of the earth began to show signs of damage, some serious or some minor. The person in charge looked at this and that, and when he thought about the cost of these things, his eyes went dark.
"Don't worry, it will get harder as time goes by." The old man with hair covering his face did not click like a robot this time. His tone was as slow and smooth as a tree. "This is all normal."
Person in charge: “…”
He took a deep breath and said, "I'll go apply and get some tools over."
Even if the tools used to take up the spoils get worse and worse, so what? Can they just stop providing them?
The whole city is waiting for help!
The locations of the first six "materials" that were occupied have been transmitted through the emergency meeting to the second and fifth teams of the special group at the junction of Chongming City and Baimi City, asking them to choose the nearest "material" and drive to solve it. Except for one "material" that has been destroyed, they will send more people to follow up on the remaining three points after their selection, and solve them before the "material" is awakened.
The two armored vehicles that received the order quickly crashed into the invisible barrier. Almost as soon as they entered the formation, everyone felt dizzy at the same time.
People who practice cultivation are often more sensitive to their own conditions than ordinary people. They can vaguely feel that their vitality is being gradually drained and their spiritual power is gradually being lost.
Everyone looked serious.
The second special team chose Luping City, and the fifth team chose Cangxi City. After entering the formation, the two armed vehicles immediately went their separate ways and rushed to report to their respective "material" points.
The second group of cars had not driven for ten minutes when they suddenly braked.
In front of their car, there was a man lying on the ground, and several others were staggering like drunks, stretching out their arms, trying to stop them.
"My friend has fainted. Please, you guys..." The person holding the car was also struggling to speak. His face was full of anxiety and his voice sounded like he was about to cry. "Please help me take him to the hospital. We will pay for it..."
As if afraid that they would not be willing to help, a few other staggering people also came forward and lined up in front of the car.
The side door of the armored vehicle in front of them, which looked sturdy and reliable, suddenly opened, and a young boy jumped out of the car. He quickly walked around the people standing in a row and squatted in front of the fainted man. After a quick inspection, he pasted something that looked like a talisman on him and said, "He's fine for now. Help him to the side of the road to rest for a while!"
After he finished shouting, he ran back to the car without stopping. The black armored vehicle turned its head and "flew" past the sideline in an almost show-off manner, leaving them with only a thick trail of exhaust fumes.
The people who were shocked by this sudden change were stunned for a while. The person who spoke first looked at their backs as they left and said angrily: "What kind of people are these! When lives are at stake, you are not even willing to help send them to the hospital?"
"Why are they so cold-blooded? Do they think that just putting up a piece of torn paper will help? If something happens to someone, they are accomplices! They are murderers!"
The more this man spoke, the more excited he became. His weakness gradually faded away, and was replaced by an inexplicable excitement, as if there was a hot energy in his body that wanted to be released in a destructive way.
The people around him were about to persuade him to "think of other ways, we can always send the patient to the hospital", but when the words came out of his mouth, they turned into -
"Your complaints are useless!"
"Just talk a little bit! Who can't do that?"
"You're the only one who can say that? Why didn't you stop him when he got off the bus?"
The smell of gunpowder gradually rose, and no one noticed that red bloodshot gradually appeared under their eyes, looking ferocious and terrifying.
The person on the ground with the talisman stuck on him woke up slowly, and dazedly saw several people standing beside him. Each of them had a pair of blood-red eyes like a devil, and the expressions on their faces were terribly distorted.
He stretched his legs and fainted again quickly and cleanly.
This time I'm not feeling empty, I'm feeling scared.
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"Bang!"
The metal sign fell to the grass with a dull thud.
After a hard fight, Liu Jia and Song Tu finally succeeded in a life-and-death collision and temporarily shut down the killing array. The moment the killing array was shut down, they both collapsed to the ground without any image, panting as if they had just run ten thousand meters back and forth.
Song Tu took a deep breath and said, "Senior... Fortunately, fortunately, I have fulfilled my mission."
It turns out that life-and-death crises are the best training for people. He and Liu Jia can actually achieve such an extent. It feels great to have a big boss behind them to support them and be able to just do it!
Yu Tu: “…”
Don't have confidence in him, really.
He walked around the dead ape on the ground and headed towards the gate. Liu Jia and Song Tu struggled to get up and followed him.
Yu Tu looked up at the sky. The webs made of life force in the sky seemed to be even denser, pouring into the area where they were, like a huge backwards fountain. The fountain covered everything in the sky, leaving only the white life force surging like a tide from all directions.
Staring at something for too long makes it seem like one no longer recognizes the color.
Yu Tu narrowed his eyes.
In the equally bright white, there seemed to be an especially weak spot. He stared at that direction for a while before he estimated that it should be the direction of Huailin Town.
The evil runes in the old building in Huailin Town...are they related to this formation?
Liu Jia and Song Tu had already recovered their breath. Seeing that Senior Buyehou had been staring at the sky, they couldn't help but look up as well, and then—
They both screamed.
All they saw were countless white lines in front of their eyes, densely covering their heads. Before they could take a closer look, they felt their eyes were about to explode with pain.
“Don’t look at the sky.”
A gentle energy passed through their eyes, relieving the intense pain. With just that glance, both of them shed tears of pain.
"Hiss—Senior...what is that?" Liu Jia gasped in pain and asked with a grin, "There are so many white lines in the sky..."
"That is the life force that was extracted into the formation."
The pain in his eyes seriously affected his vision, and perhaps also his hearing. Liu Jia only felt that the voice of his senior was sometimes near and sometimes far away, as if it was hazy and separated by a layer of fog.
He heard a sigh.
"It's too dangerous here. You should go down the mountain first." The voice of the senior, Buyehou, seemed to be getting more and more distorted. "Turn around and don't come back."
In such a critical situation, not following the orders of those with greater power would only lead to death or chaos. As members of the Chongming City garrison team, they knew this truth very well. So even though their hearts were filled with worry and were about to overflow, they strictly followed the request of their predecessors and immediately retreated to the foot of the mountain.
Only after they left did Yu Tu retract his gaze. He looked up at the white lines covering the sky above his head, with some tiny black and gray lines interspersed among them, and couldn't help but sigh again.
The black line represents death, and the gray line represents near death. He had also seen such colors above the Renxin Hospital where Zang Sheng worked.
This formation, which he did not understand, had already begun to bring death.
Yu Tu closed his eyes slightly, invisible energy overflowed from his body, like new buds of grass. These seemingly weak new buds rose slowly, accurately hooking out those gray threads from the white torrent, and then... playing tug-of-war in the opposite direction.
Just like in the torrent of hundreds of rivers flowing into the sea, there is an inconspicuous thread swimming upstream. The weak energy firmly holds up the plundered vitality, and sends it back to the owner's body along the trajectory it came from.
Yu Tu knew that he was doing something very dangerous.
An array that covers such a vast area and so tyrannically seizes the vitality of everything within its control must have been prepared for a very long time.
When he first entered the inner world, he knew only a tiny fraction of it, and his actions were like a gnat trying to shake a tree.
People who look at the big picture may not care about the details of life and death, just like there will always be fish dying in a river, but every fish is unique and irreplaceable.
His strength was weak, but he felt he should do it.
Energy was constantly being drained, and for the first time, Yu Tu felt tired as the Marquis of Buye.
Since he can't be a smart man who protects himself, then he might as well be a stupid man with a clear conscience.
The black filaments no longer appear, the number of gray threads has decreased, and the white reverse fountain is still magnificent.
Yu Tu suddenly heard footsteps.
He turned around and saw eight people, or more precisely, eight dead bodies. There were men and women, some young, some old, and each of them had an expression of pain and confusion on their faces.
They are members of the special team 14.
The dead heroes were driven by an unknown entity to attack Yu Tu. The skills they had diligently learned and practiced in their lifetime became tools to help the evil.
The energy was consumed madly to the point of being almost exhausted. Yu Tu was so tired that he couldn't even lift a finger. Facing the attack, he had no way to avoid or hide.
The encirclement became smaller and smaller, but his anger grew more and more intense.
Yu Tu was very, very, very angry.
The line in my consciousness that was connected to the contract with the teahouse was trembling. In the distant locust tree forest, the leaves of the tea trees in the mansion that looked like a background wall were shaking constantly, and the frequencies of the two were gradually becoming consistent.
Before the first corpse's hand touched Yu Tu, a faint, light-colored light suddenly appeared behind him.
The light first stretched out freely, then outlined the outline of a tree, and then filled in the inside - roots, trunk, branches, leaves... The lush tree grew taller and taller, and grew bigger and bigger, almost forming a towering figure.
With Chongming City as the center, spiritual energy surged. Although the spiritual energy in the world was thin on the surface, it had the momentum of overwhelming and turbulent waves.
The shadow of the huge tea tree that blocked out the sun hit the barrier outside Chongming City. Invisible, shattering sounds spread out like ripples. The formation that extracted vitality did not disappear, but the barrier that "allowed entry but not exit" was like a fragile soap bubble that disappeared in an instant.
In the surface world, all those who have practiced cultivation can see the phantom of a huge tea tree as long as they look up. It sits there quietly, as if it has stood there since time immemorial.