Chapter 117: Alarm Bells (Fu Jiang's Perspective)
"Do you want to go with us?" Fu Xuan asked.
Ah Li said, "Yes, otherwise do you expect me to ask those strangers to squeeze in with them?"
All right.
Ali walked in front, and Fu Xuan and Jiang Qian followed behind.
Tents were being folded up all around them, and without any obstruction, the wind blew against them, causing their robes to fly to the sides.
Fu Xuan followed Ali and asked, "When will the monster move... Is the monster the same as the one we saw before?"
Ali said, "Yes, they will attack at midnight."
It's already midnight? So soon?
Fu Xuan frowned in confusion and looked up at the sky. It was pitch black, without moonlight or starlight. He couldn't tell the time.
Apart from the lights scattered around and gradually converging towards the vehicle, there were no other light sources, and no one knew where the monster was.
Jiang Yan was not interested in monsters, so she asked the question she hadn't asked the stall owner to Ah Li: "If the savior would destroy the building block world, why would he be called the savior by the police?"
Ah Li said: "I don't know either. I am just like you. I don't know much about this place."
Ali's voice was blown away by the wind, and they could only hear a few scattered words, but they could guess what she said.
"Let's go to the car first." Ali turned around, the wind blew off his hat, and blew the short black hair that was attached to his scalp into a mess.
After making sure they heard him clearly, Ali turned around, pulled up his hat, and took the lead, struggling to move forward towards their truck in the strong wind.
Their truck was located at the outermost edge, which meant they had to pass through many people and cars.
Fu Xuan pulled Jiang Qian a few steps back and whispered, "When we get in the car, use your spiritual sense to control her."
Jiang Yan didn't ask why and just said yes.
They quickened their pace and walked with Ali again.
Looking at the crowd walking quickly, without any disturbance, and everyone moving quietly, Jiang Yan said:
"This place is not as dangerous as the legend says. At first I thought there was a robber every three steps and a murderer every four steps. Now it seems quite normal."
Ah Li said, "Really? And it's not easy to run into people who gossip about you. But if you run into a monster alone, it's more dangerous, so it's better to act in groups."
They had already walked to the car, and Fu Xuan opened the door and let them get in.
As soon as Ali sat down, Jiang Qian used her spiritual sense to forcibly control her body.
After Fu Xuan tied her hands and feet with cable ties, Jiang Qian pointed a gun at her and only released her spiritual sense after making sure that she was aware of the current situation.
Ali hissed, and after the dizziness subsided, he said, "I thought we were already companions."
Fu Xuan raised the gun in his hand and pointed it at her, "If what you said is true.
"But you obviously lied."
Ali leaned back in his chair with his tied hands placed on his legs. Although he was the one being restrained and bound, he was more relaxed than Fu Xuan and Jiang Qian who were holding guns.
"Did I lie?" Ali said seriously, "I never lie."
"Then tell me, are you really a player?" Fu Xuan asked.
Ali smiled and didn't answer.
This was within Fu Xuan's expectations. She said:
“You are not a player. You are a special being whose face we can see.
“When you said you were just like us, you were catering to our preconceived notions and confirming our assumptions so that we would think you were a player and let down our guard.
“In a place like this, we would definitely trust the players more than the locals who must be criminals.
"——Is that what you think?"
Ali smiled but said nothing. Perhaps, she knew that nothing she said could change Fu Xuan's mind. Perhaps, she didn't care.
Fu Xuan calmly stated his guess:
"When we first met, you deliberately concealed something, and then were 'forced' to tell the 'truth' about dealing with the smuggling team. This had two intentions.
“One is to divert our attention from your identity.
“Second, you want us to believe that what you said the second time was true.
“In the beginning, I was indeed deceived by you.
“I believe you are a ruthless player, much like me.
"But you are so familiar with this place that it doesn't seem like your first time here, and you don't try to hide this fact.
"You're not even a first-time player here."
Ah Li said, "Then what are you going to do to me? Is it wrong for me not to be a player?"
Fu Xuan said: "I don't know, you tell me."
Ali raised his eyebrows: "I tell you?"
Fu Xuan said: "Tell me, what do you want to do to us? How should I treat you?"
Ali smiled and said, "I don't want to do anything to you. I just..."
At this moment, continuous gunshots broke through the darkness and silence, interrupting the conversation in the car.
Ali's face suddenly became solemn. He looked at the direction from which the gunshots came from and said in a low voice, "They are coming."
Monsters are coming? Fu Xuan's attention was also diverted a little.
Jiang Qian released his spiritual sense and probed towards the location where the commotion occurred.
The locals' cars all have wall lights, clearly illuminating the spot where the monster appears.
That was the edge of the parking area, closest to the surrounding darkness.
The monster that walked into the range of light was a blurry humanoid figure three meters tall, with uneven skin all over its body and extremely ugly.
Its head was small, and its pair of black, glowing eyes stood out, making it look disgusting.
Its big, pointed ears stand erect, as if to take in all the noises in the world.
Its whole body was flowing with sticky liquid, and its two thin lower limbs supported its body and enabled it to move.
In addition, countless deformed limbs of varying thickness extended from its body, and liquid splashed when it was waved.
"What an ugly and disgusting thing." Jiang Qian sighed.
Her voice fell clearly into the ears of both of them.
Ali laughed out loud, "That's right, it's simply the ugliest thing in the world."
Fu Xuan asked: "Is it scary?" She had not yet forgotten that "stunning glimpse" from before.
Jiang Yan replied: "Not scary."
Ugly, yes. Horrible? Not really.
She watched the battle over there with great interest.
The monster used its limbs to hit the hard car body, and the gunshots they heard came from the car owner who was shooting from the driver's seat.
The car owner's partner got out from the other side and used the car body as cover to attack, causing not very serious but annoying damage to the monster.
The enraged monster roared, stepped forward, and was about to attack.
The car owner's partner drew out his long sword, strode forward from the side of the monster, nimbly dodged the monster's swinging limbs to attack, and used his speed to slide down on his knees in front of the monster -!
The sharp long knife cut through the monster's blocking limbs and the "legs" it used to support its body like cutting tofu.
After passing the monster, the resistance on his hands weakened, and the driver's partner circled the hand holding the long knife above his head to relieve the excess force. He tapped the ground with the long knife and rolled over.
The car owner took advantage of the monster's unstable center of gravity as it lost its lower body and fell forward, and threw a grenade accurately at its head.
When the grenade was still a few centimeters away from the monster's head, it exploded with a bang.
"Good!" The car owner clenched his fist happily.
The car owner's partner leaned out from the side of the car, looked at the monster that had lost most of its upper body, raised his knife, and said, "Okay!"
Jiang Yan also said loudly: "Okay!"
"What happened?" Fu Xuan asked.
She only heard a thump.
Jiang Qian narrated the story with great excitement.
Sounds like a skilled worker. Fu Xuan listened calmly and looked at A Li. Except for the change in her expression at the beginning, she didn't seem to be worried at all. She closed her eyes and rested calmly.
"Aren't you worried? They should all be your companions."
Hearing this, Ali opened his eyes and looked at Fu Xuan who was explaining calmly.
Fu Xuan: "You deliberately keep your distance and avoid contact, but this is exactly the strange thing. If it is a stranger you meet for the first time - like us, they will stare at us for a while and then look away."
"But they didn't even look at you. They just avoided your gaze."
"Before, when we were walking, they even avoided contact with your body completely. It wasn't obvious, but I still noticed it."
"When I was talking to the stall owner, he heard your voice, subconsciously looked up at you, and paused for a moment. Later, he said, 'I won't cheat us.' Are the people here so conscientious in doing business? Obviously, he did it for your sake."
Fu Xuan said: "I am more curious about your relationship with that contact person. When you half-squatted in front of her, your posture was skillful and natural.
"If you can kill the smuggling team that you don't like, you are not the type to easily put yourself in a lower position than others. Why would you take the initiative to squat in front of a patient you met for the first time? And you look so skilled?
“You must have a close relationship.
"…Mother and son?"
Ali looked at Fu Xuan and said, "Your brain works much faster than most people."
Fu Xuan said: "I am just good at observing people."
Jiang Qian, who was listening in, came to her senses. She certainly felt that there was something wrong with Ali, but she didn't think too much about it.
"Mother and son?" she interrupted, "Could she be the key we are looking for?"
"Yes, it's me." Ali admitted readily, "Now that you've found me, what are you going to do to me?"
"What can I do to you?" Fu Xuan frowned at her. "You haven't told me what you want to do to us. If you just want to take a ride to the market, you're already here. You could obviously go and meet them, why did you follow us?"
Jiang Yan suddenly realized: "Oh, so just now you asked her why she was still following us."
Fu Xuan looked at her with an indescribable look. He really didn't understand why she didn't use her brain more when she was obviously so smart.
"My purpose..." Ali looked at Fu Xuan seriously, his tone hinting at pity, "I'm sorry, I might have to take your lives."
"You are just like this..."
Jiang Qian's words were interrupted by Fu Xuan, who shouted: "Control her!"
Jiang Qian's spiritual consciousness rushed out, but it was like hitting a thick wall, making her dizzy.
"This is retribution in this life." Ali said with a smile.
She easily broke free from the ties that bound her hands and feet, and her mental power knocked away the bullets shot by Fu Xuan, then knocked Fu Xuan unconscious.
Both of them fainted.
Ali opened the door and jumped out of the truck.
With a long and distant whistle, the tightly closed car doors opened one after another, and people in robes and masks jumped out.
But at this moment, they all wore their robes inside out.
The white robe gleamed brightly under the light.
A man in a white robe came over and said in a hoarse voice, "How is it, have you dealt with them?"
It is a contact person who is seriously ill.
She is also Ali's mother.
She used the potions in the "weapon box" and her body gradually recovered.
Ali hummed, "Get them out of the car. Prepare for the ceremony."
The monsters around were ready to move, but with the help of the white robes, it became brighter here, and there were people guarding the border, so they did not launch a general attack for the time being.
Fu Xuan woke up to the sound of beeping and popping and the gradually rising temperature.
She opened her eyes and looked at the upside-down vision and the white-robed people surrounding them, holding burning torches in their hands.
…The robe was still on her body, but it seemed to be tucked into her boots. The wide hat fell down, so that she could only see the front of her eyes.
Jiang Yan was hanging upside down behind her. She could feel the heat from his body. At this moment, she slowly woke up and whispered, "What's going on?"
"you……"
Fu Xuan had just started talking when he was interrupted by a loud voice. Ali's voice resounded through the sky.
"Today! We gather here! To realize our ideals!"
Ali's voice hovered in the air, like a flame igniting an endless passion. She waved her arm, and the people in white robes immediately raised their arms and shouted: "Ideal!"
"Dig out their eyes? Not enough!"
The white-robed people raised their arms and shouted: "——Not enough!"
"Cut off their tongues? Not enough!"
The voices of the people in white robes became louder and louder: "——Not enough!"
"Cut off their hands? Not enough!"
The emotions of the people in white robes became more and more intense: "——Not enough!"
"We must! Destroy this layer of bricks!"
The white-robed people roared, "Destroy! Twelve floors! The blocks!"
“…”
"These are all women." Jiang Qian's voice sounded behind Fu Xuan.
Fu Xuan said: "Yes, but they are about to burn us to death."
The firewood was arranged in a circle on the outside, and then connected by firewood to the firewood pile below them.
People in white robes stood outside, the flames of their torches dancing in their eyes.
"Sisters!" Ali waved his sleeves and turned around, "Tell the world, my name is——"
"——Wu Li!" The voice of the man in white robe was uneven, but it seemed to shake the sky.
Boom!
The sky seemed to be really shattered, and countless thunder-like sounds rang out in the sky, as if stones had smashed through the sky and fell down with a loud bang.
"It's the sound of the bell." said Fu Xuan.
Once she shows up, alarm bells will ring.
The stall owner’s words are still ringing in my ears.
"Her identity is so cool—" Jiang Yan dragged out the tone and said enviously, "Savior, if it were us, this would be the treatment of Ji Jiang."
Fu Xuan sneered, "The destroyer." Being hung upside down, her mood was not very good.
Amid the rumbling sound of bells, the people in white robes lit firewood and marched into the fire circle in orderly steps.
Ali lit the first pile of firewood and walked in front of them. She walked in front of them and said with a smile, "I'm sorry, it's not that I don't want to tell you my full name, it's just that it's inconvenient."
Fu Xuan sneered, "Why, you want to tell us your full name before you die, so that we can die clearly?"
Wu Li laughed and lit the pile of firewood beneath them, and the flames suddenly burst into flames.
The temperature seemed to distort the space before their eyes in an instant, but Fu Xuan and Jiang Qian did not feel hot.
"What's going on?" Fu Xuan said.
Wu Li smiled mysteriously at her, handed the torch to his mother behind him, clenched his fist, and smashed it to the ground.
The moment the ordinary fist landed on the ground, a loud bang was heard, which coincided with the alarm bell in the sky.
In an instant, the ground shattered, revealing endless darkness. They fell into the darkness, and before their eyes, there was a strange and unforgettable scene that changed rapidly, making them dizzy.
"I'm sorry - I took your lives -!"
Ali's voice seemed to come from far away, and it was the last words they heard before they fell into coma.
The last thing they saw was the two red dots fading before their eyes.
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