Book 1 Volume 1 Desert Ghost Town Chapter 1 Prologue

Romania, 4 a.m.

The earth has been asleep, endless black, as if swallowing up all the sounds related to life, the lonely neighborhood roads have long been empty, only occasionally a few gusts of wind blow, provoking the leaves next to the town to make a discordant "rustle" sound, the whole small mountain town is filled with a smell of silence, everything has fallen into a deep sleep at this time, maybe, not all...

The muffled sound of a motor breaks the solo of the leaves, and four dark cars appear like ghosts in the night on the empty street, and then speed to the edge of the town, where there is an ancient medieval church built against a hill.

The vehicle stopped steadily on the square outside the church, and with a "snap", the black door was opened, and four soldiers with loaded guns came down from each car, holding an assault rifle that had been modified and could not see the prototype clearly, skillfully pushing the bullets in the magazine into loading, and quickly and neatly lined up in front of the car.

In the passenger seat of the second car, a young man in a black suit with a grim expression got out of the car, although his face had obvious Asian features, but his words were skillfully New York: "Groups, action!"

With a loud "bang", the door of the church was slammed open, and the whole team immediately entered the church in an orderly manner, divided into two teams to search on both sides, the whole process was fast and neat, obviously with a strong purpose.

It is a dilapidated church, and although the moss has begun to spread, most of the furnishings have not been destroyed, and it is clear that it has not been abandoned for a long time.

The mural in the center of the church hall is a religious creation with the theme of a giant cross, angels and demons surround the huge cross in the center, although the situation is tense but still in peace, the two are divided into half of the picture, no one dares to cross it, it is not normal to hang such a mural in the Christian church that praises angels and gods, and what makes people feel even more hairy is the blood-red ring pattern that surrounds the angels and demons, and even the boundary that angels and demons dare not cross is allowed to shuttle, as if laughing at the weakness of the two factions at the same time。

The already well-preserved frescoes are even more eerie in this moonlit hall.

The man in black who was the leader of the team did not follow his team, he looked around the quaint layout of the entire church alone and coldly, it was not enough for him to scare him in such an environment, after concentrating and closing his eyes for a while, an imperceptible arc flashed, and he sneered, "This time, where else can you escape." ”

After the loud bang of breaking the door, the surroundings seemed to fall silent again, but the alertness of all the soldiers at this moment had been raised to the extreme by themselves, they covered each other and kept a certain distance, very carefully advancing, searching, and watching everything around them with their eyes like torches, because from what they knew from the information of this mission, their opponent should be a natural night killer!

"Sean, the left front eleven o'clock direction is on alert" When he was about to search the backyard and needed to switch formations, the team leader commanded backwards with a gesture.

However, there was no response...

"Damn, Sean!" the team leader scolded in his heart, turned his head angrily, but was shocked to find that there were only three people left behind him, and the other four had disappeared at some point, and it had only been ten minutes since they came in!

"The enemy is nearby!" The team leader immediately realized the danger, and immediately used gestures to remind the three people who were still carefully guarding their direction, but it was already a little late...

"Now I realize that the group of guys in the 'Damnation' organization have a worse and worse vision for using people. A soft voice came from the stone pillar behind the four of them, and the sound was as light as a succubus, and the hearts of the four couldn't help but flutter.

"Just like this, I still want to arrest people!" The tone suddenly turned cold, and a trace of cold killing intent penetrated from the night, stinging and tensing the loose nerves of the four people again.

"Fire!" Judging from the sound, the other party had already gone from an unknown position just now to behind them, and the four of them reacted that they should turn around and shoot, but it was obvious that the pine god just now had already wasted too much time on them!

A sharp arrow that glowed red in the moonlight scurried up to the four of them.

"Click!" "Click!"

The sound of three crisp bones breaking sounded almost simultaneously, and by the time the team leader could react, he had been pressed against the wall with one hand by his neck.

By the pale light of the moon, he was once again shocked to find that his soldiers had collapsed to the ground, motionless, unmoving, dead or alive.

"It's... How is that possible!"

And in the pale white moonlight, the opponent they were looking for finally appeared in front of him, with long black waist-length hair, flowing behind her back, making people feel as if she had a kind of agility that does not eat the fireworks of the world.

The red crystal-like eyes emitted a sultry light, her skin was white, even in such a bright moonlight, she could still feel a more white jade-like texture, wearing a red dress, she was like an immortal bird that was reborn in the flames, and it looked particularly charming against the background of the moonlight, which was the most panicked but also the most beautiful picture he had ever seen in his life.

And the delicate girl in front of her, who is at most fifteen or sixteen years old, turned out to be the "monster" who instantly killed their group of experienced and well-trained special soldiers who didn't even have a chance to resist!?

"I don't like to kill, so please go to bed with your friends. In the smile, the right hand was slightly forced, causing the other party to faint due to suffocation.

"It's just settled? It's really not like their style. Shaking off the still unconscious squad leader who was pressed against the wall, the girl frowned slightly, and she felt the same way while the other party was uneasy, because it seemed that it would end like this...

"Bang!"

"Bell!"

"Sure enough..." The crimson light flashed, and the girl had an extra purple bamboo flute with a blood-colored dragon pattern in her hand, and she turned around and slashed. The two sparks that came out almost at the same time were still particularly conspicuous in this night, even if they flashed by, and at this moment, both sides revealed their positions at the same time.

However, the girl who turned around and slashed was knocked away, she hit the wall hard, the entire arm of her right hand was also shaking slightly, and a little thick blood began to drip on the ground, obviously seriously injured, but she only relied on her own reaction to cut off the bullet that came from the sneak attack?

"It's worthy of the 'monster' that the organization has been hunting, and it reacts quickly. Since the shooting has revealed his position, then for such an opponent, there is no point in hiding anymore, in the dark corridor, the man in black slowly appeared behind the girl, and his words at the moment turned out to be fluent in Chinese.

But what really attracted the girl's sense of crisis at this moment was the large-caliber silver-white sand eagle in his hand, three weird and beautiful blood-dripping black roses were blooming on the body of the gun like living creatures, like the black sea of blood in hell, although it should belong to the sand eagle series of pistols in appearance and name, but from the corresponding power of the thirty-five centimeter-long gun body and fifteen millimeter caliber, it should already be a handcannon-level weapon.

"Yes, that's a compliment, but sneak attacks aren't a good habit. "Under the moonlight, the purple bamboo flute in his hand flashed scarlet," said Edward Phoenix, the leader of the Damnation Group. ”

"As long as I can complete the task, I won't care what method I use!" "Laughing Ruo Langyue but secretly murderous, "However, you can block the modified explosive armor bullets, you really surprise me." ”

Edward never thought that he could complete the mission with just a few special forces, and the battle with monsters has always been only qualified by hunters who hunt monsters, and the rest are just bait.

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A silent street, with only the rows of streetlights silently glowing with a yellowish glow to light up this tiny world.

A black figure crossed a light arc in the air, like a bat intruding into this quiet little world as an uninvited guest, and it landed steadily without making any sound.

When he raised his head, it was a feminine and delicate face that was slightly mature, but the face that should have been gentle and lovely to smile was now as solemn as frost.

"Come out, you've been following long enough. She turned to face the direction she had come from, and shouted coldly.

The environment is still silent, and everything seems to be just a girl's self-questioning.

But the girl's expression did not look like a threatening joke intentionally or unintentionally, she nudged her thumb, the long sword in her right hand was slightly unsheathed, and her eyes became sharper and sharper.

The surrounding temperature is like a change of season in an instant, becoming cold and cold, and just a few meters away, but it still retains the high temperature that belongs to midsummer, the breeze formed by the temperature difference caresses the girl's waist-high crimson hair, and a curled hair on the top of the head also swings, it is this short distance of a few meters, at this moment it seems to have become two completely different worlds, ice and fire, individual and world.

And in the next instant, a golden card pierced the silent night sky like a blade and burst out of the sky, so fast that the tail light formed a golden band like a comet.

At the same moment, the sword was unsheathed.

The long sword was raised, and the dark red blade hardly received the impact of the card, and although the crackling sound caused by the two was extremely light and inaudible, it caused diffuse cracks to appear on the nearby walls to varying degrees.

The sword-wielding girl took three steps back, and she managed to block the attack.

"Miss Chen Linxuan, it seems that we have finally met. Thirty meters away, on the roof of a not-so-tall building, a middle-aged man in a black evening dress and a black prom mask was looking at Chen Linxuan with his seemingly natural cynical smile, and another golden card was turning around his fingertips, elegant but deadly.

With his right hand backhand, the sword was crossed behind him, and Chen Linxuan's expression was cold.

"What an iceberg beauty. The other party bowed in a standard English greeting, "Under Iris Constantine, it is an honor to meet you." ”

Chen Linxuan didn't take the other party's words, but suddenly jumped up, stepped on a street lamp pole around him and kicked it vertically several times, straight to the top of the street lamp more than six meters high next to him, and then took advantage of the momentum to jump, and actually held the sword straight towards Konstantin, this sword not only had to cross the horizontal thirty distance, the tall building, but it was forty meters high!

"I just don't like to talk, alas. Looking at Lin Xuan, who was coming directly, Konstantin still smiled.

The flipped card suddenly stopped between the index finger and the middle finger, and the golden light directly turned red, and the next second the card spun and flew out.

Chen Linxuan's horizontal sword in the air slashed directly towards the card, but saw that the card was divided into several slender rays of light and shadow in the red light, which directly swept past Lin Xuan, making Lin Xuan's sword stab in the air, and then suddenly condensed, and exploded behind Lin Xuan.

In an instant, he turned his hand and pulled the sword body backwards, and the sword body blocked the bombardment, but Chen Linxuan also lost her momentum and fell straight to the ground.

"Now, show me your strength. Konstantin still looked down quietly, and an ordinary square card turned in his hand, "It's a psychic, don't hide it, it's not good to die." ”

Just when she was only three meters away from the ground, Lin Xuan finally made a move, turned sideways and swung her sword, and the void sword qi drew a deep mark on the road in the air, and then, Lin Xuan did something that Konstantin didn't expect for a while - the sword body stabbed straight to the ground with red light!

"Boom. ”

The ground was blasted out of spider web-like cracks, if it weren't for the fact that it was more than four o'clock now, it is estimated that many people would have watched the impact just now.

With the impact of the bombardment, Chen Linxuan jumped up and rushed straight at Konstantin, and Konstantin had one in his right hand, and five red cards had already appeared.

"Don't you think, it's a little late?" However, Lin Xuan's voice suddenly sounded in her ears, and the distance of forty meters was only a few breaths in an instant, and with just one sentence, she swung her sword and slashed at Konstantin.

Konstantin stepped back and threw out five cards at the same time.

"Boom!", "Boom!", "Boom!"...

The five cards were cut open by Lin Xuan's sword!

"What an interesting woman. Konstantin retreated to a safe distance, snorted lightly, squinted his eyes and looked down, "Chen Linxuan" who he had been staring at just now was obviously still going up downstairs, wait... Chen Linxuan's figure below began to fade gradually, and it gradually dissipated into the air.

"The fog can still be used like this, you win. There was a hint of amusement in Konstantin's tone, and under his nose, he could use spiritual magic to attack the world, and this woman was really as troublesome as he told him.

"I really want to fight with you, but unfortunately, today's task is to spread the word, alas. Seeing that Chen Linxuan still wanted to swing his sword and slash over, Konstantin hurriedly waved his hand and shouted.

"Huh?"

"Miss Linxuan, your words are really less, and talking more is more attractive. Konstantin just wanted to continue ridiculing, but suddenly saw Lin Xuan's long sword raised again, and quickly changed his words. "Wait, this, someone asked me to give it to you. ”

Konstantin bent down and put something on the ground and stood up again, "Miss Linxuan, remember, the smile is more charming." ”

A typical uncle-like "charming" smile.

A dark red long sword flew directly through Konstantin so suddenly, but even if it was pierced by the long sword, Konstantin only smiled faintly, "Don't fight and kill beauties, it will affect your temperament." ”

After saying that, his body gradually became illusory, and then disappeared into thin air.

There was no blood, and she didn't feel like she was hit, Lin Xuan raised her hand weakly, and the long sword flew back with the things on the ground.

"Jade?" Chen Linxuan put away the sword, looked at the thing in her hand, shook her head, put it away, and disappeared into the night.

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"Boom!"

Another wall was deeply cracked by a black shadow, and the surrounding area was already a mess, stone chips, broken pillars, and broken ornaments could be seen everywhere, which showed the intensity of the battle just now. And the gun, which gave the girl in the red dress an extremely dangerous feeling, was also beaten aside at this moment and was half-buried in the debris.

"It's not just the hunter's gun, it's the sword, what are you doing? Wiping the blood from the corners of her mouth, the girl slowly stood up from the wall, the two fatal sword marks on the red dress were deep to the bone, but the strange thing was that the shocking wound was slowly healed in this conversation!

"'Goddess's wings', this sword really doesn't deserve you. Looking at the sword in Edward's hand, the girl took a light breath.

The pure white long sword, a hideous dragon pattern surrounds the sword body, giving people the feeling of a living dragon hovering on it, and its sword grid is actually a pair of lifelike prismatic flying wings, and the scale feels like an incomparably sharp blade.

"The deceased, you are not qualified to comment. Edward chuckled, stopped talking nonsense, and slashed at the girl with his sword, he didn't leave his opponent a breathing room to revive her hobby!

"Indeed..."Zizhu Xiao blocked Edward's attacking sword, and the girl did a backflip and slipped to a relatively safe distance, "However, I haven't lost yet!"

"Snow pupils, Mundus-oculos!" the girl sighed, the original blood-red left pupil was replaced by a bright blue in an instant, it turned out that the left eye had a red glow-in-the-dark pupil before, but now what's going on?

Under the white moonlight, the dark blue left pupil and the crimson right pupil are shimmering, full of mysterious and weird charm, the inky black hair seems to be covered by snow for a moment, such as silk, like silver, with a faint white light, in that snow-white light, there are also a few traces of flame red mang, and the snow-white stream of the subject is matched into a beautiful picture.

The original tattered red dress also began to glow at this moment, and was burned in a red flame, but the red flame did not disappear with it, but was attached to the girl's body, and turned into another luxurious and elegant blood-red dress, the strange dragon-shaped pattern on the skirt seemed to be born from the clothes themselves, without a trace of disobedience but unpredictable, and also added a touch of holiness and mystery to the girl.

At this moment, Rao Yi's Edward's heart couldn't help but be slightly stunned, "You're not Kisara!"

"It's really tiring to perform this stand-in mission, but you really are, and you haven't found out until now. A wordless smile, no mockery.

"Demon Pupil?" After only a moment's thought, a code name that had made a name for itself in the underworld and the national occult department in recent years came to Edward's mind.

"Congratulations, you got it right, but there is no reward. The girl snorted coldly, and the purple bamboo flute in her left hand was horizontal, and the sharp qi easily cut a deep mark on the marble floor.

The hardness of the marble floor, which is excellent for decoration materials, can actually draw deep marks with only sword qi, this battle may have long been beyond the scope of human beings, only monsters are the protagonists of this battle!

"It seems that the killers who have risen to fame are not ordinary human beings. Edward had already come to his senses, squinting at the other and muttering to himself.

"It's been almost half the world since Hong Kong has been chasing me here, and you really have the perseverance. The girl pointed her toes on the ground, jumped forward, and flew towards Edward, this guy is completely using the flute as a sword!

"Bell!", the sound of heavy metal handover, Edward's reaction was also extremely fast, raising his hand and a sword to block the girl's attack.

"I'm just completing the mission, but you, what's the matter, are you a vampire lackey?" Edward raised his hand suddenly, and the girl took advantage of the momentum to spin and flip in the air, falling to the ground.

"It's just that I can't get used to seeing you kill indiscriminately, who said that monsters are all bad. ”

"Do you think I'll believe it?" Edward glared at the girl, "but you're the funniest monster I've ever hunted down." ”

"Oh?" "Oh?" pushed Edward away with his flute body, and the girl raised her eyebrows slightly, "Let's hear it." ”

In the next blink of an eye, Zizhu Xiao approached Edward's eyes again.

"It's obviously the prey, but it never kills the hunter, that's why I said you, it's very interesting. ”

The sword and the flute collided hard again and again, "In this way, sooner or later, you will dig your own grave." ”

"It's not good to be so confident. ”

This time there was no quick handover, and the girl suddenly spun the flute in her hand for half a circle, revealing most of the space in front of her, and then hit Edward directly with her left elbow.

And Edward directly shifted the sword to the right, easily blocking the girl's elbow blow, but, at the moment when the girl's elbow collided with the sword body, the girl's left foot touched the ground, taking advantage of the momentum to rotate sideways in the air, and at the same time the flute in his hand and its strange angle along the sword edge straight towards Edward.

There was no time to block, or Edward didn't expect the other party to be such a swordsman, under this blow, Edward only had time to protect his heart with his left arm, but at the same time, he also cut out the 'Goddess's wings' obliquely and pointed at the girl's heart, looking at this posture, it was to fight for both sides! But the girl used a flute, and he used a real sword! Moreover, it was not an ordinary sword!

The girl didn't panic, her eyes froze, her hand slid to the center of the flute, and the flute rotated into a circle like a full moon again, which was able to block the tip of the sword of the 'Goddess's wings', but this was just the beginning, and the flute that blocked the tip of the sword was not retracted by the girl, but picked up the tip of Edward's sword, and at the moment when it revealed the gap, it pointed straight to the heart like a dragon out of the water!

"Flutter!", feeling the pain of tearing his skin, Edward looked at the purple bamboo flute that pierced through his clothes and submerged into his chest in disbelief, at that moment, the dragon pattern on it was so bright.

I was defeated, I was defeated, a little girl! My swordsmanship was one of the best in the organization, and I was defeated by this monster!

Unexpectedly, the long flute that sank into his chest did not go any deeper, but the opponent reversed in the air, taking advantage of the momentum to press on the sword of the 'Goddess's Wings', and knocked Edward back and retreated to a safe position at the same time, the whole process only took a few seconds, but it was done in one go, without any drag.

"Once you kill someone, you can't get a good night's sleep, this is an agreement with someone, although it seems to have almost stopped just now, alas. The girl smiled a little embarrassedly at the fact that she had injured Edward.

"You just did this... What is it?" such a strange and powerful sword move, it will definitely not be a nameless teacher, but Edward rummaged through all the memories in his mind, and he had no impression of this move, you know, famous swordsmen all over the world have been asked to be his teacher, he is familiar with various factions and different sword moves, but this, he has no feeling?

"Back to the dragon and the moon, it's good. ”

Still unimpressed, but Edward still reacted quickly, his left hand grasped the long sword, and he hated it, and the whole palm quickly crossed the blade, and he retreated as he stained the entire sword with his own blood.

"Interestless fellow...", the girl was speechless for a moment when her answer was ignored, but then the vision of the sword body of the 'Goddess's Wings' brought her a great sense of oppression.

Its already lifelike sword grid unfurled its dangerous prismatic wings as if it came to life the moment it touched the blood, and the white light instantly enveloped the entire sword body, and the incomparable killing aura roared out at this moment, raging throughout the space of the church, and the wanton flow of qi shattered and blew away all the decorations that were barely maintaining their shape.

"So you're not an ordinary human either. The red and blue light in the girl's eyes was even worse, and she had to do her best in the face of such a terrifying momentum.

"In order to protect my stupid human compatriots, killing monsters has long been a habit. Edward smiled fiercely, "And you, who have never killed, are destined to lose!"

An incomparably powerful sword went straight to the girl's heart.

"I'm going to lose, but, not now!" separated the tip of the sword with a flute, and the girl's right eye flashed with red light, "The third pupil array, broken!"

Edward changed his tactics and raised his sword above his head and slashed hard.

"Boom!", the invisible force slammed into the white glowing blade, and the waves from the impact swept away all the debris scattered on the ground.

In this contest between monsters, the two sides are actually equal in strength!

However, at the moment of stalemate, a wave of energy appeared above the two of them out of thin air without warning, pressing the two of them.

"This is ......" The girl's face changed significantly at this moment, but it was more not clear but confused.

And everything that followed surprised Edward, who had always been calm, that the 'Goddess's Wings' in his hands and the 'Black Rose' not far away seemed to be sucked by some force, and merged into the white vortex around the other party, and disappeared out of thin air!

The whole environment soon calmed down again, and the night triumphed once again with its silence.

"How... What's going on..."

Although he lost his sword and spear, which were extremely important to the organization, Edward was more concerned about the unknown situation, and a rare trace of confusion flashed on his cold face, looking at the place where the other party had disappeared, he muttered, and then regained his coldness as if he had woken up.

"It seems that the world is not so boring. ”