Chapter 123: The Territory of the True God
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Li Qing held a knight's short sword in one hand and Chu Lingfeng in the other, running desperately in the deep alley. [.starter]
Not far behind him, there was a large wave of rampaging zombies that ran faster than Bolt.
The zombies have infinite strength and physical strength, and where the corpse tide passes, the courtyard walls on both sides of the alley are all crowded and collapsed, and loud noises erupt.
A super-agile elven zombie scurrying across the courtyard wall. The walls of the courtyard behind it kept collapsing, but it didn't affect it in the slightest. It howled and howled, stepping on the courtyard wall that was no more than a foot wide, and ran fast with its teeth and claws, getting closer and closer to Li Qing.
The loud noise made by the zombies attracted more zombies to gather from all directions.
As time passed, the zombie herd, which was originally only a few hundred, gradually exceeded one thousand, two thousand, three thousand...... began to grow from a small group of zombies to a sea of zombies that was enough to drown everything.
Li Qing felt that his first trip to the Alternate Plane was really terrible.
Chu Lingfeng also felt very bad.
She was carried by Li Qing on her shoulders, and her stomach was against Li Qing's shoulders. The bumps and collisions when he ran wildly made Chu Lingfeng's stomach tumble upside down, and he was about to be turned upside down.
And in order to hold on to her, one of Li Qing's big hands grabbed the root of her thigh. The fingertips unconsciously pinched into her thighs/slits, and kept rubbing while running, so that Chu Lingfeng actually reacted, slowly oozing juice, and soaking her underwear.
Chu Lingfeng felt that he was trapped in the two heavens of ice and fire.
On the one hand, there was the discomfort of turning the river and the sea in her stomach, and on the other hand, the crispy and numb comfort in the sensitive area, which made her not know whether to cry or laugh.
When he was struggling, Chu Lingfeng heard the wind whistling behind him, and hurriedly turned his head to look, only to see that the elf zombie that was running on the courtyard wall had already chased behind the two of them, and was jumping down from the courtyard wall, howling and pounced.
"Be careful!" Chu Lingfeng hurriedly reminded him.
At the same time as she spoke, Li Qing had already taken a step forward diagonally, just right to avoid the elf zombie's attack, and at the same time swung the short sword, slashing the elf zombie's neck with a pop.
As long as he is not besieged, one-on-one, Li Qing is not afraid of these berserk zombies. Unless it is a zombie who has become a strong person whose strength level exceeds him too much in his lifetime, even if he is two or three levels higher than him, he may not be his opponent after becoming a zombie.
Zombies who have lost their reason and skills and only know how to rush and pounce straight forward, no matter how strong and fast they are, they are not difficult to deal with. As long as it's not so fast that he can't react, he can kill the zombie with a single blow.
After killing the elven zombies, Li Qing did not pause for a moment, and still kept running forward.
The end of the alley is just a short distance ahead. Looking at the entrance of the alley, you can see a square-roofed temple.
Li Qingzhi said that the large temples of the different planes are generally built extremely strongly. The walls are made of large blocks of ashlar, which are cemented together by magic. Therefore, every great temple is a strong fortress.
So he planned to rush to that temple and rely on the sturdy temple to resist the zombie frenzy.
Suddenly, there was a loud bang, and the courtyard wall in front of Li Qing collapsed suddenly. A two-meter-and-a-half tall minotaur zombie with dead gray skin howled and crashed into the courtyard wall, wrapped in dust, and opened a pair of dustpan-like giant hands to grab Li Qing.
Before the giant hand arrived, a disgusting stench of corpses had hit his face.
Li Qing made a mistake, avoided the giant hand of the minotaur zombie, and passed by the minotaur zombie.
The moment he staggered, the knight's short sword in his hand flew diagonally, and the sharp tip of the sword pierced into the side of the Minotaur zombie's neck, and with the force of the forward rush, it broke its neck bone.
The howl of the minotaur zombie stopped abruptly, and after a few steps forward, the huge head with horns fell violently, and the huge body fell to the ground with a bang.
Kill this minotaur zombie, and there is no obstacle ahead. Li Qing rushed out of the alley in one breath and rushed towards the temple dozens of meters away on the opposite side.
And not long after he rushed out of the alley, the zombie frenzy also poured out of the alley with a deafening noise.
Li Qing crossed the square in front of the temple and rushed to the gate of the temple.
In front of the gate of the temple, there are two eight-meter-high statues, one male and one female, the man is wearing full body armor and holding a long sword. The woman is draped in a robe and holds a holy book and a garland of flowers.
Li Qingzhi said that the statue that can be erected in front of the main entrance of the temple must be a saint who has made outstanding contributions to the Church of the True God. The individual strength is also very strong. The two saints are supposed to be dead by now, but their souls are able to go to the kingdom of their Lord and become the Holy Spirit and be with their Lord.
In a sense, they are still alive.
However, whether they die or live, they have little to do with the current Li Qing. Li Qing was anxious to escape the zombie frenzy, and he was not in the mood to make friends with the two saints. He made his way through the passage between the two statues, and rushed all the way into the open temple gate.
When he rushed through the gate, Li Qing looked back. I saw that the zombie frenzy that was following them closely, suddenly stopped ten meters away from the gate of the temple. It's as if there's an invisible boundary that restricts their approach to the temple.
However, the surging zombie tide is impossible to stop. When the zombies in front stopped in front of the invisible boundary, the zombies in the back were still running wildly. Under the layers of pushing, the zombie body in front of him involuntarily crossed the invisible boundary.
Then, Li Qing saw that all the zombies who crossed the line suddenly burst into green smoke.
The green smoke became thicker and thicker, gradually turning from green to black. Black smoke billowed out, and the zombies that were squeezed into the boundary were on fire again, and they soon turned into ashes in the flames.
It was like a vampire meeting the midday sun.
"What's the situation?" Chu Lingfeng, who was on Li Qing's shoulder, looked at the bizarre scene blankly and muttered.
Li Qing thought about some of the knowledge about the true god that Su Su said, and said: "The temple of the true god, in a sense, is the projection of the kingdom of the true god on the earth, and it is the territory of the true god. The majesty of the true gods brooks no blasphemy/desecration, and those zombies are soulless living dead, and even evil gods will not welcome them. If you get close to the temple, you will naturally be wiped out by the divine power in the temple. ”
As he spoke, he put Chu Lingfeng down, and then continued to walk towards the temple, "It seems that we are safe for the time being. But the temple doesn't seem to be empty...... And the temple that does not have a clergy stationed in it will not get God's attention and will be abandoned by God. What is blocking the zombies now should be the divine power accumulated by the temple over the years. But without the prayers of the clergy and the faithful, the divine power accumulated in the past cannot be replenished, and it will not be long before it is exhausted......"
As he spoke, he had already entered the main hall of the temple with Chu Lingfeng. In the main hall, there is a majestic statue of the god, it is a middle-aged man, with a resolute face, holding a sword in his right hand and a holy book in his left hand, which is the statue of the true god enshrined in this temple.
On the table in front of the statue of the deity, there is a holy book. The bronze cover is engraved with the emblem of the Church. Li Qing walked over, picked up the holy scriptures and flipped through them. The text in it is a kind of alphabetic script, and Li Qing can't understand a single word - although Su Su blessed him and Chu Lingfeng with "strong and proficient language", but this kind of spell can only let them learn to speak, not let them learn to read and write.
In the heterotopic plane, Li Qing and Chu Lingfeng were no different from illiterate.
"This holy book may be useful." Li Qing touched the cover, closed his eyes for a while, and handed the holy text to Chu Lingfeng: "I feel that there is a divine aura in it. Bringing it with you should be a deterrent to those zombies. ”
Chu Lingfeng knew that his strength was not as good as Li Qing's, and like the minotaur zombie just now, it was not something she could handle. And Li Qing can't protect her at all times, and when he encounters an emergency, he unceremoniously takes the holy book and puts it in his backpack.
"Let's go, let's look for it again and see if we can find something useful." After searching the main hall, Li Qing and Chu Lingfeng went deep into the inside of the temple, preparing to search house by house.
The temple has a limited amount of accumulated divine power, and there will always be a time when it will be exhausted. Besides, Li Qing still has to find the fruit of the Ancient Tree of Life, it is impossible to hide here all the time, and he must find a way to get out of the city.
There are too many zombies in the city, and as soon as you leave the temple and get out of the protection of the temple, you may be chased by zombies at any time. Therefore, it is necessary to find some items that contain divine energy to deter zombies.
However, Li Qing and Chu Lingfeng searched several rooms one after another, but they didn't find anything particularly useful. Not even an item like that holy tome, which contained a little divine aura, had been found.
After searching the residence of the clergy, Li Qing, who found nothing, touched his chin and said thoughtfully: "It seems that the clergy in this temple took the initiative to evacuate. Really useful magic items were taken away by them. ”
That holy book just contains a trace of divine aura, at most it can only deter zombies, and cannot cause substantial damage to zombies, which is not a real magic item. Otherwise, it would not have been possible to remain in the temple.
Chu Lingfeng asked, "What should I do?" Do you want to continue searching? ”
Li Qing said helplessly: "Let's look for it again." Anyway, I can't leave here for the time being, and I'm idle. ”
Although the zombie frenzy did not dare to approach the ten meters of the temple, after being blocked by the temple, they did not leave, but spread out in all directions, surrounding the temple from all sides. There were many more zombies attracted by the sound of the temple and gathered towards the temple.
When searching house by house before, Li Qing once jumped to the roof to take a look, and found that the temple had been surrounded by more and more zombies on all sides.
For a while, he and Chu Lingfeng couldn't break out of the encirclement and leave the temple. You can only wait until the zombies outside disperse on their own, and then find a way to get out of the city.
The two continued their search in the temple.
The temple was so large that there were hundreds of rooms. There is a hall, a clergy office, a prayer room, a library, a weapons room, a spell laboratory, personnel housing, etc., and behind the main hall, there are also garden-style courtyards, a training ground for holy warriors, and other facilities.
Li Qing and Chu Lingfeng spent half a day searching almost every corner of all the rooms, but they couldn't find even a copper plate.
Everything in every room, including the sheets and bedding, disappeared. It seems that the clergy in the temple evacuated more calmly, and even had time to pack up all their belongings.
Only some bulky tables, chairs, bed frames and other furniture remained in the room. And these furniture are not made of precious wood, they are all very ordinary, and they can only be chopped for firewood.
Walking into a weapon collection room again, looking at the rows of empty weapon racks, Li Qing and Chu Lingfeng couldn't help but look at each other for a while, shaking their heads and sighing at the same time.
The two of them left the weapons storage room and made their way to the courtyard behind the temple.
In the garden-like courtyard, clusters of pale golden flowers that do not exist on the earth shimmer in the afternoon sun, which looks very beautiful. However, this beauty that could not be seen on earth could not make Li Qing and Chu Lingfeng's mood happy.
"It's really unfortunate...... Li Qing looked up at the sky and muttered, "What happened in this city?" ”
As he was speaking, suddenly, a black dot appeared in the sky.
The black dot grew larger and larger, and soon became clearly visible. Li Qing fixed his eyes and saw that it was a black giant eagle with wings spread. On the back of the giant eagle, there is a figure sitting on it!.