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The invisible force surging in his body turned into a terrifying and strange shock force under the exquisite muscle control at this moment, completely ignoring Carl's armor protection, directly shocking Carl's body, and acting downward on the ground of the fitness center. The entire level shook under this outrageous blow, as if it had experienced a brief "earthquake" that only existed in the records, but the epicenter was not in the depths of the earth, but right in front of you.

Sweat dripped down on the cold iron sheet on Karl's surface, Ed gasped, his condensed pupils spread, returning to their original size, and the strange aura whirring around his body quietly disappeared, returning to calm and disappearing with the temporary silence of the monster in his body. A feeling of weakness hit him, and Ed felt dizzy in front of his eyes, unable to hold his position anymore, and fell to the ground.

Carl seemed to be more comfortable lying on his back than he was, showing no signs of wanting to do sit-ups. The brutal devastation of the aftermath of the Shockwave beneath him formed a massive spider web, larger than a Simmons bed, and he lay right in the center. Suffering one after another from the stunt of Hades that Ed instigated to perform with his last strength, the old gentleman finally seemed to be unable to hold on to the limit. What happened today was too tiring for an old man.

Ed also wanted to be like Carl now, just lie there and sleep without caring about anything, even if he died of excessive bleeding in his sleep. Fortunately, he had felt similar more than once before, and knew that if he did lie down, then it would be impossible for him to wake up again. He still had things to do, and it wasn't time for him to rest. He had to stand up.

Then he stood up, and then he sat back down.

"Take a break...... Take a break. ”

Ed muttered to himself, wiping his face, wiping off the sweat and the dust and blood on his hands. The pain and weakness continued to eat away at his body, and the wound on his abdomen did not shed extra blood under the delicate muscle control of the snake after he now regained control of the snake, and it became a good helper to stimulate Ed's spirit and keep him awake in a short time.

A gust of wind blew, and Ed suddenly felt a little cold, and unconsciously wrapped his thick and stiff stand-up collar jacket. Only then did he notice that because the windows had been damaged in several places, the cold air that poured in had already turned the originally warm floor interior into a natural ice storehouse. In addition, excessive blood loss is also an important factor, and the large loss of physical strength makes him no longer have excess calories to calmly withstand the cold of deep winter.

Coughing dryly, Ed exhaled, took out his cigarette case and lighter with his eyes half-open, pulled out an "intermission", bit it in his mouth and lit it, and took a deep breath. He narrowed his eyes in enjoyment, facing in the direction of the shattered window, looking at the snowy scene of the city under the overcast sky outside, and half-propped his hands back to the ground, supporting his toppled body.

Then he sensed something was wrong. He felt like his fingers were touching nothing but the shattered ground, when in fact he was supposed to be touching something. The thing he was supposed to touch was gone.

“……”

Blinking silently, Ed slowly turned back and saw a pair of legs, a pair of legs next to him, covered with beautiful mechanical armor, standing straight.

As soon as his shoulders tightened, Ed was grabbed and dragged up, not just to stand up, but dragged into the air, and both feet were off the ground. In the next moment, a huge force came from his right waist, and he was kicked and flew sideways, rolling and falling to the ground.

The cigarillo, which had just been smoked, didn't know where it had flown to, and Ed pulled himself up, got up from the ground as fast as he could, and turned his head to see Carl behind him. That guy really isn't dead yet, and he's standing up again!

Now his appearance is much worse than before, and he no longer has the gentleman's elegance that is deeply rooted in his bones. He ripped off part of the armor in his abdomen that had been twisted by Eddard's last terrifying blow, revealing the tight fibers inside, which looked like a rhythmic suit. Of course, a half-old man in a rhythm suit - think about it, forget it.

But other than that, he seems to be in much better shape than Ed. At least from the last two blows, his remaining strength had recovered at least forty percent, and his spirit and desire to attack had recovered even more.

"Orochi......"

Ed's pupils condensed again, and he tried to reawaken the monster in his body, but in the end he didn't succeed. His eyeballs shook twice, then briefly confused, and then returned to their original form.

Carl's face was obscured by smooth metal, and Ed couldn't see what his expression was, but he had already reached this point, and he didn't have much interest in being hideous or mocking. He leaned forward, stepped out, and rushed in front of Ed with great speed, so that Ed could clearly feel the cold wind.

Ed furrowed his brows in annoyance, gritted his teeth and retreated, barely raising his hand, his five fingers clenched into fists.

Carl calmly watched Ed's counterattack and calmly responded. He spun and bent his elbows to withstand Ed's punch, raised his calf, kicked back Ed's raised knee, raised his palm and pushed up Ed's chin, grabbed Ed's arm and pulled it towards him, punched Ed in the middle of Ed's chest and abdomen, and then grabbed Ed's hair and pulled it up, and slapped Ed in the face.

In a trance, Ed felt as if he had turned backwards for half a circle, and his vision blurred. He was just about to regain consciousness, when suddenly he was grabbed in the back, and Karl pulled him back, and the metal arm locked his neck tightly, and he couldn't breathe.

"Hades' fighting skills are indeed worthy of their reputation. It's a long insight to be able to meet it once. Carl's magnetic middle-aged voice rang in Ed's ears, with a slight gasp and a bloody smile, "But every fighting technique that can be put on the table will have its own unique tricks - you know, the further you go, the smaller the gap between the various fighting techniques will be, and no special move is truly invincible, and no special move is completely useless." ”

“……”

"You should kill me once and for all when you get the chance, detective." Carl said in a low and fast voice, "As long as I have a breath, as long as I have a little time, I will never really fall!" ”

Releasing the hand that was locking Eddard's arm, Carl took a step back and kicked Ed in the back. Ed lunged forward and fell face down to the ground. Karl stepped forward, reached out and grabbed one of Ed's arms, slammed the thin Ed into the air as he tried to get up on the ground in a daze, instinctively, and then fell back to the ground on the other side.

Blood began to flow from under Ed's body, and it was so fast that his consciousness began to go numb and he could no longer control his wounds. If this continues, even if Carl doesn't do anything next, Ed won't live long. However, Carl did not have the leisure to wait quietly for Ed to die, and he lifted Ed from the ground again.

"Go and accompany the young lady."

After a final whisper in Ed's ear, Carl threw Ed behind him without looking back, throwing it at the broken window where Bai Lin had been knocked and fallen by Adele before. Then, without looking at the result, he turned around and was about to leave, going to chase Adele who had fled.

Although the other party has been running for a while, it is still far from the sea, and the force blocking the road is not only their wave, unless Adele has been running at the highest speed, as long as it is discovered, it will still be intercepted by their Donfrie family and other night travelers hired temporarily.

It's impossible for Adele to keep going at top speed all the time, even if she's a child of the Nether, just like a person can't keep running for too long. But an inevitable problem is that there are no masters like himself or Bai Lin in those other teams, and even if they try their best, they can't really stop Adele. He had to get there as soon as possible.

But at this moment, his footsteps suddenly stopped, and his body was inexplicably stiff. Slowly turning around, he turned to look behind him, and looked at the figure that appeared in front of the window on the second floor of the fitness center at some point.

Long black-purple hair that fell like a waterfall, a pure black tweed coat, leather trousers that were gracefully stretched by strong muscles, and a pair of black and silver eyes that were as hard as a knife blade without any emotion under the curtain of the eyebrows—"she" just stood there quietly, one arm reaching under the armpit of Ed's right arm, hugging his body, hugging him against his huge breasts, and looking at Carl without saying a word.

Invisibly, a huge sense of oppression mixed with a vast killing intent that seemed to come from another high-latitude dimension almost made Carl kneel directly on the ground. He had never felt like this, not even when facing Adele!

For the first time, Carl didn't know what was going on, what he was encountering, and what was in front of him?!

"...... 'Burning Dancer', the Living Dead with the Dance of Eternal Immortality Outside the Blind God's door." After looking at Carl silently for a while, the woman's eyes suddenly flickered slightly, "I didn't expect that there would be a day when I would see this kind of fighting technique again." ”

"You know the 'Burning Dancer'?" Just like hearing Ed who said "Hades" from Bai Lin's mouth, Karl's voice changed suddenly.

But the woman didn't answer him, but turned her gaze back to Ed in her arms. Looking at Ed's terrible face, which was already slightly deformed, the corners of her mouth moved as if she were not, and she actually showed a slight playful smile.

"It's miserable."

"You're here to see my jokes?" Ed coughed, opened his closed eyes, glanced vaguely at the woman next to him, and sighed, "It's too slow, doctor." ”

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