"Stop!" A snap rang out, and a big man popped out from behind the rock.

He used to come with his father, and his brothers called him "Iron Clawed Tiger".

He broke an arm and installed a steel prosthetic leg on his left hand, which could stretch out four sharp steel claws, and contained a mechanism that could grasp a steel knife and pinch an ant to death.

In short, there are countless enemies who have died at his hands.

Originally, he knew the name of the examiner, and even in Daddy's Canned City, he had seen the battle between the instructor and the red-clothed demon with his own eyes, and he had already been secretly shocked.

This time he made up his mind in his heart, saying that he would also be a pro-guard, and let this mysterious man give him a few hands, so that if he could mix with an official and a half-job in the future, it would not be bad to be a fat man.

After he saw the man's way of testing, he didn't have much confidence that he could touch the dagger, but things were so strange that he actually let him be hit, and he touched the dagger easily.

The man who was running was startled by the sudden roar, and suddenly stopped, looking up at the big man who appeared behind the rock.

This is a thug who followed Queen Joyna here, he was a scout in the convoy, and when he touched the dagger, he couldn't believe it. Although he hadn't seen that man in Joyna's "Flame Regiment" before, he was also a master who had heard of it for a long time.

"Huh—what do you want to do?"

The thug secretly took a few steps back, but his hand reached behind his back and quietly touched a sharp dagger.

"What? Robberies, of course! Hand over the mask you found, and I won't embarrass you. You're fast, you're going to be tired! ”

Indeed, the Ironclaw had been following him for a long time—the boy had been eyeing him since he was struggling to obtain a mask in a bird's nest in a tree at the bottom of a valley. With his familiarity with the terrain, it was only then that he found an opportunity to ambush him in advance.

He's determined to win! Even if you kill people, you don't hesitate to kill people......

"You! How do you know I got a mask? I ...... "This thug hates his teeth."

"Don't talk nonsense, I've been with you for so long, you can't make me thankless!? If you don't hand over your stuff today, you'll feed the wild dogs here! The Iron Claw Tiger sneered and approached him.

"Huh, big friend...... We are all a family, so why fight so hard to serve one master in the future? I'll give it to you......"

"Huh? So refreshing. Hehe-it's kind of acquaintance, so bring it up. He held out his hand and waited for the guy to hand it over.

"Good! You can take it, don't drop it......"

As he spoke, the man jerked out the dagger from behind his back.

"Here you go, take it!"

The dagger in the moonlight reflected a white light, and with a "brush", it stabbed at the body of the iron-clawed tiger.

"Hmph—it's a good time!"

He was already on guard, and understood how this guy could give him the mask so easily? Suddenly withdrew the outstretched hand, and swept his left arm across, four steel claws, just pinning the stabbing dagger.

"Bell!" With a bang, the iron arm pulled a belt, and the man's dagger flew in an instant.

"Whew!" A gust of wind.

Immediately after, the left arm swept back from another direction, and the moment the guy was stunned before he could see why he lost the dagger, "Poof! With a bang, the claws had stabbed into the guy's body.

"Hmph—" His iron arm thrust.

"Poof!" The steel spike pierced into the flesh.

"Ahh Bang.

After the terrible scream, the creature threw himself on the hard rock, blood pouring out, and his body jerked a few times before he moved.

"Humph! Why bother hurting the harmony, don't you get it for me early......"

The corners of his mouth trembled slightly, and he wanted to say something more under the cold smile.

He leaned down and touched the guy for a while, "Hehe-hey—here...... Well? What is it? Are there two of them? …… This kid is so lucky! ”

This guy actually got 2 masks, and he couldn't help but be stunned.

When he withdrew his hand from the corpse's chest and took it out to take a look, he realized that something was wrong, the two masks were actually different.

What's going on?

By the light of the moon, he could see clearly what the mask looked like—like the head of a strange bird. The two eyes extend to the temples, and the nose is pointed and unusually tall.

"Ahh the groove. He exclaimed, and the thing made his whole body tremble.

He recognized it, and his hand holding the mask shook violently...... Isn't that the mask of the red-clad demon? He couldn't forget the first time he saw the red-clothed demon, the bright red scene seemed like it was just yesterday, it was a terrifying hell on earth.

His nerves tensed, as if he were holding a hot potato, and suddenly threw the mask of the bird's head on the ground by the side of the road.

"Smack!" Like the sound of wood being thrown on the sand, the thing looked shiny on the surface, and he thought it was made of metal, but the weight of the hand was very ......light.

"Whew-" After a long time, he was still gasping for breath and still in shock.

When he calmed down a little, he began to think calmly. He began to think about it - how did this thing fall into the hands of this kid? He clearly remembered that after that vicious battle, the red-clothed demon just disappeared into the air, like being sucked away like a bathtub with water, why did his mask ...... Will it appear in the hands of this person?

It's so weird!

After thinking about it for a long time, he only thought of a reasonable explanation - although the red-clothed demon had disappeared, his mask didn't disappear with it, but fell somewhere else. Somehow, it happened to be picked up by this short-lived guy.

Well, yes, it must be so, he thought.

It's worth studying, no one knows what it's made of, and no one knows if it has any power. In short, it's a rarity! The future of soaring will depend on it.

"Hmph—good stuff! Today it fell into my hands. ”

"Ironclaw" secretly rejoiced, and he hurried over to pick up the discarded mask. If he wants to take out this strange thing, someone must be willing to spend a lot of money, such as sending it to the black market of "Ancient Iron City" or "Mine City".

The rulers there are not like such small places - they have no vision. They have a large number of researchers and strong people with rich knowledge under them, and they will definitely be interested in this thing. Maybe you'll pay a lot of money for it......

Thinking of this, he began to be ecstatic, and he began to laugh excitedly.

He wants to hide this thing unknowingly, and then he will find an opportunity to fly away and take it in exchange for a comfortable life for the rest of his life. At that time, his life will be completely turned over, raising a group of wives and concubines and slaves, and living an aristocratic life.

He looked at his severed arm, and then at the bird-shaped mask in his hand.

He made up his mind, as the saying goes: horses have no night grass and no fertilizer, and people have no windfall and no wealth.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but sneer a few more times.

……

The town at the foot of the Twin Hills, near Queen Joyna's convoy, in a tent not far outside the town.

In front of Xiao Wu stood a person.

He wears a pair of highly myopic glasses on his face, and his hair is combed in a way, which looks a little funny. The servants have been changed into clean clothes, this man named Long Ping is a famous botanist on the underground farm in Area 33.

After being kidnapped by Joyna's men, Ryuhei was warmly entertained, but he knew that he was being watched all along.

"Alas, what the hell is going on in this era. Can researchers be so easily manipulated by others? He was sighing in self-pity.

During this time, he was always thinking about why the queen wanted to kidnap him, but he didn't show up to explain it to him. She just entertained herself every day, and even had various slave girls come to accompany him...... Let's put it this way, as long as he wants to do or want, as long as he speaks, almost everything is satisfied.

Except for one point, personal freedom.

Ryuping is famous.

He is a human who once lived in a pre-civilization and is also a hibernator human. He worked as a researcher on the USS Americas, a satellite city of Human-1 floating in space. As a botanist, he would rather study plants on Earth and go to various places to see and explore new plant varieties, rather than just studying some kind of change in plants in space in a laboratory in low Earth orbit.

He spent his time on the surface of this planet until the age of 29.

After that......