Chapter 7: Li Mingyao, Jiang Feng
When Li Mingyao woke up in a daze, the sky had darkened again.
As if thinking of something, he touched his chest in horror, but the expected sharp pain did not come.
On the contrary, he only felt that his body was particularly light, and there was an indescribable sense of patency from head to toe.
Li Mingyao carefully ripped off his coat, revealing his sturdy upper body, he lowered his head, and his chest, which should have been pierced by the sword, was safe and sound at this time.
The trembling hand lightly landed on the place where the sword wound should have been, as if the wound would reappear as soon as the hand was pressed, and he would lose his life in an instant.
Fingers swiped across his chest, and a dark purple light flickered under his skin, emerging little by little, forming a strange magic circle.
"Void!"
These two words suddenly appeared in Li Mingyao's mind.
He vaguely remembered that after killing all the regent spiders, the detachment in his hand suddenly lost control, and instead a sword pierced his chest.
But now it seems that Liluo didn't seem to have done him any harm, and the fact that he was still in a coma shows that Liluo didn't control his body.
Li Mingyao looked up at the sky, although twilight was approaching, it was much brighter than the time when he was fighting, and it seemed that he had been unconscious for at least nearly a day.
After a day of fainting in this deserted place, he was not picked up by a passing demonic beast, which couldn't help but make Li Mingyao sigh that there was a little more civilization in this world.
A feeling of dizziness rushed into his head again, and before Li Mingyao could rejoice that he had picked up a small life, he fainted again.
This time, though, he didn't lose consciousness.
Li Mingyao couldn't tell what kind of place this was, the surroundings were endless pure white, so clean that there was no variegation, so clean that he couldn't even tell his own position.
A rumbling sound sounded in front of him, and the Detachment Sword, which had expanded hundreds of times, rose from beneath Li Mingyao, and countless chains stretched out from some black, twisted holes, binding it tightly.
"It's... What the hell is the place? ”
Li Mingyao looked at the Liluo Sword and asked in a ghostly manner.
His instincts told him that the sword should tell him the answer he wanted to know.
"Beyond the universe, in the land of no stars."
"Beyond the universe?" Li Mingyao glanced around: "This is the void?" ”
Liluo Jian did not answer, which was regarded as acquiescing to Li Mingyao's guess.
"That's... May I ask you are the legendary Void Demon Warrior? ”
Li Mingyao looked at the departing spirit cautiously, trying to keep his tone respectful.
“... At last. ”
Li Mingyao felt that his throat was a little dry.
"Your Excellency, and the other Void Demons... Slightly different ha. ”
"Don't compare me to those low-grade things, humans, what do you know about the Void?"
Li Mingyao was speechless, thought highly of himself, and thought he knew everything, which is a common problem for the vast majority of people.
"You woke me up outside the door, human, it's been a long time since I've breathed the air beyond the Void."
Li Mingyao's heart moved, this sentence contained a lot of information that human beings did not know, after all, the Void Demon Martial Force, as a creature outside the universe, almost refused to communicate with humans, and now there was a Void Demon Martial that was willing to communicate with humans, and it could be said that every word of it was extremely valuable information.
And what has to do with him is that the door that destroyed his awakening is not simple.
"I've been locked in the door for too long to know much about my body, human, I need a good rest, but as a thank you for waking me up, I've helped you remodel your body a little."
Remodel? Transformation is to put a sword on the chest of your benefactor without saying a word? Li Mingyao is no longer able to complain.
As if sensing Li Mingyao's incomprehension, a purple diamond on the body of the Liluo Sword flickered, and a picture appeared in front of Li Mingyao's eyes.
It was a three-dimensional diagram of Li Mingyao's body structure, most of the organs did not change at all, but what surprised Li Mingyao the most was that his heart had become a black hole-like existence, and his blood had been replaced with pure void energy.
"A sword at the beginning, and not being a person at the end, how does it feel a little familiar."
Li Mingyao muttered to himself, looking at the changes in his body, ordinary facial expressions could no longer express his shock at this time, so his face was directly distorted into a strange emoji.
"Don't worry, you're still human, it's just that your... The circulatory system has been replaced by a void substance, which contains all the functions of your previous circulatory system, as well as some other functions, but it is up to you to dig into them. ”
"So- what if all this Void Energy runs out?"
"As long as I'm alive, the Void Energy is endless."
"Okay, time is running out, you can go back."
The rumbling sound sounded again, and the figure of the Liluo Sword gradually disappeared from in front of Li Mingyao: "By the way, if there is a place where you need to use my body, you can summon me by putting your hand on the void mark on your chest." ”
Watching the shadow of the detached completely disappear from his face, Li Mingyao's expression was a little indescribable, this kind of routine that was a bit like the 'old grandfather' of those novels he found from the ruins, made him feel unreal about getting rich overnight.
He stretched out his hand in a sneering manner, and he didn't know whether the detached sword was a blessing or a curse for him.
He slammed off the ground again, and this time the vertigo didn't last long, so short that the pain from the back of his head hitting the ground was still there.
In order to verify what Liluo said just now, Li Mingyao raised his hand and put it on his chest, and silently recited the sentence "Liluo" in his heart
The hilt of the sword appeared on his chest, and Li Mingyao held the hilt of the sword and took out a large sword from his body.
Let's not talk about the power, just the enemy will be scared down when they see this scene, is there any, and the bar is so high that they have no friends.
Li Mingyao was like a child who had a favorite toy, inserting the Liluo sword in his chest, and even thought of a few pretending actions that would be used to draw the sword in the future.
However, this sword cannot appear in front of everyone, Li Mingyao still knows this clearly, the husband is not guilty, he is guilty, not to mention, he is not just holding jade.
It's a Pandora's box
So he did it more like a celebration of the longing for power that had been suppressed for seven years.
Li Mingyao had enough of playing with Lilu, and was satisfied with the Liluo Sword back, and now he has two abilities, thunder and lightning magic and arcane magic, but the thunder and lightning magic was forced to be hollowed out because of the black door, that is to say, his thunder and lightning were attached to the characteristics of the void, although it was more powerful, but once it was used, his identity would be exposed.
So now what Li Mingyao can show in front of everyone is arcane magic.
And he doesn't know much arcane magic, only the most rudimentary string breaks and mirror breaks.
But at least there are more means to survive in the wilderness.
Thinking of this, Li Mingyao's expression darkened, he picked up the suitcase that had fallen aside, and walked to the car that Taozi was in charge of.
Taozi's corpse had already been eaten by those regent spiders, leaving only a pair of dry bones that seemed to have been buried for a long time.
Li Mingyao clenched his fists, only feeling that it was difficult to breathe for a while, but this was the cruelty outside the wall, even the most advanced legendary holy law, he did not dare to guarantee that he would definitely be able to come back alive from the wilderness.
The south of Xuanwu City, the withered swamp, the north, the wandering forest, the east, the endless sea, which is not as dangerous as hell.
Even within the walls, waking up every day to see the sun in the early morning, the first thought that comes to mind is: 'It's good to live another day.'" ’
The Void Calamity Thunder wrapped Taozi's corpse, turning it into ashes in an instant, and then all of them were moved to the suitcase in his hand under the pull of the thunder and lightning.
Li Mingyao closed the suitcase expressionlessly, he and Taozi are old friends, he and Taozi also have a small group, when the outer wall is more chaotic, their group often goes out of the wall to find hope to live, a group of children who are no more than seventeen years old, but sophisticated like experienced adventurers, outside the wall of monsters, out of the human city to find hope for life.
Now as soon as Taozi leaves, there are only two people left in that group.
"Taozi, Taozi, what should you let me tell Lao Zhu."
Li Mingyao patted his suitcase: "But it's okay, you went, just got together with the boss and them for a table of mahjong." ”
Rummaged through the energy station again, Li Mingyao found some energy stones, although the car that Taozi found was full of spider eggs, but after all, it was an adventurer's car, and the quality was all leveraged, and it could still be used for simple repair and cleaning.
The sky had completely darkened after this toss, and after Li Mingyao packed up all his things by the moonlight, he sat in the driver's seat and started the car, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Although he was in a hurry to go back, he thought that the checkpoints he came out of all the way were 'arranged' in Taozi's mouth, combined with his own conjectures, rushing back would only cause a series of troubles.
Moreover...
Li Mingyao looked at the co-pilot's suitcase.
He also wanted to let Taozi settle in the ground as soon as possible.
So he decided to go to Lao Zhu's house in the R area first.
When the car starts, I have to say that the speed of the car driven by the Philosopher's Stone is fast, and it can be used even if you are not a magician, which can be said to be the most desirable thing for all adventurers.
The only pity is that this kind of magic blessing machine that can be used by ordinary people requires a very large number of magic circles, otherwise ordinary people can also use this kind of machinery to exert their combat effectiveness, and it will not cause ordinary people to have such a low status in Xuanwu City.
The location of the R area is also at the very edge of the outer wall, so Li Mingyao was let in after only passing the inspection of one checkpoint, and this time the strictness of the checkpoint also made him breathe a sigh of relief.
At least the boss's hand that Taozi said hasn't reached here yet.
Casually parking the car, Li Mingyao bypassed the complicated deep and shallow alleys and came to the door of a grocery store.
"Knock-knock."
Li Mingyao knocked on the iron door familiarly, and soon, heavy footsteps could be heard in the store.
"Eh, Brother Yao!"
The one who opened the door was a fat man wearing a tattered pajamas with a peculiar smell, Li Mingyao looked at the familiar Lao Zhu and opened his mouth, but before he could say anything, he was pulled in by the fat man.
"The last time Taozi came over and asked me to order something through the black market, it was done, I thought he came to get it, but I didn't expect it to be Brother Yao, you came in person, why, do you have time to get rid of Gentle Township to meet your brother?"
Li Mingyao's face darkened, why did everyone treat him and Xiao Xiao as that kind of relationship, although he left them to go to Area A in order to repay Uncle Xiao's kindness, but he didn't keep talking about it until now.
He really just treats Xiao Xiao as his sister.
The fat man was pulling something in the back room, and there was a sound of things collapsing, and then, Li Mingyao watched Lao Zhu come out with an iron box in his arms.
"Come and see, Taozi spent more than 100,000 yuan to hire someone to help you build it, you absolutely like it."
Li Mingyao's heart trembled.
The fat man skillfully opened the iron box, revealing the true face of the contents of the box.
It was a revolver, the pistol was twice as large as the one Li Mingyao had seen in the book before, the wooden handle was engraved with a wolf's head, and a complicated amplification circle was engraved in it, the barrel was copper, so that the magic bullet of the lightning system could exert its maximum power, and the front end of the barrel was made to look like a skull, and the stabilization circle was engraved on it.
"This is the latest technology in the research of the inner city, and it is also a new magic system, what kind of gem magic is it, for you magicians who have failed to awaken and only have one body of magic power, you see, use magic gems to make bullets, and then the user infuses magic power to attack, and the level of attack power is determined by the purity of the gem and the magic power infused by the user."
"Taozi has always known that you are very uncomfortable after your awakening failure, but you also know that he is a stuffy jar and can't say anything, and he doesn't want you to be a magician like you, so not long ago, he took out all the money he had saved, and specially asked me to find someone to make this gun in the black market, and in the future, fourth brother, you can be regarded as a legitimate magician!"
Li Mingyao's hand touching the pistol shook slightly, and then a tear rolled down.
Lao Zhu, who was still giving a passionate speech, was stunned, and a bad feeling came to his heart.
The smile gradually solidified on his face.
"Brother Yao, don't scare me."
Li Mingyao turned his head away and put the suitcase in his hand on the table: "Taozi, lying inside." ”
Lao Zhu put away his smiling face, stepped back step by step, sat on the chair behind him, and looked at the suitcase on the table in disbelief.
"Die... He's dead? ”
Li Mingyao nodded, tears kept rolling down like a broken embankment, he leaned against the counter, slipped and fell to the ground little by little, and then he couldn't control himself, covered his face and cried in a low voice.
"Dead... Dead again... Made, seven people... Made. ”
The fat on Lao Zhu's body trembled: "I told him a long time ago, Made, can't you stay inside the wall?" Why did he go out, why did Made! ”
In the end, Lao Zhu almost roared.
Li Mingyao covered his face and didn't reply, why Taozi wanted to go out, he naturally knew very well in his heart that it was to help him make up for Xiao Xiao's tuition, but he couldn't say it, so he could only pinch his throat hard, wanting to cry out loud, but his voice was all held in his throat, as if he could only feel better by torturing himself like this.
The two of them sat in the store like crazy people and cried for a long time.
"So, Taozi took the job to help you make up the tuition for what kind of Raushzi, and he was killed."
The fat man asked as he cleaned up a mess of debris.
Li Mingyao paused as he cleaned up, and then said 'um'.
"Why don't you come to me, I didn't say it, as long as it's a money problem, I can help you solve it."
Li Mingyao pursed his lips and did not answer.
"Made, you have to die to save face and suffer the sin, and the pit is not your own brother!"
The fat man was angry with Li Mingyao's, and walked over to look at his calf: "If it weren't for the seven of us, you would be left alone, and I would have wanted to find a stick to beat you to death!" ”
He took out a crystal card and stuffed it into Li Mingyao's pocket.
"Fatty!"
Li Mingyao's face changed, that was all the savings of the fat man!
"Take it!"
The fat man said sharply: "Don't underestimate me, fat man, I have more savings than you think." ”
"And this."
He took out an identity card, and there was only one name on it: Jiang Feng.
"What does that mean?" Li Mingyao looked at Lao Zhu puzzled
"ID card, blind?"
Lao Zhu rolled his eyes: "If it is really as you guessed, then your current identity will definitely not be used, this is a new identity, and all the information is perfect, so don't worry about any flaws." ”
Li Mingyao looked at the unfamiliar face on the identity card and swallowed: "That..."
"It's dead, it's not good."
A few simple words summed up the life of the person on the identity card.
Lao Zhu took out another box from a pile of miscellaneous items and threw it to Li Mingyao.
Inside are two magic masks.
"One is mine, and the other is Jiang Feng's, you will live with Jiang Feng's mask in the future, my one, when you need to use my power in the black market, just bring that mask, and my people will understand."
"What do you mean, what are you going to do?" Li Mingyao looked at Lao Zhu vigilantly, he really gave people a feeling of explaining what was going on.
"Do you remember the boss?"
Lao Zhu straightened up and looked at Li Mingyao with a cold gaze, and Li Mingyao subconsciously shuddered.
"Yes."
"I remember clearly, that time the boss sold himself to the underground boxing ring in order to save me from a gang of black market men, and was beaten to death, but I remember it clearly, do you know the fate of the underground boxing stadium and the people who bullied our brothers?"
Li Mingyao was silent, he remembered it clearly.
Lao Zhu can be said to be the person who has fallen into the black market the most among the few people in their small team.
Lao Zhu took a deep breath: "Taozi can't die in vain, I will investigate the people behind it." ”
Li Mingyao glanced at Lao Zhu, and he understood that Lao Zhu was also trying to help him clear out the people who might hurt him.
"Okay, you go quickly, it's hard to walk when it's dawn."
Lao Zhu patted the iron box on the table and motioned for Li Mingyao to leave here quickly.
Li Mingyao nodded, took out Jiang Feng's mask from the box, and brought it to his face.
The magic mask, which is also a magic product, is close to Li Mingyao's face, as if it is his own skin, he made a few expressions in the mirror, and he couldn't tell that it was a mask at all.
As for Lao Zhu's black household and new identity, it means that when he is investigated in the future, others can only find out all the legal behaviors of Jiang Feng as an ordinary person, what he does and what he eats every day, as if there is really a legitimate ordinary person named Jiang Feng.
Li Mingyao held the iron box, left Taozi's ashes, and walked out of Lao Zhu's grocery store, he knew that after leaving today, it would be difficult for him and Lao Zhu to see each other again.
Carrying the iron box to the car, Li Mingyao, who was waiting for Jiang Feng's mask, took a deep breath, because Lao Zhu and the black market were too deeply involved, the original brothers in life and death kept their distance from each other because of this, and among these people, he was the most decisive and went to Area A alone.
But each of them knew in their hearts that there were a few clean adventurers, and a few of them could live peacefully within the walls, without being found by their former enemies, and relying on Lao Zhu to take care of them in secret.
Lee Myung-yao suddenly felt that he was really not a thing.
Although the world outside the wall is still very harsh, the order inside the wall is still restored quite quickly, and there is already a faint bit of prosperity before the end of the world, even if it is the outer wall, there are trains between the various districts.
Leaving the car in the parking lot, Lee Mingyao didn't plan to deal with it, bought a ticket to Area A and got on the train home.
Jiang Feng's identity card really didn't arouse any suspicion.
As for the pistol he was carrying, the mage on the train was obviously more threatening, but could they stop the mage from taking the train?
So the best thing to do is to have a fixed mage in each carriage to maintain order.
Since it was still early, there were not many people on this train, at least the actions around Li Mingyao were almost empty, he glanced around, the mage in charge of security was sitting drowsily, and the rest of the passengers were also sleepy on the tables.
He tried to open the tin box as lightly as he could, but the squeak of the tin box still caused a passenger to be dissatisfied.
"I want to eat and get down...", the man who seemed to be quite strong stood up and walked down to Li Mingyao dissatisfiedly, but when he saw the magic pistol in the iron box, his original impatient expression suddenly froze.
The two smiled apologetically at each other, and only after the stout man sat back did Li Mingyao carefully examine his belongings.
In addition to the magic pistol, it is also equipped with thirty crystal bullets, and according to Li Mingyao's current strength, the power of each bullet is about the power of an intermediate apprentice.
It is enough to cope with the scene that Lee Mingyao will face now.
Li Mingyao thought of what Lao Zhu said, and the time he spent with Taozi before, he couldn't help sighing, he put all the things that Lao Zhu gave him into the iron box, and then hugged it tightly in his arms.
He leaned his head against the window of the train, and his eyelids gradually sank as he watched the scenery speeding by outside the window.