Chapter 4: The Chase
In the gloomy alleys, the low roar of demons and the disgusting blood, the atmosphere was oppressive and trembling, and then it was completely released.
The hideous shell was easily torn apart, as was Watson's body, blood and scraps of flesh erupting from the walls, dripping with blood like a hideous painting.
The pupils of her eyes burned with a blazing white fire, which reflected Watson's body transformed by erosion, and also reflected the demons she had killed at her feet.
After [sublimation], the fully spiritualized Watson does not have the ability to fight in the physical body, and if the void will wants to interfere with reality, then a carrier must be needed, and the carrier that supports Watson is the body of this young man, but this body is obviously too cowardly in the face of demons, so Watson released his power.
The erosion erupts and spreads from her body, which is a prerequisite for the invasion of the Gap, using the erosion to plant beacons in the individual's will, thus opening the door to attack, but this time Watson is not for attack.
She knows very well the horror of this man in front of her, he is a guy who knows the [truth] of the world, maybe his power and the history of the church have his shadow in the future, and it is difficult for Watson to gain the upper hand in the [gap].
So this erosion is to resist, or escape, once the body is lost, Watson will fall into danger, in order to delay time, she eroded the young man's body into a demon, so as to fight against the demon alienated by Adron.
The hideous and terrifying body was on the verge of collapse, but Watson was very calm in the face of this crisis, and his serene gaze looked at Adron, Watson slowly retreated, hiding himself in the shadows.
"I've been thinking about what the source of this [epidemic] called the demon is, and who is the [Patient Zero] who caused all this. ”
Sharp bone spurs pierced out from under both arms, like two sharp arm blades, revealing a dangerous light. Watson didn't pin her hopes on such things, and she knew that nothing was going to be a threat to Aderen at the moment.
"I'm stupid, I've found the answer a long time ago, and I haven't noticed it. ”
Watson said with some self-deprecation.
At the moment when the young man's body was alienated, not only did various battle plans flash through her mind, but when she clearly felt that her body was twisted into an abominable form, an incomparably great fear rose from the bottom of Watson's heart, and she suddenly guessed the answer.
"We who do not have secret blood, who are completely detached from matter, can easily cause erosion, like the invisible Grim Reaper. ”
Watson said in horror.
"We are the source ourselves. ”
All of the past was vaguely guessed at this moment, and Watson didn't know if it was right or wrong, but it was the only answer she could think of now.
In the face of Watson's words, Aderen did not say yes or no, he turned against the light, Watson could not see his face clearly, only his eyes were like ghost fire, embedded in the dark shadow.
"The lamb should stay in the fence honestly, ignorance is the proof that you can live. ”
The shepherd said indifferently, and as he finished speaking, Watson's figure leaped out of the darkness.
These speculations are only used to influence Adelon, Watson's speculations still have many loopholes, but this is not the time to think about these, the first thing she has to do is survive.
She didn't know how much camouflage the darkness could bring, but as long as it worked a little, it might give Watson a better chance of winning.
I saw that the young man's body had completely turned into a deformed mass of flesh, and countless sharp bone spurs pierced out of its joints, like a monster holding a dozen swords, swinging its sword at Adelon.
The narrow alleyway was supposed to limit such a sword strike, but the wall tiles were easily lifted by Watson, bringing smoke and rubble as well, and slashing bone spurs at Adelon.
The figure passed by, and Aderen sideways dodged most of the bone spurs, and he couldn't do it, stepping hard against the wall, passing over Watson's head and landing behind her.
Watson spun around and threw a bone spur, but he easily dodged it and pinned it to the ground.
"The Battle of the Trapped Beasts. ”
Adelon's words were emotionless, but after this fight, his figure staggered a little, as if the body was doing what it would normally do, the vigorous movement caused the bare foot of his right foot to be sprained, not only that, but Watson also had some bone spurs scratching him, blood spilling from the wound with no sign of healing.
The tentative attack did what it had to do, and from these manifestations, Adlen, like Watson, was a spirit body, but it only temporarily occupied the body, not the terrible body of the Silent One itself.
"Are you glad for something? It's just a mortal?"
As if he had guessed all Watson's thoughts, Adren said at the right time, his voice mocking.
"In the countless hundred years I've watched, I've hunted down many beings who's just as powerful as you, or even more powerful than you, I've fought all kinds of tough battles, and what you're doing now is just one of the battles I've repeated before. ”
Aderen misses it a little.
"I'm not going to kill you either, a guy like you might be useful, like being a member of the Watchmen, of course being like the living dead, no different from being dead. It's a shame to think so. ”
His expression gradually became hideous, and Watson could feel that the will under that shell had a slight insane meaning, like a prisoner who had been imprisoned for a long time, and felt fear when he saw the vast sky.
"Still, I'm going to kill you, probably, you're pretty right about us, Silencer, it's a title that suits us too, it's so suitable, all we want is to be quiet, so that we can sleep forever, but you go over the fence again and again.
Can you relate to that feeling? Suddenly there are dissonant noises in the silent world, they are sharp and piercing, and they continue to reverberate in this empty and eternal world, tormenting us who sleep forever, until we can no longer bear it, and thus drive us to wake up and know the source of these noises. ”
The long years had turned Aderen into an inhuman form, and apart from his responsibilities, he had little sleep left in his mind.
The next moment an attack from Aderen arrived.
Aderen is a good shepherd, and he knows not only how to hunt lambs, but also how to keep them in captivity.
The reason why he used the cowardly mortal body was because he knew very well that the physical battle was not the end, and the battle in the [gap] was his main battlefield.
The attack was invisible, and Watson only felt the erosion in his face, followed by a sharp pain that almost tore his skull, as if there was a hammer hitting his mind, scraping his nerves with countless sharp knives.
For a moment Watson's consciousness was blurred by the pain, and she was half-kneeling on the ground, her bone spurs on the ground, so as not to collapse completely, and her mouth was wheezing violently, like a wounded beast.
This is an attack from the [gap], Aderen tried to invade his own [gap], but this attack he failed, Watson's will is still stubborn, this blow is not enough to make Watson surrender, but what next?
Can she resist once? or two or three times?
Watson will die here.
Think about it, Watson, what do you do?
Next to this is Lorenzo's dwelling, although the battle has been very short now, but it is already a very long time for the witcher, maybe now Lorenzo has sensed the erosion at the moment, and is getting up to find a nail sword to cut over.
How is this possible? Lorenzo is also one of Adlen's targets, but it seems that his priority is higher than him, and with the strength of the two of them, they don't know if they can fight Adelon, let alone Watson has not tested Adelon's full power even now.
Watson could already imagine that in a matter of seconds, Lorenzo would arrive with a spiked sword, and both would die in the gloomy alley after a hard-fought battle.
This time the battle is not the one that was familiar before, the flesh is the barrier of the [gap], this is a battle destined to happen in the [gap], and the two have little experience in [gap] fighting, even if they have fought against Lawrence, but Adelon's understanding and control of [gap] must be far better than Lawrence.
Time is running out to make a decision, and sooner or later Lorenzo will perceive the erosion and come here after such a delay......
Watson made the decision, and it was this time that Aderen attacked again, but this time the attack failed.
As soon as the alienated young man's body softened, his scarlet eyeballs exploded instantly, his will was completely destroyed into a mess, and his body collapsed and decomposed, but Watson who was hiding in it had long since disappeared.
She fled.
Watson used the gap to travel to the next body, and on the way to Invig, she would encroach on a target at a limit distance in order to increase her speed, using their bodies as springboards to move quickly, and now these springboards became Watson's retreat.
She's on the run, she's luring Aderen away from Lorenzo, and one of them needs to survive.
Aderen had a strategy to do so, and with such close combat, his erosion had already been covered in Watson's gap, and he didn't know how long the beacon would last, but at least it would be enough for him to catch up with Watson.
Closing his eyes, he sensed Watson's position, and then the massive erosion was released from him, and the entire large Geiger counter of the old Dunling detected this incomparably large erosion at this moment, although it was short-lived, it was still recorded, and under the fluctuation of this moment, Aderen found his springboard.
The man walked to the balcony to admire the rare moonlight, and he just wanted to admire something, when a faint fire rose under his eyes, and this fire only lasted for a few seconds, and then it dissipated, and the man didn't even react, but then his eyeballs exploded.
Blood poured out of his mouth and nose, and the whole man was half-hung on the railing, the flesh under his skull had become a cloudy patch, and behind him, his wife walked slowly, her eyes were equally raging white.
Aderen was a step slower, Watson had already left quickly before he destroyed the man's [gap], these springboards were left by Watson before, she didn't need a second erosion, but Aderen needed it, which would seriously slow down his pursuit.
As repeated before, the massive erosion erupted with Aderen as the origin, and he searched Watson's trail, choosing the vector erosion closest to her springboard.
Closing his eyes, Adren appeared dozens of kilometers away, he sensed the beacon in front of him, rushed over, only to see a dense crowd, there seemed to be some kind of assembly going on, the large crowd interfered with Adlen's judgment, but then the erosion broke out.
It was as if a vicious curse had descended on the crowd, and the praying figure froze, and then countless pupils exploded under the attack of this [gap], blood continued to gush out, and people died one after another.
Watson wasn't among them, she had escaped, and Aderen needed to search for her location, so he was always one step behind Watson in pursuit.
But he is not in a hurry, he has time, and Watson's springboard will always run out, and then she, like herself, needs to erode and plant beacons before she can shuttle between carriers.
The erosion erupted again, searching Watson's location.
It was an unobservable chase, the two of them moved extremely fast, and in the blink of an eye they reached the edge of Invig, and if there were Geiger counters at the locations of the paths, according to the feedback of the values, one would find that the erosion was like footprints, stepping on the map of Invig, towards the Holy Evangelical Papal States.
Watson gritted her teeth, she was exhausted by the rapid [gap] shuttle, she couldn't relax and rest, if she was a little slower, she would be overtaken by Adelon.
She sped up to the extreme, and finally stopped.
Raise your head, the magnificent church is at the end of the sight, surrounded by holy prayers and murmurs.
Finally she was back here, where she had started, at the end of the springboard.
"...... of the Cathedral of San Narlo"
Watson looked at all this grandeur, and she wanted to seek the new pope's rescue, no, he knew the secret just like himself, maybe the new pope was dead now.
Taking a deep breath, a huge erosion surged not far behind him, and looking back Watson could see a strange man slowly turning his head, he looked at himself with a smile, like a hunter chasing his wounded prey.
Watson slowly retreated until there was no way back.
"Do you want to run away?"
Aderen asked from afar, he still thought it was quite interesting to chase like this.
Watson was silent, but she smiled the same way, as if she had succeeded in her treacherous plan.
A blazing storm rolled up in his eyes, and a violent erosion descended here.