Chapter 1 The Invisible Threat
Luo Ling left the Temple of the Dead, left home, and headed for it like a ptarmigan foraging for food in winter. --Fengwu Literature Network-- The daily necessities at home have been exhausted, and buying ingredients is one of the main purposes of his going out this time.
Now the Luo family has more than 300 palladium, all in Luo Ling's pocket. Therefore, hunting is also an indispensable program for this outing.
The climate is cold to -47 degrees Celsius, with no snow or wind, and the empty and lonely wilderness can occasionally be seen with red light in the space, like a small stove fire during a picnic, rising faint smoke, distorting the surrounding air.
Almost all the survivors know that they can't be counted on this kind of spatial rift for warmth, they are the environmental transformers that the demons sprinkle all over this world, and the constantly leaking highly toxic substances combine with some substances in this world to produce magical energy, which is called 'magic energy fertilizer'. There are also people who call it 'devil' more vividly.
Dressed in a slate-gray leather coat with a set of bony half-body armor and a long-handled scythe in his hand, Luo Ling looked a bit like a modern technological version of the savage warriors living in the Nordic ice and tundra.
The leather coat is a Warcraft synthetic leather, with a uniform thickness of 3cm, but the weight is very light, and a one-piece suit is only 1.5kg. The inner layer of the leather jacket is attached with a mesh filter layer, which is matched with a special tight-fitting combat suit to absorb sweat, breathe and keep warm.
The bony half-body armor constitutes the main body of protection, which is composed of chest, shoulder, arm, leg armor and helmet, which is a simplified light armor according to the unified specifications of the current popular armor, and is characterized by thinness, lightness, and small protective area.
The long-handled scythe is also specially made, the long handle with the thickness of the shovel handle is the leg bone of the Spear Leg Demon, the scythe head at the top is made of the shoulder blades of the Blade Demon, and even the light linen strips on the sickle handle are woven from the hair of the Whip Demon.
Not even a single gram of metal was used, and even some of the instruments inside the helmet were made of bone and resin materials. This is the U-Series Armor, a non-standard set of summoner equipment. The reason why it is called non-standard is because out of every 100 summoners, ninety-five use ranged attack weapons such as magic weapons and magic weapons, and only 5% belong to other categories, including melee combat summoners - Demon Blade Messenger.
Demon Blade Messenger is further divided into two categories, Demon Double Kill and Demon Enhancement. To put it simply, the former is to attack and kill with the summoned combat type of Warcraft, and the latter is to summon the Warcraft to be mainly of the support type, adding a buff (continuous beneficial magic) to the Demon Blade Messenger, and a debuff (continuous negative magic such as curses) to the attack target.
Summoners are like warlocks in DND.,Very talent-oriented.,And it's a double standard talent.,One is spiritual power.,The other is the affinity of the monster (also known as the 'magic value' charm value of the monster) Most summoners are average talent or high magic and low charm type,And the elephant magic blade messenger belongs to the typical high charm and low magic type,They often have limited mental power,Not enough to support and maintain multiple contract magic beasts to fight,Their own physique is far superior to the high magic type of summoners,Sorcerers,Even some initial values are higher than ordinary warriorsγ At the same time, their high magic charm value allows this kind of summoner to sign a magic contract beyond the level, and even summon some magical beasts that are impossible to sign as subordinates or companions, therefore, the magic blade messenger can hardly summon more than two magical beasts, but the summoned magical beasts can often make people's eyes shine, and even their peers are drooling.
Of course, Luo Ling didn't actually belong to any of the summoners. He purely uses his strong strength to play all kinds of low-level roles. For him, armor below the legendary level has lost its practical meaning and has been reduced to a prop to cover up and shame. This time, I wore this U series, but it was only because Mogguge gave him a little interesting prop - the Ring of the Demon Slave, that I had a temporary idea.
The Ring of the Demon Slave is a bone artifact, and its shape is just a ring engraved with a magic pattern inside, which is black and clean, and the material is like obsidian. It is an adjunct of the Old Lich's derivative modification experiment. In the ring, a secret method imprisons a servant demon who has endured n ten kinds of experiments and has not died.
The ring of the demon slave, Luo Ling plans to give it to Xing Juan as a gift for self-defense, and this time he went out to bring it, just to test the power of performance. Luo Ling thought, if the cost performance is high, you might as well let the old lich make a few more, Xiaoqing and the others have one, and it will be safer to go out in the future.
With the ring of the demon slave, coupled with the 'ghost upper body' Nian Gu, Luo Ling pretended to be a demon blade messenger, and ordinary people had almost no possibility of demolishing him.
Nian Gu is now possessed by an evil angel, acting as Luo Ling's falcon. As the Dark Gate became more stable, the monsters kept pace with the times, gradually forming colonies. The kind of monsters that roam alone are rarely seen, and if they do, they are often mutants or beings as strong as slaughtering beasts. This kind of monster clustering has made the surface a lot colder, but the danger of demon hunters has greatly increased. This was followed by the rise of group hunting, which had become almost synonymous with inefficiency or death.
Taking advantage of Youniangu's aerial reconnaissance, Luo Ling quickly locked on two small monster communities. A group of Cracked Tooth Monsters, a group of mixed Armor Blade Demons and Spirit Demons. For Luo Ling now, killing this kind of monster is no different from using a Gatling six-barrel machine gun with unlimited ammunition to strafe wolves in the wilderness, it is purely a one-sided slaughter. All Luo Ling needed to consider was how to maximize the value of this massacre. For example, for Cracked Tooth Monsters that can be sold for a good price with their whole skin, Luo Ling will start from their eyes or ear holes to ensure the integrity of the skin as much as possible. For another example, before killing the monsters, he injected them with an overdose of stimulant poison, causing these monsters to evolve or alienate beyond the norm, so that the harvested materials would often be raised from ordinary to rare, and the difference between the two was enough to make the corners of any demon hunter's mouth salivate with envy. --Phoenix-Dance-Literature-Learning-Net--
Tracking down and hunting these two monster groups took Luo Ling an entire morning. Luo Ling, who had no need to eat and rest, continued to work, and until around 17 o'clock in the afternoon, he killed two more groups of monsters, and the materials he harvested almost filled the two hundred-cube space rings. Since then, the hunt has been completed.
The reason why Luo Ling went out was to go to Qingshi Village. The command vehicle was there, and it became an information station for Luo Ling to communicate with the outside world, Budweiser would send him emails from time to time, and Shalu would leave magic letters in the designated place if anything happened.
"Wishing you a happy Chinese New Year and good health...... The latest product quotation on February 22 ......" Luo Ling flipped through the email, nothing special, mainly because there was no latest letter from Shalu, "It seems that the kid is recuperating from his injuries, or, is thinking about what kind of wording to use to invite me to make a move for "Ghost." Or, the appearance of Cang Yan has alarmed its master, and it went to report to its master's superiors? Luo Ling guessed wildly, but in the end, he didn't have an accurate score, so he could only be gone.
Living in isolation is inevitable. In order to enrich his cultural life, Luo Ling would bring back a bunch of electronic information including music and video files to his home every once in a while for daily study and recreation. This time was no exception, Luo Ling copied the downloaded data through the wireless network to the mobile hard drive, and selected some new downloads. Just as he was about to leave, he found a newly arrived email, signed by Qin Qing.
A month before the Spring Festival, when Luo Ling came to receive emails, an email from Budweiser told him that the descendants of Xuanyuan had jointly established a strategic partnership with the company, and a regional information exchange network would be gradually established, and the ultimate goal would be to connect the whole line. Further, Budweiser Guang'an has been connected to the network of subordinate units of the descendants of Xuanyuan in the Northern and Southern Regions, and Luo Ling can use this network to communicate with the people in the Northern Regions. The Luo family has a good relationship with Qin Qing and others, which is a well-known thing.
οΌ Luo Ling did not object to his wife exchanging some letters with people in the Northern Regions, after all, leaving Qin Qing aside, there were also Ren Zhengzhi and Li Xiao, a group of comrades-in-arms who had been born and died together. Therefore, every once in a while, Luo Ling would also send a few emails on behalf of his wife, or receive some greetings from the Northern Regions. Among them, Qin Qing's is naturally indispensable.
Only this time, the content of Qin Qing's letter was not a trivial chatter between girls, but an invitation to Luo Ling.
'This is an urgent matter, please be sure to come to the Northern Regions station as soon as possible after receiving the letter. The letter was short and vague. No details were mentioned.
Rubbing his stubble and astringent jaw, Luo Ling thought silently. He had planned to go to Qin Qing to solve the problem of 'personal debt'. As for the meeting of this letter, in his understanding, it should not be an ordinary trouble.
Theoretically, Luo Ling's current physical condition is not suitable for intervening in high-intensity battles. But he also knows himself very well, with his indebted psychology to Qin Qing's life-saving kindness, if Qin Qing and Li Xiao and others launch a friendship offensive instead of forceful coercion, the probability of him agreeing to contribute is as high as 70%.
"When you come out to mix, you can't help yourself, and you always have to pay off some debts." Luo Ling knows that he has a considerable number of passive traits in his personality, which makes him often choose a plan like 'seeing the move' when he encounters unsolvable problems, but fortunately, he is quite decisive in case of trouble, and his mind is still calm and sober, coupled with his own strength and a bit of luck, he has stumbled all the way to the present.
Coming out of the command car, he took a deep breath, and the cold air channel cold current went straight into his lungs along the respiratory tract, and his mind seemed to be a lot clearer due to the cold stimulation. It was already nearly 19 o'clock, and most of the Cumulus Dust clouds in the sky had turned from gray to dark gray, with only a slight light color at the western end, due to the afterglow of the setting sun.
It was dim, cold, and barren, and I didn't know that the wind was right, and it blew up the floating snow on the ground, forming patches of rolling white mist or snow swirls, which drifted everywhere. Occasionally, the wind would send a faint howl of monsters, whimpering or high-pitched, like ghosts murmuring and shouting.
Luo Ling felt that such a landscape seemed to his impression of the Alaskan or Siberian ice fields, or the inaccessible wilderness of the Arctic. He had never been to any of these places, but had only made some conjectures through some texts or pictures. I still remember that when he didn't become a demon, he and his roommate in the same dormitory at the university mentioned more than once that he liked the atmosphere in the movie "Thirty Polar Nights", the cold, dark, weak daylight, dim loneliness and bone-chilling cold. Luo Ling still remembers his roommate laughing at him for being perverted, calling his mentality nothing more than a variant of 'urban aesthetic boredom'. And he knew that it was not like that, and he really liked the empty and trembling environment.
Now that I think about it, this unusual preference is likely to be a sign of the revival and awakening of the demonic bloodline. Even if he hadn't done that damn human experiment, he would have awakened himself like the Gardis before and after the Dark Gate opened. If we look at it from the perspective of this inevitable awakening, it is a good thing to become a profit and loss body early and suffer a lot. At the very least, the bad environment at the beginning was more suitable for the growth of newbies than it is now, and the inheritance of hatred seems to be far better than the numb mental state of most survivors now.
Click! Luo Ling fastened his visor, held the long-handled death sickle like a cane, and walked slowly along the mountain road. On a dead branch, Niangu, who was resting with his wings, clucked, spread his wings and flew up, hovering a few times in the air like a mountain eagle, and went to the southeast first.
Luo Ling's target is the bases in the old city of Guang'an that belong to the control of Qingjiao's Southern Region, and the night after, he will play the role of a god of death who harvests human lives. Luo Ling thought, anyway, there is still a lot of time, you might as well take a few more steps, to be honest, it is very fast to travel to and from various places through the shadow plane, but it is the purest hurry, there is no interest at all, unlike now, it feels very good to walk alone in the cold wilderness.
Out of the mountains, it was already past ten o'clock at night. Unexpectedly, Luo Ling ran into a team of demon hunters who returned at night. Since the illusion was injured, in order to reduce energy consumption, Luo Ling adjusted the sensing radius to 400 meters, which is one-fifth of his farthest sensing distance, which is in line with the sensing ability of the summoner he is now playing twice to advance to the intermediate level. However, with the help of Nian Gu in the air, Luo Ling still discovered this pair of demon hunters very early, if he hid, he had enough time, but Luo Ling felt that there was no need for that kind at all. No matter from that aspect, it's not that he is hiding from others.
The number of snowmobiles or open roads or circular, three or two minibus specifications of medium-sized sleigh cars in a column, this team of demon hunters is purely mechanized advance, can be said to come and go like the wind.
The sled car at the head has an on-board detector and communication system, and one of the operators in the car is Luo Ling. "Coke bottle call Q369, there is a moving object in the direction of 2 o'clock, distance: about 1500 meters, speed: about 13 km / h, go and investigate."
"Q369 Roger!"
The three snowmobiles sped up and left the team, leaving the dust first.
Poof! The white bubble burst, and the young man in charge of communications leaned back in his seat and asked the operator sitting with his back to him, "Xiao Feng, what is it?" 13 km/h? A wilderness wanderer? β
The female operator, known as Xiao Feng, was not interested in her teammates' jokes, and said very businesslikely: "In 3 minutes, you will know the exact answer." β
The man who shrugged his shoulders and chewed bubblegum said, "Nice! Standard answer. β
The laughter of several people came from the front seats, and one of them said, "Gum Kid, you need to be a little more handsome and a little more heroic." Hehe......"
βyeahοΌ I'll consider taking a few cucumbers and brushing a few reptiles to improve Wuxun or something. The young man known as the Gum Kid said angrily.
"Your choice is too extravagant, the next time you have a chance to fight the Blade Demon, you might as well rush forward and let it give you a double eyelid, and then kill it. Kill two birds with one stone and save money. β
"Lao Gui's idea is good......" people laughed.
"Hah! Ha! The gum kid laughed dryly as if it were the occasion.
Rookies are often the object of ridicule by veterans, which is a good phenomenon, at least it proves that the relationship is still in the past, with this relationship, Xinding can often suffer a lot less on the battlefield, and even be lucky to save his life.
Snowmobiles can easily travel at speeds of up to 80 kilometers per hour, so the spies sent out quickly sent back the news. "It's a solo demon hunter who looks like a famous demon (homonym, the common name for the Demon Blade Messenger)."
Xiao Feng immediately reported the information loudly.
"I thought it was a turkey! (Among the team members, the name of the monster that haunts alone, but is not very powerful)" someone in the front row muttered quietly.
Without waiting for the commander in the car to order, Xiao Feng said again: "Q3 said that an evil angel was found hovering in the sky, and the possibility of contracting a monster is extremely high. β
Now, the car was quiet. The Evil Angel is a first-class flying demon with a corrosive orb in its hand that is more powerful than a high-explosive grenade, and can fire at a rate of 3 seconds for ten minutes in a row, making it known as the 'Demon Fighter'. Being able to accept the evil angel as a contract beast is definitely a level above the summoner's advanced level. They are known as the elite team, there are three summoners in the team, one of them is a demon, who can summon a sword-arm demon, the absolute main force in the team, compared with the demon who can summon evil angel level monsters, I am afraid that there is no suspense in victory.
"No wonder it's solo!" Someone likes. The summoner itself is a profession known as having the strongest solo flying ability, and the second-order demon man, flying solo to hunt demons, is indeed more profitable than partnering.
"Are there 2nd order demons in the Guang'an area?" Some people questioned.
"Maybe there is a company alliance!"
"Then it's not rich enough to let a second-order demon fly solo, right? And it's on your own at such a time. β
"Let's be polite, boys, let's go!" The commander finally spoke.
In fact, even if the commander doesn't tell them, the three snowmobile riders know what attitude to treat such a solo cowman. With the combat power of the three of them who had just advanced to the 'mobile firepower', this demon might not even be able to use three minutes to clean them up.
Of course, these three snipers still overestimated their strength, and if Luo Ling really wanted to kill them, he could definitely solve the battle in one second. However, he didn't feel the need to do this at the moment, and besides, he was a little curious about these snipers who were riding snowmobiles and carefully wandering around more than a hundred meters away from him. It's clearly standard, but not as sophisticated as the people in the company, with a glowing badge embedded in the left chest and a thorn rose. Where did this come from? Luo Ling said that he was no stranger to the armament of the Guang'an region, but he had never had an impression of an organization marked by such a badge.
The convoy quickly arrived at Luo Ling's side. Luo Ling glanced at it, three medium-sized sleigh cars, connected to snowmobileers, there were almost a hundred people, a demon hunting team of this size was often a team with the purpose of conquering a monster's nest, which was rare.
The lights were dazzling, but these people were polite, and instead of pointing the lights at him, they all turned them sideways, which was obviously a gesture of favor and respect.
Probably in order to avoid Luo Ling's mistake, the three sleds, only the current one got down two people, one took the lead, one followed, obviously one master and one pair, more than a dozen snowmobileers, all carrying guns horizontally, to show no hostility.
"Dear Master, please forgive us for our suddenness." More than ten meters away, the commander stopped, stroked his chest and saluted Luo Ling's chin. "We are members of the Holy Rose Knights of the Xuanyuan descendants, and I am the Silver Knight Gongyerao. If the master went to the old town of Guang'an, I wonder if we were lucky enough to take the master on a ride? β
Luo Ling smiled secretly, this commander is really polite. Ask directly if you want to take a ride, isn't it over? A bit of respect, I'm afraid it's because of your own strength.
Compared with Gong Yerao, Luo Ling spoke much more simply and casually: "The master doesn't dare to be a master." I did get ready to go to the Old Town. Thank you for the invitation, sorry. β
Gongye Rao was quite surprised, she didn't expect the other party to agree so easily. Modern demon hunters are on the surface of the earth like a flood beast to guard against people they don't know, and the solo ones are often more typical of this. After all, there are too many examples of robbery, smothering sticks, and black eating black.
Blame! Luo Ling whistled, and the sound seemed to be from some kind of bamboo whistle, crisp and pleasant. The evil angel in the air swooped down, and Luo Ling raised his hand and directly collected the evil angel into the space ring. In fact, this is just a pretense, Nian Gu is connected to him in the same vein, and the two sides can be directly connected with their thoughts.
Gong Yerao had never seen such a termination of the summoning beast contract, and with her eyesight, of course, she saw the scene when the evil angel entered the space ring, "Establish a breeding ground in the space ring, instead of opening up the phantom beast space?" This is quite unusual. "Although my mind is full of doubts. But Gong Yerao felt that it was inconvenient to ask more questions at this time, so she turned sideways and made a gesture to Luo Ling to please.
Luo Ling is also not polite, walking with a sickle, and between walking, he has an extraordinary demeanor.
If it was another organization, Luo Ling would flatly refuse to take a ride, but the organization of Xuanyuan's descendants gave him the idea of finding out. He is going to do it to the core personnel of Qingjiao's bases the night after tomorrow, what does this holy rose mean by this? Has the emergence of this force affected the overall structure of the descendants of Guang'an Xuanyuan? These are all things that Luo Ling is anxious to know. If the result is positive, then it is likely that he will lose the meaning of doing it like a frog Jiao, after all, Luo Ling's plan is to let Qin Qing take the opportunity to take over the entire territory of the old city of Guang'an, and he doesn't want other forces to intervene in the name of righteousness.
The sled has a unique folding tunnel dissociation room, which has better protection than ordinary armored vehicles, and can completely achieve normal rest. Luo Ling also found that the interior of the car was more comfortable than he imagined, and the distance between the seats was very wide, so that he could put the back on his back and rest semi-reclining. As a result, the number of passengers in the minibus-sized sleigh is only about 18, and the command vehicle is even smaller, so the actual number of the team should be more than 50 people.
Taking off his mask and helmet, Luo Ling sat down in an empty seat without any sense of restraint and leaned back. "Hmmm! Very comfortable and convenient means of transport. β
Gongye Rao was somewhat surprised when she saw that the other party was a young man with fair skin and slightly slender eyes. She looked at Luo Ling, who was only 25 or 6 years old, although there were not many level 2 summoners who were so young, they were not particularly rare, but summoners with normal complexion and no demonic characteristics were too rare.
When Gong Yerao, who was sitting opposite Luo Ling, looked at Luo Ling, Luo Ling also looked at the other party calmly: goose egg face, willow eyebrows, phoenix eyes, straight nose, thin mouth, very Western-style, about thirty years old, full of mature woman charm, grace and majesty are naturally revealed, and he should be a superior who is used to giving orders. The armor is made of a very special material, which looks like a metal, but in essence it may be a synthesis of some special mineral and rare material. It should be a legal profession, but the energy structure is very special, not like a sorcerer, nor like a summoner. The estimated combat power should be considered good at the level of human survivors. It's about the same as Xuanyuan Yanshui.,I think it's one of the core figures of the Holy Rose Knights.γ
With Luo Ling's ability, he swept over at a glance, and it can be said that he can see at a glance what the ability of these people in the car is. And Gong Yerao is completely opposite, she can't find out Luo Ling's depth at all. After blinking her eyelids, Gong Yerao's eyes were covered with a layer of faint and invisible white light, which made her originally black and white eyes even brighter and more beautiful. In fact, she used a special skill, the True Eye.
Gong Yerao's eyes matched Luo Ling's clear and honest eyes, and the sweat on his forehead and sideburns came down at that time.
Luo Ling just looked at each other with a smile on the surface, but in private, he said in a spiritual rainbow bridge way: "Little girl, I didn't expect you to have such a rare 'pupil technique'. Seeing what you shouldn't see is dangerous for you and your companions! Now, your heart is beating too fast and you're sweating too much, which is not good. You should know what I'll do if someone else notices something wrong with you and becomes suspicious. So, maybe we should find a pure place to talk about ......"
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