Chapter 182: Entering the Fortress The benefits of faith
"I'm going to kill the source of the infection!"
Lin Chen said to Lero, and he appeared in the air outside the sentry wall in one step, and saw that the source of infection disappeared in a flash, and the next second appeared in front of him, and a punch hit Lin Chen's door, and a circle of qi exploded, and the bridge of his nose did not collapse.
The source of the infection was taken aback, his figure flashed and disappeared again, and he reappeared on the top of his head, and the right claw covered with scales quickly fused into a sharp cone and pierced the center of Baihui above his head, and the metal crisp sound of the 'bell' splashed everywhere, Lin Chen raised his head and looked at the source of the infection with a shocked look on his face, his pupils lit up, the source of the infection was not good, and he retreated, and he felt a dazzling cold sword light swept in front of him, and a fan-shaped sword curtain unfolded, turning into a sword qi light curtain of more than 100 meters and bursting into the sky, and it did not disperse for a long time.
This is not a subtle swordsmanship, it is just that he urged the incomparably strong mana to slash out a sword, but the speed was a little faster.
The figure flashed back to dozens of meters away, and the alien race looked at the huge sword curtain above Lin Chen's head that was hundreds of meters high, and saw the cold gaze that he swept over, and without saying a word, he turned around and disappeared, and reappeared a hundred meters away, and disappeared in a few clicks.
"Running so fast!"
Lin Chen was a little speechless, he was scared away just after warming up, and before he could see clearly the power system of the alien race where the source of infection was located, he knew that he should not use so much force just now.
I haven't seen the other abilities of this source of infection yet, but one thing is certain, their speed is very fast, and the flash of dozens of meters is not quite like a body technique, as if it is a talent or a spell, although it is not a direct space flicker, but the speed is very fast, even with his current strength, it is only barely able to keep up with the flickering trajectory, if the other party is bent on escaping, in this empty wasteland, it may be difficult for him to catch up.
He couldn't chase down when everyone ran away, he stood in the air, slashed down with a sword, and a dazzling sword qi thirty meters long slashed down in the air, and most of the infected people in the row under the sentry wall were killed by him with a sword, and the remaining strength went deep into the ground to cut out a deep ravine.
After killing the infected in a few clicks, a team of soldiers sent by the fortress rushed over, led by a strong man with a height of more than two meters, named Second Lieutenant Li Qianjun, who was an oriental face, and saw Lin Chen's sky-splitting sword from afar, and thanked him with a very serious expression, and invited him to enter the city.
Lin Chen did not refuse, and returned to the fortress with him, the battlefield was cleaned by the guard of the outpost, and as for the remaining civilians, naturally someone would strictly check it again.
Entering the side gate of the fortress, he felt at least ten fluctuations sweeping through the long corridor, and when he entered the city through the thick fortress walls, he obviously found that Second Lieutenant Li Qianjun's attitude was more intimate, and it was obvious that he had passed all the tests to determine that it was a human and not a mutated creature or an infected person.
Entering the fortress, Second Lieutenant Li Qianjun asked his subordinates to return to the team on their own, and he took the initiative to act as a guide to take Lin Chen to wander around the city, with temptation and solicitation in his words.
Lin Chen knew it well, it was obvious that they had taken a fancy to their own strength, in this chaotic world, it was completely normal for all forces to recruit powerless powerhouses, and he understood it very well.
However, he did not agree, he did not want to get involved in all kinds of intrigues of the aborigines, and told them very tactfully that he would not join any forces, but just settle here and leave in a few months.
Li Qianjun was a little regretful, but his attitude did not deteriorate because of this, and he was still very enthusiastic to help him get a temporary residence certificate and a temporary residence.
The reality is not, there are not so many forced actions because of the refusal of others, and the normal regular forces will try their best to become friends even if they can't be their own people, and only the brain-dead will have the idea of being either friend or foe, unless there is a grudge in the first place.
What's more, Lin Chen has already shown his strong strength, for this kind of master, normal people try their best to make friends, even if they can't use it, they won't make enemies casually.
Li Qianjun arranged for him to belong to the real estate belonging to his faction, which was specially for the friends of their legion to live temporarily, and there were soldiers guarding him, and the idle people could not enter, so he could avoid many messy problems.
Lin Chen is quite satisfied, if he stays like this for three months, it is actually quite good, for this reason, he doesn't mind doing a little favor if he has the strength to do it in these three months.
It is a small three-story building, located on the edge of the core of the fortress, on a high ground, presumably built on a hillside, with a small courtyard from which you can see the huge rear of the fortress.
This fortress is built between a large canyon, the width of the fortress valley is about four or five kilometers, one side is an endless wasteland, on the other side of the canyon the terrain descends to a large slope to extend down, the whole fortress is built in this Grand Canyon, according to Lieutenant Li Qianjun, through this Grand Canyon is a huge mountain basin, where is one of the world's largest human settlements in the City of Hope, dominated by oriental humans, with a total population of more than 10 million, There are also two giant fortresses like Flame City around the basin that guard the other two large gaps outside the basin, keeping mutant creatures and infected people and Outer Gods out of the basin.
This is the last place of hope for mankind, and it is also the only few civilizational sparks in the whole world, once these giant settlements are breached, the world will be completely destroyed.
"What a strange world!"
Putting down the history books in his hand, Lin Chen pinched his eyebrows and looked at the buildings extending inward outside the balcony, a few kilometers away from him, he saw several towering lightning spires, a circle of lightning rings of different colors wrapped around the tower, one by one lightning balls emitting terrifying energy fluctuations revolving around the tower, at the top of the tower was a huge lightning ball, a dazzling electric light flew out of the spire lightning ball and went straight into the sky, deep into the thick clouds, dyeing the large black clouds above white.
This is also a lightning spire, but it does not belong to the fortress, but belongs to the power of the three righteous gods in this world, namely the god of war, the god of light, and the god of life.
Good gods, evil gods, and outer gods.
The righteous god is the native god of this world, the outer god is the strong person above the sixth order of the outer world, and the evil god refers to the corrupt and degenerate evil existence, these evil existences are not inferior to the gods, but the nature is chaotic and evil, so they are called evil gods.
Of course, this is the opinion of the people of this world, in Lin Chen's eyes, the so-called righteous god is the aboriginal powerhouse, the outer god is the predator of other worlds in the void, and the evil god is the local terrifying and evil creature, like Lin Chen, if his strength reaches the sixth order or above, he will also be called an outer god.
In addition, there is also the reputation of nightmares, but Lin Chen knows that there are extremely powerful existences, and the strength of some high-level nightmare lords is not inferior to these gods at all, and they are more threatening to ordinary people, because they are formless and incorporeal, and they can directly devour the souls of their targets from invading ordinary people's dreams, which is extremely terrifying.
If other mutant creatures infected can be detected by various means, the existence of nightmares is really difficult to detect, and if he doesn't show up, even Lin Chen may not be aware of it.
Fortunately, the number of nightmares is very small, and most of them act together around the nightmare lord, and there are very few nightmare creatures that act alone, and there are very few introductions to this creature in the book, only a few strokes by Liao Liao.
"Gou Yigou, tomorrow will be better!"
Lin Chen touched his chin and closed the window to sleep.
I woke up early the next morning, it was still dark and dim outside the window, no different from last night, there was a lightning spire in the fortress blooming light, the fortress was as bright as it was day and night, many people had a day and night routine, sleeping during the day and coming out at night.
"Knock knock!"
There was a knock at the door.
Lin Chen casually washed his face and opened the door, and saw Second Lieutenant Li Qianjun in civilian clothes, and behind him stood two women wearing fortress army uniforms, the tight-fitting uniforms outlined exquisite curves, and they looked very eye-catching.
He was puzzled, Li Qianjun pointed to the two women and said:
"Lieutenant General Li Chengqian, commander of the Third Army Corps, knows that Mr. Lin lives alone or has inconveniences, and they will take care of the trivial matters of life for you during this time."
Lin Chen glanced at it, hesitated for a moment, and then nodded briskly:
"Then you're welcome."
He can't refuse this kind of wooing, because he refuses today, there will be other Flame City Fortress and other legions to visit him immediately, this situation is unavoidable, unless he leaves the Flame Fortress now, so it is troublesome, it is necessary to accept the overture of one of the forces, anyway, all kinds of sugar-coated shells will be eaten first, and when the time comes, pat your ass and return, don't worry about anything.
Seeing him accept, Li Qianjun was very happy, and got a lot closer at once, and said:
"You may not know it, although the Flame Fortress is a fortress, it is also very famous in the rear business district, and I will take you to have a good time today."
Lin Chen happened to have this idea, and pushed the boat down the river.
casually changed into casual clothes and went downstairs, there was already a steam car parked at the door, and he looked at it curiously.
This steam car is very similar to a jeep, with a thick bumper on the outside, reinforced at the front, and no air vents at the back, instead of a huge metal box, a thick steam chimney is erected in the back, and as soon as the car is opened, the steam begins to boil and spew out from there, which looks quite interesting.
The driver was not Li Qianjun, but one of the two women he had brought, and the other was cleaning the house for him.
The car came out of the gate of the neighborhood guarded by soldiers, turned into the central road of the canyon and drove towards the back of the fortress, although it was early in the morning, there were many lightning spires illuminated, and there was no obvious division between day and night, and there were still many pedestrians on the street.
Along the way, Lin Chen found that the human races in the fortress were very complex, not only humans and orcs, but also other races, such as dwarves, halflings, gnomes and other alien races common in the fantasy world, as well as lizardmen, crocodiles and other rare fierce races, gathered together under the threat of enemies such as mutated monsters, polluters, and nightmares of the outer gods, to resist the invasion of evil.
In addition, human beings are also divided into blonde and blue-eyed white races, and Oriental races like Lin Chen, like Li Qianjun and the two women are all Orientals.
Of course, there are other races, all kinds of half-orcs, half-dwarves and other half-breeds.
The great crisis has accelerated the integration of races, and many of the different races have lived together all year round, and many of them have been unified in terms of living habits, especially some races that are too few in number and have been cut off from civilization, and have been assimilated by humans for hundreds of years.
On the way, he had seen orcs and humans drinking side by side on their backs, looking as if they were of the same kind.
"That's the Temple of the God of War!"
Li Qianjun pointed to the huge lightning spire standing in a huge square not far away and introduced it to Lin Chen:
"Three great gods protect the world, I believe in the god of war, I don't know which one Your Excellency Lin Chen believes"
Lin Chen touched his chin and looked at the lightning spire, this thing was made of rock and metal, and it was covered with strange runes formed by golden lightning around the tower, he looked directly at the tower, there was a vague dazzling feeling, vaguely felt that the spire seemed to be connected to some extremely powerful will, not surprisingly, it should be the god of war.
He didn't dare to look closely, for fear of being discovered by that powerful will, he was just passing by, and he didn't dare to attract the attention of these powerful beings.
Li Qianjun didn't respond to his question, but no response is the best response, he didn't believe anyone, Li Qianjun also understood this, and didn't ask.
This world is different from other fantasy worlds, and there is no compulsion to believe, but basically everyone has a god of faith to sus on their spirit, so that they will not be so easily alienated by nightmares or infected people.
Belief in gods, when the level of faith reaches a certain level, the soul will be protected by the gods, and in the face of nightmares and the power of infection and alienation of the infected, the soul resistance is stronger than that of ordinary people.
Therefore, warriors like Li Qianjun, who often fight with mutant monsters and infected, basically believe in the god of war to strengthen their souls.
The car quickly crossed the area of the three major temples, and entered an area that was obviously much more prosperous, the car went around this area under the command of Li Qianjun, turned left and right for a while, and came to a huge stone building, the car stopped casually on the side of the road, the two got out of the car, Li Qianjun asked the lady who drove to go back first, threw a look to Lin Chen that you know, and said:
"I'll take you to a good place today, outsiders don't even know about it when they first come."
Lin Chen was speechless, how could he not understand this kind of meaningful look, and he was not vain, shrugged his shoulders and motioned for him to lead the way.
Li Qianjun took him to the back of this building, there was a row of more than a dozen back doors, he directly found the penultimate knock on the far left, three long and two short like a code, the door opened and a minotaur with a scar on his face appeared, obviously knew Li Qianjun, gave each of them a sign, waved his hand and signaled the two to enter.