"Ahh With an exclamation, Liu Qiba woke up from the nightmare.

Before he could recover his senses, a wave of pain surged up all over his body like a rising tide.

When he was in pain, Liu Qiba's brain was also much clearer.

He adjusted his heavy breathing as he looked around; He found himself lying in a room that was supposed to be a hospital bed, with a drip on his left hand, and his hospital gown and sheets were soaked with sweat.

And next to his hospital bed, there was an old man who was reading a book with I-PEN.

"Your metabolism is really fast, it's only been two hours since the operation, and you seem to have metabolized even the effects of painkillers." Seeing Liu Qiba wake up, the old man unhurriedly put down the I-PEN in his hand and accosted him.

"I ...... I ......" Liu Qiba just wanted to answer the other party's words, but suddenly remembered something, and he immediately asked in a loud voice, "...... My family! Are they alright? ”

At this moment, Liu Qiba remembered the last thing he remembered before he fell into a coma - he jumped into the air and threw a tanker truck in the direction of his home.

"It's okay, your family is safe and sound, and they have been moved to a safe place." The old man replied.

"Really?" Liu Qiba asked, because he was indeed a little unconvinced, "You didn't lie to me?" ”

The old man understood that Liu Qiba's suspicions were excusable, so he continued: "I won't talk about it if it's too detailed, just talk about it simply...... When I arrived at the scene, the group that had come to kill you and your family had been torn to shreds by you, but since you yourself had lost your mind in the battle, and even after the enemy was completely destroyed, you still did not stop the indiscriminate destruction, so I immediately responded......" He paused, and then said, "I jumped into the air, caught the car you threw out, and used the ability on you, causing your body to quickly dehydrate and rise to a high altitude, and soon after you fell unconscious due to lack of oxygen, at which point I disarmed the ability and caught you, It was handed over to the medical staff at the scene. ”

The old man's tone when he said this was very calm and clear, and Liu Qiba felt that the other party was not lying, because if he really wanted to make it up, he wouldn't make up such content.

"Uh...... Thank you. Liu Qiba thought for a few seconds, then continued, "By the way, I haven't asked for advice yet......

"Bud Levins." Bard replied, "Not long ago, I was a retired civil servant with no position, but recently I became an alternate security officer, so I guess I can count it as your superior." He said, glancing at Liu Qiba's slow-bandaged hand, "Considering that you are injured all over your body now, and it hurts wherever you touch, I won't shake your hand." ”

"Oh! It turned out to be a sir! Hiss-" Liu Qiba instinctively wanted to salute, but his shoulder hurt so much that he bared his teeth.

"Alright, young man, don't be polite at this time." Bud said, putting away the I-PEN in his hand and standing up, "I'm here mainly to tell you about the situation when you wake up, so that you can rest assured...... After all, if you tell you what you just said, you may not believe it immediately. ”

"Thank you, sir!" In the next second, Liu Qiba immediately replied in a loud voice, "Saving grace...... No, save my whole family! I, Liu, am a ......"

"Okay, okay...... Take it easy. Bud seemed calm, interrupted the other man, and continued, "It's just a gesture, and besides, I'm here after receiving orders, and I'm just doing my duty." However, you really need to pay attention to your ability in the future, so as not to bring danger to yourself and the people around you. ”

"Yes! Liu Qiba remembers the teachings of the chief! Liu Qiba's voice was even higher.

…………

Fragments of memories flashed before my eyes.

Liu Qiba doesn't know if this is the so-called "marquee".

That year, he was twenty-six years old and a soldier in the Able-Combat Unit of the Union Army; He has a wife who is a year younger than him, and a daughter who is still in infancy.

Infighting at the top of the federation has always been frequent, and grassroots fighters like Liu Qiba stationed in Crystal County will inevitably offend a certain force in the process of carrying out their tasks, so it is not safe to be his family.

Coupled with the side effects of Liu Qiba's "power of anger", he couldn't control it well until he was thirty-five years old, and it also put his family under tremendous pressure.

Finally, a few years later, his wife divorced him, and after another two years, he remarried someone else, and now his ex-wife and him have almost become nodding friends; And the daughter, who can only see her every weekend, is now 16 years old, and she is at the age when she wants to get rid of her parents the most in her life.

From a certain point of view, in recent years, compared with his own family, Liu Qiba has had more contact with the Bard family.

As soon as it is the New Year's holiday, Bud will invite Liu Qiba to his home for dinner, because Bud also knows that Liu Qiba's parents died early, and it is impossible for him to go to his ex-wife's house for the holiday, if Bud does not invite him, then he will only be drunk at home.

Bud is different from Liu Qiba, he has a big family, although Bud's wife has passed away, but Bud is full of children and grandchildren, and every time he celebrates, a large family gets together, and many Liu Qiba is just a pair of chopsticks for him.

However, many times, what may be a gesture for one person can mean a lot to another.

In the friendship between Bard and Liu Qiba, this is all the same; For example, the life-saving grace of the year, and the Chinese New Year's Eve meals and Thanksgiving dinners many years later......

Bud may not care very much, but Liu Qiba has always remembered and been grateful; Even though Liu Qiba has gone from being a young soldier back then to a guard officer at the same level as Bud, in his heart, Bard has always been his most respected predecessor and benefactor.

Pity...... In the end, he couldn't save Bard either.

Not only could he not save the other party, but right now, even he was afraid that his life would not be guaranteed.

The black energy released by Zilin was something Liu Qiba had never seen before; Liu Qiba's ultra-high physical strength when his ability is activated, the defensive power of body surface energy, and his outstanding self-healing power...... It became indifferent in front of the black man.

Liu Qiba's wound not only did not heal after the attack passed, but also gradually eroded towards the end of the body, and the energy on his body was also slowly eliminated by the black wound, and soon, let alone energy, he couldn't even use his strength.

He watched the scene before him turn upside down, and knew that he had begun to fall; The furious mood also quietly subsided, indicating that his abilities were also out of whack......

"As a result, I still failed to do anything, nothing to protect, nothing to keep......" Liu Qiba cried when he read this sentence in his heart.

Zilin, the opponent, made him feel hopeless; But Liu Qiba was not crying for the end of his defeat and death, but was sad for his powerlessness and the kindness that he could not repay until the end.

"Don't touch him!"

On the other hand, when Liu Qiba fell, Shimura shouted at Pang Haoye, who was about to go over to pick him up.

Pang Haoye is a particular person, he has seen that Liu Qiba is dying, and he doesn't want to watch the other party fall from the air and fall to pieces, and fall into an undignified death.

However, Shimura's reminder also makes sense: "Don't you see that the black thing may spread to others?" ”

He's right, it's a possibility......

As a result, Liu Qiba still fell heavily to the ground, broke his neck, and died on the spot.

Pang Haoye, Michelle, and Xiwen's faces all became not very good-looking, and they ...... Apparently they have lost their fighting spirit.

Only Shimura remained, and he still did not give up the fight.

Bang –

At this moment, more than ten meters away, another corpse suddenly fell from a high altitude, and just smashed on a car parked on the side of the road, smashing the car to pieces, but fortunately, there was no one in the car.

The crowd was not attracted by the movement, because they all knew it...... It should have been Tape's corpse that had fallen.

Zilin also ignored the situation over there, slowly walked out of the pit, and said, "Seven people, there are still four left, I think it's enough...... What do you think? ”

There were three people, bowing their heads and no longer speaking.

However, at this moment, Shimura actually showed a sneer.

"Huh...... Hehehe......" His laughter revealed a momentum as if he had won the game, "I think it's enough too......" He paused for two seconds, "According to my original assumption, only 'one' is enough, but unfortunately, just now Tape was lifted into the sky, and Bard was left with no bones left by you, so it's hard for me to do it...... But now, with one Liu Qiba and one Tapae, I have two corpses of top-level abilities around me...... Do you know what that means? ”

Zilin shrugged: "Knowing is knowing, but I don't want to interrupt your performance, so ...... You go on. ”

"Humph! I'm going to make you laugh right away! At this point, Shimura has already activated his own ability, "Soul Descent".

The effect of this ability is very simple, and it has not changed since the paper level, which is "Sacrifice a fresh human corpse and summon a heroic spirit who can fight for Shimura in a short time."

The strength of the heroic souls summoned by the soul is only related to the quantity and quality of the sacrifices, and has nothing to do with Shimura's ability level, that is...... The difference between the paper-level Shimura and the mad-level Shimura is only his own physical strength and energy level, and the effect of his abilities is always the same.

But Rao is like this, Shimura still trains himself to the mad level very diligently, after all, the body of the mad ability is more durable, and the aging speed will also slow down.

And the way he practiced to the mad level...... Without him, it is used a lot, a lot.

Shimura is a careless person who cares about human life, and behind his behavior of abusing and killing others at will, there is also a part of the motivation to exercise his ability.

Of course, in this process, he also did a lot of experiments and figured out the various characteristics of "soul descent".

First of all, to summon the heroic soul, you must use a "fresh corpse", that is, just dead, how long this "soon" is, there is no particularly precise time, but it is usually about thirty minutes, after this time, even if the corpse is frozen, embalmed, and made as if it was alive, it cannot be used as a sacrifice.

Secondly, the strength of the Heroic Soul summoned mainly depends on the "quality" of the sacrifice, and the quantity is a relatively minor condition.

For example, sacrificing an ordinary adult can summon a heroic soul whose combat ability reaches the level of a special soldier, but sacrificing ten such ordinary people, the combat power of the summoned heroic soul will not become ten times that of a special soldier, at most it will become a stronger special soldier......

If we continue to increase the quantity without improving the quality, there will be no leap in the increase in intensity; It is likely that there will be a situation where the corpses of a thousand ordinary people are sacrificed, and only one heroic soul of the same level ability can be summoned.

However, if among these thousand people, there is a person with the same level ability, then it may be possible to summon a strong heroic soul at once.

For example, if you sacrifice a person with the ability to create flames, then you may eventually summon a soul with a strong ability, and the ability is to create magma; And when plural sacrifices are offered, the situation is more complicated, a bit like some kind of "unrestricted fusion", full of unknown possibilities.

But...... This ability naturally has weaknesses as well.

First, only one Heroic Soul can exist at any one time, and even Shimura himself cannot dispel it until the time of the Heroic Soul's existence runs out; Of course, if the Heroic Soul is "beaten to ashes", or if Shimura himself dies, the Heroic Soul should disappear immediately.

Second, the used corpse can no longer be used (the sacrifice does not physically consume the corpse, so in a way it is not the corpse that is needed, but the "soul"), and the same corpse cannot be used as a sacrifice again and again, even if it takes less than thirty minutes.

Third, although the Heroic Soul does not need to rely on Shimura's physical strength and energy to maintain its activities, the act of "summoning" itself consumes a lot of physical energy, and Shimura has experimented that summoning twice in an hour is his limit.

Right now, Shimura doesn't have to think about the second and third weaknesses, because he used the corpses of Liu Qiba and Tapae all at once.

Zilin's strength is indeed beyond his imagination, but Shimura is confident, Liu Qiba, who has the fierce-level ability of "power of anger", plus the person with the ability of "multiplication", is also a fierce-level Tape...... With two corpses of this quality, it is definitely possible to summon an unprecedentedly powerful heroic soul.

You must know that the only time Shimura used the corpse of a fierce-level capable person to launch a soul descending before, he summoned a mad-level heroic soul that was much stronger than himself, and the sacrifice he used at that time was just an ability person who had just stepped into the threshold of the fierce level.

This time, he used two guard officers.

Even if there is a legendary "god-level" existence, Shimura will not find it strange.

…………

At the same time, the tea banquet headquarters, in the conference room.

Krauser was sitting there, leisurely waiting for the pot of coffee he ordered.

It naturally takes some time to brew a good pot of coffee, and for an organization like a tea party, the people invited by the kitchen will never be bad, so ...... They started by grinding the beans, which weren't even boiling yet.

Krauser also didn't speak to the "juniors" at the conference table, he felt that he couldn't speak; As for the others, they didn't talk to him, because they were all paying attention to the battle situation outside.

Although they couldn't see what was going on outside, most of them guessed that the situation might not be in their favor......

Thinking about it, it also understands that fighting against multiple guard officers on their own should be killed in seconds according to common sense, but they have waited for so long, the battle is not over, and none of the guard officers rushed in to save people...... This is probably a bad sign.

"Huh?"

Suddenly, Krauser let out a muffled moan of obvious confusion and surprise.

His reflection quickly attracted the attention of the entire table.

And just as everyone turned their eyes over, Mao Feng on the side also made an abnormal move: I saw him trembling and standing up from his seat and staggering back to the wall, as if instinctively staying away from something terrible......

"That'...... What is that? Mao Feng's face was pale, his eyes were full of fear, he turned his head blankly, looked at Krause, and asked such a headless question.

"You shouldn't have asked me this question, but I do know the ......answer," Krauser regained his usual composure when he replied, "Actually, I probably know the situation better than Daisuke Shimura himself, who summoned 'that guy'......"

"What are you talking about?" Muhammad also asked at this time, and although he could not perceive the situation outside, he undoubtedly discovered that something was happening at this moment that would have surprised Krause.

"Shimura seems to have summoned a very troublesome guy with his abilities." Krauser first replied, and then, in a thoughtful tone, said to himself, "Speaking of which...... what level did 'that guy' reach when he died...... I died earlier than him, I don't know......" He paused for half a second and frowned slightly, "Zilin won't die, right...... You're going to settle accounts with me that day. Speaking of this, he showed an expression of hindsight, "Huh? I seem to be in danger too......"