Chapter Seventy-Four: Playmates
The dilapidated grass hut, I don't know if there is a size of ten square meters, and the roof is in disrepair and leaking rain.
There are few daily necessities in the house, which perfectly interprets what it means to be "surrounded by four walls", and the dirt road outside the door is filled with the fragrance of feces and urine in the rain... It's a bit of a misappropriation to call it a "slum", and a "pigsty" is a bit more appropriate.
Because the room had no windows, even during the day, it was dark and rumbling. In the pouring rain, the only beam of sunlight shining through the hole that I don't know if it could become a "door", a middle-aged woman was kneeling there, prostrating repeatedly.
"That bastard old man, I only have a butt of debts and I have to support my two daughters... Officer, let's spare the little one!! ”
"I... I'm forced to do it!! ”
"Wow, your daughter is still quite smart, isn't she?"
"Hey, hey, hey, sir, you're laughing, if you need it, it's no problem to let the little girl serve the two, you two, please rest assured, they are very strict-mouthed! Just hold yourself high... Eh, what are you doing?? Killing!! Violent law enforcement!! ”
"Click."
"Officer, please do well, I'm up and down, I'm old and young..."
"Look." In the shadows near the door, sitting on a bench with only three legs left, Xue Qiong crossed Erlang's legs and smoked, "It's so obvious, I can get it out with one sentence, you still have to waste five minutes of my time, are you interesting?" ”
"And." Shifting his center of gravity and tilting the chair slightly in the direction of the few legs, Xue Qiong leaned down and said to the middle-aged woman who was cuffed by her hands and fell to the ground trying to splash and roll: "This is not a police officer, he is just a fool who has to jump out and stir me up every time... You can resist with confidence, and it doesn't count as attacking the police. ”
"Of course it's necessary!! If she's just a poor person who can't be forced, then you're the most shameful accomplice!! A stout young man dressed as a textbook cowboy with a rock-like Oriental face, shouted righteous words, and at the same time pressed down the middle-aged woman on the ground, and at the same time had to keep his eyes on the two girls who were not very good-looking in the corner, to prevent them from making any drastic moves.
And he seems to have been accustomed to Xue Qiong's easy operation, and he is not even there when he complains.
What he didn't notice was that when his attention shifted to the corner, a gleam flashed in the eyes of the aunt who was rolling on the ground.
But Xue Qiong saw it. Not only that, but he also sensed something else, but he just raised his eyebrows, and as if nothing had happened, he continued: "Oh, maybe she is forced to become this kind of 'can betray her dear daughter at any time'?" ”
"Even then..."
It was too late to say that, the young man's mouth spit out three words, and the aunt, who was originally pressed downwards, suddenly turned one hundred and eighty degrees in a way that the human body would never do, and shot a deadly ice pick from his mouth towards his face!!
Although the young man reacted quickly and hurriedly dodged sideways, he had no choice but to have a bloody cut on his face, and the aunt with a strange bone took the opportunity to break free from his grip and jumped up from the ground at once.
Auntie's hands were waving rapidly, and at the same time, the two "daughters" in the corner of the wall who were almost "sold" by her two minutes ago suddenly made a completely different "Qiqi click" sound, the upper jaw was separated, the mouth was opened exaggeratedly, and several dark cabins were opened on the not plump chest, and dozens of emerald green poisonous arrows shot towards the two like rainstorm pear blossoms!!
With such a close distance, it was almost impossible to dodge, and the two of them were shot into two hedgehogs almost instantly!!
"Hahaha!!" The middle-aged woman reversed her embarrassment just now, stood in the middle of the room and smiled, "Stupid!! How dare you resist that adult, and let you die today... Well?! ”
Auntie's originally proud look suddenly changed.
The young man's horse was steady, and a faint golden light floated on his body, and he could see that the poisoned arrows had not actually penetrated an inch into his skin, and had already fallen one after another.
On Xue Qiong's side, except for the few that shot at his head, which were slid away by a few black, greasy-looking energy, the torso was really pierced into a hedgehog... Fortunately, he was sitting, and the attack surface was smaller, and I saw him pull out the poisonous arrows that pierced his body one by one, and said regretfully: "Cut... It's just a little minion, huh? ”
Even if Xue Qiong temporarily gave up most of the abilities of the "Gene Master", there was no doubt that his body would have been invulnerable to all poisons for a long time.
Moreover, during this time, he also discovered a very interesting property of the small chalice in his body - although it is not linked to the big chalice outside, the small chalice itself, as an important part of the super ritual, is extremely difficult to destroy after it is formed, and because it "longs to be completed", it even has the ability to partially repair itself, and extends this property to its carrier, Xue Qiong's body... Part of the reason why Sakura is so difficult to kill is because of this characteristic, and this is one of the few benefits of being a small chalice carrier.
But this characteristic is actually not very obvious, in fact, if the little chalice in Xue Qiong's body is not the final perfect version improved by Lu Ziqiao, and these crossbow arrows in order not to occupy space in the receiver, and in order to save costs, the shape is the simplest round tip, which can only cause the most basic puncture wounds, if it is a wolf tooth arrow or bullet with a barb, Xue Qiong really has to drink two pots... In the end, if he wasn't in the current state of extreme lack of magic power, he wouldn't have noticed this kind of thing at all, because most of the situation could be solved with a single telekinetic shield.
As for the pain of ten thousand arrows piercing his body, although the effect is not as good as before, he used the personality reconstruction plan to shield the pain from it.
"Well, you've me off. The days when you can get away with it are over today!! ”
"Not only that..."
Cowboy snapped his fingers, "Ice magician, puppeteer, and self-remodeling... It seems that it will take a bit of effort to find out who is behind you, huh? ”
Xue Qiong lazily answered, "No, no, no, I'll fight and ask you to come, and then I'll directly tie her back to close the case, I still want to live a few more years..."
“…….”
"Caught! The murderer of that serial murder! The old rule, just go back and give me half of the bounty! ”
As the sun set, at the gate of the police station in New Seattle City, the Oriental Cowboy threw the dying aunt in and patted Xue Qiong on the shoulder, "Let's go for a drink?" I'm in for a treat! ”
"Nope." Xue Qiong's eyes were blank, "I want to sleep." ”
"Cut..."
didn't see the goods, Xue Qiong entered the door and said a few words to the sheriff, filled out a few forms, and got off work in the not very thick twilight.
Raising his head and glancing at the slanting sun on the horizon, Xue Qiong silently calculated how many seconds there was outside this day, and then put his hands in his pockets and disappeared into the narrow street.
In this world, Xue Qiong has been living for half a year.
Of course, he also directly asked at the beginning how fast the flow of time was, and knowing that the truth of this world had already been recognized by Xue Qiong, Lu Ziqiao also bluntly told him that one day is equal to one year with some kind of "voice from heaven"... Otherwise, if Xue Qiong cared about things outside, he really couldn't put his mind at ease and play this game with him.
The sudden loss of a large amount of mana on the day of waking up never happened again, but it was a slow drain, and Xue Qiong could also guess that it was because Xiao Yun used a curry stick.
This made him, who had already activated the black light virus in the original form of torture and killing in order to ensure the supply of energy, give up the plan to infect the entire city and use it as his brood to provide magic power, and instead focused on another part of the gameplay provided to him by Lu Ziqiao - looking for the strong and tempering himself with battle.
The world designed by Lu Ziqiao is still very interesting.
This seems to be North America, a wasteland after a nuclear war, people who have been bombed back to the Stone Age, after several generations of the law of the jungle, the knowledge of basic education has been completely disconnected, only to gather around some large industrial facilities that have not been destroyed, and re-establish civilization... So although the city where he is located, known as New Seattle, has become the largest city within thousands of kilometers with a pre-war nuclear reactor and a battery factory, everyone here knows it but does not know why, and the real science and technology and social level are still very primitive.
What's even more interesting is that since "decades ago", a large group of traversers have also popped up here, bringing a bunch of strange things, including magic, making it possible for all kinds of strange powerhouses to emerge in every corner of this place...
This whole world is completely a specially designed testing ground.
At the beginning, in order to find an opponent, Xue Qiong was still like a superhero in this new Seattle city, hunting around the up-and-coming guys, and by the way, absorbing a few ordinary people every day to replenish his energy - or in fact, it can be said the other way around, because those up-and-coming guys basically didn't do anything good, so he would look like a superhero.
But then he felt that it was too troublesome, so he took the initiative to find the city here to ask for Zhao'an (of course, by the way, he made up some miserable life stories), and became a special police officer with strong strength but a very salty mentality... It is for this kind of character that he will say lines like "don't let me know what I shouldn't know".
The biggest advantage of entering the system is that the intelligence is much more convenient, and he only needs to sit in the office every day to drink tea and read the newspaper, and the information of the prey will be sent to the door.
Relying on the non-stop hunting of opponents, in the past six months, Xue Qiong really feels that he has improved a lot in terms of the most basic energy control, and he is quite satisfied with the progress of this "game".
As for the cowboy...
In an alley, Xue Qiong, who had changed his face, had just absorbed a certain citizen to the point that there was nothing left. Enjoying the slight "satiety" brought by "eating", he curled the corners of his mouth.
This "playmate", which was obviously designed by Lu Ziqiao, can be described as full of slots.
He's a time-traveler full of superhero feelings... That's fine.
But that's where the normal part ends.
Not to mention that he claims to be from a relatively normal earth, China at the end of the 20th century had a name like "Cankilo", which is rare even in Western countries, and this guy is still a hot-blooded hero-type character... This alone almost means endless funny plots.
And if you want to find out the most slotty part of this thing, it is that he "will always listen to the nonsense of the villain"...