Chapter 17: White Mist and Black Crow, One Hundred Years of Solitude
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The white mist fills the air, and the black crows fly.
The country is vast and sparsely populated, with untouched forests, roaming elk, wolves and brown bears.
On the highway at night, a speeding car plays rock music, a pair of young men and women returning from drunkenness.
"Hey, Jenna please, let's change the song, I think he's holding the guitar and shaking his head there, like a psychopath in our hospital. ”
"Then why did you come? Well, since you don't like him so much. "Sitting in the passenger seat, a slightly chubby but very cute blonde girl was rocking her body, and she didn't turn off the stereo or change the song because of her boyfriend's words.
"You know, I've never been a fan of rock 'n' roll, and the reason I'm driving for two hours is because I love you...... Two hours to go and two hours to come back, for a total of four hours. As he said this, the man looked sideways at his girlfriend.
"Oh, well, clever answer. The girl smiled when she heard this, she turned off the stereo and leaned over at the same time, the two young people made out affectionately, and suddenly a figure appeared in the dense fog in front of the car, and he stood in the middle of the highway Bang!
"Oh!!no. The young man was too late to brake at the last moment, and the remaining car smashed the figure into the air, smashing it to the ground.
"Damn, damn it, it's too foggy. He slapped the steering wheel sharply, and then the young man, Jeff, after explaining a little to the girl named Jenna, pushed the car door and ran to the human body in the back of the car.
"Please, don't die, don't die. ”
"Hey!?ambulance, here, here...... Anyway, we bumped into someone...... Hurry up. Here's this, oh, yes, here's the winding mountain road in the town of White Falls. The blonde girl, Jenna, spoke incoherently.
By this time, her boyfriend, Jeff, had come to the injured man.
"Are you alright? I'm an intern, no matter how you feel right now, take a deep breath" Coming to the ground, Jeff was surprised not to see the blood on the ground that should have seeped and spread.
But he quickly approached the wounded, and when his palm touched the cold palm of the opponent, the wounded man who had fallen to the ground swooped forward and bit down on the side of his prey's neck, and the rather strong young man only struggled slightly, and then fell to the ground.
By this time, Jenna had already finished calling an ambulance, and she pushed the door open and walked out of the passenger seat. However, the girl searched around the car, but did not see her boyfriend or the injured person.
"Jeff, where are you, Jeff?" Jenna walked around the car twice, and a black shadow swooped down with a strong wind, and Jenna, who already faintly felt that something was wrong, turned around suddenly, but was instantly picked up by the black shadow, and the mobile phone in her hand "snapped" and fell on the ground of the road.
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In the early morning at the Holy Mountain Monastery, in the blacksmith's shop, a strong old blacksmith poured a round shield and mixed out the liquid, and the pungent smell spread, and there was a heavy sour smell.
It was a slightly purple round iron shield, and in the center of the shield was a huge skull head, Zhu Peng stepped forward to take the skull round shield in the blacksmith's hand, and with a twist of the mechanism, a circle of jagged sharp knives like fangs spread around the shield surface.
"The main ingredient is the swelling ancient corpse skull you brought, but I also added a lot of precious ingredients to it, anti-fire, anti-electricity, anti-ice, activate once it can make it forcibly eat the power of an attack, it can be activated twice a day, for ordinary demon hunters, this is an heirloom that can last a lifetime...... Don't forget that you owe me 50,000 gold scrolls and two demon bones of at least second-order quality. ”
Ignoring the old blacksmith's words, Zhu Peng quietly felt the touch, weight, and defense of the round shield, the round shield is more flexible than the tower shield and the kite-shaped shield, and even the unit strength is excellent, but the quality requirements for the shield maker are also higher, in case it is not used well, the round shield should be the most useless shield type.
With thinking, Zhu Peng threw out the round shield with sawtooth on all sides in his hand, and exhaled, the sawtooth round shield whistled in the wind, and it had to fly out far away, and it fell back into the hands of the master after a turn, showing excellent equipment stability.
"Fifty thousand gold scrolls, two demon bones of at least second-order quality, no problem. "The ranged attack ability of the paladin below the legendary level is extremely weak, although the jagged round shield in his hand will not make up for it too much, but it is always a threat to the ranged archer and spellcaster units, especially through quenching, temporary enhancement enchantment, etc.
When Zhu Peng left the blacksmith shop and returned to the dormitory, she unexpectedly saw Dilan leaning against the door alone, she looked a little sad and her face was a little pale......
"Hey, what's wrong? "I stepped forward and took out the key to open the door, and the room was filled with all kinds of herbs, glass bottles and beakers, but the smell was not unpleasant, but because of some kind of conscious mixing, the smell in the room was unusually fresh and clean.
"Treat me here as a trash can for negative emotions again, and plan to vent it well?"
"Looks like you don't know, oh, our mentors Bethes and Lordas were found to be the Fallen, they killed a professor who was tracking them down, and then ran away, and now the monastery is offering a bounty for both of them. As he spoke, Dilan handed the newspaper in his hand to Zhu Peng, and Zhu Peng took it and skimmed through it, and then he put it aside.
"The professor was brave, but too impulsive and reckless. "Before entering the legend, there is no qualitative gap between the first, second, and third-order lifeforms themselves, and a third-order powerhouse who has experienced a hundred battles may be stabbed in the back by someone he trusts, especially a professor who has not participated in the battle for a long time, when facing the various weird and bizarre abilities of the fallen and the fierce and decisive killing intent, even if the real strength is stronger, the possibility of being forcibly overturned is too high.
"They used all sorts of methods to falsify and refresh their mission records, and by the time they were discovered, the two guys had killed nearly twenty interns in a few years. Wei Xi, if you hadn't accompanied us to complete that task last time, we would all have died, right?" Di Lan, who had smashed herself into the sofa after handing over the newspaper after entering the room, said quietly, Zhu Peng could clearly feel that her mood was abnormally low.
"It's not necessarily my reason, maybe those two guys think you are not easy to deal with, and they are afraid that they will slip through the net, so they choose to stop halfway, what, are you going to chase and kill those two guys?"
"Messi has a broken hand...... Half of her ten years of hard work were wasted, and Kudas comforted her on the surface of that crumb, but I had a little sister who told me he was dating a senior sister, shit, this damn crumb, but I can't tell Messi. As he spoke, Dilan cried, Zhu Peng frowned slightly, then walked over and grabbed the girl's shoulders and dragged her up, he leaned between the girl's mouth and nose and sniffed gently.
“...... Dilan, don't lie to me, you're not drugged. "Dylan's mood is too erratic and deranged, and there are indeed quite a few Demon Hunters who are addicts/drunkards/gamblers.
"I'm sorry, Vesie, but that's the only one that makes me feel a little better right now. I, I'm going crazy. "Remorse, self-blame, pain, powerlessness, these strong negative emotions are indeed about to drive a little girl in her twenties crazy.
"That kind of thing won't really help you solve the problem after all, what's the point of escaping? People's emotions are kept at an average value most of the time, there is a trough, and there is a trough, and you can forcibly stimulate your emotions with medicine, so that you can get excited and excited, and when your emotions fall back to the trough, that unusually uncomfortable feeling of emptiness will make you want to die. Looking at the girl in front of her who had completely collapsed and lost her mind, Zhu Peng knew that even if she took off her pants at this time, she didn't know how to refuse, a guy who was completely washed away by emotions and feelings, there was no human will at all.
Shaking his head, Zhu Peng stepped aside to cook the noodles, and then he took two large bowls and came to the girl and handed her a bowl.
Dilan didn't seem to have eaten for a day, plus Zhu Peng cooked the noodles very fragrantly, the girl picked up the fork and swallowed it in a big gulp, she was aroused by the chili pepper and vinegar in the noodles to the point of snot and tears, but wiped it with her sleeve, and still gulped down the piping hot noodle soup, and the feeling of the hot soup flowing into her body made Dilan feel as if she was alive again.
"For the sake of so many years of friendship, I will accommodate you for the last time. But if you take the medicine again next time, please don't come to my house, let alone appear in front of me. After saying this, Zhu Peng pushed the drowsy Dilan down on the sofa, took off her shoes, and found a thicker dress to cover the girl. A girl who is serious, strong, and has a sense of justice, Zhu Peng still appreciates it very much after all, so he is kind enough to enlighten her, or in other words, an old man in his two hundreds will inevitably have a time when he will be a good teacher.
Dilan's biggest mistake is that she is too anxious, just after graduation, she pulled a group of people to start taking over the college tasks, the normal process should be that newcomers go around to submit resumes for the elderly to bring, the treatment requirements for good grades are higher, and the treatment requirements for poor grades are lower.
Men are diligent and hard-working, and beautiful girls who have a lower concept of chastity will learn faster when they sleep with the teacher, have a higher safety factor, and are easier to teach.
And Dylan is proud, these have not suffered any setbacks, she directly crossed too many steps that should be followed, and directly formed her own demon hunter team, it is too common for death and disability to occur, or those veteran demon hunter teams can't completely avoid such things, this is after all the work of licking blood from the knife edge.
Dilan has always wanted to pull Zhu Peng into the gang, but Zhu Peng did not agree, he did not come to this world to see the child, he chose to complete the task alone, and at the same time began to collect the information of the fire nineteen years ago, Wei Xi's personal entrustment was completed first, and then he made every effort to lock the spatial plane coordinates of this world, as for Charlotte, instead of deliberately looking for it without a clue, he would naturally meet him in the process of locking the world plane coordinates, Zhu Peng fell in the Western Hemisphere, and Charlotte fell to the Eastern Hemisphere It is also very possible, especially Charlotte's spy shadow is still extremely picky, and the essentia energy is finally insufficient, she is forced to bounce back, this situation may also happen。
Charlotte has some psychological cleanliness habits, and forces Zhu Peng to clean her whole body every day, which is one of her few shortcomings...... Or, there are no shortcomings at all.
After a period of time, the demon hunter team formed by Dylan was still on the verge of collapse after all, at the beginning, this group of young people felt that it was very good, they didn't have to be exploited by their predecessors, and the mission income was relatively high, but once something happened, a disabled person like the assassin Messi Dylan couldn't arrange it at all, even if she had done her best, in the end, it was just a little more money to give Messi a little more money by emptying her net worth.
Seeing Messi's tragic situation, the rest of the team also began to retreat, the veteran demon hunter team system is relatively complete, the social relationship network is huge, even if there is a similar problem, there is a place to settle the bottom, or with the veteran to do some relatively safe tasks, the probability of accidents is also lower, Dilan is strong, firm, but still can't stop the team's star stream scattered.
"Knock knock!"
"Who?"
There was a slight knock on the door, and Zhu Peng leaned back from the computer and asked.
“...... Senior Vicsi, I, I'm Kelly. ”
(Kelly!?) thought for a while, Zhu Peng only remembered Di Lan's best friend, who obviously looked like a child, but her breasts were unusually plump and strong, according to Di Lan, it was originally an airport, a gas bag, and she held and kneaded it for two years into a small cow and a gas bag, it seems that no matter how it changes, the attributes of its air bag are fixed.
Open the door and look at the small gas bag outside the door...... Oh, it's Kelly.
"How did you find this? Come in and sit. Zhu Peng leaned sideways and let Kelly into the room, while he returned to his seat to watch the "Beast Attack Tragedy" that happened on the winding mountain road in Baipu Town.
The whole scene is miserable, the couple seems to have been torn apart by some unknown large beast, the whole murder scene is full of a terrifying beast and madness, but the strange thing is that the car they are driving obviously has traces of impact, the windshield is full of cracks, but there is no body of the beast at the scene.
"Senior Weixi. ”
"Hmm!?Oh, Kelly, I'm sorry, I didn't react to it when I was thinking about things, are you drinking coffee or soda?" patting his forehead, Zhu Peng, who had roughly set the next task goal in his heart, stood up and began to greet the younger student.
"I, can I follow you? You can give me the minimum allocation, twenty-eight points, not nineteen points, I want to follow you on the mission. "It's like summoning the courage of a lifetime, little blonde cow...... Oh, it was Kelly who said so seriously, her eyes were staring directly at Zhu Peng, and her little fists were shaking with her clenched hands.
He looked at Kelly, and then at the computer screen.
"Let's drink soda, my classmate brought me a box but I haven't drunk a bottle, I hope you will like it. ”
"Ahh ”
"Electricity, Fire and Ice, which department do you major in?What spell is you best at, and what equipment do you have at the moment?"
"I major in fire, and I also cultivate ice defense spells, and my best spell is fireball, and I am currently equipped with a magic ring...... I threw fireballs very accurately, as long as I was not nervous, and the accuracy rate of hitting moving targets was also above 95, which was the most accurate fireball smashing in our class. It seems that she also knows that her data is a bit miserable, and Kelly hurriedly added her own advantage project.
In fact, Kelly came to find only a few sides of the relationship of the senior Wei Xi is also no way, Sister Dilan's team is panicked, obviously about to break up, and she needs work and money, but Kelly is nervous when she is with strangers, so she plays abnormally, after interviewing a few veteran witchers, people find that they are nervous, either directly brush themselves off, or obviously have other thoughts in their hearts, and the angry bag Kelly who was forced to be anxious recalled the mission a few months ago, and when he was with Senior Weixi, he didn't seem to be nervous at all!
"19, 28 or anything else is not necessary. Divide the account four or six, and at the same time I want to have the absolute right to dispose of the items, don't be happy yet, you and I will perform a mission together first, and I will keep you if you can, if you can't, the first time is the last time. Looking at the crime scene in the computer monitor, Zhu Peng estimated in his heart that he did need a long-range high-attack assistant, and Di Lan was a good choice, but her paladin profession overlapped with Zhu Peng's profession.
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Two days later, at night, on a winding road, a dilapidated jeep drove at high speed in the dense fog.
"Senior Weixi, you didn't take the task either, why did you come here?" Kelly, who had just become someone's assistant, asked suspiciously, she no longer seemed so tight in the past two days.
"If you want to use the rules, you must first understand the rules, don't you know? If you can preempt the academy's task release and solve the problem first, then the task rating can be increased by one, in other words, the bonus of the C-level task B-level, and the A-level fund of the B-level task. ”
"But didn't the report say it was a big beast attack?"
"So where is the beast that was hit? Can you tell me what normal creature has obvious marks on the front of the car after being hit by a high-speed car and it is unharmed? brown bear?" In the course of the conversation, they came to the scene of the murder, and after parking the jeep on the side of the road, a man and a woman got out of the car, and the place had been very clean, and there was no trace of two people dying here on the clean road.
"It's unlikely that there will be any traces left, but I'll look for it carefully. If you can't find a clue, then start the search from the nearest cemetery, the police will not search the cemetery, but we must search. Armed with a flashlight, the two men began to search for each other, and in the thick forest fog there was a black crow flying, which from time to time landed on a branch and watched the two humans below, in the east such birds are called death birds, and they are regarded as a symbol of imminent death as soon as they appear.
(If that thing had dared to come out and attack us directly, it would have been much easier.) However, it seems to be restraining its appetite and has a certain rationality. Since ancient times, the demons in the heavenly plane are definitely one of the best fighting races, put demons, devils, and angels in an area and let them strangle each other, and most of the time they crawl out are demons, but their brains are often not very good, or they rely on violence, and they directly use violence to solve everything they encounter, but the higher the level of the demon, the more they can break through the innate limitations and have their own reason, when a big demon can be as cunning as the devil, then its strength must be terrifying.
At the same time, demons who have the reason to restrain their own ** needs often have the potential to be promoted to high-level demons, just like the opponents of Zhu Peng and Kai Li this time.
After searching around with a flashlight, about half an hour later, Zhu Peng dug up a smartphone with a shattered display in the yellow forest leaves. The holy light between Zhu Peng's fingers spread slightly, and there was a slight crackling sound around the smartphone, although it was only for a moment, it was enough for Zhu Peng to be sure that it was indeed what he was looking for...... The remnants of death, resentment, and attachment to consciousness are repulsing the Light energy.
(Just use a little and save a little.) With this thought, Zhu Peng turned the fate card, and in an instant, a huge amount of information flashed in front of his eyes, the concert, Jeff, the thick fog, the figure, and the hostess's last dying scream, all of which converged into a white line in Zhu Peng's eyes that extended from his feet to the distance, and with the continuous promotion of Zhu Peng's life body rank, the power of the fate card became stronger and stronger. More than a hundred years ago, Zhu Peng felt that the demon card was the strongest, the fate card was second, and the oath card was the weakest, more than a hundred years later, with his own promotion to the demigod rank, the power of the fate card became stronger and stronger, and the oath effect of the oath card became stronger and stronger, but the demon card did not change much, of course, it itself has little room for change, just a set of hidden demon blood.
"Let's go, Kelly, I think I've found a clue. "In the middle of the night, along the line of the dark white pillar of light, the fog is thick, the cold wind is more and more biting, the black crows are flying, the flamboyant wings are like the wings of death, and there will be souls returning to the underworld tonight.
"Kelly, shoot all the crows that are close to us with a fire bomb, don't you say that your fire skills are very high? Although she didn't understand why, Kelly still complied with Zhu Peng's request, and the flames flowed between her slender and white palms, shooting out one by one, instantly beating the black crows on the surrounding branches to a half-ripe state.
Walked all the way for five miles, passing by the ancient tomb of the town, and encountered the old grave keeper, the old man held a shovel and looked at the strange men and women without fear, Kelly playfully stuck out her tongue to the old man, and then followed Zhu Peng, who ignored the other party at all, left, and finally the two came to a dilapidated stone tower, where you can still vaguely see the grandeur of the past, but the glory is gone, and what remains is more traces of fire.
"What are you doing here, reporter or detective?" The old man's voice sounded behind him, Zhu Peng slowly turned around when he heard this, but what he saw was the old man who was holding a shovel just now, but what he was holding at this moment was no longer a shovel, but a shotgun, the one that sprayed iron sand to cover the blow.
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"Whether it's a reporter or a detective, it doesn't seem to be the jurisdiction of your old man, your scope of duty seems to be in that cemetery, is it really okay for you to leave there so late?" squinted his eyes slightly, staring at the old man in front of him, he used to be a strong man, and the traces of the former handsome man could be vaguely seen in his face, but he was now old, and the hand he used to hold the sword was now holding a shotgun and still trembling faintly.
"It is my duty to protect the peace of all the dead in this town, in this area. And I've got a gun in my hand, so you'd better listen to me. ”
"You don't have it now. Zhu Peng raised his hand and threw a black piece of iron, snapping the shotgun in the grave keeper's hand to the ground, the old man quickly bent down to pick it up, but the two flying knives had already been nailed to the side of the shotgun first, and his figure froze at this moment.
"Don't waste time, that old-fashioned shotgun in your hand doesn't even have the same range as a throwing weapon, and can rip your throat whenever I want. Take a sip of the bar, it's such a cold day, you're so old. The first piece of iron that Zhu Peng threw out was a gray square wine jug, he took medicine and wine for a long time to strengthen his fists and help his qi and blood, but he never drank too much.
The old man's figure froze for a moment, and then he gave up his intention to pick up the shotgun, and instead picked up the gray tin flask, unscrewed the lid and poured himself a sip, unlike any wine he had drunk before, but it was hot and strong, and his body warmed up in an instant.
"Whew...... Say, what the hell do you want to know?"
"About the burned tower, about the two young men who died some time ago, and maybe about you. ”
"And about me, I'm just a more dutiful grave keeper. ”
"Judging from your hands and body, you should be an excellent warrior in iron armor and wielding a great sword in the prime of life...... It's been 200 years, and a legendary warrior ended up guarding the grave with a shotgun, telling me that you are poor, 200 years of wealth accumulation, 200 years of network accumulation, 200 years of rich experience, even if you are about to die, your wisdom can still make you live more comfortably than most people in this world. "Zhu Peng and Kelly turned their backs to the tower and faced the old man guarding the tomb, and the suspicions on his body were really more bizarre than the tower pointed to by the fate card.
"What is the so-called wisdom, I was an idiot when I was young, and it is still a rare opportunity to have two wonderful young men like you listen to me tell the old stories of the past on a night like this. ”
"About two hundred years ago, on the eve of the Revolution, the last glorious years of the feudal aristocracy, the land you tread on belonged to the glorious Countess Dracula, who was famous for her beauty and modest manners at a young age, and whose education was cruel but also taught her nobility and dignity...... But I am afraid that it is also because of this anti-anachronistic tide of prosperity, when the entire aristocratic class is weakening, the Dracula family is too conspicuous and dazzling, and in a war, the Count of Dracula, who never loses, was killed in battle. The countess inherited his name and surname, and became the most powerful and wealthy lady of her time. ”
At a court banquet, the countess met the handsome and amorous young nobleman Istfan, and the two fell in love, but the affair between the two was firmly opposed by István's father, who forcibly sent his son abroad and prepared a younger marriage for him. The countess could not accept the loss of her lover and the pain of the loss of youth, and in order to regain her beauty, the countess secretly murdered six hundred and fifty virgins and bathed them in their blood. ”
"In the end, when the secret was revealed, the kingdom, the people, and the nobles all sided against her, and even the countess's beloved lover, István, accused her of the crime...... At the end of the story, the grave keeper in front of Zhu Peng and Kaili obviously couldn't control his emotions, and all the secrets seemed to be gradually sorted out with this story.
“...... You, are you Istfan?You finally performed a forbidden ritual to wake up the lover who died for you?" When she said this, the eyes of the little cow Kelly were a little tearful, and the woman seemed to be the most unbearable for this kind of story of a man falling for love, but Zhu Peng shook his head lightly on one side and sighed.
"Little girl, I'm sorry that my answer shattered your yearning for a beautiful love story. But as a witcher, you should have basic logical reasoning skills, is it possible for Istfan, who only talks about romance and loves to seduce women, to become a legendary warrior?"
"It's me, it's Count Dracula who has come back again, the king's poison has not poisoned me, the weak old thief can't understand the vitality and desire to survive of a powerful warrior, I have broken through the third order under the tempering of the poison and become a legend! Wake up, Elizabeth, let me see you again. ”
Bang!
In the tower behind Zhu Peng and Kelly, a wooden plank on the ground suddenly exploded, and a ghostly and ghost-like shadow burst out, reaching out with sharp claws and slamming into the back of Kelly's neck.
At the same time, Count Dracula also pounced on his shotgun, he was indeed so weak that he could die at any time, as a legendary warrior who could not wear heavy armor or hold a big sword, he actually wanted to obtain the last combat power with gunpowder weapons, which was a humiliation that many powerful warriors in the Middle Ages would rather die than bear, just like no one in the Dan Division would use firearms and weapons, without that stubbornness, and could not cultivate to a high and profound realm.
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