Chapter 358: The Mutated Man
In the face of the female leader's aggressiveness, Leo's expression also became a little serious, which was diametrically opposed to the relaxed attitude he had just had on the next level.
When he saw this female leader in the shelter before, this female leader was just a strong ordinary warrior, but now although she has no special strength, it makes Leo feel very dangerous, and this feeling of danger has not been felt for a long time, and he feels that if he does not deal with it seriously, he is afraid that his life will be in danger.
Leo adjusted his mentality, turned the twins in his hand into the mode of a cross sword, and then according to the etiquette of a knight, he saluted the other party, and then put on a most ordinary knight's defensive sword posture.
Although it is only the most ordinary defensive sword posture, it is the most flawless defensive sword posture, and without knowing the opponent's ability, using this sword posture to defend against counterattack is the most appropriate tactical means for him.
Seeing Leo put on such a formal fighting posture, the female leader also became extremely serious, and was not in a hurry to attack, and walked around Leo slowly twice, as if looking for a flaw in Leo's defense.
When she moved to Leo's right side, she suddenly paused, kicked the ground with her right foot, and the whole person turned into a flash of light, and rushed to Leo's front in the blink of an eye, and the spear in her hand was also aimed at Leo's left waist at the same time, and the part below her elbow stabbed over.
Leo's movements were no slower than his opponent's, his left elbow swung out with his body, his arm slashed his sword towards the shaft of the spear, and his right hand followed him like a poisonous bee, stabbing the female leader's eye.
In fact, the best target of Leo's attack should be the heart, after all, the heart target is large, and it is not easy to climb the mountain, but the problem is that the other party is a mutant human, whether the other party's heart is still fatal, in case it is not a vital point after being stabbed, then he is completely passive, so he chooses to attack the opponent's eyes instead, no matter what the final result is, he can deal with it.
It's just that what he didn't expect was that the other party didn't dodge his attack at all, neither saw the left-handed longsword slapping towards the shaft of the spear, nor did he see the right-hand longsword stabbing over, as if he had committed suicide and continued to attack him.
Although Leo already sensed that there was something wrong, he didn't have time to think about it, and the long sword in his hand continued to attack according to the original idea.
Then, as he expected, the opponent's spear was slapped away by his long sword, completely deviated from the direction, and stabbed into the open space on the side, and at the same time, the long sword in his right hand also successfully stabbed the target, directly into the opponent's eye, and pierced through the skull.
At this point in the battle, life and death have been separated, but Leo's expression did not relax at all, but gave up the long sword in his right hand, and his body retreated rapidly, instantly pushing out more than ten meters, and at the same time as he retreated, the tip of the female leader's spear disappeared, and appeared at the same time where Leo stood before, if Leo did not retreat, then this spear would be directly pierced into Leo's head.
"You're very powerful!" Leo apparently dodged decisively beyond the female leader's expectations, and with a long sword on her skull, she turned to look at Leo with one eye and said, "When I kill you, I will hang your head in my ......"
Before she finished speaking, she suddenly stopped, as if she had heard something, with a respectful look on her face, and then a reluctant expression, and glared at Leo fiercely with one eye, raised her hand and pulled out the long sword stuck in her head, and while the wound healed quickly, she threw the long sword back to Leo, and said, "Mama wants to see you, go up yourself!"
Leo took the sword, turned his head slightly to look at the stairs, and then looked back at the female leader, and saw that the wound on the other's head had completely healed, and he couldn't help but feel a little glad in his heart.
I have to say that if he didn't use other means, Leo didn't have the slightest confidence that he would be able to defeat the female leader in front of him, and even he felt that he might be familiar, because through the fight just now, he could be sure that the other party's body was really a super healing body, or even stronger than a super healing body.
As long as the healing factors in the body still have energy to operate, and the destruction factors of external factors do not exceed the limit of the healing factors, then they will age and die forever, even if there is only one hair left, then they can also be completely resurrected.
When he was in the Earth Federation, Leo encountered several enemies with this kind of super healing body, these people are very difficult to deal with, and each time they brought huge casualties to Leo's team, only by throwing all the bodies of these people into the sun and burning, or using the Star Destroyer Cannon to carry out an area attack, can completely kill this kind of enemy.
And the female leader's body is much stronger than the super-self-healing body in terms of self-healing, at least the super-self-healing body can't be able to think and act normally after being attacked through the brain like her, and it is impossible to heal the wound so quickly like her, it is obvious that there are other forces involved in this.
If the battle does not stop, even if Leo is confident that the person who will finally enjoy the victory will still be himself, but the body will inevitably be hurt, and it will be very serious, even to the soul, because the spear in the female leader's hand that can penetrate the space gives him this feeling of extreme danger.
Badly wounded elsewhere, maybe nothing, but here, in the city of Yam, which he still couldn't figure out the details of, and where all kinds of dangers were so strange, that being seriously wounded was basically equivalent to death, so ending the battle was not a bad thing for him.
After turning the twins back into fist mode, Leo didn't say much, turned around and walked up the stairs, straight up.
The third floor of the tower, which had been a chapel for collective prayer, had been converted into a trophy displayer, and the surrounding walls were covered with the heads of all sorts of monsters, even some of which were hung from the roof, and all of them, without exception, had a hole pierced in their foreheads.
Leo's gaze swept across the showroom, and his attention paused for a moment on the heads of several extremely striking monsters. The reason why his attention stayed on these monster heads was because he had seen these monsters, or rather had seen the original form of these monsters.
The Kanters, a cosmic civilization that uses banditry as the code of civilization, are also the largest slave traders in the universe.
Although there are a large number of irregular mutations on the heads of these monsters, several major features, such as the organs of the six eyes, the head with obvious features, and so on, all indicate to Leo that these monsters are the product of the mutation of the Canters.
Leo didn't have time to guess why the Kanter people appeared here and why they mutated, he only cared about the Eyeless Mama on his waist later, because compared to the combat effectiveness shown by the female leader downstairs, if the Eyeless Mama also had a mutation, then the power she gained was probably stronger than that of the female leader, and if the relationship became hostile, then Leo would have to pay a lot of price if he wanted to leave here smoothly.
With concern in his heart, Leo continued to walk up, and soon he came to the place where the Eyeless Mama lived on the top floor.
Pushing open the door, Leo stepped inside, his gaze quickly scanning the room, and finally landing on the person dressed as a nun kneeling in front of the shrine not far away.
It was a little different from what Leo had guessed, there was no mutation on Mama Eyeless, no different from the Eyeless Mama he had seen before he left the tower, but when Mama Eyeless looked up at him, he found Mama Eyeless's mutated organs, and her eyes, a pair of marble-like eyes, were also the source of the petrified power in the city.
When Eyeless Mama aimed her marble eyes at Leo, Leo immediately felt that the petrified power around him instantly increased by a hundredfold. If it had been placed before, this petrification force might have been able to make Leo suffer, even if it was blocked by various forces such as psionic energy, there would definitely still be signs of petrification in many places in the body.
However, now with the eyeball sent by the Lord of Turbidity and Lightness, the powerful petrification force immediately disappeared as soon as it approached Leo.
"I'm sorry, I haven't seen anyone else in a long time and have forgotten that my eyes can hurt people. Eyeless Mama's gaze only lingered on Leo for a moment, and then immediately moved away, and while explaining, she asked a little anxiously, "Mr. Leo, how are you doing?"
Whether Eyeless Mama did it unintentionally just now, or whether it was intentionally tempted, Leo couldn't tell, he could only follow the other party's question, and said truthfully: "It's nothing, there is nothing wrong with my body." Then he asked in a deep voice, "What the hell is going on here?" I remember I was only away for a while?"
"For a while?" Eyeless Mama smiled bitterly and said, "Mr. Leo, your moment has been our hundreds of years. ”
As she spoke, Eyeless turned around and looked at the Victim Idol in the shrine in a prayerful posture again, and Leo noticed that the Victim Idol had become different from the normal Victim Statue.
The normal statue of the victim is usually an old man with various abscesses on his body, and the look on the old man's face is not painful, only compassion for all those who are suffering.
It's just that now the statue of the victim is a sturdy young man, bound by various chains, and there is no pity on his face, but full of unwillingness and anger, and what is more interesting is that this young man's appearance is somewhat similar to Leo, or it can be said that he is the victim he saw in the world in the White City before.
"You don't have to worry, I have no ill will towards you. After a moment of silence, Eyeless Mama suddenly spoke: "Your act of killing the lantern man has attracted the attention of some beings, in order to prevent you from being discovered by those beings, I have to use my power to interfere with the perception of those beings, although I am not a good place here, but at least it is safe, if you are tired from fighting outside, you can come to my place to rest." ”
"Thank you. Leo didn't quite understand what Eyeless Mama's purpose was, so he could only echo and thank him, and then said, "I killed ...... just below."
Eyeless Mama interrupted Leo's words, sighed, and said: "It's okay, it's a good thing for him, after all, he is too painful, it's a pity that Joan and I can't hurt little Peter, we can only bind him here, you killed him, in fact, you are helping him to get free, and I should thank you." ”
Leo was silent for a moment, then asked again, "What the hell is going on here?"
Eyeless Mama sighed again and said, "It's nothing, it's just that the shelter has existed for too long, too long, so long that people's hearts are rotten, and in the end there is no need for enemy attacks, and the strong castle will collapse from the inside." ”
Leo could feel that Eyeless Mama was reluctant to talk more about the fall of the shelter, and her expression became extremely sad, and from her response, it was not difficult to hear that the collapse of the shelter was the work of those who were cared for by the shelter, and it didn't matter what exactly was done or how it was done.
"What can I do for you?" asked Leo tentatively.
"No need. Eyeless Mama shook her head, rejected Leo's kindness, and said, "According to what William said, we are already a different life form, and instead of trying to return to the previous form, it is better to adapt to the new form now." ”
Hearing Eyeless's words, Leo noticed that Eyeless Mama was not only a change in her eyes, but also a fundamental change in her lower body, turning into more than a dozen octopus-like tentacles, which not only supported her body, but also could take things instead of her hands.
As if sensing Leo's gaze, Eyeless Mama did not show displeasure or shame, but said to Leo very calmly, "Now I do things much more easily than before, at least not like before, I need to call someone to pick up the things that are a little heavier than before." ”
Leo didn't show any emotion for Eyeless's carefree attitude, his eyes quickly moved away from the sliding tentacles, and then he looked at the statue of the Victim inside the shrine, looking at the statue's appearance similar to his own, and a lot of confusion came to his mind.
Suddenly, a thought caught Leo's attention, although this thought made him feel a little ridiculous after reading it, but it was not impossible, so he couldn't help but ask tentatively: "The current victim is William Dodd, right?"
The atmosphere in the room suddenly froze, and after a while, Eyeless Mama said slowly, "Why do you think that?"
Although Eyeless Mama didn't admit it, her rhetorical question had already confirmed Leo's guess.
"You should know that I have seen the victim and it was strange to see him appear in a similar appearance to me. Leo explained in a deep voice: "No matter how close to a mortal god is, he will have his own pride, and he will never go to meet a mortal with this mortal's face, which is equivalent to putting the head of a beast on his face, just an insult. So the appearance he appeared in front of me at that time was his own appearance, and you also said that William Dodd and I were very similar in appearance, and it is inevitable that I would have such speculation now. ”