Chapter 60: Shadows of the Dark Alley
After finally cleaning the fireworks shop, Roy let out a sigh of relief and clapped his hands: "Where are you going to go next, will you meet Bob?" ”
Nightingale closed the door of the store, stood in place and was silent for a while, and suddenly said in a hurry: "I have some things to do next, Roy, you can come back in the afternoon."
"I'll go first!"
Looking at her back as she walked away, Roy frowned, and swallowed the words back in his mouth.
When they were cleaning together in the store, the chat atmosphere between them was also harmonious, and they originally planned to go to the stronghold of the mercenary group with Nightingale to meet Bob and them after the cleaning was over.
Bob and Wolf Biting are also comrades-in-arms who have fought with him, and if something so big happens, they have to pay a visit.
Who knew that this nightingale suddenly "turned his face and didn't recognize people", and immediately slipped away.
"There are ghosts." Roy's eyes narrowed.
……
Through the dark and deep passages, the Nightingale returned to the dungeon.
Her steps quickened, her breathing began to rapid, and she shuttled back and forth in the alleyway.
Although it was pitch black in front of her, the ubiquitous flow of air was guiding her, telling her where to go.
In the alley, she suddenly stopped.
The intelligence data perceived from the air flow formed a "radar map" in her mind, and at this time, under the display of the "radar map", multiple points of light were rapidly approaching her.
She understood that she was surrounded.
The group had been secretly following her since the beginning of the city, and she knew it was coming for her, so she hurriedly said goodbye to Roy and Arya.
Several black-clothed men stood in front of her, and someone snorted coldly: "A little girl, is it worth us to use that?" ”
"Don't be careless, she's the inheritor." A few more men in black blocked behind her, "Quickly get rid of her!" ”
They flashed the tips of their knives and pounced on the nightingale.
Coming to the city to clean the shop alone, Nightingale, who is an archer "elf", did not carry a bow and arrows, but she pulled out the dagger she carried with her, and there was not much panic on her face.
She had gone to the World Tree with her classmates to experience trials, and she had also faced natural disasters and beast tides in the wilderness with Hitomi Eun, and she was no stranger to combat.
Enemies are approaching her from all directions, and this is where the strength of the Elf's detection ability comes in.
Under the detection of the first-order skill "Flow Perception", even behind the eyes of ordinary people, the nightingale can easily control it.
Dodging the head stab of the enemy in front of her, she quickly swung the dagger, and the dagger infused with spiritual power pulled out a silver moon-like afterimage, easily tearing through the enemy's armor and cutting deep scars on the opponent's chest.
At the same time, the enemy behind him rushed up, and the nightingale stood in place, without even looking back, and a strong air flow suddenly surged on his side!
A pale cyan wind ring spread quickly around her, and the violent air flow blew everyone unable to open their eyes, and even blew away the two hundred pounds of strong men.
Elven 2nd Order: "Wind Resistance".
Taking advantage of the gap between the enemy's retreat, the nightingale jumped to his feet, and with one hand, he was about to climb over the low wall beside him and escape from the enemy's encirclement.
As long as she runs to the territory of the Black Flag Mercenary Group, she will be safe.
However, in the next moment, a figure ignored the strong wind pressure and rushed over like a cannonball, reached out and grabbed the nightingale's ankle, and dragged her back directly from mid-air!
It was the man in black who had been scratched on her chest at first, but now, the deep scar was intact.
His strength and speed had increased more than three times since he had started, his eyes were scarlet, and the corners of his mouth were still filled with crimson liquid.
"Boom!"
The man in black grabbed Nightingale's ankle and threw her to the ground!
The nightingale let out a muffled snort, and the fall shook her organs almost out of place. She gritted her teeth and held her breath, and with a sudden force in her waist and abdomen, she rolled up, and the dagger in her hand stabbed into the eye socket of the man in black.
The man in black's reflexes were also improved, and his head was deflected and he dodged the stab in time.
With a missed blow, Nightingale's dagger stabbed him in the arm, and then activated the "Ring of Resistance" again, forcing him to let go.
The nightingale limped backwards, and this time the man in black was only blown back two steps slightly by the wind ring, and the injuries on his arm were also recovered at a speed visible to the naked eye.
At the same time, the other black-clothed men also took out a tube of potion from their arms and drank it with a grunt.
The empty potion test tube fell to the ground, splashing the dust on the ground, and a few drops of the remaining liquid medicine in the test tube stained the sand and soil into blood.
In the darkness, a few pairs of red eyes slowly lit up.
"That's it? It seems that the inheritors who are usually high up in the sky are nothing more than that. ”
The man in black approached slowly, his red eyes full of cruelty.
The nightingale was cornered, her hands clutching the dagger tightly, her body chilling.
Looking at the approaching man in black, she couldn't help but be a little distracted.
"I knew the ...... I should have brought the bow"
"Bang!"
Just then, a cloud of smoke suddenly burst from under the feet of the man in black, and Roy emerged from the shadows, pulling her out of the encirclement.
"Can you run on your own?" Roy confirmed.
Nightingale nodded hurriedly.
"Then run, go and bring the rescuers."
Roy turned around and headed for the group of men in black, "I'll help you hold them down." ”
Nightingale stopped in place, hesitated for a moment, and Roy glanced at her, "You don't even have a weapon to take advantage of, and staying is just dragging your feet." ”
"I'll be right here!" The nightingale then made up her mind to run away.
"Chase!" The man in black in front of him roared angrily.
Roy was in the middle of the alleyway, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth:
"Sorry, it's not a pass-through place."
Under the eyes of the man in black, his figure slowly became transparent.
After entering the stealth state, he did not retreat, but advanced, and quietly approached the man in black like a ghost.
"What about people?"
The black-clothed man at the head rubbed his eyes, and when he saw that there was no movement around, he shouted: "Regardless of him, hurry up and chase after him, if you don't catch up with that little ghost, how can we make a difference......"
Before he could finish speaking, he only felt a chill in his heart, and a dagger pierced his heart from behind.
"When will it ......"
No matter how powerful his self-healing ability was, he couldn't save the fatal wound of his heart being opened, and the man in black fell to the ground, his scarlet eyes quickly dimmed.
"That's it? I thought I was immortal. ”
Roy pulled out his dagger with a cold expression, "It seems that your hole cards are nothing more than that." ”
Perhaps it was a side effect of the potion, even if their companions were killed in front of them, the expressions of the remaining men in black were not moved in the slightest, and there was only an increasingly strong desire to kill in their eyes.
They lunged at Roy one after another, Roy's eyes were dyed a layer of gold, dodging the attack while calmly assessing.
In terms of physical fitness alone, they are probably already at the level of a third-order "berserker".
"Berserker" is the inheritance with the largest increase in physical strength among all the inheritances, and even if Moon Shadow rises to the fifth order, his physical fitness may not be as strong as that of the third order.
Not only that, but even the metamorphosis recovery ability of those men in black is the same as the characteristics of Berserker's passive skill "Self-Healing".
But they weren't inheritors, they were just a bunch of ordinary people before they drank the tube of red potion.
So, what is the price for ordinary people to suddenly gain enough power to rival that of the inheritor?
At the moment, the side effect he can see is a noticeable decrease in his sanity.
When they first started drinking the potion, they still had a shred of sanity and were able to launch an organized attack, but as time dragged on, their last sanity began to crumble.
Obviously in the narrow alleyway, the attack of the black-clothed men was wide open and closed, without the slightest concern, and before they could hurt him, they had already added a few scars to their friendly troops.
Now they have become humanoid beasts dominated by the desire to kill.
“…… There are five people left. ”
Roy's eyes swept away, "The temptation is over, leave one alive, and kill the rest." ”
After experiencing the baptism of the dungeon battle, he no longer had the slightest hesitation about the person who should be killed.
Strode towards the man in black, this time he didn't leave his hand.
With the bonuses of "Swift" and "Consciousness Acceleration", the speed of the man in black, which has been enhanced by the potion, is still no different from that of ordinary people in his opinion.
The "Eye of Insight" saw the future that was about to happen, and Roy shook slightly, brushed the oncoming machete, and casually stuck the dagger in the man's heart.
Relying only on brute force and instinctive beastly attacks, he couldn't touch even a single hair of his hair.
The black-clad man's red eyes quickly dimmed, but even so, he clung to Roy's dagger and didn't let him pull it out easily.
The attack of the other men in black followed, and Roy immediately released the dagger, and with a flick of his footsteps, ghostly circled behind the other man in black.
With an imperceptible "click", a delicately sharp Hidden Blade popped out from the inside of his left wrist.
After experiencing the riots in the city, this time he went to the lower city, and he was a little careful and brought some portable weapons for self-defense, which now really came in handy.
The left hand is sent forward, and the Hidden Blade pierces the heart with precision. At the same time, Roy leaned against the body of the man in black and slammed him into the other men in black.
When the other men in black angrily split the corpse in half, Roy, who had been hiding behind the corpse, had lost his trace again.
Coming and going without a trace, as soon as he strikes, it is a killing blow, as if he is the real death of the dungeon.
This scene would make any normal person shudder at the sight of it, but the remaining men in black had been completely dominated by the potion, and they were just looking for enemies with red eyes, completely unaware of the slaughter that was about to befall them.
In the dimly lit alleyway, every time Roy emerges from the shadows, a man in black falls, until only the last man in black remains.
This time, instead of continuing to sneak, Roy stepped on the freshly fallen corpse, pulled out a handkerchief, and stood on the spot to wipe the blood from the Hidden Blade and dagger as if no one was there.
The last man in black rushed over with red eyes, and at this moment, a figure fell from the sky with a chilling sound of breaking through the air.
Arya climbed to the top of the low building on the side, and had been standing on a high place to observe the situation, and after receiving Roy's code, she jumped down and smashed the brick in her hand against the heavenly spirit cover of the man in black.
There was a muffled "bang", and the man in black fell straight to the ground.
Roy watched the bricks shatter into several pieces, and the corners of his eyes twitched slightly: "I'm afraid you didn't shoot him to death." ”
I don't know if it's an illusion, but he seems to have heard the sound of a skull cracking just now.
He can only pray that the red potion that the man in black drank will prolong his life.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, it's the first time I've done this kind of thing, and I didn't have the strength to do it."
Arya hurriedly apologized to the man in black who was stiff on the ground.
At this moment, there was a shout not far away, and the nightingale rushed over with a group of people with black flags.
"Roy, are you alright? What about the guys......"
Nightingale bent her bow and arrows and walked over with a serious face, and when she saw the corpse of the man in black lying on the ground, her expression froze instantly.
"Well, it came just in time, I just got rid of them and left you alive...... Probably. ”
Roy pointed to the hapless guy who had been slapped on the ground by Arya.
Roy...... You're amazing! Nightingale was in disbelief.
She has personally experienced how powerful the man in black is after taking drugs, although she has suffered because she has no weapon to take advantage of, but even if she has, she can't do it to kill all the people in black so quickly, and she is still unharmed.
She vaguely remembered from her previous chat with Roy that they were still the same age......
In her school, I'm afraid that only Jiang Yiyi and Zorn, who have the strongest combat effectiveness, can do this level, right?
Roy smiled and spread his hands, "It's nothing bad, it's okay to stand here, let's talk in another place." ”
Only then did the nightingale react, and hurriedly looked behind her: "By the way, Roy, let me introduce you to our group leader, you said before that it was the first time you saw her." ”
Roy was slightly stunned, and followed her gaze to lock onto a person in the crowd.
As they spoke, Hitomi had been quietly watching Roy and Arya behind him, and only then did she come over and reach out to Roy.
"I've admired your name for a long time, Mr. Luo, my members have always praised you, and when I saw it today, it really deserved its reputation."
She bit the word "Mr. Luo" very hard, and a smile appeared in her eyes, as if she knew Roy's real name, but she deliberately made fun of it.
Roy shook hands with her without stage fright and said, "Miss Firefly, I've admired my name for a long time. Recently, I have been looking for a chance to meet you, but I didn't expect that it would be better to choose a day than to hit the day. ”
The two of them looked at each other, and then they both burst out laughing.
Hitomi is from a dungeon, so this name is naturally not her real name. Nightingale had talked to him in the morning about Hitomi's original name as Hotaru, and her current name was chosen by herself when she went to school in the city.
Nightingale too, she was offered by Hitomi to go to school in Uptown, and in front of her classmates she also had another name, called Liz.
It's not that they want to deliberately hide their dungeon origins, but because the names given by the dungeon residents are not official names in the first place, just nicknames like "Ergou" and "Xiaohua".
If you want to apply for a certificate of residence in the city, you will need to change to a more official name.
The first meeting between the two ended in this little joke, Hitomi slowly put away her smile, bent down solemnly, and bowed to Roy:
"Don't say it in advance, thank you for saving the nightingale's life just now, this kindness will be remembered by our Black Flag."
"Mercenaries have mercenary standards, and as mercenaries, we pay the most attention to a mercenary who must repay his kindness and revenge if he has revenge......"
She looked up, a flame burning in her eyes, "I'm going to make that group pay." ”