Chapter Seventy-Seven: Blackbeard's Comeback
Among the heroic adventures sung by the bards, the most popular is the plot of leading the friends to defeat the demon army and save the world. In short, in the story, the heroes are basically omnipotent from heaven to earth, and the demons as villains are the stepping stones of heroes, and hell can come and go as freely as a back garden.
There are many young and ignorant teenagers who have dreamed of becoming heroes, but they can't possibly know how dangerous and terrifying the real hell is.
The mortal world in which humans live is built by the rules of order, but the hell where demons are born is the embodiment of chaos. If an ordinary person suddenly crosses into hell without preparation, all the rules of order that support his physical existence will collapse in an instant, and the only end that awaits him is naturally death.
Roger's team encountered a similar situation at the second level of the ruins.
As he feared, the robbers, though not afraid to die, were in fact a rabble and lacked systematic and effective organizational training. There are many robbers who seem to be unruly, but they lack spiritual support in their hearts and are actually extremely vulnerable.
This kind of person usually doesn't see anything strange, and once he feels the pressure, he will show his feet. Under the oppression of the chaotic laws of the second layer of ruins, many of the bandits' emotions began to get out of control. Even though they know that they are surrounded by their comrades-in-arms and brothers, they have never even had the most basic trust. It's just that there is a slight error in perception, but they don't hesitate to draw their knives at the people around them.
At first, only a few robbers erupted into extreme emotions, but under their influence, the uneasiness quickly spread.
"Don't come! don't come!" El was caught by Thea's scream, and he looked up to see the girl screaming and fleeing from the team, she had activated the biological armor on her body, the carapace-like armor wrapped around the girl's head, revealing only two bright yellow pupilless eyes, and rows of sharp bone spurs growing from her limbs, looking like a fried porcupine.
Two robbers with crooked mouths and slanted eyes and an apparently abnormal mental state pounced on them from behind, trying to push Thea to the ground. Even from El's point of view, they could see their pure malice, and Thea's reaction was even more intense. With a flick of her hands, two bone spurs flew out, accurately **** the eyes of the two robbers, and she jumped reflexively, and climbed onto the rock wall with the strength of her limbs.
"It turned out to be the bloodline of the Earth Walker Sword Spider, although it was low-level, but it was indeed very useful. Seeing the strange twisting of the joints of Thea's limbs, Lolana's eyes lit up and whispered, "But I'm still a little curious, how did that Lady Annis get this bloodline?"
"Now isn't the time to look into this kind of thing, there's something wrong with this place. El secretly wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and watched cautiously as he watched the movement in the darkness around him. His Istaron warriors had formed a defensive formation, and they didn't have to worry too much about their psychological quality, the regular army had the advantage of strict discipline, and the better the soldiers, the more they would strictly follow orders.
And the order itself is an absolute order.
After reaching the second layer of ruins, the nightmare in the sky suddenly scattered. The robbers breathed a sigh of relief, but neither El nor Roger's faces were pretty. The departure of the Nightmare Demon is not to give up their goal, and the way they turn back without hesitation is more like a fear of the second layer of ruins.
Even with the chaotic nature of the demons, they will instinctively obey the strong, and the remaining demonic power of the second layer of the ruins far exceeds that of the first layer of the ruins, but in the face of such a precious tonic, the demon does not dare to take a step beyond the thunder pool, which also proves that the demons lurking in the second layer of the ruins are more dangerous from a certain point of view.
"We'll have to get to our destination quickly through this city before we can alarm more monsters, or we'll be in trouble. Roger dragged the frenzied Thea off the rock wall, cut off the bone spurs on her body, took the little girl in his arms, and walked up to El and said in a deep voice.
"In that case, don't talk nonsense, let's go. El was also anxious, and his tone of voice was a little impatient.
"If I go on like this, my team will soon be in shambles. So now we need your troops to go ahead, and the forces of order in you can help us hold out a little longer. Roger ignored El's face, because he had something to ask for at this time.
"Where are we going?" El almost laughed when he heard Roger's words. He didn't mind his troops walking in front of him and facing danger, but he was an outsider after all, how could he possibly find the right direction in this ghost place just by looking at the map?
Roger knew the way, but he couldn't leave his team and run to El's side as a guide. Looking at the ghost appearance of the bandits under his command, if he didn't keep an eye on it himself, I'm afraid it wouldn't take him five minutes to disperse. The kings of robbers have spent a lot of manpower and material resources to explore, and the biggest problem they face has never been the demons in the dark, but their own men.
"It's okay, we have a suitable guide. Roger looked at his ugly subordinates, hesitated for a moment, and said a little unwillingly.
The guide that Roger was referring to was certainly not the Night Watchman, who had drawn a map of the second layer of ruins, but he didn't know much about the place Roger wanted to go, and only Roger, armed with a golden scimitar, knew the path explored by the robber kings of the past.
And here, there is another great man who once mastered the golden scimitar and organized more than one exploration, that is, the previous king of bandits, Blackbeard.
According to the unwritten rule among the robbers, if the new robber king wants to ascend to the throne, he must kill the previous robber king to establish his own prestige. However, after Roger received Blackbeard from El, he never did it, but instead offered him delicious food and drink, and brought him to this ruin.
Roger values Blackbeard's surplus value more than the prestige of the so-called King of Bandits - such as his last experience in the ancient city-state. Originally, this was just a hidden move, and Roger was reluctant to use Blackbeard's hole card if he could, but the current situation made it impossible for him to continue to hide his secrets.
If you want to find the treasure of the king of thieves, you must use all the power you can use, even if there is a danger of igniting ****, there is no choice at this time.
El was taken aback when he saw Blackbeard coming out of Roger's ranks. He didn't expect Roger to dare to take Blackbeard with him in such a grand manner. Although Blackbeard wears special shackles on his hands and feet, everyone knows that these things can only serve a symbolic meaning.
Even the strongest shackles could hardly trap a silver-rank powerhouse, and Blackbeard could escape at any time if he wanted to. And the reason why he didn't do it is probably because he reached some ulterior deal with Roger.
"Yo, we're meeting again. Blackbeard saw the surprised expression on El's face, and immediately cracked his mouth and laughed, he habitually wiped his beard, turned his head to look at Roger and smiled: "Little ghost, do you know now that this place is not fun? ”
"How dare I underestimate the fact that so many robber kings have fallen here in the past thousand years?" Roger smiled bitterly, pulled out the golden scimitar at his waist, turned a knife flower in his hand, and fell to the ground. The golden knife flashed, and the shackles between Blackbeard's legs snapped.
"Boy, do you really dare to give me back the golden scimitar?" Blackbeard looked at Roger coldly, slowly leaned down and picked up the golden scimitar on the ground, put it on his wrist and pinned it hard, and pried open the shackles on his hand and threw it aside. In front of everyone's eyes, he puffed up his chest and laughed, and the momentum of the former king suddenly appeared.
"As long as you can find the treasure of the King of Thieves this time, it doesn't matter if I return the golden scimitar to you. Roger tilted his head and smiled confidently: "I snatched it from you once, and I can grab it a second time." ”
In front of all the robbers present, the old and new generations of robber kings silently glanced at each other, and their sharp eyes almost sparked in the air. Blackbeard snorted, clutched the golden scimitar and turned to leave.
"It's simply ...... It's full of the spirit of a king. El, who had witnessed everything the whole time, couldn't help but whisper in admiration, compared with Roger, the bandit leader, he suddenly felt that he was really a little childish.
This guy shines from head to toe and is simply the template for the protagonist of the story, and if it had been placed elsewhere, perhaps the achievement would have been much more than what it is today.
"What's wrong?General El?Do you also feel the charm of Roger the ghost wolf?" Blackbeard walked up to Er, with a teasing smile on his face, and said with a strange smile: "Do you think that this kid is generous enough, as long as you follow him, you will definitely have a future?"
"I'm going to him, let's get to work. El rolled his eyes, put away the envy and jealousy in his heart, and turned his attention back to Blackbeard. Compared to Roger, who likes to negotiate trades, this guy is a bigger threat to himself, because he is a real, unscrupulous bandit.
"No hurry, no hurry, this place can't be in a hurry. Calm your mind, the more anxious you are, the easier it is to be seduced by the demon in your heart. Blackbeard said mysteriously.
He picked up the golden scimitar, clenched it in his palm, and slowly raised it to point straight ahead. He held this motion for nearly ten seconds before taking the first cautious step.
"If you want to get out of this hellish place alive, you'd better heed my advice. Blackbeard's voice grew muffled, and though he didn't look back, El knew he was talking to himself.
"Whatever you see or hear, don't act rashly. The air you breathe is saturated with demonic power, which gradually eats away at your body, anesthetizes your mind, and causes you to hallucinate and delusion. In any case, you must always remember who you really are!" (go read om) (jiangsu net)