The Ninth Yao Country: Fengyao City

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Hiss......

A burning pain came from his back, and the pain made Ling Xun take a breath of cool air, Huo Ran opened his eyes, he gritted his teeth and scolded: "It's started again, this pain is really punctual!" ”

Enduring the pain and sitting up from the bed, Ling Xun lifted his clothes and turned his back to the window.

From the reflection of the window glass, it can be faintly seen that there is a "cross" mark on his back, which faintly glows in the dark, like a brand.

As the brilliance on the traces of the "cross" flowed, bursts of burning pain spread throughout his body, Ling Xun sat on the bed, clenched his fists, gritted his teeth and endured the torment of this pain.

About 3 minutes later, when Ling Xun was sweating profusely in pain and the muscles on his body twitched slightly, the brilliance of the cross marks on his back disappeared, and the pain quickly dissipated.

...... exhale, Ling Xun breathed a sigh of relief, touched the cold quilt, and glanced blankly at the small room with simple furnishings.

In the wee hours of the morning, the night was deep, and a faint golden glow was cast through the window lattice, scattered on the small table, and the light was very strange, neither moonlight nor starlight, but a little like sparse sunlight.

"[Tower of Yao], the light of hope that dispells the darkness of the night, but it can't protect the residents on the outskirts of the city......" Ling Xun moved the corners of his mouth slightly, muttering with a hint of sarcasm in secret.

Outside the window, there was the whining of the wind, occasionally mixed with crazy shouts, and even more eerie roars......

"Alas......"

Ling Xun's head fell on the pillow again, and he sighed helplessly, in the past month, every time he woke up in pain, he hoped that everything in front of him was not real, but just a false dream.

After waking up hopefully, he didn't travel to this world, everything in front of him was just a nightmare for the social animals who were waiting to be unsealed when he was quarantined at home.

Unfortunately, every time the result is a disappointment......

Wow......

Just as Ling Xun's thoughts were fluctuating, a sound of footsteps was outside the door, and a sound sounded in the living room.

After a while, there was a sound of the door closing, accompanied by the sound of slight footsteps, Ling Xun knew that his sister in this world had gone out to work in the early hours of the morning.

"The suburbs of the city are about to be completely shrouded in [Eclipse Mist], and the Black Tide is about to break out, so can you still get odd jobs at this time? Do you really think I'm a 16-year-old naïve teenager? ”

"Sister's so-called odd job won't be the same as my work, right?"

"It's time for me to get up too, in order to survive!"

Ling Xun got up, quietly came to the door, opened a gap, glanced at the living room, and confirmed that his sister had really left.

Only then did he drag out a small worn suitcase from under the bed, opened it and fumbled for a while, took out a vest protector full of claw marks and bite marks from the first compartment, put it on his body, and took out a white-washed and hooded wide windbreaker and put it on.

Then, from the second compartment, take out a leather glove, a small iron cone, and other props, and put them into a row of pockets on the inside of the trench coat.

After that, in the third mezzanine, Ling Xun took out a small bottle, which was covered with a layer of faintly glowing black sand.

"That's all there is left, don't use it if you can!"

Placing the bottle in a small pocket inside the left sleeve of his trench coat, he muttered cautiously.

After dressing, Ling Xun came out of the room, picked up the two hard steamed buns on the living room table, a piece of salted meat, and after devouring it, he rushed into the bathroom to wash.

"I've grown a little taller......"

Looking at the young man in the mirror, his delicate face was hidden under the high-necked windbreaker, Ling Xun measured his height with his hand, he has grown a little taller this month, and successfully broke through the height of 1.7 meters, "At the age of 16 years old, there is still room to break through 1.8 meters, or even 1.9 meters." ”

Immediately, Ling Xun shook his head and smiled bitterly, such a look, with a body in the blue star, it is quite popular, but here......

After doing this, tidying up his windbreaker, Ling Xun came to the door, held the doorknob, took a deep breath, and prayed secretly: "I hope that today can have a good harvest!" ”

Click...... Opening the door, the cold wind was blowing in his face, Ling Xun shivered all over, and hurriedly erected the high collar of the windbreaker to avoid the passage of body temperature, and then closed the door and walked out.

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The sky was slightly bright.

Ling Xun walked on the deserted streets, many of the doors and windows of the shops on both sides were smashed, and the valuable things inside were looted.

The smell of unpleasant smells, the stench of burning, and the smell of decay ...... all around, who would have thought that more than 20 days ago, this was one of the busiest streets on the outskirts of Fengyao City.

Following the subtle sound, crossing the road, Ling Xun turned into an alley, and the sound of "smack, smack" was heard, and he immediately saw a red-eyed wild dog, gnawing on a headless, decomposing corpse.

"This corpse is so decomposed, it should have been dead for less than two days......"

Standing in the shadows, Ling Xun observed the corpse, judging from the torn clothes, it should be the uniform of an employee of a nearby shopping mall.

There should be some money in this uniform...... Ling Xun muttered secretly, and observed the wild dog that was gnawing on the corpse for a few seconds, judging the gap between the two sides.

Then from the inner pocket of the trench coat, he took out a thick, bite mark leather glove, put it on his left hand, and carried a small iron cone, and walked up slowly.

Roar......

The wild dog roared and immediately pounced, opening its mouth wide to target Ling Xun's neck. But he bit on the thick leather gloves and smelled the strange smell on the leather gloves, which made the wild dog trance.

The next moment, a small iron cone 12cm long pierced from the wild dog's left eye, and at an oblique angle of 30 degrees, the dog's head was pierced through a hole, and with a "poof" sound, blood rushed out, Ling Xun immediately took the small iron cone again and made up for it more than a dozen times.

Then, with a flick of his left hand, he smashed the wild dog against the wall.

"Hoo ......"

Ling Xun took a few steps back, looked at the carcass of the wild dog that had slipped off the wall, took out a rag, cleaned the blood stains from the cone, and shook off the rotten flesh from the leather gloves.

After confirming that the wild dog was completely dead, he turned and came to the headless corpse, endured the smell of decay, crouched down, and skillfully groped for anything of value.

Sorry! I am also here to survive, if you have a spirit in the sky, don't blame it...... Ling Xun muttered secretly.

In a moment, from the pocket of the corpse's uniform jacket, Ling Xun took out a coin, and he was greatly disappointed.

"5 Coins!? This is too little, did you bring such a little money before you died...... or it may have been picked up by other corpse pickers"

Putting a red copper coin with 5 numbers printed on one side and a spherical triangle tower on the other side into his pocket, Ling Xun shook his head helplessly, and immediately got up and continued to look for the next target.

This is Ling Xun's way of making money - picking up corpses!?

The reason why he would do such a thing, Ling Xun also had no choice but to do it.

He has been in this world for a month, and it is similar to Blue Star in many ways, but the living environment is much more dangerous than Blue Star.

There is a terrifying natural phenomenon in this world - the Kuroshio.

In the Kuroshio, there is an invisible and terrifying creature - the [Eclipse Nightmare].

Every outbreak of the Kuroshio Tide means a large-scale [Eclipse] invasion, which is a devastating disaster for the humans there.

For a long time, the way humans fought against it was to use the light of the Tower of Yao to resist the invasion of the Eclipse Nightmare.

Once the protection of the [Tower of Yao] is lost, for ordinary people, there is often only one end - death!

However, just one day after Ling Xun crossed over, [Eclipse Mist] appeared on the outskirts of Fengyao City, indicating that the Kuroshio Tide would erupt in January.

If you want to survive, you can only enter the city of Fengyao, which is the area covered by the light of the [Tower of Yao].

However, a pass to enter the city requires 100,000 yuan!

And Ling Xun's identity is that he has not yet graduated from the Fourth Yao Neng Academy on the outskirts of the city, and he doesn't even have a job, let alone any savings.

His sister's monthly income of 2,000 yuan is usually used to pay for his tuition, as well as the daily expenses of the sisters and brothers, and there is no money left at all.

A pass of 100,000 yuan is equivalent to an astronomical amount for Ling Xun's family.

In order to survive, Ling Xun had no choice but to pick up corpses, and in just over twenty days, he had adapted quite to his current state.

It's just that since this week, the daily harvest has become less and less, and Ling Xun's mood has become more and more anxious, and he hasn't even scraped together the money for a pass to enter the city.

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The lead-colored sky gradually brightened, and Ling Xun's footprints of "picking up corpses" crossed the square in the western suburbs from the street where his home was located, to the vicinity of the bell tower on the outskirts of the city.

"It's really not going to work today!"

Looking ahead, the towering bell tower, Ling Xun was very disappointed, the harvest from today to now can be regarded as the worst in 20 days, "The harvest of the first corpse when you go out, can it really determine the luck of the day?" That's a ...... statement."

Suddenly, a faint light flickered on the bell tower, Ling Xun was stunned for a moment, and then rejoiced, judging by his 20 days of experience in picking up corpses, there were good things there!

With a small iron cone upside down in his right hand, Ling Xun quickly climbed the bell tower, and on the railing on the top of the building, he found a corpse hanging from the railing.

Standing at the top of the stairs, Ling Xun carefully observed the corpse's death, his face slightly solemn, "Is this a wound caused by ...... [Eclipse Nightmare]?" ”

In the dim light, the corpse was unrecognizable, with hideous claw marks on its back, cutting almost the entire back from the shoulders to the waist, and the rotting organs of the abdomen could be seen.

Such a wound is almost exactly the same as the injury caused by the [Eclipse Nightmare] in the picture of the book.

In the past 20 days, Ling Xun had also encountered some corpses that had died in the [Eclipse Nightmare], but most of them were too broken, or the corpses were rotten and swollen out of shape.

This is the first time Ling Xun has seen such a typical [Eclipse] wound.

After observing for a while, after making sure it was safe, Ling Xun slowly approached, put on gloves, and began to touch the corpse.

Soon, he found the source of the glimmer of light, and in the closed tooth bones of the corpse's head, he swallowed a pendant necklace inlaid with fine gems and made of obsidian gold.

Obsidian gold is a special metal in this world, and it has become the most sought-after precious metal in the world because of its ability to resist the erosion of [Eclipse Nightmare].

"It's developed! What goes out the harvest of the first corpse that determines the luck of the day, this statement is pure bullshit! ”

Ling Xun's eyes lit up, and he carefully knocked open one of the corpse's teeth, and took off the Yao gold necklace completely, "The workmanship of this chain is average, but with the fineness of Yao Jin, it should be worth five or six thousand Yao coins!" ”

Looking at this necklace, Ling Xun was very pleased with the appraisal value, and was about to put the necklace in his pocket, when he suddenly noticed something different, at the end of the necklace pendant, there was a small protrusion, which seemed to be a button.

"In this pendant, there are photos and other things......"

Ling Xun muttered, subconsciously pressed it, and the pendant opened in response, as he guessed, it was indeed a photo the size of a thumb cover.

The photo is of a girl.

"This is ......, that senior sister teaching assistant......"

Ling Xun's smile froze with joy, and he stared blankly at the familiar face of the girl in the photo, looking at the girl in the photo wearing the school uniform of the Fourth Yao Neng Academy on the outskirts of the city, with a pair of bright brown eyes......

A month ago, when Ling Xun first crossed into this world, he was in the final training of the third year of the Fourth Yao Neng Academy on the outskirts of the city.

At that time, Ling Xun looked confused, and he didn't understand the situation at all, but it was the senior sister who had just become a trainee teaching assistant who took the trouble to guide him to complete the training.

It wasn't until Ling Xun understood the situation in this world that he reacted, and even forgot to ask the name of this senior sister's teaching assistant.

But for this senior sister, Ling Xun has always been very grateful in his heart, and he has a deep memory of the first person who released kindness to him when he first arrived in this world......

Looking at the corpse in a daze, Ling Xun suddenly felt his stomach churning, and a stream of sour and salty things refluxed down his esophagus, he covered his mouth tightly, and swallowed back the food residue that flowed back in his stomach.

At this time, the sky was bright, and pieces of fiery red shards rose from the east, and those shards were like a shattered sphere, blooming with a desirable brilliance.

This shattered sphere is the sun of this world—the shattered sun!

Under the sun, the [eclipse fog] on the outskirts of the city faded a lot, allowing people to get a brief respite......

Bursts of bells rang from the center of the city, and the [Yao Tower] stood in the center of the city, humming every morning.

At the top of the towering triangular tower, the spherical top of the tower released the light of the night, and the light began to fade, and the light shroud that enveloped the entire city gradually dimmed.

The pale golden brilliance is the light that protects humanity from the invasion of the [Eclipse Nightmare], but only the people in the city can enjoy this right to live.

The towering gates that seal off the city and the suburbs are heaven and hell for people inside and outside the city when the Kuroshio Tide erupts!

In the distance, there were people on the streets on the outskirts of the city, hundreds of people rushed out from one corner after another, waving their arms, roaring, rushing towards the junction of the blockade city and the suburbs, like a mad slapping on the towering city gates, imprinting bloody handprints on the city gates, but they did not want to leave, they just wanted to squeeze into Fengyao City and get a chance to survive.

In the bell tower, Ling Xun carried the bloated corpse on his back, panting, his legs trembling and walking down the stairs, placing the corpse in a dilapidated cabinet.

Then closing the cabinet, Ling Xun leaned aside panting and muttered, "I'm sorry! Senior sister, my strength can only help you find such a place to settle. ”

"If I can survive this Kuroshio and get a pass to enter the city, I will definitely come back in the future and find you a cemetery where you can sleep peacefully......"

After saying what was considered a eulogy, Ling Xun sighed, raised the high collar of his trench coat, and turned to leave.