Chapter 348: Knowledge is Power
"Are there any more lustful beasts in the building?"
"There are also some that are basically wandering on the upper floors, and the third and fourth floors below are relatively safe." Lee Chang-ho said.
"Okay, find someone to lead the way. I'm going to clean up the beasts. Xia Yanzhen said.
"Now?"
"Now."
Li Changhao frowned slightly, thought for a while and said, "Night is not the right time. I don't know if it's at night, in the dead of night, it's easy to be cranky. Lust beasts will be a little more active at night than during the day, and it's too dark. β
The building has lost power, and it is now seven o'clock in the evening, and on the first floor, several emergency lights illuminate part of the road and rooms.
There is no light outside, and the floor above is very dark.
"Do you think I'm going to be the one who is afraid of the dark?" Xia Yanzhen said, "Find someone who is familiar with the building." β
"I can."
"I need you to appease the others and not trouble me." Xia Yanzhen said.
"It's good to leave the appeasement to Uncle Li Zhengcheng, I'm actually not suitable." Lee Chang-ho said.
As the brainchild of the team, he plays a very ruthless role.
For the sake of the survival of the whole, he abandoned others.
In terms of trust, Li Zhengcheng is much higher than him.
Although everyone's intellect can clearly distinguish that Lee Chang-ho is doing this correctly, it is more difficult to accept it emotionally.
After all, no one can be sure that they will never be abandoned.
Even if it's useful now, it's an indispensable role, but what about being injured?
Sacrifice for the sake of the team, see if others can.
It happens to yourself, no.
"Okay, come to me in five minutes." Xia Yanzhen gave Li Changhao a little time.
"How? No clues? β
After sending Li Changhao away, Xia Yanzhen asked on the team channel.
"No, I'm still looking, I came across a third-order desire beast located in ......," Tiamat reported a sign.
"Got it, I'll talk about it then." Xia Yanzhen said, "You come back tomorrow morning, and then set off to look for it." β
He wanted Tiyamat to take the building as the center and radiate out in all directions.
Not only to look for Tao E and others who may be there, but also to better understand the surrounding situation.
Unfortunately, the ability of "Vision Link" is not effective.
Otherwise, Xia Yanzhen would have been able to see what Tiamat had seen.
A few minutes later, Li Changhao came back: "I have already told Uncle Li that he should try his best to appease and reduce other people's fear of you." β
"It's okay to be afraid, I don't care about your emotions." Xia Yanzhen said, "The little lamb that is trembling, as long as you are obedient, you can do it." β
Li Changhao nodded expressionlessly: "What should we call you?" β
"Captain." Xia Yan really thought about it and said.
He introduced himself as "Xia Eleven".
But as a name, Li Changhao and others dare not call it indiscriminately.
"I'm ready to go at any time, Captain." Lee Chang-ho said.
Xia Yanzhen saw that he had prepared an explosion-proof shield, a flashlight, and a metal bat behind his back.
"Let's go." Xia Yanzhen nodded.
The elevator was naturally unusable, and the two came to the fire escape on the first floor.
Li Changhao introduced as he walked: "We have searched all over the second and third floors, it's nothing, there are still some rooms on the fourth floor that we haven't been to, and there are lustful beasts on the fifth floor, which is more dangerous." β
"Then go straight to the fifth floor." Xia Yanzhen said.
"Okay."
The stairs of the fire escape were black holes, and Li Changhao replied in a low voice and moved forward in the dark.
Xia Yan really thought he was too slow, so he directly took the flashlight and turned it on, and stuffed it back to Li Changhao.
"Hurry up, I'm not afraid of attracting the attention of the beast." Xia Yanzhen said.
"Sorry, get used to it." Lee Chang-ho said.
The Lust Beast mutated from humans, and its form changed, even in the first stage, it was stronger than ordinary people.
Coupled with the immortal body, even if ordinary people hold weapons, they don't have much power to resist in the face of lustful beasts.
A group of survivors is walking on thin ice.
Caution is engraved in Li Changhao's bones.
Although a "Xia Eleven" suddenly appeared, Li Changhao would not let down his guard until he really saw the strength of the other party.
Well, even if he saw that Xia Yan was really strong, Li Changhao would not rest easy, and would even be more worried.
Now Lee Chang-ho still retains a glimmer of hope of resisting or fleeing from this person.
Soon, Li Changhao and Xia Yanzhen came to the fifth floor.
According to Lee Chang-ho, there are occasional beasts here.
The beast had a crocodile-like mouth, and its bite was so powerful that it could bite through the interior walls of buildings.
The weakness is the slowness of movement.
The range of activities is the three floors of five, six and seven, and I have not gone down to the fifth floor, and I should not have gone up to the eighth floor.
There is another beast on the eighth floor.
Li Changhao suspects that the body of the desire beast on the fifth floor is an old man who has lost all his teeth, so he wants a mouthful of "good teeth".
Because the body is an old man, it is relatively fragile after being beastified.
Xia Yan really listened for a while.
For ordinary people, speculating on the origin and specialty of the Lust Beast will definitely help them fight against the Lust Beast.
But for Xia Yanzhen......
He took out the Book of Divine Purification and shook it twice: "You don't need to introduce me to the origin of the Lust Beast and the weaknesses you guessed. It doesn't matter, you just protect yourself. β
"......" Li Changhao nodded silently.
"By the way, is there a map?" Xia Yan really remembered that he still needed a real map.
"Uh-" Li Changhao thought for a moment before replying, "probably not." β
The background environment of this mission world is similar to the level of technological development in the real world.
There are mobile phones and navigation systems, and paper maps have long since disappeared from the lives of ordinary people.
It's hard to find a detailed map of the city.
The one in the room was hand-painted by Lee Chang-ho, and the locals barely looked at it for reference.
"You'd better get me one, I'm going to get familiar with this place." Xia Yanzhen said.
"I try."
Li Changhao agreed, hesitated for a moment and asked, "In the second stage, will the desire beast recover its memory?" β
"A little bit." Xia Yanzhen said, "Not all memories, some are also very vague. β
He rambled nonsense at will.
Li Changhao wanted to ask again.
A crashing sound sounded, and Li Changhao immediately pointed the flashlight in front.
He saw a figure lying on the ground, "swimming" at a very fast speed.
This is a man with dirty clothes and pants.
Rub your hands and feet on the ground, and move in this way, not slowly.
And the lower half of this person's face, the upper and lower jaws are completely torn apart, and the flesh grows out, turning into a crocodile-like mouth.
The dense teeth are exposed, and the bottom is dark red gums.
"This is it." Lee Chang-ho said.
Compared to when I saw it a few days ago, the appearance of this beast has changed a little.
The mouth becomes larger and longer, so the way of movement changes, and it does not walk on its feet.
It becomes lying on the ground, swimming and crawling.
Instead, the speed has become faster.
At first glance, the sense of fear is even stronger.
Certainly not good news for the survivors in the building.
Li Changhao stepped back, blocking the explosion-proof shield in front of him, and the flashlight shone in front of him.
You can take a look at the real appearance of this Xia Eleven.
Then, Li Changhao saw that the other party threw out the tome that he didn't know where he just now.
The book fell on the head of the beast.
Then it fell to the ground.
Almost as soon as the book hit the head, the beast didn't move.
It looks like it's dead.
Xia Yanzhen walked over, picked up the Book of Divine Purification, turned to Li Changhao and said, "Let's go, go to the upper floor." β
"It'......"
"Dead."
"Dead?" Lee Chang-ho was a little incredulous, "Didn't you faint?" β
"It's dead." Xia Yanzhen held up the Book of Divine Purification and shook it twice, "Desire is emotional, and knowledge is rational. I use rational knowledge against sensual desires, and knowledge is power. β
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In the face of Xia Yanzhen's nonsense, Li Changhao couldn't refute it, so he could only continue to walk up with Xia Yanzhen in three steps and one turn.
It took more than twenty minutes for Xia Yanzhen to clean up all the lust beasts in this apartment building.
There were ten in total, which exceeded Li Changhao's expectations.
He only knew of six, and presumably there were probably one or two that they didn't know.
I didn't expect there to be ten.
And what Li Changhao didn't expect, or couldn't understand, was the other party's means of killing the enemy.
With a book, casually throw or even just touch.
And the beasts of lust died.
And Xia Shiyi's rhetoric is that desire is sensibility, and knowledge is rationality.
Use reason to deal with emotion.
After killing the desire of the beast, the beast of desire, which uses desire as a condition for survival, also dies.
Except for the last sentence, the rest of Li Changhao didn't recognize it.
But it doesn't matter if he recognizes it or not.
"By the way, do you have any damn people in your group?" On the way back, Xia Yanzhen asked.
Li Changhao was taken aback and asked stubbornly, "Are you going to eat them?" β
They want to keep them in captivity as a fresh food source?
"What do you think?" Xia Yan really didn't have a good breath and said, "Do I look like the kind of person who can eat people?" β
"It doesn't look like it just by looking at it." Li Changhao said secretly in his heart.
As far as Xia Shiyi's appearance is concerned, he debuted as an idol in their country, directly team ACE, and acted as a faΓ§ade.
Even if you sing and dance and waste equipment, you can harvest a batch of leeks.
Well, a batch is almost over, and if it continues to be scrapped in the future, it will slowly lose popularity.
The idols here are also rolly.
"Lustful beasts, with an extraordinary interest in people." Lee Chang-ho put it another way.
"That's right." Xia Yanzhen said.
Lust beasts are indeed very interested in people, probably because they have changed from humans?
"I'm pretty much the same." Xia Yanzhen paused and continued, "But my desire is to be a good person, so you don't have to worry about me eating you.
"I'm just asking this to avoid some unnecessary situations and prevent them from happening."
"Unnecessary?"
Xia Yanzhen pointed to the Book of Divine Purification in his hand and asked, "Do you think that I can kill the Desire Beast because of this book?" β
"I'm not stupid." Lee Chang-ho said.
Whether it was or not, he didn't think anything wrong with the book.
"yes, you're not. But can you guarantee that everyone else isn't? Xia Yanzhen asked.
Lee Chang-ho had nothing to say.
He certainly can't guarantee it.
Even, including Lee Jeong-sung, may have the idea of snatching the book.
This is the "human feelings" of the brave, and once you succeed, you don't have to worry about life and death in the hands of others.
The cowardly, on the contrary, do not dare to do so.