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About a few hours ago, another world.

On July 3, 2004, on the outskirts of a small coastal town, Elevated Road No. 10.

Leaning on the pillars of a viaduct, Shi Yiguang looked down at the thatched mat that was quickly wet on the ground with some distress, and then turned his head to look at the rain curtain not far away, and couldn't help but sigh.

Having just woken up from a hundred-year-long dream, she found herself in a new dream, and she quickly began to adapt to the environment, observing and collecting all kinds of information.

As we all know, in a strange place where there is no law, beauty is more likely to bring danger, so Shi Yiguang immediately put on a certain disguise, sneaked around and looked around, and quickly confirmed that there is a fairly developed human society here.

It stands to reason that although most of the memories of the last long dream have faded, with the help of her previous training and preparation, she can still quickly integrate into the local society and use some small means to solve these problems.

But in fact, Shi Yiguang encountered an unexpected obstacle: he couldn't communicate with each other.

When she confidently found the first old man who seemed to be in a hurry but was quite enthusiastic according to the script, the two sides talked like chickens and ducks and used their hands and feet for a long time, and the more they "chatted", the more embarrassing they became, so that the old man showed a look of wanting to call the police and ask if there was a female fool who ran away from home.

Knowing that learning the local dialect should take a long time to hear in secret, and being taken aback by the productivity and strange and wonderful way of life here, Shi Yiguang quickly made the decision to hide in the suburbs for the time being.

The viaduct in the wilderness outside the city, sheltered from the elements, was both the place she had fallen asleep and the temporary shelter she chose: to gather some timber and build a small hut on solid stone columns.

The viaduct deck is more than 10 meters wide, and the foundation of the piers is higher than the surrounding area, so in theory, unless there is a rather rare heavy rainstorm, it should not be affected much, and it is barely safe for people to live in.

As for the problem of food, it is not a problem to catch some fish and shrimp by the nearby water, and hunt some small animals such as voles and hares.

With this idea in mind, Shi Yiguang stayed here for two or three days while inquiring about the news, and Shi Yiguang found that his luck had been really bad recently.

This afternoon, it was still a sunny day, but in the blink of an eye, the lead-colored clouds had pushed in from the southeast, and the sky quickly darkened, followed by a thunderstorm, and it actually rained the kind of downpour that had not been seen in several years.

It didn't take much time for the damp water vapor to soak through her carefully woven thatched sleeping mats and the firewood piled up on the earthen platform, and even the goose-yellow clothes woven by the silk on her body were covered with tiny droplets, which became a little darker and darker due to the reflective color.

Looking through the rain curtain on the edge of the viaduct deck, about fifty meters away, it was a white expanse that could not be seen clearly, and the raindrops were so dense that they seemed to crash into each other in the air, and they were all foaming on the ground.

The sky was dark and dreary, and lightning occasionally illuminated the scale-like clouds, like a giant dragon lying there.

The elevated road above the head stretched straight into the distance, like a huge spear thrown by a god, quietly cutting off the inner and outer world.

The world is filled with the sound of wind and rain and the sound of trees swaying.

At a certain moment that Shi Yiguang did not notice, at the edge of the city more than ten miles away, a street sign blocked by willow branches, the words "No. 10 Expressway" on it were slightly distorted, and then it became "No. 0 Expressway" that should not exist in theory.

Then, in the next moment, her heart pounded, and her whole person seemed to be stimulated in some way, staring at the distant wilderness with a slightly nervous expression, trying to calm down and enlarge her vision and hearing.

For some reason, there was a very strange silence between heaven and earth, Shi Yiguang could still hear the sound of wind and rain and his own heartbeat, but the background sound of the world suddenly disappeared, no longer noisy, and it was so quiet that it was panicking, as if it was a never-ending long night.

So, after quickly perceiving this change, she inexplicably felt an extremely strong sense of displacement, and she couldn't help but be vigilant, suspecting that she had fallen into some kind of dangerous situation.

In Shi Yiguang's sense, something terrible was coming, carrying an extremely rich aura of death, constantly approaching, and even making the heavens and the earth faintly change color.

Near Elevated Road 10 is a large area of abandoned farmland, and further afield, there are fields of rape flowers that have long been harvested, and the owners of some of the fields have planted a few green onions in their free time.

However, at this moment, she found that the grass and trees in her field of vision began to wither rapidly, from green to gray yellow, and then to dead black!

A certain powerhouse of the "Six Qi" realm in this realm has opened up a realm related to death, enveloping an area that is more than ten miles in radius, to say the least? If you want to target a little guy like me with shallow cultivation, you shouldn't have to go to such a big length, right?

This sudden, seemingly abnormal rainstorm in the operation of heaven and earth aura, was actually the result of this person's mobilization and gathering of a large amount of vitality? Or is it the other party's need to cover up to prevent the vision of heaven and earth from being revealed?

Thinking that in the past few days, he had only found two or three beginner cultivators in densely populated urban areas, and estimated that there should be very few powerful existences of this level in this realm, Shi Yiguang couldn't help but secretly exclaim that he was unlucky, how could he have encountered such an unwarranted disaster.

What's quite bad is that I don't know if it's because she can't adapt to the environment of heaven and earth here, or for other reasons, the few protective magic weapons she carries with her can't be activated normally, and only the clothes and accessories such as the Heavenly Silk Weaving Clothes and the Xuanyu Hairpin can be used, which is extremely dangerous.

Silently retreating to the cabin, picking up a few rudimentary weapons that she had collected materials nearby during this time, the girl looked at the viaduct that had inexplicably bent into a streamer-like shape, took a deep breath, forcibly calmed her mind, and prepared for battle.

Because on the high slope in the distance, in the water nearby, suddenly stood a series of distorted black shadows that seemed to be between the real and the unreal, at first like ink in the form of a human form, but with the passage of time, gradually condensed into real entities.

These shadowy monsters were dressed in pitch-black winds, carrying rusty weapons in their hands, wearing identical skull masks and silver-white masks, and the hands holding weapons were dry and pale with sharp claws, and one by one the golden pupils lit up in the hood of the wind, and the pupils were like fluttering flames.

In the direction of the viaduct from the city, countless black shadows rushed down the high slopes, spreading over the mountains and fields, like a rolling black tide, reminding people of demons pouring out of the depths of hell.

They don't seem to be completely dead, but they're not living either, but trapped between life and death by some mysterious force.

An army of all dead cultivators? There are thousands of people in total, but there seems to be little discipline, and there are no arrays and military magic weapons, can they really come in handy in high-level battles?

Noticing that most of the black shadows ignored themselves hiding in the shadow area of the viaduct columns, Shi Yiguang secretly breathed a sigh of relief, thinking in his heart, but soon found that it seemed that in order to ambush the strong enemy in advance, a considerable number of black shadows had different movements.

Except for some of the black shadows, which had thin bone wings behind them, suspended in the storm and flew directly to the viaduct deck, most of the black shadows had no ability to fly, and they all flocked towards the positions of the columns, trying to climb up from here.

There were more than 100 black shadow monsters on the pillar where Shi Yiguang was, and with some keen perception, a few monsters soon noticed the weak girl hiding in the middle of several wooden planks, and made a strange sound like a baby crying, and suddenly launched an attack.

While two ancient Egyptian sickle-shaped swords hooked the edge of the plank and forcibly pried it open, several miserable white palms and the curly blade of an Indian whip sword had already broken into the narrow space, but they did not hit the worthy target.

A piece of broken iron sheet, which was obviously the product of a car accident and had a license plate number written on it, slashed into the gap between the fingers of one of the palms under Shi Yiguang's rapid swing, causing the owner of the hand to shrink backwards in pain, and by the way, it also blocked the sharp claws protruding from the other two miserable white palms.

With a hiss, the thin, flexible whip sword slammed into her shirt on her left shoulder, only to be unexpectedly bounced off and slip off, accidentally scraping off the flesh of one of the Shadow Monsters on the way back to its bent state, splattering a cloud of dark black blood.

Relying on a piece of clothing comparable to a piece of armor, Shi Yiguang did not luck to relieve the pain, but immediately jumped up, kicked out with both feet, and kicked the two black shadows that had not yet stood seven or eight meters away, dodging the slashing and stabbing of two sickle-shaped swords and a spear.

At the same time, the black blood that had been injured and flowed from the black shadow monster just now fell on the wooden planks that had been shattered into several pieces in the blink of an eye, and white smoke came out like thick acid.

Seeing that their companions had failed in their attack, the two monsters, which were already climbing upside down on the edge of the bridge deck and were about to climb up, cried out in incomprehensible words, and then swooped down, their bodies catapulting out like snakes.

A pitch-black raven was originally circling and flying nearby, but when it saw this scene, it immediately opened its golden crow eyes, flapped its wings and flew quickly, wanting to peck at the back of the other's head with its hard beak that was enough to pierce through the steel while the girl was in mid-air.

And on the broken wooden roof below, there were six or seven black shadows waiting for the girl to fall, their white palms waving horizontally and horizontally, their fingertips tearing through the air, forming a murderous net, designed to welcome the death of the other.

This is enough to tear the tiger and leopard alive, tear the armor of the powerful force, once it really falls on the person's body, even if it is protected by the silkworm treasure clothes, it will inevitably penetrate the body, causing heavy damage.

Heaven and earth are full of strong enemies.

Faced with this scene that was enough to make people desperate, Shi Yiguang did not panic, only to see her left and right hands suddenly flip, and two more small and simple hand crossbows appeared, and in the blink of an eye, more than a dozen arrows with heads made of rusty iron sheets were shot.

The raven, ready to sneak up and deliver a nimbal attack, was the first to be shot, and the arrow pierced its golden pupil on the spot, causing it to fly upside down, first crashing into the viaduct pillars and then staggering towards the ground.

Unlike the golden-eyed ravens that were too light in weight and therefore greatly affected by the kinetic energy of the arrows, the two black shadow monsters that flew in and were then shot by the arrows did not slow down in the slightest, and still rushed towards the girl's predetermined position, which shows the strength of their attacks.

However, in the next moment, the girl tugged at her wrist vigorously, and under the light released by the many golden pupils, she could vaguely glimpse that between her fingers, she was holding a few extremely thin crystal silk threads, and the other end was connected to the knee joints of the two monsters.

It was a small amount of material that Shi Yiguang dismantled from his clothes, a filament made of extremely tough silk.

They are connected to the three arrows that hit the target earlier, and the arrows have barbs that can be embedded in the enemy's body.

So, with just a simple pull, the knee joints were disturbed, and the balance of the black shadow monster was broken, and its trajectory immediately showed a slight deviation, and it flew by half a meter away from the girl, and it failed to touch half of her body.

With the strength of inferior arrows and their barbs, under the incredible muscle contraction of the monster, it will be automatically dispersed and pushed out of the body in a few seconds, but even if it is so short, their attacks are in vain.

Due to the stuck arrow, the bending of the knee joint was limited, and the moment the two monsters landed, their legs made a cracking sound, and a large cloud of black blood erupted from each of the arrow wounds, and their mobility was greatly damaged, and they curled up into a ball in pain and rolled into the darkness.

At the same time, the six or seven monsters that surrounded the girl on the ground, and the holes in the masks, the golden eyes exploded one after another, and the black blood flowed, and they could only blindly wave their claws, and there was no previous blockade cooperation.

One of the stronger black shadow monsters pulled out a rusty flail in a very calm breath, trying to ignore his companions to fight indiscriminately to expand the killing surface, but unexpectedly used too much force, accidentally stomping on the already badly damaged roof.

The monsters, who were already panicked by the damage to their eyesight, fell to the ground one after another, and immediately jumped towards the side with all their might, preferring to crash into the new black shadow that had outflanked them from the periphery than to provoke their murderous opponents again, and ran to another viaduct post.

It was not that they were afraid of death, but because the king's orders were more important than anything else, and since they had never received instructions to kill Shi Yiguang, it was not uncommon for them to seek advantage and avoid disadvantage, and to preserve their strength to stop the real enemy.

Another very important reason is that the dark shadows feel that each other's flesh and blood are not delicious, and they can even be said to taste the same as chewing wax, far less than a low-blooded half-blood, so there is no need to pay too much price.

The only thing that stood still and wanted to continue the fight was the stronger monster that had bothered its companions, leaping from the pile of broken planks, the arrows that had been inserted into its eye sockets were pulled out, and its golden broken pupils re-lit, releasing its ancient majesty.

The heavy flail cut through a dangerous arc, carrying a little wood chips and debris, and slammed upwards, causing an astonishing whistling and popping sound, covering a radius of three or four meters.

Being able to recover a certain amount of eyesight in a short period of time, its bloodline before its death must not be underestimated, it is one or two grades stronger than the previous minor role, and the skillful and sleek moves it performs are even more extraordinary.

But when the hazy glow in the girl's eyes lit up, the flail did not hit any of its targets, and this powerful attack fell completely into the air, but instead let the strength of its whole body leak, revealing many flaws.

At the same time, the miserable raven who was hooked with the golden eye, under Shi Yiguang's vigorous pulling, aimed its beak at the injured eye of the black shadow monster, pecked into it in a daze, and stabbed into the opponent's brain.

In the next moment, as if worried that this monster that was no different from a dead man had not yet died, Shi Yiguang's body that fell quickly turned, and a layer of clear light appeared on the tips of his toes, and he kicked on the crow's buttocks, which were half-sunken in the silver-white mask, and exploded into a wave of tearing qi.

The black shadow staggered a few steps, the silver mask shattered, and the girl saw the true faces hidden under the mask for the first time, and couldn't help but be secretly surprised, and gave birth to many guesses.

Finally, he used a powerful move, or spell, instead of continuing to fight against the black shadow monster with a power that was not dominant, only five or six hundred catties, and the explosion completely shattered the poor raven and shattered the upper half of the opponent's skull.

Exposed to her eyes were a half-hideous and twisted face, with mottled blue-gray scales on the edges of dry skin, which seemed to be some kind of half-transformed snake, but its skull structure resembled that of a human, looking like a hybrid hybrid of a python and a human skull.

But before Shi Yiguang could take a closer look, the already dead black shadow actually turned into sticky black blood, flowing with stagnant water that melted into the ground, just as it had when it first appeared.

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In the blink of an eye, a bunch of enemies were killed, and since the landing site was temporarily emptied, Shi Yiguang should have been fairly safe, and she even had the time to listen to the distant voice, which should have come from a high-speed steel monster car.

Seeing the strong black shadows at the level of the small boss falling, those black shadows holding whip swords and sickle swords, although they still have a strong desire to attack her, they also seem to have some kind of herd mentality.

When he saw that only a few of his weaklings were left facing this master who was obviously able to suppress them, he exchanged heads and whispered while taking a big step and retreating elsewhere.

Although the danger had subsided for the time being, and it seemed that there was no longer a need to face the siege of the monsters, the girl looked into the distance where the sound of the car was, and saw the dark shadows rushing to the place like a tide, and she was still worried.

Judging from the current situation, when the enemy targeted by the Black Shadow Legion passed through here, he was afraid that within a radius of 100 meters, the sky and the ground would be occupied by monsters, and it would be easy to kill himself with a few attacks.

So, no matter what, what she had to do was to break through immediately, to break through to the enemy's weak point, to leave the dangerous area of engagement, to leave this twisted realm of death.

Just as the girl thought about it, found a twisted car door from the pile of broken wood, prepared to use it as a shield, and began to break through from the side, in the darkness fifty or sixty meters away, a pair of golden pupils that were far brighter than any previous black shadow suddenly lit up and began to slowly approach.

This is a powerful giant, almost twice the height of an ordinary black shadow, and the weight may be equal to that of a juvenile rhinoceros, although it is barehanded, the surface of its skin is tinged with a faint bronze color, giving people an inexplicable sense of tenacity.

In the case that the king does not allocate additional manpower, even if it is the entire viaduct area, it is a strong man who can be ranked, it can be said that it is the big leader who commands hundreds of black shadows, and even one of the main forces to intercept foreign enemies here.

Normally, the Shadow Giant doesn't bother to pay attention to a low-level character like Shi Yiguang who has no bloodline, and when he's in a good mood, it's not a problem to let her go—but only if the other party doesn't kill the little brother it covers.

In this viaduct realm, with the help of the king's power, every black shadow can come back from the dead and reshape its body, so dying once or twice is never a big deal, being injured by a special realm, mental pain and torture is.

As an undead hovering between life and death, it doesn't care much about things, and the face of the big boss is one of the most important ones, when it can't eat the flesh and blood of the foreign half-blood, being able to dominate the majesty of the little brother can be said to be the only enjoyment here.

And when the giant thought like this with its dry brain, trying to regain its majesty, it did not expect that the weak girl in its eyes, who was already vulnerable, would rush towards it with a broken car door held high.

…… (End of chapter)