Chapter 17: The Iniquity of the Báb
Heart-shaped rubies, beating with flame-like gorgeous colors, like a magnificent dream, people can't bear to look away, the gems are beautiful, the pendant is simple, I don't know how many years have been inherited.
But that's the end of it.
The dagger poked squarely in the center of the brilliant and flawless gem, and under the huge pressure of the dagger tip, countless to fine cracks appeared on the surface of the gem, and the cracks became deeper and denser, and finally exploded into red fragments flying in all directions.
At this moment, everyone seemed to hear the sound of heartbreak.
As the gem necklace shattered, the corpse-like monster was completely stunned, stretching out two claws towards the remains of the necklace, and let out a senseless howl from its mouth. This time it was neither a threat nor an attack, just a howl of unknown significance. One step, two steps, the monster howled as it moved towards the wreckage of the necklace, and just two steps later, Aurora's fist finally arrived.
On the brass finger tiger, flashing with the brilliance representing the source energy, the fist with the whirring wind sounds, raindrops fell on the monster's head and body. The sound was obviously different, the sound of the thumping fist echoed in the dance hall of the sound, and with each punch, the point of the fist would appear a twisted depression, and soon, its body became pitted, and the clothes that were originally neat were also beaten to pieces, and even the high heels were beaten and flew out at some point.
Aurora was so oblivious that she didn't even notice that a strong smell of alcohol began to fill the air at some point, and after more than ten punches in a row, the monster finally recovered from the chaos, its already dry eyes suddenly turned black, and its all-black eyeballs looked quite evil. As her eyes darkened, she crouched on all fours and roared again.
This time, there was not only a sound wave, but even a physical shock wave was directly formed.
It was as if there had been a violent explosion, with the monster as the center, a shock wave spread outward with the sound wave, violently sweeping everything around it. Several merchants of the caravan were blown around, two of them were even blown up and hit the wall and fell into a faint, while Monica and Aurora were also unsteady on their feet by the impact, especially Aurora, who was the closest to her was hit the hardest, and was hit by the air wave and rolled on the ground continuously, and when she stopped with a gray face, the corner of her mouth had even overflowed with a trace of blood.
But that's just the minutiae, and the real danger is that the monster is no longer there.
When the shockwave made everyone stagger, the monster had already left the place like lightning, and the speed was even faster than the shockwave, and when Aurora stopped, the first thing he saw was the monster that was chasing after her with a wave of qi, the monster stepped on her body with both feet, and one paw was aimed at her who could no longer dodge, and the next step was to take the heart directly.
Surrounded by people who were out of balance, Aurora knew that there was no one to rescue, and she couldn't help but feel a burst of despair, and closed her eyes weakly, for some reason, at the last moment, she was pressed to the ground to be slaughtered, and suddenly remembered the memories when she was still lying in the child's bed, remembering her father who was not completely crazy, her brother and sister who were not yet crazy, her own normal person, and the towering tree that covered the whole city, like the deepest nightmare at midnight, but extremely kind.
The next moment, a whistle interrupted her flashback, as well as the monster that was about to swing its claws.
"Hi dear, look here."
The whistle and the call belonged to Babu, attracting everyone's attention, and even the monster that was about to wave its claws involuntarily turned its attention away, and saw a scene that might be extremely terrifying for it.
Babu was standing at the door of the only locker room with an open door, and in the locker room behind him, there were many expensive looking clothes, and there were dozens of large and small bottles and cans and cylinders on the dressing table, and they also wore a strong smell of alcohol. And Babu, who was standing at the door, with a set of flints in his hand, shouted and gently collided, da, da......
Call.
The spark swept the entire locker room in an instant.
The bright light of fire jumped in the monster's black eyeballs, illuminating the dazed eyes, and the monster directly left Aurora, who was only one step away from killing, screaming and rushing towards the burning room, but Monica had already swung a distance of several meters with the whip, smashed head-on, and directly trampled her to the ground. Aurora, who had to get rid of the death, also looked like a mad tiger under the stimulation of fear, and sat directly behind the monster, alternating her fists, smashing the monster's head with one punch.
I don't know if it was because she looked too crazy, or because it was supposed to be her prey, Monica didn't go up to help in the end, just stood by, watching her face splashed with rotten flesh and black pus and blood by the monster, watching the monster's head being hammered with fists to deform and shatter, watching the monster struggle violently until the last motionless, but she didn't do anything, just sighed at Aurora's bloodshot red eyes.
"Okay, okay, almost, I still want to eat macaroni with meat sauce today, if you fight again, I won't have to eat anything." Seeing that Aurora had almost vented, Monica went over and patted her on the head, and said softly, "Let her body go, she's miserable enough, someone has done such an excessive thing, you don't continue to destroy the corpse." ”
"Huh?" Aurora still had red eyes and a puffed nose, but Monica's words made her a little strange, and she couldn't help but stand up from the monster's corpse, shook the rotten meat on her hand, and took a bite before she asked curiously, "What is too much?" ”
"Whoa", Babu was carrying a handbag in one hand and a pair of high heels in the other, swaying over, hearing Monica's words, he immediately whistled and looked up at the sky as if nothing happened.
"Someone smashed her jewelry, burned all her dresses, ruined all her makeup, there should be nothing more excessive for a woman, no wonder she has become a mutant, and she has to be crazy about it, isn't it, Mr. Babu." Monica grabbed Babu and dragged him in front of her, staring into his eyes, so close that they could almost feel each other's breathing, "But, well done, you will never let me down." ”
"So, I drank too much yesterday and forgot to do it......"
"Ah~~~" Babu pressed his forehead against Monica's forehead, and just as he wanted to say two strange words, he was interrupted by another scream, and the two of them only felt the blue tendons on their foreheads jump, gritting their teeth and staring at the four marginal merchants who screamed one after another.
Katie's bleeding had stopped, and Luke was bandaging her temporarily, just now Shirley screamed, and only because Katie's severed hand could not be found, and she thought she had been thrown into the fire in the chaos. However, it was only a false alarm, and several people soon found the poor severed hand in the corner, and continued to bandage it in a noisy manner.
As a marginal traveler, the resistance is enough to withstand large healing spells with high pollution, and you can also take those healing potions that are lethal enough for ordinary people, this kind of hand that has just broken and has such a flat section will not be too difficult to reconnect, especially in a big city like Donggu City, and it will not even leave any sequelae in the future, which can be regarded as a blessing in misfortune.
"You're all marginal businessmen, why is there such a big gap between you. So, why did you rush out, what are you so ruthless? Seeing that a few merchants were making a fuss and tossing for a while, Aurora kicked the crumbling auditorium door in annoyance, glared at Babu and said, "These four guys chase after that old brute every day and sing praises and cheats to eat and drink, don't you also want them to block the knife first?" Moreover, when they do these things, they really die and bring on themselves. ”
"It's just that I suddenly feel that it's nothing to trap people, and the other party deserves to be deceived, but it's not necessary to really pit people to death." Babu sighed, pounded his head punishingly, and smiled bitterly, "Stupid idea, but...... That's it for now. ”
Aurora didn't know why, but Monica took Babu's hand and smiled approvingly, Babu patted her hand to show understanding, and handed over the high heels in her hand by the way.
"It's the only treasure she's not destroyed by me, poofhahaha, I'm really guilty." Babu laughed to himself, shook the shoes in his hand and said, "This thing actually has a self-cleaning function, and the clothes are rotten, and it is not broken at all." I guess it's edge equipment, so I picked it up by the way when I packed up the diamond, you see, I don't understand it. ”
"What beautiful shoes."
Before I took the shoes, Monica's eyes lit up, this is a pair of very delicate high heels, the black shiny leather upper is recognizable, the red sole is quite special, particularly eye-catching, touch it with your hand, the curve is smooth and feels hard and soft, the key is that it has been worn by the monster for so long, and it is still like new.
I put it on and tried it, and it just fitted, Monica thought that it was like ordinary high heels, and she needed to pay attention to balance at all times, and she could only use it as a pair of shoes when wearing a dress, but she was surprised to find that the balance of this thing was actually better than wearing ordinary shoes, so she quickly took it off and checked it carefully, and after staring at it for a long time, she chuckled: "It's really a good thing, you can call it balanced high heels, it's very suitable for edge battles, but it's too long to wear sore." But...... You see. ”
Saying that he put on brand new high heels, the whip was thrown out and wrapped around the beam, and he swung upwards with his strength, and then his body rolled over, and he actually stepped on the roof and hung upside down on the ceiling, running backwards for five seconds, and then turned over and stepped directly on the beam of the dance hall, the beam was not thick, but she walked on it in high heels as if it was a smooth road, front and back, left and right, advancing and retreating freely.
After running a few more steps on the scale, she rolled over and hung on the roof again, her long hair hanging down, looking like a female ghost, even weirder than the monster just now.
Seeing that she was having more and more fun, she looked reluctant to come down, and hung upside down on the roof for the third time, Babu could only sigh and said helplessly: "Monica, do you remember?" ”
"Huh?"
"You're wearing a skirt today."
"Bang", a pair of long legs fell from the sky, fortunately Babu ran fast, otherwise he would have been trampled over, Monica's face was red, and she glanced at the two men who were still busy bandaging, and she glanced at Babu angrily and said, "Dead child, if you didn't remind me earlier, I think you are going to be beaten." ”
"Tsk, I'm angry." Babu cautiously ran back, pouted, and said, "Enough fun?" How's that, these shoes are fun? Why do I think it's dangerous? ”
"I know you're worried about something, but not too much." Monica was reluctant to take them off, so she didn't change back into her original shoes, but just looked down at her feet and said, "I probably didn't make it clear just now, this thing doesn't hold the balance for you, that's too dangerous, I'm afraid I won't even be able to walk without it in the future." It's not really useful at all, and it's only when you're out of balance that you use its properties to give you enough time and opportunity to get back on balance. In general, the balance is still in your own hands, and it just greatly improves the margin for error. It's hard to describe specifically, or ...... Do you try it out? ”
"Excuse me, not interested." The Báb immediately rolled his eyes.
"Hey." Monica snickered before saying, "The most fun thing is to hang upside down, in fact, you can keep walking normally on any plane, five seconds at a time, and charge once in twenty-four hours, up to three times." This is the real equipment effect, the size of the effect is hard to say, but the fun is real. ”
"Ahem." As the two were talking, the four fringe merchants were finally done, Elvis, who had played against him before, hung his head and walked over with three other companions, and the four of them stood in a row and bowed deeply to the four of Babu's party, and then Elvis said, "I'm sorry." ”
"I actually heard what you said just now, the behavior of the four of us is indeed very immoral, but you still tried your best to save us when we were in trouble." Elvis scratched his head and said quite embarrassedly, "Our combat experience is a little worse, and our courage is indeed a little smaller, and we want to climb to the nobility of the present world, but we at least have a minimum of shame and morality, and we will never dare to forget your kindness." I hope you will forgive us for the mistakes we have made before, and not take our offense seriously. ”
Monica sighed and smiled: "Everyone is a traveler on the edge, and they can be regarded as peers, a little misunderstanding, there is nothing to forgive or not forgive, you don't have to go to your heart, and it is even more unnecessary to never forget this kind of thing." ”
"Thank you for your tolerance, your kind of mind and bearing are like coming out of a real big city, full of aristocratic demeanor, in comparison, we are acting like clowns." The four merchants bowed again, and Elvis said, "When we go back, we will wait for Katie's injuries to heal before leaving, and we will no longer cling behind the city lord to show his ugliness." However, it is estimated that it will take half a month for her to recover from her injury, and if there is anything you need our help with during this time, you can come to us at any time, and we will do our best. ”
Without waiting for the Babu to persuade them to say anything, the four aching merchants left with a disgraced face, and the rest of them looked at each other. Monica was stunned for a long time before she smiled and said, "It's okay, these people are not the kind of people who are not worth pulling." By the way, Aurora, these shoes ......."
"You take it, you take it, for me, it's enough to kill her. Hmph, this time he successfully completed his troubles, I want to see what else that old thing has to say. Aurora excitedly grabbed their hands and ran outside the building, saying as she ran, "Hurry up, go back, I can't wait to fall on his face." ”
Laughing and crying, Babu and Monica were forced to run out of the door, but just two steps out of the door, Babu forcibly stopped.
His body stiffened a little, swallowed heavily, and said with a dry smile, "That...... I have something to inform you. ”
"Say." Monica had a sense of foreboding in her heart.
"That high-powered ...... from before," Barbu said, gesturing to the manor building behind him, "seems to be still there." ”
"Boom." Suddenly, there was a tremor underground.