Chapter Twenty-Three: The Storm is Coming

After Qixingzi lost to Jiang Qiu in the dungeon, he originally thought that he would be scolded by the willow demon, but who would have thought that the willow demon not only did not get angry, but instead taught them to practice with a smile, and at the same time relaxed the authority, allowing the five of them to leave the scope of the dungeon and go to Tianyang City on the ground.

In addition to regaining their freedom for a short time, the Willow Demon gave the five of them an additional privilege.

That is to allow them to choose two additional people to fill the two vacancies of the Seven Stars.

As for who can become the leader of the Seven Stars, whether it is Wu Yong or Du Shaokang, who the two newcomers obey their orders, Liu Demon doesn't care at all, and lets a few people decide internally.

Surprisingly, when the long-term appeal was about to be realized, the five people did not leave the dungeon immediately, but instead stayed in the dungeon.

Taoist priest Wu Yong started his old business, set up stalls in the streets and alleys of the dungeon to tell fortunes, touched the girl's little hand with a smile, and helped the other party look at palmistry and faces.

Although the business is not very good, and he will always be scolded by the girls, Wu Yong is still enjoying it, and the seven copper coins in front of him are not in a hurry to absorb the emotions poured out by different people in the city, and the color is becoming more and more full, as if there is a sense of imminent breakthrough.

Du Shaokang, a young man in a dragon robe, lived in a lakeside hut.

He was already arrogant and unwilling to admit defeat, and he was reluctant to waste time on playing, and practiced hard against the information transmitted back by the data terminal, striving to fully master the dragon robe on his body as soon as possible.

It is said that the raw material of this dragon robe is that the willow demon killed a first-class wurmmon, collected its bones, and used the PNF device to forcibly leave the wurmmon's technique on this dragon robe, and then the aura of the wurmon followed.

So much so that every time Du Shaokang condensed the golden silk thread into a long sword, he couldn't hold it firmly, otherwise he would hurt others first and hurt himself.

It's just that Du Shaokang wants to master the first-level dragon robe in a short period of time, but it is really difficult, so he has to pull down his face and ask the willow demon to teach him some tricks on how to subdue the anger of the wurm beast.

The leisure time for cultivation has come to the evening.

Du Shaokang sat in the pavilion, looked at the rippling lake, stroked the dragon robe, and said to himself: "Even if it is already a first-level, is it a sub-dragon beast?" I can't proudly say that I am a dragon, and I am an absolute king who can soar above the sky. There can only be one king. ”

"There is only one dragon beast in the world, can the willow demon really subdue it?"

Du Shaokang looked up, his thoughts passed through the rock layer dozens of meters thick, crossed the reinforced concrete high-rise building, and fell on a certain girl.

Remembering that the girl was walking barefoot by the lake, and came across a pale cyan crab that crawled out, the girl pounced and tried to catch the crab, but the crab caught her fingers.

The girl screamed in pain, shouted for help, gritted her teeth, and even endured the pain to break the crab's claws, kicked the crab away, and then wiped her tears as if she was invited, found the willow demon, and raised the crab claw that was clamped on her finger.

It's like saying, "I'm so good, praise me, or I'll cry." ”

Like a child who doesn't grow up.

The lake was rippling, and Du Shaokang's heart at that time was also rippling.

Du Shaokang said with a smile: "I always have to marry home, I should find her before that and tell her that I like you very much, otherwise unrequited love will be too boring." ”

Of the five people, perhaps only Ying Flexible is the most serious and the most comfortable.

When Taoist priest Wu Yong found her, Ying Ling was sitting at a barbecue stall in the night market, working as both a boss and a customer, earning some hard-earned money.

There are a lot of customers coming and going, and under the promotion of holographic projection technology, there is no difference between the dungeon and the ground, and you can see the blue sky and the galaxy in the sky, so the vast majority of people will stay here with peace of mind.

Some of these people come for the reputation of this barbecue, and some come for the beautiful boss, Yingling is a lively character, she can talk to anyone, and she can often be seen sitting at the wine table, fighting wine with guests, and she doesn't care about the eyes of others.

Where you want to look, anyway, the old lady is dressed very tightly, this can be seen by you, or you can get the old lady to the bed, even if you are powerful, the old lady will admit it.

For her, the joy of life is to earn money, watching the amount of money in the card grow a little bit, and the digits in front of the decimal point get a little longer.

Every time a customer orders 30 skewers of mutton, Yingling will always take two or three to keep for himself, and in his spare time, he will also speculate in stocks, do investment and financial management, go to work as a model for clothing stores, and sell roses along the roadside on holidays, just to make money.

Du Shaokang and several people had made a bet in private, betting on how many numbers there were in Yingling's card.

Wu Yong sat down, his robe hanging on the ground, but it was not stained with dust, and said with a smile: "Eat meat every day? ”

Ying Ling wiped the chili oil from the corner of his mouth, poured a sip of beer, and burped comfortably, "Don't you understand?" If a person only eats meat, he can't get fat, so I can lose weight and satisfy my stomach. Do you want to have a bunch? ”

Noticing that chili oil was dripping on the kebabs, and there was a heavy layer of chili noodles on the meat, Wu Yong shook his head decisively: "I can't eat spicy." ”

Ying Ling felt a pity, "Then you can't eat hot pot spicy hotpot, spicy fragrant pot ......"

Wu Yong took out seven copper coins from his arms, the color was deeper than half a month ago, changed the topic, and pretended to be inadvertent: "I advise you not to hit the idea of orcs for supper." ”

Wu Yong looked strange, "You are so short of money?" I also want to sell supper. Our Seven Star Son's principle of doing things has always been to ask questions without asking questions, I don't care what you think, if you do it, I can't keep you. ”

He gently flicked one of the copper coins, and the customers around him seemed to be manipulated, lost interest in eating, and left the barbecue stall after checking out, and passers-by would subconsciously ignore the two people at the table.

Ying Ling twisted his wrist with a smile, and tadpole-sized words crawled along his arm, "The willow demon doesn't care about me, how old are you?" ”

Fortunately, Guan Xinran appeared, breaking the deadlock between the two people, and the orcs also came for supper, but they were a little unsociable and stood in the distance.

Wu Yong smiled brightly, beckoned to her, and motioned for supper to sit down.

Yexiao timidly took a step closer, and saw Yingling looking at him with a smile, as if he had seen a big lump of gold, the orc didn't move at night, no matter how Wu Yong waved his hand, Wu Yong was helpless, glared at Yingling, and motioned her to restrain herself.

Somehow, the mother-in-law of Yingling, wanted to sell the supper, and not long ago, she walked around the door of the house of the supper for several days, and the supper was so scared that she couldn't sleep until now, so that now the dark circles under her eyes are obvious.

The little girl at night seems to be too sensitive to her identity, because she can't completely hide the long tail behind her, coupled with her dull personality, she looks a little inferior, and she is very unsociable among several people.

Guan happily sat aside and teased: "Yo, lonely men and widows are ready to fight? Why don't you go to bed and fight? ”

Wu shook his robe and put away all the copper coins, "I can't climb high." ”

Ying Ling also smiled: "I can't climb high." ”

Regarding this kind of contradiction, Guan Xinran, who was born in the military, couldn't interject, and he didn't want to get involved in the quarrel, with a businesslike attitude, "Director Liu has come to speak, hoping that a few of us will find a teenager and strive to pull him into the Seven Stars." ”

"It doesn't matter if it's successful or not, but it's important to give it a try."

Wu Yong said curiously: "Is it Jiang Qiu?" If it were him, I could give him the position of leader. ”

A black-hearted, and very capable guy, Wu Yong is willing to let Xian.

Guan Xinran shook his head, and Wu Yong suddenly felt pity.

Guan Xinran fumbled in his pocket for a while, and put a chip in front of the Heroic Spirit, the gold and black colors were mixed together, if the magician looked over, he would find that there was a villain inside the chip, performing some kind of ancient martial art in the sky and the earth all the time.

Guan Xinran introduced: "This time it is an upgraded version of the warframe, with one or two combat skills, and the follow-up functions are still under development, and the rehearsal function has been newly added, with an AI system." ”

The four of them walked to the lake, and a few white swans were on the shore in the night, as if they were considering whether to enter the water.

A little farther away, a surveillance camera quietly turned around and recorded the figures of several people.

Law enforcement robots patrol the paths, swarms of drones overhead monitoring every corner of the dungeon, but a handful of police officers remain at their posts, doing mediation work that robots are not capable of.

Compared with the bright lights of the city, this place is more like nature, the mountains and rivers are green, if it were not for the soldiers running around the lake and shouting slogans, ruining the calm night, the scenery by the lake would be a little more beautiful.

The group found Du Shaokang, who was enjoying the scenery, and Wu Yong brought him a large handful of skewers and two bottles of beer, "Eat something first, there is a group task in the evening." ”

Du Shaokang thanked him lightly.

The relationship between him and Wu Yong is not good, nor is it bad, a bit like a colleague in the office, smiling together on the surface, and maybe saying something bad behind the end of work.

Guan Xinran put the chip into the data terminal in his right eye and summoned a tailor-made battle armor.

Compared to the first generation, the current second-generation warframe has a lighter texture and closely fits the curves of the body.

Guan Xinran looked at Du Shaokang with a smile, "Test it." ”

The lake belongs to a military base, and the residents of the dungeon are not allowed to enter, and the soldiers in it are not allowed to leak any information about the military base without permission, which the willow demon has done very well.

Hundreds of thousands of people enter and leave the dungeon every day, but not a single soldier leaves, which shows the high prestige of the willow demon and the ruthlessness of manipulating people's hearts and human nature.

Du Shaokang's thought moved, and an emerald green short sword stabbed head-on, drawing a long-standing green flight trajectory, obviously Du Shaokang did not keep his hand, he also became a little interested, wanting to know how much the set of armor developed by the willow demon has blessed himself.

In the face of the flying sword like an immortal, Guan Xinran is neither a sorcerer nor a superpower, so he can't react at all, but the battle armor has its own combat skills, which perfectly makes up for this shortcoming.

Guan Xinran sensed that something was wrong and wanted to avoid the flying sword that went straight to the door, but his body consciousness couldn't keep up, but at the moment when the flying sword stabbed over, the data terminal automatically simulated and calculated the speed, trajectory, and power of the flying sword, and at the same time estimated Guan Xinran's physical fitness, and finally came to a conclusion.

Guan Xinran couldn't hide by herself.

So the battle armor took over Guan Xinran's body, and with an unbelievable lower waist movement, he was able to dodge the flying sword.

Facing the attack of the emerald green flying sword, Guan Xinran breathed a sigh of relief and urged the first combat skill, the chessboard footwork.

It was an ancient footwork that Jiang Qiu had worked hard to learn for three months.

Jiang Qiu is an extremely smart person, he learns everything very quickly, and he gets started faster, Rao is like this, it still took three months to learn ancient martial arts, but Guan Xinran only took a few seconds.

Prior to this, Guan Xinran had never set foot in ancient martial arts, but he was still driven by the battle armor, almost perfectly dodging every flying sword's direct stab, and even in the eyes of several onlookers, he avoided the flying sword along the way and walked in front of Du Shaokang unimpeded.

If it is a great enemy of life and death, in the face of melee combat of the armor holder, the superpower will definitely suffer, and if it is a magician, he must be very careful.

Du Shaokang put away his flying sword and was amazed, "It's so unfair, we magicians or superpowers need years of hard practice to control our bodies, but you only need a set of upgraded battle armor." ”

Guan Xinran's face was full of joy, "Not only can it provide strength, but it can also calculate distance, power, etc." ”

Guan Xinran sincerely admired: "No wonder the willow demon can become the director of Tianyang City, not to mention his own combat power, just the research of the battle armor is enough to make the magicians in the world, as well as the beasts hidden in the crowd, a big headache." ”

"They need to be cultivated, and we humans just need to keep researching and developing."

Speaking of this, Guan happily apologized and said to the supper: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to point the finger at you." ”

The orc shook his head timidly, his tail hanging down behind him, and seemed a little unhappy.

Du Shaokang, a young man in a dragon robe, said with a smile: "This is only the second generation, what is the situation of the third and fourth generations in the future?" It's fascinating to think about, and I'm going to have to get a set of armor in the future. ”

"Whether it's defense or attack, it's top-notch, and it's a second life."

"In the future, we sorcerers can't say for sure, and we will have to rely on armor holders like you."

This is also why, even if Du Shaokang failed to provoke Jiang Qiu, the envoys of the three great powers were still full of expectations for the battle armor, and were even willing to wait a little longer to take a look.

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In the hunter's tavern, with the appearance of the white-haired young man Wang Sun, the sound of drinking has subsided.

Several obscure gazes stayed on Wang Sun, coming and going as fast as they came.

In this era of extremely developed networks, everyone can get first-hand news, including the battle between Wang and Sun on the street, and video footage has been leaked.

One person faced the siege, unhurried, as if picking vegetables in his own vegetable garden, taking off the heads of several people one by one, this almost invincible posture was imprinted in the heads of countless people, so there were many real drinkers in the tavern, and there were also many lobbyists from some families.

The wildcat was the first to speak, looking sophisticated and sleek, "He Qiusheng? Good name, boy girl? It's a pity I haven't heard of her, but if you want to find her, you can come to me and post a quest, it's always more convenient than you looking for it alone. ”

Jiang Qiu looked at Wang Sun carefully.

It's a bit strange that you don't look very old from the outside, and your gray hair looks like it's born and not acquired, is it albinism?

He has an Adam's apple, he is a boy, but he is a little short, about the same height as the crazy girl of Liu Ye, and his limbs are slender, as if he is malnourished, such a person is either very weak or very strong.

It seems, this guy is the latter.

In line with the mentality of making fewer enemies and making more friends, Jiang Qiu said softly: "I don't know, but I've seen it." ”

Wang Sun took out the notebook he carried with him, flipped through it from beginning to end, and after thinking about what he was going to do next, he asked, "Where is it?" I want to find her, He Qiusheng is ......"

Speaking of which, Wang Sun made a difficulty.

Friends?

He didn't know, he couldn't remember.

But there was always a thought in his subconscious, that is, the things on the notepad must be done, so he said, "Good friend." ”

He pulled out a large stack of thick bills from the bag he was carrying, and from the zipper, there was more money, about hundreds of thousands.

Wang Sun also didn't have the idea of leaking money, especially in the hunter's tavern, everyone is a hunter, but they are also prey, "If you help me find her, I can give you all the money." ”

In his subconscious, if he has money, he can do things, and he would not have thought that hundreds of thousands of dollars would be enough for an ordinary person to live comfortably, and he could also buy a life!

For a friend who will be forgotten by him every day, Wang Sun should cherish it more than ordinary people, especially the characters written in the notepad, Wang Sun feels that these people are his real treasures and real wealth.

Sensing that there was a killing intent becoming more and more intense, Jiang Qiu sighed, helped Wang Sun put the money into his backpack, and looked him directly into his eyes, "It's not that I don't help you, but I don't know either." ”

Jiang Qiu tore off a piece of paper and completed a sketch in three minutes, which was the face portrait of Wang Ziyu on the night of the sewer.

Jiang Qiu handed it over, "This person took He Qiusheng away, and I don't know where he took it exactly." ”

"Wang Ziyu is a member of the Seven Stars Society, they are a secret organization, if you find someone who claims to be the Seven Stars Society, you can ask. By the way, those people are all outlaws, you'd better make them incapacitated before asking, it's best not to leave them alive, otherwise they may be unfavorable to He Qiusheng. ”

Kill.

Kill each other, and I'll pick up the leaks.

Wang Sun took the portrait, thanked him, stood at the wine table, took out a notepad, and asked, "What's your name?" ”

"Jiang Qiu. The river of the river, the autumn of the autumn. ”

Wang Sun wrote in his notebook: "Jiang Qiu did me a favor and owed him a favor, so remember to pay him back." ”

Wang Sun clipped the portrait in a notepad and turned to leave, intending to find this man named Wang Ziyu, not paying attention to the tavern at all, about half of the people followed his ass and left.

Whether it's watching a play, hunting, or performing a mission, it's like a tourist group.

Wildcat whispered, "Don't have anything to do with this madman, I seem to see a couple of 'Ice Gate' people following suit." ”

"The Hunting Tavern has rules that Adam is not allowed to step into, no fighting is allowed, no one of the directors is allowed to enter, so there will be a lot of outlaws here."

"No matter what the identity of this white-haired boy is, he is not a good person."

The speculation is plausible, and it looks like there's going to be an elaborate hunt tonight.

As the highest law enforcement agency in Tianyang City, 'Bingmen' will not allow anyone to kill people at will, so this white-haired boy must have been on their blacklist early, thinking that 'Bingmen' had planted spies in the tavern early, just waiting for the white-haired boy to show up.

Some hunters who only want to make money may want to gamble and make a lot of money.

Some big families, such as the Li family of Wumart Group, or the Zhang family of Debiao Company, Chen Guangsheng of Xusheng Academy, and Liu Demon of Dungeon, Jiang Qiu believes that these forces will definitely pay attention to this matter.

Jiang Qiu felt more and more interesting, "One person is involved in several forces, and I don't know what it will be." ”

The wild cat grabbed Jiang Qiu with a solemn expression, "You haven't realized what's wrong, have you?" ”

Jiang Qiu drank all the wine in the cup again and rubbed his face, "Just say it directly, I've been very annoyed lately, and I'm too lazy to recall." ”

Wildcat is an uncle in his forties, and Jiang Qiu is just a young man in his early twenties, the same age as his son, so Wildcat has an indescribable sense of intimacy.

He knew that this feeling was fatal to the hunter.

Wildcat Brush wrote: "Arms. ”

Then the wildcat got up and hurried away, as if he had leaked a little bit of heaven, and feared to be reckoned with.

Jiang Qiu had already figured out the cause and effect at this time.

The first two times, the white-haired teenager was wounded, and in one case he was missing an arm.

Modern medicine can only guarantee treatment, but cannot regenerate a complete arm.

Even if the technology of Tianyang City is so developed, it will not work.

And this boy is here tonight, his arm is intact.

Jiang Qiu sighed: "It's really a city that doesn't disappoint, since the willow demon left Tianyang City, the wind and rain are coming." ”

No one noticed, the proprietress at the counter was wiping down the bottle and humming an English country tune.

As if the counter was a treasure, keeping all the turmoil out, the proprietress tasted the wine with great pleasure and no quarrel with the world.