Chapter 15: The Dead City
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After crossing several barren mountains one after another, Qin Hao came to the source of the red light.
What appeared in front of his eyes was a crater that looked like a meteorite had been smashed out when it fell. With a diameter of several kilometers, standing in front of this huge crater, Qin Hao, who was originally quite tall, was as small as an ant.
And the red light that pierced through the sky came from the center of the crater.
Standing on the edge of the big pit and looking at the center of the red light from a distance, the demon's sharp eyesight allowed Qin Hao to easily see a two-handed big sword inserted in the soil in the center of the red light.
It was a sword with a somewhat strange shape. A claw skull is carved at each end of the hilt, and at the junction between the jaw and the blade, a claw skull is also carved.
In the thin red light, it was buried in the dry, cold and hard soil of the Demon Realm. Qin Hao couldn't see the lower half of the sword blade because it was completely submerged in the soil, but the part of the sword blade that was exposed on the ground, the runes engraved on the whole body shone with a cold blue light.
And the thin red light that enveloped it was like a soft light from a skylight in a dark cavern, reflected on the rune sword.
The rune sword, which revealed the vicissitudes of life and history, was engraved with several runes that shimmered faintly with blue light. The blue rune, shrouded in red brilliance, was unusually eye-catching.
"This is ......" Looking at this sword with a very unusual shape from a distance, a trace of confusion flashed in Qin Hao's eyes, "Did you really encounter an artifact?"
Rushing down the edge of the inclined pit, Qin Hao walked step by step towards the center of the red light. Only then did Qin Hao notice the dozens of demons in front of him who were like headless flies, constantly circling around the sword in place.
These demons come in a variety of shapes, ranging from monster-like demons that can be several meters tall to small demons like demon imps. But no matter which demon it was, at this time, they were all spinning in circles dozens of meters away from the red light.
These demons circled around the red light and looked like drunks who had lost their way, and they were even drifting in their steps.
"This ...... What's going on?" The strange scene in front of him made Qin Hao a little dumbfounded.
Walking to the side of these demons, watching these demons of different shapes walk past him one after another, Qin Hao saw that the eyes of all the demons were in a state of godlessness.
He carefully poked a demon in front of him with his finger, and what shocked Qin Hao was that just by being poked lightly by him, the demon's whole body trembled as if he had just woken up, and then he turned back from his confusion.
The demon who had come back to his senses subconsciously looked at the situation around him, and then without saying a word, he opened his fangs and pounced towards Qin Hao, who was closest to it.
"Damn, how did you wake up so easily?" Caught off guard, Qin Hao was almost pounced on by this demon.
After hurriedly taking a few steps back, and after finally avoiding the demon's claw attack, Qin Hao punched out and slammed into the demon's chest.
Bang -
There was a muffled sound, and the demon's body trembled for a moment under the bombardment of the huge force. Immediately after, before the demon could recover from Qin Hao's fist shock, Qin Hao's right hand had already clenched the bone knife and slashed hard.
Poof――
The lilac blood sprayed Qin Hao's face, and the demon, who had almost split half of his body, opened his mouth, squeezed out a dry howl from his throat, and finally could only fall to the ground and die weakly.
Looking at the corpse of the demon in front of him, as well as the other demons who were unaware of the chaos here and were still circling around the red light, Qin Hao was a little confused.
When he saw the godless eyes of these demons, he thought that these demons couldn't wake up at all, just like the guys he had met before. Unexpectedly, it seemed that here, the red light's control over these demons had weakened? Obviously, just a light poke made this demon wake up.
Carrying the bone knife and taking two more steps forward, Qin Hao finally knew what was going on with the strange state of these demons.
When he stepped into a certain range, he suddenly felt a sense of deprivation of direction. Obviously, the sword was in front of him, but there was a strange voice in his heart that kept telling him—go to the right, go to the right......
"Okay, no wonder these demons are all spinning in circles, they are fascinated," Qin Hao sighed, directly ignoring the bewitchment of the voice, and walked into the red light.
With his wisdom, he naturally would not be controlled by a hypnotic voice, but these ordinary demons in front of him did not have as high wisdom as him. These demons, whose IQ is as low as a lower limit, can't tell that the voice in their heads is not the brain's control of the body, and as a result, they are all controlled by the voice and spin in circles.
After walking into the red light, Qin Hao suddenly had a strange feeling, at that moment, he suddenly felt as if he had been stripped naked in front of the public and was being watched by countless people.
The feeling of standing naked in the cold wind and being watched by others made him a little uncomfortable.
After all, even humanoid demons without intelligence will unconsciously condense the bone armor of magic power to cover the sensitive parts of the body. How could he, a traverser with sound wisdom, run naked on the land of the Demon Realm? Since he had the ability to condense magical armor, he had made himself a set of armor to make clothes.
But now walking in this red light, he suddenly has the illusion of being naked.
Subconsciously touched the armor that was still on his body, Qin Hao was a little strange. Could it be that this red light also has a scanning function? How else does this strange feeling of having your whole body scanned come from? But if this red light really has a scanning function, what is it scanning?
Just when Qin Hao was puzzled, following his footsteps, the two-handed big sword inserted in the dirt appeared at his feet. Subconsciously glanced down at the big sword with a little rust on the metal of the hilt, and a trace of greed suddenly flashed in Qin Hao's heart.
That feeling of greed came so violently that the defenseless Qin Hao was instantly controlled by this sudden greed. By the time he turned around, he had bent down and grasped the hilt of the rune greatsword.
"Uh...... What's the situation?" Qin Hao blinked, and a bad premonition flashed in his heart.
Roar -
The roar after roar made Qin Hao subconsciously raise his head. In an instant, this guy was taken aback.
I saw that in my field of vision, the dozens of demons that had circled around the rune sword before had recovered at this time. The dozens of demons around him, all staring at him with blood-red eyes, and then roared and rushed towards him. In those blood-red eyes, there was endless greed.
"Rub, how did these guys regain their senses?" Qin Hao scolded angrily, turned around and planned to run. However, at this time, an invisible force appeared to him, and his hand and the hilt of the rune greatsword were glued together, allowing him to struggle and exert all his strength, but he was stuck in place and unable to move.
"Damn! What's the situation?" Looking at the demons who were getting closer and closer, Qin Hao wanted to cry without tears, "Don't play like this, bastard! Facing dozens of demons at once, don't say that I can't move now, even if I can fight and jump, I will end up kneeling." ”
Seeing that those demons were getting closer and closer, and the nearest demon had even raised its huge claws to grab at Qin Hao, Qin Hao couldn't help but close his eyes and screamed, "Help...... Goo ......"
A stream of icy liquid suddenly poured in from Qin Hao's gaping mouth and poured into his stomach with a clatter. Excited by that coldness, Qin Hao opened his eyes suddenly, but he found that he had come to a place he had never seen before.
"Uh...... Where is this?" Looking at the never-before-seen scene around him, Qin Hao was a little dumbfounded.
This is a desolate and dead ruined ancient city.
The streets are wide, tall buildings stand one after another, and the walls are carved with ornate patterns, which have a certain enchanting color in the faint light suspended in the surrounding air.
It can be seen that this was once a huge city, and maybe even the main city of some powerful country.
It's just a pity that now the city is dead.
The empty streets are eerily quiet, and even the winds of time don't want to stay here. The mottled streets, from time to time there are collapsed buildings.
Under the black sky, there were dry vines extending from the corners of the city.
However, even these plants with extremely tenacious vitality can no longer find the slightest nutrients in this dead and silent city. The thick vines, long since shriveled and dead, clinged weakly to the dilapidated building, crumbling.
The sky above him was eerily pitch black unlike the dark red of the Demon Realm. The deep black color spread all the way to the end of the line of sight, unlike the night sky that Qin Hao had passed by, the sky here was pure black, and there were no superfluous impurities at all, let alone the sun, moon and stars.
And under such a black canopy, the reason why he was able to see the surrounding Qiqi clearly was because in the air of this city, there was a strange point of light floating everywhere that radiated a faint light like a firefly. These fireflies were scattered throughout the city, fluttering slowly and irregularly, and Qin Hao, who was standing in the middle, even had the illusion that he was standing in the middle of the galaxy.
And in his hand, he held the strange rune sword.
It's just that at this time, without the barrier of the earth, Qin Hao can already clearly see the whole picture of this rune sword.
Like the rusty upper half of the sword, the lower half of the blade is imbued with the breath of history - or broken.
The middle of the lower half of the blade was empty, and only a trace of metal connected the mottled tip and hilt. Looking at the empty part in the middle, Qin Hao couldn't help laughing and crying, "Can this broken sword be useful?"
"No," a soft and pleasant voice suddenly sounded, "After all, it's a powerful artifact, how can it be broken lightly?"