22. Destruction
"These people...... The smell on my body always gives people a very uncomfortable feeling. Who are they?"
"These guys are the minions of the black hand who is now turning the world upside down. Ye hid in the dark, staring at the mysterious black-clothed people below, the expression on his face was almost as cold as the cold wind of winter, "I don't know if you spirit clans have heard of such an organization-'Eternal Night Country'." With my intelligence network, I can only dig up the name of such an organization on the 'bright side'. ”
"...... on the surface?"
"Yes, I don't think such an organization with a conspiracy to subvert the world can surface so easily, maybe it's just a puppet to divert attention. ”
Ye knew that there had been many organizations that had tried to spy on each other, but in the end, they were almost all quietly wiped out. Even the Assassin Order, where Ye and her sister had served, were ruthlessly annihilated because they learned some secrets that they shouldn't have known. In order to save the important person in the organization, Kaede, who had broken away from the organization, almost gave his life there, and now he is hiding and recuperating from his injuries.
This is a few years of lying down, otherwise Feng would never let Ye do such a dangerous industry as he is now.
"This city, I know it has the influence of these guys, but I didn't expect it to attract so many enemies - if it is according to the intelligence, there is no reason why it will develop like this...... There must be secrets hidden here that we don't know. ”
Ye told himself that he must not lose his sense of proportion because of this, and at this moment, he must hold back the killing intent in his heart. Although she is worthy of the name of genius among her peers. But in front of that behemoth, blindly attack. It's tantamount to a mantis arm blocking a car.
"It's a problem, these people are here. We simply can't come and go freely...... If you don't know, your two friends may also be in crisis. ”
"This ......!"
As soon as she heard the news, Na'er's face immediately changed. She can not care about herself, but she can't sit back and watch Phil and Lily fall into crisis.
"We can't do anything, let's go. Ye, who easily understood Na'er's thoughts, did not hesitate and decisively chose to evacuate, "Now let's go and meet your friends immediately!"
Instead of doing useless work here, it is the way to get out in time. Ye has never been a sacrificial spirit to deal with these enemies who have controlled the dark world. Self-preservation is an important issue at all times.
If the opportunity is lost, you can wait a little longer, you can take the initiative to create, but if the person is gone, it will be completely finished, and nothing will exist.
"Why did you give up? It can't be because of me, right?"
"No, you're right. ”
"Huh!?" Na'er couldn't help but cover her mouth and let out a low exclamation. She never thought that she was just talking casually, but it was still true!
It's a little touching when you think about it......
[I'm such a bad woman...... Obviously, he just wants to use the power of the spirit race, how can this fool's fantasy be so heartwarming? Even though his strength is already so strong, he is still a docile person in his bones. 】
"Wait, I'...... I seem to hear something......" Na'er suddenly pricked up her ears. The expression on his face also became nervous, "I feel very uneasy!"
Na'er's words immediately aroused Ye's alarm. Although Ye didn't hear any strange sounds, he questioned the hearing of the rabbit clan. That's absolutely arrogant and stupid.
Since Na'er said that there was a strange voice, then there was, and since Na'er said that she felt very uneasy, then there was reason to believe her judgment that the intuition and senses of animals in the face of calamity were themselves much stronger than those of humans, the words of the spirit race...... In this regard, perhaps, it will only be stronger.
What's more, the signs of crisis that most people don't perceive are particularly dangerous, aren't they? In the face of disaster, being prepared and being unprepared are two completely different concepts.
"Can you find out where that ominous voice came from?"
"Is it ...... Here—in this underground!?"
"So it's—what!" Ye, who hadn't paid too much attention to it at first, changed color when she saw the direction that Na'er was pointing!
"Why is it there? There's ......."
There is probably the most talented dark mage in the history of mankind, why is there a problem there...... No, if it is according to the thinking of a normal person, in fact, such a powerful black magician, there is something wrong with it!
Ye knew that Xia was not a truly evil black magician, and he couldn't even say that he was difficult to get along with, so he didn't think about it. But in fact, it was a black mage with a powerful forbidden technique, and with her ability, destroying a city was nothing more than a trivial matter!
"Let's go!"
Ye Er didn't say a word, grabbed Na'er and ran up desperately.
"What about Phil and Lily......"
"A cat and a fox, I don't think you're much less sensitive to crises than you, are they......? Even if there is something, there is no time to do it!"
"What kind of people are these guys who popped up out of nowhere!
The previous guards, even though there were a few of them with more outstanding martial arts, but after all, most of them were at the level of miscellaneous fish - if only those captains with outstanding strength came to chase them, then Lily and Fei'er would still be a little embarrassed, but the pig teammates will always play the best auxiliary position, with so many trash fish joining behind, the cunning cat and fox can be said to be like a fish in water, completely turning those people around.
It's just that now a group of unidentified but tricky characters are suddenly chaotic.
"Stop talking, save some strength - you see the wounds are all open!" Lily scrambled to help Phil with the healing spells she knew. It does not heal the new wounds on Phil'er's body. As soon as the spell was applied to the wound, it was disturbed by an unknown force. Not to mention that it worked, it almost lost in the battle with the human assassin before. But the old wounds that had been healed also flare-up. "Now you can only use this kind of emergency measures to deal with it, you must do what you can, don't do such a dangerous thing again!"
Just now, in order to escape from the pursuit of the enemy, Fei'er gritted his teeth and carried out a dangerous gamble. As a result, it can be said to be successful, but the price paid is not small - Fei'er's right hand bone is broken, and there is an additional knife wound on the back that is deep and visible. If it weren't for the fact that Lily had brought some of the clan's trauma medicine with her to stop the bleeding, Fei'er would have knelt down now when the spell was almost ineffective.
Lily naturally also knows the reason why Fei'er is so risky, the spell has been countered by strange means, and she has almost become a half-wasted person, although the physical training on weekdays has not fallen, but the strength of the enemy, it is obvious that you can ignore the results of this good physical training. Phil's risk-taking behavior. It was because of her current state of embarrassment that Lily's ears fell to the thought of this.
"At least enough to fool them in a short period of time...... Hey, and don't worry too much, didn't you say that cats have nine lives? I don't hang up so easily...... It hurts ......."
"Less poor!"
Doesn't this fool understand. With such an injured appearance, and still recklessly talking and laughing, does it actually make me feel very sad? But when I think of Fei'er doing this. Most of the time it was also to reduce the depression in her heart, and Lily could only sigh in the end.
"I don't know what's going on with Na'er. It's better not to do anything too much to Na'er......"
"We've done a lot of things. ”
"Uh...... That's right. "He was taken hostage. Fei'er didn't think that Na'er would be treated kindly, after all, no one would want their injured captives to have the strength to fight back. The previous poisoning was for that purpose, and maybe that human would have hurt Na'er further for the sake of insurance...... But now the two of them are already unable to protect themselves, even if they want to help Na'er, they are powerless.
Can you only pray for the heavenly appearance of the Naerji people?
"Where the hell is Lord Reizen...... Na'er was captured, and she didn't want to show up to save her?"
"Fei'er! Don't say that kind of thing!"
Lily hurriedly stopped Fei'er's intention to continue, people in a specific environment, it is easy to breed some emotions that are usually difficult to produce - in normal times, Fei'er would never speculate on the patriarch of the rabbit clan with this kind of thought, but now, because her mood is very heavy and the situation is not optimistic, negative thoughts and emotions will inevitably sprout in the bottom of her heart.
"Unsubstantiated suspicion and suspicion are not the style of our Spirit Clan! What's more, you still have disrespectful speculations about that adult, and you question the patron saint of our clan out of thin air!"
“...... I'm sorry. ”
Fei'er hung her head gloomily.
She also felt a little afraid of herself just now--she would actually doubt the motives of the rabbit patriarch because of groundless delusions? She unknowingly, she let the black thoughts quietly erode her heart, if she hadn't discovered it in time, she was restrained by Lily on the spot, and let this emotion develop......
"Fei'er......" Seeing Fei'er's sluggish appearance, Lily was also a little worried--could it be that her tone of voice just now was too blunt for her to accept and make her feel uncomfortable......?" I didn't mean to scold you, I ...... I just ......"
"Thinking too much, Lily—am I like that glass-hearted person?"
Phil tried to give Lily a thumbs up, but as soon as she moved, she immediately pulled the wound, and the strong pain made Phil's face wrinkle on the spot. Lily only brought trauma medicine, but no painkillers, and the pain she suffered on her body this time was unprecedentedly serious for Fei'er, but Fei'er was very strong, and insisted on refusing to scream. Anyone who has had a similar experience understands that screaming, which seems to be an "unseemly" behavior, is actually the body's instinctive response mechanism for relieving pain - when it is screamed, there will be less intense pain stimulation.
Fei'er kept suppressing the pain, refusing to scream to affect Lily's mood, and naturally, the pain was getting stronger and stronger.
"Are you alright?" Lily hugged Fei'er with concern. "You're in very bad health right now, and I don't have enough means to treat it...... We've got to get out of here as soon as possible. ”
A little longer could lead to a worsening of the situation. Now that Na'er is behind bars, Lily only hopes that Phil won't be trapped with her. From the bodies of those men in black who were chasing them. Lily could feel a special aura with a very different style - as a fox clan, Lily was more sensitive to smell than Fei'er and Na'er, and between the breaths of those people, the air flow exhaled was obviously different from that of ordinary humans...... It feels like it's a little more muddy.
Between their breaths, Lily sensed that the air currents they had taken out of their bodies were mixed with substances that would never have been present in normal human physiological reactions. Even if she couldn't find out the true nature of this ingredient for a while, it was enough to tell something.
The "inside" of these people. There is a difference between absolute and ordinary people! At worst, maybe none of them may still have human identity......
"Just leave like this?" Fei'er heard Lily's decision, and was still a little unwilling, just "running away" like this, which was not a happy thing for her to be so strong. But she can ignore herself, but she can't ignore Lily's completeness, if it is because of her stubbornness that Lily has an accident, it is Fei'er who survived. She must also be guilty for the rest of her life. In view of this, even if she was unwilling, Fei'er nodded reluctantly and agreed to Lily's proposal.
"Wait until you're healed. Maybe it'll be too late to find Na'er again—that's what you think, right?" How could Lily not understand, and how could she not worry about Na'er herself, but there were some differences in her natural personality. makes the two think in completely different ways, "Peace of mind." I've got a hand...... I secretly put a piece of my hair on the human assassin's body and wrapped it around it, and if I asked the elders of the clan for help, we would be able to find that guy even if it was the end of the earth!"
"Huh...... When did you do it......"
"Just before when you were fighting. I hid the thin hair in the breeze and used the wind as a medium to deliver it to the human, for the light was not very bright in the first place, and the blast of battle had severely hampered her protection against small objects in the air, and this little trick of mine should have gone unnoticed by her. ”
Crucially, Lily was clever enough to put any spell effects on that strand of hair. She knew that if she tried to track the other party's location with this trick, she would inevitably make the other party perceive the weak magic reaction on her body, and if she was angry, who knew what would go too far to do to Na'er? Lily has no choice, but how much has Lily learned the spell of the fox clan? Back in the clan, there will definitely be no shortage of seniors who can use that piece of hair to make a fuss!
"And taking a step back, if the other party really had murderous intentions, they could have killed Na'er and then continued to poison us - but she didn't do that. So, I think, this shouldn't be a person who doesn't know how to kill, and Na'er is in her hands, and most of the time she won't have any worries about her life. The assassin is a woman again, and we don't have to worry about it, Na'er was forced to do something......"
If that happens, Lily and Phil believe, Ina'...... No, the character of the rabbit girl must be to fight to the death - the peaceful and stable life over the years is a hard-won treasure for the rabbit tribe, which has been plagued by disasters since a long time ago...... But peace did not wear down the will of the rabbits, and with the return of a treasure called "dignity", the rabbit girl in some respects is very important, and will even risk her own life to maintain this dignity.
"Also, it's better to fall into the hands of a human woman than to be captive by those males with lust in their eyes......"
Rabbit girls are sometimes very tenacious, and if Na'er encounters that kind of humiliation, she will definitely try her best to die with the enemy.
Determined to retreat first, Fei'er also obediently let Lily hold herself in her arms, the light and gentle cat lady did not add much trouble to the fox girl's actions, and when the pursuers had already thrown Fei'er away, they were able to break away from this turbulent city very smoothly. Because the officer class only thought about how to relieve themselves of responsibility, they transferred a lot of manpower to the city defense, and tried their best to create a posture of "not our army is too incompetent, but the enemy is too cunning" -- this made the city gate almost unfortified. The two beast-eared mothers whose whereabouts are obviously problematic are actually wearing a cloak like this. Calmly escaped!
These two little guys don't understand the thief of such a dress. Can't the soldiers of the city defense see that there is anything wrong? It can only be said that the assistance provided by the pig-like opponent is too timely and too powerful.
"Problematic...... Definitely problematic!"
Not long after stepping out of the city gates, Lily suddenly realized something, and tried to smell the air. Soon, her face changed again and again, from surprise to confusion. and then to the panic, Lili, who has always been quiet, rarely shows such obvious emotions, and even Fei'er has never seen her childhood sweetheart's continuous facial performance.
"When I was in the city, I didn't notice it, but as soon as I got out of the gates, I felt it...... There is a fundamental difference between the air in the city and outside the city - Fei'er. Have you noticed that when you get outside the city, you breathe a lot easier?"
"Isn't it because there are too many people in the city, so the atmosphere is different?"
The population of the Spirit Race is not as exaggerated as that of humans. As a special race of reproduction, the birth rate of the spirit race is after the time of peace. Slowed down significantly, in the Elven village. There is simply no such crowded scene as a human city.
In addition, cats themselves are not animals that like to be boisterous, and Phil is in such a noisy environment. She felt a little uncomfortable, maybe she also sensed that something was wrong, but she was subconsciously summed up in preconceived notions - it must be because there are too many people in human cities, and they are too noisy!
"Definitely not!"
As a top student of the spirit system, although Lily's cultivation system is unique to the spirit race, she has also carefully studied the spell systems of other races. Now that I think about it, some of the main streets I walked through in that city, when connected in series, were clearly a simple spell array!
With the road as a stroke, the city itself is a huge magic array!
I had been moving in such a large magic circle before, and it was naturally not surprising that I would feel a little stagnant and uncomfortable.
"This is the seal of constraints, one of the most basic arcane spell arrays, and its role is to imprison, compress, and restrain one side. Most of the known seals are actually the ones that have become more complicated by this seal of constraints. The roads of the city were changed like this, and such a large magic circle was to be built...... No, it's a sealing array, what kind of dangerous existence is it trying to suppress?"
"Wait! Even though I'm not a sorcerer, I know some common sense anyway - just change the street plan to such a way that there's no actual flow of magic flowing into it, it won't work at all, right? When we were in the city before, we didn't notice anything wrong with the ground under our feet. ”
"How can there be no magic?" Lily couldn't help but "laugh", but the smile outlined by this beautiful face could not bring any warm enthusiasm, and there was only a cold murderous aura, "There are so many people, but they are all oh." ”
Fei'er couldn't help but be stunned.
The operation of this huge magic circle actually requires the lives of the people in the city as "fuel"!
They regard human lives as something else! It is appropriate to take the death of a righteous person and be beheaded, but these people, who were originally living an ordinary life, have become a stepping stone to other people's ambitions for such reasons, and even their own lives must be "handed over" and "sacrificed......
"Humanity has finally realized the danger of excessive population pressure, and plans to find another way to use this method of 'human evaporation' to reduce population pressure to a certain extent?" Fei Er said maliciously, "You say, how many city-states will have to be slaughtered to achieve the expected standard?"
"Don't talk about it, do you hear it? There seems to be something down there...... Coming up!"
Hearing this, Fei'er hurriedly mobilized all her energy and seriously searched for the sound from underground.
"What the hell is that!"
Fei'er had just heard the strange voice, and was about to track it, when suddenly a hot and cruel flame seemed to appear in front of her eyes, and in the flames, there seemed to be something human-shaped, slowly raising its head from the burning ground - Fei'er didn't see the other party's appearance clearly at all, but the stunning crimson eyes pierced straight into Fei'er's heart. This is not some kind of romantic uh "love at first sight", an emotion that is remembered by Phil. Not like, but fear.
It was just a glance at it. Fei'er seemed to feel that the blood in her body was boiling and evaporating.
"Fei'er, Fei'er, what's wrong with you just now......" Lily wiped the cold sweat from her forehead in a panic, and Fei'er's reaction could be said to have frightened her. Maybe Fei'er felt that it was just a momentary thing, but in Lily's eyes, her friend remained in a trance, and her body convulsed for half a minute!
"It's hot!"
Touching Fei'er's bare skin, Lily subconsciously let out an exclamation - how could that be the temperature of her skin? Lily almost thought that she had directly touched the iron pot on the stove, it was not the touch of human skin at all!
"I ...... I'm fine......"
Strange to say, when Fei'er's consciousness gradually recovered and became conscious, the strange high temperature on the surface of her body also disappeared. It was as if it had been an illusory dream from the beginning. But looking at the burns on her hands, Lily would never think it was just her own delusion.
There was no doubt that for a split second just now, Fei'er's body temperature was in trouble.
"I ...... I saw something terrible. ”
"It's scary...... No, you mean, you 'see' something!"
Not to hear, but to see—Mingfeier was just trying to listen with her ears.
"Yes, it 'jumped' in front of my eyes very suddenly...... The overwhelming flames, and the devil-like figure in the sea of fire. I was also seen by that horrible guy, that moment. I really thought I was on fire!"
Lily immediately understood what was going on with Phil.
She stumbled upon an extremely dangerous and unstable high being, and because there was a brief visual intersection between the two, Phil passively received the dangerous message from the other end - what seemed to be about "fire" and "burning" as far as she had just behaved. Phil's body. Spontaneously responded because of the information on that side, if Fei'er maintained that dangerous state for even a second longer, I am afraid that she would start to spontaneously combust the human body!
"You've got a life back. It's a blessing. ”
"Although I don't quite know what happened...... But it was true that he came back with a life, right? I thought I was going to be burned like that, and I was going to burn it all out...... Unexpectedly. It actually let me go. ”
"Wait!"
Lily suddenly wondered if she was also hallucinating, what did she just hear? Fei'er said that she was spared by the high-ranking existence on the other side!
When did the existence of these taboos become so easy to talk about!?
"Are you sure...... Is it really the other party who let you go, and not something else?"
"I'm sure. Fei'er's face, when she answered this time, did not hesitate at all, "Because, she also said a word to me." ”
Not only did he take the initiative to let go of the mortals who offended him, but he also talked to Fei'er?
"What did you say?"
"The voice trembled violently, but I was sure that what I heard was a short word—'Run'. ”
"Quick...... Run? Are you sure it's—"
Before Lily could speak, she heard a sudden burst of heat in the city behind her. The air that began to expand rapidly due to the high temperature turned into a deadly shock wave, and it violently pushed out towards the surrounding area, leveling all the grass, trees and hills within a radius of ten miles along the way, leaving no grass to grow!
At the same time as perceiving what was happening behind her, Lily unleashed her strongest defensive spell, which was originally only one furry tail, instantly divided into six, and Lily's pupils also emitted a stunning golden edge - six tails, each of which ignited a dark flame at the end of the tail, in front of Lily, the invisible magic frantically gathered together, supporting a solid barrier.
The human city, which was not too small, could no longer be seen at this moment, and the flames that covered the sky and the sun erupted from beneath the earth, engulfing the entire city! The strong walls could withstand the attacks of the catapults, but it was impossible to remain strong in the face of such an unprecedented attack...... As soon as the flames erupted, everything that was swallowed by it, whether it was human or material, strong or fragile, was vaporized and evaporated by the ultra-high temperature, leaving not even a single charred wreckage behind.
"Lily, close your eyes!"
"I know!"
Because of the reference to Fei'er's previous words, when Lily found that her soul was impacted by a powerful flow of information, she resolutely closed her eyes, so as not to be overwhelmed by the power of an unknown high-ranking being in it by looking directly at the flames that rushed to the sky. But even so, because of the inevitable "eye contact" at the beginning, Lily still suffered a lot of internal injuries, and in the explosive state, the fox fire on the six tails behind her immediately dimmed a lot.
"What kind of power is this! It was just rubbed by the aftermath and almost killed us......
Blocking the devastating shock wave, with the physical level of high temperature and heat and heat burning, Lily, who did this alone, did not realize at all what a terrible thing she had accomplished-with her skills, even if she was within 500 meters of the nuclear bomb explosion site, she could survive......
As a fox warlock, Lily is a weak player in attacking, and her talent is not in using the power of spells to attack. However, with her attack power quite weak, she is still the most outstanding talent among the fox clan of this generation, and it is natural that she has unique achievements in defense, isn't it?
"Fei'er, are you okay?"
"Okay...... It's just a little out of breath. ”
There is no way, being swept away by the devastating heat and shock waves, the air conditions in the surrounding environment are not able to survive at all. Lily and Phil, who couldn't get rid of the shackles of breathing, still maintained their life needs through the air protected by the temporary barrier just now.
"What the hell is going on here? The city...... Is it gone?" (To be continued......)