Chapter 9: A Ray of Light

Li Cheng took another step forward - he crossed the cordon. And only then stopped.

"Guns?" he stared at the muzzle of the city defense army, and said contemptuously, "Do you think Lao Tzu doesn't have it? When this thing was first created by you, Lao Tzu saw it!"

As soon as his voice fell, the demons not far behind him immediately pulled out a bunch of long guns and short cannons from the bodies of the three pickup trucks—the fire was far more ferocious than the two city defenders.

It looks like a small arms fair. There are old-fashioned shotguns from a hundred years ago, and there are homemade earthen guns made by the wastelanders. But there are also things that are not much different from the modern rifles in the hands of two soldiers, and there are two bazookas. The muzzles of guns and guns of all sizes were directed at the checkpoint, as if they were a small army.

The two city defenders obviously didn't expect them to be so bold and dare to come here with their armory.

Lao Zhou's face turned pale, and he said something to the walkie-talkie on his shoulder.

A dozen steps behind Li Qingyan and Carambola are two three-story sentry towers standing on the side of the road. The windows are narrow and low, typical of World War II style. Now the 20mm machine guns erected on the roofs of the two turrets slowly rotated, aiming at the demons in the distance.

Star fruit took a deep breath and felt her breath tremble.

"They...... Will there be a fight?"

Li Qingyan smiled: "If you really want to fight, you don't have to fiddle with these useless things." Li Cheng didn't have the guts. ”

Carambola was stunned: "But they have a lot of guns......"

Li Qingyan also only smiled. Carambola realized she might have asked a stupid question—and the next moment she knew the answer.

At first, I thought it was my own delusion - there seemed to be a flash of light in my field of vision. Extremely fine, extremely fast, fleeting.

Immediately, I saw that five of the demons with guns and cannons fell straight down as if they had been struck by lightning. One of them, presumably holding the trigger with his finger as he fell, was fired by the rifle that was crushed under him - the muzzle of the gun was pressed against the man's head, and the bullets were shot in one go. Turning his brain into flowers also makes his body tremble.

But at the same time, five more demons fell as they had just done before, and the gunfire did not stop until the smoke and dust stirred up by their bodies gradually dissipated.

The demons were in an uproar and fled in search of cover—most of them hiding behind cars. Sister Mandarin Duck didn't run, she didn't know what she had in her hand, and a layer of misty light suddenly appeared on her body. It was as if a lamp was shining down above her head, making her face flicker and darken.

Perhaps because of the light, she didn't die.

But the rest of them weren't so lucky, and the car didn't cover them.

The star fruit finally saw the light clearly—after killing ten demon clans, it hovered above Sister Mandarin Duck's head. It's daytime, but it's blinding. Even from such a distance, it is still like looking at the light emitted by electric welding.

It only stopped for a second - star fruit saw that Sister Mandarin Duck's face was dead and gray, and she lost her previous radiant appearance.

And then it disappeared again. The demons behind the pickup truck fell to the ground like heavy sacks full of things...... Dead and clean.

The guns and cannons all fell to the ground, and except for the first few shots fired by the demon clan who went off after death, the rest of the guns didn't find where the enemy was. Or that they know who the enemy is, but clearly understand that what they have in their hands is useless.

The first time a girl saw something like this—not in a flashing glimpse on the TV news, but in reality—the shock of the thing almost overwhelmed the fear of witnessing the killing.

When watching Li Qingyan kill people, it is simple, sharp, and even brutal. There's nothing aesthetic about that kind of killing.

But everything that has just been seen ...... Elegant, swift and mysterious. Although the result is the same, the feeling is absolutely different.

- Even the star fruit itself didn't realize that it had been less than twenty-four hours since she was taken into the car by Li Qingyan...... She has quickly come to terms with "death" and has learned not to pay too much attention to it.

The girl felt that her former heart was a pool of gentle water, very calm. But only then did I realize that it was actually a huge lake. Now that the floodgates have been opened, the lake is pouring and it is difficult to take it back.

After killing all the demon clans in the rear except for Sister Mandarin Duck, that ray of light suddenly appeared on Li Cheng's forehead.

The girl looked at it more closely.

It turned out to be a small sword.

One finger long, extremely transparent. The light it emits outlines outline. It aimed at Li Cheng's eyebrows and stopped there quietly, as if it did not belong to this world.

The demon clan who showed the characteristics of his true body stared at the round eyes, did not move, and did not speak.

Burnt marks and green smoke slowly appeared on his eyebrows. But he gritted his teeth and confronted the thing for three seconds, waiting for the scorching smell of the hair on his forehead and a few blisters on his skin before he slowly took a step back.

His body became smaller, and he reverted to the form of a "human". This made the wound on his forehead even more shocking.

"The wasteland is not a place outside the law. Is that hard to understand?"

A young man and a lieutenant officer in his thirties came out of the watchtower. Star fruit immediately looked back.

It was the young man who spoke, and his voice was pleasant. Dressed in white, he is also very handsome.

The officer was half a step behind him, his face seemed to be cautious. And the young man had his hands behind his back, and his clothes were flying. He frowned slightly and stared at Li Cheng, but said to the officer: "If I don't come here, I really don't know that the situation here has reached a shocking point - dare to carry weapons in broad daylight, dare to show your real body to attack the checkpoint, and attack the city defense army!"

"They don't know that Zhou Gongzi is here, it's really innocent!" the officer immediately said, "I'll report to the battalion headquarters tomorrow-"

"Alright. The young man snorted coldly, "It's not that you usually connive, how can they be so bold." Your entire garrison battalion has been shot at the company level and above, and not a single one of them has been wronged!"

The officer cried and lost his face: "Zhou Gongzi...... That's not what I said, it's also a last resort - it's too chaotic in the wasteland to be suppressed. These guys can help us out on a regular basis - at least not in a big way. I don't know what's wrong with their brains today......"

Zhou Gongzi raised his hand slightly, and the officer immediately stopped talking. Looks very aggrieved.

The young man stopped beside Li Qingyan. Squinted at him with a slight sideways face, and his eyes slid to star fruit again.

Stayed a little longer.

The officer noticed this, and his eyes were like knives, and he looked at the girl carefully.

"You. What's going on? I heard it's a terrorist from the Promotion Society?"

Li Qingyan smiled: "Those criminals are talking nonsense." I'm just a street office worker. ”

Zhou Gongzi turned his face and looked at him sternly: "Then why did they storm the checkpoint because of you and this person beside you?"

Li Qingyan frowned and thought about it, and said seriously: "This chief was right just now. I guess it's a bad brain. ”