Volume I: Crime and Punishment Chapter 31: Seven Years
Corvo Imperial Capital – Hurlis.
Corvo's advanced technology has made this city a city that never sleeps, and the night is already deep, but the light brought by the brilliant neon lights and various towering buildings still renders the city brilliantly illuminated, and the stars at night cannot compete with the lights on the ground, and they have disappeared.
It's close to midnight, but the busiest streets are still bustling, with loud whispers and loud shouts, and people who have never been to Hurlis may never imagine this prosperity, but no matter how beautiful the city is, there will always be dark streets behind it, and everything that happens on these streets may be like the locals of Hurlis laughing at outsiders, and no one will ever know.
Closer to the center of the city is a towering building with a unique structure, with six different facets, which in general looks like a giant crystal-like trophy, and the intricate beams at the top make the building look six distinct views from six directions, which is not only a landmark known as the "Eye of Herres", but also a symbol of honor and power, for those who can actually climb it.
Tonight was the day of the eighteenth birthday of the Minister of Finance, and the Empress had chosen the venue for the occasion in the Ballroom at the top of the "Eye of Herres", which had previously been used only to welcome the visits of the other five superpowers.
On the east side of the banquet hall on the top floor of the Eye of Hurlis, there are many delicate terraces, which are relatively isolated and have soft lighting, which is suitable for some tired people in the banquet hall to take a break or some big people to make some secret transactions in private, and at this moment on one of the terraces, a young man is stepping on the railing in front of the terrace, the railing is extremely gorgeously decorated, and countless bright flowers are silently blooming in a slightly dim environment, they are all directly transported from the flower field on the coast of Hurlis this afternoon to decorate here。
The young man was dressed in a black close-fitting suit, neat short hair, slender figure, broad shoulders, looking from behind, this young man may be able to make some superficial women crazy with his body alone, he made a slightly indecent posture, quietly smoking a white cigarette, this young man was quiet and couldn't help but feel a little strange, less than five meters behind him inside the door was the scene of the brilliant and hot party, but at this moment, he seemed to be able to merge with the night at any time.
The young man looked at the city at his feet in silence, and from the Eye of Hurlis, he could see almost every part of Hurlis, and even the farthest palace that exuded a rich and brilliant gold.
Suddenly, the door behind him was slowly pushed open, and a tall woman walked in, the woman was wearing a noble and bright red big pleated floor-sweeping evening dress, this kind of evening dress has extremely high requirements for the wearer, but this woman is both in figure and face at first glance, it seems that people look amazing at first glance, and people dare not look at it again, but when you finally can't help the inner turmoil and then look at the pair of clear and deep pupils that seem to be the whole sky, it seems that the whole person is sucked in and can't bear to take his eyes away.
This woman is like a bottle of wine that has been sealed for hundreds of years, even if everyone knows that this wine is a poison that will never wake up after drinking, and they can't help but desperately come forward even if it is just to smell the aroma of this wine, and the woman has a daunting title in the circle of high-ranking bigwigs in Hurlis, "the most fragrant poison"
The woman lifted the hem of her skirt slightly, revealing a small section of slender and smooth calves, swaying an incomparably beautiful figure and walked to the young man's side, and her soft voice revealed a hint of complaint, "Why are you still here, the party is about to start"
The young man didn't even look back, with his abundant soul power at the moment and the perception that he had been exercising all the time in the past few years, he clearly knew who the person was from the moment before the woman opened the door, through the light of his steps, the distance between each step.
He didn't answer, quietly smoked the last puff of cigarette, the woman bit her lip hatefully, what about the poison, what about the beauty, nothing could make this person look at her more, and even if he didn't tell him his name every few days, he would be able to forget his name and everything completely.
The man extinguished the cigarette on the railing, turned his head, Luo Mu's face did not change much, it was still a very ordinary thin face, and it was still always closed with one eye, but behind that face it exuded a very unique and strange charm, for some reason, people couldn't help but want to look at it twice.
Luo Mu's voice was very low, he glanced at the beautiful and moving Miao Yun, today Miao Yun deliberately tied his short dark green hair into a bun, which looked even more neat and beautiful, but there was still no wave in his eyes, and he said, "Let's go"
A year ago.
This is the seventh year that Luo Mu has come to the Forest of the Dead, and he has also changed from a thin child to a well-proportioned and tall young man, Luo Mu still looks a little thin in clothes, but if he takes off his shirt, you can see the smooth muscle lines outside his body skeleton, each muscle contains unimaginable explosive power, all of which stems from the hellish training that has not stopped at all in the past seven years.
At this moment, Luo Mu is standing in the middle of the woods with his eyes closed, a small group of silver wolves are slowly surrounding from all sides, the silver wolves are much bigger than expected, their limbs are prostrate on the ground, and the height of their backs is almost about one meter and a half, but the silver hair on their bodies is not elegant at all, the scarlet eyes, and the thick and long teeth are exposed in the slightly open mouth.
There are four silver wolves in this small group, the head wolf has a thicker body, it walks behind the three silver wolves, slowly considering the direction of the attack, at this moment Luo Mu's soul power has already awakened, and even has reached the soul envoy high level that shocked everyone, but Luo Mu knows that his soul power growth has not stopped, although slowly, it is still slowly increasing, if he is allowed to use soul power, he can even turn these five silver wolves into the most convenient meat pieces to roast in an instant.
But now he wore a necklace made of unknown material around his neck suppressed his soul power at the first level of the soul seal, Cold Ridge didn't want them to live very comfortably, in the fifth year of coming to this Forest of the Dead, Cold Ridge announced that he would not provide them with any food, but the amount of training every day was still steadily increasing, and now just got up in the morning, Luo Mu and the others had to run at least a hundred laps in the woods around the edge of the clearing in an hour, and in addition to the disgusting and strange training in the following day, the physical training also became a terrifying point with the accumulation of time。
But no matter how difficult the training is, they have the ability to overcome it, but since two years ago, finding food has become their top priority, because the staggering intensity of the terrifying training makes everyone's food can no longer be described as large, and these four silver wolves are probably only enough for Luo Mu, Miao Yun, and Bank to eat for three days.
As the most common animal in this forest, the silver wolf has naturally become the first choice for everyone.
Miao Yun was close behind Luo Mu, the wind around Luo Mu's body swirled and rolled up the snow on the ground around the two of them, the silver wolf was suspicious by nature, if they saw this strange situation under normal circumstances, they might immediately decide to retreat, but at this moment, every silver wolf let out a low roar, and the red light in his small eyes was sheng, they had long been enemies of the sea of blood, and everyone in that clearing was.
Without the slightest superfluous action, the three silver wolves pounced straight at Luo Mu and Miao Yun under the roar of the head wolf, the majestic body of the three wolves brought them lightning speed, and they pounced in front of the two of them almost instantly, but the faces of the two were only full of joy to be able to eat a full meal today, and Bank's quiet voice came out of the two of them, "Left thirty, sixty-five, right forty-two, seventy-five"
Luo Mu stopped his slightly trembling fingers, and as soon as he grasped the wind blade in his hand, Miao Yun also clenched his fists, the two of them didn't have to think about it, with their own as the center, according to Bank's instructions, they gently bowed their heads and twisted their bodies, as if they had predicted all the attack directions of the three wolves in advance, the wind blade in Luo Mu's hand was very easy to pass by the two wolves at the same time, directly opened an extremely long opening in the abdomen of a wolf, and Miao Yun was even more direct, a punch hit the spine of a wolf in front of her, and the huge force actually collapsed the backbone of the wolf directly, and the two wolves even flew out and fell to the ground without even having time to wail, and fell to the ground and looked dead。
But at this moment, the mutation suddenly appeared, and the only remaining wolf on Luo Mu's side actually gave up Luo Mu and pounced directly on Miao Yun, and the head wolf that had been surrounding the surroundings also roared and pounced straight at Miao Yun, even if Bank reported the direction of the attack at the first time, but Miao Yun didn't have time to dodge at all, seeing that the head wolf was about to pounce on Miao Yun as soon as he grabbed it, a huge sound burst out from the woods at least 100 meters away.
I saw that the wolf seemed to have been struck on the head by an unknown force, and then fell from the air, lying motionless on the ground, the hardest forehead of the wolf was pierced at this moment with a thumb-thick eye, and a large stream of blood was bubbling out of it.
A hundred meters away in the woods Banker finally put down the rifle in his hand that was nearly two meters long, exhaled a long breath, the rifle was shining with a light blue path, and an unknown liquid was flowing in the cavity shining with the light of talking, at this moment, there were wisps of green smoke rising from the wide muzzle, Banker dismantled the rifle into parts in an instant, stuffed it into the pocket behind him, and walked in the direction of the two.
And at this moment, where Luo Mu and Miao Yun were, there was already curling smoke.