Chapter 309: Greed
The further Ishizawa went out into the suburbs, the more bleak it became, and even the buildings became scarce, with the grassy ridges flanked by deserted fields, and a few dilapidated houses that looked like warehouses farther away.
Looking at the scenery flashing outside the window, Lin Lichuan couldn't help but feel a trace of emotion in his heart, from the situation here, you can see the fierce name of the Circle of Sighs from the side, just the occasional beasts that flow out of the fierce beasts have disturbed the lives of the people in the neighboring cities, so that they have declined, and the seriousness of the beasts in the mountains can be imagined.
It's no wonder that even the powerful Blue Sky Dynasty can't carve out a path connecting the inside and outside in the Ring of Sighs.
Noticing Lin Lichuan's demeanor from the rearview mirror, the fat man in the driver's seat smiled: "This place was not so desolate originally, but in recent years, the fierce beast activities in the Ring of Sighs have become more and more frequent for some reason, and the incidents of running to the fields to hurt people are increasing year by year, and the army stationed in Shize is not capable of going to the mountains to exterminate the fierce beasts, causing the basic people in the suburbs to go to the empty building, so it is abandoned." ”
"Didn't Shi Ze ask for help from the Longhan Federation?" Lin Lichuan retracted his gaze from the window and asked casually.
The fat man pouted and said: "Of course I begged, but it was useless, the Federation didn't care about us at all, but also, Shize is a bottomless pit, there is a ring of sighs, even if you invest more money, you can't develop, those officials are very shrewd, of course they won't do such a thankless job, to be honest, if I didn't have money, I would have left this ghost place a long time ago." ”
"Do you earn very little in your business?" asked Lin Lichuan.
The fat man's heart jumped when he heard this, and he glanced at Lin Lichuan through the rearview mirror, the latter's calm face made him a little puzzled, I don't know if Lin Lichuan's question is meaningful, and he was silent for a few seconds before he replied with a smile: "If you drive a taxi, you will have enough food and clothing, you can't starve yourself, and you don't have to think about getting rich." ”
After saying this, the fat man fell silent, and he kept silent for the rest of the journey.
Half an hour later, the scenery outside the window has changed to a brownish wilderness, full of sand, gravel and loess, not even half of the trees can be seen, and the silhouette of the huge mountain range can be vaguely seen in the distance.
"Two guests, I can only drive here, and the probability of encountering a beast will be much greater, and a small business can't take risks, so you two are considerate. ”
The taxi stopped, and the fat man turned around and smiled dryly at Lin Lichuan and Lu Qiu.
"Thank you. Lin Lichuan nodded, "How much is the fare?"
"20 gold dollars. The fat man replied.
The Longhan Federation is close to the Thousand Houses Business Alliance, and although it also has its own currency, in a place like Ishizawa, the gold yuan of the Thousand Houses Business Alliance is more widely circulated than the Dragon Han Federation's own currency.
After paying, Lin Lichuan and Lu Qiu got out of the car, and looked up at the silhouette of the huge mountain range in the distance.
That is the famous Ring of Sighs on the mainland.
Even if you are far away, and even if you can only see the outline, you can still feel a kind of heaviness and majesty.
"The Starcalypse ruins that our family found are located in the heart of the Ring of Sighs, and it is about eight hundred kilometers away from here. Lu Qiu said softly.
Lin Lichuan couldn't help but secretly stumble when he heard this, according to this estimate, the width of the Ring of Sighs Mountain Range is probably more than a thousand kilometers, not to mention the length, it can surround the entire central region of the continent, and the length is definitely more than a hundred times the width.
Only the power of nature can create such a strange landscape.
Just when Lin Lichuan secretly sighed, a low and noisy engine roar suddenly sounded, waking him up.
Following the prestige, an open-top off-road vehicle full of people was speeding towards him in the distance, and it seemed that the direction was towards him and others.
The fat man in the taxi heard the sound and poked his head out curiously to look, but after seeing the appearance of the crowd in the off-road vehicle, his face couldn't help but change.
"Shit, this guy Ladd is really crazy, he told him not to fight these two people's ideas, but he didn't listen, and he got involved with the group of stinging scorpion guys, he really wanted money and wanted crazy, is that stinging scorpion a good match? No, I have to leave quickly!"
The fat man hurriedly retracted into the car, started the engine and wanted to leave, but there was a sudden muffled bang in his ears, and the taxi slid suddenly, almost not letting the fat man's head and the steering wheel have a close contact, he looked out of the window angrily, only to find that the tires of the taxi had been deflated, but they were shot and exploded.
"Damn scorpions!"
He glared at a young man in the passenger seat of the SUV who was slowly retracting his pistol.
Laugh at!
The SUV stopped near the taxi with a beautiful drift, and six men jumped out of the car one after another, led by a young man wearing a black vest with scorpion tattoos on his two exposed arms, who looked twenty-seven or eighteen years old and looked fierce.
As soon as his feet landed, his eyes immediately fell to Lin Lichuan and Lu Qiu, and when he saw Lu Qiu's face clearly, his eyes lit up, and he couldn't help licking his lips.
"Sure enough, it's the best goods!"
The thin man next to him, Ladd, smiled flatteringly: "Scorpion boss, I didn't lie to you, this woman is a rare superb!"
The scorpion stared at Lu Qiu, and only snorted lightly at Rad's words in response.
The latter didn't care, and out of the corner of his eye, he just caught a glimpse of the fat man who was pulled off the car, so he walked up to him and smiled proudly: "Fatty, I said I was going to do it, but you didn't do it, and now it's too late for you to get in the car, but don't worry, the scorpion boss also talks about the rules, and he will let you leave when the matter is done." ”
The fat man glared at him fiercely, gritted his teeth and said, "Sooner or later, you will be killed by your greed!"
Ladd smiled disdainfully, taking the fat man's words as jealousy.
"Did we meet robbers?" Lu Qiu turned to Lin Lichuan and asked.
Lin Lichuan glanced at the scorpion and the others with a smile, and replied, "If I'm not mistaken, these people are not robbers, but a gang specializing in human trafficking. ”
"You're quite discerning. ”
The scorpion glanced at Lin Lichuan in surprise, his eyes narrowed slightly, and the cold light inside flashed.
"Ladd said that you are likely to be extraordinary, I was a little unconvinced, but now it seems that he guessed it, ordinary people can't be so calm in this situation. ”
"But it doesn't matter if you're extraordinary, you're unlucky to meet me. ”
As he spoke, a large amount of dark substance gradually oozed from the skin surface of the stinging scorpion's arms, which solidified into a hard stratum corneum in a blink of an eye, and the position of the palm of the hand became a giant claw like a scorpion, and the sharp and sharp chelica tips shimmered with a cold blue light in the sunlight, obviously highly poisonous.
And a huge scorpion tail also extends from his back.
In the blink of an eye, the scorpion turned into a half-human, half-scorpion monster, exuding a palpitating cold aura all over its body.
Including the fat man and Ladd, everyone next to him subconsciously showed a look of horror and awe when they saw this.
Only Lin Lichuan and Lu Qiu still looked calm.
"Arthropods have the ability to shape, it's really rare. Lu Qiu looked at the scorpion's arms with interest.
Lin Lichuan nodded in agreement, it was also the first time he had seen someone with the ability to transform into a poisonous scorpion, and the young man in front of him called the scorpion was still a transcendent person at the peak of silver, it was extremely rare in a backward place like Shize, and most of them were the underground forces of this city, so it was no wonder that this person was so angry.
It seemed that he sensed that something was wrong from Lin Lichuan and Lu Qiu's calm expressions, the stinging scorpion stopped talking nonsense, his eyes were fierce, and he suddenly jumped out and rushed towards Lin Lichuan, a pair of sharp and sharp poisonous claws grabbed the latter's head with the smelly wind.
At the same time, the scorpion tail behind him also stood up, and the tip of the tail that flashed with faint blue light was faintly aimed at Lin Lichuan, ready to attack.
The purpose of the scorpion is only that woman, and as for Lin Lichuan, he is worthless to him, so he will not hesitate to kill as soon as he makes a move.
In the blink of an eye, the tip of the chela struck in front of Lin Lichuan, and at the same time, the scorpion tail behind the scorpion also suddenly pierced out like an arrow from the string, and the force was so fierce that it tore through the air and stirred up a piercing roar.
Ladd and the others, who were watching the battle next to him, smiled fiercely when they saw this, their eyes flashing with excitement and cruelty, as if they had seen the scene of the unlucky man's head bursting open.
The stinger of the scorpion is famous in the underground world of Ishizawa, and dozens of transcendents have died under this blow so far, many of them are also silver-rank transcendents.
Seeing that Lin Lichuan was motionless, as if he was stunned in place, seeing the giant claw and the scorpion tail both attacking him, the scorpion breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and secretly laughed that he was too sensitive, and the man in front of him was just a straw bag.
However, in the next second, the smile on his face froze sharply, and he felt that Lin Lichuan had disappeared in place in front of him, and the giant claw and scorpion tail both fell short.
"Oops!"
The scorpion was stunned, and his heart jumped.
Frightened, he immediately stopped the inertia of rushing forward and tried his best to twist his body, while the scorpion tail fell backwards and stabbed hard behind him.
I have to say that his response is very correct, if the opponent he faces at this time is a previous transcendent of the same level, this counterattack is enough to save his life, but unfortunately this is not the case.
As soon as he moved, the scorpion suddenly felt a pain in his heart, and the whole person froze, only to feel that all his strength flowed out of his heart like a tide.
"Damn, Rad, goddamn bastard!
At the last moment, the scorpion only had time to flash one thought in his mind, and then he was overwhelmed by the flood of darkness.
Poof!
The corpse of the scorpion collapsed to the ground in a state of limp.
Looking at this scene, the excited expressions of the Ladd and the others suddenly froze, as if they were choked by the throat, they couldn't make any sound, and their faces showed a look of disbelief and horror.
"How can you ......?"
After a long time, one of them muttered in horror, but in the middle of his words, Lin Lichuan, who appeared in front of him at some point, broke his neck.
Seeing this, the rest of the people woke up from a dream, screaming and running around, but they were chased and killed one by one.
Ladd was the last to fall to the ground and die, and at the last moment when his consciousness dissipated, he was greeted by the pale figure of a fat man leaning on the side of a taxi.
A look of remorse froze on Ladd's face, and he took his last breath.
Silence returned to the wilderness, except for six more corpses on the ground.
Seeing Lin Lichuan's gaze, the fat man was beaten as if he had been stabbed by a poisonous needle, the fat on his body trembled, and his face turned pale and waved his hand again and again: "Big, adult, this is none of my business, I'm not, not their accomplice!"
However, Lin Lichuan didn't even look at him, turned back to Lu Qiu's side, and said softly, "Let's go." ”
Lu Qiu smiled slightly and said softly, "Okay." ”
As the words fell, the bodies of the two of them floated out of thin air at the same time, rushed into the air, and after a slight pause, they flew towards the direction of the Circle of Sighs.
The fat man opened his mouth wide and looked at the backs of the two leaving, his expression was already sluggish.
"Riders, knights!, these two are knights, God...... The scorpion really hit the iron plate this time, and it died unjustly, unjustly!"
After muttering nonsense for a long time, the fat man came back to his senses, saw the corpse on the ground, shuddered violently, didn't dare to stay longer, and hurriedly rushed to the open-top off-road vehicle not far away, started the engine and left this ghost place.
"Sure enough, greed kills people, if it weren't for greed, Rad would also die in the wilderness, I still have to polish these eyes in the future, and I must not provoke Jiang Qianglong!"
The fat man was secretly glad that he hadn't agreed to Ladd's proposal before, otherwise he would have had his share of the corpse lying there now.
Boom!
Fortunately, the off-road vehicle suddenly shook violently, followed by the whole upside down and flew out, smashing on the ground seven or eight meters away.
The fat man was knocked on the head and bleeding, and in a drowsy state, he suddenly felt that his head was tight, and he was already grabbed by the head and pulled out from under the car.