Chapter 17: White Mist and Black Crow, Hundred Years of Solitude
White mist is everywhere, and black crows are flying.
This country is vast and sparsely populated, and even untapped forests can be seen everywhere, running elks, wolves and brown bears.
On the road at night, rock music was played in a galloping car, a young man and woman returning from drunkenness.
"Hi, Jenna please, change a song. I think he was shaking his head while holding the guitar, just like a psychopath in our hospital."
"Then why are you coming? Well, since you don't like him so much." Sitting in the passenger seat, a young, slightly fat but very cute blonde girl was swaying, not turning off the speaker or changing songs because of her boyfriend's words.
"You know, I never like rock music. The reason I drove for two hours was because I loved you... I went for two hours and came back for two hours, a total of four hours." As he said this, the man turned his head and stared at his girlfriend.
"Oh, okay, a smart answer." The girl laughed when she heard this. She turned off the speaker and leaned over at the same time. The two young men became intimately intimately. Suddenly, a figure appeared in the thick fog in front of the car. He was standing in the middle of the road, bang!
"Oh!! No." The young man was too late to brake at the last moment. The car with huge remaining momentum knocked the figure away and threw it on the ground.
"Damn it, damn it, the fog is too heavy." He slapped the steering wheel suddenly, and then, after giving a brief explanation to the girl named Jenna, the young man, pushed open the car door and ran towards the human body behind the car.
"Please, don't die, don't die."
"Hey!? Ambulance, here, here... In short, we bumped into someone... Come quickly. Here is, oh, this is the winding mountain road in Baishui Town." The blonde girl Jenna said incoherently.
At this time, her boyfriend Jeff had already arrived near the injured person.
"Are you okay? I'm an intern. No matter how you feel now, take a deep breath." When Jeff came close to the fallen man, he was surprised to see the blood that should have penetrated and spread on the ground.
But he quickly approached the injured person. When his palm touched the other party's cold palm, the injured person who fell to the ground rushed forward and bit on the side of his prey's neck. The strong young man fell to the ground with just a little struggle.
At this time, Jenna had already called the ambulance, and she pushed open the car door and walked out of the passenger seat. However, the girl searched around the car but did not see her boyfriend and the injured person.
"Jeff? Where are you? Jeff?" Jenna walked around the car twice, and a black shadow swooped down with a strong wind. Jenna, who had already felt something was wrong, suddenly turned around, but was instantly picked up by the black shadow. The cell phone in her hand fell on the ground with a "snap".
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In the early morning, in the Monastery of Holy Mountain, a strong old blacksmith poured a round shield with a mixed liquid. The pungent smell spread and a strong sour smell.
It was a slightly purple round iron shield, with a huge skull portrait in the center of the shield. Zhu Peng stepped forward to take the skull round shield from the blacksmith's hand, twisted the mechanism, and a circle of serrated sharp knives spread around the shield surface, which looked like fangs.
"The main ingredient uses the skull of the skull you brought with you, but I also added many precious ingredients to it, which are anti-fire, anti-electricity, and anti-ice. Activating it once can force it to eat the power of attack once, and it can be activated twice a day. For ordinary demon hunters, this is a heirloom that can be used for a lifetime... Don't forget that you owe me 50,000 gold scrolls and two demon bones of at least second-level quality."
Ignoring the words of the old blacksmith, Zhu Peng felt the touch, weight, defense, and the round shield were more flexible than tower shields and zither-shaped shields, and even had excellent unit strength and toughness, but the quality requirements for the shield makers were higher. If they were not used well, the round shield should be the most useless shield type.
With thoughts, Zhu Peng suddenly threw out the serrated round shield in his hand. He shouted at the serrated round shield, and the serrated round shield whizzed and slashed out from afar. After turning around, it fell back into the owner's hand, showing excellent equipment stability.
"Fifty thousand gold scrolls, two demon bones of at least second-level quality, no problem." The Paladin below the legendary legend has extremely weak ranged attack ability. Although the serrated round shield in his hand will not make up too much, the caster unit is always a threat to the ranged archers, especially by raising poison, temporary enchantment, etc.
When Zhu Peng left the blacksmith shop and returned to the dormitory, she accidentally saw Dilan leaning against the door alone. She looked a little sad and her face was a little pale...
"Hi, what's wrong? His face looks so ugly." He walked up to take out the key and opened the door. The room was filled with all kinds of herbs, glass bottles and beakers, but the smell was not bad. Instead, because of some kind of conscious adjustment, the breath in the room was extremely fresh and clean.
"I treat me as a trash can of negative emotions, and I plan to vent my feelings?"
"It seems you don't know, right, our instructors, Bethy and Lodas were found to be fallen men. They killed a professor who was chasing them and ran away. Now the monastery is offering a reward to want them both." As Dillan said that, he handed the newspaper in his hand to Zhu Peng, and Zhu Peng took it and browsed it briefly, and then he put it aside.
"This professor is very brave, but he is too impulsive and reckless." Before entering the legend, there is no qualitative gap between the first, second and third-level living things themselves. A third-level strong man who has been through many battles may be stabbed in the back by a trusted person, especially a professor who has not participated in the battle formation for a long time. When facing the various strange and bizarre abilities and fierce and decisive murderous intent of the fallen, even if his real strength is stronger than that, the possibility of being forced to be pushed is too high.
"They used various means to constantly forge and refresh their task records. By the time they were discovered, these two guys had killed nearly twenty interns in a few years. Weixi, if you hadn't accompanied us to complete that task last time, we would have died, right?" After entering the room, Dylan, who had smashed himself into the sofa, said in a faint voice. Zhu Peng could clearly feel that her mood was extremely depressed.
"It may not be my reason. Maybe those two guys think you are not easy to deal with, and they are afraid that there will be someone who misses the net, so they choose to stop halfway. Why are you planning to chase those two guys?" Cut vegetables, beat eggs, and cook noodles in an experimental beaker. There is no pepper or vinegar in this world. Zhu Peng has prepared some with potions. It is very important to eat. As long as conditions allow, Zhu Peng always satisfies his stomach as much as possible.
"Messi broke a hand... Her ten years of hard work have been abolished. Kudas's mistress comforted her on the surface, but I had a little sister telling me that he was dating a senior sister in the senior grade. Damn, this damn mist, but I can't tell Messi." As he said that, Dylan started crying, Zhu Peng frowned slightly and then walked over to hold the girl's shoulder and pulled her up. He leaned into the girl's mouth and nose and sniffed it gently.
"...Diran, don't lie to me, are you doing medicine?" Diran's emotions were too unstable and too abnormal, and there were indeed many people among the Demon Hunters who were addicts/drunks/gamblers.
"Sorry, Vishi, but now only that can make me feel a little better. I, I am about to be driven crazy." Regret, self-blame, pain, powerlessness, these strong negative emotions are indeed about to force a girl in her twenties to crazy.
"That kind of thing will not really help you solve your problems. What's the point of escaping? Most of the time, people's emotions remain at an average. There are climaxes and troughs. Use potions to force themselves to stimulate their emotions and make themselves excited. When their emotions fall to the trough, that extremely uncomfortable feeling of emptiness will make you want to die." Looking at the girl who had completely collapsed and lost her mind in front of her, Zhu Peng knew that even if she took off her pants and started to slap her, she no longer knew how to refuse. A guy who was completely destroyed by emotions and feelings did not have human will.
Shaking his head, Zhu Peng walked aside and cooked the noodles. Then he served two big bowls and came to the girl and handed her a bowl.
Dilan seemed to have not eaten for a day, and Zhu Peng cooked the noodles very fragrantly. The girl picked up the fork and swallowed them in big mouthfuls. She was so excited that she was snot and tears flowed from the peppers and vinegar in the noodles. However, she wiped the sleeves and still drank the hot noodle soup in big mouthfuls. The feeling of the hot soup flowing into her body made Dilan feel as if she had come back to life again.
"For so many years of friendship, I will accommodate you for the last time. But if you take medicine again next time, please don't come to my house, let alone appear in front of me." After saying this, Zhu Peng pushed the drowsy Dillan down on the sofa, took off her shoes, and found a thicker piece of clothing to cover the girl. Zhu Peng still admired a serious, strong-willed and righteous girl after all, so he gave a kind guidance, or in other words, an elderly man over 200 will inevitably have a good time to be a teacher.
Dylan’s biggest mistake was that she was too hurrying. As soon as she graduated, she recruited a group of people to take on college tasks. The normal process should be that newcomers submit resumes everywhere and ask the elderly to take care of them. The salary requirements for good grades are higher, and the salary requirements for poor grades are lower.
Men should work harder and harder. If a beautiful girl has a lower chastity view, she will learn faster with her teacher, have a higher safety factor, and will be more likely to become a teacher.
Dylan was proud, and she had not suffered any setbacks. She directly crossed too many steps that should be followed and directly formed her own team of demon hunters. It was normal to die and maim. Or the old team of demon hunters could not completely avoid such things. After all, this was a life of licking blood from the edge of a knife.
Dillan always wanted to pull Zhu Peng into the gang, but Zhu Peng did not agree that he came to this world not to see the child. He chose to complete the task alone and began to collect information about the fire nineteen years ago. Weixi's personal instructions were completed first, and then he tried his best to lock in the space plane coordinates of the world. As for Charlotte, he would naturally encounter him in the process of locking the world plane coordinates. Zhu Peng fell in the western hemisphere and Charlotte fell in the eastern hemisphere, especially when Charlotte's spy shadow came, he was extremely picky, and the source energy was insufficient in the end, and she was forced to bounce back. This situation could also happen.
Charlotte has some psychological cleanliness and forces Zhu Peng to clean her whole body every day. This is one of her few shortcomings...or, there is no shortcoming at all.
After a while, the demon hunter team formed by Dylan was still on the verge of collapse. At the beginning, these young people thought it was good and they didn't have to be exploited by their predecessors, and the mission benefits were relatively high. However, if something happened, Dylan, a disabled person like Assassin Messi, could not arrange it at all. Even if she had given all her strength, she would just empty her wealth and give Messi a little more money.
Seeing Messi's miserable situation, the rest of the team also began to give up. The old-fashioned demon hunter team system is relatively complete and the social network is huge. Even if there are similar problems, there will be places to provide a guarantee, or if there are some relatively safe tasks with veterans, the chance of accidents is lower. Dylan is strong and firm, but he still cannot stop the team's starry sky.
"Dongdongdongdongdongdong!"
"Who?"
The door was gently knocked, and Zhu Peng asked with a slight tilted back from the computer.
"…Senior Weixi, I, I am Kelly."
(Kelly!?) After thinking for a while, Zhu Peng remembered Dilan's best friend. She looked like a child, but her breasts were extremely plump and strong. According to Dilan, it was originally an airport, and the air bag was held by her for two years and rubbed into a small cow. The air bag seemed to be no matter how it changed, the properties of the air bag were fixed.
Open the door and look at the little air-feeding bag outside the door... Oh, it's Kelly.
"How do you find this? Come in and sit down." Zhu Peng turned sideways and let Kelly into the room, while he returned to his seat to watch the "Beast Attack on the Panshan Highway in Baishui Town."
The whole scene was terrible. The couple seemed to have been torn apart by some unknown large beast. The entire murder scene was full of terrifying beastliness and madness. However, strangely, the car they were driving had obvious signs of impact, and the windshield was hit with cracks, but there were no corpses of wild beasts on the scene.
"Senior Weixi."
"Hmm!? Oh, Kelly, sorry, I'm neglected. I was thinking about things and couldn't react for a while. Are you drinking coffee or soda?" Zhu Peng patted his forehead and had already set the next task goal in his heart. He stood up and began to greet his junior.
"Me, can I follow you? Just give me the lowest allocation quota, 28 points, 19 points, I want to follow you to carry out the mission." It was like a lifelong courage, the blonde little cow... Oh, it was Kelly who said so seriously. Her eyes were staring at Zhu Peng, and her small fists were shaking with nervousness.
I looked at Kelly and then looked at the computer screen.
"Drink soda, my classmate brought me a box, but I haven't drunk a bottle. I hope you will like it with the yellow and orange flavor."
"Ah? OK, OK, thank you senior."
"Electric Fire Ice, which major is? What is the spell you are best at? What equipment do you have on you at the moment?"
"I majored in the fire system and also practiced ice-type defense spells. The spell I am best at is fireballs. Currently, I have a magic ring on my body... I throw the fireballs very accurately. As long as I am not nervous, the accuracy of hitting the mobile targets is above 95, which is the most accurate fireball in our class." It seems that I know that my data is a bit miserable, so Kelly quickly added her advantageous items.
In fact, there was no way to find Senior Weixi, who had only met several times. Sister Dylan's team was panicked and was obviously about to part. She needed work and money very much. However, when she was with strangers, she became nervous and performed abnormally. After interviewing several old witch hunters, people found that her nervousness was either to directly wipe herself out or she obviously had other thoughts in her heart. She was forced to get angry and was angry. Kali recalled the task a few months ago. When she was with Senior Weixi, she seemed not nervous at all!
"One nine, two eight cents, etc., four and six cents, and at the same time, I need to have the absolute right to dispose of items. Don't be happy first. You and I will perform a mission together first. If you can, I will keep you. If you can't, the first time will be the last time." Looking at the crime scene in the computer display screen, Zhu Peng estimated in his heart that he really needed a long-range high-attack assistant. Originally, Dylan was a good choice, but her Paladin profession overlapped with Zhu Peng's profession.
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Two days later, at night, on the winding mountain highway, a shabby Jeep-style car was running at high speed in the thick fog.
"Senior Weixi, you didn't take on the task, why did you come here?" Kelly, who had just become someone's assistant, asked in suspicion with a map. She no longer seemed so tight in the past two days.
"If you want to use the rules, you must first understand the rules. Don't you know? If you can preemptively release the academy's tasks and solve the problem first, then the task rating can be added to one, in other words, the bonus for level c tasks B and level b tasks A funds."
"But didn't the report say that this was a large beast attack?"
"So where is the beast that was hit? Can you tell me what normal creatures have obvious marks on the front of the car after being hit by a high-speed Mercedes-Benz car and it is not damaged at all? Brown bear?" During the conversation, he arrived at the murder scene, parked the jeep beside the road and got off the car, a man and a woman, and got off. The place has been cleared very clean, and there is no trace of two people dying here on the clean road.
"Although it is unlikely that there will be any traces left, I will search carefully. If I can't find the clue, then start searching from the nearest cemetery. The police will not search the cemetery, but we must search." Holding the flashlight, the two began to search each other. Black crows were flying in the thick fog in the forest. It fell on the branches from time to time and looked at the two humans below. In the east, birds are called death birds, and they regard it as long as they appear, it symbolizes that someone is about to die.
(If that thing dares to attack us directly, things will be simple. However, it seems to be restraining its appetite and has a certain rationality.) Since ancient times, it has become funny. Demons in the plane of heaven are definitely one of the best strong war races. Put demons, devils, and angels in a region and let them strangle each other. Most of the time they crawl out are demons, but their brains are often not very good, or relying on violence to solve everything directly with violence. But the higher the level of demons, the more they can break through the innate limits and have their own rationality. When a big demon can be as cunning as a devil, its strength must be terrible.
At the same time, demons who are rational in restraining their desires and needs often have the potential to advance to higher-level demons, just like Zhu Peng and Kelly's opponent this time.
He searched around with a flashlight. About half an hour later, Zhu Peng dug out a smartphone with a broken display screen between the yellow leaves. The holy light between Zhu Peng's fingers spread slightly, and a slight sound was made around the smartphone. Although it was only a moment, it was enough for Zhu Peng to be sure that it was indeed what he was looking for... The remaining dead energy, resentment, and consciousness attachments were repulsive reactions with the energy of the holy light.
(Just use a little to save some.) With this idea, Zhu Peng turned the fate card, and in an instant, a huge amount of information flashed in front of his eyes. In the concert, Jeff, thick fog, figures, and the hostess' final scream of death, all of this formed a white line in Zhu Peng's eyes, extending from his feet to the distance. As Zhu Peng's life-body level continued to improve, the power of the fate card became stronger and stronger. More than a hundred years ago, Zhu Peng felt that the Demon Card was the strongest, followed by the Destiny Card, and the Vow Card was the weakest. More than a hundred years later, as he was promoted to the Demigod level, the power of the Destiny Card became stronger and stronger, and the oath effect of the oath card became stronger and stronger. However, the Demon Card had no changes. Of course, there was no room for change in itself, just a set of hidden demon bloodlines.
"Let's go, Kelly, I think I've found the clue." In the middle of the night, I kept moving along the line of dark white light. The fog was thicker and the cold wind was more and more thrilling. Black crows were flying. The flaunting wings seemed to be wings of death. Someone will return to the underworld tonight.
"Kelly, use a fire bullet to shoot all the black crows that are approaching us. Didn't you say that your fire magic is very accurate? Let me see." Although I don't understand why, Kelly still followed Zhu Peng's request. The flames flowed between her slender and white palms, shooting out one by one, instantly hitting the black crows on the surrounding branches to a half-mature state.
After walking five miles, they passed by the ancient tomb in the town and encountered the old tomb guard. The old man looked at the strange-behaving man and woman with a shovel without fear. Kelly stuck out his tongue to the old man playfully, and then followed Zhu Peng who ignored the other party at all. Finally, the two came to a dilapidated stone tower. The magnificence of the past can still be vaguely seen here, but the glory is gone, and more are the traces of burning fire.
"What are you doing here? A reporter or a detective?" Old voice sounded behind his back. Zhu Peng slowly turned around and saw the old tomb guard who was holding a shovel just now. However, at this moment, what he was holding was no longer an iron shovel, but a shotgun, which was covered with iron sand.
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"Neither a reporter nor a detective seems to be the jurisdiction of your old man. Your responsibilities seem to be in that tomb area. Is it really good if you leave there so late?" He narrowed his eyes slightly and stared at the old man in front of him. He was once a strong man, and the traces of his handsome man could be vaguely seen in his face. However, he is old now. The hand he used to hold a sword is now holding a shotgun and shaking faintly.
"It is my duty to defend the peace of all the dead in this area. And I have a gun in my hand, you'd better listen to me."
"You are gone now." Zhu Pengyang threw a black iron block with his hand and knocked the shotgun in the gravekeeper's hand to the ground. The old man quickly bent down to pick it up, but the two flying knives were nailed to the next side of the shotgun first, and his figure froze at this moment.
"Don't waste time. The range of the old shotgun in your hand is not even as far as throwing weapons. As long as I want to, I can tear your throat open at any time. Take a sip of the bar. It's so cold, you're so old." The iron block that Zhu Peng threw out was a gray square wine pot. He took medicinal wine for a long time to strengthen his fist and help him move his qi and blood, but he never drank too much.
The old man's body stiffened for a moment, then he gave up the idea of picking up the shotgun, took the gray iron wine pot, unscrewed the lid and fed himself a sip. Unlike any wine he had drunk before, it was so spicy that it had a unique flavor, and his body warmed up in an instant.
"Huh... say it, what do you want to know?"
"About this burned tower, of the two young men who died some time ago, and maybe also of you."
"There is also something about me, I am just a more dedicated gravekeeper."
"From your hands and figure, you should be an excellent warrior wearing iron armor and a great sword in your prime... This tm has to push forward for two hundred years. A legendary warrior finally got into the grave guarding with a shotgun. He told me that you are poor, two hundred years of wealth accumulation, two hundred years of networking accumulation, and two hundred years of rich experience. Even if you are about to die, your wisdom can still make you live more comfortable than most people in this world." Zhu Peng and Kelly faced the tomb guarding the old man with his back to the tower. The doubts on him were really more and more bizarre than the tower pointed to by the fate card.
"There is no such thing as wisdom. I was a fool when I was young. Now, it's still the same. On such a night, two outstanding young people like you listen to me telling the old stories of the past. Haha, it's a rare opportunity."
"About two hundred years ago, on the eve of the Great Revolution, it was the last glorious year of feudal aristocracy. The land you stepped on was the glorious Earl Dracula at that time. She was famous for her beauty and dignity when she was young. Although the education of the aristocrats was cruel, it also taught her nobility and dignity. She and his husband worked together to run the family. The Dracula family was even heavily in debt to them at its peak... But it was probably because of this prosperity that violated the wave of the times. When the entire aristocratic class was in decline, the Dracula family was too conspicuous. In a war, the Earl Dracula, who never failed, died in battle. The Earl Dracula inherited his name and surname, and at the same time became the most powerful and wealthy woman of that era."
"At a court banquet, the Countess met the handsome and affectionate young nobleman Esterfan, and the two of them fell in love together. However, the affair between them was firmly opposed by Esterfan's father. He forced his son to foreign countries and prepared to find a younger marriage partner for him. The Countess could not accept the loss of his lover, and the pain of youth passing away. In order to recall his beauty, the Countess secretly murdered 650 virgins and bathed with their blood."
"In the end, when the secret was revealed, the kingdom, the people, and the nobles all stood opposite her. Even the countess' beloved lover, Easterfan accused her of crime... Hehehehehehehehehe" At the end of the story, the gravekeeper in front of Zhu Peng and Kelly could not control his emotions, and all the secrets seemed to be gradually cleared up with this story.
"...you, are you Eastfan? You finally held a taboo ceremony to awaken the lover who died for you?" When saying this, the little cow Kelly's eyes were filled with tears. Women seemed to be unable to stand the story of such a man falling for love, but Zhu Peng shook his head and sighed gently on one side.
"Little girl, I'm sorry that my answer shatters your yearning for a beautiful love story. But as a witch hunter, you should have basic logical reasoning skills. Is it possible for Estefan, who only talks about love and seduces women, to become a legendary warrior?" When he said this, the old man hit his chest with his fist, making a hollow and muffled sound.
"It's me, it's me, Count Dracula, is back again. The king's poison failed to poison me. The weak old thief could not understand the vitality and desire to survive. Under the tempering of the poison, I broke through the third level and became a legend! Wake up, Elizabeth, let me see you again."
Bang!
In the tower behind Zhu Peng and Kaili, a wooden board suddenly exploded on the ground, and a ghost-like shadow jumped out, poking out his sharp claws and attacking Kaili's neck.
Chapter completed!