Before the long sword in Xia Ruize's hand moved, the arrows of the Poyun Crossbow and the bullets of the laser gun had already shot at the two high-level evil spirits.
Covered by the firepower, the two high-level evil spirits were stunned for a moment. After resisting for a few seconds, they found that they couldn't get close to the firepower, so they dissipated suddenly. In the next second, a large mass of thick black appeared directly around Xia Ruize's body.
Shocked, Xia Ruize instantly triggered an explosion of thought power.
There are only two skills in the bloodline of [Nun Zhe Chuan], one [Hand of Nian Zhe] is used to control objects, and now he can control five weapons at the same time, and the other skill is [Mind Force Explosion], which is a defensive skill that can instantly Threatening substances around the body are repelled and rushed out.
The dense black substance was repelled by the power of thought, scattered more widely, blended into the night, and could never be found again.
But the malicious perception told Xia Ruize that the two high-level evil spirits were not killed and were still hiding around.
He lowered his head and glanced at his body, his thought force condensed into a protective cover around his body, and he could feel tiny impacts hitting the protective cover from time to time, testing the loopholes in the protective cover.
Evil spirits can penetrate a person's body, low-level evil spirits and middle-level evil spirits penetrating the body will not pose much threat to him, and he doesn't even bother to defend himself, but the influence of high-level evil spirits is not necessarily within the control range.
Xia Ruize witnessed with his own eyes that Cheng Huaiqian's high-level evil spirits controlled five extraordinary soldiers in a short period of time, but he didn't want these high-level evil spirits to pass through his body.
The high-level evil spirit couldn't help Xia Ruize for the time being, so it didn't show up at all, and continued to hide in the air. Xia Ruize turned to look at Cheng Huaiqian.
Cheng Huaiqian's body was covered with a thick layer of black. This layer of black was not a high-level evil spirit, but Cheng Huaiqian's own devil energy. This devil energy could be used to attack, defend, and suppress evil spirits.
So, fighting and fighting, Cheng Huaiqian stopped his hands, and two new dancing balls appeared in his hands.
Turning around and seeing his lover standing not far away, the devilish energy on Cheng Huaiqian spread out, and soon, driven by the devilish energy, two huge black shadows gradually gathered together, showing that they were supposed to face Xia Ruize, but because of some Xia Ruize simply scattered the two hidden high-level evil spirits.
Xia Ruize immediately attacked unceremoniously.
The distribution of high-level evil spirits was too scattered before. His mental power could feel the enemies scattered in the air, but he couldn't gather them together, and direct attacks on the air were not effective. Fortunately, Cheng Huaiqian's devilish energy suppressed these evil spirits, driving them away to gather for Xia Ruize to attack.
Under the joint attack of four laser guns, a cloud-breaking crossbow and a long sword, the color of the two high-level evil spirits became lighter and weaker. They realized that something was wrong and wanted to escape, but they couldn't escape the range of the demonic energy, and finally After being unable to withstand the attack, it dissipated suddenly, dropping two high-level spirit stones one after another.
The high-level spirit stone is round and smooth like natural jade, and it feels warm and comfortable to the touch. Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian immediately tried to dissolve the spirit energy in it.
After subduing two of them and killing them, it seemed that only two of them were left on the whole beach. After waiting for a while, no high-level evil spirits surrounded them, and they couldn't feel any trace of other high-level evil spirits even after letting go of their mental power. , the two had no choice but to set off and go back to the city.
When approaching the city wall, they found a commotion on the city wall. Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian continued to approach, and found that there were spirit hunters who had returned to the city making trouble. However, this time, the members of the city defense team were not even interested in arresting them, so they suppressed them forcefully. After that, he was beaten up and thrown directly into the city wall.
Anyway, even if you catch it, you can't ask anything, and it will be released tomorrow, so why bother
When Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian jumped onto the city wall, several members of the city guards immediately looked over vigilantly, and if they were not restless, they would rush over and forcefully suppress them.
Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian just lowered the brim of their hoods, quickly crossed the city wall and disappeared into the darkness.
A few men in black who had been waiting for a long time followed their figures and escaped into the darkness, but unfortunately, these followers lost them as usual.
It was too late, and the two of them went back to the barracks to rest without going around to the City Lord's Mansion.
At dawn the next day, it was already the fifth day in this mission world, and the training during the day was only a small part of it. The soldiers were suddenly called up and assigned duty missions for them.
Before, they were only required to stand guard for two hours in batches at night, but now the task is to have them stand guard on the city wall all day long.
Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian noticed that before the soldiers were summoned to announce the temporary mission, all the corporal leaders were first summoned to assign the mission, and when they came back, all of them looked very serious.
The bearded man leaned over to the corporal leader, and tentatively said: "corporate leader, our training is not over yet, does today's spirit stone still count?"
"Do the math, don't worry, you won't be missing." The corporal gave the bearded man an annoyed look, and after thinking about it, he explained to his four men:
"Today, you all should be safe. It is said that there was trouble in the city. The official team members were transferred to deal with it, and you were transferred to guard the city wall. No matter what, if you guard the city wall well, you will still be rewarded with spirit stones."
"Before, it was just making trouble at night, but now it's also making trouble during the day?"
Almost instantly, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian thought of those spirit hunters who were becoming more and more irritable. The big black and small black and the system ghost bats were all released, and they quickly skipped the whole city to get a panoramic view of the situation below.
Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian were also assigned to be on duty at a nearby location this time. The difference from the previous two nights was that there was no official team member with them except the corporal leader, and they received a new order: no one was allowed to enter from the city wall. Up and over the city.
Big black and little black and the system ghost bat broadcast back and forth to the two people trapped on the city wall to broadcast the situation in the city. In the small safe city, conflicts broke out from time to time.
To the surprise of the two of them, the conflicts were not limited to the spirit hunting warriors, but also many ordinary people. When shopping for vegetables, one more shell was missing and one shell was missing, accidentally bumped into it while walking, and even glanced at it accidentally. Big things can become a trigger, and the tempers of the city residents are inexplicably irritable, and they will quarrel if they don't agree with each other, and then fight.
This is not good news.
So much so that the order in the city, which can usually be maintained by only a part of the official moat team members, is suddenly overwhelmed today. The moat team has allocated more than half of its manpower to resolve conflicts among the city residents and maintain order.
Fortunately, they have recently trained temporary players, and it would be great to pull them over to defend the city wall.
Not even a rotation, more than 200 temporary team members just sat on the city wall for a day. The lunch was even delivered to them by several logisticians.
They are not easy to complain when they are bored, after all, several conflicts erupted not far from the city wall, watching those regular team members busy trying to persuade them to fight, if they are unlucky, they will be affected, insulted, pushed to the , the temporary team members felt that defending the city on the city wall was already a very easy job.
It wasn't until night fell that most of the city residents went back to their homes to rest, and the official team members were able to break away from the endless petty conflicts, eat a delicious hot meal, and continue to return to the city wall to defend the city.
As for the temporary players who were replaced, the captain of the guard team announced on the high platform in the martial arts arena that was summoned after dinner:
"After five days of training, everyone must be familiar with the fighting methods of the guard team. Tonight is an opportunity to test your training results. You will be divided into three groups, and follow the official team members to go out of the city to kill evil spirits. After that, your harvest Half of it will be returned to you!"
After the captain's voice fell, there was a commotion among the soldiers below. Many people made voices of surprise, and they were looking forward to experiencing the benefits of using the defense team's combat method.
Subsequently, the sixty Wu were divided into three batches of twenty Wu in each batch.
Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian were assigned to the first batch, No. 100 soldiers. Under the leadership of the corps leaders, they met with a team of 20 official city guards. They followed the official team members and lined up neatly to participate in the Out of town to hunt spirits.
When the soldiers of the guard team went out of the city, they all walked through the city gate. Two hundred people assembled into a team to leave the city, lined up in an army formation, and lined up outside the city wall. Push forward, and when there are few evil spirits, use the issued standard knife to kill them.
After the number of evil spirits increased, the spirit-shooting crossbow officially showed its power, row after row fired the spirit-breaking arrows alternately, then retreated to the back of the team, installed crossbow arrows, and fired in turn.
Although the temporary team members have not received unified training for a long time, they are all spirit hunting warriors themselves. They have both physical fitness and combat foundation. It is still possible to shoot low-level evil spirits.
Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian also experienced the power of spirit-breaking arrows for the first time, which is more effective than weapons with exorcism talismans attached. One arrow can even penetrate three or four evil spirits back and forth, and a round of salvo can clear a small area. evil spirits.
Of course, the cost of the spirit-breaking arrow is not low, so the soldiers usually use practice arrows instead, and now they really go to the battlefield, that is, they shoot three rounds under the command of the corporal leader, and then stop using the spirit-shooting crossbow. Turn to attack with a broadsword.
The combat effectiveness of the temporary team members without the Spirit Shooting Crossbow suddenly weakened. In terms of melee combat, their cooperation was not tacit enough. The team members did not cooperate with each other to kill the evil spirits, but tried to hide behind each other He was so angry that the corporal leaders kept reprimanding him beside him.
An hour later, the first batch of temporary team members were brought back to the city. As for the official team members, they continued to hunt spirits outside the city.
During the entire actual combat process, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian carefully observed the state of the other soldiers. On the way back to the city, Xia Ruize "saw" that many soldiers were not happy because they were reprimanded, or because they had been killed for a long time but did not get their hands. He was dissatisfied with a spirit stone, in short, the expression on his face was not very good-looking.
At the same time, the corporal leaders of each corps were not good-looking. They thought that their soldiers performed very well in the training, but who would have thought that after they were actually dragged outside the city for actual combat training, they would reveal huge gaps. The soldiers in the outermost circle actually tried their best to hide sideways in the team during the melee
So much so that the original square team became a mess for a while, which formed a sharp contrast with the uniform team of formal players ahead.
After returning to the martial arts field, the soldiers of each team disbanded and returned to their barracks to take time to rest. After the actual combat exercises of the three batches of soldiers are all over, a new day of training will start at 4:00 in the morning, and they will comment on the actual combat tonight Performance.
Seeing that it was only past ten o'clock, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian decisively left the ghost bats to watch the performance of the other batch of city guards, and the two went to the Homeway Tavern. They have harvested a lot of spirit stones recently, and they think the exorcism charm is very useful , ready to buy a little more to prepare.
Surprisingly, after the two entered the Homeway Tavern, they passed through the enthusiastic crowd and walked to the hidden door in the corridor of the underground store, and they were found by the old white head first.
The old white head suddenly jumped out from the corner and wanted to grab Xia Ruize's arm, but Cheng Huaiqian pushed him away.
In an emergency, the old man didn't care about this, and leaned over again, and whispered to Cheng Huaiqian and Xia Ruize, "Old Cheng! Ozawa! Something big happened!"
The old white head's expression was too eager, and the two couldn't help but become serious, looked around, walked quickly to a small corner of the bar, and then Xia Ruize used telekinetic power to form a barrier to protect the surroundings, and then asked: "What's wrong? Aren't you leaving?"
Hearing this, the old white-headed man's expression was about to burst into tears, and he lowered his voice and hurriedly said:
"That's the thing! Can't get out!
When I wanted to leave the city with Xiaonan this morning, I was stopped by the guards of the city, saying that many public security cases had broken out recently and they were looking for the murderer, so the city lord ordered that people outside the city be allowed to enter and not leave. Come in, people in the city are not allowed to go out!
I have thought about everything, but whether it is seeking connections, bribing or forcibly climbing over the city wall, I have been rejected or stopped. The current situation is that there are still a large number of spirit hunters and ordinary people who come here admiringly. Together to resist the full moon calamity, but the people in the city can't get out! "
Cheng Huaiqian frowned, "Then why don't you climb over the city wall and get out of the city at night?"
"I tried it too! But except for the east wall facing the evil sea, the other three sides of the city wall are not allowed to climb over! Even the east wall, the guards saw that we had a lot of luggage, and there were ordinary people in the team. People, we are not allowed to go there... "
Ever since the old white head found out that he couldn't get out of the city, he was a little panicked. He couldn't get out after trying several times during the day, and after a few more times at night, his face became even more ugly. discuss.
But looking around the entire tavern, most of the spirit hunting warriors were enthusiastically discussing their plan to go out of the city to hunt evil spirits, and he didn't know how to talk to the people he wanted to discuss.
So the old white head could only continue to wait in the tavern, waiting for Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian who might appear.
"The problem is even bigger. The so-called full moon calamity is like a huge conspiracy. What is certain is that the city lord of Ping'an City is aware of it to a certain extent. I don't know if he is behind the scenes."
Xia Ruize discussed with Cheng Huaiqian in the heart network, if it wasn't for the old white head, they would not have realized that this city can only enter and cannot exit, which also means that people in Ping'an City have been surrounded by traps.
Cheng Huaiqian took Xia Ruize's hand to comfort him, pondered for a moment, and asked the old man, "Are you sure you want to leave Ping'an City?" I don't know what to face after leaving the city, are you sure you want to leave?"
There was a light of surprise in the old white head's eyes. Doesn't it mean that Cheng Huaiqian asked him that he had a solution? Immediately nodded excitedly: "I confirm! My intuition is already frantically warning me to leave here. If possible, I even want to leave now!"
"He wants to leave, why don't we help him?"
Cheng Huaiqian looked at Xia Ruize.
"Okay." Xia Ruize resolutely agreed.
"Okay, let's think of a way. You take us to buy some exorcising charms first, and then we will give you a ride."
An internal agreement was reached, Cheng Huaiqian said to Lao Baitou.
"Okay, come on, come on..."
The old man was overjoyed, and hurriedly led the two of them towards the secret door. He waited for Cheng Huaiqian and Xia Ruize because they knew the truth and could speak frankly, but he didn't expect them to actually have a way to help him.
Thinking of the strength of these two mysterious bosses, Lao Baitou felt a little more at ease.
Walking through the long passage again, the wide underground store appeared in front of the three of them. Xia Ruize keenly noticed that the number of weapons placed outside the store had decreased a lot.
"Old Zhang, I brought those two guests here again, treat them well!"
This time, the old white-headed man's tone was more sincere. He raised his eyelids, glanced at Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian, and said lazily: "I have everything you want here. If you want to buy it, you have to buy it early. It's not convenient to buy recently. It's gone when it's too late."
Old Zhangtou's casual complaint made the three people on the other side of the counter tremble.
Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian looked at each other, and after learning about all the items sold in the store, they bought 120 exorcism talismans with one spirit stone and two low-level spirit stones worth 30 pieces. For a small-scale spirit shield, the spirit shield is driven by spirit stones. As long as the spirit stones are kept, the spirit shield will not be broken.
For Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian, they have weapons with high attack power. What they lack is the weapon characteristic of [targeting spirit creatures]. Need to worry.
In terms of defense, they each have magic energy and telekinetic defense, as well as defensive armor, but they are already worried that Ping An City will be overwhelmed by evil spirits in the end, so they need more defensive methods.
After understanding, in a small-scale defense, the spirit shield is the best choice. Thinking about the two layers of spirit shields inside and outside the City Lord's Mansion, this kind of thing must be prepared no matter what. To be on the safe side, the two bought two directly.
After some purchases, there were only a few sporadic spirit stones left on the two of them, and the rest had all purchased various attack and defense props.
After shopping, Cheng Huaiqian and Xia Ruize didn't go back to the barracks, but followed Lao Baitou back to his house. Then they saw Xiao Nan whom they hadn't seen for a few days.
Xia Ruize was shocked. It was different from the energy and enthusiasm when they met on the first day. After seeing each other for a few days, Xiao Nan lost a lot of weight and looked haggard. At this time, he was lying on the bed and fell asleep, but his brows were tightly frowned, and he couldn't sleep peacefully.
"What's wrong?"
Xia Ruize asked worriedly.
The old white head shook his head bitterly, "We don't know either. Such a disease is unheard of. I have consulted several doctors in the past few days, but they are all helpless. I also want to take Xiaonan to the imperial city to see."
"Is it possible that I was injured by a mid-level evil spirit that night?"
Xia Ruize wondered, among the people who went out of the city on the first night, only Xiao Nan was wrapped up by the middle-level evil spirit, could it be related to this
"No way..." Old Baitou frowned, "I have dealt with evil spirits for so many years, and I have never heard of such a situation after being attacked by evil spirits."
Cheng Huaiqian changed his expression, and asked softly: "Old Baitou, you have more experience, do you think it is possible for human beings to cooperate with evil spirits?"
Old Baitou was shocked when he heard Cheng Huaiqian's question, "Why do you have such doubts? Impossible, impossible, humans and evil spirits have been hostile for so long, there is no possibility of cooperation!"
Cheng Huaiqian continued to ask: "Evil spirits can possess humans, so is it possible to pretend to be humans?"
The old white head continued to shake his head, "Impossible, evil spirits cannot flexibly manipulate humans, at most evil spirits can manipulate humans to commit suicide or tear their bodies apart, it is impossible to pretend to be humans."
"Will the spirit hunters become irritable after fighting the evil spirits for a long time?" Cheng Huaiqian asked strange questions one after another.
Old Baitou frowned and thought about it, and finally shook his head, "I haven't heard of it. I have dealt with evil spirits for more than ten years, and my temper is not bad."
"Above the high-level evil spirits, are there higher-level evil spirits?"
Cheng Huaiqian seemed determined to investigate to the end.
This time the old white head nodded, "I heard that there is an evil spirit king above the high-level evil spirits, but the evil spirit king lives deep in the bottom of the evil sea, and he can't rise to the surface of the sea or land on land, so there is no need to worry. "
During the time when Cheng Huaiqian was talking with Lao Baitou, Xia Ruize secretly released a skill of [Dead Trees in Spring] at Xiao Nan. He didn't know whether this healing skill was effective for Xiao Nan who is an aboriginal, but it shouldn't have any negative effects if he tried it. .
Xiao Nan was lethargic by the bed with low energy, but he opened his eyes not long after, and saw Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian's eyes lit up, and his mental state seemed to be much better.
After getting a lot of information from the experienced Lao Baitou, Cheng Huaiqian and Xia Ruize rushed to the city wall with Lao Baitou, Xiao Nan, and Xiao Nan's parents after Lao Baitou's family had packed their luggage thoroughly.
"In a while, the two of us will go up the city wall first. We are dressed normally, and the guards will not be vigilant. We will control the two closest guards, and then you take the opportunity to climb over the wall and leave."
Cheng Huaiqian whispered about the plan he had discussed with Xia Ruize.
The old white-headed man was grateful but also worried: "But the guards are not easy to deal with, what if..."
"It's not a big problem, just wait and see the signal."
Cheng Huaiqian interrupted the old man's worries, exchanged glances with Xia Ruize, and walked towards the city wall. The two of them had been on duty before, and they were very clear about the distance between the guards on duty on the city wall. A distance of 100 meters, as long as two people who are close to each other are controlled, a short distance will be blank.
As for whether the two moats can be controlled
The strength of these city guards was indeed strong against the scattered spirit hunters, but against Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian, they were almost knocked out without much action.