"Darkness... does it have a master?"
"Little girl, I have to talk to you about this."
"What did you say?"
"Let me tell you a story about my eldest brother."
"Your eldest brother?"
"Yes, I also hang out with people, but my boss is more powerful."
As soon as this thought came into his mind, the will of darkness began to touch him.
Xu Le was slightly stunned.
Is this... a warning from Night Fury
Is it because he is not allowed to talk too much about the power of darkness to ordinary people like Bai Jing
That's not right. The power of darkness should be spread out, so that as the source of darkness, the Night Fury can become more powerful.
"That doesn't make sense?"
Just as Xu Le was puzzled, the power of darkness actually emerged from his body continuously.
The intensity of this dark force can almost be described as materialized.
The dark fog completely enveloped him, and at this time Xu Le...
The black fog was silent and full of majesty, like a king sitting on the throne of darkness and embraced by darkness.
Xu Le's stunned expression at this moment seemed cool and amusing to Bai Jing.
Looking at the rolling black fog around him and Xu Le surrounded by the darkness, Bai Jing suddenly felt impressed.
"The Lord of Darkness..."
"No… "
Xu Le wanted to explain what happened to him just now. It was not his idea to create the show effect at all. It was all his elder brother's fault!
But when he looked at the admiration in Bai Jing's eyes, he suddenly felt that this seemed pretty good.
"Brother, what do you mean..."
Bai Jing had no idea of the confusion in Xu Le's heart at the moment. She had already determined a fact.
Even if Xu Le is not the Lord of Darkness, he has a great relationship with the Lord of Darkness.
"So if you want to control the power of darkness, you must get the approval of the Lord of Darkness
I think I know what you are trying to do, evil warlock."
Xu Le: …
I don't even know what I'm going to do, and how do you know
Xu Le was very puzzled, but he still smiled calmly.
"Oh? Then tell me, what do I want to do?"
"You want to spread and walk. I have guessed your thoughts. Although you did not force it on me, all kinds of guidance have led me to the position you want."
The corners of Xu Le's mouth twitched. He knew very well that every woman was very good at imagining.
And they firmly believe in what they imagine.
So Xu Le didn't plan to continue explaining.
"So... what are you going to do to gain the Dark Lord's approval?"
"That depends on what you want me to do."
"You are too weak, so start by becoming stronger."
"How do you use the dark particles?"
"You haven't received the Dark Lord's approval yet, have you? So, don't worry..."
"knew."
After the conversation, although Bai Jing felt that she was being coerced by Xu Le, she felt more at ease after getting a positive answer.
At least she didn't go down the wrong path or lose herself.
The next thing is to get the recognition of darkness, or rather... the recognition of Xu Le.
"Become stronger?"
Bai Jing clenched her fists.
…
The development task is proceeding step by step.
During this process, Xu Le learned a lot of basic knowledge about mercenaries, monster types, area rotation rules and so on.
Although his strength level was different from other members of the mercenary group, he was not ahead in basic knowledge.
The saying that there must be a teacher among three people has been proven, and Xu Le patiently learned these things.
Learn more about the weird species and study the birth of the fruit.
The rest of the team, with the increased power of the Thunder Fruit, undoubtedly progressed much faster on the mission.
Especially Chang Fengle, he made rapid progress and has already mastered the power of thunder amplification.
It's only been a few days.
Of course, the ability to amplify lightning is much simpler than elementalization, so it is nothing special.
Compared with the main force, the situation on Bai Jing's side was a bit uncertain.
She appears and disappears.
The whole person became mysterious, and everyone in the team felt something was wrong.
The sunny, enthusiastic and generous Bai Jing of the past has disappeared.
At this time, Bai Jing had undergone earth-shaking changes in every aspect within just two weeks.
The first is personality.
Bai Jing has become silent now. Unless it is about important tasks, she basically doesn't speak and no longer chats with the mercenaries.
Then her makeup also changed.
Originally, Bai Jing only wore some light makeup and looked like a normal, sunny girl.
But now she is different.
There are many embellishments on the makeup, the first of which is eye shadow.
Bai Jing didn't have any eyeshadow before, but now she has it. Xu Le doesn't know where she got it from. Maybe she kept it in her bag all the time? And then she took it out now
Then there is the short hair that had been cut before, which has been trimmed a little.
She looked very cold and stern, making people feel that she was difficult to get along with.
In fact, this is also the appearance that Bai Jing deliberately created.
She didn't want other people to know too much about her, and just wanted their impression of her to stay in the past.
As for Bai Jing's current strength, it has become unpredictable.
She often runs out to kill monsters alone.
This was a very risky move, but in this situation, no one could stop her.
As the days passed, after nearly a month of mission time, the team finally encountered a situation.
They found the body of another team member.
Bai Jing stared at the corpse in front of her with an expression that was somewhat difficult to read.
When the other mercenaries saw the corpse, they immediately made some analysis.
"Their planned route shouldn't be here. Why did the body appear here?"
"Maybe it was a monster or a beast dragging it?"
"Did they suffer any attack?"
Bai Jing touched the body with her hand and made her own judgment based on the condition of the body.
The time of death should be within 2-3 days, which means that they had been attacked a few days ago.
"There were no signs of bites on their bodies. It looked like they died of suffocation. I don't know what kind of power they had."
"asphyxia?"
"It suffocated, didn't eat the corpse, and dragged the corpse for a distance. This weird behavior is quite special."
Bai Jing rubbed her chin, an action somewhat similar to Xu Le.
She suddenly realized this while thinking about it, and quickly put her hand down.
He turned his head to look at Xu Le, wanting to see if that guy was looking at him.
But when she looked over, she found that Xu Le was always teasing his cat and didn't pay any attention to her at all.
"Humph, playing with things will ruin your ambition."
After Bai Jing examined the body, she and others started cremating the body.
If a corpse is left outside and the conditions for spawning monsters are met, it will turn into a zombie.
They don't want to kill their former teammates.
"Is he the only one?"
"Yes, just one."
Bai Jing nodded. The deceased was a member of the 9-member team and an old member.
The 9-member team was very reliable in carrying out their tasks, but unexpectedly they failed here.
"From now on, everyone stays alert and keeps moving forward to see what other discoveries there are."
"yes."
The team moved on again and explored for another half day. At 2-3 pm, the surrounding environment suddenly changed.
The sky became a little dark.
"It's cloudy? Is it going to rain?"
“It doesn’t feel like it.”
At this time, not only these mercenaries, but even Xu Le himself felt something strange.
"Water vapor."
"Ah? What did big brother say? I didn't hear it clearly just now." Chang Fengle on the side asked hurriedly.
He knew very well that as long as Xu Le opened his mouth, it must be important information.
"I said, there's a lot of moisture here."
"Water vapor? Is it fog?"
"It's a bit similar, but it's not something that appears normally. There must be someone here who can control the water vapor, or it's weird."
Chang Fengle nodded.
"I see. Oh, I have to tell Sister Bai right away!"
After obtaining Xu Le's information, Chang Fengle hurried to Bai Jing and acted as a messenger, telling Bai Jing about Xu Le's discovery about water vapor.
"Isn't it water vapor instead of fog?"
Bai Jing waved the air a few times with her hands, and sure enough, she could see some fine water droplets.
This concentration is much higher than fog.
"Water vapor, suffocation..."
Bai Jing suddenly remembered the mercenary who had died before.
He died of suffocation.
"Is it possible that if there is a large amount of water vapor around us, it will become increasingly difficult for us to breathe, and when it reaches a certain level, we will suffocate?"
Bai Jing looked at Chang Fengle, but Chang Fengle didn't understand any of this.
"Um, I don't understand what Sister Bai said. How about I ask Big Brother for you?"
"Forget it, don't ask him. Everyone listen, we may be in danger now, and this water vapor may be the cause of suffocation.
So… back off.”
"clear."
When faced with reminders about their own lives, these people react directly and honestly.
They didn't even have the intention to argue with Bai Jing.
"Then let's go quickly."
"Together, together."
The team slowly retreated, each proceeding in an orderly manner.
But after about 10 minutes, everyone felt something was wrong.
The water vapor around showed no signs of dissipating, but instead became thicker.
At this time, their vision had been affected to some extent, and visibility had dropped from several hundred meters before to about 100 meters.
Everyone's clothes were soaked, the men were better off, but the women were more transparent.
There were three women in the team, including Bai Jing, and they all looked unhappy.
But apart from Xu Le, no one paid attention to this.
They had bigger problems.
breathe!
There was a lot of water vapor in the air, and their breathing began to become difficult.
Even if a warrior can hold his breath for a long time, he cannot withstand such an environment.
"Xiaobai? What should we do now? If we continue like this, we will really suffocate to death."
The Yongbing are not afraid to face the enemy, but they are afraid to face the unknown.
Now they haven't even seen the enemy, but they have already fallen into a situation where they may be wiped out. This is something no one can accept.
"Yes, Xiaobai, think of a solution quickly."
"Why are you arguing? If there was a way, I would have said it long ago."
Bai Jing had a headache. There was no warlock in their team except Xu Le.
There is really no way a warrior can compare to a sorcerer in terms of their ability to deal with such special situations.
Not only the mercenaries, but even she herself couldn't do anything about it.
Right now... it seems that only one person can break the impasse.
"Ding Ke, what should we do now?"
Meow? ~
Bai Jing ignored Ding Ke's dissatisfaction and stared at Xu Le, waiting for Xu Le's answer.
"You want to save this team, right?"
Xu Le's question made Bai Jing feel cold in her heart.
"Has the situation gotten this bad... Security team?"
“The situation was really bad, because even I didn’t realize what the weirdness was, and I didn’t even know if the opponent was weird.
Is this a natural disaster or is there something really weird going on here? "
Hearing Xu Ledu say this, Bai Jing's face became even uglier.
"Will you abandon us?"
“Isn’t it too heavy to give up this argument?”
Bai Jing shook her head slightly:
"I know you have a way to escape. Even if you encounter danger, you will not die. That's why you can act so recklessly in the wild.
You can go out at will at night, swim in dangerous lakes, kill a level 4 ancient god, and plant a tree.
But this is different for us, we are mercenaries, this is our job, to pay for our lives.”
Looking at Bai Jing's excitement, Xu Le was a little confused:
"What exactly do you want to express by telling me this?"
"I want to express... I just don't want them to die."
Xu Le looked at Bai Jing, who was already turning to the dark side, and suddenly laughed.
This woman’s previous “blackening”.
Apart from actually coming into contact with the power of darkness, more... is actually just a disguise to hide the fact that he has mastered darkness.
When a real crisis occurs, she will still stand up, speak for these mercenaries, and consider their safety.
She remained the same, still the same guide as before.
This performance is... pretty good.
"At a time like this, you still can't help but think about others. This doesn't seem to fit your definition of darkness. In your eyes, shouldn't darkness be associated with evil?"
"I just, I just feel that this kind of death is meaningless."
"There is no meaning to any death. Death is death."
Bai Jing didn't want to discuss the definition of death with Xu Le, she just wanted to get these people out alive.
"I'm sorry, please help me." Bai Jing suddenly lowered her head.
Before this, Bai Jing had never bowed to Xu Le, whether she was asking for power or threatening to turn evil for her own growth.
But faced with real death, she finally chose to give in.
"I never said I was going to abandon them. Let them gather some firewood and get ready to light the fire."
"Dispel the flames? Won't it cause more water vapor to be emitted, and then suffocate yourself to death?"
"Of course not. This is the flame that determines your fate."