The sky was dim, and a ray of sunlight in the sky dyed the clouds into a small piece of pale gold.
In an abandoned city near a pumpkin farm.
The black and gray buildings continued one after another, silently. The surface of the building is gray and dull, some doors and windows have been smashed, leaving only a little remnant hanging on it.
In the central square, the sculpture in the middle of the circular fountain is slightly tilted, and the ground on the right side is sunken, and a deep crack appears, as if someone punched a crack from not far away with a knife, hit the fountain pool, and shook the sculpture.
On the left side of the fountain pool is an oval lawn, with only the base of a statue in the middle, and the sculpture is missing.
The grass was covered with black and green dry grass, lifeless and lifeless. The sides are connected with iron chains and low stone pillars to form a guardrail.
Beside the guardrail, a tall man in black armor was standing right now.
He stepped on the short stone pillar and scanned the surrounding scene carefully.
The whole city was dead silent, and there was a faint creaking sound of doors and windows being shaken by the wind in the distance.
The man pulled off his hood, revealing a handsome fair face, a head of soft blond hair draped over his shoulders, and three scarlet birthmarks between his brows. It was Garen who came after the leading silver-masked man who fled.
He looked around, as if he was listening carefully for something.
A faint golden halo came from behind and landed at his feet, illuminating half of the withered grass.
"Come out, I've seen you." Garen said loudly calmly. The sound spread far away, stirring up real echoes in the city.
"You have been escaping for a day, and you have exhausted all the necessary means. I don't believe you still have that kind of short-distance positioning teleportation." Garen retracted his feet, and slowly walked around the fountain pool.
Suddenly, at the bottom of the fountain pool, the black mud moved slightly.
Wow! !
With an ear-piercing scream, the mud was blown away and scattered, and a blood-red shadow shot out from it, heading straight for Garen.
Boom!
The air behind Garen twisted slightly, and he smashed the red shadow back as if it was real, and then fell back into the mud hard.
Hong Ying rolled a few times in the mud and got up dizzily, only then did she reveal her entire appearance.
It was a blood-red half-body, with only the upper body and no lower body. From the waist down, there was no other part at all, as if it had been cut off in the middle.
This blood-red halfling has blood-red skin and strong muscles. The head is like a locust, with a long face, two straight tentacles on the top of the head, and hard shells on the surface of the body, as if wearing a layer of armor.
The halfling was only half the height of a person. After rolling several times on the ground, he shook his head and stood up. He actually floated directly in midair. There was no support for his lower body, so he just floated directly in midair.
He raised his two sharp claws and rushed towards Garen again. Halfway through the rush, the upper body was bitten by an invisible giant mouth.
Crack! !
With a crisp sound, the halfling directly shattered into countless red chips, scattered all over the ground, and soon, all the chips melted completely, turning into puddles of blood and sinking into the ground.
"Fifteenth." Garen frowned slightly.
After leaving the red team, he has been chasing down the silver-masked man who led the team, and came here directly from the pumpkin farm. Chased all night.
In this seemingly dead city, there are actually such blood-red half-length creatures everywhere. They are everywhere, hiding in any possible hidden corner, and often jumping out suddenly to attack people.
The speed of these half-body monsters is very fast. If it is replaced by a totem master who does not specialize in speed, it is impossible to cope with it, and they can only resist it. But Garen was different. His powerful five senses and terrifying precision of martial arts made him invulnerable to defending himself with only two dragon heads. The two invisible dragon's mouths with a diameter of more than one meter are exactly like two shields, surrounding Garen for defense at any time.
Moreover, this kind of half-body monster is not very powerful, at most it is at the level of a general Type 1 totem, and it is okay against ordinary people, but Garen is...
Even if he stood in place and let them collide, he didn't know if he could break through the defense after colliding for a few hours.
Suddenly, there was a trace of familiar footsteps in the depths of the city, hurried and tired. The sound was very weak, and the distance was unknown.
But Garen obviously heard it, a smile appeared on his face, and he walked directly in the direction of the sound. It seemed that the speed was very slow, but each step covered a distance of several meters, which was equivalent to the speed of ordinary people running at full speed.
The opponent should have no strength left, and can't even maintain the barely-accelerated spell. Without the assistance of the totem, he can only run with his feet.
Garen reckoned that even if he let him go, the other party wouldn't be able to survive for long in this dangerous city. There were not only Type 1 monsters in this city.
After not chasing very far, the footsteps in front became more and more clear.
In the distance ahead, a small black dot has just entered an abandoned library building.
The library is in the shape of a mountain, with three spires on top, and two black and gray statues with bat wings standing in front of the gate.
Garen quickly chased after him, and the sound of his footsteps echoed in the empty city, as if there were many people running together.
Max! !
Like the sound of a big man roaring, a dull and huge roar came from the library, even the ground shook violently, and some small stones were directly shaken by the sound.
The sound seems to be a language, and it seems to be a meaningless roar.
Boom! !
Accompanied by a crackling sound of glass, a figure shot out from the library, flew upside down and drew a parabola, and fell heavily on a sculpture in front of the library. After a muffled sound, it rolled and fell from the sculpture, looking up lying on the ground.
It was the black-clothed and silver-faced man who ran into the library just now.
Panting heavily, he lay on the ground and tried to get up straight, but it seemed that his waist was twisted and he couldn't get up at all.
boom! bang bang! !
There were heavy footsteps in the library, as if some huge monster was walking back and forth.
Soon, the footsteps disappeared, and everything returned to silence.
Garen glanced at the library from afar, and there was no one knowing what monster was hiding there. Looks great.
But his first goal is to catch the silver-masked man.
Stepping on his foot, he brought out a black afterimage, which spanned hundreds of meters in an instant, and stood directly in front of the silver-masked man.
The other party also saw a figure appearing suddenly, the shadow covered his head and appeared from behind.
He froze for a moment.
"You finally came after me." Under the mask, his voice was extremely bitter. "According to the noble decree, I have the right to pay the price for my actions in exchange for my own life and freedom. I hope that your lordship, who is also a nobleman, will allow me to redeem myself."
"What's in there?" Garen didn't answer, but looked towards the library with interest.
The other party was taken aback by his jumping, and then reacted. "I don't know." He smiled wryly.
"I just came here last week. There was no such monster at that time, but now it suddenly appeared. It seemed to pop out from a crack in the rock. We have surveyed the surrounding area, and there is no such a huge monster in a radius of hundreds of kilometers. monster."
"You don't know?" Garen was slightly taken aback, "Didn't you create these monsters?"
"That's right." The silver-masked man shook his head, "But after the people in Dahetian discovered the Black Copper Mine, it seemed that everything was out of control. I dare to swear that I once participated in the Dahetian Part of the monster experiment, I have never seen such a monster. Never!"
Garen suddenly recalled the existence of urban trolls. If urban trolls were also experimentally created by the monsters of the Heitian Society, no one would believe that the Key Heitian Society could create such a powerful monster, and it would have been able to unify the world long ago. up.
"You said black copper mine just now? What is that?" He asked again, it was something he had never heard of before.
The silver-masked man secretly heaved a sigh of relief.
"If you promise not to kill me, I will tell you everything I know."
"Yes." Garen nodded in response. "I still need you to help me contact other members of the Black Sky Society, how can I be willing to kill you?"
The silver-masked man stopped for a moment, seeing Garen's natural expression, he was speechless for a moment.
"I'm extremely regretful now. If I knew this matter was so difficult, I would never have acted without authorization."
"Tell me, what is Black Copper Mine?" Garen asked calmly.
The silver-masked man struggled to get up from the ground, leaned his back on the base of the sculpture, and took a breath.
"The black copper ore can be said to be the source of all monster mutations. I was originally a senior workshop master who conducted experiments in Dahetian, so I know these secrets very well."
He took out a small bottle of red liquid from his arms.
"Do you mind if I drink some medicine?"
"Of course." Garen nodded, "Your health is bad. Even if you can still run, I can catch you again."
The silver-masked man smiled wryly.
"In the beginning, we found an abandoned altar underground in a ruin. The altar was all made of a non-gold and non-silver metal. The whole body was pitch black, but it was not the iron we are familiar with. Copper. A prospector from Dahetian was the first to discover the altar, and after discovering this brand new metal, the whole Dahetian became interested. We sent a large number of researchers into the altar to study this strange metal .”
"The altar itself is useless. It has been old for a long time and is completely abandoned. But after cutting and researching the metal used to make the altar, scholars made an amazing discovery."
"What discovery?" Garen was also aroused by him.
"They discovered that the properties of this metal are very similar to copper, so they simply named it black copper. Not only is there an altar, but there is also a black copper mine with amazing reserves under the altar." The silver-masked man smiled wryly again. "This black copper metal actually carries an amazing activity."
"active?"
(end of this chapter)