The night sky above was pitch black, as if a huge curtain had blocked out the countless stars. Only the bright moon was hanging quietly, half of it obscured by wisps of clouds. The moonlight was as cool as the evening breeze.
This is a central garden with a small circular white stone square. The square is surrounded by steps, high and low, and the edge is surrounded by circles of flower beds with clusters of flowers. The cold wind emits a faint fragrance.
The central garden serves as a dividing area. The west side is connected to the bustling night market such as Happy Street, and the east side is close to hotels, restaurants, tailor shops, clothing stores and other places for daily necessities. The north and south ends are directly connected to the main road, which can be said to be the transportation hub of the entire northern section of the fourth district of Florence.
This is also the possible area that Kaxiu drew on the map.
Under the dim moonlight, a strong figure in black clothes appeared on a staircase, holding a torch that had just been burning for a short time.
The torch was pitch black with an abnormal flame at the top.
This is a dark green light, similar to the eyes of a wolf, which gives people a creepy feeling. Especially when moving, the dark green flame jumps and extends towards the air behind, leaving a narrow tail flame, which looks a bit scary. But in fact, it is just the air flow aroma produced by the burning of black bait wood. Ignited by the flame, it burns briefly in the air.
Kaxiu stood at the top of the stairs and quickly scanned the front.
The location here is really good, with easy access. The airflow emitted by the black bait wood will soon attract dark creatures.
He strode forward and placed the torch on a stone stand in the middle of the square.
A faint stench like burning paint spread. It didn't smell good to humans, but dark creatures flocked to it.
Especially the black bait wood given by the ghost is big and thick, and the quality needs no further explanation. The more and stronger smell it emits is very tempting.
Kaxiu took a step back, his figure completely enveloped by darkness. He leaned against a corner, quietly waiting for the ghoul to deliver the goods to his door.
It was 8:30 in the evening, on a quiet street in the fourth district of Florence.
A young man dressed in black and with a cold aura stood under the candlelight. This was a crossroads, and a forked candlestick like a street lamp was burning silently.
The shadow cast by the young man on the ground was huge and terrifying, like a collection of tentacles. If you look closely, you can see that each tentacle has spikes.
Whoosh... A breeze blew towards me from a distance, and my clothes fluttered.
Solomon frowned slightly, he felt a very faint stench in the air. Turning his head, Solomon walked towards another street.
Five minutes later, at the intersection of a dark alley, he suddenly stopped and looked up with a slightly flickering look in his eyes. The Sin Thorn had reacted. The dark creature was indeed in the fourth district, and it had moved tonight. The energy breath left in the air was fresh and rich, and the dark creature had been there for no more than half an hour! This made Solomon happy.
Five days had passed, and the mission had finally made significant progress. If he was lucky, he could finish the first round of the assessment tonight.
Solomon took a step and immediately rushed in one direction.
On the other side, at the intersection of the commercial district and the residential area, four or five streets served as the main roads. Two of the adjacent streets were separated by a row of buildings. On the top of the tallest building, the Lion King Soth sat cross-legged. While practicing the Crazy Lion Fist, he paid attention to the surrounding movements.
His body was filled with turbulent energy and his eyes were bloodshot. After more than ten minutes, the chaotic aura gradually calmed down and the bloodshot disappeared by a large margin.
One of the important reasons why Sos dared to drink a large amount of holy spring water in a short period of time was that he had practiced the Crazy Lion Fist for more than ten years. The boxing technique has the function of regulating the body's breath, balancing the spirit, and stabilizing the will. Although it cannot solve the fundamental problem, it can still temporarily suppress the onset of side effects.
This gave Soth the capital to compete for the Shadowhunters again.
In fact, he had already made up his mind that he would definitely get the position of Shadow Hunter. After being baptized by the source of the Holy Spring Water, the side effects caused by taking a large amount of Holy Spring Water now would be suppressed. At that time, he would use the strength of the Shadow Hunter level and the connections of the royal family to find the other parts of the Crazy Lion Fist. After the completion, the impact of the side effects would be minimized.
This is Soth's ideal state.
Now, the most important thing is to catch the dark creature, the Laughing Demon, first.
"Um?"
Soth suddenly perked up, his eyes sharpening. His sight passed through a distance of dozens of meters, casting shadows of houses on a street. A canine-sized alien quickly shuttled and ran forward.
The whole process was silent and difficult for ordinary people to detect.
"An ordinary beast-level..."
Soth retracted his gaze and did not choose to attack. He did not want to alert the enemy and make his target, the Laughing Demon, prepared in advance.
I calmed my mind and adjusted my breathing for about a minute.
Sos suddenly turned his head and looked at another street. A ball of gray mist the size of a human head floated low in the sky, and its simulated shape looked like a head. If someone encountered such a thing in the middle of the night, they would probably faint on the spot. This was a beast-level dark creature, the Gray Mist Head, which preferred to be quiet and not active, and loved to find a place to hide and forage for food.
"… "
Soth glanced at the gray mist head and frowned slightly.
Half a minute later, another dark creature passed by. This time, Soth was not calm. He felt something was wrong. One after another, the dark creatures seemed to be heading towards the commercial district.
Something seemed to be happening there.
Soth waited for another two or three minutes with doubts in his heart. During this time, two beast-level dark creatures passed by, in a hurry, with a very clear target. He immediately stood up and jumped down from the roof.
Following the tail of the last dark creature, he followed it.
The third district of Florence, a complex near the Imperial Museums.
Under the dim moonlight, a half-human, half-wolf dark creature suddenly jumped out of the alley. Its reverse-jointed legs stepped on the top of the wall, and the dark mane on its body surface danced wildly. It opened its narrow and ferocious wolf mouth and greedily took a breath of air. The hair on its body swelled up and glowed faintly.
The werewolf's head locked onto one direction and it leaped away.
Behind them, several more dark creatures were attracted out.
Nearly a hundred meters away, Claire watched all this quietly. She stretched out her slender fingers and pinched the crystal earring on her right ear, and the inside of the earring slowly turned red. Claire turned around silently and followed the werewolf's trail.
In the fourth district of Florence, in the central garden, the torch made of black bait wood has burned a quarter. Kaxiu's senses covered the surroundings, waiting for the opportunity. The ghost said that the black bait wood was very effective, and such a large black bait wood would be even more effective. Kaxiu wanted to see how good it could be, although he felt that if he could lure out the ghouls tonight, it would be a success.
Time passed minute by minute, and it was around 8:40 in the evening.
At the edge of the central garden, a young man dressed like a tailor's apprentice hid behind the flowers. He hunched over, pushed aside the branches with one hand, and looked through the gap. His eyes were fixed on the center of the square, full of greed and boiling hunger.
The young man blinked his eyes, and every time he opened and closed them, a black hole appeared in his eyeballs. After blinking dozens of times, his eyeballs were filled with densely packed black holes, like disgusting insect eggs.
He breathed heavily, greedily inhaling the aroma. His mouth opened wider and wider, and a coiled scarlet tongue fell out. It was full of tumors like a chameleon, and there was a sharp mouth on the end of the drop of flesh.
“It smells so good… It smells so good… I must… I must have it!”
The young man muttered to himself, as if he had gone mad. He took another deep breath and took two steps back. With a bang, his back seemed to hit a thick wall. However, the wall still exuded a blazing heat, as if an invisible huge magnetic field suddenly enveloped him.
"Hiss..."
The young man felt that the air around him was escaping frantically under the pressure. He was unable to move at all, and could only hear the person behind him say.
"Does it smell good? It's a pity that it's not prepared for you... hehe..."
Before the young man could react, he felt a pain in his head and his vision rotated 360 degrees. He saw a strong arm holding his hair and a headless corpse. The next second, a terrifying vibration frequency penetrated into the deepest part of his head.
Everything in front of my eyes suddenly went dark, and there was no more light.
A minute later, a skinned two-headed hound leaped down from the top of the stairs and pounced madly on the torch in the middle of the square. In midair, a spirally twisted purple javelin whizzed through the sky and pierced horizontally.
The two-headed hound was carried to the other side by the huge force with a loud bang.
It was directly shattered by the explosive force contained in the Roaring Xiaoyin Gun. Bones, blood and flesh flew everywhere, falling like scarlet rain.
They are all a bunch of scum, only beast-level ones. It doesn't matter if the ghouls haven't come yet, at least a few wild beast-level ones can come for Kaxiu to have a bite.
Over the next few minutes, dark creatures continued to appear from all directions. Without exception, none of them could escape. Some were nailed to the flower beds and turned into fertilizer, while others had their flesh and blood evenly spread across the square.
Kaxiu raised his eyebrows. He didn't expect that there were so many dark creatures hiding in the fourth district. In fact, it was not just the fourth district. If you look down from the sky, you will find that the dark creatures in the third, fourth and fifth districts of Florence are rioting and rushing towards the central garden.
The effect of the black bait wood, which is as thick as an arm, is much better than expected.
At this point, Kaxiu no longer hid. He stood openly in the center of the square. The corpses of dark creatures were everywhere around him. The scent of black bait wood attracted dark creatures more than their instinct of fear, and dark creatures continued to come to die.
The air was filled with the smell of blood. Kaxiu looked at the slowly burning torch and secretly felt that this thing was indeed a good thing. It was indeed a precious material that required extremely high authority to be exchanged in Black Rain Villa.
If the ghost had not completed the Disaster World mission twice to increase his authority level, he probably would not have been qualified to buy this arm-thick black bait wood.
Kaxiu thought to himself that he would ask the ghost to exchange a few more for him next time they met. It is better to be prepared, as he never knew when he would need them.
Suddenly, a low-flying figure moved very quickly from the west side of the central garden. She was wearing a tattered white robe, with dry gray hair that was one or two meters long. Her exposed skin was covered with green scales, her face was ugly like an eagle, and her eyes were hollow. Her left hand was normal, but the palm of her right hand was a round tumor, with a smooth mucus surface, like a divination ball.
The green witch stretched out her right hand, and scratched the surface of the tumor with her claw-like right hand, and a trace of blue blood flowed down. Suddenly, the plants in the many flower beds in the central garden rushed out, growing wildly at a speed of thousands of times. Moreover, they all showed an alienated state, with spikes and scales all over their surfaces.
They don't look like plants, but more like poisonous sea snakes.
Whoosh!
The roots of plants in four or five flower beds around Kashu broke through the soil.
A large number of alienated branches broke through the air like iron whips, densely packed, covering every corner around and weaving into a tree net.
"The tooth-eater is here..."
Kaxiu still stood there, slowly raising his hands, the tips of his ten fingers were scarlet like blazing fire. His fingers gently drew two large circles in the air, and the remaining blood-red arcs fluttered in the wind.
Crackling, crackling... Ding ding ding...
All the alienated roots were cut into pieces, and when they fell to the ground, there was a texture of metal collision.
Apparently, under the control of the green witch, these plants were as hard as steel. Moreover, the thorns seemed to carry some poison.
In the rain of plant roots, Kasu turned around and looked at the green ghost woman from afar.
The green witch screamed and waved her left hand, apparently trying to control the alienated roots to attack again. However, the plants that had just been attacked did not react at all. The green witch waved her hand again in confusion, only to see the alienated flowers and plants in the four or five flower beds around her explode into sawdust with a bang.
Even the roots at the bottom were torn into pieces by the deadly force.
"!
!”
The green witch seemed to be enraged. She grabbed the surface of the tumor on her right hand with all five fingers, leaving five bloody marks. Then she pointed her palm at the largest tree in the central garden, which was more than eight meters high and could be hugged by two people.
Suddenly, the big tree changed. The old bark on the surface turned into the color of steel plate, and strange rotating lines wrapped around the trunk.
In the center of the tree trunk, an old and ferocious face gradually emerged.
The entire tree grew rapidly, reaching 1.5 times its original height in one breath, and the flower bed was gradually torn apart. The roots at the bottom intertwined and turned into paws, and the branches and leaves twisted, as if they had turned into two large hands. The old face at the trunk became clearer and clearer, and he opened his eyes.
It was just about to open its mouth and roar.
Bang! A fist was thrust into his mouth.
Boom! The entire tree was broken abruptly with the face as the center.
Kaxiu's entire arm was sunk into the tree trunk, and yellow sawdust flowed out from the gap between the hole and his arm like flowing water. His broad shoulders stretched back slightly, and his arm turned into an axe blade. With one force, he cut the giant tree horizontally into two sections, and the ten-meter-long trunk fell down. With a bang, it was held up by Kaxiu's shoulders, and the soil suddenly sank, and the shoes were pulled up again.
Kaxiu turned around and looked at the green ghost woman who was fifty or sixty meters away, and smiled grimly. With one step, the entire flower bed collapsed under the huge force.
He hugged the tree trunk and flew out, as if holding a giant battering ram, and rushed straight towards the green ghost woman at the speed of a running train!
The green witch panicked, and she summoned all the alienated plants around her to try to stop her, but they either couldn't keep up with the speed or were smashed to pieces.
The speed of the tree trunk did not change at all as it bombarded him head-on.
"Show mercy under the tree!"
Suddenly, a grim-faced young man in the distance was horrified. It was Solomon. He had just caught up with the target of the mission, the green witch, when he found that the alien species that he had finally found the clue seemed to be killed by Kaxiu again.
"No… "