It took a long time for Luka, Zhixia and other ability users of the Emperor's Army to finally arrive at the place where Yan Kong and Tang Xian fought. But as expected, not a single figure could be seen here, and I can't detect the presence of any energy nearby.
"It seems that the trip was indeed in vain." Luka said looking at the wasteland in front of him.
"Judging from the traces on the ground, there was a fight here, but it's hard to say how many people were fighting." Zhi Xia carefully paid attention to the clues around him. His habit of doing criminal investigation work for many years made him instinctively analyze some things: "On the ground There are blood stains, but no body. If there are footprints... I only saw two people. No matter how many people fought here before, only two people broke the ground during the fight." He paused: "So I infer ... There should be only two masters. They had a battle here. As for the result of the battle... "
Luka said: "Then there are too many possibilities. Maybe they died together and the bodies were vaporized; maybe one of them moved the other's body for some purpose; it's also possible that neither of them died and one was captured. The other one; or one ran and the other chased them and left this place."
"Do you think one of these two people will be Director Tang?" Zhixia asked.
"Huh... who knows..." Luka shrugged: "Even if we measure the size of the two footprints now, we don't have the information at hand on what size of shoes Director Tang wears, right?"
"Sir! Lieutenant Jimmy... um... something happened." An EAs member came over and reported to Luca.
When Luka heard this, he didn't say much. He directly followed the other person's gaze and saw an ability user sitting on the ground not far away.
Walking quickly to Jimmy, Luka looked at him carefully. The second lieutenant looked very young. He seems to be under thirty, so his ability level should be strong. His face looked very ugly, he was sweating profusely, and he was sitting on the ground breathing hard.
"It seems... the loss of physical strength is more obvious for people with lower levels..." Luka said thoughtfully.
Jimmy raised his head and said: "Sir... sir, I... it's okay, haha... I just need to take a rest... haah... that's all."
"No, you're in trouble. It's hard for you to even stand up." Paper Man came over and said.
Jimmy seemed to still want to show off. When he heard this, he wanted to stand up.
Paper Man put a hand on his shoulder: "Don't waste your efforts, from now on. You must be very careful." His face was scary, and it was even more terrifying when you looked closer. Second Lieutenant Jimmy was stunned by Paper Man. Don't dare to move. "This is no joke. If your physical strength continues to be lost like this, you will eventually lose the power to breathe, and your lungs and heart will stop working."
Jimmy was so frightened that his face turned pale: "What should we do?"
Luka continued: "This time and space is too dangerous. If we stay here for too long, we will all die. No matter how strong a person is, it is impossible for him to survive. Director Tang must be found as soon as possible." He paused: "It is necessary. At this time, you may even consider giving up searching for him. Prioritize finding the exit from this space.”
"When necessary?" Zhi Xia glanced at him: "If you are referring to the situation where our companions have begun to lose the ability to move, then it is now." He seemed to have already thought about what to say just now: "We must as soon as possible Arrive at the city in sight. Because if someone leaves the team in this wasteland with confused sense of distance..." He took out the communicator in his pocket, held it up in front of Luka and pressed it a few times. The battery of the thing was already rustling. They couldn't even send out words and were completely useless: "Without electronic equipment, and the energy of those who left the team were all lost, the possibility of us finding each other in the wasteland is almost zero." He straightened up and looked at the city in the distance. , and then said: "The situation will be much better when we reach the city. At least there are buildings there that can be used as reference objects, and we can roughly distinguish the direction and distance."
Luka thought for a while and said loudly: "If there is anyone else who is like Second Lieutenant Jimmy and cannot continue to maintain the traveling speed, please tell me." He glanced around, and among the nearly thirty ability users, no one responded to him: " If there is, don't hide it, it's not something you're ashamed to admit, if you fall behind later, it will cause trouble for others."
The paper man didn't say much, but the paper in his windbreaker had already flown out, forming a large paper blanket floating in the air: "Those who find it difficult to cope with the emergency march, come up on your own, one more of you is not much." He helped Jimmy up. , and asked him to sit on the paper blanket: "My energy should be able to support it to the edge of the city like this, but the speed must be fast." He himself also jumped on the paper blanket and stood at the front.
Luka said: "Those who are confident and can run, please follow Commander Ness with me."
"Um... sir." Someone finally raised their hand.
"No need to raise your hands. If you want to hitchhike, hurry up. Don't waste time. There are still things to do after arriving in the city. Saving time means saving energy." Luka said seriously.
Soon, six people jumped on the paper blanket one after another. The paper man said: "Okay, if there are only these people, I will set off." He no longer stopped, controlled the paper blanket, and with these lost physical strength, he The already stretched companions flew towards the city.
Luka gave an order, and the others chased after him.
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The empire's ability users searched for Tang Xian to no avail, and finally realized that the danger in this space was more serious than what Shi Shi said. They began to rush towards the city slowly and quickly. As for the ability users of Iron Discipline, at this time, they can only be described as miserable.
The weakest ones among them had already been killed by the blood owl with one move. They were probably so absorbed in watching that they did not notice the changes in their bodies. When the black beam of light flew over, they realized that they had no legs. I can barely walk, I can walk but not run, I can stand but not move.
When the remaining dozens of ability users left the battlefield between Jacob and the Blood Owl, they had already discovered the seriousness of the loss of physical strength and energy. If they stayed any longer, they would sooner or later turn into withered bones in this ruins, and finally Submerged in the sand.
The group of people moved forward in the direction of the Grand Master and the Chief Pastor with a feeling of apprehension. They hope that the adult they believe in can protect them, guide them, and save them.
The Five of the Reverse Cross. Then they would arrive at the temple one step ahead of the Iron Discipline ability users. Each of them carries a fragment of the eternal core, which has been collected from all over the world. This is naturally part of Tianyi's plan. Those who hold this fragment can be protected from the loss of physical strength and energy in this time and space. Therefore, in the Hanging Garden, the members of the Anti-Cross were not in a hurry to conflict with people from other forces. They could have delayed it for more than twenty hours, and then they still had to worry about the death of those people? certainly. The Blood Owl's situation is a special case. A fighting maniac meets the opponent's large group of people on a narrow road, and there is no reason not to fight.
As for the other members of the Anti-Cross, they made the right choice to avoid unnecessary battles. However, they could not sit idly by and ignore Balmond's actions. Preventing the religious leader from accessing the Tree of Life was their main purpose here.
"Hey... why can't I feel Bamond's energy all of a sudden?" Fengxuan asked, "Is there something wrong with me?"
"Probably not." Yue Yao replied: "His energy has indeed disappeared, but the energy of the other person is still..."
Before she could finish her words, she saw the priest, Dino, crawling and escaping from the temple door, with panic written all over his face. However, his right hand was still holding the big book that never left his body. Needless to say, it was the foundation of their sect - the Code of Discipline.
At this moment, the door of the temple is fully open. However, the observation angle of the five people with the reverse cross was not facing the gate, so they could not see the iron coffin inside. and no cherubim were seen. They were still some distance away from the gate of the temple, and their whereabouts were not exposed. The five people are still hiding under Doctor Shi's ability. Seeing this situation, they will naturally not show up. They have to figure out what happened to make a fierce-level ability user run away in such a mess.
A few seconds after Dino escaped, they saw a creature with four pairs of huge wings and eyes all over its body, floating and slowly flying out of the door of the temple.
The cherubim's unfolded outer wings did not move, and the two legs under the wings that covered the body did not move at all. He is not moving forward on energy, nor is he flying with wings. He relies entirely on the power of his mind to control his huge body. Presumably he just opened the iron coffin door and the stone door of the temple with the help of this kind of telepathy.
"That's... an angel?" the gunsmith said dumbfounded.
"After seeing the three eyes just now, nothing can surprise me anymore." Fengxuan continued.
Wei Shengdao: "Could this hanging garden be the gathering place for all the gods of the 'heaven' in mythology?"
"No, they are just living creatures." Moon Demon said in a very sure tone: "This is a group of creatures that ruled the earth long before humans appeared. Their kingdom has been destroyed, and this space is their last refuge. Place."
The other four people looked at her in surprise. Judging from the conclusive tone of her words, Yue Yao was very sure of what she said.
"It's your husband..." As soon as the gunsmith said this, he was met with a murderous look from the other side. He had to swallow his words and changed his words: "I mean... Tianyi told you?"
Moon Demon let out a long breath: "I'm too lazy to explain."
"About the husband part, or the biological part?" the gunsmith asked again without being polite.
"Ask your dad!" Yue Yao replied angrily.
It took the gunsmith more than a minute to remember what this joke meant...
"Lord Dino!" The ability users of Steel Commandment finally arrived, and soon discovered their chief priest. The dozens of minutes of separation felt like a lifetime ago. These guys really seemed to have met their relatives. , ran over, waiting for a knowledgeable person to tell them what to do next.
Who would have thought that the kind-hearted and majestic Manzarikdino would be there. The spiritual mentor of all the members of Steel Commandment had a look of panic on his face at this moment, stumbling towards the opposite direction from his subordinates, and behind him was a huge unknown creature.
An indescribable fear rose in everyone's hearts. They all noticed something, but no one believed that this would really happen. They were all asking two questions in their hearts, where is the grand leader? Also, what is the monster behind
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Four minutes ago, in the temple.
"Reporter!" Cherubim's Tiantong face showed an angry expression. He roared, "You actually let a Darkwater Tribe massacre my remaining compatriots!"
On his four faces and in his four eyes, the whereabouts of four people appeared: Tianyi, Blood Owl, Dark Water, and Divine Key.
The Divine Key has returned from the space rift at this time. However, his position has changed, and like the other three, he is heading towards the center of the city.
Balmond was awakened by the roar of the cherubim. He came back to his senses and shook his head. The strange light in his pupils did not disappear. But he had completely recovered his senses, and at this moment, the mental torture caused by the dream disappeared. Because he had gained the cherubim's perspective on things, his brain was clearer than ever before, and the mysteries that had been bothering him a second ago seemed to be answered instantly. Everything in the world seems so simple and pure.
"Okay, I admit, humans are indeed not as good as you." Balmond actually said: "But, I will soon transcend the human body." He smiled: "Thanks to you, now I I can already see the gate of the Garden of Eden by myself. Then... you are useless..." Before he finished speaking, his body suddenly floated up, but it didn't look like he was acting on his own. Judging from Bamond's posture Come and see. He was pulled up by an invisible force.
"I... don't want to get entangled with you right now, mortal!" Six eyes on the Cherubim's arms activated powerful telekinesis at the same time.
Balmond flew into the iron coffin involuntarily. He looked extremely shocked, but he had no time or strength to do anything. The tall and muscular body crashed into the mountain of needles at an extremely fast speed, and the energy defense was useless. The length of those iron needles was about ten times the thickness of his body. The sight of his flesh and blood being squeezed out was like the pulp and juice squirting out when someone squeezed half a lemon with their hands.
Almost at the same time he was strung up, the iron coffin closed again with a bang. The cherubim didn't even have to move at all, all these things were done by the power of thought.
When Balmond floated, Dino's body resumed action. This should be the reason why the cherubim diverted their attention away from him. However, Dino just stood there blankly, watching his leader being thrown into the iron coffin. This scene made him completely lose the consciousness of resistance. If Cesare Bamonde was killed so easily, then who else in the world could stop the creature in front of him
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"Sir, what's going on? Where is the Grand Commander?"
Dino stopped and looked at his subordinates with a blank expression. His eyes changed from empty to erratic. In the end, he actually laughed like crazy.
"Dino... Sir..." The subordinates were all frightened by him and couldn't figure out what was going on.
"We were wrong... Haha... It turns out... It turns out that this is God." Dino turned around and faced the approaching cherubim.
The ability users of Steel Commandment were instinctively retreating. They didn't know whether the "angel" in front of them was an enemy or a friend, but the sense of oppression when it approached was real.
"Lord Cherubim, please accept my confession. I was blinded by the power of that mortal and helped him deceive these ignorant believers!" Dino held up the code of commandments with both hands and knelt on the ground: "I am an ordinary person. A person with abilities, a descendant of the Isaiah monastery, I just used this fragment of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the divination method passed down by the monastery to make predictions! I can't see the future at all!" He smiled crazily. , he tore off the outermost book cover and several layers of paper of the Code of Commandments: "Look, these are all fake. There is no Code of Commandments at all. The Steel Commandments are just beliefs that are enriched by lies that generations of leaders have continuously fabricated and pieced together. .Bamond used me! Let me intertwine prophecies and lies to help him rule this organization and help him steal the name of God! Please forgive me! Lord Cherubim! I will surrender to you!"
"You... what are you talking about... Master Dino." The members of Steel Command were stunned. They simply couldn't believe what they heard.
"It's really sad. I'm afraid most of these backbones of the Iron Discipline have joined the organization because of their beliefs. They don't just regard it as a resistance organization. They are truly 'loyal' to the adults." Fengxuan watched from a distance and felt sad: "But now, the faith that supported them has turned into a worthless scam..."
As he spoke, the faces of those people showed expressions of shock, anger, and even, like Dino, expressions that changed from dullness to madness.
Strange said solemnly: "This is why many evil religions are obviously using foolish tricks that are very easy to see through, but they still have many die-hard believers, because those believers need faith, even if they know that they are just in front of them. False truth, but I can’t bear to deny it.”
"Human, I... don't have time to listen to your confession now." Except for the face behind him, the other three faces of the cherubim all turned their attention to Dino, who was blocking the front, and the voice still came from his There was a sound in his chest, and it turned into several voices at this moment: "I am not obligated to listen to your confession." On his open arms, the pupil of one eye quietly turned and turned to look directly at Dino. : "And... to use a metaphor invented by you humans - there is no forgiveness in my dictionary."
Bang! Dino's body exploded from the inside, and his head and limbs were shattered into several pieces and flew to where. His heart was like a broken oil pump, and blood spurted out from there, rushing up to a height of seven or eight meters.
It was like a red drizzle fell on this place, and the smell of flesh and blood still lingered in the air.
The remaining people of Steel Commandment only have one thought left in their minds at this moment, no matter what, run away! The further away from this monster the better.
But as soon as they turned around, two other frightening figures appeared on the road ahead. To be continued. .