"From your tone, do you want to fight us?" The leader looked at Xiang Ting with a half-smile.
Xiang Ting said neither humble nor overbearing: "I don't want to do anything, it's just that people reason with me, and I also reason with him, but if I encounter unreasonable people, I will not let my friends be bullied."
"Boy, you're crazy! You want to be a hero, don't you? Don't even look where this is!" The supernatural being who wanted to search for Lu Shijin felt that Xiang Ting had lost face, and became a little annoyed, pointing at Xiang Ting's nose and scolding Said, "I have to search him today, let me see what you can do!"
Clenching his fists tightly, Xiang Ting has already summoned the thunder and lightning, and is going to throw the thunder and lightning on Lu Shijin if anyone dares to touch Lu Shijin.
Just when the supernatural person stretched out his hand towards Lu Shijin, the leader of them suddenly said, "Okay, stop."
"Boss, what if they hid weapons?"
"I know it in my heart, if I tell you to step down, just step down, why are there so many nonsense, are you the boss or am I the boss?"
The man didn't dare to say anything more, and gave Xiang Ting a vicious look before retreating embarrassingly.
The leader said: "Looking at the appearance of you guys, you don't look like villains. Don't embarrass you yet. Come with me to our boss and see how he will deal with you."
Xiang Ting and Lu Shijin, the five of them, were escorted into this building that looked like a concentration camp.
Along the way, Lu Shijin observed carefully. This place looks like a base where supernatural beings gather, and the infrastructure inside is complete. The sky has already darkened, and lights are on in several buildings, and the engine can still be faintly heard. The sound of turning, in the case of almost all power and water cuts in the world, there is still electricity here!
The others were as surprised as Lu Shijin's reaction was.
Who live here? To be able to live so well without being afraid of the encirclement and suppression of humans at night is like a paradise.
It was already dinner time, and there was a bungalow-like building that should be the cafeteria here. From time to time, the aroma of food was emitted from it, and people came out after eating one after another.
Among these people were men and women, as well as old people and children. When they passed by Lu Shijin and the others, they all looked at them with curious and probing eyes, and of course, there were also some hostile eyes.
What these hostility comes from, Lu Shijin doesn't understand, but he understands that the five of them should be unwelcome here.
"Where is this place?" Su Ling hugged Tang Qin's arm in fear, "Where are they going to take us? Will they kill us? I'm so scared..."
Tang Qin's face was not good-looking, but he still patted his girlfriend's hand to comfort her: "It's okay, don't be afraid, I will definitely protect you."
"It smells so good, I'm hungry," Lin Dong stared quietly at the cafeteria, "I seem to smell the smell of roasted potatoes, even if I'm going to die, can you let me have a full meal before I die, I don't want to be hungry Dead ghost woo woo woo..."
Su Ling screamed: "I don't want to die!"
Lu Shijin turned his head and glared at Lin Dong, "Don't talk about being discouraged, it's dead or alive."
Lin Dong curled his lips, "Okay, my fault, I pray that the leader we're going to meet later is a kind and kind person."
Although Lu Shijin pretended to be calm on the surface, he was actually very disturbed in his heart. He was looking through cards in the system mall while walking. If these people really wanted to harm them when the time came, he had better prepare early.
After walking for almost 20 minutes, I finally came to the front of a small two-story building. It was very quiet around here, no one was hanging around outside, and there were guards standing guard at the door. It seemed that only people with status could live.
Lu Shijin and the others were taken into a small building and locked into an empty room surrounded by walls. They could only stand without a place to sit.
There are blank spaces on all sides, giving people an invisible sense of oppression. The five people looked at each other, not knowing what they were about to face.
Fortunately, after a while, the door opened, and a group of people came in, surrounded by a tall man. The man was about 30 years old, very handsome, with abnormally white skin, and the blood vessels under the skin could be faintly seen. The color of the eyes is also very strange, the pupils are very black, occupying most of the eye sockets, and the circles of the eye sockets are red, and there is an indescribably strange and sick feeling.
It's like a vampire.
As soon as the man walked in, Lu Shijin noticed that he was wearing a pair of snow-white gloves. If it wasn't for pretending, then there must be something wrong with his hands.
"Hi, welcome to base H. I am the owner of this base," the man said politely, with a slight smile on his lips, but that kind of smile, without a trace of warmth, made people shudder. He continued Introduce yourself, "My surname is Gu, and you can call me 'Mr. Gu'. I heard that you broke into our base by mistake, but recently our base offended a group of evil superhuman organizations, and they have been planning to retaliate against us, so We fear that you may be their spies."
Xiang Ting took a step forward, standing in front of everyone, and said calmly, "Mr. Gu, we are not spies. We were hunted down by zombies and we had nowhere to go, so we rashly entered your territory by mistake."
Mr. Gu smiled lightly and said, "Oh, so that's the case. You met zombies? They are indeed a group of difficult guys."
Xiang Ting: "It seems that Mr. Gu has encountered them too?"
"Of course, not only have I met them, but I also know who made them," Mr. Gu read out Xiang Ting's curiosity, and before he could ask, he continued, "It was made by our enemies. Some of them have the ability to create viruses, and kill people in this way to obtain the crystal nucleus, and this group of people has no bottom line, if they encounter other ability users who are unwilling to join them, they will kill them all."
"Then it's even more impossible for us to be their accomplices. This Mr. Gu, look at us," Lin Dong pointed to his chubby face, "We are all honest people, capable of doing things well." Is that crazy thing?"
Mr. Gu just smiled and was noncommittal, apparently he hadn't completely dispelled his doubts about them.
He said in a low voice: "In this era, no one can trust anyone but yourself. Because people's hearts are unpredictable, you can't just look at the surface."
Xiang Ting: "Then I don't know how we have to prove it so that Mr. Gu can believe our innocence?"
Mr. Gu stretched his five fingers, and gracefully took off a glove, "I don't need your proof, I will see for myself."
Lu Shijin stared at his hand and took a step back vigilantly, "What do you think?"
Mr. Gu glanced at Lu Shijin with interest, and he also noticed after he came in that among these people, only Lu Shijin was staring at his hand all the time, he was a smart man.
"My ability is mind reading. I can read your thoughts." Mr. Gu stretched out a hand to Lu Shijin, "Just put my hand on your head."
Mind reading, one of the most advanced abilities among all abilities.
The first-order mind-reading technique can only read what other people are thinking at the moment.
The second-order mind reading technique can read other people's past.
The third-order mind reading technique can predict the short-term future of others.
The fourth-order mind-reading technique can control people's spirits and let others do things according to his instructions.
If you go one step higher, the more people you can control, the longer the control time will be.
At the ninth level, he can even easily control an army to do anything for him.
The power of mind reading is very scary, and the probability of appearing among the supernatural beings is less than one in 100,000. However, the first three levels of mind reading are actually not very effective. manifest.
However, the conditions for advancing the ability are very difficult, requiring a large number of crystal nuclei to support it. Every time one level is advanced, the number of crystal nuclei required doubles. As far as Lu Shijin knows, one hundred crystal nuclei are needed just to upgrade from the second level to the third level. And these crystal nuclei are not just cold numbers, behind them are all living lives.
The emergence of a ninth-level supernatural person means the death of tens of thousands of human beings, so how can human beings not hate the supernatural person.
As for this Mr. Gu, Lu Shijin didn't know how many levels his mind-reading skills had evolved to, but seeing that he could build such a large base, and the people here were extremely obedient to him, Lu Shijin guessed that his mind-reading skills, at least It has evolved to the fourth level, where it can control people's hearts.
The fourth-order ability needs to absorb the energy of more than a thousand crystal nuclei to achieve it. If this is the case, this Mr. Gu has killed at least a thousand people. Can such a person be a good person
This is not what Lu Shijin is most worried about. What he is worried about now is that if this Mr. Gu puts his hand on his head and reads his thoughts, won't all his secrets be exposed
The truth that he is a time traveler must not be known to anyone!
Lu Shijin's face paled instantly, and he staggered back a step.
Seeing Lu Shijin's reaction, Mr. Gu became more and more interested in him. If a person is afraid of his mind-reading skills, it means that there are some ulterior secrets hidden in this person.
And he likes to read such ulterior secrets the most.
Mr. Gu stared at Lu Shijin, and walked towards him step by step. Just when Mr. Gu was about to meet Lu Shijin, Xiang Ting stood in front of him.
"I am the leader of our team. Since Mr. Gu can read minds, if he wants to know whether we are spies, then read mine."
Mr. Gu looked at Lu Shijin, and then at Xiang Ting. The former was afraid of him, while the latter stepped forward to protect the former. The relationship between the two was obviously unusual.
The smile on the corner of Mr. Gu's mouth deepened, but he had no objection, "Okay, it's the same for reading yours."
He stretched out his hand towards Xiang Ting, put it on Xiang Ting's forehead, and closed his eyes slightly. The others stood around them, staring at them with great concern. Can Mr. Gu believe that they are not spies? He looked at Ting.
After a while, Mr. Gu withdrew his hand, and the eyes of the people became more friendly, "I saw that you were indeed attacked by zombies, so you came here. It's okay, it's all a misunderstanding."
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, Lin Dong patted his chest, and said confidently: "I said it just now, you still don't believe me, we look like spies from head to toe? You wronged a good person."
Su Ling was worried that Lin Dong's nonsense would annoy Mr. Gu, so she pulled Lin Dong's clothes secretly to signal him to stop talking.
However, instead of being angry, Mr. Gu sincerely apologized to them: "I'm sorry, my people misunderstood you. In order to express my apology, you might as well stay for one night tonight and let me treat you well. How about apologizing?"
Both Lin Dong and Tang Qin's eyes lit up, there is such a good thing? They were worried that they would not find a hiding place tonight, and that they would be chased and killed by humans if they left here, but now they are willing to take them in for a night, of course it would be great!
"Promise, brother Xiang," Tang Qin leaned behind Xiang Ting and said in a low voice, "otherwise it won't be safe to leave here."
Lin Dong also chimed in: "That's right, that's right, I think Mr. Gu is quite a decent person. He kindly took us in for a night, so let's agree."
Both Tang Qin and Lin Dong thought it was a blessing in disguise, but Lu Shijin knew that this Mr. Gu was not as simple as it seemed on the surface. He wanted to urge Xiang Ting to leave, but Xiang Ting couldn't bear the persuasion of his teammates and had already agreed.
When Mr. Gu heard that they were willing to stay, he seemed very happy. He turned around and told his men to go down to prepare the dinner, and then said to Xiang Ting and the others: "Everyone go to the banquet hall and wait for me first. I'll go upstairs and change my clothes before I come down."
Lu Shijin and the others were taken to the banquet hall on the first floor. It was not a round table like a company dinner, but like the ancient court where the king sat in a high position and the ministers sat under the king's seat.
It seems that this Mr. Gu has become the king of the mountain in his own base.
Xiang Ting noticed that Lu Shijin's complexion had not been quite right since just now, so he couldn't help but leaned over and asked with concern, "What's wrong with you? Your complexion is so ugly?"
"I always feel that this place is abnormal, and Mr. Gu, I think he is very dangerous." Lu Shijin said in a low voice, "You shouldn't agree to stay, we should leave, haven't you heard of it, it's all right To be courteous is to rape or steal."
Xiang Ting was silent for a while. In fact, he didn't want to stay at first, but at that time, for some reason, there was a voice in his heart asking him to stay. So he agreed in a strange way.
But I kept it all, and it's useless to talk about it now.
Xiang Ting said: "If you leave here, it may not be safe outside. Let's wait and see what happens. After tonight, we will leave tomorrow morning, okay?"
Although what Xiang Ting said was correct, Lu Shijin still couldn't convince himself to calm down. He had never been so afraid of a person like now. The more he recalled Mr. Gu's smile, the more creepy he felt.
After changing his clothes, Mr. Gu went into the banquet hall and took the main seat, and soon someone served food and wine to every table.
Mr. Gu raised his glass: "It is Gu's honor to have the chance to meet all of you today. I only welcome you with this glass of thin wine. Please enjoy yourself."
The aroma of the dishes on the table was so strong that Lin Dong and Tang Qin couldn't hold back their chopsticks for a long time, and devoured the meal hungrily.
Lin Dong burst into tears as he stuffed meat into his mouth, "Oh my God, it's been a long time since I had a hot dish. It's so delicious! What a fairy day this is!"
Both Lu Shijin and Xiang Ting had no appetite, and Table Mountain's food didn't move much. Lin Dong was surprised that Lu Shijin ate so little, "Xiao Lu, why don't you eat?"
Lu Shijin glanced at Lin Dong who was greasy from eating, "I can't eat it."
"If you can't eat, I'll help you eat it," Lin Dong said with a smile, "Don't waste it."
"You can take it if you want to eat." Lu Shijin waved his hand absently, and Lin Dong ran over with a smile on his face and brought the food on Lu Shijin's table back to his own.
Mr. Gu noticed the movement on Lu Shijin's side, and looked straight at Lu Shijin, "My friend, do you think the food is not to your taste? It's okay, just tell me what you like, and I can let the chef cook it right away."
"No, it's because I don't have an appetite. It's not about the food. Thank you for your concern." Lu Shijin met Mr. Gu's gaze, and felt a strange feeling of being seen through. He hurriedly lowered his head and staggered his gaze.
Sensing Lu Shijin's resistance to him, Mr. Gu just smiled and didn't seem to take it seriously, and suddenly said to everyone: "Everyone, I heard that when I was outside, one of my subordinates spoke rudely to you. It is my incompetence in discipline, I am really sorry, in order to express my apology, I have a gift to give to everyone, as an apology, "
"Wow, in addition to eating, there are also gifts?" Lin Dong was overjoyed, and whispered to Tang Qin, "Mr. Gu is too kind, isn't he?"
Tang Qin was also very happy, "Yeah, it feels like visiting a local tyrant's house. I don't know what gift he will give us."
Lin Dong said cheerfully, "Who knows, but seeing how generous he is, it must be a good thing."
Mr. Gu clapped his hands twice, and some of his subordinates came in from outside with plates one after another. Five plates were placed in front of everyone one by one. Everyone took a closer look and found that it was a plate with two rhombic transparent crystals like diamonds. Faintly glowing with blue light.
This is? Crystal nucleus? !
Everyone's faces turned pale one after another!
When Su Ling thought that this crystal nucleus was dug out from the human brain, she couldn't help but feel nauseous, and almost spit out the food she just ate.
Lu Shijin and Xiang Ting looked at each other, they were quite calm, they had expected that this Mr. Gu would come in a bad way, now they are finally going to show off their tails!
Xiang Ting stood up and asked, "I don't know why Mr. Gu sent this to us?"
Mr. Gu smiled and said: "Crystal nuclei can help supernatural beings evolve supernatural powers. Compared with delicacies, I think these are what you need most at present. This is a world where the strong survive. Only when you become stronger can you be better." To deal with all kinds of dangers well, and the evolution of elementary abilities only requires two crystal nuclei, these two crystal nuclei are insignificant to me, but they are very precious to you, aren't they?"
"But... but you can only get the crystal nucleus by killing people..." Lin Dong stammered, "Didn't you say that you are the enemy of evil supernatural beings? Then, then, you, why do you want to kill people?"
"Who said I got these crystal nuclei by killing people?" Mr. Gu picked up his glass and took a leisurely sip.
Lu Shijin asked back: "Then what do you rely on?"
Mr. Gu gave him a deep look, "I rely on doing business with humans, bartering things, understand? I help humans deal with evil supernatural beings and provide them with protection, and they take away the dead people's brains. The crystal nucleus is my reward, although the energy of the crystal nucleus in the brain of a dead person will be greatly affected, but the most indispensable thing in this world is the dead, and I rely on this method to maintain peaceful coexistence with human beings."
No wonder this place can not be attacked by humans, it turns out that the two reached an agreement.
One of Mr. Gu's subordinates sneered and said: "Mr. Gu is benevolent and righteous. He built this base to shelter us homeless supernatural beings. Everyone here is grateful for his kindness. You people are not grateful for the benefits. Forget it, it’s abominable to still doubt Mr. Gu’s character! If I knew you were such ungrateful people, I should have thrown you out of the base and let humans kill you!”
Lin Dong knew he was wrong, and looked down at the crystal nucleus on the plate and muttered in a low voice: "You can't blame me, you didn't say earlier that this thing was given to you by humans."
"So you can use it with confidence, this is definitely not a crystal nucleus obtained by low means." Mr. Gu didn't mind the questioning of him just now, and said generously and kindly.
Lu Shijin and Xiang Ting are already second-level supernatural beings, and these two crystal nuclei are dispensable to them.
But other people are different. They have always been first-level supernatural beings, because they dare not kill people and have not evolved for a long time. Now that someone has sent the crystal nucleus to them, it seems like a pie in the sky. Naturally, they are happy or unhappy Zisheng picked up the crystal nucleus one after another, held it in their hands to absorb the power inside, and felt the physical changes brought about by the crystal nucleus.
After the power in the crystal nucleus was absorbed, Lin Dong, Tang Qin, and Su Ling looked at each other, staring at each other, because it was night and they couldn't use their abilities, and they couldn't tell whether they had evolved or not.
"That's it, have you evolved yet?" Lin Dong asked.
Tang Qin: "Probably?"
Lin Dong doubted: "I don't feel it."
"You don't have to doubt, when the sun rises tomorrow, you will feel the change." Mr. Gu glanced at the crystals on Lu Shijin and Xiang Ting's table and asked with a smile, "Why don't you two use crystals?" Core to evolve abilities?" After finishing speaking, he tapped his forehead with his hand, "Look at my memory, I almost forgot, the team leader should already be a second-level ability user, right?"
"Yes," Xiang Ting said without hesitation, "so I appreciate Mr. Gu's kindness."
Mr. Gu raised his eyebrows, and asked curiously: "I don't know how the team leader evolves the ability? Is it also by the crystal nucleus?"
Tang Qin looked at Xiang Ting, "Yes, brother Xiang, you never told us how you evolved."
In fact, Tang Qin had wanted to ask this question a long time ago. If Xiang Ting really evolved by relying on the crystal nucleus, where did his crystal nucleus come from
If there was such a good thing if it didn't rely on the evolution of the crystal nucleus, why did Xiang Ting keep it from them and not tell them
How Xiang Ting evolved is of course impossible to say, but if he doesn't say it, Tang Qin and the others will inevitably have doubts about Xiang Ting.
"In fact, I was able to evolve with the help of a kind-hearted person," Xiang Ting casually found an excuse, and said perfunctorily, "But I don't know the name of that kind-hearted person, so I don't know who he is."
Of course, Tang Qin didn't believe this kind of plot that only appeared in martial arts novels, and he even believed that Xiang Ting deliberately concealed them.
At the beginning, it was agreed that blessings and hardships should be shared, but Xiang Ting knew the method of evolving supernatural powers but didn't tell them. He didn't treat them as his own at all!
Thinking of this, Tang Qin even became suspicious of Du Jiang's death, and felt cold.
"So that's the case, it's really a coincidence," Mr. Gu said enthusiastically, "By the way, there are only five of you, and there are a lot of activities of evil and supernatural beings in this area, why don't you stay for a few more days, and wait for us to get rid of it?" They are all wiped out, and then you start again?"
Xiang Ting's thoughts and Lu Shijin's glance also felt that the surname Gu was not kind, so he rejected him without thinking: "Thank you Mr. Gu for your kindness, but you have helped us enough, I am really sorry Stay here and continue to harass, and we are also eager to go south to find a self-help organization, and thank you for your reminder, we will proceed carefully."
Seeing Xiang Ting's resolute refusal, Mr. Gu smiled and didn't do any more to keep him.
But Tang Qin's face became more and more condensed. They were clearly a team, but before Xiang Ting made a decision, he didn't even ask him what he thought, and just made his own claim and rejected Mr. Gu's kindness. What kind of team was this.
Lu Shijin secretly thought that something was wrong, the guy surnamed Gu was indeed a ruthless character, and a few words aroused mutual suspicion and intrigue among them.
But what he is most worried about now is not the disintegration of the team, but whether the surname Gu will read the secret of his special physique when he used the mind reading technique on Xiang Ting just now? !