There were panic cries in the blocks near and far. As the chaos spread, sirens were blaring from farther away. The setting sun cast a rosy glow on the mottled and ruined buildings.
Hearing the terrified screams coming from the nearby Shouming Building, which was only a frame left, and the sirens in the distance, Lu Liangsheng retracted his gaze and looked sideways to the side. A young man named Xia Yi retracted his extra arm, and used his strong upper body to dig into his trouser pockets, but found no cigarettes. He looked at the woman who was holding his butt and shivering. The latter hurriedly searched her body and finally found a cigarette and lit it for him.
The young man with the cigarette holder patted Sanhua Saki's hand, turned around, pressed his elbows against the guardrail, leaned his back, raised his face, took a deep breath, and exhaled the smoke with a "whoosh".
"You said it was a demon star? I said it was red stone... I'm afraid there was a misunderstanding. As for how it is connected to me, it's a long story."
Xia Yi probably didn't want the misunderstanding to continue, so he shook Hongshi's hand, smiled, and after talking to Lu Liangsheng for a few words, he felt a little relieved. He paused and continued talking.
"… I was infected by Redstone, and with the intention of dying, I held back the enemy in a crisis, and then we were hit by a nuclear bomb together. It was a blessing in disguise. Because of this, Redstone's wisdom was killed by radiation, and it underwent a change with the nuclear element that I can't explain. It has formed a symbiotic relationship with my body now. It is not dependent on Redstone as you think."
At this moment, Lu Liangsheng fell silent after hearing these words. He didn't know much about the current era and couldn't explain why there were such changes.
He looked at the Taoist priest being knocked down by the monkey and dragged behind the water tower and beaten up. His eyelids twitched. How hateful this old Monkey was at that time and how many peaches he had eaten from the Monkey King.
The thought flashed through his mind, and he returned to the young man named Xia Yi beside him. He suddenly reached out and pressed the other's left hand, "Can you let me take a look?"
Xia Yi held the cigarette holder in his mouth and turned his face to the side, raised his hand and handed it over: "Look if you want, but don't speak so flowery."
"I have always been like this, and I can't change it."
Over there, Lu Liangsheng didn't look at him. He focused on the red stone hand that was in front of him. The light from his fingertips made Xia Yi look at it and then turned away, "Be careful... Don't break my hand again. It still hurts."
As he spoke, Lu Liangsheng's magic power probed into the back of the crystal red stone hand, and what came out was the demon star and the nuclear element that Xia Yi mentioned, but he could not feel any signs that the demon star was alive. According to Lu Liangsheng's understanding, the demon star would not die, but would grow again. Now it was estimated that it was suppressed by the nuclear element and could not be revived.
The scholar tried to spy on the nuclear element that he had never heard of or seen before. The magic power touched Xia Yi, who frowned and let out a low cry of "Pain." At the same time, the magic power that was probed was also repelled. The idea of absorbing the demon star from the other party's body and sealing it in the body was definitely impossible.
"If you force it, it will cost this man his life."
Seeing Lu Liangsheng shaking his head, Xia Yi spit the cigarette in his mouth onto the ground and stomped it out. He took his hand back and tilted his head, carefully looking at the scholar with long black hair in a bun and ancient clothes: "You know Sun Wukong, it seems that you are really a god?"
"I have been listed as an immortal, but I have never been to heaven."
Xia Yi was stunned for a moment. He hadn't really thought about the other party saying it so directly. All his expectations were gone. Lu Liangsheng smiled. Since he was recognized by the Great Sage, there was no need to hide these things. It would be better to disclose his identity. In the setting sun, he looked at the many vehicles with flashing sirens parked below. One after another, uniformed figures rushed into the building, waved their wide sleeves, and the magic light flowed and spread along the roof.
The police who rushed into the building below rushed out from the door a moment later, looking at the police cars parked in front of them, and looked at each other in confusion.
"What's going on?" "Baga, did we go the wrong way?"
“Try again!”
However, at this moment, a group of people were running, rushing into the building and heading towards the stairs and elevator. The next second, the vision blurred, and when he saw clearly, he was outside the gate again.
On the rooftop, a crow flew across the sunset glow, uttered a "wow" sound, and leaned out to look at the island police coming in and out below. Xia Yi couldn't help laughing.
"Your spells are much more interesting than fighting."
He also understood that the scholar did not allow the island police to come up at this time, and he must have other reasons, so he turned around and asked, "Are you here for Yamada Biotechnology?"
"I don't understand what you said, but I came here for those dead mermaids." Lu Liangsheng walked to the guardrail, put his sleeves behind him, and looked at the tall buildings shrouded in the sunset glow. "A mermaid was kind to me back then. Now that I see her people suffering from such a thing, I can't just stand by and watch. Now, I find that these people want to take shortcuts to become immortals, so I can't just ignore it..."
"It seems that you know almost everything you need to know. Their next target seems to be a nine-tailed fox... Hiss, I've never seen what a fox spirit looks like. Can you take me to have a look?"
Hearing this, Lu Liangsheng's face darkened, but he still looked at the other person calmly and nodded, "Come along if you can." After that, he walked towards the water tower with his sleeves folded behind his back.
The fight over there is over.
From a distance, one could see the Taoist priest lying flat on the ground with one leg hanging from an iron ladder, his clothes tattered. His face was covered with red claw marks, his neat Taoist bun was disheveled, and his belly was heaving with heavy breathing.
"Damn it... It's just a peach, is there any need to grab and beat it? Old Lu, come over here and give us your opinion."
The Great Sage leaned on the stick, loosened his armor collar, let out a breath, kicked again with relief, then raised his hairy palm towards Lu Liangsheng, and his figure gradually dissipated on the spot. This wisp of spiritual consciousness should have returned to the temple.
"It's okay. Why did you provoke the Great Sage?!"
Lu Liangsheng shook his head, sighed in his heart, went to the bookshelf, found some external application powder, and used his magic power to wipe the wound on the Taoist priest. Feeling the cold and burning pain on his face, Sun Yingxian cried out in pain, but after hearing that the two were going to find rouge, he immediately became energetic and turned over.
Pulling Xia Yi to make a gesture, he said, "If you want to see a vixen, you have to ask me. Speaking of this, I..."
Outside the building, the setting sun gradually sank into the western clouds. In the scattered rays of light, the chattering on the rooftop disappeared along with the figures. Lu Liangsheng smiled and pulled the reins, retracted the magic in the building, and disappeared onto the rooftop leading the old donkey.
Not long after, we left the city and set foot into the wilderness. As night fell, the familiar evil aura became clearer and clearer.
The lights of the city and human life faded into the darkness. The other side of the distant mountains became increasingly desolate and sparsely populated. Occasionally, a light flashed across the night, illuminating the outline of the mountains lying in the darkness.
In the rustling woods, there were the sounds of footsteps passing by, and figures with flashlights passed over the big trees that were blocking the view in front. The burning flames came into view. Over there, more than a dozen people were checking various instruments. They were dressed in uniform, and most of them were Westerners. Some of them saw their patrol companions coming back, looked up, and continued to pull the bolt of the gun, checking the magazine, and had a brief conversation.
"How about it?"
"There's no movement in the mountains. They probably don't know we're coming... or maybe they already know."
"Tsk, go see the captain. He just asked for you."
The bearded man who was checking the guns waved towards the tent behind him. The figure over there nodded, handed the weapon in his hand to his companion, walked to the tent, pulled open the curtain and went in.
In the middle of the room, a burly man was putting on a windbreaker, with a tiger-head tattoo half-covered on his back. Next to him was an Eastern European blonde woman buttoning her collar. She straightened the man's clothes, walked out with her long legs swaying, and closed the curtain again.
"team leader."
The man who came in raised his hand, clenched his fist and placed it on his chest, then called out carefully. He spoke in European language. The voice was transmitted to the other side, and a burly figure with his back to him slowly turned around. He was an Asian with a dignified and upright face, but his age could not be determined. When he sat down, his loose windbreaker was stretched tight, highlighting the muscular contours of his arms and shoulders.
He was like a tiger crouching over a desk, with a ferocious look in his eyes.