by Chen Ran
When the caravan reached the snow that was about a hundred meters away from the town, the huge queue finally stopped. In the lead car, Biansi jumped down. Looking at Zero, and then looking at Charon who was sitting on the ground, Biansi nodded her head and said, "Zero, well done."
Today, the townspeople were ordered to stay in their houses. Even the store was not allowed to open its doors. There had been some merchants who had objected, but the result had been that they had been rewarded with a bullet, and no one had dared to oppose it after that.
Inside the room, my father stood by the window, his face grave and his pipe in his mouth. They saw how the City Guard was replaced by countless foreign soldiers. Compared to the City Guard, these foreign soldiers were better equipped. Moreover, they all gave off a terrifying aura. Their faces were expressionless, and their bodies emitted the smell of dead people. These were the people who had truly crawled up from the pile of dead people.
In the house, the mother soothed the frightened child. And looking into her husband's eyes, the mother knew that these days would not end soon. Pavaric had entered the real winter.
These days would definitely not end soon. Since the Three Wealthy Classes had travelled thousands of miles to come, it would not be easy for them to leave no matter what. Other than the soldiers who took over from City Guard and were in charge of controlling the town, the rest of the soldiers had settled down outside. After all, if they let thousands of soldiers rush into the town, the town would become a mess. At present, the Pavaric still had value, even if it was Chalod or Austin, the two old foxes didn't want the residents of the town to overreact in case something bad happened.
The Town Mayor Duke Mansion had already destroyed less than half of it last night due to a one hit death explosion. Naturally, it could not be used to entertain Biansi and the other two, thus Charon's villa was taken over once again. Regarding this, Charon naturally did not dare to object. After returning to his villa, Biansi and the other two grabbed Charon and closed the door for a small gathering. Zero didn't have any interest in participating. In any case, it was just a matter of coercing and tempting.
Half an hour later, Charon walked out of the room with the Asgard's Three Great Leaders. He was already glowing with happiness, it seemed like Biansi and the other two had promised him a lot of benefits. Overall, this time, the power reshuffling of the Pavaric was not bad for Charon. Although he would only be a Puppet Mayor in the future, he would still be able to live a glorious life. Most importantly, he had stood in the right spot on the night of bloodshed, which earned him the right to live.
Otherwise, Charon would be killed like Fred was now.
"That guy is willing to cooperate?"
Charon seemed to know that Chalod and Austin would be his true masters in the future. After the meeting ended, he couldn't wait to invite the two of them to walk around the town. After watching the three of them leave, Zero asked with a smile.
Biansi was still dressed like the office lady, it was just that today she had changed into a silver grey suit with a black sweater lining the inside. Her hair was pulled up high, and her glasses shone with a dry light. Hearing Zero's words, she lightly said, "Does he dare to not cooperate? His role is to maintain the smooth transition of Pavaric, we do not wish to cause too much of a commotion, but that does not mean that we really need him here. If necessary, we can let the substitutes take the top spot. In any case, you won't need to worry about bloodshed to take over this town. "
"What's next?"
"During the meeting earlier, Charon admitted to everything, including the time when he made the transaction with the Bidis City every year. Oh, yes. The Bidis City is what they called the subterranean race city, it was Norwegian, meaning that since it means underground gold, it's also fitting. " Biansi casually flipped through the records on the pocket-sized intelligence brain, and said: "Our luck isn't too bad, winter's trade will be in two days. Currently, the various trading companies are already preparing the goods to be traded with the Bidis City, so you have done very well, limiting the scope of the battle to a minimum and ensuring that the winter's trade can still be carried out to the maximum. "
"In two days? "Then I'll prepare a bit." Zero said.
Biansi nodded and said, "We will have to trouble you with the scouting. We need to know the structure of the Bidis City, the location of the Black Gold rank, the number, civilization, fighting strength of the other races, and other information. It will be convenient for us to determine the corresponding strategy."
"I understand."
"Then, in these two days, you and your companions will have a good rest."
Zero, but in his heart, he didn't plan to bring that many people with him. Other than him, Zero only planned to bring Yoru along. When he made this decision in the room that Charon had prepared for the few of them, Su was the first to jump up and object.
"No!" go deeper into the enemy camp, and only Yoru and you there, it's too dangerous. "
Berrien was expressionless as he said: "If you're in a hurry to die, why don't you settle your debt with me first. Otherwise, when you're dead, I won't be able to find anyone to ask for money."
This fellow clearly still remembered the matter of him being squeezed into a corner and had been brooding over it ever since.
Zero shook his head and said, "I did not make such a decision on the spur of the moment. Firstly, Yoru and I's abilities are more inclined to be concealed. Secondly, the main job of this trip was to scout, not to fight. If you are also going there, there will be too many people who are capable of fighting against us. Secondly, you are lacking in terms of hiding your own information, so the chances of your identity being exposed is much higher than us. "
Pausing, he laughed: "Besides, even if my and Yoru's identities were to be exposed, we'll still be fine. If we can't beat them, then we can't escape either. "
This was not empty talk. In fact, the Shadow Jump of the wanderers and the concealment technique of the Night Emissary were all extremely convenient escape skills. Unless the opponent had a targeted perceptual domain competent, it would be very difficult to prevent the two abilities from breaking out of the encirclement.
Thus, this matter was decided. In the next two days, Zero and Yoru would use their own different methods to pass the 48 hours. It was not hard to find a training ground for himself.'s Hunter's Union Hall had a place like this to train his Hunters. After being temporarily expropriated, he and Berrien were locked up in the training grounds for special training.
During the training, he covered his eyes with Zero, allowing Berrien to use all sorts of dense and fast lightning arrows and other flying skills to attack him. What he needed to do was to sense the transmission of the spatial energy and accurately grasp the lightning arrow's landing point. At first, zero could not move freely. Berrien's Thunder Light Arrow had almost reached the degree of instantaneous firing. The light arrows were dense and fast, but the speed varied, and they sometimes had to face dozens of light arrows at the same time. At this intense frequency, zero was repeatedly hit.
It was just that with such astonishing perseverance, before the end of the first day of training, Berrien already felt that his stamina had run out. However, he didn't know how many times he had been hit, but he still crawled up again and again. Gradually, Berrien began to understand why Zero was able to walk this far and kill many of those who were stronger than him under the spear. It was because of this persistence, this astonishing willpower that allowed Zero to continue fighting even if he had a breath of air, that he was able to reach this point.
Berrien realized even more that the aura of zero had not changed much from the start of the training! On the other hand, he himself had been calm and collected at first, but now he had to grit his teeth every time he shot a bolt of lightning. Zero was defeated again and again, and then he stood up again and again. In fact, to Zero's enemies, this was also an enormous pressure.
By the evening of the second day, practically zero could
already freely pierce through the arrows of lightning. He was like a ghost, a formless ghost. Every time Berrien thought that he was going to hit him, he would dodge with a distance of only a millimeter. At this point, Zero's perception of energy had risen to another level.
As for Yoru, no one knew what she had done. She only knew that when she entered the training grounds, she left the Pavaric. The soldiers at the city gate saw her going into the silverfrost dense forest with their own eyes. Not long after, there were all sorts of strange roars coming from the forest, causing people to tremble when they heard it. And at the time when this happened the most frequently, it was actually a night of continuous roars.
Only until the evening of the second day did Yoru return from silverfrost dense forest. She was exactly the same as when she left, but when she passed everyone, she could clearly smell the scent of blood coming from her.
Thus, in the army, the recruits would feel fear towards Yoru, and the veterans would feel deep veneration for her. It was because they knew that such a terrifying killing intent would only be left on their bodies after killing a large number of creatures. But how many "lives" did Yoru have to kill in order to make this killing intent carry such a dense bloodlust?
After that, someone went to silverfrost dense forest to take a look. He realized that starting from the vicinity of Pavaric, they had gone in a straight line to the west for 300 kilometers. Almost all the metamorph had been massacred. The blood of various colors formed an incomparably thick and colorful painting. With the pure white snow as the background, it gave people a huge visual impact. Furthermore, after the people who had seen this strange painting came back, they did not dare to meet any meat for a few months. Even if they were just Su alone, they would not dare to kill anyone.
As for Yoru, after she finished her training and returned, after she locked herself in her room for the night, on the third day's morning, she arrived at the great hall. He saw her tightly bandage his body from his feet to his neck, and then wrap him up with a cape. Compared to her outer appearance, she was only an ordinary young girl. What was even weirder was that the killing intent from yesterday had completely vanished. However, the ones with the sharpest senses realized that the killing intent had not disappeared, but had been restricted by a special method that Yoru had used.
That was like using an iron prison to trap a beast. The beast would constantly attack the iron prison, and once the beast broke out of it, it would become even more berserk!
Chapter 392 - Well of the Abyss (II)
On the morning of the third day, Zero and Yoru stood at the town center's assembly square. All sorts of goods were gathered in the plaza, which were being traded with the Bidis City. Old Robert was counting the goods. For the past ten years, Old Robert had been the main person in charge of the tour guide and the transaction with the Bidis City. There were a lot of goods, and even with Rob's ability, he still needed a certain amount of time to count them.
Zero and Yoru stood by the side and looked at each and every busy figure. He looked at Yoru and said: "This time, we are not going to fight, there is no need to break ourselves too tightly."
Yoru replied expressionlessly: "To me, there's no difference."
Zero shook his head, not knowing what to say. This natural demented girl had her own share of perseverance. But then again, who didn't have their own perseverance and was willing to give it their all.
Su Yun knew that Yoru must have used some special method to bind all the killing intent that she had accumulated from these two days of killing. And once this killing intent erupted, it would most likely be devastating. Destroying your enemies and destroying yourself, right?
Regarding the secret method that Yoru used, Zero felt unease. When he thought about the emblem on the back of Yoru's hand, Zero became even more curious about the clan behind Yoru's back. Just what kind of family raised such an outstanding assassin like Yoru.
While the two of them were talking, the old man had already finished counting the points, so he called out to the two of them to set off. Today, Zero and Yoru had changed out of their tactical suit s and changed into the attire of ordinary citizens of Pavaric. He only wore the leather armor used by hunters on his chest and elbows, and carried an old hunting rifle on his back. He then changed his body and became an ordinary guard of the caravan.
The two of them, one in front and one behind, were hiding in the real guards. Yoru had already used a special method to restrain all of her auras, and Zero was relying on its sensitivity and control over energy to maintain its biological ability at the level of an ordinary person. If they did not take the initiative to attack, perhaps only the experts of the perceptual domain would be able to sense that there were two capable people, Su Yun and Yoru, hidden in the caravan.
The caravan's goods were not only for protection against the cold, but also for various kinds of food, such as air-dried beast meat and canned fruits. There are also some commonly used medicine, such as aspirin, analgesics, hemostatic spray and so on. From these things, it was not hard to tell that the foreign races of the Bidis City were similar to humans in physical structure, which was why they were able to use human medicine.
According to elder Robert, the annual transaction with the Bidis City was concentrated in the winter and summer seasons, and the contents of the goods would be adjusted according to the seasons. For example, in winter, most of the hair grass and dry food is more. However, during the summer, there would be a relative increase in all kinds of anti-life Su medicine. It seemed that the subterranean race's resistance to heat was not strong enough, and was prone to sickness, which probably had something to do with the fact that they lived underground for a long time.
Because there were a lot of goods collected, after all, every purchase would require the entire subterranean race to spend up to two quarters. As a result, the two wheels of simple carts were used by the caravan party up to a hundred. After the goods were arranged neatly, they were tied up with a strong rope. However, because the special location of the Bidis City was where a motor vehicle would not be able to pass through, the Pavaric trained all kinds of strange large beasts to serve as coachmen.
It looked like a strange horse with six feet and one eye. Its body was as big as a cow. After a meal, he could run around day and night without sleep for two days and two nights at a time. With an Overlord Snail as big as a house, these guys had unparalleled strength, and there was almost no terrain that could easily topple them. The only drawback was that their speed was not fast. There were even some two-headed war dogs that were as big as lions. They were like the dwindling versions of the legendary hellhounds. These mutated dogs had a long body and were able to pull one cart with three dogs at a speed that was not much slower than a six-legged horse.
There were also a lot of random metamorph s acting as coachmen. Putting aside the goods, this caravan was like a circus.
Zero was sitting on the thick shell of an Overlord snail. The thick shell of a giant snail was covered with protruding edges of armor, and the gap between the edges of the armor was just wide enough for a person to sit on. It was as though he was sitting on a chariot. The large snail, on the other hand, barely vibrated as it walked. It was as if it was covered by flat ground, making it impossible for a person to sit on it safely. Zero hadn't even used the metamorph as a transportation tool yet, so sitting on the Overlord Snail now was a bit of a novelty.
He turned his head and saw the caravan leaving Pavaric in a long line. Yoru was trying his best to make himself more stable on a Six-legged horse. It was just that his natural riding techniques were not that good. After repeated failures, Yoru had used some unknown method. The Six legged horse suddenly whinnied as if it was frightened, but it was pressed down by Yoru until it was unable to move. The Six-footed Horse seemed to have lost all its courage and didn't dare to move around. It seemed as if it was carrying its natural enemy as it dejectedly pulled the cart forward.
Su Yun shook her head and laughed. Sometimes, Yoru
could be stubborn like a big child.
Just like this, the caravan majestically left the town and headed towards the vast snowy plains to the southwest. As the small town moved further and further away, even the final outline gradually faded away. Looking at it, the entire world was snow-white, almost limitless.
The vast world naturally gave birth to a sense of awe, even to zero. Although he was now standing on the upper level of the entire pyramid of human power, there was still a sense of manpower and poverty in the wilderness. No matter how powerful an esper was, possessing the power to destroy the heavens and earth, as long as they had not evolved to be able to survive outside of the planet, they would maintain a sense of respect and awe for the natural universe.
It was the nature of living things, or a mark of the will of the planet that was carved into the genes of living things, to control life on the planet in an intangible way to protect itself.
As for whether that was the case, Zero had no way of knowing. After all, in terms of his current life form, compared to Agladis's planetary level of willpower, it was still too low levelled. Unless one day Zero could evolve to the same height, perhaps, he would know the secret.
After walking for half a day, at noon, the caravan stopped to rest, and the people and metamorph were given half an hour to rest. Zero, who was still sitting on the shell of the Overlord Snail, tore off a piece of meat that had the flavor of a Pavaric and threw it into his mouth. After a simple chewing process, Zero only had the taste of a large amount of seasoning. He frowned, but swallowed the dried meat.
The taste of dried meat was not good, but Zero was not a picky eater. However, it was not hard to tell the difference between a small town and a Asgard. Just the food alone was incomparable. At this time, the wind suddenly blew, and Yoru appeared next to Zero and sat down. The girl also put a piece of dried meat into her mouth and used her two little canines to tear at it. As she did so, she mumbled, "Someone is following us."