Chapter 2 Ruins
"Damn, such a strong smell of rot and blood. This place must have been a slaughterhouse for at least half a year to have accumulated such a pungent smell!"
“That’s right here!”
Two figures came to the small building, but did not rush to get closer. The stench wafting from the small building in front of them was like countless black fur tentacles extending out, suffocating.
"Captain, according to investigation, the central area where the dozens of fog people who have disappeared recently live is right here." Team member Zhao Qingmian pushed his glasses and said with a serious expression.
"A beast is a beast. It only knows how to hunt. There are too many loopholes in its hidden means." Chu Bai snorted coldly and said, "Prepare to set up the ruins-breaking device. I can sense that the thing is in here, hidden in a very deep place..."
As he finished speaking, three figures behind him dispersed and came to the three sides of the small building, forming a triangle.
They were each holding a black box in their hands, and at this moment, they were opening the black box at three locations outside the small building.
The box looked like a precision instrument constructed with countless gears. As it was opened, a black cylinder slowly spiraled up from inside. With a "click", the cylinder stopped rotating, and then violently vibrated out a ultrasonic force that radiated in all directions and was invisible to the naked eye.
But the light around seemed to have quietly become much dimmer.
"It has been sealed off, the ruins have been breached successfully!"
A burly team member said.
Chu Bai nodded slightly. Needless to say, he also noticed the changes in front of him. With the coverage and activation of the ruins-breaking device, some special changes occurred in the small building in front of him. The reality and the ruins world vaguely overlapped, and the true face hidden in the small building was revealed at this moment.
The trash cans piled up at the door of the small building became blurred, and so did the black trash bags in the trash cans. Only the contents of the trash bags were clearly presented at this moment.
It was actually a pile of flesh and bones that had not been eaten cleanly, including broken arms, hands and feet, heads, and strange limbs. Some were obviously the remains of the missing Mist People, while others were unknown animals.
"You eat your own kind... It seems you're a big eater." Chu Bai narrowed his eyes.
"Captain, there seems to be someone else in there ." Zhao Qingmian suddenly exclaimed in a low voice.
Chu Bai looked up and saw that the small building in front of him was also blurred. As a material in reality, it was only a vague shadow in the world of ruins and had no entity. It could not be touched, nor could it be destroyed.
At this moment, in the small building that was so blurred that it was almost translucent, all the structures inside could be seen, including the blurry blood clots and gnawed bones piled up everywhere in the house. These human skeletons were stained with sticky saliva containing the power of the ruins when they were gnawed, and therefore they were clearly presented in the ruins world.
In this small building that was like hell and filled with corpses, a young man was sitting quietly at the dining table in the living room.
This scene was extremely weird. Compared with the dirty, bloody and horrible living room that was like hell, the restaurant and corridor around the young man seemed to be the only pure land!
"A survivor?"
Chu Bai's face changed slightly as he noticed the young man's appearance. He was a blind fog dweller.
"wrong……"
Chu Bai soon noticed the abnormality. The young man's body appeared relatively clear and real in the Xu Realm, with only the edges of his hands, feet and limbs being slightly blurred.
This is enough to show that this young man has a huge amount of virtual power in his body!
Judging from this level, in terms of the power of the enemy alone, he has slightly surpassed their reserve team level!
"He is not Xu, he is a lucky guy." Zhao Qingmian noticed some virtual parts on the boy's body. If it was Xu, his whole body would become real in the Xu world.
"He is being raised by Xu..."
Chu Bai saw the plate of bright red flesh on the table, and his pupils shrank slightly: "And it was feeding a Xu beast... It actually fed people with its own kind..."
"The existence that feeds him..." Zhao Qingmian looked around hurriedly. The small building had two bedrooms and a living room, and was covered with dark red blood vessels like spider webs. One room was relatively clean and tidy, and judging from the clothes inside, it should be where the young man lived.
In the other bedroom, however, there was a large number of sticky blood vessels , concentrated on the wall of the room, like a tree stump!
Women's clothes covered in dust and slime were scattered on the ground, and there was a half-rotten female corpse on the bed. Apart from that, there was no sign of the culprit who caused all this.
"careful!!"
Suddenly, Chu Bai roared.
The ground in front of the small building suddenly cracked open, and in the dark brown ruins, a ferocious figure with a body like a spider but slender white hands as legs rushed out.
Like a fish leaping out of the water.
Its head was a distorted human face with sharp fangs that made its chin a cone. Its neck was as long as a giant python and could stretch freely. It bit towards Zhao Qingmian fiercely.
"It's a C-rank Ruins Beast, Yumoji!"
Zhao Qingmian felt a chill in his feet and his body became stiff. The speed was so fast that he couldn't dodge.
With a bang, his body was knocked away, and it was Chu Bai who knocked him away.
When Zhao Qingmian looked again, he saw that Chu Bai had drawn out the Zhanxu Sword and was fighting with Yumoji.
"Hurry, help!"
Zhao Qingmian shouted angrily and summoned the other three team members who had set up the ruins-breaking device, and they rushed towards Yumoji together.
The fierce battle spread from outside the small building to inside the small building. Because they were in the ruins, the walls of the small building were all virtual and had no effect on the battle. They could easily pass through without causing any damage.
The boy still sat at the dining table, seemingly unaffected and unmoved.
But in reality, his fingers were clenched around the chopsticks.
who are they?
What are they? Human beings?!
Looking at the five figures fighting with "Mom", the boy's heart was filled with earth-shaking waves. While feeling shocked, he also felt a surge of ecstasy that was so exciting that it made him tremble.
He knew that as long as there were such monsters in the world, there would be corresponding forces to restrain these monsters.
Otherwise, humanity would have perished long ago.
But I didn’t expect that the ones fighting against these things were not some kind of weapons, but “humans”.
The battle was intense, Princess Yuma was so brutal and her attacks were so ferocious that if it were in the outside world, the damage she caused would have been enough to easily destroy the entire building.
The five people, led by Chu Bai, cooperated well with each other. After a series of parries, they gradually became familiar with Yumoji's attack methods, gradually found the rhythm of the battle, and reversed the disadvantage.
Suddenly, the fight between the five people moved to the boy's dining table.
The dining table is virtual and cannot be touched, but the boy sitting in front of the dining table is semi-real and can be touched!
"not good!"
Chu Bai cried out inwardly, the fight was too intense, he had no time to spare for the fight, and when he saw that the attacks of several people were about to reach the young man, it was too late for him to stop.
Just consider yourself a casualty of the battle.
It's worth it to make a contribution to killing the C-level ruins beast.
Just when Chu Bai had this thought, suddenly, the ferocious Yu Mo Ji suddenly rushed forward, and instead of avoiding Chu Bai's attack, she pounced on the young man.
Chu Bai’s sword couldn’t hold back its power and was about to hit the young man, but Yumoji blocked it with her body.
"Don't hurt my child!!"
Yumoji let out a shrill scream, her face was distorted and hideous, she suddenly turned her head and bit towards Zhao Qingmian, tearing off a piece of flesh from his arm.
"this……"
Chu Bai and the others were stunned by this scene. This beast actually took the initiative to protect this young man from the Mist?
Although they had heard that Yumoji had the habit of raising other beasts and humans, they had never seen a beast that would sacrifice itself to block a knife for humans!
"A rare opportunity……"
Chu Bai was stunned for a moment, then reacted quickly. The sword that had pierced into Yu Mo Ji 's body suddenly turned, and with a loud bang, it cut open Yu Mo Ji's spine. Blood and corrupt liquid spurted out, filled with a foul stench.
With a scream, Princess Yuma fell down.
Its neck, which was four or five meters thick like a giant python, swayed and raised itself up, looking at the young man sitting in front of it at the virtual dining table, with infinite tenderness in its eyes: "Don't be afraid, Xiao Shen, Mom will definitely protect you..."
Bang!
Chu Bai swung his sword, and the sharp blade cut off the head.
The python-like neck paused for a moment, and finally fell down limply, with blood flowing out from the neck, staining the ground.
The boy was shocked inside, but his expression was expressionless, as if he was unaware of it.
Chu Bai did not stop, but carefully struck two more times with his sword, completely splitting Yu Mo Ji's body in half. He was relieved only after making sure it was completely dead.
immediately,
He looked at the young man from the Mist Clan sitting at the virtual dining table next to him with a complicated look in his eyes.
"Fortunately, he is a fog dweller. He can't see, hear, or sense the existence of Xu. Otherwise..."
"I've gone crazy!"
Zhao Qingmian added, he glanced around the blurred living room and saw piles of rotten blocks and bones piled up against the wall. His scalp tingled and he was still terrified:
"Seeing such a scene, let alone him as a child, even I can hardly bear it. Fortunately, he is a fog dweller. Sometimes ignorance is also a kind of happiness. I guess he still thinks that the mother who lives with him day and night and cooks for him every day is still his former mother. Little does he know..."
He looked towards another virtual room, where a half-rotted female corpse was lying on the bed: "His mother died a long time ago, and was eaten by this Yu Mo Ji ."
"And what was eaten was the upper body, including the head." Chu Bai took a look and narrowed his eyes slightly.
"that……"
A thin young man approached cautiously and asked in a low voice: "Is it not good for us to talk about his mother's death in front of him like this..."
Zhao Qingmian glanced at the young man and said with a smile, "Xiaoye, this is your third mission, right? It's okay, you'll get used to it slowly. Besides, this is the Xu Realm. Although he has accumulated a lot of Xu power in his body due to being raised by the Demon Breeding Princess, it has not been developed yet, and he has not opened up his Xu Eye, so he can't hear our conversation."
The young man said "oh" twice in a daze, then glanced at the boy with some sympathy in his eyes.
"Okay, you guys record this. Also remember that Yu Mo Ji helped the young man block the attacks. Those old guys will probably be very interested in this." Chu Bai swung the sword tip and it got stuck in the groove of the combat uniform on his back.
"Captain, this child..."
"Take it back to the bureau."
After saying that, Chu Bai turned around and left first.
Just leaving... now?
The young man at the table was stunned, feeling a little frantic.
Aren’t they here to deal with these things called “xu”?
Then why...
The one in my room, didn't they solve it together?
