Chapter 311 A Friend
It is so tragic that it is hard to describe in words.
There were pieces of flesh and blood everywhere, and blood was everywhere. The whole valley looked like a hell on earth.
A group of ugly wild dogs were fighting for food in the valley, howling, baring their teeth, and tearing at those relatively large pieces of flesh.
"Get out! Get out of here!"
A man in a black robe walked forward angrily, pulled out a weapon, and fired several shots into the air.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
The sharp gunshots scared the wild dogs that were snatching food. They all tucked their tails between their legs, trembled, and retreated a distance, but did not go far. They looked at the blood and flesh on the ground with fear and continued to wander outside the valley.
They seemed to want to wait for these people to leave before rushing forward to snatch the food.
Another man in black robe walked forward and slowly picked up a broken bone from among the claw marks left by countless wild dogs.
"This is……"
This is a very special skull, half of it is bone and the other half is metal.
It belongs to a member of Fanlu's team who is responsible for reconnaissance.
The member's head had been injured and a big hole was punched in it during a battle. Fortunately he survived and the missing piece of skull was later replaced with metal.
"It looks like they are the ones."
"Are you sure it's Fan Lu's team?"
"Um……"
The man removed the piece of metal from the skull and pointed to a simple number on the metal surface, saying, "I had the surgery in the tavern, and the number is still there."
Seeing the number, everyone felt extremely heavy.
Fan Lu held a very high status in the tavern, and all his team members were elite. Their death here was a huge loss to the tavern.
Yesterday, the tavern headquarters had not approved Fan Lu's application for action, fearing that Fan Lu would cause trouble outside.
They were not worried that anything would happen to Fan Lu himself. After all, Fan Lu's team was the best in the world.
After Fan Lu and his team set off, the headquarters required them to reply to messages and report their itinerary at regular intervals.
But just yesterday at midnight, Fan Lu’s team suddenly stopped responding to messages.
"I just thought that Fan Lu was acting on his own and wanted to avoid the eyes of the headquarters and lead the team to act alone, so he didn't reply to the message."
"I think so too..."
These men in black robes all came from the Zero Point Tavern, a contact point closest to this valley.
After the headquarters lost contact with Fan Lu, it speculated that Fan Lu and others might have met with an accident, so they sent messages to several contact points nearby, asking them to search along the way.
They didn't take it seriously at the time.
But who would have thought...
Something actually happened to Fan Lu's team.
The broken flesh, broken bones, blood, etc. all over the ground showed how tragic the battle not long ago was.
"Is Fan Lu dead too?"
A level 5 creature shouldn't be killed so easily if it's intent on escaping.
With this doubt, they began to check the entire valley and collect possible evidence.
"They were ambushed." One of them made the judgment. "The member in charge of reconnaissance in the team made a mistake and failed to discover the enemy in advance. Otherwise, they should not have been defeated so badly."
"Perhaps the enemy is hiding too well."
"Who is behind this?"
"Masked man?"
“…”
Several people looked at each other, with similar doubts in their eyes.
According to the information obtained from the tavern during this period, it can be inferred that the masked man possesses an ability similar to invisibility, which not only allows him to avoid detection by human eyes, but also allows him to avoid infrared sensing, life perception and other abilities.
Such an opponent is extremely difficult to deal with. Facing him, it is easy to fall if you are not careful.
"The Masked Man probably doesn't have this ability himself, but he might be able to do it with the help of something else."
"Look carefully at these explosion marks on the ground. They don't look like they were caused by ordinary bombs."
A man in a black robe holding a black umbrella walked towards a huge rock on the left. He stretched out his hand and stroked the lines on the rock. He said in a low voice: "It's an energy weapon. The special ripples on this stone were formed by the energy waves generated by the explosion of the psychic bomb."
"We can also see it on this stone over here." Another person gently floated to the right and found the same traces on the stone over here.
Looking around, similar marks can be seen on most of the stones in the entire valley.
As more and more traces were discovered, they looked at each other and saw the shock in each other's eyes.
How many psychic bombs would have to be detonated to cause the tragic scene before us?
Is it really the masked monster?
"The last time, the Masked Man had such a hard time in Fish Scale City, and he didn't use psychic bombs. He has always relied on his ability to control metal."
"Fan Lu's team's actions are very secretive. How could the masked man know about it?"
Logically speaking, the masked man should still be hiding somewhere.
He is only a level 4 creature, how dare he ambush a team led by a level 5 creature?
If the ambush failed, as long as Fan Lu survived, the masked man might lose his life here.
“Found it!”
In the distance, high up in the valley, a man in a black robe suddenly shouted.
Another person asked: "What did you find?"
"Fan Lu's body, and that of his driver!"
"ah?"
Several people were so shocked that they didn't even bother to hold up their umbrellas. They quickened their pace and ran towards that high place.
When they saw Fan Lu's mutilated body, they were even more shocked and could not hide the horror on their faces.
One of them looked pale. He squatted down and began to examine Fan Lu's body.
At this time, the blood on the corpse had already coagulated and would deform with the slightest touch. Its texture was between tofu and jelly.
"There's a big hole in the chest and a smaller one behind it."
The more he examined, the more frightened he became. He said seriously, "The bullet entered from behind and exploded in the chest. It was a fatal blow."
"So he survived the first ambush, but died in the second?"
"But why did he come to the top of the valley? Is the enemy here?"
"If he is facing the enemy, is there another enemy behind him responsible for the attack?"
“…”
Next to Fan Lu's body, there was another body.
The cause of death of this corpse is very obvious. There is a bloody hole on the forehead and a bigger bloody hole behind the head. It is obvious that he was shot in the head.
Both of them died here, which means that the enemy was very likely nearby at the time, but Fan Lu ignored the enemy behind him.
"A master with a gun!"
Several people looked at the body and made this judgment.
Maybe there are more than one, but two experts with guns, one of them is responsible for attracting attention, and the other is sniping in secret.
"Fan Lu is used to using illusions to hide his true identity. The hunter in the dark must be able to see through his illusions, otherwise he wouldn't have shot him dead with one single shot."
"So, it's at least a level five creature?"
The possibility of creatures of different levels seeing through Fanlu's illusion is very small.
The masked monster is still some distance away from being a level five creature, and it should be impossible for him to make continuous breakthroughs in a short period of time.
"Could it be Mercer?"
"impossible!"
"With Moser's temper, if he really wanted to kill Fan Lu, he would have killed him directly during the battle that night."
The mechanical race has always been tough. They will kill if they want to, and they are not afraid of retaliation from other forces at all.
A level 5 creature, with a large number of energy weapons, strong concealment ability, and a master of guns, and at least one extremely powerful sniper rifle...
If we don't count the members of the mechanical race, there are very few people in this world who meet these characteristics.
"Gun King Francis?" The man in black robe who was examining the corpse suddenly said a name.
"That's indeed his style, but...didn't he retire a long time ago?"
“Not a retreat.”
The other shook his head and said, "He went to challenge the master of the mechanical race two years ago. Since then, there has been no news of him. He must be dead."
There was a moment of silence.
There are many legendary figures in this world, and Francis the Gunner is one of them.
He possesses a breathtakingly powerful sniper rifle, a weapon that even the human Anluo Company admits it cannot manufacture.
Some people said that the sniper rifle was made by the Gun King himself, others said that the gun had another origin, because the mechanical race had been tracking the Gun King for a long time, and seemed to want to get some secret from him.
Two years ago, Francis disappeared and many people thought he had retired. No one has seen him since then.
"In any case, let's report what happened here first." said a man in black robe.
"Do we need to collect the remains here?"
"No need. We will stay here and try to maintain the original state of this area. The headquarters will send more professional people to check it out..."
Just like that, a new mystery temporarily arose inside the Zero Point Tavern.
The news was suppressed, and apart from these few people and the headquarters, no one knew that Fan Lu was dead.
…
At this time, it was time for breakfast in Coral City.
Boss Zhao and a few employees were busy preparing the food. They steamed basket after basket of buns. The aroma was so fragrant that the whole restaurant was filled with the scent of breakfast.
"Children, come and sit here. Just tell us what you want to eat. Uncle Zhao has everything." Boss Zhao smiled and arranged a separate table for the children.
Su Xia changed her clothes, yawned, and walked up the stairs to the first floor of the restaurant.
Boss Zhao asked hurriedly, "Master Su, did you have a good rest last night?"
"Yeah, very good."
Having successfully eliminated an opponent, Su Xia is in a very good mood.
He walked to the entrance of the hotel and looked up at the sky. The morning light was pleasant, and it seemed that it would be another sunny day.
Just as he was about to go upstairs to wake up the two Beatitudes, a familiar figure suddenly appeared in his sight.
"Yiyi?"
Su Xia folded her arms, leaned against the door, and looked at the corner of the old street.
The person who appeared on the street corner was Yi Yi, the manager of the Coral City Tavern branch.
"Yiyi, what are you doing here? Do you want to buy medicine?"
Su Xia thought about it and felt that he was most likely here for his apprentice Yi Mo.
After Yi Mo and Shen Yu got into trouble, Yi Yi planned to go to his father for help, but his father happened to be in trouble at that time.
Did he come here today to find Su Xia?
Su Xia walked out of the restaurant and went to the pharmacy across the street, opened the door of the pharmacy and hung up the sign.
【Open】
The construction team hasn't arrived yet, and the whole old street is very quiet.
Su Xia made a cup of coffee, sat behind the counter, and waited for Yi Yi to arrive.
After a moment, Yi Yi walked out of the door, looked up at the golden sign of "Su Xia's Pharmacy" on the pharmacy, with a complicated expression, and no one knew what he was thinking.
After hesitating for a few seconds, Yi Yi finally entered the pharmacy, looked at Su Xia behind the counter, and said respectfully: "Master Su, I have a favor to ask of you."
"Mr. Yi?" Su Xia smiled and took a sip of coffee.
"Master Su knows me?"
Yi Yi was stunned, thinking that he had never formally met this young pharmacist before.
In fact, he really disliked people like Su Xia who sold their teachers for fame and fortune. If it weren't for his apprentice, he really wouldn't want to come here.
He had already been to several other famous pharmacies in Coral City.
He also consulted many famous doctors.
But those people felt that mental problems were quite tricky and no one could guarantee a cure. A few people prescribed some healing drugs for Yi Yi, but they were not very effective.
In the end, he had no choice but to come here.
After all, he is Dad's apprentice and a genius in alchemy. No matter what his character is like, he has the ability and maybe he can find a way.
"Master Su...have we met before?"
"Well, we met once, but Mr. Yi probably forgot about it."
"I have a bad memory." Yi Yi forced a smile and said in a humble manner, "Master Su, please don't be offended."
"It's okay. I already know why Mr. Yi came."
"this……"
Yi Yi was stunned again. He hadn't spoken yet. How did this person know?
Mind reading?
Or had the young pharmacist investigated him?
"Mr. Yi, a friend of yours came to see me." Su Xia said slowly.
"A friend?" Yi Yi asked tentatively, "A friend from Coral City?"
"Yes, it's the one Mr. Yi was thinking of."
“It’s really him…”
Yi Yi's heart tightened. No wonder Mask said he had a way. It turned out that he had looked for this young pharmacist.
But this pharmacist is a member of the Mechanical Clan. Isn’t the mask afraid of being betrayed by this man?
Su Xia glanced at Yi Yi's expression, guessed what he was thinking, and couldn't help but find it funny. No matter what, he would never betray himself.
"Mr. Yi, I do have a solution for mental problems."
"Really?" Yi Yi was delighted. "Master Su, if there is anything you need, just tell me. I will do my best to provide it for you."
"No need, there's only one material missing, and your friend has already found it for me."
"What material?"
Yi Yi asked hurriedly: "There are enough materials accumulated in the tavern, maybe there is the kind that Master Su needs."
Hearing this, Su Xia shook her head slightly: "It is a kind of venom gland of marine fish, which has a hallucinogenic effect. It can only be found on the southern coast. It must be fresh enough. Mr. Yi, your tavern does not have it."
The mission to save Yi Mo and Shen Yu, [The Lost People], requires Su Xia to refine a fourth-level potion called [Dream Enchantment].
Su Xia had not provided treatment before, one reason was because Fan Lu was still in the tavern, and the other was because there were not enough materials.
There is a kind of poison gland that can only be found on the southern coast.
Hearing this, Yi Yi couldn't help but feel a little worried: "The southern coast is very far away. If the venom glands need to be fresh, if they are transported from there..."
"It's okay, Mr. Yi, your friend is very fast, don't worry."
"That's good, thank you Master Su."
"You're welcome." Su Xia put down the coffee cup. "Mr. Yi, please go back and wait. Your beloved disciple will be sober in seven days at most."
"Okay, seven days..."
Yi Yi had no other choice but to continue waiting.
The mask had asked him to wait for seven days before, but now seven days have passed and the mask has not returned yet.
He only knew that Mask went to kill Fan Lu, but he didn't know the specific situation.
Will that interception be successful?
Although he had enough trust in the mask, Yi Yi still couldn't help but worry.
"Thank you, Master Su. If you need anything, you can call me at any time."
Yi Yi left a personal business card and then said goodbye. With this worry, he returned to the basement of the tavern and found Chang Yu and others.
During this period, everyone in the North Wind Storytelling Club was enduring. If Yi Yi hadn't stopped them, they would have left the tavern and joined the resistance organization in the wilderness.
When Yi Yi told them that it would take another seven days, everyone's emotions could no longer be suppressed.
"Boss Yi, why do you need another seven days?"
"You said seven days last time, too."
Yuan Hua couldn't help complaining: "Seven days after another seven days, how long do we have to wait?"
