The First Mist Chapter 32: The Fifth Squadron
"Everything alright?"
Zhou Ye saw Xu Shen and the others rushing out of the cave. He quickly took a look and saw that they were not injured or bleeding. He breathed a sigh of relief and his expression changed immediately:
"Where's He Ming?"
"He Ming? "
Su Shuang, Xu Shen and others looked at each other, they had not encountered it.
"Damn, he's still in there." Cao Fei looked grim.
Zhou Ye's expression changed, he took a deep breath, and said, "You two come with me, let's go in and find him. Xu Shen, you stay outside, the reinforcements are on the way, you will be responsible for meeting them when they come, bring them in together!"
"Okay." Xu Shen agreed.
Su Shuang glanced at him. It was understandable that Xu Shen, a newcomer, was left behind. Moreover, he had previously killed the D-level ruins beast and was already exhausted.
The three of them quickly entered the cave again together, while Xu Shen stood outside waiting.
He saw that the figure standing on the roof had disappeared.
The one at the gate had been eaten by Maeve.
At this moment, Maeve was walking around his body with her hands behind her back, looking left and right. In this gloomy environment, she was like a bright white light. For some reason, Xu Shen felt a sense of relief in his heart.
"Here, I'll give you a little treat."
Seeing that there was no one around, Maeve suddenly threw something to Xu Shen's feet.
At first Xu Shen thought it was a "delicacy" or Xu's head...During this period of time, Maeve would often tease him like this, or suddenly jump out and scare him.
But this time it was a piece of black...cloth?
Xu Shen originally didn't intend to pay attention to it and turn a blind eye, but he was horrified to find that this thing... touched him!
It fell on my feet!
Xu Shen couldn't help but lower his head in shock.
Maeve and he were not in the same level of the Ruins, so even if they met, they could not touch each other, but this time she actually hit him with the object she threw!
Could it be that she came to this level of the world?
Xu Shen's heart was shaken, his thoughts raced, and he finally chose to ignore Maeve. He just picked up the thing that touched his feet, his expression full of confusion.
It seemed as if something had fallen on his feet.
"Hehe..." Maeve covered her mouth and laughed when she saw Xu Shen's appearance.
When Xu Shen heard the laughter beside him, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly. He ignored Maeve and carefully observed the black cloth in his hand.
After touching it, Xu Shen discovered that it was not cloth, but more like a piece of... leather!
Cold, soft, and tough.
This was given to him by Maeve. Why did she give him this?
During the time they spent together, Xu Shen didn't sense any malice from Maeve, except for the occasional pranks or threats.
"This looks like Xu's skin...can it be eaten?" Xu Shen said to himself.
Maeve laughed and said, "This is not from Xu, and you can't eat it. It has to combine with your blood, and then you can control it."
Not Xu's? Xu Shen's heart moved, and he noticed that Maeve denied Xu, but did not deny the "skin".
And this black color cannot be human skin.
Combined with blood... Xu Shen's eyes flickered, and he did not try it immediately, but took it into his arms: "Although I don't know where it came from, it seems a bit special. Take it back and study it."
"I found it in here." Maeve answered him with a smile.
Inside the cave...Xu Shen looked normal, but didn't say anything else.
The man and the village seemed to have reached some kind of tacit understanding, and they communicated with each other tacitly.
Not long after, a strange vibration suddenly passed through, and Xu Shen felt something passing through his body, and the "delicacies" that had settled in his body became slightly agitated.
Soon,
Xu Shen saw a group of figures suddenly appear and walk quickly towards him from outside the street.
These people's bodies look real, which means they have entered the world of ruins. Ordinary people, even if they are here, will only be illusions and cannot be touched.
"Hello, we are the Fifth Zhanxu Team. We received a request for help. Is this the base of the Xu?"
There were five people in the team, all wearing the same black combat uniform, both men and women, and the youngest among them was a child of twelve or thirteen years old.
But the child had a cold expression and looked exceptionally mature.
Number five... Xu Shen's heart sank. This is the first echelon in the bureau, capable of solving C-level beast incidents!
"Well, we encountered a lot of ruins here." Xu Shen said quickly.
"A lot? Are you the only one left alive?" The captain in the lead was a man in his early thirties, with a scar on his left eye. He had only one eye and looked very cold and capable.
"We all ran out, but one team member was left behind inside. The captain and the others went in to look for him and asked me to meet you outside." Xu Shen replied quickly.
"Okay, let's talk while we walk." The captain took the lead and walked towards the cave.
The team members around him glanced at Xu Shen indifferently and passed by him.
Xu Shen hurriedly followed.
“I heard that they are all D-level ruins, and there are also E-level ruins?” The captain went deep into the cave and asked without turning his head.
Xu Shen guessed that this information was probably reported to the Intelligence Department by Captain Zhou Ye after he escaped: "That's right."
"I heard there are more than a dozen of them. With such a scale, there should be a C-level village in charge here." A mature woman in the team said with a faint smile on her face.
"It could be that there are just a few D-level monsters working together. If there really is a C-level monster, these guys may not be able to escape." said another man.
They walked in the cave leisurely, at a very fast and calm speed .
Xu Shen looked at Maeve who was running around on both sides of the team. Seeing that these people ignored her, he couldn't help but remain silent.
Maeve is indeed beyond C-level.
"Do you know the route?"
The captain looked at the fork in the road and asked Xu Shen.
"I went straight in, and I didn't remember the way when I ran out..." Xu Shen blushed.
The five people all shook their heads slightly. The mature woman came to the fork in the road, her whole body filled with Xu power, like a burning black flame. She gently placed her palm on the ground, and after a moment, she said, "The Xu power fluctuations here are the strongest, it should be here."
"Okay." The captain stepped in first.
Following this passage, they soon arrived at the previous beast's lair.
Here, Zhou Ye, Su Shuang and Cao Fei were standing back to back, their bodies covered with scars. There were more than a dozen Xu beasts standing around them, surrounding them.
But these creatures were clearly intelligent and did not attack like wild beasts. Instead, they tried to consume the three people's strength.
At the feet of the three people, there were two corpses of ruined beasts.
"Um?"
With the arrival of Xu Shen and others, more than a dozen Xu were all startled. When they saw the fifth Xu-killing team, they all showed a clear look of retreat. It was obvious that they saw the powerful Xu power from these five people.
"Four D-level ones, the rest are just gadgets..." The mature woman glanced at them and chuckled, "It's indeed a bit of a stretch for them."
"Resolve it quickly." The middle-aged captain said only one sentence, then quickly drew his sword and rushed out.
His figure was extremely swift, and he rushed into the beasts in a blink of an eye. With a flash of sword light, two E-level beasts were killed in an instant.
So fast... Xu Shen looked at this scene and felt that the opponent's speed was even faster than his own even if he burst out with all his strength.
Is this the captain level of the first echelon?
At the same time, the other four also rushed into the crowd.
When Zhou Ye and the other two saw the reinforcements arriving, they all breathed a sigh of relief, with expressions of relief on their faces as if they had survived the disaster.
Xu Shen stood aside and did not participate in the battle. He just observed the fighting methods of these first-tier teams and found that they were similar to Su Shuang and the others, but they were faster, stronger, and their attacks and reactions were sharper!
However... my sword-drawing speed seems to be about the same as the captain's. Xu Shen observed and discovered this.
From the two months in the training camp to the one and a half months after being converted to a regular employee, he had been practicing this simplest and most basic attack. Now that its benefits were evident, Xu Shen was further convinced that his idea was correct.
Just as everyone was hunting the Ruin Beast, suddenly, Xu Shen saw a figure suddenly running out of the wall in his peripheral vision.
That's right, the figure ran out from the wall.
Xu Shen was stunned.
Is it a ruin?
He quickly turned his eyes away and just looked at the battlefield ahead with a vigilant look, but the rest of his gaze was still on that figure.
He discovered that it was a young man in human form.
There are no limbs of any kind.
At this moment, this young man passed through the people who were fighting, like a phantom, shuttling through the battle of the crowd, and even if they met, he could not touch them.
He seemed to be rummaging around for something, and soon moved to another place, into the cave wall.
When the battle in front of him was over, the young man walked out of the cave wall again with an ugly expression: "Damn it, no!"
