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"You are here for vacation, not to put pressure on Xianzhou..."
Alan sighed and successfully pulled Estelle to him. "Brother Kong, I'll go down with you. I didn't help you last time, so please let me check the results of your training this time."
"... This way we have eight people to conduct reconnaissance, which should be enough to deal with the people of abundance. As for the legion, we haven't found their main activity area yet—"
Sora glanced at a certain Creation Master, and the Black Tower Doll who really kept his promise and chose to temporarily go idle - and finally decided on the manpower.
Ruan Mei and Lao Yang are enough to hold their own in most situations. It doesn't matter even if he doesn't bring a female companion on this trip, the girls also acknowledge their reliability.
"Dan Heng?"
But when Kongdu stood at the door, he found that Danheng, who was overlooking the approaching distribution center... did not seem to be ready to leave immediately.
"...I have an impression of this place. If I have to deal with the officials, it is not convenient for me to show up. Why don't I go find Mr. Yuyun's sister?" He chose a more roundabout strategy to "reminisce" with Luo Fu.
"Ah, Mr. Danheng, thank you for your kindness, but her store is on the way to where we are going--"
"The Guangyunxiu main store in the Xingchahai Central, the owner is Yu Yu - right? It is more convenient for me to maneuver alone. If I find your sister and brothers, I will ensure their safety and take them to the gate of Sichen Palace to meet up. Or you can also act with me, and let Kong and Uncle Yang handle the port."
"How can I do that? A gentleman's word is as good as his bond... I must lead the doctor, so I'll leave it to you, Mr. Danheng."
Dan Heng's sentimental and sad look made Yu Yun involuntarily believe that he was very familiar with the terrain of Luofu and could bring his sister back safely.
But why did he know it so clearly? Has he visited Guangyunxiu before?
……
"... Sisters Eula and Haiya are both unable to go on missions. I don't know why, but I feel empty inside."
“Do you think Walter and I are not reliable enough, Xiao Sanyue?”
"That's not what I meant. I'm just a little scared that if I continue like this, sooner or later my friends and those who have done me a favor will all leave..."
"——Hehe, when she comes back, I will tell her how much you miss her."
"Hey! Don't do that! It's so embarrassing!"
If the girl's voice hadn't suddenly risen, this overly quiet loading dock would have seemed like a horror fantasy.
"It's so quiet. It looks like most of the Cloud Riders have moved to the central area. There are no civilian casualties, only the corpses of the Fertility Beasts that Sam has dealt with. Maybe the main battlefield is not here."
Walter quickly got into the state and observed the place that Sam had just cleared. The scorch marks and residue on the ground were still warm. It could be imagined that the evil creature that attacked him had been completely neutralized.
"Captain, the situation of the Tianbo Division should be better than what Silver Wolf estimated. What should we do? Find a nearby Cloud Riders team to ask about the situation? Or head straight to Xingcha Sea?"
"Wait a minute, Old Yang, I seem to hear someone quietly stepping on iron nearby..."
"There is murderous intent." Cocolia's response was more direct than Sora's - "Over there."
338. The immortal is here!
Everyone in the train crew has different sensitivities to information, but whether they use sound to locate the target or rely solely on intuition, the dirt on the shelves cannot hide their whereabouts.
When it realized it was exposed and pounced towards Lao Yang, the staff turned into a one-handed sword and cut into its face, smashing the face covered with woody growth tissue into pieces.
Before Lao Yang could even finish off the flying humanoid, Kokolia stabbed the humanoid in the shoulder blade with her ice spear, nailing him to the ground.
"Wow, what is that?!"
Look, the monster with leaves was stabbed half to death by Cocolia, and March and Paimon were also scared half to death.
It was the first time they had seen this strange tree-like life form.
"Oh, you're still as sharp as ever, Old Yang. You really did spare me a few times before."
"Captain... this man is different from what we saw in the video. He is wearing the armor of the Cloud Cavalry."
Without responding to Kong's chatter, Lao Yang looked at the "freak" who was still struggling under Cocolia's ice spear, frowning.
"This is the chronic patient who is ill."
Ruan Mei was disgusted with that creature that completely violated the beauty of nature and life and only made people feel weird, but sadness was often revealed between her eyebrows, which was inconsistent with her usual energy-saving mode:
"The demonic body... He is not old enough to explode, but the fierce battle stimulated his spirit and brought forward the time."
"...It seems there is still hope?"
Although Kong had read the information about the Immortal Boat summarized by Dan Heng Haiya, after witnessing the "tragedy" caused by abundance with his own eyes, a certain enlightenment occupied most of his mind.
Kong himself is an immortal species. There are differences between immortal species. Under the permission of certain extreme rules, immortal things can really exist - but obviously neither this world itself nor the abundance can afford the immortality and infinite proliferation of large-scale life.
The fate of the Blesser of Fertility and Abundance speaks for itself... The world is promoting its own destruction to maintain basic operations, otherwise there will be problems with the distribution and operation of energy.
He placed his fingers on the man's neck to feel for his pulse, but what he got was a chaotic fluctuation of vitality and spiritual energy.
In order to reduce the burden of rules, Kong and the system's "immortality" have gone through many difficulties and scrutiny from the previous party, and have achieved a kind of "universality", but this guy... the disease in this immortal boat man is like cancer cells spawned by the power of destiny. As it spreads, its spirit also tends to be alienated, which goes against the meaning of abundance. If the people of abundance are pursuing such "immortality", it's too crazy.
What is the difference between an immortal without self-control and subjective consciousness and a plant?
...This is the inevitable side effect of the abundant and unrequited "altruism"...
"Inefficient energy plundering and cell proliferation - it's not irreversible, but his spirit may not be able to be pieced together."
"No, Dr. Sora, please don't save him."
Before Lao Yang realized something and prepared to stop him, Ruan Mei, a native of Xianzhou, interrupted his "good deed" first.
After she reminded him of this, Sora suddenly realized several reasons why he shouldn't save people -
"why?"
Although he was rational, Kong still wanted to hear Ruan Mei's opinion.
"The consciousness has dissipated, the brain information has been scrambled and cannot be pieced back together, and the bioelectricity has also been transformed into another form. I know that you can help people prolong their lives and pull back those who have just fallen into the devil's Yin, but taking risks for a devil who has fallen into the deep and unforgivable, unconscious body... is really wrong."
Ruan Mei revealed Kong's ability in one sentence - probably because she also had similar means to forcibly extend people's lives, but as long as they did this, word would spread from one person to ten, and from ten to a hundred, and people who sought medical treatment or wanted to peek into the secret would make it completely impossible for them to carry out activities in the Immortal Boat.
"You are right. His soul cannot be saved."
——After all, there is more than one person in Xingchahai who needs help, and those who still have self-awareness are more important.
"...There is a 'psychic direction' around him...He was manipulated to ambush us here before."
"manipulate?"
Alan was one of the only two people present who had experience fighting against the Demonic Yin, but he had never heard that these poor people could be controlled by others.
"Can you counter-locate the other party, brother?"
"That guy was very cautious and disconnected immediately. Tsk."
"Oh!"
Kong stood up, drew his gun and gave the Cloud Cavalry Army a chance to die twice.
The contrast between Kong's desire to save people at the beginning and his unhesitating action of pulling the trigger later created a huge sense of contrast, which made Sanyue, who thought she was used to his sudden startles, shudder again.
"...Okay, Xiao Sanyue, he definitely doesn't want his body to be harmed by evil people after his death. Let's go to the next distribution area. We didn't see any bodies of transfer personnel, non-military personnel, or Moyin, but there were a lot of roadblocks... Let's go along the roadblocks, maybe we can find some soldiers."
"...The Fengrao people are such an overreaching bunch. Why on earth would they lead them to ruin?"
"At present, we can only guess that it is to cause chaos in the immortal ship... Especially around the star port, where good and bad people are the most mixed. Are there any abnormal readings of star cores nearby, Ms. Ruan Mei?"
Lao Yang pushed his glasses up again. He was accustomed to similar scenes in the collapse. He just hoped that Xiao Sanyue would not be too angry and cause her to fall into the center of the vortex.
"When the immortal boat people are irradiated by the energy of the star core, the demonic body will be ready to move. I have already experimented on myself, and it should be somewhere else."
The plain but implied madness explanation made the indignant March shudder again - the climate in this fairy boat was obviously constant temperature, but a few "adults" made her get goose bumps even more than in Yalilo.
"…looks 'only' five hundred years old."
Kong has collected all the information he needs, and Ruan Mei still needs to extract some samples to compare the difference between Luofu Demon's Yin body and Qing Qing. This is against the rules, but fortunately, except for Yu Yun who frowned slightly, no one minded her rude behavior.
"Since the accumulation of strong emotional stimulation will accelerate the outbreak of the demonic body...shouldn't the Immortal Boat people control the age of the service personnel?"
"That's how it should be, Mr. Walter, but only when mistakes have been made, ordinary people will understand that there are few "exceptions" around them, and miracles don't happen all the time."
Kokolia, who had not responded to the question, retracted her gun and sighed: "...It's the same everywhere."
"You're even feeling sentimental, as if you weren't the one who made the rules before—" Sora rolled his eyes when he heard that.
“…There are many rules that even the successor city builder cannot change at will, otherwise the Star Core’s conspiracy would have succeeded long ago.” The former great guardian frowned slightly.
"Okay, now that you're willing to speak up, there are many other things you can do besides fighting—"
"If I speak up in an unfamiliar area, I might appear to be a self-righteous person—"
"You already are."
"Huh... I must admit that your ability to make me lose my balance is rare in the world."
Cocolia almost couldn't hold it in. After her chest heaved several times, she saw Kong had already led Ruan Mei and the others to run several steps forward.
Xiao Sanyue hurriedly followed, all the melancholy she had just felt was dispelled. Yuyun also forgot about Ruan Mei's desecration of her comrade's corpse, and his attention was diverted to what Cocolia had just said.
[Are you deliberately slandering me? ]
[I just can't bear to see you all so bitter and resentful, even though I'm the only one here to ask for advice on "a way to seek revenge."]
After responding to Cocolia's doubts in the private channel, Kong shared the small map with everyone:
"There's a green dot and a group of yellow dots ahead. They might be locals. Yuyun, how do you tell the north from the south on the boat?"
"In Xingcha Sea, Yuzhao Gate is in the north and Traction Matrix is in the east. These two buildings are easy to identify."
As soon as Xia Shou finished speaking, he saw that the neutral creatures on the small map were surrounded by a group of hostile symbols:
"It looks like Yunqi is fighting the evil creatures - Doctor Kong, this is a good opportunity to contact the Shen Ce Mansion."
"Go this way faster, Alan—"
"Hey, don't leave me!"
"Where are the hoverboards that Estelle bought you, March? Why aren't you using them?"
"I forgot to bring it!"
"...You only got off the bus with your phone and camera, right?"
"Hey hey hey..."
Not to mention that Pink Hair's face turned pink, his occupational disease had acted up. Alan, who was leading the way, had already jumped onto the top of the container. After looking at the situation on the west side, he dragged his greatsword and raised three fingers to the air, making a gesture to avoid being discovered.
"It's a local who needs help."
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