Astral Apostle Chapter 79: Children of Alien Blood
The firelight of Deep Rock penetrates the night.
Several people noticed something was wrong, so they quickened their pace.
As we got closer, the burning sounds, cries, and footsteps in the city became clearer.
Zhou Jing and his party arrived at the gate of Deep Rock City and found that the gate was broken from the inside out, and there were mutilated bodies of guards everywhere.
Looking through the doorway, I saw the houses on both sides of the street were burning with heat waves.
"What's going on, alien beasts attacked the city?" Cole was surprised.
Zhou Jing crouched down to look at the bodies of the guards, his eyes narrowed: "It was a wound caused by a weapon, not an attack by an alien beast."
"It turned out to be man-made? Could it be that there is a riot in Deep Rock City?" The hunter team leader was alert.
Just then, cluttered footsteps were heard in the distance from the burning street.
I saw a group of civilians running from a distance, in a state of embarrassment, like a makeshift group assembled to flee the city.
Found Zhou Jing and his party in front of the city gate, this group of civilians seemed to see something scary, so panicked, they were about to disperse.
Cole and other hunters immediately came forward, caught a few disgraced civilians, and asked:
"What's going on here?"
Several civilians shivered and responded with gossip.
"No, I don't know, I just want to run for my life!"
"Many people died and the whole city was in chaos!"
"A group of hunters went mad, killing anyone they saw, and setting fire everywhere!"
Zhou Jing also came over and listened to the interrogation of these civilians by his companions, and had a general understanding of the current situation.
At this moment in Deep Rock City, a group of thugs suspected of being hunters of alien beasts are looting the city, killing and setting fire to the city.
Unknown quantity, unknown origin, unknown strength...
"If you guessed correctly, it should be a group of bandits enhanced by different blood. Some of them pretended to be free hunters to enter the city, broke the city gate from the inside, and let others enter the city to burn, kill and loot." Cole gritted his teeth.
Among the transcendents who have experienced the enhancement of alien blood, there are noble and dedicated alien hunters, mercenary guards who are pragmatic and seeking money, and naturally there are villains who use their strength to do evil.
Although the threat of alien beasts is the biggest problem of the Terra Empire, and the general environment is consistent with the outside world, it cannot prevent the powerful villains from doing whatever they want. There are still bandits, but the frequency and scale are not high and generally rare.
"I can actually see such a thing." Zhou Jing raised his brows and turned to look at Cole: "Has it happened before?"
"At most, it's looting villages. It's the first time I've seen an attack on a fortress city. It's too arrogant, and I don't care about the empire... Go and stop this group of people."
Everyone asked the direction clearly, drew out their weapons in unison, temporarily dropped the spoils, and went straight to the lord's castle along the road.
If the town is still resistant, the troops will most likely gather at the castle.
As an imperial hunter, it is your duty to defend the town. Although it is not an alien beast attacking the city, if you encounter such a bad thing, you can't sit back and watch it.
Zhou Jing also had no objection. He carried his two knives and quickly followed the crowd.
……
Meanwhile, the lord's castle.
Hundreds of dead guards fell to the ground, blood staining the castle hall.
The lord of Deep Rock leaned against the wall with panic and fear on his face.
Two blood-covered alien guards stood before him, panting, staring nervously and desperately at the scene in front of him—they were the only guards left by the lord.
At this time, there are more than a dozen villains around, all of them are alien blood warriors, with different weapons and armors, the only thing in common is that they are stained with the blood of the guards.
"Who are you, who are you?"
The Deep Rock Lord's tone trembled.
Hearing this, a leader emerged from this group of villains. He had rude hair, a face full of flesh, and he carried a two-handed machete. He said coldly:
"The dead don't need to know so much."
After he finished speaking, the man with messy hair ignored the lord and instead looked at the two nervous guards with different blood, with admiration in his eyes, and said loudly:
"Two brothers, give you a chance to live, join us."
The two alien-blooded guards clenched their weapons in disbelief.
Seeing this, the messy-haired man took two steps forward without caring, and Shen Ning said:
“Ask your heart, you have spent the life-and-death strengthening of alien blood, and finally gained extraordinary power, but in the end you have to obey the orders of mortals and sacrifice your lives for mortals. Are you willing to die here?”
"Don't come here again!" The two alien-blooded guards shouted angrily, nervously pointing their weapons at the messy-haired man.
The messy-haired man stopped and looked at the enemy's bright blade as nothing, and said solemnly:
"Why should you obey the orders of mortals, and why can't someone more powerful give orders. When this weak mortal instructed you to run and run west, didn't you have a moment's fantasy of smashing his head? "
The two alien-blooded guards tightened their grip on their weapons, pursing their lips and didn't respond.
The messy-haired man suddenly opened his arms and said loudly: "They are afraid of us, they are afraid of us, they don't give you what you want, they want to tame us and bind our power with order. When morality and law prohibit Your desire, you should force it!
There shouldn't be anything in this world that can bind us. All power and wealth in this world should belong to the strong like us, and mortals should be servants... We can do everything we want! "
What madness is this guy talking about? !
The Lord of Deep Rock City widened his eyes, subconsciously generating such thoughts.
However, he found that more than a dozen other villains heard these words, and their faces were of course and frenzy.
The messy-haired man looked at the two different-blooded guards who were trembling, and said slowly:
"We have the same strength, so I give you a chance - kill the people behind you, free the shackles in your heart, become one of us, and we will be brothers from now on!"
The Lord of Deep Rock couldn't help but refute: "Don't believe him, he just wants to..."
However, before the words fell, a cold light suddenly passed by.
The lord of Deep Rock slammed into his neck, blood spilling from his fingers.
He looked in horror at the guard on the right who cut his neck without a word.
"You..."
Before he could finish speaking, another alien blood guard also turned around and stabbed the lord in the abdomen.
The lord of Deep Rock City plopped down to the ground, clutching the bleeding wound, glaring at the two guards, and said hoarsely:
"The Empire will not let you go..."
Boom!
His head exploded like a watermelon and was kicked out by one of the guards.
"Well done, my brother!"
The man with the tousled hair applauds in relief.
The two alien-blooded guards looked at him blankly, but never put down their weapons and remained alert.
The two of them could see the situation clearly. If a dozen villains swarmed up, they would only end up being hacked to death by random knives.
They just want to survive. Since the other party has given them a chance, even if it may be a lie, it is better than a desperate fight.
The messy-haired man didn't care about the guards of the two, suddenly turned his head, exposed his back to the two without defense, and laughed at the other accomplices:
"Put up your arms and welcome our new brothers!"
A dozen villains did the same, and the murderous aura dissipated in an instant, only the strong **** smell still pungent.
Only then did the messy-haired man turn around, hold the palms of the two of them, press the weapons back into their sheaths, and then grab the shoulders of the two of them, his tone full of pride:
"Tonight, this city is our carnival, how you want to vent is up to you. Experience the omnipotence brought by power. After tonight, you will understand how cowardly and narrow-minded you were in the past. The pleasure of taking is above all else.”
The two alien-blooded guards were a little at a loss, but looking at the arrogant smiles of many villains, it seemed that a heartstring was touched, and the dark desire was like a released beast, walking out of the cage.
Finally, one person couldn't help but ask:
“Who are you?”
The messy-haired man patted the two of them on the shoulders and said with a smile:
"I'm Dodun. As for our group, all of them are alien blood warriors. You can call us - sons of alien blood!"
Son of Alien Blood...
The two chewed on the name in their hearts.
At this moment, two villains suddenly rushed in from outside the castle carrying a corpse and shouted loudly:
"Dorden, some of our brothers who were looting outside were killed!"
Duoton restrained his smile and asked in a deep voice:
"Who did it?"
"I don't know, we rushed over when we heard the sound of fighting. When we got there, we only found the body of our brother."
Speaking, the two villains put the body on the ground.
Duoten leaned over to take a look, and was suddenly stunned.
This corpse was not killed with a weapon, but was pierced by more than a dozen soil thorns. At first glance, it looked like a trap, but upon closer inspection, it didn't look like it.
Duoton didn't understand, so he shook his head and said coldly:
"It seems that there are not only the hunters who were imprisoned by us in the city, but also other forces. We must gather everyone and find them!"
As he spoke, he strode away from the castle, followed by the other villains.
The two alien-blooded guards hesitated and finally chose to blend in.
……
Another corner of Deep Rock.
A plainly dressed man is walking through the burning streets, looking like an ordinary fleeing civilian.
A blood-stained rag wrapped around his head, as if torn from someone else, used as a simple hood to cover his face.
This man is running forward panting, swearing in a low voice.
"Damn it, Deep Rock City is such a safe fortress city, there will be riots. If I knew it was not safe to live in seclusion here, it would not be reliable at all."
The man crosses the alley and turns into a large road.
At this moment, a villain happened to be abducted from the opposite alley. He was wearing a trousers belt. In the alley behind him lay a naked woman with lost eyes and a blue neck. strangle.
The man and the villain found each other across the street, and both stopped.
"Boy, lost?"
The villain grinned, took off the flail hanging from his waist, swung it up in his hands, and walked towards this man like a lamb to be slaughtered step by step.
The man took a step back, instead of looking at the approaching villain, his eyes focused on the land behind the villain.
His pupils trembled slightly, and khaki ripples opened in the bottom of his eyes.
An invisible force quietly shot out, attached to the ground and soaked in.
The villain didn't notice, and was still slowly approaching the man in a teasing manner.
At this moment, the ground under the man's gaze suddenly cracked.
Boom!
The mud sprayed out, and it quickly turned into a dozen small soil thorns in the air. Between the lightning and flint, it quickly hit the undefended back of the villain.
Puff-puff-
Thorns inserted into flesh one after another.
The villain was shaking violently, his eyes suddenly widened, and he looked at the tip of the soil thorn protruding from his chest in disbelief.
"Who?!"
The villain turned his head sharply, but there was no one behind him.
At this moment, the man reached out and grabbed his hands and drank softly.
"Nianhe · Earth Spirit!"
A sharp stone pillar suddenly rumbled up from between the villain's legs.
Pfft!
The villain couldn't avoid it, and was directly pierced by the stone pillar, entered from the lower body, and leaked from the mouth, and the bloodshot eyes instantly lost their vigor.
Wah la la...
The next moment, the stone pillar collapsed and turned into mud.
The corpse of the villain also fell to the ground, blood pouring like a spring, and he died thoroughly.
"Fortunately this guy didn't rush over directly..."
The yellow light in the man's eyes disappeared, he took a deep breath, did not dare to delay, and hurriedly left the place, for fear of the villain's accomplices arriving.
……
When Zhou Jing and others arrived at the lord's castle, the building was already empty, and only the corpses on the ground could prove that a fierce battle broke out here.
"Are you dead?"
A group of people walked in carefully, groped around, and finally stopped in front of a headless corpse. Judging from the clothes, this person should be the lord.
Cole squatted down to check the wound, frowning: "Oops, this man is the lord of Deep Rock City, it looks like he's dead."
"Do you still need to look at this?" Zhou Jing rolled his eyes.
Cole was speechless, turned his head to observe the surrounding battle marks, and said, "Look at the destruction marks, there are probably more than ten alien blood warriors who fought here before. I don't know where they are now."
"The lord is dead, and the army is almost destroyed, but I haven't seen a single enemy corpse on the road. Maybe all the enemies are alien blood warriors. If the city can be destroyed to this extent, I predict that there will be no less than 20 enemies. "The squad leader said solemnly.
"Where have all the hunters in Deep Rock City gone, how come no one seems to stop them?"
"Maybe killed... You think, since this group of villains are cooperating with the inside and outside by pretending to be hunters, they will definitely use the convenience of their identity to easily solve the most troublesome hunter in the town."
"This is bad, we don't have allies, can we stop this group of thugs alone?"
The hunter team members are concerned.
Zhou Jing lowered his head to observe, and suddenly found a corpse with a different way of dying, covered with soil thorns, and not dressed as a guard.
"Come and see, this may be the corpse of the enemy."
The crowd immediately gathered to observe the unusual corpse.
"It should be the enemy... How can it die so strangely, is it a trap?" Cole wondered.
"It's hard to say."
Zhou Jing pulled out the soil thorns one by one ~IndoMTL.com~ and found that the shapes and sizes were different. If it was a trap, it would be a bit too rough.
"Do any of you know this enemy?"
"I haven't seen it." Everyone shook their heads.
Zhou Jing pondered for a while, suddenly remembered the tribal independence plan, and asked, "By the way, is the lord of Deep Rock City a tribal lord or a lord appointed by the empire?"
"I know that, he assigned it," Cole replied.
Since it was assigned, then there is no tribe as a foundation in the local area... Zhou Jing scratched his head, not sure if it was a change caused by the tribe's independence plan, but he always felt that it was different.
After all, if the tribe is independent, no one will burn the house.
At this time, the team leader said in a deep voice:
"The lord's castle has fallen, we can't find helpers, and we will suffer if we rush to search for the enemy. Let's go to the hunter's tavern and workshop first, try to find the surviving town hunters and guards, and gather our troops."
Everyone nodded and hurriedly left the dead lord's castle.