old dream

Chapter 149 Killing the Innocents

The carriage made of metal plates has been severely deformed. I don't know if it is made of iron or tin, but it should definitely not be flammable.

The flames licked weakly at the car wall at first, but then swelled abnormally.The originally distorted body of the car kept making "click, click" deformation sounds, as if even the metal had become fuel for these flames.

Then, wisps of flames left the car body as if alive.Just like in the inflation just now, as matter they have connected with the fuel of non-existence, stepping into another cycle.

They burned abruptly in the air, and swept up again, like an airtight curtain wall surrounding the overturned vehicles. At the same time, everything within a hundred meters was illuminated like day.

It was the wizard from Red Star who made the move.Colin thought to himself, he didn't know if his body was seriously injured, but at least he was conscious, so he was able to continue to practice witchcraft.

Xiongxiong's burning flames blocked his vision, and Colin knew he couldn't wait any longer, so he focused all his intentions on the Shuttle Demon.Like a shadow of the deep sea floating in the air, it began to move soundlessly.

After staggering from Ke Lin's body at a certain angle, the limbs of the Shuttle Demon suddenly shot continuously into the flame curtain.Ke Lin seized the opportunity and waited for the moment when they penetrated behind the curtain wall each time before they were combined.

"Bang!" "Dang!"

The flames flickered violently, and the sound of metal impact and deformation continued to come from behind the fire curtain.

Presumably in the sight of the victim, those thorns appeared out of thin air, and the distance at the moment of appearance was less than half a meter. They were black and heavy like steel, tearing the chassis of the car at an extremely fast speed, and smashed into the narrow and deformed compartment Inside.

In less than 20 seconds, dozens of thorns as thick as arms were stabbed into the overturned car.

As a result, the curtain of flames kept shaking, but there was no sign of dissipating.

The Scarlet Star Wizard is still alive, but this passive defense cannot last long.

The current self is still unable to perform too precise material knot operation, but can barely control the degree and timing.As for what form the spirit essence on the Shuttle Demon will eventually transform into, it is almost impossible to grasp.

If it is a long-range projectile, it is even difficult to determine the landing point of the attack.

But the Crimson Star wizard's material knot technology is obviously at another level. He played with the temperature of the flames, and shaped them with wind pressure, directing everything like controlling his own fingers.Lingsu flows into reality tamely, and forms a precise ensemble in the transformation, without any reluctance.

As expected of wizards who hunt and kill wizards for a living, they have strengthened material knot technology to the extreme, just to target the only unavoidable weakness of human wizards, the material body.

Another limb was pierced into the flame curtain, and the sharp whistling appeared only a moment later.But at the same time as the metal squeezed and deformed, another gap suddenly appeared on the wall of the flame, allowing Colin to see the scene on the other side of the flame for a moment.

The cheap car has been nailed to the ground by a large number of thorns, and it is in a bad shape.

But before he could see clearly, the gap had healed.

Did the wizard expose this gap on purpose... No, no, it was just a trace left by some kind of attack.Something was shot from the wall of fire.Colin looked in the direction of the Shuttle Demon. Just now, something suddenly penetrated through it.

"Boom—"

The thunderous explosion didn't sound until then, and a large flame burst out in the farmland tens of meters behind Shuttle Demon.The originally static airflow became turbulent. On the path of tens of meters between the Shuttle Demon and the explosion point, the crowns of the crops were all cut off, and sparks crackled at the scorched fractures of the roots.

Early autumn, just before the harvest.The crops stored enough nutrients, allowing the fire to spread rapidly across the field.

Through the direction of the thorn attack, the wizard judged the attacker's position, but his material attack directly passed the shuttle demon's spiritual body, without any effect.

The spirit body is exactly the existence that most restrains the existence of the second type of lineage wizards.

But if Colin hadn't intentionally staggered the angle of the shuttle demon and the main body, maybe he would be dead now.

After missing a hit, the wizard seemed to understand that this negative attitude would only make his situation worse and worse.

With the wind surging on the plain, the flame curtain was gently lifted off, revealing the situation inside the flames.

Next to the overturned vehicle, two people have now climbed out.It's no wonder that the sharp thorns fired earlier didn't have any effect.

The two agents supported each other to barely stand.They are a man and a woman, aged between [-] and [-], they may be lovers or husband and wife.The man looked terrified and was putting another woman's hand on his shoulder.The woman calmly looked in the direction of the fire in the farmland, obviously still looking for a way to defeat the attacker.

The man is not yet a child, and the woman should be the Scarlet Star Wizard who took countermeasures earlier.

Both had burns on their bodies, and the woman's left leg was just a blur of flesh and blood from the knee and below.It hung limply, its original shape no longer recognizable.If it wasn't for that man supporting her, she might not even be able to climb out of the deformed carriage.

Quietly crawling among the crops, Colin worried that Ricardo would shoot at this time.The best opportunity has been missed, and the two are on high alert.If they dodged or blocked a bullet, Ricardo's own position would be exposed instead.

But his worry was unnecessary, the gunshot never sounded, maybe Ricardo also possessed excellent intuition.

"It's useless, we can't leave."

The man looked around with an ugly expression, and now he was in disarray:

"The elf envoy is on the opposite side, and the spirit body is above the red star, just beyond your perception... This is a specially designed trap, someone specially found someone to deal with us!"

"To shut up."

The woman knelt down on the ground and stopped the man. Her eyes were empty, apparently she was imaging a spirit body.But the existence of the shuttle demon is too thin, and she can't judge the type of the opponent, so the speed is relatively lagging, and the time may be extended to four to five seconds.

The Shuttle Demon began to approach them, and when the distance was less than five meters, the woman clearly noticed something.At this time, the imaging should have been half completed, and she began to judge the distance of the spirit body.

"Run to the rear right immediately." After confirming the location of the Shuttle Demon, she immediately said:
"Absolutely, don't stop!"

Hearing these words, the man also decisively let go of her crippled body, turned around and ran to the rear right.

Colin has no time to take care of that man, because he doesn't want to let go of the opportunity of these two seconds or so. The restraint relationship of the wizard type is only relative. As a red star wizard, the scale of power he controls is not at the same level as himself. It is impossible for her to have no resistance against the spirit body.

Because the connection of spiritual elements may be exposed to others, Colin dare not use pure spiritual elements to attack again, but in a frontal confrontation, the product of materialization may be easily blocked by this woman.

Just as he was at an impasse, gunshots rang out.

"Bam—"

The woman subconsciously thought that the fleeing man had been shot, so she looked back.As a result, a cloud of blood exploded from her own back.Because the temperature of the air is not uniform, the light is deflected and the air flow is disordered.Ricardo missed her vitals.

But this momentary gap is more than enough.The Shuttle Demon's slender forearm swept over the woman's body, and in the next second, black thorns pierced out of her chest.

The lung lobe was broken into pieces, making her unable to make any sound, she could only stare fixedly at the direction where the bullet came from, that was Ricardo's position.

When she was on the verge of death, her remaining intentions were focused, and there seemed to be a flash of fire in her eyes.The high-temperature flames immediately rose from under the surface, rolling forward.The roar was like a huge plow made of flames, brutally turning over all the land along the way.In just a few seconds, it has advanced nearly hundreds of meters.

Ke Lin hurriedly supercharged the spirit essence, and more and more thorns grew out of the woman's body in a short time, like a giant alien hand holding her thin body, but still couldn't stop the spell.

How long has it been?Two seconds or half a minute?It wasn't until the halo in the woman's eyes completely dimmed that those flames powerlessly dissipated.

Confusedly getting up from among the crops where he was crawling and hiding, Colin looked in the direction where Ricardo was, where it had already turned into a sea of ​​flames.He didn't have time to think about it, so he staggered and wanted to run to save people.At the same time, the escaped man had already scurried into the crops and was about to go away.

When Ke Lin got up hastily just now, the man seemed to have glanced this way. Under the firelight, he might have seen his face.

Ricardo wanted to save him, but he absolutely couldn't let that man run away, so Colin set aside part of his intention to let the Shuttle Demon track him away.

But Ke Lin's ether range is only about ten meters. Originally, the Shuttle Demon could never leave this distance.But in the panic, maybe some habits before the memory was sealed resurfaced, and Colin subconsciously took some actions that he didn't understand, but he was extremely skilled, as if he had done thousands of times.

The ethers are connected in some form, and there are often several pieces of ether networks in a piece of land.

And the ether properties of these crops are the same, the density is the same, and they are connected into a uniform, wide, and most regular ether network.

In a certain kind of enlightenment, Ke Lin grasped the gap in this ether network, and then laid the spiritual element connection from his own ether.

Like dragging an umbilical cord, the Shuttle Demon left Ke Lin's human ether, which had been inhabited for a long time, and flickered into another ether web, approaching the direction where the man was escaping.

Only then did Colin run to the area of ​​the sea of ​​flames where Ricardo was hiding.Because of the thick smoke and the heat wave, he was almost out of breath, and while shouting Ricardo's name, he tried to push away the plowed stones.

"Colin? What's the matter?"

A familiar voice came.Ricardo walked out of the darkness with a gun on his back, except for his face being smoky, but there seemed to be nothing serious.

"...No, nothing."

Seeing that the little brother was fine, Colin breathed a sigh of relief.Only then did he realize his panic and gaffe just now.

Previously, he had considered several times whether to kill Ricardo, or even Luka.But now it seems that these may be just "self-defeating".When planning, he always thought he could be ruthless.But if things really got to that point, would I really have the ability to do it?

"After the first shot was fired, I just ran away to one side."

Ricardo scratched his head and said:

"Fighting these monsters, I feel that this kind of reaction should be regarded as a routine action."

Ricardo called the Transcendent a "monster", which subtly made Colin a little uncomfortable. After all, he is also a member of the "monster" now, but this was probably just a way of venting, so he didn't pay much attention to it.Then Colin suddenly came back to his senses and looked at the farmland illuminated by the fire.

The man didn't know where he ran, and he didn't turn his sight to that side just now, even if the shuttle demon caught up with him, he didn't do anything.

Colin squinted his eyes to look for movement in the wheat field, and then saw a figure standing about 200 meters away.

Just as he was about to let the shuttle demon attack the opponent, he saw that figure was carrying something in his hand, shaking his arms in this direction, and at the same time walking towards the direction of the gravel road.

It wasn't until he walked into the range of the fire that Colin realized that the man was actually Giovanni.

"Didn't I say, don't lead people here?"

While complaining, he dropped a corpse on the ground.It was the man who had run away, and the back of his head had been dented by Giovanni's prosthetic.

…………

After confirming that both agents were dead, Colin breathed a sigh of relief.

Compared with always being passive in the past, more or less acting for self-protection, this is the first time he has taken the initiative to attack the wizard.

Two people died because of this, and they didn't know each other before.I don't know how much love and hatred they have, whether anyone in the world has heard their stories, but as the two bodies were thrown into the fire, all of this has gone with the wind.

But Colin is not guilty of this. Since these people stretched out their hands to the blood-stained profits, they should be ready to face death at any time.

The fire in the wheat field is growing, and maybe someone will come over soon.Originally, Ke Lin was a little worried that this distribution center would be exposed to the eyes of third parties.But then they inspected the barn and found that most of the bootleg alcohol had been shipped out and not much remained.

Two possibilities.Or, the northern organization was already preparing to abandon this facility, so the goods were transferred in advance.

Or, the northern organization's supply is also close to exhaustion.

Generally speaking, the second possibility is more likely. If this is the case, Colin will have more advantages when facing those wizards.

But even if it is the first type, Colin can also be thankful.This fire will not cause too serious a loss to the northern organization, so that there will be no room for dialogue between the two parties.

Giovanni with a gun watched over the workers who crouched with their heads in their hands, waiting outside the barn with nothing to do.Recently he started to smoke the most addictive tobacco on the market, but it was tasteless.And Colin and Ricardo have already searched the barn at an extremely fast speed.

In the end, Colin didn't take anything from the barn, leaving only a letter prepared in advance, and walked away.

　It's too difficult to write, and the full attendance is gone.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)