Returning from the abyss

Chapter 273

What Lima said to the witch was like a god, and he wrote it down word for word. Lu Ning casually quoted a few words and made Daniel want to jump out of bed and talk to other people about it, but in the ward it was still The doctor has the final say.

After treating the wound, she also specially called two townspeople to send the sheriff to the Turner family's house, and believed that he would convey those words verbatim.However, the sheriff's nerves are obviously much tougher than the old family here. She didn't deter the other party with those words, and she didn't count as conveying the witch's will.

This is also normal. Compared with the assassination of the mayor and the bombing of the police station, what Lu Ning did was more lip service.She also admires those demon companions who persevere in creating terror and evolving abilities. Sometimes ignorance is really a blessing. After all, that method can indeed achieve victory. It is simple, efficient, and does not require any complicated plans. .

This can be regarded as the general norm of the second level. The old fritters who can pass the level-up test no longer flinch, but dare to explore the scene and complete the task according to the way they have formed, even if they take some radical actions. Too much.This kind of state mostly occurs among ordinary tourists, but Lu Ning can understand from the information of the Silver Star Club that very few such people can be promoted.

The difficulty of the scene in the distribution center is not divided by the level of power that appears in it. The difficulty of an interstellar-level long-distance combat scene is not necessarily higher than that of a ghost story that happened in a hospital. To adapt to the content of these scenes, people must comprehensively improve their abilities. All strengths - the pure wisdom route or the force route, even if they pass the second-order promotion by chance, they will still be stuck at the third-order promotion.

Therefore, the organizations regard the less difficult, "cheap and easy-to-use" second-level scenes as the preferred training ground for members. For Lu Ning, simply passing the scenes is not enough. She needs to learn to expose the most mysterious things in the scenes as much as possible. Conspiracies, and participating in battles that have just reached the upper limit of their combat power.

"No matter which scene, in the end it is the topic given to the tourists by the distribution center... not the people or monsters in the scene. From this perspective, the only demons considered are me and him."

Lu Ning walked towards the tin-plated jug, thinking about the details of the actions of each demon in her mind.

"Leave with one strike, leave no evidence except the devil's attack, and kill quickly. He is more ambitious than me, and he will try to walk both ways... Well, in that case, I'm afraid he will be far away from finding out. The truth of this world is not far away, I wonder if he will give up the second path at that time?"

She doesn't need to think about this kind of thing for the time being, because when she was close to the tin-plated jug, she felt a wave of moisture in the air, and with it was a mist that shouldn't have appeared at this time. .

Fog does rise quickly in some places, but White Lake is definitely not one of them!

After so many days, the demon who controlled the fog finally couldn't help but attack again, and this time not only the scope of the fog has been expanded, but it seems to have added some kind of sound insulation effect.

The fog thickened rapidly, and Lu Ning soon fell into that state of not seeing her fingers again.It seems that the seventh day has entered the moment when the demons think that they can start their attack, and they can't even wait for the real night to start their actions.

All sounds seemed extremely distant in the white mist, and I didn't even know how much delay there was. After the sound waves were filtered by the fog layer, there was a wonderful sense of expansion, which made the ears feel a little uncomfortable.

However, the action was not affected in any way. Lu Ning groped and touched the wall of the tin-plated flagon, and then happened to hold a hand when he continued to look for the door.

The other party let out an exclamation. This time, because of the closer distance, the sound distortion was not so severe.

"Sharma?" Lu Ning could barely distinguish the voice.

"Who is it? What happened? What's the matter with this fog? Call someone!"

"Call someone?"

Sharma got closer and recognized Lu Ning's silhouette. She looked panicked: "Mr. Adams is in the store! He and several Turner's clerks came to investigate the resonance phenomenon, but now... the witch must want to I have done something to him! Please save him!"

Lu Ning let go of Sharma's hand.

"late."

Among the six demons, the one who uses the mist is really gaining momentum. Lu Ning doesn't even know how the opponent's ability evolves, but this does not prevent her from realizing that the opponent's attack is decisive.

But it's not seven o'clock now, maybe the opponent's speed is not so fast.

Lu Ning pulled the door frame and walked into the tavern. She already smelled a bloody smell, and the screams of being pulled and deformed by the fog echoed in her ears. She kicked away four or five stools before walking to the bar.

The bar counter that Sierra usually tidied up was already covered with sticky blood. The white mist will undoubtedly not affect the owner who released it, and the speed of the other party's attack is also expected.

It may have been less than 10 minutes from the fog to this time. Lu Ning looked along the bar. Adams and three other people he didn't know had all had their throats cut, and the blow was fatal. If Lu Ning was facing an immobile target It can be done, but in such a short period of time, it is not ordinary combat power to complete the assassination without demonizing four people who have the power to resist.

But in the next second, Lu Ning realized that she probably overestimated the situation here. The white mist should still have some slight paralyzing effect. She saw Sera lying on the ground from behind the bar. She was still conscious and tried to go to the bar. Climbing out, Lu Ning went around to help Sera up, but was surprised to find that her left hand had been cut off.

"I'll take you out first." Lu Ning tied up Sera's wound, carried her out of the house, but Serra regained a little energy at this time, and whispered in Lu Ning's ear Said: "It's a witch..."

"Witch?"

"I heard it, I knew what resonance was, but she didn't speak to me... Are they dead?"

"All dead."

"Go! Go, she's still here, she's coming—"

There was no need for Cerrado to say it, Lu Ning finally heard it.

That "voice" does not have real sound characteristics, but sounds directly in the mind, as if it is the meaning naturally generated by thoughts.Because of this, the white mist cannot stop the transmission of this "sound".Lu Ning found that she couldn't understand too much meaning in the voice. As Sera said, the voice was not speaking to her, so what she "heard" was just some fragmented information.

[Kill...the custodian...release...the executioner. 】

There was no reply, and the demon who fought here knew that there were still survivors. Even if the fog could not block the opponent's vision, Lu Ning would probably be completely exposed to the opponent's vision.

She supported Sera and moved towards the door while listening to the movement there, but no one attacked until she left the tavern, and even the fog began to dissipate.

Sharma crouched at the door, ran over in panic when she saw Sera, and almost fainted when she saw a few corpses next to the bar in the tavern.

"By the way, Tina! Tina is still in the back kitchen! Did you see her?"

Her face was extremely pale, and the bloodsickness had seriously affected her ability to move when she saw the blood dripping from Sera's wrist, not to mention the tragic situation indoors.

At this moment, some townspeople who heard the news rushed into the tavern after hearing Sharma's voice.There is no doubt that everyone at the bar is dead, but the other drinkers are lucky enough to survive, but the numbness of the body has not been eliminated.

The back kitchen...is an uncomfortable fact.

Tina was dead, and the assailant came in through the back door and launched an attack in the fog zone. Of course, Tina, who was the only person in the kitchen at the time, became the one blocking the way.

When Sharma heard the news, she couldn't bear it any longer, and fainted directly, while Sera bit her lip, even biting blood. She stood up with Lu Ning's support, and tried to walk into the tavern, but still He was pulled in place by Lu Ning.

"Your injuries need to be dealt with, and your testimony is important."

Sera turned her head and glanced at Lu Ning, the strength in her body gradually loosened, and she knelt on the ground, crying heart-piercingly.

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"Carl, we were wrong."

In the hotel room, Carl held a vial in his hand, and a paper figurine inside was emitting fluorescence.

"Ah... the killing in the tavern shows that the devil's restraint is not as much as we thought, or the restraint was lifted very quickly."

"Indeed, I have investigated the scene, and the devil did not clean up the traces at all. The signs of intrusion from the back door are too obvious. Although Sivis, Daniel, Fisher and Levin have been notified to protect their own safety, they are assassinated at such a frequency. There is no guarantee of survival."

"The disparity in strength is too great, and our strength is useless." Carl sighed, "What do you think, Ms. Detective?"

"Why do you think Sivis and Daniel didn't die, but Adams was killed instead?"

"It wasn't the same devil who did it, so the strength is different. According to eyewitnesses, the guy who killed Adams was obviously the guy who released the fog, that is, the guy who killed Xue Fengchun the second night. Other demons are completely different."

"Any more?"

"The witch had a reason to kill Adams." Carl said, "but I can't tell from the reports I know. I asked the forest ranger, and there was no clue about the whereabouts of the missing person. Instead, he and the demon were found." A piece of information about a person."

"what?"

"Under the guidance of the witch, the devils were born. They naturally followed the instructions of the witch, and tried to convey the will of the witch to everyone in the town."

A brief silence followed.

"The logic is wrong."

"Well, after hearing what you said, I don't think it's right either."

"Is the information confirmed through the mission of the distribution center?"

"Of course, otherwise I wouldn't use affirmative sentences. Do you know what this means?"

"Somewhere we must have made a serious mistake—wait?"

Fujii Xueyin's voice was no longer calm, she seemed to realize something, but it was a little hard to believe.

"It seems that we have thought of going together." Carl smiled wryly and shook his head, "I don't know if this is a trap deliberately set by the devil, but we made a mistake, an arrogant mistake that belongs to us alone. "

"Is there any possibility of a remedy?"

"Difficult... Very difficult. It is difficult to convince everyone of this inference without evidence. Let alone how to deal with the sudden change in the environment after that. And do you know what change means?"

Fujii over there thought for a while before answering.

"To overthrow the previous strategy, and it may not win, and the score is extremely low or even negative."

"This result cannot be accepted by everyone."

"But if it doesn't change, it won't be a good ending."

"That way, you can just complete the required missions and survive. Fujii, if we say it now, we don't even have a reasonable plan. The most important point is that neither you nor I can come up with the 'correct' one." Plan to come."

Carl watched the fluorescence in the bottle gradually dim, and knew that the time for this call was approaching. Inahara once said that the "Star-Giant Gate" communication was highly secretive, but the time would only last about five to 10 minutes.

"Tachikawa, Inawara, and Sugiyama will support us...Fujii, you can continue, but I'm not sure how long our side can support you. You must know that their secret does not include helping us until the end."

"I know. Carl, but we're certainly not helpless..."

Communication is interrupted.

The door of Karl's room was opened, and Robert walked in with a very strange look on his face.

"What? The detection silver coin you left didn't respond?"

"No...everyone reacted." Robert gritted his teeth, "The demons adopted chaotic tactics. They didn't intend to remove their suspicions, but started to make everyone look suspicious."

"That also means that our disguised alliance plan has broken down." Karl frowned, "But the fact that the devil can launch this kind of plan means that they have completed their alliance?"

"Single-line communication tactics." Robert leaned back on the chair, and his straight body collapsed completely. "Corresponding to the state where they didn't know each other at the beginning, they secretly carried out a one-to-two single-line communication. Everyone at most Only contacting two demons, probably like this."

The two looked at each other, this method is also one of the characteristics of the distribution center.

Its acme is called the circular contact method, and the higher level is the spherical contact method. There are three advantages in the scene of the distribution center. The first is to quickly and safely build a contact network for the entire camp when it is suitable for this unidentified state. , the second is that even if there is a problem with any of the links, people outside the link can get an alarm and a certain period of safety period, and the third is that as long as the person in charge of the key plan occupies the furthest nodes in the ring , the intermediary contacts can complete the parallel policy implementation only by communicating and executing without worrying about mutual influence.

Although this will inevitably lose a lot of joint execution power, as long as the core nodes in the ring are strong enough, it will be a nightmare for the opponent.

Now, Karl and Robert are facing such a nightmare.

(End of this chapter)