Returning from the abyss

Chapter 279 Hunting at Night
[You are a detective, and your family has been doing it for generations, but as the era gradually enters the mechanized period, the meaning of a detective gradually begins to change, and people begin to think that you are just some intelligence dealers who keep asking for gossip, and the so-called A large part of reasoning and detection has been replaced by technology.

Seeing that your father has gradually turned the office into an intelligence house that is no different from other detectives, you feel that this is very different from the education you received in childhood.You are not reconciled to the disappearance of such a profession, but in the bustling city, there are very few major cases that require detectives to intervene.

But opportunities are reserved for those who are prepared. You finally got a seemingly ordinary case during college.The cause was nothing more than a theft on campus. Entrusted by your roommate, you followed the clues to investigate the thief and ordered him to return the stolen property.But the thieves have sold it and devoted themselves to an activity that makes you feel unimaginable-creating a body to hold the soul.

You saw the body that was spliced ​​together from corpses purchased through illegal channels, and you also saw the real Yin Yang art. Although the summoning of spirits failed, the world formed from childhood began to collapse.Through the unknown onmyoji, you learned that the place where this method came out is located in a small town on the east side of the Marcos coast.

It just so happens that a client with whom your family is connected has referred you to a new client who is looking for a travel assistant with excellent observation and analysis skills.After you saw that the location was exactly there, you asked your father to travel by yourself without hesitation.

Witch's Clothes, this is the name of the body that the Onmyoji told you.The spirit summoning did not fail, so there can only be two possibilities, one is that the function of the body is not to hold the soul, and the other is that the body can only hold a specific soul.

"Look for the answer," you say to yourself. 】

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"Doctor, let me tell you something." Shen Lishu leaned on a soft chair with a smile, and Lu Ning looked at him.

"please say."

"Tomorrow night, Xiaoye and I plan to go to the cottage by the lake and spend the night together." Shen Lishu's voice was slightly lowered, and Lu Ning could barely hear it clearly.

"You don't need to tell me."

"Hehehe, it's okay to tell you, at least someone needs to know where we are going, whether it's a human or a ghost." Shen Lishu took out his pocket watch, glanced at the time, "Actually, I suspected that you, the doctor, are demons." Human, but it doesn't matter, my task has been completed."

Lu Ning thought for a while before she realized what Shen Lishu was referring to.

"You gave up?"

"One must know how to be willing. If you encounter force majeure, then choosing to be wise and safe is also the way. I don't have the courage to kill all the people in the town, and neither does Xiaoye. The peaceful solution we try to seek will not work in this scenario."

"You should know that the confrontation scene cannot be expected to be resolved peacefully." Lu Ning shook her head, "Is what happened today disappointed you?"

"Disappointed? No, no, no, there will always be people who can't help but use this kind of solution, but generally speaking, those who do so will not have any good results." Shen Lishu coughed, "If I was 20 years younger I'm old, I guess I still have some courage, but I'm old."

Lu Ning watched suspiciously as the old man slowly walked back to the room. There is indeed an age gap between the tourists in the distribution center when they entered, but if they are really too old to walk, they may not even be able to pass the first scene, so Shen The almanac can't really be that old.

But what he said was indeed very similar to what an octogenarian said, it was not a pretense, and there were some real feelings in it.

When night comes, it is the time when the devil is about to move.

Carl has already walked into the dense forest with sparse moonlight. He holds the coin that Robert gave him in his hand, and his right hand is placed on the holster around his waist. He can draw the gun and shoot at any time.

The state of being alone is the best attack target, Karl naturally knows this, but he still came out against the night.

The trees are rustling, as if the wind is blowing, and it seems that something is passing quickly over the top of the tree.Several flying birds were startled, but Carl was not so nervous that he would shoot at such a slight movement.

"The night breeze is cool, the moon is full of trees, why don't you come out to catch up?"

Carl walked under a tree, knelt down and swept aside a pile of fallen leaves. Near the root, there was a triangular mark under the faint moonlight.His lazy voice spread among the trees, as if he was performing a one-man show alone.

But the next moment, the moonlight dimmed.Carl raised his head with a faint smile that didn't change at all, and sharp blades were reflected in his pupils.

A half-devil shadow blocked half of the moon. The wings behind him spread out, and two black long whips extended from the top and bottom of the wings, dancing in midair like four long snakes.

"No one will save you this time."

The demon raised his hand and pressed it falsely, and the sky-filled sharp blade was pressed down with his movement. There was no room within ten meters for a person to dodge!
"Zhong Feiying, goodbye after a long time, is that how you say hello?"

Facing the flying sharp blade, Karl took a step back calmly.

There were continuous stabbing sounds on the ground, but none of the blows pierced the human body. The demon saw Karl disappear in place and appeared in the open space not far away, still with that irritating smile , as if laughing at yourself.

"Why... this time we are obviously in the minority, but you have mastered such an ability!"

The devil——Zhong Feiying swooped down, and all the sharp blades bounced back to his body, blending with the skin, and his head had turned into the shape of the sharp-mouthed kappa. At that time, I couldn't believe that this devil was that little black and short guy who was a bit naive.

"You don't have the only means, do you?"

He looked at the long knives growing out of the demon's hands, but he didn't even draw his gun.

"It was Qu Siyuan and Pan Haishu who gave you the report." Zhong Feiying said coldly, "The two of them have been chasing me for a long time. If I wasn't worried about being discovered, I would have eliminated them long ago."

"You can't do it. How could a devil who ran away the next day have the courage to take the initiative to find someone who dared to follow him? Let alone two." Carl looked at Zhong Feiying who still hadn't come over, "If I didn't Guess wrong, you don't have the confidence to take me down in close combat, do you?"

"So what?" Zhong Feiying opened his arms, "No matter what abilities you have, at least one of them is untouchable, right?"

Carl narrowed his eyes.

"Sky."

As if gravity had no effect on him at all, Zhong Feiying's body rose to the heights again without hindrance, "My ability is very simple, that is, flying—I'm not going to call it that foolish 'Kongmo' It, but I'm satisfied."

Zhong Feiying was indeed a soldier, so he knew very well how important air supremacy is in war.With the level of mechanical technology, hand-to-hand combat with cold weapons has become a history, so why does he want to fight in close quarters?
"Your ability seems to be space movement? Or time transformation? It doesn't matter-that ability doesn't seem to allow you to exert power beyond the limits of human beings." Zhong Feiying rose to a safe distance, and he was already confident that he could avoid the pistol shooting. After that, he said sarcastically, "No wonder you were selected as the bait. It turns out that you have the ability to protect yourself."

"Of course, then how are you going to deal with me, Devil?" Carl raised his hat and grinned at Zhong Feiying.

"Even with a power like Time Pause, letting a baby use it is completely different from loading it on a chariot. For you, this ability can only be used to escape, and... how many times can you use it?" Zhong Feiying raised He raised one arm, and there were black webs between his fingers, but they were still translucent, and the moonlight shone through the film, illuminating countless tiny particles suspended in the air.

Karl's expression froze. At some point, the space around the two of them was already occupied by these rubbles, which were no bigger than a thumb, but he didn't notice it.

"Flying, this simple ability can not only be used by me, but can also be attached to other things. I can't generate a dense bombardment that can cover all your evasion ranges, but it's not impossible to use the terrain environment."

Zhong Feiying raised the corners of his mouth sarcastically, stretched out his fingers, and clasped them into a ring behind the nearest stone.

Karl reached out to draw the pistol, but Zhong Feiying was faster as a demon, and his fingertips that had been charged for a long time popped out, and the stone was directly thrown at Karl's face.As a result, hundreds of stones floating around were affected. Judging from the whistling in the air, the speed was already close to subsonic speed, forming a rain of bullets!
"Shit..."

Karl flashed out immediately and appeared ten meters away, but this area was still within the stone's attack range, and Zhong Feiying raised his hand to shoot out the second group of stones!
Step bombing.

"Uh!!"

Carl let out a muffled grunt, and finally hid behind a tree in time, but he was hit by several stones on his arm and shoulder, and blood slowly gushed out from the wound, Zhong Feiying immediately smelled the smell.

"Ten meters." He moved slowly in the air, "Your limit dodge distance is ten meters, if it is the space ability, this is the distance limit, and if it is the time ability, then this period of time is about two to three seconds .”

This guy has quite a lot of combat experience!

Karl's forehead was already dripping with cold sweat, and he didn't know whether it was from pain or nervousness.

"In addition, with my flying ability, even if it is fixed on the ground, it is useless."

Karl suddenly felt that the tree he was relying on as a barrier began to shake violently and made a sound of breaking. A large number of branches and leaves began to fly to the sky, and then with a huge cracking sound like a firecracker, the trunk of the tree split. Split in two, part of it flew into the sky, while the roots were still stuck in the soil.

Zhong Feiying caught the thick tree trunk with both hands, and crushed the wood into thin wooden stakes that were about the length of his forearm. These stakes were purely used as murder weapons, so Zhong Feiying also Didn't bother with their shape.

"Call out your supporters or die."

He announced with a sneer, and then raised his hand to smash those wooden thorns down, but at this moment, an arrow pierced through the gap in the forest and flew towards him!

"Projects are useless to me..."

Zhong Feiying stretched out his hand and was about to deflect the arrow, but his expression changed in the next second. The tip of that arrow was clearly shining with a faint fluorescence between blue and green, and his ability could not be applied to other arrows at all. superior!
It was too late to avoid it, the sharp sword directly penetrated his palm.

"Ahhhh!"

Zhong Feiying held his arms and roared. With his original willpower, this kind of injury would not have caused him to lose his composure, but this arrow directly made him feel fear... the fear of the devil!

"really……"

Fujii Xueyin came out of the forest slowly, holding a compound bow in her hand, and carrying a simple quiver on her back, which contained seven arrows that also glowed with dim light.

"This special mineral can threaten the devil, I remember you should have bought some ore, why not?" She asked Carl.

"It's not the time yet." Carl smiled and wiped the cold sweat off his head.

At this time, Zhong Feiying had already broken the arrow shaft. He lifted the tip of the arrow and looked carefully, and found that the material used to make the arrow tip was indeed beyond his influence.

"You went to the mine?"

"Mine? I've never been there." Fujii gave him a cold look.

"My old friend told me what I saw there, and it seems that there is still a need to collect this thing." Carl pointed his gun at Zhong Feiying, "By the way, tonight is also the date we plan to hunt you. "

"Huh? Are you proud of making a little wound?" Zhong Feiying shook off the arrow tail, and the wound on his hand was also healing quickly, "You just need to dodge the attack, do you think you can defeat me with this?"

"An attack that is not cared about is different from an attack that requires vigilance. What's more, you think the two of us are the only ones involved in this ambush?"

Fujii drew out the second arrow and hit it. Zhong Feiying was distracted by her words for a moment, and two black spheres were thrown out behind him.

"what--"

The two black balls exploded in the air and turned into two big nets. Originally, this was nothing, but what surprised Zhong Feiying was that the two nets were covered with glittering metal pieces!

"Qu Siyuan! Pan Haishu!" He yelled out those two names, and quickly wanted to take off, but he hurriedly stopped his body in a glance.

Fujii Yukine didn't aim at him, but at the top of him.

There is a net at the back, and there is a preview arrow above. The routes he can dodge have been blocked. At that moment, he almost read a trace of sarcasm from Fujii Yukine's expressionless face:
"Just dodge?"

As soon as his thoughts turned, the big net was approaching, Zhong Feiying gritted his teeth, and took the wooden thorns in the air and went straight down to Fujii Xueyin and Karl. As long as these two people are killed, all problems can be solved easily!

But this time, Carl and Fujii have almost made all the preparations for the long-planned hunt. When Zhong Feiying thought that both of them would be nailed into hedgehogs, a chants drove him into hell.

"Use soil—Rashomon."

The dense square earth wall perfectly protected the two targets. The strength of the wooden thorns had no effect before this kind of defense. Only Zhong Feiying's swooping punch smashed a crack in the wall in front of him. It takes another touch to shatter it.

But he knew he had lost.

(End of this chapter)