Returning from the abyss

Chapter 789
The streets are filled with the aroma of charcoal and barbecue, and at this time, some barbecue stalls have already opened up.It's amazing how resilient people are with how many people are sitting outside even in freezing weather.Lu Ning passed by the stalls. She didn't go in directly because she wanted to inquire about various news. Liao Hongli is not a local. If a foreigner lives here, there will always be some traces.

For example, she herself, an obvious outsider, would be recognized with a foreign accent whenever she went shopping.

"Are there a lot of foreigners coming here recently? It's obvious that I am like this?" Lu Ning pretended to be casual and asked the boss who was packing the package.

"Not many. It's so cold, who has nothing to run out of. There are not many like you, girl. Isn't this what copycats are still making troubles recently? Everyone is watching, if there is something strange When outsiders come, they will know everything.”

"Looks like it's gone?"

"No." The boss waved his hand, "If it weren't for the fact that you are just a little girl, everyone would be wary of you by now."

"But it's not like there are no women among the imitators, right?"

The boss glanced at her, and said a little funnyly: "What size are they? You have thin arms and legs, and you can't beat a boy."

Lu Ning laughed, took the snacks she bought, and left while throwing them in her mouth.

Sure enough, Liao Hongli didn't leave any trace on the surface. Now everyone is wary of someone with similar actions. The sudden appearance of an outsider will definitely attract attention.

He uses his abilities to disguise himself.Lu Ning has seen Tang Ling's abilities used, and Liao Hongli's abilities may be inferior in comparison, but there must be something unique.Lu Ning thought for a while, looked around, if thinking in reverse...

"Boss, is the business going well?"

She greeted a barbecue stand owner, then bowed her head and ordered a lot of skewers.The boss was very happy to see this big business. He took out the skewers with ice balls from the foam box and started to melt them on the stove.

"Wait a minute, girl."

"It's okay, don't worry." Lu Ning smiled, "It seems that the business is good, and the skewers are going to be frozen."

"Hey, where is it? It's all because of the weather. My string is absolutely fresh, but the weather is too cold."

"It's okay, the taste is guaranteed."

"rest assured!"

"How about the customers?" Lu Ning turned her head to look, "You still have to come out to set up a stall in such a cold weather?"

"I have to make some money." The boss began to slowly unpack the melted skewers, and said with a wry smile, "You said that the weather is really tough. Those who can come are regular customers, and some are probably It's cold and I can't come out at all."

"Really?" Lu Ning said with a smile, "Is there anyone still thinking of ordering takeaway?"

"Yeah, that is to say, we have no choice but to earn this hard money. Those who have money can eat delicious food and drink spicy food at home." The boss said helplessly. made an order.

"Look, come as soon as you say it, business must be done." The boss smiled self-deprecatingly.

Lu Ning also smiled, and sat down on a chair next to her, waiting leisurely for her skewers to be served.

She doesn't need to actually look for anyone, knowing the intelligence is a start.Zhao Chenshuang gave her the "Mountains and Rivers Map" which can record all the people she has met. This magic weapon is more effective than many abilities. She only walked such a small distance on the street, and the map has naturally expanded to a large extent. range, those marked expand her field of vision, although they cannot be used to make secondary marks.

The sky quickly darkened, and the stalls around began to light up. Lu Ning left quietly after paying his bills. Generally speaking, there is only one most prosperous main road within a block, and here because of the gathering All catering stores are places with the largest flow of people.

Lu Ning sat there for an hour, and basically all the people who dared to come out in this weather were entered into the map by her.

Strictly speaking, the detective skills she learned are not detectives, but just social detective skills.However, it is very useful in things like finding people in the downtown area. Common methods, such as checking the registration of people, must have been tried by Emmy and others. What she is using now is already an unconventional method.

Finding a place where no one was around, Lu Ning opened the map of mountains and rivers, and glanced at the moving ink dots on it.

People were going in and out of the house and across the street.Some rooms have stagnant ink dots, people who have returned home to rest.Some of the people still running in the streets were shop assistants who had to deliver food in the freezing weather.

The trajectory lines are very clear.

Lu Ning raised her head, and walked towards a secluded street. A slightly old house was not conspicuous among the row of dilapidated houses on this street.Lu Ning glanced at the mailbox outside the house, it was already full, and no one picked up the letters for at least a week.

There are people in the room, and Lu Ning can see the anger in the room.But there is no death, if it is not for the investigation of the case, within the field of vision of [Requiem], this house could not be more normal, at most the owner is a little lazy and does not want to come out to win trust in the cold weather.

But not now.

Lu Ning recalled the traces on the map, and the direction of all the ink dots. In this house, some passed the door, but did not enter the house.

She walked over, raised her arm, and knocked on the door lightly twice.

After a while, the door was opened, and a timid girl looked out, but there was no one outside the door. She looked around, hesitated, and closed the door in fear.

Lu Ning, who had activated her stealth, had already walked into the house.The interior of this house is actually very crowded, as if the things accumulated in history have been stuffed into every corner.Musty old furniture, damp kitchen and toilets, yellowed and old newspapers and debris, rusted tools and metal boxes.The timid girl walked back to a dilapidated low table. There was only a bowl of porridge and a plate of pickles on the table. The girl sat back on her seat, picked up the porridge bowl and sipped the porridge.

wrong.

Lu Ning scanned her surroundings, but she didn't find the slightest sign of the food being delivered, and there wasn't even any smell left in the air.

There must be a demon in the abnormal situation.

Lu Ning walked around the room silently. She touched the floor, walls, and places that could hide a room twice, but she didn't find anything special after checking this way.She saw a wedding photo and some old photos on the bedside of the bedroom, including the girl outside and her parents. These photos seemed to be old, and the most recent one was a year ago.

The bed... It seems that no one has slept in it for a long time, but there is still a messy bedding on the small bed next to it.What about the child's parents?
Lu Ning became more and more puzzled. When she came back, she saw that the girl had finished eating, packed up the dishes on the table, and took them to the kitchen to wash them up.

"Ok?"

Something is...not normal.

Lu Ning frowned and looked at the girl. She walked into the kitchen with some clumsy steps while holding the bowl, and turned on the faucet there.

And Lu Ning realized that the root of the abnormality was on the ground.On the old wooden floor, many boards have been cracked. She originally thought that these cracks were due to the age, but seeing a new crack on the floor, Lu Ning couldn't help but fell into deep thought.

"Active" ability?

Everyone's most outrageous guess before was that Liao Hongli used the ability of active preservation to remove other people's organs or skin and cover himself, and even used this method to hide his identity and replace his own blood, bones, and flesh... But now It seems that this ability may be distorted into an even weirder state.

Lu Ning took out a dagger from under her clothes.The two short swords that Zhao Chenshuang gave her were engraved with names like the records of the sword repairer, and their functions were not limited to killing.This short sword named "White Dew as Frost" can rapidly drop the temperature within a certain range, and put people under low temperature into a state of suspended animation.

As soon as the girl finished washing the dishes, she fainted and fell in the sudden drop in temperature. When she fell to the ground, there was a loud noise on the ground.

Lu Ning waited in place for a while, but no one was attracted by the loud noise, and the girl did faint.

"...It seems that you don't shed tears when you don't see the coffin."

She walked over, squatted down, raised her hand and tore the girl's tight clothes a little.There was nothing wrong with the girl's torso at first glance, but upon closer inspection, one could find that it was covered with dense red bloodstains, as if... it had been torn apart and stitched back together.

A nameless anger rose from Lu Ning's heart.She actually seldom gets angry now, after all, after seeing so many weird and bizarre things, she can ignore many cruel things, even Lu Ning can accept things like desecrating corpses.Now, however, it's more than just desecrating dead bodies.

"You... come out for me!"

Lu Ning's finger traced along the bloodstain, and the fine lightning penetrated into the girl's body along the trace. She could clearly feel that the abnormal density and thickness of flesh and blood had blocked the transmission of lightning.This is the thunder and lightning of Judgment Day, the lightning that usually takes ten people to be transformed will be transformed, but at this moment it was unable to penetrate into the girl's body.

Fifteen teenagers murdered?
How many people did Liao Hongli kill?It's not that number anymore, is it?No, he probably didn't actually kill people, he just took... a piece of everyone.

Lu Ning increased the power of the lightning in her hand, and she finally knew the difference in Liao Hongli's ability compared to Tang Ling's. Tang Ling only changed his flesh and blood, freely changing its nature.However, Liao Hongli can keep the flesh and blood alive in any posture, allowing the dead to exist alive.

She couldn't even define whether the girl in front of her was a living person or a corpse.

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In the dark room, Liao Hongli casually pasted a sternum bone on the wall, and then looked up at the lightning seeping from the wall.

"oops……"

He squeezed out an evil smile, left the operating table, walked to an escalator made of ribs beside him, stretched out his hand and started to climb out.During this process, his body began to deform and twist, as if he was passing through a narrow passage, but soon, he slid out like a snake.

In front of a small room with a piece of crystal, Liao Hongli poked his deformed head here, and then smiled strangely.

"When I found this place at this time, I actually found me. It seems that the group of supernatural groups are not all people who eat nothing...it's a pity."

Lu Ning suddenly felt that something was grabbing her ankle. She frowned, and the girl's limbs were all within her sight. When she lowered her head, she found a new "growth" along the bottom of the girl's ribs. Arm, this arm looks thicker, with slightly rough skin, more like a man's arm.

She raised her sword and cut off that arm at the wrist.

The strength has not weakened, as expected Liao Hongli can use his "activity" to do such a thing.

Even this kind of power penetrated the defense of "Quiet", because what Tranquility would resist was harmful attacks, but Liao Hongli ensured the vitality of her flesh and blood, and her life characteristics were as normal as before, which also bypassed "Quiet"'s defense. Judgment——The leg that was being held was thinner and smaller, and she could feel her flesh and bones being compressed and becoming denser, but other than that, everything was as usual.

Her eyes widened, and the compressed force even began to spread along the legs. At the same time, the girl's unconscious body began to protrude from the rest of the limbs, as well as the bones.

That's probably how those people were taken away. Liao Hongli didn't need to show up at all. He could take people apart and put them back together again. He could even compress himself and stuff them into a human body.

Listening to her own compressed voice, Lu Ning began to let the opponent do anything instead. She activated the alarm signal on her body, but she didn't expect anyone to come to solve Liao Hongli's problem. If she hadn't seen this ability with her own eyes, it would be unimaginable.

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Even if he can maintain the vitality of flesh and blood and compress flesh and blood, what about lifeless things?

Lu Ning glanced at it, and her clothes were also compressed, but her two short swords belonged to spiritual objects, and the scroll of mountains and rivers was left outside.

The moment Lu Ning was pulled into the girl's body from under the ribs by the arm, Lu Ning activated the "Quiet" active defense ability.

As a piece of top-notch defensive equipment, if someone can find out the loopholes in the passive defense logic and break through, it would be too misleading.

The arm that tried to twist Lu Ning into a ball to deprive him of combat power suddenly found that Lu Ning, who could handle it casually before, was now as hard as steel, unable to move it at all.Liao Hongli, who was in control, just froze for a moment, and immediately realized that he had been tricked, and the other party just sneaked in according to his ability.

He immediately raised his hand to grab the rib cage stuck in the wall, but before he could touch the weapon, a bolt of lightning pierced through his chest.

"It's easy to ask God to send God away, don't you know?"

(End of this chapter)