The rising sun shatters the darkness!

Chapter 469: Beauty is Ephemeral (asking for monthly ticket)
There is always fog in Sigaoling in the morning, and things that look like dust from an explosion can be seen floating everywhere in the air.

Xu Shu and his group left the cathedral and headed west along a route. Only in a few places along the way could they see the not-so-bright sunshine.

Most of the time, visibility is very limited, ranging from one or two hundred meters at best to dozens of meters at worst. In some extreme areas, it is so dark that you can't even see your hand in front of you.

Advancing through such a place is a real test of one's courage and luck.

After all, you never know if there might be two strange-looking creatures crouching in ambush around the next foggy corner.

Fortunately, there is a "butcher" named Ning Xin in the team.

After leaving that strange cathedral, the "rogue"'s bloodthirsty skills were finally no longer restricted, and he could sense danger with confidence.

Therefore, even in such a foggy place, with Ning Xin leading the way, everyone was still moving at a very fast speed. They moved forward steadily according to the route map provided by Xie Xiaochan, while adjusting their position from time to time to avoid some areas where there were suspected uncontrollable dangers.

This made everyone's route quite safe. During the one or two hour journey, they encountered more than twenty attacks - this of course happened when Ning Xin discovered that the opponent was not strong and intended to hunt them, so he kept approaching them.

The monsters also look very abstract, such as a dwarf with a huge bird's beak, a child who seems to have been burned to ashes and then pieced together again, a group of bloody female nurses with sexy bodies whose faces are distorted as if they have a large promotion device, and a "bouncing slime"-like monster that looks like a chamber pot from a distance but has the faces of two conjoined babies when you look closely.

As the saying goes, beauty is always singular, but ugliness is each ugly in his or her own way. This is exactly what is said about the evil creatures that haunt the Death Ridge. Each of them is somewhere between human and non-human and looks quite touching.

However, their strength is not strong. The powerful ones are within the second level, and the weak ones are even stuck on the edge of the first level, such as those female nurses.

Their number is not small. They are like a group of street urchins unique to a certain era. They appear in groups. For ordinary exploration teams, they may pose a considerable threat.

However, for Xu Shu and his group, even the weakest Yan Shan could kill all these monsters with a single slap.

It can be said that their appearance is almost to deliver food, and in the final analysis, they still suffer the loss because there are no "rogues".

From this we can see that the ability of "bloodthirstiness" is definitely a magical skill, whether for humans or monsters.

In fact, there are quite a few monsters that have a similar "rogue" intuition about danger. Although it is not so outrageous, it can also greatly reduce the occurrence of such blunders where one fails to steal a chicken but ends up being robbed.

Of course, those who rushed over definitely did not have this ability - the sexy nurse monster who was killed by Xu Shu himself had a lot to say about this, and she really regretted it.

During this period, Xu Shu also discovered some interesting characteristics.

These monsters that appear during the day will all explode into corrosion crystals after death. They are real monsters with a sense of public morality and can be labeled as "honest people."

Although a mere few dozen crystals of first- and second-level monsters were not even enough to fill the gaps between their teeth for Xu Shu and his group, compared with those "anthropomorphisms" that left only a handful of ashes after death, they were truly extremely conscientious.

The Taichu volume also provides a simple description and count of this:
[You volunteered to send your teammates away, dragged 28 native mutants (nurse mutants) on the roadside into the dark subway tunnel and killed them all.]

[You ignore the beautiful woman who has a crush on you, or has a crush on you, or has had a one-night stand with you, and instead you go after these ugly and terrifying monsters. You are really a wicked person! ]

[But do you think this is against the will of heaven? Don't dream, it's impossible, unless you knock Teacher Pan to the ground in front of Gu Yueming, Xie Xiaochan and others, that would be awesome! In the Taichu volume, I want to see a river of blood! ]

"Tsk... a native species?"

"What description is this?"

"Are there any hybrid species?"

"This information is not detailed enough... I have gotten to know the other party so well, why can't I provide enough effective information?"

Xu Shu ignored Taichu Juan's ridicule and stroked his chin thoughtfully.

At the same time, he squatted down silently and dug out pieces of crystals from the corpses of the nurse monsters lying all over the ground.

There were 28 monsters, but only 25 crystals were produced, because three of them were cannon fodder that were sent to the battlefield before they "developed". Although they had flesh and blood and were not dark creatures, nothing exploded after their death.

This is basic knowledge of the extraordinary world. If a monster's first crystal also needs time to condense, if it dies before it is fully formed, it will not be able to condense and precipitate after death.

"Damn it, doesn't this world have a law to protect underage monsters? Sooner or later I'll find a place to complain about you!"

Xu Shu angrily wiped the crystal clean and put it into his bag.

Just as he was about to leave and join his teammates who were clearing out other baby-faced monsters, he heard faint screams coming from deep in the passage.

"Anything else?"

Xu Shu thought about it for a moment, and out of caution, he "left his body" and floated over to check in the form of a ghost, his body staying where it was.

It turned out that there was a drilled well leading to the underground at the deep end of the tunnel. Xu Shu went in and found many passages below.

Fortunately, there were occasional groans, and Xu Shu identified the direction. Soon, he found many corpses near a platform.

There was a giant humanoid monster over three meters tall lying on the ground, holding a large axe in one hand and wearing a triangular cone-shaped cement cart on his head.

In its left hand, it was still holding a human head with wide-open eyes and full of regret. It maintained the posture of climbing an iron ladder, but behind its forehead was a blood-red dark blade that was transparent from front to back.

This was obviously a fatal blow, and the giant monster died as a result. Its body was gradually melting, and two purple crystals could be vaguely seen precipitating from its lower abdomen, with eighteen flocs entangled and condensed inside each.

This is actually a peak level 2 monster!

Not far away, in a rusty underground passage, a number of broken human corpses were lying in a mess.

They were missing limbs and their injuries were quite obvious, with intestines and internal organs flying everywhere. It was obvious that they had all died at the hands of this triangular axe monster, a total of six people.

Xu Shu noticed that after these people died, there was a faint blue or green fluorescence that was spreading and dissipating in the air, and they were still wearing some accessories that were obviously extraordinary upon closer inspection, such as earrings, bracelets, etc.

Needless to say, these things should be "upgrade-driven".

This is a team of extraordinary people who come to fight against Pyramid Head!
Unfortunately, they were not strong enough, or they may have underestimated the triangular-headed monster. Although they eventually killed it, they also paid the price of being wiped out.

At this time, Xu Shu noticed that there was a young and beautiful woman in the corner. Her body was covered with wounds so deep that the bones could be seen. Her flesh and blood were still being corroded. Even though she kept condensing blood silk to try to cover the wounds, it was of no avail.

The medicine ran out, and the team's healer died prematurely, so she could only watch her life slip away.

The scream that Xu Shu just heard was made by her.

"Oh, it's Tang Ying... Oh no, it's Tang Rou!"

Xu Shu's eyes narrowed slightly. After recognizing the man's true appearance on the blood-stained face, he suddenly felt that the world is really small. He didn't expect to meet a familiar face in such a "niche" relic secret realm like Sigaoling.

He remembered very clearly that in the wasteland of D8B3 area, the pioneering expedition team of the Hunter Association, including Gu Pan, Gu Yueming and others, were trapped in the illusion of the underground ruins of Dizang. The leader of the Tang family at that time was this female "assassin".

She and Tang Ying, Xu Shu's former subordinate, were probably closely related, and their eyes and eyebrows bore some resemblance, so Xu Shu almost made a mistake at first.

When fellow villagers meet, their eyes are filled with tears, as they can be considered to have known each other for a while.

Seeing that the other party seemed to be still alive, Xu Shu was moved and immediately returned to his body and rushed over quickly.

He carried a lot of bottles filled with "cat saliva". He could use this holy water blessed by the third-level "succubus" to treat a second-level transcendent. Even if he couldn't bring him back to life immediately, he should be able to keep him alive.

By then, when Gu Yueming and others come over, the three nurses can treat him together and save him easily.

This is what Xu Shu planned.

Unfortunately, things did not go as planned. Although his speed was very fast, and the round trip took less than 20 seconds, when he returned to the scene again, Tang Rou was completely dead.

The wounds left by the triangular-headed monster were highly corrosive. She was already at the bottom of her strength, and after waiting for so long, she had lost more than 70% of her flesh and blood. In the end, she was unable to wait for the rescue of the passerby Xu Shu and had already died.

"Forehead……"

Xu Shu was slightly stunned and suddenly felt a little sad.

Thinking back to the time when most people were in the illusion of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, they lost their lives and only a few escaped. Tang Rou was one of them.

Later, D8B3 suffered Ning Baishou's rebellion, the invasion of the Tzeentch Cult, and the fall of the Star Tower. More than a million people died at that time. This Tang Rou once again successfully escaped.

It can be seen that this woman’s luck cannot be said to be bad.

If she had been able to have a moment of recovery and scream a little earlier, so that Xu Shu could have discovered her earlier, she might have been able to escape death again.

It’s a pity that this time she no longer had the good luck she had in the past and eventually died here.

Oh! Thinking about it carefully, Tang Rou seems to be very cute and lovely, and her appearance makes people's hearts move.

However, after her death, this beautiful lady turned into a skeleton and did not receive any special treatment. It is really sad to think about it.

If she chooses to be content with the status quo and hide in the safe zone, she may be able to enjoy her old age. The strength of the second level is enough to ensure that she lives a very comfortable and easy life.

However, since she appeared here, it can be seen that she has a strong determination to pursue the Tao. She is not a woman who is content with being ordinary. She also has the desire to move to a higher level. Unfortunately, she lacks strength and has a bad fate, and finally fails.

In this path of cultivation, if you want to become stronger, it is really like rowing against the current. If you are not careful, you will die!

The same goes for myself. If my strength had not been quickly improved to the third level, I would have died in danger again and again.

This world is so cruel that it makes people's backs cold, and only the continuous improvement of strength can bring oneself some confidence and warmth.

But the third level is far from enough.

Facing the things in the underground temple, I am really too weak!

Strength! I want even stronger strength!
"Squeak~"

A rustling noise interrupted Xu Shu's passionate shout.

He looked up and found that it was a group of rats in the sewer, as big as wild boars and with sharp teeth, coming over following the smell of death.

They stared at the corpses of the people below, with crazy light flashing in their eyes, and called out impatiently. If they hadn't seen Xu Shu there giving them a very dangerous sense of oppression, they would have been eager to gnaw on the remaining shells of the dead extraordinary people.

More and more rats gathered around, more than thirty, and the Taichu Scroll flashed quickly to give its evaluation:
[Oh, you are surrounded by a group of ratmen. This is really bad. ]

[Luckily, you, Xu Longxiang, are good at fighting against opponents of higher levels. I believe these first-level rat monsters will not be a problem for you. Even if there is a second-level rat monster leader that can stand up like a human, it should be no problem for you. This is a good opportunity for you to show your skills.]

[But what they are targeting is not you, but the corpses of human extraordinary people all over the ground! ]

[The strong smell of blood and the curse power emanating from the curse seal created a strong attraction for these monsters, and they were about to be unable to resist.]

【Maybe you can wait? 】

[Observe carefully, this second-level "Rat General" has reached its own limit. If it can devour the bodies of everyone present, it may have a chance to break through to the third-level "Rat King"! ]

[Obviously, waiting and watching is a good idea. If you wait a little longer, the enemy's value will increase dramatically.]

"?"

Seeing the tempting words on the Taichu scroll, Xu Shu was stunned at first, but then he suddenly understood.

Having experienced the mermaid's on-the-spot advancement incident, he naturally accumulated experience and knew what these guys were so anxious about.

When a monster devours the corpse of a human transcendent, if its own strength is sufficient, it is possible for it to advance on the spot!

But for ordinary people, it may be really difficult to resist such temptation!

Seeing that the nearest group of ratmen could no longer hold back, and as if at the signal of their leader, they ignored Xu Shu, the "living man", and all of them rushed towards the corpse with a unified goal, Xu Shu couldn't help but curl up the corners of his mouth slightly.

Anyway, you didn't kill the person yourself, so you just need to wait a little and you can pick up good things worth five or six hundred yuan for nothing.

Why not, right?
For this kind of thing, there is really no need to feel any psychological burden at all.

but--

"I reject!"

Although these rat people were very smart and did not attack Xu Shu, Xu Shu did not look like he was "watching the show" at all.

He swung his arm and slapped the opponent with his backhand.

Boom!

The third realm strength of the legendary "Dragon Elephant" gushed out without reservation. Under the strong palm wind, the nearby ratmen were directly crushed into flesh, with bones and flesh shattered and blood plasma spurting everywhere!
"squeak!"

Now the rats were so scared that they turned around and fled into the sewer.

Even their desire for flesh and blood could not overcome their fear of death, and they fled in all directions without any hesitation.

[You didn't just watch the show, but took the initiative to attack, dispel the evil spirits, and protect the broken bodies of your compatriots. You are truly the hope of mankind, and you are truly a gentleman! ]

"Ah."

In response to this flattering praise, Xu Shu smiled coldly and said nothing more.

To be honest, if the people here were enemies, he really wouldn't mind making use of them. The evil spirit band in the small jade Buddha had actually eaten quite a few people.

But, feeding the monster with the corpse of a fellow creature with whom you have no grudge or even some friendship?
This kind of behavior is too shameless. I am a righteous person and I will not do such a thing!

Xu Shu glanced at the second-level ratman leader who had long since run away, and was too lazy to chase him. He immediately activated the "Killing Intention into Burning" and used his anger to burn the corpses here into ashes, thus cutting off the thoughts of the surrounding monsters.

During this process, the little jade Buddha, who also failed to get any "food supplies", remained silent. He only vaguely opened his eyes and looked at Xu Shu quietly in the light of the fire.

After a moment, the scene was completely clean.

Xu Shu cleaned up the scene and sorted out six "upgraded drives" of various shapes and sizes, including a pair of pants, two spell-equipped weapons that were obviously only of "excellent" grade, and two crystals inside the body of the triangle-headed monster, and collected them all.

As for their ashes, except for Tang Rou's, Xu Shu collected some of them in a small iron box and sent them to the Tang family later. The rest of the people whose identities were unknown were all buried on the spot, which could be regarded as a final farewell for them.

They met by chance, and he helped the other party bring the upgraded drive back and hand it over to the Astronomical Society. This was the limit of what Xu Shu could do. At least their family would know that this guy was dead, not missing.

As for these not-so-valuable spell tools, crystals, etc., Xu Shu naturally accepted them without hesitation as a reward for helping to carry the letter. He used them to improve himself, which was also a good use of them!
After doing all this, Xu Shu checked and confirmed that nothing was missed, then left immediately, returned to the ground and reunited with his teammates.

(End of this chapter)