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Chapter 20 Night Patrol
Without further hesitation, the [Deformed Spiritual Root] was forcibly loaded, and the sealed power erupted instantly.

Yuan Zhu, standing in Running, had his eyes glowing dark gold, his pupils constricted into a single vertical line. As his breathing rose and fell, the shadows within ten meters of him began to stir, like boiling water.

The oppressive feeling brought by the armored warrior faded like a tide, and the man running towards him also had a look of surprise and joy in his eyes. He sighed inwardly: As expected! This guy dared to wander at night, facing the changes in time and space without wavering, he must be no ordinary person. This time he had been fooled.

The black-armored warrior suddenly stopped and raised his right arm towards Yuan Zhu. The chains wrapped around the arm armor made a crisp clatter and vibrated continuously.

His right hand formed a rangefinder gesture, then he shifted his sword finger, aiming at the fleeing man's back. The chain claw wrapped around his arm suddenly came to life, soaring into the air at a rapid speed, piercing the man's chest from behind just before he could step out of the alley.

Click!

A flash of blood shone in the moonlight. A mechanical claw pierced the man's chest like a drill, then opened and closed like a petal, then reversed and pierced into flesh. The armored man swung the chain with his right hand, transforming it into a forward arcing wave that finally reached the man's chest.

With a "Puff!", the man, who had already stepped halfway into Running's range, was pulled high into the air by the chain's claws, and then fell heavily back to the ground of "Little Sweet Water Well Lane", spitting out a cloud of blood mist from his mouth.

"help me!"

He held the package tightly in one hand and stretched out the other hand tremblingly towards Yuan Zhu, hoping to help him.

At this time, Yuan Zhu's body was covered by shadows, and it was pitch black all over. His body was as elastic and trembling as jelly. He tried hard to control himself and not transform into a [Tiger Demon]. Instead, he tried his best to maintain the outline of a human, revealing the silhouette of a cat standing up.

He had a hunch that once he could perfectly control the power of shadows, he wouldn't necessarily have to transform into a black shadow tiger demon. He could also maintain his human form, transform, and acquire a 'humanoid demon form' that was more suitable for combat.

Crash...crash...

The armored figure took another step, slowly approaching the alley entrance. He didn't rush to attack the shadow monster. Instead, he twisted his right arm back and forth, reeling the chain back around his wrist. He dragged the man, whose mouth was bleeding, backward, leaving a noticeable trail of blood on the bluestone pavement.

Ding Dong…Ding Dong…

The sound of copper bells rang out, spreading simultaneously in the two time and space of moonlight and darkness, suppressing all abnormal elements and dispelling the danger hidden in the dark.

Even Yuan Zhu, transformed into a shadow, was forced into an unprecedented state of calm and rationality. Power surged within him, like a volcano about to erupt, ready to manipulate his shadow to unleash a special attack at any moment. However, his mind remained unprecedentedly calm and clear, unwilling to attack rashly, displaying exceptional rationality and restraint.

"I am as cold-blooded as Zhuge Liang right now!" Yuan Zhu boasted to himself, feeling very good about himself.

Elf: "Your mental state is very strange, too rational, like a cold machine. That ringtone has the effect of 'calming the mind'. Judging from the appearance of this guy, he is not a midnight watchman, right?"

Because the armored warrior showed no tendency to attack, Yuan Zhu also restrained himself from taking action, still maintaining the shadow-enhanced state, silently observing the opponent's actions.

click!
The armored warrior stepped closer to the man, who was vomiting blood furiously, his eyes starting to blur. He pulled the iron chain tight, and blood began to flow violently from the wound. He then stepped forward, his boot crushing the man's shoulder. The bundle he had been clinging to tightly fell to the ground as his arms sagged.

The armored man held a blood-red lantern in his left hand, bent down, grabbed the package with his right hand, and pulled it hard, revealing a fat baby with a metallic luster inside.

It was a chubby baby the size of a full-month-old baby, its arms and legs chubby, its eyes closed and still, its body gleaming with a metallic sheen, like a lifelike work of art. However, its hands and feet seemed to have been deliberately severed; there were no limbs. Instead, dense plant roots extended from the cuts, resembling processed ginseng roots.

The armored man ignored Yuan Zhu, who was staring at him fiercely, and simply formed his five fingers into claws, pinching the baby from the back of the neck.

The next moment, the chubby metal doll suddenly opened its mouth, revealing a dense row of sharp fangs, and let out a piercing scream. Yuan Zhu suddenly felt a stinging sensation as if his brain membranes were being torn and ripped apart. This cry was poisonous!

Then the fat baby twisted its limbs and began to struggle violently. Though its body looked like metal, it exhibited the elastic texture of flesh. The roots extending from the broken ends of its limbs also came alive, growing and spreading wildly in the air.

Some roots burrowed into the blood-spitting man's flesh, frantically draining his vitality. Other roots coiled around the arm that was pinching the back of his neck.

Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding…!
The left hand holding the blood lantern shook rapidly, causing the copper bell to emit a rapid sound that spread in the darkness, suppressing the sharp and piercing screams of the metal baby.

As the two voices stalemated, the chain on the armored warrior's right arm came alive again, moving its body and wrapping itself around the metal baby like a venomous snake. It strangled the savage roots in the air, and finally tied up and sealed the metal monster baby that resisted to the death.

After all this was over, Yuan Zhu found that the scene in the alley opposite was gradually becoming blurred, and the transparent air began to fluctuate and distort violently. The man who was dying with only half a breath left trembled his fingers slightly, and his eyes showed despair, regret, unwillingness, and resentment... He stared at Yuan Jiangyou, who had not made a move from beginning to end, and his heart was filled with hatred.

The armored warrior picked up the baby wrapped in an iron ball, turned his head to look at the gradually moving away shadow of Yuan Zhu, then raised his hand and threw out a token, breaking the distorted and separated space fluctuations, and flew from the moonlight world into the dim shadow world.

Snapped.

Yuan Zhu also raised his hand to catch the flying bronze medal, and then the scene before him suddenly vanished like a television. Xiao Tianshuijing Lane vanished, replaced by a row of shuttered shops.

The two briefly connected worlds were disconnected silently.

After canceling the useless [Boss Template], Yuan Zhu picked up the bronze plate in his hand, on which were engraved the words [Night Patrol]. As he expected, it was a security guard who patrolled at night.

But what kind of world is that on the other side? Even a mere nighttime security patrolman brings him considerable pressure. Is it because the other side is overwhelmed with powerful warriors, or is his [Tiger Demon Form] actually a weakling?
The elf also shook off the influence of the copper bell's 'rational blessing' and regained his vitality. He said, "It seems that the space-time phenomenon just now was not caused by the [Great Wilderness Immortal Scripture]. Even you are just a passerby NPC who stumbled into the scene. The real protagonist is that unfortunate person who died. He must be a local of Running. He stole something he shouldn't have stolen and was hunted down to death!"

Yuan Zhu also sorted out the whole story and felt a little worried: "Isn't this world a little too dangerous? Why do I feel like I can run into something dirty every three steps? Do I think I am qualified to encounter the connection between different time and space? What a pity! If that guy ran faster and successfully returned to Running and escaped the pursuit of the armored warriors, I would have had a chance to rob him and snatch the root monster baby."

The elf said, "I don't recommend you do that. That strange baby is filled with an extremely polluted aura. It's even more powerful than the 'Shadow Root' devoured by the [Tiger Demon Template], a super bomb. That armored warrior might be a righteous partner who is storing such evil contraband. His bronze bell is a treasure that can suppress evil and exorcise demons, and calm people down."

Yuan Zhu: "Tell me, where exactly is that alleyway illuminated by moonlight? Another corner of the Duling planet? Or some other alternate time and space? Or one of the eight outer universes?"

Confused, he picked up the Night Watch Order and examined it carefully, muttering, "It's actually Earth's official script? This spirit and Earth must have some hidden secret! I wonder what this thing is for? Can it allow me to pass through?"

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