I, Viego, conquer Terra!

"You're still in the mood to curse at me at this hour?" Ines was also feeling uncomfortable, with cold sweat oozing from her forehead. She whispered, "Stop talking nonsense and hide."

Her eyes lit up slightly, but she closed them the next moment as if she felt a stinging pain.

"Tsk..." Inès gritted her teeth.

W could see the physiological tears welling up in the corners of her eyes due to the pain.

"Forget it. Aren't you afraid of going blind? You haven't stopped since just now. It hurts so much and you still won't take a break."

"Nonsense." Inès choked back. "It hurts, but if I don't watch, how can we find a chance to bypass them?"

"I, I surrender...Ah——!" The mercenary's voice, along with the sound of the blade entering flesh, reached the ears of W and Inès.

W clung to the edge of the broken wall and looked out.

"In our current state, we can't beat these guys at all. Damn, these guys are not mercenaries at all...!"

"Talk less and save your energy." Inès looked to the west, trying to endure the pain in her eyes, and activated her Originium skills again.

W took out from her backpack the explosives and grenades she had searched for on the corpses along the way - the kind used in mortars.

"Hey, W, you...!"

Inès tried to hold her back, but W had already walked out.

"Sarkaz, they are all a bunch of lunatics!" She cursed in a low voice, which was rare for her. She reached out to support herself against the wall, stood up, and followed W out.

W glanced at her in surprise: "Oh, I thought you wouldn't go crazy with me?"

She heard Inès cursing.

"Of course I won't..." Ines put her hand on W's shoulder and whispered, "I told you..."

"Oh? We found two big fish..." Ines was interrupted by the voice of the hostile mercenary in front of her. "Sarkaz mercenary, W, and Ines... are all on the list, worth a lot of candy."

"You're holding those grenades. Are you planning to die with us?"

The mercenary laughed mockingly and raised the heavy crossbow in his hand: "How about giving it a try, is it faster for you to rush over and detonate the grenade, or is it faster for my crossbow arrows?"

Several other mercenaries who were searching in the ruins also surrounded the two of them.

"Hey, Ines, stop pulling me... I've never noticed before, do you really want to die with me?"

Inès remained silent, just looking ahead, her golden eyes gleaming slightly.

"Oh, even at this point, you're still unwilling to give up struggling?" The "mercenary" looked at Ines with interest. He seemed to like this condescending, cat-playing-with-mouse attitude.

"I advise you to save your energy. Your casualties have exceeded 80%. No one will come to rescue you. If the general was not very interested in you, I would have killed you here."

"You'll die anyway if you resist, so why don't you surrender and work for us?"

"Is that so..." Ines glanced at W beside her and grabbed her arm tightly to prevent her from throwing the grenade in her arms.

"It seems that you have made your choice?" The mercenary laughed, with a hint of disdain in his smile. "From this perspective, the famous mercenaries Ines and W are not so loyal, are they?"

He deliberately used the word "loyalty" to insult Inès and W.

"Ines...!" W's smile faded and he looked at Ines. "Do you really want to do this?"

"No." Inès shook her head. "Of course not."

The glimmer in her eyes finally died out.

She said, "It wasn't actually you that I was looking at."

"What?" The mercenary was stunned, realizing something was wrong, and turned around quickly. "So what are you looking at...?!"

The moment he turned around, he was greeted by diffuse black fog and a long sword wrapped in the black fog that was thrown down on his head!

A voice with a mocking smile sounded:

"She is looking at your father, Viego!"

Pain pierces the soul-opening and slashing the board!

The mercenary's head was split in half by the long sword, and the last remaining emotions on his pale face were fear and disbelief.

A faint black mist dissipated, and Viego's figure disappeared. The next moment, he appeared behind another mercenary like a ghost.

The results speak for themselves.

Viego followed suit and killed several other mercenaries present in the same way.

Finally, he stood in front of W and Inès, just like before the battle, raised his eyebrows and smiled: "Were you surprised and surprised when you saw me?"

"You're smiling so naive, silly Viego." W's reaction was as expected, still with that sweet look on his face. "But... this time, you're awesome..."

Her body swayed.

thump--

Viego reached out and hugged her in time to prevent her from falling to the ground, and caught the grenade that fell from her arms.

——It’s not that I’m worried about W. I’m just afraid that the grenade in her arms will fall to the ground and explode, sending the three people present to heaven.

Viego is not worried about W at all.

"Hey, W, don't faint." Viego looked down at her. "You haven't promised me the reward for saving you."

"I'm not unconscious yet..." W's voice was so weak and thin, but Viego still caught it clearly. "You just want to touch my legs, right? If you're not dead, I'll let you touch them enough this time..."

"What the hell." Viego was shocked. "No, you are just a kid, I am just kidding, W, don't take it seriously, hey!"

W didn't respond. Viego checked her breath and confirmed that she was still as strong as a real American cockroach. He was relieved only after she fainted.

"Are you done with the small talk?" Ines looked at Viego and said in her usual cold voice, "Let's go now. There are enemy reinforcements in the east. They are on their way."

"You are the captain, you have the final say, but..." Viego raised an eyebrow at her and stretched out his other hand. "Would you like me to lend you a hand, Captain Inès?"

"Hmph..." Inès snorted indifferently.

Then he reached out and grabbed Viego's arm, leaning against his body.

Her injuries were indeed serious, making it difficult for her to just stand.

This is necessary to avoid pursuit, just like letting W lead you...

"I haven't let my guard down against you, Viego."

"Oh? Haha... OK, OK, but I didn't say that Captain Inès trusts me very much, did I?"

"...Shut up."



Chapter 26: Viego: It’s so cool!

Viego dragged W with one hand and held Ines with the other, and walked through the ruins of the building with the two seriously injured people.

Viego felt so good.

- Don't get me wrong, it's not because Ines and W had physical contact with him. Viego is not that kind of loser.

However, with the large-scale physical contact, the speed at which the fragments in Inès and W's bodies were absorbed by the Curse of Ruin was greatly increased.

To make an analogy:

The previous Viego was a Xunlei or Baidu Netdisk user without membership. Although he had a gigabit optical fiber, he could only download at a speed of tens of kilobytes per second.

And now Viego is a noble SVIP user, a super member, with unlimited download speed, 100M per second, an increase of hundreds of times, the speed is so fast that it flies!

The Curse of Ruin was filled and its power was enhanced. Viego liked this feeling very much and felt a joy on the spiritual level.

——It's like playing a dog head, watching yourself use Q for a whole game, and finally stacking the number of Q layers from 0 to a thousand layers, there is a sense of joy that the harvest season has finally begun.

And after the Curse of Ruin grew stronger, Viego's ability to perceive fragments also improved.

Before, it was like looking at flowers through a layer of frosted glass, but now it is like observing directly through a smooth mirror.

Viego could sense that if he continued to absorb at this rate, within three days, the two fragments in Ines and W's bodies would be completely drained by him.

I just don't know if it can be recovered after being drained dry and achieve perpetual motion... But Viego also thinks this is unlikely. After all, the Curse of Ruin is strictly speaking just a special energy body. Without new energy replenishment, new Curse of Ruin will naturally not grow on the fragments.

——Unless, the fragments in W and Inès' bodies have reached a "parasitic" relationship with their bodies and can draw the necessary energy from their bodies.

But Viego hoped that this would not be the case, as it would make him feel like he was sucking the blood of these two women, like eating human blood buns.

Viego can kill his enemies without hesitation and use their vitality to strengthen himself, but he cannot accept using the vitality of his "companions" to make himself stronger.

This is also the reason why Viego had such a big reaction and feeling towards the performance of the two mercenaries who died at his hands.

Perhaps, this is one of the biggest differences between Viego and the former Ruined King.

From time to time, Inès would look behind her and to the north, with a gleam in her golden eyes. "...The pursuers are getting closer."

"I think you should take a rest, Captain Ines." Viego looked at Ines, whose face was cold but clearly showed cold sweat on her forehead and red eyes.

"There is no need to search any further," he said, "if the pursuers catch up with us, I will kill them all."

"Oh... you are so confident now? Is it because you are holding two women in your arms?" Ines said coldly: "Don't be blinded by blind confidence and desire to show off, Viego."

"I need to clarify that I did not hold you and W in my arms. This was a necessary measure to help you survive. I don't have any extra thoughts about you." Viego emphasized and asked again:

"Why, Captain Ines doesn't believe me?"

"Isn't it obvious?" Inès asked.

"If you were me, would you believe this? At the beginning of the battle, you were only slightly better than the two Sarkaz mercenaries. Now you want to tell me that you can kill a large group of pursuers who are much more elite than those mercenaries?"

"Well, that's true. If I were in Captain Ines' position, I wouldn't believe it either." Viego laughed.

"Having said that, I still hope that Captain Ines can trust me a little more. I'm actually not a good liar."

"Hmph... I hope so." Ines' expression did not change, she still looked cold and indifferent: "But you'd better not expect me to have more trust in you, Viego. I said, I will always be wary of you."

"Do you have to say this when I'm dragging you away, my good captain?" Viego said helplessly.

Inès' expression froze: "Watch your words, Viego. I am not 'your' property."

"You are too sensitive, Captain Inès."

"As soon as I opened my eyes, I heard you two dogs flirting with each other here... Can you guys be quiet and let me have a good rest?" W's gnashing teeth sounded:

"Viego, can you put your fucking hands up a little, on my ribs? They're squeezing my stomach. Have you never hugged a woman before? Or are you too excited to have two women throwing themselves at you?"

"Uh... sorry, I've never hugged anyone before." Viego apologized and adjusted his posture according to W's instructions:

"But I still have to reiterate once again - I am not happy about holding you and Inès, nor am I getting carried away. Please don't spit bloody words at me, W."

It's the pieces of you that I have thoughts about, not about both of you.

What’s the point of being a woman? Haha, even if you two stretched out your legs in front of me and let me touch them at will, I wouldn’t feel anything!

——He also had no idea that his body was strictly speaking just the corpse of a resurrected ghost.

W sneered: "Haha, you mean you will feel good only if you put your hands on our legs?"

"I'm not a leg control!" Viego said seriously, "Really not."

"Can you two just be quiet?" Ines could no longer bear it. "W, why do you still have the energy to argue with others when you are so badly injured?"

"It's none of your business, Ines! Aren't you full of energy? You woke me up and you still have the nerve to scold me?" W, who woke up from a coma, was still foul-mouthed as always.

It seems that her brain was not blown up by that spell.

But Viego hoped that she would have temporary amnesia and forget the words about reward he said when he saved her.

He really just said something to W casually, just like asking for credit from teammates after completing a cool operation in the League of Legends. He didn't really want any substantial reward...

I don’t want to touch W’s black stockings, even though her black stockings look very smooth and comfortable to touch...but Viego really doesn’t want to touch them!

Not at all!

Viego is not a leg-control freak and has no particular preference for black stockings or long legs.

"...Ladies, I think we can shut up now. Of course, if you want to continue arguing, I have no objection."

Viego stopped and interrupted the bickering between Ines and W, looking at the mercenary team that appeared in front of him:

"I actually just wanted to say that we seem to have been discovered."

The mercenaries in front raised their crossbows at them.

——"Oh, now we can remove the "as if". We have indeed been discovered."