"There are still some that are basically hanging around on the upper floors. The third and fourth floors below are relatively safer," Li Changhao said.
"Okay, find someone to lead the way. I'll go and clean up those lust beasts." Xia Yanzhen said.
"Now?"
"Now."
Li Changhao frowned slightly, thought for a while and said: "Night is not a suitable time. I don't know if it's because it's at night, when people are quiet, and it's easy to have random thoughts. The desire beast will be more active at night than during the day, and it's too dark."
The building has lost power, and it is now seven o'clock in the evening. Several emergency lights on the first floor illuminate part of the roads and rooms.
There were no lights outside, and the floors above were very dark.
"Do you think I'm afraid of the dark?" Xia Yanzhen said, "Find someone who is familiar with the building."
"then I can."
"I need you to appease other people and not cause trouble to me." Xia Yanzhen said.
"It's fine to leave the comforting matters to Uncle Li Zhengcheng. Actually, I'm not suitable." Li Changhao said.
As the think tank of the team, he plays a very cold role.
For the sake of overall survival, he abandoned others.
In terms of trust, Li Zhengcheng is much higher than him.
Although everyone can understand rationally that what Li Changhao did was right, it is more difficult to accept it emotionally.
After all, no one can be sure that they will never be abandoned.
Even if he is very useful and indispensable now, what if he is injured?
Sacrifice for the team and see what others can do.
It doesn't work if it happens to you.
"Okay, come to me in five minutes." Xia Yanzhen gave Li Changhao some time.
"How is it? Are there any clues?"
After sending away Li Changhao, Xia Yanzhen asked in the team channel.
"No, I'm still looking. I met a third-level desire beast. Its location is..." Tiamat reported a road sign.
"I know, let's talk about it then." Xia Yanzhen said, "You come back tomorrow morning, and then we start looking for it again."
He wanted Tiamat to center on this building and radiate out in all directions.
Not only to find Tao E and others who might be there, but also to better understand the surrounding situation.
Unfortunately, the ability of "Vision Link" is ineffective.
Otherwise, Xia Yanzhen could see what Tiamat saw.
A few minutes later, Li Changhao came back: "I have already told Uncle Li. He should try his best to comfort you and reduce other people's fear of you."
"Fear doesn't matter, I don't care about your emotions." Xia Yanzhen said, "Shivering little lamb, just be obedient."
Li Changhao nodded expressionlessly: "What should we call you?"
"Commander," Xia Yanzhen said after thinking about it.
He actually introduced himself as "Xia Shiyi".
But as a name, people like Li Changhao dare not call it randomly.
"I can leave at any time, leader." Li Changhao said.
Xia Yanzhen saw that he had prepared an explosion-proof shield, a flashlight, and a metal bat on his back.
"Let's go." Xia Yanzhen nodded.
Naturally, the elevator couldn't be used, so the two of them went to the fire escape on the first floor.
Li Changhao introduced as he walked: "We have already searched the second and third floors. It's nothing. There are still some rooms on the fourth floor that we haven't visited. There are lust beasts on the fifth floor, which is more dangerous."
"Then go directly to the fifth floor." Xia Yanzhen said.
"good."
The fire escape stairs were dark, so Li Changhao replied in a low voice and walked forward in the dark.
Xia Yan really thought he was too slow, so he took the flashlight, turned it on, and handed it back to Li Changhao.
"Go faster, I'm not afraid of attracting the attention of the lust beast." Xia Yanzhen said.
"Sorry, I'm used to it." Li Changhao said.
Desire beasts mutate from humans, and their bodies change. Even in the first stage, they are stronger than ordinary people.
Coupled with his immortality, even if ordinary people hold weapons, they don't have much power against the beasts of desire.
A group of survivors are living on thin ice.
Caution and caution are engraved in Li Changhao's bones.
Although "Xia Shiyi" suddenly appeared, Li Changhao would not let down his guard until he had truly seen how powerful the opponent was.
Well, even if he saw that Xia Yan was really powerful, Li Changhao would not be able to sit back and relax, and would even be more worried.
Now Li Changhao still retains a glimmer of hope to resist or escape from this person.
Soon, Li Changhao and Xia Yanzhen arrived on the fifth floor.
According to Li Changhao, there are occasionally lust beasts here.
The beast has a mouth similar to that of a crocodile, and its bite force is so amazing that it can bite through the interior wall of a building.
Weakness is slowness.
The activity range covers the three floors of 5, 6 and 7. I have never gone down to the fifth floor, and I probably haven’t gone up to the eighth floor.
There is another lust beast on the eighth floor.
Li Changhao suspected that the body of the desire beast on the fifth floor was an old man who had lost all his teeth, so he wanted to have "good teeth".
Because the main body is an old man, he is relatively fragile after turning into a beast.
Xia Yanzhen listened attentively.
For ordinary people, speculating on the origins and specialties of lust beasts will definitely help them fight against lust beasts.
But for Xia Yanzhen...
He took out the Book of Sacred Purification and shook it twice: "There is no need to introduce to me the origin of the Desire Beast or the weaknesses you guessed. It's not important. Just protect yourself."
"..." Li Changhao nodded silently.
"By the way, is there a map?" Xia Yan really remembered that he still needed a real map.
"Uh-" Li Changhao thought for a moment before replying, "Probably not."
The background environment and technological development level of this mission world are similar to those in the real world.
With mobile phones and navigation systems, paper maps have long disappeared from ordinary people's lives.
It's not easy to find a detailed city map.
The one in the room was hand-painted by Li Changhao. The locals reluctantly looked at it for reference.
"It's best to get one for me. I want to get familiar with this place." Xia Yanzhen said.
"I try my best."
Li Changhao agreed, then hesitated and asked, "In the second stage, will the desire beast regain its memory?"
"A little bit." Xia Yanzhen said, "Not all memories, some are very vague."
He made random remarks.
Li Changhao wanted to ask again.
There was a crashing sound, and Li Changhao immediately pointed the flashlight ahead.
He saw a figure lying on the ground and "swimming" over at a very fast speed.
This is a man wearing dirty clothes and pants.
Scratch your hands and feet on the ground and move in this way without slowing down.
As for the lower half of this person's face, the upper and lower jaws were completely torn, and the skin and flesh grew out, turning into a mouth that looked like a crocodile's.
The densely packed teeth are exposed, with dark red gums above and below.
"That's it." Li Changhao said.
Compared to when I saw it a few days ago, the appearance of this lust beast has undergone some changes.
The mouth became larger and longer, so the way of movement changed, and he no longer stood and walked.
It turned into lying on the ground, swimming and crawling.
Instead, it became faster.
At first glance, the sense of fear is even stronger.
It's certainly not good news for the survivors in the building.
Li Changhao stepped back, holding the explosion-proof shield in front of him and shining his flashlight forward.
You can take a look at what Xia Shiyi really looks like.
Then, Li Changhao saw the other party throw out the tome he had just taken out from nowhere.
The book hit the lust beast on the head.
Then it fell to the ground.
Almost as soon as the book hit his head, the desire beast stopped moving.
He looked as if he were dead.
Xia Yanzhen walked over, picked up the Book of Sacred Purification, turned to Li Changhao and said, "Let's go to the next floor."
"it……"
"died."
"Dead?" Li Changhao was a little unbelievable, "Didn't he faint?"
"It's dead." Xia Yanzhen raised the sacred book of purification and shook it twice. "Desire is emotional, and knowledge is rational. I use rational knowledge to fight against emotional desire. Knowledge is power."
"..."
Faced with Xia Yanzhen's nonsense, Li Changhao couldn't refute, so he could only continue walking up with Xia Yanzhen in three steps.
It took Xia Yanzhen more than twenty minutes to clean up all the lust beasts in the apartment building.
There were ten in total, which exceeded Li Changhao's expectation.
He only knew about six, and he speculated that there might be one or two that they didn't know about.
Unexpectedly, there were ten of them.
What Li Changhao didn't expect, or couldn't understand, was the opponent's method of killing the enemy.
Use a book, throw it around or even just touch it.
Those lustful beasts died.
Xia Shiyi's rhetoric is that desire is perceptual and knowledge is rational.
Use reason to deal with emotion.
After killing the desire of the lust beast, the lust beast whose survival condition is desire will also die.
Except for the last sentence, Li Changhao did not recognize the rest.
But it doesn't matter whether he admits it or not.
"By the way, are there any such damn people in your group?" Xia Yanzhen asked on the way back.
Li Changhao was startled and asked bravely: "Are you going to eat them?"
The other party wants to keep them captive as a fresh food source?
"What are you thinking about?" Xia Yanzhen asked angrily, "Do I look like the kind of person who can eat people?"
"It really doesn't look like it just by looking at it." Li Changhao thought to himself.
With Xia Shiyi's appearance, he debuted as an idol in their country, directly teamed up with ACE, and acted as the facade.
Even if your singing and dancing equipment is useless, you can still harvest a batch of leeks.
Well, one batch is almost done, and if it continues to be abolished in the future, it will slowly lose popularity.
The idols here are also very curly.
"The beast of desire has an extraordinary interest in people." Li Changhao put it another way.
"That's true." Xia Yanzhen said.
The desire beast is indeed very interested in people, maybe because it was transformed from a human?
"Me too." Xia Yanzhen paused and continued, "But my desire is to be a good person, so you don't have to worry about me eating you.
"I ask this just to avoid unnecessary situations and to take precautions before they happen."
"Unnecessary circumstances?"
Xia Yanzhen pointed to the sacred book of purification in his hand and asked, "Do you think it's because of this book that I can kill the desire beast?"
"I'm not a fool." Li Changhao said.
Regardless of whether it is or not, he will not have any unreasonable thoughts about this book.
"Yes, you are not. But can you guarantee that no one else is either?" Xia Yanzhen asked.
Li Changhao had nothing to say.
Of course he couldn't guarantee it.
Even Li Zhengcheng might have the idea of snatching this book.
This is the "human emotion" of the brave. Give it a try, and once you succeed, you don't have to live or die in the hands of others.