Higashinohara looked up at the black and hazy sky, stretched out his hand, and the pattering raindrops fell like curtains from the eaves of the warehouse above him, and were blown away by the wind and shattered into pieces in his palm.
Thinking about it carefully, it seems that in the era he lived in, Higashinohara's impression of the large factory area on the other side of Mingsha Island at the mouth of the Yangtze River and the sea was just the bumpy road under the hazy sky, the rumbling noise coming from the factory, and everywhere.
It was a column of black smoke rising into the sky, and fragments of bricks and gravel from the factory and various scattered parts were scattered on the road.
that time and that moment
Exactly at this moment.
Speaking of which, I don't know how many years later, after the baptism of extremely long years, the scenery around the land under my feet should be the most "completely preserved" place in the vast river and sea.
I'm thinking about some of these or not.
Higashinohara took out the crisp green apple that had just been given to him from his pocket again. It exuded an alluring luster in his palm. He didn't know how long it had been since he picked it, but it still looked fresh and fresh.
appearance.
"Eat me - eat me - eat me quickly!"
The seductive whispering in my mind sounded again, filled with an unspeakable temptation.
This time Higashinohara closed his eyes and listened carefully, finally confirming that this was not some hallucination of his.
Angel fruit?
Slowly opening his eyes, Higashinohara showed a thoughtful look on his face.
"Eh? Shiroyasha-kun, haven't you eaten yet?"
At this time, Higashinohara suddenly heard the sound of slight footsteps in his ears. He turned his head and found Theresa wearing a sea blue peacock feather mask walking slowly towards her.
At this moment, her steps were light, and every step was like stepping on soft clouds. Even through a layer of mask, Higashinohara could feel the joy emanating from her body from the inside out, as if her body was filled with joy.
Every cell in the body is as vigorous and vigorous as spring bamboo shoots breaking through the ground.
She said hello to Higashinohara, but perhaps even she didn't notice that,
From the moment she walked over, her eyes were fixed on the crisp and smooth green apple in Higashinohara's hand, and she licked her lips unconsciously.
Has she already eaten it?
What a big-hearted woman!
Higashinohara felt a little emotional.
In fact, he is a man who is full but does not know what a man is hungry when he is hungry, and underestimates the desire of ordinary ability users for dual talents and higher-level talents.
In particular, people like Teresa awakened the talent sequence 68 [Super Speed], which is very low among green excellent abilities. Now she has reached the seventh level through countless years of unremitting efforts, but it has been almost her entire life.
The peak that can be reached.
However, those with absolute abilities who have climbed to the seventh level have seen the scenery of the realm and looked up to see the higher mountains above the clouds and mist. Who can be willing to stop here?
Not to mention that the power fruit that Kimura Hakutaku gave them didn't have many side effects in the past. Even if it had great side effects, when it got to that point, many absolute power users who had stopped at the early stage of the seventh stage would choose to bet their lives.
After this period of strange silence, Teresa suddenly stiffened slightly and finally noticed something strange about herself.
She looked away from Higashinohara's hand with great difficulty, and laughed dryly.
"Have you all eaten?" Higashinohara asked.
Teresa nodded and said, "Ellenda, I, and that woman all ate it. I think the others are about the same. Where's Shiroyasha-kun?"
"I'm about to eat." Higashinohara nodded and suddenly asked, "How do you feel?"
Teresa was stunned for a moment, then reacted and said with a smile, "Don't worry, I've seen photos of the 'new type of fruit' on the black market. Team leader Kimura won't lie to us. Are you worried, Shiroyasha-kun? What a shame."
An overly cautious man, it feels great, very good,”
Theresa returned to her smiling look when she said this, and her tone was a bit provocative.
Higashinohara was a little unmoved, nodded silently, and glanced at the people scattered in the warehouse from the corner of his eye.
Although the mental state is obviously a little high, there are indeed no serious sequelae.
Teresa felt a little bored when she saw this, and she wanted to turn around and leave. As time went by, her eyes couldn't help but be attracted to the crisp and round fruit in Higashinohara's hand.
But at a certain moment, the sound of wind and rain outside the abandoned factory seemed to stop strangely.
Although Higashinohara did not turn around,
Out of the corner of his eye, he clearly caught a glimpse of the sharp black shadow hidden under the gray sky.
Although everyone had already been warned of the strange demon's attack, it still seemed very sudden at this moment.
It has to be said that the one who can find the factory warehouse first must be a strange demon who is known for his speed and whose strength is comparable to a seventh-level absolute ability user.
If it had been anyone else, his mind would have been completely attracted by the fruit of power in his hand, and he might have suffered serious consequences immediately.
But Higashinohara is different.
Although the alluring "eat me" sounded in his mind from time to time, tempting and tempting, Higashinohara had already regarded it as a "dog barking".
Almost as soon as the black shadow appeared, Higashinohara raised the sharp knife of the Third Investigation Team in his hand, and slashed at the black shadow that struck through the air like an eagle with his backhand.
Tsk!
Unexpectedly, there was no sound of sharp cutting of flesh when Higashinohara's knife struck. Instead, there was only a sound like tearing tattered gauze.
The fight between the two was completely electric.
The next moment, the wind and rain outside the warehouse seemed to return to normal, and once again clattered from the sky back to the ground.
Bang!
Something fell into the puddles on the ground along with the raindrops, causing a splash of water ten feet high.
There was a coldness in Higashinohara's eyes, and he slowly turned his head, staring at the thin figure outside with very cold eyes. His clothes were in tatters, and there was a huge gap in the clothes on his chest that had just been torn.
But he stared at Higashinohara like a wolf.
No. To be precise, he was staring at the crisp apple in Higashinohara's hand - it had a fatal attraction for him like a sweet and delicious cake.
At this time, in the rain outside the warehouse, the thin and gaunt alien demon had frightening protrusions in the whites of his black pupils. His body suddenly bent slightly and his muscles tensed up unconsciously, like a stretch.
It accumulates the power in the body like a giant crossbow with a tight bow string.
He or it,
Very eager!
So it can't stand any waiting.
It was at this moment that Teresa, who was also staring at the round green apple in Higashinohara's hand, came to her senses.
She couldn't help but be startled for a moment, and quickly pressed the earphone next to her ear to sound a quick alarm in the communication voice.
In an instant, people scattered in other corners of the abandoned factory warehouse took action.
But just after Teresa raised the alarm, a voice that sounded very indifferent suddenly came to her ears.
"Want it? Then I'll give it to you."
The moment I raised my head,
Teresa's eyes couldn't help but shrink slightly, and she almost subconsciously shouted "No".
At this moment, she felt as if she had seen some precious and unparalleled delicacy being abandoned, and a feeling of anger surged up in her heart for no reason.
But it was too late.
Just like throwing a dog's bone or a Frisbee, Higashinohara casually threw the crisp, smooth fruit into the rain outside the warehouse, and it slid into a parabola in the air.
In an instant, the muscles all over the body of the rickety monster, which was full of energy, relaxed like a taut bowstring!
Unparalleled speed suddenly burst out, like a bolt of lightning across the rain curtain, pounced on the ability fruit thrown by Higashinohara.
Time seemed to pass only a moment.
The next second, the rickety strange demon that flew out caught the fruit casually thrown by Higashinohara in the air, and his lifeless eyeballs suddenly protruded with only a large expanse of white but no black in sight.
At this moment, even Teresa could see the greed and desire in the other person's eyes, as if she had obtained a treasure, and she hurriedly stuffed the fruit into a black rotten tooth with both hands.
However, without any warning, Teresa only felt a sharp sword light flashing across the rain curtain like a white python in front of her eyes!
The terrifying wind pressure behind the light of the sword instantly shattered countless long rain curtains between the sky and the earth into countless large and small raindrops that flew and shattered like jade plates!
The sword light fell like a waterfall, and before the hunched strange demon could be seen flying in the air, before he could react, his disheveled head exploded and flew together with the extremely tempting apple he stuffed into his mouth.
The seven or eight petals bloomed like flowers in the rain!
Snap!
The cracked alien demon skull and the fruit of ability fell to the ground together, mixed together like a pile of mud, and were washed away by the rain falling from the sky.
When Theresa saw this, she felt as if she were a concubine. She stared at the mud-like fruit of power in a daze. The anger she had just felt in her heart disappeared, but an indescribable melancholy surged up in her heart.
【High concentration of unknown particles detected, do you confirm collection?】
【Confirm collection】
[Collection of unknown particles completed]
[Congratulations to the host for obtaining the blue ability fragment [Flash]]
[Congratulations to the host for obtaining the blue ability fragment [Qixing]]
Double yolk eggs?
Hearing the two consecutive ability collection completion prompts in his mind, Higashinohara couldn't help but feel slightly startled.
Immediately, he looked at the power fruit mixed with the broken skull on the ground, and a thoughtful look slowly appeared on his face.
He only killed one strange demon.
So excluding the ridiculous speculation of "double yolk eggs", there may be only one left.
That is that Higashinohara has collected another ability, probably from the broken ability fruit.
etc!
Higashinohara suddenly realized another possibility.
Since ability fruits are the same as strange demons, after being destroyed, they will leave a large number of unknown particles in the air that can be detected by the "Guilty Manual".
Does this mean,
Both have the same "source".
This sudden thought immediately made Higashinohara raise his eyebrows.
You know, the fruits of ability are not just the ones in the alley that Kimura Hakutaku took out today.
As early as many years ago, the Ability Fruit Research Institute appeared in New Tokyo, and it even spread to branches opened by powerful countries such as the United States of Tagos and the Saint Malo Empire in their important cities.
If the two really came from the same source, then could it be that the power fruit science institutes in the world he lived in had been studying them secretly?
Is it a strange demon?
But how did they come into contact with the strange demons?
[Are all decompositions confirmed? 】
【confirm】
[Congratulations to the host for obtaining 1 source power point]
[Current source power points: 2.1]
While Higashinohara was pondering these things in his mind, he was not idle at the same time. He quickly decomposed all the two ability fragments, and then converted them into 210 points of proficiency. He added all of them in one go to the intermediate level (50).
/1000)'s Nine Eyes and Six Paths. The second path. The proficiency of Shura Path is higher.
A dull brilliance flashed by, and Higashinohara's proficiency in the second path of Shura Dao instantly increased to (260/1000), and he instantly gained a little more understanding of how to use this ability.
At this time, Higashinohara is also looking forward to the second path, the situation when the mastery of the Asura Path reaches the advanced level and the evil spirit of Asura wraps around his body.
Teresa, who came to her senses on the side, rushed into the rain almost subconsciously. She lowered her head and stared blankly at the fruit mud on the ground and her skull. She was so heartbroken that she almost couldn't breathe. She turned her head and stared at Higashinohara, whose breathing was a little short.
said:
"You just did it. How could you?"
Higashinohara was putting the sharp knife in his hand into the rain to wash away. The blood in these strange demons had already dried, hardened and turned black. There was no blood on the blade. What the rain washed away was the green mucus and fruit stains on the blade.
Immediately, he gently swung the knife to vibrate, put the knife into its sheath, then turned to look at Theresa, smiled silently and said casually:
"If he wants it, give it to him."
Teresa was immediately choked by Higashinohara's words and his indifferent attitude, and subconsciously wanted to say, "I want you to give it to me too."
But the words were stuck in my throat and I couldn't say them out. In the end I could only sigh and said helplessly, "It's a pity that such a good fruit of ability was wasted."
"It's not really a waste." Higashinohara subconsciously added.
"Ah?" Teresa couldn't help being slightly stunned.
"Oh" Higashinohara smiled and explained, "What I mean is that the situation was critical just now. If we didn't lure the enemy like that, I might not have a good chance to kill him."
Teresa nodded thoughtfully after hearing this.
From this perspective, Higashinohara was extremely decisive and sharp in both decision-making and actions. He was indeed a man with a calm heart in "critical situations".
But is the situation critical?
Teresa couldn't help but feel strange when she thought of the scene just now.
That situation might be considered "critical" to her, but to the man in front of her wearing a Yasha mask with white fangs,
No matter how you look at it, you can't say it's critical, right?
Higashinohara did not explain much.
His eyes narrowed slightly, and he turned to look at the hazy rain outside the abandoned factory warehouse.
With the blessing of the Nine Eyes and Six Paths. The first sight, his perception was magnified to the limit. The tilt and tremor in the wind when every drop of rain fell were clearly transmitted to his mind.
The next moment, Higashinohara suddenly spoke softly in the communication,
"They're coming."
Almost at the moment Higashinohara's words fell, countless densely packed black shadows appeared one after another like a forest in the heavy rain under the black haze sky, and the pupils of everyone around the warehouse who had just eaten the power fruit couldn't help but shrink.
At this time, if someone could look down from the air at the abandoned riverside factory below from God's perspective, they would probably be horrified to find countless black spots covering this desolate land like ant colonies.
Only the "blank" in the middle that is about to be filled is left.
The plot is almost sorted out, Ye Ye's condition has improved, and it will speed up in the next two days!
