The wind and rain are like darkness, and people are like ghosts.
This is the second time that most of the Jaeger team have seen the true appearance of these guys who are called "deviants" but have human appearances at such a close range and on a large scale after entering this lost world of hell.
These ghosts were wearing tattered clothes. Each of them looked pale, with sunken eye sockets and protruding eyes. They exuded a dead and desolate atmosphere, like a terrifying death army approaching step by step, which made people feel uncomfortable.
His breathing became faster unconsciously.
"We can't be surrounded by them!"
The leader of the Jaeger team, Yoshizu Ichiro, clutched the sharp knife in his hand with his knuckles turning blue, and commanded in the communication voice with a solemn expression:
"Everyone listen to my order, keep a distance and help each other. Let's break out to the east together!"
As a close confidant of Hakutaku Kimura, he has a deeper understanding of strange demons than others, and he clearly knows that these strange demons not only possess weird abilities that are not in the periodic table of talent sequences at all.
Not only that, but you are like a living dead who doesn't know what pain is. If you don't chop off the opponent's head and completely destroy the body functions, the opponent will bite you like a wild dog and won't stop.
However, among the many Seven-Star Hunters present, there is obviously someone who understands this point more deeply than Yoshizu Ichiro, and this person is naturally Higashinohara.
Just when everyone was still staring at the strange demons that were gradually surrounding them, there was a sudden sound of tearing through the flesh with a sharp weapon behind them!
The next second, something flew over their heads, drew a parabola, and fell heavily to the ground.
Everyone who heard the sound was stunned and turned their heads, only to find that the man who had been wearing the white-faced fang Yaksha mask had already slashed the knife in his hand towards the strange demon on the east side.
It turned out that long before Yoshizu Ichiro spoke, Higashinohara, with the blessing of [Nine Eyes and Six Paths], had noticed their current situation and situation, and immediately rushed towards the east side with a knife in hand without thinking.
In the face of difficulties and dangers, the most fearful thing is that everyone remains indifferent.
If someone takes the lead, the situation will immediately change.
The members of the hunting team looked at the fierce Higashinohara. Despite the attacks of countless strange demons, dangers and dangers arose in a hurry. They were like walking on a tightrope thousands of meters high, with an abyss called death below.
But the unparalleled speed always allowed him to pass by on the wire, and at the same time, he missed the abyss of death.
The man named Shirayasha, with the sharp knife of the Third Investigation Team in his hand, could always catch up with the opponent's various weird and unpredictable abilities.
Cut off the head of the strange demon first.
Then without even stopping for the slightest moment, he flashed his figure, and the white python-like sword light in his hand once again tore through the rain curtain and struck the next strange demon.
Can't sit still and wait for death!
Everyone’s hearts were excited!
At this moment,
Various fields have opened up.
With the blessing of the domain, the members of the Jaeger team carried supplies on their backs and started chopping with weapons. A dull sound of falling to the ground could be heard from time to time in the rain.
And far behind these boundless monsters, a young man wearing a three-stripe armband stood on a building and stared blankly at the black shadow covering the ground under his feet. Not only did the blank space not be filled.
It is full, but it slowly extends towards the east like a white paintbrush.
"Is that also your purpose?"
The young man looked towards the estuary farther east and couldn't help but murmured to himself.
"Treacherous fellow!"
Suddenly, a voice full of hatred came from behind the young man.
The young man turned his head, and standing behind him was a middle-aged man with a rotten and pale face without a piece of intact flesh, and you could almost see his facial bones.
The man's eyes glowed like dead fish, and he said angrily, "Ah Huai, you just trust others too easily. That guy is not worthy of trust."
When the man spoke, there was a majesty in his tone similar to that of a father, but the long years had already corroded everything in his body, and that majestic voice sounded as harsh and unpleasant as gravel rubbing against his throat.
The boy's name is Jiang Huai, the boy Higashinohara met in his dream.
"Just wait, I will help you get rid of him this time! What I hate most is the treacherous person. Ah Huai, don't associate with that kind of guy! Damn it! Damn that guy! I'm going to chop him into pieces!"
Hearing his father Jiang Yuan's words at this time, the young man Jiang Huai showed a gentle smile on his withered face, but his voice was rarely normal and soothing, "Dad, don't worry, I will take care of these things."
"But you are still a child." Father Jiang Yuan was pacing back and forth behind young Jiang Huai with some irritability. Even though there were not a few intact pieces of flesh on his face, his uncontrollable anger could still be felt.
When it comes to Jiang Huai, he has always been like this.
In the end, he shook his head and suppressed his anger and said, "No, your mother and I will resolve this matter. You are still a child. You are still a child."
Squeak—!
The door to the rooftop behind the two people suddenly opened.
A woman with a face as pale as paper, with dry and stiff lips, and only large whites in her eyes walked up with unusual grace, and said to the young man Jiang Huai in a gentle voice:
"Your father is right. You kid will suffer in front of those bad people. Leave this matter to me and your father. You should pay attention to your health and rest and sleep."
The woman kept talking about the family's shortcomings, just like the scene in the living room under the warm yellow sunset many, many years ago, and the irritable man beside her gradually fell silent.
"Okay, I understand."
Finally, the young man Jiang Huai withdrew his gaze from a distance and said to the two of them, "Then I'll have to work hard for you this time."
"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!" The man became angry again.
"Don't scare the kids."
The woman said in a gentle tone, but she had already reached the rooftop railing, climbed up bit by bit, turned to the young man with a strange-looking smile on her face, "Don't worry, your dad and I will watch.
It’s done.”
As soon as she finished speaking, she jumped over the railing and jumped down.
The young man Jiang Huai looked down with an unchanged expression.
The woman fell halfway and suddenly grabbed the air-conditioning panel outside with both hands and exerted force.
The weathered and corroded cement board broke instantly, but her whole body was pulled back. Immediately, she jumped back and forth between the air-conditioning panels outside the high-rise building like a flexible and elegant cat. With every step, a large piece of cement board cracked in the flying dust.
.
But in the blink of an eye, the woman had actually reached the ground from the rooftop of a building on the 30th floor.
The middle-aged man upstairs also cursed angrily, turned around and rushed down the corridor like a furious bear.
Young Jiang Huai looked at his parents who left quietly. Both men and women were very strong. Although they were still one level below him, they were divided according to the classification told to him by the man who had made an agreement with him.
His parents should belong to the third level of blue high-risk "deviants", and they are relatively powerful existences among the ordinary demons in Jianghai.
It's just that the humans who came in this time seemed to be much stronger than before.
Then why would you let them go? Are you taking advantage of their love for you?
Young Jiang Huai's gaze passed through the rain curtain under the hazy sky, and he was stunned again for a while.
As a fourth-level purple strange devil, even though he has experienced tens of millions of years of time, he can think about much more things than most of the strange devils in this world.
He remembered the early days when he, his parents, and his family all survived in this increasingly desolate apocalypse. Deep down in his heart, he was extremely lucky to feel the "love from his parents."
But when this kind of "love" is repeated mechanically day after day, year after year, everything around you becomes more and more dead and desolate in the sunrise and sunset.
Jiang Huai finally realized it.
Both father and mother have left this world.
Accompanying me during these long years were just two soulless bodies surrounding me, just mechanically running programs that had already been compiled.
But he, in these long years, deceived himself and enjoyed the love from his parents, pretending that they were not dead yet, pretending that everything was still the same as before.
But, it’s still different after all.
If everything ends like this
Isn’t that great too?
Jiang Huai thought in his heart,
Inexplicably, the man in the Shiro Yaksha mask who looked at him appeared in his mind again.
After being implanted in his dream last night, the other party seemed to have watched a movie and didn't come up with any useful information.
Somehow, there seemed to be an extremely powerful force protecting the deepest parts of that man's mind from infringement.
Jiang Huai tried to break through that protection, but an unparalleled and inexplicable fear surged in his heart, like an instinctive reaction rooted in his body.
that man
What exactly is going on?
Is he also here for the coming tide?
"These strange monsters are controlled by others."
In the direction of the abandoned factory on the other side of Mingsha Island, Higashinohara frowned slightly. From a distance, he could even see the island with quicksand deposits on the other side of the long-dried and sunken river channel. He thought thoughtfully in his heart, "Manipulate these strange things."
Are the demonic people driving us in this direction, constantly consuming our physical energy along the way, in order to annihilate us all when we reach the coast?"
But why the East?
Of course Higashinohara knew that there was an entrance to the sea, but the seawater there had already dried up. In such a critical situation, it was not impossible for them to jump off the seabed to escape.
The sharp sword light flashed again.
He smoothly chopped off another oncoming strange demon and stopped thinking in his mind.
No matter what the situation is, since the other party has already taken action against them and is on the opposite side, he has no reason to retreat.
Not far behind Higashinohara, Hakutaku Kimura was also looking at the east under the rain, murmuring to himself, "That's the River Styx. Is it the only place where 'seeds' can be cultivated?"
?Then now everything is ready and all we need is the east wind."
Having said this, he couldn't help but have a slight smile on his face.
The leader of the Jaeger team, Yoshizu Ichiro, who was following him, was breathing heavily.
Although he is a seventh-level absolute ability user, there are currently no overly powerful opponents among these strange demons.
But the other party was really outnumbered and aggressive, and they didn't give him any chance to breathe.
At this time, he noticed the smile on the corner of Kimura Hakutaku's mouth as if he was strolling among strange demons. Before the other party looked at him, Yoshizu Ichiro quickly looked away.
To be honest, although he had cooperated with the leader of the third investigation team very early on, everyone regarded him as a close confidant of this generous donor.
But only Ichiro Yoshizu knows in his heart,
He never knew what this man with a smile on his face all day long was really thinking about.
In such a dangerous situation, where a hunter just lost his life.
Why can he still laugh?
Just as this thought came to Yoshizu Ichiro's mind, a burst of urgent words suddenly came from the communication voice in his ear, "Captain Yoshizu, there is no way ahead!"
"There is no way?" Yoshizu Ichiro was stunned.
They went all the way down the river. How could they say there was no way?
Suddenly, a possibility suddenly occurred to his mind - he, who was in charge of the rear, quickly cut off an incoming strange demon, rushed to the front and took a look, and his mind suddenly went blank.
About a kilometer ahead of them, the road had disappeared and was replaced by a long coastline, but the water had long since dried up so no sound of waves could be heard.
This. It turned out that the river they were following was a river that entered the sea, and they chose a dead end.
The moment he realized this, Yoshizu Ichiro's temples suddenly jumped. He looked back at the endless waves of strange demons behind him, and he couldn't help but lick his lips as his throat went dry.
As the captain of the Jaeger team, when he paid the price of a Jaeger on the way out, he should say something to soothe people's hearts at this time.
However, he didn't know what to say.
Because all the orders he gave seemed to be well-thought-out, but in fact he was just a "mouthpiece", and everything behind him came from the man behind him.
Thinking of this, Yoshizu Ichiro looked at Hakutaku Kimura not far away with his eyes almost asking for help.
Kimura Hakuto still had a gentle smile on his face, but he didn't say anything, he just stared at him quietly.
The corners of his mouth gradually began to rise.
wrong
Yoshizu Ichiro suddenly realized that Kimura Hakutaku was not looking at him, but that he was looking at the coastline behind him.
Or the sand island across the coast.
But what’s so good about those?
He subconsciously thought of turning his head.
At this moment, a dazzling white light flashed from the black dome above the head!
The mighty rolling thunder followed closely, causing everyone's ears to buzz.
But in this tinnitus,
Suddenly, the faces of everyone in the hunting team showed confusion one after another.
Wow!
The sound of a surging ocean tide rang in everyone's ears, and one could even vaguely hear a high-pitched and lingering cry of a whale, which appeared very suddenly in this land that had been lonely and desolate for countless years.
Ahead, another head fell to the ground, and Higashinohara kicked away the strange demon in front of him.
The next moment, he suddenly raised his head, but his eyes reflected a majestic and surging darkness.
In the heavy rain, the dark sky above the sea seemed like the mighty power of the gods!
The extremely turbulent black tide fell from the sky like a majestic mountain peak, and the unstoppable black wave hung upside down like a Milky Way that separated the sky, and landed on the seabed that had been dry for countless years.
Suddenly, a desolate and desolate atmosphere hit our face.
Ahhhh—!
Higashinohara's eyes couldn't help but condense slightly!
The strange demons around them all fell into an extremely crazy and excited state at the moment when the tide came over, like a group of devout pilgrims seeing the temple they had longed for!
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