Echoes of the Wasteland Echo Chapter 20: Battle in the Twilight "Hey, kid, your name is Sai, right? Although I don't know why you seek revenge from me. But if you insist, I will accompany you in the duel,
Until one of us decides the winner." Luo Nie shouted.
He raised his head and observed the bright red closed force field around him, stretched out his hands, and murmured a spell in the ancient Zine language.
Immediately afterwards, he fully turned on his spiritual power, like the radar, the latest technological product developed by the Sune Empire, and used his spiritual power to scan everything around him as much as possible.
It was a bright, pure light that almost did not belong to the dark body of the Lost One, looming on Sai's body. Through the observation of spiritual power, Luo Nie discovered the existence of two conflicting forces.
Although he was a little confused, the real crisis made Luo Nie reluctant to deepen his thinking. He used all his strength to surge the magic power in his palms, like a warrior from ancient times, trying to win the battle with the power of his hands.
victory.
"It was you who killed sister Natasha. If you hadn't gone to visit the false gods two months ago, my sister wouldn't have cooperated with those man-eating demons from the Socra Committee to summon the ritual. It's fine now. I don't know if there is a ritual.
It didn’t work, Brother Yato disappeared, and Sister Natasha was executed. All of this was caused by you. If it hadn’t been for your initial prayer, if it hadn’t been for you..."
Sai spoke in a tone that was close to crying. His voice became deeper and deeper with the next few words, and in the end, he began to moan and cry like a terrifying snake-headed female monster in the dark night.
This is one of the external manifestations of the pain characteristics of Sequence 5. All humans or lost people who gain wisdom and inspiration will experience endless and eternal pain.
Luo Nie didn't want to guess whether the incident about Natasha was a strange coincidence or a test for Say under the arrangement of the Creator.
The rational part of his brain warned him not to be misled by any information from the Lost One. The young man named Sai in front of him had already tried to take his life. No matter what, he needed to preemptively seize the opportunity.
Thinking of this, he used the environment of bright red and pitch-black lights to cover up the initial movement of the attack. After taking two quick steps forward, he quickly stretched out his palms that glowed green like the eyes of a pack of wolves at night, and aimed at
Sai.
Whizzing!
Two rays of light that resembled the arrows fired by ancient archers broke through the bright red force field at extremely high speeds and rushed straight towards Sai, who was temporarily swayed by his emotions.
This is the magic source power belonging to vegetation!
But as an assassin trained by the Tenin sect since childhood and a lost person infected by extraordinary power, Sai, who has superhuman agility, quickly woke up from his thoughts.
He turned his eyes to the left, shifted his body weight to the right, and rolled to avoid the fatal blow.
Immediately afterwards, the corners of his mouth rose slightly, and his eyes began to turn into a pure black existence. He clenched the dagger that glowed with red scarlet threads and could melt steel and rushed towards Luo Nie.
Although he tried his best to lean back to avoid the attack, the hot air slashed by the red dagger still burned Luo Jian's throat.
After reluctantly pulling away, the skin on Luo's neck had become burnt, with a slight black smoke coming out, and even some internal mechanical parts began to be exposed.
Seeing that the attack had an effect, Sai grinned, showing his sharp fangs, and taunted:
"Hey, big brother, didn't that false god warn you?"
"What?" Luo Nie felt a little nervous for no reason.
"Be careful [Hunter]!" Sai roared angrily.
He charged towards the open space where Luo Nie was standing and attacked again. This time he chose to hold the dagger with both hands and used his strongest strength and speed to try to break through Luo Nie's strong defense.
In the flash of lightning, Luo Nian clenched his hands into fists, and the magic power surging throughout his body formed a huge shield.
The light of the mechanical spirit!
This is the product of the intertwining of mechanical and magical power!
The bright light gradually sublimated from green to incandescent. Sai's dagger first faced off against the light shield for several seconds.
However, with a crisp sound of metal breaking, the red dagger began to shatter from the middle and was annihilated in the light.
"call."
The anger in Sayi's heart, who barely pulled away, seemed to have reached its peak. As Luo pinched the shield in front of him, the power gradually weakened, and he began to whisper:
"Bless your servants for everything I have lost. I am willing to sacrifice my blood and soul in exchange for the glory of endless victory."
There was a sound of bones cracking, and thick, hot, bright red blood began to flow out of Sai's back. Matching the bright and dim surroundings, bone joints gradually appeared.
The bamboo-like bones grew alternately, and along with the smell of rotting meat and the dim aura of terror, a ten-meter-long tail that looked like a scorpion grew out of Sayi's back.
Immediately afterwards, he crawled on the ground on all fours like a vicious wolf, growling like a beast, and his newly grown tail began to sway irregularly from side to side, trying to find the best opportunity in confusion.
The roar combined with the dim and blood-red scene around him should have caused a fatal blow to normal people, but Luonie is a product of the Lord of Machines. His emotions have not yet been fully formed. He will not be mentally polluted, nor will he feel the influence from the soul.
fear.
Facing Sai, the lost one who almost turned into a monster, he still analyzed carefully:
"Has he given up on his own reason? Once the Lost give up existing as human beings, they will soon be classified as sequential monsters and will be lost in the wasteland forever. It seems that Sai has been lost
Half of his sanity, if he loses the other half of his sanity, I won't be able to learn about Natasha from him. Although he has power close to Order 5, power is never absolute, but relative.
I still have a chance to win."
Staring at Sai's boney tail with sticky blood remaining, Luo Nian inadvertently touched his lower back with his left hand.
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As Sai's roar came again, the thick bone tail seemed to have completed the short period of running-in with its owner, and pierced towards Luonie's position.
bump!
The tail collided with the ground, making a dull sound of a hard object hitting the rock. At the same time, with the help of the reaction force of the tail, Sai rose into the air and rushed straight towards Luo Nie.
"This is the moment!"
"Bump, bump, bump!"
In just half a second, Luo Nie relied on his skillful skills to draw the pistol, load it, and shoot.
Just as Sai's sharp fangs approached him, a silver bullet was fired, piercing Sai's chest.
Silver bullets have excellent damage effects on the lost and the unintentional. The extraordinary power in their bodies can be swallowed by silver, and the unknown virus that induces their mutation can also be killed by silver.
Although the city of Sugra cannot equip every soldier with silver bullets, it is more than enough for Luo Nie to plunder a few in the Mechanical Element Factory.
As the blood flowers on his chest "bloomed", Sayi, who fell to the ground after being hit, also lost part of his strength. His skeletal tail turned into a pool of foul-smelling powder, and his eyes returned to the brown color of a normal person.
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Moreover, due to the passage of power, the surrounding blood-red force field began to gradually fade away, and the golden afterglow belonging to the sun finally scattered around the two of them from the cracks in the dome.
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Jiyuan Factory, in a basement in Area A of the living area.
Luo Nian, with a metal bandage around his neck, was pacing back and forth in the closed basement filled with industrial debris, his brows furrowed and his face in disbelief.
Bude, a lean man sitting next to him on a dusty storage box, also had a puzzled look on his face. He held a cigarette in his hand and stared at the blond boy tied up with ropes opposite him.
That young man is Sai, the Lost One. Although the gray clothes made of cheap fabrics still have faint bloodstains from yesterday's battle, as the Lost Ones, their vitality is strong enough. As long as they are not subjected to sustained or fatal attacks, they can even survive.
Survived for more than two hundred years.
Luonie, who walked back and forth several times with his chin in his right hand, still couldn't understand Sai's attack, so he asked:
"Explain what happened to Natasha and why you relied on me."
"I..." Sai was a little speechless for a moment. After all, he was a child. After his power was completely suppressed, he instinctively started to panic.
"We won't necessarily kill you, as long as you explain things clearly." Bude, who was sitting next to him, shook off the ashes from his cigarette and said.
"Okay, okay." Sai's voice was full of childishness, "That's it. Sister Natasha previously cooperated with General George to conduct a summoning ceremony in the Lost Swamp. And then...well...then she heard that it could be done
After coming into contact with the false god, she communicated once. But when I went to see her the morning before yesterday, she was mentally out of control. She was talking about "orderer" and "summoning" and so on, and she became crazy. Originally, I wanted to go to work in the evening
I went to see her again, but grandpa said that sister Natasha had been taken away by the escort team."
"Taken away? Taken to the Sugla Disposal Facility?" Luo Nie asked.
For the executioners captured in the city and the lost people who occasionally infiltrated, Sugra set up a special execution place. On the one hand, he was afraid that the caustic liquid and extraordinary power would infect other people, and on the other hand, he wanted to be justified.
"Yes, we received a notice from the security team yesterday, saying that Sister Natasha had contacted the Lost People and was suspected of surrendering to the enemy, so she was executed in accordance with the law. But I know this is just an excuse. If not, brother... Brother, have you contacted the fake ones?
God’s words are the rituals related to General George.”
"Ritual?" Luo Nie asked curiously.
In his understanding, the Socra Committee and the Guards preferred steam machinery to extraordinary power, and there must be some ulterior secrets associated with the ritual.
"Well, I heard from my sister that General George once submitted a bill to the Socra Committee to admit the lost and those with supernatural powers among humans into Socra, but it was rejected." Sai explained with his knowledge:
"So he wants to use the relics and power left by the Lord of the Night to summon gods from the supernatural realm to protect Socra. In this way, he can protect humans with supernatural power to prove the correctness of his proposal. To this end, he seems to also
His son was sacrificed to the gods as a sacrifice. After that, he collaborated with his sister on the ritual in the Lost Swamp. But some time ago, my sister said that both rituals failed, so she was always uneasy during this time.
Yeah, I didn’t expect that something like this would happen.”
When talking about Natasha's death, the corners of his eyes were obviously shining with tears, and the emotion he showed was no less than that of a normal human being.
Luo Nie felt that the child Sai was special from his expression, and it seemed that he could not be treated as a completely lost person.
Bude, who was listening on the sidelines, seemed to quickly clear his thoughts. He put out the cigarette in his hand and said in a rich voice:
"This George must have been bewitched by the power of the Lord of the Night. Just like what I told you before, Luo Kneaded." Bu De stretched out his calloused fingers, tapped Luo Kneading's chest hard, and said:
"We should contribute to the development of machinery honestly and not touch extraordinary things at will. He probably wanted to summon something from the ritual to gain power, and then he was bewitched. But it is certain that he summoned something strange, maybe that thing called
After Natasha's woman discovered something, she was killed and silenced by George. So now, Luo Nie, what are you going to do? Should you give this child to the escort in exchange for new coins as a reward for capturing the Lost One, or should you keep him..."
"Keep him." Luo Nie replied without hesitation:
"I still remember the last time I heard from pseudo...oh no, Natasha that a rare 'order' person appeared. If this kid didn't lie, that 'order' person may be related to George's so-called ritual
.I think, if I follow the instructions given by the stone tablet yesterday, I have to go to the Silent Highlands."
Upon hearing this, Bude sat up and jumped very high.
"I won't go with you. Listen, Luo Nie, you are playing with fire." Bude raised his voice a few times and warned:
"There are still a lot of careless people and strange monsters wandering there, and they are full of dangers. I don't want to go there anymore. Besides, if you go there, what are you going to do with this child?"
"Master, I don't need you, I will solve it by myself. Besides, the information about the sequence of gods in my hand is pointing there. If I can reach the gods, I need him to answer some of the secrets of the wasteland and myself."
"That's your business." Bude said, glanced at Luonie and Sai, sighed, threw the cigarette on the ground and left the basement full of dust and debris.
"Say, are you going? The 'order' and 'summoning the gods' mentioned by your sister Natasha may be related to the Silent Highlands." Luo Nie turned around and asked Sai, who was confused.