After leaving the banquet venue, the carriage gradually slowed down.
The black horse is still not as strong and powerful as the white butt, and even after the speed slows down, it is still panting.
Victor didn't force it, and drove on the gravel road at an even speed. There were few lights on the houses on both sides, and there were very few pedestrians on the road. The sound of hoofbeats was clear and awakening in the quiet environment.
"Did you gain anything tonight?" Victor took this opportunity to chat with Will.
"Of course, I have gained a lot..." Will clenched his fist and kept tapping his chin.
"Then I hope it's worth your efforts..."
Victor couldn't help but snicker in his heart when he thought about Will getting involved with that old lady.
Next, Will reported everything to Victor, including the information he learned after communicating with several building materials dealers and Urugus.
Of course, Arushi also talked about trying to win over him.
Amidst the sound of horse hooves, Victor saw through Urugos's intention without much thought.
"He's trying to whet your appetite, Mr. Evans. The steel for the East-West General Railway was purchased from Rockefeller Ocean Trading. If there really were other routes, they would have done it themselves."
Will also agreed with Victor's words, but he wanted to find another opportunity to communicate with him in private and get a feel for the East-West Railway General Company.
At this time, the carriage reached a dark and uninhabited section of the road. The buildings on both sides all turned off their lights, and they were the only car driving on the road.
This road is not the only way back to Xianxiang Mansion. Victor was a little sleepy and just wanted to take a shortcut, but he didn't expect that this section of the road turned into an empty alley at night.
"I remember it was quite lively here during the day, but at night there wasn't even a light?"
He murmured to himself, and the black horse's snoring became heavier and heavier. It was not that he was tired of pulling the cart, but it was a warning to the owner.
Victor stopped the carriage and looked up at the surrounding environment. There were too many dark places and no strange noises. The seemingly safe and peaceful night was filled with a goosebump-inducing atmosphere.
"What's wrong?" Will stuck his head out of the car, but Victor pushed him back.
Then, a hand was stretched out in front of Will to tell him to sit still and Victor's voice came from the front.
"Hold him."
Will looked down, reflecting the oil lamp in the carriage, and took a page of yellow paper with strange symbols drawn on it from Victor's hand.
"I don't quite understand. What did you give me?"
"If you are in danger, put it on yourself."
"Danger?"
After listening to Victor's instructions, Will knew that his boss would not tell him this for no reason. He pulled the yellow paper in his palm and nodded gently.
Victor turned around, set up the carriage and continued to drive forward, making fortune-telling fortunes as he drove.
The first hexagram calculated was Liulian. Victor felt that the future of this hexagram was uncertain and a little bad, so he applied a Yang talisman written in blood to himself, and then calculated again!
"Empty death?!"
Victor's face changed drastically. What was originally a slightly bad lingering effect turned into a very bad "empty death" after applying the Yang Talisman?
Victor did not believe in evil, and when he continued to calculate the third hexagram, he suddenly discovered that the hexagrams on his finger joints began to become disordered, and kept shifting positions on each knuckle, making his calculations always wrong.
This phenomenon is a bit similar to what happened when he was disturbed by "Delusional Limb". Victor thought he was attacked by Sullivan!
But now he is not possessed by delusional limbs to attack his mental body, and he does not believe that Sullivan still dares to stay in Renekton.
Just when Victor raised his head to be wary of his surroundings, he suddenly saw a black shadow lying there on the four-story roof on the side. The outline of his body broke the lines of the roof and bulged high in the moonlight.
The next moment, the black shadow suddenly opened a pair of fleshy wings and flapped them, blocking half of the moonlight, like a huge bat.
"drink!"
Victor shouted loudly, and the black horse's neighing pierced the dark night, but was quickly covered up by the cry of the thing on the roof.
The sound made by that thing was like blowing a whistle with the throat trembling, and it was not the sound of any common animal.
The carriage sped up and rushed out, while the black shadow on the roof also swooped down and pounced directly on them at a speed faster than the carriage.
Will also heard the strange cry.
He was in the carriage, and he didn't know what Victor saw. He could only feel the bumps of the carriage getting stronger and the speed getting faster, as if he was escaping from something outside.
Driven by curiosity, he couldn't help but open the car window, but the first scene that unfolded in front of him was - a ball of flame exploded in the air, something was hit by the fireball and fell from the sky.
He came down and fell behind the carriage, and was quickly thrown away by the carriage.
Will didn't see clearly what that thing was, but he had a vague feeling that the thing was no smaller than an Indian lion.
The Indong lion is a cat species native to the Indong continent, and its size is equivalent to the cheetah in Victor's previous world.
At this moment, in front of the carriage, I saw Victor holding the reins with one hand and pulling back the hand that was thrown out.
The flying card he had just cast with a fire spell on it hit the monster behind him very accurately. Although he couldn't see clearly what it was, Victor knew that the thing behind it was quite dangerous.
The power of that fire spell was not weaker than an explosive bomb. If it were a human being, it would cost half of his life.
But the future did not become safer just because Victor repelled the monster. Another black shadow suddenly appeared above the carriage like a ghost.
Victor heard the sound of flapping wings again, and before he had time to look up, something suddenly landed on the roof of the carriage, pointing directly at Victor with its corolla-like head.
This look at each other was very scary. Victor thought he had seen ghouls and Saluba before, so he would not be too scared by the monster's appearance, but when he saw this thing, he still couldn't help but get goosebumps all over his body.
"Mr. Victor!"
Will's panicked cry was like a flag of command, alerting the monster.
The monster quickly stretched out a pair of slender and extremely sharp claws and pulled Victor's head.
If caught by it, Victor's brains would probably be pinched out.
However, the fact is that the moment the monster's claws touched Victor's head, it seemed as if it had scratched an extremely hard diamond, and a huge force bounced it away, causing it to neigh and wail in pain, and let out that harsh sound again.
's cry.
At the same time, the golden armor and life-protecting jade curse that Victor placed on himself also broke.
He was stunned for a moment, and then he immediately pulled out his hand and prepared to draw another one for himself.
But the monster on the carriage swept its wings and almost slapped him off the carriage.
Victor grabbed the edge of the carriage, pulled out his pistol and shot the monster in the face.
The monster retracted its head in pain and covered its face with its claws. Victor crawled on the edge and stretched out his hand to draw a fire spell on the monster as quickly as possible.
In an instant, the monster's wings were ignited, and it painfully flew high into the sky, then fell down and landed in front of the carriage.
Victor pulled the reins to stop the black horse, and then prepared to turn around and escape.
But after the monster struggled on the ground twice to extinguish the flames, it actually targeted Victor's dark horse!
It seems to be quite smart, knowing that after killing the horse, the people in the car will not be able to escape!
The vehicle turned faster than the monster. It spread its bat-like wings and flew towards the black horse, causing the car to shake violently and almost roll over.
Then, Victor saw that his black horse was not only not afraid, but also raised a pair of front hooves and kicked the monster on the head hard!