The lower reaches of Wujiang River were originally calm, but with the crash of Penglai No. 1, the regional spiritual disaster index gradually increased, and ripples began to appear on the water surface.
The waves gradually spread, as if a pair of invisible hands were gently painting on the water.
"Hello..."
Billy was leaning against the window of the passenger ship, chatting carelessly.
"Foianini, how much food do we have in our bags?"
Foianini squeezed to his elder brother with a cloth bag, counted the contents in the bag, and said casually: "It's enough for us to return to Black Wind Ridge."
The speed of the sightseeing ship is only eight knots. It will take at least nine hours to return to the center of the war situation. It depends on God's face. If there is a violent storm, the ship will go even slower.
Billy then asked: "What are they?"
Foianini: "Six rice dumplings, half filled with sweet date bean paste and the other half filled with pork egg yolk."
Billy: "Only rice dumplings?"
Foianini: "When setting off from Heifeng Ridge, the quartermaster specifically asked not to bring the military rations from Guangling, nor any food products with ship code XN1065, in case the enemy finds out - our lives are at risk.
oh."
The two came to perform a mission around the Aizong Mausoleum, claiming to be passengers from the East. When they arrived at Baibei Port and passed the customs, if the local officers and soldiers checked the luggage and found something strange, and recognized these cargo ship goods from Sendai Prefecture, the brothers would definitely not be able to eat them.
If we leave, we will have to harm Teacher Su Ling.
These six rice dumplings were treasures found at the homes of local farmers in Heifengling.
"I didn't expect that this place also celebrates traditional Chinese festivals?" Billy weighed the small rice dumpling bag with great interest.
Foianini has long known about the folk traditions of Shambhala: "This area is very strange. Brother Billy, there are many time travelers."
"The main factor that constitutes local culture is the hobbies and habits of those in power. For example, the last time we bought "Journey to the West" in Taizhou, it was a hardcover book with picture books."
Shambhala's "Journey to the West" was written by Wang Damin, a time traveler.
Every fifty years or so, time travelers come to this land, using their vision far ahead of their times to use culture, technology, psychic talents and political foresight to transform this deformed world - or temporarily calm its chaos,
Or make it more deformed.
As for books and albums, this "Journey to the West" from a parallel universe is just a pastime for Wang Damin after dinner. Daxia's cultural genes come from various chaotic time and space, and so do its languages and folk customs. It has been used by various
The time traveler controls and is constantly changing.
"Boring." Billy muttered: "You tell me, Foianini."
Foianini: "Huh?"
Billy: "During the Dragon Boat Festival, everyone is eating rice dumplings. Is it considered crazy to steal Qu Yuan's tribute?"
Foianini was ashamed: "Ha...it was originally given to the fish."
Billy: "That's just stealing the tribute from the river god, the fish demon."
Foianini: "It's not stealing, it's fair and aboveboard."
Billy: "Oh, there are so many fish monsters in Baibei Port. I eat a mouthful of rice dumplings to insult these monsters. What a great festival!"
"Although I don't quite understand your magical logic, brother, it is indeed a good thing!" Foianini said with a smile.
As the wind and waves grew stronger, the power brought by the tide began to become more obvious, and the water waves formed violent and undulating lines. They intertwined and chased each other, as if they were the notes of the river's gradually becoming manic.
It was already close to noon when we set off. After walking for three or four hours on the waterway, dark clouds came from the sky. They covered the dome of the cave and part of the "blue sky" caused by the diffuse reflection of the sun - the shallow mist in the far distance.
The huge rocks in the cave were swallowed up one by one.
"Is it getting dark?" Foianini quickly looked at his watch, "Is it only one o'clock in the afternoon?"
Billy Boy didn't feel anything unusual. He was more concerned about the man and woman above the cabin than the changes in spiritual pressure near the Wujiang River.
He could hear some murmurs of human voices, because both Judah and Fai were blood-giving units. For blood-giving followers like Billy, the master's orders were always the loudest and harshest.
But Billy didn't become suspicious. He was too relaxed and his nerves were tough enough. After hearing part of the conversation, the gentleman decided to chat a few words, talk about himself until his defense was broken, and then left quickly.
"I hope the weather will get better." Billy sighed: "It's better to go back early. I've had enough of the monsters in Baibei Port. I can't stand the fishy smell at all."
Foianini: "Brother, are you afraid of water?"
Billy: "When I first accepted the blood collection ceremony of the Little Brotherhood, the servant of God gave me a skin test."
The blood collection ceremony is a test for newcomers of the Crazy Butterfly Holy Cult. Members of the war gang need 1,400 ml of blood to complete their promotion, and a child like Billy who comes from the Red Stone School needs at least 2,500 ml.
Blood - a nearly lethal amount.
As for the "skin test", it is the process of creating blood-donating followers.
The Little Brother infused Billy the Kid with part of the hybrid blood, but without the participation of the Vita Brand, the Holy Blood of Grace could not nest in his body, and there was no way to transform him into the Holy Trinity (human beings, beasts of disaster, and crazy butterflies).
The state of blood donation.
His own immunity was able to resist this kind of miscellaneous blood. After a slight transformation, he was qualified to become Flavia and Dulan's little helper. Then he bumped into the Lord of Hell and FE204863 on his first business deal.
At first, Billy wanted to rely on his retinue bloodline to sneak a pack of H16T and sew it together with the gun in his belly.
As we all know, these two little people got lucky and won the jackpot.
"After doing the skin test, I have been reading. Look." Billy shook his head and explained: "After reading all kinds of vampire books, I will become a vampire soon."
"The deposit was paid, and I saw that the things vampires fear most are sunlight and running water, so I kept hypnotizing myself. I kept hypnotizing myself."
"You can't see the light, you can't go into the water, you have to develop a good habit, and you lose your life because of these things? This is too frustrating."
Foianini did not participate in blood collection, nor did he do skin tests——
——He can work with Flavia only because of his relationship with Brother Billy.
"Oh...so that's it?"
Billy: "Hey, a little superstitious?"
The wind continued to increase, the waves began to roll, and the waves jumped on the water, like goblins beating war drums with their claws and teeth.
The waterbirds on the river bank have long since flown to the deep mountains. In the hot and humid air currents in the dark sky, only mist can be seen floating between the mountains.
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Above Billy the Kid's head, in the second-story cabin.
Compared with the boring food topics of the two friends, the words that came out of Mr. Judah and Ms. Faye's mouths were much more bloody and cruel.
They were almost at odds with each other, blushing and refusing to give in.
"There are three boatmen on duty. It's the off-season for the southern patrol now." Judas lowered his eyebrows and gritted his teeth: "Leave one to pilot, and the remaining two are made into human jerky-the food is enough for us to return to Nanliang Xiaocang Prefecture, but if we have to walk on the mountain road
, both of the gunsmith's apprentices must die."
"Still talking about Nanliang?" Fayi corrected him: "Now it is Chen State, my leader. Is your brain turned on?"
"It will definitely take some time to fully adapt to this body and fully integrate this ghost!" Judah looked innocent. To tell the truth, a few hours ago, he was a top Arab student at the University of Chicago who was about to graduate.
He obtained a High Potential Talent Visa officially certified by the British government.
He has a student loan of $260,000, and he has to work hard to write songs to become an idol, and sell at least 8,000 records to have a chance to pay off the student loan.
What he wanted to care about immediately became how to satisfy his hunger, how to survive in this desolate land, and how to escape from the pursuit of the unknown.
The little saint of the goddess Io in front of me has no effect at all. In terms of force alone - Judas's holy blood body can subdue this woman with just one arm.
If there hadn't been a voice in his head that kept reminding him, greeting him with concern, and repeatedly admonishing him -
——He had already stripped off this girl’s clothes and executed her on the spot. Anyway, this is a lawless world. After satisfying the needs of survival, of course, he must satisfy his sexual desire.
"I really want to take a sip, but conditions don't allow it."
Judas muttered——
——His two personalities merged with each other, and he had never felt so fragile.
Every time he completes this reincarnation ritual through the goddess Io, he will go through the most difficult days.
Although these travelers from parallel time and space can become his new body and the carrier of his powerful soul, all kinds of myths and all kinds of messy memories can also become stumbling blocks.
"And I say." Faye Frosalin talked about the conditions: "You want to kill Foianini and Billy? I don't agree!"
"Why? They are the gunsmith's apprentices." Judas didn't understand: "The gunsmith took a flight from Jushan Station to the Nine Realms. If these two brats hadn't followed the gunsmith, without Flavia and Duran, there wouldn't be this
The myth and legend created by Duan Snake Girl - their teacher should have died long ago."
Judah has also read this story. There are many versions of unofficial biographies about the gunsmith. However, the basic outline of the story is very different - they all tell the story of the gunsmith and these four companions fighting the devil on the plane, gaining the soul power and winning.
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"On the contrary, my leader." Faye didn't want Billy to die here. She had never revealed her true feelings to Judah: "It is precisely because they are the gunsmith's apprentices that they cannot die."
"They carry information about the Baibei Port area, as well as Aizong's mausoleum and Tiangongyuan."
"If they disappeared without any reason, we would have no chance of escaping to Xiaocangzhou. We would be caught by the Anonymous when we disembark in Taizhou."
Judas changed his expression to a friendly one, smiled and said, "That makes sense."
Fayi breathed a sigh of relief. With Judas' soul power, it would be easy to eat these two half-toned psykers.
[Midas to gold] With just one kiss, these two poor creatures will turn into a ball of flesh. Its killing efficiency is very high, but the conditions for activation are relatively harsh, requiring the spirit body of Judas Priest to come into close contact with these beings.
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"You reminded me." Judas smiled sinisterly and said: "But what if I don't agree?"
Fayi was surprised: "Why? Priest?"
Judas tapped his temple lightly and hit his head: "He has seen my face, that Billy Horne, he has seen it, he has seen my real face."
"Is it because of this?" Fayi suddenly felt that the leader was a little unreasonable.
Judas whispered: "Yes, I want to reassure myself. If this guy returns to the team of the Nameless One, David Victor can use the power of [Hell Highway] to take out this memory from his head."
"I don't want my face to be remembered by these despicable and shameless nameless people."
"Even if it's only a one-in-a-thousand chance, a one-in-a-ten thousand coincidence. If I fall into the hands of such a little guy and Goddess Io resurrects me again - I will feel ashamed."
"Faye Florsalin, do you know what the most terrifying emotion in the world is?"
"It's just [shame]——"
"——Shame represents self-denial, self-destruction, and self-termination."
"Losing to the gunsmith is nothing. His destructive power is far beyond my imagination. Outside the boundary monument of Aizong's Mausoleum, I was killed by him instantly without even seeing his face clearly."
"But I don't feel any shame at all. This is just a failure. I can accept this result and I can make a comeback."
"But if because of one Billy Horn, because some despicable bastard accidentally broke open the door of the boathouse, and my face was exposed to the sight of unknown people, my heart could not bear the shame."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Don't you like to eat human flesh? Fayi? You are the best cook among us, and you are the little fairy flying around in front of the kitchen counter.
When Pellerini was still alive, he would often complain that you needed too many types of spices to perform intelligence missions."
Judas whispered—
"——Why? The flesh and blood of these two psychics are sweeter than ordinary people and can satisfy our hunger better. Why? Faye Frosalin?"
"Your mother is the goddess Io, a man-eating sun."
"According to the structure of genes and memes, you are the incarnation of Io. I am afraid there is no one in the world who loves human flesh more than you..."
"Why? Why don't you want to eat them?"
Judas hugged each other, covered his face with Fayi's scarf, and sniffed the perfume of the "goddess".
"I can't accept the previous reason, although it is very reasonable. I seem to smell..."
"I smell betrayal, I smell love. Faye Florsalin, are you in love with this guy?"
Ms. Fay cannot cover up the pheromones in her body, and her holy blood carries part of the animalistic nature of a lark——
——During the courtship process, the expression of pheromone will become more intense.
The waves on the river are turbulent and huge, and wild horses are galloping in the water.
The waves are splashing, the water mist is filled, the roar of the wind and waves are intertwined with the dark clouds and lightning.
Thunder suddenly illuminated Fayi's profile, and the leader's repeated questions made her feel ashamed——
——As Judas described, this shame almost destroyed her completely,
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[Part2·The source of fear]
"Because of love?" Judas was quite surprised, but he did not break his guard, had no intention of insulting or blaming his subordinates, and did not ignore or despise this emotion.
According to ordinary people's logic, there will always be an illusion that "people who do great things will not be dragged down by emotions."
But Judas has fought against Ao Mingde for so many years - he has already tasted the power of "love".
This kind of power can make a dying warrior stand up again, and can make two enemies who have no cooperation and hate each other become dependent on each other.
The belief it bursts out forms a spiritual barrier that is shaped by the family, enabling people to fight against powerful spiritual pressure and slaughter blood-giving monsters.
"I prefer to believe..." Fayi tilted his head, not daring to look into the leader's eyes: "I prefer to believe that it was his mother who chose him."
No matter how Fayi changes her appearance, no matter how many times the Rose Fairy dies, she will always fall in love - the goddess Io resurrects her again and again through [Heavenly Grant], but she can't escape Billy Horn's disaster.
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For Fayi, the love in his heart is not groundless. After all, Io has had thousands of incarnations. Just like Judas, they have their own lives, personalities, and various ideas.
"WTF..." Judas said in beautiful English: "You mean, the god Amun of Shambhala, the sun god - our goddess Io, fell in love with this boy?"
Although Billy Horn always thought that he was extremely unlucky.
He could not escape this misfortune in his life. Even if he became a gunsmith's apprentice, he could hardly get any merit in this autumn harvest operation. In the long road of life in the past, Foianini had a purple golden flower. Excellent communication
The medal was a "fish that slipped through the net" that Foianini accidentally caught while setting up radio stations on the front line - Billy the Kid was knocked unconscious by Mr. Jason's grenade that day and failed to go to the front line.
However, the goddess Io loves him.
This itself makes no sense, and there is no logic to it.
Just like what happens in fairy tales, two people with different family backgrounds, different classes, and completely different ideas suddenly meet because of an intelligence mission. The goddess Io meets Faye Frosalin through the eyes and the small window of the soul.
Meet Billy Horn.
"Do you think she fainted from hunger?" Although Judas could understand the power brought by love, he could not understand the meaning of love itself: "Io? Billy Horn? This is the hero and heroine who should appear in the same book.
?The sun god? And a wild child from a drug dealer's family who has no mother and no father to teach him? What story can they have?"
"My mind is very confused, leader, and I have no clue..." Fayi spoke incoherently, and to be honest, she couldn't understand - is this Io's will? Or is it destiny?
Just when the two big men were in a state of despair.
The boatman on shift finally let out his first scream——
——Two half-fish monsters emerged from the black river.
They came from the Aizong Mausoleum and were the soldiers surrounding the complex. They were supposed to be uniformly dispatched and commanded by Fickwood.
At this moment, the physical bodies of these lightning stars are on the verge of collapse, and the holy blood of Meng En is gradually losing control in the environment with extremely high concentration of spiritual disasters.
The load capacity of the passenger boat is 250 tons. Since it is a return trip, in addition to a few passengers in the cabin, there is also 160 tons of cargo weighed in the bilge. The large bamboos on both sides of the ship used to balance the waterline are specially thickened.
It has also become a boarding point for these monsters.
The dark scale claws cling to the wooden deck. The eyes, ears, mouth and nose of the fishmen officers and soldiers have been completely deformed. Strips of high-temperature boiling rotten meat are constantly spitting out from these bloody holes, trying to empty out the soft brain tissue -
—Vita Brand is about to seize this head and dominate the spine center.
Judas felt the familiar spiritual pressure, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
"Is it a butterfly?"
Looking out through the window grille, I saw two slimy black shadows crawling towards the rudder of the ship.
"Fickwood's soldiers..."
Fayi: "Why? They are going to turn into incarnate butterflies?"
Judas was completely unprepared. He had no experience fighting the incarnate butterfly, and would never face such a monster head-on. The matter of fighting and subduing the monster with all his life was left to his subordinates. He was just a businessman.
"How big of a trap did Fickwood create..."
"I obviously told him before setting off..."
Judas felt unreasonable. Under the influence of the violent spiritual pressure of the lightning star, his eyes were all bloodshot.
"It seems that the elixir cave of Aizong's mausoleum has to be given up. Fayi, protect me..."
"Leader! What are you talking about?" Fayi said in surprise: "You are much stronger than me!"
Even if he has the more powerful Holy Blood of Grace, for Judas, he very much recognizes an iron rule in the "Gunsmith's Bible".
He can't use the power he has never used. Even if his fingers can bend carbon steel pipes, he can bite copper paperweight bars with his teeth, and he can break the main pole of this hardwood sailboat with one punch, he never wants to fight the incarnation of a butterfly.
Close contact - let alone fighting, even with a gun in hand, he couldn't hit or kill these monsters.
When it comes to killing enemies in battle, these lightning stars who have lost their intelligence can be said to have missed the point. In addition to the terrifying lethality of [Midas Turning Stone into Gold], Judas prefers to solve problems by talking about business.
"What on earth is going on? Why do these fishmen officers and soldiers appear here?!" Judas cursed: "Damn it... Fickwood, you really deserve to die!"
At the other end of the mast, the boatman in the direction of the rudder had just turned around and heard the sound of gurgling water.
His head tilted, and he was held up by these two huge fish-men. The upper and lower halves of his body were separated. The flesh and blood began to rot when they came into contact with the high temperature of the lightning star - these power seeds that transformed into butterflies have extremely strong digestion capabilities.
, almost the whole body was covered with invisible "mouths". Just touching it with his toes and arms, and holding the human flesh in his arms, the boatman immediately disappeared and merged into the monster's body.
"Ho..." The fishman officer and soldier on the left seemed to have the slightest bit of consciousness: "Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey... aura... aura..."
A hoarse roar came from his throat, and a gold medal and scroll order slipped out of the armor on his shoulders and elbows.
Judas finally figured it out——
"——These two messengers were sent by Fickwood! He seems to have something to say..."
The moment Fickwood Abby used the Polaroid to send Jiang Xueming back, within the next ten minutes, he sent an order to the local officers and soldiers stationed around Wujiang River to inform Faye Frosalin of the whereabouts of the gunsmith and tell the news.
Judah.
Since Rose Fairy's elixir channel is only known to Judas, Judas himself has to rely on [Heavenly Grant] to be resurrected. So running errands and sending messages became the only means of communication. These fishmen set out with gold medals and orders to find Ogura Prefecture all the way.
They turned into monsters halfway through. Because of the spiritual disaster brought by the original seed, they lost their minds.
"Monster! Monster! Monster!" The boatman on shift immediately got up and ran to the cabin in a panic.
As soon as Billy Boy heard the cry for help, he immediately fiddled with the door lock to welcome the boatman in——
——The dark rainy weather made it difficult for him to see the monster in the direction of the ship's rudder. It seemed that the helmsman and navigator of the previous class had become the monster's meal.
"Brother! Brother, open the door quickly! Hurry! Hurry!~" The boatman nervously slapped the wooden fence and opened the inner door and the outer door.
Billy felt an electric shock all over his body. He saw the faces of the two fish-men clearly in an instant and suddenly froze to death.
What a terrifying and ferocious face it was. After losing all the facial features, meat worms as thick as a thumb were moving in and out of these bright red skulls. They were slowly squeezing closer together with the boatman brothers.
Foianini said nervously: "Fucking Billy! Think clearly! Do you really want to open the door?"
The soft armor has been completely corroded by the Vita Brand derivatives, and the fish skin and scales are slowly falling off. The back spines of these "giant fishmen" more than 250 centimeters tall are gradually opening up - the lungs and ribs.
They protrude outward and become the primary form of the incarnation butterfly, becoming a "blood eagle". They need more essence to complete the transformation and satisfy their hunger before they can transform into angels.
In the wind and rain, Billy is undergoing a test. His fingers cannot obey and he cannot control his body.
He was so frightened that he couldn't move. In just a few seconds, he had to decide between life and death.
"I think clearly! I think clearly!"
"This door can't stop them..."
"Open it! Open it! Foianini! Help me! Help me open it!"