In the world of Swordsman, urban ruins are divided into four levels: s, a, b and from high to low according to the degree of danger.
Among them, the ruins of S-level cities are almost filled with insect beasts of level eight or above. The level of danger is extremely high. Even a level-9 swordsmith may die.
Therefore, it is rare for a swordsmith to go to the ruins of an S-level city. If Gao Mingliang really wants to choose a place to hide, he has to say that the ruins of an S-level city are a suitable choice.
However, the ruins of S-class cities are dangerous restricted areas for ordinary swordsmiths, but this is not the case for Lin Ze. Even if he is surrounded by a swarm of insects, he can escape with the flame wings, but there may be clever opponents hiding there.
He is the greatest threat.
After all, in his estimation, the strength of the 'Human Pillar' swordsmith was already very close to the hero level and would not be easy to deal with.
Not long after, Pan Zongchang brought a map of the ruins of the S2 city, which marked several locations where traces of Gao Mingliang were found.
After replenishing the food, Lin Ze immediately set off and rushed to the S2 city ruins non-stop. The 2 city ruins were more than 50 kilometers away from the Blackstone settlement. It would take at least half a day to walk. After Lin Ze left the settlement for a while, he displayed his flame wings.
We hurried on and arrived at our destination in less than an hour.
Compared with AB-level city ruins, S-level city ruins not only have more high-level insect beasts, but the number of flying insect beasts has also increased significantly, and they can be seen everywhere.
Along the way, Lin Ze killed at least more than two hundred flying insect beasts without eyes that wanted to attack him.
In order to avoid causing a big commotion and be noticed by Gao Mingliang in advance, he had no choice but to disperse the flame wings and enter the S2 city ruins from the ground, carefully avoiding the place where the insects gathered.
Under the invasion of the long years, all the buildings in the city have collapsed and are dilapidated. The streets are covered with moss and lush vegetation. Dark shadows can be faintly seen among them. From time to time, long-lasting insect sounds can be heard in the distance.
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Lin Ze lowered his steps and passed over the ruins quietly and swiftly.
There were three places where traces of Gao Mingliang were found. He had already searched the first two places and found nothing, but the one he was in now was the last one.
There are many insects and beasts in the ruins of the city, and activities are frequent. Even if Gao Mingliang left any traces, most of them have been destroyed long ago. It is not easy to find the other party based on this. You can only look for where a battle took place. Maybe
Something can be discovered.
Not long after, Lin Ze found a body under a collapsed wall.
The corpse was that of a man in his forties, wearing a specially made battle uniform with the logo of the Swordsmiths Guild, and there were no obvious wounds on his body.
This abnormality immediately caught Lin Ze's attention. He stepped forward to take a closer look and was startled when he saw a large amount of small, uniform white foam around the mouth and nose of the corpse.
"Drowned?"
Anyone who dares to hunt insect beasts in the ruins of an S-class city must be at least an eighth-level swordsmith. A swordsmith of this level would die of drowning. Lin Ze would have found it hard to believe it if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes.
For a moment, a figure flashed in his mind. He paused and continued to look over the body. Sure enough, he found residual silver liquid in the ears of the body and the bottom of the pocket of the combat uniform.
"Sure enough, it was Gao Mingliang who did it!" Lin Ze took a long breath and felt refreshed.
Gao Mingliang's Soul Knife ability is the 'God Man', which can control mercury-like liquid to condense into a huge humanoid creature. In addition to his huge unparalleled power, sucking the enemy into his body and cutting off the air to make him drown are also his common attacks.
means.
After accepting the task of killing Gao Mingliang, Lin Ze asked the Swordsmiths Guild to provide detailed information on the former's strength. He already knew about this, and when he saw it, he immediately thought of it.
"So, Gao Mingliang is indeed hiding in the ruins of S2 city, and it's not far from here."
Lin Ze was slightly overjoyed. Unexpectedly, he was lucky enough to find something as soon as he arrived here. However, he soon fell into trouble. Although it was nearby, it was still a large area. If he wanted to find someone who was hiding there on purpose,
Not an easy task.
"It's a pity. It would be nice if there were skills like searching for enemies."
Lin Ze murmured to himself in a low voice, then suddenly an idea came to him and he patted his forehead.
"I almost forgot, isn't there spiritual magic?"
He immediately thought slightly, exited the sword world, and then logged back into the royal court world.
Not long after he first entered the world of Wangting, Lin Ze once encountered a fight between the traditionalists and the reformists in the training dojo, and almost accidentally injured Chen Muchen.
Later, in order to find out the perpetrator, the reformist students used an advanced spiritual technique called "Butterfly Seeking" and found the murderer through the remaining spiritual power.
Lin Ze was quite impressed by this. When he thought of enemy-seeking skills, he immediately thought of this spiritual technique.
"But the principle of Xundie is to find the owner of the breath through the remaining spiritual power. I wonder if it has any effect on soul energy?"
"Perhaps it can be fused with soul energy and transformed into a skill that can search for soul energy breath!"
After coming out of the Shu family's residence, Lin Ze immediately rushed to the Spiritual Arts Zhenyang Academy and went to the academy's bulletin board to check, only to find that the nearest Butterfly Hunting course would be in three days.
He was not in a hurry. Anyway, when he left the world of swordsmanship, the time in the game was suspended. Unexpectedly, Gao Mingliang would disappear.
So he practiced quietly in the Royal Court World for three days before taking the butterfly-seeking spiritual art course.
After taking the spiritual potion, Lin Ze's precision in controlling spiritual energy has greatly increased. This is reflected in the spiritual practice, which is that the practice speed has been greatly accelerated, not to mention the 50% practice buff blessing.
By five days, he had mastered the butterfly-seeking spiritual art, and then he devoted himself to research and spent three days transforming the soul-energy version of the butterfly-seeking spiritual art.
After everything was ready, Lin Ze returned to the world of sword language and reappeared next to the drowned corpse.
Glancing at the corpse, he opened his palms, and a halo of spiritual energy slowly emerged from his palms, slowly condensing into a purple-black, small and beautiful butterfly.
Under his control, the butterfly slowly flew to the corpse, lingered on the ears and pockets of the combat uniform for a while, then flew high into the sky, hovered for a moment, and flew leisurely toward the west.
Lin Ze was overjoyed and quickly followed him.
To the west, there is a relatively intact building.
In a room on the third floor, Gao Mingliang casually threw aside the tube of nutritional ointment that he had eaten, and leaned his back heavily against the wall, making a muffled sound. He seemed not to notice, but his eyes were slightly confused.
Looking out the window.
Several months have passed since he learned about Master Qi's death and fled from the Blackstone settlement in panic, then hid in the ruins of the city.
Months of living in the wilderness had turned him into a sloppy-looking wanderer. His messy hair was stuck in a ball and had not been washed for an unknown amount of time. His clothes were even more dirty and stained, and he was covered in sweat.
There was an unbearable stench, which was simply unimaginable to Gao Mingliang, who used to be very particular about cleanliness and always had his hair and fingernails carefully taken care of no matter where he was.
And all of this is ultimately because of that guy named Lin Ze!
He really couldn't understand how a guy who had just graduated from the training camp could quickly grow to have the strength to kill the 'Human Pillar' swordsmith. This kind of improvement speed was simply unheard of.
Gao Mingliang asked himself, even if he faced Master Qi, he was not sure that he could kill him, but Lin Ze did it!
This puzzled him!
It was because of Lin Ze's intervention that he and Qi Shi's foolproof plan went bankrupt. In the end, Qi Shi died, and he had to flee the settlement in embarrassment like a lost dog, and was reduced to hiding in the ruins of an S-level city, fighting against each other every day.
Being in the company of insects and beasts, you have to be careful not to be discovered by other swordsmiths, and you are always worried.
When he thought that this kind of life would continue from now on, Gao Mingliang felt as if his heart was being eaten by insects and ants, and his hatred for Lin Ze became more and more intense.
Bang!
He suddenly punched the wall next to him, causing large cracks and countless stone powder falling straight down.
"Damn Lin Ze!"
A low voice echoed in the room, and the resentment in the tone almost overflowed.
After a while, Gao Mingliang slumped as if frustrated. He reached out and took out a stick of nutritional ointment from the tactical backpack beside him, and swallowed it in big mouthfuls.
The tactical backpack was something he looted after killing an eighth-level swordsmith. The nutritious ointment that he had disdained when he was in the settlement was now a rare delicacy to him.
Thinking of this, Gao Mingliang's expression turned gloomy.
Suddenly, a warning sign surged in his heart, and he immediately activated the soul knife's properties without hesitation, summoning a large amount of silver liquid to wrap around his body.
The next moment after completing these actions, a loud roar was heard, and the whole building suddenly collapsed as if it was bombarded by a salvo of artillery shells. Countless stones crashed down, and the dust and fine stones scattered all over the sky.
With the collapsed building as the center, the shock wave spread rapidly, and in the blink of an eye, an area of hundreds of meters in radius was enveloped in thick smoke.
boom!
A whistling sound suddenly sounded through the air, and a ball of silver liquid about two meters in diameter suddenly broke through the dust, flew out quickly, and stopped a hundred meters away.
The silver liquid quickly retracted, revealing Gao Mingliang's figure. His face was full of shock and confusion, and his eyes were horrified as he looked at the ruins of the building not far away.
"Found you!"
An indifferent voice suddenly sounded from not far away. Gao Mingliang immediately turned around and saw that a tall young man had appeared on the street dozens of meters away, with a purple-black butterfly standing on his shoulder.
The moment he saw the young man's face clearly, Gao Mingliang's pupils couldn't help but shrink, and his cheeks twitched violently.