Lin Shuwen gasped for breath, raised his head, and swallowed the iron smell that came up from his throat. Meier licked the corners of his master's mouth and wiped away the remaining blood for him. Pain came from the black wings on his back, tearing his shoulders and back.
The muscles of his back and the dragon's head climbed onto Lin Shuwen's shoulders again, and Zang Yue had completed the emergency repair of his internal organs.
"hiss……"
(It’s still very painful.)
Lin Shuwen gasped and stood up from the ruins. The materialization of the waning moon only condensed the dark elements into a physical entity. As an extension of the senses, it replaced the nerves and blood vessels and muscles. These senses were directly connected to Lin Shuwen's brain and soul.
, although it allows him to control it freely, the feeling will be conveyed to himself as accurately as the body. Even if the materialization is relieved, the pain will still exist for a period of time.
Lin Shuwen, who had slightly recovered his mobility, looked at the empty playground. When they entered the main studio, Ye Lanxin's direct unit "Garden" had completed the transfer of personnel and the clearance of miscellaneous soldiers. It would be lifted after the processing here was completed.
Their hint caused the Memory Corps to delete this memory.
"Hello!!!"
Someone's call came from the distance. Lin Shuwen turned his head and looked at the figures from far to near. However, in the middle of the two, Sen Ming was slowly standing up. Lin Shuwen struggled to drag his body and pressed the button.
earphone.
"Lady, can you hear me? Put me through Sui Feng, hurry up!"
"It's been connected. It's a third-line call now. Tell me what's going on on your end!"
In the darkness, Ye Lanxin took out a bandage and cotton balls from his sling, and bandaged the forehead broken by the rock under the dark ruins. Next to him lay the first incapacitated guard with a broken hand bone, the broken rock.
Under the block, thick liquid flowed across her soles, exuding blood in the darkness.
"Suifeng, a few meters in front of me, is the enemy leader. Use tranquilizer bombs or... ugh!"
Lin Shuwen received a heavy punch from Sen Ming in the abdomen. The bishop who had just stood up was even more agile and healthy than before the injury. The inhuman force knocked Lin Shuwen away from him and onto the ground. Meier flew away.
Moving forward, she bit his neck again, but she bit on Sen Ming's raised palm. She used all her strength to tear off a piece of flesh, but the other party pulled her away from his hand as if she was unconscious.
It came down and hit the ground.
"Well!"
Relying on her own agility, Meier twisted her body in the air and landed on all fours. However, due to the impact, she was pushed aside from the point of impact and she let out a cry of pain.
"Ah~ It was you, you beast, who bit off my snake body!"
A hoarse and ferocious sound came from Sen Ming's throat. He picked up a sharp piece of broken glass from the ground, held it tightly in his hand without knowing the pain, and stabbed Mei'er who was trembling on the ground.
"ah!!!"
The scene in front of him was transformed in Lin Shuwen's pupils. That rainy night, that beloved her, that ferocious man and his flying blade. The blood soaked the snow-white fur, and the fragments of glass reflected Mei'er's gradually absent-minded pupils. In one
Lin Shuwen's humanity was instantly shattered.
"Ouch!!!"
The majestic black mist spewed from the shadows in all directions, and the young man's body was submerged by the black mist that filled time and space. Along with the dragon's roar that shook the soul, all creatures lost their senses.
"Owner……"
A familiar voice echoed in someone's mind. The black mist suddenly dispersed, and the figure that emerged looked at the white fox with black lines in his arms. The familiar heartbeat came from the palm of his hand again. Meier weakly moved from her master's hand.
He straightened up in the palm of his hand, feeling the strength that was constantly recovering. Lin Shuwen held her in front of him with tears in his eyes, rubbed her body with his cheek, and finally turned his eyes to the surroundings.
"This...this is..."
Lingjiu murmured tremblingly, and the huge cracks were reflected in her eyes that had just recovered her vision. She glanced at the screen and found that three minutes had passed.
"What happened just now..."
""Suifeng"?! Lingjiu!! What happened?!"
Ye Lanxin's voice barely brought Lingjiu back to her senses. She swallowed and replied tremblingly:
"A huge claw mark..."
"What?!"
"A huge claw mark appeared on the ground! And it should be the movement trajectory of the claw mark. Everything it encountered during the process of smashing down was completely cut away, as if the space was cut away."
Lingjiu recounted the horrific scene in front of her. A complete and smooth claw mark appeared on the ground of the rubble-strewn ruins. Within the scope of its suspected movement trajectory, everything left a smooth cross-section. Yes,
The cross section is as smooth as if the space has been cut away.
"You mean some huge creature slapped the ground with its claws?
Face?! Are there any traces of his movement around?!!"
"No... it's like it appeared out of thin air. We should have been deprived of consciousness for about three minutes, but there are no traces at all except this claw mark. And I feel that we were deprived of more than just consciousness. Together we will"
"Three minutes" feels like "a moment"!"
"Tsk, where are the people nearby?!"
"Apart from me, the local leader should be dead. I can't find any trace of him."
Lin Shuwen's weak voice appeared in the earphones, and he gasped for air.
"What did you say?! What do you mean there are no traces of him?"
"I don't know! There is only a deep black ditch where he just stood! His clothes, bloodstains, and even the cross have disappeared!"
"The cross should not have disappeared."
Can Yue's voice came from Lin Shuwen's mind. Lin Shuwen looked at his shoulder, and Can Yue gradually condensed her own appearance. The difference was that her lines and body were more "real" than before.
"In the past three minutes, the creature that left the claw marks decomposed the absorbed cross and used the cause and effect of that power to rescue Mei'er."
Zangyue stared at the master's side face and confirmed in his mind with an unquestionable tone:
"Am I right? That creature swallowed the opponent whole. Everything was swallowed up in a "moment" that we didn't know."
Lin Shuwen stared blankly at the waning moon and replied in a stiff voice:
"I have no idea."
"Well, it would be terrible if he ran away. Where is the surveillance of the streets around "Red Wind"?" Ye Lanxin didn't know what the two had just asked, so she contacted the intelligence team again.
"We have analyzed it and found that Sen Ming has not left the playground. We have expanded the scope to the entire district and there is no trace of him."
"That means it's basically certain that he has disappeared, right?"
"Yes."
Ye Lanxin hung up the communication line, looked at the side wall where rubble had rolled down due to lack of ground, and threw three black balls with sparks towards the upper left where the light was transmitted. With the sound of explosions,
She finally stood under the light-filled sky again.
"Tsk, it's really... spectacular..."
She looked around at the ravines and cross-sections in front of her, and sighed unconsciously. There was an explosion sound around her, and the figures of Lan Ruxin and her party appeared in the smoke. Behind them, the guards who had lost their divine light
Scattered beside or under the rocks, various viscous liquids mixed into water flow, exuding a fishy smell.
"Hey!!! You guys!! How are you?!"
Lan Ruxin straightened up, turned her head to look at the intact corridor on the other side, and called out to the section above. "Butterfly" and a group of four people appeared on the section.
"'Jin Ming' is in a coma! It seems that his elemental spirit went into shock due to the changes just now!"
"Ah~ there is no creature that would not be afraid of hearing that kind of dragon roar... not to mention the elemental spirits in nature..."
Lan Ruxin stroked her heart, which was still beating wildly. Just mentioning the dragon's roar made cold sweat fall down her back.
"So, you know what happened during that time?"
Ye Lanxin turned over the stone next to her and walked to Lan Ruxin's side. Lan Ruxin was silent, her whole body trembling. It was the first time she saw her fearless sister look like this.
Take a look.
"Huh~huh~huh~I...vomit!"
Lan Ruxin took a few deep breaths, and just when she was about to start remembering, she covered her mouth, ran to the ravine and vomited.
"You were so scared..."
Ye Lanxin walked to her sister's side and patted her back carefully. Lan Ruxin's face turned pale and she knelt down beside the ravine.
"Don't think about it if you don't want to, and calm down your mood first...?"
Ye Lanxin's arm was held tightly by Lan Ruxin, and her teeth bit her lip. Relying on the pain, Lan Ruxin suppressed her fear.
"It takes away the light..."
"What?"
"I, with my naked eyes, can't see anything except a mass of blackness, including perception, smell, touch, and hearing. I can't feel that I exist in this time and space. When I... turned on my spiritual vision, I saw...
…Cough cough cough!”
"Ru Xin!"
Lan Ruxin suddenly coughed violently, and Ye Lanxin hugged her sister tightly in her arms, signaling her to stop talking. The sister's emotions had overtaken her rationality, and she no longer cared whether she was being watched by someone.
"I... because of my ability to neutralize... participated in about three points
During the process, I... I saw... a huge claw stretched out from the fog, and pressed towards... a ball of white light... and then... without any obstruction... the white light was swallowed up...
...To describe it...it's like a chopping board pressing flour."
"after……"
"I "heard" a dragon roar, and "saw" a pair of vertical pupils. It was the fear coming from the depths of my soul. I was even... almost scared to death from fear!"
"Okay, I get it! Stop talking! Get some rest!"
"The pupils... are like the waning moon..."
"Varied?!"
Ye Lanxin turned his head and looked at Lin Shuwen in the distance. Cangyue, who was lying on his shoulder, felt her gaze and turned his head to meet her gaze. The two looked at each other like this until Cangyue turned to his again.
Owner.
"Master, a few of them should be a little injured, the others are fine."
"Yeah……"
Lin Shuwen stared blankly at the exposed right arm from the neat cut of the sleeve. The pitch-black scales were gradually turning into lines. Blood seeped out from the pores and condensed into bright red gems inlaid three centimeters behind the wrist. The pitch-black
The lines gathered into familiar black eyes, with the gem in the center. A sharp pain came from his arm, and he closed his eyes subconsciously. At the center of his eyebrows, the black eyes condensed into solid black lines. After a few seconds
Dissipated again. Lin Shuwen opened his eyes, and his right arm was intact as before, with no weird lines or gems, as if everything just now was an illusion.
"Zangyue, you should know something, right?"
He finally remembered Zangyue's inquiry, took off his earphones, and asked her.
"I'm the same as the master. I only understand the results and principles of all this, but I don't know the process."
Cangyue shook her head and told her master with clear eyes that she was not lying.
"I am the only person at the scene who can use dark elements and has a reason to kill to save Meier. I have forgotten everything from the time I saw Meier's "death" to before her "resurrection". I am almost certain that I did all of this.
.”
"But even if the master summoned my body hidden in the world, he would not be able to devour and decompose it so accurately. Moreover, my body is only flesh. Unlike the master's dark blade, he should be crushed into pulp instead of
Being swallowed and decomposed. What's more, I don't have the ability to swallow that cross with the law of "identification" so easily. The blow I just tried with all my strength was just bounced away by him, and it couldn't even hurt the main body."
Zangyue did not deny her master's guess, but as she said, now she can't even hurt the cross with her own body. In terms of pure superpower comparison, their strength can't even touch the cross.
"Master, maybe I didn't give you the ability, but you already have the ability."
Lin Shuwen stood up silently, and Mei'er, whose pure white fur had returned, rubbed his cheek. He noticed the pink color at the tip of Mei'er's tail.
"Mei'er, do you feel any changes in yourself?"
"Change? Hmm...I think I can now make my master kiss me just by looking at me."
"Um?!"
The moment their eyes met, the pink tail tip emitted a soft light, taking away Lin Shuwen's rationality.
"Owner!"
Just when they were about to kiss, the moon woke up the confused Lin Shuwen. Severe pain surged into his head. Meier looked at the moon resentfully.
"Ah!! Did you inherit the ability to identify?!"
"It almost succeeded..."
Meier turned her head to the side, and the tip of her pink tail swept Lin Shuwen's neck.
"ah!"
Suddenly there was pain from being hit on the back of his head. He looked at the group of people on the side of the ravine. Ye Lanxin had her arms crossed, and Ye Wenxin on the side was grabbing a handful of stones and aiming at him.
"Why did you take off your headphones?!"
Lin Shuwen, who had just put on the headphones, was so shocked by Ye Lanxin's reproach that his eardrums hurt. He blinked and apologized to her.
"Are you... okay?"
"I'll have a good chat with you later. You can take the one lying down over there and evacuate first!"
"The one lying down?"
Lin Shuwen looked around and saw the young man writing big words on the ground in the distance. He vaguely remembered that he seemed to be preparing to run over just now.
"I see the target, see you in the indoor gym later."
Lin Shuwen ran towards the young man who fell to the ground. A light and powerful feeling filled his body, as if all the injuries he had suffered had recovered. He noticed the changes in his body, and Zang Yue's words echoed in his mind again:
"Master, maybe I didn't give you the ability, but you already have the ability."