Chapter 877: New York Without Superheroes (2)
"It is the shadow in the darkness, the most terrible predator in the world, the very top of all food chains, it roams the back of humanity and no one knows it exists because ...... Magic is no more. ”
These are the words recorded in a short clip of Stan's hand-picked creation book, recorded at the FBI's headquarters......
Yi Huan walked away from the explosion site with Meggie, who left a tracking spell on Larry's body this time, so the magic fluctuations were very eye-catching.
However, neither Meggie nor Yi Huan wanted to look at the cold, lifeless corpse lying on the ground, so when Yi Huan took Meggie to reappear, he had already come to two streets away not far from the center of the explosion.
In a small alley of Hell's Kitchen, what appears to be the back alley of a restaurant.
The gangsters, homeless and drunkards who usually appear in such places are all gone, these guys have noses that are more sensitive than dogs, and the large-scale police mobilization has long scared them away, at least in this land of right and wrong, they dare not make the slightest mistake for the time being.
But this has nothing to do with Yi Huan, after all, stepping on them is as simple as stepping on a frog.
But in fact, these little guys are often very eye-catching, a little cautious, and would rather bully people who are worse than themselves than provoke impenetrable right and wrong, so when they encounter a combination like Yi Huan and Meggie, most of the time they actually avoid it.
The combination of uncle and girl is either a killer or a stunned head, well, although Yi Huan doesn't look like an uncle, but who made the movie play an uncle instead of a teenager, a classic, it just makes people not forget it more than ten years later.
If it's the latter, then there's no problem, but if it's the former, it's a price, and the risk and benefit are not proportional, and these people are often smarter than anyone else.
This is the survival of the low-class people.
Meggie felt a lot better after holding on to the wall and vomiting for a while, she had heard of motion sickness, seasickness, and airsickness, but it was the first time she had seen such a strong rejection of spatial energy, and there was nothing good to do for a while.
Using energy magic can definitely solve this problem, but it will take time, and Yi Huan doesn't plan to take Meggie with him for the rest of his life, so he won't waste time on this.
With this free time, it is better to study more, oh no...... I mean, write more novels.
The two abilities of the Silver Heart and the Silver Hand have begun to bear fruit, but the plot of the story still needs to be studied, and you can't just write something and put it into reality.
Although the most practical ability of the Silver Tongue has not yet been obtained, some things are already on the agenda.
The first thing to do is to write a successful novel.
There's a lot of stuff in it, like Stan said, there's horror, there's twists, but there's definitely no hero, there's a style that belongs to Yi Huan, and most importantly...... There must also be magic lamps and coordinates.
The last two seem to be able to be placed in treasure chests.
These things can be thought about slowly after Yi Huan is free, and the first priority is to find Larry and his magic slate, and it is time to add some friends for the Minions.
"Squeak, bang!"
The iron door of the back kitchen was pushed open by a middle-aged man in a greasy chef's suit, and when he saw the two people in the shadows of the back alley, he was subconsciously ready to take out his attitude towards the homeless man and the thief, but then he found that they didn't look like that kind of person, so he quickly swallowed back the words that almost blurted out.
Yi Huan slowly walked through the shadows with Meggie, completely ignoring the stunned fat cook, who still kept the door open until the two of them came to the light.
The fat chef also noticed this, he felt that he couldn't move, his body didn't listen to the call, he couldn't even make a sound, only his eyes could still spin, this feeling of being out of his body made him break out in a cold sweat, he wanted to scream, but unfortunately he couldn't open his mouth at all.
The door of the back kitchen is used to throw garbage, in order to prevent thieves from entering, so it is not spacious, it is very narrow, and the fat chef alone occupies most of it.
The thin Meggie can naturally turn sideways and carefully avoid it, so as not to rub the oil, but when it comes to Yi Huan, the width is obviously not enough.
Yi Huan also likes to be clean, but he doesn't need to do anything else, because when he walks in front of the chef, the chef's body seems to be distorted by something, making enough room for him.
Of course, the hapless guy himself was unharmed.
However, Yi Huan paused in front of him for a moment, because he felt that at the beginning, this guy seemed to be thinking about something very rude, and almost blurted out.
Yi Huan was ready to teach him some lessons, but of course, Yi Huan wouldn't kill so easily, so he raised his hand and knocked the only clean chef's hat off his head, and then nodded in satisfaction.
The crooked look that I was wearing was uncomfortable, but now it's much more comfortable.
Yi Huan and Meggie slowly entered the restaurant through the back door, and the figure disappeared around the corner, and it was only then that the hapless chef regained control of his body.
He first broke out in a cold sweat, then picked up the hat on the ground, and rushed to the corner in two steps, only to find that the two people had long been gone.
While he breathed a sigh of relief, he also became emboldened and began to curse.
The fat chef buttoned his hat to his head, then picked up the garbage bag on the floor, pushed the door open again and walked out.
"Boom!"
He skimmed the garbage far onto the garbage truck and then turned and walked back, but he didn't notice that in the garbage heap near the garbage truck, a breeze appeared out of thin air, and then blew up a broken book scattered on the ground.
The book is so blurry that the text on the cover is inaudible, which is enough to show how broken it is.
The breeze blew through the book, and the broken pages were quickly turned, and although the books were a little worn, each page still had precious words on it, but as the book was quickly turned, the words began to disappear at a speed that was visible to the naked eye.
The pages become blank, starting from the first page and gradually spreading through to the last.
Books that had become blank began to be blown again, rummaging through them until they were left blank on one of the pages.
"Short limbs, blank face, no one knows its name because it doesn't have a name, it was born on the opposite side of magic, it seems to be a friend of technology, but it's not."
"It hates demons and loves books, so most of the time it is hidden in a book, maybe a new book, maybe a broken old book, but it doesn't really make a difference, because they are never awakened."
"But what's interesting is that although they hate demonic magic, they are users of magic themselves, and they can transform into any kind of creature they come into contact with, so don't be surprised if a wizard dies under their own magic, because it's probably not suicide."
"It takes a book to wake them up, and of course the most important thing, magic."
The words on the book began to disappear again, and then finally became a blank space, and a dark green gas began to slowly diffuse, deform, and condense in the air as if it had rotted for countless years.
"Magic...... Magical ......"
Like a whisper in the wind, a hissing voice appeared in this empty alley.
"Who? Who is it and who is talking?! ”
The fat chef was startled, and subconsciously picked up a spoiled hard bread, and there was no one in the empty back alley, thinking that he had hit a ghost.
But apparently the fat chef is also a fierce guy, and after the initial panic, he immediately became a little annoyed, along with the anger that he had been teased by Yi Huan before.
"Who is teasing Lao Tzu, stand up!" He roared, "Is it that stinky boy from Andavon or the old drunken Ivan, I tell you I'm angry right now, and you dare to come out and see me if I don't beat you up until you can't walk!" ”
There was no response, only a wail and whisper that seemed to cry.
"Magic...... Magical ......"
The fat chef finally heard it this time, and then immediately felt his scalp tingle, there was no one in the whole alley, he was very familiar with this place, and he could see the corners of the Tibetans at a glance, and the voice appeared directly in his ears.
It was as if he was everywhere, and he really thought he had encountered a ghost this time.
He was so frightened that he forgot to scream, turned around and ran back, not even listening to the whispers that floated through the air.
However, when he had just opened the back door of the kitchen, a black shadow that had been like a baby suddenly fell from the door and fell on his face.
"What is this! ......" The fat chef screamed in anger before he could spit out half a sentence, and then fell down against the iron door, his body sliding slowly and weakly and silently, like a dead corpse.
His body sat on the ground and did not stop, turning directly into black smoke, and then burrowing into the ground, as if blending into the shadows.
In less than half a minute, the fat chef completely disappeared.
And the iron door, which had lost its support, was also slammed shut again, leaving only a faint black shadow.
Another half a minute passed, and the iron door was opened again, still the fat chef, who seemed to open the iron door as usual and walked back, as if it was no different from usual.
But if you look at it yourself, you will see that his movements are a little stiff, but as he advances, this stiffness is quickly eliminated.
"Magic...... Magic ......" he muttered in his mouth.
"Sero! Where are you dead! An angry roar came from the back kitchen, "Does it take ten minutes to take out the garbage, if I find out that you are lazy in the back alley, you don't want your prize this week!" ”
The fat chef touched his head, probably realizing that he was calling himself, but he ignored it and instead kicked his feet and continued in the other direction of the restaurant.
If there is surveillance, it will be found that it is the direction where Meggie and Yi Huan left before.
"Magic...... Magical ......"
Whispering, still going on.
"This creature is extremely disgusted with demonic magic, and it also has a wizard who hates the use of magic, and when it is awakened, it will definitely find the source that awakens itself, that is...... The wizard. ”
"Don't be careful of shadows, because you can't wake them up, love books, because they carry knowledge, but don't try ridiculously, because magic is not only nonsense, you can ...... Wake up to something terrible. ”
"The bold open the faint of heart, please watch out for The Devil Hidden in the Book - R.L. Stein." ……
Naturally, it was not because he was hungry and needed to replenish his energy, but because the road was the closest to Larry.
After being taken away by the group of riot police, it means that Larry's magic fluctuations are getting farther and farther away from Yi Huan, in the opposite direction to the center of the explosion, all the way to the east.
But Yi Huan had deliberately left a mark on Larry, how could he let him escape, even if he wanted to run, the distance would not weaken the fluctuations on his body.
Now, Yi Huan followed this clue all the way.
Until he took Meggie with him, and was stopped again by a group of policemen.
Or rather, it's not just a group of cops, but dozens of police cars intertwined, each with a policeman in heavily armed body armor hidden behind it, and several helicopters hovering in the sky, but this time, they are obviously much higher than before, and there are several times more snipers far away.
The police have already surrounded this place and expelled the unrelated people nearby in advance, I am afraid that by the time Yi Huan walks into this big encirclement, they have already blocked his back road again.
After all, Yi Huan's swaggering all the way was not concealed at all, and if these policemen wanted to find him, they would definitely be able to find him.
Just as Yi Huan stopped, several armored vehicles were driven over, and even a large number of soldiers jumped down from it, I am afraid that this is the confidence of the policemen who dare to round him up again.
Although there are no tanks, it is not easy to be able to dispatch infantry fighting vehicles, especially if you are rounding up a person.
Seeing the scene around him, Walsh, the chief of the New York Police Department, calmed down a little, he tightened the horn in his hand and shouted, "Listen inside, you're already surrounded!" Now put your hands where you can see them and come out and surrender. ”
“……”
Yi Huan frowned, looking at him with a blank face, even the face of Meggie next to him was similar, he couldn't understand why the other party could shout such a thing.
Should he tell others to surrender, and they should surrender?
In fact, Walsh was actually nervous in his heart, and maybe some of the cops didn't know, but he knew exactly what kind of guy they were up against.
Walsh had just received the news that he had wiped out most of the New York Police Department's police force.
Of course, this could not be done by one person, who suspected that the other party had already arranged between the two old buildings before, something to defend against bullets, sonic weapons, and finally explosives that had been buried long ago.
There are a lot of people behind the other party, and there are indeed some means, but this is the end of it, Walsh looked back at the armored vehicles that were coming in a steady stream, under the round-up of so many people, the other party could not arrange the back hand in advance this time.
Thinking of this, Walsh's heart settled again, he picked up the horn, and was about to continue shouting, but at this moment, the other party suddenly spoke.
"Larry is with you, I'm going to take him."
I don't know what method the other party used, obviously standing far away, but the voice was clearly transmitted, and even everyone could hear it clearly.
Walsh was stunned for a moment, but then reacted, he held up the bullhorn and immediately responded, "We do not accept any form of negotiation and conditions, now please come out and surrender." ”
Yi Huan frowned again, feeling a little impatient, "No, it's not like that, you may have made a mistake. He looked at Walsh in the distance and said, his voice clearly transmitting, "This is not a negotiation. ”
"It's a notice." (To be continued.) )