Chapter Twenty-Nine: Treachery x Phantom of the Mist
At midnight, the wind was blowing, the sky was full of dust, and the valley roared.
Northon and Fauci, looking at Radella's corpse in horror.
The flesh and blood on the ground wriggled on its own, like earthworms, curling up and crawling towards their former owners.
Lucas laughed wildly, his eyes shining strangely, deaf to Fauci's call, the muscles of his face twisted more and more from the laughter, and the bones of his body gurgled non-stop.
His laughter suddenly stopped, and his face became expressionless, and his pupils spread out like ink, and in an instant, his whole eye was soaked in darkness.
His paralyzed body writhed like a marionette, and he exaggerated his arm holding the pistol, aimed at Northon, and walked towards him with mechanical steps.
And Radre, who had also completed the "assembly", walked towards Northen with his rifle, his face covered with dense cracks, and his eyes were as black as ink.
Norson was completely stunned, he had never heard of what kind of walking dead a person could turn into after death in the Endless Continent, no, it had nothing to do with life and death, Lucas was still alive and became like this.
Kenbo is well-informed, and you must ask him if you meet him again. He thought.
Fauci went to La Lucas and then to Ladre, hoping that they would stop.
But they were as hard as steel, and no matter how Fuqi pulled, the steps of both of them were not chaotic.
Noxon retreated step by step, he didn't understand, why the two of them would target him, could it be a demon spirit with three hundred gold coins?
He fired a few symbolic shots at the two men, and the bullet hit them, and the part of the bullet retreated slightly due to inertia, but that was all.
Radret was the first to pull the trigger, and a jet-black bullet erupted from the rifle, which was extremely difficult to detect under the cover of night.
Northon only heard the sound of gunshots, but expected the bullets to be coming at him, and hurriedly dodged.
As soon as he jumped out of the distance, the position where he had stood before exploded into a crater as if he had been hit by a cannonball, and the scattered dust and strong air currents lifted him into the valley.
He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and before he could stand up, Radrei and Lucas shot at the same time, he did not dare to slack off, urged most of the firepower, kicked hard with both feet on the valley, took advantage of the momentum, and finally barely dodged.
And the valley was blown out of a hole tens of meters in diameter.
The strength of the two seems to have suddenly increased a lot, almost reaching the level of an intermediate gunsmith.
Northon didn't have the power to parry at all, he broke out in a cold sweat, and if he continued like this, he would run out of fire if he jumped again.
Seeing that they were turning their guns on themselves again, Northon unreservedly drew out all his firepower.
Fauci suddenly rushed up from behind the two of them, grabbed them, and pushed them to the ground.
He pressed his arms tightly against the two of them and yelled at Northen, "Hurry up...... Run! ”
"No, Uncle Fauci!" Noxon wanted to step forward to stop it, but he saw that Fauci was emitting white smoke, and his body suddenly swelled two or three times, and there was a tongue of fire under his skin.
Shocked, he poured all his fire on his calf and jumped in the opposite direction.
Behind him, there was a sudden lightning, a loud sound like thunder, which made the entire valley turbulent, and at the origin of the explosion, a mushroom cloud nearly 100 meters high rose.
Northen was blown up dozens of meters, fell to the ground, and rolled a long way before stopping.
He leaned against a stone and sat up with difficulty, covered in dust, and blood kept gushing outward from his mouth and nose.
"Old Uncle Fauci......" Northen's face was like ashes, and he wanted to cry without tears.
When he was a viscount, his father heard that the spear spirit could blow himself up, and he jokingly said that "only a fool will blow himself up".
However, just now, a person who met in Pingshui saved him by self-destructing.
He sat motionless like a sculpture, thinking only how good it would be if he hadn't met Fauci; It would be nice if I hadn't taken that demon myself.
Unfortunately, it has already happened, and Fauci will never come back to life.
The howling wind swept through Northon, sweeping the muddy valley, and the mushroom cloud was blown away, and the dust and sand rolled up by him were carried away into the distance and sprinkled back on the earth.
The vapor evaporated by the explosion met the cold wind and condensed and landed again, covering the valley with a layer of white frost.
Dawn approached, and a vast mist rose in the valley.
Northson's body gradually recovered from the aftermath of the explosion.
He gathered his mood and prepared to leave for Andal City.
There was a thud behind him.
"Who?" He asked loudly.
All that answered him was a lingering echo.
He cautiously walked back into the valley, the thickening fog obscured his vision, and he could only see the scene more than ten meters in front of him.
He returned to the spot where Fauci had blown himself up, leaving nothing but littered with rubble, and the bodies of Fauci, Lucas, and Radret were gone.
That's right, who could have survived such a violent explosion! But there must be some traces, could it be that someone has been here?
As he was thinking, Northon was flickering from the side when several dark shadows flashed from the side, and he was startled and chased after him.
The black shadow was extremely fast, he couldn't catch up with even small jumps, and after about a few hundred meters, the black shadow disappeared without a trace in the fog.
When Northson stopped, he found that this was the place where Fauci and Lucas had first met.
Perhaps because of the topography of the valley, Fauci's self-explosion had little impact on the area.
Everything is quietly dead.
The corpses of the caravan members were lying on their backs with horrified expressions on their faces, and several of them were still holding his guns, and Northon looked at them roughly, and they were all disemboweled.
The carriage overturned, and the sacks full of goods were scattered, but there was no sign of being turned over, and not even the ropes that bound them were unfastened.
He walked over to the car he had been in, the door still open, Fauci's blood drying up.
And that's --
Caravan interception?
Thinking of what Kembo said on the airship, Northon couldn't help but feel a chill down his spine.
Kembo's sudden disappearance made him vaguely feel that the caravan interception and murder case was always inseparable from him, and when he thought back to the murder of his family, he felt that Kembo must know a lot of inside information.
And that night, Kembo was also near Desert Earth City, and maybe he was the culprit who invaded the family.
Thinking of his father and Leah, Northon's mood was heavy again, and he unconsciously clenched his fists.
A flickering black shadow appeared in the fog again, and Northon shouted "don't run" and chased after him.
After chasing for a while, he found that the black shadow seemed to be on his left side, so he adjusted the direction to chase to the left, but after chasing for more than 100 meters, he found that the black shadow was on the right side.
So repeatedly, the black shadow was always not far in front of him, but he could see it, but he couldn't touch it. As if he was playing tricks on him, if he chased fast, the black shadow would flee quickly, and if he chased slowly, the black shadow would flee slowly.
The more Norson chased, the more angry he became, he stumbled and jumped one after another, and suddenly felt that his feet were empty, and his body fell rapidly.
After about five seconds of falling, he was able to break free from the white mist.
His vision widened, and he looked back at the way he had come, and the high valley was like a knife and an axe, and he had come out of the valley.
Ahead, on the other hand, is a flat grassland.
On the grassland, there is a broad avenue that leads straight to a magnificent city......