Where the monster rushed out, the street lights had long been broken, and there were no other light sources around. Instead, it looked even darker under the distant light.
He Ao led Yue En across the road and into the deeper alleyway between the buildings.
This alleyway cut off all light, as if falling into the depths of hell.
After just ten steps into the alleyway, there was a faint smell of blood mixed with rancidity.
Yue En followed He Ao. The strong smell made him feel a little uncomfortable, but after experiencing the putrid stench after the death of the monster just now, he felt that this was not unacceptable.
The ground beneath my feet seemed a little sticky, and the smell of blood was getting stronger.
"Hey-"
A shadow on all fours suddenly burst out of the darkness.
"Ah!"
Yue En trembled, and he looked at He Ao in front of him. He used all his strength to restrain his urge to escape.
He Ao didn't pay attention to the movements of Yue En behind him. With a flash of his sword, the rushing Black Shadow was split into two, and blood spattered on the side of his face.
A ray of red light overflowed from the body of the monster in the shadow and submerged into He Ao's swords.
The black substance in this monster's body is not stored in an object, but is directly integrated into their blood, making their body a carrier.
Those who spread pollution behind the scenes prefer to mix these black substances related to gods into certain items, and then find people with high inspiration to entrust such items, instead of directly and roughly mixing them into people's blood.
These monsters in the shadows are probably not the work of the people behind the scenes. They may be "Claws and Teeth" created by the monster that was just killed by He Ao.
He Ao continued forward and met several more "Claws and Teeth", who were killed by him with one sword.
After these Claws and Teeth died, their bodies quickly decayed and lost their vitality.
He Ao has been thinking about where the power of these monsters polluted by the dead "god" comes from.
The Transcendental system of this world follows a certain conservation law.
Martial arts need to absorb Transcendental power from nature and then transform it into one's own Transcendental power.
As for Talent Sequence, it needs to "steal" power from other Transcendental beings.
There are two ways to obtain the main materials needed to prepare Secret Medicine. The first is to hunt down Exotic Beast and obtain the Transcendental materials in their bodies. The second is to kill the person with the corresponding Talent Sequence and wait for his Talent Sequence to naturally precipitate.
In the final analysis, it is to kill other beings and take their Transcendental power as your own.
This way of obtaining the power of Transcendental means that there is most likely a fixed number of Talent Sequence of Copy World, and now all Talent Sequence have been allocated.
Only when one person dies can the other person have a chance to step up and gain his power.
Therefore, Transcendental's power acquisition in this world has some kind of conservation, either like martial arts, converting natural power into one's own power, or like Talent Sequence, taking away the power of others.
However, martial arts practice requires a lot of time, and these monsters obviously cannot capture so many Talent Sequence.
Combined with the special status of these monsters, He Ao feels that their power may come from another special method, "Gift".
Gift from the gods.
By sacrificing your soul and life, you can obtain "Gift".
In fact, most Cultists do the same thing,
It's just that they need to communicate with the gods through rituals to obtain "Gift".
Life Goddess Church's "doctor" Ek once told Vian.
In a mystical sense, rituals are actually "bridges" that connect to unknown existences or cross special conditions.
And these monsters have something related to the dead god in their bodies, and they are born with a "bridge" to communicate with that god.
They may even be extensions of the gods themselves.
Everything about them, their souls and even their flesh and blood, belongs to the gods, so when they die, their bodies will decay quickly because the gods have taken away their flesh and blood.
During the battle, He Ao briefly turned on Hyper-memory and took a look. The shadows of these "Claws and Teeth" souls had almost dissipated. Their souls had long been taken away by the gods, leaving only some crazy consciousness to support their actions.
And the lives they hunted became "sacrifice" dedicated to the gods. They were moving altars.
As "Gift", the gods have given them part of their power so that they can perform sacrifices better.
In fact, in a sense, these monsters and Claws and Teeth form a cult sect, a sect that believes in God of Death.
The god seemed to be dead, but it didn't seem to be completely dead.
The remaining consciousness of k is still trying to drive, create Claws and Teeth, plunder power, and try to return from eternal sleep.
This seems to be one of the reasons for what the system calls "the frequent death cases of Rock City".
But this may not be the whole truth.
Because several of Nell's brothers and sisters obviously did not die because of these monsters.
The person behind everything may not be a devout believer who wants to resurrect the gods.
He Ao has a hunch that the source of all this darkness may not be dominated by Evil God.
The human heart is sometimes more terrifying than Evil God.
"Brother, are we still going in?"
Yue En followed He Ao tremblingly.
At first, he was so scared that he couldn't walk, but he didn't expect He Ao to kill a small monster with one sword. He suddenly felt like he could do it again, although he was still a little scared.
"It should be the end."
He Ao cut off the last Claws and Teeth with one sword, and a faint red light penetrated the sword body. At this moment, the two swords were no longer as ordinary as before. A faint red light with a fierce aura wrapped around the sword body, making it look menacing.
By this time they had reached the end of the alley, uu reading a book
There seemed to be a few shadows huddled in the corner.
He Ao turned on the flashlight on Bracelet and shined it ahead. In a corner not far in front of him, there were several unconscious figures huddled.
He walked over and looked at it carefully.
There were about a dozen of these people, both men and women. Their bodies were all curled up and their brows were furrowed, as if they were immersed in some kind of nightmare.
Beside them, there were a bunch of old items of all kinds.
Most of the items have been cut open, revealing the dark interior, but there is no red light, and only a few items are left, piled intact in the corner.
"What are they arresting these people for?"
Yue En Seeing that there were indeed no monster attacks, he took courage and approached the sleeping figures, "Hey, wake up."
He Ao was looking at the open items on the ground. One item had just been cut open a little with a sharp instrument and had not been completely opened. It seemed that the person who cut the item left in a panic because of something.
But in the battle just now, He Ao didn't encounter any Claws and Teeth holding a sharp weapon.
At this moment, a Black Shadow rushed out from the darkness, holding a cold blade in his hand, and rushed straight towards Yue En who was squatting next to the sleeping people.