Night Patrol

No longer hesitating, the [Aberrant Spiritual Root] was forcibly loaded, and the sealed power instantly erupted.

Yuan Zhu, standing in Run Ning, had dark golden eyes, his pupils contracted into vertical slits. As he breathed, the shadows within ten meters around him also stirred restlessly, like boiling water.

The oppressive feeling brought by the armored warrior receded like the tide, and the man rushing towards him also showed surprise mixed with joy in his eyes, secretly sighing: As expected! This kind of guy who dares to wander at night and remains unshaken in the face of space-time distortions is definitely not simple. This time, he guessed right.

The black-armored warrior suddenly stopped and raised his right arm in the direction of Yuan Zhu. The chains wrapped around his arm armor made crisp clanging sounds, rattling non-stop.

His right hand made a ranging gesture, then changed to a sword finger, aiming at the fleeing man's back and pointing in the air. The chain claw wrapped around his arm immediately came to life, soaring into the air and shooting out at extreme speed, piercing through the man's chest from behind a split second before he was about to step out of the alley.

Crack!

Blood flashed under the moonlight, the mechanical claw pierced through the man's chest like a drill, then opened and bloomed like petals, before piercing back into the flesh. The armored man swung the chain with his right hand, turning it into an advancing arc wave, which finally reached the man's chest.

With a 'pu chi!' sound, the man, who had already stepped half a leg into Run Ning, was pulled high into the air by the chain claw, and then fell heavily back onto the ground of 'Little Sweet Water Well Alley', spitting out a cloud of blood mist.

"Save, save me!"

He held the package in his arms tightly with one hand, and stretched the other hand towards Yuan Zhu tremblingly, hoping to get a helping hand.

At this moment, Yuan Zhu's body was covered and wrapped by shadows, his whole body was pitch black, and his body was as elastic and trembling as jelly. He tried hard to control himself from transforming into a [Tiger Demon], but instead tried his best to maintain a human outline, revealing a silhouette of a cat standing upright.

He had a premonition that when he could perfectly control the power of shadows, he might not necessarily have to turn into a black shadow tiger demon. He could also maintain human characteristics, transform, and obtain a 'humanoid demon form' more suitable for combat.

Whirr... Whirr...

The armored figure moved again, walking towards the alley step by step, without rashly attacking the shadow monster. He just twisted his right arm back and forth, rewinding the thrown chain back to his wrist, dragging the man with blood constantly overflowing from his mouth backward, leaving a conspicuous bloodstain on the bluestone road.

Ding-dong... Ding-dong...

The copper bell rang out, spreading and suppressing all abnormal elements in both the moonlight and pitch-black space-times, dispelling the dangers hidden in the dark.

Even the shadow-transformed Yuan Zhu was forced into an unprecedented state of calm rationality. The power in his body surged, like a volcano about to erupt, ready to release his ultimate move by manipulating shadows at any time. But his spirit and thoughts were unprecedentedly calm and clear, and he didn't want to attack rashly, showing extreme rationality and restraint.

"I am as cold and ruthless as Zhuge at this moment!" Yuan Zhu boasted with a great sense of self-satisfaction.

Little Elf: "Your mental state is very strange, too rational, like a cold machine. That bell sound has the effect of 'calming the mind'. Looking at this guy's appearance, he wouldn't be some kind of midnight watchman, would he?"

Because the armored warrior did not show any tendency to attack, Yuan Zhu also restrained himself from acting, still maintaining the shadow-enhanced state, and silently observed the other party's actions.

Crack! The armored warrior walked step by step to the side of the man who was vomiting blood frantically and whose eyes were beginning to blur. He straightened the taut iron cable, and blood began to gush out from the wound. Then he stepped out with one foot, and the iron boot broke the man's shoulder. The package that was originally held tightly also fell to the ground as the arm drooped weakly.

The armored man held a blood-light lantern in his left hand, bent down, and grabbed the package with his right hand. With a forceful pull, he exposed a chubby baby with a metallic luster inside.

It was a chubby baby the size of a full moon infant, with fleshy little arms and legs. Its eyes were tightly closed and it was not breathing. The surface of its body showed a metallic luster, like a lifelike handicraft.

However, the hands and feet of the metal infant seemed to have been deliberately torn off, without hands or feet. Instead, dense plant roots extended from the cross-sections of the wounds, like ginseng roots that had been processed.

The armored man ignored Yuan Zhu, who was staring intently not far away. He just made a claw with his five fingers and pinched the back of the infant's neck hard.

The next moment, the chubby metal doll suddenly opened its mouth, revealing a mouth full of dense, sharp fangs, and let out a piercing, sharp scream and cry. Yuan Zhu immediately felt a stinging pain as if his meninges were about to be torn apart and dug out. This cry is poisonous!

Then the fat baby twisted its limbs and struggled violently. The body that looked like metal showed the elastic texture of flesh and blood. And the roots extending from the cross-sections of the limbs also came to life, growing and spreading wildly in the air.

Some of the roots drilled into the flesh and blood of the blood-vomiting man, frantically extracting his life force. The other part of the roots wrapped around and spread along the arm that was pinching his neck.

Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding...! The left hand holding the blood lantern shook rapidly, causing the copper bell to make rapid sounds, spreading in the darkness, suppressing the sharp and piercing screams of the metal infant.

In the stalemate between these two sounds, the chain on the armored warrior's right arm came to life again, wriggling like a poisonous snake and wrapping around the metal infant, strangling the roots that were flailing in the air, and finally binding and sealing the metal monster infant that was resisting desperately.

After all this was over, Yuan Zhu found that the scene in the opposite alley was gradually becoming blurred, the transparent air began to fluctuate and distort violently, and the man who was only left with his last breath trembled slightly, his eyes showing despair, regret, unwillingness, resentment... staring fixedly at Yuan Jiangyou, who had not taken action from beginning to end, his heart was full of hatred.

The armored warrior picked up the infant wrapped into an iron ball, turned his head to look at Yuan Zhu's gradually receding shadow, then raised his hand and flew out a token, breaking the distorted and separated space fluctuations, and flew from the moonlight world into the dim shadow world.

Pa.

Yuan Zhu also raised his hand to grab the flying copper token, and then the scene in front of him suddenly disappeared like a TV turning off. Little Sweet Water Well Alley disappeared, replaced by a row of closed shops.

The two briefly connected worlds were silently disconnected.

Releasing the [Boss Template] that didn't come in handy, Yuan Zhu picked up the copper token in his hand, which was engraved with the three characters [Night Patrol Division]. As he expected, it was a night patrol security guard.

But what kind of world is on the other side? A mere night security patrolman put a lot of pressure on him. Is it because there are many strong people on the other side, or is his [Tiger Demon Form] actually a weakling? The Little Elf also got rid of the 'rationality blessing' influence of the copper bell, regained its vitality, and said: "It seems that the space-time phenomenon just now was not caused by the [Great Wilderness Immortal Scripture]. Even you are just a passerby NPC who accidentally entered the scene. The real protagonist is that unlucky guy who died. He should be a local of Run Ning, stole something he shouldn't have, and was chased to death!"

Yuan Zhu also sorted out the ins and outs of this matter, and was a little worried: "Is this world a bit too dangerous? Why does it feel like you can encounter dirty things every three steps you take? Am I even qualified to encounter the connection of different space-times? It's a pity, if that guy ran faster, successfully returned to Run Ning, and escaped the armored warrior's pursuit, I would have had the opportunity to double-cross him and snatch that root monster infant."

Little Elf: "I don't recommend you do that. That strange infant contains the ultimate aura of pollution. It is more powerful than the 'Shadow Source' devoured by the [Tiger Demon Template], and is a super bomb. That armored warrior may be a righteous partner who collects such evil contraband. His copper bell is a treasure for suppressing evil and dispelling demons, making people rational and calm."

Yuan Zhu: "Tell me, what exactly was that alley illuminated by moonlight just now? Another corner of Du Ling Star? Or other different space-times? Or one of the eight external universes?"

In his confusion, he picked up the Night Patrol Order and examined it closely, muttering, "It's actually Earth's official script? This Du Ling and Earth must have some unspeakable secret! I wonder what this thing is for? Can it let me travel through too?"

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