Same Old Trick
Liu Feng felt the night breeze and looked up at the bright moon in the sky. A cloud was drifting in from a distance, and it wouldn't be long before it blocked the moonlight. If he were plunged into darkness, he wouldn't even be able to see the road, let alone escape.
"You have to be quick, Wang Xizhi, you need to escape fast and buy me more time." Liu Feng ran towards the mayor's house, following the general direction, and could already faintly hear intermittent gunfire from there.
When Liu Feng reached an intersection, he suddenly stopped. In the moonlight, he saw a figure standing on a rooftop, observing the mayor's house. Hearing the noise, the figure turned around, his gaze cold and filled with malice. "Nothing's wrong?"
"Father Yas!" Liu Feng's lips moved. He knew he had made a big mistake. He didn't know when it started, but organizations like the Vatican began to play the villains in novels, especially those called the God of Light. It was obvious that the other party was a villain, a mastermind, and a conspirator to overthrow the continent.
"So this priest isn't the protagonist, but rather the villain?" Liu Feng realized he'd fallen for a trick. Why hadn't he thought of this earlier? If he had, he would have clung to the female lead's coattails. No wonder that so-called protective charm was problematic.
The priest wasn't attacked and disappeared; he simply extinguished his oil lamp and ran away. So, he probably didn't come to the mayor's house to play the hero and rescue the damsel in distress. Instead, he was carrying out some kind of conspiracy. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been watching from afar on the rooftop earlier.
"Father, hello! Father, goodbye!" Liu Feng took a step back, and then heard the sound of frantic running and panting behind him.
"Friend!! It's so good to see you again, let's run together?" Wang Xizhi's incredibly hateful voice came from behind. Liu Feng turned his head slightly and saw that there were three Black Fog Beast behind him.
"Hehehe, you two are really lucky, both of you are unharmed." Father Yas had put his oil lamp somewhere else, and now he held a scripture in his left hand and drew his longsword in his right.
"Father Yas, you're here! That's wonderful! Help!" Wang Xizhi ran over and was overjoyed to see Father Yas.
Father Yas grinned maliciously, slightly opened the scripture with his left hand, and pulled out the longsword from between the pages. Some black runes appeared on the sword. He leaped down from the roof and swung the sword, as if to slice Wang Xizhi and Liu Feng in two with one stroke.
Just then, Wang Xizhi tripped over something, and Liu Feng jumped to the side as well. A handful of powder appeared in his hand, which he swung out and hit Father Yas. A strong, peculiar fragrance began to spread.
"Skinny, run! That guy's the villain!" Liu Feng said, his body moving without stopping. After a period of adjustment, he had gradually gotten used to the game. He didn't dare to draw his knife and fight to the death, but at least he could easily escape after tricking someone.
Father Yas As missed his attack and was covered in the powder. The smell made his face change. He looked up and saw three Black Fog Beast lunging at him menacingly. Father Yas could only retreat hastily, not even having time to consider where that person got so much black powder.
"Damn it!" Normally, these Black Fog Beast wouldn't attack me based on my aura, since we could be considered a group. But now that I've been covered in black oil powder, these Black Fog Beast don't care if I'm one of them or not.
Wang Xizhi watched Liu Feng flee. Although he didn't quite understand what the other man meant, it didn't stop him from abandoning Yas and running away. He stood up and scrambled after Liu Feng.
As he watched the two fleeing figures, Yas brandished his longsword, forcing the Black Fog Beast back slightly. He gritted his teeth, violently ripped off his priest's robe and threw it aside. Carrying his scriptures and longsword, he ran off in another direction wearing only his underwear.
Liu Feng absorbed the black powder stuck to his hand back into ink, chuckling to himself, "It really works! The talisman attracts the Black Fog Beast with its fragrance. To materialize it, all I need is powder with that fragrance."
"So this is how you can play with my inner demons. Wait, I have a bold idea..." Liu Feng seemed to remember something, then threw away all the cups and inflatable objects, and saw a Black Fog Beast jump out from around the corner ahead.
Wang Xizhi ran up behind them, panting. The two of them looked at the two Black Fog Beast together. Liu Feng licked his lips and said, "Skinny, there's a reward for killing the Black Fog Beast, right? I have a way to Black Fog Beast its attention. You seize the opportunity to go forward and use your Mutation ability to KO it!"
"Try your method first and see if it works. Otherwise, let's split up!" Wang Xizhi has gradually let go of his fear. Just now, he discovered that due to the Mutation of his muscles, his strength, speed, and stamina have all increased significantly.
"Good." The little ink in Liu Feng's hand appeared and turned into eight characters: Powder with a strange fragrance.
Liu Feng then sprinkled the fingernail-sized powder in front of him and stepped back. A peculiar fragrance wafted out, attracting the attention of the Black Fog Beast. It slowly walked over and extended its tongue, which was made of black mist, to lick the ground.
Wang Xizhi gave Liu Feng a thumbs up, and then saw his muscles swell as he charged towards the Black Fog Beast. This made Liu Feng, who was preparing to escape, stop in his tracks. He thought Wang Xizhi would fall to the ground again and twitch his muscles to make it easier for him to escape, but he didn't expect that Wang Xizhi had actually mastered his Mutation ability.
Clouds drifted across the sky, obscuring the bright moon for a few seconds. As the light dimmed, Wang Xizhi tripped over something and fell forward, landing on the ground. Somewhat bewildered, he looked up and saw the Black Fog Beast, its eyes darting around in anger. The wind stirred up by Wang Xizhi's fall completely dispersed the already scarce powder.
"You've fallen flat on your face for the third time! Do you have some kind of natural airhead quality?!" Liu Feng knew he shouldn't trust this guy. He turned to leave, only to see Father Yas, wearing just a pair of shorts and carrying a scripture in one hand and a long sword in the other, walking towards him with a look of extreme anger and a forced smile.
"Well, hehe, Father Yas, it's all a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding!" Liu Feng slowly backed away, while Wang Xizhi, with a smile, gathered the dust from the ground with his hands, and with an expression of inviting him to enjoy, slowly stood up and backed away.
"Smack!"
Just then, a gunshot rang out. The Black Fog Beast let out a mournful howl and leaped away, writhing in its black mist. Then, a dashing woman appeared, holding a gun, aiming at the Black Fog Beast, pulling the bolt, and firing another bullet. The bullet accurately struck the Black Fog Beast's head, causing it to turn into black Black Fog Beast and disappear.
Meanwhile, Father Yas quickly retreated to the other side of the path. Liu Feng turned to look at the woman with the gun; it was none other than the female protagonist from before, Lena.