Chapter 89: Amaimon's Broken Spine

The moonlight is cold.

The hotel across the street was brightly lit and bustling with noise; he could even hear his classmates cheering and laughing.

On the other side of the street, there was an almost frozen atmosphere of horror.

The bone-chilling coldness rushed from the soles of my feet to the top of my head.

Qi Sui quickly adjusted the somewhat stiff muscles on his face and turned around with a casual smile.

Standing behind him was a middle-aged man with an ordinary appearance.

His skin is yellowish and his facial features are the type that would be indistinguishable if thrown into a crowd.

His figure was not outstanding, he was only about 1.80 meters tall, with some muscles, but he didn't leave a deep impression on others.

"Uncle, I just graduated from high school. I'm attending a teacher appreciation banquet at the hotel across the street. It's a bit stuffy inside, so I thought I'd go out for a walk!"

Qi Sui explained with a smile in a relaxed tone, then pretended to ask casually: "Uncle, is this your car? The price of pork in the city has risen sharply recently, and it is almost too expensive to eat. You can make a lot of money by pulling this truck of pigs, right?"

Hearing that he was a high school student, the middle-aged man let down his guard a little, but there was still a fierce light flashing in his eyes.

He was taking in the surroundings, thinking about the risks of taking action in a downtown area.

Although I know that the other party may have approached me unintentionally, there is no safer situation than having a dead person.

Seeing that the middle-aged man was reluctant to speak, Qi Sui smiled and took the initiative to move over. He casually took out the cigarette Liu Haoyun had given him from his pocket and asked, "Uncle, can you lend me a light?"

The middle-aged man stared at him for three seconds before saying in a muffled voice, "No smoking, no lighter!"

Qi Sui showed a surprised expression and said, "It's better not to smoke. Smoking is harmful to the body. I also learned it from those bastards in my class. Once you get addicted to it, it's very difficult to quit."

After talking a lot, Qi Sui looked at the passerby who was walking not far away and took the initiative to greet him: "Uncle, can you lend me a light?"

The passerby stopped, took out a lighter from his pocket, and the two men came together.

"Humph……"

Most of the doubts in the middle-aged man's eyes disappeared, and he gave up the idea of ​​taking action in the downtown area.

He started the truck and sped off along the main road.

It was not until then that the stiff smile on Qi Sui's face slowly faded. He put out the cigarette in his hand, threw it into the trash can, stood up again, and looked in the direction where the heavy truck left. His vest had been soaked with sweat without him knowing when.

I recalled the information given by [Exploration] in my mind.

"Butcher: A missionary of the Flesh and Blood Cult, a senior martial artist, with an extremely excellent strength attribute and possessing 0.01 extraordinary power."

Ordinary warriors can only gain extraordinary powers by constantly tempering their bodies and breaking the genetic shackles.

And why are so many people willing to betray their race and believe in various old gods?

This is because the old gods can bestow extraordinary powers on their believers through some unique means when they are weak.

Even though the amount of this extraordinary power bestowed by the old gods is very small, like the butcher's 0.01, which is only one percent of a normal extraordinary warrior, it can still have an almost crushing effect on warriors of the same level.

Only extraordinary power can achieve this kind of dimensionality reduction effect!

"It seems that 0.01 should be the threshold for the detection skill to quantify supernatural power. If it is lower than 0.01, it will be described as a trace."

"No wonder the Flesh and Blood Cult was able to abduct nearly 5000 people even under the second-level martial law in the province, and transport them under the layers of surveillance network. It is indeed difficult to search for them by mixing live pigs with pigmen."

"Since the butcher appeared here, does it mean that the altar of the Flesh and Blood Cult is built in Qinhai City, or near the urban area?"

In an instant, many thoughts flashed through Qi Sui's mind.

He took out his cell phone, thought for a moment, and decided to call Gu Xiyue first.

"Qi Sui?"

"A fight, do you want to go? It could be dangerous!"

There was silence on the other end of the phone for a while, and then he said coldly: "Wait for me where you are!"

Three minutes later, Gu Xiyue came down from the hotel and walked in front of Qi Sui.

She got straight to the point: "What happened? Who did you fight with?"

"I may have discovered the altar of the Cult of Flesh and Blood. Are you interested in going to take a look together? There may be a senior martial artist in charge inside!" Qi Sui said concisely.

"altar?"

Gu Xiyue's eyes lit up.

Apparently, she was also very interested in this kind of thing: "The importance of the altar in the divine cult is second only to the temple. The Flesh and Blood Divine Cult was a super large cult in the last era. Maybe we will encounter some precious divine treasures."

"I think so too!"

Qi Sui smiled.

In fact, among the top-quality and extraordinary items currently existing in the Xia Kingdom, only about 30% come from the major secret realms, and the remaining 70% come from the looting and seizure of the major religious sects.

At that time, the name used by the followers of the God Religion to refer to supernatural things was "Shenzang"!
Qi Sui had a hunch that the divine treasure of the God of Flesh and Blood should be very suitable for him to trigger the awakening of his hidden profession.

……

PARKING LOT.

Qi Sui bent over and sat in the passenger seat of the purple flowing supercar.

Gu Xiyue stepped on the accelerator and drove the sports car onto the main street.

"I'll drive and you'll show the way!"

"it is good!"

【Scent Tracking】lv2!

The smell of the heavy truck that had been loaded with livestock was very pungent, just like the dazzling light of a lighthouse in the endless darkness, guiding him a clear path.

At this time, it was getting late.

It was the rush hour after get off work, and the road was congested with traffic, but the purple light was like a nimble flash of lightning, quickly shuttling through it.

It is worthy of being the world's top supercar, with all its performance maxed out.

Some road rage sufferers, seeing themselves being overtaken, want to stick their heads out and curse a few words, but when they see the model of the sports car clearly, they retract their heads in disappointment and lightly step on the brakes, fearing that they will accidentally scratch or bump into another car and lose everything they have.

Ten minutes later, the sports car drove away from the downtown area.

The surrounding environment gradually became desolate.

"Stop the car, the sports car is a bit too conspicuous. Let's walk there, it shouldn't be too far." Qi Sui suggested.

"it is good!"

Gu Xiyue had no objection.

After parking the car in a secluded corner, the two men took some items from the trunk and put them into their bags, then continued to move forward following the smell left by the truck.

The further you go, the more desolate it becomes.

The street lights on both sides of the road are dim, garbage is piled up randomly, the sewage on the ground reflects the faint moonlight, and a pungent stench floats in the air.

Most of the shops around here have long been abandoned. Occasionally there are some open ones, but they look shabby, with paint peeling on the walls and only some strokes of the neon lights still lighting up.

"Is this Qinhai City? It feels even worse than the old city!" Qi Sui said in a low voice.

"Well, I have some impression of this place. It is an abandoned urban area in the last era. Most of the residents have moved out. Only some factories that are not suitable to be opened in the urban area choose to stay here." Gu Xiyue said with a serious expression.

"stop!"

Qi Sui, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped. He half-crouched, hiding himself completely in the dark shadows, and looked towards the abandoned factory building not far ahead.

The red heavy truck that I had seen before was parked in front of the factory!

……

"If I'm not mistaken, the altar should be built in the factory building in front!"

Qi Sui twitched his nose a few times.

The smell of blood, livestock, feces and other pungent smells mixed together, and it was so strong in the area that it was about to explode.

And in it, there was also a stench similar to that in the secret realm that could make people feel strongly uncomfortable. Gu Xiyue half-crouched behind Qi Sui, watching the surroundings vigilantly: "It seems that someone is patrolling at the door."

Qi Sui also noticed this.

He looked around, picked a dandelion from his feet, and blew gently towards the factory.

Balls of white fluff fluttered above the factory building in the evening breeze.

"What are you doing?" Gu Xiyue looked stunned.

Qi Sui ignored her and closed his eyes silently. The unique extraordinary characteristics of the spirit of plants and trees allowed him to successfully attach his mental power to the white fluff.

It was like a pair of extra eyes that fed back scenes from all over the factory to Qi Sui's cerebral cortex.

"follow me!"

Suddenly, Qi Sui opened his eyes.

Under the cover of night, he quietly avoided the patrols outside the factory like a hunter walking in the shadows, then came to the drainage pipe in the west corner and climbed up to the roof along the pipe.

Gu Xiyue followed closely behind him. Her physical agility was much higher than Qi Sui's. During the entire process, she stayed close to the boy's back, following him like a shadow, without making any noise.

Soon, the two arrived at the rooftop of the factory building.

This place has been abandoned for many years, filled with all kinds of old goods and covered with a thick layer of dust. It is obvious that no one has been here for a long time.

"How do you know that this path can avoid patrols?" Gu Xiyue said softly, looking at him with her beautiful eyes.

"Keep it secret!"

Qi Sui smiled slightly, without much explanation, but tiptoed to a ventilation hole on the top floor, and let the white fluff of dandelions float into the factory.

A small gadget like this would not cause any alarm even if someone discovered it.

Gu Xiyue stood behind, watching all this silently, with a thoughtful expression on her pretty face.

"Come!"

After ensuring safety.

Qi Sui leaped down.

Following the ventilation duct, he came into the factory and carefully crawled on a top support beam, from where he could have a panoramic view of everything happening in the factory.

This is a super large factory covering an area of ​​about ten acres.

There are two floors in total, and each floor is divided into many rooms of different sizes.

The hall on the first floor seemed to be a place for slaughtering livestock, with densely packed dead pigs hanging on hooks.

The scarlet flesh and white bones made it feel like being in a slaughter hell.

In addition, domestic pigs are kept in many small compartments on the first floor.

Staff members kept dragging pigs out of the pens, forcing them down on the chopping board, and stabbing sharp butcher knives into their necks. The pigs howled miserably and blood gushed out.

If you only look at these, it would be a normal livestock slaughterhouse.

But on the second floor of the factory, the scene was completely different.

There are also many small cubicles for keeping domestic pigs, but the number of "domestic pigs" in these cubicles is obviously much smaller than that on the first floor.

They looked sick, lying limply on the ground, able to make only a few groans, without the strength to move.

Looking closely, many of the "domestic pigs" had tears near their eyes.

Pigman!

They're all pigmen!

The data says that the number of missing people in Yun'an Province should be around 5000, but the number of "pig people" on the second floor is roughly estimated to be only about 500, so the missing ones are probably...

Qi Sui's heart gradually sank to the bottom.

These are more than 4000 living people!
He looked towards the second-floor hall.

There was a small altar built with strange red and black materials.

The area around the altar was filled with blood, in which fragments of human flesh, internal organs, and hair could be seen floating.

In the center of the altar, there was a two-meter-long black bone sword, with deep black light patterns pulsating on it, and a few red veins like blood vessels.

Even though they were hundreds of meters away, one could still feel the fierce and evil aura approaching.

【Exploration】lv3!

"Amaimon's Broken Spine: It comes from the broken spine of the God of Flesh and Blood. If you control it, you will have power comparable to that of gods. If you are controlled by it, you will fall into eternal darkness. It contains 0.1 extraordinary power."

"Detecting items can trigger the advanced hidden profession of [Martial Arts Student]!"

"Professional preference - physique, strength, spirit!"

"Professional Level: Epic!"

Epic level!

Although I don't know the exact extent, I think it must be much more powerful than the rare level of [Spirit of Plants and Trees]!
In an instant, many thoughts emerged in Qi Sui's mind.

[Profession 2: Martial Arts Student Level 9 (9932/10000)]

The upgrade is coming soon, we can’t delay any longer!
"Senior sister, please help me. I will accept your favor!"

"you say!"

"You've seen the situation in the factory. The only one who can be considered a martial artist is the man in the white coat. His nickname is Butcher, and he's a missionary of the Church of Flesh and Blood." Qi Sui said.

The butcher is the most difficult character in the game.

Apart from him, he would not even take other ordinary believers seriously.

"I've heard of his name. He's a very powerful person. How do you want me to help you?" Gu Xiyue asked calmly.

"Help me hold him for three minutes!" Qi Sui said.

Although there is a gap in strength between Gu Xiyue and the butcher.

But the girl is an agile person after all, and she has just made a breakthrough in her martial arts and comprehended the "Bright Moon Force". As long as she concentrates on dodging and delaying, there is a great possibility that she can hold back the butcher.

Gu Xiyue closed her eyes and silently calculated a few seconds in her mind, then opened her eyes and said seriously: "I can only hold him back for three minutes, if I add a few more seconds, I might die!"

"Don't worry, it can only be shorter than three minutes, it can't be longer than three minutes!"

Qi Sui was moved.

The other party is the daughter of the Gu family, and she is willing to risk her life for me. This kind of kindness is indeed great.

"Then come on!"

Gu Xiyue made a move to stand up, but there was no emotion on her pretty face.

"Wait a moment!"

Qi Sui silently took out his cell phone and sent a message for help to He Jing'an. Then he quietly climbed to the other side of the beam in the factory building. After calculating the time, he gave Gu Xiyue a look.

Gu Xiyue took out a special alloy bow and arrow from his bag.

The "click, click, click" sound of the assembly seemed particularly harsh in the silent night.

"Who?"

The butcher who was originally dragging a "pig man" towards the altar suddenly turned around and looked over.

I saw a graceful and pretty girl jumping down from the roof beam. In her hand was a large alloy bow that was almost as tall as her, with a sharp arrow on the string.

hum~
A bright moon appears faintly behind me.

"Tonight, the pearl color will bloom with the full moon!"

call out--

(End of this chapter)