doll city

Chapter 111 The Wailing Underground

"Oh shit……"

Ma Zhaojun pushed away the person he pulled over to block the gun. At the very moment, the bullet stuck in the crack of his skull and swept past, and was shot by Diana by a narrow margin.

He took out a dose of medicine and stuffed it into his mouth and swallowed it forcefully. Half a minute later, the bleeding on his head subsided.

"If you can't kill me this time, next time it will be your death..."

Ma Zhaojun said bitterly, his connoisseur's skills were fully activated, and he staggered out.

The lights of the entire Old China Street were extinguished for some reason, and the surrounding area was terribly dark. Ma Zhaojun staggered around, asking loudly as he walked, "Where are people? Where are they going?"

The remnants of M82 were certainly not acting as a team, otherwise Diana would not have retreated then.

She must have something urgent, so she saved the boy surnamed Yan and left. She was in such a hurry, either to challenge the actor, or her own critical point was approaching.

Thinking of this, Ma Zhaojun sneered.

The life in the hands of this woman is not one thousand but eight hundred, and the ending is certain to be turned into a living puppet.

Ma Zhaojun was thinking about it, and suddenly his foot stepped on the air, and he fell into a deep pit.

"Depend on!"

He cursed, and quickly figured out from the faint water flow that he had fallen into a sewer without a well cover.

"Today is really bad luck!"

He was about to leave in the original direction when suddenly his ears moved and he heard a soft cry.

"Uncle... I'm here, I'm so scared..."

"Xu Xu?" Ma Zhaojun immediately felt that he had been deceived again, and shot directly at the source of the sound, but soon, he was stunned by the sparks created by the bullet hitting the wall.

Sparks illuminated a young boy's face for a moment.

Ma Zhaojun immediately raised his gun: "Xu Xu, is it really you?"

"Uncle, save me, save me...it's so dark here..." Xu Xu was still crying.

The situation in front of him was too weird, so Ma Zhaojun didn't move, trying to distinguish the darkness in front of him with his night vision ability: "Xu Xu, return that red shoe to Uncle first, so that Uncle can come and save you."

"Uncle, save me..."

Xu Xu was still crying, but Ma Zhaojun caught a faint flash of red crystals under his face.

It's the red shoe!

Ma Zhaojun said to the outside world these days that such a big battle was due to the loss of his grandnephew, but in fact he wanted to cover up the fact that he lost the orphan parts.

After all, to outsiders, a child is worthless, and orphan parts are the biggest benefit.

"...Uncle has never been sorry to you. Who knows that you are a human or a ghost now. Anyway, even if you are rescued, you will not live for a few years."

Ma Zhaojun's finger was firmly on the trigger, and terrible thoughts lingered in his mind.

"Things of no value, things of no value..." His lips kept murmuring, and his eyes were extremely cold.

He wants all the treasures in the world, and the rest of the worthless things are rubbish, just rubbish...

"Crack." After a gunshot, Ma Zhaojun suddenly came back to his senses.

Xu Xu's pale face shrank into the darkness like a piece of paper, leaving only the red shoes.

Ma Zhaojun was panting heavily. He obviously felt that his personality was much colder. He was only surprised by the shot just fired, and thought it was an illusion caused by some rare living doll, and stretched out his hand. Grabbed towards the red shoes.

But this time, he didn't grab something hard as expected, but a soft, child's hand.

A face appeared above his head.

"Uncle, are you going to kill me?"

Ma Zhaojun's five senses suddenly magnified, and just now, his own skills became stronger, which just allowed him to see clearly where he was.

He was just right, in the mouth of a beast made of trash.

"Do not……"

He was reunited with his family forever.

……

5 points in the early hours.

The chewing sound extends from this end of the sewer to a depth of nearly 100 meters at the end. The "snake" has lost its original shape. It is like a huge, wriggling garbage, covered with cans, discarded electronic components, and silt Waiting for things, only the eyes that occasionally open, scarlet astonishingly.

At this moment, the snake's chewing sound suddenly stopped.

It let out a beast-like wail from its throat. Immediately, its body split open like dough quickly cut by disorderly steel wires. a sewer.

The lights of the street lamps flickered, re-illuminating the wellhead of the sewer.

After a while, on the other side of the sewer, a figure came here, and was silent for a long time in front of the snake's remains.

"This matter is too big..."

Li Ya has been tracking this snake for 24 hours, and has seen it grow from a dozen meters to nearly a hundred meters.

Ma Zhaojun, a reasonably powerful user, disappeared without any struggle when he was swallowed.

It eats everything, food, corpses, waste, mud, even light sources, breath... Its devouring power is like a black hole, as long as anything is "swallowed", it becomes a part of its body.

It's like...eating snakes.

Li Ya thought of that famous video game, as long as the snake eats something, it will grow infinitely...until it fills the screen.

"I thought you just learned 'greedy' from your kids... now it seems like I was naive."

Li Ya walked to the position of the snake's head, and in the position of the snake's "mouth", he saw a child's, hallucinating face.

"...that child you loved, you ate him up."

Li Ya stood there for a long time, still a little worried, left the sewer, found gasoline nearby, and wanted to come back and burn the snake clean to avoid future troubles, but unexpectedly, when he came back, the entire sewer was empty.

He looked at the big hole in the wall that had been eaten silently, and was speechless for a while.

"Infinite swallowing, immortality..."

This is not the most difficult thing, the most difficult thing is that after it ate the child, it no longer has any weakness in the soul.

Alice, Luca, their stories have traces to follow, but this greedy snake has completely become a knot, combined with its inherent infinite devouring attribute, Rao Li Ya has seen many living puppets, in this case Still don't know how to deal with it.

"What kind of evil is this kid to be eaten by a living doll?" Li Ya could only speculate on this conclusion.

He stood still and thought for a while, and with some ideas in his mind, he left the sewer.

It was already dawn when we went out, but it didn't mean anything to Li Ya.

In his field of vision, the sky did not brighten with the arrival of daytime, all the colors were so dim that only a circle of outline remained, and only the aftertaste of a series of footsteps was very clear.

There are hundreds of people's footsteps remaining here, but he can easily hear the difference between each of them, and he is especially sensitive to Yan Ge's every move.

Simply inhuman.

Li Ya remembered Luka's answer about the price every time he lured him to accept that power.

——Then what price will I pay for becoming a so-called "god"?

——everything except the "virtuoso".

……

"Diana, why are you in such a hurry? Yan Ge just came back."

When the car drove to a remote neighborhood in the northeast, it stopped, and a jeep was coming. Xiao Yi saw the code on the license plate and knew it was M82.

The windows of that car were rolled down, and Lao Qiu, M82's liaison officer, was in the driver's seat.

Without waiting for Diana to ask, he said: "I received four people who came back. Lao Li and the others are still patrolling the street, but some people were stopped by Xianggu's. They said..."

Lao Qiu hesitated to speak, but Diana waved her hand to signal that she understood, and said, "No need to say more, just do what we can."

Seeing this, Xiao Yi didn't ask any more questions. She knew that M82 had paid a heavy price together with the B-level teams of other alliances during the museum battle, and those lost players were quickly summoned to this city as newcomers. , they face Xianggu's advanced ability users who have no ability to resist at all.

What awaits them is coercion and even revenge.

Diana's comrades-in-arms may have been captured, and for the thirteen rewards, the other party will use those captured to coerce them to show up.

... She seems to have been carrying a lot of lives, enemies and teammates, all on her shoulders, but she never hesitates on it.

For some reason Xiao Yi wanted to say something to comfort her.

"that……"

Diana: "You glance at me so many times, is it because you want to come out of the closet?"

Xiao Yi: "It's not that I don't have one. After all, are you really the third level? Your uncle is already like that. I don't think you are affected at all."

Diana: "Why am I not affected? I must have been more indifferent before. According to my previous personality, you are already wearing my diamond ring."

Xiao Yi: "..."

Xiao Yi couldn't talk anymore, she turned her head to look at Yan Ge in the back seat who was digging his phone with his head down.

"Have you got in touch with Lao Li?"

"No, he doesn't use a mobile phone." Just now, Yan Ge and his teammates just got in touch and confirmed that Gu Lili and Teacher Dai are safe and sound in a stronghold on M82 in the northeast. Other acquaintances are still there, only Li Ya is still missing. connection status.

"What will happen to him?" Xiao Yi asked.

Yan Ge said firmly, "He can find me, I know."

The special bond started a long time ago, and Yan Ge couldn't explain the feeling, just like the unique bond between a living doll and a human being.

Even in different time and space, we will definitely come together.

"...I won't gossip, how did Leon tell you?"

"He said that you were being followed by the actor. It's a very tempting trap. Let me make good use of it." Diana turned the steering wheel and said, "By the way, he said he was going to do a big thing, you Knowing his own skills, I can't stop him for the time being."

Doesn't sound like a good thing.

"Okay, here we are."

Yan Ge looked at the building in front of him - this is the large arena in Ciling City that was just built a few years ago, enough to hold 5 people.

The reason why he remembered it so clearly was because he remembered that when he first came here, there were L2 posters everywhere. If it wasn't for the live puppets, Li Ya should have held a concert here next year.

"Why did you choose this place?"

"My combat instinct tells me that open places are safer." Diana said, got out of the car, and led them into the arena from the entrance.

Passing through the dark passage, when the iron shutter door was pulled open, the high-wattage lights on the arena made Yan Ge squint his eyes.

As the light retracted, he saw the layout of the arena.

"—a total of [-] bombs, [-] barrels of gasoline, you are responsible for bringing the actor over here, and I will stay here from now on." Diana raised her gun, her blue eyes remained the same Calmly, "Fight to the death."

……

In Ciling tonight, the puppets are extremely quiet.

Perhaps because of the disappearance of the Red Death King, all the living puppets stopped hunting and kept vigil in every corner of the city.

Plaster statues sang on street corners like saints singing hymns.

"The scorching bones are unwilling to roar,

They say they've sat around too long.

The executioner composes and sings,

His name is called the King of Performers..."

Crows flew over the street lamps, casting mottled shadows on the ground, and the sound of crutches knocked on the concrete floor. Soon, the plaster statues stopped humming and turned to salute the human-shaped shadows under the lights.

"Good night, the messenger of time and the lord of all spirits who gave us life, please take the time to listen to our fears."

Luka pressed the brim of his top hat and said, "I'm sorry, but I have to find that human heart tonight. He has a story I've been looking for for a long time."

"No, you must listen to this tragedy, which is also a warning to you."

The plaster statues spoke in turn:

"A snake, a naive snake loving the devil's young child."

"Tenderer than mother, more reliable than father, it loves him with everything."

"It wants to exchange for a heart with bruises all over its body, but that child's heart is already rotten."

"He is greedy, cruel, and ugly. Once his heart is cut open, only mosquitoes and flies will be attracted."

"With such a heart, he deceived the snake, saying that he would love it."

"The snake was sick, and he was infected by that heart with a plague as terrible as the Black Death."

"He betrayed it, it swallowed him, swallowed the child's infinite power."

"Our power of prophecy tells us—you can't move forward, it has been favored by the god of greed, with the will of the devil, fate has already wailed, starting from you, everything will eventually sleep in its belly!"

For the first time the crows flew about in terror, and the city's night had never been more ominous than tonight.

Luca's shadow moved.

"I am crippled and I am no longer worthy of her love, but I want to see her."

He put his hands on his chest, feeling the empty heartbeat inside.

"I have heard the advice of fate. The front of my steps is not only my end, but also where she is."

"Even if I'm crushed, the wind will carry the proof of my love for her."

"This is my oath."

When the midnight bell struck, the shadow of King Ling was swallowed up by the night, and the living puppets watched him sadly, like a team supporting spirits.