The three of them broke into a dilapidated grocery store, with rows of shelves neatly displaying various products, exuding a long-expired rancid smell.
There is a group photo on the counter, and under the dusty photo frame you can vaguely see the bright smiles of a couple and a little girl. Everything here gives people an illusion - as if this city has never changed.
The residents here simply went on a long vacation en masse.
Or, the accident happened in a very short period of time, so short that they had no time to react in a panic.
The heavy footsteps of the predator got closer and closer, until the iron door of the grocery store blocked its huge body. A low roar came from outside the door, and then the whole store shook violently. Fortunately, the building did not follow.
Those shelves were knocked down together.
"Hu Lei, how is your skill? Can you deal with it?"
Hu Lei kept moving his hands, laying out a sparkling electric grid at the door.
"Of course not, why do you think I can only be the team doctor?"
"..."
At this time, the shaking like an earthquake stopped. The predator seemed to realize that this method would not work, and slowly took a few steps back.
Looking out through the glass window, I saw that the huge thing was two stories high, with four thick thighs on each side of its dark body. Its neck was thick and long, and it was tilting its head and looking into the grocery store.
, thick saliva kept dripping from the huge mouth.
Immediately afterwards, its whole body twisted and made a gurgling sound, and its frame gradually shrank as if it was being squeezed.
Pan Yue screamed in her heart that something was wrong, and anxiously said to the explorer: "Why didn't you tell me earlier that it would become smaller? Now it's time to catch a turtle in a jar!"
"I...I just heard some legends. After all, there are too few people who can escape from predators alive."
"Stop arguing, quickly check to see if there is a back door. Leave this to me."
Seeing that the predator was about to be able to pass through the iron gate, Hu Lei's tone suddenly became extremely calm.
"What?"
"If you two are so capable, you will die together if you stay here. Hurry up and join Captain Han and the others." Hu Lei didn't even look back, looking as if he was about to die, "Besides, our bodyguard team is responsible for protecting civilians...
....”
Before he finished speaking, the explorer picked up an iron rod from the ground and knocked him unconscious.
"You brat, there's no one else around now, let's take action!"
"What are you doing! I can't beat you either!"
"Stop making trouble, stop making trouble, I've seen it a long time ago, you must be a high-level believer of the Son of Light!"
"...?"
After Pan Yue's repeated explanations, the explorer finally believed that he was just a beginner who had only joined the Sons of Light for a few days. At this time, half of the predator's body had slowly squeezed into the door. Hu Lei's carefully arranged power grid
It just paused for a moment, and then continued moving forward as if nothing had happened.
"This is not a bad thing anymore... Brat, try it!"
Pan Yue bravely lit a ball of flame in the palm of his hand and threw it at the predator. The flame was absorbed the moment it touched its skin.
"Gah——"
The flames did not cause any damage to it, but instead let out a strange cry of joy from its thick dinosaur-like neck.
The always ambitious explorer finally had a look of fear on his face. He squatted on the ground and shook Hu Lei desperately.
"Hu Lei! Hu Lei! Wake up! Run!"
run?
Pan Yue suddenly thought of the only black magic he could skillfully use - teleportation.
He walked to the two of them and clenched his fists, and transparent energy bubbles spread out from his body. However, this was the first time he tried to teleport three people at the same time. The distorted space was constantly fluctuating around him and never stabilized.
The explorer instantly understood his intention, and saw that the predator's body had almost completely squeezed into the grocery store, and it quickly condensed a large piece of ice to move its feet on the ground.
"Come on, I'll cover you!"
The predator's eight legs exerted force at the same time, shattering the ice into pieces in an instant. It bared its teeth provocatively at the explorer, and walked over slowly. At this time, the bubbles around Pan Yue were still unstable.
The ground is shaking.
Pan Yue looked at the predator's clumsy body, and a bold plan suddenly came to his mind.
"I have an idea, please stay away."
The explorer was unwilling to shoot several ice picks at the predator. After finding that it was unharmed, he quickly rolled and crawled back to the corner.
"Explorer, take care of Hu Lei. If successful, I will come back to meet you."
"Ah? What do you mean? What if it fails?"
"If you fail... then see you in the next life!"
After saying that, Pan Yue quickly rushed to the predator and jumped up, the fluctuating bubbles covering his and the predator's heads.
"Are you crazy? The energy of the alien demon is so great, you..."
The predator's nose sprayed out brown gas that emitted a pungent rancid smell, and Pan Yue could clearly see the huge Adam's apple squirming in its mouth.
He closed his eyes and released his hands, and the screams of the explorer behind him disappeared instantly.
Severe pain.
Pan Yue's body emitted severe pain, and he was thrown heavily to the ground by inertia and slid for several meters. Along with him was the predator's ugly head.
He succeeded.
He teleported himself and the predator's head to another place, and before it even had time to wail, its neck was broken by the twisted space.
But the huge force that tore the predator's neck and the energy it contained backfired on Pan Yue at the same time. He suddenly felt as if all the bones in his body were crushed by a giant hand, and his internal organs were stirred as if they were thrown into a whirlpool.
Together, every cell in the body is emitting heartbreaking pain.
"Well--"
He used the remaining strength and consciousness to reach into his pocket. The moment he touched the iron ruler, a warm current rushed into his palm and quickly flowed to every corner of his body.
The holy radiance emitted by the artifact resisted the backlash of darkness. Pan Yue felt as if she was being driven back and forth between hell and the human world by two energies that could destroy the world. Everything in front of her was distorted and emitting a strange brilliance.
"Look to the sky, high up.
The time has come for the stars to return to their alignment, the past has come, and the end is approaching..."
Pan Yue unconsciously muttered the strange sentences in the manuscript, and her mind fell into nothingness.
...
When he regained consciousness again, those weird hallucinations had disappeared, leaving only the predator's head on the ground staring at him with big orange eyes.
"It's bad luck, get out."
He struggled to get up from the ground and kicked the predator's head away.
Although the pain was not tormenting his nerves like it was at first, there was still a dull pain in his body, as if he was being pricked by countless small needles.
Pan Yue tried to teleport herself back to the grocery store, but all she could feel was a sense of powerlessness. It seemed that she was very weak at the moment and would not be able to use black magic for a while.
He sighed and began to look at the surrounding environment. He was in a church-like building. Although the fog in the air was thinner than before, it was still filled with a stale smell unique to the city of fog.
Pan Yue raised her head and saw a strange pattern carved on the spherical ceiling.
The center of the pattern is a regular rectangle, the lower one is a dotted line, and the other three are solid lines. There is an arrow from left to right at the right end of the dotted line, and there is also a top-down arrow on the left straight line.
The left end of the dotted line.
Surrounding this strange rectangle are many circles of different sizes, which seem to be scattered randomly in every gap on the ceiling, like countless empty pupils staring into the fog.
Pan Yue felt dizzy after looking at it for a while, so she shook her head and walked towards her body. There was a downward step in front of her, and a long corridor led into darkness.
A thought suddenly popped up in his mind: Could this be related to the Son of Light?
Although Pan Yue had no interest in the "Apocalypse" mentioned by Hua Tianming, she had no choice but to bite the bullet and explore forward as he grabbed the handle at this time.
A weak fire ignited in Pan Yue's hand, and the peeling walls of the corridor were filled with a large number of dark red symbols.
Their handwriting seemed to be written by the same person, and the strange color looked like dried blood. Pan Yue felt sick in her stomach and quickly turned her eyes to the steps below.
He was stunned.
On the dusty steps, several sets of footprints lead to the depths of darkness. Those footprints seem to belong to the same person, as if someone has visited the city frequently after it fell into silence. This chapter has been completed!