Chapter 3: The Enemy Advances and We Retreat

I don’t know if big names have the habit of being late, but none of the Four Holy Beasts arrived when I went online. The evacuation work in the city is still going on, and now we can only evacuate as much as we can.

I admit that the attempt to blackmail the Four Holy Beasts was a bit ill-advised at first, but I can’t blame it entirely. The Four Holy Beasts’ high profile forced me to fight back, otherwise I will be their lord and my subject from now on, and will never be able to stand up again. All credit is given to me. It will become a matter of course, and all mistakes will be severely punished. This is absolutely unacceptable. But now that things have reached this point, I would rather be broken into pieces if I don’t get back what I lost ten times or a hundred times. Leaders sometimes need courage. Before they arrived, I first used the crystal communication machine to ask the people from Tianmen Island to transport Bi Ling's skeleton to Atlantis, where it would not be easy to find.

As soon as they returned to the city ground after the explanation, the four holy beasts suddenly fell from the sky. They landed on the base of the Juling Tower. When the tower collapsed, they fell sideways, but the base part was fine.

"Are you good at it?" Qinglong spoke first.

I looked at him: "How can I be as clever as Master Qinglong?"

Xuanwu said: "If you can get someone out of my seal, don't be too modest." It seems that they are talking about Wei Na. I extracted Vina into my physical body, and of course the Vina in the game disappeared, so the Four Sacred Beasts thought I had used some method to get Vina out of the seal.

"I don't like to take orders from others."

"That's a coincidence, I like to order others." Qinglong is a dead boy who symbolizes power and has such special hobbies.

Bai Hu finally spoke. "Let's get back to the topic. How are you thinking about it? Tell us the news about Bi Ling or it will be all over."

"I don't really like being threatened."

"Then you are different?" Suzaku had already begun to play with the weapons in his hands and prepared to kill.

"The decision-making power is not with me, but with you. I am a businessman. I only talk about business and do not deal with robbers. If you want to sit down and talk, I welcome it. As long as the price is right, everyone will cooperate happily. If you If you plan to do it hard, then don’t think about it and just start." Bi Ling’s bones have been sent to Atlantis. Since the Four Sacred Beasts have been asking for news about Bi Ling, it means that they cannot rely on their senses to find it. Skeletons, so I have enough money to extort money.

"It seems that you are really planning to fight us?" Qinglong stretched out his left hand and raised his palm slightly. Essinger suddenly began to vibrate.

The soil on the edge of the city began to beat, and the entire Essinger slowly left the ground. Many already damaged houses began to collapse in pieces during the vibration. I know this is not the effect of the gravity resistance device, because the power core has been removed immediately, and it is impossible to leave that thing behind as a valuable item.

"I have said that I will never compromise with terrorists. Either we can negotiate business as equals, or we will get nothing at all."

While we were talking, the entire Essinger had risen to a height of more than two thousand meters above the ground. Suzaku asked with a smile: "Are you really so tough? Isn't this a lot?" She pointed towards the city with her halberd. The fire began to spread in the direction she pointed, and it grew stronger and stronger.

"From now on, unless you want peace talks, I refuse to speak." I simply couldn't even answer.

Qinglong used his free right hand to drag up a white electric ball, and lightning shot out from the ball. It seems quite powerful. He suddenly threw the light ball back, and the white ball immediately flew away. The ball of light suddenly exploded after it hit the ground. There was a loud bang on the ground in Essinger, and a big hole appeared. The hole in the ground expanded into a hole large enough for an aircraft carrier to shuttle inside. The ball of light explodes whenever it hits something all the way down. Soon it passed through the entire city.

There were many people gathered on the ground, many of whom were players from the guild, and some who came to see the situation because of the earthquake caused by the collapse of the Spirit Gathering Tower at the beginning. They looked up at the city, and suddenly a big fireball erupted from the bottom of the city. A lot of gravel fell out, and there was a big hole under the city.

Qinglong looked at me: "Don't you want to say this?"

I looked at him with an expressionless face and didn't say a word. Qinglong raised his hand again, this time it was a thick and terrifying lightning. In the loud noise, a large piece of more than ten square kilometers was lost in the northeast corner of Essinger.

"What now?"

Suzaku suddenly raised his halberd. "Why are you talking nonsense to him? If you want to come, be thorough."

"Suzaku no!"

Qinglong and the other two holy beasts screamed at the same time, but it was too late. The halberd raised by Suzaku slammed down to the ground, a red light flashed, and there was a loud bang in the middle of the city, and then the entire Essinger suddenly broke into two halves and fell to the ground.

The impact this time was more than ten times stronger than when the Juling Tower collapsed. The nearby cities were hit by the sudden shock wave, and the buildings collapsed instantly. The entire forest around Essinger was completely flattened by the powerful shock wave, and all the trees fell radially outward from the center of the city. A five-hundred-meter-high wave on the sea rushed toward the distance. The sea water on the coast was drained instantly.

I fell to the ground along with the city. But I spread my wings and did not fall to death. Instead, I stood firmly on the ruins of the city that had turned into a pile of rubble.

The four holy beasts are still floating in the sky. Qinglong scolded Suzaku: "What are you doing? We want news. Now, if you destroy his city, we will never get the news."

Suzaku looked at Qinglong in confusion. "Doesn't he still have many cities? Let's destroy them one by one until he says so."

"You...!" Qinglong was so angry that he didn't know what to say.

Xuanwu said: "Suzaku, you are so impulsive. You have to use your brain for everything. It's not like you don't know this guy's information. Although he has many cities, this one is the center, quite the same as his home base. If someone takes your 'tide' If the cave is demolished, will you still tell that person the news that the other person wants to know? It's not like you are forcing a confession. Mental pressure is the key to forcing a confession. You really did such a serious thing. We really have no hope.”

It was only at this time that Suzaku started to get anxious. "No way? He is just a mortal. We should be able to make him surrender after we threaten him."

Qinglong shook his head: "There is no hope. He is not an ordinary person at all, and he even frowned when the city was destroyed. Everyone knows how anxious the Jade Emperor was when Sun Wukong made a big fuss in the Heavenly Palace. Gods also have times of fear, but This guy... he doesn't seem to know fear. In my memory, the original Tianzun and Tathagata have such 'character' that none of the four of us can do it."

"That means he is better than us?" Suzaku asked in disbelief.

Qinglong nodded. "Definitely stronger than us, but it's not the kind of power you think but the power of the soul. When it comes to cultivating the mind, the four of us are no match for him!"

"What should we do now?" Suzaku asked.

Bai Hu said: "Actually, there is no choice now. There are only two roads in front of us, and they are likely to go together."

"How to say?"

Xuanwu explained: "Don't you understand this? The first is to go down immediately to apologize and negotiate terms with him, but the consequences may be serious. If we negotiate terms at the beginning, the worst possible outcome is to give him a small favor or promise to take care of his guild. . But now that you have demolished his city, it is necessary to restore his city first. Other compensation may cost you a little blood, but in the end it will still be affordable."

"What about the other way?" Suzaku still didn't want to admit defeat to me.

Xuanwu said: "The other way is to continue to destroy his cities as you said until all his cities in China are bombed. Then we can hunt down his men and destroy all his things. If he succumbs during this process, then we can get the news." Xuanwu paused before continuing: "But if he still doesn't tell...!"

"How about not telling me?" Suzaku asked.

Bai Hu said: "Ru Guo still won't say anything. Unless we don't want to find Bi Ling, we will have to face horrific compensation."

Qinglong added: "And compared with the price you will pay if you apologize now. It will not be as simple as bleeding, it will be less if you peel off the skin, and it may even hurt your muscles and bones."

Xuanwu sighed and said: "The worst thing is that we have to get this news, no matter what happens in the end. Even if three of the four of us give our lives, we have to complete it, so I don't agree with the second method. We My trump card has been determined, and it is quite small, so there will be no good results if I continue to gamble with him."

Suzaku suddenly said: "I don't believe that he is more powerful than us, so I have to make this bet with him."

"Don't!" The three holy beasts yelled again, but Suzaku had already rushed down.

I stood motionless on the ruins of Essinger, and Suzaku suddenly appeared beside me. "Are you going to say it or not?"

I looked at the sea and ignored Suzaku's words. Isengard no longer exists. The dark sky overhead naturally dissipated. This is the first time I have seen the sky above Essinger. It turns out that the sky of Essinger without the dark sky is so beautiful.

Seeing that I was completely ignoring her, Suzaku put his halberd to my throat. "Say, otherwise I..."

She didn't say anything anymore, because I grabbed her halberd and pulled it towards my neck. Suzaku's weapons are definitely at the level of artifacts, and critical attacks will definitely kill people. I collapsed almost immediately. Suzaku looked at my body and didn't know what to say.

Qinglong and the others chased me down and saw that I had fallen to the ground. Xuanwu shook his head and said, "Now the price will increase again!"

Within two minutes of my resurrection in the Resurrection Hall in Steel City, the four holy beasts arrived one after another. Steel City's teleportation seal had no effect on them. "Is this place pretty good?" Suzaku looked around. "But it would be better to heat it up." The flames instantly filled the entire steel city. The high temperature of the fire melted even the steel. The city began to collapse.

I turned to Suzaku and stretched out my arms: "Come again! Aren't you going to kill me again?"

"Go to hell!" Suzaku didn't hesitate this time. As soon as he raised his hand, I didn't feel anything but his head was gone.

The place of resurrection is Yunxiao City. According to my request, the city has been closed and everyone has been evacuated. The four holy beasts still arrived quickly. It seems that these four guys are all aggressive NPCs, not very good at thinking about problems, and have no new tricks at all. After they turned the city into ruins, they killed me again.

I keep resurrecting and resurrecting. One city after another was destroyed. Soon all the cities in China were gone, even the newly occupied cities in Indonesia. That side was now considered Chinese territory, and the Four Sacred Beasts could enter there.

After all the cities were destroyed, I was killed again, because our guild no longer had a city in the country, and the place where I was resurrected became the long-lost lost city. It feels like I haven't been here for a long time.

After losing many cities in a row, the guild's dominance was no longer there, and the guild's main city was destroyed. The new main city was also automatically changed to Tianyu City, the largest existing guild city.

The influence of our association in the country has been completely wiped out this time. Now we have nothing in the country except people.

When the Four Sacred Beasts chased me here, I was lying in the cemetery outside the Lost City. This is where I started, and I hope it's not where I end.

The four holy beasts appeared around me at the same time and surrounded me. I was too lazy to move. There is no point in moving when you encounter this kind of enemy. "Everyone is here? What are you planning to do this time? Kill me again? Or do you want to destroy the city? This is not my city."

Suzaku still wanted to bluff. "We will destroy cities that are not yours."

I immediately sat up with a smile and stretched out my hand toward the city in a gesture of invitation. "Then what are you waiting for? Let's get started? I have system protection, and I will only lose one level every time I die. You will destroy a city once I'm resurrected. By the time I return to Novice Village, there won't be many cities left in China." I looked towards Suzaku. "You are so great. As a powerful guardian beast of China, you have successfully destroyed cities all over China. This guard is so powerful! We feel so safe with such a guard! Eh? What are you waiting for? Start your great plan now? Destroy all of China. Then become the most powerful guardian beast. Do you think the guards of any country in the world dare to blow up their own country? You are definitely the first in the world. You are so great. !”

Suzaku's face changed several times, and finally he couldn't help but kill me again. This time I was resurrected in the Lost City. I will be famous as long as the Lost City is still there. Since there is no city where the guild is located in the country, it must be resurrected here.

The four holy beasts were waiting for me directly in the Resurrection Hall this time. None of the NPCs in the city could move. They could only watch four strangers enter the Resurrection Hall in the city, which is strictly prohibited for non-Resurrection Mage NPCs. I saw them as soon as I came out of the resurrection formation. "It's strange, why are you still here! Blow up the city quickly? The fireworks are pretty good."

Suzaku took action again. This time Qinglong blocked it, but unfortunately the aftermath of the collision of the two forces still killed me.

When I'm resurrected again, I won't go out of the resurrection formation at all. This is equivalent to being resurrected on the spot. "Okay, save yourself the trouble, just kill here, and you will be resurrected in the same place anyway. It seems that I can experience the life of the Novice Village. I wonder if I still remember the road there."

"You're amazing, aren't you?" Suzaku suddenly showed an obelisk-like stone object with red text flashing on it. This thing was almost one meter long. She pointed the tip of the thing at me: "Tower of Experience."

This time I didn't die. But I saw my experience points rolling down and falling, and my level also started to decrease. This thing absorbs experience points very quickly. Soon I became Level 1, and Suzaku took back the tower.

"I ask you one last time, do you want to tell me? One more strike and you will return to Novice Village."

I looked outside. After Suzaku used the experience-absorbing thing just now, I could only see strong light and couldn't see anything else. Now that the thing stopped, I noticed that only Suzaku was left here. The other three divine beasts were sitting in a row on the steps outside the hall, all of them looking very depressed. It seems those three have given up long ago. Only Suzaku, who had a fiery personality, still didn't shed tears without seeing the coffin.

"Kill him. I have long wanted to visit my old place again."

"You...you...you..." Suzaku's breathing became rapid. Finally she cut it off. "go to hell!"

In a flash of white light, I returned to the Novice Village, leveling up to exactly 19th level. It’s no longer possible to be outside. Because the items rewarded by the system do not lose attributes, although I am only level 19 now, the equipment on my body can still be used normally.

Now that you're in, just level up honestly and get ready to go out. It's probably going to be a big change outside. Because my equipment is too eye-catching in the novice village. So I teleported directly outside the village. Now that the game has been open for a long time, there are not many new players, so the monsters are very dense, which is good for my leveling.

Although I lost levels, my summoned creatures did not lose levels, but the number dropped. However, the most advanced monster in the Novice Village is level 1. I can now summon 38 level 350 Steel Silver Bees, which is simply a super boss in the Novice Village. After you release them, kill those monsters and gain experience points effortlessly.

It's easy to leave Novice Village, but I can't go out so quickly. That Suzaku represents passion and is relatively easy to get excited. Otherwise, if the other three tell her, I will be killed if I go out. It is better to sit here and play for a while.

After I had almost accumulated experience points, I found a small cave in an uninhabited area, collected some branches to set up a bonfire in the cave, and shot a red-eyed beast to start the barbecue party. According to Chinese ethics, the teacher and the father are on the same level. Among the four holy beasts, Suzaku and Qinglong are Biling's introductory disciples. Baihu and Xuanwu also received a small amount of guidance, so Biling is as important to them as their father. According to ancient Chinese moral etiquette, they should be able to give up everything for Biling. This is my bargaining chip. Now my trump card is bigger than theirs. Although it seems that I am disadvantaged at the moment, in fact, it is they, not me, who are really in dire straits.

After eating the barbecue, I switched to the small Silver Moon Login Game, contacted Rose via private message and told her the general story, and then asked her to reassure everyone not to panic. Everything we lose will be recovered soon, and the value will increase 100%. Success is only a matter of time.

After everyone settled in, I changed back to the Ziri account. Now this large account is not as high-level as the small account! Seeing that it was already night time, I was too lazy to go out so quickly. After I got offline and had something to eat, I ran over to Lucky and the others.

The familiars and bell knights who came out of the game were moved to Lucky's big room. This arrangement was so that they could relax. Lucky understands the world inside and outside the game, and Lucky can just explain something to them when I'm not with them.

I took the elevator and entered the lucky room directly. When the door opened, the scene inside shocked me. The 21 ring knights formed a circle and hugged each other and cried. This scene made me stupid. The Ring Knights like Scot are the most terrifying existences in my mind. Their steely will and firm belief are what I admire the most, but the Ring Knights can actually cry, and they cry so earth-shatteringly.

"What's wrong with them?" I walked into the room with a confused look on my face.

The researcher next to me who I asked shook his head violently. "After they got here and met Lucky, Lucky briefly introduced the world to them. Lucky just said that they were human beings, and then they started to cry. It's been almost an hour and they still haven't stopped. .”

I walked up behind the Ring Knight and shouted: "The Ring Knight is in position!"

21 Ring Knights jumped up from the ground as if they were electrocuted. It took 21 people less than 5 seconds to complete the queue. It seems that the consciousness transfer was successful. Muscle control has reached this level.

Scott and the others all looked at me, and I scanned them too. "Wipe all your tears."

After hearing the order, they quickly began to wipe their tears. He quickly returned to his standing position.

"Now relax and stop standing so straight. Tell me why you are crying?"

Scott's voice still changed a bit, probably because he cried for too long. "We...we are too excited. Becoming undead is not voluntary, but since we have become part of the darkness, we can no longer resist it, we can only accept it."

This is what the proverb says is getting on a pirate ship.

"What does that have to do with your crying?"

"We are human beings now. This body...this body, I can feel the warmth and cold, breathe the air with various smells, and feel the sunshine. This...this is really exciting for us. Living It’s nice. It’s nice to have a body.”

A young-looking Ringtone knight next to him said: "In the past, our bodies were cold. We couldn't feel the cold or heat, and we didn't feel pain when we were stabbed by the enemy. There was no taste in eating anything. Drink it. You can’t feel anything even with fine wine, and that feeling of being without sex can really drive people crazy. In fact, every time I saw you eating, I used to get mad at you!"

"Then why didn't you say anything then?"

"Does it make a difference whether you say it or not? Of course we know that you will not be stingy with a little food. If we want to eat it, you will definitely give it to us, but we have no sense of taste! So what if we eat it? No matter how we eat, we will not have it. Felt."

I turned around and called the researcher in charge over. "Are their stomachs strong enough to eat now?"

"According to the original technical demonstration, it should still take an hour, but now the data displayed by the instrument is much faster than we predicted. It should be possible to eat, but it is recommended not to eat things that are difficult to digest. It is best to eat something first. Things like fruits and vegetables, wait a few hours before eating meat and other things.”

"Okay, I understand." I turned around and said to the handyman standing at the door: "Let the canteen prepare some food, just vegetables and fruits, as rich as possible. By the way, prepare some low-alcohol natural drinks." I thought. After thinking for a while, he added: "Forget it, add another portion of boiled meat and tell the chef to cook the meat until it's tender. Don't worry about the texture of the meat. They can't eat anything too hard now."

"Understood, send it right away."

After I finished explaining, I turned to the Ring Knights and said, "Calm down now. I'll treat you to the first sumptuous meal in your life later."

"Oh!" All the ring knights cheered.

Lucky next to him protested: "When will the master let me eat some braised beef or something? Every time it is artificial meat and fruit!"

I smiled and said: "You'd better wait! Let's wait until the base breeds meat livestock as big as dinosaurs! You have braised beef for your head! A cow is not enough to fill your teeth! Where can I find it for you? Braised beef?”

"That's not fair!" Lucky protested seriously.

"Okay, okay, stop arguing. I'll think of a solution later!"

After comforting Lucky, I walked over to the humanoid demon pets. They were all sitting in wheelchairs with infusion bottles in their arms. Just now, their view was blocked by Lucky's huge body, and they heard Lucky calling his master. They all ran over with electric wheelchairs controlled by their hands. It seemed that they had learned to use these things.

"Master! Master!..." They surrounded me as soon as they came over.

I asked the research director: "Why are they still in wheelchairs?"

"Because the main strength of these female experimental subjects is not muscles, their physical strength is slightly weaker, and their recovery is not as fast as those of the soldiers. However, everything is normal now. They will be able to walk on their own in a few hours, but they need to reach It takes about 72 hours for normal people to reach the level of exercise. After that, they will gradually get stronger and reach the normal level of biochemical humans in about a week. In fact, they are not all in wheelchairs. These two can walk normally." the research director pointed out It's Jingjing and Lingling, they seem to be the fastest among the demon pets to recover.

I nodded: "Are their digestive tracts ready for food now?"

"Don't worry about this. There is no difference between them and those soldiers in terms of digestion ability."

"That's good."

"Master? This world is so strange." Ling controlled the wheelchair and ran to me and said.

I 'touched' her face. "Actually, the place you lived in before is really strange. This is the material world, and the one you live in is the spiritual world of nothingness."

"I don't understand." Ling shook his head.

"Forget it, this is not something that can be understood in a short time. It took Lucky three or four days to understand both the original world and this world. It will probably take you about the same amount of time."

Wei Na suddenly said: "Master, there are many magic channels in the walls here."

"Magic pipes? Oh! You are talking about wires. What flows in them is electric current, not magic. There is no magic in this world. But we have something more magical than magic, and that is science."

"What is science?" All the demon pets around shook their heads. Obviously have no idea about these things.

"I will teach you slowly if you don't understand. Now, who else among you can feel the current or magic flowing in the wall? That's the feeling anyway."

Pepper said: "I can feel some weak forces vibrating in the air. They seem to be constantly changing."

"Does it feel strong?"

“Some are very strong, some are very weak.”

The supervisor next to him held an electronic notebook and took notes while saying, "It doesn't seem like what she feels is the current in the wires, right?"

I nodded: "It is estimated that what she feels is electromagnetic waves and electric fields. So her feelings are sharper than Vina's, but it seems that the intensity is not as strong as Vina's."

Ling said: "I didn't feel anything. I just could see strange energy fluctuations near everyone's heads."

This time the researcher immediately shouted: "This is mind reading. Lucky son also has this ability. It seems to be using the changes in brain waves to directly read the other person's thinking."

I asked Vina: "Can you affect these energy changes?"

"How to influence it?" Ling didn't know anything about this.

I had someone bring me a gaming headset and turned it on but it didn't connect to the internet. "Can you feel the energy changes inside this thing?"

"able."

"Try to imitate this change, can you do it?"

"It can be done, it's easy."

"Can you launch this modification very far?"

"As long as it's not too far away, you can get there."

I threw the helmet to the research director: "Okay, now we have a cyborg that can 'manipulate' other people's consciousness from a distance!"

The research director suddenly shouted: "Oh my God! I thought of it. I thought of it. The composition of these bodies is not very different. But they have acquired different abilities. It seems that this is the influence of consciousness on the bodies. . The combination of their consciousness and their bodies brings new abilities. Our previous research conclusions were too arbitrary. Although consciousness is dependent on matter, it also has a reaction on matter. This is a process of mutual influence. Haha ! The technical difficulties finally came to my mind. Excuse me, I have to write these down quickly."

After repeated attempts, I found that the abilities of these magic pets seem to have developed in different directions. However, Jingjing and Lingling are both made according to the characteristics of warriors and do not have such special super electromagnetic induction capabilities. Just extremely strong.

Because luckily this is a sterile area and we are not allowed to eat in this place, I took them all to the cafeteria. There is a special partition in the canteen, which is specially used by special departments. I brought everyone in. Vina and Pepper can now walk with support. However, Ling, Xiaochun and Amynis all still need to sit in wheelchairs.

I told everyone that their bodies are very strong, so Lingling said that if she wanted to test her own strength, she had to arm-wrestle with me. I couldn't stand her persistence, so I broke up with her. I first started to smile and keep my arms upright, and waited for her to give up automatically when she was tired.

Lingling complained: "Master, didn't you say that our bodies are stronger than those of naturally born humans? Why can't I even defeat you?"

"Did I say I was a naturally born human?"

"Master, are you the same as us?" Ling and the others were all surprised.

"There are some differences between you and me. At least I came to this world a long time before you, and my consciousness was produced by this ** and is a naturally formed consciousness. Your consciousness is simulated by the thinking unit of the biological computer. , it was only artificially induced into these bodies after you gradually perfected them."

"Are we considered newborns or adults?"

"I don't know!" I shook my head. This question is indeed somewhat difficult to answer. "You were actually not born together. Ling and Wei Na's bodies were completed a long time ago. They are supposed to be older than you both."

"It's really complicated!" Scott shook his head and said, "I can't figure these things out. It's better to just follow the master honestly. I will do whatever the master says."

"This title needs to be changed." I said to them: "This world is not suitable for calling you master."

"Then what shall we call you?"

"My name is Shenlin in this world. You can just call me Shenlin."