Abyss Express

Chapter 745 Act.01 [Entertainment·Hospitality]

Preface:

Hunger is the best seasoning.

——Altu Schopenhauer

[Part①·Eating tributes secretly]

The lower reaches of Wujiang River were originally calm, but with the accident of Penglai No. 1, the regional spiritual disaster index gradually increased, and ripples began to appear on the water surface.

The waves gradually spread, as if there was an invisible hand gently painting on the water surface.

"Hey"

Billy leaned against the window of the passenger ship and chatted casually.

"Fuyanini, how much food do we have in our bags?"

Fuyanini squeezed to his brother with a cloth bag, counted the inventory in the cloth bag, and replied casually: "Enough for us to return to Black Wind Ridge."

The speed of the sightseeing boat is only eight knots. It takes at least nine hours to return to the war center, and it depends on the mood of the sky. If there is a storm, the boat will go even slower.

Billy then asked, "What are they?"

Fuyanini: "Six zongzi, half of which are filled with sweet dates and bean paste, and the other half are filled with pork and egg yolk."

Billy: "Only zongzi?"

Fuyanini: "When we set out from Heifengling, the quartermaster specifically instructed us not to bring the military rations of Guangling Zhixi, nor any food products with the ship code of XN1065. If the enemy finds out, our lives will be in danger."

The two came to the vicinity of Aizong Mausoleum to perform a mission, claiming to be passengers from the East. When they arrived at Baibei Port to pass through the customs, if the local officers and soldiers checked the luggage and found something strange and recognized these cargo ships from Xiantai Prefecture, the brothers would definitely be in trouble, and they would also implicate Teacher Su Ling.

These six zongzi were treasures found in the homes of local farmers in Heifengling.

"I didn't expect this place to celebrate traditional Chinese festivals?" Billy weighed the small zongzi with interest.

Fuyanini had long known about the folk traditions of Shambhala: "This area is very strange, Brother Billy, there are many time travelers."

"The main factors that constitute local culture are the habits and habits of those in power. For example, the last time we bought "Journey to the West" in Taizhou, it was a hardcover book with picture books."

The "Journey to the West" in Shambhala was written by Wang Daming, a time traveler.

Every fifty years or so, time travelers come to this land and use their vision far beyond the times, culture, technology, psychic talents and political foresight to transform this deformed world - either temporarily calm its chaos or make it more deformed.

As for the book atlas, this "Journey to the West" from a parallel universe is just a pastime for Wang Daming after dinner. The cultural genes of Daxia come from various chaotic time and space, and so do its language and folk customs. It is dominated by various time travelers and constantly changes.

"Boring." Billy muttered: "Go ahead, Fu Yanini."

Fu Yanini: "Hmm?"

Billy: "During the Dragon Boat Festival, everyone eats zongzi. Does that count as stealing Qu Yuan's tribute?"

Fu Yanini blushed: "Oh, it was originally given to the fish."

Billy: "That's stealing the tribute of the river god fish monster."

Fu Yanini: "It's not stealing, it's fair and square."

Billy: "Oh, there are so many fish monsters in Baibei Port. If I eat a zongzi, it's an insult to these monsters. This festival is great!"

"Although I don't quite understand your magical logic, it's really a good thing!" Fu Yanini laughed.

As the wind and waves grew stronger, the force brought by the tide began to become more obvious, and the water waves formed undulating and violent patterns. They intertwined and chased each other, as if they were the increasingly manic notes on the river surface.

It was almost noon when we set out. After three or four hours of sailing, dark clouds floated over the horizon, covering the dome of the cave and part of the "blue sky" brought by the diffuse reflection of sunlight - swallowing up the cave boulders in the shallow mist in the far distance one by one.

"Is it going to get dark?" Fuyanini hurriedly looked at his watch, "It's only one o'clock in the afternoon?"

Billy didn't feel anything unusual. He was more concerned about the couple above the cabin than the changes in spiritual pressure near the foggy river.

He could hear some human noises, because Judah and Fayi were both blood-donating units. For a blood-donating follower like Billy, the master's orders are always the loudest and most harsh.

But Billy didn't suspect anything. He was too relaxed and his nerves were tough enough. After hearing part of the conversation, the gentleman decided to say a few words of gossip, talked himself into a breakdown, and then left quickly.

"I hope the weather will get better." Billy sighed, "It's better to go back early. I'm tired of the monsters in Baibei Port. I can't stand the fishy smell at all."

Fuyanini: "Brother, are you afraid of water?"

Billy: "When I first accepted the blood collection ceremony of the Little Brotherhood, the servant of God gave me a skin test."

The blood collection ceremony is a test for newcomers by the Mad Butterfly Holy Church. Members of the war gang need 1,400 milliliters of blood to complete the promotion, and children like Billy who come from the Redstone School need at least 2,500 milliliters of blood - close to a lethal amount.

As for the "skin test", it is the procedure for creating blood-giving followers.

The Little Brotherhood infused Billy with some mixed blood, but without the participation of the Vita mark, the blessed holy blood could not nest in his body, nor could it transform him into the blood-giving state of the trinity (human beings, disaster beasts, and crazy butterflies).

His own immunity was able to resist this kind of miscellaneous blood. After a slight transformation, he was qualified to become Flavia and Dulan's little helper. Then he bumped into the Lord of Hell and FE204863 on his first business deal.

At first, Billy wanted to rely on his retinue bloodline to sneak a pack of H16T and sew it together with the gun in his belly.

As we all know, these two little people got lucky and won the jackpot.

"After doing the skin test, I have been reading. Look." Billy shook his head and explained: "After reading all kinds of vampire books, I will become a vampire soon."

"The deposit was paid, and I saw that the things vampires fear most are sunlight and flowing water, so I kept hypnotizing myself. I kept hypnotizing myself."

"You can't see the light, you can't go into the water, you have to develop a good habit, and you have to lose your life because of these things? This is too frustrating."

Foianini did not participate in blood collection, nor did he do skin tests——

——He was able to follow Flavia to do things because of his relationship with Brother Billy.

"Oh, so that's it?"

Billy: "Hey, a little superstitious?"

The wind continued to increase, the waves began to roll, and the waves jumped on the water, like goblins beating war drums with their claws and teeth.

The waterbirds on the river bank have long since flown to the deep mountains. In the hot and humid air currents in the dark sky, only mist can be seen floating between the mountains.

Above Billy the Kid's head, in the second-story cabin.

Compared with the boring food topics of the two friends, the words that came out of Mr. Judah and Ms. Faye's mouths were much more bloody and cruel.

They were almost at odds with each other, blushing and refusing to give in.

"There are three boatmen on duty. It's the off-season for the southern patrol now." Judas lowered his eyebrows and lowered his eyes and gritted his teeth: "Leave one to pilot and the remaining two to make jerky for adults - enough food for us to return to Nanliang Xiaocang Prefecture, but if we have to walk on the mountain road , both of the gunsmith's apprentices will die."

"Still talking about Nanliang?" Fayi corrected him: "Now it is Chen State, my leader. Is your brain turned on?"

"It will definitely take some time to fully adapt to this body and fully integrate this ghost!" Judah looked innocent. To be honest, a few hours ago, he was a top Arab student at the University of Chicago who was about to graduate.

He obtained a high-potential talent visa officially certified by the British government.

He has a student loan of $260,000, and he has to work hard to write songs to become an idol. He must sell at least 8,000 records to have a chance to pay off the student loan.

What he wanted to care about immediately became how to satisfy his hunger, how to survive in this desolate land, and how to escape the pursuit of the Nameless Doe.

The little saint of the goddess Io in front of her has no effect at all. In terms of force alone - Judas' holy blood body can subdue this woman with just one arm.

If there hadn't been a voice in his head that kept reminding him, greeting him with concern, and repeatedly admonishing him——

——He had already stripped this girl of her clothes and executed her on the spot. Anyway, this is a lawless world. After meeting the needs of survival, of course, he must satisfy his sexual desire.

"I really want to take a sip, but conditions don't allow it."

Judas muttered——

——His two personalities merged with each other, and he had never felt so fragile.

Every time he completes this reincarnation ritual through the goddess Io, he will spend the most difficult days.

Although these travelers from parallel time and space can become his new body and the carrier of his powerful soul. But all kinds of myths and all kinds of messy memories can also become stumbling blocks.

"And I say." Faye Frosalin talked about the conditions: "You want to kill Foianini and Billy? I don't agree!"

"Why? They are the gunsmith's apprentices." Judas didn't understand: "The gunsmith took a flight from Jushan Station to the Nine Realms. If these two brats hadn't followed the gunsmith, without Flavia and Duran, there wouldn't be this The myth created by Duan Snake Girl—their teacher should have died long ago.”

Judas had also read this story. There are many versions of the unofficial biography of the gunsmith. But the basic outline of the story is very different - they all tell the story of the gunsmith and these four partners fighting the devil on the plane, gaining the soul power and winning.

"On the contrary, my leader." Faye didn't want Billy to die here. She had never revealed her true feelings to Judah: "It is precisely because they are the gunsmith's apprentices that they cannot die."

"They carry information about the Baibei Port area, as well as Aizong's mausoleum and Tiangongyuan."

"If they disappeared without any reason, we would have no chance of escaping to Kokura Prefecture. We would be caught by the Anonymous when we disembark in Taizhou."

Judas changed his expression to a friendly one, smiled and said, "That makes sense."

Fayi breathed a sigh of relief. With Judas' soul power, it was easy to eat these two half-toned psykers.

[Midas to gold] With just one kiss, these two poor creatures will turn into a ball of flesh. Its killing efficiency is very high, but the activation conditions are relatively harsh, requiring the spirit body of Judas Priest to come into close contact with these beings.

"You reminded me." Judas smiled sinisterly and said, "But what if I don't agree?"

Fayi was surprised: "Why? Dean?"

Judas tapped his temple lightly and hit his brain: "He has seen my face, that Billy Horn, he has seen it, he has seen my real face."

"Is it because of this?" Fayi suddenly felt that the leader was a little unreasonable.

Judas whispered: "Yes, I want to reassure myself. If this guy returns to the team of Jane Doe, David Victor can use the power of [Hell's Highway] to get this memory out of his head."

"I don't want my face to be remembered by these despicable and shameless nameless people."

"Even if it's only a one-in-a-thousand chance, a one-in-10,000 coincidence. If I fall into the hands of such a little guy and Goddess Io resurrects me again - I will feel ashamed."

"Faye Frosalin, do you know what the scariest emotion in the world is?"

"It's just [shame]——"

"——Shame represents self-denial, self-destruction, and self-termination."

"Losing to the gunsmith is nothing. His destructive power is far beyond my imagination. Outside the boundary monument of Aizong Mausoleum, I was killed by him instantly without even seeing his face clearly."

"But I don't feel any shame at all. It was just a failure. I can accept this result and I can make a comeback."

"But if my face should be exposed to the sight of an unknown person because of a Billy Horne, a vile bastard who accidentally broke open the door of the boathouse, my heart could not bear the shame."

"Don't you like to eat human flesh? Faye? You are the best cook among us, and you are the little fairy flying around in front of the kitchen counter. When Pellerini was still alive, he often complained - you are There are so many types of spices required for intelligence missions.”

Judas whispered—

"——Why? The flesh and blood of these two psychics are sweeter than ordinary people, and can satisfy our hunger better. Why? Faye Frosalin?"

"Your mother is the goddess Io, a man-eating sun."

"According to the configuration of genes and memes, you are the incarnation of Io. I am afraid there is no one in the world who loves human flesh more than you."

"Why? Why don't you want to eat them?"

Judas hugged each other, covered his face with Fayi's scarf, and sniffed the perfume of the "goddess".

"I can't accept that reason, even though it makes sense. I seem to smell it."

"I smell betrayal, I smell love. Faye Frosalin, are you in love with this guy?"

Ms. Fay cannot cover up the pheromones in her body, and her holy blood carries part of the animalistic nature of a lark——

——During the courtship process, the expression of pheromones will become more intense.

The river is turbulent and huge waves are rolling, and wild horses are galloping in the water.

The waves are splashing, the water mist is filled, the roar of the wind and waves are intertwined with the dark clouds and lightning.

Thunder suddenly illuminated Fayi's profile, and the leader's repeated questions made her feel ashamed——

——As Judas described, this shame almost destroyed her completely,

[Part②·The source of fear]

"Because of love?" Judas was quite surprised, but he did not break his guard, had no intention of insulting or blaming his subordinates, and did not ignore or despise this emotion.

According to ordinary people's logic, there will always be an illusion that "people who do great things will not be dragged down by emotions."

But Judas has fought against Ao Mingde for so many years - he has already tasted the power of "love".

This kind of power can make a dying warrior stand up again, and can make two enemies who have no cooperation and hate each other become dependent on each other.

The belief it bursts out forms a spiritual barrier that is shaped by the family, enabling people to fight against powerful spiritual pressure and slaughter blood-giving monsters.

"I prefer to believe." Fayi tilted his head, not daring to look into the leader's eyes: "I prefer to believe that it was his mother who chose him."

No matter how Fayi changes her appearance, no matter how many times the Rose Fairy dies, she will always fall in love - the goddess Io resurrects her again and again through [Heavenly Grant], but she can't escape Billy Horn's disaster. .

For Fayi, the love in his heart is not groundless. After all, Io has had thousands of incarnations. Just like Judas' reincarnation, they have their own lives, personalities, and various ideas.

"WTF" Judas said in beautiful English: "You mean, the god Amon of Shambhala, the sun god - our goddess Io, fell in love with this boy?"

Although Billy Horn has always considered himself extremely unlucky.

He could not escape this misfortune in his life. Even if he became a gunsmith's apprentice, he could hardly get any merit in this autumn harvest operation. In the long road of life in the past, Foianini had a purple golden flower. Excellent communication The Medal was a "fish that slipped through the net" that Foianini accidentally caught while deploying the radio station on the front line - Billy the Kid was knocked unconscious by Mr. Jason's grenade that day and failed to go to the front line.

But the goddess Io loved him.

This in itself makes no sense, and there is no logic to it.

Just like what happens in fairy tales, two people with different family backgrounds, different classes, and completely different concepts suddenly meet because of an intelligence mission. The goddess Io meets Faye Frosalin through the eyes and the small window of the soul. Meet Billy Horn.

"Do you think she fainted from hunger?" Although Judas could understand the power brought by love, he could not understand the meaning of love itself: "Io? Billy Horn? These are the male and female protagonists who should appear in the same book. ? What kind of story can they have with a wild kid from a drug dealer’s family?

"My mind is in a mess, leader, I have no idea either." Fayi was incoherent. To be honest, she couldn't understand it either - was this the will of Io? Or was it the arrangement of fate?

Just when the two big men were in a state of panic.

The boatman on duty finally screamed for the first time - two half-fish monsters emerged from the black river.

They came from the tomb of Emperor Aizong and were the palace soldiers around the complex. They should have been dispatched and commanded by Fikewood.

At this moment, the bodies of these lightning stars were on the verge of collapse, and the blessed holy blood gradually lost control in the environment with extremely high concentration of spiritual disasters.

The passenger boat had a load capacity of 250 tons. Since it was a return trip, in addition to the few passengers in the cabin, there were 160 tons of cargo on the bottom of the cabin. The large bamboos on both sides of the boat used to balance the waterline were specially thickened, and they also became the boarding point for these monsters.

The dark scales were clasped on the wooden deck. The eyes, ears, mouths and noses of the fishmen were completely deformed. They kept spitting out hot and boiling rotten meat from these bloody holes, trying to empty the soft brain tissue. The Vita brand was about to take over the head and dominate the spinal center.

Judah felt the familiar spiritual pressure, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

"Is it the Incarnation Butterfly?"

Looking out through the window grille, he saw two slimy and soft black shadows crawling towards the rudder.

"Fickwood's soldiers."

Fayi: "Why? Are they going to become Incarnation Butterflies?"

Judah was not mentally prepared at all. He had no experience fighting against Incarnation Butterflies and would never face such monsters directly. Fighting to subdue monsters was left to his men. He was just a businessman.

"How big a mess did Fickwood make?"

"I clearly told him before we set off."

Judah just felt it was unreasonable. Under the influence of the violent spiritual pressure of the Lightning Star, his eyes were full of bloodshot.

"It seems that we have to give up the immortal elixir cave in the tomb of Emperor Aizong. Fayi, protect me."

"Leader! What are you talking about?" Fayi said in surprise: "You are much stronger than me!"

Even if he has a more powerful blessed holy blood, for Judah, he very much agrees with an iron rule in the Gunsmith Bible.

If you don't use your strength, you won't know how to use it. Even if he can bend carbon steel pipes with his fingers, bite off copper bars with his teeth, and break the main pole of the hardwood sailboat with one punch, he never wants to get close to the incarnation butterfly - let alone fighting, even if he has a gun in his hand, he can't hit or kill these monsters.

When it comes to breaking into the enemy, these lightning stars who have lost their intelligence can be regarded as kicking cotton. In addition to the terrifying lethality of [Turning Stone into Gold], Judah prefers to solve problems by negotiating business.

"What's going on? Why are these fishmen officers and soldiers here?!" Judah cursed: "Fuck Fickwood, you are damned!"

At the other end of the mast, the boatman at the rudder just turned around and heard the gurgling sound of water.

His head tilted, and he was lifted up by the two huge fishmen. His upper and lower body was separated, and his flesh and blood began to rot when they came into contact with the high temperature of the Lightning Star. The power seeds of these incarnation butterflies have extremely strong digestive abilities, and their bodies are almost covered with invisible "mouths". Just by touching with claws and arms, and holding the human flesh in his arms, the boatman immediately disappeared and melted into the monster's body.

"Huh" The fishman officer on the left seemed to have a trace of consciousness: "Ya ah hehehe. Ya lingguang lingguang"

A hoarse roar came from the throat, and a gold medal and a scroll order slipped out of the armor on the shoulder and elbow.

Judah finally figured it out--

"--These two messengers were sent by Fickwood! He seems to have something to say"

The moment Fickwood Abby sent Jiang Xueming back with a Polaroid camera, in the next ten minutes, he sent a message to the local officers and soldiers stationed around Wujiang, telling Fayi Frosalin about the whereabouts of the gunsmith and to tell Judah the news.

Since only Judah knew the fairy elixir channel of the Rose Fairy, Judah himself had to rely on [divine gift] to revive. So running errands and sending messages became the only means of communication. These fishmen set out with gold medals and orders to find Xiaocangzhou, but they turned into monsters halfway. Because of the spiritual disaster brought by the original seed, they lost their minds.

"Monster! Monster! Monster!" The boatman on duty immediately got up and ran to the cabin in a panic.

As soon as Billy heard the cry for help, he immediately fiddled with the door lock to welcome the boatman brother in.

The dark and rainy weather made it difficult for him to see the monster in the direction of the rudder. It seemed that the helmsman and navigator of the previous shift had become the monster's meal.

"Brother! Brother, open the door! Quick! Quick!~" The boatman slapped the wooden fence nervously, opened the inner door inside, and there was another outer door.

Billy felt like he was electrocuted all over his body. He saw the faces of the two fishmen in an instant and suddenly froze.

What a terrifying and hideous face it was. After losing the facial features, there were flesh worms as thick as thumbs going in and out of these bright red skulls. They followed the boatman brothers and slowly squeezed over.

Fuanini said nervously: "Damn Billy! Think it over! Do you really want to open the door?"

The soft armor has completely rotted under the corrosion of the Vita brand derivatives, and the fish skin and scales are slowly falling off. The back spines of these "giant fishmen" over 250 cm tall gradually open up - the lungs and ribs protrude outward, turning into the initial form of the incarnation butterfly, turning into a "blood eagle". They need more essence to complete the transformation and satisfy their hunger before they can turn into angels.

In the storm, Billy was being tested. His fingers were out of control and he could not control his body.

He was so scared that he could not move. In just a few seconds, he had to decide between life and death.

"I want to think clearly! I want to think clearly!"

"This door can't stop them."

"Open it! Open it! Fuanini! Help me! Help me open it!"