Alienated Martial Arts

Wow!

A heavy downpour fell.

A curtain of water enveloped the entire land.

The weather that was sunny and hot not long ago suddenly became gloomy and gloomy, and at the same time it also brought an increasingly intense cold and cold weather.

Because the sky changes a little too fast.

A gust of wind blew by, and heavy rain began to pour down. Many pedestrians were caught off guard and could only look for shelter from the rain.

But even so, many people still got rained on them.

While protecting their heads, they quickly rushed to the nearest store.

But until this time, more and more people were surprised to find that the clouds gathering in the sky were not black, but showed an eerie blood-red color.

Even the rain is the same blood color, which makes one's scalp numb and chills all over.

Shocked people gathered in front of the windows, talking about the sudden and strange heavy rain.

Suddenly, without warning, a scream suddenly came from the crowd.

"What are you going to do!?"

"It's biting, someone is crazy and biting!"

Immediately afterwards, there was a series of panic shouts.

There were also sounds of flesh tearing, chewing and swallowing, covering the entire business district.

"What happened outside?"

"Why are there so many screams?"

A waiter stood in front of the door, looking at the rain of blood outside, with an expression of surprise and uncertainty on his face.

Suddenly, a man who was soaked appeared outside the hotel door.

It immediately attracted the attention of everyone in the store.

That's a woman.

His whole body was bright red.

It looked like he had just come out of a pool of blood, covered in dirty blood from head to toe.

Her movements were staggering and twisted, and she was running towards this side in the rain.

The hotel waiter was about to open the door to let someone in, but a hand suddenly pressed his shoulder.

"I advise you not to worry, something doesn't look right with her."

"Something's not right?"

The waiter opened his mouth and was about to say something, but he shuddered and stared at the woman outside, his face instantly turning pale.

Now that the distance was closer, he could also see that something was indeed wrong with the woman.

Her walking posture was quite weird, as if her joints were locked, and her whole body felt mechanically stiff.

But that's not the point.

What really surprised and horrified him was that the other person's eyes turned out to be scarlet, completely unlike a normal person's black and white eyes.

Moreover, her skin is still tearing apart, exposing the muscle tissue inside, and there are even tentacles of all sizes going in and out of it. Just one look at it is unacceptable, and you can't help but want to vomit all the food you had for lunch. out.

"Roar!!!"

The woman suddenly opened her mouth and let out a shrill scream towards the glass door of the hotel.

The waiter's legs became weak and he subconsciously stepped back.

Only Wei Tao was left standing there, looking at each other through the store door with the twisted woman.

She roared again, which was intertwined with the screams that rang out in the hotel at the same time, causing the glass door to buzz.

Then there was a crunching sound.

The woman smashed the door directly and rushed forward with her teeth and claws bared.

Uh-huh!

A piece of bamboo chopsticks flew out at this moment and disappeared into her eyes like lightning.

The woman just staggered, but still did not stop, and continued to rush forward with that weird mechanical posture.

Swish, swish, swish!

In an instant, two more bamboo chopsticks flew out.

Followed by a fork.

Pierced her throat and heart respectively.

If it were a normal person, this would be a fatal injury that would cause him to fall to the ground immediately.

Even if medical staff are right at hand, it is basically difficult to save him.

But when it comes to this woman, she is just like a normal person, even her movements are not affected much.

Wei Tao's face was expressionless, and he ducked to avoid the woman's bite, and a knife appeared in his hand silently.

Click! ! !

Suddenly blood splattered and bones and flesh flew everywhere.

It quickly covered a large area of ​​the lobby on the first floor of the hotel, turning the ground bloody and slippery.

After a dozen breaths.

The woman finally convulsed and fell down, and never got up again.

Wei Tao carefully observed the inhuman corpse, with a somewhat surprised expression on his face.

"Her twisted and stiff posture, the appearance of not being afraid of ordinary injuries, and the desire for blood food are very similar to the zombies of Resident Evil, and they are also evolved and enhanced zombies."

"However, looking at her torn body surface, the surging and swelling muscles can be seen with the naked eye, plus the tentacles swimming inside, but they are essentially different from the Resident Evil."

"This chaotic and bloody feeling reminds me of the awakened person reflected in the golden circle, but compared with the awakened person, she seems to have lost her mind, and only has the instinct to eat like a zombie.

Therefore, mutant humans like her can no longer be called awakened ones, but should be eroded by external forces. "

With an expressionless expression, Wei Tao opened her chest, then opened her skull with force, and deeply studied the changes in her body.

He recalled the awakened people he had met before, and then turned his thoughts back to the woman at his feet. He sorted out and summarized the situation he had learned bit by bit, and based on this, he thought and deduced.

“The reflection of the Awakened One was equivalent to marking the beacons everywhere, or the tentacles of the chaotic blood that penetrated deeply into the golden ring world.

Well, after the erosion of this blood rain, the same is true for the mutated humans, and they are no longer just imprints, like the diseased cells inside the golden ring world, more and more receiving the chaotic blood light Influence. "

There was a crisp clang sound.

He threw away the broken knife in his hand and looked outside at the still dense rain of blood.

This pattern of erosion was completely different from what he had imagined.

He originally thought that a group of outsiders would come, just like what he saw in the Northern Wasteland of the Great Zhou Dynasty, but it turned out to be a heavy rain, and then triggered a disaster similar to a biological crisis.

He still doesn't know the scale of the blood rain and how much area it can cover.

If it covers the entire world, it can definitely be regarded as a grand gesture beyond expectations.

The damage caused is even greater than that of the descendants, and it can even cause the collapse of human society in an instant.

From this point of view, his previous analysis of the chaotic blood light seemed to be somewhat unconsciously underestimating it, and he did not truly appreciate its power.

At this moment, a dozen people ran out from a store opposite.

They looked horrified and kept looking back, as if there were demons and ghosts chasing behind them.

The next moment, several corroders with stiff movements and twisted bodies broke out of the door, threw the last two people to the ground, and started tearing and biting them regardless.

The sounds of chewing and swallowing merged into one.

The blood mixed with the red rain at the bottom of the steps, and the two converged, no longer distinguishable from each other.

Those who managed to escape rushed into the rain.

Some people fled frantically into the distance.

The remaining few saw the restaurant opposite and ran in after a moment's hesitation.

Then within three seconds, they were all knocked unconscious by Wei Tao and lined up on the ground near the bar.

After a while, the eating invader heard the noise and roared over again.

Bang!

They flew out like lightning.

He was quickly caught up and smashed into a pile of mud.

After doing all this, Wei Tao pulled down the metal rolling shutter door and returned to the hall to look at the unconscious people.

After a period of observation, he could determine two things.

First, those mutated humans can be classified as weakened versions of those awakened by reflection erosion.

They have lost their minds like zombies, leaving only the instinct of eating.

However, compared to zombies who only eat a single diet of blood, these weakened versions of the awakened ones are not picky about food at all. As long as it is edible, they will always accept it.

Second, the condition for mutation is to be corroded by blood rain, and simply being bitten by the corroder will not mutate.

If you think about it further, not all people who are corroded by the blood rain will become like this. The proportion of alienation is about 60%.

However, he only observed samples from dozens of nearby people and did not have more big data samples to support it, so he could not be sure of the accuracy of the estimation.

In addition, there is one last thing that is closely related to himself.

Wei Tao took a deep breath and exhaled slowly.

Secretly, the imperial envoy uses the method of entraining Qi, quenching the body, and observing the mountain.

Compared with what it was before the blood rain came, I suddenly had a completely different and strange feeling.

At this moment, the energy he drew was no longer the pure vitality of heaven and earth.

Instead, it brought with it an inexplicable bloody aura.

More importantly, after careful attempts, Wei Tao discovered that the effect of entraining air and quenching the body had more than doubled.

Not only did it make up for the shortcomings in the improvement of previous skills, it even opened the barrier and accelerated the subsequent path of cultivation.

The only bad thing is that after absorbing the qi that contains the smell of blood, this distraction has also been affected by some negative effects.

However, after experiencing the torture of all kinds of true meaning and mysterious thoughts, the result was that his mood became a little more irritable, which was simply a trivial matter that was not worth mentioning.

Wei Tao took a deep breath and kept breathing.

With the experience of previous practice, without using the gold coins in the status bar, he quickly changed from observing the mountain to entering the mountain, and then from entering the mountain to breaking through the mountain, and began a deeper level of qi quenching and body tempering.

Time passed little by little.

His body became more and more swollen, and the muscles all over his body were as tangled as the roots of an old tree, as if he were covered with a layer of ferocious flesh-colored armor.

Accompanied by a crunching noise.

The rolling shutter door of the hotel was slowly opened.

A strong man over three meters tall, with muscles all over his body and tangled veins, slowly walked out and stood in the corridor looking up at the rain of scarlet blood pouring down.

"After adding the bloody aura, the efficiency of entraining air and body quenching has more than doubled. So if you go deeper inward and take a bigger step, you should be able to try it.

Thinking further, since I have already had the experience of introducing qi into the body and condensing qi into liquid, I can completely try to absorb rainwater to temper my body. Maybe I can go to a higher level and greatly improve my practice progress again. "

With just one thought, the world becomes wider.

Once my mind opens up, I feel like I have let go of a heavy burden.

All that's left is eagerness to try.

Tick ​​tock! ! !

Wei Tao was still standing on the corridor, but he slowly stretched out a finger to catch a drop of falling rainwater.

He closed his eyes and took in the sensation.

The expression on his face changes as time goes by.

In the end, they all turned into smiles of sudden joy.

Boom!

After a long silence, he suddenly took a step forward.

The whole person was enveloped in the rain of blood.

Wei Tao frowned suddenly. He could clearly feel that the chaotic energy contained in the blood rain was entering the body through the skin, corroding and affecting his spirit and body.

But with the full operation of the air-entraining and body-tempering method, his whole body seemed to have turned into a black hole, converting all the chaotic energy in the rain, and then absorbing it all.

"This is the correct way to open the air-entraining quenching body."

"It's still a bit slow. The current conversion and absorption speed is far from enough."

"With my talents and qualifications, there shouldn't be such a bottleneck."

"If a worker wants to do his job well, he must first sharpen his tools, so it is said that consuming one gold coin will increase the progress of the practice of entraining Qi and tempering the body."

boom!

The illusory status bar suddenly blurred.

A gold coin disappeared silently.

The mysterious aura then poured into the body, and together with the rain of blood, more drastic changes suddenly began.

the next period of time.

The gold coins disappeared one by one.

He drove the air-entraining and body-tempering method to continuously accelerate, and he strode wildly in an unknown direction.

I don’t know how long it will take.

Wei Tao opened his eyes that were already scarlet red, and was no longer satisfied with just absorbing it through surface contact.

He opened his mouth little by little and began to swallow the raindrops falling from the sky.

boom!

A hot, burning sensation erupted from the pit of my stomach.

Compared with converting and absorbing through rain, this method is obviously more violent and direct, and can better meet his rapidly growing demand for rainwater.

Another period of time passed.

There was a sudden click.

Wei Tao broke off a drainage pipe hanging from the roof of the building and stuffed the broken piece directly into his mouth, which immediately increased the absorption speed by another level.

At the same time, there were tentacles poking out from under the feet.

Like a long snake, it sank into the pool of blood on the ground, and started a new round of practice with both hands.

Gudong!

Gudonggudong!

Absorb and transform, tempering the body.

All your heart is invested in it.

In a completely selfless manner, he was completely immersed in assiduous practice.

It wasn't until he suddenly took a sip that Wei Tao opened his eyes in a daze and looked up at the sparse night sky above his head.

"who I am?"

"What am I doing here?"

"You actually fell asleep standing here?"

A series of questions came to his mind. Wei Tao took a deep breath and subconsciously channeled his energy to temper his body, and then he slowly became sober.

This was the first time since he started practicing martial arts that he was so immersed in improving his skills that he almost let his distraction get lost and completely disconnected from his true self.

But the harvest is also huge.

The last time he came to the Golden Ring World, he finally reached the height of turning gas into liquid and condensing hundreds of drops.

However, after incorporating Blood Rain into the practice system this time, embarking on a new path of practice, and then breaking through the limit and improving the status bar gold coins, the achievements achieved have even exceeded this.

It is no exaggeration to say that he has no air now and is filled with explosive liquid.

A rough calculation shows that the total amount is at least a thousand drops.

And all this actually took less than a day.

The moonlight fell down, covering the entire earth with a hazy color.

The rain, I don’t know when it stopped.

Even the ground was clean, with no trace of a red pool.

The surroundings were deathly silent, completely unlike the commercial district when nightlife first started.

"Where are the people?"

"Did they all escape, or were they eaten up by those corruptors who mutated in the rain?"

"No, the living people are missing, and the corroders are also missing. Did they also run away?"

Wei Tao looked around, and with the dim moonlight, he suddenly discovered that the entire business district was covered with spiderweb-like red branches.

The center of this huge spider web seemed to be in front of the hotel where he was.

A gust of night wind blew by, bringing a refreshing coolness.

There were also extremely suppressed sobs that reached his ears at this moment.

Wei Tao turned around slowly and listened carefully.

The source of the crying was quickly located.

Wow!

He stretched out a finger and broke the glass of the upstairs balcony of the hotel without using any force.

The moonlight then filtered in through the window, reflecting the shivering men and women huddled together.

"I remembered, you are a hotel employee and two administrators of Baishan Group."

Wei Tao was silent for a moment, then slowly said, "Can you tell me what happened here this afternoon, and where are the people who escaped the disaster and the invaders who turned into monsters?"

What happened in the afternoon?

Where did the invaders who turned into monsters go?

Why do you want to break the window to ask questions when you are doing something yourself?

Upon hearing this, several people in the box immediately trembled into a ball.

The two timid waitresses rolled their eyes and fainted on the stall.

Finally, the female executive of Baishan Group stood up, looked at the hideous and terrifying figure outside the window, and said tremblingly, "From afternoon to night, you have been weaving a blood web here, and everyone else who was not affected by the heavy rain ran away. , as for those mutated people, all..."

She hesitated for a long time, then gritted her teeth and said, "When they chased them out, you caught them and ate them."

"Just kidding, when did I eat those stupid things?"

Before Wei Tao finished speaking, his eyes suddenly focused, landing on a red tentacle not far away, and he could clearly see several severed fingers stained there.

He retracted his gaze and looked at the box in the window again, "Everyone who was not affected has run away. Why don't you guys run away? Aren't you afraid of being caught and eaten by me?"

Gudong!

Her throat surged and she swallowed hard.

"We saw other people running away from the window, and we originally wanted to take the opportunity to leave, but the hotel corridors and lobby were covered in your spider webs, and we couldn't leave even if we wanted to."

"Is that so? It seems that I have wrongly blamed you."

Wei Tao took a deep breath and exhaled slowly. The scarlet tentacles covering almost the entire business district began to retract inwards and quickly submerged into the ferocious body.

Suddenly, he stopped all movements and turned his head to look at the distant countryside.

There seemed to be a few little things that interested him.

Outside the city, there were several figures hidden in the woods beside the road.

The heavy rain that had just ended did not seem to have any impact on them. Even the black combat uniforms they wore were as clean as new, without a trace of blood or dirt.

"Boss, we came here to collect those mutants, but we found something incredible here."

One of them wiped the sweat from his forehead, immediately took out the black mobile phone in his pocket and dialed a phone number.

"You have to figure out your mission."

A sharp female voice came from the receiver, "I don't care what interesting things you find, I only care about the mutants in this city. How are you doing with your efforts to collect them?"

"Mutants, it seems there are no more mutants here."

"There are no more mutants?"

The sharp female voice suddenly became angry, "There are no troops stationed near this densely populated area, and there are no traces of rebel activities, so are you kidding me?"

"Even if I gave my subordinates more courage, I wouldn't dare to make such a joke with you."

The man wiped his sweat again, his voice trembling slightly as he spoke, "And I suspect that all the mutants were eaten by that terrible thing."

The phone went quiet.

After a few seconds, the female voice sounded again, "What is that incredible thing?"

The man stared intently at the scarlet color in the distance illuminated by the dim moonlight.

He was silent for a moment, gasping as if he had a toothache and said, "Although I don't want to admit it, in my opinion, that thing is most likely a terrifying spider spirit that is taller than the building!"

After saying that, he was mentally prepared to be scolded.

But something strange happened.

There was no response from the other end of the phone.

It's completely inconsistent with the boss's bloody and brutal character.

Time passed little by little.

Until half a minute later.

The sharp female voice slowly sounded again.

And he didn't sound angry, he even sounded a little solemn.

"I understand. Your discovery may be important and has even attracted the attention of the Messenger."

"Now send me the exact address coordinates, and then you can be careful to get a closer look. As long as you can get more detailed information, I will strongly recommend you to sit in my current seat."

"My subordinate understands!"

The man hung up the phone with trembling fingers and was about to look up the coordinates and location information, but suddenly stopped without warning.

The faint smell of blood lingered in his nose.

What's even more frightening is that the surroundings are completely silent.

Several of the men he brought with him suddenly made no sound at all.

Quietly, a flash of cyan light lit up.

And blended into the dim moonlight, making the woods under the night more hazy.

There was also the seemingly non-existent sound of rushing water, which reached his ears at the same time.

"There is no river nearby, so why do you hear the sound of the river flowing?"

"What the hell is this."

The word "ghost" came to mind, and the man was suddenly horrified.

"I just discovered the spider spirit. Now I won't encounter ghosts hitting the wall again."

He murmured to himself, "It's better to seize the time and complete the task assigned by the boss. At least send the location information before talking about anything else."

At this moment, a soft voice suddenly sounded, with a strange accent, flowing slowly in his ears.

His thoughts were immediately interrupted.

It also put him into great fear.

"I'm not a ghost. Maybe it's because you have ghosts in your heart that you have thoughts related to ghosts."

The soft female voice smiled lightly and spoke slowly.

"I have a few questions that I need you to answer. One is about what kind of monster the spider spirit you just mentioned is.

The second is about the boss you are talking to through this little thing, and what kind of organization you are.

The third is about the strange changes in this world, whether it is the sudden rain of blood or the bloody light that briefly covers the sky, what is hidden in it.

I am very interested in all of this. If your reply satisfies me, not only can you survive this peaceful night, but you may even get a reward from me, so that you can be in the future... …”

Before she finished speaking, she suddenly fell silent.

Silence returned again.

Only the night wind blew from time to time, making the branches and leaves rustle.

In addition, there are rustling sounds that surround the entire forest beside the road.

There was only a man standing motionless, holding a black mobile phone in one hand and a map that had not yet been opened in the other. He stared blankly at the scarlet tentacles meandering outside the forest. Only one thought quietly rose in his mind, and quickly Occupying almost all the consciousness.

"That spider spirit is here to see the female ghost?"