Barrier of Light

Nanzhou.

A dilapidated church was surrounded by dilapidated fences. The moonlight poured in from the windows of the church. The priest stood in front of the icon and prayed. It was silent for a long night until a low roar came from outside the church.

The fence was broken down.

The figure who broke into the church stumbled, his whole body burning with bloody flames.

He drove straight in and ran towards the church.

The praying priest was startled by something strange. He turned around and saw a horrifying scene... The wall of the church collapsed with a crash, and a humanoid figure staggered into the place. "It" could no longer be described as human. , the bloody fire burned his hair, clothes, and his scarlet eyes.

This is a monster.

"You want me to...kneel down..."

A murmuring roar erupted from the monster's mouth, as if he was talking to non-existent air.

"How can it be!"

The priest retreated in front of the icon. He clutched the cross on his chest tightly, his face turned pale, and he whispered the holy name, hoping to be blessed... At this moment, the icon behind him seemed to really appear. !

An invisible pressure came.

The ground cracked open, and invisible spider webs spread.

The monster burning with blood and fire roared angrily, and hit his knees heavily on the ground. He tried his best to stand up...but his knees were broken, his patella was sunken, and the spirit contained in this body burned at a rapid speed. With.

It was as if a god stretched out a palm and pressed it on the monster's forehead.

So he knelt before the icon, raised his head and struggled.

And then...he died.

There was only an empty shell of flesh left that burned with less and less momentum, and finally returned to Xu Mi.

…

…

Bai Zhu looked at his palm.

A wisp of blood-colored flames was tightly held between his palms, gradually becoming weaker. That wisp of blood-fire was extremely tough and tenacious.

Being imprisoned by [Reverse Time] in a mental dilemma that is absolutely inaccessible, he actually wants to "compete" with himself.

He gave Xiao a chance.

And Xiao... is too far behind.

It's not a level opponent at all.

Even if he put aside his ability and only used Xiao's best mental strength to attack, the battle would end in a crushing victory.

If the owl is willing to kneel down and surrender.

Then...there is no need to continue this battle.

Baizhu didn't care whether the owl lived or died. To him, the owl's existence was like an ant accidentally seen under the shade of a tree.

Whether to kill or keep it is just a random decision.

However, the spiritual will of this ray of blood and fire surprised him. He would rather die than surrender, and would not bow his head no matter what, let alone...kneel down.

Thousands of miles apart, what does it matter if you kneel down?

At least stay alive.

If you don't want to kneel down... then go die.

The wisp of blood-colored flames struggling in the palm of his hand drifted away with the wind, slowly stretched out, and turned into annihilated ashes in the air.

Baizhu's face was expressionless, watching as the last ray of spirit of the S-class fugitive was shattered in the [Reverse] spiritual realm. His eyes finally fell on the woman lying on the lawn.

In fact, he was curious.

What kind of extraordinary ability does this mysterious man named "Xiao" possess? He is able to control people's spiritual will from such a distance to refine extraordinary beings into his own container.

After the blood fire dissipated.

This woman's spirit has not awakened... The most solid iron law in the world is indeed "life and death".

Xiao's containers are all dead people, just like the genius judge "Zhou Yu" of the Judgment Institute in the past. Even if the body remains, the spirit has been annihilated.

Once the owl gives up his body.

Then after the spirit of this physical body is completely destroyed, the "extraordinary source" condensed in the body will dissipate... and it won't be long before these extraordinary sources will return to nothingness.

Bai Shu squatted down, came to the woman, and frowned... This body exuded a faint rotten smell. Due to the annihilation of the spirit, the body began to decay rapidly. In fact, Xiao's "container" was not a real one. In the state of a living person, it is more like a puppet, but it is almost the same as a normal person.

He stretched out two fingers and gently rubbed them on the woman's neck.

To maintain the physical body.

This container has been coated with some kind of strange powder, and there may be other maintenance methods. No one can guarantee a high degree of mental concentration 24 hours a day. The owl who is far away must rest after all... and this container The container also needs to find a suitable resting place when he rests.

Maybe this will be a clue.

This woman’s name is Ye Ningqiu…

Zhou Jiren gave himself a well-recorded file, and some important figures in Dadu were recorded.

If I remember correctly, this is a well-known leader of the South Bay faction. He usually keeps a very low profile. The reason for his low profile should be related to the fact that this physical body is not easy to show up from time to time...

Now Ye Ningqiu is dead.

To be precise, "Xiao" died.

Bai Shu took out the communicator and passed the news to an old guy who was sitting firmly behind the scenes and wanted to be the shopkeeper. Judging from the certain conditions that the two parties had negotiated in the underground bar, he had completed his "mission".

As for tracking down follow-up clues... it has nothing to do with him.

"Chen Mei, survive."

"Owl, behead him."

Not long after the two lines of brief news were sent out, he received a reply from Zhou Jiren.

"receive!"

"As expected of you, Nagano Invincible!"

At the end of the second sentence, there was a somewhat mean smiley emoticon.

Bai Shu frowned. Just as he was about to put away the communicator, news from Zhou Jiren came again.

"—There's good news."

Bai Shu raised his eyebrows and looked around subconsciously... He felt a little self-deprecatingly funny when he made this action. He was used to being a ghost, and sometimes he even forgot that he was still "alive".

Chasing an unreachable end.

Trying to hold onto the untouchable hope.

Leaving the underground with Zhou Jiren and coming to Dadu... is actually just a flash of luck in my heart. Sometimes it is more painful than "death". Maybe if you try again, there will be hope?

He took a deep breath, but there was no news from the other side.

The old guy who had given up his reputation played a very unscrupulous way of disappearing.

While waiting, Bai Zhu suddenly realized...that his current mood should be called...anxiety?

Because there is hope.

That's why I'm anxious.

So... I started chasing again.

The communicator rang with an incoming call.

Over there was Zhou Jiren's low-pitched apologetic laugh, "Ah ha, there was some trouble over there in the auditorium. It was just dealt with... Thank you for taking action."

"No need to say any more nonsense, I just killed an insect."

"Ahem..." Zhou Jiren choked.

He adjusted his tone and said seriously: "The door was opened. I made the right bet... Gu Shen is the right person."