Infernal Artist

The old man in a black tuxedo twitched slightly from the void.

He pulled out a card and held it in his hand.

"Liu Ping," he said, "I only need to use this star-level tracking card to recover all the tracks of Qian Zhouwu's actions last night."

"Thank you." Liu Ping said.

"But why do you have such a request?" the old man asked.

Liu Ping said: "It's very simple. When I took my dog ​​out for a walk last night, my dog ​​ran too fast and seemed to have provoked something. He was so frightened that he quickly hid away from me, and then... I saw some bad things. .”

"Oh? What's the matter?" the old man asked.

While speaking, Qian Zhouwu raised his hand——

Liu Ping kept paying attention to him and immediately shouted: "Be careful!"

The next moment.

The quiet dormitory building seemed to have been penetrated by a cannonball, with a loud bang and collapse.

Seven or eight figures flew out in the air, sprinkling layers of blood mist in mid-air, and fell heavily to the ground, not moving at all.

A deep and loud siren sounded throughout the Royal Academy.

A ball of light floated quietly in the air.

In the ball of light, Liu Ping was protected by the old man behind him, holding a yellow dog in his hand.

"Thank you for your life-saving grace," Liu Ping said.

"No, actually I should thank you for reminding me in time. I didn't expect that a mere teenager would dare to do something here, and with such a cruel method..."

The old man looked down and saw the corpses of the officers lying on the ground, gradually turning into human-shaped mist and flying towards the collapsed dormitory building.

"Help!"

"Help me, please."

"Who can stop-"

Those human-shaped fogs made a series of sounds.

But after sinking into the ruins of the dormitory building, all the sounds stopped abruptly.

An inexplicable strange feeling arose spontaneously.

The old man's expression became more and more solemn, and he whispered: "What is that?"

The words have not yet finished.

A gray mist tens of meters high slowly stood up from the ruins and transformed into Qian Zhouwu.

He stared at the ball of light gloomily and said:

"More cunning than I thought..."

Before he finished speaking, the old man's body suddenly became stiff, and the ball of light suddenly dimmed.

Lines of burning small characters appeared above Qian Zhouwu’s head:

"The Unknown Awakener."

"——This is an existence that sleeps in the depths of eternal night. No one knows its details."

Liu Ping shouted without hesitation: "Open!"

Countless light-shaped runes spread from his feet, forming a halo with a radius of forty meters.

"Forty meters of summoning halo!"

But seeing the ruins of the entire dormitory building being swept away by the halo, they immediately flew into the air, and in an instant they formed a huge barrier of ruins dozens of meters high, blocking Liu Ping and the old man from behind.

——The two of them were separated from Qian Zhouwu.

The old man was in a trance for a while, then suddenly woke up.

He wiped the cold sweat from his head and murmured: "It almost hit its path. It's really evil. How did it attack me?"

"I don't know. I feel that something is wrong with you - we must leave here immediately." Liu Ping said.

"No need, the machine has already responded." The old man said.

The void opened, and long metal pipes stretched out, with character cards connected to the ends of the pipes.

They fell in dense numbers and surrounded the place almost instantly.

"Mr. Li, what's going on now?"

The middle-aged man in the lead said.

The old man said: "I suspect it is an awakened sleeper. We don't know what it is, but it took Qian Zhouwu's body."

Liu Ping interjected: "Everyone, I am a student with little ability. Can you send me away from here first?"

"No problem, you are indeed not suitable to stay here anymore." The old man said.

A metal pipe stretched out, tapped Liu Ping's back gently, and instantly took him into the void.

The world is spinning.

Liu Ping only felt that he had left the Royal Academy at an extremely fast speed, climbing towards a very high place at a lightning speed.

The next moment.

The metal pipe behind him suddenly began to shake violently.

Click!

There was a soft sound.

Liu Ping felt that he had lost his speed and stayed quietly in mid-air.

The surrounding scene suddenly became normal.

He slowly turned his head and looked around, only to see that the metal pipe collapsed into scattered parts and fell towards the ground.

Losing control of the metal pipe, Liu Ping began to fall downwards.

In the direction of the college, a rapid and sharp cry echoed throughout the world.

Qian Zhouwu's gray shadow dispersed and turned into a black torrent rising into the sky, condensing into a giant face in the sky.

It said in an extremely weird voice: "Your territory is already enough, but you have reclaimed my cemetery and disturbed my sleep——"

"It makes me angry."

The giant face suddenly dispersed and turned into black dots, falling towards the entire imperial city one after another.

A black spot whizzed over and circled around the falling Liu Ping.

It takes shape.

——Qian Zhouwu.

To be precise, it was a monster whose upper body was Qian Zhouwu, with a long carapace trailing behind it, and its lower body was covered with legs.

"Liu Ping, you didn't expect that our next meeting would be like this." The monster said in a human tone.

"Are you Qian Zhouwu?" Liu Ping asked.

"After abandoning my human identity, I am now more powerful and can control your destiny at any time - what I didn't expect is that you are still so weak." The monster said.

"What do you want?" Liu Ping asked.

The monster kept flying around him and said in a playful tone:

"In the battle in Frostwind City, several of you won gold medals, but I worked hard but got nothing in the end. Later, you went to the Imperial City, and I was recruited by the military. I thought I had a future. Unexpectedly, he was sent to the front line as a death squad."

"Didn't you receive a military medal?" Liu Ping said.

There were various intertwined and changing expressions on the monster's face, and he murmured: "You have no idea what happened on the front line, Liu Ping, I had already broken into its cemetery at that time..."

Pain flashed from its eyes, and then it said in a joyful and excited tone:

"I gained power - this power is enough to kill you and relieve the hatred in my heart!"

The monster roared sharply and rushed towards Liu Ping.

Liu Ping thought: "The art of possession."

Behind him, a cold female voice suddenly sounded: "You can't kill it like that!"

"Don't be exposed, just avoid it!" Liu Ping said again.

The monster rushed in front of Liu Ping, and the six pairs of compound legs on its lower body opened to both sides, revealing a long black needle embedded in the flesh.

"Go to hell, Liu Ping!"

The monster let out a high-pitched cry that was half human and half insect.

Liu Ping's entire body turned into a distorted afterimage. He instantly avoided the opponent's attack and raised his left hand to scratch forward hard.

"Snapped!"

A crisp sound.

This slap hit the monster on the face, causing it to stagger and fly away.

"Hehehe, you still want to bully him with your methods?" Liu Ping made a high-pitched voice.

There was a hint of coldness in his brows.

At this moment, the void behind Liu Ping opened again, and a long metal pipe stretched out and connected behind him, making a slight "click" sound.

The metal pipe retracted and immediately took him out of the sky.

A cold metallic sound sounded in Liu Ping's ears:

"This incident was determined to be a second-level intrusion."

"The large seal is about to be activated, Liu Ping, and you will be teleported outside the scope of the event."

"The selected address is: Bell Tower."

A white light flashed on the clock tower in the center of the city.

The metal pipe gently placed Liu Ping on the spire of the bell tower, and then quickly retracted.

Liu Ping stood on the steeple and looked towards the Royal Academy in the distance.

The night was hazy.

The endless black insect tide gradually became sluggish, and together with the entire Royal Academy, they were trapped by metal pipes pouring out of the void.

Those metal pipes are connected to each other to form a long vertical silver metal frame, outlining the appearance of a card between heaven and earth.

Lines of burning small characters appeared quickly:

"You have witnessed with your own eyes the large-scale eternal night sealing technique: the eternal solidification of the sequence enemy."

"You start getting roles again."

"Current scene rating: 3/10."

"Notice."

"The seal is complete."

"All monsters are sealed into this card by the machine sequence."

After Liu Ping glanced at it, he couldn't help but ask: "Where are those people who are still in the academy?"

Another line of burning small characters appeared:

"Together with the monsters, they are trapped in an eternal seal."