Zhen Youduo didn't gloat for long. A circular blade aura dispersed, sending large chunks of dismembered limbs flying.
The scattered crimson blossoms seemed to spread through the air like blood.
Duan Chen weaved through it all, like a dashing knight of the martial world.
The next second.
Zheng!!
A blade aura slashed down from above. Zhen Youduo's pupils contracted to their absolute limit.
He immediately controlled the infected bodies to form a human wall to block.
Disregarding the frenzied chaos behind him, Duan Chen's calm, resolute blade cleaved the infected body in the chest, splitting it in two.
The black blade aura also pierced the human wall and landed on Zhen Youduo's body. Black and red blood splattered, and Zhen Youduo let out a scream.
Simultaneously, countless attacks rained down on Duan Chen's back.
Bang!
Duan Chen gritted his teeth and endured.
"Damn it, Wu Suowei, Bai Ye, how long are you two going to watch for!! Aren't you coming to help!"
Duan Chen roared, decapitating the nth head and stomping out a soul with his foot.
The two cavalrymen squatting on the side, watching the show, didn't stand up. Instead, they started clapping.
Clap clap clap—!
"Good fighting skills." Bai Ye said with a light, airy laugh.
"It was indeed quite exciting." Wu Suowei nodded in praise.
Bang!
A bullet whizzed past their hair.
"Damn it, come help!"
Duan Chen roared back fiercely.
"Hi, hi~" Bai Ye stood up.
A crow flew past and landed beside Duan Chen.
Instantly! The crow transformed into a slender, handsome youth, repelling a horde of the undead.
"Want to consider joining the Apostles? I can help you snatch a mask." Bai Ye sincerely extended an invitation.
"I can consider arresting you and locking you up for decades."
Duan Chen snorted coldly.
"Oh dear, I've been rejected." Bai Ye smiled, seemingly unconcerned, and summoned dozens of crows, which swarmed and tangled with the undead.
Duan Chen's eyes lit up.
"Your crows are quite useful, how did you summon them?"
"It's my ability~"
"Does it have a name?"
"Dark Raven Tide."
Bai Ye smiled and extended a finger. A raven-black crow materialized from his fingertip, blinking its bright eyes, then flapped its wings and flew towards the enemy.
In reality, he could summon hundreds or even thousands of dark ravens at once, but there was no need to exert himself that much. A few to show for it would suffice.
"Even putting on a special performance, you're a really good guy." Duan Chen smiled faintly.
?????
Bai Ye's finger paused. He felt something was wrong.
"Thanks." Duan Chen patted Bai Ye's shoulder with extreme friendliness.
The next second, Bai Ye noticed a strange rotating wheel appear in Duan Chen's pupils.
Click-clack—!
It froze on the scene of Bai Ye summoning crows.
"Hey, hey, no way, no way..." Bai Ye's smile stiffened.
Duan Chen's aura changed drastically. He revealed Bai Ye's airy smile, and then a surge of spiritual energy erupted around him:
"Sequence 035: Dark Raven Tide."
Whoosh!!
Tens of thousands of crows descended from the darkness, like the finest airborne soldiers.
Boom, boom boom!!
The dark ravens poured down. Zhen Caodan's eyes widened, his mouth agape enough to swallow an egg.
The tide of battle instantly turned.
"Heh heh, how cunning, stealing it too quickly." Wu Suowei smiled slightly, a look of satisfaction in his eyes.
Duan Chen scratched his head, looking at the messy red blossoms all over the ground.
"...I thought that move of yours used a lot of spiritual energy, so I accidentally summoned too many."
Bai Ye twitched his mouth. "I was deliberately holding back just now..."
"Apostle, sir? Is it an Apostle?!" Zhen Caodan cried out as if he had found a lifeline.
A number, [5], faintly appeared in his eyes.
"It's me~" Bai Ye nodded.
"Hmph! You're all dead!" Zhen Caodan laughed maniacally.
What were the undead army compared to an Apostle? They were nothing.
With an Apostle backing him, why should he fear Duan Chen?
"Quickly kill him, Apostle, sir! They want to destroy the altar!"
"I know." Bai Ye nodded.
Zhen Caodan frowned, utterly bewildered. "Then why aren't you acting?"
"Acting? Heh heh, he's Duan Chen, that esteemed personage instructed me not to lay a hand on him. Moreover, he's my savior, I can't kill him~" Bai Ye said with a chuckle as he walked over.
"What!!" Zhen Caodan's face contorted. "Does the Apostle mean to abandon his follower?"
"No, no, that's not right. You aren't my follower. Those from 05 have nothing to do with me, 06." Bai Ye's smile gradually turned sinister.
Shock and despair flickered in Zhen Caodan's eyes. He gritted his teeth, his eyes darted, and he quickly ran backward.
Bang—!
A bullet embedded itself in Zhen Caodan's body. He staggered and fell amidst the muddy red blossoms.
"So stupid, actually turning his back on the enemy."
Duan Chen lowered his gun and walked to the little girl, rescuing her from the stone coffin.
The girl's body was warm, and she was still sleeping soundly.
He let out a slight sigh of relief.
However, in this momentary delay, when he looked at Zhen Caodan again, his corpse had vanished.
"He runs pretty fast." Duan Chen snorted coldly.
"Where could he run to?" Bai Ye sauntered over. "Escaped Mirror City?"
Wu Suowei kicked some red blossoms aside, revealing an opening in the ground large enough for one person to pass through.
"There's a secret passage here."
"Send the child out first." Duan Chen shoved the little girl into Wu Suowei's arms.
Wu Suowei: ???
"Don't just stand there, don't you have spatial teleportation? It's not appropriate to entrust this kind of task to someone from the Evil Gods."
Duan Chen urged.
Bai Ye nodded with a wry smile from the side. "Yeah, not appropriate."
Wu Suowei pushed the girl back into Duan Chen's arms. "There's a ready-made portal right here."
Duan Chen, holding the little girl, touched the bronze mirror in the center of the altar.
Its patterns were smooth and steady, with no trace of fluctuation.
So, the little girl was pushed back into Wu Suowei's arms again.
"The teleportation is off. You go quickly."
The two went back and forth, back and forth. Bai Ye watched the show until his head felt like a rattle drum.
Just then, the sleeping girl's small face contorted, her nostrils flared, and she showed an expression of pain.
Then, she burst into a loud cry.
Her cry echoed through the valley, shaking the heavens and weeping ghosts and gods.
"......"
"......"
The two of them immediately paused.
"Fine, I'll go, but..." Wu Suowei relented.
Duan Chen quickly interrupted. "I just bought a car and a house, and I only have 200 yuan in my pocket. If you really need it, I can give you half."
"......"
Wu Suowei was silent for a moment. "The car is for free use, the house is rented."
"Damn it, I really suspect you've installed a camera on me." Duan Chen was speechless.
"10,000 yuan."
"Deal."
Although Duan Chen felt the pinch, he had other ulterior motives.
If only he could steal this spatial teleportation skill...
However, Wu Suowei simply made a light swipe in front of him, and a rift appeared. There was no complete casting process, and Duan Chen failed to replicate it.
"Can't you go slower?"
"Heh heh, you want to learn spatial teleportation for 10,000 yuan?"
Wu Suowei chuckled, as if to say, young man, you're still too naive.
He stepped in and stepped out, the entire process taking less than 5 seconds.
Silence finally fell within the space.
"Where did you send the child? Is it reliable?" Duan Chen asked.
Wu Suowei waved his hand. "Sent her to the most reliable person."
At this very moment, in the lighthouse of the Donghai Scenic Area.
Zhang Huaijie, who was drinking his wine, looked at the little girl in his arms who was crying hysterically and kicking her legs, and fell into thought.
"......"