Chapter 125 Blue Fire Gatling (Added)
Kalari was in the midst of conducting the curse ritual when he suddenly felt a weight on his shoulder, as if something had landed there.
He was momentarily stunned, turning his head to look, and saw a little girl's doll with braided pigtails, sitting on his shoulder with a sinister smile.
As he looked at it, the doll was looking back at him, its pale blue pupils gleaming with a mischievousness that seemed almost human.
An inexplicable fear filled Kalari's heart, because he realized that something had gone wrong with the curse ritual.
He hadn't continued to recite the prayer, so the curse had stopped, and yet now the curse ritual was operating on its own.
"No! No!" Kalari let out a cry of despair, but it was in vain.
The curse was out of control, the target was not Xu Yi, but Kalari himself.
Annabelle, as the puppet of the curse, had usurped the power of the Curse Technique, while her adversary was but an amateur. With just a little tampering in the adversary's curse ritual, Annabelle could cause the curse to spiral out of control.
Black mottles of necrosis spread across Kalari's body, his flesh starting to rot.
What was worse, the dagger in his chest was slowly drawn out by an unseen force, and a great deal of blood spurted from the wound.
Kalari could no longer resist the approach of death, falling to the ground with an unwilling face, his eyes wide open in death, filled with regret and remorse within his pupils.
Xu Yi's attention wasn't focused on Kalari at all; his opponent wasn't worth expending too much mental strength, as Annabelle had dealt with him.
He looked at the criminal lying in a pool of blood before him, feeling somewhat relieved.
If he hadn't unlocked the Eyes of Obscurity's Night Vision ability and combined the Gunfight Technique entry, which greatly increased his combat capabilities, he didn't know how many Resurrection Coins he might have wasted here. Continue reading on empire
More and more figures emerged from the darkness, and Xu Yi could see their faces clearly.
Most were strangers, but two he recognized very well.
Bomb Demon Sim! Birdman Andre!
These two were ruthless serial killers, previously held deep within Klays Prison, and had disappeared during the giant rat infestation attack on the prison.
Before leaving Lex Prison, out of curiosity, Xu Yi asked Entos for a list of the prisoners who had disappeared.
He had no idea that he would encounter these people here.
Along with the criminals, there were also eight giant rats, and a tide-like swarm of black rats.
Xu Yi looked around, his expression grave, as he found himself completely surrounded.
"I must break through quickly!" Xu Yi felt a sense of urgency in his heart.
Lacking information about the source of the curse, Xu Yi couldn't fathom that his enemy could also control humans.
If these people were to mingle in a crowd and suddenly attack Lisa and Ailan, would the two be able to react in time?
This space could isolate signals, rendering communication devices unusable.
So he must quickly leave this place and contact the two using a communicator to inform them of this news.Nôv(el)B\\jnn
Xu Yi took deep breaths, forcing himself to calm down.
Although he was keen to leave, he knew the difficulty was significant, not just facing the harassment by the rat swarm, the assault of the giant rats, but also the sneak attacks of the vicious criminals.
Even though he possessed the Gunfight Technique entry, it would inevitably be a grueling battle.
The Annabelle doll flew back to Xu Yi's side, hovering in front of him, quietly observing the approaching rat tide.
"If only there were more helpers!"
Xu Yi sighed looking at the Annabelle doll, knowing that just the two of them would hardly be enough to handle the situation at hand.
His eyes caught sight of the criminals on the ground, and they lit up with a spark of an idea.
He knew where to find assistance!
The black rat swarms surged forward, but Xu Yi paid them no heed, instead charging towards the fallen criminals.
The criminals had been shot in vital areas, but because they had been blessed by demons, they possessed tenacious vitality and were still holding on to life.
"Come! Open your mouth, I've got something tasty for you!" Xu Yi took out an irregular bead and shoved it into the criminals' mouths.
It was a Soul Jade, compressed from the souls of giant rats; as he had only carved a few Exorcism Bullets, there were still many Soul Jades left.
The dying criminals had no ability to swallow, but as soon as the Soul Jades entered their mouths, they dissolved into black liquid and flowed into their stomachs.
The black rats leaped towards Xu Yi, as if a group of ants was about to envelop a piece of rotten meat.
But their lunging bodies suddenly stopped mid-air, then were sent flying backward.
Annabelle's white dress fluttered without any wind, her malevolent control abilities exerted to their fullest extent.
"Well done!" Xu Yi exclaimed with praise.
Annabelle's wicked control ability could actually cosplay as a godly conquest.
Xu Yi pounced on the next severely injured criminal, brutally stuffing the Soul Jade into the other's mouth.
At that moment, he suddenly heard a gunshot and subconsciously dodged to the side. The bullet grazed his clothes as it passed. The ambushing criminal, holding a pistol, stood behind the Giant Rat, watching him coldly.
Xu Yi raised his hand and fired a shot. The bullet, as if equipped with a tracker, hit the other's left eye and penetrated his skull.
With such a severe injury, an ordinary person would have been dead on the ground by now, but the guy still raised his hand, attempting to shoot back.
The sound of gunfire rang out again, not coming from in front of him but from behind. Xu Yi was suddenly taken aback, wanting to dodge, but it was already too late.
A white figure lightly landed behind Xu Yi, Annabelle voluntarily taking the bullet for him.
The bullet hit Annabelle, and she was flung away by the huge inertia, but her body quickly stabilized.
Xu Yi's breathing became rapid. He had thought these criminals didn't have guns.
These people had initially planned to take him down silently with the suppression of the dark Barrier, not intending to use guns.
Now that they found the dark Barrier ineffective, naturally, they changed their approach, drawing their guns and aiming to shoot.
A storm of bullets enveloped Xu Yi, and Annabelle's small body couldn't block all the bullets, but a purple-red curtain of air expanded, and Annabelle's Treasure Box opened.
The bullets entering the purple-red curtain of air mysteriously disappeared, none getting close to Xu Yi. The defense was almost perfect.
Xu Yi felt heartache, the reason for "almost" being because the kinetic energy of the bullets persisted before being suppressed into toys after entering the Treasure Box space.
The bullets struck the purple-red walls, leaving them pockmarked and dented. The only good news was that the walls were not penetrated, which would have been bad.
Xu Yi quickened his actions, feeding Soul Jade to four criminals, one of whom was already declared dead during the wait.
Xu Yi grabbed a criminal who had been fed the Soul Jade and threw him with all his might.
The criminals fell into the swarm of rats and began to undergo astonishing transformations. One criminal burst into pieces mid-air, a bodily collapse caused by the Soul Jade.
Two criminals' bodies grew dense blue scales, and their eyes suddenly burst open, filled with bloodshot veins, the result of Demonic mutation from the Soul Jade.
Another criminal also opened his eyes, which were neither insane with bloodlust nor shrouded in black mist. More miraculously, the wounds on his body began to heal.
Is this Physical Sublimation? Xu Yi paused for a moment.
Although these criminals had received the Demon's blessing, they essentially still belonged to the category of humans.
Humans who ingest Soul Jade undergo various bizarre changes, each with different probabilities.
The chances of Demonic mutation or bodily collapse are 95%.
The probability of the soul dying, forming pure Soul Crystallization, is 4%.
The remaining hundreds of changes occupy only the remaining 1%, with the likelihood of Physical Sublimation being only about 0.001%.
Some of the rat swarm suddenly turned direction; their target was no longer Xu Yi but the "Lucky One" who had undergone Physical Sublimation.
The rats didn't even reach the Lucky One before being scattered by a nearby Giant Rat.
That Giant Rat eyed the Lucky One, its pupils conveying utter hunger. To these black rats, a body after Physical Sublimation was a rare delicacy.
The Giant Rat charged through the rat swarm for the sole purpose of monopolizing this fine meal, letting out an excited roar as it rushed towards the Lucky One.
Unfortunately, there was more than one Giant Rat present, and the others also wanted to taste this delicious dish.
"They're actually fighting each other!" Xu Yi watched the scene in astonishment.
In their struggle for the sublimated flesh, the rats brutally slew each other, continual shrieks and blood splattering everywhere.
A smile of delight crept across Xu Yi's face. Although it was a bit unexpected, there was no doubt that the current situation was very favorable to him.
Beast-like roars sounded as two criminals on the brink of death stood up again. After their Demonic transformation, they had lost all reason; not even the Demon's blessing could affect them.
They roared and lunged out, every living thing in sight their prey.
The scene became chaotically disorderly in an instant. Xu Yi put away the Alchemical Revolver Messiah because the efficiency of the Revolver was too low.
"Let me show you what blue fire from a Gatling Gun tastes like!" Xu Yi curled his lips with a mad grin.
He wasn't just talking; a Gatling Gun really appeared in his hands.
If he knew he had to deal with a crowd of black rats, how could he not be prepared?
Ailent had pulled strings with an arms dealer, acquiring a batch of weapons stored inside Annabelle's Treasure Box.
The reason he hadn't used it till now was that the Gatling Gun was extremely heavy, and he could only cover one direction, leaving his back vulnerable.
Moreover, with so many people and black rats before him, even wielding a Gatling wouldn't have been enough to cope.
But the situation had changed. Three criminals who mutated after ingesting Soul Jade disrupted the perfect encirclement; Xu Yi suddenly felt a drastic drop in pressure.