Chapter 126 Not a Demon!
The Gatling gun began to spin, its roar like thunder, as bullets swept in all directions.
"Let's see how you like being besieged!" Xu Yi finally got a chance to vent his anger.
But soon, a new problem arose. After all, there were only two demonic corpses, and once the criminals caught on, they quickly killed them on the spot.
The Lucky One had only just experienced an elevation in his physical state before being torn apart and fed to the bellies of different Giant Rats.
Xu Yi could only search for new targets, feeding them Soul Jades to create more demonic corpses.
For the time to come, Xu Yi was extremely busy, dodging Rat swarms while looking for opportunities to kill Giant Rats, turning their souls into Soul Jades, all the while staying vigilant against thieves' sneak attacks.
Thankfully, the Treasure Box of weapons was well-stocked, otherwise he would have run out of ammo long ago.
Amidst his killing spree, Xu Yi was suddenly sent flying by a dark shadow – it was an extraordinarily tall man, over three meters in height, with bulging muscles.
"Wild Bull Bill!"
Xu Yi got up from the ground, his gaze fixated on the adversary, face etched with solemnity.
In the data provided by Entos, he had read about this man. Even among many serious offenders, Wild Bull Bill ranked among the top.
However, the person before him did not match the information he read. Although the man in the data was tall, he was just a strong man standing at two meters, not the three-meter-tall giant before him.
"It seems that the extent of enhancement is not the same for criminals blessed by demons!"
Xu Yi took a deep breath, drawing his Alchemical Revolver Messiah while regulating his breathing. He felt the strength of Wild Bull Bill and knew he was in for a tough fight.
As time passed, Xu Yi stood alone on the ground, breathing heavily, his clothes soaked with sweat, and his body covered with wounds of various sizes. Enjoy new tales from empire
Wild Bull Bill was tougher than he had imagined, and with the additional harassment from the Black Rats, the battle was extremely tough, fraught with close calls.
A smile formed at the corner of his mouth.
"But... in the end, I won!"
Xu Yi looked up to see Wild Bull Bill's large body crashing to the ground, a fatal wound at his heart, hit by three special Exorcism Bullets at the same spot.
"All for Ratma!"
Wild Bull Bill, on the brink of death, suddenly cried out.
What's this? Some last words? Xu Yi was slightly taken aback.
A sense of dread suddenly exploded in his heart because he felt a gaze upon him, the same gaze he had experienced once before, during his visit to the estate with Chen Lin.
Wild Bull Bill's body swelled once more, his aura climbing, but for some unknown reason, just as it was about to peak, his body suddenly deflated, like a punctured balloon.
Xu Yi stared blankly at the scene before him, unsure what had transpired.
The strong Wild Bull Bill turned into a withered corpse, and that chilling gaze also faded away.
"Ratma! Ratma!" Xu Yi quietly repeated the word to himself.
He was suddenly startled, realizing that it was a name, the name of a demon.
No, that can't be right! Demons wouldn't so easily reveal their True Names like that. For demons, their True Name is their vulnerability.
But if it were a false name, it wouldn't make sense either. Why would a demon unnecessarily fabricate a false name for itself? Moreover, a false name wouldn't have drawn that kind of scrutiny.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om
"Not afraid to divulge one's True Name, and even intentionally spreading it..."
Xu Yi's pupils dilated suddenly, and various pieces of the puzzle clicked together in his mind. He realized that the source of the curse wasn't a demon at all, but an Evil God!
He felt both shock and delight.
The shock was because the danger would be manifold greater if his opponent was an Evil God.
The delight was for Annabelle; if he could suppress the Evil God into Soul Jade, allowing Annabelle to absorb a substantial amount of the Power of the Evil God, her growth would be significant, even if the Treasure Box couldn't undergo Metamorphosis!
Otherwise, using the Treasure Box to "block" bullets required utmost caution.
After the death of Wild Bull Bill, the remaining people and Black Rats could no longer cause trouble and fell to Xu Yi's gunfire in succession.
Moments later, as far as the eye could see, there was no living person or scurrying Black Rats left.
The darkness gradually receded, and light once again descended upon the world. Xu Yi still stood in the sewer, surrounded by dismembered corpses; blood had dyed the stinking ditch red, with not even the bones of Karalary to be found.
Xu Yi slowly exhaled a breath of relief.
He had only guessed before, uncertain whether eliminating all the enemies would allow him to leave The Dark Realm.
The system's prompt sounded.
[Soul Jade +18, current progress: 62/100]
During the fierce battle earlier, he had suppressed quite a few souls of the Giant Rats, and without realizing it, the Soul Jade entry had already reached sixty percent, which was much faster than he had expected.
His pupils cooled, and the Fog of Obscurity poured into his eyes.
[Eyes of Obscurity +2, current progress: 94/100]
The Fog of Obscurity was less than anticipated, mainly because the dark space that unfolded absorbed a portion of the Fog of Obscurity, which Xu Yi found deeply detestable.
Although the growth of the entries pleased Xu Yi, he only glanced at them briefly and hurriedly searched for his communication device.
Lisa's and Ailan's communicators connected almost simultaneously, their voices coming from the other end.
"Xu Yi, are you okay? Just now we tried to contact you with the communicators, but we couldn't find your signal!"
Xu Yi let out a sigh.
From the conversation just now, he had gathered quite a bit of information, Lisa and Ailan had not been swept into The Dark Realm.
"Are you two together?"
Xu Yi was a bit curious as to whether the two had not been separated by the surging crowd.
"It was Lisa who found me!" Ailan's somewhat cold voice came through the communicator.
"We actually got separated too, it was the Black Carp that led me to find Ailan, the Black Carp could smell her scent." Lisa explained.
Lisa's voice suddenly became excited, "The Black Carp says it can smell your scent now! We were about to go find you, but unfortunately the scent disappeared midway."
"Then I'll wait for you right here!"
Xu Yi didn't turn off the communicator, he found a relatively clean spot, and rested against the wall.
According to Lisa, they weren't far from him and should be able to arrive soon.
The three of them chatted idly over the communicator.
Through the conversation, he roughly learned what had happened to the two of them; although they weren't pulled into The Dark Realm, they had encountered an ambush as well.
Lisa had escaped disaster because of the Black Carp's warning; before those people got close to Lisa, the "stench" on them had already been detected by the Black Carp.
The Black Carp's perception of the mystical was much stronger than Xu Yi, a Psychic. If the Black Carp's perception ability were to be represented by entries, it would at least be at the green level.
Ailan was even more straightforward and brutal; in the sewer, all the strangers she encountered were treated as enemies, so ambushes didn't mean much to her.
Xu Yi put the communicator back in his pocket, holding it with his hand because it was a bit tiring.
At that moment, he noticed something glowing red in his pocket, and upon taking it out, he saw it was the button-sized communicator Chen Lin had given him.
On the button, the light representing Chen Lin was on.
"Is the other party really nearby?"
Out of curiosity, he turned on the button's switch, and both lights lit up; the signal connected, and a rustling sound came from the other side.
"Is Chen Lin there?" Xu Yi asked softly.
He guessed that the other party might be with the government exorcists, so he lowered his voice.
No one answered.
Could it be that the other party was in a special situation and couldn't communicate with him?
After hesitating for a moment, he didn't continue to ask, but instead quietly warned, "Watch out for the people around you; they might have already betrayed you!"
Having said that, he was ready to hang up, after all, he had warned the other party, and it wasn't in vain that they had known each other.
"Thank you for the warning, but it's too late!"
The voice came from the communicator, and Xu Yi was stunned because it wasn't Chen Lin's voice.