Mechanical Alchemist

Chapter 195 Open up wasteland

After all, there was such a big commotion tonight, and there were many people who wanted to find out the situation.

Pestoia's night visit was an episode, and it didn't stop afterwards. Several groups of uninvited guests came to the Unicorn Hotel one after another.

There are Tier 2 and Tier 3 assassins who are proficient in stealth.

It is estimated that it is probably the Umbrella Organization, or those few spies who want to harm Reina.

In order not to show his flaws, and because he thought it was troublesome to be harassed one after another, Su Lun simply shared the bed with Mr. Jing for the whole night.

There is nothing presumptuous, both sides are very calm.

With such a great master by his side, Su Lun didn't have to worry about his own safety, and even slept soundly.

In the early morning of the next day, the old butler Anthony's stern voice came from the hotel.

"Everyone, get ready and set off on time at seven o'clock!"

Su Lun got up, and made himself an adventurer outfit with a trench coat and a cowboy hat.

"Qianjo" was still washing up, so he went downstairs, and found the latest briefing and left letters among the pile of letters at the hotel front desk.

This is a simple newspaper made by intelligence merchants, printed overnight, and it contains the latest information about the camp.

The unit price is very expensive, but the sales volume is good.

Su Lun glanced at the contents of the newspaper and mentioned the attack last night in a large section.

But it was very rough, except for a few descriptions of "mysterious cloaked man", there was no information about the identity of the assassin.

He also saw the hidden message Sabina left for him, and he had a rough idea of ​​the follow-up actions of the Umbrella Organization.

The members of the Umbrella Organization still did not give up surveillance.

However, the file level has been lowered, and the threat is much smaller.

Just when Su Lun was reading the newspaper at the front desk.

A few more people came down the stairs, and when I turned my head, it was Lena leading the maid down the stairs.

After one night, the young lady's face was no longer sad, and her eyes were cold. She is wearing a liquid leather jacket, but it is no longer the standard model of the Black Tower Academy, but a more advanced alchemy product with a specially modified model. Waist with pistol, dagger, mechanical vest and tactical belt, gas mask

What's even more rare is that there is a mechanical box painted with cross red paint on her back, which is a military individual medical equipment box.

It seemed that this eldest lady was ready to fight herself.

Su Lun glanced at her, raised his eyebrows slightly, and naturally saw some changes in her body.

As if overnight, the immaturity faded, and it became a little more stable.

Seeing Su Lun, Lena nodded as a greeting.

Unlike other families' hunting groups, which often have thousands of people, the Reyes family only has four to five hundred people.

In addition to the family guard of more than a hundred people brought by Reina, there are only a few medium-sized hunting groups from the Cross Society.

A group of people met in the tent area outside the camp, and immediately attracted people from all walks of life to point and point.

"Hiss~ I remember that it was Anthony, the butler of the Reyce family. I didn't expect that old guy to advance to the third level."

"Looking at the battle last night, the strength is indeed very strong. But unfortunately, with only this few people, I am afraid that they will not be able to reach the center of the city, and the group will be wiped out."

"I heard that the Unicorn Hotel was also attacked by assassins last night?"

"Assassin? That's no ordinary assassin, I heard."

"It turned out to be the default from the Black Tower. No wonder Reyce's other rooms are so active. This is about to change."

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Last night, the news that Reina's best friend Yulia was massacred also spread throughout the camp, and no one dared to come in contact with Reyce's team.

Gossip was heard, and Reina remained expressionless the whole time.

The team didn't stay long, and set off directly along the "No. 16" route to the northeast of the Dawn Ruins.

Because there is a third-tier professional leader, Su Lun and his team are moving very fast.

The monsters in the outer ring city of the ruins couldn't stop the team's progress at all. And because most of the outer ring has already been explored, there is nothing to stop there.

After encountering several waves of small-scale battles, by noon, they had already reached a section of the incomplete city wall.

This is the landmark to enter the central ring of the ruins.

The team crossed the city wall and continued to go deeper inside.

As the team gradually deepened, the frequency of monster attacks became higher and higher.

Not long after, they came to a large abandoned area with no trace of exploration, and the team stopped.

Although the middle ring and the outer ring of the ruins are only separated by a low rotten wall, there is a big gap in the strength of the monsters.

The outer ring is generally full of aberration monsters and abyssal monsters of Tier 1 and below, while the middle ring has special monsters of Tier 2, Tier 3, and even super Tier.

After Central, it is the "forbidden zone" for small and medium hunting groups.

Almost any group of swarming monsters can wipe out a medium-sized hunting group led by a second-tier professional.

The fog in the air is getting thicker and thicker, and the atmosphere is getting more and more tense.

This is a real "high casualty area" and no one dares to be careless.

In the communicator, the team commander's orders were issued one after another.

"Everyone cheer up! Pay attention to any changes. After entering the Central Ring, don't speak loudly, and don't shoot casually."

"The third team is in the direction of nine o'clock, and the second team is in the direction of three o'clock. The assassins should spread out a little, pay attention to the investigation, and pay attention to monsters and suspicious trailing personnel."

"Everyone, start searching this area as planned!"

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The team spread out in the shape of a lotus with Miss Reina at the center.

The Wild Hunting Team of the Cross Society was originally sponsored by the Reyes family, and the team members were probably equivalent to "long-term workers" who signed a contract of sale. They were responsible for the most dangerous task of opening the way ahead.

Su Lun and "Qiantiao" didn't do anything special, they just followed the trail team and started to open up wasteland.

What's more, here, there is almost no difference between the head and tail of the team, and monsters may attack anyone at any time.

The building ruins in the central area became more dense, and there were already ten-storey small buildings around.

In addition to private houses, there are also large buildings such as opera houses, city halls, and baths.

Like a lush primeval forest, these large buildings are also the favorite habitat of monsters.

And, not just on the ground.

In such a huge city, the sewer system is also very complicated, not as simple as Old Lingdon.

Su Lun's current auditory perception can clearly feel the rustling and crawling sounds from the drains because of their arrival. In those dark caves, there seemed to be pairs of eyes watching them, the uninvited guests.

This is the domain of aberration monsters.

The ruins are filled with fog, there are no lights, and visibility is very low.

The large-scale flares did not dare to be used casually, so the regiment members could only rely on the limited field of vision provided by the alchemy night vision device and grope carefully.

The task of that Princess Teresa is to ask each family to carefully explore their respective routes, and find some "things" that they don't know what they are so far.

Therefore, the team needs to carefully inspect every building, check for suspicious targets, and break every cursed space.

The progress of exploration is very slow.

After assigning tasks,

Su Lun followed "Thousands" and led a team of Crusaders hunting in a residential building.

The team members are very unfamiliar, and it seems that almost all of them are "newcomers" recruited by the gang later.

After leaving the home team, the players no longer have so many scruples about speaking.

"Boss Qiantiao, why are there so few people in our group this time? I think the hunting groups of other families have at least a few thousand people. I heard that our sponsor seems to be in crisis?"

"Sister Qiantiao, there was so much commotion in the city last night, what happened? I heard that the princess' mansion was attacked?"

"It is said that the princess of the Duke's Mansion is the "No. 1 Beauty" in Old Lingdun. Is it true?"

"Hey, aren't those nobles in the inner city going to hunt wildlands like us this time? Our lives are worthless if we die, and they will lose a lot"

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The hunters at the bottom regard their lives as cheap, and they are already prepared to face death after eating this bowl of rice.

The mentality is quite optimistic.

Especially watching the people from the inner city come hunting with them, each and every one of them felt heartless gloating.

They don't know the relationship between Chijo and Reina, so they don't have any scruples about speaking.

A group of people chatted and farted all the way.

The atmosphere was much more joyful than the frowning inner city elite guards not far away.

still alive

talk about women,

earn money,

There is gossip.

just fine.

The happiness of the bottom hunters is as simple as that.

The monsters in the ruins are very dense. In the rotten building they explored, there lived a group of monsters identified as [Abyss Bloodthirsty Sentinel].

The sound of "squeaks" was endless, and Su Lun had already discovered this crawling monster that looked like a white-skinned monkey, but was completely hairless, and had a big mouth and a face.

They can project stones as sub-weapons, and their power is comparable to bullets.

Fortunately, the defense is not strong, and ordinary bullets can kill them.

With Su Lun and "Qiantiao" in the team, there was no risk.

Clearing all the way, the harvest is not bad.

"Haha. This monkey actually produced curse materials. The monsters in the central ring city wall have a very high chance of producing materials. The funder said that the hunting materials belong to us, so we can distribute them this time."

"Let's talk about it if you can take it out alive"

"But having said that, these standard firearms in the inner city are stable, and they don't get jammed. Speaking of which, our sponsors are still very good. The equipment that everyone issued is probably worth hundreds of thousands."

"Yeah, I heard that the treatment of the Wild Hunting Group of the Steam Party and the Crow Gang is far worse than ours. Not to mention the equipment, you have to buy the bullets yourself"

"With these equipments, even if Tier 2 monsters come, I dare to fight them!"

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I didn't feel that there were any troublesome monsters in the building, so in order to speed up the progress of the exploration, the team dispersed.

The captains formed a team of ten and each led the team to each floor.

Su Lun and "Qiantiao" found a corner and sat leisurely, waiting for support at any time in case of accidents.

In the communicator, reports came from time to time.

"Report to the commander, a small-scale monster attack has been found in the opera house, and it has been cleaned up."

"The red brick building found a group of high-level distortion monsters, and asked for support from high-level combat forces!"

"Commander, I found a 'cursed space' in the broken building in the direction of ten o'clock. It is preliminarily judged to be a 'C-level space', please instruct."

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Gunshots exploded intensively in this ruins, and land reclamation was proceeding in an orderly manner.

In terms of individual strength, Lena's team is not inferior to any wild hunting team.

Even number one or two.

There are third-tier professionals, and more than a dozen second-tier professionals.

Most of the more than one hundred direct-line guards that Leina brought from the family are also well-trained formal professionals. They have the best firearms and armor that can be bought on the market. The combat effectiveness is very strong.

But this team also has a fatal shortcoming.

That is, there are few people and the fault tolerance rate is low.

When encountering wild monsters, the number is the guarantee of survival.

But when encountering a high-risk cursed space, it would be fatal.

Because that Princess Teresa gave the death order.

In any case, if the cursed space is discovered, it must be found out and destroyed.

It also means that if they encounter a cursed space of unknown level and go to the team led by a Tier 1 professional and fail to come out, then they have to send in a Tier 2;

The regiment is destroyed again, and the third order is sent again.

Until they kept sending people in to find out.

But in fact, most of the cursed space can be tested many times, and then the solution can be obtained.

If the number of people is large enough, you can also test out a lot of information by using slave groups to pile them up.

Just like the [1911 Hotel] that Su Lun encountered last time, it is theoretically a "T-level", but with hundreds of people dead, there are always some ways to crack it.

Therefore, the number of people is very important.

And Reina's team did not have this kind of trial and error opportunity.

There are only a few hundred people in total.

Every loss of a team means that their overall chances of survival are one point lower.

In the end, high-level professionals also had to use their faces to explore the space.

The density of the cursed space in the middle ring area is much higher than that in the outer ring area, and they found several cursed spaces in the ruins.

deadliest of all

Even knowing the danger, there is no chance to steal and play tricks!

Because there are three "supervisor teams" wearing white helmets in the team, they are people from the inner city military. Their task is to supervise the hunting team and report the battle situation and progress at any time.

Once they were dead, or if the hunting team refused to carry out the order, experts from the Black Tower would come over.

It seems that from the Central Ring to the core of the inner city, it is estimated that it is only a dozen kilometers, but the progress of land reclamation is very slow.

It took a whole day for Su Lun and his team to clean up a few blocks around here.

The battle on the first day was very tragic, with more than 30 people killed and many wounded.

The team did not move on, but chose to set up a fire and camp in a strong building.

It is worth mentioning that that Miss Lena has been active on the battlefield since the beginning of the war.

She faded away from Miss Qianjin's delicacy and arrogance, and went to places where medical support was needed on the battlefield with other members of the medical team to heal the wounded with her own hands.

Lena's medical skills are very good, more professional than most of the professional doctors in the wild hunting team.

Even now that she is camping and resting, she is still busy in the wounded tent.

It was also because she, a majestic young lady, did it herself and was busy on the front line. Instead of complaining, all the wounded were as excited as if they had been injected with chicken blood.

"Oh, Miss Reina, I...my life is not worth such a precious potion."

"Oh my god, Ms. Reina actually sewed up the wound with her own hands."

"It is an honor in my life to serve Miss Reina"

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The view of grievances and grievances of ordinary hunters is very simple.

If you treat him well, he is willing to sacrifice his life for you.

After the original fierce battle, the wounded will greatly affect the morale of the team.

But because Lena, the young lady, tried her best to treat her, not only did she not lose her mind, but it made her more cohesive.

In the current situation, only when the team gathers together can it be more likely to survive.

In the tent area not far away, everyone saw everything in their eyes.

In the individual tent, Su Lun and Mr. Jing were having a simple meal.

Mr. Jing looked at the busy Lena, and said with emotion, "This little girl is quite enlightened."

"She has indeed changed a lot."

Su Lun also nodded, and took a bite of the bread in his hand.

Instead, he asked again: "Mr. Jing, are you going to leave?"

He remembered that this person said before that if you enter the ruins, you will leave.

"Well. In these two days, I will find a chance to leave. There are still very important things to deal with."

Mr. Jing thought of something, and said: "Be careful yourself at that time, those supervisors have been watching you. Besides, there are a few bad-hearted guys around Leina, who seem to have been bribed."

Su Lundao was not surprised, and said: "Well, I found out too. I got the news before, and the people from the Umbrella Organization still haven't given up their doubts."

He didn't realize that, fighting every day today, there are always a few eyes on him.

It seemed that he wanted to detect clues from his fighting style, to make sure that he was "Su Lun", or that he was involved in other ways.

Mr. Jing asked, "Can it be solved?"

Su Lun said lightly, "No problem."

"That's good."

Mr. Jing didn't say much, she was still very optimistic about Su Lun's ability.

Thinking of something, she said again: "Oh, there is one more point. The monsters will be more powerful as you go deeper into the ruins. At that time, you should pay attention to avoid these areas."

Su Lun listened carefully, and silently remembered it in his heart.

After waiting for Mr. Jing to finish speaking, he asked the question he had been curious about for a long time, "Mr. Jing, where did so many monsters in this ruins come from?"

The monsters in the Ruins of Dawn have been killed so many, and there is still an endless stream, which is a bit against common sense.

It stands to reason that monsters in an area satisfy an ecological chain.

Kill some, and the number will become scarce for a long time.

But in the ruins, there will always be some new, unseen monsters, and there is never a shortage of them.

Mr. Jing pondered for a moment, and then said in a slightly serious tone: "It came out of the crack in the plane."

Su Lun was a little surprised when he heard a new term, "Crack in the plane?"

"Um."

When Mr. Jing said this, he didn't know what he thought of, and there was seriousness in his eyes.

She glanced at Su Lun, and said again: "There is actually a space channel in the underground of Dawn City that connects to another plane. In ancient books, that plane is called [Abyss]. This is something that existed in the last era." , It is said that the alchemists of the Akavian civilization used to go to other planes through this passage. Unfortunately, such a powerful civilization has disappeared. No one knows what happened when Sir Isaac established Dawn City here. On the one hand, it is to explore the truth about the chronology of that civilization, and to pursue the acme of real alchemy; on the other hand, it is to guard this crack in the plane and kill those alien creatures who strayed into our plane from the crack in the abyss."

for a long time,

Su Lun also understood.

During the "Dawn Era", the Akavian civilization that was once powerful enough to conquer all planes suddenly disappeared in history.

And that civilized person left a sealed space channel underground.

But because of the age, some cracks appeared in the seal, and some abyssal monsters came out.

And the "dark spiritual power" actually overflowed from another plane.

Su Lun was also a little curious. Those powerful alchemists who could hunt gods did not know whether they were destroyed or migrated to other planes.

In the ruins, especially in the central area, don't even try to sleep.

The previous battle had attracted monsters from far nearby, and the gunfire continued intermittently throughout the night.

Not only their people along the way, but almost the entire Dawn Ruins.

Su Lun chatted with Mr. Jing most of the night.

This big boss with a mysterious origin doesn't seem to shy away from talking about some ancient secrets with Su Lun.

She is like a witness to that period of history, and she knows a lot of information that others would never know from historical materials or other sources.

In the early morning of the next day, the team pulled out of camp and continued to move towards the core city of the ruins.

It was another day of fierce fighting, and a lot of ancient relics were harvested, but the casualties became more and more serious.

Even, because of exploring an A-level cursed space, a second-tier professional died.

The middle ring district of Dawn City, this is a dangerous place where even Mr. Jing frowned when talking about it.

Not to mention this kind of carpet hunting.

Almost indistinguishable from death.

But the good news is that there are dozens of such teams in the city "sending death" at the same time.

It seems that a large net is constantly shrinking inward, and it also makes the monsters in the ruins disperse their attack targets. The pressure on a single team was much less, and some large monsters were also driven to the center of the ruins by the movement in all directions.

Mr. Jing originally planned to find a reasonable reason to disappear from the team, but it is not easy for a second-tier professional combat power like "Qiantiao" to have an accident.

Coincidentally, when camping on the second night, the team encountered a cloud of "nightmare ghost fog".

This kind of black mist is very evil. Once people enter it, it will disappear, like a man-eating monster.

In fact, its essence is a "moving cursed space".

After a person enters, whether he can come out alive is one thing; if he can really come out, he will appear in another place because of the movement of space.

As the ghost fog approached, Mr. Jing discovered the anomaly in advance, and Su Lun also felt the abnormal spatial energy fluctuations in the fog.

As it happens, this is also a valid reason.

Then the duty team led by "Qianjo" happened to stray into the ghost fog that looked not much different from ordinary fog, and the whole team disappeared.

As soon as the patrol disappeared, the whole camp was thrown into chaos again.

In order to avoid the fog, the entire wild hunting group moved overnight and hastily retreated to the campsite of the previous night.

"Thousands" disappeared, and the fate is unknown. Miss Leina was heartbroken, but also more tenacious.

Hunting must continue.

This wild hunt was doomed to end in tragedy from the beginning, and no one can guarantee that he can survive to the end.

Reina was also mentally prepared.

After entering the central ring of the ruins, the dark spiritual power in the air was already so strong that it was exaggerated, and the filter gas masks on everyone's faces were almost never taken off.

That Mister "Zorro" was completely alone.

He used to have only one acquaintance "Qiantiao" in the team, but now he is gone, and he seems very withdrawn all day long.

However, that's just as well.

Su Lun knew that apart from the three supervisors, there were other hidden masters watching him.

Therefore, he needs to completely disregard the two identities of Zorro and Su Lun.

In case something happens, the Reyce family will be implicated.

Two days later, a special report was sent to the senior management of the Umbrella Organization: "Zoro Serna, confirmed as a second-tier melee professional, is proficient in fighting skills, has weak mental fluctuations, and has a combat habit that is more like a ranger. High probability Excluding Su Lun, the wanted criminal from the SS, it is recommended that the file level be lowered to C level!"

And almost at the same time that "Zorro" was still active in the wild hunting group of Reyes's long house, the hunting group of the Oliver family was attacked.

A crow gang leader was killed, three second-tier guards died tragically, and there were hundreds of other casualties.

Thanks to the large number of people and the fact that Nero Redgrave, the vice-chairman of the third-tier hunting union "Wind Thunder Sword King", was in the team, that young master Danzi was not killed.

The assassin was wounded and retreated.

The news quickly spread that the assassin who did it was wearing a crow mask and could skillfully manipulate invisible living corpses and black scythes.

According to the intelligence comparison, it is Su Lun, the wanted criminal of the SS.

Suspected of seeking revenge!

So far, in the files of the Umbrella Organization, the identities of Su Lun and Zorro are suspected of being related, and they are completely separated.

Finally, ten days later, Reyce's team arrived at the destination of Su Lun's trip, the super-large cursed space - [Central Prison of Dawn City].

PS. Still in Calvin, only one chapter. Sorry for the poor writing.