About twenty minutes later, Chiba Michiko arrived at Ling Ping'an's shop with steaming takeout and a large bag of things.
This shocked Ling Ping'an!
It was hard to imagine that such a thin and weak girl could carry a heavy bag of things with one hand and walk as if she was flying!
"Ohayo!" Chiba Michiko was still the same as before. She smiled brightly and placed the beef rice on the counter. "Ling-san, this is your takeout!"
"Okay!" Ling Ping'an smiled.
She struggled to put the heavy bag on the counter. "Your beef and butter!"
"Thank you for your hard work!" Ling Ping'an immediately thanked her. "How much is the beef and butter? I'll transfer it to you later! "
"Ling-san, give me 600 yuan!" Chiba Michiko bowed and said.
Ling Ping'an didn't have any objections. He trusted the other party very much. He smiled and said, "Okay, I'll transfer it to Chiba Michiko's letter later!"
"Okay!" The little girl from Fusang bowed sweetly.
Looking at the little girl's back as she left, Ling Ping'an put the beef and butter aside.
He took out the takeout box and opened it. Today's takeout was still sumptuous!
On the round rice, thick pieces of beef were neatly stacked.
Today's freebies were even more sumptuous!
Other than the sea urchin steamed egg, there was also a small bowl of salmon eggs!
The golden salmon eggs had already been marinated and looked mouth-watering!
"Delicious!" Ling Ping'an couldn't wait to taste a bite of the salmon eggs. He gave a thumbs up and praised it.
… …
Sitting at the dining table, Integral ate the food in front of her.
She was a little absent-minded.
Because Alucard hadn't returned yet!
"Could there have been an accident?" She couldn't help but worry.
The Blood River Overlord, Alucard, was the most important trump card of the United Kingdom of Britannia!
It was also the guarantee of the United Kingdom's status as a great power!
If something happened to him in the east...
Not to mention the outside, just the three brother countries inside would probably fight to the death!
Especially the Kate Kingdom, which was dominated by the Kate people!
They were clamoring for independence every day!
Fortunately, the scepter in her hand was still intact.
Therefore, Alucard must have been delayed by something!
Just as she was thinking about these things, a viscous river of blood fell from the ceiling and into the scepter in her hand.
"Alucado!" Integral immediately became happy. "You're back!"
But Alucard did not speak.
He fell into the scepter and curled up tightly.
"What's wrong?" Integral asked.
"Ivy is dead …" Alucard sighed softly.
Ivy?
Integral remembered. She had seen it before.
It was a Devil Duke!
"Actually …" Alucard said, "You should be able to feel it too!"
"Duke Ivy is the master of the fourth level of hell!"
"All the people of the Land of Qin should have sensed his fall, and the Rossi people should have felt it even more strongly!"
To Land of Qin, most people still believed in the same religion, the Cross Religion.
However, some people believed in the old religion, while others believed in the new religion.
In the legends of the Cross Sect, Hell existed in everyone's heart.
This was also the core doctrine of the Cross Sect: Everyone is guilty and needs to repent and be redeemed by the Son of God!
And the so-called Hell was actually the specific manifestation of the Seven Deadly Sins in the world of the Cross Sect.
Therefore, the Devil Dukes were able to quickly become active after the recovery of the spirit aura and actively intervene in the world.
That was because they existed in the dark side of everyone's soul in the Land of Qin.
When the first person from the Land of Qin who believed in the Cross Sect became a transcendent being, they also returned.
Integral listened and nodded. "No wonder I suddenly felt relaxed last night..."
"So, it's because one of the sins has already dimmed!"
She couldn't help but pray in her heart.
Then, she knew the seriousness of the problem!
A Devil Duke of Hell fell in the East just like that?
"Did the commander-in-chief make a move?" She couldn't help but ask. Then, she denied it herself. "Impossible! He hasn't reached that point yet! "
The Devil Duke of Hell, although his status was far inferior to those holy existences.
But their difficulty to deal with and destroy was recognized by the world!
In a sense, as long as hell was not broken, they would never die!
Even if they were destroyed, they would have a chance to be resurrected. Unless they died in the hands of another devil.
But where could she find another Devil Duke in the East?!
"It's indeed not the commander-in-chief..." Alucard said, "I've checked..."
"Although the commander-in-chief is in this city... but he didn't make a move at all!"
"There are no signs of fighting or psionic power stirring in this city..."
"Duke Ivy... It's as if he was killed casually... and from the beginning to the end, he didn't have the ability to resist!"
At this point, Alucard curled up his spirit body a little more.
There were two reasons why he dared to come to the East.
First: As long as he didn't break the rules, the pride of the Easterners wouldn't attack him!
Even if he broke the rules, the Easterners wouldn't kill him because of tradition. At most, they would be sent out of the country after being imprisoned for decades!
Second: In theory, he couldn't be killed!
As long as there was a drop of blood in his blood river that hadn't dried up, he wouldn't die and would only fall into a deep sleep!
But now, Duke Ivy's inexplicable fall had sounded the alarm for him.
Even the Devil Duke could fall.
What else couldn't happen in this land?
Moreover, Mr. A and a total of thirteen witches of the feast had disappeared together last night!
The difficulty of these people was also not inferior to him!
But they, all of them, were like air, disappearing without a trace in this eastern city.
"From today onwards, we have to be careful..." Alucard said, "That young bookstore owner probably has a secret and backer that we don't know about!"
That was the only explanation.
That ordinary Easterner had a mysterious backer that no one knew about.
It could be his elders, or it could be the guardian of his family, such as an ancient hidden powerhouse.
Just like the Sage of the Bamboo Forest!
… …
Ling Ping 'an patted his round belly.
He burped and made himself a cup of fragrant tea.
Then, he sat down and said happily, "The feeling of being full is really too comfortable!"
Meow!
The kitten, Bastet, who had slept for the whole morning, smelled the fragrance of the tea and stood up from the corner of the counter.
She jumped onto Ling Ping 'an and looked at the cup of tea eagerly.
"Little greedy cat, little greedy cat, you really live up to your reputation!" Ling Ping 'an took a new cup and smiled as he shared half a cup with the little guy.
The kitten immediately put its head into the cup and drank happily.
After drinking, it even licked its lips in a very human manner, then leaned against the counter and squinted its eyes comfortably!
Ling Ping 'an smiled and patted its head.
Then, he cleaned up the garbage on the counter and threw the garbage from the past two days into the trash can!
Carrying the trash can, he walked out of the door and threw all the garbage into the trash can at the entrance of the shop.
Suddenly, he thought of something, so he took out his phone and dialed the number of the laundry in the neighborhood.
"Aunt Wang..."
"I'm Ping 'an... I'll have to trouble you to pick up the clothes again..."
There were already at least ten days' worth of clothes piled up in the bathroom.
If he didn't wash them, Ling Ping 'an felt that they were going to stink!
After hanging up the phone, Ling Ping 'an returned to the shop.
He opened the bag that was open in the counter and looked at the contents.
"It's so beautiful!" He took out the piece of beef and put it in front of his eyes to look at it. It had beautiful snowflake patterns. This was his favorite beef!
"Let's go!" Picking up the bag, Ling Ping 'an called out to the kitten, Bastet.
Meow!
The little guy immediately jumped down from the counter and followed her master's footsteps, walking up the stairs together.
Speaking of which, it was strange!
The sound of the old wooden stairs in Ling Ping 'an's house was a little different during the day and at night.
It sounded a little creepy at night.
But it was much better during the day, and the creaking sound was much quieter.
"It's probably because there are more other sounds during the day!" Ling Ping 'an thought.
Walking upstairs, Ling Ping 'an opened the beef and took out the butter packets one by one.
Chiba Michiko had brought him better Nanzhou butter!
Each piece was about 300 grams!
But because it had been frozen for too long, it was a little hard!
Therefore, it needed to be loosened before it could be used. Ling Ping 'an put the beef into the refrigerator and then put the butter on the table to melt at room temperature.
Then, he found at least twenty pieces of clothes from the bathroom.
He stuffed them into three handbags before they were full!
"I'm really..." Ling Ping 'an carried these things and mocked himself, "I'm a genius!"
He estimated that among his peers, there would be very few examples like him.
When he walked downstairs, Aunt Wang's niece happened to come.
Ling Ping 'an handed the three handbags to her and said to the little girl with a smile, "Thank you for your hard work. I'll transfer the money to Aunt Wang later!"
The other party was very polite and said with a smile, "It's okay!"
She picked up the three handbags and placed them in front of the electric donkey.
Beep!
The electric donkey drove into the distance!
… …
Ran Bing drove the off-road motorcycle and ran wildly on the barren surface.
Behind her, more than ten slender and extremely fast monsters were rapidly approaching her.
"Damn it!" Ran Bing turned around and glanced at the monsters that were getting closer and closer.
"The speed of the Scarlet Beast has increased again!"
This made her heart fall into the deepest abyss.
Scarlet Beast!
The nightmare of humans!
Twenty years had passed since the collapse of the Old World!
However, humans still did not know where these terrifying monsters came from?
What was their ecology and behavior like?
The only thing humans knew about these monsters was that they could not be killed!
At least, with the current technology and weapons of humans, they were ineffective against them!
Whether it was guns or bombs, they could only temporarily paralyze them.
Maybe in an hour or a day, they would be able to stand up again and continue to chase after any human that entered their sight!
So...
Humans who had nowhere to go could only escape into the few floating cities that could still be used and stay away from the ground to avoid the pursuit of these terrifying monsters.
However...
The problem was that the Old World had already collapsed.
The ecology of the entire world had already collapsed!
Other than the floating cities, there was no safe place for humans to live!
However, the operation of the floating cities required a large amount of resources and energy!
Especially energy!
Therefore, the humans in the floating cities could only take the risk of landing from the sky and coming to the ground to search for possible energy and other resources.
Including various production lines and parts.
During this process, if they were lucky, a single harvest could allow the floating city to continue operating in the sky for half a year or even several years!
However, if they were unlucky, they would encounter a horde of Scarlet Beasts.
Often, the entire army was wiped out!
And the destruction of the adventurer team, in a normal sense, there was only one outcome for the survivors of the entire floating city: waiting for death!
That was because the adventurer team was a gathering of the elites of the entire city.
Once the adventurer team was completely wiped out on the ground, the survivors of the floating city could only take the risk of sending those young people who had not been trained and experienced in combat to take the risk of entering the ground.
Usually, it would be very difficult for them to return alive.
Twenty years after the great collapse, Ran Bing's floating city had already encountered several floating cities with only a few thousand people left in the sky, waiting to die.
In order to survive, most floating cities would only accept young women and children from another floating city.
They did not want old people and men.
Therefore, every warrior in the floating city would do whatever it took to create a chance for their companions to survive when they encountered danger on the ground.
Just like what Ran Bing was doing now.
The moment she discovered the scarlet beasts, she took the initiative to attack and drove the off-road motorcycle she found in the Old World to lure the scarlet beasts away.
That was because every warrior knew.
If the adventurer team was in danger, the entire city might fall into eternal damnation!
The scarlet beasts chasing behind her were getting closer and closer.
Ran Bing could not help but close her eyes. "Farewell!"
The faces of her comrades in the floating city flashed in her eyes, as well as the enthusiastic civilians.
As a warrior, she had long expected death!
Pfft!
At this moment, her motorcycle suddenly stopped.
Ran Bing knew that she had reached the final moment.
She pulled the grenade tied to her arms.
She closed her eyes tightly and waited for death to descend. She knew what would happen to humans who fell into the hands of the scarlet beasts!
Those monsters would suck the flesh and blood of every person they captured dry!
But …
The grenade did not go off.
Moreover …
The roars of the scarlet beasts and the footsteps of their pursuit were no longer in her ears.
She opened her eyes.
There was a fog in front of her!
She could not see the surrounding scenery at all.
She lowered her head and saw that the frame of the motorcycle she was riding on, which she had found in the Old World, was being rapidly corroded by something.
In the blink of an eye, only a little bit of ashes was left!
Ran Bing was dumbfounded.
She tried to take two steps forward and found that she seemed to have stepped on something.
She lowered her head and saw what she was stepping on.
Its entire body was red, tentacles hung on both sides, and its huge eyes were like lanterns!
It was the Scarlet Beast!
But …
It was already dead.
The monster that could not be killed by human guns and bombs died in this fog.
And it was completely dead!
Ran Bing felt that the monster was rapidly being dissolved by some kind of power.
Its flesh and bones were rapidly liquefying.
In less than five seconds, the monster that humans could do nothing to was left with only a little bit of ashes.
Ran Bing took a deep breath.
She squatted down and took out a silver crystal from the ashes!
The crystal was square.
Ran Bing reached out and touched it. There were words on it.
"U-M-B-R-E-L-L-A!" Ran Bing silently recited the letters she touched and then combined them.
"Umbrella!" She was stunned. "Protection umbrella?!"
She was too familiar with this name.
Many supplies and goods in the Old World had its mark.
In fact, even the floating city had its mark.
Countless information showed that this Old World company or organization called Umbrella had once covered the entire world and participated in almost all human projects.
Weapons had it, buildings had it, and medicinal herbs had it!
Now …
Even the Scarlet Beast had it!
"What happened in the Old World?" Ran Bing asked.
But no one could give her an answer.
The fog was so thick that there was no way out.
Ran Bing tried to turn around, but she soon realized that she could not walk out at all.
She kept walking in circles!
That almost made her fall into despair!
Until …
At a certain moment, a flickering light appeared in front of her.
…
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