Chapter 660

On the desolate land, the northern wind blew, stirring up a cloud of gray dust.

The sky was covered by strange black clouds. It was not the kind of clouds formed by natural weather. Instead, it was like the internal organs of a living creature, constantly squirming and spreading malice to the area it covered.

The malice would condense into a tangible black dust, like snowflakes falling from the clouds. But unlike real snowflakes, this black dust was more poisonous than strong acids.

Without the protection of divine power, ordinary people walking under this black dust would be quickly infected, and eventually turn into a pile of dirt.

The mutation began a year ago.

At that time, Yi Qing was still busy because of the friction between the humans and the demons, and the integration of the two races was not smooth. Therefore, although the Savior did not come to pick him up as promised, he did not care too much.

Until one day, a meteor that could be seen even in the daytime streaked across the sky and landed on the emerald green plains.

For a moment, the residents of this world were panic-stricken, thinking that the invader that almost defeated the two armies of the humans and demons two years ago had finally begun to invade this world.

Only Yi Qing and a few people who knew the inside story did not think much of it, and felt that it was just a coincidence.

After all, in their understanding, Xu Shenxing, who had saved the world and even did not hesitate to take the blame for the reconciliation between the humans and demons, would not do such a thing.

Both sides sent out scouts to explore the mysteries of the falling meteor. In the end, the content was very simple, the thing that fell from the sky was naturally not a terrifying demon king, but a huge, sparkling and translucent crystal.

In the end, the truth told them that things were not so simple.

A few days after the meteor fell, with the green plains as the center, the whole world began to be infected by the evil power, and everything seemed to change.

The vegetation gradually withered, and the animals became crazy, full of the desire to attack.

Even the humans (demons) were not spared from this disaster, and were dominated by the unknown evil power.

If it was only like this, it would be fine, at most it would become a different world version of Resident Evil. For people like Yi Qing who came from Earth and had a large number of zombie films, it was not particularly troublesome.

The real reason why they felt helpless was not that humans had become walking corpses that could attack others, but that they had become like children's scribbles, without a definite outline, like a combination of countless bad lines, and monsters that had even lost their flesh and human form.

Humans had no way to defeat the enemy.

Whether it was swords, arrows, fire, ice, lightning … or even a full blow imbued with the power of the Demon King or the power of the Hero, they could not destroy these things, and could only simply beat the monster until it lost its external outline. This state, which could recover in a day at most, was not even a 'heavy injury' to these monsters.

This almost invincible power also caused some strange voices among the human survivors: some survivors seemed to think that humans (demons) had become like this not because they were dead, but because they had evolved to a whole new stage, and this was a right that all humans should enjoy, and they should not be shunned like snakes or scorpions.

These survivors formed a cult and began to fight against the temporary government agencies that humans and demons had set up to deal with the current situation. They set up obstacles everywhere … Fortunately, these people left the refuge by themselves and became monsters after being infected by external forces. According to the current situation, there was no difference between the monsters that they had become and the previous ones …

As time passed, the situation of the temporary coalition government of humans and demons became worse and worse.

Under Xia Xueyao's leadership, the newly established church was almost unable to suppress the evil forces in the outside world. The few survivors who had taken refuge in the city were running out of supplies, and a large-scale famine could strike at any time.

The clouds of despair and disillusionment had shrouded everyone's heads.

For this reason, Yi Qing had to take some soldiers who had written their wills and go to the outside world to find usable supplies to maintain their expenses …

"Did you find anything useful?" Yi Qing asked, looking at Lin Qianxi's team coming back from the other direction.

"I didn't find anything. It has been destroyed by the demonized beasts." Lin Qianxi sighed and slumped her shoulders. She seemed to be in a bad mood, "What about you?"

In fact, it wasn't that there was nothing. Some of the soldiers behind Lin Qianxi were holding some food that could be stored for a long time such as bacon. However, compared to the entire refugee city, this amount of resources couldn't even be considered as a drop in the bucket.

"It's almost the same here." Yi Qing looked serious. He took out an inverted triangular pendant from his pocket. The pendant exuded a white glow, but if you look closely, you will find that the pendant's white jade-like texture had turned nearly two-thirds black, "The amulet can't hold on any longer. We can only wait for three teams for half an hour at most …"

"This time, we also returned without any results." Lin Qianxi's mood was even worse. She kicked a small stone on the ground like a child in a fit of pique.

"It's good luck to be able to go back in one piece."

Yi Qing comforted her with a wry smile.

Suddenly, the brave young man's face stagnated. He turned around and pulled out the long sword behind his back.

His action immediately touched the tense nerves of all the soldiers. They pulled out their weapons one after another. Even Lin Qianxi picked up a small staff.

After a while, in the direction where visibility was quite low because of the black snow, several soldiers appeared. They were running toward this side, and their figures looked quite awkward.

"No way …" Lin Qianxi tried to open her perception. After feeling the thing that chased them so awkwardly, she couldn't help but swallow. An expression of fear or confusion appeared on her face.

The next moment, those things appeared in everyone's field of vision.

Those were the creatures that were born after several humans were infected.

No, perhaps it was not accurate to describe them as living creatures. They were monsters that were difficult to describe with words. It was as if they were scribbled by a person. Their entire body was made up of countless twisted and curved lines, and they did not have a specific outline.

The size of the monsters ranged from small ones that were slightly larger than monkeys to huge ones that looked like moving villas.

Yi Qing quickly estimated the combat effectiveness of the two sides in his mind and came to a conclusion.

There was no chance of winning.

"What are those guys in the third group doing!"

"They actually led the monsters here! Did they forget to go out to the field! "

"Aren't you implicating us as well?"

Some soldiers had already begun to complain.

Yi Qing understood them very well. In fact, before setting off from the refugee city, the city defense officer told him that it was better to let the soldiers die outside than to lead the monsters near the city.

This was what they had discussed with the soldiers from the very beginning.

The high salary and abundant supplies during this time of shortage were all for this moment.

However, everyone's awareness was different. Situations like the third team were not uncommon. After all, not everyone could overcome the fear of death.

"Everyone, get ready to retreat! Lin Qianxi, I'll leave it to you! "

Yi Qing said loudly, and he was ready to rush in the direction of the third team.

"Stupid Yi Qing, what do you want to do!"

Lin Qianxi was anxious and grabbed Yi Qing's clothes.

"If we want the others to escape, someone has to stay behind and block those things!" Yi Qing turned around and said seriously.

As a Hero, although he couldn't kill those things, he could still stop them.

It was just that whether he could come back in one piece after stopping them was another matter.

"We will die! There is a stage 4 monster in there! "Lin Qianxi shook her head hard," And if you become one of those things … "

"Don't worry, I'm different from others … The former Hero's familiar, Little Black, seems to have left something on me. In short, compared to others, I should be the least susceptible."

Although Xu Shenxing didn't reveal the 'Valkyrie's blessing' until the end, Yi Qing was not a fool. After training on the battlefield in the other world for so long, he had already vaguely noticed the existence of the blessing.

"But …"

Lin Qianxi still wanted to say something, but Yi Qing put a finger against her lips.

"The former Hero didn't come here to pick us up as agreed. I'm afraid he was delayed because he encountered something similar. Since he chose to pass this power to me, I can't let him down. " The young man said to Lin Qianxi gently but firmly, "I'll leave these people to you. You must let them return to the city safely."

"… En." In the end, the girl nodded unwillingly and left with the soldiers. But before she left, she looked at him deeply as if she wanted to imprint his figure in her mind.

After watching the girl's figure disappear in the black snow, Yi Qing smiled bitterly and said to himself, "I actually used her heart … I'm really bad."

But then his gaze became determined again. He let the soldiers of the Third Squad run past him. It was hard to say if these guys could make it back to the refugee city alive, but at least they had a chance of survival.

Yi Qing looked at his slightly trembling hand and faced the monsters alone with his sword. He took a deep breath.

"In the name of the current Hero, Yi Qing, I will never let you hurt anyone again! Come at me! "