Lord of Eternal Darkness

When the sun slowly rose from the east, its radiant light thrust countless lightsabers into the earth, dividing the dark forbidden area.

It was another uneventful day.

The bonfire in the camp had long been extinguished, leaving only blackened charcoal. The temperature in the morning was not so hot, nor was it so cold.

Saint Assad turned over from her big bed out of habit, and then she felt a sense of falling.

She fell firmly to the ground, but she didn't feel any pain. This time she realized that this was not her own big bed, but a simple hammock tied to a tree.

If it is tied to a tree at a height of 1.5 meters and dropped to the ground, it should feel very painful even if there is sand underneath.

In a daze, she got up and looked around. She was instantly frightened and turned pale.

Yellow sand rolled in all around, directly raising the ground by one meter. If he hadn't slept in a tree, he would have been buried in the yellow sand.

At this moment, she suddenly remembered that there was a very important person beside her. After searching around, she found a human head exposed on the sand. It was inexplicably scary. He had his eyes closed and seemed to be still resting.

"Li Xiaoming, are you still alive?"

He nodded his head laboriously, and then said: "Thanks to you, I am alive and well. I am just a little sleepy. After all, I have been watching all night."

"Why didn't you wake me up and change the guard directly? It's all because I slept so deeply yesterday and forgot about you."

Saint Assad struck her head in annoyance.

"It's okay, we have changed positions many times, but you have forgotten it."

Li Xiaoming smiled slightly, stretched, and dug himself out of the sparse sand.

St. Assad said: "I think you must be lying to me. How strong was the wind yesterday to blow all the sand around? But I didn't notice it at all. It is said that you buried yourself in the sand on purpose. Yet?"

"So, after all, the weather is a bit cold, and the insulation effect of sand is not bad. The fire was almost covered by the sand. Fortunately, I moved it to the stone. I used my body to block the wind, and unconsciously The sand was buried up to his neck.”

Li Xiaoming said it very easily, but it made people feel a little sorry.

"I'm sorry, I made you suffer. Don't worry, no matter what you ask for in the future, I will agree to it." Saint Assad said guiltily.

Li Xiaoming was speechless. Don't say something so easy for others to misunderstand. What if I take it seriously?

"It's not necessary. Everyone is doing what companions should do now. What time is it now?"

Saint Assad looked at her watch. The hands were at about six o'clock.

"Around 6:10, it seems pretty early."

Li Xiaoming greeted cordially: "Good morning, Miss Xiaode."

"Humph, good morning, may the gods bless you, strange uncle."

St. Assad recalled how this guy was indifferent and always treated others as juniors, so he was going to give him the nickname "Grandpa".

Li Xiaoming rubbed his nose and said, "This is a very affectionate title. Xiaode has finished eating and we should set off. You can tidy up a little and get some useful things to put in your physical space. Otherwise, you may not encounter them on the way. .”

"Then what are you going to do?"

"I'm going to check out the situation. I'll be back in a moment. I'll leave the backpack at your place."

"Are you going to leave alone?" Saint Assad said somewhat uneasily.

Li Xiaoming said calmly: "I left my bag with you, how is that possible? I'll be back later."

By the way, I said silently in my heart, there is a chance that I won’t be able to come back, just think that I lied to you.

"Then go and come back early." Saint Assad smiled, feeling relieved.

Li Xiaoming nodded, poured the sand out of his shoes, shook the sand out of his clothes, and put it on again to feel a little more comfortable.

His eyes gradually became cold as he looked into the distance.

Next, it’s time to solve some things that men should do between themselves.

He climbed up the sand slope and looked forward from a distance. The sun was shining brightly in front of him, and a figure stood on a piece of golden sand. It seemed that he had been waiting there for a long time, and the sand had already buried half of his legs.

Li Xiaoming slid down and slowly approached the other party.

The person who comes is definitely not a friend, that is, an enemy.

And the final nightmare beast last night was probably this guy's survey method.

He was patiently waiting for me in the distance early in the morning. He was really a friendly gentleman.

"Good morning sir, I've finally waited for you. The wind and sand here are very strong, please pay more attention to your health."

The other party said hello politely, but the voice felt strange, with a sense of leakage. By the way, he had smoked cigarettes for twenty years and drank the same amount of wine, which made the sound particularly awkward.

Li Xiaoming couldn't help but shiver all over. It was indeed difficult to adapt to the difference in timbre.

"Hello, what do you do with Li Xiaoming? If you have anything to do, please tell me. If you have nothing to do, please get out."

"What a cold person." The other person tilted his head slightly, looking very sad.

If it weren't for the lack of expression on his face and the extremely unpleasant voice, Li Xiaoming would probably believe it.

"Has your voice always sounded like this? Did you forget your sound card at home?" Li Xiaoming asked sarcastically.

The mysterious man let out a shrill laugh, which was very heartbreaking.

"Quack, the sound card is too expensive. It will be very uncomfortable to talk with it in your neck."

As the man spoke, he approached the cloudy place where Li Xiaoming was, half of his body covered in shadow.

"My name is George Kaiser. I was hired by others to kill you. No, it should be to get something back from you. It doesn't make any difference if you resist."

Li Xiaoming did not retreat, and finally saw clearly what this guy looked like.

It is nearly two meters tall and wears a cowhide jacket. Its limbs are made of strong and hard metal structures. Countless precision parts give it sensitivity, and it is also engraved with very delicate ancient curse patterns.

The limbs are coated with a layer of white paint that is close to human skin.

The chin also seems to be made of metal. I don’t know if it is embedded in it or if it is integrated into it.

The left eye was emitting blue light and was still moving, as if scanning for something. This was probably the reason for the stiff expression on his face.

He is actually a mechanical sequencer who performs large-scale metal transformation.

If more than half of the body is modified with metal, it will lose its identity as a pure human being.

"A mechanical sequencer. Could it be illegally modified? It is usually used in the medical industry. Machines are used to replace body parts to give patients a healthy life. This outfit must be very expensive." Li Xiaoming said casually.

George Kaiser tilted his head, started to turn his hands slightly, and made a rattling sound in his mouth.

"Sir, you really have a good eye. You are worthy of being a sixth-level nightmare master. After measuring the combat effectiveness of both sides, I am sure that I can't beat you, but it is still easy to hold you for a while and call others over."

"So, what do you want to do?"

Li Xiaoming speculated that the other party waited patiently and did not take action immediately. There should be some conditions that he wanted to discuss.

"You are a smart man. After they paid me half of the bounty, they hoped that I would solve this problem quietly. So I used the money in exchange for a batch of more powerful weapons. But when I really face you , I think that money should be used for eating, drinking and having fun.”

"If you drink engine oil like that, it should be fine. If you eat it, there should be no taste in your mouth."

Li Xiaoming's mouth was still unusually venomous. It was hard to tell whether he was seeking death or a temptation.

The other party shook his head, "I just modified the vulnerable parts, but most of them are the same as ordinary people. The fatal parts are the heart and brain."

"Are you telling me about the tragic experience? Sorry, I don't have time to listen right now."

George Kaiser sighed and slowly raised his thick arm. Then under the rotation of the machine, the surface of the arm began to loosen, and the mechanical fingers began to shrink and merge.

The rhythmic collision of those parts was like a piece of music, and then the arm turned into a hand cannon.

The silver-gray barrel and pitch-black muzzle are full of deadly killing intent.

Calculating based on the radius of the barrel, it should be able to destroy anything within fifteen square meters nearby, not counting the type of ammunition the opponent is equipped with.

"I quite like this method of talking about conditions."

Li Xiaoming's expression was stiff, and he calculated in his mind that the winning rate was about 40 to 60, and he was 6 to 4.

Kaiser slowly said: "I hope you will help me kill someone. Even if I fail this mission, I will give you some help. Don't worry, the profession of a bounty hunter will do what it says."

"Is this the way you talk about conditions? You directly threaten others to do your work for you. More importantly, if you push things that you can't solve to me, I'm afraid I can't do anything about it."

Li Xiaoming stared at the hand cannon, fearing that the other party would accidentally fire it. His feet were shaking at an unconscious frequency of 42 beats per minute, and his heartbeat was two beats faster than usual. He was not sweating yet and did not run away. He was considered brave.