Twilight War

06

All the masks in the soul domain were reduced to ashes in an instant.

In the warehouse on Black Market Ninth Street, Huang Xuanjin suddenly felt himself being hugged tightly by the man in his arms.

Vehipel slowly opened his eyes.

"Leave here, after midnight, everything here will be in ruins." Wihipel said, his body seemed to be wet with a layer of sweat.

Huangxuanjin nodded, without asking why, "My car is parked over there."

He walked over and tore away the stained old canvas in the corner, revealing the scarlet steam engine.

He coughed lightly from the dust in the air.

Little Jasmine hid behind Vehipel.

"Come up."

He took the old canvas and wiped the stains on the car, but it turned out a piece of oil, so he laughed at himself, threw the old canvas on the ground, and then opened the car door for Vesper .

"I wonder if you would mind having one more passenger?" The middle-aged man's voice came from a dark corner.

Wihipel instantly raised his flintlock and pointed it at a dark corner.

Huang Xuanjin's hand was still resting on the car door, looking at the shadow in confusion.

The man still wearing the white mask walked out of the darkness with his hands raised. He looked calm and composed, without the tension of being pointed at by a gun.

It was the owner of the mask stand just now.

The man took off his mask and smiled.

He was a rather tough-looking middle-aged man.

"Does all this have anything to do with you?" Vehipel looked at the man and asked.

"You know, I'm a dying man. I've retired a long time ago and just walk dogs and play cats all day. I don't know anything about these things today."

"Why are you here?" Wihipel still did not put down his gun.

"Please, you are like asking me why I sleep in my own home. We have known each other for so many years. How should you know that the black market Ninth Street is my place, even if I have retired, this place is still mine place," said the man.

"Why are you in this warehouse."

"My car is parked here, but when I came over, I found it was out of gas, so I borrowed your car."

The man unceremoniously opened the back door, and before entering the car, he lowered his head and looked up at Wisipel with a smile.

He is tall and tall, and now he is sitting in the back seat of the car openly, like a boss going to a banquet.

Huangxuanjin looked up at Vehipel.

Wisper opened the door on the other side and sat beside the man.

Huang Xuanjin sat directly in the driver's seat.

"Do you want to rush out directly?" the man looked at Huangxuan Jin and asked.

Huang Xuanjin stepped on the accelerator to the maximum and rushed towards the wall of the warehouse.

The huge impact made everyone in the car feel the impact, and the scarlet bumper was completely deformed and fell from the front of the car.

The bone eaters guarding outside the warehouse fired their guns in unison, and Huang Xuanjin slammed the steering wheel.

"It's not bad." The man in the back parking space coughed violently, and then tried his best to comment on Huang Xuan Jin's driving skills, as if he didn't care about his bruised chest after being knocked out.

"Does this carnival really have anything to do with you?" asked Wichpel.

"The carnival was proposed by me, but the rest of it has nothing to do with me." The man said, "I have to say, the previous carnival was pretty good."

"Then it looks like these are made of rustbone." Wihipel looked at the front rearview mirror.

"Probably so. Besides him, who else can command these bone eaters now?"

"Not even you?"

The man nodded, "When you retire, you have to look a little bit retired."

"Are you so willing to delegate power to him?" Wihipel asked, "You know that he has evil intentions and plans for evil."

"Hey, are you trying to say that he is not a good person? This is the black market Nine Streets. Everyone here, including me, is just a bunch of scum. Do you want someone as righteous and upright as you to lead a group of scum to a better life? Tomorrow? Don’t talk about it, everyone knows that the Black Market Ninth Street is just a wormhole built on the ruins, surviving in the dark and looking for food in the dark.”

"Is Rustbone your chosen worm king?" Vehipel asked.

"I didn't choose it, it's just that he will end up in this position." The man said while laying on the back of the car.

"You are really contented." Vehipel said sarcastically.

"I call it 'rule by doing nothing'." The man said nonchalantly.

"Sharktail, do you regard this place as your country?" Wihipel turned his head, as if he couldn't believe it.

The man still had that indifferent look, "Why not."

"It's just that now that the country is dead, its monarch will also abscond." The man stretched his arms in the narrow car and said.

"So, work harder, drive faster!" the man shouted at Huangxuan Jin in front of him.

Hearing Vichypel call the man 'shark tail', Huangxuan Jin froze for a moment, and almost bumped into the paint bucket in front of him.

Shawei, the owner of the black market Ninth Street, the master of the bone eaters hidden in the shadows.

If people like Black Widow Hair and Rusty Bones are legends, then Shark Tail is the creator of legends.

Decades ago, this land was abandoned by merchants of steam machinery factories at the junction of Vana and Arthur, and then those refugees who lived in the steam pipes occupied this land, so it is like a bag of land that was thrown away. The garbage at the entrance of the alley is rotting like self-serving.

Everyone here lives without human beings or ghosts.

Children who grew up here drank water laced with silver waste from the Great Pit, ate food grown in the rotting earth, and died among rusty steam pipes.

Here are the ruins, the corpses of dead giant beasts, and they parasitized on the corpses of giant beasts, and gradually rotted together with the giant beasts.

It's like a rotting piece of the empire, but no one cares here.

One day, the rotting corpses will turn into dry bones. As for those parasites?

Anyway, at that time they will all disappear.

As for whether they are dead or alive.

Did they find the next rotting corpse, or did they turn into rotting mud.

No one cares.

Until one day, a teenager came out from the dark shadows.

He said his name was Sharktail.

He drank the scraps of the Silver of the Great Deep, and grew up on the food of the rotting land.

Those who follow him are called Bone Eaters.

He always carried a rusty steel pipe across his shoulders.

The boy had fierce eyes like the king of the forest.

He also fought in this ruin like the king of the forest, and he re-established his order here.

The rulers of Varner and Arthur didn't know how the ruins turned into the Ninth Street of the Black Market. It seemed that in a blink of an eye, neon lights were set up here, and it became the Third Reich of the Westland.

When the lights of the black market Ninth Street were flourishing, he also disappeared behind the scenes.

And now the man who established the black market Nine Streets is sitting on the back seat of his car, telling him that his country is about to perish, and he is about to start absconding!There is absolutely no sense of responsibility that the king of the forest should have.

"This fire is really big." The man leaned against the window of the rear seat and said, as if admiring it.

"There is no road ahead." Huang Xuanjin stopped the car and said while looking at the burning wall of fire ahead.

"Isn't it okay to pass through?" Vehipel asked.

"If it's your car, Your Highness, maybe it's okay. After all, I heard that the car is the work of the mechanics of the Shenyue Machinery Research Institute. Even if it is thrown into the water, there will be no water in it." Huangxuan Jin Shaking his head, he said, "But scarlet is not good, every crack of it is filled with the silver of the great abyss."

"You can directly say that the quality of your car is not good, and it will burn directly if you pass through it." Shawei said.

"I'll try to find out if there is another way out." Huang Xuanjin said.

"Forget it, you have searched all over just now, haven't you? Since Rustybone wants to turn this place into a battlefield, how could he let us leave at will." Shark tail shook his head and said: "It's really difficult ah……"

"Get out of the car." Huang Xuanjin said suddenly.

"What?" Sharktail asked, "What are you doing when you get out of the car?"

"Here, Black Market Ninth Street, isn't it your place? Now that this place has become like this, are you thinking of absconding? Do you want to watch this place turn into ashes?"

"What about you? Young Master Huangxuan? Donghuang is also on fire right now, and I didn't see you wanting to go back and put out that fire." Shawei said nonchalantly.

"Donghuang has nothing to do with me."

"Then the current black market Ninth Street has nothing to do with me." Shawei said: "Admit it, Young Master Huangxuan, escaping is the most comfortable decision. I don't want to care about this place at all now, I just want to find A place to spend your old age in peace."

He looked at the black market Ninth Street that was burning with flames outside the car window, "And even if the fire is extinguished, this place will be reduced to ruins again."

"Let's go, go to the underground auction, I know there is a tunnel leading to the outside." Shark Tail said suddenly.

"You didn't say it just now." Huang Xuanjin said with a frown.

"Because that tunnel leads to not necessarily a way of life, but a complicated past." Shawei said: "The past means a way of death."

Huang Xuanjin carefully parked the car in a dilapidated shop, then pulled off the shop's curtains to cover the car.

Shawei got out of the car, looked at him with a frown, "Is it necessary?"

"After the fire is extinguished, maybe I will come back to look for it." Huang Xuanjin said.

"No, you won't," said Sharktail.

The four walked down the iron steps to the ground.

"Can't the steps here be replaced with better ones?" Huang Xuanjin said with some distaste: "Anyway, it's an auction that many nobles will attend."

"Hey, this place used to be a slaughterhouse. It's not easy for me to change it into this look. It's too troublesome to rebuild the steps. You have to be careful and careful in life. Just like yours The engine of the car should have been picked up from a junkyard, you can tell by the sound."

"My entire car was actually salvaged from a junkyard."

"Wow, then you are really amazing." Shark Tail seemed to praise sincerely.

"I haven't been here for a few days, is this place ruined like this?" Huang Xuanjin said looking at the stage that seemed to have been abandoned for decades, and Little Jasmine hid behind him in fear.

A few days ago, there were still affectionate actors singing on the stage, and half-moon-shaped candles were burning on the stage.

But now there are rusted pig iron walls everywhere, and blood-stained posters are pasted on the walls.

"No, how could this be?" Shark Tail frowned as if in doubt.

"how."

"The underground auction was rebuilt by me four years ago. At that time, there were many pictorials left by butchers, and the pictorials were stained with blood." Shark tail's fingers touched the yellowed paper, "So I told They said to turn this place into a theater, and the auction will start after the play is finished."

"Is it the same here then as it is now?" Huang Xuanjin asked.

Sharktail nodded.

Vehipel closed his eyes, and for a moment even he began to doubt whether this place was real or imaginary.

But those black crows can no longer fly out from here, they seem to be imprisoned in this space.

The only way is to go deeper underground.

Here it is fragmented.

The yellowing traces of the pictorial gradually faded, the blood was washed away, and the woman's lips in the pictorial were painted red again.

Wihipel clenched the flintlock gun in his hand, Huangxuan Jin drew out the ancient sword at his waist, and then pushed Little Jasmine to the shark's tail, "Take her to hide."

"Why me?" Sharktail asked, frowning.

"You are the only unarmed person here." Huang Xuanjin said.

Red blood suddenly began to ooze from the ground. The color was not very thick, as if it had been mixed with water.

Huang Xuanjin stepped back subconsciously.

The blood flowed up little by little, like a rising tide under a blood moon.

All the blood-stained places on the walls started to burn.

"It's probably the blood of animals. As I said, this place used to be a slaughterhouse." Sharktail said.

The iron door splattered with blood suddenly fell down, and the beasts in the cage slammed into the iron bars.

"The butcher | slaughter workers used to deal with some monsters." Huang Xuanjin gritted his teeth and said.

"I didn't hear that they kept so many monsters. I thought it was just ordinary livestock." Shark Tail said, looking at the monsters in the cage.

Monsters like molten iron, blood that can burn.

Huang Xuanjin bit his lower lip tightly, as if he had returned to that battlefield again.

There are blood-stained black forehead bands and broken banners everywhere...

For countless nights, he wanted to escape from that barren city, the burning ruins.

But everything involved him like vines.

ancient beast...

His throat seemed to be flooded with blood again.

Those monsters broke through the iron prison, and Vihipel shot directly at their hearts and foreheads.

In front of Huangxuan Jin's sword eyebrows, when those ancient beasts that were not dead that Vehipel snatched rushed over, they directly cut off the necks of those ancient beasts, and the hot blood splashed on him, making people suspect that the blood would be on his body burn up.

The roar of the ancient beast was ferocious and shrill, like a baby's extremely sharp cry.

07

It is not difficult to solve these things with Vichypel.

"Is this an illusion?" Huangxuanjin asked, looking at Vehipel, who was stepping on the last ancient beast and refilling his gun neatly.

"No." Wihipel said, "At least these ancient beasts are not."

"Are they the ones who were still alive just now?" Huang Xuanjin asked.

"you know?"

"I knew it a long time ago." Huang Xuanjin said.

He never dared to seriously think about that war. It was a barren ruin, and you never knew what was buried there.

"Let's go." He looked back at the shark's tail, "Go and see what else is down there."

Go see the ruins, the past that has turned into a dead end.