Mechanical Alchemist

Chapter 195

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

Pestoya's night visit was a small episode, and it didn't stop after that, and several groups of uninvited guests came one after another at the Unicorn Hotel.

There are second-order and third-order, and they are all assassins who are proficient in stealth.

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

In order not to reveal the flaws, and also to think that the waves of harassment were troublesome, Su Lun simply shared the bed with Mr. Jing for one night.

There is nothing to overstep, 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 he had a rare good night's sleep.

Early in the morning the next morning, the old housekeeper Anthony's stern drink came from the hotel.

"Everyone, get your equipment ready and leave on time at seven!"

Su Lun got up and dressed himself in a trench coat cowboy hat adventurer outfit.

"Qianjo" was still washing up, so he went downstairs and found the latest briefings and messages in a pile of letters at the front desk of the hotel.

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

The unit price is expensive, but sales are good.

Su Lun glanced at the contents of the newspaper, which mentioned the attack last night at length.

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

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

The people of the Umbrella Organization 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 they turned their heads, it was Reina who led the personal maid downstairs.

After a night, the eldest 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 version of the Black Tower Academy, but a more advanced alchemy product with a special modified version. waist with pistol, dagger, mechanical vest and tactical belt, gas mask

What's more rare is that she has a mechanical box sprayed with cross red paint on her back, which is a military medical equipment box for individual soldiers.

It seems that this eldest lady is ready to fight by herself.

Su Lun glanced at her, raised her brows slightly, and naturally saw some changes in her.

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

Seeing Su Lun, Reina nodded as a greeting.

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

In addition to the family guard of more than 100 people brought by Reina, there were only a few medium-sized hunting groups from the Crusaders.

The group of people met in the tent area outside the camp, and immediately attracted the pointing and pointing of people from all walks of life.

"Hey~ I remember that it was Anthony, the housekeeper of the Reyes family. I didn't expect that old guy to actually advance to the third level."

"I saw the battle last night, and the strength is indeed very strong. But unfortunately, I am afraid that these people will not be able to reach the center of the city, and they will be destroyed."

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

"Assassin? That's not an ordinary assassin, I heard."

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

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The news that Reina's best friend Yulia was killed by the whole family last night also spread throughout the camp, and no one dared to come in contact with the team in Reis' long room.

The gossip came into my ears, and Reina remained expressionless the whole time.

The team didn't stop for a long time, and set off directly according to the "No. 16" route to the northeast of the Dawn Ruins.

Because there are Tier 3 professionals leading the team, Su Lun and his team are moving very fast.

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

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

This is the landmark to enter Ruins Central.

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

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

After a while, they came to a large-scale construction waste area with no traces of exploration, and the team stopped.

Although the middle ring and the outer ring of the ruins are only separated by a low and rotten wall, the strength of the monsters is very different.

The outer ring is generally aberration monsters and abyss monsters of first-order and below, while the second-order, third-order, and even super-order special monsters appear in the middle ring.

After the Central Ring, it is the "restricted area" for small and medium-sized hunting groups.

If you encounter almost any group of gregarious monsters, you can destroy a medium-sized hunting group led by a second-order 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, orders from the team commander were issued one after another.

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

"The third team is at nine o'clock, and the second team is at three o'clock. The distance between the assassins is spread out. Pay attention to investigation, and pay attention to monsters and suspicious trailing personnel."

"Everyone, start searching this area as planned!"

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The line spread out in the shape of a lotus flower with Reina-sama as the center.

The Crusaders' hunting group was originally sponsored by the Reyes family, and the team members were probably equivalent to "long-term workers" who signed a sales contract. They were responsible for the most dangerous road-opening tasks ahead.

Su Lun and "Qiantiao" didn't do anything special, they just joined the road-opening 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 are denser, and there are already ten-story buildings around.

In addition to private houses, there are also large buildings such as the Opera House, City Hall, and Baths.

Like a lush virgin forest, these large buildings are also the favorite habitat for monsters.

And, not just on the ground.

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

Su Lun's current auditory perception can clearly feel the rustling sound of crawling in the sewers because of their arrival. In the dark caves, there seemed to be a pair of eyes spying on their group of uninvited guests.

This is the territory of the aberration monster.

The ruins were filled with fog, no lights, and poor visibility.

Large-scale flares dare not be used casually, so the team members can only rely on the limited field of vision provided by the alchemy night vision device to carefully explore.

That Princess Teresa's task was to ask the families to carefully explore their routes to find some "things" that they still don't know what they are.

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

The pace of exploration is slow.

After the assignment of tasks,

Su Lun followed "Thousands" and led a Crusaders hunting group to explore a residential building.

The team members are very fresh, and it seems that they are almost all "new people" recruited by the gang later.

After leaving the home team, the players did not have so many scruples when speaking.

"Boss Qiantiao, why are there so few people in our group this time? I see that the hunting groups of other families are at least a few thousand people. I heard that it seems that our gold master is in crisis?"

"Sister Qianjo, there was so much noise in the city last night, what's going on? I heard that the princess' mansion was attacked?"

"It is said that the princess of the duke's palace is our old Lington's 'first beauty'. Is it true?"

"Hey, aren't the nobles in the inner city coming to hunt the wild like us this time? Our lives are worthless, and they will lose a lot."

"."

The bottom hunters take their lives very cheaply, and they are already prepared to face death after eating this bowl of rice.

The mood is quite optimistic.

Especially watching the inner city and them come to hunt the famine with them, each and everyone has a kind of heartless gloating.

They didn't know the relationship between Chijo and Reina, and they didn't have any scruples in speaking.

The group chatted and farted all the way.

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

still alive,

talk about women,

make 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, and in the rotten building they explored, a group of monsters identified as [Abyss Bloodthirsty Sentinel] lived.

The sound of "squeaky" was incessant, and Su Lun had already discovered this kind of crawling monster that looked like a white-skinned monkey, but was hairless and had a penetrating mouth and a human face.

They can project rocks as sub-weapons with power comparable to bullets.

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

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

Clearing all the way, the harvest is also good.

"Haha. This monkey has actually produced materials for the curse. The odds of the monsters in the central city wall producing materials are very high. The gold lord said that the materials for hunting the wild belong to us, and we can send them this time."

"Let's take it out alive and talk about it"

"But then again, these standard firearms in the inner city are stable, and they don't get stuck. In other words, our sponsors are still very good. The equipment that everyone sends is probably worth hundreds of thousands of dollars."

"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 equipment, even if the second-order monsters come, I dare to fight them!"

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I didn't feel that there were any tricky monsters in the building. In order to speed up the exploration progress, the team spread out.

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

Su Lun and "Thousands" just found a corner and sat leisurely, waiting for assistance in case of an accident.

In the communicator, reports came from time to time.

"Report Commander, Opera House found a small monster attack and has been cleared."

"The Red Brick Building found a group of high-level distortion monsters, requesting high-level combat support!"

"Commander, in the broken building at ten o'clock, a 'cursed space' was found. Preliminarily judged to be a 'C-class space', please instruct."

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The sound of gunshots exploded in this ruin, and the land reclamation was proceeding in an orderly manner.

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

Even number one or two.

There are Tier 3 professionals and more than a dozen Tier 2 professionals.

Most of the more than 100 direct line guards that Reina brought from the family were well-trained and full-time professionals. They have the best firearms and equipment available on the market, mechanical armor. The combat effectiveness is very strong.

But this team also has a fatal flaw.

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

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

When encountering a high-risk cursed space, it is fatal.

Because that Princess Teresa gave the order to die.

In any case, once the cursed space is discovered, it must be discovered and eliminated.

This means that if they encounter a cursed space of unknown level, and the team led by the first-order professional does not come out, then they have to send in a second-order;

The group was destroyed again, and the third-order was sent again.

Until they kept sending people in to find out.

But in fact, most of the cursed spaces can be tested many times, and then the cracking method can be obtained.

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

Just like the [1911 Hotel] that Su Lun encountered last time, it is theoretically "T-class", but if hundreds of people die, you can always figure out some ways to crack it.

So, the number of people is very important.

And Reina's team doesn't have that kind of opportunity for trial and error.

Only a few hundred people in all.

Each loss to a team means their overall chance of surviving is one point lower.

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

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

the deadliest

Even if you know the danger, there is no chance to steal and play tricks!

Because the team was followed by three "supervisory teams" wearing white helmets, which were people from the inner city military. Their task is to supervise the hunting group and report the battle status and progress at any time.

Once they are dead, or the Wild Hunt team refuses to carry out the order, there will be experts from the Black Tower.

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 nearby.

The battle on the first day was brutal, with more than 30 dead and many wounded.

The team also did not continue to advance, but chose to set up camp with a fire in a sturdy building.

It is worth mentioning that the Reina-san has not been idle since the start of the battle, and has been active on the battlefield.

She lost the arrogance and arrogance of Miss Qianjin, and she went out with other members of the medical team in places where medical support was needed in various places on the battlefield, and personally treated the wounded.

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

Even after camping and resting now, she was busy in the wounded tent.

It was also because she, a dignified young lady, did her best and was busy on the front line. Not only did the wounded not complain, but they were all excited as if they had been beaten with blood.

"Oh, Miss Reina, I. My life is not worth such an expensive potion."

"Oh my God, Miss Reina actually sutured the wound with her own hands"

"It is the honor of my life to serve Miss Reina."

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

If you are good to him, he will be willing to sacrifice his life for you.

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

But because Reina, the eldest young lady, did her best to heal, not only did not let people's hearts be scattered, but it was more condensed.

In the current situation, it is more likely to survive only when the team is united.

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 Reina and sighed, "This little girl is also enlightened."

"She has really 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 guy had said before that if he entered the ruins, he would 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 when you come. Those supervising team have been watching you. And there are a few guys with bad intentions around Reina, who seem to have been bribed."

Su Lun said that he was not surprised, and said, "Well, I found it too. I got the news before, and the people of the Umbrella Organization still haven't given up their suspicions."

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

It seems that he wants to detect clues from his own fighting style, and wants to make sure that he is "Su Lun", or that he has other involvements.

Mr. Jing asked, "Can you solve it?"

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.

After thinking of something, she said again: "Oh, there is one more point. The further you go to the depths of the ruins, the more powerful the monsters are. You should pay attention to avoiding these areas."

Su Lun listened carefully, silently taking it to heart.

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

The monsters in the ruins of the dawn have 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 numbers 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 slightly 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 a solemn look in his eyes.

She glanced at Su Lun and said again: "There is actually a space passage connecting the other plane in the ground of Dawn City. 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 this channel to go to other planes. 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 of the era of civilization and to pursue the ultimate in true alchemy;

for a long time,

Su Lun also understood.

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

And that civilized person left a sealed space channel underground.

But because of the age, some cracks appeared in the seal, and some abyss monsters flowed out.

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

Su Lun is also a little curious, those powerful alchemists who can hunt gods do not know whether they are destroyed or migrated to other planes.

In the ruins, especially in the central area, don't even think about falling asleep.

The previous battle had attracted monsters far away, and the gunfire continued intermittently all night.

It's not just their group of people, almost the entire Dawn Ruins are like this.

Su Lun chatted with Mr. Jing in the middle of the night.

This mysterious bigwig doesn't seem to shy away from talking about some ancient mysteries with Su Lun.

She is like a witness to that history, and she knows a lot of information that no one else can know from historical materials or other channels.

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

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

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

The central urban area of ​​Dawn City, this is a dangerous place where even Mr. Jing frowned when he talked about it.

Not to mention this kind of carpet hunting.

It's almost the same as dying.

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

Like a large net that keeps shrinking inwards, it also makes the monsters in the ruins spread out their attack targets. The pressure on a single team is much less, and some large monsters are 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 and withdraw from the team, but it is not easy to have an accident with the character of "Qianjo", a second-order professional player.

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

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

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

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

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

Well, that's also a valid reason.

Then the team on duty led by "Qiantiao", by chance, strayed into the ghost fog that looked little different from ordinary fog, and the entire team disappeared.

As soon as the patrol disappeared, the entire camp was in chaos again.

In order to avoid the fog, the entire hunting group relocated overnight, and hurriedly returned to the campsite the night before.

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

The hunt must continue.

This hunt was doomed from the beginning to a tragic end, and no one could guarantee that they would survive to the end.

Reina was also prepared.

After entering the center of the ruins, the dark spiritual energy in the air has become so exaggerated that the energy-filtering gas masks on everyone's faces have hardly been removed.

That Mr. Zorro was completely alone.

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

However, this is also fine.

Su Lun knew that in addition to the three supervising teams, there were other hidden masters watching over him.

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

To avoid an accident, implicate the Reyes family.

Two days later, a special report was sent to the top of the Umbrella Organization: "Zorro Serna, confirmed to be a second-tier melee professional, proficient in fighting skills, weak mental fluctuations, and fighting habits that are more like a ranger. High probability Excluding Su Lun, the SS wanted criminal, it is recommended that the file level be downgraded to C level!"

And almost at the same time that this "Zorro" was still active in the hunting group of Reis Longhouse, the hunting group of the Oliver family was attacked.

A Crow Gang cadre was killed, three second-order guards died tragically, and there were hundreds of casualties.

It was also fortunate that there were a large number of people, and Nero Redgrave, the vice president of the Tier 3 Wild Hunting Union, was in the team, so that Young Master Danze was not killed.

Assassin wounded and retreated.

The news came out quickly, and the hands-on assassin wore a crow mask and could skillfully control the invisible living corpse and the black sickle.

Intelligence comparison, is the SS wanted criminal Su Lun.

Suspected revenge!

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

Finally, ten days later, the team from Reis' long house arrived at the destination of Su Lun's trip, the super-large cursed space——【Central Prison in Dawn City】.

PS. Still in Cavan, only one chapter. It's very watery, sorry.

(End of this chapter)