Zhou Lin - Chapter 218 Recruitment (7)

Ah! With a scream, Liu Qiba woke up from his nightmare.

Before he could recover, a wave of pain surged through his body like a rising tide.

When he was in pain, Liu Qiba’s mind became much clearer.

While adjusting his heavy breathing, he looked around; he found that he was lying in a room that should be a hospital bed at this moment, with an intravenous drip hanging on his left hand, and the hospital gown and sheets underneath him were all wet. It was soaked with a lot of sweat.

Next to his hospital bed, there was an old man sitting, reading a book with an I-PEN.

Your metabolism is really fast. It’s only been two hours since the surgery, and you seem to have metabolized the effect of the painkillers. Seeing Liu Qiba wake up, the old man slowly put down the I- PEN, struck up a conversation with him.

I…I… Liu Qiba was about to answer the other party’s words, but suddenly remembered something. He immediately asked loudly, …my family! Are they okay?

At this moment, Liu Qiba remembered the last thing he remembered before he fell into coma – he jumped into the air in a rage and threw an oil tanker in the direction of his home.

It’s okay. Your family is safe and has been moved to a safe place. The old man replied.

Really? Liu Qiba asked, because he really didn’t believe it, You didn’t lie to me?

The old man understood that Liu Qiba’s suspicion was justifiable, so he continued: I won’t go into details. To put it simply… when I rushed to the scene, the group of people who came to kill you and your family It has been torn into pieces by you, but because you yourself lost your mind during the battle and did not stop indiscriminate destruction even after all the enemies were wiped out, so I immediately responded… He paused and then said , I jumped into the air, caught the car you threw out, and used my ability on you, causing your body to quickly dehydrate and rise to a high altitude. Soon after, you fell into a coma due to lack of oxygen. At this time I Then I disabled the ability, caught you, and handed you over to the medical staff at the scene.

The old man’s tone was very calm and clear when he said this. Liu Qiba felt that the other party was not lying, because if he really wanted to make it up, he would not make up such content.

Uh… thank you. Liu Qiba thought for a few seconds and then added, By the way, I haven’t asked for advice yet…

Bud Levins. Bud responded, Not long ago, he was a retired civil servant with no position, but recently he became a candidate for a security officer. He can be regarded as your superior for the time being. He said, glancing at Liu Qiba’s hand was slowly bandaged, Considering that your whole body is injured now and it hurts wherever you touch it, I won’t shake your hand.

Oh! It turns out to be sir! Hiss— Liu Qiba instinctively wanted to salute, but the pain in his shoulder made him grin.

Okay, young man, there is no need to be so polite at this time. Bud said, put away the I-PEN in his hand, and stood up, I am here mainly to wait for you to wake up and deal with the situation personally. Let me tell you so that you can rest assured…after all, if someone else told you what I just said, you might not believe it immediately.

Thank you, sir! The next second, Liu Qiba immediately shouted back, For saving my life… no, for saving my whole family! I, Liu, am responsible for…

Okay, okay… don’t get excited. Bud seemed very calm. He interrupted the other party and continued, It’s just a little effort. Besides, I came here after receiving the order and was just performing my duties. But, you You should really pay attention to that ability in the future, so as not to bring danger to yourself and those around you.

Yes! Liu Qiba remembers the instructions of his superiors! Liu Qiba’s voice became louder.

…………

Fragments of memories flashed before my eyes.

Liu Qiba didn’t know whether this was the so-called revolving door.

That year, he was twenty-six years old and a soldier in the federal army’s ability user combat unit. He had a wife who was one year younger than him and an infant daughter at home.

Infighting among the top leaders of the federation has always been frequent. Grassroots soldiers stationed in Crystal County like Liu Qiba will inevitably offend a certain force during the execution of their missions. Therefore, it is not safe to be his family.

Coupled with the side effects of Liu Qiba’s power of anger, he could not control it well until he was thirty-five years old, which also put great pressure on his family.

Finally, a few years later, his wife divorced him, and two years later, he remarried someone else. Now his ex-wife and he have become almost acquaintances; and his daughter, who they only see each other every weekend, is now ten years old. At six years old, I am at the age in my life when I most want to get rid of my parents.

From a certain perspective, in recent years, Liu Qiba has had more contact with the Bader family than his own family.

Whenever there is a new year or festival, Bud will invite Liu Qiba to his home for dinner, because Bud also knows that Liu Qiba’s parents died early, and it is impossible for him to go to his ex-wife’s house to celebrate the festival. If Bud doesn’t invite him, then he will There was only one person drinking at home.

Bud is different from Liu Qiba. He has a big family. Although Bud’s wife has passed away, there are many descendants of Bud. Every festival, a large family gathers together, and there are multiple Liu Qiba. For him, It’s just adding a pair of chopsticks.

However, many times, what is a piece of cake for one person may mean a lot to another.

The friendship between Bud and Liu Qiba is full of such things; such as the life-saving grace that year, and the several New Year’s Eve dinners and Thanksgiving dinners many years later…

Bard may not care much, but Liu Qiba has always remembered and been grateful; even though Liu Qiba has changed from the young soldier back then to a guard officer of the same level as Bard, in his heart, Bard De has always been his most respected senior and benefactor.

It’s a pity… In the end, he couldn’t save Bud.

Not only could he not save the other party, but now, he was even afraid that his life would be in danger.

The black energy released by Zi Lin was something Liu Qiba had never seen before; Liu Qiba’s ultra-high physical strength, the defensive power of body surface energy, and his excellent self-healing power when his ability was turned on… he transformed in front of that black light. It has to be in name only.

Liu Qiba’s wound not only did not heal after the attack, but also gradually eroded towards the body. The energy on his body was also slowly eliminated by the black wound. Soon, let alone energy, he even lost his strength. It can’t be used anymore.

He watched the scene in front of him turn upside down and knew that he had begun to fall; the violent emotions also quietly subsided, indicating that his ability had also failed…

In the end, I still couldn’t do anything, couldn’t protect anything, couldn’t keep anything… When Liu Qiba read this sentence in his heart, he cried.

Zi Lin, his opponent, made him feel desperate; but Liu Qiba was not crying for his defeat and death, but for his own powerlessness and the kindness that he could not repay until the end.

Don’t touch him!

On the other hand, when Liu Qiba fell, Shicun shouted at Pang Haoye who was about to pick him up.

Pang Haoye is a fastidious person. He has already seen that Liu Qiba is about to die. He doesn’t want to watch Liu Qiba fall from the sky and fall to pieces and die an ungraceful death.

However, Shimura’s reminder also makes sense: Can’t you see that the black thing might spread to others?

He was right, it was indeed possible…

As a result, Liu Qiba fell heavily to the ground, broke his neck, and died on the spot.

The faces of Pang Haoye, Michelle and Xiwen all became unsightly. They… had obviously lost their fighting spirit.

Only Shimura was left, still not giving up the fight.

boom–

At this moment, more than ten meters away, another body suddenly fell from the sky and hit a car parked on the roadside, smashing the car to pieces. Fortunately, there was no one in the car.

Everyone was not attracted by the movement, because they all knew that… what fell down at this moment should be Tapei’s body.

Zi Lin also ignored the situation over there, slowly walked out of the pit, and said, There are seven people, and there are four left. I think it’s enough… What do you think?

Three people lowered their heads and stopped talking.

However, Shimura actually sneered at this moment.

Haha…hehehe… His laughter revealed an aura that seemed like he had a chance to win, I think that’s enough… He paused for two seconds, According to my original idea, as long as’ One’ is enough, but it’s a pity that just now Tapei was taken to the sky, and Bard was wiped out by you, so it’s hard for me to do it… But now, one Liu Qiba, plus one tower Pei, there are two corpses of top-level ability users around me… Do you know what that means?

Zi Lin shrugged: I know, I know, but I don’t want to interrupt your performance, so… you can continue.

Hmph! I’ll make you stop laughing right now! At this point, Shimura had already activated his ability – Soul Descendance.

The effect of this ability is very simple and has not changed since the paper level, that is, sacrifice a fresh human corpse and summon a heroic spirit that can fight for Shimura in a short period of time.

The strength of the heroic soul summoned by Soul Drop is only related to the quantity and quality of the sacrifice, and has nothing to do with Shimura’s ability level. In other words… the difference between paper-level Shimura and crazy-level Shimura is only his own physical strength and energy level. That’s all, the effect of its ability is always the same.

But even so, Shimura still worked very diligently to train himself to the mad level. After all, the bodies of mad level ability users are more durable and the aging rate will be slower.

And the way he reached the mad level… was to use it a lot, a lot.

Shimura is a person who cares little about human life. Behind his behavior of killing others at will, there is also some motivation to train his abilities.

Of course, in this process, he also did a lot of experiments and figured out the various characteristics of soul descending.

First of all, to summon heroic souls, you must use fresh corpses, that is, those who have just died. There is no particularly precise time for how long this shortly means, but it is usually about thirty minutes. After this time, even if the corpse is frozen Get up and do embalming work so that it looks like it is alive and can no longer be used as a sacrifice.

Secondly, the strength of the summoned heroic soul mainly depends on the quality of the sacrifice, while the quantity is a relatively secondary condition.

For example, by sacrificing an ordinary adult, you can summon a heroic soul whose combat ability reaches the level of a special soldier. However, by sacrificing ten such ordinary people, the combat effectiveness of the summoned heroic soul will not become ten times that of a special soldier. At most, Become a stronger special soldier…

If you continue to increase the quantity without improving the quality, there will be no big leap in the increase in strength; it is very likely that you will have to sacrifice the corpses of a thousand ordinary people and only be able to summon the heroic soul of a parallel ability user.

However, if there is a parallel ability user among these thousand people, then it is possible to summon a powerful heroic spirit at once.

In addition, when the summoned heroic soul is an esper, its ability is also related to the ability of the sacrifice. For example, if you sacrifice a parallel-level esper whose ability is to create flames, you may end up summoning a powerful one. The heroic soul of a super-powered person has the ability to create magma; and when multiple sacrifices are offered, the situation becomes more complicated, a bit like some kind of unrestricted fusion, full of unknown possibilities.

However…this ability naturally has its weaknesses.

First, only one heroic soul can exist at the same time, and even Shimura himself cannot dispel it before the heroic soul’s existence time runs out; of course, if the heroic soul is beaten to ashes or Shimura himself dies, the heroic soul will It should also disappear immediately.

Secondly, the used corpse can no longer be used (the sacrifice will not physically consume the corpse, so from a certain perspective, what is actually needed is not the corpse, but the soul), even if the time is less than thirty Minutes, the same corpse cannot be used as a sacrifice again.

Thirdly, although the Heroic Soul does not need to rely on Shimura’s physical strength and energy to maintain its activities, the act of summoning itself consumes a lot of physical energy. Shimura has experimented, and summoning twice in an hour is his limit.

At the moment, Shimura doesn’t need to consider the second and third weaknesses, because he used both Liu Qiba and Tapei’s corpses in one go.

Zi Lin’s strength is indeed beyond his imagination, but Shimura is confident that Liu Qiba, a fierce-level user with the power of anger, and Tapei, who is also a fierce-level user with doubling abilities… Using two corpses of this quality, you can definitely summon an unprecedentedly powerful heroic spirit.

You know, the only time Shimura used the body of a ferocious-level ability user to launch a Soul Subduing, he summoned a mad-level heroic soul that was much stronger than himself, and the sacrifice he used at that time was just a man who had just stepped on They are just ability users who have reached the threshold of fierce level.

This time, he used two escort officers.

Even if the legendary god-level existence appears, Shimura will not find it strange.

…………

At the same time, in the tea banquet headquarters, in the conference room.

Krauser was sitting there, leisurely waiting for the pot of coffee he ordered.

Brewing a good pot of coffee naturally takes some time. For an organization like the tea party, the kitchen staff will definitely be hired, so… they started by grinding coffee beans, which hasn’t started yet. Cooking.

Krauser didn’t talk to the juniors at the conference table, because he felt they couldn’t talk; they didn’t talk to him either, because they were all paying attention to the war situation outside.

Although they couldn’t see the situation outside, most of them guessed that the situation might not be favorable to them…

If you think about it, you can understand that if you fight against multiple security officers by yourself, you should be killed instantly according to common sense, but they have waited for so long, the battle is not over yet, and none of the security officers have rushed in to save people… This It’s probably a bad sign.

Um?

Suddenly, Krause let out a groan that was obviously filled with confusion and a little surprise.

His reaction quickly attracted the attention of the entire table.

And just when everyone turned their attention, Mao Feng on the side also made an unusual move: he stood up from his seat tremblingly and staggered back to the wall, as if he was instinctively staying away from some kind of terrible thing. thing……

Then… what is that? Mao Feng’s face was pale and his eyes were full of fear. He turned his head dully, looked at Krauser, and asked such a nonsensical question.

Although you shouldn’t ask me this question, I do know the answer… When he replied, Krauser had regained his usual calmness and said, In fact, compared to referring to ‘that guy’ I may have a better understanding of the situation as Daisuke Shimura himself was summoned…

What are you talking about? Muhammad also asked at this time. Although he could not sense the situation outside, he undoubtedly discovered that there was something happening at this moment that was enough to surprise even Clause. It’s happening.

Shimura seems to have used his ability to summon a very troublesome guy. Krauser responded first, and then said to himself in a thoughtful tone, Speaking of which…’that guy’ What level did he reach when he died…I died earlier than him, I don’t know… He paused for half a second and frowned slightly, Zi Lin will not die…I will settle the score with me that day. . At this point, he showed a belated expression, Eh? I seem to be in danger too…