Chapter 94: The Jacksonville Crisis and the Sewer Giant
In the real material world, Jacksonville is the largest and most populous city in Florida, with very developed industries such as commerce, finance, and insurance.

In the extraordinary world, this is also the most lively city in Florida.

The early inhabitants here were the Dimuhan Indians. They were first conquered by the French, and then by the Americans after the founding of the United States. They have now become extinct.

However, the Indian ghosts transformed from ancient natural spirits still linger on this land, and with deep malice, they stare at the white people living on this land. Of course, if they meet black people, they will also kill them.

The original French colony, Caroline Castle, was completely razed by the Spanish, and the ghosts of the colonists remained, but they did not cause much harm and stayed in the castle all day.

In 1901, the city encountered a huge cult conspiracy. Madmen who believed in evil gods carried out an inhumane massacre in a factory in the city center and carried out the largest sacrifice in Florida history. A certain evil god high in the starry sky almost descended on a clone. The government, the church and the demon hunters at the time did their best to stop the ritual.

But the price was that 146 buildings in 2368 blocks in the city center were burned down, and the entire city was almost completely destroyed, forcing a thorough reconstruction.

However, even after its reconstruction, the power of the evil god still lingers in the city, waiting for the opportunity to come again.

As a last resort, in response to the evil god's weakness, extraordinary people from all sides, with the cooperation of the municipal government, launched a grand expo celebration.

The highlight of the celebration was the largest piece of feces ever, which was over 80 meters long and 2 meters wide, occupying half of the street. It was July, and the feces gave off a strong and refreshing smell under the scorching sun. In addition, an unexpected rainstorm broke up the giant feces, and the feces water flooded more than a dozen blocks, almost forcing the newly rebuilt city to rebuild again.

The evil god with mysophobia was disgusted and completely abandoned the power that had descended upon him, and swore never, ever to look at this city again.

However, although the evil god has left forever, the power he gave up is still there, and is inadvertently catalyzing wild beasts or malicious humans, making them a big trouble to order.

Jacksonville is now in such a complicated situation. Ghosts, evil supernatural beings, and demonized beasts, three different forces are constantly disturbing the order of the mortal world, trying to take revenge on the white people who occupied their land, or steal the power of evil gods, or use the flesh and blood souls of mortals as nourishment to improve themselves.

In order to deal with these big troubles, Jacksonville's supernatural power is also extremely strong. However, due to the existence of the legendary demon hunter, the power of the church here is not very strong. Maintaining order mainly depends on the demon hunter, or in other words, on Clow Lorenzo.

The municipal government allocates a large sum of money to Lorenzo Security Company every year as the cost of maintaining order in the extraordinary realm.

According to Julius, the company has a special sensing device that can sense a certain degree of supernatural aura fluctuations within the urban area and record the characteristics of the aura fluctuations.

Just now, when Luke was painting, he used a lot of mental energy for a long time, which allowed the device to sense it.

Moreover, they could not find any matching characteristics in the security company's records, so they were sure that a new extraordinary person had arrived and came to check it out.

Luke was faced with an America-esque police rounds.

After confirming Luke's basic situation, Julius said goodbye very politely. Before leaving, he handed his business card to Luke and told him that his extraordinary breath characteristics had been recorded. From then on, no one would come to check on him when he used his extraordinary abilities - unless he had committed a crime and was wanted by the police.

Luke did ask some questions about supernatural monsters, but the other party obviously treated him as a hot-headed minor and was worried that he would be in danger, so he did not reveal any information.

Or, think in another way. As a member of a security company, if an outsider asks him about it, he will start to tell them that in the territory our company is responsible for, there are three murderers who have not been caught and two big monsters are on the run. Isn't that just discrediting himself?

It must be said that under the leadership of the great Lorenzo, the entire Jacksonville was peaceful and prosperous.

After seeing Julius off, Luke thought for a moment. Given the situation in Jacksonville, he probably wouldn't get any useful clues from the locals, so he might as well look for some gossip.

Luke packed everything he needed and went out as planned.

It should be said that, in addition to the love of doing things, this city is still quite prosperous. The prosperity of the city will naturally lead to the rapid proliferation of other things, such as rats.

To Luke, these mice were the best scouts and intelligence agents.

Although the little mouse’s favorite food in “Tom and Jerry” is cheese, in reality, the most common and favorite food for ordinary mice are various nuts rich in fat.

After buying some peanuts at a roadside store, Luke began to walk specifically into some dark and dirty alleys.

Sure enough, it wasn't long before groups of rats were discovered.

In America, rats are more like the masters of cities than humans.

If it is a single mouse, it will most likely flee in panic when it encounters humans, but if it is a group of mice, it will be different.

They will rush forward like a group of young women encountering an innocent little virgin, pointing and pulling until the other party flees.

"Look, there's a giant on our territory."

"The giant spirit smells really good, take a bite, take a bite."

"It smells so good, there are fragrant fruits on it, grab it!"

Luke could barely understand what the mice were saying, but it always sounded like a dialect.

He thought about it and realized that his "rat language" (which he was proficient in) could only be used to communicate with local rats in Florida. If he went to other states, it would be like people from Northeast China going to the South, where they would be speaking a different language than the local rats.

But there is no need to think about these now, after all, I can still understand them.

Although Luke once received help from mice and could speak rat language and communicate with them, this does not mean that Luke has a good impression of mice.

Faced with a large group of dark and dirty rats swarming forward, Luke reached into the [Endless Stomach] with his right hand, and pulled a black knife out of the package along with the pulling action, and then slashed with one knife, cutting all the rats rushing to the front into two pieces.

As the saying goes, "as timid as a mouse", these mice are just like goblins. When the wind goes against them a little, they start to flee in all directions.

However, even if they ran away, they were not as fast as Luke.

Luke chopped off a few more rats with his quick hands and eyes, and then he shouted in rat language: "Stop! If you run again, kill them all!"

The loud rat-speaking sound made the mice turn around one after another. After repeated observation, they confirmed that the words just now were spoken by the giant spirit, and that the giant spirit spoke with a foreign accent.

If it was a foreign mouse, these local mice would have joined forces to fight and drive the stinky foreign mouse out. Unfortunately, Luke was a noble and unstoppable giant spirit, so they backed off.

After Luke killed two more mice that were still running away, the rest finally became obedient, huddled together, and obeyed his orders.

After establishing his authority successfully, seeing the mice huddled together and trembling, Luke took out a piece of white cloth from his [Endless Stomach] and wiped the dirty blood on [Lightning Flash]. Then he continued, "I ask, you answer. Those who can answer will be rewarded with these."

He waved the peanuts he had just bought over the mice's heads.

"If you can't answer a single question, you will die." After Luke's killing spree, there were originally more than 20 rats, but now there are only about left.

Under the long-term influence of the evil god, the IQ levels of these rats seem to be generally higher than those of the rats in Fort Lauderdale, their bodies are also larger, and of course, their personalities are more brutal.

But in front of the bigger, stronger, more brutal, and waaaaghier Luke, these mice have no choice but to obey.

"Listen carefully to the question." Luke slashed the ground with his knife, and a bright silver arc flashed, making the mice even more terrified.

"Are there any particularly powerful monsters in the corners of this city, much more powerful than the evil spirits?"

"Evil demon" is what mice call cats, and they consider it their strongest natural enemy. In addition, there are some similar names, such as dogs calling them "barking monsters".

Of course, this is all just an instinctive translation of Luke's "rat language" skill.

After a moment of silence, several mice spoke one after another, but after listening to their descriptions, Luke was basically certain that they were talking about ordinary wild animals, such as owls, foxes, etc.

However, in order to increase the enthusiasm of the mice, he still sprinkled a handful of peanuts and let the mice share it.

Then more mice spoke, and finally, one mouse's speech caught Luke's interest.

According to its description, it should be a giant crocodile. It was almost eaten after encountering it in the sewer. The crocodile seemed to have the ability to control the flow of water and could condense water into water arrows and shoot them out.

The rest of the mice could no longer provide any valuable clues. Luke looked at the mice that were still gathered together, and swung the long black knife in his hand diagonally. No matter whether they answered the questions, were eating peanuts, or had not answered, they were all cut off with these few knives.

"I just said that those who don't answer the question will die, and those who answer will be rewarded with peanuts."

"But I didn't say that those who answer the questions don't have to die."

Peanuts were the reward won by the mice, soaked in dirty blood and buried with them.

There's nothing we can do. Who made a mouse just say something like "The giant spirit smells so good, let's have a bite, have a bite"? So if you want to blame someone, blame the mouse.

After killing the rat, Luke looked at [Thunder Flash] with disgust, as it was stained with blood again.

I was too careless. I wiped the knife too early.

Fortunately, there were a lot of soft cloths, so Luke took out another one, wiped the [Thunder Flash] clean, threw it down and left.

The crocodiles in the underground drainage system can still master the water system. If it were yesterday, Luke might have chosen to give up out of fear, or try to change the battlefield.

But now, with the meat shield, the situation is very different.

Just hide behind the mountain monster and output, it's safe.

Fuck him!

Following the route described in the mouse's language, Luke found the sewer opening it mentioned. After lifting the manhole cover, he took a quick look down.

It is very spacious. Not to mention humans, even strong mountain monsters can pass through it without any problem.

It was definitely dirty, with garbage and sewage everywhere, and with Luke's "enhanced sense of smell", the unique smell of various garbage mixed in the sewer and soaked in the water was really unbearable.

Even so, when he left Fort Lauderdale, Luke had made up his mind to change his previous habit of living a life of luxury. So after thinking for a moment, he made up his mind, endured the feeling of nausea, and went in.

There is an extensive underground drainage system in Jacksonville, and even professional municipal workers could get lost in it. Fortunately, rats do not have a large activity range, so the alligator should be somewhere nearby.

Luke endured the strong stench while constantly using his enhanced sense of smell to search for possible clues.

Soon, in this fetid sewer, Luke smelled a distinctive aquatic stench.

It must be that crocodile!

Luke was cheered up. Damn, he finally found it. If he stayed in this crappy place any longer, he felt like his nose was going to explode.

In a sewer environment, it is best not to use weapons with wide-area killing effects such as grenades.

In fact, in this hunt, if the enemy's strength does not exceed expectations, Luke plans to give up the help of modern thermal weapons and try to kill the enemy with his own strength alone.

As his strength increases, the power of modern thermal weapons will gradually fail to keep up with the pace of battle, so he must adapt to this in advance. After all, those more powerful modern weapons are getting bigger and bigger, and Luke can't carry a small nuclear missile launcher to fight the enemy in the future.

The explosion range is 4 kilometers and the aiming radius is 400 meters.

Of course, if the enemy is very strong this time, Luke's moral bottom line as a supernatural being can be lowered appropriately.

The spirit fang fell on his shoulder, and Luke drew out his long sword and held it in his right hand, while in his left hand he held the [Grotesque Painting - Mountain Monster], waiting to summon the burly rock monster as soon as he found the monster.

Ignoring the disgusting smell around him, Luke gently fanned his nostrils to capture all the scents in the air. As he kept moving forward, the strange fishy smell became stronger and stronger.

Coming!
In the gloomy environment, Luke looked around vigilantly, and in the distance where his sight was about to disappear, he found a rotten piece of wood more than three meters long floating on the sewage water.

What a big piece of rotten wood, it's you!
The crocodile didn't seem to notice Luke, or it noticed him but had no appetite, so it just stood there without moving.

[Spirit Fang] flashed a glimmer of light, flew out from Luke's shoulder, and stabbed the giant crocodile in the water.

The moment [Spirit Fang] approached, the crocodile suddenly woke up, tilted its body, and tried to avoid the sudden attack.

However, just as its body reacted, the [Spirit Fang] had already pierced in.

With the support of several special effects, [Spirit Fang] completely ignored the hard crocodile skin, and penetrated its body easily like a hot knife piercing butter, and drilled out from the other end.

With just one hit, Luke confirmed one thing - this guy was a noob, and he could be beaten easily.

(End of this chapter)