Chapter 205 Major Event : Blood Clan Hunter (VIII)
July 7, 21:3 pm, Laojingmai Street District.

Ke Mingye leaned forward slightly, standing in the heavy rain, protecting Bai Ziling. He took a few breaths, then raised the back of his hand and wiped the sweat off his cheek.

At this moment, apart from the fighting between the Dragon of Disaster and Flinks, he had become the center of attention of everyone on the battlefield.

The girl in the gothic skirt slowly knelt on the ground, holding her burnt and nearly broken right arm with her left hand. She seemed to have forgotten the pain, and slowly opened her eyes and looked forward.

The hazy silhouette in the rain was reflected in her misty pupils.

"...Brother?"

The girl murmured blankly, with traces of tears still in the corners of her red eyes.

Seeing Ke Mingye appear and save Bai Ziling, she was surprised at first, but soon remembered one thing: with this big idiot's strength, if he appeared here, he would be beaten to pieces, and this time he was really finished...

But at this moment, her magic power had been exhausted, and she couldn't even stand up, let alone help Ke Mingye.

So, she immediately changed her mind and wanted Ke Mingye to run away as quickly as possible, the farther the better.

The girl in the Gothic skirt opened her mouth, but slowly bit her lip, tears in her eyes.

She thought, if Ke Mingye left there now, who would be able to protect Bai Ziling... How could she say to him "run"?
Isn't that equivalent to giving up Xiao Ling's life?
How could this be……

At this time, on another corner of the street.

As the boy in the gray T-shirt appeared in his sight, Ke Xiaomo was slightly stunned for half a second. He opened his mouth and whispered the name softly.

"…Akino?"

At the same time, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief, while being wary of Link who was also observing that side, and assessing the situation.

The magical girl who came to help was seriously injured and should have lost her ability to fight. Qiu Wu seemed to have the upper hand against the cowboy. Yong Zhu was delaying the giant. Although he was no match for him, he could temporarily tie him down.
Then Mingye should be able to fight that player one-on-one. Ke Yinzhi said that the player's current strength is not exaggerated. Thinking about it this way... maybe Mingye's chances of winning are not low.

At this moment, Ke Xiaomo suddenly felt fortunate that his brother was a superhero.

He thought, "It seems that letting Mingye become a superhero is the right thing to do. He has more or less accumulated practical experience in the process of fighting those criminals. Otherwise... facing this player at this time will undoubtedly be dangerous."

"But no matter what, I must immediately deal with this vampire hunter in front of me, the sooner the better..."

Thinking of this, Ke Xiaomo took a deep breath, looked up at Link, and the shadow sword in his hand became more solid.

On the other side, Black Wukong stared at Ke Mingye in a daze, thinking, "Mingye, didn't the TV say that he was captured by the dice monster?"

As she was thinking, a figure suddenly appeared on the top of the street lamp and squatted down.

Black Goku raised his face and looked up from behind his monkey mask at the figure with gray light flowing all over his body.

"Oh... Miss Sun Wukong, you must be thinking now, 'Wasn't our Owl Boy captured by the Dice Monster? Why did he suddenly appear now?'"

The Dice Man shook his head and said, "The fact is that it's a complete slander and lie. You know, these unscrupulous media really have no shame. It's true that I attacked the Super Hero Building last time, but that doesn't mean I did it this time as well. In the story of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf", he did it three times before being ostracized by the villagers, but as for me... I only did it once, and I've already lost the trust of the people. The world is really going downhill."

After saying this, it sighed rather dejectedly.

Black Goku was stunned at first, then ignored its bunch of pressing words and asked concisely.

"Why are you here?"

"Didn't you ask me to protect your brother?" The Dice Man grinned, "So I came. I really have no choice. Who can help me? Our friendship is so important to me."

It paused, raised its empty eyes and looked at Howard, whose right arm was broken.

"It looks like you don't need my help, so I'll go help that owl boy first..."

After saying that, the Dice Monster lowered his right hand and shot out a spider silk towards a traffic light sign, then grabbed the spider silk and flew towards Ke Mingye.

At this moment, in front of a billboard on the street.

"I thought you wouldn't come." Stro stared at Ke Mingye's face and said to him word by word, "Sure enough, we are the same."

Ke Mingye raised his eyes from his rain-soaked hair and met Stro's gaze in silence.

Then he turned his head and looked around, confirming the opponent's combat effectiveness with the superhuman panel.

He first looked at the seven-foot giant who was fighting with Ke Yongzhu.

[Character name: Flinks]

[Danger rating: A++]

[Character code: Vampire Hunter "F".]

[Introduction to the character's background: One of the remnants of the hunter organization "Hymn of Hell". They are vampire hunters who rely on devouring the blood of vampires to become stronger, but when they were fighting against the ancestor of vampires "Queen Ikaria", almost all the members of Hell's Hymn were killed.

As the top fighter of "Hell's Anthem", Flinks' body is extremely strong, and his physical fitness stands at the top of the A-class superhuman race. 】

Then he looked at Howard, who had a broken arm.

[Character name: Howard]

[Danger rating: A]

[Character code: Vampire Hunter "H". ]

[Character Background: A member of the blood clan hunter organization "Hell's Hymn", a person with special abilities, and was once called "the ghost horse gunner of the West". ]

Finally, there is the archer in the green raincoat in the distance.

[Character name: Link]

[Danger rating: A+]

[Character code: Blood Clan Hunter "L".]

[Character Background: As the top fighter in "Hymn of Hell" second only to Flinks, Link's reaction nerves and combat experience have almost reached the peak in decades of fighting against the vampires. At the same time, she is good at using various strange weapons, so she knows how to deal with each weapon. ]

Finally, Ke Mingye turned his head and glanced at Bai Ziling's injuries out of the corner of his eye.

"Fortunately, I caught up..."

Thinking of this, he turned around and a deep blue arc of light flashed across the corner of his eyes.

He raised his hands, facing the blazing fire, and grasped the arrow that nailed Bai Ziling to the billboard. He held the front end with his left hand and the middle with his right hand, and pulled it out with all his strength.

Even though his hands were burnt red and the flames spread to the backs of his hands, he still did not let go.

laugh--!
The next moment, as the arrow was pulled out, blood splattered out, staining Ke Mingye's burnt hands red.

He let out a long breath, forming a turbid white mist in the cold rain.

Then he picked up Bai Ziling and took her into a nearby clothing store. He took a brown windproof jacket from the display stand and wrapped it around her thin body.

At this moment, amidst the wind and rain, a large number of parasitic puppets poured into the clothing store. Stro's figure was mixed in among the puppets, and was submerged by their backs along with the sunlight from outside the door.

Ke Mingye walked to the innermost wall of the clothing store, supported Bai Ziling and asked her to sit down against the wall.

He lowered his eyes and looked at her face for two seconds, then slowly stood up and turned to look at the group of puppets.

"elder brother?"

The girl's voice came from behind, a little hoarse and as light as snowflakes floating across the cheek.

Hearing her voice, Ke Mingye was slightly stunned, turned his head, and glanced at her face stained with blood and tears.

Bai Ziling tilted her head, and her snow-white hair tilted with it.

She raised her red eyes in a trance, and stared at his cheek for a long time like a blind person, as if to confirm whether this was her brother's face.

"Don't sleep, I'm here to take you home." After a moment's silence, Ke Mingye said softly.

Hearing the familiar voice, Bai Ziling was stunned at first, then gently raised the corners of his bloodstained lips.

She opened her mouth slightly and spoke silently.

"Ah."

As he spoke, the puppets came closer. At the same time, Stro's calm voice came from the middle of them: "I thought you wouldn't come..."

[Hint: The player "Gastro" has sent you a friend request. Do you want to accept it? ]

[The friend request from the other party has been rejected. 】

Ke Mingye stared at the puppets that swarmed in, trying to find Stro among them, and said, "This time... we really met in person."

"Isn't it?" Stro said jokingly.

The moment she finished speaking, she had already instigated three parasitic puppets to rush towards Ke Mingye from different directions.

Ke Mingye leaned forward to avoid the attack of a puppet, then punched its abdomen, causing it to foam and splash water. He then picked up its body and threw it at another puppet that was coming towards him, knocking it to the ground.

Finally, he raised his right elbow and hit the puppet that was attacking from the right, knocking it back while swinging his charred left fist to hit its head.

The puppet flew backwards several meters and hit a wooden clothes hanger.

"Your hands are burned like that, how can you still fight so well?" came Stro's sarcastic voice.

"It does hurt a little. The feeling of someone else's burning seems different from my own."

As he spoke, Ke Mingye rushed forward while activating the "Solar Energy Punch", converting the accumulated 100% solar energy into heat and kinetic energy. His fists burst into a rolling stream of flames, creating a fist wind wrapped in heat waves. He swung his fist horizontally in the air, and several parasitic puppets that were rushing towards him flew backwards.

More and more parasitic puppets poured in from the entrance of the clothing store. They were so dense that they almost drowned Ke Mingye's vision like a tide.

But at this moment, his other vision has found Stro hiding among the puppets.

At this moment, the dice monster lurking on the ceiling suddenly released the invisibility brought by the "Night Belt" and fell from the sky at a high speed like a phantom.

The four mechanical spider legs behind him spun in the air and attacked Stro's head like a sickle.

But the next moment, Stro's figure suddenly disappeared.

Then, her body turned into 10 huge mirrors that appeared in the air above the clothing store. Each mirror reflected her figure upside down, which looked quite strange.

If the ability of the anchor sunglasses had not been still cooling down, Ke Mingye would have taken out the sunglasses to lock onto Gastro's position.

The Dice Man did not act rashly.

The moment it landed, it used its four mechanical legs to sweep away the parasitic puppets around it, then shot spider silk towards one of the mirrors and activated the "electric shock function".

The electric current spread along the spider silk to the mirror, causing the mirror body to break instantly.

"What's going on?" Ke Mingye frowned slightly, thinking, "Did he use his skills to hide his body in one of these 10 mirrors?"

At this moment, Stro in the remaining nine mirrors spoke at the same time.

"Deadly lies."

As soon as he finished speaking, Ke Mingye suddenly shuddered and a system prompt sounded in his head.

[According to the rules of the C-level skill "Fatal Lie", you can know the effect of the skill. ]

[Fatal Lie (Within a certain range, throw a sentence to a human target with normal judgment and language ability. The target must judge whether this sentence is a lie within 5 seconds: if the target answers correctly, the skill caster loses half of his physical value and suffers 30% of his maximum health value loss; if the target answers incorrectly, the caster immediately refreshes the cooldown of this skill, and the target's body will suffer maximum health damage based on the number of seconds to answer)]

[If the answer takes more than 5 seconds, the opponent will lose the opportunity to answer and will directly receive 25% of the maximum health value. ]

"What the hell……"

Ke Mingye raised his eyebrows, thinking in his mind while using solar energy to punch back the puppets that were pouring in like a tide.

"In short, according to the skill rules, the faster you answer, the better. This way you can avoid the penalty for taking too long to answer."

Before he could think, Stro, reflected in the nine mirrors, spoke at the same time.

"I have exposed your identity to your family."

[The skill caster has spoken a word, please judge whether it is a lie. 】

Listening to the system prompt, Ke Mingye blurted out as he swung his flaming fist and smashed it hard at a puppet.

"Truth." To be honest, he couldn't imagine the possibility that he was so late and that Gastello had not yet explained his identity to his family.

If he were Gastro, he would reveal evidence of his being a player to his family in order to disrupt the other party's will to fight.

[Wrong answer, the words are lies. This answer takes 3 seconds, you will receive 3 seconds x 5% of your maximum health value in damage, and the skill caster will instantly refresh the cooldown time of "Fatal Lie". ]

The next moment, Ke Mingye's chest suddenly split open with long and thin cuts, and blood gushed out, staining his T-shirt red.

He was stunned for a moment, and touched one of the bloody wounds on his chest. A bloody smell came from his nose, and his Adam's apple rolled up and down.

"Well, the second sentence..." Stro raised the corner of his mouth and continued.

However, before she finished her words, the Dice Monster shot a spider silk at the first mirror from left to right, pulled the silk upwards, and used its mechanical spider legs to smash the three mirrors at the same time.

There are still 6 mirrors remaining in the air.

"Just break all the mirrors as quickly as possible. Stro should be hiding in one of the mirrors..."

While thinking, Ke Mingye rolled sideways to avoid the attack of a puppet.

Then, he used a sweeping kick to flip its body over. He suddenly stretched out his right hand to grab its legs and dragged its body diagonally to the right, knocking down nearly 10 puppets in succession.

Amid the rain of falling glass, Stro's indifferent voice came out, "I have no intention of revealing your identity to your family..."

[The skill caster has spoken a word, please judge whether it is a lie. 】

Ke Mingye grabbed the arm of a puppet and spun it like a windmill, smashing the group of puppets coming from all directions and responded instinctively.

"lie."

[Wrong answer, this statement is not a lie. This answer takes 2 seconds, you will receive 2 seconds x 5% of your maximum health value in damage, and the skill user will refresh the cooldown of the skill. ]

The system prompt came down, and a huge blood groove instantly broke out on Ke Mingye's waist. He half-knelt on the ground, holding his waist, and the blood oozing from his waist dyed the charred fingers red.

At the same time, the dice monster shot spider silk in mid-air towards the other six mirrors. It pulled the spider silk and flew upward diagonally, smashing four mirrors in a row with one punch after another.

boom!
Four clear and crisp sounds were heard in succession, and glass fragments were scattered all over the ground. Only the last two mirrors were left of the mirror suspended in the air.

Ke Mingye stared at the two mirrors. The reflection of Stroh in the mirror remained calm.

"So this is the third sentence," she opened her mouth slightly and whispered, "I want to kill you."

"truth."

The moment he finished speaking, Ke Mingye's pupils trembled slightly. His left arm was broken with a "snap" sound, and drooped down like a kite with a broken string.

[Wrong answer, this statement is a lie, this answer takes 2 seconds, you will receive damage equal to 2 seconds x 5% of your maximum health, and the skill user will refresh the cooldown of the skill.]

He took a deep breath and raised his head. The puppets in front of him were already swarming towards him.

At the same time, he caught from the corner of his eye that two or three of the puppets deliberately bypassed him and attacked Bai Ziling in the corner of the clothing store.

Then he kicked the ground and did a somersault backwards to create some distance between himself and the puppet in front of him.

At the same time, he protected the front of Bai Ziling, and blasted out with his right fist and elbow, knocking away the two puppets that were rushing towards Bai Ziling.

Ke Mingye breathed a sigh of relief, raised his eyes and looked at the two remaining mirrors in the air.

"Gastro is hiding in the last two mirrors..."

As he was thinking, the dice man had already grabbed the spider silk and flew towards the last two mirrors suspended in the air. He spun backwards and used the tips of his mechanical legs to pierce the two mirrors at the same time.

Bang!
Bang!
However, as the last two mirrors shattered and glass scatters all over the floor, Stroh's voice still echoes in the clothing store.

She said, "If I may...I don't want to hurt you."

All the mirrors were broken, but she was still alive.

She wasn't hiding in those mirrors from the beginning, it was just a decoy?

Ke Mingye was stunned for two seconds, then looked up at the dark group of puppets in front of him. He couldn't find Stro for a while, so he bit his bloody teeth.

"Lies," he said.

[Wrong answer, this statement is not a lie. This answer takes 2 seconds, you will receive 2 seconds x 5% of your maximum health value in damage, and the skill user will refresh the skill's usage CD.]

There was a cut on Ke Mingye's forehead, and the blood that spread out from it dyed his right eye red.

His head was spinning.

In a flash, the dice monster fell from the sky, looking around with his empty eyes.

It could see that the puppets were densely scattered in a corner, as if hiding someone's figure, so it raised its mechanical legs and kicked towards a bookshelf, using the reverse thrust to shoot forward, knocking away the puppets blocking its way.

Soon, it found Stro, who was hiding behind one of the pillars.

As Stroll retreated, he said, "The reason I didn't reveal your identity was to keep it as a way out for myself to threaten you so that you would let me go."

"truth."

The moment he finished speaking, a crack appeared on Ke Mingye's right leg and blood gushed out.

At this moment, he had become a bloody man, with no intact part from head to toe.

[Wrong answer, this statement is a lie, this answer takes 2 seconds, you will receive 2 seconds x 5% of your maximum health value as damage, and the skill user will refresh the skill's usage CD.]

"The last sentence……"

Stro looked at the dice monster that was getting closer and closer, and said while controlling the puppet to pounce on it to obstruct it.

"Actually, I quite like you, in many ways."

While his consciousness was blurred, Ke Mingye held his bleeding forehead and spoke slowly.

"truth."

[If the answer is correct, the user will be punished: lose half of his physical strength and 30% of his health. ]

The system prompt sounded, and half of Stro's face instantly cracked open, revealing the white bones inside, and blood splattered in the air and all over the ground.

She covered her cheek, while the other half of her face remained calm, and spoke softly.

"What a pity! You guessed it right. You did it on purpose. I made it so obvious before, but you looked like you didn't want to accept my kindness..."

At this time, Ke Mingye, who was almost dying, was surrounded by parasitic puppets and had no way to escape. He knelt on the ground and held Bai Ziling in his arms.

If it was one second later, he would be the one who died.

But... on the other side of the clothing store, the dice monster had already approached Stro like a gust of wind and lightning, raised his mechanical spider leg and pressed it against her neck.

The sharp tip left a bloody mark on Stro's neck.

She raised her neck calmly, her red hair swaying in the wind and rain outside the window, and there was no fear in her eyes.

At that moment, the parasitic puppets in the entire clothing store, and even in the entire Beijing-surrounding city, all stopped moving. It was as if time had suddenly stopped, but the clock hanging on the wall was still ticking.

"I left clues to your identity. Once I die, someone will send the evidence to your family's mailbox."

In the silent world, Stro spoke slowly.

"It doesn't matter..." Ke Mingye had a blank expression on his face. "I came to you because my identity has been exposed. I can't let you go."

Hearing this, Stro lowered his eyes and chuckled softly.

"Ke Mingye, we are indeed the same."

She paused for a moment before continuing, "Then, this is my request: I won't reveal your identity and I'll destroy all the evidence. And you... bury my body with my family's, okay?"

Ke Mingye was stunned for two seconds, then lowered his eyes and thought for a moment.

Finally, he nodded slowly.

"can."

"A lie." Stro said calmly, "You didn't intend to do that. You just told me off verbally, right?"

Ke Mingye remained silent and did not look up at her.

Stro turned his head and stared at his face across half of the clothing store, whispering, "I didn't leave any evidence. I think I am Stro and you are Ke Mingye... There is nothing to expose. To your family, you are you; to my family, I am me."

"So...what do you want to do?"

Ke Mingye took a deep breath, the corners of his mouth twitching slightly.

"In fact, from the moment you appeared, I knew I had already lost." Stro said, "We were no match for you in the first place. My only way to win was to use you and the nuclear bomb to lure away some of your family members, take your sister's heart, and then evacuate quickly. But, it's too late now..."

As she spoke, she glanced out the window, looking at the fallen blue flaming horse and Howard kneeling on the ground.

Stro remained silent. She forced herself to raise the corners of her mouth and raised her hand to cover the half of her face that was still intact. But the half of her face that was only left with bones, tears could not stop flowing from the corners of her eyes.

"What about you? What will you choose in the end?" She turned her gaze away from Howard and asked in a low voice.

"what are you saying……"

“Will you side with the family or will you side with the players?”

Stroh continued.

Ke Mingye lowered his eyes and was silent for a long time. Then he said, "I am a player. You want to kill all players, so you are my enemy..."

"Lies." Stro interrupted him and continued, "You are Ke Mingye. I want to kill your family, so... I will become your enemy."

"You are a little funny..." Ke Mingye leaned against the wall, looked down at the white-haired girl in his arms, and said deeply, "She is just a dead person. What you said is meaningless."

"Anyway, you have to make a choice sooner or later..." Stro lowered his eyes and said nonchalantly, "Self-deception is never a choice, it's just a manifestation of cowardice."

She paused and said, "Are you a coward, Mr. Spider-Man, or is it more appropriate to call you Ke Mingye?"

Hearing this, Ke Mingye was silent for a long time.

After a while, he raised his blood-stained eyes, and the gloomy sky outside the window was reflected in his pupils.

"You said... Is it possible that I can find another way?" he said.

"How do I find it?" Stro said, "You want to use the power given by God to rebel against God? You should know how stupid this sounds."

As they talked, a heavy rain was still falling outside the window. The rain rushing down the street seemed to want to drown the whole world. Suddenly, thunder roared, splitting the world into black and white.

"you're right……"

Hearing this, Stro withdrew his gaze from the window and lowered his eyes to look at the tip of the mechanical leg against his neck.

She was silent for a moment, then said softly, "Kill me before you let me see them die...as a reward for not revealing your identity, okay?"

Ke Mingye slowly lowered his face and hid his eyes under his hair.

The next moment, the dice monster raised the tip of its mechanical leg and instantly pierced through Stro's jaw. Blood splattered and splashed on the pillar.

Stro tilted his body and slowly fell to the floor. His red hair spread out like blooming petals, and his hollow pupils reflected the mottled ceiling.

Ke Mingye took a deep breath. He knew that Gastello was not dead yet, and the play he had performed with her in the clothing store was about to end.

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