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Chapter 335: The Towering Tower

Faced with a strange world full of dangers, Elafia raised the candle in her hand, but found that the shadows she saw were more unfamiliar than ever before.

The sword in her hand was lost when she crossed the misty substance. Suppressing the sense of crisis brought by being without a weapon, she found that the candlelight was still beside her and picked up the faint light.

Viviana hesitated. She was not sure what would happen if she used Originium skills to explore the way in such a situation. Shadows used to be her dance partners, but now she only felt that what was lurking in the darkness was a silent black scale. She could not guess the mind of the strange beast.

"Has the scarlet in the sky been chasing us..." Viviana felt uneasy. She looked around and found her rapier in a corner not far away. She was a little surprised. Just as she took a step, she felt movement behind her.

"Ma'am, relax. I just want to remind you not to step into the trap foolishly." The Filin man leaned back slightly, just avoiding Elafia's counterattack.

"...Who are you?" Viviana stepped back and kept some distance, not revealing her uneasiness.

"It's hard to say. Even if I say I was accidentally dragged in, you won't believe it, right?" The man spread his hands. He looked like he didn't care about the current situation. He noticed Viviana's alertness, but didn't care. Seeing her doubt, he didn't explain too much. "The guys in the wilderness call me 'Fishing Cat'. I have a question too. I remember that there should be chaos outside now. How come someone dares to come in?"

Viviana glanced at him suspiciously. The latter did not wait for her response attentively. Instead, he took off his purse from his waist, took out a coin and threw it towards the corner where the rapier was. Before the coin hit the ground, the wall of the black and white world suddenly collapsed and "swallowed" the space in that corner. Water suddenly overflowed from the collapsed strange structure. Needless to remind, Viviana immediately turned around and fled with the film man.

"what is that?"

"Don't worry about what that thing is! It won't help you. Just remember to be careful of anything in this damn place that is not ours."

At this point, the two looked at each other. Viviana's thoughts were moving quickly, but she felt a little contradictory. However, Bruno nodded and said naturally, "The same goes for people, including me who told you this."

Viviana was silent for a moment. She was not in a hurry to prove anything. Instead, she glanced behind her and stopped. The water that was supposed to be chasing her did not appear. Then Bruno, who also noticed the abnormality, stopped. At this moment, the scene in front of the two people unconsciously turned into a wide road. They both subconsciously looked towards the end of the road. There was a dome in the sky. There was no light source, but the vision was unusually clear. There was nothing unusual as far as they could see.

Is there something over there? Both of them thought so as a matter of course. Looking back, they found that the road was no longer the same as the one they came from. Even though Bruno was accustomed to such changes, he still could not avoid the uneasiness brought by each change.

"Let's go forward, okay?" Viviana touched her waist and found the thing was still there. She took out the pointer in front of the fishing cat, her beautiful eyes flashed, and she said solemnly in a soliciting tone, not insisting on walking on her own.

"To be honest, children who don't talk much are quite likable in this situation, especially those who don't make trouble." Bruno readily agreed. He was quite satisfied with Viviana's performance. He really didn't have the energy to continue to convey his guess to a young man with all his strength.

Yes, after getting separated from Ling Dengxian and others, Bruno quickly calmed down after his initial anxiety and carefully explored the rules of the strange environment. After several lessons of nearly losing his life, he began to look for survivors like him.

The reason why he was particularly satisfied with Viviana was that the last person Bruno found and sent to Plot Zero was a girl named Lorna Liberi from Colombia.

"You have a mission? Mind telling me about it?"

"...You also said to be on guard." Viviana politely refused. Bruno shrugged. He was just trying to ask. He could feel the other party's vigilance. Even though he was showing weakness, the other party did not easily believe him. He was very happy that the other party was willing to use his brain. This was a rare good news for him at the moment.

The floating conversation just floated to the ground, like a cold lightning passing through the heart, the temperature of the blood flowing in the blood vessels connected to the heart suddenly dropped, but it was not cold, as if a big rock hit the chest. The two of them breathed a sigh of relief trying to relieve the pressure from unknown source. At this moment, the originally wide road suddenly shrank.

Yes, contractions, like... the external manifestation of the pain of a woman's organs before giving birth... something is being conceived.

With alarm bells ringing in his heart, Bruno decisively rushed forward and ran away. After a moment of confusion, Viviana followed him.

Sure enough, the "surging" ground was charging with a roar, and the bodies that had originally separated from their forms and returned to the environment began to run again, dragging their orders, but they completely ignored the two people on the path. They ran wildly in various postures on the increasingly narrow road, and then rushed one after another to a crack that appeared at an unknown time, accompanied by disturbing vibrations, as if some living creature was roaring and rolling underground, and then struggling to break through the crack to the ground, and the monsters pounced on it as if they were unaware. The world that originally had no distinctive buildings suddenly built a "tower", a "tower" made up of the bodies of monsters who were not sure whether they were dead bodies or something else. The monsters silently tore at each other, raised their necks and howled, and this weird tower kept shaking, revealing a terrifying posture.

"...Little moose, are you still planning to go in that direction?" Bruno took out his lighter for the umpteenth time, wanting to light a cigarette to calm himself down, but just like before, the cigarette was already gone.

"..." Viviana touched her slender neck, trying to soothe the goose bumps caused by physical discomfort, but with little success. She lowered her head to look at the unshakable pointer on the indicator in her hand, and remained silent.

Suddenly, deep red seeped down from the dome, like a terrifying human eye opening. The two of them couldn't help but look up and stare at the sudden change in horror. At the same time, a scream of pain sounded, followed by two dull and lung-shaking sounds of heavy objects falling to the ground. A light was cast from behind the empty building. From afar, Bruno and Viviana's pupils shrank:

The black and red light pressed the giant Centaur into the virtual dream reality, and the death ray seemed to have changed after passing through the fog. A huge sharp blade emerged from the light column and pierced the back of the protector. The dull sound was the sound of the "Pegasus" falling to the ground with its front feet as it could no longer support its body.

"Snap-Snap... Hello... Can anyone hear the comm?"

The screen under the pointer of the indicator in Viviana's hand flashed with electric light.

"Can you hear me? Is that guy really reliable? Is the communication still down?"

"... Madam Temporary Commander - be careful! There is a problem in that area! Ahem... Madam, the communication has indeed been restored. Is there anything additional you need to explain?" Lin Guang's voice was also heard from it, but the movement over there seemed to indicate that her situation was not particularly easy.

Following Lin Guang, some people spoke up in twos and threes to express the situation around them, Viviana was no exception, but some people's voices never appeared again.

"Ahem, ahem, the original purpose remains unchanged, but an emergency mission has been added. To make a long story short, find a building in this world that looks wrong at first glance! Find the two weapons in that building or any other shelter. There are two swords, one white and one gray. Listen, I don't know your current situation and how much you have forgotten, but if you can respond, then at least you still remember the mission, right? The emergency mission is more important than the node control mission. It concerns the safety of our Umbrella."

"...What should we do after we find it?" Lin Guang asked after hesitating for a moment.

"Clap-"

A loud bang interrupted this brief communication. Pegasus neighed and stood up again, wielding his long city-breaking spear to "fight back" at the death storm. However, the light emitted by the weapon became increasingly unstable.

Viviana was at a loss, and Bruno did not have time to avoid their meeting, so he could not help but cast his gaze towards the "high tower" in the distance again and glanced at Viviana.

"What do you say? This 'strange building' is kind of stuck in your face, right?"

Viviana's breathing stagnated, and she looked down at the extremely weak candlelight in her hand. The image of the Platinum Knight leaving the arena appeared in front of her eyes.

"...Sir, I'm sorry, but can I borrow your weapon?"

"I also want to do something less elegant, a little more embarrassing, so that I can experience some feelings more realistically."