assistirfilmes Chapter 31 The Luck That Reversed Life and Death
Chapter 31 The Luck That Reversed Life and Death
Upon hearing Huomu's words, the chat in the main live stream instantly began to scroll:
"Holy crap! Is this the kind of verbal sparring skill that every anime protagonist has to have?"
"Hakim, based on those words alone, I approve of you!"
"Well said! Hakimu! Get stronger quickly! Don't let Laoji fight alone every time!"
"Holy crap! So, characters with growth arcs actually do grow stronger?!"
Tsukimi listened quietly, remained silent for a moment, and then suddenly smiled:
"You've got a good story to tell, it sounds quite convincing."
His tone was flat, revealing neither praise nor criticism.
That's perfect—
Now you have a chance to prove it to me.
Do you have the awareness to back up your words?
The instant Tsukimi's words fell—
"Hey!!!"
"Hiss hiss hiss!"
A sharp, piercing screech and the sound of violently vibrating wing membranes suddenly rang out without warning!
Everyone felt the surrounding light suddenly dim, as if an invisible curtain had fallen over their heads!
A chilling gust of wind, mixed with the stench of fish and scales, came from above!
Alarm bells rang in everyone's ears, and they looked up abruptly!
All that could be seen in the night sky was a dense, overwhelming cloud that had covered the entire sky!
Do not!
That's not a cloud at all!
They were countless creatures the size of a Kunqiu (a mythical creature), entirely gray-black, with ferocious mouthparts and transparent wing membranes—
Winged poison fly!
Winged Poison Fly: A gregarious flying void beast commonly found in D-level and E-level rifts.
Individually, they are only at the first tier in strength, but their sheer numbers and ability to operate in groups make them formidable.
They are fearless and their mouthparts contain neurotoxins, making them extremely difficult to deal with!
This swarm of winged poison flies was clearly also attracted and driven here by the "Red Heat Incense".
Qi Ji, alone with his sword, managed to stop all the surging void beasts on the ground.
But for these flying units that can circle around at high altitudes and ignore terrain obstacles...
Even someone as powerful as Saki is ultimately powerless to reach him.
At this moment, the swarm of poisonous flies hovering overhead, as if they had finally locked onto the scent of their prey, swarmed out of their nest in an instant!
"It's a swarm of flies!"
His expression changed drastically in an instant; he reacted the fastest.
"Lili, you protect the children and the caravan! The rest of you, raise your guns! Aim for the junction of their chest and abdomen, that's their weak point—"
However, before he could finish speaking—
"Swish swish swish——!!!"
Like a torrential downpour of black rain.
After being berserk by "Red Heat Fragrance", the flying winged poison fly's speed and ferocity increased dramatically.
Before the trainees could even fully organize their formation, they launched a suicidal attack from all angles.
"Bang bang bang!"
Sporadic gunshots immediately rang out!
Several quick-reacting trainees were the first to open fire.
The specially designed armor-piercing projectile easily penetrated the fly's relatively fragile body, exploding into several disgusting blobs of liquid in mid-air.
But... it's just a drop in the ocean!
More flies followed one after another, and even if they were hit by bullets and their bodies were shattered, as long as they could still move, they still used their last momentum to ferociously pounce on the crowd.
It seems that death is meaningless to them; their only mission in life is to pierce their prey with their mouthparts and inject fly venom.
"ah--!"
A girl screamed as a fly that had slipped through the net grazed her arm.
Instantly, a charred mark appeared, and numbness quickly spread throughout the body.
"Horki-kun! Watch out for your head!" Bai Lili shouted at the same time.
She shielded the child behind her with one hand, and with the other hand, she flicked out several strands of spiritual energy, barely managing to entangle two poisonous flies that were pouncing on Huo Mu's neck.
But even more poisonous flies, like piranhas that have smelled blood, have swarmed in from all directions!
Huo Mu tried to dodge, but the rope pulling the cart was still around his shoulder, restricting his movement immediately.
The sharp proboscis of several poisonous flies were about to pierce his unsuspecting neck—
Tsukimi, who had been lying quietly in the car reading a novel, moved her eyelids almost imperceptibly.
His gray eyes, which were always half-closed and seemed to have no interest in anything, seemed to flicker very faintly in the moonlight.
There was no response or fluctuation, so no one noticed.
The moonlight pouring down through the crack shifted slightly.
It happened to shine on the compound eyes of the poisonous flies that were about to succeed.
"Sizzle—"
The flies froze for a moment, then their bodies tilted slightly as if they were drunk.
"Bang!"
It was this extremely slight deviation that helped Huomu narrowly avoid danger!
On the other side, a bullet fired by a trainee in a panic, which was originally destined to miss, "extremely luckily" struck the most vulnerable part of the fly's chest and abdomen.
The poisonous fly was shot and blown to bits!
Similar incidents occurred one after another.
It was a coincidence, one might say, born out of desperation.
These two instances can perhaps be attributed to the students' unleashed potential under pressure.
But three times, four times, five times...
Whenever a trainee is about to suffer a fatal attack, whenever a breach appears in the defenses—
The omnipresent, seemingly illusory moonlight always appears quietly in some inconspicuous yet perfectly timed way, changing the course of the battle.
Keep a low profile and remain unassuming.
Silently.
Like a fleeting, casual glance from the god of fate, bringing a seemingly insignificant yet life-or-death "luck".
……
The howls of the virtual beasts, the shouts of the trainees, the roar of gunfire...
Amidst the hellish cacophony of surrounding sounds, only Tsukimi lay quietly on the mule cart, turning the pages of her romance novel, one after another.
It was as if the bloody battles and screams around him had nothing to do with him.
His fingertips brushed against the edge of the book pages.
Above it, a long passage of text came into view:
Humans are pathetically greedy creatures.
"Once someone has been given even a glimmer of hope called 'salvation,' and tasted the sweetness of dependence, it's like becoming addicted to the deepest kind of addiction."
From then on, you became their obligatory and natural "hope" in every moment of despair.
"You did it, it's only natural."
If you can't do it...
The hands that once elevated you to a divine position will, without hesitation, push you to the altar.
"Crucified on the cross of 'sinners'."
"—Use the hope you once gave them."
Tsukimi calmly finished reading and was about to turn to the next page—
Sensing something, he suddenly put down his novel and looked up.
In the pitch-black night sky, he gazed at the moon.
Then, Tsukimi sighed softly and suddenly disappeared.
When he reappeared, he was standing on a distant mountaintop, gazing at another man from afar.
……
At the summit of a solitary cliff.
Tsukimi's figure, as if emerging from the moonlight, quietly appeared at the edge of the cliff.
The night breeze ruffled his long, ink-black hair as he held a romance novel in his hands, the pages rustling softly.
Not far from him, another figure stood quietly, as if waiting for a long time.
Wearing a dark blue outfit and a sword at his waist.
He looked to be around thirty years old, with a stern face and sharp eyes.
——Shendai Qingyan.
Among the "Kiyoshi" generation of the Kamishiro family, he is a ruthless character whose talent and strength are enough to rank him among the top three.
"Yo."
As Shindai Seien looked at the suddenly appearing Tsukimi, a complex, reminiscent smile slowly spread across his usually cold face.
His voice was deep and had a unique magnetic quality.
"So it really was you...senpai."
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