Purgatory Artist-Chapter 230: Rescue

Mech city.

The market.

The bustling atmosphere from before had already disappeared.

The entire market was empty, with only a few people standing at the spot where Liu Ping and Norton teleported away.

It was a man wearing a black robe.

He stood in front of the railing, slowly puffing out a smoke ring.

Behind him.

The three masked men knelt on the ground and explained everything that happened.

The man silently listened.

A few moments later.

He spoke up:

"Very well, there's nothing wrong with you coming straight to the market to catch those two brats — — - something like a Forbidden Zone Pass shouldn't be allowed to wander outside"

The masked men sighed in relief.

The man took a deep drag of his cigarette and continued:

"It's a pity that you've wasted the Forbidden Zone Pass."

"Such a loss is truly undeserved"

Bam!

Bam!

Bam!

Three consecutive noises.

The masked men disappeared.

Instead, there were three scarecrows tied to a wooden frame.

From the void of space, someone giggled and asked: "Lord Wraith, are you cold?"

The man in the black robe puffed out a smoke ring and slowly spoke: "The Mech Lord has begun to question this time's personnel transfer, and has personally begun to inspect the asylum ... how troublesome."

The giggling voice continued: "I'll go kill those two young men, as long as they're dead, this matter will naturally lose its target and the Mech Lord will give up on questioning them."

The man called Wraith didn't answer.

The voice continued: "I've already investigated their origins — — - it was an extremely weak refuge that was destroyed by monsters yesterday, so ..."

"Even if those two young men had some sort of fortuitous encounter, so what? In our Mech anus city, which survivor doesn't have any fortuitous encounters? "

"Let me go, sir, it's been a long time since I've played a hunting game."

Wraith held the cigarette in his mouth: "No."

The voice asked: "Sir — — why don't you let me go?"

"I know you want to play" Wraith slowly spoke: "But your deck leans towards curses, according to the Tarot cards, one of those two young men can counter curses."

The voice suddenly became filled with gloomy killing intent as it shrieked, "Is it a card user who owns a spell deck? I really want to — — "

The wraith cut him off: "No, according to the results of the divination, it should be a healing-type card user."

The voice suddenly paused and said lazily "So it's a healing-type ability. Two teenagers who just happened to learn a healing-type ability that can dispel curses — — then fighting is really boring, a waste of my time."

"That's right," Wraith said, "It's better to let the Fist Demon deal with a youngster who has just learned healing magic."

Another dull voice suddenly sounded.

"Sir, I'm here."

This time, Wraith nodded.

"Go and kill those two young men. Bring their bodies back and hang them on a tree outside Floating Mechanus City as a warning to everyone."

"Yes."

The muffled sound disappeared.

The voice from before giggled and asked again, "Lord Wraith, are you cold?"

Wraith lit another cigarette and muttered: "I heard there's going to be a snowstorm tonight — it's really cold."

The voice happily replied: "That's right, the weather is very cold, I've prepared a good fire torch for you, sir."

Behind Wraith.

The three scarecrows tied to the wooden frame abruptly burst into flames.

While burning, they also let out a faint howl of pain.

Wraith slowly took a puff.

After a while, he spoke with satisfaction:

"Much warmer now."

...

In the snowstorm.

Two silhouettes were running at lightning speed.

Liu Ping suddenly paused and said: "Stop for a moment."

"What is it?" Norton asked.

"Look here — —"

Liu Ping pushed the snow away and saw a corpse that had been frozen for a long time.

"This isn't a human corpse, it looks more like some kind of insect."

Norton hesitated.

Liu Ping turned the corpse over and looked at the insect's chest.

Something had punched a large hole in the insect's chest, the shell around it completely shattered.

"Was it your companion who killed it?" Norton asked.

"What a headache, I can't tell if this was her doing or not." Liu Ping sighed.

Hua Qingkong was a Spirit Summoner.

She would summon a different spirit each time, so her fighting style was also completely different. There was no way to tell if she killed this insect or not.

Liu Ping stood up and looked around.

"I can already recognize the road here. If we go north, we will reach a ruin. If we go south, we will reach a collapsed underground passage. Let's go south first. It's close to the border of the Fool's World. I have an appointment with my companions there."

"Okay." Norton said.

The two identified the direction and walked against the wind and snow to the depths of the rugged snow mountain.

Fifteen minutes later.

Around the mountain peak, on the snow in front of them, there was a huge corpse that was seven to eight meters tall lying quietly.

The upper body of the corpse was human, and the lower body was that of an insect.

There was a large hole in its chest, and the wind and snow poured in, covering some of the black blood and broken internal organs.

Even though it was already dead, the aura it exuded still made people's hearts palpitate.

"Your companion seems to be very strong." Norton sighed.

"This insect hasn't been dead for long — — Let's hurry up." Liu Ping said.

The two of them ran at full speed.

Suddenly.

Norton took out his toe, pressed his hand on it, and shouted: "Secret path!"

In an instant.

The wind and snow were blocked on both sides, and a small path appeared under their feet.

"What's wrong?" Liu Ping asked.

"If we open the secret path, no one will be able to find us. If we want to save someone, it's safer this way." Norton said.

"That's true." Liu Ping agreed.

They ran along the path.

After a while.

Sounds of fighting could be heard in front of them.

"Oh my god ..."

Norton slowly stopped.

Looking around, the front was densely packed with insects.

These insects surrounded a cave tightly and were constantly charging inside.

The situation was slowly tilting.

There were more and more insects that could enter the cave.

"Someone is trapped inside." Liu Ping said.

"I'll control the path, we'll go around it." Norton said.

"It's too late, you go save her, I'll attract their attention!" Liu Ping said.

He stepped out of the path and casually tossed out a Card.

Bang!

Libertas landed on the snowy ground and looked around. He quickly asked, "Is Hua Qingkong in the cave?"

"It should be her, otherwise, who would be coincidentally at the border? How would she have the strength to kill so many insects? "Liu Ping said.

"The situation is not good, we have to save her immediately!"

Libertas took out a grenade from his waist and threw it far away.

"Hey — come and kill me!" he shouted.

Boom!

The grenade exploded in the sea of insects.

In the sea of insects, several insects flew out and pounced on Libertas.

Even more insects remained unmoved and continued to attack the cave.

Libertas turned around and ran, shouting at Liu Ping, "No, if too many of them come, I'll die, if too few come, I won't be able to save Hua Qingkong!"

Liu Ping shook his head, took out the tome, and pressed his hand on it.

"Lilith"

"Understood"

The card book shook slightly, emitting some kind of invisible wave.

A line of small burning words quickly appeared:

[You've used 10 Soul Points to activate 'Death Doll']

10 Soul Points!

So much?

It seems that the insect is very strong.

Liu Ping thought to himself.

One breath.

Two breaths.

Three breaths.

The ground began to shake.

A huge figure quickly rushed over from the path Liu Ping and Norton took.

— — It was the giant insect that was seven meters tall!

It came in front of Liu Ping, slowly lowered its head, and made a low questioning sound.

"Go!" Liu Ping curtly said.

The giant insect charged straight into the sea of insects and began to kill without regard for anything else.

This caused a commotion among the insects.

They let out a confused cry, as if trying to communicate with the giant insect.

But the giant insect was already dead, it was now just a Death Doll that didn't listen to their calls at all.

It continued to kill the insects.

Liu Ping watched for a while, then raised his hand and released holy light onto the injured insects.

[Your Soul Points + 1, + 2, + 1 ...]

— — His Soul Points returned.

Not only that, even if the insects were injured, they were still very ferocious.

But after being healed, they began to become listless.

The giant insect continued to reap their lives.

"Lilith, turn those dead insects into dolls." Liu Ping said.

"With your current strength, you can still transform two more." Lilith said.

Just like in Devil city.

My limit is to transform three powerful undead creatures, but the amount of Soul Points consumed is different, it has to be calculated according to the monster's strength.

The insects besieging the cave couldn't help but turn around and slowly approach the giant insect.

Liu Ping searched through the crowd of insects and muttered: "That one."

Lilith looked in the direction he was pointing.

At the very next moment.

An insect with six pairs of wings and a body that gave off a wind-blue glow flew up.

It circled around the giant insect's back, constantly unleashing sharp blades of wind to kill its companions who tried to ambush the giant insect.

Liu Ping took a few more steps back, casting [Life-Saving Art] while picking out a new insect.

This insect gave off a frosty aura, every time it used a spell, it would cause the insects to fall into a temporary state of sluggishness.

Soon.

The insect's internal conflict had reached its climax.

— — In front of so many insects, even the giant insect couldn't hold on any longer.

Suddenly.

A voice resounded in Liu Ping's ears.

"That was close, the battle inside is very intense. Fortunately, the insects blocking the entrance were all lured out by you — — take a look, she's already exhausted."

This was Norton's voice.

Following that, a tired female voice resounded:

"Don't listen to his nonsense, I can still fight, it's just that I haven't slept for two days, so I'm a bit tired."

Liu Ping turned around, only to see Norton's hand on his tome as he appeared from the side.

Behind Norton.

An obedient girl wearing black-rimmed glasses was standing there.

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Boom — —

A loud explosion resounded not too far away.

Libertas shouted: "Ah ah aha, there are so many of them, ah ah aha, I can't beat them all, Liu Ping save me!"

Hua Qingkong glanced at Libertas, then at Norton, then finally at Liu Ping.

"You're finally here."

She smiled.

"That's right, we've finally found you." Liu Ping smiled.