Miss Luo Yan’s Feet Are Buried With Corpses v4c18

The God of Malice is Watching the Land: Chapter 18 A Strange Appearance!

Due to its previous wealth, Lannister’s city defense system was quite comprehensive, second only to Noah and Dragon City.

Don’t be fooled by the current dilapidated state of the city walls. These walls were actually just the surface, making Lannister look imposing and grand, but essentially just decoration.

What actually worked was the surrounding transparent, ethereal barrier, combined with the city defense system to resist Calamity monster attacks.

The city defense system was equipped with ten main cannons and countless secondary cannons; this was Lannister’s true reliance.

Although the consumption of these weapons was severe—a single shot from a main cannon consumed two pulse crystals—their power was exceptionally terrifying. Even the aftershocks could annihilate existences below “Peril” level.

Only some special “Peril” level ability users could survive the bombardment of these main cannons.

For example, Wen Hua, one of the three Bishops of the Church of the End Gods, whose powerful regeneration allowed him to stand up again even after being blasted into pieces.

Therefore, the most important force in clearing the attacking Calamity monsters from the outside was Lannister’s city defense system.

The patrolling city guards were basically there to maintain the defense system, not to coordinate defense with it.

But… these city defense cannons weren’t without flaws.

Besides the severe consumption, each firing required a cooldown period, otherwise the barrier runes used for activation couldn’t withstand it, and the consequences of a misfire were terrifying, possibly even directly piercing the city defense system.

Additionally, the regenerative ability of Calamity monsters was no less than Wen Hua’s. If they weren’t killed in one hit, the surrounding free “malice” would soon be absorbed by them, making them even stronger.

And this was where the ability user squads came in.

Targeted clearing was the mission of these elite squads, and also the current mission of Hua Qingling and Qin Wen.

When Hua Qingling was traveling before, besides the occasional times Chris deliberately patronized her tailoring business, she mostly earned living expenses as a mercenary.

After all, Hua Qingling could never save money. Even if Chris gave her enough money for an ordinary person to live comfortably for a lifetime, she could lose it all the next day.

Therefore, Hua Qingling’s battlefield experience was actually much richer than Qin Wen’s.

After the main city defense cannons bombarded and cleared the attacking Calamity monsters, Hua Qingling took Qin Wen out of the city defense system and stepped into the Endless Wasteland.

“How terrifying…”

Hua Qingling sighed, looking back with lingering fear.

“…It’s just some small-scale attacks, incomparable to the Calamity we escaped from before.”

Qin Wen frowned slightly, wondering why Hua Qingling would sigh like this.

Nonsense…

The Calamity they almost got trapped in before was at least “Destruction” level. The number of “Peril” level monsters visible to the naked eye was no less than twenty, and “Ruin” level monsters were countless.

Even if Lannister faced such a Calamity Tide head-on, it would probably be difficult to survive, at least losing the entire Lower District to withstand it.

But Hua Qingling wasn’t sighing about these Calamity monsters. She rolled her eyes at Qin Wen and said,

“I meant the main city defense cannons. If only Yan City had this…”

Yan City’s pulse cannons, compared to Lannister’s, forget about the main and secondary cannons, were even inferior to their individual equipment.

“Sister Qingling, you’re still thinking about Yan City all the time…”

Qin Wen twitched the corner of her mouth, then summoned six standard longswords, which hovered around her.

They had already approached the location of the Calamity monster tide. After the bombardment by the main city defense cannons, the ground here had become uneven, even turned upside down.

The soft soil felt strangely yielding underfoot, but thinking that this soil was mixed with the flesh and blood of Calamity monsters, a chilling feeling arose from the bottom of their hearts.

Ordinary Calamity monsters would indeed form contamination after death, but the scale wouldn’t be large, and the contamination level relatively low.

Ability users above “Ruin” level, if careful, wouldn’t have any problems.

“You don’t understand.”

Hua Qingling pouted, but her expression became serious.

Facing Calamities, one could never be careless, especially when “malice” was involved.

Once contaminated by “malice,” even the Twelve Saints couldn’t reverse it, and even the Saint could only die with regret.

The vast Endless Wasteland was filled with a foul stench. As far as the eye could see, the land was a mixture of blackish-gray and dark purple; these were the Calamity monsters buried here over the years.

The remaining flesh and blood after their bombardment seeped into the soil, destroying the ecosystem here.

Hua Qingling remembered that the last time she came to Lannister, it was surrounded by dense forests, a rare oasis in the Endless Wasteland.

But now… there wasn’t even a hint of an oasis left.

Even the remaining tree stumps had been eroded to the point of growing deathly gray fleshy tentacles, hanging lifelessly.

All this was so shocking…

“Careful!”

Qin Wen shouted, pulling Hua Qingling’s slightly wandering consciousness back.

As she spoke, several sharp sword lights slashed forward, followed by a tragic howl.

“Roar—”

A twisted monster formed from aggregated flesh and tissue staggered to its feet. It wailed silently, but the cry reached Qin Wen and Hua Qingling’s ears.

“A Bao… A Bao… Mom is coming for you…”

Soon, a sharp bone spike pierced through this mass of flesh, followed by more bone spikes, turning it into an ugly hedgehog-like monster.

“Don’t worry… A Bao…”

It wriggled and crawled towards Hua Qingling, its cries never stopping.

“‘Peril’ level Calamity monster, possesses a certain mental influence… Let’s do it, Qin Wen.”

Looking at the attacking terrifying monster, Hua Qingling sighed heavily, “Even though they were once human.”

Besides the coffin monsters initially created by the Church of the End Gods, other Calamity monsters were transformed from ordinary living beings contaminated by “malice.”

In other words, before being transformed, they were all living beings of this world.

Like Hua Qingling, like Qin Wen, like the humans of this world.

“…”

Qin Wen didn’t speak, the sword formation already subtly forming.

At the same time, a gust of foul wind blew past, gently enveloping the monster’s entire body.

“Immortal Slaying Sword Formation—Slash!”

“Sudden Rain Wind Blades!”

Even a “Peril” level Calamity monster was no match for the combined efforts of Hua Qingling and Qin Wen.

The heart-wrenching cries dissipated, and the slain Calamity monster dissolved into a pile of mud, slowly seeping into the ground until it became one with it.

Even though it wasn’t the first time seeing this scene, Hua Qingling still felt a bit unbearable.

These mutated compatriots…

In the future, would she become like them?

She didn’t know.

“Let’s go, there’s still the aura of Calamity monsters surging further away.”

Qin Wen reached out and tugged at Hua Qingling’s clothes, the flying swords humming, shaking off the attached foul blood.

“Mm.”

Hua Qingling nodded and followed behind Qin Wen.

After both left, a small, dazed figure wandered here, seemingly sensing something, raised its small head slightly, its vacant eyes looking in the direction they left.

“Familiar aura… who…”

“Is this… in a dream, or the real world…”

……

After killing several Calamity monsters that survived the main city defense cannons, Hua Qingling and Qin Wen had gradually moved away from Lannister.

However, they still remembered the instructions from the person in charge of the Anomaly Investigation Bureau, never letting each other out of sight.

The remnants of trees around seemed to have increased, the ground covered in contaminated, broken tree stumps.

Amidst the ravages of the main city defense cannons and Calamity monsters, even the densest forests couldn’t escape.

The ground here had already been turned over several times; the tree stumps visible were originally underground.

“I feel like this place is a bit familiar…”

Hua Qingling looked at the surrounding environment and frowned slightly.

“…Sister Qingling, even if you’ve been here before, how can you recognize it under these circumstances?”

Qin Wen looked around for a while, unable to see any difference from the places they had just passed.

“I’m sensitive to locations, I don’t rely on the surrounding environment for positioning.” Hua Qingling squatted down, looking at the fragments of giant beast remains slightly protruding from the blackish-gray soil. “It seems this is indeed the place.”

“What place?” Qin Wen asked.

“Remember when Miss Luo Yan suddenly disappeared during the Yan City war, but it was actually a teleportation error?” Hua Qingling looked up and said.

“Of course,” Qin Wen rubbed her nose, “At that time, we all thought she died in the ‘Ember’ Furnace…”

“This is the place where she went wrong.” Hua Qingling spread her hands.

“Are you… sure?” Qin Wen’s eyes widened. “No, this… you can recognize this too?”

“I stayed here with Miss Luo Yan for several days.”

Hua Qingling sighed. Lannister really left her with many memorable past events.

“I even thought Magistrate Norian planned to leave me here to spend the rest of my life with Miss Luo Yan.”

It was during those few days that Hua Qingling, who initially only had a brief encounter with Luo Yan, truly got to know that somewhat naive girl.

Of course, revisiting the old place, nostalgia was nostalgia, but the mission still had to continue.

After composing herself, Hua Qingling and Qin Wen planned to continue searching for remaining Calamity monsters nearby.

Just then, an ethereal melody suddenly appeared, a light and childish voice humming unknown lyrics, echoing in their ears.

A familiar scene…

“Danger!”

Hua Qingling reacted first. She had heard this kind of singing from Miss Luo Yan before, and it had also appeared during the Lannister incident, a strange melody related to the “Gods”!

At this time, the appearance of this thing wasn’t good news…

“What song is this…”

Although Qin Wen didn’t understand, she still became vigilant.

She hadn’t experienced the events after Yan City with Luo Yan, so she had never heard this melody before.

The melodious singing gradually approached them, but Hua Qingling and Qin Wen couldn’t find its source.

“Last time I could barely understand the lyrics…”

Beads of sweat appeared on Hua Qingling’s forehead. Although the lyrics Miss Luo Yan hummed sounded somewhat incomprehensible, at least they were in human language.

But this time…

If she wasn’t mistaken, it should be the “divine language” once used by the Church of the End Gods.

A few strange syllables could contain a large amount of information, even possessing powerful strength.

As they were extremely vigilant of their surroundings, Hua Qingling suddenly felt a slight touch on the small bag hanging at her waist.

She subconsciously stepped back, clutching her waist bag tightly, while fixing her gaze on the original spot, staring intently.

This was Hua Qingling’s subconscious reaction after having her waist bag stolen countless times. But even though she was so alert, it was still difficult to catch the thief, and she inevitably lost money.

…However, this time she saw it.

At the same time, Qin Wen also looked over, her pupils instantly constricting violently.

At some point, a little girl, not even reaching Qin Wen’s waist, stood near Hua Qingling’s original position, reaching out slightly, seemingly touching something.

The little girl was wrapped head to toe in white bandages, revealing only one dark eye, its light blue pupil showing a hint of confusion.

“Aura…”

She whispered.

At the same time, Hua Qingling and Qin Wen were horrified to discover that the source of the melodious singing… was this little girl!

And there was something even more terrifying.

They recognized the little girl’s identity.

—Yan City’s former “Ice Coffin Weapon,” and also the remains of Dawn’s Mister One.

Luo Yan had briefly occupied Mister One’s body during the final moments of the Yan City war, appearing on the battlefield, so the appearance and identity of the supposedly mysterious “Ice Coffin Weapon” were semi-public.

Almost all human higher-ups knew about this, just not the details.

However… why would Mister One’s remains appear in this place? And without any aura fluctuations.

Both Hua Qingling and Qin Wen were ability users with extremely keen perception, yet they were completely unaware even when she got close enough to touch.

“Aura…”

The little girl repeated, her confused eyes slightly raised, falling again on Hua Qingling’s waist bag.

“Familiar… aura…”

“Sister Qingling, she seems to be looking at your waist bag!”

“I know!”

Hua Qingling showed a strange expression. Had her money-losing talent reached this level? Even Mister One’s remains wanted to steal her money…

No, that was unlikely.

What attracted her should be something else…

What could it be?

But Hua Qingling didn’t have time to think further, the little bandaged girl moved.

She took a step towards Hua Qingling, her figure slowly dissipating.

The next moment, the little bandaged girl appeared out of thin air in front of Hua Qingling!

Her slowly extended right hand reached again towards Hua Qingling’s waist bag.

A piercing coldness spread across Hua Qingling’s skin, and the Wind Spirit Power, already gathered, suddenly erupted. Qin Wen naturally understood, and the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation instantly formed.