pjbooks Chapter 279 Assassination in the Mirror of the Mobile Sanctuary
Chapter 279 Assassination in the Mirror of the Mobile Sanctuary
The night wind blew through the empty streets, swirling up a few scraps of paper.
The two walked one after the other, casting long shadows.
Qin Wuyi kept her head down, her hands in the pockets of her denim jacket, and the soles of her shoes scraped against the ground, making a soft rustling sound.
Lu Yan stopped in his tracks.
He turned his head and looked back at the greasy glass window of "Old Wang's Noodle Shop" behind him.
The streetlights cast a dim yellow glow, reflecting their two blurry figures in the window.
But something seems off at the edge of the reflection.
Several palm-sized, silvery-white moths silently alighted on the outside of the glass.
Their compound eyes, rows of silver lenses, are pointed directly at their backs.
"Lie down."
Lu Yan's voice was low and flat.
He didn't give Qin Wuyi time to react. His left hand was already on the back of the other's neck, and with an irresistible force, he slammed him hard against the ground.
The two fell to their sides.
Almost at the same moment their bodies lost their balance.
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Three thin, invisible silver threads sliced through the air where they had just stood.
The glass windows of the noodle shop were not broken.
It was silently divided into a dozen neat geometric shapes, then slid down and clattered onto the sidewalk.
The three cutting lines did not stop.
They passed through the shop door and cut the still-steaming noodle pot in two.
Scalding hot soup and noodles spilled all over the floor.
Load-bearing walls, tables and chairs, countertops.
Everything that was swept by the cutting line showed a smooth, mirror-like cut.
The entire structure of the noodle shop was completely destroyed in a fraction of a second.
It let out a tooth-grinding groan and collapsed inward.
The deafening crash of falling bricks and steel bars finally shattered the silence of the night.
Qin Wuyi was pinned down by Lu Yan, her back slamming heavily against the concrete floor, almost catching her breath.
Just as he was about to struggle, he saw the noodle shop reduced to ruins.
"Hold……"
He squeezed out a single word through gritted teeth.
Several silver moths flew out of the broken window and hovered in mid-air.
The translucent crystalline wings vibrated at high speed, emitting a buzzing sound that was inaudible to the human ear.
They locked onto the two people on the ground.
The second wave of attacks has arrived.
This time, there were six cutting lines, blocking all evasive routes from different angles.
Qin Wuyi gritted her teeth.
He slammed his hands on the ground in front of him.
"rise!"
There were no metal discs, and no preparation time.
He used his own body as the base of the formation.
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Three thick, earthen-yellow walls rose abruptly from the concrete ground.
The surface of the light wall was covered with intricate, ever-flowing runes, as if it had come to life.
They are not flat.
The three walls of light are tilted and intersected at a precise angle, forming a stable triangular defensive structure that protects the two people within.
clang!clang!clang!
The cutting line struck the wall of light.
It wasn't an impact.
It's cutting.
The surface of the wall of light was cut with six deep, bone-revealing grooves, and blinding sparks spread along the edges of the grooves.
The yellowish-brown light flickered violently, its brightness fluctuating.
Qin Wuyi groaned, and a warm liquid flowed from her nose.
He casually wiped it with the back of his hand.
My hands were covered in blood.
The cost of forcibly setting up the formation was directly reflected in his body.
"I can't hold on any longer!"
He roared.
The cracks in the light wall are widening, and in less than three seconds, this hastily set-up defensive array will be completely shattered.
"Hold on for one second."
Lu Yan's voice came from behind him.
Very close.
It's also very stable.
Lu Yan knelt on one knee behind Qin Wuyi, his palm pressed against his back.
The Black Lotus Pure Land unfolds.
A deep darkness spread outwards from Lu Yan as the center.
Instead of resisting the external attacks, it directly seeped into the three crumbling, earthen-yellow light walls.
Like ink dripping into clear water.
The earthen-yellow light wall was stained with countless jet-black lines.
Those runes, which were originally only used to reinforce defenses, began to twist and recombine the moment they came into contact with the Black Lotus Pure Land.
A completely different law was forcibly injected into this formation.
Qin Wuyi felt that the formation she had set up had slipped out of her control.
No.
It was given a new life.
A devastating new life he had never imagined.
The light wall, which had been retracting inward to provide defense, stopped.
Then, they began to expand outwards.
The ravines that were cut out were quickly filled in during the expansion, and the new growth was pure, like the color of obsidian.
The light wall is no longer a defensive barrier.
It transformed into a slowly starting, law-driven mill.
Three massive, black and yellow walls, with an unstoppable momentum, pressed outwards.
The air was compressed, producing a dull popping sound.
The mechanical moths hovering in mid-air seemed to be gripped by an invisible giant hand.
They tried to escape, their crystalline wings vibrating at their limit, but they could not break free from that ever-expanding territory.
The crushing begins.
The first moth was touched by the expanding wall.
Its silver shell, starting from the point of contact, gradually turns into the finest powder.
The structure was erased and decomposed from its most basic level.
Then came the second one, and the third one.
There was no loud noise throughout the entire process.
There were only faint, rustling sounds, like grains of sand being crushed.
Three seconds later.
Expansion has ceased.
The three enormous walls then transformed into specks of light and dissipated into the air.
In mid-air, only a few handfuls of silver dust remained, swirling in the night wind and slowly drifting down.
Silence returned.
It was as if the battle that had just taken place—enough to level a small building—had never happened.
Qin Wuyi remained frozen in the position of supporting herself with her hands on the ground.
He looked at his trembling hands.
That feeling just now...
His formation was imbued with "divinity" within that person's domain.
A kind of "divinity" that can judge all things and is unreasonable.
A tissue was handed to him.
Qin Wuyi raised her head in a daze.
Lu Yan had already stood up and was looking down at him.
"Wipe it off."
Qin Wuyi took the tissue and wiped her face haphazardly, mixing the blood and dust together to make a mess.
He braced himself against the ground and stood up unsteadily.
"What is that?"
he asks.
"Increase"
Lu Yan's answer was concise and to the point.
He walked to the ruins and picked up a piece of metal that had been cut open from a pile of broken bricks.
The remains of a mechanical moth.
"These things can bypass the Dragon Guard Base's security and find you directly."
Lu Yan ran his fingers along the smooth cut of the fragment.
"This shows that we are surrounded by eyes everywhere."
He turned around and looked at Qin Wuyi.
"Your formation can defend against it once, but it can't defend against it a second time."
"Next time they come, it won't be something tentative like this."
Qin Wuyi remained silent.
He looked down at the tear in his coat and remained silent for a long time.
Lu Yan threw away the fragment in his hand.
"Now, can we talk about how to avenge our brothers on the Fourth Line?"
Qin Wuyi raised her head, her bloodshot eyes fixed on Lu Yan.
His chest heaved violently.
Anger, resentment, and a ignited flame called hope battled in his eyes.
Finally, he deflated like a punctured balloon, his shoulders slumping.
"I……"
He had just uttered one word.
buzzing-
A loud thud came from the pocket of his denim jacket.
Qin Wuyi took out his personal terminal, whose screen was already cracked in several places.
A blood-red warning, indicating the highest level of emergency authority, popped up and filled the entire screen.
Warning! The "Mobile Sanctuary" has descended upon Jincheng! Target locked on Dragon Guard Base!