Chapter 819: A Step Too Late

A Step Too Late

At the same moment, the southern stronghold in the central area of the town welcomed three guests in this blizzard, but the master here clearly didn't welcome them. Countless scavengers picked up weapons and surrounded the three directly.

And after receiving the warning from the outside, a leader-like figure rushed out of the largest and most complete house in the center of the stronghold. He looked feminine, pale, full of anger, and held a long whip. As soon as he came out, he shouted that he would give these outsiders who would never understand today a little color to see.

Unfortunately, before the whip in his hand could be lashed out, the 【War】 believer standing at the front gave him a little color to see.

The visitor was slashed. Watching Ai Si, from far away, directly slashed off his arm with a giant blade throw. Seeing this scene, not only did the scavengers of the entire stronghold begin to panic and scatter, but even Cheng Shi was amazed.

"I said Old Zhang, when did priests become so capable of fighting?"

Zhang Jizu slanted a look at Cheng Shi, seemingly seeing through his thoughts, and said: "If you want to praise yourself, you can praise yourself directly, no need to beat around the bush."

"???" Cheng Shi was stunned, "Is that what I meant?"

"Isn't it?

Then if you want to praise me, then thank you."

After finishing, he didn't pay attention to Cheng Shi's wonderful expression, walked past the other party directly to Watching Ai Si's side. He wanted to see how this 【War】 priest would quickly suppress this place.

Actually, there was nothing strange. Watching Ai Si just said one sentence: "Whoever dares to move will be the same as him," and then, all the scavengers on the outskirts who wanted to run stopped their steps.

Are you kidding? Although the other party's giant blade has limited length, it can't stand the fact that people throw it far.

Having finally picked up a life from the "fall," no one wanted to die here inexplicably, so everyone didn't dare to move.

Simple, efficient.

To be honest, Sandlais is probably the time when players encountered the least obstacles when acting. These outer scavengers can't even be counted as effective combat units. They are just like embellishments in this ice and snow world, only playing a role of leading the way.

As for the real crisis, it is probably hidden in that boiling fog.

I saw that quite a few dark gray mists in the gray-white fog were rolling constantly. Even under the blowing of the biting cold wind, it was so thick that people felt slightly suffocated.

Cheng Shi frowned and observed for a moment, then stepped forward and kicked the fallen man's hand far away.

"Are you Wells?"

The one-armed scavenger was scared to death. He covered his shoulder and wailed inhumanly: "No, I'm not Wells, I'm his deputy Barto..."

"A deputy dares to be so arrogant? Where is Wells? Let him come out. He wouldn't be scared to death in the house by our heroic and domineering Lord Watching Ai Si, right?"

Cheng Shi joked, and by the way, blinked at Watching Ai Si.

Watching Ai Si was speechless and silently retracted her giant blade.

Traveling with two top-tier players, the one who opened the way with force was actually a priest like herself. This is too unreasonable.

It's not that she hasn't been matched with top-tier players. She has also had the honor of seeing the Grand Marshal once. People have always opened the way at the front, and others just need to follow. But now...

It can only be said that comparing people to people will make people angry.

Cheng Shi's words were clearly teasing, but what the three players didn't expect was that Barto heard his words and actually nodded with a pale face, crying bitterly: "Wells is dead, he died in the house."

"???"

Now, not only the players, but even the scavengers outside were stunned. They all looked at the middle house with horror.

"Dead?"

The smile on Cheng Shi's face vanished instantly, his brows sank, and he pushed Zhang Jizu and Watching Ai Si to walk into the house, while scolding:

"Supervisor, you are fully responsible!"

"???" Watching Ai Si's brain didn't turn around, and she was so confused that she couldn't walk, "What does it have to do with me?"

"If your methods were gentler, would Wells die?"

"..."

You really think he was scared to death by me!?

Watching Ai Si couldn't bear it. She raised her giant blade without saying a word, but before she could do anything, her expression froze, and she silently retracted the giant blade, "I won't be fooled again. You just want to provoke me to split the house, I won't."

Hearing this, Cheng Shi curled his lips and moved slightly away from the other party.

"Sure enough, the same trick can't fool people a second time...

Hmm? Old Zhang, why don't you walk?"

"The scavengers outside the door might also have clues. If everyone goes in, no one will watch them.

So you go in, I'll guard outside."

Zhang Jizu took out the scalpel seriously and stopped in place, but the squinting gaze didn't move away from the room at all.

"... Can you be any faker? Letting teammates scout the path, is this your so-called teammate friendship?"

"I don't have teammates, I only have two fellow travelers in front of me who are thinking about how to calculate me."

"..." Cheng Shi was dumbfounded. He pointed at Squinty Old Zhang for a long time, and thousands of thoughts turned into one sentence, "I only discovered today that your heart is as small as your eyes."

After finishing, he flexibly turned to avoid the scalpel attack from the 【Death】 God-Chosen, and then with a dark face, walked into the house extremely cautiously, dragging Wells's corpse out from inside.

However, at this time, there was no teasing smile on Cheng Shi's face, but a gloomy face, saying:

"Cannot be revived, cannot be questioned, it was done by our good teammate.

And I guess those scavengers who rushed in were likely instigated by her.

Old Zhang, we are lagging behind too much. This person not only walked in front but also cut off the only way."

Cheng Shi looked at that fog, a flash of solemnity in his eyes.

"It seems the Historical School knows more than I expected..."

"Are you sure that person is surnamed Zhen?" Watching Ai Si asked with slight doubt.

"Surnamed Zhen? Good name. Besides her, there is probably no one who has the means to play people in the palm of their hand.

One step slow, every step slow. If it weren't for those two bastards insisting on impersonating me, how could this most unlucky thing be let go?

Speaking of which, the other two teammates should be arriving soon. We must accelerate.

Old Zhang, clear the people, don't let them run away, I'll ask."

As he spoke, Cheng Shi directly threw a scalpel to fly beside Barto's neck, stopping the other party's stupid behavior of trying to leave the three's field of vision by rolling, stepped on the other party's chest, and said in a deep voice:

"When will this Ghost Tide dissipate? Don't say you don't know, if you say the wrong thing, I'll send you to accompany Wells."

Barto under Cheng Shi's feet was stunned for a moment, and then wailed again:

"The day after tomorrow, the shortest Ghost Tide will last at least two days, so it will be the day after tomorrow at the earliest before this fog will gradually subside."

The day after tomorrow?

The trial is only three days in total. What's the point of lasting until the day after tomorrow? Not to mention the Ear of Secrets, the trial is likely to fail.

"What kind of people rushed in, how many?"

"I... I don't know. They are all new scavengers from the outskirts. We haven't seen them, but there are many of them. They rushed toward the Land of Piety from all directions. The stronghold's manpower was too concentrated, which allowed them to take advantage of the loophole."

"When did Wells die?"

"I don't know. I saw the tide appear and went to notify him. When I opened the door, he was already dead inside. There was no one around at the time. To avoid causing misunderstanding, I forged his expulsion order and forged his time of death. I just wanted to get rid of my suspicion, no other thoughts." Barto trembled with pain, and his body gradually lost temperature in the wind and snow.

But Cheng Shi didn't have any intention of giving a healing spell to hang the other party's life, and was still putting pressure on this deputy.

"It seems your group is not very united. That ghost, what does it look like?"

This voice was very loud, clearly not just asking Barto. However, after Cheng Shi finished speaking, the scene was silent.

"..."

The three looked around and saw that it wasn't that no one dared to answer, but that these scavengers didn't know what the ghost looked like at all. In other words, they had never seen that ghost from beginning to end.

Shadowless and formless?

Interesting. Since no one has seen it, then it...

Does it really exist? ===== CHAPTER 820 =====