This time I chose Paladin.

Chapter 67 Danque
In terms of scenery alone, the wilderness is now beautiful. But in terms of danger, it is much more dangerous now than before the blood moon rose.

Because it is a little too... full of vitality, everything is blooming.

Not long after Nie Weiyang rode his bicycle, two wolves and three snakes appeared in his backpack. One of the snakes was still alive and was wrapped around his arm, opening its mouth ferociously and trying to bite him.

He held the handlebars with one hand and pinched the snake's heart, watching it quickly lose the ability to move due to lack of blood. The strange blue pattern on the black snake skin had a beauty that made people walk uncomfortably.

In today's new world, it is common to wake up and find a snake in your arms when living in the wild. Although Nie Weiyang has rich survival experience in the new world and will not cause such a problem, it is still very annoying if he encounters one on the road.

Nie Weiyang crushed the snake's head with one hand, and a point of light flew out from it. He threw the snake's body far away into the grass and opened this sudden drop.

[[Memory Crystal Blue Ring Snake]-
Carrying memories. -
Use to browse a memory.

Recommended maximum number of uses within 24 hours: 3.

Memory crystals and blue ring snakes are both specialties of the New World.

The latter is a highly poisonous snake with high medicinal value. It often reproduces in humid places such as rivers. In the middle and late stages, biologists and pharmacists developed a high-anticoagulant drug based on the toxin of this snake. It can prevent thrombosis when used in treatment, and can make biological enemies bleed profusely when applied to weapons.

The former is a peculiar crystal that randomly appears in different organisms other than players. It can read random memories. If no one picks it up, it will disappear within half an hour like other summons.

Many people access memory crystals when they're bored, like they've had a dream or played a virtual reality game for a while. However, if you use it too much in a short period of time, it's likely to cause confusion.

Soon, there was no road in the wilderness. Nie Weiyang identified the direction, got out of the car and walked on foot, with melodious music playing in his headphones. After leaving another hill, he entered a flat area.

His destination was near the ruins of a former civilized city called 'T6-C3510'.

Although the name is strange, this is how cities in pre-civilizations were named. This complete urban relic and its supporting facilities and buildings will not move. They will stay where they appear.

The last place Nie Weiyang was in his previous life was a city-type ruin.

Among the enemies surrounding him was a large team of summoners, as well as a group of formation masters, seal masters, barrier masters, and sorcerers to provide support. All the enemies present at the time were discarded pawns - those extremely fanatical anti-humanists who just wanted to use the terrain and numbers to the best of their ability to hold back him and his comrades, no matter how many died.

There are some complex yet simple reasons why those people insist on being enemies of the order forces centered on China: interests and positions.

Conflicts of interest can be reconciled, but conflicts of positions cannot be reconciled.

When some "people" insist that they are not human but "more noble creatures", "family members of some great thing", and believe that those who refuse to sell out human interests and refuse to kneel down are "ungrateful" and "hopeless", you simply cannot communicate with them, nor can you speculate about them with human thinking, because in essence you are no longer the same species.

What's even more ridiculous is that with the change of bloodline, this kind of person was destined to appear from the beginning.

Nie Weiyang listened intently to the sounds coming from all directions, parting the bushes with [Whisper] in his hand. He had been traveling for three days, and this heavy rapier was currently serving mainly as a scout and a fire starter for him, and only secondarily as a spare sword—if Whisper were conscious, it would probably prefer to rot in the treasure chest, but as things stand, it was already an excellent fire starter.

The young man's voice passed through the forest softly, his steps as unobtrusive as ever. But soon, his raised leg suddenly hung in mid-air and slowly retracted.

He slowly parted the grass on the ground with his sword.

A pair of animal traps were displayed in front of him, their sharp teeth flashing with a cold light.

……

"Do you think I can get anything to eat today?" A girl muttered dejectedly in the forest. She had red hair and red eyes, and beautiful red gradient earrings on her ears, which made her little face look lively.

"I don't know." The boy walking behind her answered coldly. There were some faint white-brown scales on his skin, his irises were a strange black, and he had a faint fishy smell.

The girl frowned: "You don't care too much..."

"Of course I don't care, Li Duo. If you hadn't stopped me, I would have joined the camp guards, with free food and lodging every day. Why would I even need to go out hunting?!" The boy was obviously a little angry. "I'm a five-step snake! Big brother thinks highly of me! What about you? You say you're a bird, but you can't even fly and don't even have wings, and you won't even tell me what you are!"

"I've already told you I'm Danque!" Li Duo also started to get anxious and angry. "I've told you several times! Lu Ran! Are your teachers and classmates trying to stop you because they want to harm you? You saw what those people in the camp look like! They escaped from prison!"

"So, what is a red bird?! I've never even heard of this kind of bird!" Lu Ran raised his voice. "Even if you don't want to harm me, you don't want my best! So what if my brother and the others have been in jail? Times have changed!"

"Is that what I'm talking about?! 'Escaped from prison', don't you understand?!" Li Duo's voice rose again, her fiery red hair fluttering slightly, burning like flames. "I heard before that they came out of a heavy prison! They are murderers!"

"I told you times have changed! So what if I kill people!" Lu Ran roared, "It's right to live well! If Teacher Lin didn't want to kill people, he would have died! Let me tell you, Li Duo, you eat so much all day long, so what if you're a spellcaster? Don't say you're taking care of me, you're just a pig that gets angry!
"Luo Chen and I have already agreed to join the camp guards together. When the time comes, all of you will have to obey my orders!"

"You...!!" Li Duo was almost crying with anger. She seemed to have not expected him to speak to her like that. She held it in for several seconds before shouting, "Then go away! I don't care about you anymore!"

"Just go! Who wants you to care about me!" Lu Ran turned around and left, soon disappearing without a trace.

Li Duo initially waited for him to come back, but when she saw that he had really left, she was almost mad with anger. She leaned against a tree trunk, her long hair losing its luster, and began to cry silently.

During this entire process, neither Lu Ran nor Li Duo noticed that there was actually... a person squatting on a tree branch a few meters above their heads.

Nie Weiyang clasped his hands together and squatted on a tree branch. He silently glanced at the slender Li Duo, then at the branch that had been bent dangerously by his weight: "......?"

(End of this chapter)