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Do dark creatures refer to black mages, or creatures that practice dark magic?Teacher Ding suggested that he ask Bai Shaoliu. Hua Zhenxing had a strong thirst for knowledge. After checking the time, he still dialed the number, but he was looking for Yue Gaole.

Yue Gaole answered the phone in time, and asked in surprise after hearing this: "Xiaohua, Director Hua, your Yangyuangu has more than one line of complete divine arts inheritance, and you don't know what dark creatures are?"

Hua Zhenxing: "If you don't know, you don't know, and no one told me. Locke and Lianna never mentioned it, and you never mentioned it to me. I just found out that Cambistine and Temple Knights, Specially responsible for eliminating dark creatures."

Yue Gaole: "You haven't even heard of the Knights of the Temple, have you?"

Hua Zhenxing said a word in Arding, and then asked: "If this is the Knight of the Temple, then I have heard of it. The ancestor of the Fulgan family, the great magician who left the book of inheritance, claimed to have once Is a temple knight.

But I don't know what the Knights of the Temple do, I thought it was just an honorary title. "

Yue Gaole: "The duty of the Templar Knights is not to communicate with the outside world, but to deal with people. We are partners. It is normal for you to have no dealings with the Templar Knights.

It is indeed an honorary title, but it is not easy to get this title. You need to make an oath and pass the test. Your cultivation level is at least equivalent to that of a great magician, and it is the most capable kind of great magician.

Locke's ancestor didn't have the temple knight's fighting skills inheritance in the book of inheritance, which he couldn't pass on without authorization, even if it was passed on to the descendants of the family. "

Hua Zhenxing: "Mr. Yue, I just want to ask what is a dark creature, is it a black magician? Or generally refers to a creature that has practiced black magic?"

Jogale: "Magicians are also humans, and humans are also creatures. Of course, they may also degenerate into dark creatures. Cambistine strictly prohibits the practice of black magic, because black magicians are as hateful as dark creatures.

But there is a strict definition of real dark creatures. There is a group of people in Cambistine, including me, who have always advocated not to expand the concept of dark creatures.

All kinds of evil desires flash in people's hearts, but it cannot be said that they have belonged to darkness.

However, there is one situation that is different. Evil desires have already occupied the soul and become the master of consciousness. The motives of their actions all follow a certain evil logic.

Human beings make mistakes and commit crimes, but normal people don’t exist just because of certain sins and only for certain sins.

But such a person is not the same creature as ordinary people, normal people, you and me. They have fallen into a dark world, and their way of existence and logic of behavior are different... Do you understand? "

Hua Zhenxing: "I understand the meaning, but I still don't understand it very well. Can you give a specific example?"

Jogale: "Strigoi, have you always heard of it? It is the most typical and representative dark creature."

Hua Zhenxing: "Vampires, do they really exist in reality!"

Yue Gaole: "You have a friend who set up the Wanbian sect to teach a bunch of monsters to practice. I have a friend who also carries a gourd with him, and uses it to smuggle people into the world. There are so many strange things, why can't they There are vampires?

It is impossible for you not to have heard of Blood Race. So many movies have been made, and some of them may be invested by themselves.The blood race in the movie is different from the real blood race, but it also implies a lot of truth..."

In various legends and stories, the blood race believes in eternal life in the dark, uses the ritual of first embrace to pass on the secret of eternal life, betrays the light forever, and embraces the people they love the most into the darkness together.

Legend has it that blood keeps them young forever, but this is actually a misunderstanding.They did not live forever because of blood-sucking. There is a hymn circulating in the blood race, which roughly reads:

All life will die, everyone will accept the judgment of the end, why don't you give me your life, blood flows into my throat, life continues in my body, I will replace you until eternal life.

According to Yue Gaole, blood-sucking is just a ritual of casting spells. There are two types of rituals. One is to pass on the secret of eternal life to the next generation of vampires, and the other is to extend the vitality of the killed person to one's own vitality.

Blood clans kill people in order to keep their vitality alive forever. They often don't suck the blood of the weak, but like to kill the person with the most vigorous vitality.

Depriving others of their lives to extend their own youth, it is said that the blood race has been cursed and can only move in the dark night.This is actually a misunderstanding, a metaphor that their identities cannot be seen.

Hua Zhenxing: "The so-called can only hide in the dark, so that's what it means?"

Yue Gaole: "Otherwise, what do you think? They look like ordinary people most of the time, but the reason why vampires are called vampires is indeed another kind of creature, obeying their biological instincts and behavioral logic.

Their physiques are peculiar, and most of them are mentally abnormal. They really hate the sun, and usually don't like being seen too clearly, but that doesn't mean they can't stand the sun and can't appear in broad daylight.

It's just that those newcomers who have just become blood clans really need a period of silence in the dark, which is to complete the transformation of their physique in the process of accepting the inheritance.

Perhaps because they all have such experiences, after they formally become a blood race, they often hate sunlight psychologically, and feel uncomfortable physically when it affects it. "

Hua Zhenxing: "Thank you, you helped me answer a lot of doubts...then how to distinguish the blood race?"

Yue Gaole: "As long as you meet, you will naturally be able to tell the difference, and you can tell the difference in your own way. In fact, for the blood race, it is better to tell the difference between the Yangyuan teacher.

The white board monks you cultivated in Yuangu, walking in the crowd are like lights in the dark, and they are like top-notch steaks made by top chefs, which will make them drool uncontrollably... Do you understand what I mean? ? "

Hua Zhenxing: "Yuanyuan Master will become the prey of the blood race?"

Yue Gaole: "Not only a nourisher, anyone in theory can become food for the blood race. However, there is a price for the blood race to absorb the vitality of others. Ordinary people whose vitality is not strong enough are not even enough to make up for the consumption.

In theory, the best prey for blood clans is of course monks. The higher the level of monks, the more delicious they are, but that also means the more dangerous, because hunting monks is too risky! "

Hua Zhenxing: "I understand, thank you sincerely!"

Yue Gaole: "Don't hang up the phone in a hurry. Have you encountered dark creatures or do you want to study dark creatures? I suggest that you should avoid black magic. It's too easy to make mistakes! If you encounter dark creatures, you need to help?"

Hua Zhenxing: "I'm just investigating the disappearance of two classmates. I suspect it's related to dark creatures, but I haven't found any specific clues yet. Don't bother Mr. Lao Yue. If you really can't figure it out and need help, I will speak up!"

Yue Gaole smiled: "Dark creatures can't see the light. It is impossible to openly confront you Yang Yuangu. You can only use secret poking methods. You have to be careful. I have another thing to tell you, why no one Tell you about the Knights Templar?

Because within the scope of the Luoba Alliance, there have been no traces of dark creatures for a long time, and this matter has something to do with Bai Shaoliu.You also know Gelin, Helen-Golin, last time Gambisting sent her as a plenipotentiary to discuss with you about the Mengn Garden affairs..."

Yue Gaole told a story about the past.When Hua Zhenxing was about seven or eight years old, a civil strife broke out in Cambisting, and as a result, the "dark faction" represented by the chief magician, Fotimo, was completely purged.

Of course Fortimo himself is not a dark creature, not even a black magician. Although he has also studied black magic, there are many divine arts he has studied and mastered, and the so-called black magic is only a small part of it. .

However, he and his disciples secretly cultivated a group of black magicians, which cannot be said to be collusion. There are several dark forces lurking in the world that they secretly cultivated to do all kinds of shady work.

The opportunity to trigger this civil strife was because Fortimo accused Helen and her daughter of colluding with dark forces, imprisoned them and prepared to execute them publicly.Bai Shaoliu brought people to a good show of robbing the execution ground, and snatched them away.

Bai Shaoliu took Helen's father and daughter and fled to the Green family's castle, with Dan Zicheng and a group of Kunlun monks helping him.Fortimo led a team of priests to attack, and someone blew a horn at a critical moment.

This horn can actually summon dark creatures, and the dark creatures on the continent of Luoba came from all over the country one after another, flocking to the castle like a tide.These dark creatures would not be able to distinguish the camps inside and outside the castle, and would only engulf both the attacker and the defender.

At that time, few people knew that Fortimo was the master behind the dark forces. Most of the priests who came with Fortimo were not black magicians. sin.

So the situation was reversed. The magicians who were attacking the castle relied on the castle and fought fiercely with the dark creatures that came rushing in. This battle almost wiped out the elite forces of Fortimo... …

When Yue Gaole talked about this past, he wanted to tell Hua Zhenxing why he had worked with Cambisting for so long, and he had neither dealt with the Temple Knights nor heard anyone mention dark creatures.

Because almost all the most powerful dark creatures on the Luoba continent were wiped out in the castle war that year.The dark creatures that hadn't arrived on the battlefield in time were also wiped out by Cambistine because their lairs were exposed.

There may still be dark creatures left on the Luoba Continent today, but the number must be quite rare, and they dare not expose them at all, so that they have disappeared for many years, and few people mention them again.

In today's world, there is almost no news of dark creatures.The best possible hiding place for those remaining dark creatures is probably the poor, chaotic and neglected Black Desolate Continent.

After listening to this story, Hua Zhenxing asked: "You mean, there is a horn in Zuohuai Mountain Villa, and blowing it can summon dark creatures? Then take this horn and blow it all over the world, or blow all the dark creatures. Are you out yet?"

Jogale smiled bitterly and said, "It's not as simple as you said! That thing can't be blown casually, it must be blown with the most restless desire, but it requires the trumpeter to have a clear state of mind amidst the restlessness.

The sound of the horn is inaudible, it is like a call from the depths of the soul, which can make those dark creatures restless and driven by desire.Moreover, its sound does not travel far and does not cover too large a place.

At that time, Kunlun monks assisted Bai Shaoliu, and asked an expert to use an artifact to continuously transmit the sound of the horn to various places in Luoba Continent, and at the same time calm the restless souls of ordinary people. "

Hua Zhenxing: "How far can the sound of the horn travel?"

Yue Gaole: "I heard that you are building the city wall of Zheyue Town. With your cultivation, if you can blow that horn, it will almost cover the range of the city wall of Zheyue Town... Do you have any questions? "

Hua Zhenxing: "The last question, can the blood race really live forever?"

Yue Gaole laughed on the phone: "With your vision and cultivation, how could you ask such a stupid question?"

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In front of the gate of the terminal, after hanging up the phone, Hua Zhenxing raised his eyes subconsciously and saw that there was an open parking lot in front of him, and there were landscape trees planted around the parking lot, which were tall oil palms.

Seeing the oil palm, Hua Zhenxing inexplicably thought of another person.This person also represents a certain type of people in the world, that is, the type of people who were overthrown during the establishment of the New Guli Kingdom. His name is Morrison.

Xia Yading was once a slave laborer rescued from a plantation by the New Alliance. Chen Weihu, a police officer of Dongguo and the vice president of Fangguan Development Group, was also a slave laborer in the same plantation, which was named after Morrison. down industry.

Chen Weihu was sent in by the gangsters in Banda City when he was investigating a transnational immigration fraud case, and Xia Yading was tricked into the plantation by the gangsters in Port Fiso when he was out looking for a job.

The most important crop on that plantation is oil palm.Oil palm is a commercial crop, its fruit can be used to extract palm oil, which is exported overseas as industrial raw material.

The plantation is on the outskirts of Port Fiso, where the local agricultural conditions are the best.The plantation has used almost all of the most arable, irrigated land there to grow oil palm.

There are many plantations in Jili State. In order to plant oil palm, a large number of trees are cut down and grasslands are burned. This not only consumes precious water resources, but also leads to the spread of desertification.

On the other hand, they did not grow food on the most arable land, which directly exacerbated the famine.How many people will die from the famine is not a question considered by the Morrisons. Anyway, people die every day in the local area.

The various archives of the original Jili Kingdom are quite incomplete, almost nonexistent in many places, so there are very few official records about Morrison, only that he is a descendant of the colonizers of the Yin Kingdom.

Morrison originally had dual citizenship of Jili and Pocket, and he himself lived in Pocket all year round.If you want to ask whether there are vampires among ordinary people?Then Morrison is it!

He has been greedily and ferociously sucking the blood of this world, including Xia Yading's, Chen Weihu's, and even Hua Zhenxing's, because Hua Zhenxing is also a member of this world.

Talking about the blood race and seeing the oil palm, Hua Zhenxing thought of Morrison inexplicably.According to Yue Gaole's introduction just now, there is often a kind of person around the blood clan, which can be translated into Dongguo language as blood servant or blood slave.

If Morrison is compared to a vampire, aren't the gangsters who served him back then equivalent to blood slaves?Some blood slaves may be forced, but more blood slaves are voluntary.

They regard the vampires as their masters, claiming to be loyal stewards or servants, driven by the vampires, and providing various services for the vampires.These blood slaves are often tempted by the secret of the blood clan's eternal life, hoping that one day they can also experience the ceremony and get the gift to become a blood clan.

In their eyes, the blood race is not an evil dark creature, but a symbol of nobility, strength, mystery, and elegance, and a noble existence that transcends all living beings.

Thinking of Blood Slave, Hua Zhenxing couldn't help but think of another series of stories, there are comics and movies, the protagonist is a master bat in a black cloak and a mask.

Beside this Master Bat, there is a loyal old housekeeper who is proficient in noble etiquette, and has been taking good care of Master Bat.

In many Western legends, bats are often used to symbolize the blood race.If Master Bat is a vampire, then the old butler is too typical a vampire.

The way the Bat master in the story redeems himself is to put on a cloak and a mask, and become a dark knight to catch criminals on the street.

In the imagination, Hua Zhenxing left the airport and came to Miri City along the highway, walking into this strange yet familiar city.

Chapter 570 The Importance of Data Intelligence

Hua Zhenxing first came to a "noble community" on the outskirts of Miri City.If it were in Dongguo, it would look like a fairly tidy small village, with each household being a single-family building.

Many landscape crops are planted on both sides of the road and in front of and behind the house, the most conspicuous one is the date palm.Date palm is a relatively common fruit in this area, with a slightly dry taste but high sweetness.

If you look at it from the perspective of a Dongguo person, this community is actually very ordinary. It is rare to have such living conditions in big cities, but it is the same in the vast countryside and suburbs.

But in Tema Country, this is a very high-end neighborhood, although it is not considered top-notch.What is rare is that every household has running water, clean water source and water system, which is the symbol of civilized life.

The neighborhood is also patrolled by police.A person like Hua Zhenxing walked through, his behavior should be very suspicious, but the police almost ignored him after seeing his appearance.

Given the local weather, the clothes worn outside were very thin. Hua Zhenxing obviously didn't carry any weapons on his body. He had a typical Dongzhou face, and his clothes were neat and clean, with "no threat" written on his forehead.

There was also a well-meaning policeman who reminded Hua Zhenxing when passing by: "Dong Guozai, it's not safe for you to do this, be careful of those dirty guys, don't get close to those dirty places!"

Hua Zhenxing expressed his gratitude, asked a few more local questions, and gave the other party a five-luo yuan note.The policeman happily accepted.Not far from this block, Hua Zhenxing soon saw the so-called "dirty place".

A ditch appeared in front of it, the color was turbid and the smell was unpleasant, and a large amount of unknown garbage was piled up and floating. The domestic wastewater from the block just now was also discharged here.

On both sides of the ditch, many local people used wire hooks, wooden sticks and other things to rummage in it. There were even children playing in the water... If a Dongguo person with a bit of a cleanliness stood next to him, he might be confused. I threw up on the spot.

Across the ditch is a large shanty town with the characteristics of the black desert.Shantytown is a noun in Eastern Mandarin, which is not very appropriate to use here, but Hua Zhenxing couldn't find a more accurate corresponding word.

Sheds made of grass curtains, earth barriers, masonry, wooden boards, iron sheets, linoleum, etc., are scattered in the east and west, and each piece of building is very dense. Looking from a distance, it looks like a patch of spots or a complicated maze.

To put it another way, for a Dongzhou native like Hua Zhenxing to walk into such a neighborhood alone is looking for death.First of all, a group of bare-bottomed children came up, all of them stretched out their hands and shouted a word in English: "What!"

Here, beggars and robbers speak the same word. How to distinguish them mainly lies in two points: one is to listen to the tone of voice, and the other is to look at gestures.

If it is the tone of a child, stretching out your hand, it is begging; if it is the tone of an adult, pointing at something in your hand, it is robbery.

Hua Zhenxing didn't give the money, it's not that he didn't bring the money, he just gave the police a banknote, although he didn't have a wallet in his pocket, but he did have the demon-refining gourd with him.

But here, as long as you give it to a child, it is tantamount to stabbing a hornet's nest. Other children will grab the clothes and won't let go. Even the children in the whole community will surround you unless accompanied by local people to drive them away. .

Those children are not only good at begging, but their small hands are also hard to guard against. If you don't pay attention, they will touch your valuables.

Relying on his nimble body and footwork, and the kung fu he had practiced since he was a child, Hua Zhenxing quickly walked through the encirclement without being stained with a piece of clothing... It's a pity that besides children, adults are also eyeing him.

A few big men appeared at the intersection in front of them, each with a copy in his hand, and someone from the side and rear surrounded him, and the other party shouted the same English word "ma ne", which means money anyway.

Hua Zhenxing walked straight over without even changing his pace, and he overthrew all the big guys who copied the guy.This time, a bigger hornet's nest was stabbed, and people in the neighborhood kept coming, and suddenly jumped out from various intersections to attack Hua Zhenxing.

Hua Zhenxing did not copy anyone, nor did he use his magical powers, he just punched out of the block with his fists, and turned over behind him... Roughly counted, there are about two hundred people, all of whom are on the ground screaming, crying, unable to crawl stand up.

The pickup truck that Hua Zhenxing kicked away by the road, the two people in the car obviously could not have survived, and the two robbers met at the airport were injured, but they were not killed.

In this block, these two hundred or so people were beaten to the ground by him, but they were basically not injured. They just felt pain in their muscles and bones and had to lie down for a while before they could get up.

This is what Hua Zhenxing asked for. In the eyes of those people, Hua Zhenxing dared to walk into their neighborhood without paying them, which was simply hurting their self-esteem.

Hua Zhenxing is full of sympathy for their situation, but this sympathy does not guarantee his safety in this neighborhood, he will still fight all the way out, thinking that the reason why he launched the Jili Kingdom Revolution in the first place was in another sense compassion.

The real kindness and compassion to save the suffering and the needy is not to do some fundraising to promote charity. Hua Zhenxing is not Ketia back then.

Breaking through the block abruptly, Hua Zhenxing even noticed that some restless emotions were vented, which made him feel happy.When he was a child learning kung fu from old man Yang, he imagined in his heart that he would punch through those chaotic streets with his fists.

It was only later that he realized that this kind of idea was ridiculous, but it was ridiculous, and it actually came true today.And after going through the bad mood these days, he really laughed again. Is this the simple happiness that belongs to a man?

Passing through this block, even if you have officially entered the city of Miri, you can already see streets and buildings in front of you.

According to my childhood experience, the area over there should be a block controlled by local gangsters. It looks a little more "prosperous" than the shanty town just now, but it is more dangerous.

The total population of Tema Country is only 800 million, and the capital Miri City has 200 million residents. However, in Tema Country, or in many places in the world, the concept of "urban and rural areas" is not as clear as that of Dongguo.

Tribal refugees do not have rural collective household registration, responsible land and homesteads. Most of the land suitable for farming and irrigated in the wilderness belongs to farmers, and there is a large area of ​​wasteland outside the farms.

The so-called farmers usually refer to these farmers, and in a broad sense, they also include those who help them farm. If you encounter a farm like Morrison Plantation, there may be slave labor trapped and forced.