Why are there only loser heroines around me?

Perhaps because he had never experienced the exaggerated and horrific "tough battles" of history, he had yet to grasp the true hell on earth. He had seen many scenes of flying limbs and blood exploding before his eyes, but he had never been afraid of them.

Or maybe, because every battle he fought had a legitimate reason, he didn't have any moral burden.

"Having a legitimate reason for the war" is truly important. Ukyo has read many memoirs of American Vietnam War veterans, and none of them wanted to return to that horrific battlefield.

At the same time, he also read the memoirs of veterans who fought in the Korean War. In stark contrast to the situation on the other side, almost all veterans said passionately... they wanted to go back and take a look at the 38th parallel where they had fought.

Yes, he, Ukyo Tachibana, always has a reason for doing things, and this time it is also for his missing friend.

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The sound of a stream gradually reached his ears, and he saw the turbulent Miskatonic River looming in the thick fog.

On the gravel path along the river, there were several pickup trucks and old Beetles with damaged shells. The shells were covered with rust, and the shriveled tires and wheels were covered with a layer of scum, which looked strange and distorted in the reflection of the river under the gray fog.

Ukyo saw a roll of gravel spikes on the asphalt road ahead. Those spikes were fatal to any car's tires. If Ukyo didn't want to save the tires, he could only stop the car and walk. However, the road had no end in sight. He didn't know how big this "Nibelung-like" place was. If he still couldn't reach the end after getting off the car, it would be difficult to turn back.

The best way would be to get out of the car and move the roll of gravel spikes, but Youjing didn't do that because the gravel spikes were too new. The asphalt road was covered with withered yellow maple leaves, and only this roll of gravel spikes was pressed on the maple leaves. It was obvious that it had just been put there by someone, preparing to burst his tires.

Ukyo glanced at the twisted and overgrown strange forests on both sides of the road, and his gaze passed across to the seemingly calm and unpredictable surface of the Miskatonic River.

"Yanami, how's your practice of slashing bullets with a sword going?"

Yanai was stunned and touched the back of his head a little embarrassedly. "If I adjust the tennis machine to the highest speed, I can hit 10 to 7 out of 9 balls."

The initial velocity of a pistol bullet is generally between 300-500 meters per second, which is close to the speed of sound, while the fastest speed of a tennis ball machine is usually 60 meters per second, which is a huge difference.

Ukyo had wanted to give Yanami a chance to perform, but now it seemed that he still needed to do it himself.

The moment he pushed open the car door, he heard the sound of breaking wind. Ukyo wanted to draw his sword, but the sound of the wind was unusual, not like a bullet, so he changed the action of drawing the sword to reaching out and grasping a round object that shot out from the depths of the dense forest.

It was a piece of gravel.

The weapon used to launch it was a handmade slingshot.

Ukyo's gaze passed through the dense forest and met the eyes of a white boy riding on a tree. The other party saw this elegant young man with standard Chinese appearance hold the stone he threw and crush it, and the gray stone powder floated into the fog with the autumn wind.

The boy's mind was instantly filled with immense fear! What kind of human possessed such strength? Crushing a stone into powder with just the strength of his grip—even those monsters that only roamed at night couldn't do that, right?

The brief moment of terror made his mind go blank. He didn't have time to remind his companions that the idea was difficult and to retreat quickly! Another bow-wielding companion who had been lurking at the bottom of the Miskatonic River had already surfaced, his hunting bow in his hand fully drawn!

“——whoosh~!”

The sound of the bow and arrow breaking through the air was far more violent than that of a slingshot. The tip of the arrow, which was made of some kind of animal bone, hit a newly unsheathed young master's sword in mid-air. Yanami had actually discovered the person hiding underwater a long time ago. She just didn't have much confidence in being able to cut bullets with a knife. But if the other party used a hunting bow, the situation would be different.

She looked at Ukyo in tacit understanding, and they both nodded at the same time. Yanami thought that Ukyo probably meant "catch one each".

...

A few minutes later.

Ukyo came out of the woods carrying a white child.

Yana saw that she hadn't caught the diver. Her clothes were heavy, and after entering the water, they would absorb water and become very heavy, putting her in a disadvantageous position. Ukyo had taught her that in unfamiliar environments, she should never put herself in an unfavorable position.

But the good news is that Ukyo has captured the "hostage".

It is hard to imagine that there are other living people in a place like Nibelungen.

The little boy was very afraid of Ukyo. He hugged his knees with both hands like Xiaoju, curled himself into a ball, and his body trembled uncontrollably like a frightened puppy.

"Don't be nervous." Youjing squatted down so that his body was level with his.

"I'll ask you a few questions, and if you answer correctly I'll let you go."

His words seemed gentle, but in reality he didn't give the little boy any time to react.

"Who are you? Why are you here? Why are you attacking us? What happened to Highway 12? Why haven't I reached the end of it after driving for three hours?"

Yanami felt like complaining. She thought Ukyo was going to ask one question at a time, but he threw out so many questions at once. Could the frightened little boy in front of her handle it?

"This is Tribit Town. My name is Hugo." The little boy's voice was a little tearful. "I attacked you because there's no food in this town... If we don't rob passersby, everyone in this town will starve to death."

"Route 12 wasn't like this originally, but two weeks ago, 'Where the Dead End' was released, and then the highway became what it is now... Not only does it have no end, but once outsiders enter, they can't leave. People in the town can't leave either. We're all trapped here."

At this point, Hugo hugged his legs tighter.

Ukyo stood up from the ground.

"Where the Death God Sinks"...What the paranormal detectives worried about finally happened.

The movie tells a story that takes place in a "small town you can't leave". Coincidentally, the town in the movie is also called Cuibit.

"Are there monsters here at night?" Youjing asked.

"Yes." Hugo nodded. "Just like in the movies, they can't be killed at all."

"——Gurgle gurgle~~~~" Someone's stomach suddenly started to growl uncontrollably. Yanai touched her belly feeling very embarrassed. She didn't mean to ruin the atmosphere at this time, but being hungry was a physiological reaction and she couldn't control it.

"Since we're here, why don't we go into the town first?" Yanai said, "There should be some food left in your town, right?"

"Yes..." the little boy's voice was weak and tinny, "but we don't have enough to eat..."

"It's okay!" Yanaijian bent down and patted the little boy's shoulder. A pleasant scent of the girl's body went into his nostrils, and his cheeks turned a little red.

"We are paranormal detectives, solving this kind of problem is our specialty!"

Yanami nudged Ukyo's side with his elbow and said, "You've already seen how powerful this guy is. Nothing can faze him. And my sister is also very powerful~"

“——Gurgle gurgle~” Yanami’s stomach started growling again.

 …

...

Ukyo temporarily parked the car on the side of the road. The four of them followed the stone road beside the stream and crossed a muddy swamp. Clusters of lush trees loomed above their heads, and their shoes were inevitably stained with a lot of mud. The leafy bushes nearby reminded Yanami of many horror movies he had seen. In similar environments, it was easy to encounter monsters in the dense forests and be "killed face to face".

As she walked, she suddenly became sad.

"Ukyo, I discovered something. There's no signal in this place. If I die here, it seems my suicide note won't be delivered."

Is this what you're worried about?

"Uh.....So, every time we go on a mission, we have to write a suicide note?"

Komari, who was protected in the center of the team, held the scabbard of the nodachi. This big sword could make up for her height disadvantage to a large extent, but the formation of several people was too close. Once her big sword was unsheathed, it would be easy to accidentally hurt teammates.

"Relax." Ukyo tried to comfort the newcomer she was leading and asked her to calm down. Xiaoju looked like someone who would suffer from post-war stress, so she had to let Xiaoju know that their trip was "legitimate."

But Arthur, Kotoko, and Hakuba are not Komari's friends, and Ukyo doesn't know how to value Komari.

He felt that talking about protecting the world was too empty and pretentious.

He pondered for a long time, and even after they walked out of the dense forest, Youjing still didn't know where to start the topic.

........

...

What comes into view is a small town with a very American 90s style.

Ukyo caught a glimpse of the strong reflection on the town's tower. He stood on the ground and looked at the female sniper on the tower from a distance. It was obvious that the other party was an amateur and did not know how to hide her sniper scope.

Seeing outsiders approaching, the female sniper immediately began ringing the clock on the tower. The townspeople were clearly on high alert. As soon as the bell rang, everyone rushed out, armed with their weapons. It was a large, makeshift group, armed with various farm tools, baseball bats, golf clubs, and the like. They didn't even have a single decent gun.

"What are you doing?" A fat-bellied country woman took a step forward, seemingly about to thrust the fork she was using to catch voles at Ukyo. However, the blue-haired girl standing next to the elegant young man suddenly bared her teeth at her and lifted her windbreaker seemingly unintentionally. The American woman was immediately silenced when she saw Yana's two Berettas under the windbreaker. She took several steps back, pointed at her, and shouted, "They have guns! They've held the lovely Hugo hostage!"

The townspeople who had originally surrounded the few people dispersed at the same time.

Obviously, they also understood that those with guns were the bosses, and no one cared about the lovely Hugo at all.

Ukyo has never been good at speaking, but the basic logic of his speech is very clear. He tried to explain to these people in English that he is a psychic detective and that his purpose of coming here is to find his other friends, but this group of people still held the farm tools tightly in their hands, as if they didn't understand what he said.

Damn it! Caesar had clearly said that his Chinglish was concise and clear, and even his Italian friend could understand it. Why did it fail in rural America? Could it be that the American accent was so different from his Chinese London accent?

The stalemate was not eased until the woman in sunglasses came down from the tower.

She has a great figure, a very standard 7-head body, a thin waist, long legs, a perky butt, and just the right amount of fullness in her breasts. She wears a military green tactical vest on her upper body, exposing her belly button, and her mermaid line is very neatly trained. She wears camouflage military pants on her lower body, and the trouser legs are tucked into a pair of thick-soled long military boots.

The guy walked up to Youjing, took off his sunglasses, and looked at this handsome young man with a typical Chinese face.

"You look good." This was her first opening remark.

"Don't mind it. It's the sheriff's order here to never put down our weapons. They all obey the sheriff."

While the girl was looking at Ukyo, Ukyo was also looking at her. This woman not only had a regular figure, but also regular facial features. She had the standard "three-part and five-eye" face that all art students dream of. She had a pair of very standard American eyes with red pupils, long eyelashes, and a three-dimensional nose bridge below, but she did not have the "big nose" that most foreign beauties look weird in their eyes.

Her lips were painted with a shiny light cherry lip gloss, it seemed that there was no shortage of cosmetics in the town.

Ukyo knew her, he had just seen the action movie this guy starred in not long ago.

"Shirley Quentin?"

There was a hint of surprise in the other person's eyes.

"The handsome boy actually knows me?"

The heroine of "The Land Where Death Falls".

"If I remember correctly, you should be 19 years old? I didn't expect you to be trapped in this small town. Is this a case of asking for trouble in some sense?"

Shirley's brows furrowed in thought. "Have people around you ever told you that you speak rudely?"

Behind Ukyo, Komari and Yanami suddenly agreed and nodded.

Sulli is a pure action movie star. She performed all the difficult special moves in the movie by herself. The Sinking Place is her debut work. It is said that the producer of this movie is her brother.

Yanai's first impression of her was pretty good, but the word "handsome boy" made her a little unhappy. This American girl was a little too enthusiastic. I heard that American girls are super quick-attack types. If they like a boy during the day, they will make a move on him that night, especially beautiful girls. The success rate of "hunting for beauty" is close to 100%.

Yanaijian suddenly felt a sense of crisis.

Volume 106: Chapter 5: Xiaoju Zhihua's Second Defeat~ (k)

"Gurgle, gurgle~~" Her stomach was still growling.

It was a bit inappropriate to mention the amount of food at this time, as her boss was negotiating with the other party's superior.

Is this American girl the boss here? She just said that everyone here listens to the sheriff. Could this American girl in front of me be the sheriff of the small town?

"I'm so sorry, dear guests from afar!"

Yanai was thinking about this when a muscular man with a cowboy hat and thick stubble on his chin walked out from behind the crowd. He was really tall, at least two meters tall, so he would have no problem playing basketball.

"Mister! Ukyo! I often see your demon-slaying slices!"

He bent his knees, his expression exaggeratedly happy. He pointed at Youjing from a distance with his index fingers. Then he strode over, put his arm around Youjing's shoulders, and said, "Don't get me wrong, Hugo and Bader are ignorant. I warned them not to attack outsiders. Everyone in this town should unite. Whether you're a stranger or not, since we're all trapped in this fucked-up place, we're all family."

“Many hands make light work!”

"Look at Shirley! She just got here three days ago, but we all get along just fine!"

Shirley rolled her eyes higher than the sky, and it was obvious that she was completely speechless. Ukyo guessed that when she first came, she must have been treated with slingshots and hunting bows.

Perhaps the people in the town are using this method to select their companions. Only those who survive slingshots and hunting bows are qualified to become townspeople here. If they are unfortunately shot by hunting bows or slingshots, their cars and food they carry with them will most likely be divided up by the villagers.

Under conditions of limited food resources, survival does require some extreme measures.

Shirley came over at this time and turned her slender waist to the side, where there was a sore that had not yet healed.

She continued to roll her eyes. "I was also attacked by a slingshot when I came here. Tom who arrived yesterday and the Thompson family who arrived the day before yesterday were also attacked by slingshots. They only use hunting bows when slingshots don't work. However, their bone arrowheads are round and not polished. They hurt when hit by them, but they are not fatal."

"They took all the sandwiches and snacks I brought for lunch," Shirley said emphatically. "And the canned food Tom brought, and the sausages the Thompsons were going to take to camp."

"Food is more like a pass here. You have to pay for food before you can join the town."

Shirley said, "Hugo should have told you about the situation when you came in. Death ghosts haunt this place at night. As long as you provide food, the townspeople will find you a place to stay. You should be familiar with the rules of spiritual resurrection, right? No living being can break these rules, and the Death ghosts that haunt the night, no matter how fast, powerful, or hard their shells, must follow them."

In the movie "Where the Dead End Goes", the Grim Reaper cannot enter human houses at night.

This is the advice given by the "superiors" in their tribe to these top hunters. Most of the reapers obey the orders of the "superiors", but there are also a small number of young and unwise people in the tribe who do not want to follow the teachings of the elders in the tribe and like to sneak attack houses in the wild, so this advice is not 100% effective.

However, in the movie, the young animal that broke into the human's house first stepped on the large animal trap set by the villa owner at the door, and then was fired at by the heroine, Shirley, who was standing in front of Ukyo, with an American-made Wesson M&P12...

The subsequent content of the movie is Shirley using the traps set early in the villa to fight against the "Grim Reaper", which is a bit similar to the protagonist in Home Alone using the traps set early in the morning to deal with the two robbers who broke into the house.

No one in the town thought that anyone could kill the Grim Reaper. When the Grim Reaper broke into Shirley's room, everyone thought she was dead, but Shirley managed to survive, and the next morning, she threw the Grim Reaper's body on the town's highway, successfully reaping the incredible and exaggerated expressions of the townspeople.

But when Ukyo arrived, he didn't see the body of the Grim Reaper in the middle of the road.

The real Shirley is obviously not a special forces soldier who once served in the Marine Corps as set in the movie. This was already known when Ukyo first entered the town. She couldn't even hide the reflection of the sniper scope.

So Ukyo already had a preconceived notion that Shirley was a "vase".

"I'm so sorry, we don't have any food." Ukyo looked at the plastic bottle of Coca-Cola in Xiaoju's hand and said to the tall police chief and Shirley, "If you don't believe me, you can send someone to search my car."

Ukyo's gaze was strong.