Author: The fog dissipates

"Master...where should we go?"

The little maid hugged him and urged nervously with a trembling voice.

A wave of memories came to mind, and Chu Ming's thoughts surged. He pointed in the direction behind the hotel and said: "Let's leave from the stables behind the hotel. There may still be horses trapped in the stables there."

Irina sniffed and nodded. She hugged Chu Ming and carefully stretched out her head to look into the corridor of the room.

Faint screams sounded from the room, and the entire corridor was covered with dragging bloodstains, left by Chu Ming's two escorts. There were many items and tattered clothes left by travelers on the wooden boards, and even some wooden doors were directly damaged.

It was smashed, leaving only bloody bedding and some body parts inside.

The little maid walked nervously along the wooden corridor, her steps gentle, for fear of making a big noise and attracting dark creatures.

She looked around the rooms, and when she saw the pieces of meat left in the broken rooms, her face turned pale.

"Young...Master, I'm scared."

Chu Ming withdrew his gaze from the room and comforted: "Irina is not afraid, they are just some wild beasts."

"Attention, there is movement in the front room. Throw the gold coin necklace at your feet over and have a look."

Irina opened her mouth and was stunned for a moment. Although she did not hear what Chu Ming said, she believed Chu Ming.

The little maid stopped, squatted down a little, put down the hammer, and threw the bloody gold necklace left in the corridor onto the wooden board in the front corridor.

Boom...gurgling... The gold necklace made a sound when it hit the floor, but its quality didn't seem to be very good. With just one hit, the gold coin with holes on it fell out and rolled towards the stair guardrail at the end of the corridor.

Irina's forehead was covered with sweat. She stared at the room in front of her in panic for a while. After seeing no movement inside, she breathed a sigh of relief and relaxed her tense body a little, "Master, it's not dangerous..."

Before the little girl finished speaking, there was a bang, and the wooden wall in front suddenly shattered, and a hound spitting out black flames jumped out. It stared at Chu Ming and Chu Ming with its bloody fierce eyes, as if it wanted to eat them alive.

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In an instant, Irina turned pale with fright and was about to scream.

"Shh!"

Chu Ming covered her mouth with his left hand, and at the risk of being burned by the black flames, he stretched out his right hand and strangled the Black Fire Hound by the neck.

"Roar...howl..."

The black fire hound struggled desperately in Chu Ming's hands. A huge force came from Chu Ming's palm. The black flames on the hound's body became hotter and hotter, burning his palm into a charred black blur.

"You're the one I've been waiting for!"

Chu Ming's face did not change due to the pain. His eyes were fixed on the Black Fire Hound, and his mental power quickly connected to form a spell model in his mind.

Lightning flashes!

This spell is the only thunder spell that Chu Ming knows. He has been practicing it for five years. Even if the lightning flash is mainly used to confuse the enemy with the flash and secondary damage, it can still shine with a different brilliance in his hands.

Sizzle!!

Purple thunder light flashed, intertwined with the pitch-black flames, and instantly spread throughout the body of the Black Fire Hound. It howled a few times, and its body temperature rose rapidly. The smell of burning and meat was emitted, and its hair was burned by the thunder fire.

ash.

When Chu Ming put down the hound in his hand, the dark creature was lying on the ground twisted, and the dark flames on its body were extinguishing.

The black fire hound could not be destroyed by the long-range damage of lightning flash alone, so he could only take the risk and let Irina lure it out and kill it with lightning flash at close range.

Although the Black Fire Hound died in the thunder and lightning, Chu Ming also felt uncomfortable. At this time, his palms were charred black, and red flesh was faintly exposed on the charred skin.

"Master, I shouldn't have said anything."

Irina looked at the injury on Chu Ming's hand, her nose that had stopped sobbing began to twitch again, and her eyes were filled with crystal tears.

"Ahem, you did a good job."

Of course Chu Ming would not reveal the fact that he used the two of them as bait, otherwise he would definitely scare the little maid.

He looked at the charred palm and frowned slightly. He could feel the burning pain from the wound and the crawling itching of the flesh.

Chu Ming's mind moved, and a simple spell model was constructed in his mind. A flash of green light appeared on his palm, and the granules on it squirmed, the charred skin fell off, and the wound temporarily scabbed.

He didn't know what dark creatures were waiting for him under the hotel, so Chu Ming didn't dare to spend too much mental energy to avoid being in an embarrassing situation where he couldn't resist the dark creatures, so he simply treated the wound.

Putting down his palm, Chu Ming looked at Irina, "Let's keep walking. Let's go out through the back door. There shouldn't be that many dark creatures there."

Irina sniffed, nodded, picked up the hammer, and walked carefully downstairs to the hotel with Chu Ming in her arms.

Along the way, the hotel rooms were empty, with only messy clothes left inside, as if some travelers had escaped in advance.

After Chu and Ming went downstairs, they carefully hid their figures by the guardrail of the stairs. While several dark creatures downstairs were still eating the bloody corpses, Irina quietly moved to the back door of the hotel.

She put Chu Ming down on the floor, carefully opened the back door of the hotel, and cautiously poked her little head out.

"Master, it seems there are no monsters here."

"Let's go to the stables and have a look."

"Um."

Irina carefully walked out of the back door with Chu Ming in her arms, and slowly walked toward the stables in the backyard.

But before they could get close to the stable, a sound of biting could be heard from behind the stable door, and the smell of blood wafted out.

Chu and Ming huddled in the corner and looked over quietly. They saw that most of the horses in the stables had disappeared. They seemed to have been taken away by the fleeing travelers. The only two horses left in the stables did not escape the darkness.

The creature's claws gradually turned into a corpse amidst the tragic screams.

Irina looked at Chu Ming with confused eyes, "Master, what should we do?"

Chu Ming thought for a while and looked at the attic of the wooden building behind the hotel. "Let's go up and have a look. Maybe going out of the city at this time is not a good choice."

Irina swallowed, overcame the fear in her heart, and walked toward the wooden building with Chu Ming in her arms.

Fortunately, the place was not visited by dark creatures yet. The two of them entered the attic smoothly and climbed up to the tiled roof of the wooden building through the skylight after a lot of effort.

Thump thump thump…

Irina walked carefully on the tile roof covered with dust and wild plants, and Chu Ming's vision circled around.

According to his observation, there seemed to be many dark creatures coming in the direction of the city gate. If the two of them fled towards the city gate, they would be surrounded by a tide of beasts, and the situation they would face would be even more desperate than being trapped in a hotel.

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If you don't escape to the city gate, where else can you go... The whole town has become a bloody purgatory. Many human corpses can be seen on the streets, as well as the corpses of some other races. On the corners of the streets, other houses

Screams could be heard from time to time in the shop.

After thinking for a while, Chu Ming turned his attention to the city.

If he remembered correctly, there was a mercenary guild near Erken Street, and they had their own mercenary group.

This town is named Bakr, named after a mage. However, after the death of this mage, the town of Bakr also declined a lot. It is estimated that the largest force in the town now is the mercenary guild stationed there.

mercenary group.

If the location of the mercenary group could be found, they might be able to escape from Beker Town with the help of mercenary cavalry.

But if he guesses wrong, if the mercenary group has escaped from Beker Town long ago, then his next actions will be in vain and will put himself in a certain death situation.

Chu Ming hesitated for a moment, then felt relieved when he thought that he still had four writings that he had not used yet.

Even if the writing fails due to this action, he can still make a new choice again. It only takes a month to recover the number of writings at a time, and the price is not unbearable.

It's just... Chu Ming's eyes moved and focused on Irina.

I'm afraid he will take this timid little maid on an adventure this time.

"Young...Master, what's wrong?"

Seeing Chu Ming staring at her, the little girl's blood-stained face showed a look of fear. She thought she had offended something she shouldn't have.

Chu Ming came back to his senses and shook his head, "It's okay. There are more and more dark creatures in the town. It is estimated that this hotel will be surrounded by dark creatures in a while. Let's leave here first. You follow my command. We

Be careful and go to the alley opposite first."

He pointed towards a dark alley in the street behind the hotel.

Although there is a high chance of encountering dark creatures there, as long as they can deal with the dark creatures inside, they can walk down the relatively safe alley to Erken Street.

"Okay, Master, let me help you go down."

The little maid nodded trustingly, hugged Chu Ming and walked down the wooden building, then secretly ran out through the back door.

"Roar……"

Several dark creatures that were munching on corpses suddenly paused, and turned to look at Chu Ming and the two who were sneaking around.

Irina was startled, her calves flew quickly, she panted and hugged Chu Ming and ran quickly into the alley. They circled in it several times. The crazy beast barking behind them gradually disappeared. The little maid stopped and said tiredly.

Panting.

"Irina, let's take a rest first."

"Okay, Master."

The little maid put Chu Ming down and squatted in the alley to rest.

After a while, when her breathing gradually stabilized, she picked up Chu Ming and walked through the alley according to the instructions.
To be continued...