Dawn of a New Era-Chapter 505 - 479: Tuoan City

Passing through a village.

The desolate village, old buildings, looked drab and gray.

The air seemed to be filled with a desperate and dark aura.

A group of dirty little children watched at the group, their small faces split and red from the cold wind, hands and ears covered in frostbite, their eyes full of unease with a hint of curiosity. As the group approached, they quickly scattered.

After Chen Shouyi passed by, he looked back.

He found that the group of children was still watching this way.

He exhaled a breath of white mist. The closer Chen Shouyi got to Tuoan City, the more oppressed he felt. The sky seemed to turn hazy, and the light dimmed.

It was somewhat like the Domain of Faith, yet entirely different.

More like some kind of... accumulation of negative emotions.

At this moment, he turned his head to look.

In the nearby reed thicket, a pair of fierce and cruel eyes stared unblinkingly at Chen Shouyi and his group.

Chen Shouyi raised his brow, and a lot of pebbles shot up from the ground into his hand.

He swung his hand violently.

Whoosh... whoosh...

Pebbles shot out like bullets, breaking a lot of reeds in the thicket.

Surprisingly, the shadow creature didn’t die. It let out a sharp scream, its body flickered, jumped out of the thicket, leaping seven or eight meters, and charged at the group.

Chen Shouyi didn’t move, while Zhu Xueqing stepped forward, her body like an arrow from a bowstring, the two passed each other in an instant.

In mid-air, the shadow creature’s movement stalled. In the next moment, its body was split in two, blood splattering everywhere.

"This shadow monster already has the strength of a great martial artist!" Zhu Xueqing said seriously after returning.

A great martial artist is nothing to a martial artist, but with the ability of this creature to blend into shadows for ambushes, it poses a considerable threat to her, especially at night, where a single misstep could lead to death.

...

After several consecutive attacks, the group finally reached Tuoan City.

"If things don’t go well today, everyone stays together tonight," Chen Shouyi said.

"With General Manager Chen here, we can rest easy," Wang Lie said with a smile.

Along the way, he had already discovered that General Manager Chen’s strength was far from just being a newly-acclaimed legendary figure.

He originally thought that even if the other party became a legend, the gap wouldn’t be significant since he himself was only a step away from being a legend, just one breakthrough short. But in reality, it was quite discouraging.

The other party was simply a monster, with strength that was unfathomable.

Sometimes, when the other party attacked, he couldn’t even see the movements clearly.

...

An old man lay stiffly on the roadside, motionless.

His body was covered in frost.

Evidently, he was already dead.

When passersby came across him, they all made detours.

The entire Tuoan City was dead silent, the ground littered with trash, every person’s eyes filled with deep unease and despair.

At this time, a commotion came from afar, and Chen Shouyi showed a hint of surprise on his face, exchanged a glance with the others, and then moved to the roadside with the crowd.

Soon, a group of people wearing black clothes came, beating gongs, blowing suonas, making a ruckus all the way, scattering flyers from time to time. An old man with a goat beard, leading, sang in a melodious tune:

"The heaven has eyes, rewards good, punishes evil, good and evil will have their retribution..."

Chen Shouyi picked up a crude flyer printed in ink and glanced at it.

"Redemption Sect!"

The flyers were filled with bewitching words, claiming that as long as you joined, you could keep your family safe.

"It seems that as society panics, all sorts of monsters and demons come out," Chen Shouyi noted that many pedestrians had already shown interest, tightly clutching the paper.

In just half an hour, the group had encountered several waves of cult propaganda teams. It was simply a parade of demons. The entire city had no sign of police or soldiers, yet miraculously, there was no chaos.

No riots, no looting, and certainly no murders in broad daylight.

There seemed to be an invisible deterrent preventing all this, barely maintaining basic order.

But it was just... basic order.

Unattended frozen corpses, streets like garbage dumps, the despair-ridden civilians like walking corpses, the whole city gave Chen Shouyi the feeling of slowly rotting, covered in maggots.

The group walked into a narrow, deserted alley.

"I can’t take it anymore," Zhu Xueqing exhaled a breath of white air, saying.

The environment here made her inexplicably agitated and oppressed, she suspected she would go crazy if she stayed too long.

"Something is very wrong here!" Wang Lie said gravely.

Chen Shouyi was about to speak when he suddenly put a finger to his lips. Then he flashed and broke through a wall, instantly piercing the chest of a shadow creature, retrieving his fist, shaking off the blood.

He then turned to look behind, spotting several more shadow creatures appearing at the entrance of the alley.

One shadow creature was much larger than the others encountered. Even though it was slightly hunched, it stood two and a half meters tall, and if it stood straight, it could be three meters. The black shimmering silhouette made it look somewhat blurred, at first glance, just like a mass of shadows, exuding a chilling aura all over.

"There’s also in front," Zhu Xueqing reminded, drawing her sword, her body tense, as if facing a formidable enemy.

"And above, we’re surrounded!" Wang Lie also changed color, quickly drawing his sword and forming a wedge with Zhu Xueqing.

"I’ll go to the rooftop," Chen Shouyi said.

"Okay!" Wang Lie replied.

The buildings on both sides of the alley were two to three stories high. He lightly leaped and easily reached the top. A shadow creature, just about to pounce, had its head chopped off by a flicker of a sword light.

With a few continuous slashes, he cleared the rooftop of shadow creatures ready to ambush.

At this moment, the shadow creatures below could no longer hold back, charging towards Zhu Xueqing and Wang Lie.

Chen Shouyi’s lips curved slightly; he was not afraid of being besieged. His hand blurred, and the long sword was sheathed. He drew out a war bow and arrow from the space, nocked an arrow, and pulled it into a full moon, aiming at the largest shadow creature, firing an arrow.

The five-thousand-pound war bow let out a "boom!"

The terrifying shadow creature, running at high speed, was instantly hit as if struck by a heavy cannon, its chest exploding with a large hole. At the same time, its body was knocked back, tumbling over from the massive impact force.

Chen Shouyi shot arrows swiftly, his hands like afterimages.

In no time, arrows rained down like a storm.

Within less than half a second, the last shadow creature, one or two meters away from the two, was blown in half by arrows.

Chen Shouyi wrapped up and jumped down from the rooftop.

Wang Lie, in a daze, sheathed his sword, looking at Chen Shouyi, opening his mouth but not knowing what to say.

Too fast.

He and Zhu Xueqing hadn’t even touched a hair on the shadow creatures, and all of the twenty-something shadow creatures had already been shot dead in an instant.

Right, where did his bow come from?

At this moment, he suddenly realized.