Global Card Master: Start Awakening the Classic of Mountains and Seas

Chapter 253 [Shadow Core]

Jiang Ming and his three companions sat down at the bar. The woman in the red dress naturally moved closer to Jiang Ming. There was a hint of amusement in her eyes, and she seemed not surprised by Jiang Ming's appearance.

The bartender quickly brought four glasses of Flaming Red Lips. The red liquid swayed in the glass like a dancing flame.

Jiang Ming casually raised a glass and handed it to the woman beside him. She took it with a chuckle, opened her red lips slightly, and took a sip.

"Are you guys from the Special Investigation Bureau always so direct?" The woman's voice was a little hoarse. Her eyes swept over Jiang Ming and the other three one by one, full of interest.

Jiang Ming didn't say anything, but sat next to her and looked at her suspiciously.
Is this thing for men and women?
How come the gender was changed after changing the skin, or was she originally a female?

However, the opponent's real body is not here, so it would be useless even if we suddenly kill him now.

"You like reading?"

Jiang Ming picked up the wine glass and shook it, but did not take a sip.

The woman's expression froze as she recalled the scene in the room where her head was chopped off without any reaction.

Then he looked at Jiang Ming with resentment: "Master Jiang He was too harsh."

Seeing this scene, Jiang Ming almost couldn't help but jump up on the spot and smash the opponent's head.

Especially when you know that the other person can be a man or a woman.

"What is your religion for?"

However, when he thought about the actual situation, Jiang Ming still controlled his temper and asked.

"you guess?"

I didn't expect that the woman was still on the verge of madness, she winked and said playfully.

"You don't really think that I can't do anything to you if your real body isn't here?"

Jiang Ming put away his smile and looked at the other person calmly.

The woman seemed to sense Jiang Ming's change, and her smile faded a little, but she still maintained that playful attitude.

"My time is precious. I don't want to play guessing games with you here." Jiang Ming's voice was low, with a hint of unquestionable majesty.

A hint of surprise flashed in the woman's eyes. She obviously didn't expect Jiang Ming to be so direct. She sighed softly, as if she felt helpless about Jiang Ming's directness.

"Master Jiang He, you are so impatient." The woman said softly, with a serious look in her eyes, "We in the Shadow Sect are just looking for a way to escape. The end of the world is approaching, and we just want to find a refuge for our believers."

Jiang Ming's mouth twitched slightly. These evil cults always have such high-sounding reasons.

However, those who do things behind the scenes are not aware of each other, they are all just for their own selfish desires.

"Refuge? I think you are looking for control and power." Jiang Ming's voice was full of sarcasm, "Skinning others and playing other people's lives, what? Is other people's skin your refuge?"

The woman's expression changed slightly, and a hint of anger flashed in her eyes. Her body trembled slightly, as if she was suppressing her emotions.

"You don't understand, Lord Jiang He." The woman's voice suddenly turned cold. "You high and mighty people will never understand our pain and struggle. We are just looking for a way to survive, but you always come to destroy it."

Jiang Ming was not shaken by the woman's words. He paid at least 800 yuan for such polite talk, if not a thousand.

Wearing someone else's skin and saying you are looking for a shelter is pure nonsense.

Jiang Ming's eyes were as cold as ice. He stared at the woman closely, as if he wanted to see through her soul.

The woman felt a chill under his gaze, but she still maintained that playful attitude, even though her heart had begun to waver.

"We in the Shadow Sect pursue transcending the constraints of the flesh and achieving freedom of the soul." The woman's voice was a little seductive. "We are not peeling people's skin, but helping them to free themselves from the shackles of the flesh and sublimate their souls."

Jiang Ming tried his best to hold back his desire to laugh. "Beyond the constraints of the flesh? I think you are enjoying the pleasure of controlling others and using their identities to satisfy your own selfish desires."

The woman's expression became even uglier, and a hint of murderous intent flashed in her eyes. "Master Jiang He, you are insulting our faith."

Jiang Ming looked at him with disdain, "Faith? Are you a cult like yours qualified to talk about faith?"

The woman took a deep breath, and a trace of determination flashed in her eyes. "Since Lord Jiang He insists so much, then I have nothing to say." Her voice suddenly became low, with a strange rhythm, "But, do you really think you have mastered everything?"

Jiang Ming frowned slightly.

Suddenly, the music in the bar stopped and the originally lively crowd suddenly became quiet.

At this moment, all the people who were originally dancing turned their heads and stared at Jiang Ming and the other three strangely.

but
Jiang Ming, Fan Huai and the others were not surprised at all.

Just watch this scene quietly.

Jiang Ming noticed something was wrong as soon as he entered the bar.

People here
All dead.

In other words, it's just a dead person covered with a layer of human skin.

So Jiang Ming did not take action immediately.

Because I'm not sure I can kill all the people here in one go, it would be bad if a few of them escape into the busy city outside.

So Jiang Ming has actually been waiting.

Wait for support from the Special Investigation Bureau to arrive, and then surround the entire bar.

"I'm also curious as to why you feel that I don't have control over everything?"

So when Jiang Ming saw this, he turned around and looked at the woman with a strange expression.

As soon as the words fell, the entire bar froze instantly, freezing some people.

Others reacted before the ice crystals appeared and immediately rose into the air and left the ground.

"We are surrounded. How dare you."

At the same time, a message from Feng Cheng came on the panel.

Originally, he didn't expect that Jiang Ming and his team would not deal with a cult gang in the first place.

But after hearing about the incident, he immediately rushed over from home with his people.

If someone with such strange abilities gets away tonight, it will be very difficult to catch him.

The woman was not surprised at all when she saw this.

He drank the wine in the glass in one gulp and then threw the glass to the ground.

The ice crystals on the ground shattered instantly.

As the wine glass shattered, the woman's figure became blurred at the moment the ice crystals shattered, and her body began to gradually dissipate, as if it was about to blend into the air.

"Do you think you can escape like this?" Jiang Ming said coldly, and the thunder in his right hand directly covered the entire bar.

The woman's figure gradually condensed in the air, and her eyes revealed a hint of madness, "Jiang Ming, do you really think you can stop me? You don't know our strength at all!"

Jiang Ming did not answer, his eyes were fixed on the woman.

"Do you think your little tricks can stop me?" There was a hint of sarcasm in the woman's voice.

The next moment, she appeared on the other side of the bar, with a hint of madness in her eyes, "Jiang Ming, you don't know our strength at all!"

"I don't know your strength? Then I'm very interested in seeing it." Jiang Ming's voice was calm, but the power contained in it could not be underestimated.

"Jiang Ming, you will soon find out that everything you do is in vain." There was a hint of pride in the woman's voice, and she seemed to have some kind of trump card.

Jiang Ming didn't answer, his body suddenly moved.

The figure appeared in front of the woman like a flash of lightning. The power of thunder in his right hand condensed into a dazzling beam of light, which blasted directly towards the woman.

There was a hint of surprise in the woman's eyes. She obviously did not expect Jiang Ming to be so fast.

Her body quickly retreated while her hands drew complex symbols in the air. A dark force surged out of her body, forming a protective shield.

The power of thunder collided with the power of darkness, causing a deafening explosion.

Everything in the bar was shattered by this force, only Jiang Ming and the woman remained standing in the explosion.

A hint of madness flashed in the woman's eyes, and her body began to change and expand rapidly. Then it exploded on the spot.

The scene instantly fell into chaos, and the woman obviously didn't care about the lives of the other "dead people" in the bar.

The woman's body was shattered into countless pieces in the explosion, and these pieces quickly reassembled in the air to form a huge black sphere.

And the human skins that were originally on the ground began to rush towards the black ball.

After approaching the black ball, the human skin shrank rapidly, and a black gas floated out from the air and merged into the black ball.

The black ball was suspended in the center of the bar, and its surface was constantly flashing with dark purple light, as if countless shadows were wriggling inside it.

The diameter of the sphere exceeded ten meters, and the air around it became distorted and oppressive.

The surface of the black ball is not smooth, but is covered with eye-like patterns that constantly open and close, and each opening and closing seems to swallow the surrounding light.

The sphere was surrounded by circles of black mist, which seemed to have life and kept flowing into the sphere, making the sphere even larger and more terrifying.

As more and more human skin was absorbed, the volume of the black ball began to expand rapidly.

The lights in the bar became dimmer, as if all the light was swallowed up by this black ball.

A vortex began to appear in the center of the black ball, which kept spinning and making a low roaring sound.

The vortex was spinning faster and faster, sucking everything around it in, not even the debris and dust on the ground could escape.

Jiang Ming and the other three were just spectators from beginning to end.

mainly.
If we don't clean up these dirty things in one go, who knows what tricks they'll come up with.

So I kept hearing a woman's voice coming from the black ball.

With a hint of madness: "Jiang Ming, you can't stop us!!!"

Jiang Ming then got down from the chair.

"Are these your last words?"

Peel off the skin of all the people in the factory, and in the end you will create a creature that is neither human nor ghost.

Jiang Ming really wanted to slap her twice.

It is better to focus your mind on the right path. Sooner or later, you will be better than this black ball.

When Heiqiu heard Jiang Ming's words, he was stunned for a moment.

Then it stopped in the air, unable to move.

The next second, Jiang Ming's figure appeared in front of Hei Qian, with Tai'a in his hand wrapped with Red Lotus Prison Thunder, and he stabbed forward directly.

There seemed to be no obstruction between the two and it was easily inserted.

However, a shocking scene happened.

The eye pattern on the surface of the black ball was spinning wildly at this moment, as if it was about to peel off from the black ball.

Jiang Ming immediately pulled out Tai'a again.

This thing doesn't seem to be human power?

But that's all, the eyeballs can only keep moving but can't do anything.

Jiang Ming felt a little sick watching this scene.

In order not to dirty Taia, the blade of the monitor storm surged out from behind and directly covered the entire surface of the black ball.

The Red Lotus Prison Thunder became a chain between the blades.

Even a gold-level fighter would find it difficult to withstand the combination of these two moves, let alone this black ball of unknown origin.

The black ball began to vibrate violently, and the eye patterns on the surface exploded one by one. Each explosion was accompanied by a muffled sound. Cracks began to appear on the surface of the black ball, and dark purple light flickered in the cracks.

Seeing this, Jiang Ming stepped back and threw Fan Huai, Xiang Yao and Shen Meng out of the bar.

The two time stops have just ended.

The surface of the black ball finally couldn't withstand the force inside and exploded.

A powerful shock wave spread out from the center of the black ball, distorting the surrounding air.

The force of the explosion engulfed everything in the bar; tables, chairs, wine bottles, and decorations were all sucked in and torn to pieces.

The shock wave swept through the entire bar like a gust of wind, destroying all movable objects. Flames and thick smoke quickly filled the space, and the walls and ceiling of the bar began to collapse under the force of the explosion, with rubble and debris flying everywhere.

In the ruins of the bar, flames shot up into the sky. In the crater left by the explosion of the black ball, lava-like material was rolling inside, emitting a scorching temperature.

Feng Cheng was standing at the door of the bar, lighting a cigarette, and preparing to call someone in to clean up the mess.

As a result, three figures were seen being thrown out.

The person next to him subconsciously went over to catch it.

There was an explosion.

The gust of wind directly overturned several cars parked at the door, and people who were close to it were also blown away.

Feng Cheng just lit a cigarette and burned it all in one breath.

"My Hair"

Looking at the ruined bar in front of him, Feng Cheng immediately shouted to others: "Rescue!!!"

The three people who were thrown out just now were Fan Huai and others.

And Jiang Ming is still inside.

Before he could shout, Fan Huai had already turned into a stone man and rushed back.

Yet the ruins are still moving.

The debris of the houses nearby were sinking deeper into the ground in the middle of the bar.

Heat waves rushed in from the deep pit.

Only Fan Huai and Xiang Yao were able to get close.

But before they could go down, a figure broke through the hot debris and rushed into the sky.

It’s Jiang Ming.

Fan Huai and Xiang Yao breathed a sigh of relief when they saw this.

"What the hell"

The first thing Jiang Ming said when he landed on the ground was to swear.

"What's wrong, Brother Ming?"

Fan Huai had shrunk back to human size and stepped forward to ask.

Everything that happened between Jiang Ming and the black ball just now was in a state of time suspension, so Fan Huai and the others didn't know what happened.

Jiang Ming did not answer, but threw the card in his hand to him.

[Shadow Core]

[Level: None]

[Quality: None]

[Type: None]

[Description: This is a product without any quality assurance, but surprisingly useful. When equipped in a card slot, you can obtain random abilities to replace your natal card.]

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