This isn't a souls-like game at all.

Hearing Ye Yiyi's voice, Si Luo, who was a little distraught, raised his head and looked at the intercom with lifeless eyes.

"Hehehe, meat man..."

Ars sneered darkly and hoarsely.

"...A human whose soul has been plundered, leaving only flesh and blood, isn't that just a flesh-man, a mere form? What an apt description... Yes! That's right! That's one of my achievements!!"

Hearing this, the last glimmer of light in Si Luo's eyes dimmed.

"What? Nameseeker, you're not...sympathizing with those uncivilized monkeys, are you?"

Ars stretched out his voice strangely, then laughed madly in a low voice.

"Hehehe, you are indeed like that, the Name Seeker. Your compassion for the weak makes you a natural born hero~~"

"Ugh……"

Ye Yiyi closed his eyes and sighed deeply.

"Then choose! Hero!!"

Ars suddenly raised his tone and spoke loudly.

"Should I save my Fulton or those uncivilized monkeys?

"I advise you to think carefully. The Truth Core is a giant composite structural magical catalyst. Without my help, you can't shut it down on your own!"

"Do I even need to think about this kind of thing?"

Ye Yiyi shook his head expressionlessly and answered without any hesitation.

"I want to save the people of Fulton and Campbell, but Yars, there's something I want you to think clearly about!"

His tone was cold and there was murderous intent in his eyes.

“I saved Fulton because I promised him that I would rescue you, the damn bastard, and bring you to him!

"I never break a promise, so I will save him and won't let him die... I won't save him just because you tell me to."

He placed the syringe on his chest and pressed the injection button with a "click"!

"Pfft!"

A faint white gas spurted out, and the iron cap at the back of the syringe opened, ejecting an empty sealed glass tube.

He raised his hand and grabbed the glass tube, his vertical pupils glowing with golden light looking forward coldly.

"As for your matter, Ars, I'll talk to you privately later!"

"Hehehehe..."

Ars didn't answer, but just let out a low, crazy laugh, and then the sound disappeared.

Looking at the walkie-talkie whose red light was gradually dimming, Ye Yiyi threw it to Si Luo with his backhand and took out the [Ars's Secret Pendant] from behind.

"Sha...Shaliwan..."

Si Luo hurriedly caught the intercom and asked in a daze.

"Are we...really going to rescue Fulton?"

"What? Don't you want to?"

Ye Yiyi raised the magic pendant and sniffed it, remembering the scent left by Fulton.

"I'm not sure if there are other puppets here. It's best for you to follow me until you find a safe place."

Glancing at the faint red that appeared in the green light, he turned his head to look at the hesitant Si Luo and heard him say:

"No, that's not what I meant... Although Master Fulton's temper isn't very good, he still respects us guards..."

"So you mean..."

"After we find the young master, please allow me to escort him to Ars."

Si Luo did not look at him, but lowered his head and looked at the remains of the puppet at his feet, and whispered:

“After all, I’m still the guard of the Ars family… and besides, Master Salivan has other important things to do, right?

"Please allow me to help you with your promise... I will bring the young master to Ars."

"..."

Ye Yiyi didn't say anything, just narrowed her eyes.

Si Luo's words are somewhat duplicity...

But after thinking about it, he didn't refuse.

"I understand. I'll have Lupel escort you to see Ars then."

"Yeah!" Si Luo nodded heavily.

Following the red scent trail along the dark bottomless pit, they headed forward, passing through severely damaged ruins along the way. Soon, they came to a messy garden.

"Wait a minute, there are enemies."

Reaching out to stop Si Luo who was thinking about something, Ye Yiyi stood in the corner and looked into the garden.

“Ding, ding…”

In the middle of the messy garden, several red-eyed puppets were wandering aimlessly.

"It's those ancient creations, but they seem a little different?"

Si Luo frowned and looked at the puppet, and whispered:

"When Lupel and I were escaping, we encountered those ancient creatures before, but their limbs were very sharp, like awls... But now, how come they suddenly turned into human hands and feet?"

"That's probably because they ate humans."

Smelling the strong smell of blood in the air, Ye Yiyi lowered his eyes to the corpse in the corner whose stomach had been ripped open and limbs torn into pieces.

There were so many corpses that they almost formed a small hill.

Among them were men and women, and even several fully armed Knights of the Law.

The garden here is some distance away from the deep pit, and the attack of the Vacuum Seat did not cause much impact here.

Therefore, the hills of broken limbs and corpses could only be the tragedy caused by the puppets.

But if you think about it carefully, the best way to capture the soul is to kill it.

In other words, as long as you kill, you can absorb the soul, just like Ye Yiyi absorbed the soul echo.

Therefore, in this situation, efficient killing methods are particularly important.

But after seeing the mountain of corpses in the garden, Ye Yiyi had a question in his mind.

Why do these puppets tend to use cruel methods to kill?

Or, if I don't do this, I won't be able to absorb the soul?

Thinking of this, he shifted his gaze and looked at the red-eyed puppets whose appearance had changed drastically.

Unlike the puppets with cone-like limbs that were killed before, the bodies and heads of these puppets in the garden remained unchanged, but their limbs changed from cones to human limbs.

What made Ye Yiyi feel even more weird was that he discovered that the human-like limbs on different puppets showed obvious differences!

To give a simple example, the limbs of the puppet wandering beside the mountain of corpses look very strong, and even the convexity and concavity of the muscles are perfectly simulated.

The one not far behind it had particularly slender and long limbs.

If Ye Yiyi had to describe them, the former was a burly man, while the latter was a slender woman.

"Could this also be related to the reason why they devour souls?"

Ye Yiyi thought in his heart, then raised his eyes to look at a big tree with branches and leaves scattered by the strong wind next to one of the piles of corpses.

The trail of red scent ended abruptly at the roots of the tree.

"Trees..." Ye Yiyi looked thoughtful.

He didn't think Fulton would die here so easily. They had even survived the bombardment of the Vacuum Unit before.

In other words, there must be something strange about that tree.

In short, clear the monsters first.

"wait for me."

After giving a warning to Si Luo, whose face looked pale and ugly, Ye Yiyi took a step forward and revealed his figure from the cover.

"Roar!!"

A puppet wandering not far away noticed his presence and immediately raised its head. A slit under its bright red eyes suddenly opened, and then it let out a strange roar.

"Is that a mouth?"

Staring at the face of the puppet, Ye Yiyi suddenly felt something strange.

These things...why are they becoming more and more like humans?

Although he was confused, his hands did not slow down at all.

He stretched out his right hand, and a small half of the blue light gun popped out, followed by a bright light.

“Sah!!”

A magic comet with a long tail suddenly shot out and smashed the puppet's forehead with lightning speed.

Soul Echo +1035

"Bang!"

The headless body of the puppet fell to the ground with a bang just after it took a step forward, and it lost its power.

"Taller than a dog."

Scanning the prompts that popped up on the light screen, Ye Yiyi nodded with satisfaction.

“Roar! Roar!!”

"Sand! Shark!"

"Ruqin... Roar!!"

As the first puppet fell, the originally quiet garden suddenly became chaotic.

The puppets let out strange human-like roars and swung their legs as they rushed towards Ye Yiyi.

"Sand? Kill? It really is a puppet that has eaten souls..."

Muttering to himself, he drew the sword of justice from behind him, and faced the many puppets that were coming like a tide, kneeling slightly and gathering his strength.

Combat skill: Spin and slash!

He suddenly leaped out, his streamlined dragon body spinning at high speed in the air like a bullet shot out of a barrel, and the two swords raised in front of his head slashed in all directions like an electric fan!

"Clang clang clang!!"

Dense metallic buzzing sounds rang out one after another, and the red-eyed puppets that were crowded together and rushing towards him were immediately cut in half by the high-speed rotating swords, with their bodies and limbs cut off.

Ye Yiyi fell into the group of puppets like a cannonball, and broke through their formation in just a moment.

Then he did a front flip onto the ground, and then took advantage of the momentum to launch a series of heavy attacks and continuous spinning slashes!

His body spun like a top, and the long swords pointing at the surroundings made a whistling sound when they struck!

No puppet could get close to the whirlwind created by the fierce sword dance.

The iron body was cut apart by the overwhelming force just by approaching it!

After one move, most of the puppets present were killed, and the remaining few were covered with scars as if they had been cut by knives and axes, with deep scars visible to the bones!

"This combat technique is quite useful."

Ye Yiyi swung his sword to deflect the arm of a puppet that was hitting him, then used another sword to pierce the puppet's forehead and cut off its head.

Then he bent his knees and jumped out again, using his combat skills to spin and slash, killing all the remaining puppets.

"Is this... over?"

Si Luo looked at the garden where no puppets were standing anymore, and couldn't help rubbing his eyes, feeling a little bit unbelievable.

From start to finish, it took less than twenty seconds, right?

Looking at Ye Yiyi again, he had already put away his weapon and was looking for spoils among the wreckage of the puppet on the ground.