Chapter 605 The Heart of Freedom (25)
When he learned about these legends and their origins, Qu Tong was really excited. He understood that he was going to embark on the right path, and his future was extremely broad, even better than in the wilderness. A wasted life would be many times more fortunate, and this is something that no monk can refuse.
No one told him that the Evergreen Wood Meridians needed special nutrients as inhibitors to grow stably, otherwise it would gradually erode flesh and blood and turn the person into a plant.
It is okay not to join the company. In that case, he will not have free inhibitors to use. If he is expelled from the company, he can only go to the black market and buy it at a price that is twenty times the market price.
He couldn't go back.
The tribe's family members who knew the news did not blame Qu Tong too much. They comforted the young man at that time, saying that if he could advance to foundation building, they would also have a chance to move into a safe zone, and becoming a monk was indeed the right path.
But how could the company train a monk from the wilderness to become a foundation builder?
If the Ascension Monk does not practice formations or weapons, he will never be able to break through the bottleneck of his realm by himself in his entire life. After Qu Tong reaches the peak of Qi refining, he will no longer have the possibility of progress. .
In the final analysis, the reason why the company trained him is because the lives of people in the city are too expensive. It is really not worth the gain to send monks in the city to go out on field missions to explore the wilderness mineral veins. It is better to seize these wilderness areas with some talents. People, let them become fledgling monks who cannot leave the company, let them work, do the most dangerous jobs, get the most ordinary salary, and do not have to pay labor insurance.
In this case, Qutong can only accept it.
In this way, he worked for the company, went out to work, and gradually took root in Xuanye City. He got married and had a daughter. He lived a life that was neither rich nor poor, and he was able to support his hometown.
For the wilderness people, this is also a good ending.
The premise is that this is the ending.
On a New Year's Day, Qu Tong took his wife and daughter to the city center for a big meal. Although it was just the most ordinary boiled fish, the family was very happy, but on the way home after eating, they encountered something that could never be avoided in Xuanye City. Gang war.
It all started from a quarrel between two children of aristocratic families, and then it turned into a fight, and then the two sides got into a relationship and started fighting - this kind of thing would happen once every ten days and a half, but this time, Qu Tong was involved.
The stray bullet hit the gas pipe and caused an explosion, killing Qu Tong's wife and daughter in an instant. Qu Tong himself could withstand it because of his cultivation, but he was also stunned for a while by the impact.
When he recovered, he couldn't even find a few complete bones.
Angry? despair? sad?
Actually none.
After confirming that 'they are all dead', the overwhelming anger and hatred just surged into my heart, and Qutong was about to activate his full power and go to kill all those damn gang members and the children of the aristocratic family, His Tianji prosthetic body shut down.
The company detected his abnormal emotions and knew that he wanted to attack the two leading dandies, so it immediately shut down his prosthetic body, rendering him unable to move and leaving him half-kneeling on the ground. After the gang fight was over and both sides retreated, and when the heavy rain fell and all the blood and bones were washed away and corroded, the company's people came to retrieve him.
After becoming a company dog, even the heart is no longer free.
The scolding, admonitions and punishments from the company are all trivial matters. Qu Tong used his long-lost talent and wisdom to crack his prosthetic body and defected from Xuan Ye with a batch of company property. The city came to the wilderness.
He cannot return to his family and tribe, which will only implicate them, and the tribe will not welcome an ascended monk who defected to Xuanye City and is a potential demon. He has no roots or future, everything about him has been cut off, and he can only wander in the wilderness.
He can't even join the Guiyi Army: he has served the company for too long. If he was still in the city, the Guiyi Army might recruit him as an undercover informant, but he has left. There are many such half-crazy monks in the wilderness. The Rebels wouldn't risk taking him in.
He became a tribulation cultivator.
The Feathered Tribulation Cultivator at the ninth level of Qi Refining is enough to make the surrounding wilderness tribes and safe zone caravans compromise and pay protection fees instead of resisting. With his strength, Qu Tong can actually live a little more comfortably than in the city. , although he no longer has time to practice and analyze magic and principles to gain happiness, but at least he can live like a zombie, living freely and emptyly.
Until now. He has once again lost his self and soul, and will become a blade in the hands of others, to be used when needed and to die when not needed.
“Let’s go.”
After wiping the Tianji armor clean, even the company had never assigned him this level of weaponry in the past. Through the chip signal transmission, the armor unfolded like a shell, and he lay in it, with the outside of his spine covered Evergreen wood roots like tree roots are derived from the black carapace. They are connected with the armor, causing the blue spiritual patterns on the armor to light up layer by layer.
Tianji Armor completely wrapped it, and the steel humanoid said to Iron Skull: "It's time to complete the mission."
It's time... to die.
When he came to the ground, the sky was like fire and rain, and the tornadoes were like forests. Qu Tong was a little surprised - unlike those inexperienced real wilderness people, he had entered the city and the company after all. , knowing that the northwest battlefield basically has similar scenes all year round.
“If we catch that kid, the higher-ups will be willing to let us go, or even follow them.”
When Tie Shou said this, his somewhat bulging eyes were filled with hope. Qu Tong didn't know why he was a tribulation cultivator. The only thing he could know was looking at the photos. He was quite handsome when he was older. He looked like a gentle researcher, but because of an experimental accident or a fight, he became what he is now.
He longs to return to the city like a dream, which is completely opposite to Qu Tong who just wants a little freedom in the wilderness, but no matter what, they are just dogs now.
At this moment, the younger brother who was detecting from the outside also came to report: "Boss, second brother, there seems to be movement in front!"
"What is it? Monsters or those wilderness people?"
Tie Shou frowned, and his one eye seemed to really bulge out. He hurried to the observation platform at the entrance of the stronghold and saw a group of mercenaries gradually passing through the automatic sentry cannon through the blind spot in the fortress area. The firepower gradually approached the center of the fortress area, that is, the inside of their stronghold.
"Wait, isn't that our target?"
Suddenly, his eyes narrowed and focused on the front of the mercenary team, a figure who was extremely agile, operating a sword case to snipe the automatic turret: "An Xuan...yes, that's him!"
"He actually took the initiative to raid our camp?!"
(End of this chapter)