I am a former Flame Chasers

Blood flowed along the gravel, and the headless corpse was still trembling under the influence of nerve endings. The air was suddenly filled with a lot of fishy smell, which was nauseating.

Swoosh——

The spear swung, and the remaining blood left a straight line on the ground. Ryan stood on tiptoe and jumped over the blood that was like a stream.

He was not a germaphobe, but the horrible truth had not been revealed yet, so he had to leave some illusions for those who did not know the truth. Ryan just glanced lightly across the yard with a frown on his face.

"Not only has the frequency increased, but the scale has also increased. The area has been completely contaminated."

The air is filled with energy that is invisible to the naked eye. This is the energy of Honkai. This energy will appear randomly and then create disasters of different levels according to the concentration, including but not limited to infecting wild animals and humans, causing mutations or deaths, viruses and natural disasters.

To put it simply, energy itself can be seen as a kind of deadly "radiation". All living things within the range will undergo mutations, and even natural disasters such as volcanic eruptions may occur. The disasters it causes are collectively referred to as "Honkai phenomena."

"If someone who doesn't have this kind of energy adaptability is suddenly exposed to such radiation intensity, they will die immediately without even having the chance to turn into a monster."

Through the half open door of the shed, Ryan could see a young man and woman dead in bed, with unique crystallized lines appearing on the surface of their skin.

The Honkai radiation is invisible and pervasive, posing a deadly threat to ordinary people.

"We have to speed up to avoid being asked questions by Kevin."

Withdrawing his gaze, he randomly found a building and walked into it. There was no need to play hide and seek against these Honkai monsters. They would come out on their own at the slightest noise.

The sky had completely darkened, the street lights in the corridor had long been sold for money, and the stench of excrement in the cramped corners and the constant emergence of deformed monsters made everything look like a scene from a horror movie.

Ryan knew that it would be impossible to recover if he became a dead soldier, so he just swung his spear, stabbing the enemies to death accurately and efficiently, until he reached the fourth floor, where he paused slightly.

boom!

The floor shattered directly, and with the exploding rocks, a blurry shadow fell from it, hitting the place where Ryan had just stood, poking two large holes in the floor.

Hoho...

It lay on the ground, making a low hissing sound. It looked like a female, but its body had long been deformed. It was staring at Ryan with frantic eyes. What was even more striking was that it had mutated into crystal like claws.

"Razor Claw?"

Ryan raised his eyebrows slightly. Just as everyone's adaptability to Honkai energy varies, mutations can also vary in strength.

"Unfortunately, this is not a good thing. Unless you can resist the erosion of consciousness by Honkai energy, it is better to have zero adaptability and die directly."

Ryan took a half step back to the side and raised the gun with one hand.

clang!

Bright sparks exploded, spears and crystals made metallic hums, and the Razor Claw warriors were slapped away like pieces of paper.

But she was extremely agile. She quickly adjusted her posture in the air, stepped on the wall like a cat, and then rebounded at a speed that ordinary people could hardly see.

"Without consciousness, she kills everything based on instinct. She is just a monster."

Ryan took a lunge and rushed towards the Razor Claw, and just before the energy hit him -

Suddenly stabbed forward.

An inch longer, an inch stronger. The spear penetrated directly from the head and then came out from the crotch. The clawed assassin then flew over Ryan head, relying on inertia to fly a few more meters, and finally exploded in the air like a bloated balloon.

The gun fired extremely fast, and blood and flesh splattered all over the corridor. Ryan shirt was still snow-white, and he gently held the slippery gun.

After a moment, white smoke emerged from the gun, evaporating the blood. Humans still have only a partial understanding of this energy, and there are only a few people who can control it.

"Fortunately, I am one of them who have embarked on this destiny." Ryan turned around with his gun horizontally, and saw another Razor Claw assassin rushing towards him silently, so he slapped him with his gun horizontally.

Bang!

If people are like pieces of paper, they can make a hole in a one foot thick wall.

"Controlling this energy makes me like a superman. This is the basis for my survival."

Ryan did not stop. He ran a few steps quickly, stepped on the guardrail, and jumped out of the fourth floor. Turning his head, he saw a whole wall behind him shattered, and several white monsters rushed out. They spread their wings and crashed into him like a cannonball.

Boom, boom, boom.

With a series of muffled sounds, the apartment building opposite suddenly exploded into a cloud of dust, and broken glass and stones splashed all over the sky. Ryan was pulled down by gravity, and stabbed the spear into the wall of the third floor. He held the gun with both hands, and rotated a circle like a gymnastics horizontal bar, then squatted on the trembling gun handle, looking at the dust opposite.

"Oh, it's a breakthrough level Honkai beast."

Unlike the dead soldiers who were mutated from humans, these strange creatures are pure aggregates of Honkai energy, so they are simply called Honkai beasts. Generally speaking, strength is proportional to size, and this Honkai beast, which is not even as big as a human, is jokingly called a mosquito.

Just when Ryan stood firm, there were some sharp whistles in the air, and a blurry white shadow flew back from the opposite side. Ryan raised his hand to grasp the spear, pulled it out with his waist and abdomen, and then slapped it forward continuously while falling.

Shotgun.

Ding ding ding boom!

Sparks flew from the spears and the hard skin of the Honkai beasts. They were knocked away like balls and embedded in the wall, causing the entire apartment building to tremble, while they counted silently in their hearts.

One, two, three...

When the count reached five, Ryan, who was also knocked back to the corridor by inertia, turned around quickly and rushed to the front of the Honkai beasts when they spread their wings again, holding the end of the spear in his hand.

There were no fancy skills. The spear was as smooth as a dragonfly skimming the water, accurately piercing the body of each Honkai beast, and the skin that even rifle bullets could hardly penetrate was directly pierced through.

After five shots and five lives, Ryan did not look at the corpse of the Honkai beast. He let out a breath, turned sideways, and held the black gun upright at his side.

Boom, boom, boom!

There was a series of sounds of shattering walls approaching rapidly, and a knight like shadow pounced in front of him. The humanoid creature on its back held a huge lance horizontally, and the Honkai energy formed a spiral airflow at the tip of the lance.

Sizzle——

Ryan had already turned sideways in advance, watching the lance grinding out large sparks in the center of the black gun. Just as the Honkai beast staggered past, it suddenly jumped up, and its speed was much faster than before.

"Get out of here."

The high raised spear was slammed down fiercely, and there was a dull sound like a bell. The corridor, which had been in disrepair for a long time, was completely shattered, allowing the hundreds of pounds of Honkai beast to smash through three floors in a row and fall directly into the courtyard full of corpses.

Ryan still didn't stop. He twisted his wrist and fell on his back, surging like water, sending the spear backwards.

Looking back at the gun.

Another knight level Honkai beast had arrived behind him and was about to attack from behind, but unfortunately Ryan gun was faster and sharper.

puff.

The spear tip pierced through the body, and the Honkai beast strong vitality allowed it to continue moving forward, continuing to stab the opponent chest with the lance, but Ryan had turned around, squatting on the ground in a horse stance, using his left hand as a lever.

pick!

The black metal bent slightly, and the Honkai beast weighing hundreds of pounds flew up, followed by two muffled "bang bang" sounds.

The Honkai beast that was picked up and flew smashed the wall to pieces. At the same time, another Honkai beast that was knocked down had half of its body buried in the ground. It raised its head and saw Ryan falling from the hole right after it. The man and the gun became one, like a red meteor.

Falling star.

It was like a flash of red lightning passing through the crumbling apartment building, and a moment later, the noise returned to silence.

"Solved, this is the 100th Knight level Honkai Beast." Ryan stood in the middle of the corpse that was evenly split into two halves, exhaled a puff of white smoke, closed his eyes and sensed it carefully.

Killing the Honkai beasts was good for him, otherwise he would not have come out in the middle of the night to do justice after having eaten his fill. But after a moment, when he opened his eyes, a hint of disappointment flashed in his gray eyes.

A bunch of dead soldiers, five assault-level beasts, and two knight-level Honkai beasts did not change at all. The Honkai energy he could control was still limited.

"My destiny has reached a bottleneck. This level of Honkai Beast is no longer enough for me to move forward, and I haven't learned any special abilities."

Ryan stroked his chin. Destiny was the core power of the Star Rail world. When he first encountered the Honkai phenomenon ten years ago, he felt the call of destiny. Unfortunately, this thing was not a system, and it would not bring him any convenient plug ins. He needed to explore it himself.

"I'm not a Herrscher who can naturally control Honkai energy; nor am I an ordinary adapter. At least they can't control more and more, so my way to survive still depends on fate." Ryan walked back and forth among the corpses. The moonlight was quiet, making his thoughts light.

[Destiny] is invisible and intangible. According to the mysterious theory, it is the "Tao" of the world of cultivation. According to the fantasy theory, it is the so called "sequence", and its top sequence "0" is the omnipotent star god.

The so called Star Gods are mysterious beings wandering in the deep sea of ​​stars. Intelligent life can only vaguely perceive that the Star Gods are stepping into the destiny that ordinary beings cannot see, and they exercise their immeasurable power based on certain ideas. People who walk on a certain "sequence" are destiny travelers.

Some are obsessed with destruction, some are determined to preserve, some are obsessed with knowledge, and some are intoxicated with pleasure. There are countless paths of destiny, and as long as there is no Star God at the end, the destiny traveler who reaches the extreme can become a new Star God.

Therefore, Ryan destiny lies in pioneering. Only through him can he become a special existence. As for the concept of pioneering...

"Do I need a more powerful Honkai beast or even a Herrscher to help me understand Honkai so that I can move forward?"

Ryan became more and more focused as he thought about it, but at this moment, he heard a rumbling sound and looked up with some dissatisfaction.

Under the moonlight, several helicopters were hovering in the air, their blades stirring up strong winds that caused sand and rocks to fly all over the ground.

Ryan did not run, but stood at the edge of the clearing, quietly watching the landing helicopter and the fully armed soldiers descending by rope. At the tail of the helicopter, he saw a striking logo -

It was a moth to a flame.