The theory that a shell crater won't be hit by two shells is quite applicable in the early stages of the supernatural invasion.
A red-clothed female specter just visited Lin Yuan's home, and in a short period, no evil spirit or Deceitful Charm will come again.
Therefore, Lin Yuan wants to hunt evil spirits and Deceitful Charms, absorb Deceitful Qi to awaken the Black and White Impermanence Tattoo.
If so, he has to go out and actively search for the Deceitful Charms and evil spirits.
For ordinary people, honestly staying at home is definitely better for survival than running around.
However, Lin Yuan isn't an ordinary person.
Survival rates, or no survival rates, he only wants to describe it with four words:
No f***ing fear.
How does the saying go again?
If the evil spirit doesn't come to me, then I'll go to the evil spirit.
With the protection of the Ox Head and Horse Face Tattoo, Lin Yuan isn't scared at all.
To him, he is the hunter, and the Deceitful Charms and evil spirits are the prey.
Lin Yuan took out his phone and checked the time; it's 3:30 in the morning.
Leaving the rental house, Lin Yuan headed downstairs.
"I wonder if the landlord is still alive, if the landlord's gone, then this house would..." Lin Yuan thought as he stood downstairs.
Muttering to himself after a moment: "Small, short-sighted!"
"In the next few months, perhaps the city's population will be down to one in ten. By then, forget about this shabby rental place. Even villas and large apartments won't be worth a penny."
Lin Yuan's rental place is in the old part of town, where the buildings are generally over twenty years old.
The neighbors are mostly energetic retirees, elderly men, and women.
When it rains, the windows leak, the drains get clogged from time to time, water pressure drops during peak hours, there's noise from square dancing, constant arguments, and morning exercises below the building, and so on.
There are many flaws, but the advantage is that it's very cheap.
Even with ten or a hundred flaws, when you're really broke and a pauper,
the advantage of being cheap is enough to overlook a hundred flaws.
After glancing at the familiar neighborhood, Lin Yuan continued forward.
He walked out of the neighborhood at a leisurely pace and reached the main road outside.
The blood moon hung high, and the night was eerie.
The night's atmosphere felt like the world in a comic book.
"Beep, beep."
"Beep, beep, beep."
The piercing sound of car horns echoed back and forth, and the road was surprisingly crowded.
"My car broke down, I'm going to Han City, can someone give me a lift?"
"I'm also going to Han City, brother, get in the car, safety in numbers."
"Move the broken-down car to the side, we're trying to get out!"
"Quick, everyone get out and help push the car to the roadside, don't block the way."
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The road was noisy, and everyone had a surprisingly unanimous purpose, which was to get home as soon as possible.
Despite the official advisories through live broadcasts, TV, phone, radio, and other channels urging people not to go out and to find a place to stay temporarily,
these people eager to return home could not be stopped.
Even though Lin Yuan was an orphan, he could understand.
Many of the urban residents were migrant workers.
Their wives, children, and parents might be far away.
In the wake of the supernatural invasion and world alteration,
when your wife and children go off the grid, and there's no news, do you take the risk to go home, or do you hide temporarily?
If your parents died tragically at the hands of evil spirits, could you still live alone in the city?
If you might die at any moment by the hands of evil spirits, do you want to die far from home, or return to your roots?
Death is certainly frightening, but many things can transcend death.
Family, love, friendship....
There are so many things that can make people temporarily unafraid of death.
This is human nature; the Human Race may decline, but will never be extinct.
Moreover, it will inevitably rise from decline to glory again.
Seeing these people risking their lives to return home, Lin Yuan felt a pang of envy.
Envy, envy that they have a place to return to.
While he is a wandering soul.
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Roar.
Rumble. Rumble.
The roar of an engine, like a beast's roar, echoed, and the end of the road was thrown into chaos.
"Get out of the car, get out of the car!"
"Run, run!"
"Evil creatures, there are evil creatures ahead!"
Loud shouts rang out, people on the road panicked and scattered.
Everything before them was as Lin Yuan expected.
In the era of supernatural invasions, there's one taboo: sticking together.
Never assume that more people mean more safety.
On the contrary, the more people there are, the greater the chance of death.
So many people gathered on the road, for evil spirits, this is a self-service buffet!
In the distance, clusters of flames could be seen continuously devouring the crowd.
"Fire Gu?" Lin Yuan recognized the evil spirit ahead.
Fire Gu, with naked bodies resembling hairless monkeys. They are enveloped in flames and have the ability to control fire.
Before Lin Yuan's rebirth, he had already seen Fire Gu.
As evil spirits that appear in the early stage of the supernatural invasion, in terms of individual strength, Fire Gu are actually not that strong.
However, they have the advantage of numbers, always appearing in swarms.
Seeing Fire Gu appear and hunt humans, a slight coldness flashed in Lin Yuan's eyes.
Though not a Holy Mother, if he were to remain unmoved at the sight of fellow humans being hunted,
he would probably become a cold-blooded beast.
"Looked for high and low, and finally came across it effortlessly!" Lin Yuan softly muttered.
These Fire Gu, deadly to ordinary people, are nature's gift to Lin Yuan!
Fire Gu's individual strength isn't strong, but they move in groups.
Weak individual strength means they're easy to hunt.
Group movements mean Lin Yuan can obtain a large amount of Deceitful Qi.
Upon thinking of this, Lin Yuan commanded the Ox Head and Horse Face Tattoo with a thought.
"Horse Face, transform into a horse!"
"Ox Head, armor transformation."
Lin Yuan gave direct orders to the spirit body manifested by the Ox Head and Horse Face Tattoo.
Spirit body combat is the basic combat form of the tattoos.
Spirit bodies, after all, don't have physical form, so their combat power is limited.
To unleash the tattoo's maximum power, one must transform it into tangible form and integrate it with oneself.
Of course, whether physical transformation or integration into the body offers stronger combat power varies.
It still depends on the tattoo itself.
For example, tattoos like the Demon-Subduing Pestle and Linglong Tower exhibit the strongest combat power when transformed into tangible form.
While Guan Gong tattoos, Eight-armed Nezha, and Over-the-shoulder Dragon offer stronger combat power when integrated with the body.
Ultimately, it boils down to attributes.
Awakening a tattoo is merely the first step in becoming a Life Pattern Master; to unleash a tattoo's full power, one must find a combat style compatible with the tattoo's attributes.
And in this regard, no one understands better than Lin Yuan, who has experienced this era and been reborn.
The combat style he employs now is the best suited for taking on many foes and swiftly resolving the Fire Gu collective.