The rising sun shatters the darkness!

Chapter 502: Dragon Elephant Xu Shuzhi's Investigation Outside the Wall (asking for monthly tickets)
The morning sun shines through the windows, and the gates are opened at dawn.

At daybreak, outside an abandoned ancestral hall with the words "Bai Family XX" written on it, Hong Yan, who had been watching all night, spat fiercely.

The young girl was very courageous, with a slim waist and a big breast. She stretched lazily in annoyance, revealing her curves under her tight nightgown, which made people want to taste her.

But at this moment, the graceful girl's eyes were full of murderous intent and coldness, and she looked very unhappy.

Last night, a conflict suddenly broke out between "Blood and Fire Tower" and "There Are Beautiful Women in the World".

As a warmonger and a direct descendant of the family, Hong Yan naturally wanted to return and make meritorious contributions.

Unfortunately, she currently has a mission to complete. She was sent to investigate "Lulingtai".

This is a wasteland town located dozens of kilometers away from the safe zone. It is neither prosperous nor secluded, but a well-behaved one.

According to the intelligence previously provided by the Elders' Council, there are suspected traces of the activities of the Reactivation Society in this small town, and they may be lurking in some abandoned old ancestral halls in the area.

however……

"It's been a whole night, and all the spies we sent out said nothing happened. How could the intelligence in our clan always be wrong? Damn, these elders who look down on others, are they deliberately making things difficult for me because I'm young and easy to bully?"

Hong Yan glanced at the silent team channel and felt that his guess might be correct. He was being targeted by some old guys in the family!

After all, it was like this when we were investigating the news about Yu Mingluan, the leader of the Deactivation Society. At the beginning, they also said that there were traces of the Deactivation Society, but what happened? There was nothing at all!
Instead, they encountered a group of Nurgle cultists who believed in evil gods.

Whenever we follow the intelligence, we always come up empty-handed.

Working so hard gets no results and all I can do is watch others achieve success.

Is there something fishy going on? Anyone who believes this is a bastard!
Thinking of this, Hong Yan fiercely opened the upgrade drive:

[Team Channel: 12]

Hong Yan: "@Everyone. Is there nothing wrong? If not, go back and report. Come and gather!"

【You sent a location message. 】

Cai Xu: “Received”

Anonymous: “Received”

Chang Jin: “Received”

Anonymous: “Received”

Life on a Strap: "Received"

Anonymous: “Received”

Ruthless Swordsman: “Received”

Anonymous: “Received”

……

A series of replies lit up one after another.

Eleven subordinates, eleven teammates, responded to the captain's orders one after another.

After sending the message, Hong Yan casually glanced at the 11 red dots on the map that were rapidly approaching him, and then stood there waiting silently.

Humph, damn elder, you bullied and humiliated me today, I will definitely pay you back a hundredfold tomorrow...

She complained silently in her heart and closed her eyes to rest.

Half a minute later.

Hong Yan, who was waiting for his teammates to gather, suddenly opened his eyes, looked at the team channel again, and his pupils shrank immediately.

wrong.

Something is wrong!
She hadn't noticed it just now, but now that she had taken a closer look, she realized something was wrong.

Why do they use anonymous responses in the team?

At first glance, this seems fine, but after a while, you know something is wrong. These are all her subordinates, how dare they be anonymous? Especially when you look at the two nicknames, aren't they Cai Xu and Hong Jin themselves? Why did they change their nicknames and send it again?
And... in the location sharing on the team interface, the other eleven teammates except myself all came from the same place.

But we clearly arranged for everyone to monitor different locations last night!
No! There is a problem!

Hong Yan, a veteran of many battles, stood up instantly.

The answer came to her mind instantly: someone was trying to confuse her in this way, so that she would relax her vigilance and be able to deal with the "bloodthirstiness" of the "rogue" to the greatest extent possible, so as to avoid being discovered by her and escaping in advance...

"Damn it! I was fooled!"

Hong Yan stood up suddenly, knowing that the situation was not good. Most of his men were probably in danger and were under control, so he turned around and tried to escape.

However, at this moment, the door of the ancestral hall next to him suddenly opened inward.

Under the light of the candle, the glutinous rice on the altar kept jumping, as if there were hundreds of unwilling hearts buried underneath.

There were more than a dozen sexy, naked women in black stockings gathered together, looking at Hong Yan with aggressive eyes and smiling: "Where are you going, sister? Now that you are here, stay and play~"

As soon as the words fell, their cherry lips opened and rust-like dark red liquid threads spurted out, like lubricating motor oil, and like thorny thorns, stretching out from all directions, weaving into a dense net, blocking Hong Yan's way.

In the ancient ancestral hall that had been silent for the entire night, there was actually a nest of strange humanoid monsters hiding.

No one knew what means they had used to sneak here before, but they could not detect any movement or breath at all. Even when Hong Yan, who was in the second stage of "rogue" bloodthirstiness, came to investigate, she could not find anything abnormal. It was not until this moment when they suddenly attacked and revealed the aura of corrosion that she finally discovered the clue.

"Damn it, how could it be... an abyss demon? When did it come in?!"

Hong Yan had no time to think about it. Even if these dozen demon women were only at the first level of strength, if he was stopped by them, he would never be able to escape!
At this moment, Hong Yan knew that it was a life-threatening moment. He did not dare to hold back. He pulled out a short-handled weapon like a musket, sprinkled it with blood, and swung it.

"Break it for me!"

Boom! Boom!
Sparks exploded all around, and fire blades mixed with "death energy" gushed out, slashing repeatedly.

It only took a few breaths to forcibly tear a hole in the dense blood net.

Whoosh!
The black figure shot out from the hole like lightning, without any entanglement, and disappeared directly into the street and into the corner of the muddy alley overgrown with weeds.

If you miss the target, the attack will spread far away! This is the "Assassin"!
As a person known as the best escapee among all professions, and having broken through from the early second stage to the middle stage in just two months, Hong Yan did not bring shame to this profession in the skill of escape.

Unfortunately, before she could feel happy or take the next step, she found that she was surrounded by red dots belonging to her teammates in the team channel.

A well-mannered middle-aged man in black clothes and black pants, dressed like a country teacher, was sitting not far away, leisurely, as if waiting for her.

"Mea~"

A few confused animal cries came from the flock of sheep led by the middle-aged man behind him.

Looking over, Hong Yan took a breath of cold air.

She saw the lamb that seemed to be wearing the "Blood and Fire Tower" family emblem, saw Cai Xu and Chang Jin with shame on their faces, and saw the middle-aged teacher in front of them tapping his fingers and speaking leisurely:
"I'm coming."

"I see."

"I conquer."

Hiss—Cardinal?
How can it be!

Hong Yan's pupils suddenly shrank. Forces from all directions squeezed her body, squeezing out a desperate roar from her throat that gradually changed its tone:

“Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!”

Her body suddenly shrank and turned into a white lamb. Her eyes were filled with panic and she quickly became dazed.

Then, the middle-aged teacher led the sheep and slowly left the place. After walking for a while, he entered a courtyard with the words "Liu's Ancestral Hall" written on it. He frowned and said to the black-robed man inside: "What's the point of keeping this? It's better to kill it. It's just taking up my empty slot if it's alive."

The black-robed man laughed and said, "No, no, we can't kill him. Killing him will make you and me lose an ally."

"So he's related to that person? Then let's keep it for now..."

The middle-aged teacher nodded thoughtfully, and then pointed at Cai Xu and Chang Jin behind him.

Next to them, several warriors with hoods covering their faces, with vague golden hair, blue eyes and more three-dimensional facial contours, immediately stepped forward and raised huge swords that were more than a person's height.

"What……"

The two men stared at each other in disbelief, "No... You clearly promised that as long as we cooperate, you would let us go! You... are not trustworthy!"

"Oh. You're wrong."

The middle-aged teacher responded with a sneer of contempt, "I only promised not to herd you. If you are not willing to be my lambs, you have no value."

He waved his hand, and several knights immediately stepped forward.

Due to the unimaginable power gap, Chang Jin and Cai Xu had no chance to resist at all. They were hacked down in a pool of blood and torn into pieces. Then their bodies were packaged and fed to the dozen or so wanton demons to share and eat.

After doing all this, the middle-aged teacher looked at the man in black robes and said, "Archbishop White asked me to ask you, how long will it take for your Great Arcana card to arrive? Why is there no news about the new dependent of the loving father?"

"Haha, magic that no one knows about is the real magic. I will naturally inform you when he arrives."

The black-robed man raised his lips, but did not answer his second question. Instead, he bowed and said, "Thank the archbishop for me. I'll need your help to cover up for me in the next few days. Once the matter is done, I will present your thank you gift to you with both hands."

As he spoke, his figure exploded like smoke and turned into a spinning hollow metal ball, which rolled along the ground and disappeared without a trace.

From beginning to end, the middle-aged teacher did not find out where Mr. "One of Scepters" had gone.

He narrowed his eyes, and looked with a little disdain at the group of female demons who were enjoying the blood meal like a carnival. The corners of his mouth twitched as if he cursed something, and then he led the sheep away.

According to the agreement between the Archbishop and the other party, he needs to ensure that the other party's actions in "Lulingtai" will not be disturbed in the next few days.

All unstable factors must be eliminated.

For example, this team of outer disciples from Baiyujing came to investigate and accidentally discovered some secrets.

They should be called outer disciples, right?

only……

"Whether it's Commander Yan Hui or the voodoo of 'Scepter One', why do I always feel like they are hiding something from the Archbishop?"

The middle-aged teacher shook his head, and finally put all this behind him. He just drew a symbol on his chest and said silently:
"Glory to the Holy Emperor, may the Lord be with me forever!"

……

……

"Hiss, so what you mean is that the Judgment Department has no extra manpower to handle matters outside the city. If I want to go to Luling Terrace to investigate, I am the only one?"

Outside the alley at the crime scene in the lower city, Xu Shu pointed at himself and asked.

"How can you think like that, Brother Xu Shu? Xiaoya will do her best to protect you!" Xiaoya clenched her fists and vowed. "You just produced a puppet, what can you protect if something really happens?" Xu Shu sneered.

Xiaoya said, "Brother Xu Shu, don't say such harsh words. Actually, think about it in a positive way. You see, your famous record when you were on the human list was that you were chased by a peak level three player for a whole day without any problem. I guess you must be very good at escaping, right? So if something really happens during the investigation, you can just leave Xiaoya behind and run away by yourself. Isn't it better to think about it this way?"

"Go away. I'm not going."

Xu Shu waved his hand and refused decisively.

In fact, when Xu Shu heard the name Lulingtai, his first reaction was to refuse.

There is no other reason. Bai Sanxiang has mentioned it more than once, saying that when Archbishop Yu Mingluan was studying in Penglai, he seemed to have had a bad experience and had enemies here.

Later, Xu Shu also learned from Xiaoya that Yu Mingluan was expelled from the sect because he killed some hostile leader.

Then he thought of what a big-breasted female "hooligan" whom he had seen naked mentioned, that Yu Mingluan had killed someone in the Blood and Fire Tower.

And now, the Blood and Fire Tower is at war with the Butterfly Love Flower Division...

Combining everything together, Xu Shu came to the conclusion.

The people that Archbishop Yu Mingluan killed must have been those from the Blood and Fire Tower!
Having stayed in Penglai District for such a long time, no matter how ignorant Xu Shu was, he had a certain understanding of this organization.

"Blood and Fire Tower" is the leading organization of the death cultivators in Baiyujing, an organization with demigods.

I'm fucking crazy. Why would I go with you to find a demigod?

If I really get liquidated, can you protect me? I will have to go back and ask for protection from my little sister Tiaotiao.
It’s not cost-effective, so I won’t do it.

Xu Shu turned and left.

Xiaoya jumped over and said, "Can't I just pay you for your business trip? I'll reimburse you 10 million. You're really short of money, right?"

"cut."

Xu Shu smiled contemptuously and didn't even stop.

"Two thousand! Twenty million!"

"Ah."

"Thirty million! No more!"

"Sister Jiang Chengzi, I'm not being modest. You'd better seek help from someone else. Or you can tell me when voodoo comes into the city." Xu Shu kept walking, thinking to himself that he would stop when the amount increased to 40 million.

"……hateful!"

The next second, Xiaoya gritted her teeth, and seeing that Xu Shu was about to leave, she finally made up her mind and said, "Luling Terrace is the ancestral home of the Liu family, and there are clues to the 'Seven Treasures Lotus' hidden there. I suspect that Wu Du will soon get it. If you can get it, I will give you 30% of it. How about it?"

Xu Shu: “…”

He immediately stopped and stepped back, asking casually, "Why is it only 30%?"

Xiaoya said unhappily, "I will use the 70% I gave you, and I can only give you 30% at most. That's already the limit, no more."

"That's fine." Xu Shu touched the shaved beard on his chin.

"Damn it, why do I feel like I've been fooled? You're a guy who won't release the eagle until you see the rabbit!" Xiaoya said angrily.

Xu Shu smiled and said nothing. He thought that you were too hasty in asking for the price, but he did not show it on his face. Instead, he asked curiously, "What is the Seven Treasures Lotus? Tell me in detail. Is it divine?"

"no!"

"Oh~" Xu Shu was very disappointed.

Xiaoya said carefully: "This treasure is of the same kind as my mother's legacy, the 'Purple Killing Gold', which belongs to the secret collection of the Four Bitter Mysterious Gates and the Gate of Life. It was related to the exterminated Liu family. I have always suspected that the descendants of the Liu family have information about this item, and now it seems to be true!

"Luling Terrace was the territory of the Liu family back then. Liu Xing'er, the director of the Butterfly Love Flower Department, was said to be the only bloodline of the Liu family. Now it seems that it was just a deception. The real one is this Liu Yan, but unfortunately, Voodoo got there first.

"Look, Liu Yan's bone marrow and brain have been drained. The voodoo must have been activated by using the blood of the Liu family."

"So that's how it is... Wait a minute." Xu Shu was suddenly stunned. "Luling Terrace is the place of Dielianhuasi? Not the territory of Xuehuoloutai?"

Then am I wrong? Yu Mingluan’s enemy is actually Dielian Huasi?
Xiaoya nodded, indicating that she agreed with Xu Shu's statement.

"Okay, I'll make some adjustments. You get in the car first, and I'll be online in ten minutes."

After saying that, she suddenly jumped up and jumped her small body onto Xu Shu's back. Then her head tilted, as if she was dead, and she was completely motionless.

Uh... is this because the battery is out of power and the phone is “turned off”?
It seems that "Mechanical Expert" still has quite a lot of limitations...

Xu Shu was stunned for a moment.

He saw Alice sleeping soundly in the bag, and after a slight hesitation, he had a plan in mind.

In fact, I have long wanted to go and take a look at Luling Terrace.

It’s just that I didn’t have enough strength before and had been avoiding that place.

But now his strength has made great progress. As a dignified third-stage legendary "Dragon Elephant", there is no place in this wasteland that he cannot go as long as he does not fight against a demigod.

Even if he were to face Wu Liuzhi, who was once ranked 51st on the Human Ranking, again, he would completely...

Um, totally...

Xu Shu recalled the power of the "Six-Fingered Demon of the Lute", thought about it and changed his words.

"I can escape for at least two days and nights this time!"

Thinking of this, he squeezed Alice, who was awakened by the shaking, into his coccyx, letting her "fall in love" and continue to sleep, then turned around and entered the underground station.

After going through numerous inspections by the Adjudication Department, Xu Shu boarded a train out of the city.

The train was already quite congested at this hour, and the carriage was packed with people. He had no seat and had to stand.

But as smart as Xu Shu was, he chose to stand next to a few female passengers who didn't have a strong odor.

Not long after, when the train left the safe zone, Xiaoya was back on line.

She swung her eyes left and right, twisted her neck, looked around, and said with a little satisfaction: "Already set off? Not bad, not bad, you have a strong execution ability, Brother Xu Shu. Don't worry, I will always be with you. If something really happens, I will rush over in person!"

"Ah."

Xu Shu rolled his eyes.

Xu Shu didn't take this promise to heart at all.

If it weren't for you, I would have died so many times!

I have been walking on thin ice all my life, walking through wastelands and wilderness. What do I rely on?
Looking at the golden [Remaining times today: 3/3] in the void, Xu Shu smiled, sneered, concentrated his will, and poked hard into the Taichu Scroll!
"Taichu Volume, Journey Mode!"

Suddenly, a mist rose in my sight, and the light and shadows in front of me changed like a revolving lantern:

[Detecting current status...]

[Testing completed. 】

[Your current situation is not good. You have learned some past events, but you don’t know much. This is usually a sign that something big is going to happen, but you are like a stupid supporting role in a horror movie and insist on going.]

[—The wind whistles and the Yishui River is cold, Xu Shu leaves and never returns! It is difficult to evaluate you, so I will burn incense for you first. ]

[After an hour of squeezing together, you and your partner Ouyang Suxian successfully arrived at your destination: Luling Terrace]

[…Wait a minute, buddy. If I remember correctly, you are now level 52. You can completely beat this stop-and-go train with your legs, right? Why are you wasting time on this train? Are you here to milk me? Damn, that's obscene!]

"Without further ado!"

[You shamelessly entered the market town. ]

【Lulingtai has a special terrain, sandwiched between mountains. There is a cave behind the station. It is very narrow at first, but it is open to traffic. After walking a few hundred steps, it suddenly becomes open and the land is flat and bustling. Two cars can run side by side, and buildings and ancient temples stand side by side. Horse carriages and trams run side by side. It can be said that the ancient and modern times meet and are one.】

[People in Luling make a living by fishing. Old men fishing by the lake can be seen everywhere. The base of the blue brick wall is covered with bloody moss. The sun always seems to be separated by a thick layer of sunlight, lazily shining on the pedestrians, illuminating the old lady walking in a cat-like manner, the streetwalker with a faint smile, and the oil seller with a strange laugh.]

[A half-faded red silk was hung on the eaves of the school, and the calligraphy and paintings on display were soaked into tadpoles by the rain.]

[In this relatively well-preserved ancient town of the new era, you feel a sense of relaxation like in a paradise, which is really comfortable. ]

Xu Shu: “…”

Comfortable head!
Are these the evil servants you are talking about all well-educated?
The snake monster, the cat monster, and the mouse monster...

[Quack, you are indeed a great master, you can tell at a glance that these guys are not human! ]

[As the vanguard of the Extermination Society, you were supposed to kill all these monsters in one fell swoop.]

【But considering that they were eating dried fish instead of braised human fingers, you decided to let them off the hook and not make things more complicated.】

[You are unfamiliar with this place, but fortunately Xiaoya has superb tracking ability. ]

[Under her guidance, you pass through the bustling town center, follow the gradually muddy path, and head north to the foot of the mountain.]

[Baijia Village. A small mountain village that looks very shabby and old, and is out of tune with the semi-modern market town before, comes into your sight. ]

[Mud-brick walls, mud-built houses, no one living here, it seems to be deserted. ]

[“Found it, there are traces left here!” Xiaoya was slightly excited and lowered her voice.]

[Under her command, you found the best building in the village: Bai's XX]

[It looks like this is a ancestral hall. ]

[“Let’s be careful, there might be spies inside…” Xiaoya reminds you.]

[Unfortunately, before she could finish her words, you rushed in recklessly without any hesitation. This is the confidence that the legendary dragon elephant brings you.]

[Bang! Eighteen women with bloody mouths suddenly look up, chewing on what are clearly human corpses while staring at you!]

[Their faces are charming, their postures are seductive, their figures are graceful, and their clothes are plain.]

[Instantly, a wave of malice descended from the sky. You wanted to retreat, but found that you couldn't. ]

[Oops! This is over, you accidentally stepped into the enemy's lair, and you are being targeted by a group of demons. ]

[A total of eighteen demons are staring at you at the same time, and they are using their "You look at me, I look at you" talent on you: Gambling Agreement: Abyss Descends!]

[You are locked in this space and cannot escape! ]

……

(End of this chapter)