Mo Fan exited the Shadow Step with some confusion and looked around at the surroundings. He found that the place seemed rather deserted and the courtyard walls were very high.
He slowly walked to the spot where his shadow aura had last disappeared and looked around.
The narrow path had no streetlights, and small gates were evenly distributed under the high courtyard walls.
The whole place gave him a cold and gloomy feeling.
He followed the shadow of the high wall, intending to sneak inside.
But suddenly it crashed into an invisible barrier.
This is a barrier formed by an array, which seems to be able to isolate many things.
Bai Mo stood suspended in mid-air, overlooking the entire Lan Ancient Town. At the same time, he also took Mo Fan's current performance into his perception.
He traced the areas where the strings had failed to detect, and discovered some strange things.
These isolated locations were distributed according to the rules of the formation.
It is very likely that there is a large formation beneath this ancient town of Lan.
Its current purpose is to prevent magical detection and infiltration.
It's unclear whether this formation has any other purpose, but thankfully they didn't take direct action.
With a thought, Bai Mo heard a familiar heartbeat and footsteps.
"Turn left after going 100 meters ahead."
He narrowed his eyes, and his voice came directly to Mo Fan's ear.
Mo Fan was taken aback. He had originally intended to knock on the door directly, but he did as Bai Mo suggested.
After turning left after 100 meters, I saw a girl walking slowly towards me.
The girl was very fair-skinned and had a serene aura. Mo Fan's first thought was: I feel like I've seen this girl before.
"Oh, little puppy, squeak squeak squeak~"
When three familiar voices appeared, Xin Yuehu jumped up like a real dog.
Mo Fan then remembered that this was the girl who had been flirted with by Xin Yuehu on the streets of Lanru City.
"Oh, it's you. What a coincidence."
Mo Fan glanced at Xin Yuehu, who had run two steps and then stopped, before turning his gaze to the girl.
But then she suddenly disappeared, and Xin Yuehu, who had originally wanted to seduce this person, also vanished immediately.
It left behind only a large patch of diamond dust.
"Holy crap! They're stealing foxes!"
Mo Fan cried out in surprise and was about to carefully sense the spatial fluctuations to catch up.
But then Bai Mo appeared beside him and, without saying a word, slapped him.
With a flash of silver light, the two appeared in another quiet alley.
The fox girl was gone, but Xin Yuehu remained unharmed in the same spot.
"there!"
Mo Fan, with his sharp eyes, spotted the fox girl disappearing around the corner as soon as he appeared, and ran after her with Xin Yuehu.
Bai Mo followed, and the two turned a corner, where they saw an even taller courtyard wall. At that moment, the gate beneath the wall was open.
"Go in!"
Seeing Mo Fan stop in his tracks, Bai Mo reminded him and immediately went inside.
The courtyard is just an ordinary residential layout, but every plant and tree is not an ordinary species.
Upon entering the courtyard, they did not see the fox-girl, but instead encountered an old woman with white hair who closed the door and asked them a question.
"What project are you two here for?"
"Let's take a look first."
"That's fine too, I guarantee everything here is fresh."
The old woman spoke with a smile, her face as radiant as a blooming chrysanthemum.
Hearing their conversation, Mo Fan was a little puzzled and asked:
"Did you see a very fair-skinned girl, about this tall?"
"Don't worry, the girls here are all fair-skinned, plump, and very healthy."
The old woman glanced at Mo Fan, then pressed her hand and continued to add to the story.
"You don't believe me? I'll take you to see for yourselves."
Upon hearing this, Mo Fan's expression turned somewhat strange, and he glanced at Bai Mo.
Is this a place I can go to see?
He already has a family.
After viewing it, should I choose something? And after choosing something, should I...?
So, is the girl who stole the fox really here?
"Let's go."
Bai Mo's words gave Mo Fan courage.
See? He didn't ask to see it.
Led by the old woman, the two arrived at the back courtyard.
There happened to be a girl of about fifteen or sixteen standing there.
Beside her, another person dressed in white held a needle and pierced her wrist.
Not far behind him, a middle-aged man, exuding an air of nobility and adorned with gold and jade, said:
"I only need 400cc, don't give me too much."
"Of course, sir, we're professionals."
The old woman greeted the man and then introduced him:
"These two are new clients introduced by Miss Wuxue. I'll show them around."
"Oh, you're busy!"
The man glanced at Bai Mo and his companion, but quickly lost interest.
"Is she selling her blood?" Mo Fan couldn't help but ask.
"What do you mean by selling blood? She did it voluntarily."
The old woman gave him a strange look. "Young man, aren't you also here to collect some donated items?"
After thinking for a moment, perhaps fearing that the two men might have become interested in the girl from before, she quickly began to explain.
"Xiao Fang's belongings cannot be sold. He was raised by that man, specifically for that master's use."
"Heh, he's quite capable." Mo Fan echoed with a forced smile, secretly wishing he could punch the old man to death.
"That man is certainly capable. Not only is Xiao Fang his protégé, but he also keeps many other girls from various places, just so that he has something to use in crucial moments."
"Hey guys, if you'd like, you can, but it's a bit pricey. However, we're absolutely professional."
The old woman bent over, smiling as she made her recommendations.
His murky eyes looked like those of a demon from hell.
Bai Mo shook his head. "Let's take a look first."
After they finished speaking, they entered another courtyard, where girls of all ages were lined up.
There are also some young teenagers,
These people were indeed as clean and fair as the old woman had described, but they seemed to be mentally challenged and without clothes on. They were all gathered together and managed by two people.
He stared blankly at the two people at the door.
It's impossible and there never will be a girl who took the fox from Mo Fan.
"These are all goods we raised ourselves; this is their list."
The old woman handed over a document, which Bai Mo took.
The first document read:
Xiao Jia, blood type A, available body parts: heart, kidneys.
The following are prices.
Next page, student number one, blood type O, available body parts for sale: cornea, placenta, lungs...
Upon seeing this, even Bai Mo's eyes narrowed.
The old woman, perhaps sensing the tense atmosphere and believing Bai Mo was dissatisfied, said with a forced smile:
"I'm really sorry, some places have already been booked by other guests."
"Now that someone has bought it, why don't you deliver it quickly?" Bai Mo asked calmly.
"Hehe, it's just a matter of timing, young man. Time has a price too."
Upon hearing this, Bai Mo sneered. He was simply thinking about maximizing profits, selling off most of a person's body parts, and then disposing of them.
That actually makes some sense.
Bai Mo glanced again at the men and women who were being kept here like pigs.
With a wave of his hand, a spatial confinement force instantly appeared out of thin air, trapping all the staff members in place.
Including the middle-aged man adorned with gold and jade in that courtyard before.
"Damn it, I'm going to kill these bastards!"
Mo Fan swung his fist fiercely, smashing it towards the old woman's head.
"etc!"
"What are you waiting for?!"
"Let the Heart Moon Fox control my soul and ask me a question."
Upon hearing this, Mo Fan barely managed to hold back, only to see the old woman in front of him freeze in shock the next second.
"How many shops like yours are there in Lan Ancient Town, and where are they located?"
"Our business covers the entire outer ring road and the whole street."
Lan Ancient Town is shaped like an irregular circle, with the outer ring being the area within the outer circle, which is also the place where Bai Moyin's detection is isolated.
Upon hearing this, Bai Mo gasped in shock. The entire outer circle was filled with people; how many could be hiding there?
"Can we go to another store?"
"no."
"Can your grandfather go?"
"Sure, but in some places the goods aren't as good as ours, so not many people go there."
Upon hearing this, Bai Mo and Mo Fan thought of the goods they had helped Gu Changge transport.
"Who gave you permission to do these things?"
"Everyone does it; those who don't do it don't fare well."
After thinking for a moment, Bai Mo changed the question.
"Does the Magic Association know what you're doing?"
"They will send people to collect taxes, fifty percent."
As soon as he finished speaking, Bai Mo and Mo Fan's expressions turned cold.
Seeing that he had nothing more to ask, Mo Fan smashed the head with a single punch.
He was about to kill the next one in a few steps, but Bai Mo called out to him.
"Mo Fan, don't rush to vent your anger. Have Xin Yuehu take that man and go door to door along the street, subduing everyone."
"Aren't you coming with me?"
"I'm going to move these people away." Bai Mo pointed to the group of people in the courtyard who seemed to be in a daze.
"good!"
Mo Fan immediately left with Xin Yuehu.
Bai Mo then moved all these people outside the town and temporarily created a safe zone using the Chaos System.
Then he moved the people out of the next courtyard that Mo Fan had cleared.
The two were extremely busy, and the busier they were, the angrier they became.
Within the Magic Association, Nan Rongqing was also very hot-tempered.
"Nonsense, utter nonsense! Who told them to move it!"
I told you to behave yourselves for the next few days! Don't you understand?!
His face turned bright red, and he roared like a lion.
Below, several people dressed in magic association attire stood with their heads bowed, one of them offering a somewhat aggrieved explanation.
"Cousin, we've already informed them."
"Don't call me cousin! This is the Magic Association!"
"Director, we've notified them, but the military mages say someone stole the central key to the town's grand formation."
"What?! Then catch them! Who did it?!"
Instantly, Nan Rongqing's expression changed drastically.
The central key is related to the town's shielding array!
If it's unraveled, all their past misdeeds will definitely be exposed!
"It's said to be a blond man and two women, one older and one younger. The Nanrong Huan Military Intelligence Bureau is already in pursuit."
"This is such a big deal, can that guy Nan Ronghuan handle it? Go help!"
Nan Rongqing roared loudly, then left the office first and went to the only office on the top floor, pushing the door open and entering.
"Oh no, Uncle! The key to the central array has been stolen!"
His words slightly reduced the waves of moaning in the room.
Nan Wangping, seemingly oblivious to everyone else, caressed the slender waist of the woman swaying against him, and said indifferently:
"What's the panic? It's good that the great formation of the Nan family manor is still intact. That formation was left by our ancestors, and no one can break it except with forbidden spells."
"But."
"I know you're afraid of things being exposed."
Nan Wangping patted his butt, and his lazy voice continued.
"We are a reclusive family with a thousand-year history; we must remain calm in the face of trouble. No one dares to break the central isolation array."
"Why?" Nan Rongqing asked subconsciously.
Nan Wangping spoke calmly, offering no answer, but instead saying,
"We will have distinguished guests arriving tomorrow. I don't care about any grand formation key; you need to notify everyone in the Nanrong family in Lan Gu Town, Lanru City, to welcome them."
"But Bai Mo and his gang are still in town, and I need to be wary of them."
"Those coming tomorrow are all friends of the Hidden Clan's Nan family; those people can't cause any trouble."
Upon hearing this, Nan Rongqing thought of how every twenty years, many people in the town would be taken away.
When he was a child, his grandfather told him that the friends of the Hidden Clan of the South were also Hidden Clan members from other places, and they were all very powerful.
He felt much more at ease.
Bai Mo and Mo Fan were equally relieved.
After clearing and rescuing everyone on the street, they finally accomplished a small part of their goal.
"Let's leave the rest of the people to worry about. I have a feeling that everyone in this town is no good," Mo Fan said.
Bai Mo shook his head slightly, knowing that he was just saying that out of anger.
Just as he was about to say something, a series of rapid bell sounds rang in his mental world.
"Lingling's in trouble, let's go over there!"
As soon as they finished speaking, a faint diamond-like starlight immediately lit up around them, shattering the starlight and filling the sky, and they disappeared from the spot.
Rumble! ...
Amidst the light and shadow created by a barrage of magical attacks, two people suddenly appeared.
This is a valley with cliffs deep in the Yunya Mountains.
In the valley, a blond-haired man continuously erected shields to block the attacks of a group of military mages blocking the valley entrance.
"Holy crap, you guys finally came! I almost got beaten to death!"
Upon seeing the two people appear before him, Zhao Manyan immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
Bai Mo glanced around, and all the dense destructive magic that was bombarding the air again froze in mid-air.
The next moment, all these destructive spells changed direction and collided with the next wave of incoming spells, stirring up an elemental storm that blotted out the entire world.
"What are you all doing here? And you too! You thief, you're here too!"
Mo Fan glanced at the people present and was first puzzled as to why Zhao Manyan had brought Lingling here.
Then he stared at the fair-skinned fox girl next to him.
"I am not a thief."
"How did you know!"
The fox girl and Lingling spoke at the same time.
"Stop talking nonsense, Mo Fan, teleport to the other side of those military mages and block their retreat!" Bai Mo said.
"Are we really going to have to fight them?"
"These are the Nanrong family's private army, not legitimate military mages. When we found them, they were trafficking people."
Then the witch appeared, stole these guys' treasures, and ruined the sale, which is why we were being hunted down!
Seeing this, Lingling quickly explained the whole story.
Upon hearing this, Mo Fan's face darkened. "Damn it! These things are inhuman. Old Zhao, you come with me."
As soon as he finished speaking, the portal opened, bringing Zhao Manyan directly to the rear of the military mage team.
The next moment, as if by unspoken agreement, two enormous summoning gates opened from two different directions.
The summoning of the beast tide was activated. On Bai Mo's side, hundreds of Sky Blood Lions, as large as small mountains, led thousands of Purple-Eyed Azure Lions in a charge, while on Mo Fan's side, there were hundreds of white war wolves.
The arrival of nearly a thousand beasts threw the mage legion into chaos.
Keep in mind, they only number a little over two thousand.
Although they are all mid-level elite teams, how can they possibly exchange so many summoned beasts one-to-one?
Moreover, there are so many commanders.
Rumble rumble rumble!!
It was as if war chariots were racing side by side, and the valley was filled with the rumbling of thunder, which drowned out the screams of the entire mage legion.
Only Lingling and the others could see clearly that, beneath the feet of the Azure Blood Lion, these mages were as if they were being submerged by a tide.
They couldn't mount the slightest resistance!
The magical barrage that could have killed them before now barely caused any significant damage to the beast horde.
The cluster attack that Zhao Manyan was defending with all his might landed on the lions and wolves, and was dispersed in an instant.
Some astute individuals attempted to escape, but behind them, a gigantic Heart Moon Fox, over fifty meters tall, gleamed with sharp eyes.
Everything seen falls into the illusion of the mind!
When the thunderous hooves subsided, the lions and wolves met, leaving only a blood-red flat expanse.
The entire military mage corps, capable of confronting an entire race, was wiped out in an instant!
Having dealt with the enemy, Bai Mo's attention shifted back to the fox girl.
"Give it to me?"
"What?"
"What you stole."
"That's mine!" The fox girl stared, her little face puffed up like a bun.
"Fine, you can refuse, but you have to tell me why you led us there, and what you stole?"
When he was chasing the fox with Mo Fan before, he noticed that the fox girl pushed open the door and said something before immediately teleporting away.
It was because of that sentence that Bai Mo did not choose to continue chasing, but instead took Mo Fan to the courtyard to take a look.
"Your spatial cultivation is not bad, but it's not enough in front of me."
Upon hearing this, the fox girl pouted, showing a helpless expression.
"Well, there's nothing particularly strange about it."
My name is Wu Wu. My sister was kidnapped by the people here, and I came to rescue her, but I am not strong enough.
Later, I met you in Lanru City. I realized that the fox was very powerful, because my high-level mental abilities couldn't affect it. So I started to pay attention to you.
"After that, I found what I think was a task posted by you on the Lanrucheng Deep Web, and I gave you the information just to give it a try."
Lingling's eyes narrowed. "You accepted that mission!"
How did you know it was us who posted it? And why are those images included in the information?
"Because I have been to Lan Ancient Town, I once saw the Nan family members come out by chance."
Similar patterns were seen on the insignia of their family's clothing.
A sly glint flashed in the fox-girl's eyes as she continued to explain:
"As for how I'm sure it was you who sent it, I'm just taking a chance. If that doesn't work, I'll find another way to approach you."
"So you came to steal my fox?"
Mo Fan's lips twitched. "You're quite honest."
"It didn't resist, did it? With its strength, it would be easy for it not to be taken away by me."
"What does your sister look like?" Bai Mo asked.
Wu Wu took out a photograph, and everyone looked at it. It was indeed a girl who looked a lot like her.
"Never seen them. I rescued everyone from that street and got them out of town."
Upon hearing this, a look of disappointment appeared on Wu Wu's face.
"She must have been taken into the manor by the Nan family. My sister is a healing mage, she won't be sold off easily."
After listening, Zhao Manyan gave a righteous guarantee.
"Oh, those Nan family members are so wicked! Miss Wuwu, I will definitely help you rescue your sister!"
Mo Fan rolled his eyes. This bastard was getting horny again.
"You still haven't told me what the treasure you stole is."
"It's this one."
Wuwu took out a small hexagonal plate with dazzling yet orderly patterns engraved on it.
"What is this thing?"
"The key to control the shielding array of Lan Ancient Town."
Upon hearing this, Bai Mo felt that this thing had come a little late.
"I originally intended to give him to you so that you could easily investigate those isolated courtyards."
Wu Wu glanced at Bai Mo and shook her head.
"I didn't expect you wouldn't need it at all."
But Lingling sensed something from her words.
"You seem to know a lot about Lan Ancient Town and the Nan family's situation."
"I've been here for three years."
Wuwu offered an explanation, then glanced at everyone, looking pitiful, and said:
"If you have any other questions, I can answer them, as long as you're willing to help me rescue my sister."
"We can help, but we need to find out about the Nan family's situation, and also, what is their relationship with the Nan Rong family?" Bai Mo asked.
"The Nan family is a reclusive family, which is no secret in Lanru City."
The Nan Rong family must have some blood connection with the Nan family.
I've heard of Nan Rongqing from the Magic Association in Lan Ancient Town; he calls the association president, Nan Wangping, "Uncle."
Wu Wu recounted everything she knew in great detail, as if pouring out beans.
Through her narration, Bai Mo and the other three also learned some things about this hidden Nan family.
First of all, the Nan family has been here for half a century, along with another family.
Later, the Nan family separated into the Nan Rong clan, which emerged and developed, but the connection remained.
Through a two-way development strategy, the Nan family has completely brought Lan Ancient Town under their control.
The Nan family must have had top-tier super-level mages. According to Wu Wu's investigation, more than fifty years ago, the rulers of Chu and Ji provinces were surnamed Nan.
To prove her claims were reliable, she even produced some of her own research materials.
There is considerable evidence to prove that the Nan Rong family and the Nan family were engaged in the illegal trade of people and organs.
Although some of her actions still aroused Bai Molingling's suspicions, at least they shared the same goal, so they didn't hold it against her.
"That's about all I know. Oh, right! There will be a meeting of the Hidden Clan tomorrow. People from other Hidden Clan members who are close to the Nan family will be here to attend!"
There should be quite a few people by then. If you're going to take action, it's best not to do so tomorrow.
Upon hearing this, Bai Mo's eyes lit up.
"No, tomorrow is the best time!"
Seeing that everyone else looked at him with puzzled expressions, he explained:
"Since they are all friends of the Hidden Clan, they are honored guests. Honored guests should be given a grand welcome. The Nan Rong family is like a vassal of the Nan family, so I guess they are in charge of this."
At that time, many members of the Nanrong family should gather and participate in the rally.
Their meeting place is unlikely to be Lan Gu Town, but rather the Nan Family Manor.
Then their control over Lan Gu Town will decrease.
Taking action at that time would allow us to wipe them all out in one fell swoop, and it shouldn't pose much danger to the townspeople.
Bai Mo had something else he didn't say: some people had already been dealt with by him and Mo Fan, and the sooner they took action, the more advantageous it would be for them.
After saying this, Lingling and the others fell into deep thought, considering the feasibility of their argument.
Wu Wu gave him a strange look.
"Are you afraid that taking action will endanger the townspeople, which is why you're unwilling to do so?"
"right."
"Then I have a way to protect the entire town." (End of Chapter)
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