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Killing him was as easy for Ye Xiao as crushing an ant.

As for escaping, that was absolutely impossible.

"If you don't tell me now... you'll regret it later," Ye Xiao reminded him.

The chill emanating from the calm tone made Wen Dao realize that the other party was not simply trying to scare him.

"...It was my mistake to misjudge the strength of our opponent."

Blood trickled from the corner of his mouth as he gave a bitter smile, then pulled a second dagger directly from his chest.

But this time, instead of stabbing Ye Xiao, he stabbed himself hard in the chest.

Ye Xiao raised an eyebrow as he watched the blood gushing from the other person's chest.

This guy was decisive enough; knowing he couldn't escape or win, and not wanting to be captured, he chose to commit suicide.

What methods did the Grizzly Guild use to produce such reckless idiots?

"Aaaaaah!? Don't kill me! I'll tell you everything!"

When Weng Xiao saw the savior he thought could help him commit suicide and fall into a pool of blood, he was so frightened that he wet himself.

"Don't worry, I won't kill you. Of course, the person next to you shouldn't think they can die so easily either."

Ye Xiao smiled weakly, and the air around him rippled like water.

A petite figure, shrouded in a black cloak and with her face hidden behind a fox mask, emerged from the ripples. Her thick robe swayed, and sometimes small feet clad in white stockings and black wedge heels could be seen peeking out from below.

Although the other players in the hall had lost consciousness, just in case, Ye Xiao still had Ella put on a cloak to cover her appearance before making her entrance.

However, Weng Xiao on the ground stared wide-eyed when he saw the fox-shaped mask.

Ye Xiao didn't care that this guy realized the origin of the fox head. Anyway, there were already rumors that the number one fox head was related to the Seven Stars Society when they were in Storm Harbor. As long as Nereira's identity was not exposed, it was fine.

If this is circulated as new rumor, it will make those who want to secretly take action against the Seven Stars Society think twice.

Without saying a word, Ella bent down slightly and picked up Wen Dao and Weng Xiao from the ground like two chickens, one in each hand.

Then, Ye Xiao patted the little guy's head and watched him go back into the portal.

It’s a good idea to take advantage of something that’s yours.

He then drew his staff from his back and with a shout of "Rainfall," summoned a shower of clear rain that extinguished the fire in the hall.

The first-floor lobby became dim after the firelight dissipated, but with the dim light from the windows and the oil lamps on the walls of the second-floor corridor, it was still possible to see clearly.

Chapter 109 The Sprout of Life

Immediately, Ye Xiao, with his hands in his pockets, went up to the second floor, where there had been no movement all along.

After wandering around for a while, Ye Xiao quickly noticed the dimly lit president's office with the door half-open.

There was a glaring trail of blood extending from the floor by the door.

The bloodstains led intermittently to a side staircase. A few minutes earlier, Ella's crows, which she had placed around the mansion, had observed a carriage leaving through the back door, which was probably related to the bloodstains.

The carriage seemed to be heading towards the southern district, but with Ella's raven familiar following them, Ye Xiao decided to wait and see where they were going and wasn't in a hurry to chase after them.

So he took the staff from behind his back, lit the tip with a fluorescent light, and pushed open the office door in front of him.

The first thing that came into view were four lifeless corpses lying on the ground.

There were few obvious external injuries on the body, and the fatal wounds all seemed to have been caused by blunt force, probably a hammer or a boxing glove.

The messy, blood-stained desk drawers were violently pulled out, papyrus papers were scattered all over the floor, and there was an overturned ink bottle. What was the attacker looking for?

There were several repeated bloodstains on the edge of the desk, which seemed to be traces left by torture or interrogation.

The corpses on the ground had few external injuries, indicating that these dead people were not the subjects of torture.

Although Ye Xiao had never met Yu Tong before, he could roughly deduce what had happened there just by glancing around the room.

He walked to the window, parted the curtains, and looked out the window so that he could just see the gate in front of the courtyard downstairs.

"Hmm..." He rubbed his chin, realizing that he would probably have to pry the rest of the information out of those two guys through Ella.

Suddenly, Ye Xiao's ears caught a slight noise coming from the wall on one side.

He waved his staff, and two wind blades slashed into the wall, raising a cloud of dust.

"Waaah..." A sobbing sound came from behind the wall, and although it disappeared immediately, Ye Xiao heard it clearly.

"Come out yourself," he said coldly, pointing his staff at the wall.

After waiting a few seconds, he was met with silence.

"Row."

At the top of the staff, flames coalesced into a massive fireball.

"No, no, no! I'm out! I'm out!"

The wall with two cut marks trembled slightly and opened to the side, revealing a trapdoor controlled by a mechanism.

A girl with tears in her eyes stumbled out and fell to the ground.

"No...don't kill me..." The girl was young, with shoulder-length hair, holding a small cloth bag in her arms, and her clothes were made of relatively high-quality materials for a player.

"Who are you?" Ye Xiao asked in surprise, not expecting that there was someone hiding here.

"I...I am my brother's sister..."

"...Aren't you just stating the obvious??"

"Waaah... My brother is... he's the president of this place..."

"Yu Tong?"

"Hmm..." The girl nodded gently. In the dim light, she had a pretty face and seemed to be well taken care of by her brother.

"What's that in your hand?" Ye Xiao's gaze shifted to the cloth bag in the girl's arms.

"Waaah..." The girl sobbed as she clutched the cloth bag tightly, seemingly not wanting Ye Xiao to see it.

Ye Xiao, of course, wouldn't show any mercy to a woman in this situation, and directly snatched the cloth bag away with one hand.

The girl tried to hold onto the cloth bag tightly with both hands, but Ye Xiao casually tapped her on the head, and she cried out "Aww!" and squatted down to the side, covering her head and sobbing softly.

Ye Xiao first unpacked the small cloth bag, inside which was an exquisite silver box. Then, she opened the box and found a dry, short twig inside.

...tree branches?

Ye Xiao took the thing out of the box with a puzzled look. Its dark appearance and rough texture made it seem like an ordinary tree branch no matter how you looked at it.

"What exactly is this?" Ye Xiao asked.

"I...I don't know either, my brother told me to keep it..." the girl replied, sobbing.

Ye Xiao frowned as she stuffed the branch back into the box, then went to check inside the trapdoor behind the girl.

Inside, it was just an empty, enclosed space, similar to a wardrobe, with no other hidden doors.

Meanwhile, Ella had also obtained the results of her interrogation of Weng Xiao and Wen Dao.

Weng Xiao wanted to take the opportunity to replace Yu Tong as the leader of Qiudao Wild Fox, so he betrayed Yu Tong's slip of the tongue to the Grizzly Bear Guild.

He even went so far as to deliberately spread the news about Yu Tong's leak.

Wen Dao's story is more interesting. He and a Grizzly Bear guild member named Wei Ming originally came just to give Yu Tong a warning.

But halfway through, their leader Tu Chou suddenly received some news and directly sent them a private message through the community system to interrogate Yu Tong, demanding that he hand over something called "Sprout of Life".

Upon hearing the name of this thing, Ye Xiao subconsciously thought of the silt called "Land of Life" that Ella summoned.

He immediately had Ella draw a small portal next to him and threw the box containing the branches into it.

Meanwhile, in the sanctuary dungeon.

Ella took the box from the portal, grabbed Wen Dao's hair—who was tied to a chair and looked haggard—and asked, "Is this what you're looking for?"

“I…don’t know…” Wen Dao replied weakly, “…killed…me…”

He just wants to end his life as soon as possible to get away from this devilish woman.

What kind of terrifying face lies beneath that fox mask that could inflict such horrific torment?

Compared to this guy, his older brother Wei Ming was as kind as the little match girl.

"You really don't know?" A light, melodious voice teased, "Lying makes you a bad child, you know."

"I don't know... I really... don't know..." Wen Dao's voice trembled with excitement, afraid that the other party would think he was hiding something.

"Okay, who would know?"

"The president...or the president's daughter...please...go to them...let me be free..."

"Hmm." Ella curled her lips, leaving Wen Dao pleading, and took the box to Weng Xiao's cell next door.

However, after pinching her nose and asking Weng Xiao, who reeked of urine, Ella still couldn't get an answer. So she went to find a new cell and decided to try it herself.

Since it's called "Sprout of Life"...

She casually scattered a clump of mud on the ground, then opened the box and threw the branches inside onto the mud.

Then, as if submerged in silt, the branch gradually sank into the darkness and remained motionless.

You've got it wrong, that's not how it's used.

Ella tilted her little head.

Intuitively speaking, shouldn't the "bud of life" be buried in the "soil of life"?

Is there something wrong with how I'm doing it?

She crouched down, manipulating two small tentacles to grow out of the mud with her fingers, and stretched the tentacles into the mud to try to poke at the branch.

But then she discovered that the branch seemed to be stuck in the mud and couldn't be moved.

Hmm? There's a chance?

Ella noticed that the mud on the ground was slowly shrinking, and the branches in the mud were like sponges, constantly absorbing the surrounding living soil.

But after absorbing the nutrients, the branch remained still.

It still doesn't work...

Ella crossed her arms. It seemed she would have to find a way to get information about this thing from the Grizzly Guild.

But the question is, how do we get there?

Sending Ye Xiao to attack directly? Wouldn't that alert the enemy?

While violently storming into a small or medium-sized guild is within the realm of human resources, it's difficult for a single person to confront a large guild head-on without attracting the attention of the mastermind behind it.

Ella pondered for a moment, then, through Ye Xiao's perspective, she saw the girl squatting on the ground, sobbing. She gently stroked the Myriad Manifestations Ring on her ring finger, and an idea came to her mind.

Chapter 110 Spinning a Cocoon

At Akishima Nogi's mansion, Ella's cloaked figure reappeared.

The girl sitting on the ground, crying, didn't recognize the little man wearing a fox mask. She was so frightened by the sudden appearance of another person in the room that she stopped making a sound.

"Don't be nervous," Ye Xiao said weakly, "You don't want your brother to be harmed by those Grizzly Bear Guild people, do you?"

"But...but you don't seem like good people to me..."

“You’re right… so you’d better answer this little dwarf’s questions properly… or she’ll beat you up.”

"Woooooooo..."

Ella grabbed the girl and entered the portal. Ye Xiao watched from the side and suddenly felt that Ella's appearance had a strange, tale-like quality of kidnapping children.

During this brief moment of contact, Ella used the Myriad Ring in her hand to record the girl's appearance.

"Where...where am I...?"

After the girl stepped into the portal, she looked at the white walls around her and couldn't help but feel confused.

The dungeon beneath the Cathedral of Loren is not dark; on the contrary, it is quite bright and clean because it is decorated with radiant stones and is rarely inhabited.

"You don't need to know that. I'll have someone bring you a bed later. I'll have to trouble you to stay here for a while," the figure wearing the fox mask said softly.

"Huh...why...!?" The girl looked surprised.