The villain's way to tame the protagonist

At this time, he was somewhat grateful for the hypocrisy of the legion commander's brother, otherwise it would not have been so easy for him to capture this dangerous guy.

"Before, Ms. Fenrir asked us to send a few responsible and caring supernatural beings to manage the lower city, right?"

He said with a smile: "It was indeed our negligence in management that we allowed the vicious supernatural beings to control and wreak havoc in the lower city. Please believe that we want to correct it."

The ferocity on Xitana's face did not diminish at all: "Is this your correction? You are threatening me with the lives of the entire Lower City residents?"

"No, no, no... this is just necessary so we can talk calmly."

"Heh, calm down and talk."

Xitana sneered: "You decided to have a calm conversation only when you realized you couldn't handle me."

The adventurer ignored him and continued, "We just think that people will always change. If we send a few friendly extraordinary people to manage them, what if they turn bad again? So..."

He said to Sitana with great sincerity:

"How about you manage the lower city of Strife Castle?"

The adventurer's eyes flickered with cunning and teasing light. He looked at the slightly dazed Sitana and said sincerely:

"Judge good and evil, distinguish right from wrong, and the order of the entire Lower City...all depends on your thoughts."

"how?"

*

At the same time, observing all this, the garden executors who had been doing the cleanup work for Xitana all along gasped at the same time.

"broken."

The executor codenamed Graystone looked at another executor codenamed Bone and rubbed his forehead vigorously. "This is not a good thing... If we don't handle it properly, Ms. Xitana will be tied up here by force, right?"

"That won't do." Bone also looked gloomy. "If it were somewhere else, we might be able to dawdle for a while, but Lord Anser is also in Strife Castle!"

"After all, this is Miss Xitana's experience and choice. Lord Anser should have no reason to blame us...right?"

"The key is that this situation is completely beyond Ms. Xitana's scope - she absolutely cannot bear to sacrifice some people. If this continues, she will be controlled here forever."

"Then... ask that stinky cat?"

"…There's no other way."

So, night.

Marina, who was sorting out today's progress and follow-up plans, received the communication she had been waiting for for a long time.

"Marina."

"What's wrong, Ms. Rhine?"

"..."

There was silence for a moment on the communication magic crystal, and then a sigh was heard.

"you win."

Chapter 21: Xitana has great abilities (two in one)

"That's... ridiculous."

Ming Furo, standing at the end of the tunnel, had a gloomy look on her face, with a cold light of anger flashing in her purple eyes.

She was now at the end of the drainage outlet in the lower city. The countless rotten corpses in the tunnel made it difficult for her to suppress the anger in her heart.

Even in her most insane state, Ming Fuluo, who weighs the lives of others on the scales, would be shaken when choosing to sacrifice others, and naturally it is impossible for her to remain indifferent to the scene before her.

In other words, in the eyes of someone like her who attaches great importance to values, such trampling on life is absolutely intolerable.

"Neither here. It looks like his son has been sold."

After a few minutes, the remaining anger gradually subsided and Ming Fuluo whispered, "I don't know whether this is a blessing in disguise or the beginning of a tragedy."

Yesterday, Anser returned to the original territory of the colorful snake and quickly found several other slave training dens, in which there were many dying people who had been abducted by various means.

After rescuing these people, Anser and Ming Fuluo still did not find any clues about the target. They only learned from these poor people the place where the colorful snake "dealt with" unqualified slaves. So today, they found this place.

Ansher snapped his fingers, and a blazing fireball burned the corpse. Compared with Ming Furo, he seemed calmer, so calm that he seemed never to have any emotional fluctuations.

"It's a pity that the colorful snake is dead." Anser shook his head. "This way, there are fewer direct clues... Luo, you should be able to track the person through things related to the target."

In order to find out the truth about Erion's death, Ming Furo must have spent a lot of effort on this.

But the woman shook her head: "The essence of that kind of tracking is to trace the ether... It won't work on ordinary people. If you have his flesh and blood, you can try it, but it's just a simple tool, and the relevance is not enough."

Anser did not show any signs of difficulty, but said calmly: "Then we should start from the entire process of human trafficking of the Colorful Snake and investigate all the people involved. Xitana will only kill the main culprit at most, and she probably won't have the energy to hunt down the other participants."

The sound of unhurried footsteps echoed in the stinking sewer. Three handsome men and women who should not be here were swimming upstream along the sewage, preparing to leave this intricate drainage system.

Anser tilted his head and stared at the underground sewer, and suddenly said:

"Lord Gan Lei, tell me, why did Fort Strife build such a sewer?"

They were discussing the commission not long ago, but Anser's sudden question caught Marina off guard. She was stunned for several seconds before she began to think hurriedly.

The building topography of the lower city causes all the discharged sewage to gather at the bottom of this "mine". And it's not just sewage. According to this treatment method, a large amount of daily garbage should also be dumped directly under the lower city, and... without any isolation treatment.

So, the entire downtown area is built on a huge garbage dump!

This bizarre living environment made the well-informed Marina feel a little scalp-tingling. Even in the Red Frost Territory, the environment in the slums might not be so...absurd.

absurd……

As Marina thought about this, the question that had appeared countless times popped up in her mind again.

Why are so many ordinary people still willing to accept the rule of extraordinary people?

Is it because they can't afford the cost of relocation? Or... their actual life may not be as bad as I speculated?

If this is the case, then the fundamental reason why their lives are not so bad is——

At this moment, Marina's consciousness was penetrated. The shock she had felt recently, especially the incident at Mibai Tower, and the "answer" from Anser's mouth, made her understand a lot of things in this moment.

"The emperor satisfied his lust for power by ruling the empire."

Marina's voice was a little dazed: "The same is true for extraordinary people..."

It's just that the territory under the emperor's rule is so vast, there are so many things they can do, want to do, and things that can satisfy themselves. But the extraordinary people who only control a city cannot be satisfied so easily.

By giving kindness, I can gain gratitude from the suffering mortals and satisfy my empty and boring self for once. But if the suffering is not enough...

That creates suffering.

The girl pulled the corners of her mouth, and a sarcastic smile appeared on her slightly pale face.

"I guess Mr. Mibaita must have 'purified' the Lower Town many times."

The turbid and rotten smell cannot reach the extraordinary people at all, but how can ordinary people tolerate it? Moreover, it is built on stagnant water that is completely filled with sewage and garbage. This environment is no longer a problem of smell, it is simply a breeding ground for germs.

But the lower city did not have a very obvious smell of decay. Obviously... the adventurers above had probably bestowed a lot of grace and purified the environment of the lower city - how many similar things had they done?

Marina could even imagine the scene when the adventurers did something that was insignificant to them, and the residents of the lower city raised their arms and cheered enthusiastically. But when they were grateful for the greatness and kindness of the adventurers, did they ever think... If these people really wanted to be good to them, they would not have thrown them into this dark pit like livestock from the beginning? Did they ever think that the entire lower city was not for them to live in, but just a toy to satisfy their morbid desires?

Or... do they think that it is a great kindness for the extraordinary people to dump their garbage out and feed them like giving alms to stray dogs?

Marina, who is also a mortal, showed an expression of sadness and desolation that was difficult to conceal.

Why is this happening? This kind of situation has never happened in Mr. Anser's Hydra Territory. The civilians can live well and there is no such thing as—

Marina's thoughts suddenly stopped.

A terrible thought emerged in her mind that was irresistible and could not be erased no matter what.

How many of the extraordinary people in Hydra Territory really care about the civilians, or are they simply obeying Mr. Anser's orders?

While maintaining superficial prosperity, what are they doing in secret?

In a daze, Marina followed Ansher out of the sewer, but when she looked up, she still couldn't see the sunlight.

"Where should we start next?" Ming Fuluo asked, not noticing Marina's abnormality... or rather, not paying attention to her at all. "You said it won't be that easy to find other people related to the colorful snake."

“Not that easy, not that hard either.”

Anser smiled and said, "A day has passed. Our Miss Fenrir should have reached an agreement with the Upper City by now."

Ming Fuluo's eyes twitched: "You want to ask her for help?"

"No way?" Adventurer Faust asked in surprise, "I was the one who asked her for help, not me who went to help her."

Ming Fuluo was speechless for a moment, and finally could only snort coldly:

"What a legendary adventurer Faust... It takes so much trouble to find a child, and in the end, he still has to rely on women."

"Oh? If Luo said so."

Anser raised his eyebrows with a smile: "Then you can go back first, you are not needed here, I am alone, oh, Gan Leiqing should also be included, let's try it together."

"..."

Ming Fuluo stared at Ansher without saying a word, but her meaning was obvious.

——Why don’t you just leave me behind and try?

Young Hydra couldn't help but burst out laughing. His best friend's awkward appearance, which he couldn't change, made the coldness in his heart, which no one could detect, dissipate a little.

What did young Hydra think when he saw those corpses?

No one knows, in fact even Anser himself is not quite sure.

Faust has seen enough of these things and doesn't care.

"Come on, let's go meet the new king of the lower city of Strife Castle."

Anser patted Ming Fuluo's shoulder leisurely and said in a teasing tone:

"Go meet the famous Miss Fenrir."

At the same time, he turned to look at Marina and said in a joking tone: "It's been a while since we last met. Don't lose your composure, Lord Gan Lei. This will make Miss Fenrir lose control of herself."

"...Please rest assured, Mr. Faust."

Marina bowed slightly, her voice gentle but firm: "I won't cause you any trouble."

The chaos of the extraordinary, the lowliness of the mortals... Marina walked along the road that seemed to be paved for her by Ansher, and saw the distortion and deformity of this world bit by bit.

In fact, Marina had already glimpsed some of this a long time ago, but during the time she followed Ansher, she had almost always been interacting with important people, and as time went by, she had long forgotten the absurdity that made her tremble.

The young mortal girl didn't know how to face this world, and she didn't know why Anser exposed it so nakedly before her eyes.

Is this a test specifically for her? Or... just a common test for Hydra's followers?

Marina knew nothing about this, and she didn't have the energy to think about it right now.

Because a greater test is already before her.

"So...you need my help?"

"The facts are before us."

"But why would Mr. Anser vent his anger on others? Even if Miss Xitana is stuck in a quagmire, that is her choice. You are worrying too much, Ms. Rhine."

"This is not a matter of taking your anger out on others, Marina. You are a smart person, you should be able to understand."

Understand, of course Marina could understand. When Ansel said yesterday, seemingly flirting with Ming Furo, and said completely casually, "It's not me who should help her," the girl had already keenly sensed a possibility.

But are you going to do it, Marina?

You obviously don't want to rely on your sister the most, and don't want to get any special treatment because of her influence... do you want to use her as a springboard to get the transformation you desire?

"If you can handle this problem and continue to cooperate with me in the future... I can make you a transcendent."

“It’s not an opportunity, it’s not a possibility, but it will definitely allow you to achieve extraordinary things without limiting your possibilities. But you have to pay a high price for it.”

Rhine's words seemed to still echo in her ears. Marina remained silent, staring at Ansel's back.

So close, yet so far away.

What am I chasing after...

Mr. Anser, what do you think I need to pursue?

*

Miss Fenrir slumped in front of her desk, her expression distracted and her eyes blank.

She was so hungry that she wanted to bury her head in the canteen pot and eat a lot, but reality did not allow it.