The streets of the North City became darker the farther away from the city, and the streets and alleys were filled with pairs of cold eyes. This was the darkest place in the capital, and it was no longer the people of all walks of life who gathered here, but even darker forces.
The road was getting darker and darker. Hua Wuyang often came to these places, but no matter how many times he came, he was still scared every time he walked there. Those pairs of eyes were like greedy monsters, wanting to devour everyone who passed by here.
"Look ahead, don't look anywhere else." Hua Wuyang reminded Lian Youyou and Yun Xi in a low voice. In order to avoid attracting too much attention, he also made a tattered cloak for them both to put on.
Yun Xi took two quick steps and came to Lian Youyou's side: "Master, there is something I need to tell you."
Lian Youyou raised her eyebrows and looked at him sideways: "Speak."
Yunxi looked at Hua Wuyang who was walking in front of him, and whispered in Lian Youyou's ear: "Actually, this is the entrance to the underground city."
Lian Youyou didn't care: "Yeah, I know."
Yun Xi was stunned with his fox eyes: "You, you know?" He never remembered that he, Dai Lian Youyou, had been to the underground city.
Lian Youyou smiled and looked at him: "Do you think this underground city only exists in the Qian Dynasty?"
Yun Xi suddenly realized that the great god Lian was already thousands of years old, so what was so strange about him knowing the location of the underground city
This dungeon is not an ordinary place, because it is where monsters gather!
Whether it is the demons wandering in the mortal world or the spirits, they all have demonic auras, and this demonic aura easily attracts people who want to cultivate immortality or catch demons. So, a long, long time ago, they built a huge and interconnected underground city deep under the surface of the earth! They lived there, shuttling between the human world and the underground city, leading a free life that was neither human nor demon.
If the demons enter the demon world, it is difficult for them to leave freely, and how can the demon world be as interesting as the human world? Therefore, some demons prefer to live in the human world.
The underground city protected their lives very well. The thick surface concealed their demonic aura, making it impossible for demon hunters to detect their existence.
This underground city even penetrates the world and becomes an underground world! They call themselves the Stealth Clan, or: the Earth's Inner People.
Yun Xi suddenly understood why Lian Youyou wanted to know the buyer. Maybe she had realized that the buyer might be a demon from the capital. And the place where the demons from the capital lived was naturally this underground city!
At the entrance of an alley ahead stood two strange people holding green lanterns. The green lanterns were motionless in the dark night, which was extremely strange. The two people holding green lanterns were also thin and tall, standing at the entrance of the alley and motionless, like two stone statues. They were both wearing large cloaks, completely covering themselves from head to toe, and their appearance could not be seen at all.
Yunxi couldn't help but win over the cloaks, because the people in the underground city also knew the people from the Nine Gates. Before Lian Youyou appeared, they would go to the underground city to investigate the cases in the capital. Today, he and Hua Wuyang were going to meet the buyer. If the buyer knew that the Nine Gates had followed, the buyer would definitely run away.
Yun Xi took a step forward and came to Hua Wuyang's side: "If you take us with you, we can really save your life."
Hua Wuyang became confused again, as if the other party knew this place better than he did.
He didn't know, but Yun Xi was very clear about the practices of the stealth tribe here. Since they asked Hua Wuyang to steal the cup, it was very likely that they would not let him go back alive.
In the underground city, people, gods, and demons don't care, it is a self-contained and self-managed city. So cannibalism is common here, because in their eyes, humans are just like chickens and ducks in the eyes of humans, just food.
Hua Wuyang brought Lian Youyou and Yun Xi to the two cloaked men holding green lanterns, lowered his head and whispered: "Come to deliver the goods, these two are my helpers."
The man with the green lantern nodded, his cloak fluttering in the night wind. Lian Youyou frowned slightly, the smell on them was too fishy!
Of course, Hua Wuyang couldn't smell it, so after the man with the green lantern let them go, he took Lian Youyou and Yun Xi into the deep and dark alley in front of them.
Street lights began to appear on the walls on both sides of the alley, one every five steps, as if this was not an alley but a long passage.
Hua Wuyang had never been here before, and today was his first time. The more he got involved, the more uneasy he became. It was his professional sixth sense, and he had a premonition that he might not be able to escape unscathed.
Instead, Lian Youyou chuckled beside him: "This buyer didn't want to attract our attention, so he hired a mortal to steal the cup. In the end, he made things worse and attracted us instead."
Yun Xi felt that what Lian Youyou said made sense. Because the underground city and the Nine Gates had always kept to themselves, but if they came up to commit a crime, then the Nine Gates would have to intervene.
Hua Wuyang walked in front and listened to Lian Youyou's words. He felt a little confused. Why did she call him a mortal? It made her seem like she wasn't a mortal. After all, mortals wouldn't call mortals mortals, so Hua Wuyang found it strange.
Gradually, they reached the end of the alley, where there were two more people with green lanterns, but behind them was a red lacquered door! The door was covered with strange patterns, like the evil witchcraft of the folks, which made people feel weird.
Hua Wuyang was a thief, and he was well-known in the underworld because there was nothing he couldn't steal. He had seen many buyers, but this was the first time he had seen such an offer, so when he first accepted it, he wanted to refuse it, but in the end he couldn't refuse the other party's offer, as the saying goes, people die for money and birds die for food.
"Did you bring the things?" asked one of the Green Lantern men hidden in the cloak, his voice was hoarse and unclear, as if he had a mouthful of water in his mouth.
Hua Wuyang looked at Lian Youyou and said, "Take it out."
Lian Youyou casually took out the luminous cup, and the Qingdeng man reached out to take it. His hand was slender and long, and his skin was pale blue, which was very strange. Hua Wuyang saw it and felt suspicious, so he stopped looking.
"Wow-wow--" Hua Wuyang's crow jumped up on his shoulder and flapped its wings.
Hua Wuyang knew this was a warning, so he became alert and didn't want to stay here any longer: "Where's the remaining money?"
The man with the green lantern looked at the luminous cup, looked to one side, then turned around and pushed open the vermilion door. A burst of green fluorescence emanated from inside, which stunned Hua Wuyang.
Before Hua Wuyang could see clearly, the red door had already closed, and a man with a green lantern stood in front of him, stretched out his strange blue-white slender fingers and began to count: "One, two, three... Yeah... Just right."
"What's just in time?" Hua Wuyang began to retreat cautiously, and suddenly, he found that his retreat was also blocked by two other Qingdeng men!
"Eat!" After the man with the green lantern said this word, he suddenly lifted up his cloak, revealing a green-skinned face with only one eye. There was no nose but only two small holes that looked like nostrils. There was not a single hair on his head, it was bald and seemed to be covered with disgusting mucus.
"Ah——" Hua Wuyang was so frightened that he stood still.
The green lantern man opened his big mouth, which was full of sharp teeth like those of a sea fish, and bit towards Hua Wuyang's head. (To be continued)