"I am very grateful for the appreciation of the Knights of the Round Table."
Chen Lun's thumb gently brushed across the cover of the black iron box, feeling the slight coolness and a rough matte texture, and said with a chuckle.
The iron box in his hand is very similar to the "space package" of the Silver Dragon Chamber of Commerce. It is also a disposable consumable. Once it is opened and the contents are taken out, the iron box itself will destroy itself.
"The club is really generous. They gave such a generous reward without hesitation... Of course, it is also possible that as the faceless waiter said, there was a serious loss of members. Such a gesture would help motivate others to continue working hard."
Chen Lun remained calm on the surface, thinking.
"No matter what, it's not a bad thing for me... The club has met all the requests I made casually before, and the extraordinary knowledge of Sequence 8 of the Ten Paths of God is now complete. I will sort it out some time."
At this time, the carriage slowly stopped.
"Captain, we have arrived at the entrance to the isolation zone in the center of the city. It is surrounded by a circle of tall metal guardrails. It looks a bit strange..."
Golov's voice was heard from outside the carriage curtain.
"Also, the local law enforcement officials have spotted us and are heading this way."
"Okay, I understand."
Chen Lun responded.
He stood up from his leather chair, holding his silver cane and said to the crowd:
"Connie, Alex, and Maggie stay here, and the rest of you can go out with me to take a look."
"Yes, Mr. Jack."
Everyone responded quickly.
Although Maggie was a little unhappy, she still obeyed the boss's orders.
She was originally the team's logistics doctor and was not considered a combatant. The reason she was initially asked to join the battle was simply because the team leader wanted to see her actual combat skills... In subsequent battles, she basically stayed behind to accompany the team.
Chen Lun and the others got off the carriage and felt a strong cold wind blowing towards them.
At this moment, there were sporadic snowflakes floating in the sky. After landing on the body, they were melted by body temperature, making the coolness even more refreshing. Fortunately, all the circus members who got off the car were extraordinary people, and they didn't care much about such a low temperature environment.
Chen Lun noticed that the faceless waiter did not leave the spirit world, but got off the carriage with them and stood silently behind everyone. He secretly guessed that this spirit world messenger from the murder club might have come with other tasks... such as observing him and conveying some more detailed intelligence and progress back to the Knights of the Round Table.
The faceless waiter noticed Chen Lun's gaze and bowed slightly to him. Chen Lun responded with a polite smile. He neither expelled him nor spoke to him.
There seems to be a tacit understanding between the two.
Chen Lun turned his gaze forward again.
The spacious stone road stretched forward. The landscape trees on both sides had lost all their leaves, leaving the road bare and looking a bit desolate.
The road was blocked by a horizontal metal fence not far away. The dense black railings were as thick as arms and six or seven meters high, even separating the buildings in front and behind. It seemed like a row of steel trees growing abruptly in the center of the city, separating the two sides.
The most bizarre thing is.
Compared to the bright environment where he was, on the other side of the fence, the sky was dark and gloomy, with extremely low visibility, as if it was covered by thick dark clouds, and everything looked full of darkness.
It seems that the fence is the dividing line between the light and dark worlds.
At this moment, dozens of people were walking towards the carriage along the fence. They could be roughly divided into three camps: the shelter investigators in suits, the Moon Church monks in black robes, and nine men and women wearing brown wide-brimmed hats and short leather jackets.
On the shelter side, the leader was a short middle-aged man with some gray hair.
"Mr. Jackspeight?"
He asked Chen Lun with a serious and solemn look.
"It's me."
Chen Lun nodded and acknowledged his identity.
"I am Coleridge, the highest person in charge of the Songsha City Shelter, and I am temporarily serving as the Chief Judge."
The short man extended his hand politely and spoke in a deep voice.
Chen Lun shook hands with him and greeted him politely.
At the same time, he secretly discovered that the acting chief judge in front of him was a natural faction sequence 5-perfumer. This sequence was extremely good at forest combat and could use the extraordinary perfumes he prepared for continuous amplification and treatment.
"I'm glad that Mr. Jack can lead the team to participate in the fight against the Red Disaster. On behalf of the entire shelter and the residents of Songsha City, I salute you..."
Coleridge gave a steady smile.
Then he introduced the people around him to Chen Lun.
From his words, we learned that the short-haired old man in a black robe who was the leader of the Church of the Moon was a bishop named Tobin, also a Sequence 5 Beyonder. The man and woman wearing wide-brimmed hats and leather jackets were the "Black Knife Killer Group" of the Black Knife Brotherhood, and their leader was a woman in her thirties named Roxanne.
Coleridge never mentioned the Black Knife Brotherhood's past misdeeds and was even quite friendly in his attitude.
Chen Lun knew that this was because the Red Disaster was so powerful that the shelter was accepting all support. And the Black Knife Brotherhood, like the Murder Club, began to compete for a seat in the Orthodox Church.
Although the two sides have different goals, they temporarily come together because of the same enemy.
"It seems like today is a good day. Ms. Roxanne led a team to support us, and now Mr. Jack has also arrived here... I think we can take this opportunity to join forces and try to clean up the red disaster in Songsha City."
Coleridge said with a smile.
At this time, Roxanne came to Chen Lun and extended her hand to him in a friendly manner.
"Nice to meet you, Mr. Jack..."
Her voice is very strong, unlike the average female voice.
The leader of the black knife killers was nearly 1.8 meters tall, and was almost the same height when standing in front of Chen Lun.
Chen Lun had a polite smile on his face. After saying hello, he was about to shake hands with her, but unexpectedly, the other party put her hand down in advance... It seemed that she was deliberately playing a joke on him.
"Oh, maybe I should call you 'Knight of Spades'...right, Mr. Jocko?"
Roxanne glanced at the faceless waiter behind the circus crowd and a playful smile appeared on her face.
She recognized it as the psychic messenger from the Murder Club.
Everyone in the circus was shocked. They didn't expect that the other party had seen through the leader's other identity. You know, "Qiao Ke" is an S-level wanted criminal in the empire... At this moment, the people from the official shelter are standing right in front of them!
They immediately became angry. This woman named Roxanne not only did not respect Mr. Jack, but also deliberately said this. It was obviously a frame-up!
After hearing what Roxanne said, the people from the shelter and the Moon Church were all horrified and became alert as if by reflex, surrounding the circus.
"I don't know what you're talking about, Ms. Roxanne."
Chen Lun put down his hand that was suspended in the air and smiled calmly.
He would not admit it without evidence. Although he didn't know how the other party knew his other identity, he couldn't convince the shelter with just a few words.
Moreover, the battle for the seat of the True God was imminent, and even if he was exposed, he would still be representing the Murder Club in the fight against the Red Apple Church... The top brass of the shelter could not possibly be unaware of the stakes involved.
Chen Lun was certain that the official attitude was ambiguous and he would not be easily touched.
Just like Coleridge did not take action against Roxanne and her group.
As expected, the two leaders, Coleridge and Toby, immediately raised their hands and stopped their men, telling them not to get startled.
"Ms. Roxanne was just joking with you all, don't take it seriously... How could Mr. Jack be an S-level wanted criminal?"
Coleridge smoothed things over.
He even smiled, with a meaningful expression on his face, and added:
"Even if Mr. Jack is the 'Knight of Spades', I believe he must be loyal to the Empire, otherwise he wouldn't be so crazy about hunting the Red Apple Church."
The subordinates of several forces calmed down, except Coleridge, Tobin, Roxanne and Chen Lun who knew clearly that no matter what their past identities were, now everyone had the same goal, that was the Red Apple Church.
In the face of the empire's great enemy, nothing seems so important.
Roxanne raised her eyebrows, laughed a few times, and stretched out her hand again:
"I'm sorry, Mr. Jack. I don't like serious atmospheres. I was just joking with you just now... Let me introduce myself to you again, Roxanne, the leader of the Black Knife Assassin Group."
But there was a barely perceptible hint of pity in her eyes.
Chen Lun ignored her and turned to look at Coleridge in the shelter and asked:
"Mr. Coleridge, I want to know the details of the Red Disaster in Songsha City."
"No problem, Mr. Jack."
The short man glanced at Roxanne, whose expression changed because of Jack's disregard. The fake smile disappeared, leaving only expressionless indifference. She tactfully walked aside and returned to the front of the black knife killers.
"The red disaster here originated from the Red Apple Church, which was originally based in Songsha City. They had planned it long ago and sent in extraordinary forces before the turmoil... So our shelter and the monks of the Moon Church can only barely resist."
Coleridge spoke in a deep voice.
"Their extraordinary combat power is temporarily trapped in the 'Nightfall Domain', but there is a complete 'Red Rose Squad' inside, a Sequence 5 bishop, nearly twenty mid-sequence priests, and an unknown number of low-sequence extraordinary monks."
Chen Lun had already speculated about the red disaster area at the main city level, but after hearing the intelligence, he still found it tricky.
He hesitated for a moment and spoke again:
"Night Realm?"
"That is an A-level strange item given by the servants of the monastery of our sect. It is temporarily used by us. It is called Silent Night Quicksand. It can create a night area, weaken the mysterious power inside, and restrict the entry and exit of living things."
At this time, the black-robed old man beside Coleridge spoke.
Chen Lun nodded to show that he understood.
He thought, it was worthy of being a main city-level red disaster area. Even A-level weird things were approved to be used against the Red Apple Church... Perhaps it was precisely because of the blessing of such weird things that the continued spread of the red disaster in Songsha City was barely curbed.
Chen Lun looked inside the fence on one side, as if he could see the Red Apple Church deep inside through the gloomy environment.
"I agree to cooperate, Mr. Coleridge... but I do not wish to act in conjunction with the Black Knife Brotherhood."
Coleridge smiled with satisfaction when he heard the first half of the sentence, but the second half made him stunned.
Even the Black Knife Assassins nearby were stunned, and then their faces turned hostile. The leader, Roxanne, snorted coldly and said sarcastically:
"It seems that Mr. Jack is very confident... That's fine. We don't want to be held back by some insignificant guys."