It was late at night and everyone was sleeping except the night watchmen who were still on duty. Xu Dongyou was probably too busy in the past few days and he didn't even know when he fell asleep.
The others were too embarrassed to wake Xu Dongyou up.
After all, Xu Dongyou has been very busy during this period. He has lost a lot of weight in just a few days here, making him look even thinner and more ethereal, as if he could be blown down by a gust of wind.
"Let him sleep a little longer. We'll wake him up in two hours. Nothing will happen in such a short time." said the person on duty.
The other man nodded as well.
The person hiding in the dark felt relieved after hearing this conversation. He quietly hid himself from the darkness and soon disappeared.
Immediately afterwards, Xu Dongyou opened his eyes and immediately sent a message to the director.
The director immediately used his own abilities to allow himself and the other two people to be completely concealed, and then followed the man all the way to the vicinity of the tree, where he saw that the other party was destroying the trap.
All the witnesses and evidence are there.
It was impossible for the director and his men to watch the other party destroy the trap, so they immediately took the opportunity to control the other party, then repaired the trap that had just been slightly damaged, and then returned to the camp.
During this period, the handler knew that everything was exposed, his face turned pale and he was in panic, but then he calmed down. This made the director even more alert, and he immediately used his power to control the handler again and strengthen the insurance.
When the rebellious handler returned to the camp and saw those handlers who should have been put to sleep by him, as well as Xu Dongyou, all standing there, he realized that his identity might have been exposed earlier.
But he couldn't figure out how he was exposed.
"Why? I thought I was hiding well, how did you find out—" The rebellious handler suddenly paused and looked at Xu Dongyou, "It's you! It's you, right?"
He has hidden his identity perfectly for so many years and should not have been exposed. However, the only person who might have discovered that something was wrong with him was Xu Dongyou. The other party's five senses were simply amazing, as if he had been given a cheat. Maybe he sensed his murderous intent when he killed the spider monster.
After realizing this, he immediately kept silent, but his heart was filled with resentment towards Xu Dongyou and regret for being too careless at the time and exposing his murderous intentions.
It's a pity that it's all too late.
Especially now that he has been caught, and the mistake he has made is extremely serious, he will definitely die once his secrets are uncovered.
The rebellious handler's face instantly turned pale, and he said to the director with difficulty: "I am willing to confess everything. I will tell you everything I said. Can you spare my life? Even if it means erasing my memory, that's fine."
The director did not show any anger on his face, and smiled calmly, "I will do my best to report to the higher-ups, but I cannot guarantee whether they agree or not. But you should really take the initiative to explain everything now and show your sincerity."
Afterwards, the director asked the other handlers to retreat temporarily, leaving only a few senior core handlers and Xu Dongyou behind.
The rebellious handler's surname is Liang, and his name is Liang Shankai. He has worked in the handling bureau for seven or eight years and is an old member of the third team. He is usually smooth in dealing with people, but a little weak in agility. He has not made any progress over the years, but he is very studious. With the gradual accumulation of work experience, his combat skills have become more sophisticated. Even if he is slightly weaker in agility than others, he can still challenge those of higher levels.
This is also why the bureau chose him to join, because they really valued his flexibility and versatility.
But when he thought about the fact that the other party had actually betrayed the human race and was even thinking about harming all the handlers, and then thought about the mysterious man who had died before, the director even suspected that Liang Shankai knew that mysterious man, and was very likely a member of the same organization.
They cannot learn everything from the mysterious dead man, so they must stabilize the only person who knows the truth and get useful information from him.
Although the truth talisman can dig out all the secrets, there will inevitably be omissions, such as a person's trump card. It is better to let the other party cooperate actively.
The director said: "You must remember to explain everything clearly, otherwise I will not be able to do my best to fight for your chance to survive, and your family will be ashamed of you."
The last sentence seemed to make Liang Shankai's face turn pale and blue. After a long while, he nodded and said, "I know. I will explain everything."
Even though he said that, he was still filled with reluctance in his heart.
Afterwards, Liang Shankai began to confess everything he knew. It turned out that he was contacted by this mysterious man two months ago. The other party encouraged him to join the secret organization of the guardians and asked me to work with him to collect the evil beads and send them here so that the evil spirit tree could cultivate evil spirits.
As for why he agreed to cooperate with the Guardians, it was very simple, because his strength had been stuck here and could not be improved any further, and even the Processing Bureau had no way to solve it.
When he looked at people who were not as hardworking as himself, he would feel more resentful because they were more intelligent than himself and could even tie with him.
The guardian has a way to increase his spiritual power, but he needs to pay a price and help the other party collect the evil beads from some corpses collected by the processing bureau.
The evil beads did not appear out of thin air, but required some kind of spell and seeds to be cultivated successfully. This is why the corpses collected by the disposal bureau did not contain any evil beads at all.
After handing the evil bead to the guardian, the other party would give him a magical item that could enhance his spiritual power. Then he found that these guardians were really powerful, so he tried to contact them and learned a very secret information.
That's how to be a guardian.
"But I can't tell you the specific method unless you can guarantee my immortality. Of course, you can use the Truth Talisman on me, but you can't get any information on how to become a guardian. I asked a mysterious person to cast a curse on me. If I tell anyone this secret, I will die immediately."
This is why Liang Shankai was still confident after being discovered.
The director looked grim. After thinking for a while, he said, "I will tell the higher-ups everything you said, but now, I need you to explain one thing. What is your purpose in removing the trap? You should know that these evil spirits can't do anything to us."
Liang Shankai was silent. "I will not tell you about this matter until you make sure I am not dead. Don't even think about digging out this information through the Mantra Talisman. Otherwise, I would rather die than tell you."
It was certain that no more information could be obtained from Liang Shankai. In addition, since Liang Shankai was uncooperative, there was no point in him staying here. So they simply let a few handlers escort him away for the time being to prevent him from doing anything untoward.
The director then called everyone together and said, "Tomorrow, we will start to get closer to this tree. At the same time, I will ask the police to bring an excavator, and we will start digging nearby tomorrow."
The director had previously discussed with other people in the world, and after analysis by Old Chen, they all agreed that if they wanted to destroy the evil tree, the heart buried underground was a crucial link.
So it’s time to dig and find out.
Besides, there are already so many evil spirits on this evil tree, so it’s time to speed up the process.
Time soon came to the next day, and everyone started to get busy. The trap was pushed forward to 100 meters again. Everyone was prepared for the possibility of the evil tree's counterattack. They thought that the evil tree would not move at all.
The director once again asked everyone to move forward.
This time, when it reached fifty meters, the evil spirit tree finally reacted. Its branches moved like a ghost with bared fangs and claws, and the evil spirit hanging on it became darker and darker in color, and finally turned black.
Even without Xu Dongyou, everyone sensed an unprecedented powerful aura from these evil spirits. Obviously, the evil spirit tree could no longer sit still. It shook its branches again, and the three evil spirits on it immediately staggered down and rushed towards everyone. The trap that had been set up should have trapped the evil spirits, but it only lasted less than a minute in front of these evil spirits.
During this time, everyone started to attack the evil spirit, but they were still unable to cause any damage to the evil spirit tree.
Everyone was not panicking, but looked at the director.
The director waved his hand and said, "Use weapons."
This weapon is different from the previous ones. It is inlaid with a seal stone, which can cause damage to evil spirits and also has a certain suppressive power.
As expected, the big attack continued to cause damage to the evil spirit, and it was finally successfully sealed.
At this moment, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief. This time, the evil tree should have other counterattack powers, right? The army continued to advance, and at the same time, the ground had been dug a hundred meters deep. Soon, they dug out a heart that looked like it was made of flesh and blood, which looked extremely hideous.
A foul smell instantly filled the air. The red heart was flowing with blood, which was black in color. For a moment, it reminded everyone of the flesh and blood of a monster.
I also vaguely understood something.
Suddenly, something like a branch shot out from the heart and pierced through the heart of one of the handlers at an extremely fast speed, then sucked all the blood out of him and he fell to the ground.
It all happened so fast that no one had time to react. Xu Dongyou took this opportunity to quickly activate his five senses and swiftly controlled the dagger to cut off the root of the tree.
The severed tree roots immediately stopped moving.
All the trunks of the evil tree began to shake, and then the ground began to move, and countless roots appeared, attacking everyone.
Everyone looked horrified.
Realizing that this tree actually had other ways to attack, fortunately the trap set before worked and blocked the tree trunk. Daxie finally reacted and rushed to attack.
The attack speed of the tree roots was extremely fast, but their defense was not very high. When there were traps as a defense, the large-scale attack quickly severely damaged the evil tree and cut all its roots into pieces.
The heart is beating beneath the earth, boom, boom, boom.
Everyone's mouth was dry and their heartbeats quickened, because the air at this moment seemed to be filled with an atmosphere that made them extremely uneasy.
Xu Dongyou, who activated his five senses, sensed an unprecedented crisis warning! !