"It's a shame... I'm not dead yet."
From the Shadow Demon's incomplete memories and the soul fragments he collected, Xu Le has confirmed this.
He was indeed not dead. This was clearly shown in the mission plan of the puppeteer Ed and the alchemist Irene from the beginning.
Bai Kui is the source of the Lightforge pollution. The Third Era does not have mature means to deal with the ancient sound pollution.
Therefore, the way they dealt with Gu Yin’s multiple offspring was mostly to seal them.
Apart from this, Bai Kui has a very complicated past. In short, he is a very dangerous person.
Looking at the cane, Xu Le felt a little emotional.
He was originally excited and ready to come in to offer sacrifices for nourishment, but at this time he no longer had anything valuable on him.
He didn't plan to touch the remaining Fangs of Light.
If Gu Jianuo came to harass him after he returned, he would be prepared to sell the Fang of Light to him.
"I came in with a lot of money and left with nothing. Alas, life is always full of ups and downs."
Although Xu Le really wanted to study the specific capabilities of this cane, there were more important things to do now.
Weapons and equipment are only meaningful if people are alive!
"We need to tell the captain about Bai Kui as soon as possible and let her make the judgment."
…
In the office.
Gu Jianuo, who was collecting information, raised her eyebrows slightly. She took out a ring with a sun mark from a pile of documents.
Looking at the ring, Gu Jianuo's eyes showed some joy. Things were going much more smoothly than she had imagined.
"The relic of the Church of the Sun has finally been found."
Judging from the current situation, there should be no need for her to take action. Although the strength of these two teams of Night's Watch is average, their abilities are somewhat beyond her imagination.
Whether it is Bai Jing or Gan, or the younger generation like Xu Le and Wang Shu, they are all talented.
It's a pity that Bai Jing and Gan are too old, their ideas have matured and are no longer suitable.
Xu Le and Wang Shu still have a chance, but I don’t know what the price would be.
As for Gu Beichen, haha.
"Why are you thinking about this now?"
Then she looked at the information at hand again, with a slight smile on her face:
“The human puppet and Gu Yinduo exchanged alchemical formulas. The ancient people were really bold. If such a formula were put into practice now, they would probably be arrested as cultists.
In the Third Age, such a sorcerer could openly become an imperial sorcerer. This is really a sign of the difference between the times."
After putting the Sun Ring on his hand and organizing the information and documents into the bag, Gu Jianuo suddenly looked at Xu Le who was meditating beside him.
She smelled a scent from Xu Le!
It's a stench, a soul stench!
In fact, the smell is not particularly strong, at least normal people will not feel it very strongly.
But Gu Jianuo is different. Her sense of smell is different from that of normal humans.
"What happened to him?"
Gu Jianuo took out a bottle of spray and sprayed it on Xu Le, barely suppressing the smell.
At this moment, Xu Le, who had exited the Mother Tree Realm, just woke up.
"What's that smell? It's weird."
Gu Jianuo rolled his eyes, holding back the stench and said:
"What happened during your meditation? How did the soul stench come about?"
"Um, I don't know either, but I have more important things to do right now."
"Something more important?"
“I’m afraid things are not as simple as we thought, this Bai Kui is not dead.
"Ah? Where is Bai Kui? Where is he? Has he been resurrected?"
Xu Le was shocked to see Bai Kui disappear.
When Gu Jianuo heard Xu Le say that Bai Kui was not dead, his brows immediately furrowed.
"While you were meditating just now, Captain Bai and Mr. Wang Shu dragged the body out and prepared to burn it. After all, any corpse has the possibility of deformation, and burning it into ashes will be safer."
"It's over. It's over. It's over."
Xu Le ran out quickly, while Gu Jianuo was a little confused. She glanced at the ring in her hand, hesitated for a moment, then quickly picked up the thing and followed.
As soon as Xu Le went out, he saw Bai Jing and Gan Zheng standing not far away.
Meanwhile, Wang Shu had already started pouring kerosene on Bai Kui's body...
"Captain, Teacher Gan, we have to leave here, immediately."
Right now, everyone is busy digging for moonstones. If we leave now, the team members will easily become resentful.
At first, it's easy to suppress your desires.
But once you come into contact with desire, it is difficult to suppress it.
Bai Jing frowned and said:
"What's going on?"
"Bai Kui is not dead. He will be resurrected. He is very powerful. There is no time to explain too much. Give the order quickly. I will talk as we walk.
Oh, by the way, kerosene definitely won’t work, use enough bombs to tie up Bai Kui.
Let’s see if we can blow him up.”
Xu Le's words were firm and his tone was full of an unquestionable attitude.
After Bai Jing pondered for a few seconds, he immediately turned to Gu Jianuo and said:
"Xiao Nuo, can you prepare the bomb?"
"Okay, but are you really going to leave? Don't you trust him too much?"
There was a hint of provocation in Gu Jianuo's tone, but if it was Zhou Jie, he might not have heard it.
But a veteran like Bai Jing immediately understood Gu Jianuo's intention.
Gu Jianuo fell in love with Xu Le. To be more precise, Gu Jianuo fell in love with Xu Le’s value.
"Don't bother Xiao Nuo to worry about these team matters."
"Haha, okay, then I'll go prepare the bomb."
Seeing that his provocation was useless, Gu Jianuo did not get angry, but turned around and prepared the bomb.
Bai Jing immediately walked to the center of the corridor and shouted:
"Everyone gather and prepare to evacuate."
At this time, the Night Watchmen have almost dug out one-fifth of the moonstones. Although it is a lot, there are more left, right
It was still early and they had every chance to take all the moonstones away. Why did they evacuate at this time? Many people did not understand.
Some members of Team 5 even showed signs of disobeying orders.
However, as the captain, Zhou Jie still has a clear mind. Bai Jing has demonstrated enough ability in this mission, so he chooses to trust Bai Jing.
"All five teams, listen to me. From now on, Captain Bai Jing's orders are my orders.
If you don't want to be left here, stop talking nonsense to me and prepare to evacuate."
"But Captain, the moonstones have not been mined yet, and there are a lot of them left..."
Interests are most likely to cause conflicts, so at this time only Xu Le could come out to explain:
“After our investigation, we have confirmed that a powerful Ancient Yin Duo Zi He is sealed here. We are all Night Watchmen, so we should know what Ancient Yin Duo Zi He is, right
The moonstone maintains the energy of the seal. If we wait until all of it is dug out, we may be dead soon."
"Uh? This..."
The team members looked at each other, although none of them could determine whether Xu Le's statement was true.
But it is better to believe it exists than to believe it does not.
Losing your life because of greed is the stupidest thing to do.
In the wild environment, many things involving extraordinary people need to be judged by sorcerers.
"Captain, what should we do now?"
Bai Jing pondered for a while, then turned to Gan, Xu Le, Gu Jianuo and others and said:
"Come here, a few people, take the warlocks away first. Don't question it. You move slowly, so you must go first."
"yes."
"Other members, take out all the bombs and fill the entire 5th and 4th floors for me, as well as the part with the painted skin on the 2nd floor, to make a fuse."
"yes."
"Finally, stick Miss Gu Jianuo's bomb on Bai Kui's body. Gu Beichen stays behind and prepares to detonate it with psychic energy."
Gu Beichen was stunned, and his eyes instantly brightened.
"As expected, the hero is always the last to leave."
With Bai Jing's order, the others began to work in an orderly manner.
Xu Le and other warlock members went downstairs and left.
The members of the warrior group were making final preparations.
Wang Shu and Zhou Jie pushed Bai Kui to the window and stuck Gu Jianuo's bomb on Bai Kui's body.
Because only warlocks can use psionic power to detonate such bombs.
It was Xu Le who detonated the bomb last time, so this time, it must be Gu Beichen who does it.
…
Xu Le walked downstairs, rubbing the cane in his hand, and continued to think while waiting for Bai Jing and the others to catch up.
He felt that this cane might be the key to solving Bai Kui's problem.
Because the staff itself is the core of the five guards, and is made of those five special items.
Whether it is the so-called salvation or destruction, it should be related to this cane.
After spending so much valuable loot, getting a living weapon sounds pretty cool.
But the reality is... he was given a stick, barely a crutch.
Moreover, its attributes seem to be very poor, and it is not as direct and effective as ordinary relics.
The problem he faced now was how to use this thing
Take another look at the cane.
Effect-Wonderful Weapon: This is a very, very special weapon.
"How is this so strange? There is absolutely no hint."
As for the second effect.
Effect - Killing: Every time you kill a descendant of Gu Yinduo, the staff will be strengthened by one point. Currently, the killing is 0.
"Is this effect driving me to kill Gu Yinduo's descendants?"
Killing can make you grow, and at first glance it is indeed an awesome growth equipment, but who can he kill with his current level
Bai Kui should be the descendant of Gu Yinduo, but now the whole team is running away, can he win
But Gu Beichen... he also seems to have many descendants.
Thinking of this, Xu Le glanced downstairs at Gu Beichen who was standing at the window pretending to be cool.
Gu Beichen-Guangzhu, in ancient Chinese, means many descendants.
"If I kill him with a knife, my stick will become stronger?"
Gu Beichen felt Xu Le's gaze, gestured to Xu Le from a distance, and said loudly:
"We'll settle our differences after we get back."
Xu Le's mouth twitched. Was this how he meant to settle accounts in the autumn? But it seemed that autumn was indeed approaching.
"Forget it, let's save his life."
Xu Le looked back at the cane and thought about the original question again.
This thing... How do you use it
At this time, Bai Jing and others who had already made the arrangements also walked downstairs. They trotted over to Xu Le and asked:
"Tell me the details of this matter. No matter what, I have to give a reasonable response to my superiors and the team members after I return."
Hearing Bai Jing's question, the members of the Night Watch all looked at Xu Le, even Gu Jianuo who came over later was no exception.
Everyone wants to know the answer.
"This is a long story, I'll try to keep it simple."
"OK."
Xu Le nodded and began to quickly repeat in detail everything about Bai Kui, Wu Anquan, the five special monsters, the five special items, and the two warlocks.
But other people at the moment could not understand this disorganized information at all.
Bai Jing looked at Xu Le hesitantly.
"Can you tell me the point? For example, in Bai Kui's case, how did you know he wasn't dead?"
Xu Le glanced at the destroyed square fountain and said:
"There is actually a seal here, and the thing that is sealed is Bai Kui's body."
Gu Jianuo on the side frowned slightly. She was not an ordinary sorcerer.
How did Xu Le, a rookie, know about the seal that even she didn't notice
At this point, Gu Jianuo no longer tried to hide her intentions. She directly said to Xu Le:
“I have been very careful along the way, always viewing things from the perspective of an outsider, for fear of making mistakes.
But I didn't find any seal. Even if there was a seal, after hundreds of years, there is no energy to maintain the seal. I have said this before.
So how did you determine that? And what is the sealing technique?"
Not only Gu Jianuo, Bai Jing, Gan, and Zhou Jie all looked at Xu Le.
Xu Le took a deep breath and nodded at a few moonstones in the hands of a member of the Night Watch:
"Those are the energies that maintain the seal."
"You mean moonstone? How is that possible? Moonstone cannot be used directly without being processed."
"Is the technique the same in the Third Age as it is now?"
Facing Xu Le's question, Gu Jianuo shook his head:
"Even if we can use the energy of the moonstone, what is the sealing technique?"
Xu Le pointed to the square pool and said:
"The seal starts from the square pool and extends to the five monsters in the 4th floor area."
"Five weirdos? What does that mean?"
"In fact, the seal has been unlocked since we stepped into this square."
As a level 3 alchemist, Gu Jianuo reacted extremely quickly.
"Since I stepped into this square? You mean... the seal has been lifted since the statue was carved?"
“Yes, the real seal is not the so-called sealing technique, but the five monsters guarding here.
This sealing formation is more ingenious because it is alive.
These five monsters were not originally monsters, but special seal guards, or a kind of puppets or dolls.
But perhaps it was just like what Miss Gu said, time would take away everything, and the guards’ original intention was to keep the seal running, but as time went on, their energy was exhausted.
Therefore, they began to absorb the more powerful power of Ancient Sound in order to maintain the seal here."
After hearing this, Bai Jing already had a rough idea of what was going on.
"How did you determine that those five weirdos were the guards guarding this place?"
Xu Le turned his head to look at Bai Jing and mentioned the details of the last mission.
"Captain, do you remember those dead white-haired skeletons when we first came to explore Block 53?"
"Remember, what's wrong?"
“Those gray-haired people all died at the same time. I couldn’t understand it at first, but now I understand.
I think the shameful story told by the delusional maid actually has an ending.”
"explain."
“I don’t think Bai Kui is a great person. Some of the words of the delusional maid are incoherent and obviously embellished.
Bai Kui witnessed his parents being killed since he was a child and was constantly abused by the townspeople. It can be said that he grew up in a very distorted environment.
Let's assume that he is a saint..."
"Wait, is Madonna a derogatory term?"
Xu Le didn't know what Bai Jing meant by this question, but he still expressed some of his own opinions.
“No, it’s a positive word, the Virgin Mary… the existence of light and justice.
In fact, when we, the Night Watchmen, save and protect ordinary people, besides being a duty, it is also partly because of our Virgin Mary spirit.
After all, if no one in this world stood up, it would be too dark.”
Hearing Xu Le's evaluation of the Virgin Mary, Bai Jing nodded.
"Very good, go on."
"Where was I?"
"Suppose Bai Kui is not a saint." Gu Jianuo reminded.
"Oh yeah, assuming Bai Kui wasn't a saint, after enduring abuse, torture, humiliation, and witnessing her parents being innocently murdered.
I'm afraid he doesn't have the slightest bit of love for this town, all he has is hatred."
When Xu Le said this, the other people's eyes changed immediately.
"Go on."
"I think Bai Kui's goal from the beginning to the end was very simple, and that was revenge.
His purpose of replacing Wu Anquan and becoming the mayor is also part of his revenge plan.
Bai Kui sacrificed himself to Lightcast and thus gained the power of Lightcast. All patients with Bai Kui are actually Lightcast polluters to some extent.
The so-called research may not be a simple cure, but may be intended to contaminate more people and thus bury a trigger.
Bai Kui used this fuse to instantly kill all the white-haired people before the alchemist arrived.
That's why we see so many gray-haired people die at the same moment.
At this moment, Bai Kui also absorbed the lives of these people and became a real monster.
Ancient sound has many offspring - Guangzhu.
This is probably Bai Kui’s true past.”
After everyone finished listening, Bai Jing and Gan were fine. They were already used to Xu Le's weird mumbling and just nodded slightly.
Only Gu Jianuo had a complicated expression. She asked:
"These... are all analyzed by you?"
Xu Le subconsciously touched his cane, then nodded:
"Yes, I analyzed it all."
"Okay, you're awesome. What's the seal about?"
“Then the Empire sent warlocks to investigate the matter.
In order to get rid of Bai Kui, the descendant of Gu Yinduo, two high-level warlocks came to Baixia Town.
They had a fierce battle with Bai Kui, and finally they used their own lives and the lives of a group of soldiers to seal Bai Kui.
The method of sealing is for the alchemist to use the power of the moonstone to induce the spirit of the red moon to suppress the growth of the power of Gu Yinduo.
The puppeteer created five powerful puppet guards to form a real seal.
Day after day, year after year.
This guarding lasted for hundreds of years.
But Bai Kui, as the descendant of Gu Yinduo, was too powerful. Over hundreds of years, he continued to erode the five puppet guards.
The delusional maid on the 4th floor who was closest to him was the weakest of the five guards. Her memory was tampered with by Bai Kui, her thoughts were confused, and even her will had become unclear, turning her into a delusional maid.
As for the hunter on the third floor, his mind was corroded and his body was corrupted, causing him to associate with wild beasts and become a shameless wolf slave.
The one on the second floor is Painted Skin. Gu Yinduo has eroded his appearance, confused his mind, and made him unable to distinguish between friend and foe.
The first floor is Shadow Fiend, his mental will is destroyed, but he is very strong and always remembers to stop Bai Kui.
Perhaps the only guard who is still awake is the statue by the pool in the square.
Now that all five guards are dead, the seal here has been lifted.
It’s only a matter of time before Bai Kui wakes up.”