Nangong Sanba's words reminded Hao Ren, and he immediately turned to Vivian: "By the way, do you know who else might know about this shadow?"
"At least if it survived from the age of mythology..." Vivian thought for a while, "May I ask Hesperis?"
Hao Ren nodded immediately: "Quickly ask, hurry up—you should leave her phone number over there."
"Another international call." Vivienne sighed distressedly, took out her mobile phone and called Hesperis. Vivienne hadn't contacted the "Goddess of Twilight" for a long time since everyone left the Athens Sanctuary last time, but she left the other party's modern contact information in case of emergency. situation comes in handy.
However, after the call was dialed, there was no one answering it. Vivian raised her head in doubt: "She doesn't seem to have a mobile phone."
Lily: "Do you know any other ancients?"
"I only have her mobile phone number..." Vivienne flicked on the phone's address book, "The rest belong to Hessiana and a few juniors. There are not many ancients in the Athens Sanctuary. I don't know the others well."
"Then call again later," Hao Ren snorted, "It's okay to ask Hessiana to help you pass the message."
As soon as he finished speaking, the mobile phone in Vivian's hand rang suddenly, and the caller ID was Hesperis.
"Hello?" Vivienne quickly switched on and switched to speakerphone so that everyone could listen, "Hesperis?"
"Vivienne? I didn't expect you to take the initiative to call someone." Hesperis' voice sounded a little tired, but she was still very happy when her old friend called. "I was in a meeting just now, and I didn't turn on the ringer—" Those guys don’t know where they learned it, and they asked their phones to be muted just like humans in a meeting.”
Hao Renxin said that the old monsters in the Athens sanctuary lived in a modern way, while Vivian was a little curious: "A meeting? Oh yes, you are also one of the elders of the sanctuary. Let's not talk about that , I want to ask you something, do you know a monster that looks like a shadow?"
"Shadow?" Hesperis' voice suddenly increased. I don't know if it was an illusion, but Hao Ren heard a trace of nervousness from the other party's tone.
"To be precise, it's something parasitic in the shadow. Two people on our side were attacked, and that thing..." Vivienne immediately told the other party the information on her side, and described the shadow in detail. Form, "It's that kind of thing, it should be from our era, do you have any impression?"
"You're talking about the Shadow of Chaos!" Hesperis' tone was really not right, "I didn't expect them to come to you. Who was attacked? How is the situation now? Are you under control?"
"The shadows are resolved, but it took some effort." Vivian heard some clues from Hesperis' tone, "You said they 'ran to my side'? Could it be that you also discovered the situation? gone?"
Hesperis lowered her voice, she seemed to be in some public place, and wanted to prevent unrelated people from hearing the information: "We, the ancients, had a meeting to discuss this matter just now, and the Ancatero family in South America may be in trouble. Already... Are you interested in this matter? If so, you'd better come to the sanctuary in Athens in person, this time things are not so simple. Many ancient families have sent representatives over."
Vivienne originally wanted to mention that she might have something to do with those black shadows, but after hearing what Hesperis said later, she swallowed all her own words, and directly agreed, "Okay. Let's go there right away. "
After hanging up the phone, she murmured thoughtfully: "So it's the Ancatero family... I just said I remember something special in their name."
"Okay, okay, so don't keep emphasizing that you can remember a word." Hao Ren waved his hand to let Vivienne cover the topic, "Then let's leave for Athens immediately. Old Wang and you two follow. Come here, you have been exposed to that kind of shadow, and you have some experience. The rest of you can stay at home... Lily, you don't need to raise your hand, I know to take you."
The data terminal had recorded the coordinates of Athens, so it didn't take much effort for everyone to go to Hesperis this time. After making simple preparations for going out, Hao Ren, Vivienne, Lily and Yzaks' father The woman stepped into the portal to Athens.
Everyone came to the antique shop in Hesperis, which was used for camouflage at the entrance of the shelter. As expected, no outsiders could be seen around the shop. Hao Ren noticed that the entire street on both sides of the shop was shrouded in a strange thick fog, and the buildings beside the road looked hazy and swaying in the fog. It seems that Hesperis has turned on some kind of setting to disperse the idlers, and the gate of the shelter has been closed.
"You guys came so fast?" Hesperis' voice drew Hao Ren's attention back. The "Goddess of Twilight" seemed to sense someone appearing in her magic detection area, accompanied by an orange With a yellow light, she suddenly emerged from the dense fog, looking at Vivienne and the others with surprise on their faces, "I thought you wouldn't be here until at least tomorrow."
Vivienne stepped forward to say hello to her old friend, and explained a little: "We teleported here directly. Let's not talk about this, the shelter is under martial law? The situation is so serious?"
Hesperis frowned and nodded lightly: "The situation is complicated. Let's talk about it first. Two old guys just came, and the people inside are starting the second round of discussion."
As she spoke, she opened a special path leading to the shadow interlayer, but before Hao Ren and his party were about to go in, she stopped everyone: "Wait a minute, I want to check one by one... your shadows."
As Hesperis spoke, he carefully observed the shadows behind Hao Ren and his party. His attitude made one think of the quarantine personnel responsible for guarding the quarantine area after the outbreak of the virus crisis. Seeing her cautious attitude, Vivienne couldn't help asking, "Could it be that shadows have infiltrated the shelter?"
"It was eliminated in the shadow interlayer, but it almost ran in," Hesperis said casually, "Okay, let's go in."
The crowd was finally released, and under the leadership of Hesperis, they crossed the heavily guarded shadow intermediary, and finally arrived at the familiar Athens sanctuary after a long journey.
This mysterious city located in a different space was attacked by demon hunters a year ago, and it was once severely damaged, and the traces of the original war can still be seen today. The Bethemoth Shadow Demon Castle on the side of the city is still in ruins. That day, Heatherana's crazy troops used high-altitude bombing to completely destroy the place. people to rebuild. In the half-destroyed area around the old land of the Bessemos family, some new flags can be seen flying high. Hao Ren doesn't know those flags, but he can still think of what these things mean:
The small forces in the Shadow Sanctuary should have completed regrouping and dividing their territories.
However, the group didn't have many chances to take a good look at the status of the shelter's reconstruction. Hesperis seemed anxious, and she quickly brought everyone to a large conference hall in the center of the city.
"This chamber was rebuilt after the demon hunter's attack," Hesperis briefly introduced the meeting place today, "Bethemos' rebellion made several families realize the serious problem of internal division in the sanctuary. So this chamber was rebuilt, at least in form, to re-establish the connection between the various family forces. Today, the patriarchs of several big families are here, and there are representatives from other shelters, Vivienne, some of them It's your old friend."
Vivienne scratched her head: "Is that so... Well, I guess I can't remember a few."
Hesperis knew about Vivian's forgetfulness, so he didn't say much, but directly opened the door of the meeting hall.
As soon as the door was opened, Hao Ren heard an angry voice inside saying loudly: "...you must check the situation, the incident of the Ancatero family must be related to the witcher!"
Hao Ren and Vivian subconsciously glanced at each other, and immediately walked inside.
The semi-circular meeting hall was brightly lit, and it looked grand and spacious, but there were only a dozen people sitting around the round table in the center. When Vivian and the others suddenly broke in, these dozen or so people were discussing things, they looked up in surprise when they heard the movement, and then a joyful voice sounded first: "Miss Vivian, are you here to see me!? "
Vivian trembled all over, and subconsciously took two steps back: "Oops... forget that this brat is also the patriarch of a big family." (To be continued~^~)