Chapter 332 – Last-Ditch Effor

Although the office was crowded, it wasn’t noisy. Most people were sitting at the tables and eating the snacks, some were murmuring to each other, others had a grave expression while staring at the notice board.

After seeing this scene, Lin Xiao confirmed his ominous feeling. He wanted to find the manager for a room first, then investigate later, but he wasn’t able to find anyone.

“Strange, where did the manager go? Not all the managers are as corrupt as Hebrew, right?”

Just as he was at a loss, he suddenly heard an intense argument from a room in the corner.

That voice sounded extremely familiar.

“It’s… Caesar?”

Lin Xiao confirmed with Elena, then sent the siblings off to find a table to sit at while they hid next to the door eavesdropping. As for ShenDai Ying, she followed along like a bodyguard.

The door hid them, but there seemed to be several people inside the room. Lin Xiao silently stayed outside the door while listening to their conversation.

“No, we can’t delay any longer!”

Bang, a certain individual slapped the table.

Through the crevice in the door, his blond hair was clearly visible and it was definitely Caesar.

“Caesar, what are you getting angry for? You’re getting impatient, but aren’t we all?” A skinny middle-aged man who sat across the table asked back in return.

“Hmph, I’ve already been here for a week, but still can’t continue forward. Abra, when are you going to let us leave?”

“Sigh, Caesar, that’s going too far.” Abra shook his head and sighed, “Although I’m the manager here, but I have no right to order you guys. You can leave if you want to, furthermore… wailing canyon is right next to Nighttown, so you can leave if you want to, I’m not stopping you.”

“You!?”

Caesar clenched his teeth and glared at Abra with a red face, but couldn’t say anything. He finally snorted and unhappily went back to his seat.

“Caesar, actually you can’t blame Abra.” A pink-haired girl came out to smooth things over.

Rosie?

Lin Xiao immediately recognized her signature pink ponytail.

“Abra also wants us to leave and pass through wailing canyon, but it can’t be helped. It’s not just us, everyone is stuck here.”

“Un, as expected of the Childe’s household’s eldest daughter, very understanding.” Abra nodded and agreed with Rosie.

They were all blocked in here?

Now Lin Xiao understood why there were so many people here and why Caesar was still here even after leaving a week earlier.

So, what was blocking them, a large rock?

“But Abra, waiting is also not a solution.”

Compared to Caesar’s directness, Rosie chose her words more and used a different way to express their determination to leave.

“Sigh, miss, how could I not know? If possible, I would much prefer to be a grand magician and teleport you all to Gotham Kingdom.”

“Then why won’t you let us leave?”

“Because I’m responsible for all your safety! Now that there are powerful demonic beasts in the canyon, if you rashly go ahead, you’ll all die!”

“Demons?”

Lin Xiao almost yelled out at the door, he quickly covered his mouth and used his eyes to communicate with the girls next to him. After getting a similar look back, he could only continue listening.

Lin Xiao got the gist of what was happening through their conversation.

Coincidentally, at the time the mission was issued and as the investigators rushed to Nighttown, there was suddenly a bunch of powerful demonic beasts that settled at wailing canyon. No one knew where they came from, but they blocked the only path through the canyon.

At first, no one minded, it wasn’t an uncommon event and usually, they were just passing by or foraging for food and would leave in a few days, but it was different this time.

After waiting for a couple of days, they still hadn’t left, like they were going to live in the canyon.

The initial investigators that arrived expressed that rather than foolishly waiting, they would rather take the initiative and exterminate them, clearing the way!

And so they formed small groups and headed towards the canyon to chase the demonic beasts away! But in the end, out of tens of groups, only one person returned alive…

According to the survivor, not only were there a lot, there were even numerous strong ones including sixth and seventh level demonic beasts!

Seventh-level? One of those was enough to destroy an entire town! Why was something that only appears in the forest of the end come to the wailing canyon?

Everyone was quite puzzled and couldn’t really figure out a solution. Then demonic beasts stayed at the canyon, if they chose to go around them, they would have to head north and it would take at least half a month more, at that time, the pandemic would already have spread everywhere.

So, they had to get rid of the demonic beasts!

And so, they formed a second group of stronger members, twenty-odd people headed towards the canyon… tragedy repeated itself and in the end, very few returned alive.

“Caesar, you should feel fortunate, you guys just arrived when the second team left. If you also set out with them, then you might not even be able to stand here screaming at me right now…” Abra spoke calmly towards Caesar.

“Damn it…”

Caesar couldn’t retort and pounded his table to express his discontent.

“But Abra, we cant just sit and wait here, right?”

“Of course not, I’ve been gathering a third group this week and trying to attack the canyon again… it’s almost done, we just need two more people to make thirty.”

“Why are we still missing two? If you included Caesar and me, isn’t that exactly thrifty?”

“Miss, you two signed up right at the start, you’re already included.”

“Hm… then can’t we just leave? Two people less isn’t that big of a deal, right?”

“No! We’ve already failed twice, this time we have to be extra careful, nothing can happen again!”

If he’s not wrong, this should be their last attack towards the wailing canyon. If their group of thirty cant deal with the demonic beasts, then it would be impossible to gather any more people, the other investigators wouldn’t foolishly throw their lives away and would just choose to go around them or wait until they leave.

So this was their last-ditch effort! So they had to be completely prepared!

“Caesar, Rosie, you two are part of the core of the team, so there’s something I have to tell you beforehand.”

“What?”

“Actually, it’s not just seventh-level demonic beasts, there are also high-level demons!”

“What did you say?”

Caesar and Rosie were shocked, they furrowed their brows and looked at each other.

No wonder all the demonic beasts were gathering there and why the previous two attempts ended in failure, it was because there were high-level demons?

“I’m not clear on the details, but according to the report, those demonic beasts were all moving in unison, so it was clear that there were high-level demons controlling them from somewhere. If that’s the case, we have to be even more cautious.”

Since high-level demons had an ability to command demonic beasts, they could for a strong army, so even if they formed a group of thirty people, the chances of winning were still low…

What should they do?

Everyone in the room fell silent.

Neither Caesar nor Abra had any idea and the others could only silently pray to the goddess for those detestable demons to leave.

“Two more people, huh…”

Caesar clenched his fists and suddenly remembered another youth. The one he formed a team with before, that person who could seemingly find a solution to whatever situation they were in and he proved that with his actions.

And that person was his classmate, Lin Xiao!

How nice would it be if Lin Xiao had some motivation?

If it were him, he would definitely come up with a good way to solve this problem and help everyone get past the canyon! But it seems like he wasn’t here…

Caesar helplessly sighed.

It couldn’t be helped, they were missing two people so they could only wait a bit more. Now he could only go rest and think about it later. At this time, a noisy discussion could be heard from outside.

“Hey! Elena, c-calm down… I already said I’ll help you, it’s not too late to find Caesar tomorrow.”

“No, I want to go now!”

“Okay, okay… ah, stop squishing me, it’s heavy!”

“What? What’s heavy? Pervert, what are you talking about?”

“Sister Ying, help me pull her up, I can’t hold on!”

“Hehe, Lin Xiao, why are you so weak, you can’t even carry this much… eh? Strange, w-why is she so heavy? Stop kidding! … Damn… ah!”

“Sister Ying, w-what are you doing? … Eh? Because she’s too heavy, you couldn’t get a hold of her and lost your balance? Now it’s over… ah!”

Caesar looked at the door curiously when he heard their voices and then there was a loud crashing sound.

The door was suddenly flung open and three youths fell to the floor, one on top of each other, like a sandwich.

“Lin Xiao, ShenDai Ying, Elena… you guys… what are you doing here!?”

When Caesar saw them, his eyes glistened and his mood instantly improved!