CH 17

"Grey Dog!"

A voice spoke from the abandoned warehouse.

"I didn't expect you to catch up so fast, but it's too bad, you still can't catch me. You and your kind will never catch me, hahaha."

His figure gradually faded.

"Hahaha! Come and chase me, you bunch of grey dogs don't understand what a real illusion spell is."

His form disappeared and then reappeared in the air, laughing wildly, right in front of Lauren's iron rod.

The laughter suddenly stopped as if a wild dog had been choked.

"Hic... what's going on?"

Lauren said quietly, "The spell is good, but next time, remember not to use it in front of high-ranking combatants who possess the doll master's fire seed."

The man's face turned ashen. "Are you an inspector or a judge?"

"It's the same for you," Lauren said as she pointed the iron rod at his throat. "Now answer my questions honestly, and I'll send you to Stone City."

Upon hearing the words Stone City, the man's expression became complex. After a moment of silence, he replied, "Okay."

"Name."

"Bass."

"Place of birth."

"Gem Town."

"Occupation."

"Stone mason, later became a priest of the Blessed Church."

"End of Days sect worshipped."

"The Polluters."

"Ideology."

"Contaminating fire, turning the protective fire into twisted, distorted, and polluted black fire."

"Why do you do this?"

"We believe that fire is a hypocrite. It burns humans to ashes, which is cruel and inhumane. The black mist is kind and good. Those who enter it can live forever. It can cover the world because kindness and goodness are the truth of the world. We are just resisting the irresistible current of history. The coexistence of humans and black mist is the correct path. If we can achieve this goal early, we can be in a high position in the future dark age and be immortal."

"Do you not know that all those who are contaminated by the black mist will ultimately become insane?"

"Our knowledge is limited. Reason is only a cage that confines our thinking. When we reach a higher level of enlightenment, we will have greater freedom. It's just that we can't imagine it now, and see it as madness."

Lauren's expression remained unchanged, calm and peaceful. He continued to ask in a low voice, "Do you know him?"

Bass shifted his gaze to Rode. His narrow and gray-white face showed no expression, and his small eyes were indifferent.

Rode was a little nervous.

After looking at him for a few seconds, he turned his head.

"I don't know him."

Lauren pulled out a portrait from his chest, the figure on it was vivid, almost like a photograph.

"Do you know this person?"

Bass replied, "Yes, I know him. Grey Cat Alei."

"How do you know him?"

He often comes to the Blessing Church to ask for leftover canned food and do odd jobs for us in exchange."

"Is he a member of yours?"

"I'm not sure, maybe he belongs to another group."

"On the seventh day of the Misty Month, what did he come to the Blessing Church for?"

"I don't remember clearly, maybe it wasn't any different from his usual visits."

"Why did you run away on the sixteenth day?"

Bass looked at him in surprise. "I was caught being a member of the Doomsday Cult, why wouldn't I run away?"

Lauren calmly replied, "In fact, we didn't confirm that you were a member of the Doomsday Cult until the seventeenth day, a day after you escaped."

A hint of sarcasm appeared on Bass's pale face, but he quickly suppressed it. "If I hadn't run away early, I wouldn't have been able to escape once you confirmed it. Of course, I haven't escaped now either. I really don't understand how you were able to confirm that I was on Hammer Street in the Outer City's First District so quickly. This place is so big and chaotic, with nearly a million people living here. If you had given me another hour, I could have boarded a caravan to Iron Furnace City."

Lauren shook his head slightly. "You can't pass the inspection, you can't go anywhere."

Bass sneered. "Just go to my room and you'll see. Your royal city's defenses are worthless."

Lauren nodded. "Let's go."

Rode was taken aback.

What? You just agreed like that? That's too suspicious. Aren't you going to call for backup? And aren't you a high-ranking official of the Internal Adjudication Office? Why are you handling this alone?

But he couldn't ask these questions, so he could only follow them to an abandoned warehouse not far away.

Maybe he's very strong, he just subdued that guy with one move, he doesn't need to be afraid of him at all. I just need to follow him closely and cling to his thigh. Rode thought to himself.

Soon, they arrived at the warehouse.

The huge warehouse looked very old and dilapidated, with cracks and damage all over the green walls. The spirit lamp hanging on the door had long been extinguished, and the brass grille was rusty. There was a big hole in the inner wall, through which one could see the jade lamp wick inside.

All the houses around it were black, not a single one was lit.

Bass pushed open the door, and it was pitch black inside, with no light at all.

"Go in."

Lauren took out a lamp and hung it around Rode's waist before walking in.

Rode could only follow.

The warehouse was pitch black inside, and the light from the lamp couldn't illuminate much.

Rode was a little nervous and gripped his gun tightly.

Just as he was about to remind Lauren, Bass rolled out of the range of the light with a loud whoosh.

"Hahaha! You fell for it! You're so stupid! You're the Internal Adjudication Office's greyhound!"

Whoosh!

A loud sound of breaking through the air!

Lauren swiftly swung his iron rod.

Bang!

A long arrow was broken in half.

"Heh, your combat power is good, but what about this?"The broken giant arrow emitted a large amount of purple mist, obviously highly poisonous.

Rode quickly held his breath, but Lauren's hands emitted a bright light, creating a strong wind that instantly blew away the poisonous mist.

"How lucky, you happen to have wind abilities, but I have set up a psychic lock here. Without illuminating the entire space, you will never be able to leave. The winner is still me, hahaha..."

Lauren snapped his fingers.

Suddenly, Rode's spirit lamp around his waist shone brightly, illuminating the entire warehouse.

It also illuminated Bas.

He was on a wooden shed to the right, with a pale face and a blank expression, mouth wide open.

A strange sound came from the air, as if something had been broken.

Bas let out a strange cry and rolled off the shed. Black blood flowed from the corners of his eyes and mouth, and a large mass of muddy substance vomited out of his mouth and fell to the ground.

"You... how dare you... vomit... corpse flies, kill them!"

The mud quickly spread out, and countless green-headed and pus-filled yellow-tailed flies emerged from it. Their short black hair covered their whole bodies, and they flew towards them like a black cloud.

However, a red light suddenly shot out from Lauren's forehead, piercing through the black cloud in an instant.

He gently shook his head, and the red light swept across the room, accurately burning all the giant flies to ashes.

Rode was stunned, especially by the laser at the end, which looked like Erlang Shen and Ultraman.

So this is the power of the flame ability?

He was a little excited, a little scared, and wanted to make a comment.

But Bas was not in a good mood. He saw Lauren pointing his forehead at him and immediately screamed, raising his hands and shouting, "Don't kill me! Don't kill me! Grey Cat Alei gave me a box on the last day, saying it was arranged by the Black Priest. I don't know anything. I put the box in the designated location and left."

"Also, on the 16th, my superior Black Corpse notified me to escape. He helped me arrange everything, and the Phantom Charm was also given to me by him..."

He kept talking and suddenly saw Lauren turning his head to talk to the boy next to him. He immediately jumped up and slapped his chest.

With a loud bang, he suddenly split into dozens of shadows and ran in all directions, his laughter echoing from all around.

"Hahaha! Stupid Grey Dog! Let me run away, okay? After all, your intelligence is insufficient. If it were me, I wouldn't have so much nonsense..."

Rode saw Lauren slightly furrow his brow, and he gently tapped his temple, as if a flash of insight had come to him.

He surveyed the whole room, but seemed to have not found the real body.

"Hahaha, this is a high-level psychic charm, your spiritual vision is not enough! You can't see me!"

Pfft!A red beam of light hit the phantom, but instead of being destroyed, it split into two.

"Hahaha, useless, Greyhound. Your arrogance has doomed you. After I kill you and that bastard, I will leave the royal city with the caravan. Your holy fire will go out! Light is only temporary! Darkness is eternal! How can your ostentatious light understand the depth of darkness?"

A black skull was thrown from somewhere and landed on the ground, covering Rode's eyes with mist.

He seemed to have come to a pure white space, surrounded by flowing mist. Lauren was gone, and he could only hear Bas's cursing.

"You bastard, wasting so many forbidden items. I'll make up for it from you! Hehe, I can taste that little bastard's brain first. It must be very tender..."

The cursing continued, and there were all kinds of shadows flying past in the mist.

Rode knew it was bad and immediately focused on his eyes while awakening his spiritual power.

When the strange energy was awakened deep in his soul, Rode felt a chill, like thin ice in summer.

The chill quickly concentrated in his brow and tapped it three times before his soul eyes opened.

In an instant, the whole world was no longer confusing. It became colorful and strange, with countless ribbons, dots of light, and colorful blocks piled up together, dazzling people.

But if you look closely, there seems to be a trace.

Although Rode did not have the ability to read it completely, he could roughly distinguish the anomaly.

Soon, he noticed a black mist rising from a ribbon.

Different from the surrounding colors, it was a complete collection, somewhat isolated from the outside world, like an independent soul.

But humans don't have black souls.

This must not be a good thing.

Rode raised his gun, aimed at the black mist, took a deep breath, and used two distractions.

A new spiritual power gathered in his palm, and under Rode's control, it was poured into the gun butt. The spiritual pressure gauge on the gun barrel slot quickly rose.

When it reached the top, a huge spiritual light flashed, and a pure white beam of light shot out like a laser, instantly hitting the black mist.

A strange hissing sound came from his ear, and the black light quickly leaked like a burst balloon. The black dots scattered and merged into this colorful world.

But a part of the black dots flew towards him and entered his body.

Before he could figure out what was going on, he heard two "huh" sounds in his ear, as if two pairs of eyes were turning towards him.

But he couldn't see them.

"Little bastard, you're lucky. I'll peel your skin, tear your flesh, and drink your blood..."

The cursing suddenly turned to him.

"Rode, can you see those dead soul spirits?" Lauren's voice also sounded in his ear.Rode responded nervously, "I saw... where are you? I can't see you."

"Don't panic. We've been dragged into the spirit realm. He has the help of some forbidden objects, and I can't catch him for now."

"What should we do? Can I do anything?"

Lauren's voice remained calm and indifferent, with a deep and mellow tone that made Rode feel a little relieved.

"I'll continue to attract his attention. You can try to find the spirit lock. If you can break it, we'll return to the normal world."

"Be careful not to attack the large-sized spirits. The raven can't cause any harm, and will only provoke them."

"I understand. What does the spirit lock look like?" Rode asked loudly, but Lauren didn't reply.

Rode felt a little uneasy, feeling that the situation was not as good as he had been told.

He needed to find the spirit lock quickly, otherwise things could get worse if they failed.

Rode couldn't help but complain about Lauren in his heart. They had a huge advantage, why not just subdue and capture him? Why not call a few more companions to search for his hiding place? It would be over then.

It was really not stable at all.

Unlike himself, he never failed.

Although he was complaining in his heart, Rode quickly focused his attention on finding the spirit lock.

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From the perspective of the soul's eye, this strange world was dazzling. He seemed to be floating in the void, with no sense of reality under his feet, no up or down, left or right, or distance.

Chaotic colors were randomly piled together, and he couldn't tell if there was a lock.

However, in the process of searching, Rode found many dead souls emitting black light.

These things were particularly conspicuous. They often emerged from various colored ribbons, slow and dull, and could be easily burst with a shot, like popping a balloon. It was very satisfying.

Rode burst four dead souls in a row, and also saw a giant made of colored glass from a church.

He wisely did not disturb it and bypassed the huge creature.

- It was stomping the ground in anger, and colorful dots were flying out from under its feet.

Suddenly, a void shadow swept past in front of him, and the cursing voice in his ear suddenly became very clear.

"You worthless little bastard who overestimates your abilities. You want to come find your grandpa? Let me tell you, I've seen plenty of trash like you who think they're superior with a little spiritual vision. Their proud heads always end up being stepped on in the mud..."

The cursing voice gradually gained direction, and Rode followed his instincts and soon found a spirit body behind a large mass of cotton candy-like substance.

It was a glowing humanoid mist, with half of it already turning into a deep black color, and countless black dots flowing in the veins of the mist.

"If you can find my true body, I'll eat the feces in the King's City sewer..." The cursing continued, and the mist boiled, showing his excited emotions.

But he didn't seem to see himself, and his attention was not focused on himself.

Was this his true body?Rode aimed his gun at him, quickly infused with spiritual power. The spiritual pressure meter surged to the top, and a huge flash burst out. The white line that shot out instantly pierced through his head.

The cursing abruptly stopped.

The next moment, Rode felt his vision widened, and in a blink of an eye, he saw Lauren.

He was not far away, fighting with four glass giants. His whole body was boiling with light mist, and powerful spiritual light flickered around him.

But as the humanoid light mist dissipated, the glass giants quickly disintegrated into countless colorful fragments.

Lauren raised his head in astonishment and saw Rode at a glance.

At this moment, the world also underwent strange changes. The messy light spots decreased a lot, and the outline of physical matter appeared.

Rode turned off his Soul Eye and found that he had returned to the warehouse, standing in place.

Bass was in front of him on the left, half kneeling on the ground, his head missing half, and blood and brain splattered all over the place.

A thicker black line of a different color flew out of the corpse and entered Rode's body.

At the same time, a small line of text flashed in his eyes.

He could barely recognize it, having just escaped from illiteracy.

【The soul of the contaminated Sotiel Red】

Before Rode could figure out what was going on, he saw Lauren flying over, raising his wand and pointing it at his throat. His tone was still calm and indifferent, but there was a little bit of chill.

"Why did you kill him?"