Chapter 577: Falling into a Trap (3k)
“Since the weather stopped worsening, there are really a lot of people on the road.”
After getting off the train station, Su Jiu looked at the crowded train passengers and couldn’t help but sigh inexplicably. Then she looked at the somewhat rusty steel seats in the distance and smelled the various odors of smoke and dust.
“It’s just that the air is really unpleasant.”
She could feel the sense of the times it brought, and it proved that what the Ancient God Sect’s shadow, Ryder, said was not wrong.
This was indeed a废弃的工业城市 (abandoned industrial city).
As the tip of his nose, like a bottle nose, twitched slightly, Aman also scanned the entire city and added with great emotion, “To be honest, this is the aura of the human world. The air is mixed with the smell of dense wastewater and steel, which reminds me of the atmosphere of the Fog City.”
“Fog City? Have you been to the United States?” Su Jiu turned around in surprise to look at Aman. The other party seemed to have experienced a lot and had the demeanor of a wandering swordsman.
Chuckles, Aman scratched his head and answered without hiding, “Of course I have. I’ve also seen many of your kind, the great ones, but I was very weak back then, following behind the strong like a tour group, just catching a glimpse of the scenery…”
Su Jiu nodded, and the Female Chief beside her looked at Aman in surprise, while she herself also had the idea of going for a walk in the human world after this matter was resolved.
“Are we going directly to our destination next, Sir?”
The shop assistant named Ryder looked at the three people conversing and asked a bit awkwardly. As a prisoner, he really didn’t know what to do and could only go along with the wishes of Su Jiu and the others.
“That’s right, tell me about the level of the person we’re dealing with. Let’s get a car there now.”
Nodding, Su Jiu chatted and signaled to the taxi drivers waiting for tourists from out of town. In a moment, the four of them got into a local driver’s car.
Su Jiu got into the passenger seat, while the Female Chief and Aman sat on either side of Ryder as if guarding him. The latter didn’t dare to have any wicked thoughts and chuckled dryly:
“It’s the ordinary setup, with one Priest and four of our shadows…”
“You expect me to believe that a Priest is in charge of such an important mission? Do you think I’m a three-year-old child? Aman, give this one a major memory recovery spell.”
Before she could finish speaking, Su Jiu interrupted coldly, her expression slowly turning a little cold. She then gave Aman a look, a smile appearing on her face with no warmth.
“Wait…”
Hearing this, Ryder’s expression stiffened. He naturally saw that Su Jiu was young and intended to fool her. He reached out to explain, but a fist like a sandbag whistled towards his forehead.
“Bang!”
Waving his furry arm, Aman grinned. Finally, a chance to show off. As a subordinate, he naturally had to perform well. With another “Bang!”, he struck heavily, instantly shattering the opponent’s Energy Shield.
“Splat!”
Blood splattered onto the car window. Ryder’s face was bruised and swollen, his nose seemed to be broken. Aman had clearly gone easy on him, but it was unavoidable to leave such a small physique disabled.
The driver dared not look back, trembling as he glanced at the situation in the rearview mirror. He had already secretly activated the alarm. Was this a gang affair?
Good heavens, these people looked much more ferocious than the local gangsters.
“Drive slower, please. We are all good people, don’t be so scared.” Seeing his reaction, Su Jiu’s mouth twitched, and she quickly comforted him.
“I know, I know…” The driver nodded repeatedly, looking as flustered as could be.
Pursing her lips, Su Jiu turned to the bruised and battered Ryder under his fearful gaze. A gentle smile reappeared on her small face, and she said softly, “How is it? Is this major memory recovery spell useful? Answer the question from before.”
“Sir, it’s useful, it must be useful…”
Looking at Su Jiu’s smile, Ryder’s scalp tingled. Even the Snow Guards had asked politely, but with Su Jiu, they actually resorted to violence. He quickly said,
“It’s two Black-clad Bishops, each in charge of people from two sides. I don’t know anything else, but I can be sure that the strongest forces are the two Black-clad Bishops…”
“Two Black-clad Bishops?”
After a moment of thought, Su Jiu felt that it was about right. Black-clad Bishops were considered unattainable figures in the eyes of ordinary people. Sending two of them showed that they attached importance to this operation.
The car turned left and right again, entering an alley. Passing through several rather dilapidated alleys, the scene changed, and the people around became fewer and fewer.
The car drove steadily, and there were many weird and eerie things on the road. On the black walls smeared with black and red dye, incomprehensible symbols were carved. Looking at these symbols, the Female Chief also fell into deep thought.
After about ten more minutes, a tin factory the size of several small Western-style houses appeared ahead. The smell of rust mixed with an inexplicable sour stench instantly reached everyone’s noses through the windows, making the driver unable to resist gagging and rolling up the window, muttering,
“What is this smell? Can’t they even discharge wastewater properly?”
“This is not the smell of wastewater.”
Su Jiu’s expression became serious. She and Aman exchanged a look, both seeing the solemnity in each other’s eyes. She then turned to look at the “rust” on the surrounding walls and said in a low voice,
“It’s the stench of decaying bodies, and as the temperature rises, it begins to spread.”
“Boss, something’s wrong! The blood on this wall is fresh, and the smell is coming from a deeper place. Someone has just finished drawing.”
A man narrowed his monkey-like eyes at the blood-stained outer walls, a flash of golden light seeming to flicker in his eyes. Then, a three-foot stone rod appeared in his hand, and he began to look around again.
Su Jiu was slightly stunned. Those blood walls before might have also been fresh blood…
“This is a formation, its specific activation location…”
The others also looked over. The Female Chief, as an Alchemy Master, showed a bit of contemplation. As if she had thought of something, her expression stiffened, and she yelled at the driver in front,
“Stop the car quickly! The formation is targeting us. This is a large-scale formation that fuses alchemical creatures. If we advance further, we might enter the formation.”
“Rumble!”
However, as she spoke, the ground suddenly trembled. A huge rumbling sound came from all around. In the blink of an eye, six giant beams of light shot up into the sky from the wall they had just passed through.
“What’s going on?”
The driver’s face changed slightly, and he quickly stepped on the brakes, looking up at the formation in the sky, his hand holding the phone trembling.
He really wanted to go home…
Before Su Jiu, Yun Ling, and the others could make any moves, the beams of light quickly converged to form a huge yellow light wall, making the surroundings look as if it were in the afterglow of twilight, and the ground also reflected golden light.
“It’s very similar to the sacrificial formation I experienced before, but the aura it emits is more unsettling.”
Frowning slightly, Su Jiu quickly opened the car door and pulled Ryder out from the back door, grabbing him by the collar, and asked coldly, “What’s going on?”
“I don’t know. Perhaps there’s an inside agent in the Snow Guard who leaked the information?”
Looking up at the sky, Ryder was also confused and hurriedly shook his head. He obviously did not expect this situation to occur. It seemed that someone had obtained the definite news of their arrival and had set up the formation in advance.
Glancing at the former, and determining that he was not lying, Su Jiu directly made arrangements for the two people in the car and gently instructed,
“Aman, help me watch my blind spots. Chief, protect the driver, and see if there are any other ways to break it. In this formation, Alchemical Items are too difficult to truly kill with.”
Upon hearing this, Aman got out of the car and stood opposite Su Jiu about five meters away, guarding one direction. The Female Chief nodded and began to study the method to break the formation.
“Whoosh!”
Just as everyone had formed a formation to confront, a figure floated in mid-air. The figure was wearing a black Cleric’s uniform, with a silvery-white Cross hanging from his belt, although it did not have the texture of silver.
The figure’s gaze swept over Su Jiu and the other two below. With a slight gentlemanly bow, he landed on the flagpole of the factory’s rooftop, which was exactly outside the formation’s encirclement.
Then, he asked with a playful voice,
“Do you think… killing a Night Watcher will make me a true Ferryman?”
It was at this moment that Su Jiu could clearly see the other party’s face. It was very ordinary, so ordinary that he looked like any random college student picked from a university…
Knowing her identity, the opponent indeed found out in advance through those Snow Guards that they were coming here.
Sensing the Demigod cultivation emanating from the opponent, Su Jiu silently took out the Loquat Branch and began to gather her strength, but with a cold smile on her face, she reprimanded, “Knowing that I am a Night Watcher, you still dare to have such thoughts. You are quite bold.”
“Just a Night Watcher, I haven’t not killed one before. It’s just that I’ve never tried killing an Elder-level one. You are at most on the same level as me, a Demigod. How long can you survive in the hands of a corpse slave?”
The thin young man chuckled, then raised his hand and snapped his fingers. The ground trembled again, and with a “bang!”, a sound like a house being overturned abruptly came from the back of the factory.
“Whoosh—”
Following that, a giant arm made of bones “boom!” emerged from where the sound came. There seemed to be “meat threads” hanging between the gaps of its bones, and it emitted a strong corpse stench, which was the smell everyone had been smelling on the way.
“Initial Stage Battle God Level, with an immortal buff, belongs to a Giant Monster.”
Su Jiu sized up the Monster in her mind, then looked at the Demigod-level Black-clad Bishop outside the formation. If she could kill him instantly, this formation should be considered over. But the problem now was that she couldn’t reach him.
“It’s going to be a prolonged battle.”
Taking a deep breath, Su Jiu’s eyes opened and closed, transforming into golden eyes. Her body became slightly more slender, and then dragon horns grew out of her head, and a silver tail appeared behind her.
