Chapter 112: All is Lost

"……I'm sorry, I was wrong."

The thin, withered old man knelt respectfully, and beside him, two others knelt just as neatly and properly.

The thin old man had been the first to attack Su Xing, though Su Xing had no idea what he had actually attacked. He had simply raised his staff, then displayed the standard shocked expression of a villain, while Su Xing hadn't felt a thing.

Just as Su Xing was about to raise his hand to finish him off, the thin old man burst into loud laughter, then knelt down with a resounding thud. He knelt with such decisiveness that the other two followed suit, kneeling just as promptly.

This actually made it impossible for Su Xing to strike. After all, the man had only pointed a staff at him. While Su Xing's personal code included "cutting weeds and eliminating roots," he wasn't a "protagonist" who would slaughter an entire family just because someone looked at him.

Xia Luote and Ma Li breathed a sigh of relief. This was the behavior they were familiar with from most people in the Dark Faction; they had feared the man had turned into a chaotic monster.

Xia Luote laughed heartily: "You lot are truly brave, daring to strike a hero. I thought you'd converted to the religion of the Berserker God."

The three people from the Dark Faction were neither ashamed nor annoyed; they only looked at Su Xing with faces full of terror.

Su Xing fell silent for a moment, then sat at the dining table with Xia Luote and Ma Li. He said to the thin old man: "You all may stand. I'm not used to people kneeling before me."

The three stood up respectfully, not daring to move recklessly.

The three were the thin old man with the skull staff, a very strong-looking man, and a petite yet curvaceous woman with a beautiful face.

The three exchanged a secret glance, and the woman said in a slightly trembling voice: "Lord Hero, we were driven mad by the Chaos, which is why we lost our heads and attacked you. Please, for the sake of our shared struggle against the End, spare us."

Su Xing was looking at the food on the table while asking Xia Luote: "Is it possible that every extraordinary faction has a Saintess?"

The curvaceous woman and Ma Li both blushed, but neither denied it. Xia Luote laughed loudly: "That's a certainty. Human desire for power, for longevity, and even for immortality will never cease. In the world after the Divine Era ended, the bloodline of a hero is the ultimate pursuit of all people and all factions."

Su Xing was noncommittal and said to the three: "Let's set aside the matter of the offense. Tell me what you know about the Demon Castle, especially information regarding the Corridor, the Reception Hall, and the Sewers."

The three looked at each other, and the curvaceous woman spoke again: "Lord Hero, could it be that you intend to enter the Graveyard District?"

Su Xing was a bit puzzled. Was he being that obvious?

Seeming to see Su Xing's confusion, the curvaceous woman spoke directly: "Because although the Sewers are a standard area of the Demon Castle, this area only leads to the Graveyard District. So, if one is scouting for information on the Sewers, the destination is generally the Graveyard District."

Su Xing didn't speak. He picked up a bottle of white wine from the table, flicked the cork off with his finger, took a large gulp, and said: "Tell me the intelligence on these areas."

The three were astonished. A Hero-rank extraordinary actually wanted to go to the Graveyard District? Naturally, they couldn't ask why. The curvaceous woman began to recount the intelligence on the Corridor, the Reception Hall, and the Sewers.

This information was no different from what Xia Luote and Ma Li had said. Clearly, as low-level scouts, even though they belonged to the Dark Faction, they were no different from the low-level personnel of the Holy See.

Su Xing heard nothing new, so he said no more. He ate and drank with Xia Luote and Ma Li, and after consuming two-thirds of the food on the table, the three set off again, heading deeper into the Corridor.

Minutes after Su Xing and his group had left, the three finally relaxed and sat at the dining table.

Although only a third of the food remained, they didn't mind and continued to eat and drink.

The woman asked the thin old man while eating: "Gandi, have you gone mad? Even though this hero hid his strength and looks like an ordinary person, he was able to make those arrogant holy sticks of the Holy See walk obediently behind him. Can he be an ordinary person?"

Gandi, the thin old man, was also puzzled. He stuffed a piece of meat into his mouth and said: "I guess I really was muddled by the Chaos. When I first saw that hero, I inexplicably felt he was weak and wanted to beat him up, so I attacked him involuntarily..."

The other strong man said in a muffled voice: "It's time to go back. Let's return to the entrance, find the Return Room, and report the Demon Castle intelligence to the Council."

The three nodded and continued to bury their heads in eating and drinking. But just then, the door at the far end of the room suddenly trembled. The three looked over instinctively, and the next moment, the entire door exploded into pieces.

The three were stunned, and then they saw a deformed humanoid creature with long arms, long legs, and a long neck crawl out from behind the shattered door.

This humanoid creature looked terrifying; its arms and legs were two or three meters long, and its neck was over two meters long. However, its head was a human head, and its body was about the size of an ordinary person's. Its entire appearance was filled with a deformed, grotesque feeling.

"Ha, let me see what this is. Three cute little puppets. Hello there."

The head on the long neck swayed left and right, and then it reached out its hands. Its fingers were more than ten times longer than an ordinary person's, and at the tips of its fingers, invisible threads were spreading.

The three turned pale simultaneously. They didn't even take a second to run toward the room where Su Xing and the others had left, while their respective extraordinary abilities erupted, and they even used all their magic tools and life-saving equipment.

"Entrance District Commander!" "Puppeteer!"

"Why? Why did the Entrance District Commander come to the Corridor District!?"

Two minutes later, the Puppeteer extended its three fingers. Embedded on these three fingers were three heads: the thin old man's head, the strong man's head, and the curvaceous woman's head.

The thin old man's head said: "Run! Find that hero!"

The strong man's head said: "It's no use, we can't run. I'll hold him off, you two run immediately!"

The curvaceous woman's head said: "How strange, why did the Entrance District Commander enter the Corridor District? We must report this to the Council immediately!"

The Puppeteer's head looked at the three heads with a perverted, infatuated expression. Then, gradually, the three heads began to melt, merging into its fingers.

"A hero? Hehe, a hero. That's wonderful..."

The Puppeteer shook its head, arms, and legs, and moved toward the depths of the Corridor in an abnormally twisted posture.

Meanwhile, Su Xing and his group were walking toward the depths of the Corridor District. Xia Luote said as they walked: "From the entrance, the Corridor District is considered the simplest terrain; it's a straight line. But from the Reception Hall, the terrain becomes much more complex. That belongs to the middle layer. The Reception Hall connects to the Library, the Arena, and the Sewers—three areas. The terrain is very complex, and it's also the area with the most extraordinary teams."

!

Su Xing walked forward without a word. As he walked, he suddenly stopped and closed his eyes.

Xia Luote and Ma Li also stopped immediately and took a defensive stance, looking around cautiously.

But after looking for a long time, the room was quiet, and the monsters had been killed by Su Xing just moments ago. They looked at Su Xing, puzzled.

After closing his eyes for a moment, Su Xing opened them and asked: "Are there extraordinary factions that specialize in hunting humans, and do so alongside monsters?"

Xia Luote was slightly stunned, but answered immediately: "Yes, and there are three such extraordinary factions: the Grave Diggers, the Chaos Supplicants, and the Doomsday Cultists."

Su Xing nodded and strode toward the next room.

As they passed through the corridor, the three entered the next room and immediately saw more than ten strangely shaped humans, mixed with an equal number of monsters, besieging seven people.

The attire of these seven people was also different. Among them were three extraordinaries wearing the white robes of the Holy See, two shirtless men and women holding axes, and the remaining two were a man wearing a futuristic-style semi-mechanical tight-fitting armor and a person wearing red clothing, as if dressed in a bridal gown. They were struggling to resist the siege of more than thirty deformed humans and monsters.

What truly caught Su Xing's attention was the person wearing the red clothing. It had a beautiful face and a graceful figure, but its body was flat, and it had an Adam's apple. However, none of that mattered; the reason Su Xing noticed it was... it actually had a title above its head!

Titles can be hidden, but they can also be displayed by the Main Brain. However, even if displayed, only humans from the real world on Gaia can see them. For example, when Chu Minghao displayed his three titles, he had shown them.

And this "it" had displayed its title brazenly.

"Zhang Heng."

The name of this title was just that, completely meaningless. Su Xing couldn't even guess what this title meant.

Just as Su Xing and his group arrived, these seven people had been besieged to the point of extreme danger. The dozen or so deformed humans were all extraordinaries, unleashing various curses, debuffs, ice, and fire, while the dozen or so monsters were thick-skinned and tough, fighting these seven people from the front.

They saw the red-clad "it" gasp and say: "Protect me! I'm going to explode!"

The other six immediately showed expressions of unbearable reluctance, but they didn't dare say anything more at this moment, and they formed a formation to protect the red-clad person in the center.

Su Xing was about to join the battle when he suddenly froze, showing an expression of fear.

The red-clad person directly lifted its red clothing, took out a short knife, and slashed at the thing between its legs.

With a flash of the blade, the chicken flew and the eggs broke!

At the same time, the title above the red-clad person's head flashed with light!

(End of Chapter) ===== CHAPTER 113 =====