Chapter 1723: Orphan, Abyss

Seven Soul Crystals (Complete) + Soul Shackles. There was no doubt that these 450 points of Secret Tome Merit were well spent. The value of Soul Crystals didn't need to be stated. As for Soul Shackles, this thing was very suitable for dealing with powerful enemies.

Less than five minutes after Su Xiao exchanged for Ghost's Treasure, he discovered that 【Greed】 on the Secret Tome had disappeared.

Greed: Requires 420 points of Secret Tome Merit. Basic reward: Random Epic equipment, Upper limit reward:???

Who exchanged it? Su Xiao vaguely guessed it was the National Football Team, Gulu, or that healer who was a mixture of saint and evil. Of course, these few people were just the most suspicious ones.

Just one step away, Ghost's Treasure was exchanged by someone else. Clearly, Su Xiao's decision to abandon the Immortal King Secret Tome card was a wise one.

After resting enough, Su Xiao stood up and walked out of the villa. The rain was still drizzling, and the weather was somewhat cold.

At least 80% of the Execution Agency's Awakened had been sent out by Su Xiao, leaving only a small portion at the headquarters to avoid accidents. After all, there was something very dangerous under the headquarters.

Early the next morning, the city, washed by the rain all night, was very clean. The air was filled with the smell of soil, and the streets and alleys gradually became lively.

"So cold."

Bonnie tightened her clothes and sneezed.

"Searching like this is not a good way. You should know that."

Bonnie, who had been frozen all night in the rainy night, was full of resentment. Plus the experience of falling into the river in the second half of the night, she was even more depressed.

"Do you have a way?"

Su Xiao opened his mouth.

"Er~, no..."

"Then think of a way, otherwise I'll transfer you to Hank's team."

"Absolutely not. I feel that old man wants to eat me. Actually, well, it's not that there's no way..."

"Speak."

Su Xiao's gaze turned to Bonnie. He was currently located in the southeast corner of Zuer City. Conservatively estimated, the population of this city was over 6 million. Wanting to search house by house would take too long, and the Eye Chamber might not necessarily be set up in residential housing.

"It's like this. Since the ultimate goal of the Eye Chamber is to absorb 'survival energy'—no, that's wrong, it's biological energy—then it can be compared to a water pump. Biological energy is water. Zuer City has several million people, so the so-called ten, so..."

Halfway through Bonnie's words, Su Xiao suddenly raised his hand to interrupt her and took the map from her hand.

Bonnie was not unintelligent, but her thinking was not broad enough, or rather, her cognition was not insane enough. In Su Xiao's view, if he were Sin, he would definitely let the Eye Chamber affect the entire Zuer City. Even if it couldn't affect the entire Zuer City, it had to include the Parliament Palace. Once the Empire's power system collapsed, it wasn't impossible for Ghouls to become the masters of this continent. Similar changes had occurred twice.

According to his memory, Su Xiao found Yuer's residence on the map. Yuer was Monarch Harold's sister-in-law.

After drawing a circle on the map, a smile appeared on Su Xiao's face. This place was not far from the Parliament Palace. If his deduction was correct, as long as he found the location of three Eye Chambers, the other Eye Chambers would no longer be difficult to find.

Just at this moment, Gus ran over hurriedly, whispered a few words to Su Xiao, and walked away quickly.

"Found the Eye Chamber?"

Bonnie crossed her arms and rubbed her shoulders. She had an instinctive fear of the Eye Chamber. The feeling that place gave people was truly disgusting—not physically, but mentally. Those eyeballs of different sizes, sliding and turning—the specific scene could be imagined.

"Didn't find it, but discovered solid evidence of the Joshua family colluding with the Ghost Ring."

Su Xiao grabbed Bonnie's hand, which was sneaking into his pocket to steal Gold Le.

"Is that so~, no! Joshua family? Sir Eddie's family?"

Bonnie snatched the map and began to pull her hair one by one again.

"The Joshua family funded the construction of hospitals, orphanages, and monster auction houses."

Su Xiao spoke first. Bonnie's expression twisted. She had discovered this, but since Su Xiao said it first, she felt very uncomfortable.

Su Xiao had wondered before why Sir Eddie, a big drug lord, would suddenly have a change of heart and build so many charitable institutions and public facilities? Now it seemed it wasn't because of a change of heart.

17 hospitals, 35 orphanages, 3 monster auction houses—

The Strange Beast Auction House was used to collect eyeballs for Strange Beasts. Over 90% of the eyeballs in the eye chambers came from various Strange Beasts, with the rest being human, Ghoul, etc.

Hospitals were used to store eyeballs; after all, counting on those Ghouls to preserve eyeballs was unreliable, and hospitals could collect human eyeballs with low risk.

As for orphanages, need he even think about it? Of course, they were used to hide eye chambers. The orphanages built by Sir Eddie were distributed throughout the city, under the guise of: 'Let every wandering child have a place to call home.'

Although children were curious, their judgment was weaker than adults'. Moreover, even if those children discovered the existence of the eye chambers, they could be easily silenced; no one would pay too much attention to the life or death of these orphans.

A more cruel hypothesis was that the 35 orphanages had long been providing fresh meat to the Ghoul high-ups. People in the Execution Agency all knew that Ghouls preferred the meat of children.

Thinking of this, Su Xiao glanced at Bonnie. A little detective Detective Luoli with such delicate skin and tender meat could sell for a high price among Ghouls.

"I feel like you're thinking about something bad. The malice is so strong."

Bonnie handed the map to Su Xiao, which already marked all the orphanages, hospitals, etc., under Sir Eddie's name.

"Unless the brain of the evil one was beaten out of commission by me, the Ghost Ring has likely already moved the locations of the eye chambers. Moving them shouldn't be too far; let's search using these orphanages as 'radiation points'."

Soon, Gus, Hank, and Reinhardt were recalled. Now, the three of them held different statuses in the Execution Agency than before; below Madam Nancy, it was these three. All three were Su Xiao's adjutants.

An hour later, the three of them each led hundreds of people to search those 35 areas. That afternoon, the first eye chamber was found.

This was an eye chamber located inside a private residence. As soon as Su Xiao entered the hallway of the foyer, a pungent smell of blood hit his face. Bonnie, who was to the side, completed the three actions of bending over, covering her mouth, and turning to run, before starting to dry-heave on the lawn outside the residence.

The hallway was full of severed limbs and minced meat, and the blood splattered on the walls hadn't even cooled yet. This was the risk one had to bear to become an Awakened.

Su Xiao pushed open the ajar door, and that nauseating, filthy energy surged over.

This was a thirty-square-meter living room. The furniture had already been cleared away, and there was a dark red array on the ground. The surrounding walls were covered in eyeballs. These eyeballs were rotating irregularly, making one's hair stand on end.

【Hint: Hunter has found an Eye Chamber (Seven).】

【If you notify Monarch Harold of this eye chamber's location, you will obtain 3% of the World's Source.】

【If you notify Councilman Jones of this eye chamber's location, you will obtain the Secret Tome Eye of Death (1/16), and cause the promotion mission to change.】

After some observation, Su Xiao discovered that the eyeballs on the walls were half-open, which was different from what he saw last time. Recalling that eye chambers would automatically move after being attacked, he couldn't help but guess that this eye chamber had likely moved once in the near future. Did the half-open state mean that this eye chamber could not be moved for the time being?

After hesitating for a moment, the crystal layer climbed onto Su Xiao's right arm, and he punched the eyeballs on the wall.

Bang!

Energy ripples spread, and a fist-sized eyeball was blown apart. All the eyeballs in the room looked at Su Xiao, staring fixedly.

At this moment, Su Xiao felt a sense of horror. His intuition was telling him not to continue destroying this eye chamber, otherwise, the consequences would be very serious. Even if he didn't die, he would suffer extremely strong backlash or erosion.

Although this punch was risky, it also let Su Xiao obtain a very important piece of intelligence: eye chambers could not be moved continuously in a short period of time, and before mastering the correct method, one could not rashly destroy an eye chamber; it was extremely dangerous.