Chapter 1748: Redemption and Revenge

The afternoon sun was scorching, and the sultry weather inevitably made people feel irritable. The air was suddenly distorted by the high temperature.

In the endless sea of forest, birds chirped on the branches, and the forest wind rustled. The branches and leaves above the forest blocked the scorching sun, casting large patches of light spots on the dead leaves on the ground.

This was the Eastern Forest, about thirty kilometers from Zuer City. Because of the beautiful environment here, nobles or wealthy merchants in Zuer City would occasionally come here to hunt, but now the season was hot, and there were few people in the Eastern Forest.

Near a pool in the Eastern Forest, the trees here were denser. Right among these dense trees, one could vaguely see a wooden house.

The wooden house had grown together with the surrounding trees; it was difficult to discover the existence of this wooden house unless one approached and observed carefully.

A colorful python was hiding above the wooden house, its cold eyes frequently scanning the surroundings. This was a Strange Beast, and a relatively powerful one at that.

The furnishings in the wooden house were very simple, less than 30 square meters. There was a wooden bed against the wall, and opposite it was a shelf built of round logs, on which were placed several rows of glass bottles.

A Ghoul with short gray hair and dark brown skin all over its body lay on the wooden bed. It had only one arm left. Unlike other male Ghouls, it didn't have exaggerated muscle contours but was bone-thin. Its face mask was covered with fine cracks, but above the face mask, there were sixteen eyes. This was the sixteen-eyed Ghoul, Fadir.

Fadir was very weak. Even though it had been very powerful, it was now old and frail, having suffered over a decade of devastation in the dark prison, its vitality severely overdrawn.

Sin stood in front of the wooden bed, holding a piece of bloody fresh meat in his hand, tearing it into small pieces for Fadir to eat. Every time Fadir ate a small piece, Sin had to wait for at least ten minutes before handing the next small piece of meat to Fadir's mouth.

Having recovered some strength, Fadir's sixteen eyes looked at Sin.

"You, are, who, why, willing, to, rescue, me."

Fadir's weak voice came. Sin's hand paused, and after a moment of silence, he sat on the wooden bed.

"You gave me hope when I was most desperate. The human part of me told me that I should also save you. Moreover, my goal in the past wasn't just to save you. Unfortunately, the other part of the plan failed."

Sin smiled. He actually had another goal, which was to seek revenge on Harold. Unfortunately, after the plan began, he was beaten until he couldn't even find north. Being able to rescue Fadir was already not bad. As for revenge, the possibility was not high. Redemption and revenge—this was Sin's entire purpose.

"I, once, saved, you?"

"Of course, and more than once."

Sin tore off another small piece of fresh meat and sent it to Fadir's mouth.

"More than once..." Fadir was even more confused. After thinking for a moment with its already dull brain, it suddenly recalled something and spoke weakly: "You are, that, human and Ghoul, mixed-blood..."

"That's me, Mr. Fadir. Finally met you again. Sorry for making you wait so long. At that time, I wasn't even as tall as your leg."

Sin placed his hand on Fadir's shoulder. He was born not knowing who his father was, and the Ghoul in front of him had been like a father figure in his young heart during his childhood, although it only lasted for a few months. But he couldn't forget, and he wouldn't forget.

"You are, little Boyerni..."

"Mr. Fadir, I am Sin now. Since being powerful is also a sin, then I will be powerful enough to become Sin."

"..."

Fadir's mouth opened and closed, unable to say anything for a long time.

"Mr. Fadir, please rest. I have other things to do. Someone will be here to take care of you."

"Wait, wait."

Fadir raised its arm, and its sharp claws pierced into the eye socket in the center of the face mask.

"Take it, I, already, don't need it anymore."

Fadir handed a bloody eyeball to Sin. After this eyeball left Fadir's eye socket, its appearance changed rapidly, becoming a pitch-black eyeball with three golden pupils.

Seeing this eyeball, Sin was stunned for a moment.

"Find the other one, then..."

Fadir's voice became lower and lower. After a long time, Sin took the eyeball.

"Rest, I'm leaving."

Sin stepped toward the outside of the wooden house, holding a pitch-black eyeball in his hand. He had once possessed one of these, but he had used it to deploy the Eye Chambers.

Walking out of the wooden house, Sin pulled out the metal spear stuck in the tree. He had spent a huge amount of money to buy this spear, just to deal with one person.

In Zuer City, Su Xiao leaned on the sofa in the office. Now he had nothing to do. The location of the Space-Time Core needed to be hinted at every 12 hours. It was 2:00 PM now, and there were 9 hours left until the first hint.

Finding the Space-Time Core was very difficult. This could be seen from the Lv. 44 mission difficulty. The mission deadline was 72 hours, meaning Su Xiao could only know the location of the Space-Time Core five times. As for the sixth notification, that would just reach the mission time limit.

Five opportunities, 3 seconds each. The range of the Space-Time Core included Zuer City plus the 30-kilometer area around the city. The difficulty of finding the Space-Time Core in such a vast area could be imagined.

The Space-Time Core was formed by the core of the Eye Chambers, meaning this thing was likely in Mr. J's hands.

Regarding Mr. J's style of doing things, Su Xiao had a vague sense of familiarity, but he couldn't be sure it was that person. Last time, he had killed the other party, and he had also received a hint from Reincarnation Paradise.

Su Xiao had three targets of suspicion: the rule-breaker Red Clown encountered in the Hunter world. The other party was not only a rule-breaker but also founded a rule-breaker organization called the Gentleman's Alliance. However, the Gentleman's Alliance had been wiped out by Su Xiao.

The second target of suspicion was Xi, the Xi encountered in the war world. That woman left too deep an impression on Su Xiao, and when the other party died, an unknown spatial fluctuation appeared. Undoubtedly, being able to snatch someone under the nose of Reincarnation Paradise, that was also an existence or organization no weaker than Reincarnation Paradise.

As for the third, this possibility was the lowest, which was the chatterbox girl Death Omen, but she should have died hating him, so the possibility was also the lowest.

Mr. J's gender was male, but there were too many things to disguise gender, and cross-dressers were also common.

Compared to Xi and Death Omen, Su Xiao felt that Red Clown was more likely to be Mr. J, but the other party should have been dead. From the time Su Xiao entered Reincarnation Paradise until now, the hints from Reincarnation Paradise had been 100% accurate.

Of course, there was another possibility that Mr. J had never fought Su Xiao, and that recording earlier was just a diversion.

Compared to Mr. J, Su Xiao felt that Sin's threat was actually greater. From beginning to end, Mr. J gave Su Xiao a feeling of being somewhat cowardly. He didn't believe there was no conflict of interest when the two camps were hostile. Even so, Mr. J still didn't show his face, instead going to a small town to deploy Eye Chambers.

Sin belonged to the reckless type with online intelligence. Su Xiao had a feeling that Sin was likely to return for revenge. Spear art in cold weapons emphasizes moving forward without hesitation. If Sin didn't even have the courage to seek revenge, it would be impossible for him to cultivate spear art to that level. ===== CHAPTER 1749 =====