Chapter 1977

The roaring sound soon stopped. The iron door of the underground prison was pushed open, and Su Xiao walked in.

"Lord Kukulin, the secret of this old woman is this thing."

Aaron Lu tapped the carvings on the ground with his small knife.

"Just this?"

Su Xiao only glanced at the carvings on the ground before losing interest; he had already studied this thing.

"For now... only this."

Aaron Lu's gaze flickered. The Soul Speaker was much harder to deal with than he had imagined. He had previously boasted that he could use mental induction to learn all her secrets from her mouth.

Seeing Aaron Lu's expression, the Soul Speaker in the cell sneered; she had just watched a good show.

"You can go back now."

"Uh~"

Aaron Lu's expression turned ugly.

"Your death sentence is commuted."

"Thank you, my lord."

Aaron Lu immediately beamed. Although he would still be locked in the secret prison, at least he wouldn't be hanged within two months—this was his chance.

Su Xiao came to the dungeon and looked at the Soul Speaker inside.

"What a brilliant performance."

The Soul Speaker looked at Su Xiao with a look that was not quite a smile.

"Hmm."

Su Xiao responded casually and continued to stare at the Soul Speaker.

At first, the Soul Speaker was still sneering, but after being stared at by Su Xiao for a few minutes, her sneer gradually stiffened, and after more than ten minutes, she couldn't laugh anymore.

"So, the Will Rune Stone is in the hands of the Moon Goddess."

Hearing Su Xiao's words, even with the Soul Speaker's astonishing composure, her heart couldn't help but churn with massive waves.

"You are useless now."

Su Xiao grabbed the dungeon door and violently forced it open with a crack.

"Another one of your ridiculous speculations."

"..."

Su Xiao stopped his steps.

"That was indeed a speculation just now, but now you have confirmed it for me."

Su Xiao didn't even look at the stunned Soul Speaker again and turned to walk out of the underground prison. He was now 100% certain that the Will Rune Stone was in the hands of the Moon Goddess.

First, the Soul Speaker was kidnapped by the Eagle Marquis, whose goal was definitely not the Will Rune Stone, but rather to find a certain place through the Soul Speaker.

That place was something even the Soul Speaker didn't know the location of. The Eagle Marquis was very angry and didn't quite believe the Soul Speaker's words; after all, this old hag was always talking nonsense.

Later, the Eagle Marquis was eliminated, and the Soul Speaker fell into Su Xiao's hands. This time, the Soul Speaker guessed that Su Xiao was looking for the Will Rune Stone, so she remained fearless, because the Will Rune Stone was no longer with her.

The Soul Speaker had once found the Will Rune Stone by listening and then offered it to the Moon Goddess to gain her protection for many years.

Su Xiao had always wanted to clarify one thing: the Soul Speaker was not as indifferent to life and death as she appeared, so why was she always so fearless?

Therefore, he began to probe. The first probe had good results, triggering the second ring of the mission through the Soul Speaker.

For the subsequent probes, Su Xiao just went with the flow. Even if no one came to rescue the Soul Speaker, he would have probed using other methods.

Lan's rescue, Aaron Lu's disguise, the Moon Apostle's attack—these were all decoys. With these arrangements, even the Soul Speaker vaguely felt something was wrong; would Su Xiao not notice the flaws in them?

The answer was that Su Xiao had long known this plan was not feasible, or rather, it was impossible to obtain the Will Rune Stone directly through this plan, but the plan was still necessary to continue.

When the Soul Speaker thought she had seen through everything, she might try to induce Aaron Lu, which was why she stroked the diamond-shaped tattoo with her finger—this was an induction, a dead end.

The diamond-shaped tattoo was the key to listening to the 'initial position' of the Will Rune Stone, but now, the diamond-shaped tattoo was no longer important; the Will Rune Stone was in the hands of the Moon Goddess.

Su Xiao basically sorted out his train of thought: the Soul Speaker's main role was to trigger the second ring of the awakening mission, and the Will Rune Stone required for the second ring was in the hands of the Moon Goddess.

In reality, Su Xiao's method of dealing with the Soul Speaker was wrong. The normal process should have been to secretly rescue the Soul Speaker from the Eagle Marquis's side, gain some of her trust through Charisma or actions, and then help the Soul Speaker do a few things to trigger the second ring of the awakening mission, at which point he could obtain clues about the Will Rune Stone from the traces.

Instead, Su Xiao's method was to directly kill the Eagle Marquis and then trigger the second ring of the mission from the Soul Speaker through a few words—obviously skipping many processes. As for helping the Soul Speaker do things and acting as free labor, that was simply impossible.

The rest was even simpler and more brutal: Su Xiao used a plan that the Soul Speaker could see through to let her give wrong clues, and by reverse-engineering from the wrong clues, he obtained the final clue: the Will Rune Stone was in the hands of the Moon Goddess.

The Soul Speaker was also considered a tough nut to crack; she didn't reveal any useful clues during this time, but it was all in vain—she was still found out by Su Xiao that the Will Rune Stone was in the hands of the Moon Goddess.

"You cannot blaspheme the gods!!"

The Soul Speaker's roar came from the dungeon, and the large iron door of the dungeon slammed shut.

Darkness, loneliness—only the Soul Speaker was left alone.

Inside the dungeon, the Soul Speaker knelt on the ground, disheveled, her expression like a vengeful ghost. It was the first time in her life she had lost so thoroughly. In reality, this was the second time she had been arranged so clearly; the last time was when she met the Old Saint King.

Su Xiao walked out of the Ninth Unit building. Soldiers were guarding the area around the building, conservatively estimated at over a thousand.

Su Xiao took Baha and the Little Adjutant and returned to the imperial capital. The next target was to get the Will Rune Stone from the Moon Goddess. The Moon Goddess was much harder to deal with than the Soul Speaker.

That morning, Su Xiao returned to his two-story residence in the imperial capital. He was sitting on the sofa, holding a tablet computer, on which was the real-time footage transmitted by Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang.

The Little Adjutant and Baha were on Su Xiao's left and right, both watching the footage on the tablet. The Little Adjutant's eyes flashed with brilliance.

"Sir, is this the Moon Goddess?!"

The Little Adjutant had an expression of doubting life.

"It's her. It's indeed hard to recognize her without clothes."

Su Xiao rubbed his forehead. Although he didn't have the hobby of peeping at others, the Will Rune Stone was in the hands of the Moon Goddess, so he had to observe her movements.

"Oh ho ho, big and white."

The Little Adjutant laughed sneakily. She looked down at her own chest, her expression gradually becoming solemn, as if her self-esteem had been hurt. She took off her military jacket and deliberately puffed out her chest; this made her feel even more hurt, and she suddenly became autistic.

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang was still monitoring the Moon Goddess, but found nothing unusual during the process. The Moon Goddess's life was healthy to an outrageous degree.

The Moon Goddess woke up at 6:00 AM every day, washed up, etc. She ate breakfast from 6:30 to 7:00. After breakfast, she would pray for two hours, often kneeling until her legs went numb. At 9:30 AM, the Moon Goddess would go to the monastery's cathedral, sometimes listening in, sometimes going on stage herself, then return to her bedroom to take a bath and prepare for lunch and a nap.

At 11:00 AM, it was lunchtime. The Moon Goddess did not eat the meat of large livestock; she only ate fish and poultry, and not every day, and the quantity was very small.

From 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM was her nap, 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM was skincare, 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM was some relatively elegant aerobic exercise, during which she occasionally discussed politics, 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM was prayer, and 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM was dinner. If she was in a good mood, she would eat an egg—the boiled kind. Obviously, the Moon Goddess also wanted to keep her figure.

7:00 to 9:00 PM was still prayer time (kneeling until her legs went numb again), 10:00 PM was a warm bath, and she went to sleep punctually between 10:30 and 10:50 PM.

If it weren't for the Moon Goddess's actions, Su Xiao would have suspected that she was just an older unmarried goddess.