Chapter 2356

Candle wax dripped. In the dim arched passage, if one didn't carefully sense the decaying man's aura, one would mistake him for a corpse.

The decaying man was so weak he could only lean against the wall. He was still alive, but he was already waiting for death, not ending it himself only because of a final attachment.

"Impossible, go back. I didn't even see him."

The decaying man coughed a few times and said something ambiguous. In reality, this obscurely indicated that the decaying man had once tried to assassinate the Xenotype King and failed; he failed without even seeing the King in person.

Su Xiao did not linger. The decaying man wouldn't die in the short term, and since the other party had penetrated deep into the Xenotype rear, he might have some useful intelligence.

Moving along the arched passage, they didn't go far before the path ahead suddenly opened up.

Prompt: You have arrived at a special area, Light-Bathing Missionary Field (High-Risk Safe Area).

The number of surviving humans, Xenotypes, and Orcs in the Light-Bathing Missionary Field is 6.

All humans in the Light-Bathing Missionary Field are neutral units; the relationship between both sides will be determined by negotiations, actions, etc.

After glancing at the prompt, Su Xiao basically understood. The Light-Bathing Missionary Field was indeed a small organization in the past, but after the disastrous defeat at Light-Bathing City, the few survivors came here.

Those who can fight their way out of the Xenotype army are certainly not to be underestimated. Take the decaying man, for example; he looks like nothing, like he could breathe his last at any moment, but don't forget, this was a ruthless man who penetrated deep into the Xenotype rear to assassinate the Xenotype King.

The decaying man indeed didn't see the Xenotype King, but he was already very close to him, forcing a Xenotype commander to come out and face him. Below the Xenotype King are the commanders.

The decaying man was definitely not fighting a single commander at that time; he should have been facing many fission or parasitic species, and even being besieged by heavy armored troops.

Most importantly, he survived his escape from the Xenotype rear and returned to the Light-Bathing Missionary Field.

There are six people here in total, including humans, Orcs, and even a Xenotype. If a sub-Orc came, the races of this world would be complete.

Su Xiao walked out of the arched passage and arrived at a missionary field. It was about two hundred square meters in size, and the architecture was circular, located underground.

In the center of the missionary field were several strangely shaped stone carvings, tilted and scattered, with books and other items nearby, covered in dust.

The corners of the walls were filled with candles, and wax had flowed down the circular steps. Due to the passage of time, the candles on the steps had turned black and hardened.

A woman wearing a gray dress and a bone helmet was squatting on the steps, lighting candles and placing them against the wall. She was carrying a basket filled with candles.

The gray dress made her look fragile, and the bone helmet had a pair of elk antlers with many branches.

"You came just in time, dinner is served, Mr. Bai Ye."

As soon as the woman spoke, Su Xiao determined who she was: Dorothea, the woman previously trapped in the black flesh mass.

Dorothea lit the last candle and walked toward the inner side of the missionary field, where there was a doorway.

Not just on the inner side, there were ten doorways on the walls around the missionary field. Above each doorway was a pattern; some looked like the sun, others like animals.

The doorway Dorothea walked into represented an elk; elk antlers are sacrificial offerings in many rituals.

Half a minute later, Dorothea walked out carrying a round jar containing vegetable soup boiled until it was very soft.

She came to a pitch-black doorway. From the darkness, a hand holding a clay bowl reached out. The skeleton of this hand was large, thin to the point of being skin and bone, and the slightly dark skin was covered in cracks and scars.

"Mr. Wuzhong, how are you today?"

While Dorothea asked softly, she used a ladle to scoop out the vegetable soup and poured it into the chipped bowl.

"Hmm."

The voice from the darkness was somewhat muffled, but one could tell that this was originally a strong man with a full, resonant voice.

Dorothea walked along the circular steps and came to the second doorway.

"Get lost."

The voice inside the doorway was gloomy. Dorothea paused for a moment and walked away silently. Although one couldn't see the expression under her bone helmet, the sense of loss didn't need to be expressed through facial features.

Dorothea came to the third inhabited doorway. It was quiet inside, not even the sound of breathing could be heard.

"Today... not eating either? I made your portion, Lord Beast King."

Dorothea waited for a moment, but there was still no sound from the pitch-black doorway.

"Sigh~"

"Be careful."

A hoarse yet magnetic voice came from the darkness. A pair of brownish-yellow eyes opened, looking at Su Xiao not far away. After confirming the gaze, they were both people who feared neither life nor death. Su Xiao's 1 point of Charisma attribute, which was about to slip, played a role exceeding 149 points of true Charisma attribute at this moment.

"It's okay, I definitely can."

"..."

The eyes in the darkness closed, and the sound of breathing also disappeared.

Dorothea walked a few more meters and came to the last inhabited doorway. Before she could speak, a small hand holding a metal helmet reached out and shook twice, signaling Dorothea to hurry up.

This one was clearly more gluttonous; judging by the size of the hand, the height was no more than 1.2 meters.

Dorothea's mood improved a lot. She scooped most of the vegetable soup from the jar into the helmet and whispered something. From the darkness of the doorway, giggling laughter came out from time to time.

Besides Dorothea, there were these four people in the Light-Bathing Missionary Field. Wuzhong, who was tall but withered, was a human judging by his aura.

The person who told Dorothea to get lost couldn't be distinguished by gender or race. Its aura was extremely strange, sometimes strong and sometimes weak, like a Xenotype, also like a human, and sometimes the aura fluctuation was close to an Orc—a triple hybrid.

The Beast King, Tailde, in the third doorway, was an Orc. Judging by his aura, he had combat power no less than Crimson Tasha, but he was severely injured and seemed to be relying on something to sustain his life.

The fourth person was more active, a little girl. She feared light, but the area near her doorway was filled with candles, several times more than near other doorways. Dorothea called her Little Beetle, a light-fearing little beetle.

Little Beetle was an ordinary person who fled near the Light-Bathing Missionary Field one day and was taken in by Dorothea.

Dorothea walked toward the entrance of the missionary field, with Su Xiao following at a distance.

In the arched corridor, the decaying man still hung his head. Dorothea walked in front of him and placed a bowl filled with vegetable soup before him.

"Drink it."

Dorothea's tone was somewhat serious, quite different from how she treated others, but there was more care in the seriousness.

The decaying man grabbed the broken bowl on the ground, drank the vegetable soup in a few gulps, and placed the empty bowl gently on the ground.

The decaying man dared to mock even Su Xiao just now, but he was actually obedient in front of Dorothea, as if he had met his nemesis.

Was the decaying man afraid of Dorothea? Of course not. The decaying man dared to break into the Xenotype base; even in his current weak state, he could kill Dorothea with ease.

Su Xiao basically understood the intelligence of the six people in the Light-Bathing Missionary Field. Dorothea had no combat power; although she was a hybrid of human and Xenotype, her reconnaissance ability was not weak, and her spirit could leave her body.

Wuzhong was once a human powerhouse, but now he could no longer fight. In his own words, he was already a cripple.

The triple hybrid of Xenotype, Orc, and human was difficult to negotiate with, had the strongest combat power, and strange abilities.

Beast King Tailde was severely injured and seemed to be waiting for something.

The little girl was an ordinary person, healthy except for malnutrition, but she feared light and dared not leave the darkness of the doorway.

The decaying man had lost all fighting spirit and was waiting for death every day.

If the decaying man, the triple hybrid, and Beast King Tailde recovered their states and united, they would be a very strong combat force.

There were two key factors: 1. Whether they were willing to deal with the Xenotypes, and 2. Whether they were resistant to things like surgery.

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