Chapter 2677: Backstab

Dawn City, 10:00 AM.

I don't know when it started, but the originally bright sunlight has actually dimmed a bit. Although it is hard to notice, this is a fact.

Pedestrians on the street are endless, seemingly unaware of the quiet change. Sometimes, knowing less is a kind of happiness, until the moment fear descends.

An Ancient God "sucking" a world is generally a slow process. If too much world power is plundered in a short time, the Dark Prison is the outcome. Conversely, if it is plundered slowly, it is even possible to achieve a certain balance, just like the Wizard World.

In a residential house on the edge of Dawn City, a faint smell of blood permeates, and a pile of blood-stained bandages is piled on the ground.

"I'm fine now, cough cough cough~"

Ta Balder said while coughing repeatedly. He was severely injured. Although the hole in his chest had mostly healed, the damage to his internal organs was a problem that could not be ignored.

According to Balder, his internal organ damage is a small matter; he can just go back to headquarters and find the Bird-Beak Doctor. The other party's medical skills are superb. For hunters with broken hands or feet, as long as they bring back the broken limbs, the Bird-Beak Doctor can treat them. The premise is that he can only help hunters; for ordinary people, he treats one and one dies, with a 100% mortality rate.

"Bai Ye, I will explain the severity of the situation to them. See you at headquarters."

Balder walked out of the house. He prepared to return to the Watcher Guild headquarters immediately to explain the situation he saw to several high-level members of the Watcher Guild.

After Balder closed the door and left, Su Xiao began to ponder the follow-up plan. First is to destroy the Gate of the Dark Prison. In this regard, he can borrow the power of the Watcher Guild. After all, only the high-level members of the Watcher Guild know where the Gate of the Dark Prison is.

Secondly is the Son of the World. Su Xiao feels that this problem is a bit troublesome. In the many worlds he has experienced before, he has never encountered the Son of the World of those worlds. The reason is that the higher the tier of the world, the harder it is to discover the Son of the World it protects. It is impossible to judge by perception; one must observe.

In a Derived World, the Son of the World is easy to find. Those who can turn danger into safety no matter how they court death are the Sons of the World, or rather, the People of Destiny. A representative among them is Monkey D. Luffy.

After the Person of Destiny dies, that world will undergo huge changes, some even collapsing in part, requiring the Paradise to perform a world reset.

Su Xiao discovered that in a Native World, this law is broken. The Son of the World here can possibly die suddenly, but after one Son of the World dies, the next one will appear immediately, which is the inheritance of luck power. It is not that the Son of the World here does not die, but that "Destiny" does not perish.

Of course, this is just the implicit trend of the world. What really determines the world's pattern is power. The Son of the World just has a smoother path to becoming stronger. If they were invincible, Su Xiao's "Plundering Heaven and Startling Waves" quest would never have a chance to be completed. At this time, the "Plundering Heaven and Startling Waves" quest has already been 96% completed, just missing the final 4%.

Regarding finding the Son of the World, Su Xiao doesn't have a very good method yet, but he knows that a turning point is coming soon.

Baha's injuries are no longer a major issue. Su Xiao took Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, and Baha and headed straight for the station in the south of the city. He wanted to return to the shelter in Sodo City first and then head to the Watcher Guild headquarters tomorrow morning.

The shelter in Sodo City has special significance for Su Xiao. When he is there, he can issue quests to Qiyuezhe, and before 6:00 AM tomorrow, he must return to the shelter. The reason is that at 6:00 AM tomorrow, the Void Tree will complete all notarizations, and there will be changes by then.

After rushing to the steam train station, Su Xiao boarded the steam train at 11:00 AM. It is expected to arrive in Sodo City around 1:00 AM. The Watcher Guild headquarters is not far from Sodo City. As long as he returns to Sodo City, he won't have to waste too much time on the road later.

The scenery outside the train window flew by. Before long, a large wheat field appeared outside the window, and a large group of gray sparrows flew past. Everything seemed very peaceful.

There were no twists and turns along the way. After all, those who would come to assassinate Su Xiao had either already been slaughtered by him or devoured by the Ancient God. Douglas, whose life or death is unknown, cannot come to trouble him at this time. The situation at the Dark Prison will only be worse.

After the Ancient God resurrected in the Dark Prison, all Dark Demons and Ghosts had only two choices: surrender or death. Moreover, there is Soul, the Ancient God believer, who can act as the Ancient God's representative to negotiate with the Dark Demons and Ghosts.

At 1:15 AM, Su Xiao walked out of the carriage. He inhaled the cool air into his nasal cavity. There was no one on the street, and the representative large chimney of Sodo City stood in the distance.

When Su Xiao returned to the door of the shelter, he found that the surrounding walls were covered with cracks, and several bright red characters were written on them.

"Those who enter this place, die."

Pushing open the door of the shelter, it was slightly messy inside. Su Xiao raised his hand to press the switch on the wall, but the light did not turn on.

"Boss, did the Dark Demons do this?"

Baha flew up and tapped the light on the ceiling with its claws. The light flickered once, eventually illuminating the room brightly.

Inside the circular wooden table on the inner side was a wooden wheelchair, covered with dark red bloodstains. On the backrest, there were two holes the size of a fist.

Su Xiao came to the inner side of the wooden table to check the holes in the wooden wheelchair. This was a hole made by a high-power firearm. The opening didn't look big, but it was actually because of the concentration of kinetic energy, sacrificing large-scale destructive power to improve penetration. Several layers of walls behind were penetrated, and the bullet eventually sank deep into the ground.

The large bloodstains on the wooden wheelchair had already dried. Su Xiao dipped his index finger in some bloodstains. Judging from the color, these bloodstains were not human; they contained dark-characteristic energy. It was the blood of a Dark Demon.

The one who was sitting in the wooden wheelchair before was, of course, the female hunter Tiffany. Someone suddenly splashed Dark Demon blood on her and then aimed at her head and heart, firing one shot each.

The person who attacked Tiffany had a certain understanding of her, knowing that after Tiffany touched Dark Demon blood, she could not liquefy, and her soul would solidify in a short time, breaking her knock-off version of an immortal body.

Without considering other things, just in terms of high-power firearms, there are only two possibilities: the military of the Rhine Kingdom or Qiyuezhe. Su Xiao feels that the possibility of Qiyuezhe doing this is higher. Attacking Tiffany represents a provocation to the Watcher Guild. The Rhine Kingdom is unlikely to do this; the price that needs to be paid is too painful.

As for Tiffany's life or death, she likely escaped. The person who did it didn't deal with the traces at the scene. If Tiffany had died here, she would have left behind crystalline remains.

Su Xiao opened the secret compartment of the wooden table. All the items inside had been swept away, leaving only a note.

"The next one to die is you, God Hunter Kuku Lin."

The first thing Su Xiao thought of was that Qiyuezhe couple. They had the motive to do this, provided they were still alive.

"Xiang Bubu."

"Woof."

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang began to sniff the residual scent in the room. Before long, he found a few drops of blood in the floor cracks in the corner. Based on the scent of these bloodstains, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang judged that they were left by that Qiyuezhe couple.

Being in the shelter, Su Xiao's permission to issue quests had been reactivated. He checked the commission list. A large number of commission quests appeared, most of which were in progress; they were all commissions recently issued by Tiffany.

The quest accepted by that Qiyuezhe couple was displayed in gray-white, which meant that both of them were dead. Su Xiao could reissue this quest to other Qiyuezhe.

When Su Xiao flipped to the bottom, a large area of light-white commission quests appeared. These commission quests had all been completed, and the World Reputation was in the stage of being obtained.

Checking a commission quest at random, a prompt appeared.

【Prompt: This quest has been completed according to the lowest evaluation. The quest evaluation is E.】

32 commission quests were all completed according to E evaluation. Because the completion degree was too low, for each quest, Su Xiao could obtain 3-5 points of World Reputation, totaling 135 points of World Reputation.

Who did this is already obvious. As for the motive for the other party doing this, it is temporarily unknown. It is highly likely that they were mixing too poorly in the Watcher Guild faction, plus the temptation of greater benefits, which is why those people chose to do so.

The person who did all this is the "affectionate and righteous" Adley, leader of the Apocalypse Paradise, Sanctuary Adventure Group. ===== CHAPTER 2678 =====