Chapter 3799: Admirer

The cold wind whistled by, and the scorching sun in the sky was blocked by lead-gray dark clouds, adding a bit of chill to the Silent City.

Clearly it was midsummer, but the Silent City had the bone-chilling cold wind of late autumn. Against the backdrop of such weather, the stone slabs on the street revealed the cold tone of stone blue. The street was deserted. It was hard to believe that this was one of the most prosperous big cities in the Witch World.

The large-scale attack launched by the Dark Twins was just the last straw that crushed the Silent City. This place was close to the world's largest canal, the "Sigor River." Traveling west by water, a giant cargo ship could reach "Silver Moon Port," the largest port of the main city, Moon Ring City, in no more than a month.

Starting from the Silent City, traveling north along the "Sigor River," one could reach the cargo port of the Sky City's lower city in no more than two months. Don't think this time was very long. The giant cargo ships in this world could carry 800-900 million tons of cargo. If these goods were transmitted through space, it would indeed be fast, but the transportation costs incurred were a hundred times the value of these goods.

Not only that, but a world-level transfer array was once established here, with a larger scale than the current world-level transfer array in Moon Ring City, connecting the Ten Thousand Worlds, the Void, and the Wind Sea Continent. Even the Meteorite Star occasionally opened coordinates to it.

In the past, the Silent City was not only a trade hub connecting the two main cities of "Moon Ring City" and "Sky City," but also a big cake shared by the rulers of both sides. It was precisely because of this huge cake that the Black Witches in Sky City listened to the Moon Witch's orders. But now, this big cake was gone.

This place was previously named "Light-Bathing City," and it was only renamed "Silent City" after a major event occurred, that is, the replacement of the position of the previous Moon Witch.

When Su Xiao met the current Moon Witch before, his first feeling was that she was a busy, intellectual beauty with an elegant temperament and a bit of laziness, especially when they first met, when she took off her high heels and stretched on the leather chair behind the office desk.

Don't be deceived by all this. This Moon Witch sat on the coronation throne of the Moon Witch with the head of the previous Moon Witch in one hand. Her face was stained with dots of blood, looking at the witch dignitaries below. At that time, none of the witch dignitaries opposed it. Those who dared to oppose Serisil were all dead.

Serisil was the most ruthless and outstanding Moon Witch in this world. She developed the Witch World to an unprecedented height. However, this came at a price, and the scene of the Silent City at this time was one of the prices.

At that time, the witch families in the Silent City all opposed Serisil's coronation as the Moon Witch. The main contradiction was that Serisil wanted to set up world-level transfer arrays in other big cities, including the main city, Moon Ring City, thereby ending the Silent City's monopoly on foreign trade. This direct conflict of interest led to the conflict between the two sides.

Walking on the streets of the Silent City, Su Xiao felt a faint sense of peeping. After leaving Moon Ring City by transfer array, this feeling appeared faintly.

There were very few pedestrians on the street, most of them were dressed in old clothes, and occasionally one could see people dressed in bright clothes, also full of hostility. Thinking about it, they were underground industries engaged in licking blood with a knife.

Don't look at the Silent City in the daytime as a scene of desolation, but there was a second name here, Night City. After 6 o'clock in the evening, all the security officers in this city would return to the security station as soon as possible. If it was too late, they would change their clothes, because at 6 o'clock in the evening, when the night began to fall, the Night City became a lawless place. Stolen goods trading, pleasure nests, extraordinary organ auction houses, arenas, black markets, etc., opened one after another, blooming with a distorted prosperity that was sinful and stained with blood.

The high-level officials of the witches tried to suppress the underground industries of the Night City, but after suppressing the Night City to a certain extent, these businesses that couldn't be seen began to breed in the main city and other big cities, increasing the pressure on security. Finally, they could only turn a blind eye to the situation in the Night City.

After arriving here, Alana's aura was obviously a bit nervous, but thinking about who she was with when she came to this place, she felt a sense of relief. The lawless people in the Night City would definitely not dare to be presumptuous after meeting the person beside her.

A garbage truck drove out from the corner. In addition to the foul-smelling garbage on the truck, there was also a green, scarred arm hanging down, which was already a bit stiff. Judging from the tattoos on the arm, this was a local gang member. This kind of small role like a miscellaneous fish died every night in the Night City. Therefore, the old man who cleaned the street and drove the garbage truck was naturally exceptionally calm.

Alana, who had lived in the main city, Moon Ring City, with perfect laws for a long time, was obviously not used to the cruelty of the Night City. She chose to put on a hood, which gave her a sense of security.

Walking towards the back city district, which used to be the residence of the dignitaries, when they arrived in front of a dilapidated manor, it could be seen that Alana's family was once very prosperous.

The manor's gate didn't know who had dismantled it, one side of the door post collapsed, walking along the gravel path, a dilapidated and magnificent building appeared in front. This building was black as a whole, and the wooden front door had been smashed into a hole. After walking into it, one could see some abandoned bedding. Thinking about it, homeless people came here to avoid the cold winter.

Weeds grew in the cracks of the bricks and stones on the ground. Looking up, the skylight was gray, and there was the *caw-caw* sound of crows. A withered corpse hung on the metal chandelier that had rusted to black.

Although she didn't know who this was, Alana still chose to control the liquid silver to put down this corpse. Controlling liquid silver was Alana's secondary ability, but it was not weak.

This building had a total of six floors. Amu was responsible for the fifth and sixth floors, Baja was responsible for the third and fourth floors, Bubu Wang was responsible for the first and second floors, and Su Xiao took Alana to the basement.

"According to my memory, there is nothing in the basement here."

Standing in front of the entrance steps of the basement, Alana's tone was exceptionally firm. Why was she afraid of ghosts? For a witch with the strength of the Ninth-Tier peak, this was absurd. The reason was that Alana was greedy for play when she was young and came to this basement and was scared. It could be said to be a childhood shadow.

"You go to search the third and fourth floors for Baja, let it come..."

"No, I have no problem."

Alana's gaze was firm. Although she was a little panicked in her heart, she very much wanted to enter this basement. It belonged to both fear and expectation.

"..."

Su Xiao walked into the underground passage. Not long after, a heavy silver-gray metal door blocked the way. Alana stepped forward to twist the lock, but after fiddling for a long time, she didn't open the door.

"Move aside."

Su Xiao said, and with a straight kick, with a muffled *thump*, the whole building trembled, and a layer of weathered outer wall skin fell off.

A hole appeared in the metal door in front. The damaged part didn't splash inward, but rolled inward like a flower. Su Xiao already had experience in kicking open the treasure vault door. If the fragments flew around, it was very likely to cause loss of income.

Walking into the basement, this was actually a place similar to a mysterious laboratory. In the area of more than 1,000 square meters, the center was an astrolabe. After years of no one taking care of it, the astrolabe was also running.

Glass columns, two meters thick and more than four meters high, stood by the wall. In a large row, in the turbid yellowish solution, were soaked corpses of strange demons, semi-ghosts, alien species, etc., and even, because of Evil Mutation, became mad witches, and filth-sequence filth-people covered in tumors.

With Su Xiao's knowledge, he felt that this mysterious laboratory was definitely not something a witch family could afford. Thinking about it this way, the decline of Alana's family was not only because of the assassination action on the moonless night, but this mysterious laboratory was also an inducement.

Su Xiao came to a corpse. This was a Dark God Sect member. Half of his head was shattered. That feeling was like someone much stronger than him casually gave a hand knife and killed him. Blood and brain matter splashed not far from the test bench, extinguishing the burning fabric and the torch he was holding.

From the falling posture of this corpse and the way he held the torch, it could be judged that the other party was preparing to set a fire to burn this mysterious laboratory before leaving, but was killed by his superior, so there were no other fighting traces around.

The context of the matter gradually became clear. Ten years ago, the Dark Twins, who had just joined the Dark God Sect, brought several subordinates of the Dark God Sect to return to this place secretly and took away something from this underground laboratory. One of the Dark God Sect members was preparing to set a fire to burn this place, but was killed by the Dark Twins on the spot. It could be seen that at that time, the Dark Twins still had nostalgia for the family.

There was another possibility that the Dark Twins left this underground laboratory for someone, wanting that person to continue the research here and achieve some results.

However, judging from this Dark God Sect member's corpse that was not cleaned up, it could be inferred that the mysterious person did not return to this underground laboratory, let alone continue that unknown research. Su Xiao thought of the nameless corpse hanging on the chandelier when he first entered this building. Perhaps, this was the mysterious person the Dark Twins were waiting for, but the other party died for some reason.

Su Xiao pressed one hand on the ground, and the transparent blue crystal layer spread, clinging to every inch of this basement, until it was like freezing this place. He released one after another shadow lines, which disappeared into various places in the crystal layer. Finally, the other ends of hundreds of shadow lines gathered in the center, tightly entangled together.

Su Xiao's index finger showed rich Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying energy, which was so rich that it became liquid. He pointed his index finger at the intersection of the shadow lines, letting the Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying energy spread along it and disappear into the crystal layer on the surrounding walls and ceiling.

This made all the crystal layers in the laboratory show a thread-like distribution, which was a sign that energy was passing smoothly. Only an area of 2x3 meters had no change in the crystal layer, representing that there was a "stagnation spell" that shielded perception behind the crystal layer.

"*Shh~*"

Su Xiao signaled Alana to stop in place and not make any sound. According to his knowledge, this kind of "stagnation spell" was generally matched with metal life. This metal life had been guarding here for many years and no one had come, so it chose to sleep. Everything just now didn't wake up this metal life, but it didn't mean that the movement made later wouldn't wake it up.

Su Xiao came to the wall, and after the crystal layer clung to his hand, he pressed it lightly. The micrometer-level shadow lines spread out in his hand and slowly entangled a metal life in the wall.

*Zzz~! *

Su Xiao suddenly pulled with one hand, and a metal worm with a sharp head, more than 10 centimeters long, was pulled out. This metal life was connected to the self-destruction mechanism in the wall. Once someone tried to unlock it indiscriminately, causing this metal life to respond and trigger the self-destruction mechanism, then the things stored in the secret room behind the wall would be destroyed.

With a *snap*, Su Xiao pinched the metal worm's head with his thumb and index finger, and after throwing it aside, he soon found the secret mechanism on the wall. After triggering it, a piece of the wall turned over, revealing the lock inside.

After taking out the Eye of Mystery and adjusting it to the unlocking mode, he attached it to it. After waiting for half a minute, with a *click*, the secret room door opened. Alana, who witnessed all this, was greatly shocked.

Walking into the secret room, this was a small room surrounded by bookshelves, with a desk and a chair. Various drawings were placed on it, which were all kinds of summoning arrays, and each one was high-level knowledge worth thousands of gold.

After checking, Su Xiao found that these summoning arrays were quite strange. They were not researching how to summon higher-level existences, but researching how to reverse summon and send the summoned things back to where they originally were.

After flipping through other books, Su Xiao found that the research here was all about the Abyss, summoning, and spells. After seeing these, Su Xiao had a guess about the Dark Twins, which was that some information before was wrong, that the Dark Twins were not Alana's ancestors, and there was no blood relationship with the other party.

There was a possibility that the Dark Twins were summoned from the Abyss by Alana's ancestors. This sounded a bit unbelievable at first, but if you think about the "Evil Mutation" of witches, you will feel that this possibility is very high.

If Alana's ancestors summoned powerful Abyssal creatures, the biggest risk was that they would be attacked by these Abyssal creatures.

In fact, Abyssal creatures had a low probability of not attacking the witches of this world. The reason was that while witches commanded the power of natural elements, their souls would inevitably be slowly eroded by the power of the Abyss, especially old witches, who had stronger Abyssal aura.

Just summoned, the Abyssal creatures who were ignorant of the material world, although vigilant and irritable, had a high probability of not attacking the witches with homologous Abyssal aura.

This meant that even if Alana's ancestors really summoned Abyssal creatures, it was possible to live in harmony with the other party and let the other party help protect the family's safety through the covenant with the other party.

For the Morgan family where Alana was, this was undoubtedly a very good choice.

At first, the Dark Twins who had just arrived in the material world didn't understand anything, but as time passed, they gradually had their own thinking and wisdom. The Abyss never represented evil, so whether the creatures from the Abyss were good or evil also depended on the situation.

The Dark Twins had always regarded the members of the Morgan family as relatives, watching them grow up, grow old, and die generation after generation. This situation lasted until the night of the moonless assassination ten years ago.

Abyssal creatures were easier to obtain power, but everything was balanced, which made Abyssal creatures easier to fall into darkness. This was the leader of the Dark God Sect today, the Dark Twins.

As for why the Morgan family had been researching reverse summoning arrays, it was because the Dark Twins, after knowing more and more, wanted to return to the dark Abyss where they once drifted. At that time, they would have no emotions, no joy, and naturally no pain in their hearts.

This was also why the Dark Twins, who came from the Morgan family and had known the current Moon Witch for many years, joined the Dark God Sect very smoothly and became the leader of one of the three major factions of the Dark God Sect not long after. Because they came from the Abyss, in the Dark God Sect that believed in the Abyss, there was no higher starting point for identity than this.

In the Witch camp, the Dark Twins had always been the identity of the ancestors of the Morgan family. The Abyssal aura on them was mistaken for being caused by "Evil Mutation." Although rare, there were indeed precedents for maintaining sanity after "Evil Mutation."

Therefore, all the means of the Witch camp to track the Dark Twins were based on the premise that the other party was a witch after "Evil Mutation." This naturally couldn't do anything to the Dark Twins. They were pure Abyssal existences.

Su Xiao picked up the many array diagrams on the table. After observing for a while, he found that the research on "Light-Dark Summoning Arrays" was the most here. He picked up a few array diagrams and walked out of the basement.

After Su Xiao and the others left the manor, they came to a hotel near the city center and opened a room. In the guest room, Su Xiao had just sat down and pondered the whereabouts of the Dark Twins when someone knocked on the door.

After opening the door, a beautiful witch with silver long hair and silver eyelashes walked into the guest room. The other party sat down with a smile in her eyes. Seeing this person, Su Xiao's first thought was that the average appearance of witches was indeed high.

"Mr. Bai Ye, hello, my name is Serin, a witch who admires the Law-Exterminator very much, especially the deeds of the previous Law-Exterminators."

"..."

Su Xiao's hand movement paused, and he looked at the witch named Serin opposite. If he didn't recognize the wrong person, the other party was one of the three successors of the Moon Witch Serisil.

"I admire a previous female Law-Exterminator named Green Gillian very much."

"..."

Hearing this, Su Xiao looked at the witch opposite again. This time he was a bit surprised. He had encountered a lot of enemies of Green Gillian, but this was the only admirer.

Su Xiao looked Serin up and down. From the other party's smiling eyes and the smile that could show a bit of morbidity and joy at any time, he knew why Serin was Green Gillian's admirer.

At this moment, Su Xiao suddenly knew why the Moon Witch Serisil's gaze was both gratified and complex when she mentioned her three successors. Because her three successors, although their talent, strength potential, IQ, and EQ were all full, also had their own shortcomings. Among them, Serin gave the Moon Witch the most headache.

Serin came here to express her gratitude for Su Xiao clearing all the secret strongholds of the Dark God Sect in Moon Ring City last night, and also brought a message that the expenses incurred by Su Xiao dealing with the Dark God Sect this time could be reimbursed by the Witch Guild. Whether it was the transfer tower usage fee or the cost of purchasing necessary items, they could be reimbursed.

Serin didn't stay long, but before leaving, she looked at Alana very seriously. She was determining whether this would become a competitor for the Moon Witch position in the future. After having the answer in her heart, she left with a smile in her eyes.

"*Hoo~*"

Alana breathed a sigh of relief. Every time she met this senior, she felt an inexplicable pressure.

"Alana, how much do you know about summoning arrays?"

Hearing Su Xiao's words, Alana, who was sitting opposite, coughed lightly, suppressing a bit of pride, and said: "Very knowledgeable."

"Is it your personal preference?"

"That's not it. When I was young, my father cultivated this hobby for me."

Hearing this, Su Xiao basically confirmed that the Dark Twins were summoned from the Abyss by Alana's ancestors.

"In this world, how many people have high attainments in Light-Dark Summoning Arrays?"

"Five."

Alana's answer was exceptionally firm. After all, she was one of the best in this circle. She pondered for a few seconds, her expression gradually became wrong, and she said:

"Think carefully, among these five, three have disappeared due to accidents in recent years. Of the remaining two, one is living in seclusion, and the other is in the Ancient King City. Hmm~, it should be in the Ancient King City. Last time I met that old man at the exchange meeting in Moon Ring City, he said he returned to the Ancient King City, lived in the old house with his children, and showed off to me how well-behaved his grandson was."

Hearing this, Baja asked suspiciously: "Isn't the force in the Ancient King City always in chaotic warfare?"

"Yes, but they fight without affecting civilians. Even if they really want to divide life and death, they go outside the city."

After Alana finished speaking, she recalled for a few seconds and said the detailed location of the summoning array master.

Su Xiao stood up and walked out. He had to go to the Ancient King City immediately. If he didn't guess wrong, the people under the Dark Twins should have contacted this summoning array master, or even held the other party's relatives hostage, asking the other party to construct a sufficiently stable reverse summoning array. The Dark Twins seemed to have entered a bottleneck period and needed to return to the Abyss where they once were to spend this bottleneck.

As for returning there and never returning to the Witch World, this was unlikely. The Dark Twins, who had completely fallen into darkness, already had too many desires and were no longer the pure Abyssal creatures that drifted in the darkness.

After Su Xiao left the hotel, he found that the sky was already like blood from the setting sun. When he arrived at the hall of the transfer tower, he found that there were quite a few people here. The transfer hall of more than 1,000 square meters was bustling with noise. Now that the transfer fee could be reimbursed by the Witch Guild, of course, there was no need to save it.

Su Xiao sat on the bench. At this moment, outside the transfer tower, the Black Witch Casper was in a shop. The shop owner stood blankly in place, having been controlled by his mental power.

The Black Witch Casper put on five black rings on his right hand. Although he was a witch, he was not good at medium and long-distance combat. On the contrary, his close-range explosive killing means were so strong that people were shocked. This was also why he could become an assassin in the Hunter Guild only weaker than Owl.

The Black Witch Casper took out the First Ancient Mask. This artifact that could be called an assassination-lineage artifact made his appearance and clothing change rapidly, becoming a middle-aged man dressed as a merchant, with a big belly and a friendly face, and his aura was completely that of an ordinary person. Ask, which Supreme-level powerhouse would be vigilant against an ordinary person walking nearby?

The Black Witch Casper walked into the waiting hall of the transfer tower. He didn't look around deliberately, but the eyesight of a top assassin made him immediately lock onto Su Xiao. He carried a suitcase and walked towards Su Xiao with a calm pace. He didn't go straight to Su Xiao, but walked past two meters in front of Su Xiao. This was a very normal passing by. Casper felt that his state at this moment was simply perfect to the extreme. This might be his most perfect approach to the target.

In the eyes of others, the Black Witch Casper's disguise and approach were seamless, but from Su Xiao's perspective, it was another look.

Su Xiao saw a guy wearing a black long coat, wearing several lethal rings on his hands, with a strong figure, wearing a First Ancient Mask on his face, and looking super suspicious, walking towards him. This guy's posture was almost writing the words "I am an assassin" on his body. ===== CHAPTER 3800 =====