Chapter 871: Negotiation

In the center of the 7th school district, there was a building without windows. This building not only had no windows, to be precise, it had no entrance at all and was completely sealed. Its official name was 'Board of Directors Headquarters Building'.

The foundation of this windowless building was 15 meters deep, and the underground area within a radius of about three kilometers was its foundation. Coupled with several large pillars buried deep underground, this building had no possibility of collapsing or tilting.

The entire building was covered with 'Calculation-Type Impact Diffusion Composite Material' armor plates. Not to mention ordinary missiles, even if a nuclear bomb landed on it, it couldn't blow up its protective layer.

Such a completely sealed and sturdy building was the lair of the science side leader, Aleister Crowley. He wouldn't leave here. To be precise, he didn't want to leave here. The consequences of leaving here were somewhat serious.

Su Xiao's first reaction to seeing such a sturdy building was: how afraid of death is Aleister Crowley? Could it be that after 'dying once', death caused the other party to feel fear?

That's right, Aleister Crowley 'died' once and was almost killed by someone from the magic side.

Aleister Crowley, some said he was the greatest magician of the 20th century, and some said he was a low-class magician.

According to Su Xiao's understanding, there were not many people who killed their wives to prove the Dao. Aleister was even more ruthless. He sacrificed his wife to summon a guardian angel, Aiwass. After that, even if his daughter died, Aleister had no reaction, and even used children of the same age as his daughter for experiments.

In the end, Aleister stood at the highest point of magicians. For some reason, he suddenly gave up magic and started to practice technology. You must know that at that time, in the eyes of the magic side, the technology of the science side was heresy, a group of stupid people who tried to challenge the divine power. Aleister's move to switch to technology was almost equivalent to stepping on the dignity of all magicians on the ground, and he even spat on it before leaving.

All magicians were angry. The result was that Aleister was 'killed' by a magician of the Anglican Church in a remote town in England and buried in a remote place. In fact, Aleister at that time was not dead, which could be considered being buried alive.

A doctor dug Aleister out and saved the nearly dying Aleister with superb medical skills.

If it weren't for that doctor, Aleister today would have rotted into slag, becoming nutrients for herbaceous plants.

That doctor gave Aleister a life-support device. To this day, Aleister still stays in the life-support device that has been modified countless times.

It could be said that Aleister today could no longer be considered a human. His ability was unknown, his specific strength was unknown, his lifespan was unknown, his personality was unknown, and his ultimate goal was suspected to be the destruction of magic.

For this kind of person whose data was mostly unknown and whose strength should be extremely powerful, Su Xiao was somewhat wary. Although his strength improved very quickly, he never had the idea that he was already invincible.

Before reaching some kind of consensus with Aleister, Su Xiao couldn't execute the Tier 3 promotion mission with peace of mind. The other party was a timed nuclear bomb, and the entire Academy City was under the other party's control.

Su Xiao stood in front of the windowless building, thinking about his rhetoric. For this kind of non-human who didn't know how long he had existed and handed over all his life activities to machines, lies clearly wouldn't work.

"Preparing for spatial movement."

Awaki Musujime on the side spoke. She was obviously a bit nervous. In order to avoid accidents when bringing people into the building, she couldn't just teleport the 'guest', but needed to enter the building with the 'guest'. This meant that Awaki Musujime would occasionally see Aleister.

"Hmm."

Su Xiao grabbed Awaki Musujime's shoulder with one hand.

"Don't grab me, I'll sue you for molestation."

"This is my second spatial movement. I feel 'uneasy' if I don't grab something."

Su Xiao was clearly talking nonsense. He was often teleported by space, but he was often hit by a 'hammer' before spatial movement, which made him have a near-instinctive resistance to spatial teleportation.

Space power began to fluctuate. Su Xiao and Bubu Wang subconsciously felt a chill on the back of their heads.

Light and shadow flashed. Su Xiao entered a somewhat dim and huge room. He subconsciously touched the back of his head.

"It seems I'm not the only one who resists spatial movement."

Awaki Musujime panted heavily. The accident in the past left her with psychological trauma. As long as she moved herself more than four times, she would have a feeling of vomiting, and the things in her stomach couldn't help but spray out.

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak, his eyes scanning the surroundings.

In the dim and huge room, various pipes could be seen everywhere. The things inside this building were a complete set of large life-support devices.

And in the center of the huge room, there was a glass tank three meters thick and more than ten meters high. The glass tank was filled with the solution needed for life support. A man with long white hair, green eyes, and skin as fair as a baby's due to long-term immersion in the solution, was submerged upside down in the solution.

Aleister, submerged upside down in the solution, was about two meters from the ground. Su Xiao looked at Aleister.

"You seem to have sensed my existence."

Aleister 'spoke', his voice sounding somewhat empty. This was not Aleister himself speaking, but the sound emitted by the life-support equipment in the huge room. Even to speak, Aleister used machines as a substitute.

When investigating Aleister's data before, Su Xiao saw such a sentence: Aleister was like a man and like a woman, like an adult and like a child, like a saint and like a sinner.

After meeting in person, Su Xiao felt that this description was not very reliable. Aleister was just a white-haired hanging man, and his only characteristic was that his hair was very long. If he stood upright, the other party's hair could hang down to his ankles.

"I have heard of it. When I sensed those 'jellyfish monitors', I associated them with your monitoring means. If anyone else did this in Academy City, it would be a direct provocation to you."

Su Xiao walked to the tall glass tank, and the negotiation officially began.

"Is that so."

The empty voice came, and then the huge room fell into silence, a deathly silence.

Not far away, Awaki Musujime used her spatial ability to leave. She was very sensible and smart, knowing that it was better not to know some things.

"Entering your territory without permission is a lack of etiquette, but I am just looking for something."

Su Xiao broke the silence. Time didn't have a strong concept for Aleister. Consuming it would be disadvantageous to Su Xiao.

"Looking for something?"

Aleister's tone changed slightly, but his facial expression remained unchanged.

"It's a codex. I only know a small amount of clues. Someone in Academy City knows the whereabouts of that codex. This is an order from the organization I belong to. Find that thing and obtain it. In a critical moment, I can consider destroying it."

Full of lies couldn't deceive Aleister, but a small amount of lies mixed in most truths made the possibility of being exposed much smaller. ===== CHAPTER 872 =====