Chapter 810: Return

Not far from that abandoned block, Albus Medici, who had separated from Gucin, walked along the shadows by the road toward the cemetery.

Suddenly, he stopped, as if feeling dark currents surging in the darkness nearby.

Albus laughed, and thick fog suddenly surged from the surroundings, covering his figure and covering half of the street.

After more than ten seconds, the fog gradually dissipated, but Albus was no longer in the spot.

He had disappeared.

In a shadow shrouded by the fog just now, Zhu Li, wearing a slit long skirt and hair tied up, walked out and stared at the position where Albus originally stood for several seconds.

On the middle finger of her left hand was a gold ring inlaid with a blue gemstone.

Zhu Li withdrew her gaze, her expression a bit gloomy, and walked toward the blocks where the exiles gathered.

I don't know how long it took, under the deep night, a man's sharp and painful scream came from a room.

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Lu Mian returned to the full-length mirror in his room, walked out, and lay on the bed.

After discovering that Zhu Li had quietly left the "Carnivore" tavern, he knew that the "Witch" had been following him and Gucin in secret just now.

This was one of the goals he wanted to achieve.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have talked about finding Albus Medici and accepting the corresponding test with Gucin at the bar.

That was to let Zhu Li, who was temporarily acting as a bartender, hear it!

——Although he and Gucin both lowered their voices, at such a close distance, with a "Witch's" hearing, it was impossible not to capture the key information.

Of course, Lu Mian didn't use Zhu Li as a backup to prevent accidents at that time, because Gucin had watched the battle where this "Witch" castrated Vijepan before, and then obviously noticed her beauty and charm after she became a bartender.

In such a situation, as long as Gucin had some knowledge, he could guess that Zhu Li was a "Witch" and would not be unprepared, and would not know that the other party might have heard the content of the conversation.

Lu Mian's original purpose was just to judge the progress of the Witch Sect on the matter of "0-01" through Zhu Li's reaction:

If the Witch Sect had already completed preparations with the long-term exploration of "Witches" like Celeste and only lacked the opportunity to launch the final action, then Zhu Li would certainly not go out of her way to add trouble and would patiently maintain the status quo. In that case, Lu Mian would have to keep a close eye on Zhu Li and Celeste later and couldn't let them take the lead;

If the Witch Sect didn't have enough certainty and still had a lot of missing information, then Zhu Li would likely take this opportunity to see if she could obtain more information from Gucin, this second most dangerous person in Morora, and the rioters connected through him, making their own action plan more complete. And Lu Mian wouldn't have to be so urgent, wouldn't have to follow the footsteps of the "Witches" all the time, and could spare energy and time to do some exploration from other aspects.

In this regard, he achieved his goal perfectly.

Now, what Lu Mian is looking forward to more is what reaction Zhu Li will have and what attempts she will make after following Gucin and him and discovering Albus Medici.

"Is it to assassinate on the spot, or wait patiently, wait until Albus and Gucin separate and then single out? Or, go find Celeste to discuss? It's a pity, I don't know where they will encounter, so I can't watch the battle on the spot and confirm what trump cards they have respectively. That way, if luck is good enough, maybe I can kill both of them who are both injured..." Lu Mian sighed on the bed with regret.

I don't know how long it took, he felt some movement in Zhu Li's room.

This "Witch" had returned.

Lu Mian sniffed and smelled a faint smell of blood.

He smiled secretly and mocked in his heart:

"Albus, did you lose your treasure? I don't know if you can grow it back after becoming an 'Iron Knight'...

"Just now, there was no big movement in the whole Morora, it doesn't look like a fierce battle happened... So, Zhu Li couldn't lock onto Albus and just found a man to vent her emotions?"

Lu Mian waited patiently for a while, until this "city of exile" Morora was completely asleep in the thick night, before suddenly transforming into a shadow creature and melting into the darkness in the room.

He walked quickly, returned to that abandoned block with the volcano, and came to the crack in the basement, gazing at the void filled with thick fog again.

He felt that this area needed to be explored carefully. This would help him better understand some of the content in the seal data of "0-01" and further master the situation of the underground mausoleum.

And Gucin and Albus should not have thought that he would return here, especially when they might have encountered Zhu Li's attack!

"The fog is not as thick as before, the visible range is thirteen or fourteen meters... Was it Albus and Gucin who used their own special nature or items to strengthen the fog of war before?" Lu Mian looked at the fog for a few seconds and had a preliminary judgment.

He immediately conjured a ball of bright white fire to illuminate and walked into the fog of war slowly.

The fog of war felt similar to before, with no other changes. Every time Lu Mian walked a distance, he took out a bottle of perfume and dropped a few drops on the ground.

This is preparation for the subsequent return.

The place Lu Mian wants to go now is the statue area marked by Gucin on the map.

In the foggy environment that was quiet to the point of dead silence, with only slight footsteps echoing quietly, Lu Mian distinguished the terrain and landforms, passing by iron-black puppets hidden in the fog.

Finally, relying on the "Hunter's" ability and the map he remembered, he arrived at the target location.

There, four gray-white stone statues standing more than two meters high stood against the rock wall.

These statues faced each other in pairs, their faces were blurred, their clothing was quite strange, and their heads were wrapped in a square scarf.

Surrounded in the middle by them was a half-high stone platform, on which was an unlit oil lamp.

"Who made the statues? It shouldn't have been there originally. According to the seal data of '0-01,' this place does not belong to the underground mausoleum, it is normal underground... After that volcanic eruption, the power of the underground mausoleum leaked out a little, and someone took advantage of this to build four statues here and place an oil lamp? What is the purpose?" Lu Mian stared at the bright white fire group and muttered silently.

From the style of the statues and the overall layout, he felt that it should not be used by the Knowledge Church to reinforce the seal. It is highly likely that it was made by the "Iron and Blood Cross Order," so Gucin knew the situation here so clearly.

At the same time, Lu Mian felt that the call from the underground became even more intense.

It seemed to be behind the rock wall, waiting for him to go over.

Lu Mian took a breath and suppressed the impulse in his heart.

He circled the four stone statues and the oil lamp on the half-high stone platform a few times, but didn't find anything peculiar about them.

Lu Mian pondered for a while and had two ideas:

One is to light the oil lamp and see what happens; the second is to take this opportunity to destroy it and stimulate possible mutations.

"Forget it, lighting the oil lamp is too dangerous, and it hasn't reached the point where it must be done..." Lu Mian weighed it slightly and chose the second idea.

Destruction is always easier than construction!

Moreover, if an accident really happened, leaving a mess and running away is definitely more meaningful than letting this place remain intact.

Lu Mian grabbed a ball of bright white and bright fire, placed it at the foot of one of the statues, and let it be in a state of delayed explosion.

After setting up five "time bombs" in turn, Lu Mian walked to more than ten meters away, hid in the thick fog, and snapped his fingers with a "pa."

Rumble!

The four statues and the half-high stone platform encountered a violent explosion at the same time. They cracked from the bottom, disintegrated quickly, and collapsed into piles of rubble.

The explosion caused the thick fog in this area to dissipate a little, and Lu Mian took this opportunity to see the state of the statues and the stone platform.

No abnormality occurred, no danger appeared... Very good, next, let's see if Gucin and the others will notice the movement here and come over to check the situation, and I will ambush here, waiting to give him a fatal blow... Lu Mian became more and more confused about the role of the statues and the stone platform, and planned to use this to set up a very simple trap for Gucin, but because it was in a blind spot of thinking, it was easy to be ignored.

——If the statues and the stone platform are really very important, after Gucin discovers that something is wrong here, his first reaction must be to rush over to confirm the situation, and he will subconsciously think that the destroyer has already fled to avoid being besieged.

Lu Mian was about to shrink more into the deep fog when he suddenly found that the five piles of rubble were squirming.

They kept colliding, and in an instant, they rose from the ground again and were restored to stone statues and high platforms.

Exactly the same as just now.

"This..." Lu Mian's gaze solidified.

The stone statues and the half-high stone platform can restore themselves?

That's why the "Iron and Blood Cross Order" didn't send anyone to guard here...

They are not afraid of these things being destroyed at all!

Lu Mian quickly came back to his senses and made a new round of attempts.

This time, after blowing up the stone statues and the stone platform, he took away a part of the rubble with the "Traveler's Bag" and waited more than ten meters away.

The stone statues and the half-high stone platform still returned to their original state, drawing materials from the earth, while the rubble in Lu Mian's "Traveler's Bag" became ordinary.

Lu Mian temporarily gave up destruction, poured out the rubble, walked back between the four stone statues, and reached out to pick up the oil lamp with a glass cover.

Inside that oil lamp was semi-solid and semi-liquid light yellow grease, and a wick that looked like it was woven from black hair was embedded on the top.

The more Lu Mian looked, the more familiar he felt.

He began to recall the source of the familiarity.

Ten seconds later, he abruptly reached into the "Traveler's Bag" and took out something.

That was light yellow with red semi-solid matter in a transparent glass bottle, with a thicker black wick inserted at the top.

Corpse oil candle!

Corpse oil candle made from the corpse oil of "Iron Knights" and "Despair Witches" mixed with other things!

The oil lamp on the half-high stone platform is a bit like it.

Lu Mian muttered silently:

"'Magician' said that Fourth Epoch Trier and a certain place in Bansy Harbor are the two scenes most suitable for corpse oil candles to play a role...

"What about inside the Morora underground mausoleum, which is very similar to Fourth Epoch Trier?"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 811 =====