Chapter 252

Xia De kept an eye on the time. When there were 10 seconds left until the 47-second limit of the 【Bordeaux Candle】, he brought the two ladies into the shadows of the building. He pinched out the candle and immediately lit it again, and after confirming that it still didn't attract attention, he continued to walk toward the wall of the three-story building of the printing factory.

The door was locked from the inside, but they didn't intend to enter from the entrance. After walking halfway around the small building, Miss Annette kept divining luck by tossing coins and finally chose a window. After Miss Beiya unlocked it with a special alchemical item, the three climbed in one by one.

There are many ways to infiltrate; killing everyone is an option, but tonight the goal of the three is the ruins, so for the Ringed Shushi on the ground, if combat can be avoided, don't provoke them.

The entire first floor had no lights on, and the air was filled with the smell of ink, which was very much in line with the atmosphere of a printing factory.

In this silence, Miss Annette held Xia De's hand and walked at the very front, leading the two to find the room where the night watchmen on the first floor were located.

They didn't enter, but carefully blew some black dust through the crack of the door.

The three stayed away from the door together and held their breath, during which Xia De extinguished the candle again and lit it. After a full minute, they dared to breathe, then left here directly and walked toward the direction of the underground warehouse, where the printing factory's cargo was piled up.

The entrance to the underground warehouse was on the side of the stairs on the west side of the first floor, and an iron door that looked very secure blocked the way there. Two iron locks hung on the outside of the iron door, and the door was sealed with iron chains. Even if the people inside the door wanted to come out, they must have the cooperation of the people outside the door.

The three stood still at the door, Miss Annette tossed the coins a few more times, hesitated for a moment before nodding to the other two, which meant she believed there was a high probability of a Ringed Shushi in the warehouse. Although according to the strength of the 【Mercury Blood】 organization and the suspicious nature of the injured Silver-Eyed One, the person guarding the gate of the ruins would not exceed 6 rings at most, but after all, Miss Annette, who had the highest strength among the three, only had 3 rings.

"Mute Spell."

Miss Annette looked at Miss Beiya, who shook the iron triangular piece in her hand. With a slight force of her fingers, the runes on the metal in the dark lit up with a faint light, and then a gust of wind seemed to blow over the three, and the sound disappeared completely.

Miss Annette looked at Xia De, and Xia De made a gesture to indicate he understood.

He reached out and pinched out the light of the candle, then lit it immediately. At the same time as the candle was relit and the 47-second timer restarted, Miss Annette reached out and pushed open the door in front of her. The effect of the spell made the sound of opening the door disappear completely, and the somewhat dazzling gas lamp light inside the door immediately shot out from the crack of the door.

Without any hesitation, Miss Beiya, who was standing in front of the door, rushed in first. To prevent herself from using power and making the other two appear, she let go of Xia De's hand.

Her left hand shook the silver metal rattle 【Judge's Holy Bell】 hanging on her waist. In the sound of the bell that no one could hear, Miss Beiya raised her right hand high:

"Sunlight Spear!"

Jin Huang thunder gathered in her palm, but strangely, it didn't make any thunderous sound. The golden color lit up the inside and outside of the door, and then the golden thunder shot into the underground warehouse under Miss Beiya's vigorous strike.

And Xia De and Miss Annette, who were still in an invisible state, walked quickly into the underground warehouse and stood on the downward stairs to close the open door. The Mute Spell was thrown at their feet, ensuring that no sound would be transmitted to the outside world.

Crossing the spell, the two could hear the sound of whistles and bells, which was a sign of the manifestation of the Life Ring.

Coming from the dark environment to the warehouse lit by gas lamps, Xia De narrowed his eyes subconsciously. And Miss Annette couldn't care so much; she immediately let go of Xia De, rushed down the stairs, and went into the underground warehouse to help Miss Beiya.

Inside the warehouse, cardboard boxes were stacked, some of which could even be stacked directly to the ceiling, forming a maze of cardboard boxes in the huge underground warehouse.

At the end of the downward stairs, Miss Annette and Miss Beiya stood side by side. Behind the two ladies, the Life Ring appeared, and in front of the two, a bald man with a scar on his right eye was looking at them with a gloomy face, covering his left arm injured by the Sunlight Spear.

Under such circumstances, there was no need to say nonsense like "Who are you". The man reached out, and the Life Ring belonging to a Fifth-Ring Shushi rotated rapidly, and the spiritual light stretched into circular lines and flickered in the steam fog.

Xia De counted down in his heart, took the 【Ancient Witch's Jin Huang Necklace】 out of his pocket, temporarily held the candle in his mouth, and hung the necklace around his neck with both hands.

At the same time, another golden thunder in Miss Beiya's hand seemed to pierce through space, while the scar-faced man lowered his waist slightly and then actually disappeared into the air.

The shining golden thunder bombarded the cardboard boxes, piercing through the boxes and leaving scorched marks on the wall. Those paper pages scattered by the thunder flew in the air, and Miss Annette tossed a coin again, her eyes firm with purple light:

"Left side."

Miss Beiya shook the bell lightly with her left hand—

Ding-dang~

Her left foot stomped on the ground vigorously, and a shockwave composed of golden light spread from under her feet to the left. More cardboard boxes collapsed in pieces, but at the same time, the man's figure also appeared:

"All low-ring Shushi, how dare you..."

He punched the air toward Miss Annette with his right hand. After a muffled sound, the female diviner spat out a mouthful of blood, took a step back, and fell on the stairs without moving. Then he wanted to punch Miss Beiya through the air, but the appearance of the enemy also meant that Miss Beiya got the opportunity to look at him:

"Balance!"

Yellow light spread from her eyes to the surroundings. With the sound of the bell, another golden thunder flew out.

The scar-faced man wanted to repeat the trick and disappear into the air, but after bending his waist, he only let his legs disappear:

"What? What kind of power is this?"

He lay on his side to dodge the Sunlight Spear, but then silver light actually lit up from the side. Unable to dodge, he could only set up his two arms to resist hard, and then he saw that brilliant, dreamlike silver radiance.

Just a slight distraction, and he immediately let the luster of mercury emerge on his arms, attempting to block the slash of the Silver Moon, but that moonlight was not affected at all, and like cutting off a carrot, it cut off his right arm alive.

The cut surface of the broken arm was exceptionally smooth, and blood only began to gush out after the broken arm fell to the ground.

"Ah!"

The scar-faced man wailed and jumped up. Xia De, who had revealed his body due to the use of oddity, retreated immediately. The candle light lit up, and he disappeared again.

The man supported the ground with one hand, his whole body trembling, and terrible black thick fog gushed out from his pores to wrap his whole body:

"You... do you really know who you are dealing with?"

His body completely melted into this fog, and then a huge, gloomy ghost face wailing and dragging terrible black fog rushed upward. In the black fog, it seemed that countless ferocious faces were roaring, and in that huge ghost face, one could almost see hundreds of souls wailing.

The cold wind shuttled through the closed basement. In the strange whispering sound, the light in the room became weaker and weaker. Xia De felt his physical strength passing quickly; those black fogs were absorbing life.

"This is the necromancy oddity 【Ghost Fog Avatar】, I know who he is! Mercury Blood's Fifth-Ring Shushi, Ghost Mount, the bounty amount is as high as 300 pounds. Be careful, absolutely don't be touched by those fogs."

Miss Beiya shouted loudly, and the golden thunder in her hand was thrown at the fog again, but it only evaporated part of the black fog. The girl with brown long hair gritted her teeth:

"Damn it, we must attack that fog at the same time; point-to-point attacks are useless."

"It doesn't matter, he doesn't have the power of a Fifth-Ring Shushi now, look at me!"

Miss Annette, who fell on the stairs, struggled to take off the butterfly-shaped hair accessory from her hair and threw it upward. Transparent blue butterfly groups flew out from the hair accessory continuously and entangled with the black fog wrapped by the ghost face.

The black fog was actually being devoured by the blue butterflies, but the ghost face didn't care at all. It roared, dragging the black smoke and pouncing toward the direction where Xia De disappeared. It seemed that it could see that among everyone here, the young man was the weakest.

"He asked for it! Good opportunity, Detective!"

"Silver Moon!"

The ultimate silver light rushed out of his fingertips, sweeping through the room like an erupting sun. In that light, the black fog melted like ice cubes touching the sun. The ear-piercing roar almost broke Xia De's eardrums, but the ghost face still tried its best to pounce on him.

Subconsciously wanting to use illusion to hide, but then he saw Miss Beiya, who had her eyes closed, had already rushed over at some point.

Raising her right fist high, although the hot golden light on her fist was completely suppressed by the Silver Moon radiance, Xia De didn't doubt the power of this punch at all:

"Sunlight Fist!"

Miss Beiya's fist pierced through the ghost face in front of Xia De with one punch, and at the same time, the blue butterfly group thrown by Miss Annette also followed the hole opened by the fist and drilled into the ghost face.

The cold wind gushed out from the big hole in the ghost face. If the wailing sound hadn't been eliminated by the spell, it could even have spread throughout the entire block.

Xia De, in front of the ghost face, held the luxurious necklace on his neck tightly with his left hand, feeling the enhanced power. The light at his fingertips faded rapidly, but his entire palm was glowing.

He swung that brilliant light forward:

"Silver Moon Slash!"

It seemed that all the light was compressed into this piece of moonlight. The arc-shaped light blade left a brilliant afterimage in the air, slashed open the ghost face entangled by the butterfly group, and left a perfect arc-shaped brand on the opposite wall silently.

The black fog dissipated, the cold wind and the chilling whispering sound disappeared, and the light of the gas lamps covered this place again.

The blue butterfly group flew back to the hands of the injured Miss Annette and turned into that butterfly-shaped hair accessory. The corpse of the scar-faced man split open appeared in the dissipating ghost face and fell to Xia De's feet.

Xia De breathed heavily. Counting the time, from opening the door to the end of the battle, it was only half a minute.