Chapter 161 The Truth: Dirty Things [VIP]

The city was in chaos, with black smoke billowing everywhere.

Mutilated bodies can be seen everywhere in the ruins.

Streets were barricaded and survivors hid behind broken windows, holding their breath and staring at the situation outside.

Emotions such as vigilance, fear, and uneasiness fill every corner of the city like the air.

…

"Sorry, but I want to take a detour to South City to take care of some things first."

Before entering the city formally, Xiao Yun said to Johnny and others who were traveling with him.

"But this time, South City was the hardest hit."

Johnny was puzzled. "I heard there are still 'Dragon Tooth Soldiers' killing people in the streets, and the fire hasn't been put out yet."

"It's precisely because South City was hit the hardest that I had to make a detour to South City to check on the people I know. If you're worried about danger, you can ask Luke to take you to North City via a smaller path."

"So that's what happened..."

Johnny thought thoughtfully.

Luke looked up. "Master, I'll go with you. The shop owner has done me a favor, and I need to make sure he's safe!"

"I see."

Xiao Yun reached out, patted the boy's head, and said to Johnny and his men, "Please forgive my selfishness."

"We will go with His Majesty!"

Johnny blurted out, "I don't know who Your Majesty is looking for, but I believe he is a very good and important person."

"Also, the fire is mostly out, so there shouldn't be much danger."

Johnny's companion echoed.

"Thank you for your recognition."

Xiao Yun grabbed the reins and led the team towards the South City, which was still surrounded by flames and screams.

…

…

Compared with other areas in South City, the situation in the market is relatively optimistic.

Although most shops were closed and some houses collapsed due to the fire, there were few pedestrians on the streets. People with faces blackened by soot and wearing burnt clothes were rummaging through the ruins, looking for items that could still be used.

but--

"Hey! Do you guys want to come over and get something to eat?"

A loud shout came from the roadside.

Xiao Yun immediately stopped and rode his horse to a makeshift roadside stall made of clean sheets connected by long wooden sticks. He looked at a man preparing food in front of a steaming pot and said, "I want the most expensive food in your store! One hundred servings!"

"What?"

The man looked up in surprise.

"This isn't—"

"Yes, Luke and I are both alive. I'm glad you're alive too, having survived yesterday's disaster."

"The situation last night was truly horrific."

The shop owner spoke cheerfully, picking up the coarse porcelain bowls piled next to the cauldron and filling them with food as he sighed, "So, to avoid wasting all the flour, vegetables, bacon, and pots and pans we've salvaged with such great difficulty, I and several other shop owners have decided to set up a temporary street vendor and make food out of what we've salvaged, giving it away for free. Disasters are terrible, of course, but since we're not dead, we need to keep living."

"Yes, we all need to live well."

Xiao Yun smiled, took out a bag of gold sand and handed it to the owner.

"Here's the money for a hundred bowls."

The owner was shocked and quickly returned the gold sand to Xiao Yun: "--This food is free! No money required!"

"Take it."

Xiao Yun smiled amiably and told the shop owner, "This money is a loan to you. Once everyone has moved into their new homes and the market is rebuilt, you can slowly save up enough money to pay me back."

"Thank you! Thank you! You are such a kind person."

"You are the real good people."

Xiao Yun looked gently at the busy people and said slowly, "It is precisely because this land is filled with people like you who are kind, strong, and love life and living that this city - even if it has unfortunately become a demon city, it still has a thriving vitality and a bright future."

"Hmm? I don't understand what you're talking about?"

The shop owner was puzzled.

"I love this city and I hope it can be reborn soon."

"But……"

"I'm leaving now. I hope that when we meet again, this place will have been rebuilt and will be more prosperous and lively than before."

"Are you leaving now? What a shame."

The owner sighed regretfully, then said loudly, "Next time you come to Didu, remember to look for me. I'll treat you to all the delicious food I know."

"Okay, I'll come find you then!"

"certainly!"

The owner gave a simple smile.

After saying goodbye to the shop owner, Xiao Yun returned to Johnny and the others and said seriously, "Let's go."

…

…

After passing through the market in the south city and about to reach the north city, a short and fat man suddenly rushed out from the opposite side and blocked everyone's way.

"Johnny!"

male"

"oh?"

Xiao Yun realized that the other party was most likely his military advisor. He pulled down his hood to avoid being noticed by passers-by and looked at Johnny.

Johnny sighed and rode up to the short, fat man. "Tari, I'm glad you're still alive."

"I also-"

Tari looked up, narrowed his triangular eyes and looked at everyone with a ferocious look.

"I also got brand new companions, new clothes, and a nice horse to ride!"

"us……"

"—During the time we were apart, you must have encountered many unexpected good things."

Tari interrupted Johnny and taunted him, "That time in Seth City, everyone died, and you were the only one who came back alive! This time is even worse! All the people I brought with me were captured, and I myself was almost burned to death last night! I was hacked to death! Only you—you and the people you brought with you—not only did not suffer any misfortune, you're even living better than before!"

"That's because..."

"Because I am the supreme commander of the Imperial Capital Operation appointed by the Great Leader himself."

Xiao Yun announced coldly through his hood.

"--What!"

Tari was furious and spat at everyone.

"Johnny! What's going on! Tell me what's going on!"

"Lord Claude is the only remaining True Dragon Messenger in the world, and a True Dragon Messenger is a great being who can stand on equal footing with the Great Chief's ancestors."

Johnny gritted his teeth and recited the lines Yaris had prepared for him: "The Great Leader said that this Imperial Capital Operation is of great importance and must succeed, not fail. Therefore, before the formal E-type operation begins, every step of the plan must be kept absolutely confidential, not even to Military Advisor Tari... Thank you, Military Advisor Tari, the sacrifice you and your men made possible the smooth execution of the Imperial Capital Operation..."

"--What!"

Tari was furious: "I am... and there is more! Who the hell is the 'True Dragon Messenger'? Why should I and my people sacrifice themselves for him unconditionally?!"

"My successful destruction of the Grand Palace's walls yesterday and the illusion of a golden dragon emerging over Lake Oro have fundamentally shaken the very foundation of His bloodline, which He has painstakingly crafted over over a hundred years, that 'the Emperor is a descendant of the Golden Dragon.'"

Xiao Yun spoke slowly, his eyes hidden under the hood flashing with a captivating light.

“…”

Tari was already feeling guilty, and seeing the mysterious "True Dragon Messenger" so powerful, he felt a chill down his spine. He laughed dryly, "So, so... It's an honor for me and my subordinates to be able to risk our lives to ensure the complete success of the Imperial Capital Operation..."

"Are you serious?"

Xiao Yun sneered.

Luke also looked at the ugly guy with vulgar eyes with an unhappy expression.

"Hmm... honestly... the absolute truth... I just don't know if Lord Claude can... can he allow me to go with you? What I mean is - the Imperial Capital Operation has been a complete success, we should evacuate as soon as possible, right?"

"oh."

Xiao Yun hummed in a tone without any emotion, and signaled Johnny to arrange a horse for Tari.

"Thank you! Thank you!"

Tari rolled and crawled onto the horse, licking his fingers greedily with his thick lips. Although this was the first time he heard the title of "True Dragon Messenger", it was obvious that as long as he successfully assisted the emperor in capturing the "True Dragon Messenger", he would receive a room full of gold as a reward.

[This guy doesn't look like a good person at first glance.]

The "Tower Master" named Xiao Hei by Yaris wrapped his arm around Xiao Yun and sneered.

Xiao Yun reached out and touched the little head of the "Tower Master".

(Did your brother contact you?)

[He is still sleeping, Xiao Jin squats beside him.]

——Although he did not acknowledge Huang Jinlong as his elder brother and refused to accept the new name "Xiao Hei", the "Tower Master" really liked to call his twin brother "Xiao Jin".

(I see.)

Xiao Yun held the reins tightly and led everyone through the square filled with makeshift shacks of homeless people, thieves, prostitutes, and drug addicts, and arrived at the dark streets of the North City where corpses were everywhere.

"...What's going on?"

Xiao Yun frowned.

Luke took out his whistle and blew it hard. Immediately, a young man jumped out from the rubble and reported, "Last night, as soon as the fire broke out in South City, those bastards from the Evil Ghost Gang and the White Ghost Gang immediately began attacking the gangs in the North City Alliance. Fortunately, everyone was prepared."

"Where are the 'Dragon Tooth Soldiers'? Did the Emperor's 'Dragon Tooth Soldiers' participate in this massacre?"

"No."

The young man said without hesitation, "The 'Dragon Tooth Soldiers' killed many people in the South City last night, but they didn't go into the Black Street. They just blocked several important exits to prevent people from the North City from leaving..."

"Is there still fighting inside the block?"

"It should be over now."

"Are there any casualties among our people?"

"No, we all followed the boss's instructions, prepared dry food and water early, and hid in our nests..."

"I see."

Luke turned around and looked at Xiao Yun worriedly: "Master——"

"You and Johnny take people to pick everyone up."

"yes."

Luke looked at Johnny: "Uncle Johnny——"

"no problem."

Johnny readily agreed.

Tari also wanted to join in -

"Just follow my lead."

Xiao Yun suddenly spoke.

"Where are you going?"

Tari felt guilty.

He originally planned to take this opportunity to sell Luke, Johnny and others to the Emperor's "Dragon Tooth Soldiers" and then pretend to escape for his life, and return to Xiao Yun with the lucky ones who escaped by chance, replace Luke and Johnny's position in the heart of the "True Dragon Messenger", and then find an opportunity to sell the "True Dragon Messenger" to the Emperor.

"Stay here and wait for them—"

"Master, don't worry, we will be back soon!"

Luke glared hatefully at Tari, who obviously had bad intentions, and led Johnny and his group to the Wild Dog Gang's secret hideout to pick up people.

After they left, Xiao Yun dismounted, holding the reins with his left hand and the hilt of his sword with his right hand, and checked the bodies on the ground.

As for Tari who was traveling with us——

[Flora, you keep an eye on Tari. I don't trust this guy!]

【clear. 】

Flora understood what he meant, spread out her broken wings which had not yet recovered from yesterday's battle, and looked viciously at Tari, who was ugly and had evil intentions.

Feeling Flor's strong dissatisfaction, Tari had no choice but to lower his head, hold the reins tightly, and curse in his heart.

(Damn "True Dragon Messenger"!)

(One day, I will sell you to the emperor in exchange for a house full of gold!)

(Judging from his posture and movements, he must be a nobleman from a prominent family...)

As he thought about it, his mind was occupied by obscene and vulgar content, and Tari couldn't help licking his thick lips.

…

(These corpses were all killed with one strike, which shows that the people who attacked were the professionally trained assassins of the White Ghost Gang.)

(In addition to the fatal wounds, these people also had a lot of injuries caused by torture... The perpetrators are probably the members of the Demon Gang that Luke mentioned...)

(This guy wearing Devil Gang clothing has many stab wounds on his body, each of which is very shallow... He must have died in the siege of the North City Alliance...)

(From these corpses, it can be seen that compared to Yu Duan's ruthless and unscrupulous Evil Ghost Gang and the well-trained White Ghost Gang, the small gangs that make up the North City Alliance are very weak. If they don't prepare in advance and concentrate their forces to defeat the minority, they will definitely be wiped out in this battle.)

"Huh?"

Xiao Yun, who was walking among the pile of corpses, suddenly stopped.

He saw an unusual body.

The deceased was not very old, but his face was extremely haggard and withered, and he still had an intoxicated smile on his face, which clearly showed that—

Xiao Yun immediately looked towards the shadow of the ruins.

"Romila! Is that you?"

"Young Master—"

Romila crawled out from the shadows, looked at Xiao Yun with a flattering expression, and pounced on Xiao Yun with her white body without hesitation.

"roll!"

Xiao Yun waved his cloak and blew away the frivolous succubus.

"Young Master~"

Romila licked her sensual lips in grievance. "For the young master, I traveled day and night, chasing him from the Western Continent to the Eastern Continent, and even used my body to help him gather valuable intelligence. And yet, young master, you actually... wuwuwu..."

"These are not reasons for you to throw yourself at me without clothes."

Xiao Yun reminded Romila coldly.

"There's no one else here, why do I have to wear clothes?"

Romila was not convinced and twisted her pale body. Yu Zhi also deliberately hooked her hair and touched her lips in a flattering gesture.

Xiao Yun was speechless. He pointed at Tari, who was staring at Romila with shining eyes. "...Isn't he a human?"

"In my eyes, this kind of thing cannot be considered a human being."

Romila snorted disdainfully, but eventually she obediently stripped the clothes off the corpse and put them on. She turned and asked Xiao Yun, "Master, do you want to know what information I've gathered?"

"If it's truly valuable information, you'll tell me even if I don't ask."

“…Young Master!”

Romila was furious.

At this moment, a rumbling sound suddenly came from the depths of the black street.

Immediately afterwards, a giant with four faces in front, back, left and right and eight arms walked towards Xiao Yun and others with earthquake-like steps. The three faces and six eyes facing Xiao Yun flashed suspicious red light.

"So lucky... so lucky... I can eat something so delicious right after waking up... so lucky... so lucky..."

The monster stuttered.

Xiao Yun noticed that there were clear suture marks on each of the monster's faces, and there was a clear color difference in the skin on both sides of the suture lines.

(Frankenstein?)

"——This is it! Master! The important information I spent a lot of time to find out is this terrifying thing in front of me!"

Romila screamed, "The people who made it called it the Ghost-Faced God General. Actually, they cut up the bodies of the most valiant and aggressive criminals in the underworld, then used black magic techniques to sew the pieces back onto the skinned body of a lizard monster, and finally sewed on a layer of human skin. This thing is ten thousand times more disgusting than all the zombies the old man created combined!"

[It's not disgusting, it's twisted, a fake life created by forcibly combining dead things in an unnatural way...]

At the arm, the "Tower Master" made a cold comment.

"oh……"

Xiao Yun looked at the monster that was getting closer and closer with interest.

The monster sensed Xiao Yun's disdainful gaze and angrily emphasized, "I am the Ghost-Faced God General! The great Ghost-Faced God General! My master wants me to kill you! I will kill you! Kill you!"

"Who is your master?"

"My master... my master..."

"My master is the master!"

Another head yelled, "Master said that if I kill him, I will get a true E life! A perfect life!"

"A twisted thing forcibly stitched together from what was lost also wants to become a true E life?"

"Of course, I... I have His permission... He said I am life, the true E life..."

The monster who called himself the Ghost-Faced God General extended his six flexible index fingers and said, "I am different from you who evolved naturally and have many flaws. I have been perfect from the beginning! Perfect!"

"However, your birth was never permitted by the will of Ella."

Xiao Yun took off his cloak and threw it onto the horse's back along with the "Tower Master" wrapped around his arm. He raised his sword with both hands, and his dark brown curly hair fluttered in the wind.

"Come on! Let me see what kind of monster you are!"

"Ha! Hahaha!"

The monster laughed, and its voice was as loud as the chiming of a tower bell.

"If you're lucky enough, I'll leave your body intact! Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, I won't do anything excessive to you! Because you are so perfect, the perfection I desire most!"

As it spoke, it opened its bloody mouth towards Xiao Yun.

"Come on—kill me! Or be killed by me!"

"Yes!"

Xiao Yun grasped the sword and stabbed at the monster that was five meters tall.

"Like the Demon Prince, you are not a completely alien life form, so I cannot kill you with the 'Golden Blade'! But——"

"ah!"

The monster cried out in surprise.

Because Xiao Yun actually - at the moment when You Yu chopped off the monster's six-fingered big finger with his sharp sword, the "golden blade" emerged from Zuo Yu's palm and pierced into the wound caused by the sword!

What made the monster even more terrified was that the watch face of Xiao Yun was actually flashing with golden light. The parts touched by the sacred golden light would emit sizzling black smoke, as if being roasted by a high temperature of 10,000 degrees.

"What is this! What is this thing!"

"The golden wristband that matches the Golden Blade! It suits you better than the Golden Blade!"

Xiao Yun said bluntly, raised his fist again, and injected hot energy comparable to the sun into the monster's body.

"ah--"

The monster screamed in pain, its skin cracked, revealing spikes that gleamed with metallic light, and it rushed towards Xiao Yun!

"here we go again."

Xiao Yun was very calm inside.

Although the monster looks terrifying, none of its attacks will work on you.

As long as he realized this, Xiao Yun would not feel afraid. Instead, he used his flexible body and the narrow streets to get close to the monster, piercing the monster's body again and again, and even -

Squeak!

The long sword pierced into the monster's abdomen, and when it was pulled out, it brought out an indescribable black-green sticky juice.

“Ahhhh!”

The monster roared angrily and twisted its six remaining arms to try to grab Xiao Yun.

However, Xiao Yun immediately cut off another arm and then cut off the head connected to the arm!

Plop!

The head and arms fell to the ground together, and the monster staggered and fell as if it had lost its balance. The wound in its abdomen continued to ooze out foul-smelling liquid and white substance that looked like internal organs.

Xiao Yun took advantage of the victory and pursued the monster, stepping lightly on its body and chopping off its other three heads.

The monster, having lost all its heads, lay on the ground and twitched for a long time. Finally, its legs were spread out, motionless, with dirty internal organs and foul-smelling thick green liquid underneath.

Xiao Yun waved his sword, wiped the blood off the blade, took the cloak from Flora, put it on, and looked back at the stunned Tari and Romila: "What are you standing there for!"

"...Master, you are becoming stronger and stronger."

Romila stammered.

There was a nauseating greed and admiration flashing in Tari's triangular eyes.

[Hey! This guy is in love with you~]

The "Tower Master" reminded maliciously.

Xiao Yun shook his head.

(What he thinks of me is his business, not mine.)

[Well, anyway, Master E will definitely kill this ugly bastard who dared to covet his brother when he finds out~]

The "Tower Master" smiled evilly and continued to sleep.

…

As the sun was about to set, Luke and Johnny returned safely with the Wild Dog Gang children, accompanied by the slender black shadows of the "Assassin's Order".

"We are deeply sorry about what happened in the Black Street. As compensation, the cult will deal with the White Ghost Gang and the Evil Ghost Gang within ten days and take over the entire North City District. At that time, all members of the North City Alliance will be protected."

The shadow said in a low, hoarse voice.

Xiao Yun nodded: "Thank you for your hard work."

"Once the cult receives money from the employer, they will definitely get the job done."

"--All right."

Xiao Yun gave a perfunctory smile and watched the messenger of the "Assassin's Order" leave.

As the sun set, the children of the Wild Dog Gang looked at the foul-smelling monster corpse and cried out in surprise.

…

…

"I heard from Xiao Hei that you picked up an ugly member of the Green Scarf Army named Tari along the way, and then you had a fierce battle with a monster he created in the underworld using the corpses of underworld thugs?"

"Yes, that's what happened."

Xiao Yunyu held the crystal given to him by Yaris and answered with a smile.

[Are you not hurt?]

Yaris' voice was filled with worry.

"How could I be hurt, but—"

Xiao Yun glanced at Tari, who was trying to please Luke with sweet words not far away, and whispered, "I'm thinking about how to deal with this guy? I'm sure he has betrayed the Green Scarf Army, but he certainly won't admit that he is a traitor--"

"It's okay, you can bring him back to me. I'm the best at dealing with things like this, where every pore of their body is dripping with filthy desires."