Chapter 100 Shui Se/You Yu: Wonder! You are not allowed to laugh!
The shadow of death is spreading, and the damp fog is like tentacles climbing up everyone's ankles. The only thing that can be considered lucky after entering Mitchlan is that the crystallization process caused by the opening of the gate to the underworld seems to have been curbed to some extent, or even partially regressed.
"Look at it from a bright side. At least we won't turn into crystal people just because we use the Soul Tag ability for a short period of time."
Lily of the Valley broke the somewhat heavy atmosphere. She sat on a fork lifted by vines, floating in the air, her sights fixed farther than her companions on the ground.
"But you seem to be in another predicament."
Since they walked into this ancient temple complex that was exactly the same as the one in the Dionysus space, they had been searching around this not-so-large complex for a long time, but they had not seen anyone so far, not only Emerald and Faust, but also the demon apostles who were supposed to carry out their "evil" plan here.
Wonder was just looking for trouble. Shuise glared at him fiercely. He had no doubt that if Youyu hadn't pulled him, this thief might even whistle.
"Oh? So what do you think, Mr. Phantom Thief?"
But Youyu, who has always been lively, was not provoked by the thief's provocation this time. Instead, he turned around and looked at Wonder who was controlled by the golden thread with a smile, and his smile was very innocent.
"Thank you very much for the reminder, Mr. Kaito. We really don't have a clear direction right now. I wonder if Mr. Kaito, who was previously in a group with the Devil Apostle, knows any additional information?"
He tapped his forehead lightly with his fingertips. The skin there had already turned into crystal, and the sound combined with his fingertips produced a crisp sound that sounded particularly terrifying in the darkness of the Mitklan temple complex.
But the threatened thief did not feel any fear. Instead of feeling troubled, the first emotion that surged in Wonder's heart was relief: Youyu is still Youyu. Although he is a little confused now due to the unprecedented chaos, he still quickly found a breakthrough in the situation. He has been making progress and has not been unreliable all the time.
Suzuran, who was floating in the air, rubbed her eyes. If it wasn’t an illusion, she felt that the smile on the thief’s face below looked somewhat relieved.
Could it be the influence of this dark green mist that made her sink into the illusion?
Lily of the Valley thought blankly.
"Even if I knew, there's no need for me to tell you, right? Detective, you're too confident in your own charm."
Wonder shrugged his shoulders. He seemed not to care at all about the gold wire that the detective had wrapped around his wrist. He also didn't think there was anything wrong with his deliberately provocative remarks among the three people of the Squid Detective Agency. It was as if it was not him who was captured, but the three high school students in front of him.
"It's not confidence, it's just a notice, Mr. Kaito, to be honest, I just need to see that you and the Devil Apostle are having a good chat. The truth will be revealed in every clue here."
The detective sighed, and his voice even sounded a little lonely: "Wonder, actually I thought you would agree. After all, you didn't stand on the side of the devil apostle in Huangquan Town before."
When he said the last sentence, You Yu's eyes turned into a brighter golden color.
"Is this some boring strategy game? Stop your nonsense, detective. Is it possible that you were too weak at that time, so I had no choice but to help you, to achieve a balance in the situation, and to get what I wanted?"
Wonder raised an eyebrow, his mouth seemed to be more powerful than the detective who had been solving cases for years. The detective didn't hesitate, just asked a question: "So Bai Ye is there?"
"Bai Ye?——" Wonder spoke reflexively, but he quickly reacted and showed a teasing expression to the high school student in front of him: "Oh? Is this some kind of psychological tactic? Trying to get clues about Bai Ye before I react?"
"That's such a pity." Wonder closed his eyes and chuckled in a bad tone: "Let's not talk about the clues of Bai Ye being one of the important values of why you keep me here. I can only tell you that from a factual point of view, you can't see him before you understand what death is."
He has not forgotten that in the complicated situation, the Phantom Thief Wonder has only one goal to accomplish: to take back the crystal skull, the symbol of the Ten Commandments, from the hands of the real Death. In other words, the Ten Commandments, which were judged by the two leaders of Spades and Clubs to be in the hands of the Demon Apostles, are not completely under the control of the Demon Apostles. The underworld Mitchlan and the power behind it have their own ideas. It can be seen from the strange formation of the entity of the Gate of the Underworld that the Demon Apostles did not want to make things so big.
The demon apostle only wanted to tear a small gap between the inner and outer worlds so that the deterioration of the inner world could affect the outer world, but he was not crazy enough to directly open the door to the underworld connecting the inner and outer worlds under such circumstances. It could allow the demon king to pass through the huge door that merged with the inner and outer worlds and eliminate the forces that could not be done on the field. It was not difficult to see that this was obviously the consciousness of the demon king Mitran... or other people behind the scenes.
The demon apostles only want to refine the demon king who has not yet awakened from his slumber into a familiar that is completely under their control. They do not want to awaken a demon king with self-awareness and increase their workload.
But the [True Death] hidden in the option of t173 is obviously not satisfied with this. He or she really wants to awaken the ancient demon king who has merged with the underworld and disappeared for nearly a thousand years.
In this case, there is no one more suitable to help him find the "true death" than Youyu, the "Son of Destiny" who is guided by fate.
The thief was in a good mood, with a beautiful curve at the corner of his mouth, like a cat that was content.
"You are indeed a villain who cooperates with the devil's apostle! Were you pretending to be weak in the jungle? I said a lot of good things about you on the forum because of the Huangquan Town incident!"
Mizuse saw that the Phantom Thief had no intention of cooperating at all, so he clenched the bow in indignation, not noticing how terrible a fact he had exposed.
"…Say something nice to me? Master Shuise, are you serious?"
Wonder was so frightened that he stood there for a second. He pointed at himself with difficulty, his expression showing uncontrollable surprise, which was rare.
You Yu coughed twice: "It's because you helped me a lot before, so when we saw some sharp comments against you on the Internet, our fingers started moving uncontrollably. Not only Shuise, but also Linglan and I. But Shuise was the most excited, and even stayed up all night to curse until the early morning-"
Shuise silently covered Youyu's mouth: "Can't you just ignore this as an episode? No need to explain--! Wonder, what are you laughing at? You are not allowed to laugh!"
So Wonder really stopped smiling, but he turned his head and faced Shuise, his shoulders shaking violently.
So Youyu also started to shout: "Wonder! Don't laugh!"
Linglan showed a desperate expression on the side. She slapped her forehead fiercely. The crystal marks on her shoulders made her movements a little slow, but that did not affect her desperate scream: "Bai Ye... When will you come back!"
"Buzz—"
The farce was interrupted by a piercing roar, which sounded like a huge door being pushed by a giant. Everyone looked up in an instant, and the slightly relaxed atmosphere in the hostility was instantly torn apart, because no one was unfamiliar with the sound.
Even if it was Wonder, after all, he was actually participating in the Dionysus Space warm-up competition with the detective agency under the skin.
That was... the sound of the huge door of the temple opening.
"That temple... is it going to release something incredible again?"
You Yu thought of the huge cocoon and the lily of the valley trapped in the cocoon like some kind of sacrifice or a newborn embryo, but his eyes did not stay on the lily of the valley, because even more incredible things had happened in the temple complex in front of him.
people.
People standing shoulder to shoulder, who had almost completely turned into crystals, slowly walked out of the collapsed or abandoned buildings on both sides. It was hard to imagine how they had been hiding there without being discovered by the water-colored ripples.
"There can't be so many people here. I clearly sensed it... Music doesn't lie."
The bow in Shuise's hand was about to fall to the ground again, but this time he reacted quickly and held it tightly.
"I didn't sense any life either...but they clearly--"
Lily of the Valley looked rather unhappy.
"There is another explanation. High school students, those guys are no longer human."
Wonder's voice also lost its leisurely tone, and instead took on a bit of solemnity that was not obvious enough.
"They are no longer human. Take a good look at them from head to toe. How do they resemble humans?"
The thief's words were very straightforward. The three high school students felt a chill creeping up their backs at this moment, because what the thief said was right.
Some of them had very familiar faces, some were wearing local folk costumes, and their hair was decorated with vines and colorful tropical flowers. They were obviously the tribesmen and tourists living in the jungle in the "video" of the tree house tribe.
Some of them were wearing familiar uniforms, and although their faces were unfamiliar, they were even closer to everyone present than the people in the Tree House Tribe.
Those were the law enforcers, with whom they had clashed not long ago. They had the [Wings of the Goddess of Victory] logo on their chests. They were the law enforcers under Faust and Emerald.
In order to stop the conspiracy of the devil apostles, the law enforcers who voluntarily came to support the appearance of the Double Ten Rings token and the place where the devil-level devils were sleeping.
At this moment, those people have turned into crystal corpses, with only a thin layer of human skin covering the surface, allowing them to barely recognize that these people were once human beings, not the ancient statues in the lost Mitterklan ruins.
"The natives of the Tree House Tribe who were covered by that weird videotape, and the law enforcers who were sucked into the gate to the underworld, have become like this in such a short time?"
You Yu is asking herself this question.
"What is the reason... Why did it become like this? If it is because of entering the underworld, then why is our current crystallization not so serious? And what caused the organized and large-scale [Wings of Victory] formation to become like this?"
Think, think quickly!
Countless points of light lit up in You Yu's mind, one of which was extremely bright. He stretched out his hand with all his strength to try to catch that point of light. A terrible guess that had been planted in his heart a long time ago sprouted and broke through the ground at this moment, growing into a towering tree.
Why was the formation to open the door to the underworld successfully set up in the Skeleton Town where the law enforcers were stationed? Why has the [Wings of the Goddess of Victory] become so crystallized?
There is only one possibility.
The Phantom Thief sighed and spoke at the same time as You Yu.
"There are traitors from the devil among the upper echelons of the law enforcers."
“Pah, pah…”
Very slow applause sounded from very close by, and at the moment when the black and white particles flashed, a pair of hands, with the same unreasonable ability as wonder, tore the twisted vines into pieces, and then fell lightly to the ground.
It was a girl, a girl who was very familiar to them, and who was currently sitting on a fork floating in the air behind them.
Another Lily of the Valley looked at them, with crazy and strong hatred in her eyes: "Now that you have discovered it, why don't you tell us who that person is?"
She tilted her head: "Don't you know?"
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