Chapter 101 Wonder: Why is this guy the one who saves the situation?
"...You're borrowing someone else's appearance again. How rude of you to use it."
Lily of the valley glared fiercely at the girl who looked exactly like her, and it looked like she was going to stab her through in the next second.
This is the second time that the Demon Apostle's second-in-command, the boss's deputy, Qianmian, has used her appearance to appear in front of her friends.
"In fact, you can understand it as acting. I just like to become the most important person there when necessary. I think you should know, just like the protagonist of the underworld."
Qianmian shrugged his shoulders and smiled happily, causing the other three members of the detective agency to involuntarily look at the thief who was at the back occupying Bai Ye's position.
Wonder: "...If possible, I hope you can focus on that dangerous guy."
You Yu understood the thief's embarrassment from his rare reserved expression, so he turned to Qianmian first and said, "The Ten Commandments are in your hands, right? You are the demon apostle who opened the door to the underworld, but you even have to be on guard against your colleagues. I can't imagine what your ultimate goal is."
You Yu narrowed his eyes again, and golden light flickered slightly in his pupils. Although the clues to the revelation of fate were not clear, they just surrounded Qianmian.
The detective had a good memory. He remembered the hasty actions of the two demon apostles when the gate to the underworld was formed. Huo Gu and his companions were obviously not fully aware of Qianmian's actions. This was good news for the law enforcers and the Squid Detective Agency, because the top demon apostles were eager to abandon their colleagues in order to achieve the goal of taking away the Ten Commandments and stealing the power of the Demon King.
The demon apostles were anxious; they did not have the absolute advantage as they appeared to have.
"The ultimate goal? Of course it is to fulfill the long-cherished wish of the boss and others. Detective, you have been chosen by fate for such a long time, is it possible that you have not seen the true end of this world yet?"
The thousand faces in the image of lily of the valley raised their hands high, as if waiting for the mercy of the gods. Countless severely crystallized law enforcers and tribal people walked between the two opposing sides. The eyes of those crystal-carved "people" had lost all their luster and were filled with only longing for death.
"The wind tore my flesh, and corn grew from my bones,
The southern starry sky swallows my heart—
But the Quetzalcoatl will return in the canoe of dawn,
Carve a new year on shells.
Death is not the end, but the breath of the earth. In the breath of the earth, we achieve a dreamlike perfection. "
"Methran, the god of death of Quetzalcoatl! I am not afraid to become the pulse of the earth, the echo of death!"
The long hymn came from the farthest huge pyramid building where the legendary demon king Mithran last appeared in front of human priests, becoming the only source of sound in the empty and silent temple complex.
From the depths of the surrounding dark green jungle there seemed to be the low roar of some strange beast, as if responding to the rhythm of the hymn.
The crystallized crowd raised their hands high up to the same height as Qianmian, and then quietly placed them on their necks. From the perspective of the Squid Detective Agency, it looked like an ancient tribe kneeling down to worship God.
The next second, what happened in the ruins made all the living beings there feel suffocated.
The crowd stretched out their hands and clenched their necks. Before Youyu and the others could react, they exerted force suddenly, and finally, in a strange and almost pious posture, they slowly held their heads in the center of their palms.
They twisted their necks and held their heads in their hands. As the heads were separated from the bodies, the remaining flesh and skin on each person's head rotted and turned into ashes as if a sped-up video tape was played quickly, falling quietly onto the surface of the boulders, turning into the ashes of silent years, leaving only an exquisitely carved skull held in the palm of the headless body.
A completely crystallized skull.
You Yu couldn't help but take a step back. Shuise had closed his eyes in fear, but because of the seriousness of the situation, he forced himself to open his eyes again. Suzuran's anger could no longer be contained, and even the Phantom Thief's mouth began to relax.
"Ninth-floor Mitterklan! Ninth-floor Mitterklan!"
The headless bodies holding crystal skulls raised the skulls in their arms high into the sky. In the jungle ruins surrounded by dark green mist, the skulls sang the devil's hymns lightly.
"Bless us to eternal life! Nine-layered Mitklan! The almighty Mitklan!"
Countless crystal skulls opened their mouths exaggeratedly, their teeth colliding up and down, making a noise as clear and transparent as quartz. The crazy crowd excitedly sang the great deeds of the devil, and the thousand-year-old monuments watched all this. The starting point of the tree house tribe's migration out of the jungle watched the self-destruction of the descendants of this bloodline.
"Is this the token of the Ten Commandments..."
Mizuse's voice was trembling terribly: "I didn't have time to see Miss Saotome Rin's Ame no Murasaki last time. I didn't expect the true power of the Ten Commandments to be so terrifying—"
He shuddered, and subconsciously sought the same feeling from Wonder, who was closest to him, but saw that the smile on the face of the crazy thief suddenly blossomed even deeper: "Such treasures are challenging to steal!"
Shuise trembled even more violently:... You really should stand with the demon apostle opposite!
"Praise it! Give thanks! Understand the sweet dream of death!"
Qianmian's expression was quite distorted. He laughed wildly, and his body changed from Lily of the Valley to Youyu, then to Shuise and Wonder, but finally remained in the appearance of Lily of the Valley.
"It's like this again..."
Amid the crazy laughter of a thousand faces, an intolerable voice rang out from the buildings on both sides of the street. The flames extended from the vines growing around and burned all the way. A second before the vines were burned to ashes, the fire bone swayed to the ground, and the other hand picked up the block and landed on the ground.
The Cube, wearing a hood that half covered his face, walked towards Qianmian aggressively the second he landed, and warned in a deliberately low voice: "Don't play with them! Complete the task quickly - Qianmian, you have wasted too much time!"
Behind the two demon apostles, the painter who was walking under the bright stars and moon was still elegant. She did not pay her attention to the exaggerated Thousand Faces, but just played with a black stone in her hand.
Wonder, who had his own sensor for the Ten Commandments, realized something instantly and looked abruptly at the stone in Fanlan's hand, who had not appeared - that was the meteorite, one of the Ten Commandments.
Unexpectedly, Fanlan, who disappeared with Huogu in Huangquan Town, has not appeared since then. He actually went to the Rain River to look for the whereabouts of the meteorite...
wonder closed his eyes, but on the bright side, this also saved them from having to look for the small meteorite in the giant river in the tropical rainforest that was larger than the sea, saving a lot of effort.
Well...at least that's the case for the Phantom Thieves.
As for the expressions of Youyu and the other two...they were beyond description.
"Could it be you who is the real traitor? Cube... the former leader."
You Yu frowned. He rarely felt so confused. After the close contact, even though his face was covered a lot by the hood, the detective with strong facial recognition ability could tell at a glance that the demon apostle walking from Huo Gu was obviously Mr. Cube, the retired law enforcer who took in Bai Ye.
But Cube turned a deaf ear to his words, as if they were just the begging of an insignificant ant.
However, You Yu did not fall into the painful mood for long, as his attention was now taken away by more important analysis and reasoning: "It turned out to be you... This can indeed explain why Bai Ye was targeted by the Demon Apostle, and why the Demon Apostle knew the movements of Solomon College, but the things here are still inexplicable - the undercover agents in the Law Enforcement Bureau cannot be just Fang Kuai..."
"Youyu! Stop reasoning! There are four demon apostles and two tokens of the Ten Commandments. We also have a Phantom Thief who can backstab us at any time. We are no match for them! What should we do now?"
Shuise stepped forward and grabbed Youyu's shoulder, trying to pull his captain out of the immersive reasoning that was like a "flow" state.
"Besides, Cube has been retired for a long time... But we can indeed get a new angle, that is, what if the traitor is in a high position in the Law Enforcement Bureau - the black and white particles on the birdcage vines... the leader...!"
You Yu’s eyes suddenly widened.
There is only one black and white particle among the four leaders, and that one is exactly the suit of the playing cards that Wonder left behind when he left Huangquan Town.
Spades.
You Yu did not look at Qianmian, but instead looked at Wonder behind him first. Wonder did not care about his gaze at all and even waved to him.
This guy, could it be that what the "astrologer" said before was really not a lie? Could it be that I can really see the clues of fate just like him?
Youyu suddenly felt that she was no longer alone.
"You're such a hassle. To be honest, you're the colleague I least want to work with."
The moment he saw the cube, Qianmian couldn't help but make an indescribable expression with Lily of the Valley's face, but he quickly recovered, raised his eyebrows, and opened his arms to Lily of the Valley: "I am really disappointed, Mr. Detective, it's a pity that you have only guessed my true identity now, but fortunately, my role has never been reserved for you. There is only one protagonist in the underworld, what about you? The real protagonist of the underworld?"
"The protagonist of the underworld..."
Lily of the Valley's voice deepened, and she clenched the fork in her hand, revealing for the first time in front of the people from the Squid Detective Agency that sharp murderous intent that could tear apart everything.
"So this is what you demon apostles are planning... I wanted to say this back in Huangquan Town. You are really bold. You actually dared to attack the remains of the Demon King. I didn't expect that I was still too early. You are bolder than Yuan Luzhi."
It was obvious that Lily of the Valley had lost the desire to talk. She clenched her fork and prepared to control the vines to fight, but the face that looked exactly like her suddenly approached kindly and pressed the fork in her hand down.
"Don't be so stubborn, my protagonist... the life force in the script. There are four of us here, you can't beat us."
Linglan defended herself subconsciously, and the force of the fork pushed Qianmian away, but the close combat just now still left a big shadow on her.
It happened too fast, in just a moment, the moment the black and white puzzle pieces came together, Qianmian stood in front of her.
And... there is a very familiar and friendly aura about him.
Qianmian looked at the stunned Lily of the Valley and smiled even more happily. Just as she was about to land on the ground, she found that a layer of frost had formed under her feet.
"If four-on-four doesn't work, I don't know if six-on-four will work."
A sarcastic voice came from the direction where Youyu and his companions came from. The emerald key firmly forced back Huo Gu who was approaching Youyu and his companions. Faust came behind him in the mist, his silver hair scattered in the air like crystal.
Seeing the support arrive, You Yu, who had shared his location with Feicui in advance, breathed a sigh of relief.
He didn't notice that Wonder on the side curled his lips in an unpleasant expression.
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