Chapter 104 You Yu: Let me see what's under your mask!
Falling, it was another fall with no end in sight. The huge pit that had cracked on the street of the Miteklan Temple Complex was still expanding, swallowing all the collapsed rocks on the edge into the mouth of the dark abyss. Qianmian tightly grasped a shaky vine, fixing himself on the edge of the huge pit, and swayed with the vine's shattered shaking.
"Fanlan... Could it be that you are the traitor?! I knew that it was no good for you to run away from the Law Enforcer Bureau to become a demon apostle. Huo Gu! Hurry up and stop that woman and pull me up!"
Qianmian shouted loudly, and black and white particle effects appeared at his fingertips. The puzzle soul particles that were no longer hidden were pieced together. He was going to open a new space door for himself, but he saw that Fanlan's eyes suddenly turned cold.
"What? What did you say? I can't hear you!"
Huo Gu struggled to support his body, but the sound of the ground collapsing and the chanting of the crowd were too noisy. He could not hear what Qianmian was saying. He could only try to get closer to the big hole, praying that the shortened distance between them would help him hear more clearly.
"Sorry, I can't hear you clearly either."
Fanlan's cold gaze only appeared for a moment and then quickly disappeared. She smiled again, swung out chains of colors from the tip of her pen, and rushed towards Qianmian, looking like she was ready to help him.
"You're smart, Fanlan."
Qianmian snorted coldly and stretched out his hand to grab the chain, but he saw that the chain silently turned a corner, and when it was about to approach him... it attacked the space gate that was taking shape behind him.
"you--?!"
Qianmian's shocked expression was frozen on the lower half of his face. Even though the hood covered the upper half of his face, it was still extremely clear.
"Fanlan, what are you doing?"
Huogu screamed and Qianmian breathed a sigh of relief. Although he was sure that Fanlan was a traitor, at least Huogu did not betray him.
"Oops, sorry, my hand slipped."
Fanlan covered her mouth lightly with her hands and pretended to be surprised, but the smile on her lips was clearly seen even by Qianmian who had lost his footing and was falling.
Who would believe such a lie?
Qianmian complained silently, Fanlan usually looked like a reliable and taciturn observer, but he didn't expect that he would do something like this in the end.
"Ah, so your hand slipped. I didn't expect you would slip, too."
Unexpectedly, Huo Gu just raised his head suddenly, breathed a sigh of relief, stared at Fan Lan with shining eyes, and sighed meaningfully: "Then you are not ashamed to say that I made a mistake in Huangquan Town before? I know that everyone makes mistakes. Since you also made a mistake, you can never say that I made a mistake again in the future!"
Qianmian spat out a mouthful of blood. He was careless. He thought Fanlan was desperate and was trying every possible means. He didn't expect that she had completely calculated Huogu's IQ and knew that she would believe what she said, so she just made up an excuse.
...Who on earth would actually believe such a lame excuse! How did Huo Gu become the devil's apostle?
Qianmian recalled his colleague Yuan Luzhi who was executed in Huangquan Town after a long time. He always had the urge to sigh across time and space: "You have worked so hard."
A sarcastic smile appeared on Fanlan's lips. Her gaze lingered on the bottomless pit for a moment, and then she pulled up the fire bone.
"Never mind it for now. Thousand Faces won't be defeated so easily. Since he now controls so many influencing factors, let's rush to the real underworld as soon as possible and solve the mess left there."
She looked at the meteorite in her hand, and the dark green color flowing on it was quickly fading away.
"We were all wrong."
Fanlan held the meteorite fragment tightly.
"There is not just one meteorite. I'm afraid all meteorites have the same effect. We have been deceived by that woman Meihua!"
Her voice was extremely sinister, a voice that even the Huo Bones, whose body temperature was usually high, felt cold, as if Meihua was not her former partner in her youth or an old friend from the past, but the culprit who prevented her from carrying out a certain mission.
The huge black abyss was obviously undergoing some kind of spatial abnormality. The dark green mist at the bottom of the abyss began to rotate rapidly, forming a dark vortex in the spatial concept, swallowing up all the debris, vines, and life that fell into it.
Demon apostles, law enforcers, neutral players, tree house tribesmen, and even feathered serpents were all treated equally and fell into the depths of eternal darkness and death.
You Yu took a deep breath and regained the ability to control his body in the endless feeling of falling. After an unknown amount of time, the darkness in front of his eyes finally became clearer. You Yu stretched out countless golden silk threads, one of which seemed to be entangled with some protruding object, and forcibly pulled his body, slowing down his falling speed.
"brush---"
The protrusion wrapped by the gold thread was obviously very strong. It did not break even after bearing the entire weight of Youyu. Youyu began to shake with the fluctuation of the gold thread. The golden silk thread continued to hang down. Youyu's pupils lit up, and he saw that the gold thread had an abnormal bend - it fell to the ground.
The young detective let go of his hands and fell to the ground with a standard movement, which caused an ominous sound of objects falling to the ground.
“…You must be joking.”
With the help of the flames burning on both sides of the road, he could see clearly what the rolling object was - it was a skeleton.
You Yu picked up a few dead vines that were everywhere, tied them together, and borrowed a cluster of flames from a pillar on the side of the street. He raised the torch and observed the surroundings, but in a moment he felt that he might as well not look.
The surrounding buildings are more dilapidated than the sixth layer of the underworld just now, similar to the second layer of space entered in the Dionysus space, which is the real ninth layer of the underworld, the location of the lost Mitklan complex. Those buildings look like temples, with countless feathered serpent statues enshrined on both sides of the shrine, and around the statues, there are huge piles of bones.
Countless skeletons were piled together, and the undead's dark eyes stared at You Yu, as if they wanted to convey something to him.
"How could this happen... But when I was in the Dionysus space, this ancient building complex didn't have so many corpses decorating it..."
You Yu heard his voice become hoarse for the first time. He took a deep breath and calmed himself down. His companions were still missing. Fortunately, they all fell down together. In this weird place, it would be better to find his companions first.
You Yu summoned out the golden threads again. Those golden threads from fate could always give him just the right hints. He followed the direction of the golden threads and began to wander around the Mitklan ruins filled with the breath of death. Finally, he found the slightly embarrassed Lily of the Valley and... Wonder beside her on the roof of a temple.
"I'm really lucky."
You Yu stepped onto the pile of skulls - that was the only way to the top of the small temple. He sighed, followed the silk thread in his hand, and quickly walked to Lily of the Valley.
"Who! Youyu? You are really lucky."
Lily of the Valley looked very tired. The moment she saw the fire, she clenched the fork in her hand, alert to the possibility that the devil's apostle Thousand Faces might be under the fire. But the moment she saw the spreading gold, she breathed a sigh of relief and let herself fall back to the stone brick ground.
"I've always been so lucky, how is he...now?"
You Yu raised his eyebrows proudly, he walked over to Linglan with his homemade torch and sat down. When he saw Wonder leaning against the remains of the fence, his expression instantly became serious.
"Not very good, as you can see. But thanks to the fact that I saved some life force in Huangquan Town, especially that guy Yuan Luzhi, I can still treat his wound for the time being. At least healed it to the point where it stopped bleeding. Otherwise, we can only guard a corpse now."
Lily of the Valley folded her arms and leaned on the fork she had inserted into the crevice of the stone, and let out a long sigh.
"I really don't understand. How can there be such an unclear person? What does he want to do, and what does he want from me?"
Linglan had never looked so discouraged, but at this moment Youyu's mood was the same as Linglan's. The two of them sat in front of the fire that Youyu had piled up, letting the firelight dimly illuminate their faces, casting dark patches in the darkness.
Their eyes in unison stayed on the figure leaning against a half-recliner made of lily of the valley vines. Half of the thief's face was covered by a well-made mask, and his black hair poked out from the shadow of the hood, forming a lively arc.
His pale face did not improve at all even under the firelight, and the bloodstains at the corners of his lips were obviously not dealt with by Lily of the Valley yet. It looked like a red plum blossom blooming in the winter snow, almost gorgeous.
He curled up in severe pain, his breathing almost stopped, and he exuded the quiet breath of death.
No one could connect the half-dead "Raven" in front of them with the arrogant and ostentatious thief Wonder on the wanted list of the General Law Enforcement Bureau.
You Yu recalled the meeting before going to Huangquan Town, when the thief sneaked into his dormitory and warned him to "be careful with fireworks" like the wind. The other party seemed to have no intention of covering it up and casually made up an excuse of "astrologer". No one knew who would believe his clumsy words.
It was the same when we were in Huangquan Town. He clearly wanted to help, so why did he have to say it was for the Ten Commandments Token?
You Yu sighed: "This awkward look seems so familiar... I wonder how Bai Ye is doing now."
The atmosphere became even more silent. The two people sat facing the fire. Youyu's eyes swept across the mask on the upper half of Wonder's face, and he suddenly had a strange impulse.
What kind of face is under that mask?
Although it has been confirmed through various means that Wonder is not Bai Ye, the connection between the two is too deep. You Yu always feels that his intuition tells him that if he doesn't take a look now, he will miss something very important.
So he stretched out his hand despite Lily's shocked expression.
Just a look, just to make sure, he won't tell anyone—
You Yu took a deep breath, and the feeling of being manipulated by an uncontrollable fate reappeared, making him anxious. If he didn't look, if he didn't confirm, something terrible would happen -
"Youyu!!! Linglan!!! Help me——!"
But the hanging hand finally stopped.
Because a more urgent and familiar scream came from not far away, the voice was trembling violently, and it was frightening at first glance.
Youyu and Linglan looked at each other and sighed resignedly.
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