Chapter 112 Red Heart: Who is this? Is it really Vanlan?
"I didn't expect that he would be here too."
"To be honest, I didn't expect it. I thought he would choose to show up last."
Hongxin pushed Meihua's wheelchair, but her eyes were always on Wonder. She looked like she was talking to Meihua, but not only did they not look at each other, but they were both staring at Wonder.
The Phantom Thief was keenly aware of the undisguised gazes of the two leaders, but he did not avoid them. Instead, he took brisk steps and disappeared on the spot.
"How did you get here?"
While following Youyu and others to the battlefield between Faust and Spade, Wonder, who had been silent all the time, suddenly took the initiative to stand next to Heart and Club. The man who had been causing headaches for the Law Enforcement Bureau recently stood next to Heart and Club so carelessly and even casually asked a very strange question.
But the plum blossoms and the red hearts did not show any strange expressions. They seemed to know each other some secret that no one else knew, and they smiled instead.
"It seems that you have realized the real situation here faster than Youyu..." Hongxin's mouth curled up: "However, information needs to be shared with each other. What do you want to exchange for the method for me to come here?"
Wonder shook his head. Youyu and the other two were moving very fast and had already put some distance between themselves and the two leaders. After deliberately slowing down their pace, Wonder and Hearts and Plums all fell behind.
There is a street corner ahead. After turning it, the high school students leading the way in front will have a blind spot for a while. The eyes of the last few people flash with a tacit understanding that shouldn't exist. They all know what each other needs to confirm, and what kind of commitments and information they want.
"It's simple. I can make a promise."
The thief raised his eyebrows. Although he was wearing a mask that covered most of his face, Redheart was confident that she did see him raising his eyebrows. Wonder was more willing to talk than she expected, which was a good thing, but Redheart's intuition inexplicably felt that something was wrong.
"What promise?"
Meihua's voice began to become alert. From the perspective of the Law Enforcement Bureau, the Phantom Thief Wonder has been standing on the opposite side of the Law Enforcement Bureau since its appearance. He even directly exposed his ambition to collect the Ten Commandments at the Night Heart's jewelry exhibition and directly declared war on the Sun Law Enforcement Bureau.
Originally, neither she nor Hongxin had any hope of negotiating directly with Wonder, but unexpectedly, the other party took the initiative to come up to them and was even willing to make a promise.
"I will never attack those high school students, at least not in the underworld, how about that?"
Wonder smiled, he stretched out his hand and gently placed it on the push rod of the Club Blossom wheelchair. That was a very cooperative distance. Red Heart knew that, at least in the grand theft activities, Wonder had never let any law enforcers get close to him. Before the pursuing law enforcers entered the dangerous distance, he would turn into flying poker cards and disappear on the spot.
And Red Heart was once the most powerful main attacker. Anyone who got close to her would be defeated by her without exception.
Wonder is indeed very sincere.
After confirming this, Hong Xin secretly breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, but it was completely invisible on the surface. She just smiled confidently and relaxedly as always: "It seems that the reason you asked this question is the same as I thought. Since you have shown your sincerity, the law enforcers have never been dishonest. So let's be frank. I came to Ink City with the help of the Queen, not by taking the Sun Chaser Train to this city."
Hong Xin spread his hands: "And... Queen used the soul particle items of the space system."
This time it was Wonder's turn to fall silent. The ageless thief lowered his head and thought, as if lost in thought. Red Heart's words just confirmed his guess, and that guess was so terrible that even he himself didn't want to believe it.
Since it is only through the soul particle items of the space system that we can get here, it means that the City of Ink has been blocked and covered by the opened gate to the underworld again, and has entered the stage of transformation to the inner world, or simply...
Wonder shook his head and quickly pulled himself out of the panic. The street corner had been turned, and before being exposed to the high school students who were leading the way, the two leaders and Wonder tacitly distanced themselves from each other.
"Why are you running to the back? What were you talking about just now?"
Shuise noticed the three people at the end of the team. It was reasonable for the red heart to push the club blossom, but the agility of the thief Wonder was maxed out. He didn't believe that the other party would run to the back just because he couldn't keep up with Youyu's pace. He must have some plan.
Although he can no longer look at this thief with the same completely hostile attitude as before, that does not make him more vigilant.
Red Heart silently watched Shuise standing between her and Wonder, and the corners of her mouth curled up again. Although Shuise was apparently wary of the thief, he also meant to protect the thief in front of the two leaders of Red Heart and Club.
"Don't make any noise, Master Music, I'm thinking."
Wonder waved his hand and made a sound to drive away the small animals, and it sounded like he was quite disgusted with Shuise who was sticking to him.
"Hello!"
Shuise stomped his feet, but Wonder's figure only flashed in place, and he distanced himself from Shuise, the weak auxiliary type.
His back was filled with heavy emotions, and that emotion made Shuise stop talking. No one knew what Wonder was thinking in his heart at the moment. Just when Shuise was struggling whether to chase after him, Youyu, who was running in the front, waved his hand.
"It's right here! Red Heart-senpai! Wait, this——"
You Yu stopped and looked surprised.
“What is going on…?”
Lily of the Valley, floating in the air, also showed a shocked expression. She saw that many people appeared in the house that had just collapsed due to the fierce battle. You Yu rubbed his eyes and looked carefully, only to find that those people were all local residents and crystallized law enforcers who should be lying in the temporary hospital for law enforcers.
The law enforcers who had just escaped from crystallization looked a little weak, but were in good condition. Even though there were still ominous traces of crystals on their bodies, they were still moving through the streets, busy checking on the situation of the local residents.
"This is……?"
Red Heart and Club Blossom were also startled for a moment by the situation in front of them. A huge black pit spanned several streets, and rocks were still falling continuously. Dark green mist was boiling in the deep pit, but there was no tendency to spread out of the pit. Compared with the previous mist, it was almost docile.
"That's the underworld, the underworld we just came back to. What happened here? Why is it that we were away for such a short time, but it's like we've changed world lines...?"
You Yu retracted the spreading golden thread and came to a conclusion in a daze.
"I don't know, but now only Senior Faust, the person involved, can answer our confusion."
Jade was equally confused, but her purpose was clear, and she soon found Faust among the crowd of law enforcers who were hurriedly resettling the local people.
Faust, like a law enforcer, shuttled between the ruins of collapsed houses, while Spade and Fire Bone were tied up with chains by Fanlan and locked tightly to the ruins of a collapsed house, cursing Fanlan for his betrayal.
But the painter just yawned lazily, not caring about the abuse from the two bruised demon apostles. When he saw the red heart, his eyes lit up: "Hi~ Long time no see~"
"Fanlan...?"
Hongxin spoke uncertainly. It had been a long time since she saw Fanlan looking so relaxed and happy since the mission ten years ago.
"It's me, Heart and Club. What? Don't you recognize me?"
Fanlan walked closer with a chuckle. Youyu and the others stood aside, not knowing whether they should be alert or not. Only Wonder had a more solemn expression.
Fanlan took Meihua's wheelchair and walked beside Hongxin naturally, just like he did ten years ago. Only after seeing that both of them looked solemn did he react.
"Oh, I forgot to tell you. No wonder you still have this expression when you see me. Bingo~"
Fanlan winked playfully, and with a flick of her fingertips a piece of paper that looked like an official document appeared in her hand. She handed the paper to Red Heart and Plum Blossom. The two took it and looked at each other, seeing incredible shock in each other's eyes.
It was an undercover agreement signed by the Queen, promising that the signatory was Fanlan, the candidate for the lead.
"Ten years ago, Cube and I went undercover in the Demon Apostle according to Queen's request. The mission in Ink City was also carried out according to the trend. Cube has now returned to Night City to report to Queen. When Spade was fighting Faust just now, I took the opportunity to get the crystal skull in Spade's hand. With the meteorite in my hand, I successfully borrowed the power of the two Ten Commandments to open the door to the underworld, and took out those innocent people who were dragged into the underworld, and reversed the state of the crystals in those people."
Fanlan stuck out her tongue playfully, and her expression and movements were exactly the same as the Fanlan they remembered ten years ago, as if she had never changed and had never left the Law Enforcement Bureau.
"But there are side effects. For example, the big pit that connects to the underworld cannot be closed for the time being. The Enforcer Bureau will be busy again in the future."
Meihua was stunned for a moment, she sighed: "It doesn't matter, as long as the door to the underworld is closed, you did a good job."
She paused and smiled very gently: "Anyway, welcome back, Fanlan."
"Thank you, Sister Meihua, but words are useless. You have to give me a grand welcome party!"
Fanlan held Hongxin with one hand and pushed Meihua's wheelchair with the other. They stood side by side again, as if it was a dream.
"Oh, by the way, we still have some important things to do. Let's go, Sister Meihua. I know what you want to do now. Let's go check on their situation and find a way to curb the crystallization!"
Fanlan shook her clenched fist vigorously. She took a few steps forward and looked at Hongxin who was standing there in confusion: "Sister Hongxin, why don't you move?"
Hong Xin paused and sighed, "It's because I was in such a hurry to get here that I forgot to bring the soul particle item that Queen asked me to bring. That item was given to me by Queen on purpose and should be of some help in dealing with the current situation. I'll go back first and you guys help me out here."
Meihua: "I see, then leave this to us."
Fanlan also nodded with a smile: "I promise to complete the task!"
Hong Xin waved goodbye to the others. The moment she turned around, the smile of surprise at the return of her colleague suddenly disappeared. She sighed, turned her gaze to the corner of the ruins not far away, and walked towards the dark corner.
The disappeared Phantom Thief Wonder was standing there. That corner was a very clever blind spot, from which one could see the positions of almost everyone in the ruins, but the law enforcers wandering in the ruins could not see here. When Red Heart came over, Wonder was leaning against the wall of the ruins, looking at the detectives who were hugging each other excitedly.
The young man surrounded in the center was Bai Ye, who had been missing for a long time.
"Phantom Thief, what did you find?"
Red Heart withdrew his gaze and stared fixedly at the silent Phantom Thief in front of him.
"You should have sensed it, so I don't need to point it out directly, right?"
Wonder sighed, and he withdrew his gaze from the harmonious atmosphere not far away and looked at the strongest leader.
"Ahh, I know."
Hongxin said, her voice was indescribably sad, but quite decisive: "Fanlan can't come back like this, I knew it a long time ago."
"In this case, it is clear what the essence of this place is."
Red Heart sighed and said in unison with Wonder: "The real underworld, the real place of death."
"Dreams of death."
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
