Chapter 113 Cube: At least I think I have never changed.
"Do you think this means we are dead?"
There was an admiration in Hongxin's eyes, and she curled the corners of her mouth, but when she thought of the abnormal Fanlan and others, she quickly pursed her lips.
"It's hard to say. If our guess is correct, then this place is still within the scope of the underworld. It's just that we can't be sure which level it is. After all, the number of levels in the underworld is closely related to our status."
Wonder sighed and held his forehead: "It's really a headache."
"The remains of the Demon King are above. According to the legend of the Tree House Tribe, the Demon King is immersed in the ninth layer of the underworld. Perhaps this is the truth we need."
Hong Xin sighed, her eyes still on Meihua and Youyu. At this moment, whether it was Faust Jade who was checking on the injuries of the people, or the detective agency who were hugging each other and expressing their concerns for each other, or Meihua who was standing among the ruins with Fanlan and quietly listening to Fanlan telling about his undercover experience, their expressions were all abnormal in different ways.
Hong Xin pinched her eyebrows, and her forehead began to ache, which was rare, but she didn't know what the root cause of the problem was.
She only knew that if the status quo continued, everyone here would no longer be like themselves.
Including her.
"You mean, this is the ninth level of the underworld?"
Wonder raised his head, as if he finally had some interest in the leader in front of him. Red Heart nodded and said, "After agreeing on the mission with Queen, the location I wrote when I used the space-based soul particle item was the place where the Demon King was sleeping. When I came here and saw the plum blossoms guarding the hospital, I thought the Demon King had been released by the Demon Apostle, but here there are only the Demon King's decayed bones."
Red Heart sighed, "I have no intention of being your enemy, Phantom Thief. After all, the worst case scenario we are facing now is that the real mastermind, the one who shuttles between the Demon Apostles and the Law Enforcer Bureau, has seized the power of the deceased Meteor Demon King. Even the Meteor Demon King was killed by him ten years ago."
Hongxin's ruby-like eyes flickered slightly, and it was hard to tell whether it was due to the excitement or the boiling soul particles.
There was flame burning at her fingertips, and the temperature around her rose rapidly, causing Wonder to silently take a few steps back.
"You are too specific, Heart. May I assume that you already have a real suspect?"
Wonder brushed the dust off himself in disgust, the detective agency had been ruthless in their treatment, and he had been put down on the ground to rest or treated by those guys many times during the process of being brought here. He said this casually, but Red Heart could not answer casually.
The red-haired leader looked at Meihua, whose expression was becoming more and more gentle and almost unlike Meihua, and Fanlan beside her, who was as lively as Fanlan ten years ago, and sighed: "Not many people know that the Demon King of Meteorite is sleeping in the underworld. Apart from the priests who were wiped out that year, only we who participated are here."
She gently held onto the wall beside her. "I only know of one suspicious person who experienced the Ink City incident ten years ago and was able to connect all the intelligence of the Demon Apostles and the Law Enforcement Bureau and possessed sufficient power and planning capabilities."
"The Cube who is not here now was once one of the four leaders, and was even the successor chosen by the sacrificed predecessor Jack. Unfortunately, he left the Law Enforcement Bureau with Fanlan ten years ago. I received a communication from Meihua not long ago and learned that he also fell into the arms of the Demon Apostle."
"Cubes..." Wonder paused, and the image of the manager who was busy in the hamburger shop and the only one willing to give him a good face after the Wheatfield Town incident flashed through his mind. The man's eyes were as dead as ice, but it was impossible to ignore the horror buried deep in the ice.
"He is indeed someone who is capable of doing such a thing, but I remember Fanlan said that he has left now?"
"No."
Red Heart smiled and said, "I can be sure that he is there because he still has the object that symbolizes our previous agreement."
The red-haired leader turned to look at Wonder: "Phantom Thief, your ability is like a miracle, so how far can you go?"
Her voice was steady and had a weight that could not be ignored, which made people unconsciously convinced. Wonder looked at her silently, and after confirming that Red Heart was really inviting him to cooperate, the thief turned his head away.
"Are you sure you can trust me? I will take all the Ten Rings. Even you can't stop me."
Wonder's confidence is not limited to the bug-like [Miracle] ability. Player t173 has always been deep in his soul, with the goal of collecting the Ten Commandments tokens. He will never let the handy tool he has finally chosen fail.
"I know that your goal is to steal the Ten Commandments, and my goal is to protect them and bring them back to the Law Enforcement Bureau. After leaving this underworld, we will each rely on our own abilities."
Red Heart extended his hand to Wonder: "How about it? Will you cooperate or not?"
The light in her eyes was very bright and very familiar. Wonder was stunned for a long time before he remembered that the gaze of the three guys in the detective agency was exactly the same as that of Red Heart.
As expected of a child raised by Hong Xin, Wonder thought. Now he knew who You Yu learned his inexplicable self-confidence and arrogance from. However... this is not a bad thing. This is how they should be. Even without the Law Enforcement Bureau, soul tags, DM system and devil games, they would be just as dazzling.
Wonder smiled sarcastically: "I don't have a choice, Master Leader."
“This is the only way forward for us now.”
He high-fived Heart.
Although Fanlan answered Meihua's question "Why all the traces of crystallization on people's bodies disappeared", there is still a question that needs to be answered before the current reconstruction of the Skeleton Town officially begins.
"Fanlan, I have a question for you. I wonder if it's convenient for you."
After leaving that remote corner, Hongxin walked up to Fanlan with a serious face. She deliberately winked at Meihua, but Meihua was stunned for a long time before she reacted and nodded to her.
A layer of gloom instantly covered Red Heart's heart. It seemed that the underworld had a serious impact on people. Even Plum Blossom, who knew that something was wrong with the current situation, was now at risk of being assimilated at any time.
She didn't even need to carefully observe the locals and law enforcers around her, because Meihua had reached this point, and those people would only be assimilated faster.
"Hey, Sister Redheart, why are you being so polite? Just ask whatever you want to ask!"
Fanlan blinked, and Hongxin felt a pang of bitterness in her heart. She would rather Fanlan scold her now than to see an illusory shadow that was exactly the same as the best appearance of the other person in her memory, showing its presence in front of her.
"That remains...what's going on? Isn't this the surface world?"
Hong Xin deliberately lowered his voice when speaking about the words "surface world", but Fanlan seemed not to notice at all: "Ah, it's probably the spatial dislocation caused by the Ten Commandments token. The opening of the gate to the underworld and the outflow of energy caused the dead remains of the Demon King to be dragged to a place where it doesn't belong."
"I see..." Red Heart lowered her eyes and asked the second question: "Where did Faust go? I saw him patrolling here just now. I need to ask him for the mission report."
"Hey?" Fanlan screamed, "Sister Hongxin, are you going to report so soon?... He is indeed the most enthusiastic person among us. He should be heading towards the cemetery in the town."
Noticing that Hongxin narrowed her eyes, Fanlan quickly ran to Meihua's back and slid to her knees. Hongxin took a deep breath and found that Meihua had no reaction at all to the secret code she used to convey information.
She just sat there and patted Fanlan's head gently: "Red Heart, don't scare her."
"I didn't scare her..." Red Heart muttered, "Okay, I'm going to find that guy to coordinate the work, you guys be careful."
She left a message and was about to leave, but at the last second she heard Fan Lan's soft yet intimate voice: "Sister Hongxin... don't you want to stay with us?"
The voice sounded somewhat unreal, with a strong sense of reluctance, as if it was Hong Xin's own hallucination, but she still took a deep breath and responded seriously.
"I—have duties to perform, and work to be done."
“…I see.”
Fanlan sighed and said, "Okay, then Sister Hongxin can go. But no matter what, Sister Meihua and I will stay here and wait for Sister Hongxin."
Plum Blossom nodded obediently, but Red Heart only felt more suffocated. She quickened her pace and walked towards the cemetery until she was away from the crowd, then she stopped.
"Aren't you going to say goodbye?"
Red Heart suddenly spoke on the deserted street, and the playing cards flew around. Wonder, who had been following her, showed up. He held his forehead and seemed to be feeling a little uncomfortable, but his tone was still a little unclear: "Those detectives should be eager to catch me back, and they can't take care of me for the time being."
Although the tone was joking, Hongxin still heard some inappropriate emotions in it. She walked forward and put her arm around Wonder's shoulder without any hesitation: "Do you... feel left out?"
Wonder thought to himself, as expected, even Youyu’s love for physical contact was just Hongxin’s. He sighed and nimbly avoided Hongxin’s arm: “Don’t casually give others the character of a deep hatred, Miss Hongxin, I just…”
Many words seemed to roll over his tongue, but in the end the Phantom Thief only uttered a few words with a nostalgic look.
“Trust them, just as you trust plum blossoms.”
Red Heart was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter: "Okay, okay, let's go and see for ourselves what that guy in the cemetery is doing by abusing my trust! I can't let down the trust I have placed in him."
The cemetery was very quiet. Compared with the previous bustling flow of people, there was almost no one here. The beds were empty because the patients had passed away and recovered, like white coffins.
Faust was sitting on a makeshift medical bed scattered outside the cemetery, with a very light layer of ice under his feet. He was playing with the ice sword in his hand, watching it flashing a crystal clear luster under normal sunlight.
He didn't look up, but the flames were approaching.
“You’re here.”
Faust spoke in a very soft voice.
Red Heart stopped about ten meters away from Faust, looking at the unfamiliar face with full affinity from afar: "You have already invited me, how can I not come?"
Faust chuckled, "No, no, no, I didn't invite you. It's just that your will is too strong. It eliminated my psychological hints like a flame. You would rather remember that your relatives and friends have dispersed than face the best ending I chose for you. Red Heart, you should have had a good dream, and now you are ready to break it with your own hands."
"You call this the best ending?" Hong Xin raised her eyebrows: "I feel that compared to Fan Lan, you are the craziest..."
She stretched out the ending note and finally uttered a name that absolutely could not appear here: "Cube. My old friend."
Faust finally raised his head, put down his sword, and looked at his old friend whom he had not seen for ten years: "Why do you know?"
Although it was a question, he didn't seem surprised by it, it was more like a statement.
"It's simple. You have connections with both the Demon Apostles and the Law Enforcement Bureau, and you know the intelligence of both sides. You also have the ability to copy the soul tags of others... Don't forget, your real ability is not copying, but spiritual. Only the four of us know this."
Hong Xin shook her head. "But more importantly, I only told you about Bai Ye's story. It was too obvious that you were looking for an opportunity to target Bai Ye, the only person who could see through your plan. I have long suspected Faust's identity, and you have now confirmed it for me... Have you already started planning since that suspicious incident in Wheatfield Town?"
Faust sighed: "You are very perceptive, but... at least you are wrong about one thing. The Wheatfield Town incident is not what I wanted to do at all."
He gently waved the ice sword, and the spreading ice and snow instantly pointed to the surrounding open space. Poker cards fell one after another, and Wonder had to show up and stand behind Red Heart.
"This ice and snow ability is a relic left to me by my teacher Jack. You want Wonder to use a miracle to invalidate me. You underestimate me too much."
His gaze lingered on Wonder. "Another person who is unwilling to sleep in the dream of death? It seems that my luck is really bad. I actually met two people who can wake up on their own in the 'dream of the underworld' under the interweaving power of the spiritual system and the Meteor Demon King."
Faust paused and said, "You are more like lunatics than I am."
Red Heart sighed, "I didn't think I could really capture you with Wonder. Faust, how are you going to end this dream of death that is superimposed on the real world? Fight?"
Faust sighed and said, "You still don't understand, Heart. I want to be your enemy, but our ultimate goal has never changed from the oath we made when we were young. It has always been our responsibility to protect this world. It's just... I know more than you do."
He raised his hands high, and countless ice and snow solidified into huge snowflake-like traces in the air. A faint green light flashed in the eyes of the devil's remains. Red Heart and Wonder looked vigilantly at the flickering environment around them. Faust took the ice sword in his hand and transformed this illusory dream with one sword.
"If you knew more, you might have the same determination as me... Welcome to the realm of the spirit - the final underworld, where death truly sleeps."
He looked at the scene around him that was gradually becoming clearer, tearing off Faust's gentle face, revealing the world-weary face underneath that was as dead and silent as the polar ice.
The face that belongs to the cube.
Wonder clenched his fists.
Fangkuai raised his hands high, and smiled desperately and creepily: "Just this once, I will open up your past memories. If you knew what I saw ten years ago... you would also know why I made such a choice."
"Oh, yes."
The cube that had covered half of its face suddenly turned around, floated behind Wonder like a ghost, and gently placed its fingertips on his shoulders: "There are more interesting things in your memory... Maybe we can share them."
Wonder opened his hand, but Fang Cube didn't care. He just sighed lightly and restrained the curious temperament that just appeared for a moment: "Please follow me and see the most filthy sin and the most powerless end in this world."
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