Chapter 88 Plum Blossom: Heart, you must come now.


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Chapter 88 Plum Blossom: Heart, you must come now.

"Let's not talk too much. Time is running out. Not only the law enforcers, but also the ordinary people in this town have begun to crystallize. We must find a way to deal with the bird cage as soon as possible."

Feicui quickly analyzed the situation. She looked up at the bird cage covering everything in the sky: "Seniors, do you know what that is? Is there any solution?"

Plum Blossom shook her head. "I grew up in Night City, so I don't know much about the demon apostle Thousand Faces who came from Ink City. If you really want to ask, Spade, who is often on business trips, is more authoritative."

Hei Tao forced a smile, and in an instant he returned to his normal self, as if the birdcage in the sky didn't exist: "It's really unexpected to hear you say that I am more authoritative."

Meihua gave him a cold look, stopping him from unconsciously changing the subject: "Tell the truth now, this is not the time to put on a show for you."

"Okay, okay, as a local, I do know some things that you don't know. Look up."

Hei Tao spread his hands to show his surrender. He raised his finger and pointed at the bird cage in the sky: "Look carefully, is that a bird cage or..."

As he spoke, black and white puzzle pieces flew through the air, as if naturally reading certain data in the air. As the data gathered, various images gradually emerged in the black and white blank puzzle pieces.

The black and white puzzle pieces automatically floated into the air and pieced together to form a real picture similar to a photo. It was a close-up picture that could only be taken if a camera lens was close to a birdcage high in the sky. They saw that the essence of the black and white particle beams they thought was actually clusters of vines growing in those black and white soul particles.

Dense green vines were hidden under the black and white particles. The skeleton of the birdcage was not made of the black and white particles that were obviously someone's soul particles, but rather flexible and slender vines.

The vines spread out from the nodes of the cage high in the sky, forming a shape similar to a birdcage, hanging down deep into the clouds, and it was unknown whether they had touched the ground.

"Vines..."

Meihua was slightly stunned. She looked at the puzzle pieces and said in a voice as light as a feather: "So that's how it is. It looks like a cage, but in fact, it's a door."

Meihua closed her eyes and sighed, "From now on, the entire town will be in the charge of the Wings of the Goddess of Victory. Emerald, you and the Squid Detective Agency will go to the Tree House Tribe and salvage the meteorite fragments that are one of the Ten Commandments as soon as possible. Spade and I will stay here to stabilize the situation of these townspeople."

Feicui, Linglan, and Shuise were all confused: "But Senior Meihua, that Qianmian——"

Meihua shook her head. "The Thousand Faces are no longer important. The vines are a symbol of death. The huge high cage made of vines is the gate to the underworld in local myths and legends. It is also one of the abilities of the Demon King of Meteorites. The cage will transfer the enclosed space to the inner world, turning the space where the Skeleton Town is located into a huge gate to the underworld, connecting to the Demon King's domain in the inner world, the underworld of Miteklan, thus achieving the most important step for the Demon Apostles to connect the inner and outer worlds."

"If I'm not mistaken, the crystal skull has been held in the hands of the demon apostle Qianmian in advance. The crystallization of the townspeople and law enforcers is by no means a coincidence, but the influence of the Ten Commandments... The demon apostle Qianmian is trying to use the power of the crystal skull to use the large number of tourists and elite law enforcers gathered in this town as raw materials to open the gate to the underworld... just like what happened in Huangquan Town."

Spades clapped his hands enthusiastically. "Ah, you are worthy of being called Clubs. You are the smartest one among us. You have a good brain for scientific research. Only the crystal skull, one of the Ten Commandments, can achieve such a thorough and large-scale crystallization. It's a pity that we are still a step late. The demon apostle got the first chance to use the Ten Commandments."

Club ignored Spade's compliment. This guy always liked to say something to ruin the atmosphere in serious occasions. She looked at Squid Detective Agency and Emerald: "Only the Ten Rings Token can stop another Ten Rings Token. We must hold the meteorite that fell into the Rain River in our hands. The responsibility you shoulder is very heavy."

"I see."

Jade clenched her fist, placed it on her chest, and solemnly swore an oath.

"Senior Meihua, the patient's physical information report you requested is out."

A young man wearing the law enforcement bureau's medical uniform hurried over and handed Meihua the documents he had just printed out, which were still warm from the printer.

Meihua quickly read through the information in her hand, her eyes fixed on the last part of the document, "Estimated Crystallization Time". The "72 Hours" on it was extremely dazzling.

"We only have 72 hours, everyone... do your best."

Plum Blossom raised her eyes and looked at the five young men in front of her who were only high school students. It was clear that if they couldn't find an opportunity within 72 hours, everyone would turn into crystal, but Plum Blossom's voice was still terrifyingly calm. Spade suddenly laughed in the silence: "Oh, no wonder Heart said that you are the most suitable person among us to be the chief. You can maintain such absolute calmness at all times. It's really not something a human can do."

"I don't think so. Hearts is the most suitable leader. Spades, please don't speak frivolously here."

Plum's face looked like it was about to turn as black as the black puzzle piece floating in front of him. Spade silently zipped up his mouth and stopped talking.

Youyu, Baiye and Shuise all felt the strange atmosphere between the two leaders in front of them, and hurriedly left on the pretext of searching for meteorite fragments. Meihua and Heitao stood where they were, looking at the backs of several young people who started running to save time, letting silence permeate between them.

"Honestly, Sister Redheart should have come this time."

Spade, who had just made a gesture a few minutes ago to indicate that he would not speak again, put his hands on Club's wheelchair pusher and could not resist the urge to speak: "She was regretful that she was not there ten years ago. This time she still did not come. Isn't that too regrettable?"

Meihua looked silently at the information in her hand. The lines of medical terms and analysis units of soul particles on it were dazzling, but for Meihua, who had been in the laboratory for many years, it could almost be called some kind of interesting reading material.

"You hadn't joined the leaders at that time, Spades. You didn't understand what the incident in Ink City meant to Hearts, to me, and to...the former leader Diamonds."

Meihua let out a long sigh, rubbing her fingers together and crumpling the documents in her hand.

A huge birdcage made of vines from the underworld Mitterkran that was about to open the door to the underworld, townspeople and law enforcers that were becoming increasingly crystallized, a reality with only three days left to countdown, meteorite fragments that had never been found, and the demon apostle who had already mastered the crystal skull... Even though she had experienced such a scene once, she still felt a pain in her forehead when faced with a bad situation again.

"But you are right about something. I should have brought Red Heart here as well."

Meihua felt as if she had some kind of hallucination due to being overly obsessed with experiments in the past few days. Her tired brain made fragments of past memories vaguely emerge in front of her eyes. Ten years ago, it was also the City of Ink, the Demon King of Meteorite, and the Gate to the Underworld.

The catastrophe that happened in the inner world, which was sealed in the top-secret file in the deepest part of the Leather Tower Archives, not only caused Meihua to lose her legs, but also caused the four friends who grew up together to go their separate ways. Cube, who was supposed to be the leader, left the Sun Enforcement Bureau and chose to become the owner of an ordinary hamburger shop in a remote alley corner of Night City. And Fanlan, who was supposed to be the head of the Leather Tower Archives - now the secretary general position where Zhenhong is, even walked towards the devil apostle, threw away the oath of the law enforcer and rejected his former companions.

Overnight, the only two people left in the Sun Law Enforcement Bureau to support each other were Plum Blossom and Red Heart.

And now, the gate to the underworld that once caused the disaster has been awakened again, and the demon king Meteorite that has been dormant in the other world for a thousand years is in danger of awakening again. The places and enemies are familiar, but the companions around him have changed. This gap between the present and the past is really uncomfortable.

Even the plum blossom, which is usually known for its calmness, feels a little bitter in its heart at this moment.

"After all... I'm just a developer behind the scenes."

Meihua sighed regretfully, "Alas, it's a pity that Hongxin is now in the Sun Law Enforcement Bureau dealing with a large number of demon players who have fainted due to the DM system. She is too busy and I can't contact her at all."

Spade raised an eyebrow: "Really? As I recall, the birdcage shouldn't be able to block electronic signal communications, right?"

Plum Blossom was too lazy to speak again. She glanced at Spade indifferently and handed him the information in her hand: "If you don't understand what they are saying, don't waste your time. Send this information to Faust and the others."

Spade hesitated: "What about you?"

"Me? I'll stay here alone for a while and think about how to deal with this tricky crystallization."

Meihua pressed the electronic button on the wheelchair, and the wheelchair automatically moved towards a more secluded direction deeper into the cemetery. Spade looked at the back of this senior colleague, spinning the stack of information with his fingers, and let out a helpless sigh.

"Hey, it's not fun to have such sad scripts all the time. Let's find a way to change the label. Otherwise, it will be too boring to repeat the same drama from ten years ago."

The young leader showed a very excited smile on his face, but he suppressed it in an instant. The too rapid change of expression made Spade's expression look a little distorted, but he didn't care at all. Instead, he enjoyed it very much.

"Let me think... How should the next climax unfold?"

His figure shattered into pieces of puzzle, quickly disintegrating and dissipating, as if he had never existed.

After he disappeared, Meihua, who had just walked into the depths of the cemetery, appeared behind the tombstone not far away with a gloomy face, obviously having witnessed the whole process.

The plum blossom decorations on her ears lit up with the electronic color of communication.

"Heart."

Meihua's voice was calm and serious: "I have said it before, the problem lies within the Law Enforcement Bureau. Now you must come to Ink City."

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