Chapter 89 Fanlan: Even I, a spectator, have to take action. Alas, the talents of the Demon Apostles are dwindling.
Skull Town, a corner cafe.
A man in a black robe sneaked out from the shadows at the other corner of the alley, rushed quickly towards the coffee shop, and extinguished the spark that came out of his cloak the moment he entered the coffee shop.
"Phew... I was so scared... I thought I was going to burn my new robe..."
The man in black robe walked to the corner of the coffee shop in two or three steps, looked around, and found that there were not many people in the coffee shop because it was too remote. He let out a long sigh of relief and suddenly took off his hood.
The young man, whose half face was burning and looked like a skull, adjusted his hair impatiently and threw his hood back. He raised his head and looked around the cafe. As he expected, there was only one familiar old friend in the cafe with little traffic besides him.
"Hey! Can you make burgers in the cafe? I kind of miss your double thick beef and cheese burgers."
Huo Gu's expression became visibly excited. He took two steps forward and threw himself onto the seat in the center facing the bar. He held his face silently and looked at the young man who was wiping the wine glasses at the bar.
"Are you sick? It seems that the fire in Huangquan Town burned your brain clean?"
Cube, who was wearing the local costume of Ink City, rolled his eyes. The hamburger shop owner who was supposed to be in Night City and the demon apostle who was supposed to be hiding from the Sun Enforcement Bureau in Night Island appeared in Ink City thousands of miles away. Despite the conspiracy, the atmosphere was unexpectedly relaxed.
"Look at you, why are you scolding me again? If you don't want to do it, then don't do it. Why do you have to make personal attacks and hurt me?!"
Huo Gu's face suddenly turned ugly, but he couldn't say anything even though he was angry. After all, he was not the leader of the Demon Apostle mission this time.
Ever since he lost power in the Solomon Academy incident, Huo Gu has lost the qualifications to lead missions, let alone missions related to the Demon King-level demon Mitlan.
"The space expert and I helped you place the vines in the right places one by one. Otherwise, there is no way such a big birdcage could be built. Don't just leave them alone after using them! I couldn't get in touch with you just now--"
Huo Gu angrily accused the cube in front of him. This former law enforcer who had defected to the demon apostle still had the ability to easily piss Huo Gu off to death. He simply raised his eyebrows and said, "Oh? Fanlan, what did you observe?"
The woman in the starry night skirt walked out of another box with graceful steps. Her figure was very concealed. If it weren't for the rhythmic sound of her high heels tapping the ground, even Huo Gu would have almost failed to notice her presence.
"In a fixed fate, Cube will eventually achieve his goals every step of the way."
Fanlan shrugged his shoulders, and his slender fingers drew a translucent drawing board in the air, on which were fragments of the future that were glimpsed by the brush.
"...Just bully me like that Black and White Impermanence."
Facing Fanlan's defection, Huogumu sulked his face, snatched the wine that Fangkuai was about to pour into the glass, and poured a sip directly into his mouth: "Ha, cool."
Fan Lan stared at him with an indescribable expression, and then quickly changed the subject: "If he hadn't been there to pick me up at the other end of the portal last time, I wouldn't have been able to take you away from Huangquan Town. You'd better be nicer to your savior."
Huogu sullenly took another sip of red wine, ignoring Fangkuai's eyes rolling and shouting "Lifesaver—"
"Oh? What happened? Someone is teasing me behind my back again?"
Huo Gu's voice suddenly stopped on the spot. The next second, the sound of wind chimes outside the cafe turned into a series of simple melodic rhythms. Huo Gu instinctively straightened his body and almost stood at attention and ran away reflexively. Countless playing cards flew in from outside the cafe. The man had his back to the sun, and his whole body was reflected as a black shadow under the light. The familiar thief who could not appear here adjusted his hood, and the playing cards in his hand were spinning in a way that was completely unreasonable.
Huo Gu's eyes widened, looking really desperate: "w...w...wonder?!"
Fanlan burst out laughing, and soon resumed her ladylike sitting posture gracefully. After snatching back her own bottle of wine from the bar, Fangkuai, who had calmed down a little, rolled his eyes and said, "Open your eyes and see who is over there!"
The young man with a wonder-like appearance ran to Huo Gu from the door with a smile on his face, and directly hung himself on Huo Gu's shoulder, and sighed pretending to be very sad: "Oh my, how come you can't even recognize me? Or is it that my acting is really too similar? Oh, how can I feel embarrassed when you praise me like this--"
Huo Gu waved his hands with difficulty, and "Wonder" looked a little confused: "Huh? Do you still want to praise?"
Huo Gu took a deep breath and suddenly pushed "wonder" away in the opposite direction of himself. He jumped directly onto the high pedestal like a stressed animal: "Don't come over here! Damn, I'm allergic to this face, really, quickly retract your magical power!"
Huo Gu even kept his eyes tightly closed while shouting, not daring to open them at all.
"Wonder" looked even more confused: "Is this the psychological trauma caused by this thief on you? Fanlan——"
He turned around and was about to ask Fanlan for confirmation when he saw Fanlan pull out a western lady fan from somewhere, rubbed the fan between her fingers and covered her eyes the moment Wonder turned around: "Although it's a bit embarrassing, you should change this skin first."
"Wonder" showed a rather regretful expression: "I remember Wonder also participated in Huangquan Town. I thought you would be very excited to see your acquaintances, after all, it's like 'meeting an old friend in a foreign land'. Well, although I still want to play for a while, but since you are not very used to it, forget it..."
"Wonder" muttered as he walked in front of Cube. "Wonder" was slightly shorter than Cube. He stood up straight and let the other party gather invisible blue soul particles and gently touch his forehead.
For the Demon Apostles, that was equivalent to exposing their weaknesses directly to the other party. Huo Gu and Fan Lan's expressions became quite interesting. Although it was understandable that because of the failure in Huangquan Town, the Demon Apostles could no longer fail to a Demon King again. This time, the four of them who were responsible for Mo City must seize the opportunity to successfully complete the Demon King's mission and trap all those law enforcers here.
but……
To trust each other so directly was beyond the acceptance of the devil's apostle.
The cyan soul particles flashed lightly, and the figure of "Wonder" instantly became distorted in the space. When the cyan light flashed, "Wonder" who appeared in front of everyone again had turned into the familiar demon apostle in a black robe, the "Thousand Faces" who once appeared in the Dionysus space to face the Squid Detective Agency.
Thousand Faces laughed happily, "Hey, who could have guessed this? No matter how those guys from the Enforcement Bureau planned it, even if Red Heart really did fall for the birdcage, no, the gate to the underworld, they would never have guessed it. For safety reasons, we even made Thousand Faces wear a mask."
Huo Gu looked at Fan Lan who nodded numbly, and instantly realized that he was isolated again: "Honestly, you guys are really shady, is this something I can say?"
Qianmian ignored him. He knocked on the table and coughed twice: "Everyone, look at me, look at me, haha, I just got some important information!"
Cube raised an eyebrow, motioning for him to continue.
"Although we have quickly built the gate to the underworld, the Sun Law Enforcement Bureau has an absolute advantage in terms of strength and number of law enforcers. Moreover, there are also soul tag owners at the leader level such as Meihua. We cannot slack off now. The most important thing is that I just ran to the law enforcers to spy and found an important clue in the things left by that woman Meihua."
"Qianmian" lowered his voice pretentiously, raising expectations for what he was about to say next.
"For some reason, that woman was very sure that we couldn't get the meteorite, so she asked the high school students from the Squid Detective Agency and Feicui to go to the Rain River to salvage the meteorite..."
"Thousand Faces" did live up to the atmosphere he created. With just two short sentences, all the other demon apostles present changed their expressions.
"Meihua is indeed a smart person, but only we know this information—it is impossible for her to know it."
Fanlan thought for a moment and asserted.
The crystal skull, one of the tokens of the Ten Commandments, was born in the inner world where the devil sleeps, that is, the underworld of Mitterkran. Cube cooperated with "Thousand Faces" to get this crystal skull from the feathered serpent follower of the devil's meteorite. It was used as a prop to open the gate to the underworld, connect the inner and outer worlds, and provide the necessary energy for the gate to the underworld.
But also because of this, after being marked by the crystal skull, they can no longer find the specific location of the "meteorite" due to the characteristics of the crystal skull. At least before the crystal skull completely transforms the Skull Town into a gate, they cannot escape the influence of the Ten Commandments.
In other words, they are unable to stop those annoying high school students for the time being.
However, the information about the Ten Commandments token has been lost for many years, and even the leader only knows about the existence of the token. How could Plum Blossom know that they were controlled by the crystal skull?
"Could it be those three adults..."
Huo Gu forced his brain to work. He thought for a moment and felt that he seemed to have discovered the truth.
"Three? There are no longer three. Now there is only one."
Cube sneered: "Ever since Jack died in battle and King entered the Senate, the only supreme leader of the entire Sun Enforcement Bureau is Queen."
"And there's no way she could have made a move."
This was the first time that Fanlan took the initiative to put forward her opinions in the conversation. In the past, she had always participated in the mission of each demon apostle as an observer, like a mirror without desires, reflecting everyone's appearance equally.
But now, her expression gradually became serious.
"Oh my, I can only think of one possibility. Maybe we are not the only ones who have nailed a nail into the law enforcers. There may also be a traitor among the demon apostles."
Before she finished her words, four-colored soul particles instantly exploded inside the small coffee shop. No one stopped, and the illusion of unity that the demon apostles had just created instantly collapsed. Fanlan looked at her three colleagues around her and, as expected, saw the strong murderous intent in each other's eyes.
"Law enforcers can allow the existence of traitors, but not demon apostles."
Fangkuai's eyes were extremely dangerous: "After all, we are walking on a tightrope. If we are not careful, we will be crushed to pieces. So, from now on, anything we do can be forgiven by each other, right?"
Fanlan sighed, "We have never really worked together before, but no matter what, we should complete the boss's mission first. I can see a lot with my ability. I will go to the Rain River to guard it and prepare to lock onto the meteorite fragments in the Rain River as soon as the gate to the underworld opens."
Cube nodded and looked at Huogu: "Come with me to the Tree House Tribe."
Huo Gu gave him a blank look.
Fang Kuai held his forehead with a headache: "We can't let those high school students who like to create miracles have any chance of getting the meteorite. They must be stopped in the tree house tribe, understand?"
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