Chapter 94 Jade: Death Ennobles Us...?

Chapter 94 Jade: Death Ennobles Us...?

The huge energy stone gate slowly descended in the void, and the energy fluctuations it brought swept across the surroundings, raising pieces of vegetation debris.

A dark green mist began to spread, and a gate to the underworld with a feathered serpent engraved on it dropped from the sky, crushing the giant trees in the jungle below. You Yu was shocked to find that the huge door was not an energy body, but a solid entity.

"What's going on?! How can the gate to the underworld be a physical entity?!"

Cube also widened his eyes. When that door fell, not only would the Tree House Tribe be destroyed by the huge impact force, but even they might not end up well under the impact of the dark green underworld power.

"Fire Bone——How did you draw the formation——"

Fangkuai looked at Huogu fiercely, and had already put the confused opponent in the position of the instigator.

"I didn't do anything?! Then I'll do whatever someone tells me to do! It's a one to one ratio!"

The Fire Bone Monster screamed and tried to run away pulling the block. The impact of the descending giant gate had condensed into dark green soul particles rushing towards them. As the giant gate slowly fell, the figures of the tree house tribe members and tourists gradually dispersed into the same dark green particles and merged into the overwhelming dark green depths.

"I was wondering why those tourists and tribesmen ignored me! It turns out they are not real people!"

Shuise let out a strange cry. He looked at the figures that disappeared like phantoms and felt that he would never forget what he had just done in his life: "What on earth was I asking questions to? Did my throat hurt?!"

"Don't worry about that for now. They are probably virtual projections created with the help of some kind of soul particle ability. The most urgent thing is to run! Get away from the range covered by those things!"

You Yu showed a rare look of panic. He grabbed Shuise and started chasing in the direction of the Demon Apostle's escape. Even if a disaster was imminent and life and death were at stake, the detective had to choose the most cost-effective path that would allow him to be alert to the Demon Apostles while escaping.

"boom--"

The huge object with extremely high mass gradually increased its sinking speed. The dark green mist spread towards the surrounding jungle like a whirlwind. Countless tree houses were swallowed up in an instant and turned into analyzed soul particles, becoming part of the smoke.

"What is that thing? Is it going to fall down?!"

The four fleeing people quickly returned to the place where they had just confronted each other. Lily of the Valley, Emerald, and Wonder were very close. The three of them had just been fighting each other, but after seeing the approaching dark green mist, they all put down their weapons and ran away.

Lily of the valley was brought to Youyu and the others by the vines. Feicui used the key to open the space again and teleported to the detective agency members. The five high school students looked at each other, picked up Shuise and started running wildly. Shuise stared at Wonder's figure and his expression became solemn.

The fire bone pulled the block and ran, but unfortunately the fire bone that had been burned out did not have enough strength. The two people were too slow and they tripped over the vines on the road and were swallowed by the surging dark green mist.

At the moment when the two demon apostles disappeared in the mist, wonder's footsteps paused slightly. The thief seemed to notice Shuise's gaze and deliberately slowed down his pace. He waved to Shuise and did not run away. Instead, he jumped back and was swallowed by the spreading dark green mist and disappeared.

"wonder?!"

You Yu wanted to turn around to retrieve it, but the golden thread was completely eroded by the dark green death mist from the underworld before it even touched the thief's feet.

"Wonder can't be in trouble. He's not the kind of person who ignores his own life. We are the only ones without a backup plan now. We must survive and report the specific situation here to Senior Spade and the others."

Feicui's voice was serious. She sat on the key and grabbed the corner of Youyu's clothes, stopping the other party from jumping into the mist to save people: "In order to report the information to Senior Faust and others, we must stay alive!"

You Yu took a deep breath. He did not ignore the other party's action of deliberately dodging his golden thread. He knew of course that Phantom Thief Wonder was not a suicidal person. He jumped into the depths of the fog on his own, probably because he had his own backup plan, but... but... no matter what, what Phantom Thief Wonder did was not punishable by death. What's more, in the Huangquan Town incident, if it weren't for Wonder, they would never have been able to resolve the entire incident so easily.

"Calm down, Youyu."

Unexpectedly, Shuise was the first to speak: "Wonder, that guy definitely came here to steal the meteorite fragments. Although I don't know why he is so confident that he can find meteorite fragments in the Rain River... I always feel that if we leave that guy now, we will find an opportunity, so let's get rid of him--"

As Shuise was talking, he also started to get stuck in a rut, but he and Youyu were at two extremes. He always felt that Wonder deliberately disappeared in the green mist because he wanted to steal the Ten Commandments token.

"Calm down, too!"

Lily of the Valley lifted up Shui Se's body and threw the boy directly onto the back of her fork. She controlled the vines to move at high speed and hit him hard on the forehead, causing Shui Se to cry out in pain.

"Don't be stubborn, wonder! We have a companion who is missing now!"

Linglan's voice was anxious, and Youyu jumped onto the high platform of the tree house. Countless golden threads spread out with his thoughts, covering a large area. The soul particle information of every place was transmitted to Youyu's brain as he waved the golden threads, but Youyu did not collect any breath of Bai Ye around.

"No! Bai Ye's aura has disappeared!"

Emerald and Lily of the Valley each hovered their keys and forks over the tree house tribe area that Bai Ye was in charge of. The moment Lily of the Valley spoke, Shuise had calmed down and summoned the most sensitive ripple formation of the auxiliary system. The ripples of Shuise continued to spread and soon enveloped the tree house tribe below, but the breath brought by the water waves was consistent with the golden line - except for the projection that had long been set up by the demon apostles, there was no human breath below.

"Where on earth did Bai Ye go?!"

Shuise and Youyu's faces both turned ugly. The former was already pulling his slightly long hair in pain, using so much force that it looked like he could tear his hair off.

"I don't know. There's no information about him anywhere..."

You Yu stared blankly at his fingertips, unable to accept that at such a critical moment, the young man who was always strategizing and rarely could keep up with his thinking speed would disappear.

Bai Ye is a very reliable person. It is impossible for him to disappear without informing them or run away after seeing the huge door. The only possibility that he is not here is... he is in trouble.

"Jadeite, you go first and pass on the message!"

Linglan looked at Youyu's ugly face and instantly understood what Youyu and Shuise were thinking. Without hesitation, she grabbed Youyu and threw the detective onto her fork.

"Are you crazy?! What are you going to do?! You saw it too, the dark green mist exudes the breath of death, it is the mist from the depths of the gate to the underworld that is being opened! This is reality, it is different from the Dionysus space, that thing might suck away the souls of the living!"

Jadeite's eyes widened, and her usually calm face showed extreme emotional shock. She looked at Linglan and the other two, trying to see hesitation on the faces of these three peers who were younger than her, but no, nothing.

"We must find Bai Ye, he is our companion."

You Yu took a deep breath and fixed himself on the fork. Although he looked very embarrassed, his voice was firm.

"You said it too, maybe."

Lily of the Valley smiled and clenched the fork in her hand. The vines below gathered, a sign of exerting force: "Report the situation here to Seniors Plum Blossom and Spade! Please!"

She clenched the fork in her hand, leaned down, and rushed towards the tree house tribe area that was about to be swallowed by the dark green mist with her two companions.

"Are you crazy?! Such... such worthless behavior..."

Jade clenched the huge key in her hand, gritted her teeth, and a complex emotion of shock and confusion appeared on her face, which made the captain of the law enforcement team, who was always the one who had the final say, look a little at a loss.

Her heart was beating violently. In shock and confusion, Feicui vaguely saw herself in the past, witnessing her teammates die in a mission just to send the information out of the game space, and she began to doubt and question herself.

"Are you sad, Emerald?"

The gentle and pleasant voice is still clear even in memory, and Faust leaned over to the young Emerald: "If you have any troubles, you can consider talking to me."

The senior's gentle attitude helped to ease Jade's trembling fingers and grief after the death of her teammates. She still remembered the questions she asked in confusion at that time.

"Faust-senpai, I just feel that... sacrificing one's life for a piece of information... does the life we ​​protect no longer include our own...?"

“For law enforcement officers, if death has value, is it worth celebrating?”

Faust was stunned for a moment, but he soon chuckled:

"Yeah, because that's our job."

"So for us, we have to make trade-offs at certain times. Even with the closest and most friendly teammates, in those terrible moments, if it is placed on the scale of intelligence and mission objectives, we have to choose to give up."

"Because this is what they expect, Emerald. As law enforcers, everyone is prepared to sacrifice their lives tomorrow without any warning. Don't tarnish their awareness."

"Death ennobles us, my dear."

“But…but——”

But is it really so? As long as there is enough value, even death is worth celebrating, right? If I want to become an excellent law enforcer, do I have to become so cruel... accept death, or even create death?

Is it really death itself that makes us noble?

Young Jade wanted to refute, but couldn't find a reason to refute.

Although it is wrong, it is still right.

Maybe this is the way to go for law enforcers.

So Feicui sealed her doubts deep in her heart, and just like that, she staggered along, questioning and believing at the same time, until now.

But……

But... looking at those fools who were rushing towards the tree house tribe without caring about their lives, Feicui actually showed a rare hesitation.

She pressed the microphone and described the situation of the Tree House Tribe as quickly as possible. After confirming that her voice had been transmitted to the temporary base of the Law Enforcement Bureau in the nearby Skeleton Town, she took a deep breath.

Although there is no hope, and although Bai Ye is most likely to have met with an accident, as long as there is a glimmer of hope, even if it is the most cost-effective behavior, she wants to believe in a miracle just once, just like those guys from the Squid Detective Agency.

Jade clenched the key in her hand, twisted it to unlock it, and opened a space crack leading to Lily of the Valley.

It would be such a pity if Bai Ye died here... Although the other party was obviously hostile to Faust, Feicui inexplicably wanted to believe in her own heart for once.

In any case, whether from the perspective of value or from the perspective of selfishness, Feicui feels that Bai Ye cannot die.

At least I can't die here in vain.

The girl's figure disappeared in mid-air, and the huge door to the underworld made a heavy muffled sound as it fell to the ground.

Countless plants were torn apart and crushed into pieces in an instant. The moment Emerald teleported to the side of the Squid Detective Agency members, a dark green mist suddenly exploded, engulfing everything in the Tree House Tribe.

A huge ancient gate stood right above the tree house tribe, and the breath from the underworld seemed to praise the distant ancient sacrificial songs.

Where the dark green aura spread, countless giant trees instantly withered and turned black, turning into lifeless rotten wood and debris.

Death is spreading.

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