Suzhou City.

In the center of the fog.

Gate to the South.

This magnificent building, which looks like a pair of long johns and towers above the clouds, is one of the landmarks of Gusu City. On the top of this gate-shaped building, two figures are standing in the night, quietly gazing at the city shrouded in fog below.

The evening breeze blew through the woman's long black curly hair, revealing a seductive and charming face. Her strange vertical pupils were like snake eyes, and she looked ahead with a smile.

If Lin Qiye were here, he would recognize this seductive and perverted woman at a glance. Before the Chinese New Year last year, the two had a fierce battle on an old street. Later, thanks to the intervention of the believer Han Shaoyun, the other party was able to escape.

She is the evil god of the Ancient God Church, the agent of Medusa, codenamed [Snake Woman].

"It looks like the prey has arrived." She reached out and tucked a strand of black hair behind her ear, then spoke slowly.

Next to him, a man covered in a black coat, as tall and straight as an iron tower, frowned slightly, "No... it's not the Phoenix team that came."

The snake girl was startled, and her long eyebrows also wrinkled. "Didn't they say that if we encounter a mystery outside the country, it must be the Phoenix team that handles it?"

"That's true." The towering man spoke slowly, "But what is certain is that the Phoenix team will not use parachutes to get off the plane... That's too low-class."

Snake hesitated for a moment, "Could it be another special team coming?"

"Impossible." The man said confidently, "There are only three special teams active in the outside world now: [Psychic], [Phoenix] and [Masked]. [Psychic] always moves on the Thunder Pillar, [Phoenix] rides a phoenix, and [Masked] floats directly in the air... It is impossible for them to land in such a primitive way."

The snake girl's snake eyes swept across the three black boxes beside her, and a look of regret appeared in her eyes.

"Xia Simeng, the leader of the Phoenix team, is the main target of our operation. If she doesn't come... wouldn't our three forbidden items specifically targeting her, as well as the hard-won Bell Crand, be wasted?"

The man hesitated for a moment, "Let's wait and see. Although they are not a special team, they should not be unknown people since they were sent by the Night's Watch leaders to deal with [Bell Crand]. Since we have given up [Bell Crand], we must gain something."

The snake girl's gaze fell into the depths of the purple mist and she licked her lips. "Should I go meet them?"

"No rush." ​​The man said calmly, "Let's wait for those useless guys to find out the truth first."

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On the deserted street, Lin Qiye, wearing a Monkey King mask, and An Qingyu, wearing a Tang Monk mask, were walking forward silently.

The dim street lights cast patches of light and shadow on the quiet roadside, stretching the shadows of the two people and then slowly shortening them...

Even though the entire center of Gusu was shrouded in fog, the power supply was still operating normally. The neon lights on the surface of the South Gate in the distance kept flashing, forming the words "I?? Gusu" again and again.

An Qingyu walked along the lakeside, took a deep breath, and slowly exhaled...

"What's wrong?" Lin Qiye turned around and asked.

An Qingyu shook his head. "It's nothing. I just haven't walked in the city like this for a long time. From the sewers of Cangnan, to the fasting center, and then to the primeval forest... I suddenly returned to normal human society. It feels pretty good."

Lin Qiye was slightly startled, and said with a wry smile, "It's a pity, if I didn't have a mission, I could walk around this city more. When I was in Cangnan, I often heard my aunt talk about how good Gusu was, and she also gave me the opportunity to go to college here..."

He raised his head, looked at the calm lake, and muttered to himself, "Now, I have no chance to go to college. The person who made me go to college...is no longer here."

An Qingyu looked at him for a moment.

"I always feel like when we two walk together, the atmosphere starts to get sad." An Qingyu also said with a wry smile, "I'm used to that fat guy Baili livening up the atmosphere around me, so I'm a little uncomfortable with the sudden silence."

"That's true." Lin Qiye smiled. "It's uncomfortable for a group of people to stay together all day without talking. It's not bad to have a silly guy with a brain that's not so smart."

As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Qiye seemed to have sensed something and suddenly stopped.

An Qingyu also paused, frowning slightly, "What's wrong?"

Lin Qiye frowned and looked ahead, only to see dozens of figures at the end of the dim road, holding hands and walking forward in silence from the darkness, their eyes unfocused, their steps strangely tidy, and their bodies extremely stiff.

They were like a moving human wall, with people at both ends walking forward along the wall. Dozens of people were standing shoulder to shoulder with no gap in between, completely blocking the entire road section.

"Mind-polluted residents?" An Qingyu stared at the scene in front of him, his face slightly stiff. "They should be here to hold us back... Strange, why didn't they just send Team 017 to kill us?"

"I don't know." Lin Qiye shook his head, his eyes falling on the office buildings and shops on both sides, "But, we seem to have been surrounded."

One after another, zombie-like figures appeared from the windows on both sides, staring at the two people in the middle of the road with empty eyes. A large number of people lined up and moved down the stairs, pouring into the street like a tide.

An Qingyu looked back and saw that on the street they came from, there were also dozens of people holding hands, shoulder to shoulder, moving towards here little by little like a human wall.

Hundreds and thousands of mentally polluted people blocked the entire street.

"This level of difficulty shouldn't be enough to trap you, right?" Lin Qiye turned his head and looked at An Qingyu.

The latter nodded, "I'm fine."

Lin Qiye hummed, and lightly pressed his fingertips on the handle of the black box. A straight knife popped out from the box, and darkness enveloped the blade. The straight knife floated in the air and automatically came out of its sheath...

clang——!

"Meet me on the roof of the tall building in the southeast." Lin Qiye said calmly.

The next moment, the straight knife floating beside him whizzed out and flew straight towards the skyscraper standing in the darkness. A touch of magical light enveloped Lin Qiye's figure, and he disappeared in an instant.

An Qingyu sighed and said with some envy: "What a convenient ability..."

He suddenly exerted force with his feet, and his whole body bounced from the road to an astonishing height, then landed lightly on the vertical surface of the building, with his limbs clinging to it.

An invisible thread popped out from his palm and pierced into the wall of the opposite building. Then, it rose up easily like Spider-Man, passed over the people surrounding below, and disappeared into the night in an instant.

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