"He ran away okay?"

Xia asked, wondering where Stone had been taken by this mud monster.

"After all, he is the son of an acquaintance. Give him some space so that we can meet again in the future."

Lu Ban thought about the ancient capital who was still fighting against the gods behind the door, and did not pursue Stone relentlessly.

"By the way, what should we do with this thing?"

He pointed at the blooming glass flower. The entire Catania family mansion was occupied by this flower. Amidst the rubble, ruins, and dilapidated scene, a bright flower was in full bloom.

Inside the glass-textured outer wall is gray, sticky silt. The surface of the silt is turbulent, and there seem to be countless distorted, hateful, and sad faces mixed in it.

In any world, this is a stunning work of art.

"How about blowing it up?"

Xia felt a little itchy, and she looked at Trist beside her.

"Drizzt, what's wrong with you?"

The famous detective of the Wasted City opened his mouth wide, speechless, as he watched this scene.

"You just crushed the leader of the biggest gang in this city to ashes, and blew up his house in the process?"

Drizzt seemed to have just come to his senses.

"Is there something wrong?"

Lu Ban asked back.

"No, this is wrong. You guys are fine. You finished the mission in the Land of Silence and ran away, but I have to stay here. If the Catania family comes to trouble me, I won't be able to eat!"

Drizzt felt that his life was in a great danger.

I just broke into the Catania family's mansion, and then Cornell died and Stone ran away. It was 100% my doing!

"It's that simple. Why don't you just put all the blame on Stone?"

Lu Ban said without hesitation.

"You treat the son of an acquaintance like this? Didn't you just say to leave a way out for him?"

Drizzt was dumbfounded.

"If Stone died here, you would have no way to defend yourself. He has fled now and will definitely not come back to confront you. Whatever you say is what counts."

Lu Ban patted Trist's shoulder and reassured him.

"So that's why you let him go?"

Trist suddenly felt that Lu Ban was quite scary. He seemed to be thinking about nothing, but in fact he thought of everything.

"That's not the case. I think Stone might do something else in the future. After all, I'm not a devil. I won't do something like that to kill everyone."

Lu Ban felt that after the incident on Hedao Island, the life and death of the indigenous people in foreign lands was sometimes not something they could decide.

After enduring the great being's whispers, the mud monster should have lost all its sanity and become an infinitely expanding, blindly and foolish being like its counterparts in the hospital.

But it finally restrained itself and protected Stone.

Considering Stone's name for the mud monster, it's hard to say whether the human qualities it exhibits are the result of some mistake caused by being forced to be born before it is fully born.

In this situation, there is no point in forcibly hunting down Stone, and it might even set a trap for your future self.

"You can find a chance to track down Stone's whereabouts. He is not an ordinary person. If you are willing, you can take him in as your assistant."

Lu Ban said again.

"???"

Drizzt found this incomprehensible.

Now the Catania family is definitely seeking revenge on Stone. He will be hunted endlessly, and even his dreams and hopes have been shattered. They don't even have enough time to kill Trist, so how could they help him?

"You don't understand. Stone is a smart man. He has witnessed extraordinary power. He is very clear about the interests. Just like Cornell, he doesn't care whether they were friends or enemies before as long as he can gain benefits."

Lu Ban explained.

"You solved the case of the Catania family. The people in their family will thank you. The upper echelons will provide you with shelter because you indirectly solved the problem of Corneion. The Catania family will soon fall apart and start infighting because they have lost their leader. Lao Cui, your future is bright!"

"I hope what you say is true."

Drizzt felt a sense of weakness.

"Remember to treat us to delicious food then."

Sia was only interested in the food, but she thought again.

"So, who is this sludge, and why does it listen to Stone?"

"I think it might be that Stone himself was exposed to foreign pollution, so the monster regarded him as one of its kind, or that he had helped Liz before, so when the girl was devoured by the rampaging monster, the remaining consciousness chose Stone?"

Trist pulled his thoughts away from the issue of how to deal with the aftermath.

"Why not ask it itself?"

Lu Ban pointed at the blooming glass flower.

The monster is dead, and this glass flower may become a landmark building here, standing in the wealthy area.

But there must have been a reason why it chose Drizzt to show those dreams.

Trist reached out and touched the crystal clear glass flower, and in an instant, the scenery before him changed.

This was some kind of pollution that was seeping into his consciousness, bringing him knowledge as well as erosion.

Drizzt saw that he was lying on a bed.

This is that room.

He felt so weak that even breathing took all his strength.

There was a noisy sound outside the door and I didn't know what was going on.

Suddenly, the sound of footsteps was heard.

Drizzt turned his gaze towards the door. The dilapidated door was pushed open suddenly, and Liz rushed in with an anxious look on her face. She quickly closed the door.

"There are a lot of people outside. They all have guns. They might be Mr. Tucker. They might be here to look for Mr. Tucker. We have to leave immediately."

As she spoke, Liz tried to pick up Drizzt, but it was obviously impossible for a young girl to succeed with her weak strength. She failed once, twice, and the noise outside the door became louder and louder. This time, Drizzt could clearly hear that it was a gunshot.

Bang, bang, bang——

The door was pushed open, and there were curses mixed with wailing. Trist saw that the person outside the door had been shot through the head, and the blood had dyed the wall crimson.

"ah!"

Liz screamed as she saw men in black suits passing through the doorway and several of them stepped forward, firing into the next room.

After a while, there was silence next door, and there seemed to be some sound, followed by another burst of gunfire.

Liz covered her mouth and hugged Trist. She stared blankly at the gangsters outside the door, unable to make a sound.

"It's him. It's him."

Trist saw the gangster brought a woman, that was Flora. She pointed out Tucker's body and laughed crazily.

The gangsters exchanged a few words and prepared to leave.

At this moment, Flora suddenly looked at Liz and Trist in the room and raised her hand.

“These two people are also Tucker’s mistresses. We can’t let them live.”

The gangsters looked at each other, and several of them took Flora away. Trist saw that McGee was among them. Then, a man who looked like a gang leader walked into the room.

The man pinched Liz's face and confirmed the girl's appearance. Then he began to tear Liz's clothes, cursing some extremely ugly words.

Liz struggled so hard that she scratched the man.

The gangster was so angry that he pulled out a pistol from his waist and shot Liz.

Bang, bang, bang——

Liz fell backwards, her petite body falling like petals.

Drizzt's vision turned red.

He felt something in his body gushing out with strong emotions.

The grey mud burst out of the body and tore the gangster into pieces.

More gangsters rushed in and opened fire, but the bullets failed to cause any damage to Drizzt. Instead, the tentacles made of mud pierced through the bodies of these people one by one. The will of the dead flowed into Drizzt's brain, making him feel dizzy.

Finally, all the gangsters were dead.

Drizzt came to Liz and looked at the girl who depended on him for everything. The mud spread and covered Liz's body.

In Liz's eyes that were gradually losing focus, Drizzt saw his final appearance.

It was a face that was almost identical to Liz's, but noticeably thinner and more fragile.

"Survive."

Liz used up her last bit of strength to utter a word and a name.

"Io."