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Xiao Yichen came out of the library and on his way back to his cave, he heard many disciples whispering to each other.
"Have you heard? A mirage monster appeared in Dongzhou! It's a rare monster."
"I heard that mirage monsters need to be born in places with deep resentment. Dongzhou... could it be that place?"
"Yes, you knew about this?"
He couldn't help but move closer to listen, but was stopped by someone.
"Junior Brother Xiao."
When the two disciples who were talking heard the sound, they quickly walked away.
Xiao Yichen couldn't avoid it, so he turned around and bowed, "Greetings, Uncle Ling."
9527 looked Xiao Yichen up and down.
As expected of the protagonist, he was eaten by the devil and was able to escape unscathed.
It's a pity that he didn't reveal any useful information, such as why he jumped into the devil's belly. He is not such a reckless person.
9527 played a soundproofing shield, "Junior Brother Xiao, have you heard that the mirage demon has appeared?"
Xiao Yichen nodded, "I just heard other brothers say that."
He repeated what he heard.
"Uncle Ling, where is the place that the brothers and the others were talking about?"
9527 narrowed his eyes.
"That place is called 'Guiyi City'. Five years ago, it was a large city with hundreds of thousands of people."
Xiao Yichen was stunned. He was born in Dongzhou and had spent the previous thirteen years in the mountains, ignorant of the secular world and the world. He had never expected that there was a city in Dongzhou that could accommodate hundreds of thousands of people.
"Unfortunately, a fire burned everything down." 9527 sighed heavily. "I think it was the souls of the dead in that fire that gave birth to the Mirage Demon. Junior-Martial-Nephew Xiao, it seems you don't know how many people the Mirage Demon has harmed."
Xiao Yichen: "Harm people? How does it harm people?"
"At dusk, a bustling city would appear on the ruins of Guiyi City, no different from the Guiyi City of five years ago. Many mortals were drawn in, never to leave. Even the cultivators sent by the sect to the nearest place mysteriously vanished, with no news of them left."
Xiao Yichen had a bad feeling, "Master Ling means..."
9527: "I'm going to take a few people to Guiyi City to investigate the situation and capture the mirage monster. Junior-brother Xiao, Junior-brother Lu said you should come with me."
Xiao Yichen: "..."
He felt an inexplicable resistance in his heart.
Xiao Yichen lowered his head and said, "Uncle Ling, I won't go. I want to stay in the sect to practice."
9527: "If we can capture the mirage demon, we can use it to create an illusionary realm similar to the Lesser Blue Realm. Then, not only you, but other disciples will be able to cultivate in it and make rapid progress. Junior-Martial Brother Xiao, don't you want us all to improve together?"
This hat is a bit big.
Xiao Yichen quickly explained, "Disciple has absolutely no such intention, but too many things have happened recently, and Disciple is afraid..."
9527 came closer and said quietly, "Are you afraid that I've been possessed by someone else?"
Xiao Yichen's heart suddenly jumped, almost jumping out of his throat.
9527 patted his shoulder and said, "Junior Brother Xiao, you're worrying too much. Jiang Ruoshui and Xue Baifeng were both possessed by members of the Gong family. Now that the demon god has been destroyed and their magic skills have been destroyed, all descendants of the Gong family have been reduced to mortals. No one has been spared. The same thing won't happen again. Don't worry."
Xiao Yichen didn't say anything.
9527 changed the subject, "Besides, it was Junior Brother Lu who insisted that you go. I don't understand why he was so insistent. Junior Brother Xiao, do you know?"
Xiao Yichen thought of what Lu Zhi had said to him.
He had only seen two of the four demons who were capable of destroying the world, and there were two more.
Did Master foresee that he would run into those people?
If he doesn't go, will Uncle Ling and his fellow disciples be in danger?
9527I’m not afraid that he won’t go.
The protagonist and the villain are irreconcilable.
After a while, Xiao Yichen nodded slowly, "Disciple will obey Master."
9527 raised his lips slightly and looked at the system panel on the right.
Mission objective: Assist Su Yuhan to become the next Mirage Demon
Mission Indicators: Destroy Su Yuhan's three inner defenses (current progress: 0/3); Su Yuhan's "Causal Killing Value" reaches 100 (current progress: 50/100)
Mission Reward: 30 million bonus (deposited into the employee account of the Black Bureau by default); Excellent employee evaluation +1
The Black Bureau kindly reminds you: Dear 9527, you have already failed this mission twice! If you fail again——
9527 closed the panel with a gloomy face, not wanting to read the last line of reminder.
·
The once prosperous Guiyi City has become a ruin.
A man walked through the deserted city until he came to the collapsed city gate, looking up at the setting sun slowly sinking into the valley.
As the last ray of dusk fell, he heard a loud noise.
Turning around, the Guiyi City with its lights just coming on appeared before my eyes.
Su Yuhan had a complicated expression. After hesitating for a moment, he walked in.
His body merged into the city gate and disappeared.
·
Ruan Zhaozhao looked through the intelligence that Crow had collected over the past half month.
After learning that the mirage demon was related to Su Yuhan, she asked Cui Fuer to record more related matters.
The latest intelligence mentioned that the place where the mirage monster is located is a large city in Dongzhou that originally had a population of hundreds of thousands, called "Guiyi City".
System: "Host, the new keyword 'Return to One City' has been unlocked. This mission has officially begun. Please teleport within half an hour."
Ruan Zhaozhao's crow bag was with Xiaoye, and it was agreed that he was the one to clean it up.
She changed into new clothes and walked out. It was already dark, and Yu Xiaoye was still reciting Taoist scriptures in the hall.
The four new children were also very diligent. They followed him in reciting, and one of them even showed signs of enlightenment.
Yu Xiaoye was a little disappointed, disappointed in himself. But then he thought that everyone is different, so he should be happy for others and cheer himself up.
"Brother Xiaoye." Ruan Zhaozhao stood at the door and waved his hand.
Yu Xiaoye walked out of the hall, "Zhao Zhao, what's wrong?"
Ruan Zhaozhao: "I'm leaving now."
Yu Xiaoye's expression was stern. These days he had told his second senior brother about Ruan Zhaozhao going to Xiaocang Realm to save Wen Renyi. His second senior brother said that since she had the ability to save himself and the eldest senior brother, then perhaps she would also bring back the third junior brother and the fourth junior sister.
"Zhao Zhao, are we going to rescue Third Brother?" Yu Xiaoye asked cautiously.
Ruan Zhaozhao went on a mission, not to save people, but her mission was to save people, almost.
She nodded.
Yu Xiaoye was eager to try, "Okay, I'll go get the bag."
Yu Xiaoye has developed the habit of checking the capacity of the Crow bag every day and repairing and restocking it.
He simply put on his backpack, asked Cui Fuer and Yuan Huaer to take good care of the other four people, and then set off with Ruan Zhaozhao.
However, this time Ruan Zhaozhao was not in a hurry to leave. She first went to Gong Ziyu's courtyard and called out Ya Da.
"Master Crow, please arrange some powerful crows for me."
Crow's eyes lit up.
Is the boss going on a business trip?
Then it has to pick a few young and strong men with strong abilities, so as not to bring disgrace to the boss!
Ya Da picked and chose, and quickly found three magnificent and beautiful crows for Ruan Zhaozhao.
The feathers fluttered in the air, smooth as a mirror.
Ruan Zhaozhao shook his head, "This is too conspicuous."
She chose three crows herself.
One small one, one old one, and one half-crippled one.
The half-crippled man only has one leg and cannot stand steadily.
Ya Da: “…”
Boss, you are on a business trip, not going to die!
Ruan Zhaozhao was very satisfied. She let the younger one stand on her shoulders. After the old and the disabled one arrived at the place, they kept their distance and followed from a distance.
"By the way." Ruan Zhaozhao asked Yada, "Have your offline developments reached Dongzhou?"
Yada puffed out his chest confidently, "The development is over!"
In the past half month, it has lived up to everyone's expectations and successfully expanded the entire crow network to Dongzhou. However, there are many cultivators in Zhongzhou and fewer monsters, so it will take more time to infiltrate.
Ruan Zhaozhao was very satisfied, "That's good."
After that, she asked the system to turn on the transmission.
A whirlpool appeared in front of them. Ruan Zhaozhao stepped in first, followed by Yu Xiaoye.
Gong Ziyu walked out from behind the door and looked towards the main hall with a complicated mood.
I hope Zhaozhao can come back safely.
At this moment, he heard Wen Renyi's voice, "Second Junior Brother, you're back?"
Gong Ziyu wailed, "Big Brother, you've finally finished your retreat! Come, let me tell you what our little devil star did..."
·
As Ruan Zhaozhao stepped out of the whirlpool, his body lightened and fell downwards.
Fortunately, Crow Twelve grabbed her clothes and prevented her from falling face down.
Yu Xiaoye also fell down, but he grabbed the eaves very flexibly and flipped over to get up again.
It turned out that the portal opened downwards, teleporting them directly to the roof.
Ruan Zhaozhao stood up and looked around. "Where is this?"
Looking around, the lights are as bright as day and the city is bustling.
Although it was already dark, the city was still bright and lively, with all kinds of goods, red candles burning, and a vibrant atmosphere.
"Hey, what are you doing up there? Come down quickly, it's dangerous!"
A woman's anxious voice came from below.
Ruan Zhaozhao and Yu Xiaoye went down to the second floor through the opening. The former touched the surrounding furniture and found them to be very real.
Yu Xiaoye heard footsteps and said, "Zhao Zhao, someone is coming to see us."
Ruan Zhaozhao: "System, is there any small permission I can use?"
Just as he finished speaking, the woman who had just been looking for the two men came up, looked around, and stood in front of them, but seemed not to see them. "Strange, I clearly saw them coming down, am I dazzled?"
As she said this, she climbed up to take a look. Taking advantage of the pass, Ruan Zhaozhao and Yu Xiaoye left the house and came to the street.
There are people coming and going on the street.
Ruan Zhaozhao hadn't heard the details of the mission yet, so he guessed that the conditions to trigger it hadn't been met yet.
"System, can the arrow that points out the direction of the item be used to indicate the direction of the mission?"
As soon as he finished speaking, an arrow appeared on the ground in front of him that only Ruan Zhaozhao could see.
She pulled Yu Xiaoye and followed the arrow.
·
After Su Yuhan stepped into the city gate, his eyes suddenly flashed, and a group of people rushed towards him.
"Master Su! Master Su is back!"
"Master Su, what you said is indeed useful. Now the people of Guiyi City live and work in peace and contentment, and no one commits crimes!"
"Master Su, you are truly our savior!"
The people surrounded Su Yuhan and talked a lot.
Su Yuhan, however, was not happy at all. He felt empty inside, and a sarcastic smile could not help but appear at the corner of his mouth.
Is it Guiyi City that the mirage monster built, or is it the Guiyi City the night before the "incident"?
That's really interesting.
Su Yuhan raised his hand, and a man in front of him took two steps back, covering his neck, and fell down with his eyes wide open.
When the others saw him being killed, they were stunned for a moment and then fled in panic.
"Master Su is crazy!"
"Someone, come quickly and tell Master Ling that Master Su has gone crazy!"
Su Yuhan walked up to the dead man.
He recognized the face; the firewood under his feet was piled by him.
Seeing that he had died, Su Yuhan still felt unhappy.
But the next moment the man disappeared into thin air and reappeared on the street.
The people who had just fled came back and when they saw Su Yuhan, they still shouted "Master Su".
Fanaticism, madness.
Su Yuhan understood that the mirage demon was trying to replicate what happened that day.
Even if he killed everyone in the city, it would be useless.
After all, they were already dead.
Su Yuhan closed his eyes, calmed himself down, pushed through the crowded crowd, and walked towards the city.
That was his destination this time, the City Lord's Mansion of Guiyi City.
The true form of the mirage monster is most likely there.
He wants to get the mirage.
Then... the entire Xuanji world was destroyed.
·
Following the arrow, Ruan Zhaozhao came to a high wall.
Without saying a word, she went in with Yu Xiaoye.
Yu Xiaoye was wondering why the woman couldn't see them. Now he thought about it, it must have been Ruan Zhaozhao's work.
He saw several maids walking towards them and subconsciously hid.
Ruan Zhaozhao walked over with a swagger.
The maidservant seemed to be blind and walked straight past them and left.
Yu Xiaoye hurried to follow.
Ruan Zhaozhao suddenly stopped and pointed to a room with a half-closed door.
There was some light coming from inside the house.
A middle-aged man is talking to a young girl.
Yu Xiaoye put his ear to the door and eavesdropped, while Ruan Zhaozhao pushed the door open and walked in.
The middle-aged man was startled and looked towards the door. "Why is the wind so strong all of a sudden?"
He closed the door, then turned and continued to say to the girl, "Zi Su, this matter must be accomplished tonight. It concerns the survival of the people of Guiyi City."
The girl named Zi Su hesitated and said, "Dad, do you think Brother Su is really that kind of person?"
The middle-aged man snorted coldly, "It doesn't matter who he is. If he wants to harm us, we must act in advance."
"But Dad, I think Brother Su is really doing this for everyone's good. He's not that kind of person..."
The middle-aged man scolded, "Lin Zisu, since you haven't married yet, you are a member of my Lin family. No matter how good Su Yuhan is, he is still an outsider! Are you going to harm your entire family, or even the entire city, for an outsider?"
Lin Zisu's face turned pale, her lips trembled a few times, and she finally stopped talking.
Yu Xiaoye heard Su Yuhan's name, "Zhao Zhao, the person they are talking about is Third Senior Brother."
The middle-aged man handed a porcelain bottle to Lin Zisu and said, "Dad has already gained his trust for you in the name of an engagement. You can add this medicine to the wine and trick him into drinking it."
Lin Zisu asked worriedly, "Will he die?"
The middle-aged man sneered, "If he just died like that, wouldn't that be a good thing for him? The lives of hundreds of thousands of people in Guiyi City are in his hands. What he calls "Great Peace in the World" is nothing but a joke!"
System: "Host, unlock the new keyword 'Great Harmony in the World'. The mission details have been updated——"
Five years ago, Su Yuhan and a like-minded person agreed to make a big splash in Guiyi City and realize their common dream.
But no one expected that when Guiyi City was thriving, a conspiracy was brewing in the dark.
The people of Guiyi City discovered that the so-called "unification of the world and universal peace" was just Su Yuhan's rhetoric.
After tonight, at dawn, they will tie Su Yuhan up, hang her over the fire, and burn all the lies with the raging fire...
·
Su Yuhan walked towards the City Lord's Mansion.
Many people on the road recognized him and invited him to their homes for drinks.
He just refused indifferently.
"Brother Su."
Su Yuhan's back stiffened, and he slowly turned around and looked at the person who came. "Zi Su."
There was a complex look in his eyes.
Lin Jia Zi Su, the only person who helped him.
When the whole city was burning, she took advantage of the chaos to untie the ropes for herself and let him go.
In order to save her father and brother, she turned back and died in the fire.
If there were some people in the world he could still forgive, Lin Zisu was one of them.
However, she died a long time ago.
This is just an illusion woven by the mirage demon.
Lin Zisu looked at him hopefully, "Brother Su, today is the Lantern Festival. Would you...would you like to come to my house for a glass of daughter's red wine?"
Lantern Festival.
Su Yuhan remembered.
They all said that the Lantern Festival was a decades-old custom in Guiyi City. Every year on this day, every household would decorate with lanterns and colorful decorations. If a family had an unmarried daughter, her father or brother would invite a young man to their home to drink a glass of daughter's red wine as a way to invite a good husband. If the man agreed, they would get married.
Later he escaped and asked hundreds of people, but no one knew about the Lantern Festival in Guiyi City.
Su Yuhan originally wanted to reject Lin Zisu.
But he remembered that he accepted Lin Zisu's invitation that night.
Perhaps there was some romance between a man and a woman, or perhaps it was to repay the Lin family. The Lin family had a great reputation in Guiyi City, and if it weren't for their strong support, he and Ling Jiuxiao would not have been able to carry out their grand plans here.
...Who knows that fools are just fools?
There's no hope.
"Okay." Su Yuhan gave the same answer as before.
The illusion is not entirely created by mirage monsters, some of them are lonely souls that have been wandering in the ruins for years.
They have an obsession in their hearts, and once it dissipates, they can be reincarnated.
Su Yuhan finally softened his heart. If this was Lin Zisu's lonely soul, he hoped she could be reincarnated.
Su Yuhan followed Lin Zisu to the Lin family mansion. In the lobby, the table was already set with wine and food.
Lin Zisu walked slowly and looked back from time to time.
"What's wrong?"
Lin Zisu bit her lower lip and said, "Nothing. Brother Su, you are willing to drink my daughter's red wine, but I don't dare to dream of being with you."
She picked up the marked daughter's red wine on the table and handed it to Su Yuhan.
"I know you've always treated me as your sister."
Su Yuhan was silent for a moment, then took the wine cup and said, "It's good that you know."
After saying that, he drank it all in one gulp.
He put down his wine cup, turned around and left, but he hadn't taken two steps when he felt dizzy.
strangeness.
Su Yuhan's legs went weak and he fell to the side, half of his body falling into the lotus pond.
Lin Zisu quickly stepped forward to support him, with a look of surprise on her face, "Impossible, how could it be so fast? No, Dad said that this medicine will only make people lose spiritual power, not -"
She suddenly met Su Yuhan's eyes.
cold.
A pair of very cold eyes.
Su Yuhan's hand suddenly grabbed her neck, "What did you say?"
Lin Zisu couldn't breathe, "Su, Brother Su..."
"So, there was something wrong with the glass of wine you gave me." Su Yuhan muttered to himself, "But I didn't notice it at the time. This is impossible. I'm a pharmacist. No one is better than me, unless..."
He suddenly thought of something and felt his grip tighten. "Who gave you this medicine?"
No one answered him.
Lin Zisu's eyes suddenly turned white, and her whole body went limp and disappeared.
But after a moment, her figure reappeared, looking at Su Yuhan in surprise, "Brother Su, why are you here? I just went to the street to look for you, and I searched for you for a long time."
It's an illusion.
Su Yuhan felt a chill in his heart.
The person he thought he could trust turned out to be untrustworthy.
Moreover, there is only one person in this world who can make a medicine that even he cannot detect.
But aren't they best friends?
Why did he do that?
Su Yuhan clenched his teeth and felt his mind begin to become confused.
"Third Senior Brother."
A hand suddenly rested on his shoulder.
Su Yuhan suddenly came to her senses and turned around to see Ruan Zhaozhao and Yu Xiaoye. "Junior sister, Xiaoye, why are you here?!"
Yu Xiaoye: "We are here to help you, Third Brother."
Su Yuhan frowned: "You are just children, how can you help me——"
Ruan Zhaozhao interrupted, "If I hadn't replaced the medicine inside, you would be useless now."
Su Yuhan was stunned.
He fell down just to show Lin Zisu.
Just now, although the wine was spicy, it also had a scent of elixir.
He made it himself.
Yu Xiaoye asked in surprise, "Zhao Zhao, didn't you say this place was created by a mirage demon? Can that medicine also work on Third Brother?"
Ruan Zhaozhao: "Only the things in here are real, the people are all fake. Medicine is something, of course it's useful. Third Brother, you are too unguarded."
She looked at the "Cause and Effect Killing Value" above Su Yuhan's head.
It has reached 65, so fast.
Break down with just one glass of wine?
Su Yuhan: "..."
He sensed Ruan Zhaozhao's contempt.
The "Cause and Effect Killing Value" miraculously dropped by 5 points.
Su Yuhan: "Who allowed you to come?"
It must be the eldest brother, the second brother, or the fourth sister. Anyway, it must be an unreliable one.
Yu Xiaoye said honestly: "The Grandmaster and the Sect Leader."
The system put on a full show and sent a "message" to everyone.
Except Su Yuhan himself.
Su Yuhan: "..."
He found it incredible, but also felt that this was something an old man could do.
Lin Zisu could only see Su Yuhan, "Brother Su, who are you talking to?"
Su Yuhan frowned.
Ruan Zhaozhao: "Third Brother, you are the only one who can see us now. Let's go. We will go with you wherever you want to go."
Su Yuhan was a little surprised, "This also belongs to the ancestor and master..."
Ruan Zhaozhao: "No, it's the system."
Su Yuhan and Yu Xiaoye both heard the sound of "Ding Ding Ding".
It seems that it was really done by the ancestor.
Lin Zisu was still asking Su Yuhan if he wanted to drink.
Su Yuhan glanced at her calmly, "Did you save me because you regretted handing me that cup of drugged daughter's red wine?"
Lin Zisu was stunned for a moment, then suddenly panicked, "Brother Su, why do you feel this way? I, I won't hurt you."
Her voice gradually lowered, and she said to herself: "I won't."
Su Yuhan turned and walked out of the Lin family.
In any case, the past Su Yuhan had already drunk that glass of wine.
"Is it possible that no one can believe my past?"
He muttered to himself.
At the same time, outside Guiyi City, a teleportation array appeared and several people walked out of it.
This time 9527 was more cautious, she knew that Su Yuhan had already entered Guiyi City.
Without anyone interfering with her, the mission should proceed smoothly...
bite!
The number "Destroy Su Yuhan's three inner defense lines (current progress: 0/3)" on the system panel jumped slightly, and 0 turned into 1.
9527 raised his lips in satisfaction and said, "Let's go in and take a look."
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