Chapter 35 Anti-Dungeon Organization
The second floor of the Adventurer's Guild.
After Jack left, Leon stared at his departing figure from the window, thoughtful.
"What's wrong, boss?" Tel asked, "What are you thinking about?"
Leon retracted his gaze, smiled, and said, "Ter, you have been deceived again this time."
"Huh?" Tel scratched his head and asked in confusion, "What do you mean?"
"It's simple, Mr. Jack is a liar whose tricks are not very good," Leon said with a little boredom.
"Black Fist" Pétain nodded in agreement.
"I noticed that something was wrong with the old man. He was shaking all the time and people thought he was having a heart attack," Malu shrugged and said with a feminine smile, "Only the big, stupid Tel would be fooled."
"You!" Tel glared at her, and the latter hid next to Leon with a smile.
"Okay, Malu, stop teasing Tel," Leon stopped the dispute, looked at Tel again, and said, "Didn't you notice something was wrong?"
"I do have some feelings about this, but," Tel sat down on the sofa angrily, "Jack's knowledge of the dungeon doesn't seem fake. He has answered all your questions and even found out where you deliberately said something wrong."
Leon chuckled, stroked his golden hair that was as bright as the sun, and said, "Yes, he knows a lot about the dungeon, but the more genuine he acts, the more I doubt one thing."
"What is it?" everyone asked in a comic way.
“Maybe someone is guiding Jack behind the scenes,” Leon smirked, his blond hair seeming to sense his emotions and becoming brighter.
"My eyes are going blind, where's the hat? Hurry up and put the hat on the boss!" Malu covered her eyes and shouted, "Didn't we say that we have to wear hats indoors?"
"It's too undignified to wear a hat when meeting guests," Leon said helplessly.
"Black Fist" Pétain nodded in agreement.
"Anyway, I'm very interested in the person behind him. If we can invite him to join the strategy team, I'm sure our progress will be much faster," Leon's eyes flashed with a light of ambition, "At least, our speed will not lag behind the strategy teams that are conquering other mutant dungeons!"
"Maloo!"
"I'm here, I'm here," Malu covered her eyes and didn't dare to look at this side.
"Go follow Jack. If there is someone behind him, remember to be polite to him."
"Okay, okay, I really can't stay in this room any longer."
After saying this, Malu was about to leave. With a bit of night cat blood in her blood, she could not stand the strong light at all.
However, something unexpected happened.
"Ah - murder -" a scream came from below the guild.
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In Bed City, inside the Resurrection House of the Holy Light Church.
Dozens of priests specializing in resurrection are online around the clock. When the adventurer's body is teleported to the resurrection house, they will immediately proceed to resurrect it.
If a person who has just died is pulled over, it will only take less than ten minutes to revive him. If the person has been dead for a longer time, then it will be troublesome. If it has been more than a day, then any resurrection technique will be ineffective.
Not every resurrection house is contracted by the Holy Light Church. In fact, all churches, big and small, are vying to contract the resurrection house business. Leaving Bed City, other resurrection houses may be contracted by the Forest Church, or the Night Light Church, the Church of the Dead, and so on.
After all, the Resurrection House is a big business, and every time an adventurer is resurrected, he needs to pay a resurrection fee, which is neither too much nor too little, just the right level that everyone can accept after gritting their teeth.
In a study room of the Resurrection House, a young priest with a childish appearance asked the old man beside him: "Teacher, as long as the time of death is within one day, can the resurrection spell save the person? Won't the legendary god of death get angry?"
"Why are you angry?" the old man asked kindly.
"Because," the little priest hesitated, "resurrection is considered a blasphemy against death, right?"
"Haha, the god of death is not that stingy. Besides, not all dead can be resurrected by resurrection."
The old man lovingly stroked the little priest's head and explained:
"Only those who died in the dungeon can be resurrected in such a simple way by the resurrection technique, because the dungeon will lock the soul of the person in the body. Since the soul has not left the body, as long as the body is repaired and the soul is awakened, the person can naturally be resurrected."
"Once a person dies in the outside world, except in special circumstances, the soul will be immediately pulled into the underworld. At this time, the body is just an empty shell. To revive this empty shell, a complex and expensive soul-calling ceremony is needed to pull the soul back from the underworld."
The old man said: "That is the true blasphemy against death. Those who perform resurrection will be marked by the god of death."
The young priest said with some fear: "What will happen if I mark you?"
The old man said seriously:
"It will be recorded in the little notebook of the god of death."
"?"
The little priest blinked in confusion, and finally pretended to understand and said, "Oh! So it will be recorded in the little notebook, how terrible."
The old man's mouth twitched, but he said nothing.
The atmosphere in the study calmed down, and the voice of the little priest was heard again:
"So, the old man who was sent here just now is beyond saving, right?"
"It can be saved, but it can't be saved,"
"?"
The old man sighed and said slowly:
"He couldn't afford to be rescued,"
In the morgue, Jack's body lay there alone.
The morgue is the least used facility in the resurrection house, because the corpses sent here are basically from the dungeon, and most of them can be resurrected, and situations like Jack's rarely occur.
"His heart was crushed by a sharp blade and he died on the spot. Please accept my condolences," the priest said to Leon sadly with his eyes lowered.
"I'm not his family member," Leon said expressionlessly.
"Oh, that's all right," the priest changed his expression in an instant, stretched his waist, and asked, "Do you know where his family is? If we can't contact him, we can only bury him. This old man is an adventurer, right?"
"Yes." Malu was shocked by the pastor's quick change of expression.
The so-called underground burial is the final destination of helpless adventurers. If there are no relatives to handle the aftermath and no cemetery is purchased before death, the adventurer's body will be sent to the dungeon.
In addition to surface adventures, exploring dungeons is an indispensable part of every adventurer's career, and most people would agree with this approach.
"The murderer is really cruel," the pastor continued, "the anti-underground city organization has been getting more and more aggressive recently, and they even dare to kill people in the street. This old man is also unlucky."
The people who killed Jack were from the Anti-Dungeon Organization.
This is a mysterious organization that strongly opposes the dungeon. They claim that there is an ancient evil god hidden in the dungeon and believe that people must destroy the dungeon where demons are rampant and destroy everything obtained from the dungeon.
Everyone regards this organization as clowns, but what was unexpected was that in the past two years, the behavior of the Anti-Underground Organization has become increasingly excessive. First, they organized protests and marches, and today they even dare to kill people in the streets.
There are even rumors that the group holds a way to permanently destroy the dungeon.
Perhaps it was Jack's behavior of selling ingredients yesterday that caught their attention, or maybe it was because Jack led people to attack the dungeon. In short, he did become a victim.
"Boss," Malu suddenly said, "Do you want me to wait here for a day or two to see if anyone comes to collect his body? If someone does, maybe that person is the one behind him."
Leon was silent for a moment and nodded.
(End of this chapter)
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