Chapter 513 Streets in the Shadows (please vote for the big chapter)
twist street
He Ao picked up his phone and looked at the time, four fifty in the afternoon.
He raised his feet and stepped into Twisted Street.
This is a bustling commercial street, consisting of a main street and dozens of different side streets.
The street was very lively with people coming and going.
Such a famous street has never appeared in Rani and Gade's photos, which is a questionable point in itself.
The Ruodan branch of World Tree is most likely located on a branch street of this bustling commercial street.
Hidden away in the city.
In such a prosperous place, people always subconsciously feel that no one would put a branch of an intelligence organization here.
This actually makes it a safe place.
Of course, when World Tree intelligence personnel come in and out, they must be careful not to let people around them notice the problem.
In order to prevent the specialness from being noticed, He Ao guessed that the World Tree branch would still choose a street with less traffic.
He Ao walked along the main street and scanned all the branch streets, but he could not find any streets with suspicious buildings.
Do we have to search each street one by one?
He Ao raised his head and glanced at the sky. The sun was gradually setting towards the west.
Although the daylight is still bright at this time, it is already approaching evening.
From various previous information, it appears that the god named ‘Mysterious Shadow’ claims to be the Lord of the Eternal Night, and his power should be most active after entering the night.
Similarly, when night falls, it should also be the most suitable time for the primitive church to conduct rituals.
There were no large-scale ritual deaths last night because Heao destroyed the Shadow Club, attracting Moonlight's attention and disrupting their plans.
However, He Ao did not think that the Shadow Club was the only means of the Primitive Church. Lani had never entered the Shadow Club and still died in the ritual.
Once night falls, the primitive church starts the ceremony through other means. With the blessing of the power of the gods, He Ao may not be able to solve them so easily.
Therefore, it is best to find the Ruodan branch of the World Tree before nightfall, which is where the believers of the polluted primitive church reside.
He Ao looked at the branch streets that he had already observed and fell into deep thought.
Pictures of streets passing through his mind.
There should be no streets he missed.
He counted the number of streets in his mind. There seemed to be a total of seventeen branch streets in the entire Tike Street.
These are seventeen streets, and he has looked at them all carefully.
etc,
He Ao was stunned, took out his mobile phone, opened the map software, then located here, and counted the surrounding branch streets one by one along this Newk street.
Sixteen, seventeen...eighteen.
Twisted Street has a total of eighteen branch streets.
He Ao stopped and looked at the bustling street in front of him again. He checked all the streets in Tike Street that he had memory of. There were seventeen streets in total, and there was no eighteenth street.
But the map in his hand clearly has eighteen streets.
Either the map hasn't been updated for a long time and something went wrong, or there was something wrong with him.
Moreover, he could not recall at all the difference between the seventeen streets he counted and the eighteen streets on the map.
He thought for a moment, followed the streets on the map on his mobile phone, entered Tike Street again, and started counting them one by one.
One···Two···Four···
···Seventeen···Eighteen.
He Ao stopped and looked at the busy branch street in front of him, and was stunned for a moment.
Eighteen articles, right?
Did you count wrong just now?
No, something is wrong.
He Ao closed his eyes and carefully recalled the memory just now.
Although he counted eighteen streets, he still only had scenes from seventeen streets in his memory.
He raised his feet again and counted the streets one by one. This time, he counted down from back to front.
Eighteen···Seventeen···
···Four···Two
As soon as He Ao's footsteps stopped, he realized that something was wrong, but he couldn't detect anything wrong.
He retreated to the back of the fourth street and activated his super memory.
At this moment, the reflection of the entire street appeared in his mind.
He crossed fourth street and stopped halfway between second and fourth streets.
Pedestrians coming and going passed by here without stopping in their footsteps, as if there was nothing here.
In fact, there was a thought in He Ao's mind that told him that there was nothing here.
However, in Chaoyi's vision, a lonely and lonely street was reflected in He Ao's mind.
Dark shadows covered the street. Even though the sun was shining brightly outside, there was no light on the street.
On both sides of the street are shops with half-opened doors, and strange black canvases are hung in front of their doors.
This is the ‘disappeared’ ‘eighteenth’ street
There are eighteen streets in Tike Street, but one street is hidden by some kind of force.
So walking along the main street of Tike Street, you can only 'see' seventeen streets.
If we directly count the number of streets, we will skip this missing street and get the answer of eighteen streets.
But what Heao counted was not the number of streets. What he first counted was the number of streets in his memory.
For ordinary people, their own memory will inevitably have some errors. It is impossible to count in this way, and there is a high probability that they will not believe the amount they count.
So this is a very clever way of hiding interference. Perhaps only people with a specific "invitation" can enter this street.
But for He Ao, who has a memory enhanced by super memory, his long-term habit of using super memory has made him trust his memory more.
Because the hidden streets were invisible, Ho Ao only had images of those seventeen streets in his memory, which aroused his doubts about the number of streets.
Eventually this hidden street was discovered.
He Ao glanced at the dark street in front of him and put away his mobile phone.
——
The man with a brown moustache was sitting at the intersection of the branch street of Tike Street, using the newspaper in his hand to cover his eyes and glanced at the other side of Tike Street.
A tall and upright young man from Middle-earth who looked a little immature was standing opposite, staring at something.
There was obviously nothing on the opposite side, but this young man seemed to be watching some complicated scene.
The man kept staring at the young man's back. He watched the young man put away his mobile phone and seemed to be preparing to move forward.
A woman pushing a stroller passed behind the young man, blocking his back.
The man's eyes flashed.
When the woman walked by, the young man was no longer in his sight.
The man paused for a moment, then calmly put away the newspaper, took out his cell phone, and stood up slowly.
He raised his head and glanced around, glanced at the cameras of the nearby store, then looked away, turned and turned into a hidden alley deep in the street.
At the same time, he opened the address book on his mobile phone, selected a number and was about to call it.
"Who do you need to contact? You need to go to such a remote place?"
A cold voice sounded in his ears.
From the corner of his eye, a young man with a well-proportioned figure and a somewhat immature appearance was standing quietly beside him.
His body froze, and he immediately took out a silencer-equipped pistol from his pocket and pointed it at the young man beside him.
puff--
A slight gunshot rang out, and the bullet penetrated the wall nearby.
He Ao pulled the bone sword out of the man's chest and let the blood flow on the ground.
He put the bone sword back into the pirate treasure chest with his backhand and watched the man's eyes widen as he fell to the ground.
People here love to fight and kill.
He Ao shook his head,
Can't you abide by the law?
He knelt down and looked at the mobile phone that the man held tightly in his other hand. The contact person displayed on the mobile phone was,
[Blood Master]
This name sounds familiar.
Then He Ao remembered that the C-class of Dawn that he left the mark on seemed to be codenamed 'Blood Hunter'.
Is this the Dawn Man?
He Ao thought for a moment, took out the bone sword, opened the man's clothes, and rummaged through the man's pocket. He did not find Liming's ID card, but a round badge fell out of the man's pocket.
It was a brown-red triangle crown badge.
He Ao picked up the badge and looked at it carefully.
The workmanship of this badge is very exquisite. The brown-red color of the crown is not dyed, but is composed of some kind of brown-red gemstones. Three small emerald gemstones are also inlaid on the three corners of the crown.
It doesn't look like something ordinary people can afford.
He Ao looked at the man's wide eyes.
Brown-red pupils.
Things seem to be getting interesting.
He threw the badge back to the man, took a picture and sent it to the gendarmerie captain.
Then he pulled out the mobile phone from the man's hand, took out the mobile phone sim card, and wrote down the phone number of the 'blood master'.
After all this was done, he put the phone back on the man and walked out of the alley.
There is a warning cone for the construction ahead placed in the corner of the alley.
He picked up the warning cone and blocked the entrance to the alley. After he clapped his hands and made sure there was no blood on his body, he crossed the street again and arrived at the hidden street entrance.
A dark shadow stood in front of him.
He gently raised his legs and stepped forward.
When he crossed the dividing line between this street and the main street, the noisy noise that had been echoing in Ho'or's ears suddenly stopped silently, as if it were silenced.
But the sound did not disappear, but became like a small noise, which was difficult to detect.
A bit of cold wind blew across He Ao's face.
dumb--
Several crows flew across the sky with hoarse cries.
He Ao turned off super memory.
The black cloth in front of the store sways in the breeze.
He Ao turned around and could still see the crowds of people laughing and walking on the main street outside.
The silent shadows seem to separate this branch street from the outside area into different worlds.
The doors of the shops on both sides were ajar, as if the owners had left long ago and would return at any time.
He Ao stepped on the cold cement road and walked deeper into the street step by step.
This street is not long, but it has a relatively large winding arc, making it difficult for people to see the scene deep in the street.
As He Ao turned the corner, a small iron gate sandwiched between shops appeared in front of him, which immediately caught his eye.
In fact, just in terms of style and size, this small iron door is not unique and is no different from other small doors sandwiched in shops on the street.
This kind of old street is also inhabited by people. Through this small iron gate and the porch behind the door, you can reach a small inhabited courtyard. This kind of small gate can be seen everywhere in Ellen City, and it is not that unusual.
However, the small door in front of He Ao is different from other ordinary small doors. It is almost completely covered by dark shadows. From a distance, you can't even tell its color.
This makes this small door look unusually abrupt in this shadow-covered street.
In fact, it can be seen from the location selection that when World Tree originally chose the Ruodan branch, it was still mainly about hiding.
The shadow that shrouded this street was probably what happened after the power of the 'mysterious shadow' came.
The surrounding air is getting colder.
As He Ao approached the small door shrouded in shadow, he vaguely felt that the surrounding temperature had dropped to two to three degrees.
There is still warm sunshine outside, but here it is as cold as the depths of the silent night.
The small door was ajar, but not closed. He Ao pushed it gently, and with a creaking sound, the old small door slowly opened.
The first thing that caught He Ao's eyes was a relatively wide porch. This kind of porch is usually composed of the walls of shops on both sides. Only through this porch can you see the small courtyard and living space inside the door.
The shadows ahead became darker and darker.
He Ao quickly passed through the porch and arrived in front of the courtyard behind the porch.
Dark shadows enveloped the entire courtyard, as if it were the moment darkness fell.
He Ao raised his head, the sun in the sky was still shining, but there was no light at all in the yard.
On the last step before entering the yard, He Ao stopped, lowered his head and looked under him.
Where he stood now, there was a footprint shrouded in shadow.
Footprints in the concrete.
Although the shadow almost obscured He Ao's vision, he could still tell that the footprints were very new and had no accumulation of soil. They seemed to have been left just a few days ago.
The man who left the footprints controlled the force very well, leaving clear footprints without damaging the entire cement floor or cracking the entire ground.
He is a master.
He Ao raised his head and looked deep into the yard.
In the deepest part of the shadow, the outline of a five-story building is looming.
He lowered his head and glanced at the footprints in front of him again.
A top D-level or C-level can leave such a footprint, but judging from the strength control and sophistication of this footprint, there is a high probability that this footprint was left by a C-level.
Do people in Yggdrasil leave footprints on their own doorsteps?
Not too possible.
Moreover, this footprint is very new and is facing the branch of World Tree. It is more like some kind of provocation.
Has a certain 'visitor' been here in the past few days?
However, there is no mention of any "visitors" in the records left by Gade.
Such a powerful C-class came to the door and made provocations. Gaed should not be unaware of it.
Or, this visitor came before the evil god's power came, and Gede did not record it.
Either it happened after the evil god's power came and Gad was controlled by pollution and lost consciousness.
I don’t know whether this C-level is an enemy or a friend, or whether he is contaminated by the power of the evil god.
He Ao pulled out the bone sword from the pirate treasure chest and stepped into the dark shadow.
After being promoted to martial arts and super memory, he has never tried how far his strength has reached.
He already had a basic judgment on the strength of the primitive church.
The roar of the train suddenly sounded in He'ao's ears. It was the sound of the Velora running.
A twisted voice of praise came from the building, with some kind of weird madness, and invaded He Ao's mind.
