Chapter 518 Banquet or booby trap (please vote for the big chapter)
The light of dawn shines in the somewhat cold courtyard.
It's early spring now, but the morning in Ellen City is still a little chilly.
It's a bit early today, and none of the disciples from the martial arts gym have come yet.
He Ao crossed the door and looked towards the corner of the yard.
The girl wearing a pure white training uniform was lowering her body and slowly practicing yesterday's boxing technique.
The light of dawn shines on the girl's delicate cheeks.
In He Ao's field of vision, an extremely subtle ray of energy at dawn was following the girl's movements, soaking into her skin and integrating into her body.
This energy flowed through the girl's body, and then slowly transformed into the girl's own power with each move.
This process is not easy, and the girl's movements are slower and heavier than usual.
As a set of punches was completed, fine beads of sweat had penetrated her forehead, and a thin stream of white mist spat out from her mouth.
She took a deep breath, regained her composure, looked up and looked ahead, and happened to see He Ao standing at the door. A look of joy immediately appeared on her face, "Master He Ao!"
"morning"
He Ao smiled and nodded to her, "Check for the gaps and fill them up, and then consolidate."
Elifia's movements are more proficient than last night, and she has gradually got on the right track. The next step is to constantly think and practice.
At this stage, the improvements in practice and thinking are not as great as before, but the effort required will not diminish.
"Um!"
Alifia has practiced martial arts since she was a child, so she naturally knew the meaning of He Ao's words. She nodded heavily, and then asked carefully, "Master He Ao, have you had breakfast? I have dumplings here."
"Is there anyone selling dumplings here?"
He Ao was a little confused.
There are not many Chinese people in Ellen City, and the nearest supermarket selling Chinese products is ten kilometers away.
"I packed it myself when I was resting yesterday."
Alifia chuckled and whispered.
He Ao thought for a moment and nodded gently, "Thank you."
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Alifia went to the kitchen to cook dumplings, and the two of them ate quickly. At this time, He Ao received a message.
The source of the information is the gendarmerie captain, and a document is also attached.
[This is the case information that I have access to involving those in charge of the opposition. I hope it will be helpful to you.]
He Ao quickly replied with a [thank you].
Then clicked on the file.
The content of the file is case information summarized according to time and people.
There are not many cases involving those opposition leaders, but the gendarmerie captain listed not only those directly related to the leaders of the opposition, but also those that may be indirectly related to them.
The gendarmerie captain listed all these cases, including some trivial cases, and they were densely arranged for dozens of pages in total.
He Ao's eyes quickly passed through these materials, and his attention was focused on the information of several people who were suspected of being assassinated by Jin Ya two years ago.
Obviously, the information obtained by the gendarmerie captain was relatively basic. Most of the information he gave were cases of finding cats and dogs, or catching thieves.
However, many things are hidden in the subtleties, and there may be some details in these materials that are not easily noticed.
He Ao stood up and walked to the yard. As the morning light fell on him, his eyes also focused on a certain line of words on the document.
Among the people Jin Ya had assassinated, the servant of one of them had reported a case a month before his master was assassinated, saying that there might be suspicious people around.
The final result of the investigation in this case was nothing.
But after contacting the assassination incident, it seems that Jin Ya was involved nearby.
He Ao quickly looked through the information of several other people who had been assassinated. None of the other people had reported such crimes.
He Ao thought for a moment, stretched out the time, and took a closer look at whether these people had reported similar crimes in the past few years.
Then he discovered that between about four and three years ago, almost every one of the people who were later assassinated had a report of suspicious persons around them.
The time of reporting the crime is not evenly distributed. There are reports one or two months or three or four months apart. Most of them come from servants, and in the end they are often ignored.
He Ao's thoughts paused for a moment.
If the 'suspicious persons' these people saw were all Jinya, and Jinya had been coming to 'see' her enemies during that period, does this mean that Jinya never left Ruodan in those years?
?Have not even left Ellen City?
He Ao thought and walked out of the courtyard.
As he walked outside, he opened the institute's software and sent a message to Li Le, asking for the specific location of Yueguang's headquarters in Ruodan.
[No. 17 West Road, something happened inside Moonlight. Now the entire Ruodan headquarters of Moonlight is under martial law and no one can enter or leave.]
Li Le quickly responded, and then he sent a sentence, [But the moonlight seems to be looking for Hao Yi.]
Um?
He Ao was stunned, he didn't understand what Li Le's words meant.
"A missing person notice will be inserted below,"
At this moment, he had walked to the nearby street, and the clear voice of the TV host came from the TV in the nearby canteen.
He Ao raised his head and looked at the TV in the canteen.
The host on the TV was glancing at the documents on his desk and said slowly,
"A gentleman named 'Moonlight' is looking for a friend named 'Hao Yi', and has prepared a sumptuous banquet at home to entertain this friend from afar. He is looking forward to achieving more with Mr. Hao Yi.
cooperation to achieve a win-win situation.
"If Mr. Hao Yi sees this news, please arrive at No. 17 West Road before nine o'clock tonight. Mr. Moonlight has been waiting for you for a long time."
He Ao lowered his head and looked at the newspapers in front of the canteen owner's door. Almost all newspapers published the same missing person notice on the front page.
He Ao turned his head and looked at the surrounding shops. Almost all the TVs were playing the missing person notice.
"Why is it like this again?"
The owner of the canteen muttered, picked up the remote control and changed the channel. The new TV station was still broadcasting the missing person notice.
In the end, the canteen owner chose to give up. He sat on a chair and waited for the missing person notice to be broadcast.
He Ao stood at the entrance of the canteen and bought a bottle of water. While paying, he asked casually, "Who is this Hao Yi? Why is there so much news about him everywhere?"
"I don't know either," the canteen owner took out his change box and gave He Ao some change. "We came together this morning. Every TV station was broadcasting his missing person notice. It was broadcast over and over again. Even the newspapers were all about it.
Search notices."
"It's in Ruodan, it's in Tia," he picked up a newspaper and showed it to He Ao, "It's even in Chinese."
He shook his head, stuffed the newspaper back, and sighed, "This bastard named Yueguang is really rich, and that guy named Hao Yi is really awesome. It's worth spending so much money to find him."
"really."
He Ao agreed, picked up the drink and left the canteen.
This is an 'invitation'.
Thoughts flashed through his mind.
At this time, Yang De made a phone call.
This was the first time Yang De called He Ao after he came to Ruodan, "He Ao, have you seen the news? Moonlight seems to be looking for 'Hao Yi'?"
"Yes," He Ao nodded, "I understand."
"What do you think?"
Yang De quickly said, "I got information that the building that was destroyed in Ellen City yesterday might have been done by Hao Yi. After last night, World Tree lost contact with the Ruodan branch, and Hao Yi seemed to destroy it.
The Ruodan branch of the World Tree.
"This morning, Yueguang issued an 'invitation' to him. Hao Yi's action pattern exceeded our expectations of him. We don't know what he wants, and we can't be sure whether he will cooperate with Yueguang now.
"Ellen's situation seems to be becoming chaotic, and the mysterious club you mentioned before is also an unknown force. The arrival of the ruins this time seems to carry some other influences that have never been seen before,"
Speaking of this, Yang De paused and said softly,
"I have discussed with Director Liu and Dean, and I hope you can withdraw. The situation in Ellen City is out of control, and we can abandon the passage to the ruins. You are now in the center of the vortex, and it is very dangerous."
Yang De's purpose at the beginning was simply to let He Ao come to practice and get in touch with various forces. Now the situation has exceeded his expectations. He Ao will be in danger if he stays any longer, so he hopes that He Ao can come in time.
Evacuate.
Hearing Yang De's words, He Ao rubbed his eyebrows,
He is not at the center of the vortex, he is the center of the vortex.
And judging from the approaching shadows in his dream, he has been marked by the mysterious shadow. Once the mysterious shadow really completes its arrival, no matter how far he goes, he will probably be killed directly by this guy.
After all, half a world away, to the gods, they are just a stone's throw away.
If the mysterious shadow guy hadn't been so ruthless in what he did, he might have really withdrawn.
But how can the gods care about the life and death of mortals? To the mysterious shadow, the hundreds of thousands of people in Ellen South City are nothing more than sacrifices placed on his altar for him to enjoy.
He Ao thought for a moment and said word by word, "I met Hao Yi yesterday."
"Um?"
Yang De was stunned now.
He Ao briefly told what happened last night, and then in the name of Hao Yi, told Yang De part of the truth about the arrival of the gods and the pollution of the World Tree.
Finally, he expressed some 'help' that 'Hao Yi' wanted to get.
"I understand, I will contact the dean and the others."
After listening to He Ao's narration, Yang De was silent for a while, then nodded. Finally, he gave instructions, "We don't know whether this 'Hao Yi' is completely trustworthy. You have to be prepared to leave at any time."
hand."
"good"
He Ao nodded.
After hanging up the phone from Yang De, He Ao took a deep breath and scanned the missing person notices all over the street.
This may be an 'invitation' or a 'booby trap'.
But currently, he still has other things to verify.
Soon, he walked again to the place where he first encountered the murder case, where Lani was killed.
Nowadays, there are still isolation tapes here to prevent people around from entering.
Rani's body and items related to her have been moved away at this time.
Because there were too many cases happening at that time, neither Moonlight nor the gendarmerie had so many people to guard the area, so they had to temporarily pull up a few isolation belts to prevent people around from entering.
Because of the murder, people around here still don't dare to enter this place.
But just because you don't dare, doesn't mean you don't dare.
Some brave people, or those who are in a hurry and want to take a side road, will go directly under the isolation belt.
When He Ao walked here, he saw three young people pulling open the isolation belt and getting in.
——
"I heard this is the scene of a murder,"
After the three of them crossed the isolation zone, they slowly walked along the dark and dark alley. The last person walking at the end was a short boy. He was carefully looking at the gloomy surroundings and said tremblingly, "Let's come
Is this really the right place?”
"Why, are you scared?"
The only girl among the three, a girl with a ponytail and obvious freckles on her face, turned her head and smiled playfully at the short boy. She spoke in a high-pitched tone and suddenly made a sound. It was obvious that she had scary thoughts.
"without!"
The short boy was obviously startled. He leaned back, grabbed the strap of his schoolbag, and said tremblingly, "No."
"Hahaha, timid guy."
The freckled girl laughed and looked around carefully.
"Let's just come in and see if it's okay."
The person walking at the front was a tall young man. He took out his mobile phone and started recording.
"Think about it, if we showed this video during class today, wouldn't it be very cool? Don't worry, this road is not long. Haven't we walked it many times before when things were fine? And we
It’s also faster to get to school this way.”
"However, these recent murders are a bit strange,"
The short boy said in a low voice, "And didn't you have that dream? The dream with the scary shadow? My mother said that there may be many things in this world that we can't see. Don't go to places that are obviously abnormal.
."
"What's the matter, you still dreamed that some shadow got up in the middle of the night to catch you and eat you?"
The freckled girl laughed loudly, "This is all part of a supernatural story, and what are you worried about? This place has been cleaned up by the military police."
She walked to the wall on one side of the box, pointed to the exposed brick wall above, and said, "Did you see that the bloody cement was knocked away by the military police, and you told those weird stories? It's broad daylight."
Yes, is it possible that there is a monster staring at us right above our heads?"
And just when she said this, the short boy raised his head and looked at the top of her head with a horrified expression.
"What's wrong?"
The freckled girl was stunned.
At this moment, a drop of warm liquid fell on her hand.
She turned her head and looked at the thing on the back of her hand.
It was a drop of bright red blood.
She raised her head tremblingly.
Just half a meter above her head, there was a humanoid body covered with pimples, lying on the wall like a gecko. A monster with a huge mouth was staring at her, and bright red blood overflowed from the gaps between the monster's teeth.
When the girl looked up and found the monster, the monster also opened its bloody mouth.
Bright red blood dripped on the girl's face.
The girl opened her mouth to scream, but the monster was faster, crawled in front of her in an instant, and bit her head.
At this moment, a cold white light fell from the sky, piercing the monster's body like thunder and nailing it to the wall.
"ah!!!"
The girl's scream escaped.
The short young man next to her quickly pulled her out. The two of them failed to control their strength and fell against the wall on the other side of the alley at the same time.
"Monster!!!"
The other tall young man who took the video finally reacted and rushed towards the other side while rolling and crawling.
In this chaos, the short young man raised his head and looked at the light that crucified the monster. It seemed to be a pure white 'sword'.
But the next second, the sword disappeared and the monster's body slipped to the ground.
The short boy raised his head and looked at the sky, looking at the direction where the light was coming from. There, there was only a slowly rising sun.
——
He Ao, who was standing on the rooftop, glanced at the bone sword that had been retrieved through the air and returned to his hand, and glanced at the direction where the monster appeared.
Bright red traces were hidden between the gaps in the wall.
Under the vision of divine consciousness, some surging dark power is gestating within it.
This seems to be part of some kind of ritual.
He Ao's figure retreated, jumped to another rooftop, and disappeared in the sun.
There was something going on at home, so I was delayed for a while, so it will be a little later.
