Chapter 724: Behind the Door (please vote for the super large chapter)
Newland City State·Vinland Island
Night has fallen, the noisy chaos outside has long since stopped, and the quiet night seems to have arrived.
The white-haired old man slowly climbed up the stairs and finally touched the cellar door covering his head.
She slowly reached out her hand, opened the cellar door lock with difficulty, and then pushed upward with slight force.
squeak—
With a crisp sound, the cellar door was pushed open a small gap.
The old man stood on tiptoe and carefully looked out through the gap.
Then her whole body seemed to stiffen.
"Grandma, what's wrong?"
The little girl in the cellar looked at the old man's sudden pause and asked with some confusion.
"it's okay no problem."
The old man shook his head slightly, but her eyes never left the open gap.
A doll that looked like a puppet was lying on the ground, facing the gap in the door, with a blood-red eyeball crawling in its wooden eye socket, watching her quietly.
Behind the doll, you can vaguely see walls covered with twisted flesh, broken rocks, and moss attached to the rocks.
The old man took a deep breath and slowly closed the cellar door while the doll watched.
"Grandma, what's wrong?"
The little girl had already come over in confusion, lying down at the foot of the stairs, staring blankly at her grandma, who was obviously in something wrong.
"it's okay no problem,"
The old man took a deep breath and rubbed his eyes, "As I get older, my eyes are a little blurred."
She raised her head and glanced at the cellar door above her head, then slowly reached out her hand again and carefully opened the door.
This time, what caught her eyes was the even moonlight spreading on the floor. The old furniture stood there quietly like countless days in the past.
The old man glanced ahead. The living room was quiet and the door was closed. Those crazy gangsters did not seem to attack their home, which had lost everything.
She pushed open the cellar door with difficulty, then turned around, stretched out her hand downwards, and motioned for the little girl to come up.
The little girl quickly climbed up and took her grandma's hand to crawl out of the cellar.
"You take care of the cellar door, and grandma will go and see if anything is missing."
The old man let go of his granddaughter's hand, whispered instructions, and then turned around and walked towards the cabinet.
"Uh-huh!"
The little girl nodded.
She looked at the back of the old man as he staggered up and closed the cellar door with difficulty.
Then she turned her head and glanced at the empty living room, thought for a while, ran to the door, and opened the door.
"ah!
!”
A scream suddenly sounded.
"What's wrong?"
The old man who was rummaging through things was suddenly attracted by his granddaughter's voice. She staggered over, stood behind her, and saw a pool of blood in front of the open door.
"it's okay no problem."
The old man stretched out one hand to cover his granddaughter's eyes, and then held the door with the other hand to close the door.
"grandmother!"
At this time, the little girl suddenly shouted with surprise.
She grabbed her grandma's hand with her two little hands, exposed her little eyes from under her grandma's hand, and looked at the door handle of the door.
There, hanging a straw amulet, was swaying gently in the night wind.
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core island
"Chaos swept the entire city-state. A large number of criminals who colluded with West attacked all places indiscriminately, causing violence and robbery. A large number of city-state citizens were attacked in this chaos."
The young man wearing a black knitted jacket angrily put the document in his hand on the table. He looked up at He Ao, who was sitting across the table.
"Mr. Hao Yi, we are very grateful for your assistance. Without your help, I don't know how many people would have died in this man-made disaster this time. The headquarters has sent a message and they have prepared a copy for you.
A list of extraordinary items, hoping to express a little gratitude to you."
"Don't think about this for the time being. The Chaos Church hasn't been completely settled yet, and this matter hasn't been settled yet,"
He Ao smiled and put down the coins he was playing with, looked up at the young man, "Can you show me the investigation data on these Chaos Believers?"
What was sitting here was not He Ao's body, but his clone. After placing the rescued hostages, he and his clone exchanged identities in a carriage of the Velora.
Of course, his clone did not always hide in the Velora, but stayed on Vinland Island as Lenk, and by the way dealt with some villains sent by West to draw fire to him.
Until the incident was almost over, he entered the Velora and changed his identity back.
After exchanging identities, He Ao's body immediately returned to Ruodan on the Velora.
"ah?"
Hearing He Ao's words, the young man was stunned.
"Your people should have already searched West's home, including the left and right missionaries and those who have deeper connections with West. You should also follow the clues to investigate? Even if there is no clear result from this information, you have spent so many years
, haven’t there been investigations into West, the uncontrolled ‘responsible person’?”
He Ao looked at him with a smile.
The young man in front of him is named Kodo, and he is West's theoretical deputy. He is an extraordinary person sent to Newland by Moonlight Headquarters to monitor West.
Although he had long been sidelined by West, after West's death, he naturally became the person in charge of Moonlight in Newland.
"He was timid and said a lot of nice things, but in the end he was not even willing to give me any information, right?"
A cold snort came from the side.
Kodo looked at He Ao, where a woman in a red dress wearing a broad coat and bloodstains on her body was sitting there, chewing on a large chicken drumstick, and answering the question with a smile.
This is exactly Wu Lan.
She ate a piece of nutritious canned meat to recover from her injury, but at the cost of being extremely hungry, she had to find something to eat during meetings. She snorted while eating, which didn't seem to express her seriousness.
Emotions.
Especially when it's chewing like a squirrel hiding pine cones in its mouth.
Of course, her dissatisfaction still reached Kodo's ears.
Kodo's expression changed, and he finally chose to tell the truth, "Our people are still investigating, and I don't have the authority to do much..."
"We can make the decision."
A gentle, slightly magnetic female voice slowly sounded along with the sound of the office door being pushed open.
He Ao raised his head and looked at the door of the office.
A tall figure holding a document came into his eyes. This was a lady with a typical Thian face.
She wore a white coat similar to a lab coat, silver-gray thin-rimmed glasses, her long gray-blond hair was casually tied behind her head, fixed by silver hairpins, and she wore a white soft top underneath the coat.
A shirt and a crisp skirt. Below the edge of the skirt are tight calves wrapped in silver-gray stockings and light white stiletto high heels.
He Ao actually met this person at noon.
She is the person in charge of the moonlight in Velen City, which is closest to the city-state of Newland, and her name is Feiya.
At noon, she received a request for help from Kodo, and took a group of extraordinary people to directly support Newlon in a helicopter. She happened to encounter the scene where Ho Ao killed West.
Overall, her first impression is more like that of a researcher rather than an extraordinary leader of an organization.
"Fiya?"
At this time, Kodo also raised his head and looked at Feiya with some confusion.
Feiya was not the person in charge of Newland, and she had no interest in the matters here. After coming to support, after a brief exchange with He Ao, she took over the matter of arranging the captured 'sacrifice'
He ran away without a trace.
Kodo also seemed a little confused as to why she appeared here.
"Look at your phone, there are orders from headquarters,"
Feiya sighed, "They put me in charge of the work here temporarily and gave us full authority."
"ah?"
Kodo was stunned for a moment, then stood up as if he had been granted amnesty, and gave up the throne to Feiya, "I said you can't run away, you still have to bear this responsibility."
Feiya just sighed slightly and quickly sat down in Kodo's original position, which was opposite He Ao.
She handed the document in her hand to He Ao and said in a gentle and calm voice, "Mr. Hao Yi, this is the clue information we have obtained so far from West's home and office and other places where he usually lives, as well as the suspected threats.
A summary of the confessions of West’s accomplices, and a summary of our investigation data on West over the years.”
"Thanks for your hard work."
He Ao took the information and looked through it briefly.
Nothing useful was found in West's home and office, only some campfire ornaments, and some flame paintings and artwork.
The confessions of those followers of the Chaos Church were also very simple. Basically all the core members died in the noon sacrifice, and those who remained were some non-core personnel. They only knew that they had joined an organization with chaotic beliefs, and that the leaders of the church
It's very strong and can bring them strength in some way.
These people did not know the emblem of the God of Chaos, nor did they participate in West's kidnapping. They only acted as thugs on the outside and used illegal means to make money for West and support the operation of the church.
"After our investigation, there are a large number of fire-related items in the place where West often stays. We suspect that the chaotic church he believes in should have some degree of fire worship,"
While looking through the information, Feiya was also slowly summarizing the contents of the information for He Ao.
"In fact, the signs of his flame worship came about after he returned from the ruins two years ago. During the opening of the ruins, he entered the ruins and was successfully promoted to C-level in the ruins.
“And that time the ruins caused a huge change in him.
"Before this, he had never shown much ambition, but after returning from the ruins, he unexpectedly actively participated in our affairs, and mediated before the moonlight and the city-state to serve himself
Obtained the identity of the person in charge of the city-state.
"According to the confessions of the members of the outlying churches that he developed, this 'Chaos Church' also appeared after that."
She looked at He Ao and slowly concluded, "So we speculate that he may have obtained something in that ruins. According to the ruins entry records at that time, after he came back from the ruins, all the extraordinary items he acquired were
It was handed in, and I didn’t realize that there was any additional secret... Moonlight is quite strict in this regard."
"I heard that you will strip and search everyone who comes back from the ruins?"
Wu Lan, who had finished chewing the chicken legs next to her, raised her head and looked at Feiya and asked softly.
“It’s not that scary,”
Feiya shook her head, "We have a special prop that can detect the number of extraordinary items carried by extraordinary people, but it requires certain cooperation."
"So you're guessing that West brought something out from the ruins, but it didn't exist physically, but it was some kind of 'knowledge'?"
He Ao closed the document in his hand and asked in a low voice.
"At present, this is the only thing we can investigate."
Feiya nodded.
"Are the extraordinary items that West brought out from the ruins still there? Can you show them to me?"
He Ao looked down at the coin in his hand and asked casually.
"It should still be there,"
Feiya nodded, "Let me apply for it for you."
"Thanks for your hard work,"
He Ao nodded slightly, and then he stood up slowly, "If you find those extraordinary items, please contact me immediately. Also, I hope you know,"
He looked at the woman in front of him calmly, "Don't try to find the so-called secret of West's 'becoming stronger', and don't try to retain anything related to chaos. That will only drag you and the world into the abyss."
, the last person who tried to use the power of chaos, the remnants left behind are still in the ruins."
Feiya looked at He Ao's calm face and was stunned for a moment.
For some reason, the scene of He Ao piercing the heart of the terrifying giant with his sword at noon flashed through her mind.
That sword light that seemed to penetrate heaven and earth, that tiny figure swinging the sword at the giant who looked like a god, that power that could easily destroy the 'gifts of gods'.
God's gift is not omnipotent.
Such a powerful and terrifying force, together with 'Hao Yi', was like a brand, engraved into her soul.
She took a breath, stood up, and looked at He Ao, "I will convey your words to the headquarters."
"Thanks for your hard work."
He Ao nodded.
Wu Lan on the side also slowly stood up.
"By the way," Feiya looked at He Ao who was about to leave and asked softly, "Are you always in Newland? How should we contact you?"
"Just send me a message on the intelligence website you prepared for me. Any new information can be synchronized on it. Your boss will teach you how to operate it."
He Ao smiled and said, "I will not stay in one place. I will send this Ms. Wu Lan back to the institute's residence later. Don't worry, I can come over at any time."
Xia Ye and the others left by plane in the afternoon. Only Wu Lan stayed here and waited with He Ao for preliminary investigation information.
"Oh, okay, I'll give it to you."
At this time, Feiya seemed to suddenly remember that the person in front of her had the Velora, a tool that could travel through space quickly.
Kodo also followed.
It wasn't until both parties walked out of the building that served as the temporary headquarters that they slowly said goodbye.
Feiya and Kodo returned to the building, while He Ao took Wu Lan aboard the Verora, which had returned from the West.
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"Do you think there are deeper problems buried here in Newland?"
When the door of the Verora slowly closed, Wu Lan turned around and looked at He Ao with some confusion.
"From the current point of view, West received the evil god's gift in the ruins, and then brought the evil god's tentacles to the real world, which ultimately led to today's situation. It is a basically self-consistent logical chain."
He Ao looked at the darkness gradually covering the car window and said thoughtfully, "But it may not be a complete logical chain."
"By the way," then he thought of something and turned to look at Wu Lan, "Are you worried about why you suddenly ask this?"
"ah!"
Wu Lan was stunned for a moment, then smiled awkwardly and said, "I was so seriously injured this time that I can't take the lead in rebuilding the Newland branch of the institute. Moreover, the situation in Newland is a bit complicated, and there are many Chaos cultists.
, at least a powerful C-level is needed to solve all aspects of the problem."
He Ao stood nearby and kept listening.
"After all, Newland is Moonlight's territory, so our minister Yang De can't come over. Originally, we wanted our colleagues who are nearby to come over,"
Wu Lan looked at He Ao's listening action, paused, and continued, "But another colleague volunteered to come over."
"Is it Heao?"
He Ao answered calmly.
In fact, he knew it. After all, when the field department held a meeting in the afternoon to decide who would come here, he was the protagonist.
But ‘Hao Yi’ shouldn’t know.
"Yes, you know him. He should be on the plane coming over now,"
Wu Lan nodded, "In principle, he is very strong and smart, and is indeed more suitable for Newland's current situation, but..."
"Are you worried?"
He Ao asked in a low voice thoughtfully.
Wu Lan was silent for a moment, and suddenly said softly, "Can I tell him about the suspicions you just mentioned?"
"certainly."
He Ao nodded.
The carriage fell into silence again.
After a while, the sound of untying some kind of tangle was heard in the silence.
Wu Lan took off a folded long whip from her waist and handed it to He Ao, "This is the C-class extraordinary item I brought back from the ruins before. If your guess comes true, then you will
If you are in Newland, could you please help me..."
"If you do that," He Ao looked at her with a smile, "Should I pay you for being a bait when you went into dangerous situations before?"
"ah?"
Wu Lan was startled, her head seemed to be dazed for a moment, and she suddenly lost her voice.
"alright,"
He Ao smiled and shook his head, then blinked at Wu Lan's confused expression, "He is your friend and also my friend."
"Well."
Wu Lan's eyes widened, he glanced at the whip in his hand, and scratched his head in embarrassment.
Finally, she lowered her head and whispered,
"thank you."
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The stars and the misty sea of clouds merge into one.
He Ao, who was sitting by the window of the plane, leaned on the chair and stared at the bright moon in the sky and the skyline where clouds and stars meet.
