If Comet Street is a relatively clean and tidy place in the slums.
That ‘black street’ is a slum within a slum!
Here, fights, smuggling and trafficking... all kinds of criminal activities happen anytime and anywhere.
Even mysterious sects have activities.
It is said that the city that never sleeps once organized RoboCop to clean it up several times, but it didn't take long for it to reappear.
As time goes by, it becomes nothing more.
Aaron followed Fatty and came to this place for the first time, which even Chloe and others were reluctant to come to.
…
A low shack.
The fat man got in first and waved to Aaron.
Aaron seemed to hesitate for a moment before diving in.
After entering, I discovered that although the shack looked small from the outside, there was actually more space inside. Several surrounding shacks had been dug out, and a basement might even have been built.
At the door, there were two big men with bald heads and tattoos, holding their arms coldly, like silent guards.
"Where is the patient?"
Aaron asked.
In fact, he had noticed something was wrong a long time ago, but he just watched the fat man's performance quietly, wanting to see where this guy would take him in the end.
"Inside!"
The fat man led Aaron through a corridor, opened the door curtain, and Aaron saw a 'person' covered in bandages.
Only one of his eyes was exposed, and his whole body was wrapped airtight.
What surprised Aaron the most was... the other party's injury...
"This is not a schizophrenic patient at all...he was attacked by a mysterious force!"
Aaron's face showed a look of anger, and he grabbed the collar of the fat black merchant: "You cheated me?"
The fat man who was grabbed by the collar showed joy on his face: "Sure enough...as a natural doctor, you recognize this kind of cursed injury. What do you think? Can you treat it?"
"Treatment? I don't want to be targeted by the strong man behind the curse."
Aaron sneered and let go, about to leave.
At this time, two tattooed bald men blocked Aaron's way.
"Mr. Aaron, I know a lot about you... The natural man who suddenly appeared in the Desert of Death, believes in the original ecology... Such a person will definitely be close to us."
The fat man said sincerely.
"You...I don't even know who you are now..."
Aaron sneered.
"Please rest assured that we are not the extremes from the Environmental Protection Association, nor are we the lunatics from the Death Religion who want to drag everyone to death..."
Fatty explained that the mysterious sect is just a collective name for all extraordinary people and their beliefs from the outside world.
In fact, there are many factions within, and some factions are even hostile to each other. Bloody fights among members are commonplace.
"We belong to the 'Five Ring Tower' and are just a small organization that hopes to gain more knowledge..."
The fat man finally gave up.
The Extraordinary One of ‘Tower’?
Aaron pondered to himself.
This can be considered half of one's own.
He was just pretending before, but now he was sure that the fat man wanted to recruit him.
"Let me see the patient first and then..."
Aaron came to the ward and carefully examined the patient whose body was covered with bandages.
"This is...a very high-level curse. I feel traces of the spirituality of 'darkness'...it seems to be mixed with a little bit of 'underworld'..."
After careful inspection, Aaron frowned: "And...the person who implemented the curse has a very high rank!"
"Alas... Sauron is also unlucky. Previously, our organization received a piece of information that contained a topographic map of an abandoned No. 4 Research Institute. He led a group of people to explore, but he was the only one who came back."
The fat man sighed beside him, with an excited look on his face: "Mr. Aaron, since you can see the influence of darkness, please be sure to rescue Sauron, whether it is days or other rewards, such as spiritual storage, we Everyone is willing to pay!”
"Natural people are not short of time, so just give me spiritual storage items!"
When Aaron heard this, his eyebrows raised slightly.
These extraordinary people seem to have found a way to combat the spiritual spillover effect, and they also have special storage items.
But it didn't matter. Back then, he still swallowed all the 'red' within a scepter and gained the prestigious reputation of Earl of Green Forest.
But after a few years, the spirituality still dissipated.
After discussing the remuneration, Aaron came to the patient and a dark scalpel appeared in his hand.
There are also some strange symbols engraved on the scalpel.
"Next... I will cast a spell with extraordinary abilities. Anyone who has nothing to do with it should not get too close to avoid being accidentally hurt!"
Aaron gave a solemn warning and started the ceremony.
After setting up the spiritual wall, he used a knife to make a few empty cuts on Sauron's body, and began to recite incantations in the spirit world language.
These mantras are difficult to understand, and it feels like your tongue is tied when you recite them.
The fat man just got a little closer, and he felt that his blood was boiling, so he quickly backed away.
"grown ups!"
Next to him, a bald man with tattoos came forward: "Can this doctor... be able to do it?"
"Damn it, I made a mistake this time."
The fat man took out a handkerchief and wiped the sweat from his forehead: "This doctor has definitely solidified his spirituality and been promoted to a higher level... He may not even be a first-level Extraordinary, but a second-level, or even higher!"
In the wasteland era, spirituality overflowed and became a desert.
At low levels, you can only rely on pure shadow extraordinary people to smuggle precious spirituality from the spiritual world. Therefore, the value of the spirituality of 'shadow' is extremely high. One point of shadow can be exchanged for at least ten points of 'darkness', 'darkness' and other other things. Spirituality.
And in the spiritual desert, extraordinary people still find ways to advance!
Among general mystical sects, those with a little spirituality are the mainstream.
The Extraordinaries who have solidified the first level are all absolute elites.
The second level is the backbone, the third level and the fourth level are today’s high-level extraordinary beings!
As for the ‘immortal’ directors of ‘Life Bank’?
They have not opened the seventh essence at all, nor do they have the corresponding high level. They just saw the name of 'immortal' from ancient books, and then added it to their heads like a monkey...
Hearing that Aaron might be a second-level Beyonder, the tattooed bald man was startled: "So...will our previous concealment offend each other?"
"We can only increase the price. I hope our final reward will satisfy the other party."
The fat black merchant wiped his forehead, which was covered with cold sweat.
"Come in!"
I don’t know how much time passed, but Fatty heard Aaron’s voice.
He quickly walked into the ward and saw the bandages on Sauron's body being untied.
This man originally had a strong body and well-developed muscles... but now he was withered like a piece of rotten wood, his skin bloomed an ominous black color, and there were purple runes like ants wandering on it.
"His spirit, his blood and flesh have been cursed, and I cannot completely expel them..."
Aaron held a scalpel and made several cuts on Sauron's limbs from time to time: "But... thanks to the current era, I thought of a way. I can transfer his curse to an important organ. I must
It's the extremely important kind, such as the heart, the brain...and then perform an evisceration to remove the curse along with the organs...it's not possible with the kidneys, unless both kidneys are removed at the same time."
In Inves's time, patients who had their vital organs removed would not have survived very long.
But the city that never sleeps is different. Prosthetics and artificial organs are everywhere here!
"Now, it's time to make a choice..."
Aaron looked at the fat man.
The fat man frowned in embarrassment: "Artificial hearts are extremely expensive in the slums... Well, I just received a pair of artificial kidneys yesterday. Although they are not OEM, I will install them for Sauron..."
"Well, then it's decided."
Aaron began to recite inexplicable spells.
Under the influence of the mysterious power, the talismans on Sauron's body began to converge towards the kidneys.
Next, is a simple artificial organ transplant surgery...
…
When Aaron walked out of the operating room, took off his gloves, and washed his hands, the patient inside had fallen into a coma, but his breathing was still normal.
"Thank you, Dr. Aaron!"
The fat man came over holding a box: "This is the reward agreed before."
"Well, I accepted it without ceremony."
Aaron took the box, opened it, and found that in addition to a few strange fragments, there were two books.
"This is the classic book of our school, just the entry level..."
The fat man maintained a smile on his face.
"You are interested."
Aaron nodded, quite satisfied with this: "By the way...where is Research Institute No. 4? Something terrible seems to have happened there..."
He originally just asked casually, but he didn't expect that the black market businessman really answered: "In that ghost place in the Desert of Death... I no longer plan to organize manpower to explore. Alas, Sauron was injured this time, and I don't know what to do.
How long will it take to make up for it?"
From the other person's expression, Aaron intuitively knew that the other person was telling the truth.
‘The Desert of Death… is the site of the former Green Forest City…’
'What does the No. 4 Research Institute in Green Forest City... study? How could it be exposed to the curse of a high-ranking being?'
With a little curiosity, Aaron returned to Green Forest Clinic.
After closing the door, he went directly to the bedroom and opened the black marketeer's reward gift box.
"Spiritual storage?"
He picked up a shell-like object and felt a bit of the spirituality of the 'tower' in it, and couldn't help but nod slightly.
There are countless exquisite patterns on the surface of this shell, which together form a circle that transcends the plane.
'Some kind of sealing technology... is better than what I used to do back then.'
He tossed the shell: 'It feels like... it can at least seal spirituality for decades without losing it...'
Aaron counted the numbers and found that the reward given by the black market merchant was two pieces of "Tower", one piece of "Dark" and one piece of "Red". He couldn't help but shake his head and put these spiritual storage items away.
To him, this bit of spirituality is not even a drop in the bucket, but it seems that it can be used as a general equivalent in transactions in mysterious sects.
Aaron opened the two included classics.
One of them had no writing on the cover and looked like a private occult notebook.
Another book with a red cover has the title written on it - "The Road to Sublimation"!
Aaron showed a hint of interest and started reading through it casually.
There was silence in the clinic, except for the occasional rustling of books.
After a while, Aaron put down "The Road to Ascension."
"These extraordinary people have really found a way..."
He muttered to himself.
The secular world has become a spiritual desert. Spirituality is extremely precious, but after all, it still circulates and can still be used.
In this classic, although it does not introduce a specific path, it describes many things to note in contemporary occultism.
For example... spirituality is precious and must be treasured in storage! Modern extraordinary people are harsh to the point of being stingy in the use of spirituality. There are even special scales. In a storage, an average of one spirituality is stored...
"The advancement of extraordinary people is to continuously purchase stored items and accumulate spirituality until they meet the advancement requirements of a certain mysterious profession, and then be promoted through rituals..."
"If you want to become an extraordinary person, the most important thing is to engrave the secret seal pattern on yourself...that is, to turn the human body into a huge spiritual storage..."
"Professionals who are promoted in this way, as long as there are no errors in the sealing pattern, it is not a problem to maintain their rank for decades... But it should be noted that after every battle, spiritual storage items must be purchased to replenish spirituality, otherwise there will be
May lose rank..."
"So among the extraordinary people today, the richest ones are the 'Shadow' Extraordinaries... uh, well... fate is unpredictable!"
The 'Shadowless Ones' back then were just ordinary non-human beings.
Now, all of them are giants in the mysterious world and predators of spiritual smuggling!
The other dark beasts of the fourth element, the wise men, the mechanical mentors, the weavers, the historians, the scarlet nobles, the evil spirits... all of them will be defeated!
"It looks like...the mysterious system has indeed become non-mainstream."
After all, the spiritual spillover effect is still there, and to perform a ritual or ability, you have to carefully calculate your spiritual reserves.
Non-human beings are giants.
In such an environment, it is impossible to cultivate high-level extraordinary people. No wonder they will be crushed by advanced technology.
"The more this happens...the existence behind Life Bank and Gaia Network becomes more suspicious..."
"Wait a minute, there is also the No. 4 Research Institute. It is suspected that there is a high-level evil spirit in it... You can also go and test it."
Aaron missed the desert of death a little bit.
After all, that was the former Green Forest City.
"Let's find an opportunity to explore in the future. The terrain map in Fatty's hand is very easy to obtain."
…
"Thank you, spirit of vanity, for giving me dinner!"
In a magnificent palace-style villa.
The more than ten-meter-long dining table is covered with white tablecloths, and the waiters behind them all have polished suits and straight waists.
There are only a few people who enjoy the service of a large number of servants.
Evelyn Messiah recited the honorable name of the spirit of falsehood before starting to deal with the veal steak in front of her.
"Ewen Jielin, you have prayed more often recently..."
Sitting on the main seat was a majestic middle-aged man with a golden beard. He was Evelyn's father—Cenarius Messiah!
"Yes, father!"
Yiwen Jielin nodded: "I miss grandpa..."
Cenarius' originally reprimanding words were stuck in his throat: "Okay..."
"By the way..." Yiwen Jielin suddenly asked her father: "I just read the investment financial report of Life Bank. Why should I invest in Research Institute No. 406?"
"That's because..." Seeing that his daughter had finally become interested in the financial industry, Cenarius immediately began to explain.
"So that's it!" Yiwen Jielin nodded as if she understood: "But why have I only heard of research institutes with tens and hundreds, but not single-digit research institutes?
For example...No. 8, No. 4, etc.?"
"This involves some secrets that only the upper levels know..." Cenarius replied: "Single-digit research institutes have conducted very powerful research. Without them, there would be no advanced technology today, but they also led to today's
The main culprit of the world's desertification and energy shortage... Therefore, the files on them have been permanently sealed, and even the locations of some research institutes are a mystery!"
