The reason why Xue Hua's mood suddenly changed so drastically was because he saw an "acquaintance" among the corpses hanging on the walls around him.
In fact, even though he is an acquaintance, he does not know them, and they may not know him either.
There was not even a casual relationship between the two, it was just that Xue Hua had simply seen him.
After the battle to defend the city, when Xue Hua passed through the city from the north wall and was about to return to his tent to rest, he once saw a man kneeling beside two corpses with a dull expression beside the ruins of a collapsed house.
Judging from the series of circumstances at the scene, it was clear that this man had just lost his lover and child.
With his bloody hands, he dug out the shapeless bodies of his wife and son, who had been burned by the fire, from the rubble of his house. In the end, he could only use the pendant his wife wore to confirm their identities.
This situation is tragic enough.
But Xue Hua just saw an even more tragic scene.
This man's body was hung on the wall in front of him. His eyes rolled white, and the expression on his face was frozen in the moment of being distorted by pain.
"Why, do you know this person?"
Seeing Xue Hua staring at the male corpse with a stunned expression, Kasha asked with some worry.
"No, it's not that we know each other, it's just... I just saw his sadness when he lost a loved one not long ago."
"..."
After hearing Xue Hua's words, there was silence in the basement.
The people of Winter's End Castle have suffered enough, and now someone wants to make it worse. This is simply an unforgivable death penalty!
"Any clues?" Xue Hua shook his head, cheered up, and asked with a serious expression.
"Yes, but not many." Kasha nodded: "The professionals outside the house have had an encounter with this guy, and he seems to have returned to this house."
"But according to them, although this guy is a civilian, he moves extremely fast. Even assassins who are over eighty levels cannot catch up with him."
"Civilian? His movement speed is faster than that of an assassin who is over 80 levels?"
"Are you kidding me?"
Xue Hua's face looked like you were teasing me by riding a horse.
How can this be?
What is the concept of an assassin over level 80?
That’s close to a quasi-legend, right?
Although it is nothing in the second world, back in the sanctuary world, professionals of this level are enough to start a small family!
A civilian could actually compete in speed with an assassin who was over eighty levels, and also achieved an overwhelming victory?
Xue Hua asked if he had not woken up from a dream?
"Don't ask me, I thought it was a fantasy when I heard it just now." Kasha shook his head helplessly.
If it hadn't been for the repeated confirmation of a group of professionals, she would never have believed such ridiculous things.
"Then this place...wait."
Just as Xue Hua was about to continue asking for clues, in the mind of the main nest, Isha suddenly sent him a communication.
The insect adjutant told him that there was something wrong with the stone platform in the middle of the basement. The material did not seem to be the ordinary black stone in the second world.
Xue Hua frowned and walked closer, his hands covered with psychic energy wiping away the layer of blood scab on the surface of the stone platform.
Then he discovered that the stone platform was actually engraved with dense and complex lines. These lines were regular and neat, and looked like the wire patterns on a circuit board.
As Xue Hua removed all the blood scabs on the entire stone platform, the true face of the stone platform was also exposed in front of him.
The top surface of the stone platform was as smooth as if it had been polished, and those regular lines finally converged into the pits of the stone platform.
These features make this stone platform no longer look like a primitive and barbaric murder tool, but some kind of sophisticated high-tech equipment.
Xue Hua remembered that he seemed to have seen an enlarged version of this kind of thing.
In the cave under the sea cliff of King's Port, Xel'Naga's laboratory is protected by the monsters who collect corpses.
That thing is the "sacred object" that No. 1 and the so-called "evolvers" want to take back at all costs.
The difference between the two is that the former device is large enough to stuff a person directly into the pit, while the latter can only stuff a person's brain...
"Damn it! It's that guy's lackey again!"
Xue Hua cursed in a low voice, but Kasha, who had a sharp ear and eyesight, heard him.
"What are you talking about, who is that guy's lackey?"
"Xue, do you know something?"
"Um..." Xue Hua hesitated whether he should tell the truth what he knew.
As the Xel'Naga continues to increase its actions, it is becoming increasingly difficult to conceal this guy's existence.
Maybe it’s time for some people with enough mental capacity and credibility to know the existence of this truly formidable enemy?
But just when Xue Hua was struggling, the vigilant shouts of professionals suddenly came from outside the house.
"Whoever is there, get out!"
The three people who heard the warning looked at each other, then spread out their bodies and rushed out of the basement without hesitation.
At the door of the half-collapsed house, four professionals had their swords unsheathed and were slowly surrounding the ruins of another house across the street with vigilant faces.
"Isa!"
"Master, our surveillance king insect has observed the movement of the target. He is indeed in that building, and the life signals are mixed and unclear. He should have received a certain degree of genetic modification."
The news from the adjutant came in time. Xue Hua didn't even think about it, he opened his master bone wings and dived towards the building.
Kasha and other professionals followed closely and blocked all exits of the building.
Bang!
Xue Hua directly broke through a wall and rushed into the house. According to Isa's prompts, the guy should be hiding behind this wall!
However, when Xue Hua broke into the house, he didn't see anything in the house at all.
"what happened?"
"Juggernaut! The target is moving! Very fast! He is rushing towards one of your human allies!"
"Damn! Be careful, he's heading towards you!!"
Xue Hua roared and followed Isa's prompts to chase the target.
However, when he rushed out of the house, he only saw the assassin in the professional team standing there blankly, with a look of disbelief and shock on his face.
"What's going on, where is that guy?"
"I...I don't know...He was too fast, I couldn't make it in time..."
"Damn it!"
Xue Hua roared, activated the Dominator Bone Wing again, returned directly along the original path, and rushed towards the previous house!
"Zagara! Gather all the shadow bugs around here! Stop that guy! He's going to live!"
"At your will, Lord."
Zagara roared, and shadow bugs from all over the city immediately gathered towards Xue Hua's location.
They set up secret interception points in various streets and alleys, and cooperated with the supervisory king insect to spread a dragnet around the area!
At the same time, Xue Hua also rushed into the basement of the house, but he found that the stone platform had disappeared!
