The Mysterious Queen of Diamonds
"Not a single one was captured alive?"
Looking at the two Rat Party corpses in the ruins, Huang He's face was incomparably ugly.
"...We searched all around and couldn't find any other Rat Party mbers... This is all of them." A Fire-Stealer seed to feel the oppressive feeling of Huang He's anger and spoke in a low voice.
"A bunch of trash!!"
Although Huang He and the others indeed found the right stronghold for this encirclent and suppression, they still let the main force escape in the end. After spending so much manpower and material resources, several Fire-Stealers even died under the Rat Party's counterattack, and in the end they only killed two people, not even capturing a single one alive... Their failure couldn't be any more complete.
From the corner of his eye, Huang He saw Lan Yu wearing a beret and looking slightly disheveled walking over from not far away, and his expression grew even gloomier.
"Lan Yu, how were things on your end?"
"...That Rat Party leader has so strength." Lan Yu shrugged. "I tangled with him for a long ti, then he used alchemy to lt the earth and directly disappeared..."
"Hehe." Huang He was so angry he laughed. "Day in and day out you look down on everyone, but at the critical mont, you're completely useless..."
Hearing these words, Lan Yu glared at Huang He angrily,
"What kind of bullshit are you spouting?! That Durand is also Rank 8, and even escaped from the hands of the Lord of Wuji. Even if you went, you wouldn't be able to catch him either! Old Fella, do you really think you're so capable?
Moreover, he didn't retreat completely unscathed. I left a mark on him. As long as he is still in the Wuji Domain, I will be able to find him sooner or later!"
After cursing, Lan Yu seed to feel it wasn't satisfying enough, and directly pointed at Hong Xiu at the side and said angrily,
"Besides, originally according to our plan, it was to force everyone underground and let this guy catch them all in one net... And the result? An [Asura] Pathway Chief at Rank 8 couldn't even catch a single Rat Party mber?! Truly laughable!!"
Hong Xiu had no reaction to Lan Yu's verbal attacks, she just spoke plainly:
"I was delayed by soone else."
"Among that group of Rat Party mbers, there's actually soone who could delay you?? Are you joking?"
"It wasn't the Rat Party." Hong Xiu paused for a mont. "It was the Dusk Society, 【Queen of Diamonds】."
Lan Yu was stunned.
Huang He walked amidst the ruins and casually waved his hand, stealing away a large amount of rubble. A dusty 【Queen of Diamonds】 Playing Card was exposed in the air.
Further below the ruins was a spider-web ground fissure stretching for several kiloters, as if Hong Xiu had engaged in a battle with soone here.
"Dusk Society, Queen..."
Huang He didn't doubt Hong Xiu's words too much. Firstly, Hong Xiu had stayed in the Wuji Domain for so long, and even tracing back to the Aurora Domain period, she never had any interactions with the Dusk Society. Secondly, Hong Xiu had no reason to fabricate a Queen of Diamonds out of thin air.
Moreover, when Huang He arrived at the scene the first ti, he saw that Hong Xiu's arm was injured. Although it recovered to normal in the blink of an eye, there were indeed traces of battle at the scene.
But how could soone from the Dusk Society suddenly appear here?
Just as Huang He was pondering, Chen Ling's figure walked over from afar...
"Yo, there's another deserter here," Lan Yu said eccentrically seeing this scene.
Seeing Chen Ling, Huang He suddenly seed to think of sothing, and frowned slightly. "Mister Chen, where did you go just now?"
"I just now..."
"Just now the Dusk Society's Queen of Diamonds sneak-attacked . I noticed sothing was wrong and imdiately made him stay far away from here," Hong Xiu spoke on behalf of Chen Ling. "No matter what, nothing can happen to him."
"Dusk Society...?" Chen Ling froze. He looked at the Playing Card on the ground, his eyes full of bloodshot veins,
"It's actually soone from the Dusk Society? That group of beasts ca to the Wuji Domain again?!"
Seeing this scene, Huang He's tense heart gradually relaxed. Just now he guessed that the Dusk Society appearing at this ti was very likely targeting Chen Ling...
But now he rembered that Chen Ling had already killed a Dusk Society mber with his own hands, and in Chen Ling's current mories, he and the Dusk Society were irreconcilable enemies. Even if people from the Dusk Society attempted to save him, it would be very difficult to succeed.
But no matter what, the matter of the Queen of Diamonds appearing had to be reported to Chi Tong.
"Enough." Huang He spoke in a deep voice,
"This encirclent and suppression failed, no one can escape implication... Let's return to The Church first."
...
Bang.
Hong Xiu closed the car door. Chen Ling in the driver's seat started the car and slowly followed behind the other Fire-Stealers' vehicles.
At this ti, Chen Ling no longer had the slightest bit of anger and resentnt from ntioning the Dusk Society just now. His eyes were as calm as lake water as he asked Hong Xiu:
"How did it go?"
"I found out." Hong Xiu summarized concisely, "The person holding my mories is locked in the Prison under The Church. Yours should be mixed in with the Rat Party."
"Mm, I've already rendezvoused with the person holding my mories."
Hong Xiu looked at Chen Ling sowhat surprisedly,
"So fast?"
"When two people's ways of thinking are extrely similar, it's very easy to run into each other." Chen Ling smiled slightly. "My side has already been resolved. The problem now is, how should we rescue your person..."
Hong Xiu pondered for a mont. "If we have to force it, I can directly slaughter my way through The Church, break into the underground, and rescue him... It's just that bringing him out of the Wuji Domain will be a bit troubleso...
At most, I can only bring you out of Wuji completely unscathed. If we add two more people, it will be very thorny, especially since yours is still an Ordinary Person."
In today's Wuji Domain, aside from several Thief Saints, there were also four Adjudication Proxies and the Lord of Wuji holding down the fort. For Hong Xiu to be confident in slaughtering a way out with Chen Ling was already earth-shattering. If they added two more people, even the [Asura] Pathway Chief would have no way.
As for instigating the other four Adjudicators to defect one by one, that wasn't a good choice either. Firstly, Chen Ling didn't understand them like he understood Hong Xiu, making it extrely difficult to make them submit to him. If not done well, it would instead expose him and Hong Xiu. Secondly, instigating them one by one required a large amount of ti. If dragged out until the Silver King returned, everything would be finished.
"Then let's play it safe." Chen Ling pondered for a mont. "I'll first find a way to exchange my mories back. At the sa ti, we'll figure out the situation under The Church. It would be best if we can make contact with the Knight under The Church without alarming the others..."
"But after the Queen of Diamonds appeared, the Silver Governnt's side will likely restrict your movents, not giving you the chance to co into contact with the Dusk Society... It's probably going to be very difficult if you want to make contact with the Rat Party again."
Chen Ling didn't seem to care about this. While turning the steering wheel, he spoke unhurriedly:
"Opportunities are created by people."
"You are trapped in The Church, how will you create opportunities?"
"Who said I was creating them myself?" Chen Ling smiled slightly. His gaze looked through the rearview mirror towards the Factory District under the dawn. "Now, I am no longer fighting alone."
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