Damn it! Let’s smash the darkness together!
Chapter 470 - 117 Xu Shu: Thinking of Setting Me Up? Impossible, Absolutely Impossible! (Request for Monthly Votes) _2

Chapter 470: Chapter 117 Xu Shu: Thinking of Setting Me Up? Impossible, Absolutely Impossible! (Request for Monthly Votes) _2

The two who had escaped death were immensely grateful to you, and you gathered some information from them. It turned out that there was a cave nearby belonging to the "Transcendent," and they had received news that a group of six had come to subdue it. Greed got the better of them, however, and after subduing the first cave, they didn’t stop there but ventured deeper.

Eventually, they encountered an even larger group of "Transcendent" last night and were tragically ambushed, resulting in nearly all of them being wiped out with only two escaping; the rest were all killed.

After telling you everything, they supported each other as they left. Watching the girl shivering with a dispirited silhouette, a shadow fell over your heart. You knew that, unseen by you, there were countless such massacres and violations against humans, and even Transcendents were no exception. The plight of humanity was still far from comfortable, thus your resolution to become stronger was further solidified.

Less than two hours later, you had once again successfully reached your old home in Jiangnan, Guihua Garden.

On this return to the familiar place, you were extremely cautious. You went directly to where you had previously killed that group of "Transcendent," only to find not much blood remained and the bodies of the creatures had been thoroughly devoured by something unknown.

You were fully alert as you pressed on, crossing over buildings that were tilted and collapsed, reaching a straw hut you had encountered on your journey before, which you had not visited in reality. You saw a male corpse hanging on the wall, his throat pierced by brightly colored fingers, all of which were broken; you saw a dead woman in the hut with fingers also severed.

"Strange, was she killed?" you asked with some confusion, then questioned the Nun Corps behind you, "Is this person your sister?"

"No," "Don’t know her, no idea who she is," "Never seen her before, Mr. Xu."

The nuns answered you in a flurry of voices, but their responses left you deeply, almost completely, puzzled.

"How can they not know her? This isn’t right..."

Xu Shu stroked his chin, feeling suspicious.

Although two days had passed, he remembered very clearly.

The first one to extend the "invitation of the Storm Manor owner" had been a woman from within this neighborhood’s wasteland.

Moreover, her fingers had also been severed and affixed to a "spider," and she had claimed, "If I cannot complete my task, I will also be made into a spider."

And inside the Storm Manor on the wasteland, the Nun Corps also referred to Sotos as "Lord Spider," they too had their fingers severed while Sotos had fingers on his body.

All of this, by normal logic, would suggest that the woman outside in the district should also have been sent by Su Ji from the Storm Manor within the border.

However, if other nuns did not recognize her, why didn’t the Housekeeper Mary recognize her either?

Confused and unable to figure it out, Mary suddenly pointed out, "Sir, look! There’s a treasure chest here. I reckon there’s certainly something strange inside."

Indeed, beneath the wooden bed where the woman had died, there was a locked wooden chest that had not been there before. It looked dark and ancient, and any sharp-eyed person could tell that it was an ’iron treasure chest.’

You gave Mary a deep look, did not do it yourself, but instructed her to open it.

Mary did not refuse and began chanting a spell for a while. You felt something strange flowing in the air, slightly amazed, as you had thought she would just smash it open, but it seemed that was not the case.

After thinking for a moment, you activated the ability "Spiritual Perception," entering the state of Spiritual Vision, and now you could see things that were usually invisible.

You saw an invisible fluorescence emanating from the body of the dead woman under Mary’s summoning. Then, like layers of a sandglass, it flowed outward and eventually coalesced into a nearly human-like figure.

Mary issued a command to it, and the figure obediently nodded and then floated up, floated to the door, and lifted a loose floorboard, finding a key inside. It returned to successfully unlock the iron lock on the treasure chest.

After everything was done, the figure seemed to have exhausted its strength and dissipated with the wind.

"Summoning a dead spirit directly from the body on the spot? Is this the ability of a Necromancer?" you thought, as you saw Mary step forward, open the treasure chest, and find nothing valuable inside, just some clothes.

Beneath the clothes, there was a book titled in tiny letters: "The Diary of a Traveling Witch."

Upon opening it, you found a nearly blank book with just the first few pages documenting dates such as ’New Calendar Year 18, February 12th, still a clear day, dined alone, returned to the cabin, no one to accompany me, still no clue on advancing, almost can’t keep going, when can I become a Transcendent?’ The record didn’t even fill up one page before giving up.

"Sir, it seems there’s nothing important," Mary reported back to you somewhat awkwardly. Besides the diary, she also checked the clothes, which were quite ordinary.

You felt these items were not worth locking up at all. Suddenly, your gaze fell on the iron lock, which seemed cracked. In full view of everyone, you pried it off and indeed managed to break it open. Inside the lock, there was a rolled-up piece of paper, and upon spreading it out, it turned into a painting—a different world altogether.

The painting depicted a place resembling a laboratory, with various modern experimental devices scattered untidily, as if long unattended. The two largest devices were like MRI medical machines, with two shapely, voluptuous women lying on their respective beds, their heads inside a pod-like apparatus, blurry and indistinct.

"Eh, could this be Su Ji Herrera? One with an octopus head, the other a human head, separated by such experiments?" you recalled the information you had got from Su Ji last night, deep in thought.

However, this information seemed temporarily of no use. You waited there for a while, but strangely, Octopus Head Su did not appear to trouble you as before.

If the enemy did not come, it seemed you had to seek them out. But with the ruins so vast, and not knowing whether Octopus Head Su was still here, searching blindly was like finding a needle in a haystack.

Fortunately, this clearly could not stump you.

You took out the mysterious Demon’s Book, also known as the "Winter Valley Research Association’s Demon Research Handbook," and began muttering, "Ancestors, ancestors, show thy spirits," mimicking an animal’s chewing noises while doing so.

"?" The nuns all looked at you with faces full of question marks, utterly clueless about what you were doing.

However, you knew very well what you were doing. This book could be used to summon Octopus Head Su’s avatar, which you had experienced firsthand.

In less than ten minutes, the scene turned windy, and then the Demon’s Book flipped open by itself, quickly turning to page 187, showcasing a portrait of a tall, hooded Ghost Nun.

You did not deliberately avoid the nuns around you, so they all witnessed this scene. Every nun near you paused their breaths, and you heard someone whisper in shock, "How could it be the master’s portrait?"

Housekeeper Mary was no exception; the shock in her eyes was undeniable.

It seemed they didn’t know about Su Ji Herrera’s special traits. You made some speculations based on this.

Soon, a hooded nun’s head emerged from the book.

Her head swaying, tentacles writhed and twisted around the rim of her hood, two small octopus eyes looked around, noticing a group of nuns very similar in appearance to her. She also saw Xu Shu, smiling at her.

"Lady, hello there. Yes, it’s still me," Xu Shu greeted, but he did not make any aggressive moves.

Octopus Head Su didn’t attack either. She just looked at Xu Shu and, speaking articulately, said with great distaste, "Damned blasphemer, to think you’ve sided with that traitorous wretch! A mere Three Corpses thinking to ascend? Dream on! Do you really think that with just a small Corpse Valley Worm, you can contend with me?"

"Hold on, don’t rush to scold, explain it clearly," Xu Shu suddenly narrowed his eyes, sensing there was indeed something fishy.