Light Fortress
Chapter 547 - 129 Parting Gift_2

Chapter 547: Chapter 129 Parting Gift_2

If he were bogged down.

With no advantage in strength... that would put him at a severe disadvantage.

Watching the blood-red flames devoured by the Blazing Fire Worm, Gu Shen spoke softly.

"Before I leave, I’ve left you a gift, I hope you like it."

...

...

Time rewound to several days earlier.

Gu Shen concluded his negotiations with "Xiao."

He crisply agreed to the church operation 21 hours later, but after the negotiations ended, he dialed Cui Zhongcheng’s number... Chu Ling had limited authority in Southern Continent, only being able to access part of the information regarding Lan Wei’er, the Archbishop of the New Moon Church in Xiyin City. The documentation indicated that the Archbishop was a devout "Believer" and "Guardian", never leaving the church. With such a figure in the New Moon Church, the plan to find the Anger Lamp would encounter serious hindrance.

And from Xiao’s implication, it was Lan Wei’er who was planning to leave Xiyin City to attend a meeting.

What meeting could make Lan Wei’er leave the church?

It seemed... not hard to guess.

On the other end of the communication device, Cui Zhongcheng researched the attendee list and provided Gu Shen with the anticipated affirmative response... thereby, an interesting plan was born in Gu Shen’s mind.

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"Have everything checked out?"

Lan Wei’er stood in front of the enormous floor-to-ceiling window at the top of the Holy Image Building.

The owner of the Holy Image Auction House bowed deeply, not daring to delay: "Archbishop, everything has been checked... That man’s name is Amir, from Ahakanda in Inland State, born into a noble family."

"He claims to be a follower of the church, comes to Xiyin, seemingly treasure hunting, but in his words, he has always been probing the church’s secrets..."

"From the first time we met, I felt something was off... this guy’s behavior was unusual, so I deliberately kept an eye out and had people investigate the Amir family in Ahakanda."

"The result is that the Amir family claims they don’t even know him!"

The owner spoke excitedly, slapping his thigh.

As he spoke, a very faint blaze flickered deep within his pupils.

Lan Wei’er did not turn around, and with a frown asked, "They don’t know him?"

This man is a fake."

Next to the owner stood a female follower of the New Moon Church, with black hair and black eyes, her voice soft.

Zhou handed over a photograph.

Lan Wei’er took the photograph, carefully examining the "young face" on it. The prior investigation downstream of the Xiyin River had somewhat failed, since those who pointed out clues could not recall the bounty hunter’s specific face anymore.

This was to be expected.

How could someone capable of raiding the Underground Church of the New Moon not have some skills?

This was a Spiritual Transcendent.

"Did you use ’Deep Sea’s’ database for comparison?"

The Archbishop’s voice was somewhat irritable.

"Can’t find... still no results, this might be a ’Half Dead Person’ born downstream of Xiyin River, not recorded in the system," Zhou shook her head, drawing a conclusion.

In Southern Continent, not everyone is recorded in the Deep Sea system.

It’s too chaotic here.

In some places, life is cheaper than dirt.

If they die, they just die... the "nameless" sinking into the Xiyin River, should they all be recorded in the system again?

Those not entered into the system are the easiest to handle. The New Moon Church has been able to cover up those cases stacked in the Underground Church precisely because they escaped from the luminance of ’Deep Sea’.

If not registered in the system.

Then burying them is as simple as burying some grass.

’Deep Sea’ doesn’t even need to balance it out.

These people disappear.

And just like that, they disappear.

"If I remember correctly, he bid on those items... and sent them to East Continent?" Lan Wei’er knew this was the last clue, "Where in East Continent?"

Zhou softly said, "Those items were sent to Da Du... we immediately contacted the East Continent Federation’s Inter-continental Affairs Office, and then we learned a shocking piece of information."

She presented the latest intelligence.

This was a document shocking the three institutions of East Continent about the capture case of an "S-level fugitive," and on the document, the target was labeled as Xiao, a man named "Xiao" who organized many followers in Da Du, founded an extremist organization, and was eventually exterminated by the Sky-reaching Tree of the Judgement Institute.

However, the document made it clear that the extremist organization might still have remnants.

The special note on this case file shocked Lan Wei’er...

"[Special Note: This S-level fugitive manifests abilities as blood-red flames, the precise effect of which remains unclear, but it is preliminarily determined that the blood-red flames can erode the spirit and transform the flesh. There may be more than one Xiao. If they are not completely exterminated, they will rapidly proliferate.]"

Blood-red flames...

Blood-red flames!

Lan Wei’er’s memory returned to the scene inside the Underground Church; he always couldn’t understand how the "target person" managed to control the timing so precisely...

After seeing the East Continent dossier.

He suddenly understood everything.

"Xiao..."

If it’s said, this person has always been beside him, watching his every move, and often stationed in the Underground Church, familiar with the system, then that gave him the capability to commit the crime.

And if there truly is someone in the world who can use "spirit" to erode the flesh, that means... he can abandon a certain body to wash away his own suspicions.