Chapter 171 Puppet Master

The third continent, Xindu.

In a deep underground facility somewhere, two men were groping along the edge.

Judging from the semi-domed stone roof that looks like a tunnel and the dirty water flowing along the main trunk, this is a sewer somewhere in the new capital.

The sewers in the new capital are all very large, with concrete paths one person wide built on both sides, which are usually reserved for repairmen.

But the two men were clearly not maintenance workers in their clothing.

They were wearing rubber gloves and tattered work clothes, with baskets tied to their backs filled with plastic bottles filled with yellow liquid.

Only part of it was filled, and there were many empty bottles that were not filled. It looked like they were all "goods" they had just found.

Even in summer, the sewers are still bone-chillingly cold, and the cool air mixed with odor and turbidity is very uncomfortable. The man walking behind looked at the darkness in front of him and shivered hard.

"Brother...brother, why don't we come here? Look, this oil is everywhere. Isn't it the same wherever you pour it?"

His words were not loud, but the echoes traveled far along the water in the tunnel.

"You know nothing!" The elder brother's scolding voice came from the front: "The further you go in, the clearer the color becomes and the harder it is to see, do you understand?"

"It doesn't matter if it's dark or clear, you still have to process it in the end..."

"What are you muttering about? You don't want to do it anymore?"

"Do it, do it, I didn't say not to do it!"

The man sighed and took steps to follow his elder brother. But the further we walked, the more I started to murmur in my heart.

He arched his nose vigorously: "Brother, do you smell the smell of blood..."

"Isn't it normal for the smell of blood in the sewer? Let me tell you, Lao Liu, this is not the first day you have gone down the well with me. Why are there so many things happening today?"

"No, brother, smell it, it really smells like blood."

"Big Brother" stopped, put his hands on his hips and sniffed a few times: "Well... don't tell me, the smell is really strong. I guess some restaurant slaughtered a few more animals, right?"

Afterwards, as if to prove his point of view, the elder brother pointed to a withered bone floating along the current not far away: "Look, it is probably a cow or a pig."

The younger brother named Lao Liu became more and more frightened as he looked at it. It didn't taste like animal blood...

"Okay, okay, you look so scared, you're really hopeless." The eldest brother looked at Lao Liu with disdain, "Then let's stop here today, you stay here, I'll go over there."

Lao Liu breathed a sigh of relief, quickly put the basket behind him on the ground, held his nose and poured the empty bottle towards the oil foam on the edge of the water surface.

He tried his best not to pay attention to the half-broken bones on the water, and his hands and feet were extremely agile.

The remaining empty bottles were quickly filled. Lao Liu put them together: "Brother, I've done it here. You..."

Lao Liu raised his head, and the rest of his words stopped on his lips.

The eldest brother's basket was still placed by the water not far away, but the person was missing.

"You, don't scare me! Big brother, big brother!"

Lao Liu dared to shout a few words, but there was no reply. There was an echo in the huge tunnel.

In the remaining basket, more than half of the empty bottles were left.

Lao Liu was frightened, his body shook violently a few times, and he was about to turn around and leave when the scene in front of him made him so frightened that he could not speak.

A shadow emerged from the darkness. The shadow was unkempt and looked like a human being, but it was crawling on the ground.

Its entire body was shrouded in a loose robe, its face was covered by messy hair, and its body was covered in blood.

What frightened Lao Liu the most was that this "thing" had a severed hand in its mouth.

"Hehe." Shadow let out a high-pitched grin.

"Ah!! Ghost, ghost!!"

Lao Liu was so frightened that he didn't want the oil he had just stolen. He threw the basket on his back and ran away.

Unfortunately, the shadow was faster than him, and a strong force came from behind him, and the whole person was dragged into the darkness while screaming.

The dark sewer became quiet again.

Then, an abrupt male voice broke the silence here:

"You really are not picky about food."

Where Lao Liu had just disappeared, a man suddenly appeared.

His appearance was so sudden, and his neat formal clothes were incompatible with the filth in the sewer.

The man's voice was mature and steady, with a hint of the arrogance of a superior.

A mask is fastened over his face, with a hand drawn on it pulling a puppet with strings.

A voice came from the depths of the darkness. "Shadow" dragged his broken body over slowly, reached out and brushed the messy hair on his head, revealing a small face covered in blood.

She is a "doll".

It seems that she did not die by Chu Yao's sword.

But what method she used to escape is unknown.

"I want to be picky about food, but I have to have food to choose from." The doll said nonchalantly in that weird accent: "Why are you here, 'Puppet Master'?"

"I'm here to inform you." The puppet master replied calmly: "The Lord has ordered that all internal members assigned to Kukai return immediately."

"Return? How interesting." The doll tilted her head, and a bloody scab fell from her head. "This is really a once-in-a-century event. Let me guess, is it possible that the old ghosts above have completely broken up with the Alliance of Heaven and Humans?" Already?"

"I just came to inform you."

"Don't be so cold. We are colleagues after all, and we still remember our old friendship. My dear colleague, can you tell me the truth?" Wawa winked at each other.

"..." The puppet master remained silent.

"Okay, okay, that's really disappointing." The doll puffed up his face angrily, "What else? You came all the way here just to inform me of this?"

"Also, organize the punishment for you."

The doll's heart skipped a beat, and just as he was about to retreat, his eyes suddenly blurred.

At some point, the puppet master took out a delicate instrument that looked like a round mirror. A blue cone of light radiated from the mirror, covering the doll's body in an instant.

"Ah! Damn it, how could you have such a thing! My spiritual power!"

A piercing scream erupted from the doll's throat. Under the influence of the blue light, her body remained still in place, and all movements were sealed.

The puppet master stretched out a finger, and against the blue light, a very thin silver line loomed in mid-air.

"Puppet Master! Why do you have the right to punish me! We are on the same level! Even if it is punishment, it is not your turn!"

"No, I just got promoted. Just yesterday."

The puppet master hooked her fingers, and accompanied by the light of blood and the howling of the doll, one of her arms was cut off, spun around in the air several times, and then landed on the wet ground with a thud.

"Don't forget our commandments. 'Exposure' is a felony."

The puppet master took back the silver wire weapon in his hand lightly, his cold voice without any emotion.

"My hand... do you know how much blood I used to repair it? You have to compensate me..."

"If it happens again, it will require more than just one of your hands. This is a warning from the Lord."

The puppet master took back the instrument in his hand, and the doll fell to the ground with a painful look on his face.

After saying that, his figure disappeared from the place. His departure was as sudden as his arrival.

"Huh...huh..."

The doll was panting heavily, with a twisted and ferocious look on his face, and he hurriedly put his severed hand back together.

"You all bully me, you all bully me...just wait and see, you will all pay the price!"