Volume 3: Artifacts Chapter 146 Assassination
Luke fell asleep and checked the information on his phone in his own spiritual universe.
Chief Romanchenko, the harpy, may not be very strong, but he is definitely not a timid person.
According to the information collected by the players, the Scarlet Banshee tribe is located near one of the few entrances that the outside world can enter Gruzere. Chief Romanchenko is a very aggressive Shadow Clan, and the Harpies have a strong sense of territory, so when the player first enters the underground world of Gruzere, he will inevitably have a battle with this Harpy Shadow Clan.
Even when he was at a disadvantage in a battle, Chief Romanchenko would often choose to fight to the death, thus leaving many photos of battle damage for players.
Why is Chief Romanchenko now acting a little timid and even actively asking for the protection of the dragon?
She is from the Shadow Clan and is a somewhat arrogant assassin.
Is it because they underwent extraordinary biological transformation?
What kind of extraordinary biological transformation can allow the Shadow Clan to be unaware of the tampering with them?
Realizing that Deep Well City was shrouded in some conspiracy, Luke opened his eyes involuntarily.
He looked towards the harpies huddled together in the corner.
I don't know if they fell asleep.
The dragon armor opened from the back, and Luke quietly came out from inside, leaving the dragon armor disguised as the resting dragon king, who slowly slid down from the pile of gold and gems.
Nearby, the white dragon Eiffel opened his eyes upon hearing the sound.
Luke immediately made a gesture to her to keep quiet, and then used a whispering spell to tell her, "I have something to go out for a while, don't alarm them."
White Dragon Eiffel nodded, looked around, then bent down and pretended to continue sleeping.
Luke used the thief skills he had learned to sneak in. He groped for a secret door and slipped in.
Since this dragon's nest was built by the Shadow Clan for the giant dragon, they must have prepared secret passages and mechanisms in advance. However, no secret passages or mechanisms could escape the players' thorough search.
Luke walked forward along the narrow secret passage. The change in gravity made him walk up the wall and then up the ceiling. After experiencing several changes in the direction of gravity, he walked out from a hidden crevice.
In the dim light, it can be seen that this is a small urban area. It is about 20 meters high. Between the old and new stone houses, there are narrow roads that are three-dimensional. Even with the map of Deep Well City, Luke still carefully distinguished it for a while before he uncertainly chose a winding staircase that went up.
Walking up the stairs, Luke pulled at his clothes, and his human uniform turned into a dark, ordinary smock. Then Luke took out a ghost head mask and put it on his face, his eyes glowing blue under the effect of magic.
At this time, several cavemen came down from above. They had green skin and hunched bodies. After seeing the light from Luke's eyes, they immediately made way in a panic, curled up and knelt there, burying their heads and not daring to look.
Luke knew that they were all inmates at the lowest level of the underground world, so he walked straight over without saying a word in accordance with the rules of the underground world.
Only after Luke walked away did the cavemen dare to stand up and continue to walk down silently.
The Shadow Clan and the Prison Dwellers are two poles of the underground world and will never have any intersection.
After getting lost twice, Luke almost tore the map apart before he finally found the place he was looking for.
In front of me is a stepped pyramid-shaped stone fortress. There are no windows on it, only a small entrance on the bottom floor.
The entrance is also blocked by a stone tablet.
Luke walked up to the stone tablet, took out a dagger and carved a series of symbols on it.
"Listen to the voice in the dark, touch the blade in the shadow, walk on the edge of death, only the spirit accompanies me!"
After the symbols are carved, the mantra is chanted.
The stone tablet turned in a different direction, revealing a door behind it.
Luke walked in.
A sharp blade was then placed against his back.
A female voice sounded in his ears: "I don't know you, how do you know how to get in here?"
"Sisili." Luke called out the other person's name: "You don't know me, but it's OK as long as you know Miss Qingkong."
The sharp feeling in the back of the heart disappears.
"Did Miss Qingkong send you here? She didn't tell me when I came."
Luke turned around.
The human-faced servant Sisili still looks like a human woman, with short dark red hair and wearing a close-fitting leather jacket... The clothes are changes made by her body, and the human-faced servant can change into whatever she wants at any time.
Luke looked at Sisili and replied, "I am Miss Qingkong's spy who was seconded from the Imperial Secret Service to the Dusk Organization. I am responsible for investigating the assassination of several Shadow Clan members in Gruzerei.
The secret key to enter the stone castle was told to me by Miss Qingkong.
She also told me a special language that confirmed my identity.”
Luke spoke a few words in the World Tree Language that was being developed.
When Sisili heard the Esperanto, she dispelled her suspicion of the sudden intruder in front of her. After all, only the core members of the Dusk Organization knew the World Tree Language.
"You are a human being. Even if you are disguised as a Shadow Clan member, you are still a human being. Leave the investigation of the assassination of the Shadow Clan to me."
Luke looked around.
The interior of this stone fortress is full of training equipment, and there is a simulated flying eaves rope bridge at the top. As a new member of the Shadow Clan after the war, the human-faced servant Sisili was entrusted with the important task of assassinating Qingkong. Her strength is inseparable from hard training.
"Tell me what you have found out. If you can complete the task alone, I will leave Deep Well City now and return to the Empire to report to Miss Clear Sky."
"I..." Sisili opened her mouth and found that she had nothing to say.
Even the Shadow Assassin Group couldn't find any trace of the assassin. He had just returned to Shenjing City and hadn't found any useful clues.
But Sisili still said stubbornly: "I am investigating... But as a member of the Shadow Clan, I am definitely more suitable than you to investigate this case. I'm afraid you can't even figure out the roads in Deep Well City."
"If I can't even figure out the way to Deep Well City, how can I find you through the maze-like city?" Luke ignored the fact that he was lost just now and said, "And I actually found a useful clue."
Sisili said disdainfully: "I admit that you are amazing to be able to find me here. But you said you found a clue... lying would make you look very unprofessional."
"There are humans lurking in Deep Well City."
"Human adventurers are everywhere. Although it's rare to see humans in Deep Well City, it's not surprising."
"This human is an extraordinary biological transformation master. He once performed a body transformation operation on a member of the Shadow Clan, and during the operation, he performed a general anesthesia on the Shadow Clan, including mental anesthesia. It is very likely that he tampered with the Shadow Parasite during the operation.
This human is now in Deep Well City.
And it's not certain how many Shadow Clan he has performed surgery on."
"Are you kidding? Which Shadow Clan member would allow a person to be anesthetized all over the body, and even their mental power is anesthetized?" Sisili expressed her disbelief, but then she thought that the imperial spy trusted by Miss Qingkong would not tell such a poor lie: "Are you telling the truth?"
"Really! This Shadow Clan member is called Romanchenko, and she is the chief of the Harpy Tribe. She is now with the King of the Dragon Kingdom. King Taotie has sent a giant dragon to the Empire to pick up an extraordinary biological transformer. When the transformer arrives in Deep Well City, he will be able to give Chief Romanchenko a comprehensive examination."
"So you came here with the King of Dragon Country. No wonder you were able to avoid the eyes of the Shadow Clan and enter Deep Well City." Sisili thought for a moment and said, "I have some impression of the harpy Romanchenko. Her tribe is on the border of Gruzerei.
You mean... the human who performed the extraordinary transformation surgery on Romanchenko was related to the assassination of several Shadow Clan members?"
Luke replied: "I don't have direct evidence of a connection, but it's a reasonable guess."
"What do you need me to do?" Sisili became serious.
"Try to find this human in Deep Well City." Luke thought about it and said, "The other party may not be alone, and studying shadow parasites requires very professional equipment, which is not easy to hide under the eyes of the Eye Shadow Assassins. If they want to hide in Deep Well City, they must have the cooperation of the Shadow Clan.
Be careful when you look for them!"
Luke's analysis made Sisili's expression very solemn.
It is very difficult for a human to hide in Deep Well City, and it is almost impossible for a group of humans to hide in Deep Well City. Assassins are good at tracking, and there must be traces of humans living in Deep Well City.
Yet they seemed to be non-existent.
There must be Shadow Clan members helping them, and not just one or two.
The extraordinary human biological transformation master, the anesthetized harpy, the assassinated shadow tribe, the betrayer in the deep well city...
The circumstances behind those assassinations were far more complicated than imagined, and a major crisis was quietly approaching.
"I'll be careful..." Sisili answered a little unconfidently.
Luke knew that his side was much weaker than the forces behind the Lost, but he had to continue the investigation under pressure.
Luke gave Sisili a suggestion: "The Dark Chief is rebuilding the Shadow Assassin Group. With your strength, if you take the test, you should be able to pass.
If there is any confidential information about the Shadow Assassins, it may be able to help our investigation."
Sisili replied: "I failed to assassinate Miss Qingkong, and now Gruzelei is missing. If I show up to participate in the assessment of the Shadow Assassin Group, I am afraid it will be difficult to explain what I have done during this period."
Luke said, "I believe these problems are not a problem for a human-faced Shadow Clan member. Let's investigate carefully so that we can return to Saint Lun City as soon as possible."
Sisili thought about it and said, "Okay! I will go to participate in the assessment of the Shadow Assassin Group. If I have any news, how should I contact you?"
Luke took out a few mysterious props and gave them to Sisili, then told her the spell and secret words: "The wind will deliver your message to my ears."
After agreeing on several necessary secret codes with Sisili, Luke left her stone castle and returned to the dragon's nest along the same route.
The secret passage has not been guarded by the Shadow Clan until now. I don't know if it's because of the long time that they have forgotten the existence of the secret passage, or if there is some other reason that made them ignore this secret passage.
Anyway, use it first.
Luke greeted the white dragon Eiffel who was on guard, and got back into the dragon armor.
Then a real sleep.
But Luke didn't sleep for too long. A loud noise woke him up. He sat up from the pile of gold and gems and asked, "What happened?"
The white dragon Eiffel, who was on guard nearby, replied: "My king, Chief Romanchenko, the harpy, was assassinated."
Chief Romanchenko is dead!
Luke was shocked.
He looked towards the commotion, where the harpies of the Scarlet Banshee tribe were arguing with a group of minotaurs. Chief Romanchenko's body lay between them, his chest pierced by a sharp blade, his head ripped open, and his brain missing.
Luke walked down the pile of gold and gems, and the Twilight Dragons transformed into human forms and stood by his side.
Walking to Romanchenko's body, Luke questioned the Minotaur Mendes dissatisfiedly: "A Shadow Clan member died in the Dragon's Nest. The protection that Deep Well City provided to me really opened my eyes!
Chief Mendez, do you have anything to explain to me?
Mendes saluted Luke and said, "Your Majesty, Chief Romanchenko was not assassinated in your Dragon's Nest. My men said that Chief Romanchenko left the Dragon's Nest alone, and because she was not a member of the Dragon Kingdom delegation, they did not stop her.
And then… Chief Romanchenko was assassinated.
I'm sorry, Your Majesty! I have no intention of shirking responsibility. This is our fault in protection. I will strengthen the protection of the Dragon's Nest, but the group of harpies are not suitable to stay here any longer."
Did Romanchenko leave the Dragon's Nest on his own?
Luke asked behind him, "Who is responsible for the care during that time period?"
Eiffel replied, "It was me, Your Majesty. I saw Chief Romanchenko leave the Dragon's Lair alone, and I didn't tell you in order to... in order not to disturb your rest."
Luke guessed from Eiffel's words that Romanchenko left Dragon's Nest alone during the time he left Dragon's Nest.
When I came back, I didn't pay attention to the situation on the Harpy side, and didn't realize that Romanchenko was no longer there.
Luke nodded and turned to Mendes and said, "I don't want something like this to happen to my dragons. And the Shadow Clan has been assassinated repeatedly in Deep Well City, but you can't find anything. It's really ironic!
Is it that the assassin is too powerful, or that the Shadow Clan has lived too comfortably for the past thousand years?"
Mendes looked extremely ugly. This time the Shadow Clan had really brought disgrace upon themselves .
Mendes saluted Luke again: "I sincerely apologize to you, Your Majesty! I promise that we will catch the assassin as soon as possible.
Please let us take these harpies away, they are a threat to your safety if they stay here."
The harpy was provoked and started to make noise again.
They were unwilling to follow this group of minotaurs, as they knew very well what was waiting for them.
Luke stopped the noisy harpies and said to Mendes, "These harpies came with me, I will be responsible for protecting them.
Romanchenko's body was also left behind.
Anyway, I have nothing to do in Shenjing City for the time being, so I will help you find out who this assassin is..."
