Inner city of Amber.
In front of a coffee shop that can be seen everywhere on the roadside, there are tables, chairs and parasols for diners to rest, eat and enjoy the street scenery.
Akbin and Drinker were sitting casually in chairs. Drinker ordered a fried fish sandwich and drank a sip of coffee while eating it.
"It doesn't look like the Executioner Squad is coming for you, Akbin."
Drinker muttered.
Akbin glanced at him and said nothing, just thinking silently.
After a while, he finally spoke:
"It doesn't matter. As long as they don't interfere with our mission... let's go."
"There are three little tails following you, and you're going to catch someone like this?"
Drinker crumpled the paper packaging into a ball and threw it into the trash can behind him.
Akbin shook his head.
"They are already infected and can't be caught up."
After saying that, he stood up and walked towards the end of the street.
Drinker curled his lips, put his hands in his pockets and followed behind.
The rooftop of a shop not far away.
When the executioner Leslie saw the two of them leave, she immediately took out her notepad and planned to pass on the message, but she suddenly started coughing without warning.
“Cough…cough cough!”
Lei Sili looked down and saw blood on her palm.
She looked horrified.
As a [Sequence 7] Beyonder, she was caught in the opponent’s mysterious trick without even realizing it.
At this time, the notepad began to vibrate and words appeared on it.
Lei Sili took a closer look and her heart sank.
"The other two were also infected with extraordinary diseases like me..."
But she could feel that the disease was slowly subsiding, only leaving her temporarily weak.
"Akbin... this is his warning!"
However, Lei Sili's eyes turned fierce.
"Do you think this can scare off the executioner squad? You underestimate us!"
She coughed twice more, ignoring the blood flowing from the corner of her mouth, and wrote down the information about the Akbin duo on the notepad. She endured the fatigue and discomfort all over her body, jumped over the roof and chased after them.
Soon, she stopped.
Because she found that Akbin and Drinker were standing by the street and did not move forward.
Following their gaze, Leslie looked further ahead. In the middle of the street several dozen meters away from them, a man wearing a black suit, a black top hat, and holding a silver cane was looking at them with a smile.
"That man is...?"
Lei Sili was in doubt.
"Nice to meet you two. Nice to meet you. I'm the head of the circus, Jackspeight..."
Chen Lun took off his hat and bowed slightly.
"We were just planning to look for you, but we didn't expect you to come to our door yourself..."
Drinker chuckled, pulled out a pack of cigarettes and lit one for himself.
He didn't care and shook his head with a hint of sarcasm.
"Are you here to apologize? I don't think that's necessary. If you take things from the mutual aid association, you must pay the corresponding price."
"Stop talking nonsense, Drink."
Akbin said indifferently. He took out a small glass jar from the lining of his clothes. Inside was a wriggling eyeball. It was the [C-level monster - Eye of Shadow]!
Buzz!
A light burst out from the eyeball.
In an instant, Chen Lun was forcibly dragged into the spiritual world by the light.
He raised his eyebrows and saw that all the pedestrians around him had disappeared. On the empty and blurry street, only the Akbin duo in front of him were left.
"You are the one who told us about occupying the circus, or let us interrogate you and make you tell us the truth."
Drinker laughed as he smoked his cigarette.
There was a mist in Chen Lun's eyes, and he saw through the strength level of the two opponents.
"Both of them are [Sequence 6] Beyonders... Akbin's attributes have reached the limit of this sequence, and he is not far from [Sequence 5]. The members of the murder club are indeed strong."
He thought to himself.
Akbin and Drinker frowned.
When they were glanced at by Chen Lun's eyes, they immediately felt very uncomfortable, as if they were seen through.
"You two, I have an idea, why don't you listen to it?"
Chen Lun gave a polite smile.
"Not interested."
Akbin said coldly.
"It seems that you are not going to say it yourself?"
Chen Lun raised his hand and made a gesture to wait.
"Mr. Akbinkov, I am very sincere... The circus planned a kidnapping case before, but was backstabbed by our partner Beckman, and finally was caught by the shelter."
He shrugged.
"I did recruit the remaining remnants...but the reason I did so without changing my name was precisely because I was waiting for you two to come, because I wanted to use this opportunity to join the Mutual Aid Association."
Unfortunately, the expressions of the two people on the other side did not change at all and remained cold.
Drinker exhaled a puff of smoke and laughed twice.
"Oh, I think I understand... You want to replace the original leader of the subordinate organization and serve as the spy chief of the mutual aid association in this city?"
He looked back at Akbin, who nodded.
"According to the rules, you can do this..."
Akbin waved his hand, and a group of flies flew in from nowhere, forming a contract text in mid-air.
"Sign this contract and let this matter be settled...it will save us a lot of trouble."
Chen Lun glanced at it casually.
The above terms are countless times more stringent than the ones he signed with the peripheral members of the circus. It is no exaggeration to say that it is a contract of sale.
"That's not what I meant, you two... I just wanted to say that I'm joining the 'Murder Club' as an individual."
The polite smile on Chen Lun's face remained unchanged.
Drinker was stunned at first, then he burst into laughter, and the cigarette holder fell out of his mouth.
Akbin felt as if he had been fooled, and his expression became even more gloomy and cold.
He waved his hand, and the contract text in the air was cancelled, and the flies scattered.
This move means that he will not give any more chances.
“Just you…? A guy who just got promoted to [Sequence 7] dares to say that he can join the ‘Murder Club’ and become our partner?”
Drinker laughed till tears came out of his eyes.
He himself had spent countless sweat and blood before he squeezed into the Murder Club and found a shelter.
This guy in front of me has no strength and no vision, yet he dares to speak such big words!
"According to the rules of the Murder Club, I will offer a bottle of extraordinary wine..."
Chen Lun took out the bottle of "Crane's Beak Green". Although it was slightly inferior to "Milna Blood Wine", it was still a high-end product.
There are many reasons why he wants to join the murder club.
The three most important points are:
First, there is relative freedom within the Murder Club, without the restrictions of other churches and forces. It is more of a killer guild than an elite organization of extraordinary people. It is one of the few high-end platform organizations in the Trisur Empire.
Although the relationship between members is not that close, there are corresponding benefits and protection.
In addition, Chen Lun can open another alias and use the Murder Club platform to do some hunting missions. This is a channel to trigger many important branches and can accelerate his growth.
Of course, the most important point is that he has the ability to brew extraordinary wine, and he can exchange extraordinary wine for the help of the strong in the club... As long as the quality of the extraordinary wine is high enough, there is even a certain probability that the conspiracy angel Conrad will take action personally.
Looking at the bottle of wine in Chen Lun's hand, Akbin and Drink's reactions were very consistent, which was quite indifferent .
"You don't seem to understand the situation..."
Drinker said.
"I don't know where you found out the rules of the Murder Club, but you are not qualified to negotiate!"
Chen Lun's original smile gradually disappeared.
"You are not qualified... Ha, since you are unwilling to follow the rules, I will have to show you what qualifications are."
"Just you?"
Drinker sneered, and the next second a shadow flashed by and rushed towards Chen Lun.
Chen Lun looked indifferent as he took out two bells, one blue and one red, and shook them gently.
jingle……
BANG!!
A burly figure emerged from Chen Lun's side and punched Drinker on the arm. Fortunately, Drinker reacted quickly, otherwise the punch would have hit his face!
Drinker flew back and took a few steps back after landing.
When he looked up and saw the familiar brown-red pottery jar, his face changed slightly.
"Pot monster?!"
Mr. Hu patted Chen Lun's arm with his backhand and laughed heartily.
"Yinhu, we are here to help you!"
Mr. Ping smiled and said nothing.
"Thank you both."
Chen Lun glanced at them, then turned to look at Akbin and Drinker.
"Mr. Pot, the one on the right is left to you."
"Don't worry! I've tolerated this guy for a long time! This time I'm going to crush him!"
Mr. Pot pumped his fists twice and rushed directly towards Drinker.
Drinker didn't expect that the other party would actually summon this spiritual creature. He had fought with it many times in the past period of time, but was suppressed every time.
"Damn it! Do you really think I can't beat you?!"
Drinker sneered.
The next second, his body suddenly turned into dozens or hundreds of bats and scattered around, avoiding Mr. Hu's heavy punch, and then reorganized behind Mr. Hu.
Delink's palm turned into a black sharp claw and attacked Mr. Hu's back.
BANG!!
Mr. Hu struck back, and the two men retreated away from each other after colliding.
“That guy is [Flesh and Blood Faction Sequence 6 - Bloodline], but for Mr. Pot, it shouldn’t be a problem…”
Chen Lun thought to himself, retracted his gaze, and looked at Akbin again.
This one is a stronger opponent.
Akbin did not move from beginning to end, watching everything silently.
"You are no match for me..."
He spoke.
The next second, Chen Lun suddenly felt his throat a little itchy and couldn't help coughing twice.
[You are attacked by the extraordinary disease "Internal Failure"! ]
[" Hell Resistance" is in effect, reducing damage by 50%! ]
"Toxin resistance cannot completely protect against this extraordinary disease... That's right, after all, the two are not exactly the same."
Chen Lun thought.
He resisted the urge to cough and noticed that his health points were rapidly decreasing at a rate of 5 points per second.
"If I didn't have the damage reduction of [Hell Resistance], theoretically, it would only take less than four minutes to empty my health bar..."
Chen Lun looked at Akbin not far away and chuckled.
'It's only in theory.'
Next second.
A green light flickered faintly between his chest and abdomen, and his health points increased instead of decreasing, and soon returned to full value.
Akbin raised his eyebrows, looking a little surprised.
Chen Lun didn't say any more words and directly shot several cards at him.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh!!