"What smell?" Allen sniffed, "Oh, I have no sense of smell..."
Li Liang picked up a long and narrow iron bar and gently moved the "Eye of the Void" on the ground. The smell suddenly became stronger, smelling like stewed meat with a fat aroma.
wrong……
He immediately held his breath, pulled a piece of rag, picked up a bottle of water, poured it on to wet it, and covered his mouth and nose.
"What's wrong?" Allen looked around.
"There is a strange smell. Will you be poisoned if you smell it?"
"No one said that the Eye of the Void has a smell..." Allen was infected by the atmosphere and moved a few steps away. "There was such a thing after the death of Zerus's mother body. The Terranza Alliance collected a lot of it. Some have also been circulated and sold to explorers who are interested in the Void Territory..."
"No one was poisoned?"
"no."
"What the hell is this thing?"
"One issue of "Spiritual World" mentioned that from a functional point of view, the 'Eye of the Void' is similar to a Horcrux. It is a casting medium for ethereal magic and the source of power for void creatures. However, no one knows its internal structure, because Its shell is a metal unique to the Void Domain, as hard as the World Tree..."
At this point, Allen was stunned for a moment and said in fear: "You just..."
Li Liang had already reacted. When the "Eye of the Void" was blown away by the tip of the Dao sword... it cracked.
The next moment, a piece of metal fragment flew out from the corner, melted into a ball in an instant, and wrapped the "Eye of the Void". Allen continued to wave his wand without stopping, and a bunch of pots and pans lined up to merge into it, forming a circle. A metal ball the size of a football.
winter!
The metal ball hit the ground and Gululu rolled twice.
The smell in the air was indeed much lighter. Li Liang continued to cover his mouth and nose, walked to Kujo Yui, and said in a muffled voice: "Get up."
Kujo Yui, who was holding her head and facing the wall, showed no reaction. She didn't turn around until she was kicked on the butt, with a stiff smile on her face.
"Did you smell anything just now?"
"Yes, cook the meatloaf."
"How do you feel now?"
Kujo Yui swallowed: "I'm very hungry."
"..."
Li Liang looked up and down at the woman in front of him, still thinking about eating. It seemed that she was not poisoned.
The space in the shack was closed, and the smell of stewed meat was always there. He motioned to Allen to leave the metal ball, picked up Kujo Yui, and the three of them left through the door on the first floor of the "duplex shack" and retreated to a dozen meters. At the ladder outside.
The air was flowing here. He made a voice call to Cain on his bracelet, and then while waiting, he got a rough understanding of the "Lord of the Void" from Allen.
Just as magic originates from the belief in gods, the "Lord of the Void" is generally considered to be the source of ethereal magic. For example, in the most well-known Zerus Zerg tribe, when the "Matrix" who is usually the leader tries to occupy the jump point, It will summon the power of the "Lord of the Void" to "make a nest". It is also an irregular pentagram, and its momentum is comparable to forbidden spell-level magic. Allen once went to the Yinkan front line during the war and experienced the "Great Lord of the Void" from afar. "Jun" a shuddering look.
However, due to the Zerus Zerg's firm control of the Void Sea, the Alliance of Law and Order's exploration of the Void Territory is extremely limited. Whether the "Void Lord" is a god or an ancient life with independent consciousness has not yet been determined by mainstream academic circles. Some psychic technology theories even believe that the "Lord of the Void" is a special energy floating in the void, and the "Eye of the Void" is the receiving device for this energy.
"Different opinions" and "ambiguity" are the norm in magic theory, and Li Liang is used to it. As for why the irregular pentagram appeared on the earth, which the entire magic circle has not yet understood, how did the five naked men learn to summon the "void"? He also had some vague guesses about the method of "Maharaja", which just needed to be verified.
Twenty minutes later, a group of Spades members arrived first, put on gas masks and rushed into the shack, carefully put the metal ball into the air-tight box and lifted it out.
After waiting for another half an hour, Cain finally appeared and brought the person Li Liang was really waiting for - the contact person of Bayar, a close confidant of China, on the Fuji. He tracked the "Cardinal" for Bayar back then, codenamed "Awkward".
"Ao" was a middle-aged Korean man with a plain appearance. He walked into the shack, took a look at the body, and nodded when he came out.
Li Liang's heart sank. He was indeed one of the five people the "Cardinal" had met with. If you include the four people who were melted by the high temperature, there would be more than one of them, so they all died cleanly.
"Please go check to see if the other four people are alive." Although there was little hope, after all the bodies were gone, he felt it was necessary to make sure.
After watching "Ang" leave, Cain cursed in a low voice: "It's too late again."
Li Liang shook his head: "There's something wrong this time..."
"how?"
"Let's wait for the news first."
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evening.
The stern of the Fuji, the 25th floor of the "SAMSUNG" container building.
This floor is specially used to receive important guests from Samsung Club. It is elegantly decorated and has floor-to-ceiling glass on three sides. It has a wide view and overlooks the entire deck city.
Li Liang changed into a cotton and linen shirt and stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling glass, lowering his head and stroking the double ring.
The meeting with Zhang Dongxiu in the morning was full of complications. It was not until he came out of the slum that the two parties officially met.
During the exchange, Zhang Dongxiu did not mention the interests of Sanxing Society. Instead, he kept asking about the origin of the goblin. Compared with Denali "The Lion" Als's ambition, the boss behind the scenes of the Samsung Club revealed in his words that he was tired of the gang life and seemed to only care about his sister's future.
Li Liang could see that Zhang Dongxiu was really not interested in power, unlike Als, who was a fake tycoon and a real fox.
Generally speaking, these gang bosses have been able to get to where they are today because they have very clear minds and cannot do stupid things like hitting an egg with a stone. Even if they are as tough as Chi Na, they still have room for things to do, but their mentality is very different when facing the new situation that is coming. .
The meeting ended with a luncheon. What surprised Li Liang the most was that a thousand years later, Korean food was still kimchi soybean soup, plus a table of side dishes.
In the afternoon he met another gang on the Fuji, the "Furong Club".
Although Yakuza was forced to quit the Fuji and move to Bay City, this is the city with the largest number of Japanese after all. The strength of the "Hibiscus Club" cannot be underestimated. Two platforms extend from the stern of the ship, one is located with "SAMSUNG" and the other is "Fuji".
However, the container building of Furong Club did not light up the holographic signboard and behaved very low-key.
The boss of the Furong Society is named Toyojiro Yasuda. He has a serious and rigid personality. He made some polite remarks and expressed the Japanese people's attitude towards peace in the city. In addition, he took the initiative to take a group of people to visit the Furong Society's arms factory.
The factory is located in a former liquefied natural gas storage tank, adjacent to Samsung's factory. Although the output is small, it is all high-quality products.
The arms business is the "pillar industry" of the Fuji's underground world. The joint meeting turned a blind eye. The Fuji Order Bureau branch, which was in name only, was located next to the gang's arms factory, so the group even dropped by the Order Bureau for a drink. cup of tea.
Next, Mizuno went to the slums to meet "Ao" as promised, Cain went to reminisce with Zhang Dongxiu, and he and Allen went to the guest room prepared by Samsung Club to finally be quiet for a while.
At this time.
A twitching voice came: "...I'm so miserable, really. I lost my parents since I was a child, and I have to live with my younger brother..."
Allen sounded surprised: "Huh? You just said that you and your sister..."
"Oh, besides my sister, I also have a younger brother..."
Li Liang took a deep breath.
For three hours, this woman named Yui Kujo has been fabricating her own tragic experience, telling different stories every time, without telling the truth.
The reason why he didn't throw this woman into the Order Bureau Detention Center was because she had inspiration and her level was not low.
According to Allen, Gufu was hit by a sleeping curse and it was difficult to wake up on his own. However, Kujo Yui woke up in less than five minutes, so he was obviously not an uninspired Gufu.
After being reminded by Allen, he quietly guided a cluster of spirits through Kujo Yui's body, and indeed found that the flow of spirits was stagnant, which meant that Kujo Yui had a high affinity for spirits.
He could only lament that talent is talent, and it was completely unreasonable that such a thief girl who always talked about cheating could actually learn magic and Taoism...
card~
The door opened, and someone came in a hurry.
Li Liang turned around when he heard the sound and found Cain and Shuiye entering the house at the same time.
"How about it?"
Mizuno leaned forward and said calmly: "The other four people who met the cardinal back then have all disappeared. Two of them were last seen near that room."
Li Liang nodded, and the result was completely expected. The ones who summoned the Lord of the Void should be the same five people back then.
"Can you tell me now, what's going on?" Cain asked.
"The man said something before he died... He said, 'It's you again.'"
"Again?" Cain's eyes lit up, "I understand, you... no, we are cardinals?"
