In front of the crimson desk, two well-equipped S-class soul hunters surrounded Su Mingan on the left and right.
They looked alert, with their hands on the swords at their waists, as if they might draw their swords at any time.
Behind the desk, Elras raised his eyelids from the papers on the table. He rubbed his temples, looking a little tired.
"Explain it to me, S-class soul hunter, Su Lin." Ellas's face no longer had the familiarity it had in the past.
The look he looked at Su Ming'an was extremely serious at this time:
"Only the person who set up the barrier can break it without any harm. Are you the person who set up the barrier in this morning's incident?"
Su Mingan said nothing.
...He is not the erecter of the barrier.
It's just that maybe because of Su Lin's special ability, he somehow broke through the barrier without any injuries.
"Do you want to respond to the interrogation with silence?" Ellas stood up, the silver stars on his shoulders contained a layer of light.
He put his hands behind his back and wandered two steps in the office: "Unfortunately, here in Soul Hunter, silence can only mean acquiescence."
The dull sound of footsteps echoed in the quiet office, and Su Mingan raised his head.
"...You can also explain it, Ellas." He suddenly spoke.
Ellas turned his head, his eyes flashing:
"What?"
"What's going on with that second cleaning mission?" Su Mingan said calmly.
"What's going on?" Ellas still asked.
"There is no hidden soul clan on Thirteenth Street in the East District." Su Mingan looked at him: "What are your intentions in entrusting me with an impossible task?"
Elras laughed.
He put his hand on the pistol at his waist.
"The mission I gave you is true. Soul clan does exist on Thirteenth Street." Ellas said: "The victim has appeared, it is Garde. You also saw that she had huge wounds on her body. , and was hanged up so cruelly by the Soul Clan - it was precisely because you neglected your duty last night and failed to catch the hidden Soul Clan that she was killed."
"Impossible." Su Mingan objected simply.
Thirteenth Street doesn't smell like the Soul Clan at all. How could the Soul Clan exist?
"...Then how do you know it's 'impossible'?" Ellas suddenly lowered his tone.
The eyes of the two S-class soul hunters beside him were fixed on Su Ming'an, and a low pressure surged in the room.
"I heard that soul clans can sense each other's auras - they can accurately determine which areas have soul clans and which areas do not."
As Elras said, his footsteps turned in a half arc on the smooth tiles, and his leather boots made a slight sound.
He held his head high and stared at Su Ming'an who was standing in front of the table, with an unprecedented seriousness in his tone: "I also heard that the night before yesterday, a new man appeared in the Soul Clan City in the Southern District, wearing a white Masked leader.”
Su Mingan looked at him, his expression unchanged.
"In addition, I heard that just the night before yesterday, you mysteriously disappeared all night. Even the soul hunters on patrol found no trace of you." Ellas turned around and waved his hand, revealing a pure white mask. : "Someone from my soul hunter provided me with a recording stone. The stone records the appearance of the new leader of the soul clan... This is a new mask I made from a craftsman. Do you need me to compare it with you?"
He stretched out his hand and held the pure white mask over Su Mingan's face from a distance.
"...Look." He was silent for a moment: "They are exactly the same."
He lowered his mask.
The mask hit the table and made a crisp sound.
There was a moment of silence in the office.
Suddenly, Su Mingan spoke:
"Elras," he said, "I have no intention of harming the soul hunter."
"..." Ellas said nothing.
He turned around and went to another room. After a while, he returned with a white-smelling crystal.
He threw the stone to Su Mingan: "Hold it."
Su Mingan held it in the palm of his hand.
The eyes of Ellas and the two soul hunters next to him were firmly fixed on his hand.
After a while, Su Mingan spread his hands, and the stone lay quietly in his palm, with no change in appearance.
The detection stone cannot detect his soul clan identity. This is something Su Mingan already knew.
Elras put his hands on the edge of his desk, seemingly lost in thought.
"Su Lin. You are a descendant of Master Su Lin. I once trusted you... No matter how strange your whereabouts are, no matter whether you have been to the city of the Soul Clan before." He said: "... But I can't figure it out. , how did you control the entire Soul Clan. I understand that guy Sevia, he will never succumb to a human being."
"..."
"...Unless." Elras turned his head: "You are the child of the soul clan and humans, right?"
Su Mingan was stunned.
There seemed to be something crackling in his ears, and he seemed to hear a very possible answer.
It is not detected by the Detection Stone and does not need to eat human souls. It has the smell of humans, but it can smell the smell of souls...
The characteristics of the two races were strangely combined in him.
He suddenly remembered the figure of Kasang carrying Xiaona away that night.
...It turns out that there is still such a combination of two races.
"Su Lin." Ellas looked at him and slowly tapped the table with his fingertips: "I don't care what you think, how ambitious you are...I don't care why you returned to Praia, you What to fight for..."
"As long as your heart is devoted to humans, you help humans, and you have nothing to do with the Soul Clan, I can trust you. I can give you contribution points, the power to move freely, the trust of Xie Lude, and the honor of captain of the hidden team. name.
"Because Praia lacks stability, Praia needs strong fighters like you. You have indeed made a great contribution to the mission of Flower Street and have done an excellent job in solving the rats living in the gutter. So I trust you, I need You, I can give you the rewards and honors you want.
"but now--"
He stopped his hand and placed his hand on the pistol at his waist: "...You can't explain how you broke that barrier. I also...can't tolerate a leader of the soul clan still living in the soul hunting area. Until it got under my nose.
"so now,
"I don't trust you anymore, Su Lin."
…
Elras drew his gun and pointed it at Su Mingan.
Under the stable room light, the regret in his eyes was particularly obvious.
"Su Lin, leave Praia or die here. For the sake of your grandfather, make a choice." He said.
The two S-class soul hunters beside him turned around at the same time, drew their swords, their swords gleamed, and their sword tips moved forward and backward, lying across Su Ming'an's side.
"It's a pity, my colleague." S-class soul hunter Christie said softly.
"..." S-class soul hunter Ed remained silent.
And where their eyes were focused, Su Mingan raised his head.
"Ding dong!"
The system voice rang in his ears.
[Because you have lost the trust of the soul hunter leader Elras, you are unable to participate in the "Sea Feast", and perfect clearance of Heaven Line will fail by default. 】
【Enter the perfect pass·Hell line. 】
【"One thought of heaven, one thought of hell."]
[Route Tips: Use the soul camp to launch a war, massacre the residents of Praia, and seize Praia. 】
…
Su Mingan made no move to draw his sword, nor did he raise his hand.
He just raised his head slowly, and then looked at Ellas with an extremely sharp attitude, looking directly into his eyes.
"Elras, before that, answer me," he said.
Ellas raised his gun and narrowed his eyes.
A low pressure brewed among them.
"Does the Soul Clan exist on Thirteenth Street?" Su Mingan asked.
"..." Elras was silent for a moment: "Existence."
"Garder, was he killed by that soul clan?"
"……you could say so."
"Where is Sherrod now?"
"He broke the rules of the church and you don't have to mention him again."
"I understand." Su Mingan said.
He took out the photo that Garder had entrusted to him from his pocket and rubbed his fingers on the photo.
"Leave Praia, and you will never return." Elras said, "You are a descendant of Su Lin. Your grandfather has made great contributions to Praia. For his sake, I can keep you." One life.”
Under the nervous gazes of the soul hunters, Su Mingan put the photo back into his backpack, and then raised his hand.
"You don't need to look at Su Lin's face." He said.
…
The heat spread in front of me.
Sitting in front of the barbecue table, Su Mingan curled his fingers unconsciously for a moment, and then quickly let go.
"Let me tell you, I was so stupid that I ran to the South District with those people. Really, all I picked up were junk equipment, completely unusable..." Beside him, Lin Yin was using two pairs of chopsticks. Eat meat from both sides.
Lu Shu was drinking tea beside her, seemingly not interested in meat.
Su Mingan turned his head and looked out the window at the night.
Go back to last night.
"Sherrod, let's go," he said.
"Hey, hey, why don't you eat more?" Lin Yin shouted from behind: "It will be Christmas Eve in two days, why don't you seize the time and enjoy it..."
Su Mingan ignored her.
He quickly walked out of the barbecue restaurant and walked into the night in an instant, leaving her shouts and the heat of the barbecue behind.
Xie Lude followed immediately, looking a little nervous.
The next process was very similar to the previous one. When Su Mingan passed by the old lady's house, she saw that it was covered by curtains.
He followed Xie Lude all the way to the end, but still didn't smell the scent of the soul clan.
"It seems that there is a problem with the Intelligence Department..." Xie Lude said with some annoyance.
Su Mingan didn't talk to him.
He knew that Xie Lude must be hiding something, and this second cleaning mission was also full of doubts.
How did Garder die? Why would she go out at night and die at the hands of the Soul Clan and be hanged?
Why do churches catch fire late at night?
Why was Sherrod punished for breaking the rules?
Su Mingan said goodbye to Xie Lude, who was hiding everything, and walked into his room.
As soon as he entered the door, he stood still and suddenly saw a black shadow walking towards him.
……really.
He remembered that in the previous episode, there was someone hiding in his room.
His watch lit up, taking a complete picture of the person approaching.
"...Lele?"
Su Mingan looked at the dark girl in front of him with some surprise.
This is Lele, the granddaughter of old lady Garder.
She had always been wary of him, and he didn't expect her to come into his room at night.
Lele was wearing a cool bra, which looked a little cold in the night breeze. There were tears on her face, and her eyes were reddish, and she looked like she had just cried.
"Shh..."
As soon as Lele saw him, she immediately kicked up and closed the door.
She asked him to keep his voice down: "...Don't let the bright knight outside find me here."
"Do you have a problem with me?" Su Mingan said.
Lele was silent for a moment.
Suddenly, with a "plop", she knelt down in front of him.
Her forehead hit the ground, making a sound. The kneeling movement was so hard that Su Mingan felt the ground shake.
"Please..." she said softly, her voice as quiet as a mosquito: "Please save my grandma."
Su Mingan figured it out.
Last night, Lele actually asked him for help, but he went to bed too fast, and she didn't even have time to make a sound.
By the next day, everything had happened. When he opened the door, there was no one in the house.
"You know the bright knight outside. He called you 'captain' before. You must be very strong." Lele said, "Only you can save my grandma..."
"Say." Su Mingan said.
"My grandma disappeared suddenly when I finished talking to you in the afternoon, and she hasn't come back until now." Lele choked with sobs: "I was shopping in the grocery store at that time, and I didn't even notice when she left. When I came back, my mother was the only one sleeping at home, but my grandma was missing.”
"Her legs and feet are not good and she can't see the road at night, so she won't go out at night." Lele said: "It was still evening, and I thought she would come back later, but I kept waiting until it got dark, and she still didn't Come back...I heard that there is a hidden soul clan on Thirteenth Street. It must be that soul clan who took grandma away...otherwise she will definitely come back..."
"Understood." Su Ming'an said, "I'm going to ask the surrounding soul hunters now. You wait here."
"Wait." Lele grabbed his clothes and said, "Take me with you."
"unnecessary."
"I'm pretty skilled and can help you."
"unnecessary."
Su Mingan pushed her away and opened the door.
The slanting moonlight shines inside, and the Bright Knight, bathed in moonlight, is standing quietly at the door.
Xie Lude glanced at the scene in the room, but did not show any surprise.
"Light...Knight of Light..." Lele shut up for a moment.
Facing Lele who looked scared, Xie Lude did not show his gentlemanly side.
He ignored Lele and looked at Su Ming'an.
"Captain." He said, "You can go back to sleep and leave this matter to me."
"Tell me all the information you know." Su Mingan said.
"Captain, you don't have to worry about this kind of thing." Xie Lude advised.
"Xie Lude." Su Mingan stared at him: "I order you in the name of captain - tell me all the information you know. As a knight of the Church on the Clouds, you should not hide this."
Sherrod tilted his head slightly.
Looking at the empty clothes drying pole hanging at the door, his eyes changed slightly.
"In that case...then come with me." He said.
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