Infinite Puzzle City

Chapter 848 Yang Zhendong's defection

"what!!"

At the same time, the [Holy Stele] that Kaslia was holding tightly in the inn suddenly exploded violently without warning!

"Ugh!"

Kaslia let out a painful scream!

[Warning! The god has fallen, and the summoning has failed!]

[Warning! A god has fallen, and the host will suffer irreversible punishment. You will be placed under close scrutiny by the Church.]

[Warning! You must return to the church as soon as possible for review, or you will be stripped of your Templar Knight rank!]

In her anguish, a series of warnings appeared before her, leaving Kaslia completely bewildered.

"Damn it, what god? I didn't even see her! How did she die? What does this have to do with me? Where are my Holy Points?!"

Kaslia roared at the top of her lungs.

No one knows how devastated she is inside at this moment.

As her last trump card, it ended in this way, and Kaslia even felt like she had been betrayed.

But she didn't have time to think about it now. Xiao Ran didn't know what was going on either. In fact, when Kaslia took out the stone tablet, Xiao Ran had already revealed her last trump card, the bell.

If a deity were to descend, then Xiao Ran would have no choice but to ring the bell and summon the big black dog.

Although Yi Yi had warned Xiao Ran not to summon the big black dog casually, in a life-or-death situation, there was no time to worry about such things.

However, the situation turned out to be completely different from what he had expected.

Xiao Ran had no time to ponder the reasons. Seeing that the woman's summoning had failed, Xiao Ran bowed down again without any hesitation.

"Boom!!"

As the death knell tolled, the door behind Kaslia shattered, creating countless cracks. In that instant, Kaslia's entire being was rapidly drained from her body, flowing continuously into the cracks of the door.

In the blink of an eye, she looked as if she had aged twenty years. Her hair had turned gray, and her skin had become wrinkled and sallow.

Even the muscles in my body began to sag.

Even the golden divine armor on his body was now flickering between light and shadow.

Seeing this, Xiao Ran decisively drew his Dragon Abyss sword, leaped up, and slashed at Kaslia's head.

The blade tore a crescent moon in mid-air.

"Boom!!"

A loud crash echoed through the air. Xiao Ran jerked her head up, her eyes turning icy cold: "Are you looking for death?!"

Instead of Kaslia's head, a pair of iron fists appeared beneath the blade, their cross-fist forcefully blocking Xiao Ran's blade.

Yang Zhendong raised his head without speaking, then suddenly exerted force with both fists, shoving Xiao Ran away. He then grabbed the nearly unconscious Kaslia with one hand and took out a plaque from his spatial storage at the same time.

Grade A cursed item [Great Teleportation Order] - consumable, no activation required.

This item can only be used once.

Privileges; Great Shift of Heaven and Earth
Once activated, no matter where the user is or what state they are in, they cannot be prevented from being teleported to a specific location.

Once activated, this item will create an absolutely sealed area within one meter of the user, making it impossible to lock onto, select, or attack.

The moment Yang Zhendong activated the Great Teleportation Token in his hand, a golden light enveloped Yang Zhendong and Kaslia.

"you!!"

Xiao Ran looked at Yang Zhendong in surprise, her lips slightly parted but she couldn't say a word.

He knew that there must be some shady relationship between Yang Zhendong and the Changchun Association, so he went to great lengths to create a scene and lure Yang Zhendong over, all in the hopes of catching him red-handed.

But he didn't expect Yang Zhendong to betray him at this time.

He couldn't understand why, if he was going to defect, he hadn't joined forces against him earlier. Now that everything had settled for Xiao Ran, Yang Zhendong had two choices: either stand by and do nothing, in which case he could only pin his own guilt on Changchun Hui and a charge of negligence.

To be honest, given Yang Zhendong's background, this crime will have almost no impact on him.

The second option is to kick someone when they're down, decisively help Xiao Ran kill the others, and in the end, the good and bad will cancel each other out, and you won't be able to find any fault with him.

Perhaps he could find some dirt on Yang Zhendong from the corpses of these people from Changchun, but it would only be dirt, nothing serious.

But what Xiao Ran found most perplexing was his decision to switch sides at this time.

Unless this guy is completely brain-dead, he shouldn't have jumped out at this time and chosen the worst possible outcome.

Yang Zhendong's gaze was fixed on Xiao Ran, his indifferent look completely ignoring her surprised expression, as golden light flashed. "Whoosh!!"

A bright light flashed, and the next second, Yang Zhendong and Kaslia disappeared from sight.

Yang Zhendong's move was truly unexpected by everyone.

But the ones with the worst expressions were the patrol team members who came with Yang Zhendong, especially Captain Liu Xiaowei.

The color drained from his face in an instant, leaving it even more ashen than the dust that had just fallen to the ground.

"It's over..." One of the team members' legs went weak and he collapsed to the ground, his eyes vacant. "The supervisor... the supervisor... he ran away?"

"Openly defecting! Assisting foreign forces in their escape!" Another team member's voice trembled, his hand gripping the knife shaking. "He's gone, what...what do we do?"

Liu Xiaowei felt a chill run from the soles of his feet straight to the top of his head, and his limbs were ice cold.

Yang Zhendong, as one of the supervisors in Ruzhou, was the highest-ranking officer directly under his team.

On ordinary days, they followed Yang Zhendong on his business and knew more or less about some shady dealings, and also enjoyed some extra benefits that were "tacitly approved by the higher-ups".

They originally thought that Yang Zhendong had powerful backing, so even if he had some connections with Changchun, he could cover it up.

But now, Yang Zhendong has actually protected the leader of a foreign criminal gang from escaping, right in front of everyone.

This is blatant treason and collusion with the enemy! It completely contradicts the stance of the entire company and the Chinese government!

As their direct subordinates, these people were instantly labeled as "accomplices of traitors."

Even if they were ordered by Yang Zhendong to fight Xiao Ran, and even if they only had a vague understanding of the Changchun Association's affairs, under the company's strict system and the current situation, they would definitely face extremely severe scrutiny and liquidation.

At best, they would be stripped of their jobs and imprisoned; at worst... they didn't even dare to think about it.

Fear, like solid ice, instantly froze the patrol team members' ability to act and think.

No one even dared to look in Xiao Ran's direction anymore.

Xiao Ran didn't pay attention to them. He glanced sideways at Liu Mu's direction and saw that there was only a black mist over there.

It seemed they were still entangled with another professional from a foreign force. Xiao Ran glanced around again, her eyes flashing with a fluorescent light, and spotted a wisp of aura hiding in a corner. She frowned and asked, "How are you? Can you still hold on?"

Qinghai's face appeared and disappeared in the shadows. He shook his head and said, "I can't hold on any longer. We're about to dissipate. It seems that this journey to the human world is coming to an end."

After saying this, Qinghai couldn't help but sigh. The scenery here was far better than Hell. Whether it was the smell in the air, the ever-changing colors of the world, or even the soil underfoot, everything was beautiful.

Rather than saying he was a demon god of hell, it would be more accurate to say he was just a demon imprisoned in hell like those evil spirits.

Being able to come to the human world with a wisp of his primordial spirit and live a carefree life is already a great fortune for him.

“After you go back, I can prepare another physical body for you to summon back,” Xiao Ran said.

He needed someone to stop Kaslia at the time, but he didn't expect Kaslia's combat power to be so terrifying after she was sanctified. She shattered Qinghai's primordial spirit with a single punch, which was a result that Xiao Ran had not anticipated.

"No need." Qinghai waved his hand. "Although there are no explicit rules, there is an unspoken rule: everyone uses their supernatural abilities to send a wisp of their primordial spirit into the world. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Don't make me break the rules, or it will be very difficult for me in the Netherworld."

As she spoke, Qinghai glanced in the direction of Liumu and said, "I don't have time to say goodbye to him. I'm leaving now. If you have the chance, come to the White Bone Hell and I'll treat you to my treasured Biquan wine that I've kept for ten thousand years."

After Qinghai finished speaking, he completely turned into a wisp of green smoke and slowly dissipated in front of Xiao Ran.

Just as the blue bones dissipated, Six Eyes finished his business. The black mist receded, and Six Eyes returned to his original form, throwing Baro Eksi to the ground with a large hand.

The guy looked dazed and confused, his eyes were lifeless, as if he were possessed, and he was muttering something in English.

"It's solved. This guy is under my spell. He won't wake up for at least ten days to half a month."

Liu Mu said to Xiao Ran with a smug look on his face, while glancing around, "It's almost all resolved. Huh, where's Qing Hai?"

"He went back to rest," Xiao Ran said.

"Heh, vegetable bun." Liu Mu looked disdainful, clearly misunderstanding Xiao Ran's meaning, but Xiao Ran didn't explain. She just patted the Yin Soldier Gourd at her waist and said, "Leave the rest to me. You can go back and rest."

"Alright." Liu Mu replied and returned to the Yin Soldier Gourd. Xiao Ran guessed that once he returned, he would probably understand what she meant.

Parting is always sad, so let Liu Mu hide in the gourd and digest it slowly.

Now that the dust had settled, Xiao Ran glanced sideways and saw Third Master and the others hiding in the corner.

"Did you come out on your own, or..."

"No need for you to do anything, young man. We'll come out ourselves." Third Master and the others were also pragmatic, knowing that if they let Xiao Ran take action, they would probably not even have a chance of survival.

One by one, they came out from behind. Xiao Ran waved his hand and released Yang Mingjie, who was hiding in the coffin. He pointed at Third Master and the others and said, "Hey, your first-class merit, why don't you take it?"

(End of this chapter)