Unknown Intrusion

Chapter 46 The Nine Swords of Dugu (Bonus chapter for Alliance Leader Chen19850816)

"Hmph, let me play with you for a bit."

Su Yu said this softly, but a sense of tension welled up inside her. She unconsciously quickened her pace, looked around, and then her eyes lit up.

Passing through the clutter piled up in the alley, a familiar old ladder is hidden inside.

I tugged on it hard, and it was still very sturdy, but it felt slightly damp to the touch.

"It's alright, it still works."

When he was playing, Su Yu often played hide-and-seek in this area, and the alleyways are full of his childhood memories.

Adults wouldn't know these things.

"You wouldn't believe it, I know this place well."

Thinking of this, the memories came flooding back, and Su Yu couldn't help but feel a lump in her throat.

He leaned the ladder against the slope, nimbly climbed up, and slipped through the half-open window of the attic.

He landed lightly and silently, casually pulled up the small wooden ladder behind him, and hid it under the small window—there was a blind spot there, invisible from below.

“I’ve never been caught before…” Su Yu’s expression softened as he recalled his childhood.

"It's time to get to work!"

Snapping out of his reverie, Su Yu rummaged through the dimly lit, cramped attic.

Soon, they found the broken mirror among the clutter and quietly extended it out in the dim light of day.

The mirror faithfully reflects everything outside.

Soon after, a man wearing a black hat and a plain gray coat quickly followed him in.

The footsteps stopped at the alley entrance. He looked around, seemed to hesitate for a moment, and then turned his head, revealing his face to Su Yu.

"It's you, Xu Cheng. You've been released so quickly?" Su Yu frowned.

"Is it the boss's influence, or the remaining connections within the Xu family?"

Having been mentored by Xu Cheng before, and having a fairly good relationship with him, I naturally knew about it.

The Xu family was once a family of gentlemen. Xu Cheng’s grandfather was one of the key figures in the laundering of the Flying Whale Flag and even served as a city councilor for a term. He also submitted the family crest to the council for review.

It's important to know that obtaining a family crest signifies officially entering high society.

Furthermore, they even formed a marriage alliance with the temple priests, demonstrating the power and influence of the Xu family back then.

Although Xu Cheng's grandfather fell from grace, was dismissed, and punished, and a rising gentlemanly family was destroyed, many relationships remained, including with the witch.

This information was leaked by Xu Cheng himself.

"Xu Cheng is still a cadre of the Flying Whale Flag."

"If I remember correctly, the boss went to great lengths to recruit him, precisely because of his background and influence."

“His status is different… if we can persuade him.”

Thinking about this, Su Yu calmly realized that his mindset had changed.

"I think I'm a little excited."

Is it because they have mastered magic?

Not only that!
Time and again, she successfully reversed her tragic fate!

Hope is right before my eyes, right in my hands!
Xu Cheng strode quickly through the alley, his steps hurried, his heart heavy with sorrow.

"Xu Cheng, the more you drift along, the more you regress."

"At this rate, when will things be able to..."

The vision was as elusive as a cloud, and after many years, it has not only failed to get closer, but has become even more distant.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but feel discouraged.

Deep inside, only a helpless sigh remained.

After a while, we walked out of the alley and came to a fork in the road.

"Where did that brat go?" He felt a little uneasy: "The boss's requirement is that we must find out who he's been in contact with."

"If we lose track of them, how are we going to write this when we get back?"

The boss has a bad temper, not to mention that I was even arrested once, and it was the boss who dragged people out to get me out.

But the thought of Attorney Zhang's gaze sent chills down his spine; it was terrifying, like looking at a dead man.

"No, no, it's not that serious. I just made a small mistake!"

Xu Cheng was unaware of Su Yu's "lost" ledger and comforted himself with this thought. However, with the situation outside in such a tense atmosphere, he dared not let the Flying Whale Flag people take any action!
You'll have to look it up yourself!
"Troublesome!" With a hint of apprehension in his eyes, Xu Cheng made up his mind: "It seems we have no choice but to use it."

He loosened his collar, revealing a string of greyish-white animal teeth, strung on thin fishing line and looped around his neck. Seeing the teeth, he hesitated for a moment, then reached into his inner pocket and pulled out a black pocket watch. With a click, the case popped open, and the hands ticked slowly.
"You must be back within thirty minutes, whether you find it or not."

After turning the screw a few times, the pointer started jumping rapidly.

"Go, find that guy for me." Xu Cheng took the tooth necklace off his head and flung it away.

The invisible gray light fell straight down and then sank into it.

Like a few drops of ink sinking directly to the surface of water.

……

In the dimly lit attic, the mirror faithfully reflected the light, and Su Yu sensed something was wrong.

"This aura is the same as last time."

It seems that Xu Cheng was keeping an eye on things last time, and Su Yu has finally found the person in charge!
"There's something attached to the necklace."

The shadow swelled up, and something was clearly floating inside—thin, strip-shaped, like some kind of white…cotton wad?

This thing lies hidden in the shadow of the ground, sometimes leaping up, like a fish surfacing to breathe.

Gradually, they dispersed and wandered around.

When they encounter places without shadows, they are exposed—pale, ferocious, and with a faint sense of eeriness.

There was a small, floating, white human face, swimming along the base of the wall, with tiny eyes peeking out from it.

The fish's eyes rolled around, as if they were turning upwards.

"Oh no, it looks like it can find it."

Sure enough, that thing seemed to be searching for something—circling around and approaching Su Yu.

However, the stairs have not yet been found.

But it's only a matter of time!

"I need to deal with it." Just as Su Yu was about to use a spell, he suddenly felt a numbness and an icy chill in his calf. Looking down, he saw a pale, bony claw lurking in the shadows of the attic. The ferocious claw was on Su Yu's trouser leg, and black marks were spreading.

His calves suddenly went numb and became weak, making him even a little unsteady on his feet. Su Yu also felt slightly dizzy, as if he had lost blood.

"That thing drains your energy." Realizing this, Su Yu bit her lip, the pain accompanying her growing clarity.

"Guide positive energy!" Having prepared in advance, he immediately sparked positive energy.

The blazing beam of light was itself a variant or upgraded version of positive energy, but Su Yu, who had been instilled with the system's power, immediately understood this.

"There wasn't time to perform the positive energy equation, but simply guiding positive energy can restrain the evil spirits!"

With a "poof," a bright and intense white flame appeared, illuminating the attic and instantly dispelling the shadows.

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Unsurprisingly, the thing exposed to the fire emitted bluish smoke, accompanied by the sound of boiling oil.

"Positive energy works!"

The bony hand slowly released itself, sinking downwards to search for shadows along the ground.

But then a flame of light fell.

flutter--

It burst into flames, crackling and scattering its white bone structure, revealing a thick, viscous black oily substance inside.

In the flames, that thing acted like an accelerant, quickly burning away completely.

"As expected of...exorcism."

When the thing burned out, a warm current appeared in his body, and his lost strength was miraculously restored to a great extent, but Su Yu was still somewhat weak.

"Miss Song's gift is really practical!"

"No, no, it's because the system is too powerful!"

"It's as if I've learned the Dugu Nine Swords and can wield them effortlessly."

The incandescent beam of light proceeds in three steps: guiding positive energy, performing a positive energy fusion equation, and catalyzing the emission of high-energy positive energy.

This process takes a considerable amount of time, but just now, by guiding the positive energy to repel it, the small agglomeration equation produced a flame that instantly annihilated the undead.

With exactly the same amount of power, they easily dealt with this thing.

Just a few days ago, Su Yu almost had most of his mysterious talent absorbed by the same undead!

In just a moment, another small gray crystal appeared at the bottom of the hourglass.

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(End of this chapter)