Hell has invaded, but my Hextech is invincible!

Chapter 89 A Series of Attacks: The Unveiling of a Dark Curtain (3/5)

Hextech glanced down at the spaghetti in his bowl, his expression turning cold.

He turned and pushed open the door. This was the villa of the Adriatic family. As a core figure of the middle generation of the family, Anred was wealthy, and the villa was equipped with his own servants.

As Hex emerged from the room, the servant bowed deeply and greeted him, "Young Master Adelia."

"It's getting late. May I ask what you need?"

"Who brought dinner just now?" Hex asked indifferently.

The maid hesitated for a moment: "It was the family's old chef; he went back after delivering the food."

"That's too obvious," Hex said after a moment's thought. "Call Anred back."

"At the same time, seal off this villa."

The servant's face instantly turned pale with fear. Not daring to delay any longer, she immediately ran outside. Fortunately, this villa was not far from Anred's house.

Hex had no intention of getting involved in the Adriatic family's conflict and only wanted to stay peacefully for three days before heading to London.

But some people, unable to see the situation clearly, dared to secretly poison him.

It's obvious without even thinking that they must be the group of unwilling Adelians at the funeral.

In an effort to reclaim the recommendation spot from Oxford Theology College, they have begun to resort to any means necessary.

He originally intended to let Anred handle the matter so he wouldn't have to worry about it himself, and he didn't want to get involved in such petty squabbles.

Unexpectedly, on their very first night, the other party couldn't wait to make a move.

Hextech had just stood at the door when, the next moment, "BOOM!"

A violent explosion suddenly occurred in the villa, and flames shot into the sky, turning the night sky red.

Klein is a frontline reporter for the Newcastle Daily. He was born in Newcastle's Third District to parents who were hardworking, ordinary factory workers.

However, Klein was intelligent and diligent, and at the age of sixteen he was admitted to the Department of Journalism and Communication at Newcastle School of Social Sciences.

After graduation, he successfully joined the Newcastle newspaper as an investigative reporter, achieving upward mobility and moving to work in the Second Ward.

His humble origins gave him an innate empathy for the working class. Unlike other students who only focused on the aristocracy and the church, he preferred to immerse himself in grassroots life, interacting with workers, farmers, and even homeless poor people.

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After becoming a journalist, he used his pen to be fair and sharp, and went deep into the past to expose countless unscrupulous factory owners who oppressed workers and exploited the lower classes.

He was also very good at making friends. He could talk to anyone, from the upper class to the poor. He used church channels to advocate for and help countless poor workers win their due rights.

At that time, Klein firmly believed that he stood before the light and practiced the teachings of God.

He was devout and self-disciplined, going to church to pray every day, his initial intentions pure and unwavering.

The change occurred two years ago.

His younger sister, Krishna, mysteriously disappeared on her way home from school.

Upon receiving the news, Klein completely broke down. He frantically used all his connections and resources to search everywhere, but his sister's whereabouts were completely unknown.

After five agonizing days of waiting, the younger sister was finally discovered.

But what awaited them was a horrific tragedy.

The young body was cut into five pieces, and its head was forcibly fitted with deer antlers and hung high under the iron chain bridge.

Its tender body was covered with countless vicious curse marks.

Even a seasoned forensic pathologist with decades of experience and a life-or-death experience couldn't help but feel compassion and truthfully tell Klein that his sister had suffered unimaginable torment and abuse before her death.

This was a particularly heinous murder.

The immense grief completely overwhelmed Klein.

He spent his days running around the police station, painstakingly investigating clues, all in an effort to seek justice for his sister.

At that time, apart from Martin and Rust, two upright detectives who remained true to their principles, everyone else in the police department, while sympathetic, stood by and did nothing but give perfunctory responses.

Despite Klein's best efforts, this brutal murder case was indefinitely delayed and shelved, and was finally hastily concluded as an absurd accidental death.

Klein refused to accept this outcome.

With his professional instincts and investigative skills as a journalist, he sifted through dusty files and finally found the suspicious points.

The younger sister's tragic case is not an isolated incident.

Years ago, Newcastle saw a series of similar cases of missing and murdered teenage girls, but the truth was covered up by layers of files and deliberately suppressed.

No one paid attention, and no one held anyone accountable.

This is not the work of a cult, Klein is certain of it.

Because cults are eager for the whole world to know what they have done, their evil is mostly revealed on the surface, and their rituals also have a very strong purpose.

Please the demon, summon the demon.

In the past five years, there has not been a single large-scale demonic invasion in Newcastle city.

Clearly, these cases were planned and carried out by an organization that had deep roots in the upper echelons of power.

To uncover the truth and seek justice for all the victims, Klein, together with detectives Martin and Rust, embarks on a long and arduous journey to catch the killer.

For five years, the three never stopped, persistently digging deep into the truth.

During the process, they met thousands of victims' families who had lost loved ones, and also gathered a group of citizens from all walks of life who upheld justice and were not afraid of powerful figures.

There were workers, students, police officers, journalists, nobles, and businessmen.

Karls of the Adriatic family was moved by everyone's persistence and sense of justice, and took the initiative to join the investigation team.

Karls' involvement brought a breakthrough to the long-stalled case.

Following the clues, the group quickly identified the mysterious organization behind the scenes—the King in Yellow.

Just as Karls successfully stole and mastered the Yellow King's core secrets and was about to completely expose the dark secrets, he suddenly died tragically.

Klein knew perfectly well what was going on.

Karls has touched upon the true core truth, a secret powerful enough to shake the foundations of the powerful figures behind the scenes.

Therefore, the mastermind behind the scenes, who had remained indifferent to them all along, suddenly made their move.

All clues and all evidence were completely buried with Karl's passing.

He was unwilling to accept this and refused to allow the truth, which had been sought for five years and cost countless lives, to simply vanish.

In an effort to find evidence against Karls, he tried every means to infiltrate the Adriatic family and examine their artifacts.

It was during this period that he, through his journalistic connections, uncovered an extremely unusual piece of news.

An illegitimate child suddenly appeared in the Adelia family.

Hex Edria.

Amidst the tragic death of Carls and the upheaval in his family, this previously unknown illegitimate son suddenly returned. Despite the opposition from the entire clan, he was exceptionally chosen to inherit Carls's place at Oxford Theological Seminary.

Klein keenly sensed something amiss.

According to church and aristocratic rules, illegitimate children are generally not entitled to inherit a place at Oxford Theological Seminary.

Karls' father's insistence on pushing this through despite opposition must have concealed a huge hidden story.

Five years of deep-rooted experience in the underworld and the instinct to uncover the truth made him certain that Hextech's identity was anything but simple.

It is certainly related to Karls' death in some way.

So he led Martin and Rust to Hex to make initial contact and explore the truth.

However, this attempt ended in failure.

Hextech used extremely brutal and forceful methods to expel both of them.

Klein was not surprised.

He knew that if Hex knew some of the inside story, after Karls's tragic death, he would be extremely wary and suspicious of anyone who approached or investigated the Adriatic family.

At the same time, he also knew that the anomalies he could detect must have been noticed by the mastermind behind the operation as well.

Therefore, he did not leave with Martin.

Instead, he stood guard outside the villa, silently monitoring Hex's every move.

Let's wait and see what happens.

Late at night, he noticed something unusual: a figure in black, looking flustered and walking hurriedly, was fleeing from the backyard of the villa.

Klein immediately decided to follow, but as soon as he set off, the entire villa exploded!

A burst of flames suddenly exploded, engulfing the entire courtyard, and a wave of scorching heat hit him, leaving him completely stunned.

The mastermind behind this is really willing to take action!

And in such a cruel and extreme way!

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