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Chapter 241 Gray Pact Society

Rex stopped.

suddenly.

The writhing gray humanoid figure ahead froze instantly, all its tentacles snapping shut.

The pipeline channel has become quiet.

Even the sound of footsteps disappeared.

Klaus's hand was already on his waist.

Rick's voice came from the body made of fleshy worms.

It's as stable as before.

But the tone changed.

"Klaus".

"I sense danger."

All four people stopped at the same time.

Klaus didn't speak, but simply raised his chin slightly, signaling for Rick to continue.

Rick's tentacles pointed towards a fork in the road ahead, and all the "fingers" made of fleshy worms straightened up at the same time, as if they were attracted by something.

"More than one."

Rick paused for a moment.

"At least three, all in front."

He tilted his head to the side again.

"No, there are two more, in the back."

Five.

Three in front and two behind, they were surrounded.

The pipeline was so quiet that you could hear the sound of liquid flowing deep inside the copper walls.

Then, from the darkness, someone spoke.

"It's an honor to meet you, Deputy Chief of Staff Klaus."

The sound came from ahead.

With a distorted echo, it sounded as if two people were speaking at the same time, their voices slightly off.

Three figures emerged from the darkness.

It was the same type of thing that attacked Lu Yuan before, with shimmering skin that constantly blended into the environment, its outline appearing and disappearing intermittently.

Lu Yuan's pupils contracted slightly; it was indeed the same group of people.

However, these three were not completely invisible.

They showed up voluntarily.

The one in the middle is slightly taller, and the undulating colors on its body are denser and faster than those on the sides.

He looked at Klaus.

"I need that stone you have."

His tone carried a hint of deliberation, as if he was carefully considering what he was saying.

"Once we get that thing, we will leave Bronze City immediately and promise not to pose any threat to you."

He paused for a moment.

"Furthermore, we will help you get rid of those parasites that are inconvenient for you to deal with."

Klaus looked at the three people in front of him.

His hands hung at his sides, and he did not move.

But Lu Yuan noticed that the patterns on the bone-colored ring on his left ring finger were slowly lighting up.

"It really was you guys."

Klaus's voice wasn't loud, but a cold glint flashed in his eyes.

"The Gray Pact."

The way he uttered that name carried a hint of disdain.

"The empire has been besieging you for so long, yet there are still some who have escaped."

His gaze swept over the three of them.

"But I'm curious, how did you manage to evade my plans and infiltrate Bronze City?"

"Let me guess, who helped you? That idiot von Klein? Or that viscount behind him?"

The colors on the leader's body gradually increased in speed, clearly indicating that he had also noticed that Klaus seemed difficult to talk to.

"Vice Chief of Staff Klaus, this is not convenient to discuss."

"However, if you give me the stone, I can reveal the names of those who are with us, as an additional condition."

His tone suggested he was conducting a business transaction.

"This should help you get rid of another batch of woodworms."

Klaus gave a cold laugh.

"It seems you're in a hurry."

"Is this stone important to you?"

His tone suddenly changed.

"Since it's so important, why don't you stay and have a proper talk with me?"

The words were spoken.

Klaus's aura surged dramatically.

The gray and white text danced wildly at the edge of Lu Yuan's vision.

[Target for detection: Klaus (mysterious and extraordinary)]

[It's incredibly rare for a human who has ventured so far into the realm of the bizarre to still maintain such purity. Perhaps he would be more suited to becoming a follower of the extraordinary.]

[Environmental Sensing: High-risk, unusual pollution source detected... Please be careful...]

The moment Lu Yuan saw these words, he instinctively took two steps back.

But his gaze never left Klaus.

Because he wanted to see what a fourth-tier, bizarre, extraordinary being would look like when they made a move.

Klaus did not transform.

Unlike Rek, it didn't explode from the inside out, spewing out inhuman things.

He's still the same.

Dark shirt, rolled-up sleeves, normal body shape.

Only a hint of green appeared in his eyes.

Every gesture he made carried a faint afterimage.

It was as if there were two Klaus stacked on top of each other, one of them a little slower than the other.

This is the fourth order.

Lu Yuan hadn't had time to look at it much...

At the same instant that Klaus's aura surged, Rex's body exploded.

This transformation is disintegration.

The humanoid outline completely collapsed, and a torrent of countless gray worms surged out from his location, sweeping forward along the walls, floor, and ceiling of the pipe network.

The three members of the Gray Pact Society seemed to have anticipated this.

The moment Klaus made his move, the three figures flickered simultaneously, blending into the environment and disappearing instantly.

Immediately afterwards...

Behind Lu Yuan.

Dozens of black spheres shot out from the darkness.

A stench hit me.

It was exactly the same as the one that attacked him before.

The black sphere wasn't aimed at Lu Yuan.

All shots were fired at Klaus and Rake.

There are two more hidden behind them.

They did indeed take action.

Lu Yuan made a judgment in that instant.

Getting involved in a battle of this level is a death sentence.

He picked up Buren and carried him on his shoulders.

Buren was about to say something...

"Don't speak!"

The thought sank into the chest.

Touched.

[Time synchronization acceleration (enabled)]

[Rationality: -1...-1...48/120]

The world has slowed down.

Lu Yuan carried Bo Lun and ran at full speed along the way they had come.

The pipeline network recedes rapidly into the accelerated field of vision.

The sound behind me was elongated and distorted.

The dull thud of the black spheres colliding, the hissing of the swarming insects, and the sharp sound of some kind of metal clashing were all mixed together.

Lu Yuan glanced back as he ran.

The scene viewed at accelerated speed appears frozen in time.

Klaus has already captured someone.

I don't know when they got close, I didn't see the process, I only saw the result: Klaus's hand, which was flashing with afterimages and green light, grabbed the head of one of the three and slammed it against the pipe network wall.

boom!

The copper wall shattered, and fragments slowly scattered in the accelerated field of vision.

Then Klaus's hand tightened suddenly.

The head was deformed in his palm.

Black liquid splattered between his fingers, stretching into long threads in the air.

Broken.

Klaus crushed his head in one swift motion.

Without hesitation, without holding back.

The next move followed immediately; Klaus grabbed the headless corpse's chest cavity with his other hand.

Lu Yuan withdrew his gaze and stopped looking.

Keep running.

The acceleration lasted for approximately fifteen seconds.

Reason was being slaughtered bit by bit, and that familiar feeling of something in my head being slowly devoured returned.

[Time synchronization acceleration (off)]

[Rationality: 40/120]

Lu Yuan put down Bo Lun.

The old man's face was pale, and he leaned on his cane, panting heavily.

"You...run too fast..."

Lu Yuan did not respond.

He turned around and looked back at the way he had come.

Hundreds of meters away.

The pipeline network has changed.

Rek's swarm of insects filled the entire passage.

From floor to ceiling, from left wall to right wall, countless gray worms piled up together, forming a living wall.

I can't see anything.

The battlefield was completely sealed off.

Lu Yuan just breathed a sigh of relief.

Then the sound came.

It wasn't the sound of battle.

It was a kind of low murmur.

Even though those insects didn't make a sound, you could still sense them.

The moment the insect nest filled the pipe network, an indescribable tremor spread from the front.

It doesn't go through your ears, it hits your brain directly.

[Sanity: -5...35/120]

Lu Yuan's gaze flickered.

The pipeline in front of us twisted briefly, and the inscriptions on the copper wall seemed to wriggle.

He knew this was an illusion caused by a lack of rationality.

Buren fared even worse.

The old man staggered two steps and crashed into the wall, his eyes unfocused, looking like he was drunk. He was muttering something, but Lu Yuan couldn't hear him.

Cover your ears!

Lu Yuan grabbed Bo Lun's shoulder and said loudly.

Burren was several beats slow to react before he slowly raised his hands to cover his ears.

Lu Yuan bent down and lifted Beren up again.

I didn't use the speed boost this time because I wasn't rational enough.

But they didn't stop.

Following the path we came from, and along the numbered arrows we carved earlier, we ran back.

The humming weakens as the distance increases.

After running about two hundred meters, I could no longer feel the tremors that were directly affecting my brain.

Beren's condition is also slowly recovering, and his eyes are no longer so unfocused.

But Lu Yuan did not stop.

He didn't know how long the battle would last, or whether any Gray Pact members who had slipped through the net would catch up with him.

The only thing to do is run.

Run until you are far enough away, preferably under the light of a marching lamp, to avoid being attacked by other things in the pipeline.

It was far behind me.

Inside the insect nest.

The four shimmering figures of the Gray Pact members had grim expressions.

They had just witnessed their companion's head shatter in Klaus's hands, and then Klaus pierced the headless corpse through its chest with a single palm strike. Afterimages and green light spread from the wound, and in an instant, the entire corpse transformed into a green crystal, frozen in place.

And they didn't even have time to stop them.

The leader's black liquid was intercepted by Rek's swarm of insects. The two forces collided, and corrosion and devouring intertwined, and for a time neither could defeat the other.

But the battlefield has been sealed off.

The swarm of insects blocked both ends.

There is nowhere to escape.

The leader finally realized that the negotiations had never existed in the first place.

Klaus was lifted up by the swarm of insects and suspended above the passage.

A pale green light emanated from him, illuminating the entire enclosed space.

On the ground, countless fleshy worms swarmed toward the four Gray Pact members, like a tide washing over rocks.

Klaus looked down at them.

The green in his eyes was completely overflowing.

The ring on my left ring finger began to deform.

The bone-colored material expanded and twisted, transforming from a ring into a bone sword as tall as a person.

The sword blade was flashing continuously, and green light spread along the spine, covering every inch of the bone surface.