Their commission was suspicious.

[Don't believe me? Ask the Book of Akasha! She's definitely not from this world. The whole world rejects her. The place where she is is the place with the thinnest eerie aura. But this isn't a good thing. Because… she's dying. Perhaps this time, the blue kettle can fetch an unimaginable price…]

After all, the dying person's final moments of lucidity are when their obsessions are at their deepest.

Chapter 1109 Chen Luo, the legendary investigator disliked by both "people" and "dogs"

This eerie town is home to monsters, and quite a few of them.

For some unknown reason, monsters often survive in the buildings, terrains, or facilities that drift from other planes into the Abyss Passage, but the chances of human NPCs surviving are extremely slim.

Regardless of the plane, there are basically humans, a fact confirmed by the plane exploration expert, the Abyss Plane.

I wonder if those other dimensions used the Abyss Passage as a dumping ground...

Since we can't solve the problem, let's solve the problem itself.

If we were to use the human body to describe a plane, it would be as if the plane were to throw its injured parts, along with all the germs, into the abyss passage.

However, a dimension is not the same as a human body dimension. It is possible to choose to extract all the benign cells inside and only throw out the germs.

However, even the most omnipotent thing can make mistakes, so it's normal for one or two benign cells to accidentally end up in a germ nest, right?

Raising poisonous insects, is that it?

Throw all the unwanted things into the abyss passage and let them kill each other?

However, to prevent these pathogens from consuming other pathogens and growing stronger, the two most advanced planes (as far as the spiritual world knows) were moved to the sides of the abyss passage to help eliminate the pathogens.

Those magical gadgets?

It's just wages.

Who will work without pay?

perhaps……

This was also what Chen Luo guessed.

In any case, before entering either of the two planes, there were indeed many monsters in the Abyss Passage, but very few NPCs.

In any case, no one lost out.

Perfect timing, it also allows me to use up the experiences I had no place to go in the Abyss Plane and the Spiritual Plane.

Chen Luo wasn't flying in the sky because that would be too conspicuous. In fact, there were flying monsters in the town, a kind of bird-like monster that looked very twisted and ugly. Its claws were too thin, and its wings were like fleshy wings with very sparse feathers...

Just looking at it makes my sanity drop drastically.

It also sprays some kind of unknown acid, which doesn't cause much damage but is extremely insulting!

I don't know how the others dealt with it, but Chen Luo chose to go down to the ground because there seemed to be something interesting there.

Chen Luo walked through the alley, wearing a black hood.

This black hood is a free accessory in the traveling merchant's backpack, and can only be used by traveling merchants, but can also be used by apprentice or temporary traveling merchants.

After using this black hood, within the abyss passage, unless one has strong reconnaissance abilities, such as Chen Luo's SSS-level talent or Liu Huaixi's S-level talent, it is very difficult to see who the merchant under the hood is.

If an item exists, then it is reasonable.

This hood is one too.

After all, being a traveling merchant has always been a dangerous profession.

Moreover, since they were traveling merchants, they were naturally not immune to being unscrupulous at times.

For unscrupulous merchants, the worst thing is being recognized.

However, this cloak isn't free; it costs two gold coins per minute. If you rent it for an hour, there's a discount: the original price is 120 coins, but after the discount, it's 100 coins per hour.

For one day, the discounted price is 2000 gold coins.

However, 2000 gold coins are enough to buy several low-level or even one decent mid-level piece of equipment.

But Chen Luo is different; he's a temporary traveling merchant, so his prices are doubled...

Because this tattered cloak is expensive and not very effective, and because people who wear it are usually unscrupulous merchants, no merchant would be willing to wear it unless there are special circumstances.

Chen Luo wore this only because he had some spare money, which he obtained from dungeons and treasure chests.

As Chen Luo walked, he looked around at the alley he was passing.

As Chen Luo landed in the village, he felt a chill creep over him.

The alley was cold, damp, and cluttered with unidentified junk.

The walls, which are damp year-round, are covered with moss and overgrown weeds, and even some seaweed.

For some reason, despite being such a strange alley, it didn't have much of a strange smell.

Perhaps, just as Chen Luo guessed, this town really was pulled out of the water and then "cut" to be integrated with the seaside through the abyss passage.

As Chen Luo ventured deeper into the alley, away from the sunlight emanating from the abyss passage, he could sense something stirring within the darkness.

A strangely shaped reptile emerged from the darkness, its eyes, gleaming with a chilling light, fixed intently on Chen Luo.

Dire Wolf

"Isn't it Hai Si?" When Chen Luo heard that the NPC in the center of the cathedral was Isamara or Skadi, he thought that this village came from Arknights, but looking at the name and appearance of this monster, it seemed that it was not.

Although the monster still exuded a strange and chaotic aura and appeared to be very aggressive, it had nothing to do with Hai Si.

On the other side, in a house that no longer had a door for protection, a humanoid creature lay prone, waiting for its prey.

It looks like a creature that lives in the sea.

This humanoid creature has a fish head and a human body, with a predominantly gray-green body, webbed fingers, and scales covering its body.

The other person's eyes bulged out like fish eyes. After glancing at them, Chen Luo turned his head away in disgust.

As they passed the humanoid monster, a fishy smell wafted towards them.

It feels like a combination of a human, a fish, and a frog.

【Modified Deep Diver】

This is the name of the monster's race.

Both the Dire Wolf and the modified Deepdiver give off a very twisted feeling, and ordinary people who see them may be mentally affected.

Fortunately, Chen Luo's various passive abilities had already maximized his resistance to this negative mental influence.

Since it can't even have an impact, it naturally won't trigger the talent's automatic protection mechanism.

Chen Luo's feet never touched the ground, but both the dire wolf and the modified deep diver spotted him.

Just when Chen Luo thought the two monsters would at least try to attack him, he found that they both looked at him with disgust, then one shrank back into the room and the other returned to the dark corner and curled up.

It was as if they were avoiding Chen Luo at all costs.

"???"

I haven't even started to dislike you yet, and you're already disliking me. What do you mean by that?

Chen Luo never expected that he would be disliked by the monster.

Chen Luo concealed all his aura, so he didn't think he would frighten them with the power he revealed.

It doesn't make much sense that monsters would be afraid of or dislike the merchant's hood...

Perhaps they simply dislike and fear you as a legendary investigator?

"..."

Chen Luo recalled the passive effect of the [Legendary Investigator] achievement.

These monsters look exactly like the characteristics of chaotic creatures.

However, the fact that the monsters disliked him still hurt Chen Luo's feelings.

"What should I do if I talk to Isamara?" Chen Luo was a little confused.

[As I said, this tattered cloak isn't very effective; how could it possibly cover up the achievement's passive effect? ​​So you should manually set the achievement's passive to hidden. Gaining her favor is fine, but if you incur her dislike... the quest might fall through. Perhaps you could try taking off your hat and then casting a charm?]

"Tsk."

Chen Luo also wanted to take off the merchant's hood, but he triggered a listening ability as soon as he arrived in the town.

"If you want to complete this series of quests, you might need to disguise yourself as a traveling merchant."

Although I don't know why this strange listening was triggered, I believe that listening to advice leads to a full stomach.

[But don't rush to suppress your passive stance just yet. With the aura of this legendary investigator, these monsters won't want to bother with you at all. Even if you kick them or take something from under their rear, they'll happily move away instead of biting you.]

"..."

Although it's really sad to be rejected by monsters, this achievement is really useful.

"Come to think of it, this is neither a Terran building nor a Terran monster, is it?"

Obviously not.

"It's amazing that she found such a suitable place for him."

[This is probably what they mean by like attracts like. If Isamara hadn't been able to find this place, your mission might have failed. See that church with the weakest eerie aura? It used to be the place with the strongest eerie aura. Now she's absorbed it all.]

"It's all gone?"

To survive... as an outsider, and especially one from such a chaotic background, one is inherently prone to rejection.

"Then how did it come into this world?"

【You're asking me? Go ask the Book of Akasha, doesn't it know everything?】

"Don't say that... Finding the Book of Akasha takes time, but finding it can be done for free."

"...Please see her first, then I can see more. I only saw through fate that the church was the place where chaos was most intense."

Investigative ability is the skill of seeing the essence from the details and then deducing the result.

But investigation is not about directly searching for answers.

Some of the deaths were so gruesome that even Conan would shake his head and lament the hardships of fate.

Although Chen Luo couldn't bully Secretary Akasha, he could bully the humanistic plugin of his own talent.

And it didn't dare to refute it.

Meanwhile, Chen Luo walked through the damp alley as if it were empty, unlike the other four teams who encountered considerable trouble.

The monsters in this town are really too much trouble.

Although it's called a small town, this coastal town is surprisingly large. Apart from the church in the central area, the other four areas are home to a considerable number of monsters. Moreover, the types of monsters are not limited to dire wolves and modified deep-sea creatures, but also include other types.

Not every household has monstrous beasts or modified deep-sea creatures. While you're searching for potential treasure, some long-decayed corpses might suddenly stand up and attack you with their claws.

These monsters mutated from long-decayed corpses are easy to deal with, but be careful of the toxins on those corpses.

The Dire Wolf is different from the Modified Deep Diver.

The dire wolf has a berserk form, which can double the size of its already not-so-masculine body. It also has considerable resistance to magic, and its thick fur can protect it from blade attacks.

The Deep Ones are even more troublesome; each of them can unleash a spell that spits out balls of acid, which are extremely corrosive and disgusting.

Most importantly, whenever Su Yuan and her companions use their abilities, in addition to the energy they would normally consume, they would also consume double the energy to resist the town's hostility.

The energy that Yun Lian'er and the others needed was used to resist the dampness and cold emanating from the entire town.

This negative buff not only increases mana consumption, but also slows down Yun Lian'er and the others' attack speed.

Moreover, this negative buff will continue to accumulate...

Nobody knows what will happen once this negative buff is fully stacked.

The simultaneous disturbance of four areas drew the attention of a certain entity in the church district.

However, after discovering that the outsiders were in the dominant position, did not need help, and did not carry the scent of the items they wanted, they fell silent again.

While observing the battle situation of everyone through Merlin's clairvoyance, Chen Luo slowly walked out of the maze-like central area.

After a 10-minute drive, Chen Luo finally saw the church surrounded by people in the center of the town.

Besides rushing to get there, the 10 minutes were mostly spent rushing into houses and ransacking them to grab supplies.

Although the central area has the smallest land area among the five areas, even less than 1/20th of the other areas, it has the most good stuff.