Their commission was suspicious.

"You didn't tell me that either? And didn't you say that the remaining three unique faction merchants' quest series was very tedious?"

[It was indeed tedious, but you intercepted them halfway. Those three gifted individuals did almost all the tasks, and then the quest items ended up in your hands.]

The Book of Akasha replied

Time -0.01

"..."

Gan!

Chen Luo wasn't dissatisfied with the privileges granted to the three merchants from the sole faction; he simply disliked the title of "trading merchant."

Even if it was a succubus merchant, Chen Luo could accept it. But what kind of weird merchant is this?

What respectable person would do business with a shady merchant?

Isn't this pushing away your potential customers?

Chen Luo had already given up on this business. He could simply set up a teleportation point in the basement and have someone else come and retrieve the item he'd prepared for Liu Huaixi.

Chen Luo's reward was the prop, and as long as Chen Luo didn't take the prop, the deal wasn't done. Chen Luo could also find other customers to give him a nicer nickname.

[But this is the only faction merchant.] (by a user-friendly plugin)

"..."

Chen Luo needs to think about it.

“We’ve arrived,” Isamara said.

Chen Luo and Isamara arrived at an unusually strange basement.

But Chen Luo didn't have time to look around the basement before he was drawn to other more urgent matters.

Because... Isamara is going to disappear.

When Chen Luogang met Isamara, she had 19 hours, 46 minutes, and 35 seconds left on her time limit.

That's equivalent to 1186 minutes.

Isamara simply stood up, took two steps toward Chen Luo with great excitement, and five minutes were left.

1000 minutes sounds like a lot, but if you count standing up as one minute and taking two steps as four minutes, Isamara has at most less than 600 steps left.

This is probably why Isamara always sat on that bench.

Isamara has 1 minute and 25 seconds left on the clock.

"Come on!"

You can't disappear yet, the commission isn't finished!

At least help her remove the curse and help it return home, that's two requests!

Moreover, this Isamara doesn't look like the Ascended Isamara; she's worth saving.

If she tries to cause trouble, Chen Luo can just take care of it.

Isamara cannot be allowed to disappear now. If she disappears, Chen Luo will have no idea where to find her, and disappearance would mean death. However, Chen Luo has no way to prolong her existence.

It is definitely in the Book of Akasha, but it takes time to inquire about the Book of Akasha.

If the time required exceeds 1 minute and 25 seconds, Isamara will have to...

Chen Luo hadn't noticed it before, but now that he saw Isamara's figure appearing and disappearing, he realized it.

"Stop, don't move. You're about to disappear," Chen Luo said quickly.

"I know."

"You knew that, yet you still brought me here yourself?"

"It's alright, death is just the beginning."

"This is serious, okay? Don't move. Don't move at all." Chen Luo said as he walked to Isamara's side, then stood close to her, summoned the bar, and pushed open the bar door.

Taking advantage of Isamara's inattention, Chen Luo pushed her directly into the bar.

Isamara's body instinctively leaned forward, and because of this movement, the number above Isamara's head instantly dropped to zero.

【00:00:01】

The bar held Isamara back for the last second.

Chen Luo breathed a sigh of relief and took off his hood after entering the bar.

Listening to what they said about not being able to complete the task without a hood, but since the task has already been completed, there's no problem taking off the hood.

Fearing that Isamara might run out of the bar and waste her last second, Chen Luo quickly closed the bar door.

Before Chen Luo could turn around to check on Isamara's condition, he heard a heavy thud.

"Um, you dropped your kettle." Chen Luo turned his head and saw the blue kettle lying on the ground and Isamara standing there dumbfounded.

"Lo..."

"Ok?"

Did Chen Luo just hear the character "Luo"?

Everyone is extremely sensitive about their own name, including Chen Luo.

"Lolo..." This time, Chen Luo clearly heard his own name from Isamara's mouth, and it was even her nickname.

"???"

"Lolo, Lolo..." Isamara's voice grew more and more joyful and excited.

While Chen Luo was still in a daze, Isamara, who had been reminded that the kettle had fallen, did not immediately pick it up, but instead...

Chen Luo felt a cool breeze, and then a body pressed tightly against his, radiating an astonishing heat.

At the same time, Chen Luo's lips were also blocked, and a restless little thing broke into Chen Luo's teeth.

"???"

"Uuuuuuu..."

You can't hurt each other in the bar, but you can still collide with each other.

Chen Luo stared in disbelief at Isamara, who had tackled him to the ground and was now expressing affection for him in the manner of an orca apologizing.

To outsiders, it was as if a shadow was covering Chen Luo, but Chen Luo's investigative abilities allowed him to see through the surface and discern Isamara/Skadi's true face beneath the shadow.

Being suddenly kissed by a stranger is shocking enough.

But what shocked Chen Luo the most was that the numbers above Isamara's head were rising at an astonishing rate, the speed at which Chen Luo was dazzled.

From a mere one second of existence, it has grown to five hours in just five seconds.

The speed is comparable to the speed at which the fuel gauge rolls when you refuel a car.

What happened?

Seeing that Isamara still had no intention of letting him go and was hugging him tighter and tighter, Chen Luo chose to use the teleportation anchor point to teleport himself directly to the attic on the third floor.

A decent person wouldn't set up multiple teleportation points in their own home, but this method was originally Chen Luo's way of preventing the Herrscher of Knowledge from taking advantage of him...

"This time, I really was molested!" Sitting cross-legged on the bed in the attic on the third floor, Chen Luo looked bewildered.

Why?

Chapter 1112 Isamara's Call... and Indecent Assault

"Lolo..."

"Lolo..."

Chen Luo listened to the sounds coming from the first and second floors of the bar after the soundproofing was removed.

Like a lament, like a yearning, like a sob, like a complaint...

If initially the search for Chen Luo's voice was merely more frequent, the nature of the voice changed considerably after 30 seconds of searching without finding Chen Luo.

After Isamara arrived at the bar, although the shadowy curse on her body had not yet been lifted, her voice had returned to normal.

The bar won't hurt anyone, but just like when Yun Lian'er came to the bar, the sickly curse from before wouldn't be removed from her body...

A bar is there to protect you from harm, not to cure your illness.

It's already good enough that you haven't disappeared with only one second left. You actually wanted the bar to erase your curse as well?

What good thing are you thinking about?

Listening to the increasingly sorrowful, song-like cries, Chen Luo couldn't bear it after a while and decided to go down and check first.

Things were so unexpected that Chen Luo was completely dumbfounded.

But hearing Isamara's cries, Chen Luo felt a little panicked.

Doesn't this sound like a songstress who waited in the same spot for two months, only to be abandoned by her beloved after finally seeing him again?

"..."

[Since she sings so well, why don't you go down and check on her? Just then, when she's in the bar, all that's left of her disguise is that layer of mist.]

Without the world's rejection factor, perhaps we can see more things.

As the humanized plugin mentioned, the reason why it takes too long to see through Isamara is mainly due to two things about her.

One is an extremely high-level curse imposed by some unknown entity.

Although the curse was ridiculously powerful, it was relatively easy to deal with using reconnaissance abilities.

But the most difficult thing to deal with is the world's rejection.

Isamara's voice was distorted not because of the curse of the dark shadow surrounding her, but because the world's rejection of her was growing stronger, to the point that it shrouded her in a veil.

It is this veil that makes it necessary for the usually invincible investigative capabilities to take time to analyze.

Reconnaissance ability is a tool for observing the world. The highest level is to observe the entire world. However, the world's rejection is also a world-class phenomenon, which leads to a conflict between the two.

Fortunately, the world rejected Isamara but not completely; otherwise, let alone two months, Isamara wouldn't even be able to stay in this world for two seconds. Even the evil god would have to call her an evil god.

Now that Isamara has entered the bar, the sense of alienation from that world has vanished instantly. Although there is still a timer above her head, that timer represents the length of time Isamara can exist after returning to the main world.

As for why the other party forcibly kissed Chen Luo for 5 seconds and the time increased by 5 hours... Chen Luo didn't understand either.

Although Chen Luo didn't understand, he was deeply shocked.

But in any case, it's definitely not an option to stay away now.

Chen Luo will eventually have to go back to the first and second floors of the bar.

There are only a few hours left before evening opening time.

If those guys at the bar found out about this...

Does the truth matter? Yes, the truth is very important! But not knowing the truth is even more important!

The people having fun at the bar don't care what the truth is.

Wendy, Yakumo, Purple Plum... which one seems like someone who wants to find the truth?

Of course, what Chen Luo feared even more was that Isamara would leave the bar and go out to look for him if she couldn't find him.

According to rough calculations, the eerie aura of the church outside the bar has now thinned to the point that Isamara's existence time decreases by two minutes with every step she takes.

Five hours sounds like a long time, but it's not even enough for Isamara to get out of the basement from the bottom.

"A sin."

Chen Luo sighed and then got out of bed.

"jingle!"

The wind chimes rang.

However, no familiar or unfamiliar voices rang out.

Instead, Isamara's voice, which had been calling out Chen Luo's name and searching for him, began to fade into the distance...

"Good heavens, they really went out?" Chen Luo was so shocked that he immediately used the teleportation anchor point to teleport to the entrance of the first floor of the bar.

Although Chen Luo wasn't quite sure why Isamara knew him, he wasn't foolish enough to think she had mistaken him for someone else.