Before entering the cave, Felina stopped Gloria and Lizer behind her and said solemnly:
"Careful!
There are still a large number of undead creatures here. Judging by the aura, they should be at the Knight level. Based on the air humidity and this putrid stench, I'm guessing they are zombies.
Zombies all have a physique above 3.0, boasting strong resistance to physical blows. Their strength is also close to 3. Only their agility is relatively low, but they can release plague toxins and corpse poison around their bodies.
Both of you are close-combat fighters, so it probably won't be easy for you to fight them. It's better to let my skeletons go in one by one and drag them out."
Lizer was fine, but Gloria felt a bit awkward. She thought to herself:
I am a dignified deputy chief of the police department. I said I was coming to help, but I ended up just being a bystander the whole time.
Awkward...
Fortunately, there were only thirty-six zombies in the mine. However, capturing and contracting them took the three of them nearly an hour, and twelve of the more fragile skeleton soldiers had their soul fires shattered, perishing completely.
After confirming there were no more zombies in the mine, Gloria and Felina repeatedly cast several Cleansing Spells into the cave.
Feeling the air become fresh, and after Felina tested that there was no residual toxin in the air, the three slowly entered the underground cave.
After some exploration, they confirmed that this was indeed an abandoned mine, and there was no such thing as a large amount of residual minerals as one might imagine.
The Grey Mist Mountain government couldn't be that incompetent; before listing it, they had already used appropriate methods to confirm that the minerals were mined out.
The mine's structure had been reinforced with witchcraft and was fairly stable.
The underground mine space was incredibly large. A rough estimate suggested there were nearly thirty thousand square meters of usable space, which could be considered a free plot of land.
"Careful!"
Felina suddenly shouted, noticing an anomaly, but unfortunately, it was too late.
Ripples spread through the air like on the surface of water. A translucent ghost suddenly emerged from the adjacent pit wall and lunged into Lizer's body. Lizer only felt himself suddenly fall into a swoon, his mind turning muddled.
Fortunately, Felina immediately took out a pouch of purification water and splashed it onto Lizer. Wisps of pale, translucent black smoke rose, and the ghost detached from Lizer with a miserable howl.
Jolted awake, Lizer felt freezing cold all over, as if he had been drenched in ice water. As the purification water slowly seeped into his body, waves of warmth finally began to emerge from within.
Lizer felt a wave of frustration:
This was the second time he had been attacked by a ghost. What kind of constitution did he have?
Moreover, the Director of the Land Bureau, Slav, had clearly warned them about wraiths. Because he hadn't seen one earlier, he thought it was false information, only to end up being possessed and having his soul devoured by one. Thank goodness Felina saved him in time.
The wraith hissed at the three of them in the void, but two of the three now possessed terrifying energy auras, and the purification water on the other, who was originally an ordinary person, was also an energy that could harm it.
Driven by instinct, it wanted to slip away.
Felina quickly took out two rolls of beast tendons from her bag and infused them with purification water.
She cast the Hand of Witchcraft, controlling the two rolls of beast tendons to form a cage emitting a faint golden light to trap the wraith and prevent it from escaping. Then, she cast Channeling Witchcraft, intending to contract this wraith.
The wraith in the cage put up a fierce resistance, not hesitating to collide its soul body against the purification water-soaked cage in order to escape.
Unfortunately, its strength was too weak to break free. Lizer stood by, using purification water to help Felina replenish the cage's power. Felina's fair face grew increasingly pale, breaking out in dense beads of sweat as if she were collapsing from exhaustion.
After a moment of stalemate, a look of joy appeared on Felina's face, and she exhaled a breath of stale air. The wraith was finally successfully contracted:
"What great luck!"
Through Felina's explanation, Lizer and Gloria learned that this wraith originally had a very strong obsession.
This kind of obsessive wraith generally cannot be contracted by necromancers...
But nothing is absolute. Some necromancers conducted in-depth research and discovered that if they could resolve the obsession of such an obsessive wraith, they could successfully contract it.
Furthermore, compared to ordinary wraiths, these obsessive wraiths have stronger growth potential and can grow alongside the wizard.
If the obsessive wraith's obsession cannot be resolved in a short time, it will cause a backlash against the necromancer, taking a long time to dissipate.
Through the feedback of the Channeling Witchcraft, Felina learned that this wraith's obsession was actually to kill Police Captain Wilson.
Yes, the very Wilson who had died during Lizer and the others' previous mission.
That was why Felina said she was very lucky. The obsessive wraith confirmed the completion of its obsession through the unique soul contract of the Channeling Witchcraft, allowing it to successfully complete the contract with Felina. Having completed the contract, Felina also incidentally learned the cause of the wraith's obsession.
The wraith was Bobby, the younger brother of the original mine owner. About six years ago, because his brother discovered a secret of Viscount Weissman's family, the Viscount secretly ordered Wilson to murder his brother's entire family in the abandoned mining area. He himself was strangled to death by Wilson's own hands; Lizer also recalled that tragedy he had heard about when he was still young six years ago: Bobby's family in the mining area had been wiped out by undead monsters that unexpectedly appeared in Grey Mist Mountain Town.
Hearing Felina mention that Wilson had wiped out Bobby's family, Gloria agitatedly raised her knight sword and angrily slashed at the pit wall, sending rocks flying: "That damn dirty cop Wilson! And that bastard Viscount Weissman, to actually brutally murder his own subjects for a secret!"
Speaking of the 'secret', Gloria blinked and looked at Lizer and Felina. The previous stories of the two caused her to make a bad association. She widened her eyes and asked tremblingly, "Holy crap! No way!"
What kind of secret required killing people?
Rice ordered Felina to kill because of espionage and treason.
And Viscount Weissman's cruel behavior similarly bore deep suspicion. Regardless, this secret must involve a massive crime!
Lizer thought even further and could basically confirm his own speculation. He had originally wondered how Rice, having been in Gele for only a month, could rely on precise information to find people like Wilson and Felina, who were down on their luck and highly likely to join an enemy spy organization.
This clearly indicated that he had extremely powerful intelligence forces backing him within the Red Soul Principality; after successfully capturing Rice, Lizer had once asked this question in front of Sven, and the answer he received at the time was that all the intelligence Rice obtained came from within the Feiting Federation.
Obviously, to prevent the capture of one person from leading to a chain of arrests and the exposure of the information source, the Lurker organization had isolated the source of information from Rice. They didn't let Rice directly contact the information source, but went through great lengths to relay it through the Feiting Federation.
What did this mean?
Lizer's understanding was that the information source held a high and powerful position in the Red Soul Principality, absolutely could not be easily exposed, and the source's importance and status in the organization were higher than Rice's.
At this moment, combining the information Felina obtained from the wraith Bobby, Lizer deduced that the Mayor of Gele City—the current Viscount Weissman—was that information source, and that he had betrayed the Red Soul Principality at least seven or eight years ago.
Gloria and Felina listened quietly to Lizer's analysis and also felt that this possibility was extremely high. They hadn't expected the situation to have deteriorated to such a degree.
ng to die together with you." Lin Xuan is dead, his body thrown into the river by his scumbag lover and her accomplice. She, the president of the Su Group, is decisive, ruthless, and ice-cold. For three days and three nights, she had his body fished out of the river, and without hesitation, she kissed the bloated corpse of Lin Xuan. She laid down beside him in a cold coffin, their fingers intertwined, a smile lingering on her lips as she closed her eyes. The noble and cold-hearted woman, only bending for one man—Lin Xuan. Lin Xuan, with his golden finger, is reborn and returns to the day of his wedding to the treacherous woman. Su Qiang comes to steal the bride. Lin Xuan's eyes light up, eager to pledge his loyalty on the spot, but instead, her kiss transfers a glass of drugged wine into his mouth, causing him to pass out... 【Male Protagonist with Single Female Lead】【Yandere Tycoon】【Action-Packed】【True vs. Fake Heir】
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
close your eyes and open them again, only to find yourself transmigrated into the role of a villainous male supporting character. Readers familiar with urban wish-fulfillment novels know that it is only through the relentless antics of the villainous male supporting character that the plot between the male and female leads can progress. As the villainous male supporting character, Long Aotian not only has to bully the female lead, harass the second female lead, and flirt with the third female lead, but he also has to go all out to antagonize the male lead. In the end, when his body is discovered, he is still clutching half a moldy fried dough stick in his hand. Fully aware of the plot, Long Aotian is determined to change his fate, starting with the female lead! In the beginning, the female lead lacks confidence: "Big brother, I hope I didn't scare you?" In the middle, the female lead treads carefully: "Brother Long, please don't hit me, okay?" Later on, the female lead becomes coquettishly clingy: "Aotian, it's time to pay the 'public grain' tonight." Long Aotian's legs go weak, and he feels like crying: "I taught you to be thick-skinned, not shameless!"
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
