Extraordinary pedigree

Xia Xiu stood quietly in the center of the church, his slightly lowered golden eyes like a cold lake, reflecting a deep light.

After listening to Father Grey's narration, he raised his head slightly and asked calmly:

"Where does the purple-robed wizard live? Are there any relevant investigation reports and intelligence collection?"

Father Grey lowered his head, frowned slightly, recalled his conversation with the management staff, and tried his best to reproduce every detail.

"Sir, he is in the commercial district in the west of Gray Harbor Town, which is located between the port area and the residential area. It is the most prosperous part of Gray Harbor Town. That area is concentrated with various shops, resource markets and hotels, and is the commercial core of the entire town."

"Investigation reports and intelligence collection, the latest investigation content was not uploaded synchronously by the operators. Now only the most basic information is left. I have uploaded it to Eden's database, and you can retrieve the information at any time."

Father Grey continued to add: "By the way, about the commercial district, the secret market in that area occasionally provides rare magic materials and ancient relics from the Hundred Layers World, so it attracts Many mid-level wizards and businessmen have come here. The attraction of these secret transactions makes the business district a gathering place for wizards, especially people like the purple-robed wizard. "

There was a hint of helplessness in his voice:

"The business district is about 20 kilometers away from here, and it takes a lot of time for the operators to go back and forth to investigate.

So at first, I didn't think they were missing, I just thought the investigation would take more time. Moreover, they also gave me timely feedback through Adam at the time, and everything seemed to be going according to plan, without any abnormalities. "

Speaking of this, Father Grey frowned again, and it was obvious that something made him feel uneasy.

"Everything was still developing normally until the prophecy about the Dark Lord appeared..."

When he said this, his tone became heavier, and he glanced at Xia Xiu cautiously, as if he was afraid of touching the bottom line of this angel

"Until then, that is, the night before the arrival, the operators did not return at the scheduled time, and the peripheral genealogy could no longer contact them..."

Father Grey's voice became lower and lower, and the missing operators made him feel guilty.

He is old and his body is not very good.

There are many things he can't do now, and he can only watch the young man do it.

"I need to be responsible for this mistake. I will report this failure to Eden and the Ethics Committee. Of course, Mr. Abraham can also punish me for my failure here."

At this point, the guilt on Father Gray's face became stronger, and his head lowered slightly, as if waiting for Xia Xiu's judgment.

Xia Xiu gently reached out and picked up the silver cane, and said to Father Gray:

"I will investigate it myself. And... you know. Whether it is the Kingdom of Heaven or the Administration, whether it is angels or operators, everyone has been resisting the front line of collapse and anomalies."

There was no blame in Xia Xiu's words, but more of a calm and calm attitude towards reality, as well as a trace of undetectable murderous intent.

His words revealed a deep understanding: in the battle against collapse and anomalies, sacrifice is inevitable.

Angels and operators are always on the front line, and being on the front line means that encountering emergencies and accidents is inevitable.

Even if there is Eden in the Kingdom of Heaven, there are many angels who die every year.

Sacrifice is the cornerstone of the Kingdom of Heaven.

Whoever wants to save his life will lose it; whoever loses his life for me will find it.

Sacrifice will also become the cornerstone of the Administration.

However, sacrifice does not mean that the Kingdom of Heaven and the Administration will let go of the enemy.

There is a well-known program in the Supreme Program, which can be summarized in one line:

"Vengeance is mine, I will repay!"

Xia Xiu kept this in mind and carried it forward.

Treat the enemy as you treat others, and repay it double according to its deeds.

Xia Xiu stood there, just telling Father Gray that he would personally deal with the disappearance of the operator, and in his golden eyes flowed a group of data that only he could see.

This was the early intelligence retrieved from Adam's huge database.

Each line of data flowed quickly in his field of vision, showing the clues that the operators investigated at the beginning of the mission - coordinates, time, environmental variables, related people, and detailed reports of the mission.

These data flashed by quickly, and finally stopped at a specific location, a secret coordinate somewhere in the western commercial district of Huigang Town.

After determining the target, Xia Xiu slightly raised his silver cane, and the [Heaven's Lever] in his hand emitted a slight metallic tremor.

He tapped the cane lightly against the floor, making a crisp sound. At the moment when the cane was tapped, faint ripples began to appear in the air, and the edge of the space began to twist gently, like ripples on the water.

Then, a Mobius strip with an [∞] pattern appeared at his feet. The Mobius strip emerged beside him, the silver strip flashed with mysterious light, and the twisted geometric form was full of incomprehensible spatial fluctuations.

Xia Xiu slightly raised his hand, gently pressed the black hat on his head, nodded to Father Gray, and said goodbye to him.

As Xia Xiu moved, the Mobius strip began to twist violently, and the surface of the strip seemed to be constantly deforming, pulling the surrounding space in.

The ripples of space fluctuations became stronger and stronger, gradually spreading, wrapping Xia Xiu's figure, and layers of transparent films peeled him off from the world.

Father Gray bowed deeply, with reverence and awe in his eyes, and his voice was low and pious:

“May the glory of heaven always be with you, Lord Abraham.

May your path be illuminated by glory and all your enemies bow their heads before you. "

Under Father Gray's pious blessing, Xia Xiu's figure gradually blurred in the ripples.

His body was swallowed by the twisted space and gradually became illusory.

The ripples wrapped around him, taking him away from the reality of the church and disappearing into the air bit by bit.

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Gray Harbor Town-Port District (North)

The early morning sea breeze howled in the port area of ​​Gray Harbor Town, carrying a clammy, salty smell from the distant sea.

Fog enveloped the sea, and the hazy shadows of ships could be seen floating in the distance.

Camille, Ushas, ​​Muji, and the members of the Emerald Watch stood quietly by the port. Everything around them seemed quiet and normal. However, there was an unexplainable chill in the air.

10 minutes ago, Deer Academy students were arguing with the Emerald Watchers over a third-party extradition treaty, striving for a peaceful resolution of matters related to Professor Wilson's Wildlife Response Team and the Deer Academy's containment of magical animals here.

While chatting, they collectively felt a sudden chill, as if... there was some invisible gaze scanning them from the void.

The feeling has no sound, no entity, and at the same time, there is no cover up.

He, so naked, glanced at them as if they were ants.

The feeling was like a cold hand passing over their backs. Everyone's hairs stood up involuntarily, and their skin felt an indescribable sting and pressure.

Ushas was the first to react. His three eyes trembled slightly, and a trace of uneasiness flashed in his purple pupils.

"Damn~ You can't be so unlucky and run into big trouble~~"

She gently rubbed Muji on her shoulders, as if she wanted to relieve the weird tension.

The leader of the Emerald Watcher, the usually calm and collected wizard, suddenly behaved completely differently from usual at this moment.

Aldress, the leader of the Druid, suddenly seemed to be angered or frightened by some kind of power. She suddenly took out a purple crystal ball and grasped it with her fingers. You could even see her knuckles tightening due to the force. And whitish.

The crystal ball exuded a strange light, which resonated with some ancient power.

Her expression became frantic and her eyes were red, as if she was in a state of madness.

The crystal ball in her hand began to tremble in response to her mental fluctuations.

Just before the students of Deer Park and the professors of the Wilson Wildlife Response Team had fully reacted, Aldress suddenly muttered words in a hoarse voice and began to perform some kind of crazy divination ritual.

"The... five major sources of the hundred-layered world... the five major magics... the gods in the nothingness... the eyes, the angels with countless eyes... He is..."

Her voice seemed to come from another world, with an eerie echo, and her words were not her own but some force speaking through her.

Her eyes were empty, as if she had fallen into an endless void, her body began to twitch slightly, and she spoke some illogical nonsense.

"He is watching us... His eyes are all over the starry sky... nothingness... endless nothingness..."

"Crack!"

A crisp sound broke the silence in the air.

The purple crystal ball suddenly exploded, and the purple light spread out like sharp blades.

Eldris's body trembled suddenly, and then she fell down. She fainted and blood flowed from her seven orifices.

The bright red blood slid down her pale cheeks and dyed her purple robe red. Her fingers were still holding the broken crystal ball fragments tightly, unwilling to let go.

The other members of the Emerald Watch immediately crowded around in panic, trying to wake up their leader.

The air was filled with tension and panic. Eldris fell to the ground, unconscious. Only the blood on her face proved the violent impact that had just occurred.

"Chief! Chief! Wake up!"

"What's going on!?"

In the chaos, the shouts and movements of the Emerald Watchers seemed rapid and chaotic.

The professor stood aside, his brows furrowed, his face full of confusion and helplessness.

"I have a bad feeling..."

He obviously had no clue about these crazy actions of the wizard, and looked at the inexplicable scene in front of him with a pained face, completely at a loss.

The students in Luyuan looked at each other, obviously overwhelmed by the scene in front of them.

Just when everyone was busy surrounding the leader, the little frog Muji standing on Ushas's shoulder suddenly raised his monocular telescope, widened his eyes, and exclaimed with uncontrollable exclamation in his voice:

"Sea! Look at the sea!"

Everyone was suddenly attracted by the exclamation, and turned their heads towards the sea outside the port area. The exclamation instantly broke everyone's confusion.

Everyone's attention was suddenly attracted. They turned their heads sharply and looked towards the sea outside the port.

The gray sea fog is still thick, covering the sea like a heavy curtain.

However, in the mist, a huge black shadow vaguely emerged.

The outlines of these shadows are blurry, but everyone can clearly feel their size.

That huge sense of existence, like something ancient and mysterious slowly emerging from the depths of the ocean, makes people feel an invisible sense of oppression.

"What is that...?" Ghost Lifenr murmured in a low voice, his voice full of uneasiness.

After a while, these black shadows became clearer, and their outlines gradually emerged - they were covered with thick white fur, and the fur glowed slightly under the reflection of the sea fog and sea water. These giant beasts had some kind of mysterious look. Power slowly rises from the deep sea.

Their huge bodies float slowly on the water, each one has a huge trunk, and the elephant-like long trunk sways gently on the sea.

The proboscis of these white whales are swaying gently on the sea surface, like white pillars, as if they are exploring something.

As they approached, the seawater rippled slightly, as if the sea was responding to their presence.

"That's...a whale!" Ushas quickly saw the thing clearly.

Professor Jason Hendricks stood on the edge of the port, staring wide-eyed at the huge white figure gradually appearing on the sea. For a moment, he couldn't believe what he saw.

His expression gradually changed from shock to disbelief, and he murmured in a low voice:

"Trenco...Oh my god, there's more than one! How did they get here!?"

The group of creatures in front of him made Jason feel tense all over for a moment, and his knowledge in the field of parasitology quickly came to mind - Trenco, an extremely strange creature in the world of parasitology.

These huge sea creatures, covered in thick white fur and with long trunks, resemble a cross between an elephant and a whale, but they're not just strange in appearance.

Terrons are one of the mysterious marine creatures, but what really makes them famous is their unique death mechanism.

Of course, the death mechanism mentioned here is not "whale fall", but another mechanism opposite to "whale fall":

Once a Trenco dies, their bodies will rapidly decompose within seconds, completely collapsing into an unrecognizable substance.

The remnants of the corpses were almost unrecognizable, as if they were trying hard to conceal their true nature, refusing to allow humans or any other living thing to gain any resources from their deaths.

This property makes Tron a mystery that defies conventional study—all clues to their biology disappear within seconds of their death.

However, the mystery of these creatures has not stopped humans from greedily extracting resources from them.

Instead, humans have found another chilling method - extracting resources from Trenco's bodies while they are still alive.

Trenko must be stripped of fur, flesh, fat, etc. while he is still alive. Only in this way will these materials not decompose immediately and be retained for use.

To ensure access to these precious materials, whalers would keep these behemoths alive on board ships, suffering for long periods of time as they were steadily stripped of their most valuable parts over three months.

Jason couldn't help frowning when he thought of this.

He knew that these removed parts had different periods of stability:

The skin and hair lose their effectiveness almost immediately after being removed. The flesh and blood in the stomach can be stored for about two days, and the flesh and blood on the torso can be stored for up to a week. As for oils and fats, these most valuable components, they can even be stable for three months. for a long time.

This means that in order to keep these materials available, the death of these giant creatures is delayed for a long time, just to ensure that resources are not wasted.

If the whalers hunting Trenco caught them, they would be flayed alive for three months.

Their oils, fats, and even blood and flesh are considered precious ingredients in many traditional medicines and have various miraculous effects - treating infertility, improving blood circulation, and even in some areas, their fur is considered to extend life. of mysterious power.

"What happened here...?" the professor whispered again.

How could Gray Harbor Town, a declining port city, attract such a large group of Trencos?

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