Chapter 99 98 Can a white flower actually bloom in a sludge pond? [

Chapter 99 98. sludge dirty pool actually can really bloom white flowers? 3860]

(Extra for brother ‘Summer’s Indulgence’ [3/5])
Badger, whose body was covered in blood stains, looked at the scene in front of him dumbfounded.

This place was supposed to be a large underground warehouse with three connected sections, but the center wall had been dug through to connect them into a common area.

Many wooden crates could still be seen stacked in the corners, but they were already packed with people, and from the entrance platform where the three small players were, they could have a panoramic view of the entire area’s topography, which had been planned as a rather compact and crowded, but well-organized, evacuation area.

Densely packed people were crammed in here, it looked unusually noisy but in reality they seemed to have gotten used to this cramped life.

Some men are digging into the corners of the warehouse with tools to create more usable space, while the crowd has built crude “shacks” out of dismantled crates and planks to separate the compartments and maximize the use of the unforgiving terrain.

People even hang empty treehouse-like crates from the top of the area.

That was the “living area” reserved for the children, with soft handmade ladders for them to go up and down.

The cooing chicken beside Badger even saw a special place in the large warehouse where a pot was set up to boil something.

If the area wasn’t so out of place, it would have seemed like they were back in the survivor camp.

And these people living in this underground giant warehouse in front of them could tell just by looking at their clothes and dress that they were definitely the civilians of Cadman City, and just as many people hid in the sewers when the outer city was attacked by the Star Realm Rift, the people in the inner city also made the same choice.

But obviously they were much luckier than those in the outer city who escaped into the underground, probably the vampire slugger guarding outside found them and brought them here.

“Shit, how many people are in here?”

Che Che asked in a whisper, somewhat taken aback.

The calmer Badger used his elementary school math estimation skills to roughly scan a few times and said:
“Look at the number of those shacks, at least 1500.Something’s not right here, it must be a super powerful hidden plot! Must report to Lord Murphy immediately!”
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The Vampire Lord would have just finished off that Star Realm Mother Scorpion Lion by now, with quite a bit of effort.

This thing was also called a scorpion-tailed lion in some legends.

It was a special creature that fused the characteristics of three beasts, the lion, the bat, and the poisonous scorpion, and it was said that they lived deep in the dark mountains south of the Transylvania region, and there were also mutated populations in the great deserts of the Sanghai Empire in the far distance.

Scorpions and lions are huge beasts when they reach adulthood, and as they grow in age and strength, some of them are powerful enough to enter the realm of “legendary creatures”, a category that can no longer be measured by common sense.

But the Scorpion Lion of the Star World is obviously more dangerous than its own “compatriots” in the material world.

This danger not only comes from its body and brute strength, which is three times larger than that of an ordinary lion, as well as the poison contained in the flexible and vicious scorpion tail, but also because the Star Scorpion Lion, like all of its Star World compatriots, is capable of using some spiritual spells and impacting the enemy’s mind and soul.

If Murphy hadn’t already grown wide bat wings to soar in the sky, he really wouldn’t have been able to do much with this vicious and dangerous beast that has taken a liking to the flesh and blood of living creatures.

This guy’s flying speed can easily reach subsonic speed, at this time where the underground cavern seriously limited its play, so that it in front of Murphy’s ghost-like attack did not last to five minutes before the soul returned to the stars.

As with other astral creatures, after the physical projection was broken, this guy began to quickly dissipate, but it left Murphy a little “souvenir”.

Its poisonous and strange scorpion tail landed at Murphy’s feet.

Although it is biomass, it is as cold as alien metal, sparkling with starlight in the darkness and poisonous, and its twisted shape is obviously a good material for making a short sword or dagger.

“Hmm?”

Murphy had just picked up his loot when he sensed the information that was actively sent from the small player in the core treasure pearl.

According to the communication system structured by the Operational Treasure Pearl, players could not take the initiative to send communications to Murphy as a superior node, but could only apply in the form of a “report”.

This is also an important part of maintaining the image of NPCs.

Because the application for reporting needs to be written in the fixed format of the world’s letters, players who are too troublesome to use this function seldom use it.

Right now, they were still in the middle of raiding a copy, so who would have the time to engage in this kind of thing?

He pinched up the core pearl and opened the report sent by Badger, although the number of words was not much, it made Murphy immediately narrow his eyes.

Huh?
Blood Vulture Civil Protection Officer?

A minimum of 1500 survivors?
Hidden shelters and the bodies of insane vampires? Doesn’t this tie in with Missy’s suspicion and reminder earlier?
“Wait!”

He made a gesture to the old knight Finok who was about to move on, and then sent a communication request to the arithmetic jewel in Missy’s hand.

A few seconds later, the communication was connected.

Missy’s cold voice rang out from the other side:
“What’s the matter? I’m rather busy here.”

“Who is the current Bailiff of the Blood Vulture Clan?”

Murphy asked.

As one of the clan members, he should know the answer to this question.

However, being a marginalized person made Murphy not clear or concerned about these organizational structures, and his sudden question at this time caused Missy to freeze for a moment.

She answered:

“Kudel Feodoro Xavier Le Sombra, my brother well, nominal brother, used to be a wandering knight in the Anjou region of the Silan Kingdom, and became a member of the family in the Dark Mountain Range more than a hundred years ago.

First embraced by my father himself.

It’s normal that you don’t know him, in fact, Kudel relied on a firm will to fight against the call of midnight even after being first embraced.

He is out of place in most of the clan, and many of them have never even met him.

Kudel is very resistant to vampires using humans as food, and in order for him to better serve the clan, his father appointed him to the position of Civil Protection Officer until now.

What does he do, you ask?
Kudel should have died when the astral rift opened.”

“He is not dead.”

Murphy said bluntly:

“My warriors accidentally found him in the Cloisters and were picked up as citizens of Cadman City and taken back to the ‘Refuge’, and that ‘brother’ of yours collected a minimum of 1,500 civilians during the disaster and hid them in the the warehouse below the cloisters.

It is also now certain that the mass deaths of insane vampires in the Cloisters were his doing.

If you have friendship with him, please go over and deal with it!
I will now temporarily transfer the mobilization of my warriors to you, and it is up to you to announce to them that today’s battle has come to an end, and then send those survivors out!
Miriam will organize men to meet them outside.

But be prepared, according to the information provided by my warriors, it seems that your brother has also had his mind eroded by the astral energy has turned insane.”

“This.”

Missy was silent for a moment after hearing Murphy’s explanation, and only after several seconds did she whisper:
“That’s really like Kudel’s style, well, leave it to me, did it go well on your end?”

“Already in the underground dark river, just disposed of a scorpion lion, old Finok and I will continue forward, I’ll contact you when we find the right exit.”

Murphy barked a few words and then cut off the communication.

As he turned back to the old knight Finok asked:

“That civil protection officer you spoke of . How did he do it? Sheltering so many people under such a massive astral rift doesn’t sound like something a vampire could do, but more like a religiousized miracle.

And Kudel.
I think I’ve heard that name before.”

“I’d love to meet that fellow vampire as well, he seems to be as much of an outlier in the family as I am, and I think he and I would have some common ground.”

Murphy said shaking his head:
“But that’s for after, Lord Finok, have you recovered your back and legs? I seem to have heard some strange noises up ahead, you see, and I’ve just sparred with a scorpion lion. So…”

“Hmph, can’t a young man hunt a scorpion lion? Your body bones are too bad.” The old knight said sarcastically:

“Not at all as bold as your senior, Tris, was back then, the Scarlet Witch’s one-night massacre of a few small towns was a handful, when I was still a child, Tris’s reputation could even frighten the lord of a duchy to the extent of maintaining a curfew for several years in a row.

You’re a bit too weak to be her heir, aren’t you?”

“That’s true, not as strong as you old-timers.”

Murphy responded with a smile on his face, and then followed the old knight as he continued to trek through the crooked dark river deeper into the corridor.

He wasn’t talking nonsense either.

There was indeed a strange movement ahead, and judging from the cold and eerie psychic vibrations coming from there, it seemed to be a bunch of hard to deal with contraptions.

Grievous Spirits!
No, higher level ghost spirits!

And the number was quite astonishing.

Meanwhile, Missy, who was already very close to the center area of the cloister, turned back through some secret passageways of the cloister that only she knew about, and followed Murphy’s instructions to head to the warehouse area at the very bottom.

She knew that place.

That was the place where the Blood Wyvern Clan stored supplies specifically for the clansmen who were active in the corridor area, and it was of the same nature as the clan’s secret storehouse in the outer city, so that in case of an external invasion, it could ensure that the entire clan’s elite members would not be caught in the dilemma of running out of food.

There is the lowest area of the entire corridor, nearly a hundred meters from the surface of the ground, and it is not surprising that it was able to hold out until now in the case of the opening of the Star Realm Rift and the input of a huge amount of spiritual energy into the ground.

In the face of the disaster that had befallen Cadman City, this warehouse was truly the safest place in town, bar none.

While advancing towards the warehouse area, Missy used the authority delegated by the arithmetic jewel to gather the small players around her, at this point, they had already fought for more than four hours in the corridor, and there wasn’t much time left for today’s gameplay, which Murphy’s arrangement had obviously taken into consideration.

To give the players a place where they could safely go offline, and in the meantime, let them escort these survivors out of the Blood Wyvern Cloister which was already getting more and more dangerous.

In Murphy’s plan, the entire corridor was going to be blown up in the end, and these survivors continuing to stay here was just a dead end.

“So many faded stone statues! Just how many Blood Vulture Vampires died here?”

The small group of gathered players followed the silent Missy through the passageway camouflaged by psychic energy, and they soon discovered the vampires that had died in a thousand different ways along the way.

These guys were transformed into stone statues after their hearts were taken.

According to Mrs. Tris, as long as the statue does not break, there is a small chance that the vampire can be “resurrected” if the heart is put back in over a period of time.

There was a commotion in the group.

The small players had experienced the destructive power of these crazy vampires today, and as a result, the elites who were feared by them were slaughtered here like pigs to be slaughtered.

This was ample proof that there were definitely quite powerful guys existing here.

“Stop, you guys shouldn’t come any closer.”

Missy quickly sensed the boiling murderous intent and familiar aura coming from the front, and she reached out her hand to tell the small player to stop advancing, while she herself strided forward with her scarlet secret energy staff.

“Stop!”

A chorus rang out from the front, and Femis immediately stopped in her tracks.

Then, in the gaze of a group of small players who had seen the field animation, the tall heavy sword knight then stepped out from the shadows in front of him.

He wore a scarlet vampire-style heavy armor with a vulture-like face guard and a wide cape behind him.

But at this moment, no matter the magnificent heavy armor and face guard were already stained with horrifying blood, and the scarlet cloak was even more tattered and torn, like crushed wings hanging helplessly low.

But it wasn’t bleak.

Because the owner of the armor after countless battles is still straight, like a pillar of stone that will not fall, and holding the same blood-colored sword as others.

At a glance, he was a super tough character.

“Brother…”

Phineas looked at the man in front of him.

She reached up and removed her hood, and spoke to the man in front of her, who was scrutinizing her icily:
“It’s me, Phimis, I’ve returned and brought back reinforcements! I already know what happened here, and I now need to get the survivors you sheltered out”

“Clang!”

The heavy, massive sword slammed hard into the ground, and a conspicuous chasm crumbled open.

“The citizens can’t leave yet! It’s dangerous out there! I must protect them, it’s my duty!”

The Blood Vulture Citizen Protection Officer said in a hoarse voice:

“The skies have shattered, the astral realm is invading! There are monsters roaring in the darkness . Salokdar is mad, he says he hears the call, and the vampires are mad, they try to flee but are only captured by the whispers in the darkness.
Up ahead!
There are evils afoot there that you cannot imagine!
But I must stand firm.

I have been given a duty. I must protect the citizens! No one must come near!
You will not harm them!
You are not allowed to harm the people I protect!

Get out of my way!

Vampire!
You are not welcome here!”

The chastised Phoemis bit his lip, and from Kudel’s chastisement he could taste what the once wandering knight really thought of the Blood Wyvern Clan, even after more than a hundred years, he would still refer to them as vampires.

It proved that Kudel himself didn’t consider himself a member of the Blood Vulture Clan at all, even if he himself had long since become a midnight immortal.

“The astral rift closed, and Murphy took us outside to set up a survivor camp! Father is doing dangerous things, Kudel, and I know how strong your will to protect your people is, but you must take them away now!”

Phimis gripped the staff of secret energy in his hand.

Despite the fact that the Kudel in front of her had been trying to maintain his aura, Missy could keenly discern the weakness beneath the façade of the citizen-protecting officer.

He might have been fighting for almost 10 days without sleep in a muddled manner like now, even if he was a silver ranked upper vampire, this would be close to running out of gas.

“I’ll say it one last time!”

Missy aggravated her voice:

“Kudel! I have not come to harm your people but to help them, so please come to your senses!”

“You! Shameless vampire!”

Kudel gripped the terrifying scarlet greatsword of specs with both hands, his entire body exuded an icy killing intent as he chided:
“Get out of the land protected by me! Last warning!”

It was completely impossible to communicate!
Only the obsession of protection supported him.

Perhaps it was this obsession that helped him resist the erosion of his mind by the tainted psychic energy, keeping him from falling into complete insanity like the other vampires.

Missy shook her head.

She gripped the arithmetic pearl and gave the order to the small players behind her to prepare for the attack, then, raising her scarlet secret energy staff, she said softly:
“I know that the old me wasn’t qualified to say this, but now, I do share your desire to rescue these people we once regarded as food, so…”

“Forgive my rudeness, Your Excellency, the Protector of the People.”

(End of chapter)