Chapter 13: The Shadow World
"Lord Milhouse, personally enlightened."
"When you get this letter, it should be September 1, 798 in the year of the gods."
"It is also the day Noah's 300th freshman was selected."
"Of course, the premise of everything is that this stinky boy is not late, has not violated the rules, and has not deliberately released water, and can successfully advance to the first round of the test."
"It's this little ghost who compels me to write this letter to you because what I'm going to explain next......"
Thinking of this, Mr. Su couldn't help but pause, frowned slightly, and supported the gold wire frame with his hand.
And what she said next made everyone except Milhouse and Trist, who already knew the contents of the envelope, gasp......
"Maybe it's related to the Northern Bear Empire...... The fortunes of the country in the next 500 years! ”
……
"Trixis, Gamor, you guys go to the academy first, I probably didn't have enough to eat just now."
"Oh my God, Yi, you just ate more than Gamor, can you still eat it? I really didn't expect you, are you so able to eat? ”
Trixie said with a look of surprise.
After eating, the whole person's mood improved, even she was no exception.
Yi: "Emm......"
He dragged his chin and lost his whole body in thought.
"Alright, let's go to the academy first, don't be late again!"
After saying goodbye to Trishgar Moore, Yi took a burger and ordered a carriage.
He took out a letter from the moon cloth bag, and after opening it, there was an old strange silver coin inside, as well as a piece of paper, looked at the address on it, and said without thinking.
"Hmm...... Slum...... 379 West Main Street!"
Walking through the slums, ignoring the street girls who were scratching their heads, they stopped at the mouth of an inconspicuous alley.
No matter how prosperous a place is, it also has its barren side, which is unavoidable in any city, and where there is demand, there is a market.
After paying the money and getting out of the carriage, Yi looked around vigilantly, and then walked into the inconspicuous alley.
At the end of the alley was a ruined wall, and he looked at the bare bricks on the mottled wall, rubbing against the prompts on the paper, and whispered: "Three rows of 7 columns, seven rows of 3 columns, nine rows of 9 columns!"
Yi pressed the three bricks on the wall in turn.
When the three bricks bounced back into place from their collapsed positions, a large hole suddenly appeared under his feet, and his body fell into it.
Yi's eyes darkened, and at the same time, he watched the hole he had just stepped on under his feet and was now above his head slowly closing......
When Yi's eyes returned to light again, he seemed to have expected to unleash the Wind Slow Fall Technique on the soles of his feet in advance, and then landed on a soft haystack with great ease.
He patted his butt and looked at the other guys who had been smashed and scolded their mothers in anger, and walked along the dry sewer with great grace.
What catches your eye is a dimly lit but bustling street......
It's a city built in sewers, a shadow world that belongs only to dastard, fraudsters and stalkers!
"Welcome to the underground sales vault, a little cub from the East, if you choose to sell your ass, Lao Tzu can give you a good price, Boom!!"
Surrounding Shangyi is a group of guys holding short knives, their eyes are not good, and the corners of their mouths have a grim smile, as if they regard the white and pure student-like Yi in front of them as a fat sheep who has strayed into a thief's cave!
If Trixis was here, she would be extremely surprised, because Yi, who had always been gentle and elegant, was tilting his head and grinning at the moment, revealing a more murderous smile than the guys around him.
"If you don't want to die, just get out of here!"
He tossed the quaint silver coin into the air and landed at his fingertips to play with it, gasping when one of the sharp-eyed creatures around him saw the lifelike head of the gorgons on the coin.
"Charm...... It's the people of the Phantom Pavilion......"
As if seeing something terrible, the thief fell to the ground in fright, and several other people were also frightened, and hurriedly picked up the guy who fell to the ground, and fled in embarrassment in the opposite direction of Yi.
Yi secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and walked all the way along the brightly lit sewer street, and no one stood in front of him anymore.
And those guys who looked at him all changed color because of the silver banshee coin he had been playing with in his hand, and even deliberately turned their heads away and avoided distancing themselves from him.
I don't know how long I walked, Yi finally walked to the door of a storefront.
The store was small, but there was hardly any foot traffic, and he looked around, as if everyone would rather take a long detour than deliberately avoid it.
And the edge of the pipe mouth of this store is clearly engraved with the same Gorgon's Banshee mark as the silver coin in his hand.
Yi hesitated for a few seconds, and then slowly walked in under the gaze of the guards on both sides who were muscle-hardened.
"Hmm...... In fact...... You can set up a portal so that the customer's person is safer...... And it's convenient...... Shortcut. ”
As he walked into the pipe, he suggested to the masked woman sitting on a chair at the end.
"It's not safe, it's a waste of money!"
The woman said without raising her head.
"That silver coin, along with the deterrence of the Phantom Pavilion, is your greatest protection!"
Maybe it's the lighting effect of the fire, although her face is covered, but judging from the silhouette wrapped in the black tights around her, her figure can be described as good!
"Noah's Phantom is still just as good-looking, I'm really curious about you! Although you are through the veil, you all have similar facial contours and the same figures, right...... Especially the eyes, you have the same pupils! ”
"I really wonder if the chain store of the Phantom Pavilion is a sister flower or ...... Well...... Clones are open?"
"It's a waste of resources to be so good-looking, but to cover your face all day long!"
Yi chuckled into a smile and seemed to show great interest in the masked girl.
He even deliberately leaned up with his face to look at it carefully, but was met with a roll of the latter's eyes.
"However, Noah's phantom seems to be more sultry."
Yi tilted the corners of his mouth and smiled.
I have to say that just looking at the outline of the black scarf on the woman's face: a pointed chin, a small mouth, a straight nose and a pair of watery peach blossom eyes, presumably the appearance of this deity must be excellent.
"Huh...... You can lean a little further, I promise your head ...... It's going to be in the display case behind me. I haven't collected Oriental heads yet...... Do you want to be my baby? Teenager~"
The Phantom's mouth hidden under the black scarf curled slightly, and her languid figure leaned back towards the back of the chair.
Although the phantom in front of him was even more sultry than the phantoms of other underground gold caves in the Northern Bear Empire, Yi Qiang resisted the urge to go up and unveil her.
You must know the person in front of you, but the person who makes the entire shadow world the most feared...... One......
If he really made that blasphemous gesture, maybe the next moment countless assassins would pop out of nowhere and put knives on their heads.
Well, of course, this is only a little troublesome, and the most important thing is that Yi himself wants to retain that sense of mystery.
That's all.
"It's just a joke, you don't have to be serious, what about things!"?
Yi looked at the display case behind her with interest, which contained various heads, all races, and indeed there were no Oriental faces.
The gentleman did not stand under the dangerous wall, and he shrank his head into his neck in amusement.
"Heh......"
The Phantom smiled nondeniably, and instead of breaking it, he threw a stack of parchment rolls in front of Yi.
"The information is here, and someone has already paid for you!"
Yi nodded, quickly flipping through the parchment rolls, and his face returned to normal color at the same time.
"That's all?"
He finished flipping through the parchment, frowning a little unhappily.
And the Phantom just blinked her big sultry eyes in response.
"As a large customer who has accumulated 10 million gold bear coins, you can provide an additional piece of information for free, below the S level, the rules are the same!"
"His Majesty's Knights......"
Yi thought about it, and before he could finish speaking, he was directly interrupted by the phantom.
"No comment!"
Her tone is as lazy as usual, or the "phantom" of every phantom hall, it is this slightly magnetic royal sister voice.
"You should know that for the people of the Imperial Military, we in the Shadow World, never do investigations, this is the rule!"
"You just need to tell me whether this kind of information belongs to category A or S, and this is not a violation!"
Yi said as he took out the black crystal card from the moon cloth bag, and then shook it in front of the phantom's eyes.
“……”
The Phantom was silent for a moment, then twisted the black crystal card with her slender fingers, the dim fire illuminating her shining eyes and the silhouette of her face.
"Gotta add money!"
Yi: "......"
With that, the Phantom stood up from his chair, shrouded in firelight, and his slender legs under the black leather hot pants were particularly dazzling.
“A!”
"Ahem! I'll go first! ”
Yi left in a huff, for he was ashamed to find that he had reacted to a hazy figure, which was not a good sign.
Looking at the back that seemed to be fleeing in a hurry, the cherry mouth hidden by the phantom under the black scarf bent slightly......
In a magnetic tone that she could only hear, she whispered, "Wouldn't this fool ask others?" Is there only one real phantom?"
……
"Yi!"
"Hurry up, hurry up, you're going to be late!"
By the time Yi rushed back to Noah's training ground, it had already been two o'clock and several seconds had passed.
Originally, he was still thinking about how to sneak into the training hall, but he didn't expect that the only one guarding the entrance was Trixis!
"Trixis, why are you ...... here?"
"Oh my God, didn't you expect you to be late because you didn't come? Hurry up and get in, Uncle Condi will be back as soon as he finishes using the toilet! ”
"Trixis? Who are you talking to?"
When Yi heard this familiar voice, he hurriedly obeyed the command of Trixisi, who kept squeezing his eyebrows at him, and immediately rushed into the training ground.
At this time, Condi, the examiner wearing glasses, walked over slowly.
He shook the water in his hand and looked at Trixisi with a strange expression, then frowned and said, "Did you carry me behind my back again and put the late candidates in?"