Hurlis gradually sank into the night, as the street lamps gradually turned on, the hustle and bustle of the city became different from the sun-drenched daytime, at this moment Hurlis was like a shy woman who had just come out of the depths, slightly lifted the pale white veil, revealing the fluorescent half of the amazing face.

The hurried pedestrians also seemed to be slowly infected by this delicate atmosphere, stopped the pace of running to tomorrow, made an appointment with one or two friends, and sat in the countless taverns in Hurlis that had just opened close to midnight, at this time the night of Hurlis was even more prosperous than in the past, whether it was ordinary people who were busy for their livelihood all day long, or a high-ranking power, or even the venerable soul masters, they were all exhausted by the events that followed during this period of time, no matter what kind of people hoped that everything could be as silent as this midnight。

A very inconspicuous house on the outskirts of Hurlis seems to be hidden in the night all day long, whether it is the dilapidated window lattice or the door frame, it shows how barren the owner of this house is, and there are low houses all around, so the existence of this house does not seem so out of place.

This is one of the most common old residential areas in Herlis, but each roof is painted with blue and white paint, thanks to the poverty eradication program that Herris has been running for nearly five years, as if the blue and white paint on the roof of the house is a sign that the owner of the house has been lifted out of poverty, and the initiator and person in charge of this project is Yalvis, who is known as the pillar of the country.

The people who live here have long developed the habit of cleaning the snow in front of their houses, and they are exhausted from making ends meet every day, and no one cares if their neighbors next door have not stepped out of the house for a long time.

In this dilapidated house, there was only a bed, and a low table, and the dirty gray and black quilt rolled on the bed was scattered all around, and anyone could see that it had not been inhabited for a long time, but at this moment, a dull sound suddenly came from one corner of the room, and a piece of the floor in the corner of the room was suddenly lifted up, revealing a very small head, which was actually a small person.

The villain was naked, covered with shriveled and wrinkled skin, the villain was only the size of a palm, but had big ears as long as thumbs, the villain shook off the dust that fell from the floor, and slowly crawled out of the floor, only then could he see clearly, the villain was holding a test tube with the same height as him, the test tube was full of silver, it didn't seem to be made of glass, but it seemed to be the product of mercury mixed with some metal and solidified, although the test tube was silver, but it could also be slightly seen that the liquid inside was red, the villain held the test tube and staggered out of the room slightly, behind this dilapidated house was overgrown with weeds, and the height of the weeds was almost half a person highAs soon as the villain entered, he immediately disappeared, but he seemed to be familiar with the road and walked to the middle of the weeds.

There is a strange plant growing in the center of the weeds, the plant is like ordinary grass, but it is a little more delicate, there is no wind in the night of Hurles, the plant is gently swaying its body, look closely, the plant stem is covered with thin red silk threads, the villain pulled the plug of the test tube, and dripped a drop of the red turbid liquid inside at the root of each plant, and the red liquid was absorbed by the plant in an instant, and most of the plants did not change, but there was a plant with significantly more red silk threads around the whole body than other plants, just after it absorbed the red liquid, the plant suddenly shook violently, and with the shaking, the plant continued to expandThen, with a slight pop, a villain who was the same as the previous villain was born.

Although the villain was just born, but also covered with shriveled and wrinkled skin, he glanced at the villain who came before, took the test tube in the hand of the villain before and walked towards the back away from the house, and the villain who came before was not the slightest surprised, handed over the test tube and returned to the house the same way, the newly born villain staggered slightly with the test tube, through the overgrown open space behind the house, a small grove appeared in the field of vision.

This small forest has a very cold atmosphere in the night, and there is not even half a sound of insects, but the newly born villain walks into the depths of the woods as if he has been here countless times, and soon after entering the woods, the villain stops, and there are black shadows of different heights on the big trees around him, which are actually countless hanged people.

If it was in the past, this kind of scene would have been discovered by the Hurlis guards for the first time, but now the Hurlis guards who are singing every night have no time to care about the lives of these poor people, and looking at the scenes of these corpses, without exception, they all took the initiative to hang themselves here, and thinking about the increasingly inflated prices and unsustainable life of Hurlis, it is not difficult to explain why they appear here.

Some of the countless hanged people were older, their clothes had almost been dried, and where the villain had stopped, there was a fresh corpse above.

Although the villain is small, but his movements are extremely agile, he jumped on the body of the hanged man in a few steps, and he did not see what tools he used, and with a light stroke of his hand, the abdomen of the corpse was cut, and the villain's hand probed inside, and then put the test tube over, only to see that the dead corpse actually trembled violently, and with the trembling, a drop of extremely turbid white liquid flowed into the test tube.

The little man lifted the test tube and looked at it, then jumped off the tree again, and walked back to the weeds behind the house, and he gently dripped the liquid in the test tube into the open space where the plant grew, and saw another strange plant grow like that, and the new strange plant was the same as the plants around it, except that the red silk thread on the plant stem was pitiful.

The villain didn't linger much, walked back to the house and walked down the floor that he had lifted before, and when he came to this house, it was as if he had entered another world, the space under the dilapidated house could extend nearly a hundred meters to the ground, and countless rooms and partitions exuded strange smells, all kinds of strangely shaped utensils scattered on the ground, bones and even hairs of various unknown creatures piled up everywhere, and some rooms would always make a tooth-sour sound every once in a while, and countless villains were shuttling in this huge space, except for the strange sound of tooth-souring, and the sound of bubbles bursting as if boiling liquid was floating on the surfaceThere was no other sound in this huge underground space.

In the deepest part of this space, a man was busy at a strange table, the man was hunched, the table was littered with bottles and cans, a strange pointed stone lay flat on the table, there was an arc-shaped semicircle in the center of the stone, and inside was a triangular sign, and a puddle of mercury floated above the stone out of thin air, the mercury was in the shape of a bowl, and it was full of brown liquid, and the symbol in the center of the stone seemed to be continuously transmitting heat to the liquid, and the brown liquid was slowly boiling, constantly floating one bubble after another, and the bubbles burst and emitted a stream of gas visible to the naked eye。

There was also an extremely old parchment bound book on the table, and the man kept taking some of the miscellaneous items on the other side of the table and throwing them into the brown liquid, and the items thrown in it disappeared in an instant as soon as they came into contact with the brown liquid.

The man said to himself as he put it inside, "The god of war of Ten Bills, maybe there will be some changes this time, right?" but he immediately shook his head as if he was denying himself, "No, it's not right, let's put a bill of time first." Then he immediately picked up a piece of lead from one end of the table, weighed it slightly on a scale, and then threw it into the brown liquid, and the moment the lead touched the brown liquid, the brown liquid seemed to lose its balance in an instant, and boiled violently, and then just as it was about to explode, the man waved his hand, and a blue light with purple edges enveloped the brown liquid, and a violent explosion occurred in the blue light, but there was no sound.

If there is a soul master who witnesses this scene at this moment, he will definitely be surprised to close his mouth, because he can clearly feel that what envelops the brown liquid is not simply like the general Fage water system soul master condenses the water element in the atmosphere, the blue light is actually extremely pure soul power, and the essence of soul power is an extremely difficult threshold to climb, and the essence of soul power is an ability that can only be mastered by at least the soul lord level soul master, who would have thought that in this dark underground there is a soul master who is extremely rare even in the entire empire。

The man waved his hand to disperse the soul power, and at the same time as the blue light dissipated, a roar that seemed to be a soul suddenly sounded, but the man seemed to have been used to it for a long time and did not care, he turned around, and only then did he notice that the deepest underground was actually an extremely vast space, and the ground in this space was all composed of the blue light, and it could be seen that there was a bottomless water area under the blue light, and there were countless standing and floating figures in the water.

The head of each figure is connected to an extremely long black tube, the black tube pierces the blue light, connected to the ceiling of this space, I don't know where it extends, and those figures look closely, they are all women's bodies, but the women's bodies are not ordinary, some are so bloated that they can barely see human shapes, and some are shriveled and only skeletons remain, but they all have the same head and appearance, and if any citizen of Corvo sees it, he will be shocked, because the appearance of these countless figures floating in the water is more than sixty percent similar to the current empress。

The man looked at the countless dark shadows, sighed, and muttered to himself, "I wish we had the stone that would not be destroyed by fire or decay, so that we would be free from all fears," he paused, turned around, and looked at an old photograph of himself on his bench of a woman wearing a crown and a graceful figure on a throne, and the man standing to the woman's right.

The man was slightly stunned, and then said softly, "Anna, you wait for me"