126 The Vengeful Spiri (1/2)

”The Professor is being hunted? Are you sure?”

Hearing the words, Ye Qingxuan sped up while still keeping watch. He did not directly use the aether to unlock the door from the inside, but used Bai Xi’s hairpin instead. The door opened with a click.

Fortunately, the two in the room were so engrossed in their conversation that they did not notice the small sound.

Ye Qingxuan felt a layer of aether the moment he pushed the door open quietly. It must have been from the enchantment that Puspotkata engraved in the room for defense. When touched by outsiders, it would activate and shred the invader to pieces. The ceiling was covered with dense scriptures. One could vaguely see some music scores. The notes were hid in ceilings, walls, and floors.

Thank god Ye Qingxuan had not used aether to unlock the door, otherwise he would have been caught immediately. In the smoke from the incense, a skinny man in a gorgeous silk robe sat cross-legged on a cushion.

Silo looked at his brother kneeling in front of him. ”Are you sure about that, Po Sinai?”

”Yes, brother.” Po Sinai told him everything he had seen. ”It’s just like what the robin had told us. Yesterday morning, the Professor was betrayed and attacked when he was meeting his agent. The scene is a mess, but I'm sure he's hurt. Someone has destroyed an entire building to kill him.”

”An entire building?”

”Right, there were three musicians hidden outside. They performed a symphony,” Po Sinai said. ”I saw the whole building crumble and collapse. The bodies did not evaporate, but they turned into mud. You couldn’t tell who’s who. We didn't find the Professor's body, but I'm sure he was seriously injured! Robin really did it.”

”Robin…” Silo murmured. ”Po Sinai, he’s showing us his power. This is a warning. If we don’t listen to him, we’ll end up like the Professor.”

”He wants us to work for him?” Po Sinai’s expression changed. ”He wants to use us? We can’t become his underlings.”

”You think that he just wants to use us?” Silo asked coldly. ”He sent the warning to every gang in downtown. We’re just one of them. More than half of the people have pledged their loyalty to him. The rest of them don’t dare to offend him either.”

”That guy…what exactly is he?”

”Po Sinai, have you heard of the parliament?”

”The Parliament of Avalon?”

”Not the Westminster Palace. There’s a more secretive one.” Silo rubbed the hookah in his hands. His expression was troubled. ”It is said that a few decades ago, Anglo elites were dissatisfied with the royal control, and secretly set up a new parliament in which almost all the great elites of Anglo are a part of. Those who govern the military and various departments gathered together. They’re enough to represent half of Anglo.

”Since there is no reason for them to pretend anymore, they use their power to benefit themselves. They enact laws and have many agents outside. The original Pyramid Scheme was one of the groups they had nurtured, but the Pyramid Scheme wasn’t careful enough, so they became angry when they the Pyramid Scheme was discovered.

”Like the thunder of a Shiva, the Pyramid Scheme was destroyed overnight” finishing, Silo sank into silence.

Po Sinai could not believe this. ”You mean, this robin belongs to the parliament?”

”Most likely. Other than the parliament, who else could be powerful enough to force the Professor to flee like a street rat? The Professor had practically been in charge of downtown!”

”What do they want?”

”Maybe they are looking for clues about the Blood Path” said Silo, with a low voice. ”I suspect that the disturbance a few days ago caused by the Eastern kid may have been provoked by them. Shahrukh, that fool, had thought himself a genius, but ended up without even a body.”

”Does that kid really have the key to Avalon?”

”I'm not sure.” Silo shook his head and began to tell a story from the past.

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It is said that before the Shaman left Avalon, he spent a lot on asking the Trader three questions. According to their agreement, the Trader could choose not to answer, but could not lie.

Shaman's first question was: how does one enter Avalon’s Shadow? The Trader told him that the only way was the Blood Path.

His second question was: who has ever entered it? The Trader told him that an Eastern man had.

The third question was: What did he take? The Trader said nothing. The Shaman then changed his question: How did he get in? The Trader still said nothing.

Then the Shaman asked his last question and the Trader answered. No one knew what the question or answer was, but then the Shaman disappeared for nine years.

”When the Shaman decided to return, his first order was to look for a white-haired Eastern kid. The parliament concluded that the clue must come from the kid, but now it seems like that old b*stard Shaman was just trying to confuse people.” Silo flattened the hookah in anger, his eyes cold. ”We were tricked by that old b*stard.”

Seeing Silo’s anger, Po Sinai subconsciously shivered. He lowered his head, not daring to say anything.