Chapter 2593 Black, White and Gray

At the same time, outside the empty underground church, there was a sudden sound of footsteps.

After a while, a tall man wearing a white mask with the character "商" written on it walked in.

This man was one of the leaders of the traveling merchant organization who had detected energy fluctuations in the underground church in the base outside the garden maze not long ago and chose to come and see.

When the white mask walked into the underground church and looked at the empty church, the eyebrows under the mask raised slightly.

The fingers gently brushed over a pole on the wall, and a layer of oil gas with residual heat was stained between the fingertips. The smell wafting from the pole and the extinguished bonfire next to it showed that someone had used the pole to barbecue not long ago.

However, now... there is no living person here.

"How could it be? The logistics team of the hero team is usually here, I... "At this time, a hooded man wearing a black uniform of the traveling merchant organization following the white mask said in surprise.

"Now, do you still think there is nothing abnormal here?" The light voice of the white mask reached the ears of the hooded man.

Previously, although the hooded man superficially agreed with the white mask, there might be something wrong here. But deep down, he still felt a little surprised, after all, the energy fluctuations detected at that time were very, very small.

"Are all the people in the hero team... dead?"

The white mask chuckled: "You didn't answer my question directly, so you still think there is no problem here?"

The hooded man smiled awkwardly: "My lord, you misunderstood, I naturally believe in your judgment."

A sneer came from under the mask: "You didn't learn the judgment of your mentor. Instead, you inherited the hypocrisy of the black merchants."

The roving merchant organization has three leaders on the surface, namely the white merchants, the black merchants and the gray merchants.

The white merchants, that is, the white masks, are responsible for the work of the adventure team. For example, the material trading and logistics supply are all controlled by the white merchants.

The black merchants are responsible for the maintenance of the magic array, the monitoring of energy fluctuations, and the role of patrol.

As for the gray merchants, they are responsible for the handling of the monsters in the underground maze.

In addition to the gray merchants, the black and white merchants, because of their different powers and different divisions of labor, have overlapping and conflicting interests, which also makes their apprentices secretly hostile.

Therefore, the apprentice of the black merchant is not unfoundedly dissatisfied with the white merchant.

White merchant: "To answer your previous question, the logistics of the hero team are not dead. I can't guarantee that all of them are alive, but at least not all of them are dead."

The reason is also very simple. This underground church is the material storage point of the hero team, and now all the materials here are gone, obviously moved away.

The room on the second floor is also empty of clothes and sheets, which means that when they left, they had enough time to pack their luggage. This is a manifestation of being unhurried, not like encountering a disaster.

The hooded man also found some clues himself, lowered his head and said: "I will contact the patrol team immediately and let them lock the people of the hero team."

After speaking, the hooded man's figure flashed and disappeared.

After the hooded man disappeared, Bai Shang whispered to the air: "Come out, I'm not familiar with your smell?"

As soon as the voice fell, a faint figure appeared beside Bai Shang.

This is a man with almost the same body shape and height as Bai Shang, but he was wearing a black mask.

This man is Hei Shang.

Seeing Hei Shang appear, Bai Shang took off his mask, revealing a gentle and elegant face. However, at this time, this gentle face was filled with a trace of helplessness: "You seem very happy to let the people below fight among themselves?"

"Very happy, without competition, how can there be growth." Hei Shang's voice is very frivolous, with a sense of cynicism.

"Competition and fighting are two different things, forget it, I won't talk to you about this. Have you found anything?" Bai Shang looked at Hei Shang.

"There is a big discovery, and it is a very interesting discovery."

While speaking, Hei Shang took off his mask, revealing a face exactly like Bai Shang, but Bai Shang looked elegant and gentle, while Hei Shang was a dandy and evil person.

The Black and White merchants seemed to be fighting each other within the traveling merchant organization, but in fact, everyone in the senior management of the Bilos family knew that it was just a trick that the Black Merchant had come up with to get more attention from his brother, the White Merchant.

The two were twins who grew up together and had a spiritual connection. If they really had a grudge, they would have long since separated.

It was just a pity that their students had no idea of ​​the truth and were still fighting hard.

"What did you find?" Bai Shang asked suspiciously.

The Black Merchant grabbed Bai Shang's hand: "Follow me."

A buoyancy rose from the Black Merchant's feet, and he took Bai Shang's hand and flew directly to the top floor of the underground church.

If you look here with the naked eye, there is nothing, but as long as you look at it from the perspective of mental power, you will find a very obvious group of illusion nodes not far away.

If it was a large and complex illusion, Bai Shang might not be too surprised, because he vaguely guessed that there must be extraordinary people here.

But it was a bit strange that only a group of illusion nodes with little lethality appeared.

The Black Merchant came directly to the illusion node and touched it lightly.

An illusion like a light screen appeared in front of them.

At the same time, rows of words began to appear on the light screen. The top row of words was - Friendship Guide.

"He actually gave a hint of friendship. Do you think it's interesting?" Hei Shang raised one corner of his mouth when he laughed. He thought he was evil, but in Bai Shang's eyes, he was just like a fool.

Bai Shang ignored his brother's stupid behavior and looked at the characters on the light screen.

"The underground church...renovated by the demon cultists..."

"The magic energy array has been repaired, and the way to open it is..."

"One last reminder, extraordinary people will resolve matters involving extraordinary people."

After seeing the entire text on the light screen, Bai Shang was a little stunned. He thought it was a provocation, but he didn't expect it to be a guide. It mentioned a lot of important information, the most important of which was the discovery of a new passage that led to the depths of the underground maze.

And this unknown extraordinary person actually explained everything. He even repaired the magic energy array and told how to open it.

What does this mean?

So is it to spread suspicion, or is it a sign of goodwill? Or, is there any other purpose?

Bai Shang's mind came up with many possibilities in just a short moment, but he could not determine which one was the most likely.

At the same time, the black merchant has activated the main control magic pattern according to the method on the light screen.

A dazzling magic energy formation like stars in the sky immediately appeared above the head, and the location of the passage was also revealed.

"There really is a passage, let me go in and have a look?" Black Shang flew up and said in Bai Shang's ear.

Bai Shang shook his head: "I don't know who the other party is yet, and his purpose for doing this is also very strange. Inform the gray merchant and let him discuss it before making a decision."

The black merchant frowned: "Why bother with this?"

Bai Shang was about to continue talking. Suddenly, his ears twitched slightly and he glanced at Hei Shang. They both nodded at the same time and put on their masks again.

Black Shang disappeared silently into the darkness, while Bai Shang landed on the ground, closed the activation magic pattern, and the magic energy array above slowly disappeared.

The moment the magic energy array disappeared, the hooded man reappeared in the underground church.

"Sir, the pickets have found people from the Hero Squad. After questioning, they found that the people causing trouble here are a group of three people, but they don't know who they are. However, there is a person who went out with the three of them. , I brought her here."

After the hooded man finished speaking, he took a step back. Behind him was a woman imprisoned by energy, and a trembling child in the woman's arms.

These two people were Ma Qiusha and his son Keluo.

"Let my son go, he doesn't know anything." Ma Qiusha looked at Bai Shang and said quickly.

Bai Shang did not speak, but carefully observed Ma Qiusha. He found a familiar illusion scent in Ma Qiusha.

Ma Qiusha continued: "I know what news you want, but I don't know either. Although I went out with them, they blocked this memory of mine... I originally wanted them to erase the memory. , but for some reason, he just blocked the memory.”

"So, all I know is that I went out with them, but what was done, I have no idea at all."

"Please believe me."

Bai Shang knew what Ma Qiusha said was true without having to judge. However, what he was more concerned about was the familiar scent of illusion, which should have been done by the unknown transcendent to block Ma Qiusha's memory.

However, the method seems a bit rough.

Bai Shang walked slowly to Ma Qiusha. Ma Qiusha hugged Keluo tightly, her whole body trembling.

"Don't be afraid, I'm just taking a little gadget from you." Bai Shang said as he stretched out his finger and touched Ma Qiusha's eyebrows.

The illusion aura that was originally exposed was instantly pulled out by Bai Shang.

After the illusion breath was pulled out, a faint figure appeared in front of Bai Shang.

"The visitor must be someone from the traveling merchant organization." A clear voice came from the mouth of a blurry figure whose face could not be seen clearly.

"Although out of courtesy, I really want to introduce myself first, but this is an illusion after all. I introduced myself but I don't know who you are. Isn't this a loss?"

"So, let's save the introduction of ourselves for when we meet."

"I believe you will definitely come to us, so we should meet, right?"

"We don't have much time. The last sentence is that the people in the hero team are just a group of ordinary people, and Ma Qiusha in front of you is just an ordinary mother. Matters involving extraordinary people should be solved by extraordinary people, what do you think?"

As the words fell, the illusion slowly disappeared. And the illusion node that originally looked rough suddenly disappeared like mist.

Bai Shang originally wanted to keep that wisp of aura for tracking, but he obviously underestimated the opponent's strength.

That illusion is not crude, it exists just to explain something.

"I remembered." At this time, Ma Qiusha suddenly raised her head and said: "I remembered, they asked me to lead the way to meet a nearby traveling businessman!"

Without the shackles of illusion, Ma Qiusha's memory immediately emerged.

Bai Shang had no desire to continue listening at this time, because the other party had not cleared Ma Qiusha's memory, which meant that they did not care whether the Youshang Organization checked their whereabouts.

The only thing the other party cares about is the lives of these mortals.

Bai Shang was silent for a moment, then turned to look at the hooded man: "Take them down, make a record, and let them go. There is no need to lock them up, including those in the hero team. Let them all go."

"As for the record, I will tell the gray merchant when he comes later."

The hooded man raised his head in surprise: "Master Gray Merchant is coming too?"

Bai Shang said calmly: "Yes, he will come too. Do you think your judgment is right or wrong now?"

The hooded man looked embarrassed: "I, I always believe in the judgment of the master."

Bai Shang closed his eyes and was too lazy to say more: "Go down."

The hooded man nodded and took Ma Qiusha out of the underground church.

After they left, Bai Shang heard a frivolous voice again: "This magician is interesting, interesting, so interesting!"

"Even when introducing yourself, you still have to pursue equality." Hei Shang: "Moreover, he seems to care more about ordinary people than us. Is he too confident, or underestimates the power of the Bilos family?"

Bai Shang: "I know you have a lot of questions, but as he said, as long as we keep tracking, we will definitely meet. At that time, you can ask him these questions."

"I won't ask questions first if we really meet. I will beat him up first." Hei Shang smiled evilly: "You know, I hate this kind of hypocritical academic school the most. Of course, except for a little cutie."

Bai Shang, who is called "little cutie", doesn't care about this title at all. Compared with other titles, this is one of the few normal titles.

"Academic wizard? That's not necessarily true. It's normal for humans to be two-faced."

Black Merchant: "Don't raise it to a big truth. It gives me a headache. If you want to know if it's an academic wizard, you'll know when you meet him. I believe in my intuition."

The words of the black merchant made the white merchant feel a little alert: "What are you going to do?"

The black merchant smiled and said: "Didn't you guess it? I'll go in and explore the way first, and beat up the guy who plays illusions. Bye, my little white-faced brother."

Bai Shang was about to stop him, but found that the magic array was opened again at some point, and the figure of the black merchant was already standing at the entrance of the cave.

Before Bai Shang could speak, the black merchant went in, and before going in, he didn't forget to throw a flying kiss to Bai Shang.

"This idiot!" Bai Shang clenched his fists and exhaled deeply.

He wanted to catch up now, but the illusionary aura above had disappeared, and this involved a main road leading to the underground maze. And dealing with the underground maze is under the jurisdiction of the gray merchant.

Now that the Black Merchant had run away, he was the only one left to tell the Gray Merchant.

Although the White Merchant was very angry, he was also somewhat relieved that the extraordinary person who released the illusion should really be an academic white wizard, because as a twin, the White Merchant could clearly feel that the Black Merchant was not in any danger and was even in a good mood.

This showed that the guidance left by the other party was true.

The impulsive behavior of the Black Merchant saved them time to check whether there were traps in the magic array.

However, this still did not make the White Merchant calm down.

His only thought now was to wait for the Gray Merchant to arrive, then enter the underground maze, catch that idiot and beat him up!

Happy Valentine's Day to everyone!