Chapter 882 Return to Athens

Nangong Sanba's words reminded Hao Ren, and he immediately turned to Vivian: "By the way, do you know who else might know information about this shadow?"

"This must at least survive from the age of mythology..." Vivian thought for a moment, "Shall I ask Hesperus?"

Hao Ren nodded immediately: "Ask quickly - you should have left her phone number there."

"Another international long distance call." Viviante sighed sadly, took out her cell phone and dialed Hesperius's number. Since everyone left the Athens shelter last time, Vivian has not contacted the "Twilight Goddess" for a long time, but she left the other party's modern contact information in case of emergency. She did not expect that she would be in contact with her in this way. Comes in handy when the situation arises.

However, after the call was dialed, no one answered. Vivian raised her head in confusion: "She doesn't seem to have the phone."

Lily: "Do you know any other ancient ones?"

"I only have her mobile phone number..." Vivian scrolled through the phone's address book, "The rest are those of Hesiana and a few juniors. There are not many ancients in the Athens Sanctuary. , I’m not familiar with the others.”

"Then we'll call you later," Hao Ren said, "How about you ask Hesiana to pass the message for you."

As soon as he finished speaking, the cell phone in Vivian's hand suddenly rang, and the caller ID was Hesperius.

"Hello?" Vivian quickly answered the call and switched to the loudspeaker so that everyone could listen, "Hesperus?"

"Vivian? I didn't expect you to take the initiative to call me," Hesperius's voice sounded a little tired, but she was still happy to receive a call from her old friend, "I was in a meeting just now, and I didn't turn on the ringtone— —Those guys don’t know where they learned it from, and even during meetings, they asked their phones to be muted like humans.”

Hao Renxin said that the old monsters in the Athens Sanctuary live quite modern lives, while Vivian was a little curious: "A meeting? Oh, yes, you are also one of the elders of the Sanctuary. Let's not talk about that for now. , I want to ask you something, do you know about a monster that looks like a shadow?"

"Shadow?" Hesperius's voice suddenly became louder. Not sure if it was an illusion, but Hao Ren heard a hint of nervousness in the other person's tone.

"To be precise, it's a parasitic thing in the shadow. Two people on our side were attacked. That thing..." Vivian immediately told the other party the information on her side and described the shadow in detail. "It's that kind of thing. It should be from our era. Do you have any impression?"

"You are talking about the Shadow of Chaos!" Hesperius' tone was indeed not right. "I didn't expect them to come to your side. Who was attacked? What is the situation now? Is it under control?"

"The shadows have been solved, it just took some effort," Vivian heard some clues from Hesperius's tone, "You said they 'ran to my side'? Did you also find out about the situation? Already?"

Hesperius lowered his voice, as if she was in a public place, to prevent irrelevant people from hearing the information: "We ancients just met to discuss this matter. I'm afraid something might happen to the Ancatero family in South America." Are you interested in this matter? If so, you'd better come to the Athens Sanctuary in person. This time things are not simple, and many ancient families have sent representatives."

Vivian originally wanted to mention that she might have some relationship with those shadows, but after hearing what Hesperus said, she swallowed all her words and agreed happily: "Okay, we will go there immediately. "

After hanging up the phone, she murmured thoughtfully: "It turns out to be the Ancatero family... I just told them to remember that there is something special in their names."

"Okay, okay, why don't you keep stressing that you can remember one word?" Hao Ren waved his hand to let Vivian drop the topic, "Then let's leave for Athens immediately. Lao Wang, you two will follow. Come on, you have been in contact with that kind of shadow and have some experience. Others, just stay at home...Lily, you don’t need to raise your hand, I know how to take you with me."

The data terminal had recorded the coordinates of Athens, so it didn't take much effort for everyone to go to Hesperus this time. After briefly preparing to go out, Hao Ren, Vivian, Lily and Yitzhaks' father The woman then stepped into the portal to Athens.

Everyone arrived at the camouflaged antique shop in Hesperius at the entrance of the sanctuary. As expected, no outsiders could be seen around the shop. Hao Ren noticed that the entire street on both sides of the shop was covered with a A strange thick fog shrouded the area, and the buildings beside the road looked hazy and swaying in the fog. It seemed that Hesperus had activated some kind of setting to disperse idlers, and the door of the shelter had been closed.

"You came so fast?" Hesperius's voice drew Hao Ren's attention back. The "Twilight Goddess" seemed to have sensed someone appearing in her magic detection area, accompanied by an orange streak. With yellow light, she suddenly emerged from the thick fog. She looked at Vivian and others with surprised faces, "I thought you wouldn't be able to come here until at least tomorrow."

Vivian stepped forward to greet her old friend and explained a little: "We teleported here directly. Let's not talk about it for now. The asylum has been put under martial law? Is the situation so serious?"

Hesperius frowned and nodded slightly: "The situation is complicated. Let's talk about it first. Two more old guys happened to come, and the people inside are starting the second round of discussions."

As she spoke, she opened a special path to the shadow layer, but before Hao Ren and his party were about to walk in, she stopped everyone: "Wait a moment, I want to check your shadows one by one."

As Hesperius spoke, he carefully observed the shadows behind Hao Ren and his party. His attitude made people think of the quarantine personnel responsible for guarding the isolation area after the outbreak of the virus crisis. Seeing her cautious attitude, Vivian couldn't help but ask: "Is there a shadow that has penetrated into the shelter?"

"Destroyed in the shadow layer, but almost ran in," Hesperius said casually, "Okay, let's go in."

Everyone was finally released. Under the leadership of Hesperus, they crossed the heavily guarded shadow layer and finally arrived at the familiar sanctuary of Athens after walking a long way.

This mysterious city in a different space suffered severe damage after being attacked by demon hunters a year ago. The traces of the original war can still be seen today. The Bethamos Shadow Demon Castle on one side of the city is still in ruins. On that day, Hesiana's crazy army completely destroyed the place with high-altitude bombing. Since the Shadow Demon has been jointly expelled by this shelter, the castle has not been destroyed at all. People to rebuild. In the semi-destroyed area around the old home of the Beshemos family, you can see some new flags flying high. Hao Ren didn't recognize those flags, but he could still think of what they meant:

The small forces in Shadow Sanctuary should have finished reuniting and dividing their territories.

However, the group did not have much chance to take a good look at the current status of the sanctuary's reconstruction. Hesperius seemed very anxious, and she quickly brought everyone to a large meeting hall in the center of the city.

"This chamber was rebuilt after the attack by the witchers," Hesperius briefly introduced the location of today's meeting. "The rebellion of Beshemos made several families realize the serious issue of division within the sanctuary. Therefore, this meeting hall was rebuilt, at least in form, the connection between the various family forces was re-established. Today, the patriarchs of several big families are here, as well as representatives from other shelters, Vivian, and several of them It's your old friend."

Vivian scratched her head: "Really... Well, I can't think of a few."

Hesperius knew about Vivian's forgetfulness, so he didn't say much and directly opened the door to the meeting hall.

As soon as the door opened, Hao Ren heard an energetic voice inside saying loudly: "...We have to check the situation. The Ancatero family incident must be related to the demon hunter!"

Hao Ren and Vivian glanced at each other subconsciously and immediately walked inside.

The semicircular meeting hall was brightly lit and looked majestic and spacious, but there were only a dozen people sitting at the round table in the center. The dozen or so people were discussing things when Vivian and the others suddenly broke in. They looked up in surprise when they heard the movement, and then a joyful voice was the first to speak: "Sir Vivian, are you here to see me!? "

Vivian trembled all over and subconsciously took two steps back: "Oops... I forgot that this naughty kid is also the patriarch of a big family."