At the same time, there was a sudden sound of footsteps outside the empty underground church.
After a while, a tall man wearing a white mask with the character "Shang" written on it walked in.
This person was one of the leaders of the traveling merchant organization who not long ago detected energy fluctuations in the underground church in the stronghold outside the garden maze and chose to come and take a look.
When Bai Mask walked into the underground church and looked at the empty church, the eyebrows under the mask raised slightly.
His fingers gently brushed against a pole set up against the wall, and his fingertips were stained with a layer of oily vapor that was still warm. The smell wafting from the pole, as well as the extinguished bonfire next to it, you could tell that soon,
Someone in front was holding a barbecue on a pole.
However, now... there is not a single living figure here.
"How could it be? The logistics members of the hero team are always here, me, me..." At this time, a hooded man wearing a black merchant organization uniform following behind the white mask said in surprise.
"Now, do you still think there is nothing unusual here?" The soft voice of the white mask reached the ears of the hooded man.
Previously, although the hooded man agreed with the white mask on the surface, there might be something wrong here. But deep down, he still felt a little fussy. After all, the energy fluctuations detected at that time were very, very small.
"Are all the members of the hero team... dead?"
White Mask chuckled: "You didn't answer me directly, so you still think there is no problem here?"
The hooded man smiled awkwardly: "Your Majesty, you have misunderstood. I naturally trust your judgment."
A sneer came from under the mask: "You have not learned your mentor's judgment. Instead, you have inherited the hypocrisy of the black businessman."
On the surface, the traveling merchant organization has three major leaders, namely white merchants, black merchants and gray merchants.
Bai Shang, also known as Bai Mask, is responsible for the work directly facing the adventure team. For example, material transactions and logistical supplies are all in charge of Bai Shang.
The black businessman is responsible for the maintenance of the magic energy array, monitoring of energy fluctuations, and the role of picket.
As for the Gray Merchant, he is responsible for dealing with monsters in the underground labyrinth.
In addition to gray merchants, black and white merchants have different powers, different divisions of labor, overlapping and conflicts of interest, which also makes their apprentices secretly hostile.
Therefore, this apprentice of the black merchant was not completely dissatisfied with the white merchant.
Bai Shang: "To answer your previous question, the logistics of the hero team are not dead. I can't guarantee that they are all alive, but at least they are not dead."
The reason is also very simple. This underground church is a material storage point for the hero team. But now, all the materials here are gone, and they have obviously been moved away.
In the room on the second floor, the clothes and bed sheets were also empty, indicating that they had enough time to pack their luggage when they left. This was a sign of calmness and did not look like they were in a catastrophic situation.
The hooded man himself also discovered some clues, lowered his head and said: "I will contact the pickets immediately and ask them to target the members of the hero team."
After speaking, the figure of the hooded man flashed and disappeared.
After the hooded man disappeared, Bai Shang whispered into the air: "Come out, I'm not familiar with your smell?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a faint figure appeared next to Bai Shang.
This is a man whose body shape and height are almost exactly the same as Bai Shang's, except that he wears a black mask.
This person is a black businessman.
Seeing the black businessman appear, the white businessman took off his mask, revealing an elegant and gentle face. However, at this time, there was a trace of helplessness on this gentle face: "You seem to be very happy to let the people below fight among themselves?"
"I'm very happy. Without competition, there would be no growth." The black businessman's voice was very frivolous, with a sense of cynicism.
"Competition and fighting are two different things. Forget it, I won't tell you this. Have you discovered anything?" Bai Shang looked at Hei Shang.
"There is a big discovery, and it is a very interesting discovery."
As the black businessman spoke, he took off his mask, revealing a face that was exactly the same as that of the white businessman, except that the white businessman looked refined and elegant, while the black businessman looked like a yuppie.
The two merchants, black and white, seemed to be fighting within the traveling merchant organization. In fact, everyone in the senior management of the Bilos family knew that it was just a trick devised by the black merchant himself to get more attention from his brother, the white merchant.
These two people are twins. They grew up together and have the same spiritual connection. If they really had any hatred, they would have separated a long time ago.
It's just a pity that their students don't know the truth at all, and they are still focused on fighting.
"What discovery?" Bai Shang asked suspiciously.
The black businessman grabbed the white businessman's hand and said, "Follow me."
A buoyant force rose from Hei Shang's feet. He took Bai Shang's hand and flew directly to the top of the underground church.
If you look at it with the naked eye, there is nothing here. However, as long as you look at it from a mental perspective, you will find a very obvious illusion node not far away.
If it was that kind of large and complex illusion, Bai Shang might not be too surprised, because he vaguely guessed that there must be extraordinary beings here.
But it's just a bunch of illusion nodes with little lethality, which is a bit strange.
The black merchant came directly to the illusion node and touched it lightly.
An illusion like a screen of light appeared in front of them.
At the same time, rows of writing began to appear on the light screen. The top row of writing was clearly - Friendly Guide.
"He actually gave a guide to 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. The way to open it is..."
"One last reminder, extraordinary people will solve matters that happen to extraordinary people."
After reading the entire text on the light screen, Bai Shang was taken aback for a moment. He originally 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.
Deep into the underground maze.
And this unknown extraordinary person actually explained everything, even repaired the magic energy array and told how to open it.
What does this mean?
So is it just to spread doubts, or is it a show of goodwill? Or, does it have other purposes?
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.
The dazzling magic energy array, 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 merchant flew up and said in Bai merchant'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, turned off the activation magic pattern, and the magic energy array in the sky slowly disappeared.
The moment the magic energy array disappeared, the hooded man reappeared in the underground church.
"Sir, the picket team has found the members of the Hero Team. 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 none other than 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, I only know that I went out with them, but what I did, I don't know at all."
"Please believe me."
Bai Shang knew what Ma Qiusha said was true without any judgment. However, what he was more concerned about was the familiar scent of illusion. This should be what the unknown transcendent did to block Ma Qiusha's memory.
However, the method seems a bit crude.
Bai Shang slowly walked up 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 aura of illusion 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 person who came here must be someone from the Travel 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 that 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 originally rough-looking illusion nodes 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, its existence is just to explain some things.
"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.
At this time, Bai Shang had no desire to continue listening, because the other party had not cleared Ma Qiusha's memory, which meant that they did not care whether the Youshang Organization found out 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?"
There was an embarrassed look on the hooded man's face: "I, I always believe in the judgment of adults."
Bai Shang closed his eyes and was too lazy to say more: "Go down."
The hooded man nodded and left the underground church with Ma Qiusha.
After they left, Bai Shang heard an evil and frivolous voice again: "This person who plays magic is interesting, interesting, so interesting!"
"When you introduce yourself, you still have to pursue equality." Hei Shang: "Moreover, he seems to care more about ordinary people than us. Is he overconfident, or underestimating the energy of the Bilos family?"
Bai Shang: "I know you have a lot of questions, but as he said, as long as we keep following up, we will definitely meet. When the time comes, you can ask him these questions."
"I won't ask questions first when we meet. I'll beat him up first." The black businessman smiled evilly: "You know, I hate this kind of sanctimonious academic school. Of course, except for a certain 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? This is not necessarily the case. It is normal for human beings to be different from what they seem."
Black Businessman: "Don't go too far. I have a headache. If you want to know if he is an academic wizard, you will know after meeting him. I trust my intuition."
Black Shang's words made Bai Shang feel alert: "What are you going to do?"
The black merchant said with a smile: "Didn't you guess it? I'll go in first to explore the way, and along the way, I'll beat up that guy who plays magic. Goodbye, my pretty boy."
Bai Shang was about to stop him, but found that at some point, the magic energy array was opened again, and Hei Shang's figure was already standing at the entrance of the cave.
Before Bai Shang could say anything, Hei Shang got in. He didn't forget to blow a kiss to Bai Shang before getting in.
"This idiot!" Bai Shang clenched his fists and exhaled deeply, feeling stuffy in his chest.
He wished he could catch up now, but the aura of illusion above had disappeared, and there was an important passage leading to the underground labyrinth. The matter of dealing with the underground labyrinth fell under the jurisdiction of gray merchants.
Now that the black merchant has run away, he can only stay and tell the gray merchant.
Although Bai Shang is very angry now, he is also a little lucky. The extraordinary person who released the illusion should really be an academic white wizard, because as a twin, Bai Shang can clearly feel that Black Shang is not in any danger now, and even
Feeling pretty good.
This shows that the instructions left by the other party are true.
The impulsive behavior of the black merchant saved them time to check whether the magic energy array had any traps.
However, this still cannot calm down Bai Shang.
His only thought now is to wait for the gray merchant to arrive, then enter the underground labyrinth, catch that idiot and beat him up!