Chapter 237: Seventy-two So That’s How It Is (5K)

Turn the clock back a little.

Gerard was standing on a relatively tall building, looking at the distant camp through a telescope.

He had been observing for a long time now, saw the Devil’s Army enter the city, then disperse, leaving behind those who were obviously not from the Devil’s Army, as well as the rows of twitching pollutant remnants.

Gerard’s expression gradually grew solemn.

“What are these people trying to do?” he muttered quietly, “Why would they bring pollutants back?”

“It must be a disguise,” Bai Wei said lazily, “Quite clever of them.”

“Disguise?”

“Yes, disguising with those pollutant remnants,” Bai Wei explained, “I guess they must have hidden the items inside those remnants.”

“…Even your eyes can’t see through it?”

“It’s not that easy. Those remnants must have been taken from the deepest part of the Polluted Land, what you call the Abyss. I can sense the remnants of divinity on these remnants,” Bai Wei observed the undying remnants with interest, “Anything with a trace of divinity isn’t so easily seen through. It needs a bit more seriousness, but with your current body…”

Bai Wei did not finish his sentence, but Gerard understood his implication.

To see through the remnants covered by divinity, his left eye needed to release more power, but such power was clearly too much for him to bear now.

“Is there really nothing that can be done then?” Gerard asked earnestly, “My body is still holding up fine.”

“Some things aren’t as simple as just holding up,” Bai Wei said with a light smile, “People of age should know their limits.”

Gerard could clearly hear the teasing tone in Bai Wei’s words, and realized Bai Wei was not taking their opponent’s disguise seriously at all, which allowed him to relax a bit and continue his observations.

What they could confirm now was that both Visas’s Corpse and the Purification Source Crystal were there.

However, neither Gerard nor Bai Wei planned to just blunder in… at least not yet.

After all, the Devil’s Army, unlike the Skeleton Corps, were truly elite troops of Lyra, and the entire Fifth Zone was their home ground. Once surrounded here, the pressure they faced could not be compared to being outside.

Even Gerard did not think he had a chance of escaping.

But Bai Wei was different, Gerard could distinctly feel Bai Wei’s eagerness, knowing he would stop at nothing for his own corpse, after all, this guy never knew fear.

Thinking this, Gerard decided to remind Bai Wei again of their deal.

But before he could speak, there was movement in the camp.

Gerard saw Devil Knights pushing carts covered in thick black cloth exiting the camp. They grouped in twos or threes and went off in different directions, their purposes unclear as they swiftly blended into the night.

In fact, if not for Bai Wei’s eyes, at that distance and visibility, it really would be hard to see anything.

He was about to speak when he heard Bai Wei’s voice in his mind, “So they plan to leave this way?”

It was clear Bai Wei had also realized, so there was no need for Gerard to remind him.

But Gerard soon realized, those weren’t Devil Knights; they were just dressed in similar attire.

It appeared to be men from the New Chaser Association.

“They are coming out, can you see through now?” Gerard immediately said.

“No.”

“Still can’t?” Gerard asked, “Didn’t you say you could see through without the Divine Remnants in the way?”

“Yes,” Bai Wei drawled, “But how do you know they haven’t brought them?”

Hearing this, Gerard’s brow furrowed immediately.

He looked again at those carts, and Bai Wei shared his vision at that moment, allowing Gerard to see even clearer details dozens of meters away in the night without the need for light, like the small pendants carried by the New Chaser Association. But even so, he couldn’t see what was on the carts, as if they were shrouded in a huge shadow.

The feeling was exactly the same as the pollutant remnants in the camp.

Gerard immediately understood what was on the carts.

“They brought the pollutant remnants with them?!”

“It seems so,” Bai Wei said, “Tsk, they are indeed very cautious, almost as if they were expecting you.”

Hearing this, Gerard’s already deep frown deepened even more.

He had thought that after dealing with Yong Xin… no, just addressing the issues with Yong Xin, it could not solve all the problems but at least alleviate most of them.

But in reality, their actions became even more rapid and targeted, as if they had anticipated everything like the back of their hand.

This left Gerard feeling profoundly powerless.

Not just for himself, but more for Ian, as if Ian’s sacrifice had not achieved anything, and had only worsened the situation.

“Hmm? Is it my imagination?” Bai Wei suddenly said, “I think I smell a very mournful scent in the air, it couldn’t be coming from you, could it?”

Bai Wei’s words were like a bucket of cold water poured from head to toe, instantly sobering Gerard up.