Mystery: From Celestial Venerable's Backup to Red Priest

Chapter 293 The Passage to the City of Calamity: Total Annihilation

Chapter 293 The Passage to the City of Calamity: Total Annihilation

Evan put on a mask, said goodbye to Isinger Stanton, and left the party in a discreet manner. He quickly left the Backlund Bridge area and arrived at a safe house in the East District.

Upon entering the safe house, a tall, burly, and somewhat overweight man emerged from the room and knelt before Evan, saying, "Greetings, my lord!" His tone was devout and fervent.

Evan nodded, said nothing more, and directly took off the black robe he was wearing to conceal his figure.

The burly, tall man was quite perceptive; he immediately stood up, caught the coat, and hung it on the hanger!

Evan had purchased and furnished this safe house on his second day in Backlund.

Because it's a safe house, Evan can't rent it out.

At the same time, people in the East District often share a room with several families, because no family can afford to rent an entire house.

Therefore, Evan cannot rent this house as a tenant and leave it vacant for a long time, like he did with the safe house in the South Bridge area.

So after careful consideration, Evan killed a gang leader who controlled the area and released a prisoner held in the "City of Calamity" to look after his house.

The City of Calamity is essentially a prison that brings endless suffering. The prisoners are all sentenced to life imprisonment, their lives and deaths are not in their own hands, and everything they own belongs to the master of this "prison"—Evan.

The only way to escape the torment of pain is to receive Evan's pardon; there is no other way.

The way to get Evan's help, besides having Evan open the connection between the mysterious city that is constantly invading the world and the real world, so that they can "walk the night of a hundred ghosts" and find hosts on their own, is to let Evan open the connection between the mysterious city and the real world.

Another possibility is that they are released by Evan and enter the bodies of those chosen by Evan.

There are two ways to do this. The first is "infection".

Through a "connection," Evan enabled a "prisoner" from a mysterious city to enter the host's body via a "channel" between mysticism and reality. With the help of the mysterious city's power, the prisoner was corrupted and turned into a "Frankenstein's monster" belonging only to the mysterious city.

The meaning of this Frankenstein's monster is not just a mental Frankenstein's monster, but a Frankenstein's monster in all senses. The Frankenstein's monster possesses the original person's bloodline, extraordinary characteristics, as well as all memories and independent thinking ability.

But all of the Frankenstein's perceptions will become abnormally distorted. His thoughts, logic, and emotions will all revolve around Evan, making him a complete "captive" of Evan.

Another method is "replacement," which is even simpler: all the astral entities of the person killed by Evan,

Spiritual bodies, mental bodies, and etheric bodies will all be captured by the mysterious city and become "prisoners."

At this point, Evan can use his authority as the master of the mysterious city to grant a pardon to one of the "prisoners," allowing him to be resurrected in the body of the person Evan killed.

However, the subordinates obtained in this way do not have the memories of the people Evan killed before. They are just empty shells that can move and are difficult to complete intricate tasks. They can only complete some simple tasks and can only be used as cannon fodder on the battlefield.

Evan used the first method on Natasha and Helen, directly selecting a female-looking monster from among the countless prisoners in the mysterious city and corrupting them, ultimately creating the Natasha and Helen they are today.

Originally, Evan had used the second method on the burly man in front of him.

Logically speaking, Evan should not have used the first method before becoming a demigod, possessing divinity, and wielding certain authority. However, coincidentally, the Augustus family and the Witch Cult used the "Bonaparte's Steadfastness," a seal formed by the extraordinary characteristics of the "Iron-Blooded Knight," to harass Evan, attempting to control him through its special "connection" authority.

Unfortunately, Evan is essentially the embodiment of the City of Calamity, which directly thwarted their conspiracy and also allowed Evan to gain early access to "Bonaparte's Fortification".

Using the power of this 'Level 1' sealed artifact, Evan manipulated the power of the City of Calamity, allowing him to corrupt the two witches by "connecting" with them, thus completely capturing them.

This not only allowed Evan to plant two spies within the two major witch organizations, but also perfectly utilized the witch cult's channels to provide false information to the Augustus family, and through the Augustus family, to provide false intelligence to the witch cult.

The information about Evan between the Witch Cult and the Augustus family was perfectly self-consistent, allowing Evan to deceive them all and manipulate them without being discovered or suspected.

The burly man "Hans" was originally a "prisoner" captured by Irwin using the second method.

After all, Evan could have deep conversations with witches, but he couldn't accept having such a deep "connection" with a man.

However, after Evan was promoted to "The Schemer", he was able to use "Bonaparte's Perseverance" to further leverage the power of the City of Calamity, and could release prisoners out of thin air.

So Evan released the original "Hans" who had already been trained in the City of Calamity, and "exchanged" him with the original "prisoner" again, making him a "prisoner" who, although created using the second method, possessed all his memories!

"How's it going with Ian Wright secretly recruiting gangsters for my military?"

Evan casually found a stool in the small room and sat down, looking around. He casually asked Hans, "Hans, please answer." Upon hearing this, Hans hung up Evan's black robe and mumbled, "..."

"Mr. Ian Wright, through a combination of coaxing and deception, recruited over 200 homeless people, who are now undergoing rehabilitation underground!"

Evan nodded slightly, appreciating Ian Wright's decisiveness, then stood up and said as he walked:

"More guests will be arriving later. Take them downstairs with you, understand?"

"Understood!" Hans bowed in response, and only dared to stand up after Evan disappeared from sight. Then he stood there waiting for the guest Evan had mentioned to arrive!

Evan went to another room, found a mechanism, and opened the basement entrance directly.

As soon as the heavy basement partition was opened, a strong smell of blood immediately wafted out. Evan, however, was not surprised at all and walked down the simple steps without changing his expression.

Before long, Evan arrived at an underground hall that was much larger than the buildings on the surface.

The hall was devoid of any candlelight, yet it emitted an eerie red glow that allowed one to clearly see the scene within.

The people in the underground hall were like crazed beasts, their eyes bloodshot and their minds shattered. They brandished their weapons, or used their hands, feet, and teeth to tear apart everything around them.

The walls were covered with marks from being hacked and chopped, and if you looked closely, you could even see some remaining scratches and fingernails.

Blood spread across the ground, pooling into a horrifying sight. The wounded groaned in agony, but this did nothing to dampen the frenzy of the others. Even in this state, they clung to anyone else they could reach, tearing and biting at them like wild beasts.

They rolled and fought in pools of blood, as if they had forgotten the pain, as if only in this way could they 'live'!

The walls of the hall were stained with blood, the floor was covered in blood, and there were severed limbs and human organs scattered everywhere. The air was filled with a strong, nauseating smell of blood, but it did not affect Evan at all. On the contrary, it gave him an unusual feeling of comfort. He took a deep breath and showed an expression of intoxication.

Soon, the fighting between the people gradually quieted down, and fewer and fewer people survived. But at the same time, the red light in their eyes grew stronger and stronger, and they became more and more inhuman, like demons rushing out of hell.

Just as Evan was about to make his move, he suddenly heard the sound of the entrance to the underground hall being opened. A wicked smile appeared on his lips, and then he took a step and disappeared into the shadows of the underground hall!

Within seconds, several men in uniform trench coats took Hans hostage and entered the underground hall, where they witnessed what was happening!

The leader's forehead immediately bulged with thick veins, while the other subordinates turned pale. One of the women, with a graceful figure, even leaned against the wall and vomited, only to find her hands stained with unopened blood.

"Where is the person who just arrived at this house? Where is he?"

The burly man at the head of the group flashed a lightning bolt in his eyes and used his extraordinary abilities to torture 'Hans,' clearly indicating that the situation had pushed him to his limit.

Even though Hans had been "mentally pierced," his face flushed, his head throbbing, and he was kneeling on the ground, he still stared wide-eyed at his captors, even grinning as if mocking them:

"Is that all you've got? Come on! Keep going!"

Seeing this, the leader became furious and immediately intensified the interrogation.

However, "Hans" is just an ordinary person after all. Even if he is a prisoner of the "City of Calamity", he cannot get any bonus.

Moreover, he already understood that his mission was complete and that he was no longer of any use in the future, so he gave up resistance, bled from his mouth, bit off his tongue and committed suicide, returning to the "City of Calamity".

The leader was stunned for a moment, not expecting someone who looked like a small fry to be so decisive!

Just as he came to his senses and was about to order his subordinates, who were on guard around the area, to release the "beasts" in the hall who were still alive and killing each other as if they had lost their minds.

He suddenly felt a tickle in his throat and couldn't help coughing. Then he felt like he couldn't breathe properly.

The squad members around him were so weak they were practically coughing up their lungs.

As the squad leader of MI9, Neo immediately realized what had happened and solemnly made two announcements with a push of his hand:

"No stealth allowed here!"

"The spread of 'disease' is prohibited here!"

Because "Disease" is the power of Sequence 5 "Witch of Pain", Neo knows that he may not be able to completely suppress "Disease".

So after making the first announcement, he immediately took out a gold coin and threw it at the figure that appeared in the shadows.

After the gold coin was thrown, Neo made a second announcement: although the symptoms he and his team members had not disappeared, they had indeed been greatly alleviated.

At the same time, Neo did not become complacent because he had broken through the enemy's attack. Instead, after making two announcements, he immediately shouted:

"Quickly! Get out of here!"

As he spoke, he grabbed the female team member who was the most seriously ill and rushed toward the entrance!

Whether it was the events in the underground hall, Hans's decisive suicide, or the existence of the Witch of Pain, Neo felt that he had stumbled into the headquarters of the evil god organization. If he didn't run away now, when would he?

Emerging from the shadows with an unusually small and delicate face, Evan caught the thrown gold coin, looked at it in her hand, gave a charming laugh, and said with absolute certainty, "Bribery—weakened!"

Without the unreasonable "weakening" by the "Corrupted Baron," this Ninth Department squad would not be able to stand up and run away now.

As the intelligence team was about to leave the basement, Evan extended countless spider silks from his body and wrapped them up.

Simultaneously, he floated in the air using spider silk, his eyes transformed into golden vertical pupils, and invisible waves of spiritual energy began to spread.

The team members, who were hit by the waves, all collapsed, clutched their heads and cried, trembling as if they had encountered the most terrifying thing!

"Dragon's Might!"

Meanwhile, Evan's spider silk took the opportunity to entangle all the team members, and at the same time, the cold and mysterious black flames fell on them along the spider silk.

Neo, running at the front, showed no mercy to the team members who had lost their minds. He even used the female subordinate he was holding as a shield to avoid being entangled by Evan's spider webs. At the same time, his eyes gleamed again as he shot out a bolt of lightning, hoping to hold Evan back for a moment. Then, without looking back, he rushed toward the entrance that was just inches away.

Just as Neo was about to step out of the basement entrance and escape, he suddenly stopped and froze.

Neo lowered his head with difficulty and found a blazing white spear protruding from his chest, the area around the spear charred but without a drop of blood.

At the same time, Evan's flirtatious voice came from behind him.

"Excuse me, but I'm actually a 'Hunter,' and I can teleport using the power of fire!"

What does he mean? And why does that voice sound so familiar?

A question flashed through Neo's mind, but he ultimately received no answer and closed his eyes.

After discarding his spear, Evan didn't delay. He immediately used his authority over the "City of Calamity" to select a "prisoner," intending to use the special nature of this hall to turn Neo into his "captive."

After becoming a "schemer," Evan can now designate the passage connecting the "City of Calamity" to reality.

And this hall located underground in the East District is the first passageway that Evan set up!