BXBX NOVEL Chapter 432: 148. Big-eyed “cute baby”
Chapter 432: 148. Big-eyed “cute baby”
Alchemy Cathedral cleared out the Re-forged Association branch in Sector 6, opening up the underground entrance for the Rift Corridor to the public.
As an alchemist association primarily focused on alchemy manufacturing, the Re-forged Association has a vast alchemy factory area. Accordingly, within Sector 6, there are several underground entrances leading to the Rift Corridor from the ground level.
Every underground entrance is wide open.
The empty area near the entrance is packed with temporary campsites of various alchemy factions. Large and small tents and metal fences block the underground entrance, making it impassable.
If it weren’t for the temple guards maintaining order on the scene, the swarming alchemy forces would love to directly seal the underground entrance with an alchemy formation, claim it for themselves, and profit by charging entrance fees.
Alchemy forces that arrive at the underground entrance first can occupy favorable terrain one step ahead.
Sector 7 of the Golden Commerce Guild is right next door. So, for Kent and other security team members, and Derek and the other Golden Merchant’s Sword members, they have already forcefully surrounded the underground entrance closest to Sector 7.
Noland Lee’s adventure this time is all about secrecy.
He didn’t go to the Golden Commerce Guild and instead entered the bustling Rift Corridor through an underground entrance controlled by several medium and small factions working together.
The moment his “Illusionary Body Technique” effect ended, Noland Lee had already arrived at the corridor area below the southwest direction of Sector 6.
Located on the fourth underground level, he looked around and saw the corridor that had been plowed over by guns and bombs.
Explosion marks emanating burnt smells were everywhere, and the ground was covered with messy footprints.
The alchemy platforms and various mechanical devices left behind by the Re-forged Association were all overturned violently and forcibly dismantled to acquire the highest valued alchemy parts.
One could imagine that before Noland Lee arrived at this place, several groups had clashed here. They desperately robbed and smashed the abandoned assets of the Re-forged Association, impatiently entering lower floors to search for spoils of war.
Noland Lee looked at the number of footprints on the ground, then activated his “Life and Death Tracking” to check the floors below.
He nodded calmly, the corners of his mouth raised in a cold smile.
Very good.
The gunmen who appeared here were all members of the gangs. Among them was a familiar face, the Wolfpack Guard who had tried to take Fars Scott away in the water supply team’s night raid. This person was the “Ferocious Hound Alchemist.”
In addition to the Ferocious Hound Gang, the lower floors also had gunmen and alchemists from Blood Fox Gang, Bald Eagle Gang, and Steam Armored Gang.
A total of four gang factions gathered here. They fought a battle on the fourth underground level, and after realizing that no one could overcome the others, they agreed to each be responsible for a corridor area.
Thus, a situation emerged where four gangs each occupied a corner of the underground floor, mutually suspicious and unimpeded.
Thanks to Alchemy Cathedral maintaining the gray violence organization of gangs and distinguishing it from the peaceful and friendly security companies.
Under such arrangements, gang forces would automatically gather together, and no virtuous people would mix into their ranks.
If Noland Lee was forced to conflict with the gang members, he could fight back with peace of mind, not worried about harming innocent people.
“Not bad, not bad, let the plundering begin then.”
Noland Lee took out his masking robe to put on, then draped an alchemy cloak over it to deceive vision.
He activated the “Breath of the Dead,” entered the skeleton form, and headed to the lower floors.
The 18th underground level of Sector 6 is a large flat area with a corridor height of over 20 meters.
Thirty years ago, it was one of the outpost floors.
It originally had constructed facilities like shower rooms, resting rooms, dining halls, and entertainment venues, as well as pipelines for clean water and hot water.
Nowadays, all the living facilities have been abandoned and were transformed into an underground workshop by the Re-forged Association.
In the center of this floor, there is a water well that is three meters deep and two meters wide.
This well is a tiny Resourceful Sage Space, also known as the Alchemy Water Well.
Its previous owner died more than 30 years ago, and now it is a standard ownerless item.
Noland Lee used “sense tampering” to avoid gang members and silently arrived at the 18th underground level, where he saw the well.
Noland Lee drank a Night Vision Potion in advance, but to see the transparent liquid of the well water clearly, he still needed a light source.
He picked up an alchemy lamp and shone it into the center of the well, seeing the wet wall reflecting light and the stereoscopic formation lines floating in the air.
His gaze moved downward, passing through the well’s water to the bottom, where Noland Lee discovered a ball of yarn with four-element glow.
The original owner of the Alchemy Water Well might have been a yarn ball enthusiast. He designed his Sage’s Lock as a tangled ball of energy yarn.
Each “yarn” strand on the Sage’s Lock was made of elemental energy.
Unraveling this unique “yarn ball” would mean unlocking the Sage’s Lock, after which the Sage Space core array wrapped in the “yarn ball” would be revealed.
The next step was to use the alchemy mark of the previous owner to gain control of the core array.
After gaining control, the previous owner’s alchemy mark could be erased, and this Sage Space could be completely transformed into an ownerless object that anyone could control.