The Bald Monk in the City

Chapter 231 The Mystery in the Shadows (One more update!)

Stepping on the tail of the night before dawn, Yi Qiu came to this underground bar hidden in the suburbs.

In the end, Yi Qiu didn't let Fatty Liang lead the way, but asked him to mark his location on Du Niang's map.

There used to be some factories in the suburbs, but because of government policies, they were all withdrawn one after another.

As for the vacant sites, some have been abandoned there, and some have been bought and transformed into warehouses and the like.

Sometimes, it also provides a cheap and safe base camp for some dark forces.

Looking at this area from a distance, there is nothing strange about it. It is surrounded by weeds and dust like other abandoned factories.

It used to be a sulfur factory, and although it has been evacuated for a long time, the water quality in the small ditch next to it still looks bad.

Yi Qiu's figure suddenly disappeared from outside the factory, and then teleported in through the shadow walk.

As long as there is a shadow, such an ordinary building cannot stop his footsteps.

Of course, for Yi Qiu, he can easily climb over the high walls of this ordinary factory, but this will leave traces, and it is best not to leave any traces for what he is about to do.

Entering the factory, Yi Qiu could see that a nearby building had been transformed into a parking lot, and there were many vehicles parked inside, most of which were motorcycles.

It was quiet inside the factory, with no lights to be seen.

However, in Yi Qiu's field of vision, the dense footprints on the ground guide him in the direction.

Following his footprints, Yi Qiu quickly found the original workshop of the sulfur factory.

The footprints gathered here one after another, and then disappeared in front of a tightly closed iron door.

In the sensing of the blind fight, Yi Qiu could perceive a humanoid creature behind the door, obviously it was the person who was sentry by the bar.

After all, pornography, gambling and drugs are relatively routine programs for this underground bar with a complex membership.

Yi Qiu activates the ability to walk in shadows, and suddenly the dusty workshop and closed iron gates in front of his eyes all disappear, and groups of distorted and irregular shadows appear in Yi Qiu's vision.

Compared with using shadow walking before, the shadow fragments that appeared in front of Yi Qiu this time showed the characteristics of small space and large number, which were completely different from the shadows in other places.

This shows that there are a large number of light sources in the workshop to produce this very complicated situation.

Although Yi Qiu could only choose the nearest shadow fragments for teleportation due to the limitation of the shadow walking distance, he could still observe the shadows in other areas.

Apparently, the abandoned workshop was probably the speakeasy that the two men were talking about.

Yi Qiu didn't move in a hurry, but stood still and carefully observed the shadow fragments in front of him.

Although the shape of the shadow becomes quite distorted as it moves down from the Material Plane to the Shadow Plane.

But after using shadow walking for a period of time, Yi Qiu has been able to gradually choose the one he needs from countless distorted shadow fragments.

Of course, at present, Yi Qiu can still distinguish some shadow fragments with relatively simple composition and relatively easy to distinguish.

The shadow fragments appearing in front of him now are more complicated situations. Judging from the orientation, some of them should be the shadows in the workshop hall, but because of the complexity and variety of objects and light sources that make up the shadow fragments, the shape of the shadow fragments looks very strangeness.

In the eyes of some shadow masters, this is a twisted art, another manifestation of the real world.

They believe that light and shadow are twins, and that the world should be made of it.

In addition to the appearance of the world under the sun, in the distortion of the shadow, the world will present another completely different form.

It contains endless mysteries of shadows, and it is an endless treasure exuding alluring magic.

However, for Yi Qiu, it is very difficult to directly restore the shape of the shadow fragments to the appearance of the material world.

This requires not only sufficient spatial imagination, but also profound knowledge of shadows and subspace knowledge.

What supports him to make the right choice is more often his extraordinary intuition that is different from ordinary people's perception.

Yi Qiu touched his bald head, and he took a step towards one of the shadow fragments.

Relying on his intuition and its relatively regular shape, Yi Qiu felt that what this shadow fragment was connected to should be a remodeled room in the workshop.

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Du Huadiao happily sat on his favorite sofa and smoked a cigarette. A small white hand stretched out amidst the smoke, and stroked Du Huadiao's back.

Thinking of the boss who was once stuffed alive into the concrete pillar by him, Du Huadiao lightly exhaled the smoke.

That Scar Chen, who had been famous for hacking and killing most of his life on the road, was talking nonsense about retribution to his younger brother who betrayed him when he was dying.

Thinking of this, Du Huadiao smiled disdainfully.

retribution?

Du Huadiao never believed in retribution.

If there is real retribution, a person like him who does not know how many blood debts he bears should have gone to hell to atone for his sins.

The fact is that those who clamored for retribution all went to hell, but Du Huadiao was still alive and well.

Du Huadiao is not afraid of retribution, he is only afraid of revenge, so all those who clamored for retribution were drowned by him.

Maybe Dao Scar Chen is old, and he felt guilty after finding out that he couldn't hold the knife steadily.

Du Huadiao rubbed his belly. Time passed slowly when he was a horse boy, but when he became a big brother, he became a very rich middle-aged man in a blink of an eye.

He thought of Dao Scar Chen, when he was stuffed alive into the concrete pillar by himself, he also looked like this.

This made Du Huadiao feel a little haze in his heart, and he roughly opened the hand of the woman who was massaging him.

Then, under the woman's cowering and terrified eyes, he picked up the machete that he had been carrying with him all year round.

Although it has been well maintained, it is just a bargain at a roadside stall after all. After all these years, the blade has looked a little dull.

Du Huadiao stroked the blade, which was not smooth at all, but had many rough scratches.

This is a testimony of his years as a horse boy, and it was given to him by Dao Scar Chen.

He has been with him all the time, reminding himself not to be soft-hearted, and not to forget the past.

In the same physical world, living in the world of light and darkness are two completely different experiences.

Du Huadiao held a machete in one hand, and gently stroked the slightly trembling woman with the other. He enjoyed the feeling of being feared.

And at this moment, a thick black mist suddenly poured in from outside the door, and the whole room was plunged into a pitch-dark darkness!