Chapter 144: City of Sin
'Fate? What kind of weird skill is this?'
Lin Ye hesitated for a second, then directly used the special skill Fate.
Then he saw a very obvious green arrow shadow on the ground.
"...This is the guidance of fate?"
Lin Ye had no intention of rejecting fate at all—this was a special skill that who knows how many card draws it would take to use once, so why would he refuse?
Following the arrow's direction, Lin Ye passed several locked rooms and a dark red corridor. Before even seeing the so-called fate, he was already at a loss.
This was probably fate indeed.
Lin Ye quickened his pace, winding through the red maze for half an hour and passing several more locked rooms before finally entering a dark red corridor under the arrow's guidance.
At the end of the corridor was the familiar red double doors. Lin Ye pushed them open, but Guardian No. 3, who should have been there to greet him, lay like a corpse in the center of the hall.
Lin Ye initially thought the other might be pretending to be dead, but according to his spiritual perception, it was truly a corpse without the slightest trace of vitality. 'Why would the system have a corpse act as a guardian? Is this a trap?'
Lin Ye still wanted to probe further, but the fate arrow pointing at the corpse suddenly grew dim, on the verge of disappearing.
Immediately guessing the probable reason, Lin Ye quickly stepped forward, stripped the corpse bare, and gathered all the items from the body into his arms.
The most conspicuous among these items was a dark red jade-like cube, currently emitting a piercing red light.
Just as Lin Ye hesitated whether to throw it away, complex runic structures suddenly appeared beneath his feet.
"Dammit! I haven't even gone to the item room yet!"
Before his words faded, the runic structures completed. The red light emitted by the cube grew brighter and brighter, and Lin Ye vanished within the red glow.
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【Special Event Triggered: Inheritance Proof】
【Nighttime Activity Terminated】
【Countdown Canceled, Can Return to Shelter After Event Conclusion】
Lin Ye stood on an altar holding an assortment of items. The altar was piled high with human limbs and various organs, while dozens of black-robed cultists surrounded the base.
"Hehe, young master, you can't escape. Will you give me the inheritance proof now?"
The man at the forefront spoke to Lin Ye with a sinister smile.
Lin Ye put away the items in his arms, thinking the other was probably referring to that roughly seventeen-year-old male corpse from the red maze.
But that corpse was clearly a nearly adult foreign boy with blond hair and blue eyes—Lin Ye didn't see any resemblance between himself and that corpse at all.
Lin Ye stepped down from the altar step by step. Invisible spiritual energy blades stabbed into the backs of the surrounding cultists. Amid screams and spraying blood, Lin Ye stopped before the man.
"Who are you? How did you get pulled here by the ritual?"
Realizing the situation had turned bad, the man retreated in panic while pulling out a spiritual energy pistol to aim at Lin Ye.
Lin Ye could clearly perceive all the man's information: a third-tier spiritual energy user, wearing only a black robe with mediocre protective ability and carrying a spiritual energy pistol with ordinary firepower plus two spare magazines, currently panicked and preparing to fire.
Although the man was a third-tier spiritual energy user, his physical fitness and mental energy were far inferior to Lin Ye's... and his intelligence wasn't particularly high either.
Before the other could fire, Lin Ye used a spiritual energy blade to cut off the index finger that would have pulled the trigger, then stood watching as the man kept trying to pull the trigger with that severed finger.
It took a while before the man understood what had happened.
"Ah!"
The man pressed on his finger in terror as he retreated, but his backward speed clearly wasn't fast enough.
Lin Ye pinned the man to the ground with his foot and spoke his first words since arriving here:
"Tell me everything you know. Don't waste time."
"...If I tell you everything, will you spare my life?"
The man asked cautiously.
"Of course not, but if you tell me, I won't stab you with this dagger."
Lin Ye took out the Despair Dagger, brushing it past the man's eyeball.
Looking at the Despair Dagger, the man was persuaded by Lin Ye and carefully disclosed all the information he knew.
This was a large city known as the City of Sin, and those who could gain a foothold here were no ordinary people.
The man was a peripheral member of the Spider God Cult. His superiors had instructed him to perform the ritual here and obtain the inheritance proof from a young noble master. As for what the inheritance proof actually was or what to do after obtaining it, he knew nothing.
Lin Ye looked at the man's corpse with speechless expression. Knowing too much certainly wasn't good, but being completely clueless about what you were doing was just ridiculous.
The Spider God Cult's ritual site was a dilapidated underground parking garage. After searching the entire garage, aside from some local currency, Lin Ye found nothing of value.
Leaving the parking garage via the ramp, outside was a rundown road surrounded by semi-abandoned buildings.
Lin Ye could sense some living people moving about within these abandoned structures.
Following the road away from the abandoned area, the surrounding buildings began to look normal, pedestrians gradually increased, and in the distance even appeared some skyscrapers dozens of stories high.
On the surface, the City of Sin didn't seem much different from an ordinary large city, but Lin Ye hadn't encountered a single ordinary person on the streets yet, and everyone carried weapons on them.
At first Lin Ye worried his Nightfall Formalwear might be too conspicuous, but he quickly discovered that his attire was actually among the more low-key in the crowd.
Burly men in full body armor, tall women in leather jackets carrying heavy machine guns, priests riding two-headed goats, scantily clad men and women soliciting customers outside bars...
The City of Sin was even more chaotic than Lin Ye had imagined.
Lin Ye randomly found a restaurant by the roadside and ordered some food. He hadn't quite figured out how to complete this special event yet, so he decided to tour the city first.
The restaurant served food quickly, and before long, Lin Ye's table was filled with various dishes.
Mixed vegetables, stewed meat, grilled steak, meat-filled wraps...
Lin Ye sampled various dishes of unknown ingredients. He had sensed the restaurant's kitchen—while he hadn't seen the materials inside, they were all within his acceptable range.
As Lin Ye tasted the dishes, the surrounding diners were observing him.
"Hey, pretty boy, is this your first time in this city?"
A young woman with red hair and fair skin sat down opposite Lin Ye and spoke to him.
"Yes. Would you like to show me around the city? I can pay a guide fee."
Lin Ye glanced at this first-tier woman whose hair was even shorter than his, then took a sip of sweet and sour drink.
"Uh, sure... but I'm not cheap."
Watching Lin Ye elegantly cut his steak, Lily suddenly felt she might have misjudged him.
"No problem, I'm actually quite wealthy... especially in this city."
Lin Ye said with a smile.