Chapter 835: Night Conversation, Ye Zhaoxia

“Hm? Back so soon.”

Nightingale looked at the familiar figures, and a hint of relief flashed across her face. Given the short time, they probably hadn’t done anything significant.

She was really afraid these people would cause trouble out there!

“Finished talking yet?”

Ye Mingqiu asked.

“Not yet, we’re still discussing. Don’t rush, I have some tea here, you can rest for a while,” Nightingale said with a dry laugh.

“Aren’t you afraid of revealing our location?”

“Aren’t they fighting over there? Resting for a while should be fine.”

“The fight’s over.”

“Huh?”

Nightingale tilted her head in confusion, feeling a sudden pang of unease.

Then, the people before her began to laugh in unison. Jia Meishu took out a heap of fugitive corpses from the Storage Space, staining the ground with blood. The shocking scene made Nightingale’s heart skip a beat.

So many!

How did they manage to kill them?

“Gulp!”

Her throat moved.

A terrifying thought arose in her mind; the battle outside had ended, and here lay so many fugitive corpses to account for. What about the battlefield over at Happy Town….

“Oh right, here’s the hidden item.”

Carl kicked a foot, revealing the White Ghost underneath.

“Hidden item?!”

Nightingale’s eyes widened. She looked at the shocked and despairing face of the White Ghost, feeling her thinking nearly shut down. She thought that within such a short time, they couldn’t possibly do anything major, yet they had unexpectedly taken down another Order Keeper.

With this, three Order Keepers from Happy Town were dead, significantly increasing the danger level.

“And there’s another one.”

Jia Meishu also kicked, revealing the corpse of the Black Ghost who had been besieged to death.

“….”

Nightingale stopped thinking.

Then she suddenly laughed, her gaze towards the four people before her, eyes filled with a hint of despair and helplessness, and said, “Hey, do you know what happens when you take down so many Order Keepers in Happy Town?”

“No idea.”

Ye Mingqiu answered.

“Strong ones from Central Island will be mobilized. They have far more strong ones than any of the four islands combined. If concentrated, it won’t matter how many strong ones are here; they can’t withstand it,” Nightingale sighed and said.

“Ding!”

Her Communication Device rang out with a special alert sound, marked for an important superior.

Thus, Nightingale immediately opened the Communication Device to carefully check the details.

“Summer Island and Autumn Island attacked simultaneously?”

“Official forces suffer heavy losses?”

“Where did this come from?”

Nightingale stared blankly at the information on her phone, feeling her mind buzzing, thinking this heralded the arrival of a new era with a sudden emergence of talented individuals. If these talents suddenly burst out with enough strength to cause trouble in a short period, she would feel uneasy.

Not just her, even the Demon Hunter’s overseers acknowledged the underlying issues.

So…

“I can reveal the location of other branches to you, but… could you share your plans with us? At least give us a heads up?” Nightingale said.

“No can do. Our relationship isn’t that close. What they’re up to, we can’t control; we’re just temporary allies,” Jia Meishu shrugged and said.

“….”

Nightingale looked into his eyes for a while, ultimately sighed helplessly, left the location, and proceeded to settle the bounty reward.

….

Nighttime

After receiving the task reward, acquiring the locations of other Demon Hunter branches, the four-man team did not immediately move. Due to the distant specific location, running over would be too slow, requiring rapid arrival through Jia Meishu’s spatial transportation.

However, Nightingale provided primitive coordinates; neither Spirit Realm coordinates nor spatial information, requiring Jia Meishu to calculate the coordinates himself, then construct a spatial tunnel for movement.

Moreover, given the distance, transporting four people at once required more preparation time for this spatial travel.

Ye Mingqiu sat alone in a cave in the wild, watching the burning campfire.

Soon, Carl walked over, sat not far from him, and asked, “Why choose that name? It’s not one to be casually mentioned.”

“Just picked it,”

Ye Mingqiu replied casually, his gaze still fixed on the bonfire with no change.

Although he didn’t know the full details, from Carl and earlier Ulu’s attitudes, it wasn’t hard to surmise the name [Ye Zhaoxia] was quite extraordinary.

“You know that guy, don’t you?”

Though phrased as a question, Carl spoke with certainty, also looking at the bonfire, the flames flickering in his pupils.

“….”

Ye Mingqiu did not answer.

“Are you a mere mortal too?”

“Kind of, I suppose.”

“Is that so?”

Carl chuckled, his smile seemingly carrying deep and complex meaning, and said, “Your ability appears simple, not like someone with talent, more like a ‘ordinary’ person to the extreme.”

“Enhancing Power to the limit, elevating weapons to perfection, activating extreme states with unparalleled Will… the world of dreams becomes more balanced. It allows some less powerful individuals to gain strength through this balance, reaching levels they weren’t meant to have.”

“Last time, I recall a lucky guy who, due to the help from the [Lord of Light and Shadow]’s keyword, achieved great success and earned considerable rewards…. He too is fortunate, huh.”