462: A treacherous rainbow! Su Lie, lying in wait for his prey!

All matters concerning the City Lord's Residence will be handed over to... Also, arrange for people to guard the Sixth Well of Shadows in the secret chamber! Do not allow any force to disturb my advancement!

Li Si quickly deployed his subordinates and adjusted the plan: "Oh, right! Set up an inescapable net at the Ninth Well House, waiting for the enemy to walk right into it! This is a diversionary tactic!"

"Yes!"

The leaders in the room’s eyes lit up, and they bowed in unison.

Following this.

Leader after leader began to act.

Su Lie frowned slightly: "Could there be a trick here?"

After all, Eric was sealed and contained by Su Lie in the City Lord's Residence study.

The disappearance of this military advisor has yet to be fully investigated.

Li Si actually exposed the secret like this during the military meeting?

This is very unreasonable!

Soon after.

The City Lord's Residence was enveloped by a black energy shield, instantly turning it into a mass of blackness.

This caused Rainbow and her group, who were monitoring the City Lord's Residence from a teahouse, to subtly change their expressions.

"A major incident has occurred at the City Lord's Residence!"

Rainbow said solemnly.

A Survivor beside her whispered a possibility: "Could it be that Jing Ke fellow?"

"No matter who it is! It must not affect our plan!"

A burly Survivor said gravely.

Rainbow turned her head to look at one of them: "Candied Hawthorn! Go investigate!"

The Survivor nicknamed Candied Hawthorn nodded, stood up, and walked outside, quickly merging into the flow of Shadow Clan people.

Rainbow narrowed her eyes slightly: "That Jing Ke fellow is a variable; hopefully, he doesn't cause any accidents!"

Thinking of this.

She turned her head to look at the other Survivors in the tavern: "Since the outer Well of Shadows leading into Shadow City has been sealed, then... these guys are the only remaining hunters in the city!"

"The plan Eric and I made doesn't need to wait until tomorrow morning!"

"Now that a major change has occurred at the City Lord's Residence, lest people become restless!"

"We might as well capture them all first, and then go find Li Si, just in case!"

Thinking of this.

She picked up the teacup on the table, simultaneously turning her head to look out the window, and tapping the tabletop as she usually did.

At the same time.

In an area behind the teahouse.

The Survivor named Candied Hawthorn was quietly conversing with a leader from the Shadow City Lord's Residence.

Suddenly, his words paused slightly.

Afterward.

Candied Hawthorn said to the Shadow Clan leader: "We can close the net now!"

...On the other side.

Su Lie followed the City Lord's Residence guards executing the plan and arrived at the Sixth Well of Shadows.

This place was located in the secret chamber of the City Lord's treasury.

There were a total of six Wells of Shadows here.

Each Well of Shadows had a name.

Number 1 was called Mimi, Number 2 was called Mishu, Number 3 was called Mibu, Number 4 was called Miyou, Number 5 was called Mixin, and Number 6 was called Mixi.

"Hmm?"

Su Lie raised an eyebrow upon seeing this.

These were names translated from the Shadow script.

Su Lie felt that there might be a deeper meaning behind them.

"A person in a high position couldn't possibly fail to consider... Eric being kidnapped means that the City Lord's Residence's defensive capabilities have failed!"

Su Lie whispered: "But Li Si still made important arrangements during the meeting! This is either a piece of coded text or Li Si's strategy to lure the enemy!"

While walking.

Su Lie suddenly stopped in his tracks.

He suddenly realized a problem.

The communication among the City Lord's Residence soldiers was not through sound, but through Spirit transmission.

This meant that the plans currently being executed by the City Lord's Residence were secret plans.

Su Lie had just arrived at the secret chamber next to the City Lord's Residence study.

He heard some discussions from the soldiers' Spirit transmissions.

"Remember! Seal the rest of the Wells of Shadows besides Number 6, and set up a trap on the Number 6 Mixi Well!"

"Yes!"

"Remember! Important matters must be conveyed through Spirit transmission; do not speak aloud!"

"Yes!"

...After hearing this, Su Lie felt that there was a big problem.

But for a moment, he couldn't figure out where the problem lay.

He immediately fell back into thought: "If they are worried that the intruder might use the secret chamber's Wells of Shadows to find Li Si, the one that should be sealed the most is the Number 6 Mixi Well! But instead, they want to seal the Wells of Shadows besides Number 6?"

He was already standing in front of the Number Six Well of Shadows, but he did not enter.

Su Lie frowned, and an inexplicable sense of crisis arose in his heart, as if there was danger inside the Number 6 Mixi Well.

This made Su Lie feel startled: "Is Number 6 a trap?"

Although that faint Crisis Perception just now was very weak.

It had already made Su Lie vigilant.

He used the Eye of Identification on the surrounding Wells of Shadows.

The result was.

He saw nothing!

"There are the rules restrictions here; I cannot use my Eye of Identification or Exploration Hint! My Crisis Perception Talent, due to the enhancement of other Talents, can only give me a tiny bit of crisis warning!"

Su Lie stood still, looking at the Well of Shadows beside him, sinking into contemplation: "This makes things difficult! How am I supposed to find the secret about Li Si hidden within the City Lord's Residence?"

Suddenly.

He thought of another location Li Si had arranged: "What's the deal with the Number 9 Well House that Li Si mentioned?"

He turned and left the secret chamber for the outside.

Soon.

Su Lie found the Number 9 Well House.

This was a well specifically for the inner members of the City Lord's Residence to drink from.

In the eyes of the Shadow Clan, this was a water well, but in Su Lie's eyes, it was a thick Well of Shadows.

It was not much different from the other Wells of Shadows.

The only difference was.

The Wells of Shadows used for teleportation all had special markers.

But the Number 9 Well had no special marker.

It looked like an ordinary well.

What puzzled Su Lie was.

Although military forces were deployed around this well, there weren't as many as he had imagined.

When he approached the well.

His Crisis Perception Talent brought forth a hint of crisis.

"This is also a trap!..."

Su Lie's eyelid twitched, and he used his Identification Talent on Number 9.

This time, he still couldn't use it.

"Damn it! This is a bit tricky this time!"

Su Lie pondered deeply.

He simply sat down where he was.

Just then.

A large number of Shadow Realm soldiers suddenly gathered around him.

And a black spherical sealing force.

Was enveloping him from all directions.

It completely sealed off all of Su Lie's escape routes.

Su Lie looked up and said in a low voice: "It seems this really is a trap! My Identification of the Number 9 Well triggered the alarm!"

As he spoke.

Su Lie directly walked out of the sealing energy barrier.

By the time he reached the outside.

The sealing energy barrier stopped abruptly and instantly dissipated.

Su Lie raised an eyebrow, turned, and walked toward the office where the leaders were meeting: "Damn it! I'm not playing hide-and-seek with you here anymore! I'll wait for the rabbit by the stump!"

Just then.

Boom!

Outside the City Lord's Residence, several muffled sounds suddenly came from the teahouse next to the market, and black barrier forces enveloped the teahouse.

Simultaneously, a team of fully armed soldiers surrounded the teahouse, which was encased in the black barrier sphere.

This caused pedestrians on the street to look up and watch.

At the same time.

The fifteen Second Transfer Survivors gathered by Rainbow in the teahouse all fell to the ground.

They were bound and sealed by black threads.

One of the burly men stared with disbelieving eyes, looking angrily at Rainbow and shouting: "Rainbow! How dare you betray the mist rule?"

"Haha!"

Rainbow, who was about to leave, couldn't help but laugh. She slowly walked up to the big man and stepped on his head: "You blockheads!"

"Why are you so rigid?"

"Assassinating Li Si was a mission issued by the mist sacrificial altar!"

"Can't the mist sacrificial altar issue a mission to protect Li Si?"

"You're all seasoned veterans, yet so naive!"

"I really don't know how you managed to survive until now!"

...Bang! Bang! Bang!

Rainbow cursed under her breath a few times, then turned and transformed into a mass of pitch-black particles, vanishing from the spot.

At the same time, the two Survivors nicknamed Candied Hawthorn and Big Bowl Ramen showed contemptuous looks toward the captured Survivors and raised their middle fingers: "Trash! You losers!"

Before long.

Rainbow entered the City Lord's Residence unimpeded.

She quickly arrived at the leaders' conference room.

When Su Lie saw Rainbow enter, his mouth twitched: "Damn it! This fellow is also working with Li Si!"

In the conference room, the leaders spoke about Eric's disappearance.

After hearing the reports from the other leaders, Rainbow's eyes narrowed, and she exclaimed: "Shit! Eric just vanished under the Great Dark Heaven Locking Array like that?"

"The alarm restriction set by the City Lord at the Number 9 Well was just triggered. At the final moment when we were closing the net on that area, the target escaped using unknown means!"

A Shadow Clan leader said doubtfully: "Could there be an Invisibility force that can penetrate restrictions? One that even our formation cannot lock onto or restrict?"

"How could such a power appear in a place like ours?"

A leader complained solemnly.

Rainbow raised an eyebrow: "Holy crap! I heard that a Survivor named Gouli has a rules pet, and its pet possesses a rule called Invisibility!"

"The first stage use of this rule is that the life form possessing it can never be seen by any force, and can freely penetrate obstacles like walls, formations, and energy shields."

"But the entity permanently cannot launch attacks against surrounding life forms!"

"It only has an auxiliary effect!"

Before she could finish speaking.

A leader from the City Lord's Residence immediately shook his head and said: "No! The entity with the Invisibility ability kidnapped Eric right from the City Lord's study! There wasn't even a trace of a struggle there!"

"No! You're wrong! I didn't say it was that kind of creature! What if some items possess similar abilities?"

Rainbow shook her head; she thought of Su Lie.

Because.

Only Su Lie had not joined the assassination alliance.

And only Su Lie had gone to Shadow City after leaving the teahouse, and since then, all news of him had ceased.

"Jing Ke! Are you here?"

Rainbow suddenly stood up, turned her head, and shouted loudly at the surroundings.

Su Lie shook his head mockingly. He hadn't expected the cunning Rainbow to be so childish.

Bored, he muttered silently in his heart: "I'm not here!"

Rainbow's pupils contracted. She turned and rushed outside, transmitting via Spirit as she went: "Holy crap! He really is here!"

Clatter! Clatter!

As the sound faded.

Rainbow had already reached the outside of the conference room.

After hearing Rainbow's transmission, the leaders of the City Lord's Residence also quickly left the conference room.

Just as Su Lie followed closely.

Boom!

A deafening sound came from inside the conference room.

In just the blink of an eye.

The office was completely destroyed and collapsed.

And 0.01 seconds before Su Lie was about to be crushed.

Su Lie discovered that his Teleportation Talent had actually failed inside the City Lord's Residence.

"Shit!"

Su Lie cursed under his breath, and his figure flickered.

Relying on his speed of 1 trillion points, he reached the outer corridor almost instantly, bypassed Rainbow and the others, and stood at the very back of the crowd.

"Was that Rainbow's Talent?"

Only then did Su Lie realize that his response just now had been known by Rainbow.

Clearly, this was Rainbow's Talent!

At this moment, Rainbow shouted the same sentence toward the office direction again.

Su Lie did not respond to this shout in any form, not even glancing at Rainbow.

After a few seconds of silence, Rainbow finally breathed a sigh of relief: "Two outcomes! Either he's dead! Or he ran away!"

"What should we do?"

A leader asked.

Rainbow glanced at the person: "Just continue executing the plan! You guys guard this place! I'm going to find Li Si!"

As she spoke.

Her eyes darted around.

After giving the instructions.

Rainbow turned and walked toward the City Lord's Residence's Shadow Hall.

There were three Wells of Shadows here.

These were passages leading to the deeper Shadow Realm.

However.

She did not take these three passages but activated a mechanism here, traveling from a Well of Shadows in the secret chamber to an unknown place.

Su Lie stood in front of the Well of Shadows where Rainbow vanished. He pondered for a long time before slowly putting down the foot he had raised: "You dog! Who knows if this is another trap!"

"Anyway, the monk can run, but the temple cannot!"

"I'll just stay here and wait for that Li Si fellow to come back so I can kill him!"

Having said that.

Su Lie left the secret chamber and returned outside.

About half an hour later.

Right in this secret chamber.

The vanished Rainbow suddenly drifted out of the Well of Shadows.

She turned her head to look around, a trace of doubt flashing in her eyes: "Shit! Did that guy really not follow? Or did he get scared and dare not follow anymore?"

"Never mind!"

"I need to go escort Li Si! Lest someone use a feint and ruin my mission!"

Saying this.

She drilled into the Well of Shadows again...