Secret: The undead do not die in the fire

Chapter 319 Civil Engineering, Even Dogs Don’t Want to Do It

late at night.

At Congressman Macht's house, while everyone was fast asleep.

Hazel quietly got up from the bed and changed into clothes that were easy to move with the help of her night vision. She climbed down from the balcony of her bedroom, carefully avoiding the bodyguards at home, sneaked out of the garden, and came to the middle of Böklund Street - not all sewer entrances allow humans to pass freely and have vertical metal stairs.

Arriving at the entrance to the sewer, Hazel looked around vigilantly for a few seconds before moving the manhole cover and climbing down. The entire process was done in one go without any sense of sluggishness.

It can be seen that this is not the first time she has done this, and her movements are so skillful that it makes people feel a little distressed.

Stepping on the slightly slippery ground, she moved forward quickly with a clear purpose, along the rusty iron pipes and the slowly flowing sewage river.

The sewers are interconnected, and it is easy for an unfamiliar person to get lost in them. But Hazel passed through several corners with ease and came to the end of a fork in the road - there was a wall covered with moss and obvious corrosion.

Hazel didn't hesitate, she put her hands on the wall and fumbled for a while, and opened the secret door hidden in the wall with a sound. With excellent night vision, Hazel could see everything around her even in the dark sewer.

After passing through the secret door, the space in front of Hazel suddenly became clear. It was a semi-natural and semi-artificial cave, less than 1 meters high and about 8 meters wide. There were shovels and other tools wrapped in oilcloth on the ground, and a large amount of soil and gravel. In front of it were two secret passages extending diagonally downward.

The one on the left was only five or six meters deep, and the one on the right was nearly ten meters, but there was nothing there because they were still digging.

Hazel picked up the shovel on the ground skillfully, peeled off the oilcloth layer by layer, and walked straight to the secret passage on the right. This arrogant lady from the upper class turned into a civil engineer, digging in the dirty and smelly sewer with shovel after shovel without regret.

A voice suddenly sounded beside the girl's ear:
"Do you need help?"

Hazel was startled by the sudden sound, and turned around suddenly to find a man standing behind her.

And most importantly, she knew this person - she had met him at a dinner party at her house.

The shock in Hazel's eyes faded, replaced by gnashing of teeth in anger:
"Are you following me?"

She was angry that the other party would follow her, and annoyed that she, as a Beyonder, didn't notice it.

But after being angry, Hazel suddenly realized a more serious problem: why couldn't she, a Beyonder, discover the other person?

Hazel was confident that it was impossible for an ordinary person to escape her detection, so there was only one possibility - this person was an extraordinary being who was even more powerful than her!
Hazel took two steps back in doubt.
"Are you an official Beyonder?"

At the dinner, Yu Jin and Bishop Elektra had a good chat. She originally thought it was just because of the other party's noble status. But now it seems that there are obviously deeper factors!
"You can think so."

Yu Jin nodded slightly, looking past the girl towards the passage that had not yet been fully excavated, and asked:
"How did you find this place?"

Hazel looked at the passage behind him hesitantly and did not give an answer immediately.

She was weighing the difference in power between herself and Ember, and also weighing the gains and losses.

Although the other party is an official extraordinary person of the Church of Evernight, his teacher is a legendary demigod!
Yu Jin looked at the girl who seemed a little hesitant and said slowly:

"Your parents are both believers of the Church of Night."

Hazel suddenly raised her head, her eyes somewhat incredulous, as if she couldn't believe that the other party would threaten her with such despicable means!
Yu Jin looked at the girl's clear and foolish eyes and said calmly:
"Don't get me wrong. What I mean is that if your family weren't believers of the Church of Night, I wouldn't have told you so much."

"I……"

The girl pursed her lips slightly, her heart full of confusion, not knowing what to do.

After a long silence, Hazel said hesitantly:

"I, I had a dream. The teacher...she told me how to become a Beyonder in the dream, and asked me to find a way to come here to dig something up. I didn't believe it at first, but I dreamed of the same thing for several days in a row, and the potion formula she told me in the dream did indeed make me a 'thief', so..."

Hazel was hesitant to speak, but Ember could guess the ins and outs of the matter.

Hazel's situation is similar to Audrey's at the beginning. She is also a young lady who yearns for the mysterious world.

The difference is that Audrey became an Extraordinary through the Tarot Club, so she has a strong sense of belonging to the Tarot Club and even a strong sense of ownership. So every time the Tarot Club opens, Justice will be the first to greet everyone, and she is often the one who introduces other members to newcomers.

But Hazel was not so lucky. She was helped in her dream by a demigod with ulterior motives to become an extraordinary person.

But Hazel didn't know all this, so just like Audrey's strong sense of belonging to the Tarot Club, Hazel also had great trust in the demigod. That's why this proud young lady would not hesitate to go into the dirty and smelly sewers, doing jobs that even the poor people in the East District were unwilling to do, and doing civil engineering in the sewers late at night.

Seeing that Yu Jin remained silent for a long time, Hazel couldn't help but ask:

"What are you going to do with me?"

The girl glanced at the space to the right of the ember with her peripheral vision, and grasped the necklace around her neck with a twinkling look in her eyes.

Upon hearing this, Yu Jin moved aside and said:

"You can leave now."

"what?"

Hazel was stunned for a moment and said hesitantly:
"that's it?"

Yu Jin looked at her calmly and said slowly:

"Tomorrow morning, you will go to the Church of the Night with your parents to attend mass. By then, I hope you can take the initiative to confess to Bishop Elektra everything that happened here. For the sake of your parents, Bishop Elektra will not lock you up in the Chanis Gate, but your personal freedom will definitely be restricted to a certain extent. He should accept you as a Night Watchman and tell you what role-playing is."

"This is the best choice for both you and your parents."

Hazel looked surprised and took two steps back cautiously.

What do you mean they won't lock her up in the Chanis Gate? Although she didn't know what the Chanis Gate was, it sounded scary! The Nighthawks should be the official Beyonders of the Church of Night, which she could understand, but what was the role-playing method?
Seeing that Hazel not only did not let down her guard but became even more vigilant, Yu Jin couldn't help but shook his head and said:
"It seems you don't understand at all."

"Anyway, the opportunity is in front of you. It's up to you whether you take it or not."

"I……"

Hazel hesitated for a long time, looked at the passage behind her, and then pursed her lips to look at the road that Yu Jin had cleared. Finally, she lowered her head and silently walked past Yu Jin, and walked quickly out of the passage. When Hazel disappeared from her sight, Yu Jin retracted his gaze and looked at the passage ahead.

The passage was obviously far from complete, and it was impossible to dig out the embers slowly, shovel by shovel.

It is impossible to beat the dust, never in this lifetime.

Besides, why do we need to dig to open a mine? Wouldn't it be more efficient to use explosives?

With this thought in mind, Yu Jin took out the old man's crystal staff from space and pointed the tip of the staff, which was covered by the stone-like staff, at the passage in front of him. Without chanting any spells, the icy blue magic power surged at the end of the staff and finally gathered into a terrifying torrent!
[Soul Torrent]

[When Lothric and the Great Library were founded,

Magic taught by the original sage.

Can shoot out large amounts of soul torrents.

The initial sages were not just those who doubted the fire transmission.
It is also said that she is also the prince's private teacher. 】

boom!
The icy blue energy beam emerged from the tip of the crystal staff, instantly dyeing the passage in front of it blue. In the dark sewer, the icy blue torrent washed over everything in front of it, completely annihilating everything that blocked its path.

When the light faded, there was only a smooth and flat passage in front of him, as if it was made of cement. But before Yu Jin could enter the opened passage, a black shadow suddenly jumped out from the deep darkness and rushed straight towards Yu Jin!
This is none other than the hidden demigod, Flora Jacob from the Jacob family!
Flora originally intended to trick Hazel into digging a passage, and when the other party broke the seal, she would be able to parasitize it instantly and turn it into nutrients to restore her own strength. Unfortunately, all of this was destroyed by the man in front of her, but this was not a bad thing - Flora originally expected that the excavation work would take another month or two to complete, but with the help of this man, it only took a few seconds to completely break the seal!

And the moment the seal was broken, Flora suddenly attacked without hesitation. She wanted to parasitize the extraordinary person of the Church of Darkness!
This is also the reason why she did not act rashly when she found out that Hazel was being followed by the other party - Flora was confident that the other party was unaware of her existence, because although he had been guiding Hazel through dreams, he had never told Hazel what to dig out.

Hazel had always naively thought that she was digging for treasure, but she never imagined that what she was digging for was the seal of her 'teacher'.

And Flora has also confirmed that the extraordinary person in front of him came alone.

The other party was most likely a Hazel who was digging for some treasure, so he did not report it to the Church of Night, but instead followed an innocent girl in the middle of the night, wanting to take the treasure that the other party was digging for himself!
Although Flora was a little surprised that he let Hazel go, it didn't have much of an impact. Because once she successfully parasitized the Nighthawk, she would kill Hazel's family and completely eliminate any trace of her existence!
Of course, the premise of all this is that she can successfully parasitize the embers.

Although Flora's sneak attack was quite successful, she never thought about why Ember dared to come here alone!
When the black shadow rushed towards Yu Jin, Yu Jin, who had just released the soul torrent, seemed unable to react. He stood there staring at the black shadow and watched the other party drill into his body.

However, the moment the black shadow touched Yu Jin's body, she suddenly caught fire.

Literally on fire!

The black shadow that almost blended into the surrounding environment suddenly lit up. At first, there were only scattered sparks, but these sparks quickly covered her body and connected into pieces bit by bit, eventually turning into a raging fire that burned violently!
"what!"

Flora, who was now only a spirit, should have been immune to similar "physical damage" and the flames could not hurt her at all. However, the flames seemed to contain some higher-level power, and even Flora's soul was burning. The intense pain was unbearable for the demigod, and he screamed in pain.

The parasitic process was forced to be interrupted, and the former demigod could only curl up on the ground in pain, struggling desperately.

But no matter how she tried to save herself, she could not reduce the flames that engulfed her body in the slightest.

of course.

She is still lucky.

The last demigod who tried to invade the Embers went a little deeper, so he was burned to ashes.

And if Flora continues like this, she will surely be burned to ashes.

But this was not what Yu Jin expected. His purpose was not to use this demigod as nourishment.

After all, burning a demigod is better than nothing. At least it would be meaningful if it was an angel.

If he really burns this demigod to ashes, he will have to find another demigod of the 'thief' path.

This kind of unnecessary waste of time obviously did not meet his expectations.

So he took the initiative to 'extinguish' the flames covering Flora Jacob, so that her pain of being 'burned' would be slightly relieved.

And almost at the moment when the flame was 'extinguished', the black shadow attacked again!
She did not attempt to continue parasitizing the ember, as this had proven to be unfeasible.

All she wanted now was to escape from Yu Jin as soon as possible!

As long as she leaves this sewer, she can just find a passerby to parasitize. And a parasite that parasitizes on others is definitely not that easy to be discovered!

Yu Jin still stood there motionless, not only was he caught off guard by the shadow's escape, but he also simply didn't care.

And when the black shadow finally escaped from the passage and came to the opened secret door and was about to pass through.

An invisible force suddenly gushed out from her body!

"what!"

Amid the woman's shrill screams, the black shadow fell to the ground again, and the flames once again covered her body, devouring everything of her.

"Why bother?"

Yu Jin shook his head slightly, walked slowly to the side of the shadow, took out a small urn from somewhere, and threw the demigod, who had completely lost the ability to struggle, into it.

Until he could gather the three offerings, this small box would be the demigod's permanent home.
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Hazel pushed open the manhole cover above her head, looked at the deep passage below with some fear, and closed the cover with pursed lips.

She avoided the bodyguards' sight and returned to her room without disturbing anyone, feeling uneasy.

She could not disobey the orders of Yu Jin, an official Beyonder, but she was also afraid of being punished by her teacher, the legendary demigod.

Yu Jin asked her to go to the Church of Night to 'surrender' tomorrow morning, but maybe she will dream about her teacher tonight!

"what should I do?"

Hazel curled up on the bed with her legs hugged, feeling a little confused.

(End of this chapter)