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Ragnar roared, and a large amount of bright red blood gushed from the pores of his body. A magic circle engraved with runes opened beneath him.

"Queen of Eternal Night, I pray to you, please grant me..."

"Snapped"

Li Cheng struck Ragna on the head with his sword, interrupting the spellcasting. The blood that the latter summoned from his body immediately exploded like a water balloon, splashing all over the ground. The magic circle on the ground also made a crisp sound and disappeared.

"Is this person sick? They're practically swearing on his face and still chanting."

Li Cheng curled his lip, raised his sword, and Ragnar was now truly motionless, like a dead toad.

"Hmm... People with little practical experience who suddenly gain great power are prone to this kind of abstract behavior."

Zhang Fan walked over, the flowing light at both ends of the staff in his hand had dissipated, and it had turned back into an ordinary long staff.

In the continuous drizzle, a crow flapped its wings and landed on Li Cheng's shoulder. After looking at Ragnar on the ground, it cawed twice.

"This guy's disappearance might alert the other side, so we need to interrogate him as soon as possible."

Li Cheng looked at Zhang Fan and said.

“You have a point, but it’s not easy for us to conduct the trial from here on the roof.”

Zhang Fan stroked his chin. "Take him back to the Ford boss?"

"It's up to you to decide. We can bring it to Mr. Ford in a bit... but we might need to borrow it for half an hour to an hour first, and then we'll hand it over to you, how about that?"

"Ford's boss shouldn't mind this short time, and if you can extract the information, a longer time wouldn't be a problem. But can you really get this guy to talk in such a short time?"

Zhang Fan asked curiously.

"Don't worry, we have a unique way."

Li Cheng smiled.

Then, Zhang Fan saw the raven on the other's shoulder suddenly jump down and land on Ragnar. Immediately afterward, an invisible ripple appeared in the air, and a dark hole opened from the ground. Ragnar's body mysteriously fell into it and disappeared.

Chapter 150 Information Technology Tactics

"Holy crap, what kind of cutting-edge technology is this?"

Zhang Fan looked at the now empty ground and stomped on it. "So your guild can now use things like spatial teleportation at will?"

"secret."

Li Cheng shrugged. "Let's go, let's meet up with Mr. Ford first."

Back at “Sweetheart House,” Ford listened to Li Cheng’s story about borrowing Ragnar in the fat woman’s office and nodded. “Sure, I’m not really good at interrogating people, and considering the time and the mole, we can’t just slowly take that guy back to the police station or the gang for interrogation.”

"I was worried about how to do this step, but now it's much easier."

However, Ford thought that there might be experts in the Seven Stars Society who were in charge of this area. He probably never expected that it would be that "kind and amiable saintess" who would personally interrogate him.

But there was nothing she could do; Ella wasn't some kind of devil who enjoyed doing such cruel things, but what could she do when she was the most efficient?

Less than ten minutes later, in the dungeon of the Loren Sanctuary, Ella hummed a little tune, smiling as she looked at Ragnar lying in the corner with empty eyes, and sent a message to Li Cheng.

[Late-night snack: They were scattered in more than one hideout. This guy and his group of accomplices were hiding in the "New Orange" winery at No. 22 Nanpu Street, Dong District of Chongqing.]

[The Saintess's Dog 2: Received, long live the young lady!]

[Late-night snack: Are you kidding me? You call this addictive?!]

[The Saintess's Dog 2: That hurts me deeply. This was all my respect for the young lady!]

In between sending messages, Li Cheng also told Ford and Zhang Fan the address that Ella had given him.

"Without further ado."

Ford said softly, "However, this time it's the enemy's stronghold, so there might be more enemies. And I'm actually not very good at combat, so we'll have to rely on you guys to find more people to deal with this."

"Leave this to us."

Li Cheng smiled and said, "We can split into two teams. Mr. Ford, you can wait for our first team to take over the stronghold, and then the second team will escort you in to search for clues."

"The Blackwater Gang can also send a few trustworthy brothers to join us,"

Zhang Fan mentioned, "We finally found an opportunity, but the opponents are vampires with special abilities and heretics who are not weak either. It would be best to have enough manpower so that we can wipe them all out in one fell swoop."

"Reasonable."

Ford gave a thumbs up.

"How is the lady in the room upstairs?"

Li Cheng suddenly asked.

Ford glanced at Li Cheng with slight surprise. This guy, a gang member, actually remembered to care about this. "Don't worry, although she lost a lot of blood, it's not fatal. I treated her wounds temporarily and she's been taken to a nearby clinic."

"I reckon that guy was previously forbidden by the Secret Order from contacting anyone he knew, but he just couldn't suppress his rising desires today, and we happened to run into him."

"Luck... has finally turned in our favor this time."

……

The Seven Stars Guild and the Blackwater Gang, as player guilds, not only gathered their members quickly but also discreetly. Through communication within the community system, a group of people quickly assembled from all directions on Nanpu Street in the East District amidst the rain.

The "New Orange" winery stood on an open space, its rugged outline illuminated by the sparse streetlights, resembling a steel behemoth lurking in the night.

After Li Cheng and Zhang Fan directed about forty players from both sides to set traps at various exits of the winery, they each led a small team and, under the cover of night, sneaked into the pitch-black, huge factory.

Ella, considering that those guys seemed to know that her crows were familiars, only summoned a few to sneak into the windows around the distillery from a distance, providing a view from above while remotely directing Li Cheng and the others' actions.

The unobstructed view from the sky quickly revealed the hermit followers hiding in various nooks and crannies, keeping watch.

Forty-odd players are still too few to surround a winery. If Li Cheng and his group's infiltration operation inadvertently alerts these guys, it could very well give them an opportunity to escape, allowing some of their key figures to do so.

But now, with Ella's map-wide cheat as an aid, every outpost can be bypassed by infiltrating player squads from blind spots, and then silently taken down by a grappling hook or a figure emerging from the darkness behind them.

If it's really hard to avoid seeing the target, a rat will dart out from the shadows, pounce on them, open a portal, and instantly send them away.

Of course, since there might be players among Samuel's followers, these sentries would naturally not leave any survivors to prevent the other side from sending messages to warn each other.

This integrated ground and air tactical infiltration meant that before the Secret Order members on the ground could even figure out what was happening, they were all mysteriously disappearing one by one.

Using the information obtained from interrogating Ragnar, Li Cheng and Zhang Fan cleared out all the sentries on the ground. After gathering in a warehouse and searching around, they found a loose brick on the wall.

Pressing the bricks, the cellar floor slowly opens up, revealing a stone staircase leading down.

No wonder we couldn't find their hiding place before. It's indeed difficult to find them if they're hidden underground using such mechanisms or magic arrays. The Samuel Hermitage has been operating in Fog City for quite some time now, so setting up five or six such strongholds is more than enough for them.

At most, Ella can consciously control a few hundred familiars at a time, and the limit is that she can simultaneously see four or five familiars through her sensory connection.

Even if you keep switching your field of vision, it's like the human eye looking at hundreds of surveillance cameras in turn; it's almost impossible to notice all the details.

However, such hidden mechanisms are probably only discoverable by rats scurrying around and searching through the buildings bit by bit. Trying to search through such a large city by manipulating a mere few hundred rats is like finding a needle in a haystack.

Therefore, Ford's intelligence-gathering ability was truly invaluable to Ella.

Li Cheng and Zhang Fan led their team members down the stairs step by step, and as they went deeper, they discovered that the underground was intricate and complex, like a maze.

However, Ayla's horde of rat familiars also entered the maze. The low and narrow view here was not suitable for crows to overlook the whole situation, but it was easy for the nimble rats to explore around.

Soon, following the tracks of the rats, Ella, sitting in her bedroom, slowly drew a map of the underground base on parchment, and then used the community system's chat interface to direct the two squads to move underground.

The Samuel Order members in the outpost probably never imagined that two enemy squads, who suddenly appeared in the dead of night, would be more familiar with the outpost's underground structure than they were.

It wasn't until Li Cheng kicked open the Samuel Hermitage altar located at the deepest part of the temple that the several hermitage elders who were resting there opened their eyes from their slumber, looking at the newcomer with blank expressions.

"By Mother Goddess, where did these people come from?!"

Chapter 151 Devastating Victory

Li Cheng and his group's sudden arrival caught the high-ranking members of the Samuel's Secret Order out of their element completely off guard.

However, the elders of the Hermitage were only slightly surprised by these players who were generally only at the proficiency to expert level before they came to their senses.

Given their strength, this group, though arriving suddenly, was not something they should be afraid of.

Rather, daring to venture deep into this area is practically tantamount to suicide.

In an instant, ominous incantations echoed through the empty altar hall, magic surging. Their emaciated figures, like gas sacs filled with magic, ripped apart under the expanding force. Twisted, dark arms, like branches of a demon tree, burst forth from every inch of their bodies, each one shrouded in the blood and evil intent originating from the sacred remains, sending chills down one's spine.

Those arms, like blooming vines, swiftly reached out to the weaker believers around them. Once they grabbed the believers' bodies, they were pulled back into their gaping maws to devour and chew them up, causing the bodies to grow even larger.

The lower-ranking believers did not shy away; instead, they drew near to the three elders like moths to a flame, becoming the source of their rapidly increasing power.

Witnessing this scene, Zhang Fan broke out in a cold sweat. Although he had a premonition that the enemy inside the stronghold was no ordinary foe, he had not expected that the high-ranking enemy he was facing directly would be so troublesome. Just sensing the invisible magical energy fluctuations emanating from the enemy was enough to make his heart pound.

"Mr. Li, when we were discussing the possibility of high-level enemies inside the stronghold, you told us that we didn't need to worry about that?"

"That's right, don't worry, we're not going to fight these guys."

Li Cheng looked relaxed and simply ordered his team members to retreat to the door.

"Huh? If we don't fight, who will?"

"Run?!? You really think this is a place you can just come and go as you please?!"

The heretical elder's face twisted and became ferocious as he laughed wildly; however, this arrogant laughter was soon interrupted by the sound of soft footsteps.

In the darkness, a short figure draped in a black robe and wearing a fox mask slowly emerged, followed by hundreds of rats that surged from the shadows, prostrating themselves in worship around the silent, diminutive figure as if performing some kind of eerie ritual.

The elders looked on in surprise. When did another person appear in this altar hall? Is this place really like a sieve, where people can come and go as they please?

Equally shocked was Zhang Fan, who was standing shoulder to shoulder with Li Cheng at that moment.

"Holy crap, the fox-headed dwarf!?... Ah, cough, I mean, isn't this the famous... By the way, he's with you guys too??"

"Otherwise, why do you think we dared to just barge into their lair like this? Come on, give your big brother some space, we'll just go up and clean up the battlefield in a bit."

Li Cheng smiled and patted Zhang Fan on the shoulder.

"Can he manage alone?"

Zhang Fan was still a little worried.

Even the strongest player has their limits, right? Even the top player, facing so many powerful Hermitage followers alone, is still a bit overconfident...

The elders of the Secret Order shared this view.

The three elders transformed into three enormous, mountain-like limbed monsters covered in different arms. Their dark forms obscured the light reflected from the braziers around the altar, pressing down on the small figure standing in the center of the arena like dark clouds that blot out the sun.

But soon, Zhang Fan's worries were dispelled.

He saw the figure bow slightly, and a condensed white aura rose from beneath the figure, billowing the black robe, then flowing down the arm and gathering at the hilt of the knife he was lightly pressing.

The next moment, the long sword was drawn.

The eerie, jet-black blade flashed a clear, cold light, instantly cleaving the entire field of vision in two.

A crescent-shaped blade swept across the entire area, and in that instant, the flesh-and-blood arms of the three tall, bloated arthropods were all severed, the clean cuts flying everywhere like trash blown by a gale.

Then, the gushing blood fell like raindrops.

Zhang Fan and the other Blackwater Gang members, who had never seen anything like this before, were stunned until Li Cheng patted him on the shoulder again, which brought him back to his senses.

"Let's go, let's clean up the battlefield now."

Zhang Fan looked ahead again, and at that moment, the figure wearing the fox mask disappeared like a ghost.

Wait, what's this? Is this some kind of ultimate skill summoned creature?

Zhang Fan was completely bewildered, while the three elders of the Hidden Cult were already in agony, their limbs severed, spitting out blood and howling as they contracted back into their original human forms.

Fortunately, the power granted to them by the holy remains prevented them from dying, though the sight of their bodies riddled with holes and missing arms was truly horrifying.

"Same as always, let us borrow it first, and then we'll give it to you."

Li Cheng smiled.

"Let's ask Mr. Ford later, and maybe give them directly to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police... We don't really want these guys..."

Zhang Fan felt uncomfortable seeing the hermit elder's grotesque appearance. The Blackwater Gang had only taken on this commission to help Ford; they had no interest in these heretical believers, whether they were alive or dead.

"no problem."

Li Cheng gave an OK sign, then hummed a little tune and, along with the Seven Stars Guild players who were used to it, went forward to clean up the mess, their heads covered in foul-smelling blood.

……

The discovery and destruction of the first hidden stronghold led to significant progress in the intelligence gathered by Ella.

Through Ella's interrogation of its leaders and Ford's skillful analysis, the secret hideouts of the Samuel Order in the Fog City were uncovered one by one, like cockroach nests hidden in the ground.