Chapter 390
Xia Er looked down at Ji Di beneath her foot with a face full of disgust. She didn’t want to waste any more time and said directly, “Bring a few capable fighters and come with me to the Redemption Society.”
With that, Xia Er withdrew her foot, and Ji Di slowly raised her head to look at her.
At that moment, Ji Di’s face was flushed, as if she had just experienced something intensely stimulating. Even the fear of looking directly at Xia Er was fueling her excitement.
Fortunately, she still had some rationality left. Ji Di quickly reacted, lowered her head, and hurriedly said, “M-Master... Bishop... the Redemption Society? There are people there who know me...”
“Oh, are they connected to the Pleasure Society?” Xia Er replied coldly.
Hearing Xia Er’s tone and the mention of the Pleasure Society, Ji Di’s earlier thrill evaporated instantly, like a bucket of ice water poured over her in the dead of winter, cold sweat trickling down her back.
“P-Pleasure Society? I... I don’t know... I...”
At this point, Ji Di was already drenched in sweat.
She had never imagined that her plans were so thoroughly known to the Bishop before her, who even seemed to possess secret information that she herself was unaware of.
If her contact with Xie Lun was indeed orchestrated by the Pleasure Society, then even if things went well, Ji Di would undoubtedly be implicated.
The people from the Pleasure Society never truly win; it’s just a matter of who loses more.
“Stop stalling,” Xia Er said flatly. “Bring your people, prepare the carriage, and head to the Redemption Society.”
“Okay... okay! I’ll be right there!” Ji Di, now too frightened to think of anything else, scrambled toward the door, flung it open, and dashed out, leaving Xia Er alone in the office.
Xia Er walked slowly to her desk, leaning against it as she reflected on her earlier encounter with Ai Wei Na.
If she could enlist Ai Wei Na’s help, Ni Ya would definitely take action. With Xia Er’s support and a complete advantage, capturing Fred would be a sure thing, with no room for error.
Unfortunately, at this time in the past, Ai Wei Na didn’t even know who she was. Xia Er had no idea how to convince Ai Wei Na quickly enough to assist her... Ai Wei Na was still quite wary.
Moreover, with the possibility of Xie Lun using poison, Ai Wei Na or Ni Ya could also fall victim to a gas attack, a scenario Xia Er wanted to avoid at all costs.
After weighing her options, Xia Er decided against seeking Ai Wei Na’s help.
For the matter of checking for poison, she would rely on Ji Di.
About seven or eight minutes later, a white figure flickered at the office door, and Ji Di appeared, knocking on the half-open door.
“Come in,” Xia Er said.
Panting, Ji Di pushed the door open and bowed her head toward Xia Er. “Bishop, the extraordinary individuals at the Dedun Manor have gathered.”
“Good,” Xia Er nodded slightly, then thought for a moment and said, “Is there a list of potions in the underground storage? Show it to me.”
“Yes, Bishop.” Although Ji Di didn’t know what Xia Er was planning, she quickly walked to the desk, bent down, and pulled out today’s material list and item details from the drawer.
“Please take a look, Bishop.” Ji Di held the form with both hands and extended it toward Xia Er.
Xia Er picked up the form and quickly scanned it.
“Adventurer”... “Blood Painter”... “Ascetic”... “Listener”...
Aside from the already archived “Butcher,” “Assassin,” “Detective,” and “Coroner,” these were the only paths left at Dedun Manor that Xia Er hadn’t saved.
Xia Er needed to drink a potion to slightly enhance her strength for the upcoming action, while also leaving another archive.
The “Listener” and “Ascetic” were not suitable for combat, and Xia Er wasn’t sure if she had completed the ritual for the “Blood Painter”...
At present, the only one that suited her was the “Adventurer.”
“Get me the best ‘Adventurer’ potion,” Xia Er said, setting the form aside.
“Understood.” Ji Di didn’t hesitate; her figure flickered and then vanished, leaving only a white shadow behind, which quickly dissipated.
In less than thirty seconds, Ji Di’s shadow reappeared at the door. She respectfully knocked and, upon receiving Xia Er’s permission, entered with both hands holding a tray.
On it was a bottle of red potion...
Crimson storm clouds swirled within the bottle, and one could even see the white-hot lightning flickering through the clouds.
Xia Er had seen both the “Adventurer” and “Gambler” potions before and knew their effects were quite similar, but compared to the calm, rolling black-blue clouds of the “Gambler,” the “Adventurer” looked much more volatile.
Xia Er reached for the potion, uncorked it right in front of Ji Di, and drank it down in one go.
The crimson storm clouds surged down her throat, and she could feel the light and electricity within her skin.
As the storm clouds reached her chest, they burst through her insides, rushing straight to her heart. The red lightning quickly spread through her bloodstream to her limbs, then vanished—
All of this happened in an instant.
At that moment, Ji Di caught a glimpse of Xia Er’s actions from the corner of her eye, her heart racing with shock.
To her, the Bishop was at least a third-tier extraordinary being; the fear that came from looking into her eyes was unmistakable.
Yet this third-tier extraordinary being had just downed a first-tier “Adventurer” potion...
Thud—
The glass bottle fell to the heavy floor, and Ji Di, with her head bowed, heard a calm voice from above.
“Let’s go.”
“Y-Yes!”
Ji Di didn’t dare to question this mysterious Bishop any further, burying all her doubts deep within her heart.
...
As night fell, the pulse of Boleun City seemed to slow in the silence.
At the Redemption Hospital, several carriages were parked at the entrance.
One of the carriage doors swung open, and Xia Er stepped out, gazing at the hospital before her.
Dim light filtered through the hospital corridor, the weak flames of oil lamps casting distorted shadows on the walls. Even as she approached the hospital, she could smell the faint, unfamiliar scent of medicine in the air.
The hospital was as busy as ever at night. In this era, hospitals were the other side of factories; workers who toiled by machines during the day might end up injured and sent to this place due to some accident.
Those injured workers came from coal mines or steel mills, which is why this hospital was built on the edge of Bell Tower Alley, making it convenient to receive patients.
However, the hospital, which once embodied the ideal of “redemption,” was now managed by someone whose mind had been corrupted by the desire for promotion, long lost to its original pure ideals.
Xia Er waved her hand gently, and Ji Di, along with several extraordinary individuals, surged into the hospital. Xia Er, however, stood at the entrance, looking up at the solemn and stable-looking building.
Deep inside the hospital lay a heavily guarded laboratory—of course, this “heavily guarded” was only against ordinary people; for extraordinary beings, it was not an impenetrable fortress.
Rationality told Xia Er that Ji Di had made a deal with Xie Lun, and if they ambushed, Ji Di had a high chance of winning.
She just needed to stand there and wait; there was no need for her to take risks...
But with the “Adventurer” potion coursing through her veins, not taking risks?
That was impossible.
Xia Er took two steps back, then with a simple run-up, jumped and grabbed the windowsill of the second floor, climbing up the exterior of the building with agility akin to that of an assassin.
She quickly reached the rooftop of the hospital, running swiftly across it.
Her speed increased, and her excitement soared, completely disregarding the possibility of a misstep. She leaped from one hospital building to the rooftop of another, shattering the clay tiles above.
The broken tiles caused her balance to waver, and she nearly lost her footing at the edge of the roof.
But she quickly seized the opportunity to leap down, grabbing the edge of the rooftop with one hand as she fell, using her strength to hang in mid-air, swaying slightly.
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