Su Lun, Mr. Mirror, and Pestoya chatted idly, one sentence after another.

The atmosphere in the hot spring pool was light and pleasant. They were like family, chatting about serious matters and trivial things, occasionally joking and laughing, creating a harmonious scene.

Actually, after getting along for a long time, Su Lun knew that his senior sister looked cold and aloof, but she was actually very easy to get along with. She was kind, decisive, intelligent, and understanding. Almost every word used to describe good qualities could be applied to her.

It was just that Mr. Mirror preferred quiet, and the blood race lineage carried an inherent aura of coldness. Furthermore, she was indeed the biological daughter of Sir Isaac from a thousand years ago, making her seniority too high for anyone to chat with her about anything other than serious matters.

Except for Su Lun, her junior brother.

This made them seem particularly close.

Although Mr. Mirror didn't like to talk, she listened with great interest when Su Lun spoke, and occasionally a gentle smile like a spring breeze would appear in her beautiful eyes.

Unknowingly, the wound on her lower ribs was treated, and Mr. Mirror lay back on the edge of the pool, revealing a large expanse of smooth, jade-like back.

The scars left by the holy light burn looked like scalds, spreading from the lower ribs to the lower back, the scarlet contrasting starkly against her snow-white skin.

Fortunately, it was resolved in time, or it would have continued to erode and spread.

The pain was unbearable for ordinary people.

Su Lun focused all his attention on treating the wound on Mr. Mirror's lower back, pulling out the cold air from between her bones and flesh bit by bit. Then, he used dark alchemical formulas to neutralize and digest the divine laws.

It was a tedious and lengthy process.

After a while.

Su Lun exhaled a long breath, and the healing green light in his hand dimmed.

He now possessed almost absolute and meticulous thinking ability, and the process of resolving the injury had to be as smooth as expected.

However, it was not completely finished.

Su Lun's current eighth-order strength was used to treat the injuries eroded by those holy laws exceeding the ninth-order, which consumed a great deal of mental energy. He could only remove about one-tenth at a time.

He estimated that it would take more than a week to completely clean it up.

"Okay!"

At this time, Su Lun breathed a sigh of relief, said a word, and habitually patted.

With a "smack," it was particularly clear in this wilderness.

However, as soon as this palm landed, he immediately realized what he had done and was stunned: Did his slap just land on that round, upturned buttock?

Because he usually treated Qian Tiao's injuries, he had a habit of making small, flirtatious movements, which was purely unintentional.

However, this time it was his senior sister.

Although there was a wet gauze garment in between, this action was somewhat frivolous.

Mr. Mirror was slightly surprised by this slap on her butt.

But fortunately, she was facing away, and the strange color flashed and disappeared. She stood up as usual and said lightly, "Let's go."

Originally, such a small misunderstanding was harmless, but there happened to be a third person here.

Pestoya blinked her big eyes curiously.

How could she let go of this opportunity to tease Su Lun? She put her hands on her hips and let out a witch-like strange laugh, shouting, "Sister, I saw Su Lun deliberately touching your butt just now."

Saying that, the ghost lady imitated the exaggerated tone of those theater performances, and said: "Oh~ I just saw a lady's butt being violated by a man's hand. Will the beautiful lady beat the rash man?"

… As soon as these words came out, something that Su Lun and the two of them didn't care about at first suddenly became subtle.

Mr. Mirror was also a little helpless about her quirky sister.

Responding was not good, and not responding was not good either.

It was just an unintentional act, so what was there to mind or not mind?

Su Lun felt guilty, but Mr. Mirror didn't say anything, so he didn't take it to heart. Instead, he glared at Pestoya angrily, pinched her face, and stretched it out a long way.

With this pinch, Pestoya was indeed fooled, and climbed onto his neck with a grimace.

"Ah... Damn Su Lun, you pinched my face again, I'll strangle you!"

......

Old Lingdun used to be the secret mine of Grand Duke Raphael. Later, after the ambitious Grand Duke复辟dengji and died suddenly, the Lance family took over here. Later, when Yekaterina became the emperor of the empire, this place became a part of the empire.

The residents of Old Lingdun used to be slaves found by the Raphael family to fill it up. Now that the United Empire has abolished slavery and the lord system, this place has also become a special administrative region of the United Empire.

Old Lingdun was originally a mine, burying a lot of minerals and ancient ruins. Also, because it is a plane channel that existed countless years ago, there are also a large number of specialties and ancient ruins from the Abyss plane.

The most attractive thing is the legacy city of dawn left by the alchemist demigod Sir Isaac.

Therefore, after Old Lingdun was opened to the outside world, it also attracted countless adventurers to venture there.

However, because of the plane war, the United Empire almost controlled all ocean-going ships. The cruise ship from Luying to Old Lingdun, which used to run every few days, suddenly stopped running, and only a small number of warships could travel back and forth. Old Lingdun almost became an isolated city isolated from the world again like in the past.

Fortunately, Su Lun's current space ability can go anywhere, and he didn't plan to waste time looking for any sea ships. He teleported all the way, and soon came to Black Reef.

In the past, Grand Duke Raphael disguised the island above the sea on this black tower as an inconspicuous fortress for the sake of secrecy. But now it has changed a lot.

On the sea, Su Lun and Mr. Mirror looked at the war fortress in the distance, which had as many cannons as a hedgehog, with a slightly different expression.

They once rushed out of the Black Tower and had a big battle with those pirates of the Third Fleet of the North Sea Fleet here. At that time, Su Lun was only a small second-tier professional, and he was in various dangers when fighting a group of pirates. But I didn't expect that when he came back again, he was already eighth-tier.

Revisiting the old place, some memories emerged unconsciously.

Su Lun remembered that he plucked up the courage to go back to save Mr. Mirror at that time. Later, the two encountered a storm at sea and drifted for many days before they met Jike and his father who went to Blizzard City to sell furs.

Obviously, Mr. Mirror also remembered that there seemed to be light and shadow flashing in her eyes, and she sighed slightly: "It's been a few years since I came back, and this place has changed a lot."

Su Lun raised his eyebrows and said, "Yes. I don't know how Old Lingdun is now."

He didn't intend to alarm anyone. He pinched a warlock seal, and a space crack appeared in front of him.

The two stepped in.

Looking again, the surroundings were already a prosperous scene with tall buildings standing tall.

This is the inner city of Old Lingdun.

The tall black tower stood in the center of the city, and the alchemical light source illuminated the underground city brightly. The high walls separated the inner city from the outer city. The cake layout of districts 1-8, the ultra-high building complex with a futuristic style of blue glass, and the hundreds of meters high smoke meat emitting billowing white smoke

.... Everything was so familiar.

Although the North Sea Fleet robbed a lot of wealth from Old Lingdun that time, it did not hurt the foundation. This underground city had already recovered its former prosperity.

Pedestrians came and went on the street, and the noisy hawking was extremely lively.

Due to the isolated development, the inner city of Old Lingdun has an alternative prosperity that is not inferior to any city.

Most of the old acquaintances rushed out together, and there was nothing to miss.

Su Lun and Mr. Mirror didn't stay in the inner city for long, and teleported again, already appearing outside the wall of the inner city.

Unlike before, the changes in the outer city were very big.

The dilapidated scene in the past has disappeared, and a large number of high-rise buildings have also been built.

After the abolition of slavery and the lord system, everyone in Old Lingdun became citizens of the empire. Without the exploitation of high taxes, and no longer the endless exploitation of slaves, the financial resources that people obtained from adventures were enough for them to live a prosperous life.

Old Lingdun is the birthplace of neuro-mechanical technology, and the various mechanical transformation industries here are also very developed.

Everywhere on the street, you can see adventurers with modified mechanical prostheses. Listen

Even many of them are foreigners from Mafa.

Also because Mafa's top technology has been passed down, the mechanical prostheses in Old Lingdun have taken on a new look, and the research and development of various mechanical technologies has made a qualitative leap. Various mechanical modification shops can be seen everywhere on the street.

Su Lun was going to No. 88 Ginkgo Street, that small building was in the south city.

Seeing that Old Lingdun had changed so much, they were not in a hurry, and they happened to revisit the old place, walking and watching.

The two walked on the street, and various modified motorcycles could be seen whistling past on the street, and the various shops on both sides of the street were also very lively.

The outer city was completely different from the war-torn slum in the past, and it was already like a normal city.

However, as they walked, they also heard some other news.

"I originally thought that we poor people could live a good life, but I didn't expect that the newly appointed governor only came for a few months, and he restored the old lord system again."

"Yes. The taxes are so high, and the treasures obtained from wasteland hunting have to be sold to the city lord's mansion first. In this way, foreign adventurers and merchants may become less and less..."

"Who else will come? Haven't you seen that cruise ships are now under control? Also, the alchemist academy that the empire said our commoner children could also go to has now been abolished? Looking at the situation, that governor still wants to monopolize alchemist knowledge like before, and lock us up for generations to be slaves."

"Didn't it say that the empire no longer has nobles, and slavery has been abolished? Haven't we all been pardoned from slavery? The decree says that we are free and can go anywhere..."

"Hehe, you also believe the words of those noble masters? They say it's to prepare supplies for the war, but anyone with eyes knows that those guys are just making money for themselves, just like the former Grand Duke Raphael."

"Shh... Keep your voice down. Don't you know the identity of the trusted governor? If you dare to say these things in private, be careful to get into trouble."

"What identity?"

"Don't you know that the governor is the youngest son of Master Merlin? Master Merlin is the strongest professional in the empire. I heard that it was because of his outstanding military exploits that His Majesty the Emperor gave Old Lingdun to their family as a fief..."

…....

Su Lun and Mr. Mirror walked on the street, not deliberately inquiring, but they roughly knew the current situation of Old Lingdun from some adventurers' words and phrases.

It seemed that Master Merlin, relying on his status as the first enshrinement of the palace, asked the council for the position of governor of Old Lingdun.

Then, as soon as the new lord named Alvin Gregory came, he restored the original trend of the lord's centralization of power.

But after all, most of the current Old Lingdun adventurers are foreigners. They have seen the free system outside, so how can they bear this kind of oppression? Naturally, there are complaints.

But this resentment will slowly disappear after being isolated from the world.

Su Lun was slightly surprised when he heard this: "Does the United Empire now have a new ninth-tier?"

Mr. Mirror nodded: "Yes. I have been in Mafa all this time, and I have only heard that there is a new ninth-tier, but I have never seen it. According to the intelligence from the Mirror Organization in Lingdun, this Merlin enshrinement used to be Prince Karnap's royal guard. He was a good old eighth-tier. He was newly promoted to the ninth-tier half a year ago and is now the first enshrinement of the palace."

Speaking, she said again: "The professionals who can advance to the ninth-tier will not be bad in strength and talent. But he seems to be an old school who supports the aristocratic system. The intelligence from Lingdun said that this Merlin Gregory does not deal well with the new policy, and he has the intention of holding power. But because of his strength, no one can say anything. Now it seems that it is true."

...

Su Lun also showed a smile that was not a smile when he heard this.

It is a good thing to have another ninth-tier, but a ninth-tier who is not united is a big problem.

This guy arranged for his son to be the governor of Old Lingdun, obviously with selfishness.

This place is far away from the Luying mainland, so it is difficult to be affected even if there is a war.

That Master Merlin should be looking for a way out for his descendants.

But he just knows it, and there is nothing he can do about it.

Su Lun could already imagine that a smart person like Yekaterina was probably having a headache.

A ninth-tier is not really helpless, but it is impossible to fight internally at this juncture.

The first enshrinement of the empire represents the highest combat power of the empire. No matter what happens to that Master Merlin, the negative impact will be infinitely large.

At this time, Mr. Mirror said again: "Moreover... there is intelligence pointing out that some of the old school who support Merlin Gregory have close contact with the Heavenly Eye Cult. But there is no definite evidence, and it is not easy to draw conclusions now."

"Oh?"

Su Lun's eyes flashed with a stern look when he heard this.

Using his position to seek benefits for himself is at most selfish.

It's also human nature.

But if it is involved with those people from the Heavenly Eye Cult, this is... treason.

Su Lun turned his eyes and guessed: "Senior sister, could it be that your attack and the ambush of the Joint Fleet were caused by these guys behind the scenes?"

Mr. Mirror was not in a hurry to draw a conclusion, and said lightly: "It's hard to say."

But after taking a few steps, she said again: "It just so happens that the matters here are dealt with, and I am going to Lingdun. When the time comes, we will know what the situation is when we take a look."

"Yes."

Su Lun heard the deep meaning under this calm tone.

If the rear is not handled well, if things like the previous ambush of Mr. Mirror or the ambush of the Joint Fleet happen a few more times, the plane war will not need to be fought, and it will collapse internally first.

... However, the two of them stopped talking after a few more words.

A ninth-tier is indeed already a ceiling-level powerhouse in the eyes of others.

But in the eyes of the two of them now, it is not a problem that cannot be solved.

The current Dawn group is much stronger than a newly promoted ninth-tier.

If that Master Merlin really has ulterior motives, even if he is a ninth-tier, they will not keep this hidden danger.

......

Su Lun and the two teleported as they walked, and soon arrived at the location of Ginkgo Street in their memory.

With alchemy and various mechanical prostheses, the city construction speed of Old Lingdun is naturally unquestionable.

Su Lun came to this street where he once lived and felt that he could not recognize it at all. There were dense high-rise buildings everywhere, and the streets were much more lively than before.

Fortunately, the street name has not changed. The two walked along the street, and Su Lun saw the small western-style building at No. 88 still there at a glance.

This is, after all, a haunted house.

The reason why Su Lun was not in a hurry to come was that he knew that no one could deal with this cursed space.

Except for someone like him who used tricks and knew the method to get out after reciting the name of the resentful owner of the cursed space. For others, this is definitely a T-level space.

After all, the "Living Corpse Research Log" in the safe on the second floor had been taken out by him, and later people would not know the name of this resentful owner no matter how they searched.

If you want to go to the morgue on the third floor underground, Su Lun estimates that even seven or eight professionals may not be able to come back alive.

This dilapidated small western-style building looked out of place among a pile of new buildings.

Su Lun and the two stopped in front of the small western-style building for a while. At this time, a little boy wearing a peaked cap and a cigarette case around his neck immediately greeted him and asked enthusiastically: "Sir, would you like to buy cigarettes?"

Speaking, he saw Mr. Mirror, and couldn't help but admire: "Oh, you are the most beautiful lady I have ever seen."

Mr. Mirror smiled slightly when he heard this.

Even though the wide-brimmed hat concealed that beautiful face, her ethereal temperament still made the child's eyes light up.

Su Lun didn't smoke, but after hearing this compliment, he glanced at the price tag, took out a 100-liso banknote, and bought a pack of cigarettes.

The peaked cap child happily accepted the money, but seeing that the two were interested in this house, he reminded: "Are you two adventurers from outside? Excuse me for being talkative, this is a haunted house. If you want to rent a house, I suggest that Norton Street in front is more suitable. There is also the best soup room in Old Lingdun. You must try it when you come to Old Lingdun."

Su Lun smiled and said, "Yes. We're just looking around."

The boy didn't say much, and smiled politely and left: "I wish you both all the best."

Su Lun didn't catch the familiar cross badge on the little boy's chest. Looking at his leaving back, he smiled brightly: "So, the Cross Society is still there."

Norton Street is the core territory of the Cross Society, and Qian Tiao used to be the big sister of that street. This child is introducing business to his gang's territory.

Mr. Mirror also had a faint smile on his face when he heard this, "Yes."