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The whole city was once again in turmoil as the remaining soldiers began to investigate what has happened. Activating their Qi field they enter the area where the dead were found. And as they investigated, they truly found that there is something wrong with it but could not determine what it was.
And after the long hours of investigation where they began to gather the bodies in a single place, the soldiers and the alchemist from the city found nothing.
The plague was too bizarre that it now causes great fear in the hearts of the people staying in the city. Although many are thankful that the atrocities of the soldiers will now end, they didn't want to stay in a place where there is a possibility of death.
Hence many began to gather their belongings and traveled to the villages near the capital city. This way they can have a chance to live.
And so the huge city became empty and its once bustling street is now uninhabited and only the empty stalls and carts can be seen. Even the people outside the city gates are already gone somewhere which made those who wanted to earn some money by selling slaves felt a bit disappointed.
But of course, where would they sell the slaves as even the slave traders at that time died because of the said plague. At this time, no one expected that the suffering of the people in the city would go to such length.
Meanwhile, inside the huge states of the remaining clans that lived inside the city, everything seems to be normal. Although the streets and the markets are empty, the clans already have their own food storage which can last them for a month.
And because the news about the plague is widespread no one dared go out of their estates and locked everything down preventing any of their clan members to go outside.
But of course, not everyone, especially the wild youths, would follow this command from their seniors. Hence when it was already evening, some of the young people in the clan would escape and go to the red light district or meet with their friends and lovers secretly.
The exhilarating feeling of sneaking out made them feel their adventurous spirit being riled up. These young people didn't care about the danger outside; hence they just did what they wanted to do.
When the battle in the city happened, these clans who stayed unscathed inside the city were the clans who supported the rebellion; hence they are confident that the new king would support them.
However, what they didn't expect is that when the soldiers and the alchemist checking the corpses they inevitably touch them and the poison has transferred to their hands, and some of them because of the lack of hygiene accidentally let the poison enter their bodies.
And once again the poison began to spread to others. And tonight is another night where a lot of people would be experiencing the said plague.
While this is happening, Shin Jiao is currently in an inn that is around 2 blocks away from the portal. He can already see that the portal is heavily guarded and the people around it are very cautious. He can even see traces of a burnt body at the side of the walls of the portal building.
"This can be very tricky." Shin Jiao said as he looks at the stationed guards. However, an unexpected turn of an event actually happened.
Using his absolute sense, he actually found some traces of the poison in the air coming from the portal area. Hence when it was already night time Shin Jiao decided to investigate more.
Activating his cloak, he jumped from roof to roof and approached the portal building and saw that all of the people in that building are actually drinking. Though they didn't drink that much and just took a sip of the alcoholic beverage, it still activated the poison in their bodies.
"Haha… The heavens are truly watching." Shin Jiao muttered as he carefully enters his ring and checked his computer. From there he found the information about the portal and its function.
After reading for a while, he now has a rough idea of how to activate the portal. But the bad news is the delay of its activation.
Since it needed a large amount of energy to activate it will take some time before it can be of use, at least an hour.
But of course, once he activates the portal, huge trouble would happen. Hence Shin Jiao could not stealthily do this. After checking the computer, Shin Jiao decided to check the people inside his ring and saw them sitting with their families and some are washing from the stream. He put these people in a wide clearing with a flowing stream of water.
Since the world inside the ring is slowly developing, Shin Jiao has already found the Qi in the air is enough to support the plants. Hence it is able to support life. However, these plants are mutated and didn't rely on sunlight to produce food, but instead, it absorbs the unfiltered Qi in the air and turns them into oxygen, Qi, and mana.
When he was about to shift his gaze and go out, he accidentally saw three women near the river. However, Shin Jiao didn't linger his gaze on them as the three women are bathing.
Those three are cultivators which he is wary of. But of course, he is not afraid that they would roam around this world as he has already told them that they are being confined into the huge island.
When he came back out of the ring, he can already see many of those soldiers standing on guard surrounding the portal on the ground with their mouths foaming.
"Sigh… this is going to be another chaotic night…" he muttered as he jumps down and enters the building.
Shin Jiao checked the portal and tried to think of a way on how to use it without alerting those nascent realm experts. As he was checking, he suddenly noticed something on the ground. And Shin Jiao's eyes lit up.
However, before he can do anything, at the boundary of his absolute sense he suddenly found 3 figures coming from different directions flying towards his location. So without another word, he immediately waves his hand.
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Three nascent realm experts are currently patrolling the city. And the three of them suddenly receive another piece of news of people falling to the ground and dying. The three of them immediately investigated and found the reason.
Since it is still fresh on the corpse's bodies, with a nascent realm's ability they are able to easily detect the traces of the poison in the bodies of those who died. But since they are not poison masters and the poison that Shin Jiao made is new. They were not able to see the real cause.
However, as they investigated, they discover that there are actually some people who also have traces of the poison but didn't suffer death.
And from what they learned and the traces, they deduce that the soldiers were the carrier. Hence a sudden realization occurs in their heads and an idea pops out.
"I think the culprit is just trying to divert our attention… the enemy has another target."
"Are you sure? Then what is the target then?"
"The enemy wanted to use the portal…"
"Haha… no idiot would do that… everyone knows that the portal in this capital city is for long-range teleportation and it would take a long time to activate… before they can use it, they would already be dead…"
"I know that, but my hunch is telling me that my idea was correct."
"Ah,sh*t… You and your damn hunch… Let's hurry then…."
The three nascent realms immediately took action and began flying towards the building where the portal is.
When the three of them appear in the vicinity, Shin Jiao can see 2 middle-aged men and one old man landing outside.
They then walked cautiously inside while spreading their spiritual senses in their surroundings.
"Senior Gao, your hunch seems to be right, the soldiers guarding this place is already dead."
"Damn it! Let's hurry and see the portal!" shouted one of the middle-aged men.
The three immediately ran while still spreading their spiritual sense all over the building. However, they cannot sense the platform where the portal is. This is because it is covered in an array that prevents it from being scanned by spiritual sense, so the three ran as quickly as they could to reach the middle part of the building.
However, when they arrive the three of them showed a dumbfounded look on their faces. They did not expect to see such a thing and didn't expect that something like this is possible. This is because the portal is a very important part of the city.
Although they helped conquer the city and wanted to rule it along with the new king, the empire would still visit their kingdom and the portal is the fastest way. If their kingdom shuts this portal down for a long time, the empire would be suspicious of this and might send out an expert to deal with them.
This is what they didn't want to happen, so in the war, they tried so hard to protect his part of the city.
But now, who would have thought that such a thing would happen?
Right in front of them where the portal should have been, is just an empty space. The whole platform was actually missing.
"Damn it! Damn it! This is bad… How could this happen? How could the portal disappear?" shouted one of the middle-aged men.
The old man they called Senior Gao just shook his head and tried to scan the area. But to his dismay he found nothing.
"Let's go back and tell this to the king… We will then decide what to do next." the old man called Senior Gao said as he flew out of the building followed by the two nascent realm experts.
Meanwhile, Shin Jiao on the other hand is actually standing in the middle of that empty hole while his camouflage is activated. He already knew that the portal has the spiritual sense block array.
"Haha… I will just take this then and find a place to activate the portal…" he smirks as his figure suddenly disappeared from where he stands.
But as soon as he walks out of the building…
Kaboom!!!