Chapter 38 38. Lord of the Curtain
The old man Li Jinjin nodded slowly, "Just come back."
"How is the investigation going?"
The middle-aged man next to Li Jian passed a list of names to the old man and said solemnly: "The investigation results have come out. The four people on the mysterious man's list are all minions of different parties and are the truth behind the recent serial murders. fierce."
"Three of them have been killed by the juniors on the mission in Shengshi, and the remaining one is still on the run."
"The police are assisting us in tightening the encirclement. It is only a matter of time before we catch him."
Li Jian was stunned, "So the mysterious man named Shadow Demon is helping us?"
"Haha..." Li Jinjin laughed, his withered voice coming from his shriveled Adam's apple, and his cloudy eyes flashing with light, "We are both Protzes with Lord Shadow Demon, so it's not surprising that he shows kindness to us."
Everyone was shocked, "Is this mysterious man from the family?!"
Li Jinjin shook his head, raised his arms tremblingly, opened the books on the table, lowered his eyes, and said slowly: "No, Lord Shadow Demon is not a member of the current Prots family, but a noble from the Prots family."
"He is a shadow of the past that truly exists in the history of disaster."
Everyone was shocked and whispering. It was obvious that they all knew what this meant.
The origin of disaster items is still unknown, but almost every year some inexplicable disaster items appear all over the world.
Some of the ancient undead mostly come from antique shops, and they are the original collectors of disaster items.
Ordinary people can understand the long-lost history of disasters by exploring the remaining consciousness and memories in disaster items, thereby gaining recognition from disaster items and improving their compatibility with disaster items.
Li Jinjin, the first immortal of the living Protz family, was working as a handyman in an antique store back then. By chance, he was recognized by the warden Dark Soul Suo.
It can be said that the power of the living immortals almost comes from the archeology of the history of disasters. The more they know about the history of disasters and the original owners of disaster items, the higher their compatibility with disaster items will be. The more power you gain, the closer you get to the upper limit of disaster items.
All members of the living Protz family are not strictly related by blood, and even have different surnames.
They are the imitators of the Prots family in the history of disaster. Through their superficial knowledge of the history of disaster and imitation of their behavior, they are recognized by the Prots disaster items and become immortals.
If the mysterious man named Shadow Demon is really a figure who has recovered from the history of disaster, then he must have knowledge of the history of the Protz family.
Even if you can only get a glimpse of some vague history of disasters from the mysterious man's words, it is enough to promote many undead people on the spot.
Li Jian's eyes gradually became hot, and his heartbeat was about to beat.
He didn't expect that the mysterious person he inadvertently came into contact with would have such a big background.
If Su Hong was present, he really wanted to say that Li Jian was thinking too much, and that Shadow Demon was just a name he named because he thought of the mysterious shadow in Wang Chengzhi's body.
He didn't know that he could be related to the Protz family in this way.
Li Jinjin took the tea from his junior, moistened Suo's throat, and turned to the thirty-fifth page of the book titled "Solar Calendar Sorting: Revised Solar Calendar," "Solar calendar year 4590, source of disaster history: Knight's Ceremonial Sword." "
"The memory left behind by Templar Daniele Padelli in the Knight's Ceremonial Sword mentioned a history that was destroyed."
"Due to dissatisfaction with the palace's suppression of the Protz family, Surya Protz, the fourth generation warden of the Protz family, came into contact with dark forces and caused a dark natural disaster."
The old man glanced at everyone and said, "This Lord is known as the Lord of the Curtain, the Shadow of Fear, and Shadow Demon was also his title."
Li Jian swallowed, and his excitement was poured with cold water.
This mysterious man is indeed a member of the Protz family, but his origin is a bit too scary. The old man covered his heart and coughed: "Not to mention the origin of Master Shadow Demon. He is related to the Protz family. He may not be malicious towards us. He may want to use our hands to achieve certain goals."
Li Jian was shocked, "Grandpa Zu, the shadow attendant mentioned that the shadow demon seems to be still awakening. Could it be that his purpose is to let us help him come to reality completely?"
A group of elders thought, "It's not impossible."
"But releasing this terrifying being...will he really be on our side?"
There was silence on the conference table for a while, and an old man on the chair said slowly: "Master Shadow Demon has the history of the Protz family and the exact time of the disaster that we need. You should know their importance."
"Contact with the shadow is inevitable, and how to play the game is what we have to consider."
"If Lord Shadow Demon can stand by our side, maybe we can survive the end of the world smoothly."
"Grandpa said yes." Everyone woke up.
"Ahem... Fang Qing is right." The old man Li Jinjin coughed a few times and looked at Li Jian across the table.
"Li Jian, since that adult contacted us through you, I think he has already paid attention to you. You and Qingzhen will return to Shengshi together. If you have any situation, you can contact us through the liaison device."
Li Jian took the communicator bravely, "Yes, Grandpa Zu, then I'll trouble Uncle Qingzhen."
Although he was very resistant to contact with such a terrifying and mysterious existence, both the Shadow Demon itself and the information he controlled were too important to the Protz family and to mankind.
A man named Li Qingzhen walked up to Li Jian and patted him on the shoulder, "Li Jian, as the saying goes, if I don't go to hell, who will go to hell? The key to saving the world is in your hands."
Li Jian squeezed the communicator tightly and said seriously with determination: "Uncle, don't worry, I will send the news back even if I die."
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On the other side, Su Hong, who was playing with the iron felt in the kitchen, didn't know the reality. Because of him, the Protz family held a special meeting and even helped him figure out the background of the Shadow Demon vest.
Iron felt, an electric furnace and a hammer were placed on the kitchen stove, and a simple blacksmith shop was completed.
"I already have a blacksmith shop. Do you want to start forging?"
"Is this okay?" Su Hong couldn't help complaining. You know, this furnace still uses electricity, and he didn't even plug it in.
After closing the kitchen doors and windows and doing soundproofing, Su Hong recited silently.
"It is found that the damaged elite knight armor can be repaired. Please place the repair materials on the chopping board."
He placed several titanium alloy rods and elite knight armor bought from the Internet on the kitchen stove.
"I found that I already have a servant Philip who can take over the forging task. The experience gained during the forging process will be halved."
Can the servants take over?
Su Hong's eyes brightened slightly and he looked at Phillip who was hiding in the shadow.
"Philip, it's up to you."
Phillip, who was still wandering happily in the shadows, paused.
"Master, please leave it to me!" Philip agreed excitedly. He didn't know that due to this takeover, he would become a black slave of a certain capitalist in the future.
(End of chapter)