When 'God' Decides To Start Over

Chapter 666 - 273 Cemetery_2

"So you’ve finished digesting it this quickly?" The proprietress seemed somewhat surprised. She understood the strength of the energy of sin and punishment well, and believed that even a Super Spirit Demon drinking this glass of wine shouldn’t digest it completely this quickly.

"Just a glass of wine." Li Xiu said flatly, "Madam, I have a question for you. Do you know about the City of Love?"

"How do you know about the City of Love?" the proprietress blurted out.

"I’ve been to the City of Love. What exactly is it?" Li Xiu knew from her tone that she not only knew about the City of Love but was definitely connected to it.

"Impossible, there’s no way you’ve been to the City of Love." The proprietress immediately denied Li Xiu’s claim.

"Why can’t I have been to the City of Love?" Li Xiu quickly sensed there was something wrong with her words.

"A city that no longer exists, how could you have been there?" The proprietress snorted coldly, "Where did you hear the name City of Love, coming here to spout nonsense?"

"Do you know Elder Wu?" Li Xiu tested.

"You... how do you know Elder Wu... where did you hear all this..." The proprietress’s voice was somewhat agitated.

"I not only know Elder Wu, but I also know Black Rider, Ka Duo’er, Blind Tailor... There’s a tavern there, too, but it’s not called Nether House, just Tavern, and there’s also a proprietress..." Li Xiu said slowly.

"Where exactly did you hear all this?" The proprietress interrupted Li Xiu sharply.

"I told you, I’ve been to the City of Love." Li Xiu said word for word.

"Impossible, you couldn’t have been to the City of Love, unless you’ve seen ghosts." The proprietress said.

"Why did the City of Love disappear, and where was it before it vanished?" Li Xiu stared at the second floor and asked.

The second floor didn’t respond, making Li Xiu frown as he asked several more times, but the proprietress remained silent.

After a while, the proprietress’s voice rang out again: "No matter where you heard about the City of Love, it no longer matters. It’s not something you should know, and you shouldn’t investigate anything related to the City of Love, or it will surely invite disaster."

"What are you afraid of? Afraid of the God of Slaughter?" Li Xiu pressed.

"Just leave." The proprietress spoke this sentence and then went silent, giving no response no matter how Li Xiu pressed.

Li Xiu reluctantly left the Nether House, becoming increasingly convinced there must be some connection between the City of Love and Black Death City.

Jani and the others were waiting outside the door, but Li Xiu wasn’t in the mood to hunt Demons, so he let them go to the canyon to hunt Mechanical Skeletons while he himself headed towards the never-opened city gate.

He had a vague suspicion but couldn’t fully piece it together; he needed more evidence.

Approaching the city gate alone, he could hear the ghostly cries from outside.

Without hesitation, Li Xiu summoned the Jedi Knight, then raised the city gate.

Li Xiu also fused with the Evil Spirit Token again, entering the Super Spirit State; his Super Spirit State was comparable to the Light Base, even stronger than ordinary Light Base.

As the city gate slowly rose, Li Xiu saw the scene beyond and couldn’t help but furrow his brow.

Outside the gate lay a vast graveyard with countless graves, large and small, standing without markers or plaques, numbering perhaps in the thousands.

"Something’s not right..." Li Xiu examined the graves with some confusion.

Li Xiu’s memory could be described as photographic, knowing the City of Love only had a few hundred people, whereas here number thousands of graves.

Previously, Li Xiu had suspected the City of Love might be Black Death City from the past, possibly brought into the City of Love by the Godslayer Shrine, merely a place resembling the Time Illusion Realm.

But now, it seemed his suspicion was misplaced; the City of Love only had a few hundred residents, it couldn’t possibly have thousands of graves.

"Seems I overthought it, the City of Love isn’t the old Black Death City." Li Xiu realized his thoughts were too fantastical.

The Turtle Shell and Demon Core previously brought out had already made Li Xiu realize this idea was unreliable, but still held onto a sliver of hope.

Now seeing so many graves, he knew it was indeed a stretch.

Unfortunately, those graves had no tombstones, nor any inscriptions nearby. If there were epitaphs, he could find out who was buried there.

Apart from the graves, no Demons were found, nor were the ghostly cries heard inside the city.

Li Xiu still felt somewhat unsatisfied, hesitated for a moment, and walked to the nearest grave, intending to dig it up and see what was buried inside.

"If I were you, I wouldn’t dig it up." A voice suddenly rang out.

Li Xiu looked vigilantly toward the voice but saw nothing, a grave obstructing his view.

Red and blue Light Patterns gleamed from Li Xiu’s body as he cautiously walked around, immediately seeing a person leaning against a grave, surprisingly holding a bottle, drinking.

"A human?" Li Xiu was slightly stunned; he didn’t expect to encounter a living person here, thinking earlier it might be an intelligent Demon.

The person had a head full of disheveled gray hair, clothes ragged like a beggar, and a beard obscuring most of his face.