Chapter 601 Certain <TOC> Chapter 603 Hope in Desperation
Translator: SumTLMan
Half an hour later, Angel landed on the second-floor balcony of a wooden loft.
During the search, Angel discovered something very strange. Logically, the invasion of the Dark Domain was a very sudden situation, and many people in the outer city should not have had time to escape.
That is to say, there should be many people, whether they are wizard apprentices or ordinary people, within a few hundred miles of the outer city.
However, the reality was that Angel saw very few people along the way.
Even if the parasitized people would avoid him because of “Shava’s” identity, his speed after activating the Gravity Lines should be enough to cover most of the city in a short time.
During the period of searching for Nausica’s traces, Angel saw less than a hundred people in total. They were wearing colorful clothes, posing in strange, twisted positions, and scattering like puppets.
Only a hundred people in more than half of the city? Something was very wrong.
When Angel last came to Sleepless City, although he did not carefully visit it, he was very impressed by the prosperity and flow of people in Sleepless City. It was not crowded, but an ordinary street should have hundreds of people at a glance.
But now it was obviously not the case. Could it be that they were all hiding in the buildings?
Angel looked back at the room behind him.
This wooden loft should be a residential building, with the balcony filled with purple thorn stars. These were small purple flowers that looked like a sky full of stars, but they could emit a shimmering light in the dark, like the stars in the night sky, very beautiful.
Angel pushed open the balcony door, and the room behind the door was small, probably a lady’s boudoir, with a faint fragrance in the air.
Like most other rooms, this one was also messy, with the wardrobe open and clothes scattered on the floor.
It is estimated that the owner of this place also changed into colorful clothes similar to children’s clothes or clown costumes after being parasitized.
Leaving the bedroom, Angel walked towards the first floor. He chose to stop at this loft because he faintly heard some noises on the first floor while flying in mid-air.
As soon as he went downstairs, a dark shadow pounced at him.
Angel didn’t move because Toby waved his wings lightly, and the other party was fanned back, hitting the ceiling and then falling onto the sofa.
After tumbling about, the shadow shook its head, straightened its posture, and growled fiercely at Angel: “Woof, woof!”
The dim oil lamp lit up, and a spotted dog, not much larger than Toby, was barking furiously on the orange fabric sofa. It pretended to be extremely fierce, but its barking sounded like a baby’s voice.
The reason Angel didn’t take action earlier was that he realized that the thing pouncing at him was just an ordinary creature, more precisely, a pet of ordinary people.
“How strange, the owner of the house didn’t escape from being parasitized, but the pet dog…”
Toby’s sense of smell isn’t good, but this dog should have a good sense of smell, right? If it helps find people, wouldn’t that be easy?
Thinking of this, Angel approached the dog with a sinister smile. The dog didn’t show any fear and continued to bark ferociously, even attempting to attack Angel.
But Toby waved another gray aura, and the dog floated into midair, hanging still in front of Angel.
Suddenly suspended, the dog became somewhat disoriented, full of confusion. Instinctively, its limbs began to paddle, treating the air like water and making dog-paddle movements.
“Little guy, how about we work together? You help me find people, and I’ll take you to see your owner,” Angel rubbed the dog’s head. At first, it tried to bite him, but as Angel released a gentle aura, it began to relax and eventually raised its head comfortably, hoping Angel would scratch its chin.
“A foolish dog is still a foolish dog. Trusting a stranger so quickly, with no sense of vigilance,” Angel complained while holding the dog, leaving the attic and heading straight to the place where they had first discovered the bloodstains – the entrance to the Savage Grottoes.
Angel didn’t know whose blood was on the ground. It was either Nausica’s group or Hookedick’s.
After letting the dog sniff for a while, Angel tried to persuade it to find the owner of the blood, but the dog acted as if it didn’t understand, wagging its tail like a little fan and licking Angel’s face.
“Toby, can you communicate with it?” Angel turned his gaze back to Toby.
Toby simply turned his head away, giving Angel a cold stare.
Angel now understood why those parasites didn’t infest this dog – even the parasites probably found such low-intelligence species undesirable.
Angel was about to give up on using the dog to find people when, unexpectedly, the foolish dog began to run, as if it had suddenly understood or was possessed. As it ran, it howled at Angel, seemingly urging him to follow.
Angel’s eyes lit up, and he followed.
The dog ran ahead, and Angel chased behind. Streets were left behind, and Angel went from excited to gradually puzzled, eventually stopping.
“You’re not taking me for a walk, are you?” Angel grabbed the dog by the scruff of its neck, questioning it.
The dog’s response was wagging its tail affectionately and licking Angel’s face.
Angel threw it on the ground, now almost certain that the dog thought he was taking it for a walk, which is why it led him around. People usually walk dogs, but today he must have taken the wrong medicine, as he was being walked by a dog.
Turning around with a gloomy face, Angel planned to leave the dog behind.
But just as he turned around and took a few steps, a thunderous explosion suddenly came from behind a building.
Angel whirled around to look.
The little dog actually looked solemnly at the building as well. Angel walked up and squatted down: “Could it be that you smelled the scent of this place and led me here?”
The little dog looked silly, wagging its tail.
“I must have been dragged down in intelligence by this silly dog.” Angel sighed and flew towards the source of the sound.
Angel had just flown for a while when Toby suddenly whispered in his ear.
Following Toby’s gaze, Angel looked down to see that the spotted dog on the ground was actually running along with him. They had flown several hundred meters, and the dog had followed for the same distance.
Seeing them stop, the silly dog stopped too.
“Strange, I’ve already distanced myself from him, but the parasites around here are still not interested in him?” Angel noticed that even if there was a speck of light near the silly dog, it didn’t burrow into its body.
At first, Angel thought it might have been lucky to avoid it, but now it seemed that the parasites were really not interested in the dog.
Could it be that parasites don’t infect canines? Angel pondered for a moment, obviously not understanding, and stopped thinking about it.
Angel ignored the silly dog on the ground and continued flying towards the source of the sound.
The location of the sound source was behind a four-story building. When Angel flew over, he found a plaza behind the teleportation hall.
The sound came from within the teleportation hall.
It was not clear from the outside what the situation was inside the teleportation hall, but Angel heard intense collision sounds and the rumble of collapsing stones. It seemed like someone was fighting inside?
Angel flew over with doubts. He didn’t recklessly enter the teleportation hall, but landed on the top of the hall.
The roof was made of transparent glass with cracks. Angel looked down, but because it was too high from the ground and pitch-black, he couldn’t see the situation clearly. However, he could faintly hear someone’s panting.
And this voice seemed familiar? Angel closed his eyes and listened carefully.
It was indeed a human’s panting… However, after listening carefully for a while, Angel only heard one person’s voice. It didn’t sound like a fight, so what was the commotion inside?
Just as Angel was pondering, a hand emerged from the darkness and landed on his shoulder.
Angel was startled and instinctively used his Gravity Lines to defend and counterattack.
“It’s me.” The low voice carried a hint of magnetism.
Angel looked back and saw that, somehow, Sanders had appeared behind him. His eyes were filled with blue-green light, and like Angel, he was staring at the teleportation hall.
“Mentor, you’re here too?” Angel whispered.
Sanders directly established a mental connection: “I happened to be nearby and heard the commotion, so I came… But what about you? How did you end up here?”
“I was brought here by a dog walking nearby, and then I heard a noise over here, so I came.”
“A dog?” Sanders narrowed his eyes, seemingly with a glint in them: “Where is the dog?”
Angel flew to the edge of the hall, intending to point out the dog, only to find that the spotted dog that had been following them to the teleportation hall had disappeared.
“Did it get lost? I didn’t fly that fast…” Angel muttered to himself.
“Maybe the dog got scared and didn’t dare to come out.” Sanders hinted, with some unfathomable emotions in his eyes.
It was just a little dog, and if it was gone, so be it. Anyway, those parasites wouldn’t infect it, and Angel thought it should be able to find its way home on its own.
With that in mind, Angel didn’t think about it further and instead asked about the situation in the teleportation hall.
Sanders didn’t hide anything: “There is indeed someone in the hall, and it’s someone both you and I are familiar with.”
When the name “Gloria” was mentioned by Sanders, Angel felt that Toby by his side immediately became excited, eager to rush into the hall right away.
“Lady Gloria is inside? No wonder the sound was so familiar… Were all those noises made by her just now?” Angel asked with confusion.
Sanders nodded: “Although I don’t know what happened in the teleportation hall, from the current situation, it seems that Gloria is trapped below.”