NOVEL NEXT Chapter 329: I am the Venerable!
You may rise.
Su Qi's lips twitched slightly, nearly blurting out these two words involuntarily.
At this moment, he, dressed in white similar to Venerable Yi Jue, concealed his face with a mask.
After all.
To infiltrate, he couldn't possibly use Su Buxian's well-known face, a face that was wanted.
He still had to maintain the persona of a Venerable.
He simply nodded slightly, "I didn't expect that half an hour after contacting you, you would arrive so quickly."
"I thought you would meet me after I entered the city."
The man smiled respectfully, "After all, we dare not neglect the arrival of a Venerable."
"Allow me to introduce myself, Venerable, my name is Jin Sanyuan, and I am an officer of the Hidden Killing Association."
Su Qi contacted the force waiting to meet him here, following the method the Angel Envoy had provided.
But he hadn't expected them to arrive so quickly.
And.
The Hidden Killing Association...
These words sounded familiar; with a slight jog of memory, he recalled something.
During the incident at the Rainbow Bridge, the Hidden Killing Association was one of the many forces... among the most powerful, yet their backers had not shown themselves.
Originally.
They were part of the Abyss Church.
Now, using the identity of a Venerable, it was a good opportunity to determine how many forces were aligned with the Abyss Camp.
Jin Sanyuan had a sycophantic air about him, yet he possessed an exceptionally powerful aura, and he smiled respectfully, "Venerable, please accompany me into the city."
"Alright, let's go."
Su Qi didn't need to ask; his psychic senses alone could tell that Jin Sanyuan possessed the strength of Sequence 6.
For someone so powerful to be so obsequiously ingratiating was rare, especially since Sequence 6 had absolute coercive power over the lower sequences.
And the reason for all this.
It appeared... that besides the rigid hierarchy of the Abyss Church, of course, the potential of a Venerable had limitless possibilities in the future.
Ten minutes later.
Su Qi passed through the Ripples gateway opened by Jin Sanyuan and was directly transported to a vast floating piece of land.
He saw at a glance… the ancient, slightly grim, Dark-style buildings on a colossal fragment of land.
Numerous people queued up in the back.
Jin Sanyuan also took this opportunity to introduce the current situation to Su Qi.
Su Qi nodded slightly.
"A Pioneering Team, huh..."
He looked in the direction of the Dark Zone; while the energy surge caused ripples, like a red giant star nearing its end, it seemed to be gradually subsiding.
Once it completely subsided, that would be everyone's chance to delve deeper.
"So, Venerable Yi Jue, please follow me," Jin Sanyuan said with a smile, "The other Venerables have already arrived; I will take you to meet them."
Su Qi nodded, "That works."
While he had been maintaining the identity of a Venerable, frankly, he hadn't really used it much.
But now, he was really going to use this status to delve deep into enemy territory.
If his cover was blown here, it would be troublesome; the risks were extremely high, and only Su Qi would dare to enter this Fire Pit as an impostor.
However.
For Su Qi, this was not a big problem.
No Venerable had ever seen another, and although there were various faults, he would react on the spot and try to smooth things out as best as possible.
As he and Jin Sanyuan entered the main hall,
Su Qi heard Xiao Meng's voice in his ear.
"Master, I have detected... Your companions, they are on the other floating islands nearby."
The floating islands were numerous, each dominated by top forces with substantial backgrounds.
"Is there a way to contact them?" Su Qi asked softly.
"Their communicators are using technology provided by the Mechanical Army, so I might need some time to hack it and establish a remote connection."
"No problem."
Su Qi assigned the task to Xiao Meng, who was still maintaining 95% of her computational power, fully committed to analyzing the Heart of Divine Weapon.
After all, it contained endless value; every minute represented a treasure trove, so Su Qi generally refrained from having Xiao Meng handle more complex and cumbersome tasks.
In other words.
Like using a graphics card to mine cryptocurrencies, dedicating all processing power to mining would be wasteful if used for gaming.
"Also, here is a set of encryption keys..." Su Qi uploaded a key to Xiao Meng, "Search around, and if there is a signal, help me connect directly."
"This is..." Xiao Meng observed, "Such a complex key, Master; I might need some time to load it."
"But, I will certainly complete the task well!"
Su Qi responded, "Good, that's the spirit!"
This was Bai Qixing's chip core encryption key; having mastered it, Su Qi had full control over Bai Qixing.
However.
Before leaving that mechanical world, Su Qi had already communicated with Bai Qixing.
Its primary purpose was to make contact with the Divine Machinery Kingdom.
And knowing that the Divine Machinery Kingdom had been destroyed, although Su Qi had considered revealing the truth to it, he let it seek contact with its counterparts among the Mecha elites first.
Su Qi suspected that the Divine Machinery Kingdom was not completely destroyed and that survivors still existed; being able to contact a more powerful entity would naturally be a great asset.
Of course.
It remained to be seen whether Su Qi could turn this help into an ally.
But, that shouldn't be a problem.
Su Qi excelled not only at drawing hatred, increasing enemies, but also at turning strangers into friends, and further into members of The Hustlers.
The Hustlers were gathering many connections without realizing it; they were still in a phase of making points and conducting guerrilla tactics everywhere.
Many fragmented forces scattered, nothing had yet coalesced, and the name of The Hustlers Sect was not yet established.