Half an hour later, Angor landed on the second-floor balcony of a wooden attic.
He noticed something strange while searching for Nausica. Normally, many people in the outer city wouldn't be able to escape in time due to the sudden invasion of the darkness.
In other words, there should be a lot of apprentices and mortals in the outer city within a radius of hundreds of miles.
However, Angor didn't see many people along the way.
Even if the victim would avoid him due to her identity as Shava, his speed after activating the sequence of gravity was enough to cover half of the city in a short period of time.
While searching for Nausica, he saw less than a hundred people in total. They were dressed in colorful clothes and had strange and twisted postures. They scattered in all directions like puppets.
Only a hundred people in the entire city? That didn't make sense.
Angor didn't visit Sleepless City the last time he visited, but he was still impressed by the city's bustling population. It wasn't to the extent that they would rub shoulders with each other, but there should be hundreds of people on an ordinary street at a glance.
But this time, it didn't look like that. They couldn't all be hiding in buildings, right?
Angor turned around and looked at the room behind him.
It was a wooden attic. The balcony was decorated with purple stars. This was a small purple flower that looked like a sky full of stars, but it could emit a lustrous light in the darkness, just like the stars in the night sky. It was very beautiful.
Angor pushed open the door to the balcony. The room wasn't big. It should be a lady's room. He could smell a faint fragrance in the air.
Like most of the other rooms, this one was in a mess. The wardrobe was opened, and there were clothes scattered all over the floor.
Angor guessed that the owner of this place must have changed into something similar to a child's costume or a clown's costume.
He left the bedroom and headed to the first floor. He chose to stay in the attic because he heard some noises coming from the first floor when he was flying in the air.
As soon as he went downstairs, a dark shadow pounced at him.
Angor didn't move. Toby flapped his wings and slapped the shadow away. The shadow hit the ceiling and landed on the sofa.
The shadow shook its head, straightened its posture, and barked at Angor. "Arf! Arf!"
An oil lamp lit up, revealing a spotted puppy that wasn't much bigger than Toby barked at them from the orange-red fabric sofa. The puppy looked like it was trying to say "I'm super mean", but it was actually barking in a childish voice.
Angor didn't do anything because he noticed that the puppy was just a mortal creature. A mortal's pet, to be exact.
"Strange. The owner didn't escape the parasite, but the pet dog is fine." Angor could only assume that the dog was lucky enough to escape.
Angor looked at the angry puppy and rubbed his chin. He had an idea.
Toby didn't have a good sense of smell, but this puppy should be good. Angor asked Toby's help.
Angor approached the puppy with an evil grin. The puppy didn't seem to be scared at all. it was still barking.
It wanted to attack Angor again, but Toby released another gray aura. The puppy floated in the air and stopped in front of Angor.
The puppy didn't know what to do when it suddenly floated in the air. Instinctively, it waved its limbs and tried to paddle around as if the air was an ocean.
"Hey, little guy, let's work together. Help me find someone, and I'll take you to your owner. " Angor rubbed the puppy's head. At first, the puppy tried to bite him. But as Angor released his gentle aura, it slowly relaxed. In the end, the puppy even raised its head in comfort, hoping that Angor could scratch its chin.
"Stupid puppy. Trust an outsider so quickly. You don't have any sense at all." While complaining, Angor grabbed the puppy and left the attic. He went to where he found the blood — the entrance of Brute Cavern's outpost.
He didn't know who the blood belonged to, but he assumed it was Hookdick's or Nausica's blood.
He let the puppy sniff for a while and told it to find the owner of the blood. However, the puppy did not seem to understand him at all. It kept licking Angor while wagging its tail like a fan.
"Toby, can you talk to it?" Angor looked at Toby again.
Toby turned its head and rolled its eyes at Angor.
Angor now understood why the parasites didn't try to take the puppy's body. Maybe they didn't like such low-intelligence creatures.
Angor decided to give up on using the puppy. But suddenly, the puppy started running. Angor didn't know whether it was enlightened or possessed by some evil spirit. It kept barking at Angor, as if it was asking him to follow.
Angor's eyes lit up and followed.
The puppy ran in front while Angor chased after it. One street after another was left behind. Angor's excitement at first slowly turned into confusion. Finally, he stopped.
"You're not walking me, are you?" Angor grabbed the puppy by the back of its neck and questioned it.
The puppy answered by wagging its tail and licking Angor.
Angor tossed the puppy to the ground. He was sure that the puppy thought he was going to take it for a walk, so it took him for a walk. It was always someone walking a dog. What the hell? Angor was being walked by a dog?
He turned around and planned to leave the puppy alone.
However, before he could take a few steps, he heard a loud noise coming from a building behind him.
Angor turned around abruptly.
The puppy was also staring at the building with a solemn expression. Angor walked to it and crouched down. "You didn't bring me here because you smelled something here, did you?"
The puppy had a silly look on its face as it wagged its tail.
"Stupid puppies really did lower my IQ." Angor sighed and flew toward the source of the noise.
Toby suddenly whispered something into Angor's ear.
Angor followed Toby's gaze and saw the puppy on the ground following Angor. They had been flying for several hundred meters, and the puppy followed them for several hundred meters.
The puppy also stopped when it saw them.
"Strange. I'm already far away from it. Why are the parasites not interested in it?" Angor noticed that the light spots around the puppy did not enter its body.
At first, Angor thought the puppy was lucky enough to avoid them. But now, it seemed that the parasites were not interested in it at all.
Maybe the parasites didn't live on canines? Angor pondered for a moment. He could not figure it out, so he gave up.
Angor ignored the puppy on the ground and kept flying toward the source of the noise.
The source of the noise was behind a four-story building. Angor arrived at a plaza, which happened to be the back door of the teleportation hall.
The source of the noise was inside the teleportation hall.
He couldn't see what was going on inside the teleportation hall, but he did hear some loud noises coming from inside. It sounded like someone was fighting inside.
He didn't enter the teleportation hall right away. Instead, he landed on the roof of the hall.
The ceiling was made of transparent glass, but there was already a crack on it. Angor looked down. He was too high above the ground, and it was too dark for him to see clearly. However, he could hear someone panting.
Furthermore, this voice sounded vaguely familiar. Angor closed his eyes and listened carefully.
It was the sound of someone panting. But he only heard one person's voice even after he tried to listen carefully. It didn't sound like a fight. Then what's going on inside?
As Angor pondered, a hand reached out from the darkness and placed itself on his shoulder.
Angor was startled and instinctively activated the sequence of gravity to defend himself.
"It's me." The deep voice sounded a little magnetic.
Angor looked back and saw Sunders standing behind him. Just like Angor, Sunders was staring at the teleportation hall with a pair of glowing blue eyes.
"You're here too, professor?" Angor asked in a small voice.
Sunders created a Spirit Bond with Angor. "I was nearby. I heard the noise, so I came here. What are you doing here?"
"I was brought here by a dog. There was a commotion here, so I came here."
"Dog?" Sunders narrowed his eyes. "Where is it?"
Angor flew to the edge of the hall and tried to point out the dog. However, the puppy that followed them all the way to the teleportation hall was nowhere to be seen.
"Could it be that we lost them? I wasn't flying that fast … "Angor mumbled to himself.
"Maybe the dog is scared and doesn't dare to come out." Sunders was hinting at something. His eyes revealed an unfathomable emotion.
It was just a puppy. It didn't matter if it went missing. Angor believed the puppy could find its way home on its own since those parasites didn't want it.
With that in mind, Angor decided to ask about the situation in the teleportation hall.
Sunders didn't try to hide anything. "There is someone in the hall. Someone we both know."
When Angor heard the name "Greya", Toby almost jumped up in excitement. He almost wanted to rush into the hall right away.
"Lady Greya is in there? No wonder she sounded so familiar. Did she make all those noises? "Angor wondered.
Sunders nodded. "I don't know what happened to the teleportation hall, but it looks like Greya is trapped down there."
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