It was a tall and luxuriant silver banyan tree. Its branches and leaves extended for more than ten meters.
Around this tree, several wooden ladders connected back and forth, interlocking with each other. Finally, in the middle of the tree, where the branches branched out, an exquisite and widely distributed treehouse was built.
Next to the treehouse, there was a fluorescent sign hanging on one of the branches. The fluorescent stone was glowing in a dark green light. On the surface of the sign, there was a line of black, flowery characters that clearly stated the name of the treehouse — Firefly Inn.
The inn built on the silver banyan tree was Angor's first destination.
When they landed, the spotted dog was still barking at the inn.
"Is Nausica here?" Shan frowned and looked at the inn that was clearly exquisite, but for some reason, it felt a little gloomy at the moment.
"I don't know. Let's check it out first." Angor didn't know if the dog was leading them to Nausica or not, but he had no other choice. Sleepless City was hundreds of square kilometers in size, and it was too easy to hide a single person. For now, he had to trust the dog.
Following the wooden ladders, they reached the entrance of Firefly Inn.
Before they entered, the wooden door swung open on its own. Countless parasites crawled out of the door and filled the sky with glowing dots that looked like fireflies.
Shan and Shiliew crouched down in fear when they saw the creatures.
After a while, all the parasites in the inn finally left and circled around their position.
To be more precise, they went around Angor.
"Why are there so many parasites here?" Shan stood up in fear.
"Maybe the nest is inside." Angor whispered and strode forward into the darkness.
Shan and Shiliew looked at each other and saw the confusion in each other's eyes. Angor only told them that they wouldn't be infected as long as they followed him, but he didn't tell them why.
There weren't many parasites here, so they didn't notice it yet. But now, they couldn't help but wonder.
How did Angor make the parasites stay away from him? From the looks of it, it wasn't Angor who was driving the parasite away. It was the parasite that was avoiding Angor.
"That's strange. Why is he so secretive?" Shan mumbled and followed behind Angor with Shiliew.
He stopped as soon as he entered the tree house.
Shan was behind him, and in the darkness, she could not see anything. She could only faintly hear a buzzing sound in her ears. It seemed to be the sound of insects.
Shan gulped. After asking for Angor's permission, she released a Light spell to illuminate the entire tree house.
When the Light spell rose, Shan was stunned.
There was a giant nest right in front of them. The buzzing noise they heard came from the unknown insects inside.
Shan shuddered. "W-what kind of nest is this? Could it be those parasites? "
Angor nodded. There was a deeper connection between the parasites and the nest, but there was no need to explain it.
This wasn't the first time he saw this nest, whether it was in Midnight Sovereign or Pocratee, so he wasn't too worried about it.
"Shan, move the light up a bit. It's above the nest."
He was here to find someone, so he wasn't interested in the nest of the rainbow dragonflies. After looking around carefully, Angor noticed some strange movements in the darkness above the nest.
Shan quickly moved the light up even higher.
Suddenly, a large number of rainbow dragonflies swarmed out of the nest. There were at least several hundred of them, and they quickly surrounded Angor's group.
These dragonflies were all at the level of peak-level apprentices. Shan's face turned pale when she saw hundreds of them. Her hands and legs stiffened. She was controlling the light source, but now, she stopped moving.
"What do we do now?" It was Shiliew who spoke. She was doing better than Shan, but her voice was still trembling.
Before he could say anything, the rainbow dragonfly suddenly released a strange emotion.
Shan and Shiliew could only sense that the dragonflies were excited.
However, Angor also heard the dragonflies praising the queen, praising Shava, and praising the purity of moonlight … even though there was no moonlight here.
The Rainbow Dragonfly's intelligence was not high, which could be seen from the praises it sang.
"Don't mind them. As long as you don't attack them, they won't attack you," Angor explained.
As he expected, the rainbow dragonflies didn't move at all. Instead, they kept circling around Angor and Shiliew.
"Shan, move the light upward," Angor reminded Shan again. Time was of the essence.
Right at this moment, a scream came from above.
Shan quickly turned the light up. As the light shone, a woman with long green hair was seen hanging above the nest. Her body was connected to the void behind her by golden threads.
It was the woman who screamed. After the scream, the woman showed a look of despair. The veins on her face were all gone, and her eyes were pure white without pupils. A mysterious energy was transferred from the void into the woman's body through the golden strings.
Next, a strange interlayer space quickly spread out from the woman's body.
As the interlayer space appeared, the woman completely lost her will. When it reached several dozen kilometers away, it slowly shrank until it was completely absorbed into the woman's body.
When everything was done, the woman was dragged into the void by the golden strings and disappeared.
At the same time, Angor sensed that the interlayer space in the center of Sleepless City was slowly merging with a new one and expanding one.
"Let's go. Nausica isn't here," Angor said in a cold tone.
A prototype puppet was born right in front of his eyes, and he witnessed how the puppet lost its will and became a vessel. This made him even more anxious. He was worried that Nausica would give up in the next second.
They quickly turned around and prepared to head to the next location.
As Angor turned around, the surrounding dragonflies quickly cleared a path for him as if they were sending him off.
Both Shan and Shiliew noticed this, but now was not the time to ask. They quickly followed Angor. They knew that Angor was the reason why they were able to avoid the attacks of the dragonflies and parasites, so they didn't dare to stay too far away from Angor.
After leaving the Firefly Inn, Toby transformed into a griffin and led them to the next location.
The puppy seemed to understand Angor's intention and began to bark at the new direction.
In less than two minutes, Toby had flown for more than five kilometers. Finally, they arrived at a graveyard in the western part of Sleepless City. This was a graveyard in the outskirts of the city, which was still covered by the darkness.
The graveyard was surrounded by black iron railings, which reminded Angor of the graveyard he saw in Dark Castle. However, upon closer inspection, Angor noticed that the inside of the graveyard was clean and tidy. There were no messy graves or overturned coffins. Every grave was placed in a proper place, and the inscriptions on the tombs were all in the style of craftsmen.
"This is the Rose Graveyard in the rich district. Those who are buried here must have at least one supernatural in their family," Shan explained.
After they landed in the cemetery, it was just as Shan had said. The iron fence at the edge of the cemetery was covered with thorns with beautiful roses growing on them. There was no rotten smell in the air. Instead, there was a faint fragrance in the air.
However, this hidden fragrance made everyone's expressions turn ugly. In the southern wizardry region, this kind of flower was also known as "Death's Perfume".
Some wizards with special hobbies liked to use Death's Perfume to create perfume. Not only did it have a stronger scent, but it also stimulated pheromones better than other similar flowers.
"Let's check it out." Angor took the lead and entered the graveyard.
"Hey, Angor, what's with that woman? Will Nausica be treated like that too?" Shan followed Angor with a puzzled look.
"Yes. We need to find Nausica and save her before she completely collapses." Angor noticed that Shan still had more questions. "We don't have much time. Let's not waste it."
Soon, they found their target in the graveyard.
At the center of the graveyard was a nest of rainbow dragonflies. Just like in the Firefly Hotel, Yorkshire's captive was also hanging above the nest.
However, it wasn't Nausica this time either.
However, it was someone they were very familiar with — Gan Ke.
Gank was tied up by the golden strings and hung in the air. He kept yelling in pain. His mask was removed, and tears of blood flowed out of his eyes.
"For some reason, Gank doesn't have any desires. He doesn't react to emotions very well. But now, he's crying blood, which means he's reaching his limit! "Shan spoke in fear.
Gank seemed to have noticed Shan's voice as well. He quickly turned around and whispered her name.
"He's not infected!" Shan looked at Angor. "He still remembers me! How do we save him? He's on the verge of collapsing! "
He already knew that these people would not be infected by the parasite. This was because once a parasite was infected, it would be very difficult to break down the psychological defenses of the parasite due to its unique characteristics.
Humans had much weaker psychological defenses compared to parasites, which was why Yorkshire wouldn't allow them to be infected.
Whether they could survive or not depended on how strong their psychological defenses were, and how long they could hold on during the process.
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