Super Righteous Player-Chapter 1265 - 295: The Trap of the Corpse Husband

When Annan held the "Immortal’s" Curse Binding, he had already probed the general location of Fufu.

Although he didn’t know the exact distance between them, he could determine it was beneath the southern part of the Kingdom of Noah—roughly near the Saltpeter Ranch.

Annan was quite familiar with the areas connected to the Saltpeter Ranch.

Heading west was certainly not an option. At that depth, it was already approaching the deep sea.

If the tunnel continued westward and broke through, seawater would flood the tunnel directly.

Although the profession of Digger essentially relies on luck, fundamental geographic knowledge is indispensable. Otherwise, if you continue digging tunnels and get lost, unable to read maps or even understand your current location, disaster is inevitable.

Thus, at Saltpeter Ranch, only two tunnels remained.

One led southeast, passing underground through Gemstone Island and into Dennisiowa. The water link between the Feld Archipelago and Dennisiowa isn’t particularly deep; if the sea level dropped by tens or hundreds of meters, the land might surface.

Of course, the sea level won’t inexplicably drop that much. However, this distance is enough for the Underground City to construct tunnels beneath.

It had to be tunnels.

The area simply wasn’t expansive enough, and the soil’s strength wasn’t high enough. The lighting of the Underground City relies entirely on the light-ant layer; to maintain normal living conditions, the distance between the dome and the ground must be at least several dozen meters high.

If excavations reached such depths, the light-ant layer might fail to support the fragile soil above.

Thus, for Diggers, this region was not deemed "suitable for building a city."

If you keep trekking southeast, you arrive directly beneath the volcano containing the Forbidden Lava Tower—which belongs to the United Kingdom’s Underground City region, a place Annan had not formally visited yet.

If you move northeast, however, you reach the area directly beneath the sunken ancient imperial capital.

—Yes, the imperial capital’s sinking wasn’t particularly deep either.

At least the Underground City could still excavate its city further beneath. The main obstacle was the massive whirlpool impeding exploration... This was also the reason Noah’s Eldest Princess dared to covet the empire’s legacy.

Although ships entering the whirlpool couldn’t escape, if explorers submerged from a distant location and used spells or rituals to advance underwater... it wasn’t impossible to dig it out.

This area, too, was unsuitable for city building due to the tunnels.

But if you continue north, you reach an area between Winter and Noah. The water here is relatively shallow, permitting city construction—to roughly the southeast of Frostwater Harbor.

...approximately the location where Tan Juan was murdered by the sea.

Directly beneath this spot lies the Bone-nurturing Ground, where the Grey Professor is located.

This is also why the Bone-nurturing Ground was initially named the "Grey Tower."

The so-called Tower of Reflection...

Since it is a "reflection," it naturally must be in the water.

—And directly above the Grey Tower lies the massive whirlpool left behind after the imperial capital sank into the sea.

Previously, while using the and when dealing with Tricino, Annan had visited these two places.

At that time, Annan hadn’t yet lifted the "Immortal’s" Curse Binding.

By triangulating, Annan could easily pinpoint Fufu’s precise location.

It was undoubtedly within Saltpeter Ranch.

There, Fufu had lingered for an extended period... at least two months in between.

This wasn’t simply passing through. She was likely searching for something or secretly making preparations.

After all, as Annan could detect Fufu’s presence, Fufu could equally perceive Annan’s existence. She must have known that Annan had pinpointed her location—yet until Annan became the Justice Saint, she hadn’t moved at all.

Hence, the current situation was crystal clear.

Fufu had already accepted her inevitable fate with Annan and was preparing for their ultimate confrontation.

Even though Annan’s current raw strength—without relying on the players—was enough to face Fufu head-on,

Annan refused to underestimate his adversary, let alone considering this was intrinsically a challenge above his grade...

Although Fufu’s ascension ritual was incomplete, she had already grasped enough authority, making her rank undoubtedly superior to Annan’s.

Thus Annan, accompanied by gold-tier players, enhanced every available ritual, replenished consumables and statuses, and covertly transported the group to Saltpeter Ranch.

Including Annan, there were fifty-seven individuals.

Such a large-scale teleportation was bound to alarm Fufu, but it was better than splitting the group up and risking Fufu deploying a teleportation-blocking barrier to trap the rest.

—The moment they arrived at Saltpeter Ranch, Annan realized exactly what Fufu had been doing. freewebnøvel.coɱ

Annan and the players’ teleportation point was the warehouse previously taken down by Xitan Pulan and Four Dark Insignias—a place that belonged to the fallen, where Henry Walden, the "Adversary," instantly killed the Blood-Hand Brothers.

This site was supposed to be a safe house.

If someone had reclaimed it, the players would launch an immediate attack upon arrival, either killing or controlling the intruders to prevent them from sending out information.

Yet as the fifty-plus players, tense and vigilant, teleported to the warehouse and scattered within—

They were instantly engulfed by a rich, distinctive aroma.

Like roses boiled with rum.

The air swirled with faint crimson mist, resembling blood or the color of rose-wine.

A humid fragrance saturated everywhere; simply walking through the room felt like one’s face was drenched by water vapor.

It was like spraying perfume into the air and then blindly walking into the lingering mist.

This warehouse, once breached by players, had all its destroyed areas—the walls and other parts—restored.

The craftsmanship wasn’t exceptional, yet it ensured the place was lightproof, windproof, and secure from external gunfire through wooden planks. This indicated that a group intended to inhabit the site.

However, a quick sensory scan revealed that the building housed no one.

More precisely, no living creatures.

The absence of life was eerily absolute, bordering on deathly stillness.

It even reminded Annan of the thick fog shrouding Otherworld Paris during his encounter with the Emerald Lama.

... Yet this visibly rose-scented mist lingered inside the winds-sealed building.

Annan and players with robust constitutions didn’t notice its effects.

But those gold-tier players whose physical attributes failed to meet the threshold began experiencing strange hallucinations.

Their perception of the world warped; colors turned unnaturally bright. Especially cold hues, which shone piercingly... other people’s skin appeared green and blue.

According to Longjing Tea, it resembled the "experience of eating poisonous mushrooms during a careless Yunnan trip."

Annan remembered this description vividly.

It was the same scent he had encountered when Fufu robbed him of his sight and hearing!

... Could Fufu have anticipated their teleportation point?

Burdened by suspicion, Annan pointed towards the newly repaired wooden wall.

The wall creaked as thin frost emerged and quietly disintegrated, like a swarm of insect-like frost biting through and swallowing it.

The destruction revealed the view beyond the building.

—The entire Saltpeter Ranch was enveloped in the same blood-colored mist, stretching across the streets and above the city.

From the visible scope...

Not a single soul was left in the entire town.