The Gentleman at the End

Chapter 62: Chapter 61 Strategy

Juliana carefully folded and stored the complete moon skin she had cut off, which would be a critical item in exchange for her teammates’ survival.

At the same time, she glanced at Yi Chen, who was squatting beside the corpse, apparently doing something.

“This guy’s speed can actually be this fast… Wasn’t he supposed to be intelligence-oriented? From the chasing process just now, it’s not just the speed; the action of jumping and delivering a killing blow is also quite smooth. His physique isn’t bad at all.

Is this the strength of a First Gentleman recipient?”

Shortly thereafter, Edmund and Dagbert also arrived in quick succession.

When Edmund took over the “moon skin,” he unexpectedly discovered a moon-shaped crystal, like a piece of jade, still attached to the inner layer of the skin where the moon seal was imprinted.

“A crystalline pathogen core? That’s really rare… It corresponds exactly to the position of the moon seal, making it possible to directly remove it by skin stripping.

However, that’s only the case with the Patients. If it were a severe patient, they would certainly hide this weakness.

It must be said that Moon Transformation Disease is a difficult illness to deal with,

not only immune to silver but also significantly enhancing the individual’s functions.

As for the Pathological Traits, more moon transformation subjects need to be killed to draw conclusions.”

After giving a brief analysis, Edmund folded the moon skin symmetrically and stored it in his backpack.

He glanced at Yi Chen by the corpse and signaled his teammates not to disturb him.

About five minutes passed,

Yi Chen successfully completed the Central Tasting, suppressed the excitement in his brain, and shared the memory fragments he had captured with his teammates.

“There are at least six Patients inside the Old John Theater and about twenty junior moon transformation subjects who have not yet developed consciousness.

It basically matches what this old guy said; the remaining moon transformation subjects in the district are all gathered in the theater, saving us the trouble of looking for them.”

Edmund had already witnessed Yi Chen’s traits yesterday, and now he was not surprised but also shared his concerns,

“It has advantages and disadvantages for these guys to gather together.

Just the four of us breaking into the theater base, you can imagine the level of danger.

Perhaps the moon transformation subjects could also communicate thoughts over short distances,

and the killing of the old man in the sewers, as well as our individual combat styles, have all been leaked.”

However, Yi Chen was not at all worried about this situation.

“If these guys can communicate thoughts through the ‘moon seal,’ and the old guy really has communicated what happened in the sewers to the guys in the theater, then things will be much easier.”

As Yi Chen said this, Edmund also suddenly realized and his eyes lit up.

“William, was your conversation with the old man earlier deliberate? Deliberately conveying the false information that we are just the Vanguard Team?”

Yi Chen pointed to the small grape on his shoulder.

“Because I can achieve this feature with Small Grape.

Considering that the old man was clearly part of the same group as those in the theater, yet he stayed alone downstairs as the Gatekeeper, there’s a high probability of ‘thought communication’ being possible.

Therefore, based on this assumption,

through interacting with the old man, we let the moon transformation subjects in the theater think that we are just the ‘vanguard team’ and that a large group of gentlemen is soon to arrive.

This would cause them to start considering evacuating the district.

Meanwhile, our quick elimination of the gatekeeper will severely disturb their state of mind, urging them to make a faster decision to leave the district.

By then, the theater will only be left with the early-stage moon transformation subjects whose consciousness has not yet formed.

Mr. Lee’s request was for ‘moon skin’ within the district boundaries; those who flee the district obviously do not count,

and there’s no need for us to risk our lives to bring back more valuable patient skins for him.

We just need this high-quality moon skin from the old man as a base, and then supplement it with the skins of other early-stage moon transformation subjects.

Of course,

if the moon transformation subjects are unable to communicate through thought, it does not affect our killing of the gatekeeper… We can reconsider the situation in the theater after dealing with the watchdog.

It’s that simple.”

“How impressive…” Juliana murmured softly behind her black veil.

Edmund had already stepped forward and patted Yi Chen on the shoulder, “That’s truly worthy of you, William!”

“They were just impromptu thoughts during the conversation with the old man.

Let’s go; we should quickly head to the sewer area directly opposite the theater… If we can detect significant activity upstairs, it should further confirm that the ‘patients’ inside have started to evacuate.”

Yi Chen had mostly recovered his physical energy exhausted during the battle as his brain absorbed nutrients; he was in an excellent condition.

Just as he had gotten up,

§Good Job§

a strange voice, whose origin he could not determine, was heard by Yi Chen.

He looked around but couldn’t find the source of the voice.

“Little Grape, did you hear any voice just now?”

Little Grape, half-buried in his shoulder, slightly peeked out his eyes and looked disdainfully up and down: “You must be ‘brain high’, imagining auditory hallucinations.”

“No joke, I really heard a voice just now.”

Seeing Yi Chen so serious, Little Grape also began to analyze:

“If the voice had come from outside, both I and your teammates would have heard it, at least one of them has better hearing than you.

If the voice came from within the cranium, as a symbiont, I should have heard it too.

If only you heard it,

Other than hallucination, it might be related to the brain you just ate.

After all, this ‘Moon Transformation Disease’ is fairly novel. There’s no relevant record in my memory, belonging to a rare and unusual type of illness, some oddities are to be expected.”

“Hmm.”

Yi Chen remained cautious; if he heard a similar voice again, he would try to trace its origin as much as possible.

…

The group exited the old man’s home, soon reaching the sewer area directly below the theater.

“I’ll go!”

Juliana leaped lightly, driving twin daggers into the rock structure at the top of the passageway and suspending herself in mid-air. @@novelbin@@

Using the daggers as a conduit, she sensed the movements above.

“Your guess was right. These guys are evacuating, making a huge ruckus…”

“Hmm.”

Yi Chen clenched his fists in secrecy,

this would maximize the reduction of the squad’s casualties and energy expenditure, allowing them to negotiate terms with ‘Mr. Lee’ at full capacity later.

The group stayed in the sewer until the evening, and finally, the noise above ceased.

Bang! The manhole cover was pushed open.

The four of them appeared on the street in front of the theater’s main entrance under the cover of night.

There was no moonlight shining here, it was pitch dark.

Lighting the kerosene lamp in hand, they walked into the historically old John’s Theater through the fully open entrance hall, not feeling any prying eyes during that time.

However, the open-front hall area was deserted,

with no suspicious figures, nor was there any movement.

“Could it be that even the initial Moon Transformation patients were taken away through some kind of controlling method?”

As everyone moved along the entrance hall to the heart of the theater, the ‘Main Performance Hall’,

Click! Click!

One by one, the silver-white spotlights turned on, illuminating the stage.

“I knew it! Only the four of you came here,

those who call themselves gentlemen, the human elite, wouldn’t deploy a large force for a ‘second round’ of city cleansing.

Unfortunately,

other cowards were scared off by your bluff.

Only I, the master of the theater,

and a group of poor souls who have yet to awaken, remain here.

I must admit your antics in the sewer did have an effect, proving quite the ‘actor’s’ talent.

Why not let us have an impromptu performance, reliving the night of the False Moon in Viner City, how about it?”