Chapter 149 The Death of Dugu Bo
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Amon's avatars cannot establish a mental connection if they are too far apart. The avatars in Heaven Dou City are unaware of what happened in Spirit Hall City.
However, they are aware of the main body's plan. Through the details gleaned by the 'Cryptologist,' they can guess that Dugu Bo was struck by 'Eternal Wound.' It was either Bibi Dong or another Amon clone who successfully executed the plan that injured him.
Furthermore, Dugu Bo's reaction of utter shock upon seeing him implies who he had been facing earlier.
"You seem surprised to see me, Mr. Dugu Bo..." Guard Amon said with a smile.
He snapped his fingers, and the surrounding guards began to become sluggish. Even a guard squad leader with Soul Ancestor cultivation was dazed, his eyes vacant.
Under the immense difference in spiritual power, these ordinary people's minds nearly froze after being 'Deceived.' Hundreds of seconds might pass in the outside world, but their perceived time would be less than a second.
A wave of despair washed over Dugu Bo. The reason he hadn't resisted being stopped earlier was that he no longer had the ability to resist. Even a few ordinary people could take his life.
"What ability is this?" Dugu Bo asked calmly, giving up on struggling and taking a deep breath.
"Isn't it obvious? Avatars... No way, you're a titled Douluo and you haven't even seen this before?" Amon said with exaggerated surprise.
"What about Yanyan? Will you let her go?" Dugu Bo pleaded.
Amon was silent for a moment. He didn't know what the other Amons had specifically done. After a moment of thought, he guessed that some Amon had used Dugu Yan to threaten Dugu Bo.
He raised his right hand, pinched the bridge of his nose, and said softly:
"Dugu Yan? I wouldn't care about a little girl. My goal has always been you. As long as she doesn't seek death, I won't bother to play with her.
"Did one of the avatars tell you that they were going to kill her and reunite you two as grandparents? Don't worry, that's just a ploy to lure you into a trap. I, Amon, love to deceive people, so you don't have to take it seriously."
Amon picked up a standard iron sword from a guard and slowly walked over, piercing Dugu Bo's chest with it.
Dugu Bo did not resist, but calmly accepted his fate. He thought Amon shouldn't need to deceive a dying man like him. As long as Yanyan wasn't implicated, that was all that mattered.
He fell backward weakly, warm liquid flowing across the ground. Dugu Bo felt his body gradually growing cold, his consciousness fading.
Just then, Amon suddenly said:
"I told you, I, Amon, love to deceive people the most. Is it possible that the statement about not implicating Dugu Yan is the real lie?"
"You..." Dugu Bo's eyes widened suddenly, and he died with lingering resentment.
A stream of light flew out of his body, starlight diffused, and an Amon wearing a black classical robe, a pointed soft hat, and a monocle on his right eye appeared in the starlight.
He nodded to Guard Amon, cut open half of Dugu Bo's head, dug out the soul bone inside, then picked up the corpse and walked into the city.
Constantly avoiding pedestrians, and using 'Deception' to slow their thinking when it was impossible to avoid them, Amon arrived at the entrance of Shrek Academy unnoticed.
A smile appeared on his lips, and he snapped his fingers, causing the two guards at the academy entrance to become dazed.
Amon stepped forward and nailed Dugu Bo's body to the gate, then slowly left.
The two guards looked at each other, feeling something was wrong.
One of them said, "What just happened? I feel like I skipped a few seconds... There was a beautiful woman on the street, and I was watching her for a long time, but suddenly she disappeared."
"Me too, I seemed to have dozed off, and the things I saw after waking up were completely different, but I'm sure I was energetic. I didn't stay out too late last night."
A bloody smell came from behind them. They turned their heads to look, and the corpse of an old man with half his head cut open was nailed to the gate with a long sword.
There was a cross-shaped wound on the corpse's chest, and the edges of the wound seemed to have been dug out by something, leaving a bloody mess. Most terrifyingly, the eye on the remaining half of his head was wide open, like a vengeful ghost.
"Ah..." the two guards screamed.
"Wh...what do we do?" a guard with poor psychological quality asked.
"I'll watch here, you go find the dean quickly!" the other said.
"But how do I get in? Open the gate?"
"You're stupid, don't touch the gate, climb over the wall. Also, don't go out through the gate when you come out, tell the dean to climb over the wall."
Soon, Flender, Liu Erlong, and Yu Xiaogang arrived at the gate, looking at the corpse nailed to the gate. They gasped, their eyes revealing undisguised horror.
"This is... Dugu Bo?" Flender exclaimed in a lost voice.
"How is that possible?" Liu Erlong, who had been cursing and saying she would make anyone who dared to cause trouble for Shrek Academy look good, was now filled with faint terror.
Dugu Bo was a titled Douluo, a being whose personal strength forced the entire royal family to treat him with caution. Yet, such a terrifying powerhouse was killed by someone unknown, and his body was nailed to the door.
"Spirit Hall!" Yu Xiaogang spat out a word with a cold expression.
Besides Spirit Hall, he couldn't think of any other force capable of doing such a thing.
"Why would they kill Dugu Bo?" Flender asked.
"Because of Little San... Dugu Bo helped Little San, helped Xiao Wu escape, so they killed him! Nailing the body to the academy gate is probably a warning to us, and also, they are probably using this to force Little San, to make him feel guilty," Yu Xiaogang analyzed.
"Flender, quickly report the news of Mr. Dugu Bo's death to the royal family."
Yu Xiaogang sighed again and said, "Erlong, go to the Heaven Dou Royal Academy and tell Dugu Yan and Tianheng to come here."
On a rooftop, a man in black robes with a monocle on his right eye quietly looked down, his expression calm.
He was Amon, the main body of Amon!
With the greatest threat in Heaven Dou City gone after Dugu Bo's death, he no longer had to worry and could enter openly.
He took the soul bone from Dugu Bo from a clone and casually put it into his space ring.
Amon smiled, "Heh... Not bad, killing a titled Douluo, it seems our plan was very successful."
Then, he said to the clone beside him, "Go to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and retrieve all the herbs. Although they aren't very important, they should be able to help me improve my cultivation speed a little."
The clone nodded and hopped off the roof.
Dugu Bo's death alarmed many people. Emperor Xue Ye came in person, accompanied by Prince Xue Xing and Prince Xue Beng.
"Bastard! Don't they know that Mr. Dugu Bo is a consultant hired by our royal family? Who dares to attack him?" Xue Xing roared in anger.
Dugu Bo had always been close to him and Xue Beng, and was a major trump card they used to counter Crown Prince 'Xue Qinghe,' but now that he had fallen, it was foreseeable that the power belonging to Prince Xue Beng would shrink sharply in the coming period.
"Your Majesty, Mr. Dugu is my friend. This matter must be thoroughly investigated, and the murderer brought to justice!" Xue Xing said with a look of grief.
Emperor Xue Ye's expression was cold, and it was impossible to tell his joy or anger. He asked, "Master, do you have any guesses about the murderer?"
"Probably Spirit Hall." Yu Xiaogang said his speculation, but concealed Xiao Wu's existence in his narration.
"Spirit Hall..." Emperor Xue Ye took a deep breath, his eyes filled with anger.
Xue Xing immediately stopped talking and no longer mentioned catching the murderer.
"Grandpa, Grandpa..." Dugu Yan hurriedly pushed through the crowd and threw herself on Dugu Bo's body, which had already been laid down, and wailed.
Yu Tianheng didn't speak, but walked over, squatted down, and patted Dugu Yan's shoulder.
Platinum Bishop Salas walked over leisurely. He had received the mission issued by the Pope to find news of Tang San, Tang Hao, and Xiao Wu, and also knew part of the truth about what happened in Spirit Hall City.
Although he had come after hearing the news of Dugu Bo's death, he was still surprised when he actually saw the body. After all, this was a titled Douluo!
Generally speaking, even if Spirit Hall wanted to kill Dugu Bo in the territory of Heaven Dou City, they should have informed him to facilitate his cooperation, but he had received no news.
However, he didn't dwell on it. Matters concerning titled Douluos were definitely handled by elders, so it wasn't strange that he wasn't informed.
Salas also naturally assumed that Spirit Hall had done it. How dare he oppose the Pope and let go of a 100,000-year soul beast? Wasn't this courting death?
However, since the higher-ups hadn't notified him, he would pretend he didn't know and prepare to report the "death of Dugu Bo" according to the normal procedure.
"Murderers, you murderers, give me back my grandpa's life!" Dugu Yan, out of control, rushed over and grabbed Salas's clothes.
Seeing the bloodstains on his silver-white clothes, Salas snorted coldly and used soul power to shake Dugu Yan away. If Dugu Bo were still alive, he wouldn't be so rude, but now, he didn't need to be polite to her.
"Watch your mouth and don't talk nonsense. There will be a price to pay for slandering our Spirit Hall." Salas looked at her coldly.
Yu Tianheng walked over and stopped Dugu Yan, "Yanyan, calm down..."
He fearlessly met Salas's gaze, "Sorry, Yanyan was impulsive, but we won't give up on finding the murderer."
"Hmph... I won't hold the offense just now against her for the sake of her having just lost a loved one." Salas glanced at the wound on Dugu Bo's body and then left.
Emperor Xue Ye also left the scene after comforting Dugu Yan.
Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan together collected Dugu Bo's body.
Yu Xiaogang walked over and asked softly, "Tianheng, what do you plan to do now?"
Yu Tianheng's expression was solemn, and he said firmly, "I will avenge Yanyan. A blood debt must be paid in blood!"
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