In Guanling.
Casey was walking down the street while thinking.
After leaving Guanling Dungeon, Casey got a villa from Guanling. Besides, he got the right to move freely in the whole Guanling.
After exploring every place, except for restricted zones, of Guanling, Casey had had a general understanding of this place
He had attempted to explore the border of Guanling. However, Guanling was surrounded by either towering mountains or cliffs. It was just like a prison, the walls of which were towering mountains or cliffs. People could only leave this place by helicopter.
Casey marvelled at Guanling's being able to change such a large mountainous area into flat land and to construct a great number of buildings on it. It was definitely a huge project to create a place suitable for human habitation. Casey even believed that it was much easier to build pyramids than to build the Guanling. If Guanling was made public, it might become the eighth wonder of the world.
These days, he had been looking for Terence. However, he was unable to have contact with neither the rich people nor the management of Guanling. Now, in Guanling, he knew no one but Montgomery and the friends Montgomery introduced to him.
None of these people knew anything about Terence-- or no one had ever heard of Terence.
Because of it, Casey suspected that Terence might have died in Guanling.
When he was in Guanling Dungeon, Casey had observed the people in every room, hoping to find Terence in this way.
However, he failed. He used his name in Guanling in hopes that Terence would take the initiative to come to him after knowing that he was in Guanling.
However, Terence didn't. Casey even doubted that Terence had already died in Guanling many years ago.
After all, Terence was not in Guanling Dungeon. If Terence was still alive, he must have been able to move freely in Guanling.
Therefore, Terence was very likely to be someone on the List of the Ares. Casey specially asked Montgomery about the names, appearances and approximate ages of all the people on the List of the Ares.
They were all different from Terence in those aspects.
If Terence wasn't someone on the List of the Ares, Casey could only wonder if Terence was one of the two people who successfully high ladder. If that was true, then the reason why there wasn't any news about Terence would be that he had already left Guanling after he successfully high ladder.
According to Montgomery, one of the two people who successfully climbed high ladder was called Percy. He was a crazy killer. Before, when he just entered Guanling, he was also in Guanling Dungeon. On the first day of his entering Guanling, however, he killed all the people sharing one room with him.
After that, he kept killing people. He was like a lunatic, nearly killing people every day. If one day he wasn't asked to fight with someone, he would kill the staff of Guanling who delivered food to him. At that time, people in Guanling Dungeon suffered a lot.
Later, Percy left Guanling Dungeon and challenged the experts in fighting on List of the Ares one by one. Everyone fought with him died. When Percy was in Guanling, there wasn't an expert in fighting in Guanling. Percy nearly killed all the fighting experts here. As many experts in fighting came to Gaunling, a few years later, there were finally as many experts in fighting as before.
The other person was called Maximus, a refined and unworldly man. He looked gentle, but he was extremely good at fighting. The reason why he entered Guanling was that he wanted to find someone who was eligible to be his opponent.
At that time, Maximus defeated 18 experts on List of the Ares. Then, he high ladder and successively defeated the top 10 experts in fighting on List of the Ares. He could be said to be a rare legend in Guanling.
When Maximus was in Guanling, Percy wasn't in Guanling. Otherwise, Percy would be the opponent Maximus wanted to find. And the fight between them would absolutely be the best one in the history of Guanling, even in the whole history of fighting.
When Terence left the Davies family, he could be said to be one of the top experts in fighting only in B City. He was far from as good at fighting as the two experts in fighting who high ladder.
Casey knew that Terence certainly had his own secret, just like him, and that Terence might be actually better at fighting than he seemed to be. However, Terence's personality was very different from that of Percy and Maximus. Therefore, Casey didn't believe that Terence would be the person called Percy or Maximus.
In this case, it was highly likely that Terence had been dead. Terence was neither in Guanling Dungeon or on List of the Ares. If he was still alive, there was only one possibility left: he had become the management of Guanling.
It was a chance in a million. According to Montgomery, since the existence of Guanling, the management had been very mysterious. Besides, it had never happened that the people from the outside world had become the management of Guanling.
Although Casey was not sure that there wasn't something that people didn't know, Casey found it unrealistic that Terence had become management of Guanling.
However, being unwilling to lose any hope, Casey didn't directly deny this possibility. It was not easy for him to get in touch with the management of Guanling, so he had been trying to figure out a way to do so.
Having not got any information about Terence, Casey couldn't leave Guanling. He missed Edith and was worried about her situation. So he wanted to vent his unhappiness by going to the bar in Guanling and having a drink.
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