Bulwark of Light

Chapter 396 Questions
"I am..."

When Zhou woke up, he saw a vague throne.

She has lost memory.

After a long time, I slowly remembered what happened.

I was hypnotized.

And the person who hypnotized himself was the young man sitting on the throne.

The moment she looked up, her spirit received a strong shock. At this moment, the man sitting on the throne was no longer wearing the white robe of the New Moon Church, but was shrouded in countless lights.

This is an unprecedented feeling... as if there are billions of rays of light covering her.

The skin, blood, and soul all seemed to warm up.

She, who believed in the new moon, suddenly felt shaken in her heart at this moment.

Who would believe in the "new moon" if they could get close to the "burning sun"?
She looked around slowly, this huge wilderness was blown by the warm wind, although it was empty, it didn't feel barren.

Weeds grew in the flat open fields.

This world is like a newborn, everything here is so... intoxicating.

Gu Shen sat on the Iron Throne, narrowing his eyes slightly.

Scenes of scenes emerged in front of him, which were the memories of "Zhou".

This scene is like a movie, which can be paused at any time according to Gu Shen's mind.

His gaze was fixed on a certain scene.

After he left the holy elephant.

Zhou stood on top of the building and watched herself go... Judging from her reaction at this time, she didn't come to find her motive, but she quickly looked down at the communicator.

It seemed that someone had sent her a message.

This piece of memory trembled, and the picture began to blur... Gu Shen sensed that this woman's mental strength was not stable, and reading it forcibly by herself might lead to a "crash".

Is this some kind of secret technique of the New Moon Church?

Gu Shen waved away these mental images and stopped the means of looting memory.

He was not flustered, and asked softly, "Whose message did you receive?"

The voice sounded very gentle.

But in fact... it is packed with irresistible coercion, like an oracle.

Zhou's mental strength gradually returned to calm, she couldn't control herself to remain silent, and hissed with difficulty: "I...don't know."

To prove innocence.

"I can't find the sender's name, nor can I find the address... That person seems to be a ghost, as if it was just to send a reminder email." Zhou whispered again: "The ghost said that your name is not A Mill, isn't a Crescent believer either."

Gu Shen looked at the woman silently.

It can be seen that this is not a lie.

Zhou really didn't know.

It's just that the situation suddenly became weird. A single email opened up his own file?
Then...there was this door-to-door investigation.

Fortunately for Gu Shen, this woman acted very quickly, she started to act as soon as she received the news, and then took the initiative to deliver it to her door. The New Moon Church should not know about this yet.

But bad.

Since there is the first email, there can be a second one.

Gu Shen didn't say much, and directly erased "Zhou"'s memory... This time the hypnosis process went very smoothly, much easier than he imagined.

Throughout the entire battle, the badge of the Storm God Throne can be said to have just burst into a "shock" effect. It seems that this so-called god is not as powerful as I expected, or it is just a perfunctory way of the gods to the people ?
Perhaps... His subjects are too many.

Or maybe... he didn't care at all.

But no matter which one, it gave Gu Shen more confidence to "fight away".

He erased "Zhou"'s memory, and at the same time used the method of treating the boss to give some guidance to the spiritual content, and finally gave "Zhou" a clear memory, returned to the residence, had a good sleep, and nothing happened.

"Zhou" was sent away.

Gu Shen suddenly realized... what it was like when Xiao established the "Long-term Foundation" in the metropolitan area back then.

If the spiritual power of an extraordinary person is strong enough.

Powerful enough... He can continuously expand the spiritual link and accept "believers", then these hypnotists will become the most loyal "believers", this is the most trustworthy group of people in the world, and they will grow completely around you , give life at any time.

It's just that there are too few extraordinary people who meet such conditions.

A spiritual supernatural being, even if he reached the twelfth floor, would not be able to establish a stable connection with people for a long time.

Xiao Xiao's "Blood Fire" and Gu Shen's "Blazing Fire" are one-in-a-million examples.

Although he really didn't want to be put together with Xiao, Gu Shen had to admit that the abilities of the two of them seemed to be born to "make people submit".

Now, he has clearly felt the horror of the "blaze"... It seems that his Four Seasons Wilderness can accommodate a lot of "souls". If Gu Shen is willing, he can even absorb enough "souls" in Nanzhou, a place of faith. believers, come to practice the teachings of their own creation.

"Wait a minute... Xiao..."

Thinking of this, Gu Shen suddenly realized something was wrong!
He immediately said, "Can I find Zhou's email?"

"Before you opened your mouth, I was already checking." Chu Ling moved faster than Gu Shen, her tone was calm, and she calmly showed the results: "The sender of that email cannot be checked because [Deep Sea] The authority was seconded, and there was a bug, judging from the results, this is indeed a 'ghost email'... But knowing this information seems to be enough."

Seconded [Deep Sea] authority to send ghost mail.

As far as Gu Shen knows... there seems to be only one person who can do all of this.

"Boom, boom."

There was another knock on the door.

It was the hotel manager who drove the waiter away. No matter how you look at him, he is just an ordinary person, not a transcendent... It's just that his eyes are extremely calm at this moment. If you look closely, you can still see the red in the depths of his pupils.

The hotel manager smiled and said in the same respectful tone as before: "Mr. Gu, are you satisfied with the results just now?"

Gu Shen smiled.

This thing...is more interesting than I imagined.

The manager closed the door.

He didn't do anything else, just leaned against the door and said softly, "Don't worry, I only sent one email. If you are willing to cooperate, New Moon Church... won't know what happened."

"Your dog's nose is really sensitive."

Gu Shen said lightly: "I landed in Xiyin City, and you smelled it in less than 24 hours."

"It's not surprising."

Xiao Xiao smiled, not feeling offended, but accepted the compliment frankly.

"After all... this is my 'home'."

Yes.

His base camp is not in Dadu, but in Nanzhou... After the last church case, Xiao has transferred the main body, and the year when Gu Shen was meditating was also a year when Xiao secretly developed his power.

I am afraid that he has cultivated countless "bodies" this year.

The three caves of the cunning rabbit... I don't know where this guy's body is hidden.

"You have too many homes, too."

Gu Shen said leisurely, "I don't know about other things... This one, I'm afraid it's not your real home, right? Otherwise, whoever comes to see me now, wouldn't be in such an ordinary body."

"Don't say that, I'm going to be sad... who would want to live in a place like this if given the choice?"

There was no trace of sadness on Xiao Xiao's face, he looked towards the sky, squinted his eyes and said: "The spiritual power of that old guy in Nanzhou is much more terrifying than the [Sky Eye] in Dadu. Once caught...that would be the end of life."

Thinking back to the last time, my mental power was caught by [Backflow], and countless ports were killed together.

Xiao Xiao didn't want to experience that kind of pain again.

And if he is discovered by the "Storm Throne", then he will only suffer even greater torture.

Gu Shen knew Xiao Xiao very well.

This guy noticed his "movement" immediately, and only sent an email, obviously not wanting the "situation" to become serious... and he and he were already incompatible.

The blazing fire wanted to swallow the bloody fire.

Similarly, Blood Fire also wants to eat Chi Huo.

Xiao wanted to die, but he didn't want to die under the hands of the New Moon Church... The reason why he seized the opportunity but didn't do it himself was simple, that is, the powerful body of the "Bloodfire" link did not live in Xiyin City.

If you do it.

He wasn't sure about killing himself.

"With such a body, you come to negotiate with me...it's too contemptuous of me." Gu Shen's fingertips flashed a blazing fire, "I have nothing to talk to you. Your fire... I will Laughed."

"Oh My God……"

Xiao quickly raised his hands to signal his surrender. He sighed and said with a smile: "You are too cautious? You have to make a killer when you come to meet with such a useless body? You are not afraid to kill me, welcome!" Come to the Crescent Church to kill?"

Gu Shen said calmly, "I can leave Nanzhou, can you?"

Xiao spent a long time and countless painstaking efforts to cultivate a mature force in the metropolitan area, but his body is hiding in Nanzhou thousands of miles away... At the beginning, it may be considered as a kind of "cautious", but things In hindsight, he obviously had a better choice.

There is only one reason for not leaving Nanzhou.

Nanzhou is inseparable.

"If you choose to send an email to the New Moon Church... I can leave Xiyin City immediately and return to Dongzhou, and you are ready to face the wrath of the 'Storm God'. I have a hundred ways to let him know what you have done What you did, and became interested in your identity." Gu Shen said slowly, "You seem to be a very remarkable earthworm, which can divide into hundreds of bodies and have hundreds of lives, but for the storm... It's just a thought to kill your hundreds of humble lives."

The smile on Xiao Xiao's face gradually disappeared.

His expression was a little gloomy.

"All right……"

The man who raised his hands slowly revealed a string of compounds around his waist.

Trinitrotoluene...the familiar explosive.

He said lightly, "Nobility is the epitaph of the noble, and despicableness is the passport of the despicable. I have tried to communicate with you calmly and noblely, but it seems to have little effect. Now I can only use the means I am best at... My The heart is connected to a pacemaker, and if you kill me, the dynamite will go off in an instant."

Gu Shen narrowed his eyes.

"I know you don't care about my life..."

Xiao Xiao smiled, "In the past year, your mental strength has really improved so fast, it's amazing. I'm afraid you can suppress these explosives in an instant without causing casualties."

Owl guessed right.

Gu Shen's other hand has silently pressed the ruler of truth, ready to suppress the explosion at any time.

"It's just... who stipulated that the explosives linked to the pacemaker can only be carried on the body?" Xiao said calmly, "If you kill me, this hotel will explode in an instant, but I don't know that with your current ability... you can be in one In an instant, how many people were saved. Do you want to try it?"

"Are you threatening me?"

Gu Shen held down the ruler and asked coldly.

There are many innocent people here... If Xiao really planted enough explosives in advance, then in this explosion, Gu Shen could only do "self-protection", he knew very well that he could not save everyone .

He knows better.

For Xiao Xiao, such a threat can be used countless times.

If you give in once.

Then the next... that is countless times.

"This explosion happened... You can't escape the investigation of the New Moon Church. Once you get the attention of the God of Storms, do you really think you can escape?" Gu Shen did not accept this threat.

"I can't escape, and you can't escape either." Xiao Youyou said, "I can assure you, once this explosion happens...you will not be able to leave Nanzhou either. In the eye of the storm, there is no difference between the two of us."

There was a stalemate for a few seconds.

"Please..."

Xiao stared into Gu Shen's eyes, the gloomy look on his face disappeared instantly.

It was as if all the unhappiness had never happened.

He suddenly smiled and said, "You shot me in Dadu, and killed me in the snowy field. The one who is really angry should be me. In this situation, why are you... so nervous?"

"Obviously... it's a lose-lose." Gu Shen said calmly, "If you threaten me, this situation will happen."

"Lose-lose?"

Xiao Xiao laughed again.

He slowly put down his raised hands, straightened his sleeves quickly, and wrote lightly, "No...it's not a lose-lose."

"What I did just now is just to tell you... For a gambler like me, I am already ready to sacrifice everything. Every second of my life may be the last second. I don't care at all. I can do anything for my own life or death. I don’t even care about life or death, so how can I care about winning or losing?”

"You want to say to a gambler who doesn't care about winning or losing, it's a lose-lose?"

Xiao was no longer leaning against the door, and slowly found a chair to sit down casually, as if he wasn't worried that Gu Shen would make a move at all.

He twisted an orange from the fruit plate, without peeling it, stuffed it into his mouth, and chewed it slowly.

Gollum.

He swallowed a whole orange.

He looked very comfortable, squinted his eyes, looked at Gu Shen, and said sincerely: "If you are willing to negotiate with me, maybe we will usher in another situation...we can win-win."

"..."

Gu Shen only thinks that everything Xiao Xiao says now is farting.

Win-win?

Cooperating with anyone can be a win-win situation, but it is impossible to cooperate with Xiao Xiao.

"From your eyes, I can see a strong distrust." Xiao raised his eyebrows and said, "I know where your hostility comes from... Next I will share something you are interested in. Maybe in After listening to it, you'll change your mind."

"If you guessed right."

"You should be looking for...something like this."

Xiao Xiao slowly reached out and took out a photo from his inner pocket.

An ancient copper figure lamp.

Gu Shen controlled his mood swings, and when he saw this lamp, his expression didn't change.

But played against each other many times.

Now that Gu Shen and Xiao know each other too well, neither of them can deceive the other when they are face to face.

"Stop pretending."

"Although I'm not in Dongzhou, I'm afraid there are few people who pay more attention to Dongzhou's news than me. The Li family in Snow Forbidden City has been looking for ancient antique lamps this year. This is indeed an unreasonable and strange behavior. People don’t understand why, so they don’t pursue it.”

He did not take back the photo, but put it on the table, and said with a soft smile: "But I am different from those people. Before the storm comes, the rain clouds always gather first. There is always a reason for everything. Li's search There must be a reason for the action of the lamp. Fortunately, I remember the incident in the tundra very clearly...Many unremarkable funerary objects fell out of the coffin, and there was a bronze lamp among them."

Gu Shen said lightly, "Is the lamp in your hand?"

"..."

Of course Xiao didn't answer this question, he smiled and said, "I came here just to tell you that I know where the lamp you are looking for is."

"Why should I trust you?"

Gu Shen shook his head.

It was impossible for him to believe Xiao Xiao's words... Just these few words were not enough for him to trust.

"Of course you don't have to believe it."

"It's just... what if your search has been fruitless?"

Xiao Xiao calmly adjusted his sitting posture.

He lazily lay on the chair, stretched out his fingers, lowered his head and slowly broke them, and said at the same time: "One, two, three, four... You seem to have found a lot of helpers, those guys in the slums are working hard, Xi Yinhe It won't be long before it will be searched again, if the light you are looking for is really in that place, it seems to be fine, but... what if it is not there?"

"Or, let's take another step back."

"No matter how small the sound is, it is still sound. Are you sure that the actions of these guys will not attract the attention of those who care?"

Xiao Xiao shrugged and said, "For example...me."

Gu Shen silently stared at the unscrupulous man in front of him.

How many "eyes" did this guy plant in Xiyin City?
"I want to know...what the hell is that lamp."

Xiao slowly leaned forward and said seriously: "As far as I know, it's just an ordinary object without extraordinary aura, and it's not worth Li's effort to search it, let alone come to Nanzhou yourself."

Gu Shen no longer tensed his body.

He sat across from Xiao, and said softly: "You seem to want to know the news about 'Deng'...Okay, I can tell you."

Xiao was startled.

"One question, another question." Gu Shen stretched out a finger and made a request.

Xiao pondered for a moment, smiled slightly, and leaned back again: "...Okay, but my request is to ask questions in turn."

"Yes, but I have to ask first." Gu Shen said: "In order to ensure the authenticity of the answer, you and I share a ray of flame at the same time to observe the other party's mental fluctuations."

Blood fire and blazing fire have the characteristic of attracting each other.

Once the two flames get close, they will feel the mental fluctuations of each other very clearly.

Xiao Xiao snorted coldly.

His body is already weak, and the amount of "blood fire" he carries is extremely small.

Part a strand, and there's nothing left.

It's just that...he didn't refuse, and according to what Bao Shen said, a very small strand was squeezed out from between his eyebrows.

The two flames merged with each other.

Seeing this scene, Gu Shen felt a little relieved.

He cut to the chase with the first question.

"What was written on the ancient slate that the Evening Bell Church took away?"

(End of this chapter)