Douluo: This time we will rewrite our destiny

"Is it really okay?" He still dared not loosen his grip, "This child is..."

"If I can't protect you, then you can't protect me either." Yin Shuang stood in front of him with a firm attitude, "Of course, you don't have to go. It's enough for me to go with you."

Li Lan looked at Meng Hongchen and asked for her opinion. Meng Hongchen also thought seriously for a while and finally made a decision:

"How about this, Senior Yin Shuang, you take good care of Yin Yun while City Lord Li and I continue to study the nature of the traces here. If anything unexpected happens, we will keep in touch at any time."

Yin Shuang also looked at Li Lan: "You heard it, this is our decision."

Seeing that the two had made a decision, Li Lan stopped trying to stop them. He carefully loosened his arms, and at that moment, he was almost knocked down by Yin Yun who immediately started to move forward. He quickly stepped aside.

"I have another question." Meng Hongchen raised a hand like a student.

"What? Miss Meng, please feel free to ask questions." Li Lan said.

"Is Yin Yun the only one who was contaminated by his martial spirit back then?"

"He's not the only one." Li Lan shook his head. "However, most of them are local soul mentors from Luoyue City who are helping with disaster relief. According to the statistics submitted by the hospital, there are 37 of them in total. Among them, only Yin Yun was admitted to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Instructor Academy, but he still suffered these things."

"He was unwilling to drop out of school, so he went to Mingdu to continue his studies with such a martial spirit. It was not easy for our small town to have a child who could go to the Royal Soul Instructor Academy, but he ended up with this. We can't treat him unfairly. So later, when it came to propaganda about earthquake relief, he was the first one to be promoted as a positive figure."

"Um……"

Meng Hongchen was absent-minded about this story. She was thinking about another question:

"So, how are the others?"

"The others are..."

"A person whose martial spirit has been infected and mutated like Yin Yun."

Li Lan shook his head sadly: "Ms. Meng, they are all dead."

Meng Hongchen looked up at Yin Shuang and Yin Yun going away. She asked:

"How did you die?"

"Not long ago," the city lord pointed in the opposite direction of their departure, "on the night of the second event, when the aftershocks hit, all of these people, whether they were recuperating or had already returned to their daily lives, died without exception due to their martial spirits backlashing and exploding. The death scenes were quite tragic, and not something that someone like Miss Meng should listen to."

"What's the big deal?" Meng Hongchen said with disdain. "I'm a spirit master who specializes in using poison. The tragic scenes of people being poisoned to death are enough to desensitize me. You may think that the deaths of people who died from poison are very beautiful? In fact, there are so many disgusting deaths."

"...Well then," Li Lan said, "When we found the bodies of these people, their joints were basically twisted and put into strange postures that humans could not do. It reminds us of the mysterious sacrificial rituals performed by some cults that are more vicious than the Holy Spirit Church."

"At the same time, their internal organs were broken and filled with the spider web-like substance we just detected, as well as the opal-colored crystals that the Holy Spirit Church regards as rare metal materials."

"Some of our people noticed that the growing crystals and substances were somewhat similar to those of human female wombs, so they suspected that something was being nurtured in these people's bodies. However, they collectively failed that day, resulting in the death of the parasitized subjects."

"Wait," Meng Hongchen stopped again, "Are you saying that except for Yin Yun, the other thirty-six people are in the same situation? All of them fit your description?"

"Yes, Miss, that's all. So we are really happy to see Yin Yun is still alive. This may mean that this phenomenon can be overcome. After all, Yin Yun is the most advanced among these people."

Meng Hongchen shook her head vigorously, and her silver-white side ponytail swung back and forth, making a whirring sound, which scared Li Lan. "What's wrong?" he asked.

"Don't be so happy..." Meng Hongchen said, "The other thirty-six people all had the same symptoms. Why do you think Yin Yun was able to escape? He is not much more special than those people, and his cultivation was also average when he was contaminated!"

"So, what Miss Meng means is..."

Li Lan's hand holding the mahogany cane trembled, and Meng Hongchen pursed her lips. She was really afraid that speaking too bluntly would hurt the old man's heart. However, in this situation, she had to tell the truth even if she didn't want to.

"In my opinion," she said, "Yin Yun is still alive today only because he is the only one among the thirty-seven who was successfully parasitized. Be alert to him, City Lord, he is the one who succeeded, and now he is also being sucked blood by something that is gestating... If the prophecy is more unfortunate, there will always be a moment when that unknown thing will break out of his body."

Li Lan didn't say a word, but the hand holding the mahogany cane was shaking even more violently.

"We can do a full body check on him." Meng Hongchen still couldn't bear to say, "After all, this is just a guess. If we find the same signs, it won't be too late to think about what to do."

"What should we do if we find out?" The old man sighed deeply. "Should we execute him? This would be a devastating blow to this city...if we kill the young hero in the propaganda with our own hands."

"That shouldn't work," Meng Hongchen thought. "Based on my experience in biology class, even if the host is killed, it won't affect the fully developed parasite. We have to think of other ways..."

On the other side, Yin Shuang followed closely behind Yin Yun, watching him move forward in one direction with a clear purpose, as if he had no soul. He even retained some consciousness to avoid the ruins, wandering in the disaster area that was getting deeper and deeper and more complicated, but he didn't trip once.

It doesn't seem like he has completely lost consciousness, Yinshuang thought.

There is also a mental disorder in the Far North, which the soul beasts in the Far North call ice worm disease. This disease is not limited to any race, and all the soul beasts in the Far North know that if you stay in the ice cave for too long, there is a chance that you will feel itchy all over your body after leaving, the kind of itch that seeps from the bones, and scratching cannot solve the problem.

After a period of itching, everything seems to heal naturally. However, at this time, the patient begins to experience hallucinations, mental problems, and drowsiness. In the eyes of its companions, its temperament has changed drastically, as if it has become another person, or another creature. However, in its brief lucidity, it will think that it has not done those things at all.

In the end, the patient will completely lose himself, and no matter what race he is, his behavior will become like a worm crawling on the ice. At first, no one knew what was going on, so they went to ask for help from the Snow Emperor, the Ice Emperor, and the Titan Snow Demon King.

The Snow Demon King was also confused, so the Snow Emperor asked the Ice Emperor to use her claws to cut the patient's skin open alive, and everyone finally discovered the truth: the person rolling on the ground was not the victim himself, but had been eaten away to the point that only a piece of skin was left, and inside was a fully developed large ice worm soul beast. This kind of soul beast can only develop and cultivate in the body of another soul beast. If it survives alone in the natural environment, it can't even compare to a ten-year soul beast, but it can kill many soul beasts just like this.

After that, the Snow Queen ordered the killing of ice worms in the entire Far North Plain, but it was still too difficult to completely eradicate them. That was why she had a deep impression of this.

Therefore, Yin Yun's appearance of seeming to be sleepwalking but not completely losing his sense of the environment made her alert for a moment. The ice worms would eventually bring their host back to the ice cave to reproduce again. If Yin Yun just groped his way towards the epicenter, would that mean...

Just as she was thinking about this, the whole ground suddenly shook. She immediately realized it was an aftershock, and tapped the ground with her toes to keep a low altitude in the air. She looked at Yin Yun, watching him being knocked down by the shaking ruins, and then slowly getting up. At this time, she finally felt the terrifying pressure that Li Lan described.

In an instant, she understood why Li Lan couldn't describe this feeling clearly. Nowadays, most humans live in cities, towns, or in the countryside, and their perception of the natural world is many times worse than that of soul beasts. Yin Shuang was able to summarize the boundless power in Li Lan's eyes with a few concise sentences:

The earth is breathing and the cracks are pulsating. This is definitely not caused by the existence of monsters under the epicenter cracks, but rather the land itself has come alive.

Reverence for nature runs in the blood of every soul beast. The Snow Emperor, who should have few rivals in this world, actually developed a retreating mentality in the face of such a disaster, thinking "I'm afraid I can't fight against nature."

However, she soon felt uncomfortable. The natural force she was familiar with was indifferent and indifferent to all life. It might be harsh and unkind, but it was rarely completely malicious. However, now, Yinshuang felt that this land was full of malice towards her.

What on earth was this? Ever since Huo Yuhao told her the whole story, her curiosity had grown. She carefully released the phantom of the Ice and Snow Maiden's martial spirit, ensuring that her eight spirit rings were in combat readiness, and then rushed to the epicenter ahead of Yin Yun.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

Thus, more than a year after the Luoyue City earthquake, for the first time, someone saw the entirety of the hideous crack at the center of the earthquake so closely and clearly. It spanned half of Luoyue City, like a festering scar. The closer to the crack, the more purple-red spider web-like substances and strange crystals growing from any ruins appeared on the ground.

In the intense disharmony and uneasiness, Yin Shuang lowered her head and saw that the crack had turned into a scarlet canyon, which was bottomless and filled with mist. The mountains on both sides of the canyon were no longer human land, but had become as smooth as a mirror, like countless prisms reflecting and refracting each other. She saw her own distorted reflection cut by the edges in the mirror.

Then, a ball of purple mist flew out from her shattered reflection, rushed into the air, and condensed from nothingness into a solid entity. Yin Shuang's face turned very ugly, because she could see clearly that the appearance of the mist was exactly the same as her.

……

"found it."

Huo Yuhao didn't have to spend too much effort to find all the secret mechanisms that he had not noticed before at the bottom of the collapsed Holy Spirit Church headquarters.

When he unlocked the password of the last soul guide mechanism and input the number, he and Chi Qiu simultaneously heard a loud noise of a door opening from underground, and then a large area of ​​connected floor tiles moved away with a rumble, revealing a very deep hole at their feet.

Chi Qiu leaned down and looked into the cave entrance. After looking for a while, she said with certainty: "There is no one else here, no living people. I don't know if all the things we need are here, but I do smell the scent of some natural treasures."

The two of them looked at each other in tacit understanding. Huo Yuhao took the lead, and Chi Qiu followed behind him, keeping an eye on the situation behind him. Soon, they followed the secret passage and entered a secret room.

This seemed to be the secret room that Ye Xishui often lived in. Even Zhongli Wu seldom came here, otherwise Huo Yuhao would not have heard about this room from Tang Ya.

He looked through the desk and confirmed that the person at the desk was Ye Xishui. He opened the desk drawer and quickly found three small bottles filled with various secret elixirs, some of which had the aura of evil soul masters, but some of which maintained their pure effects.

The battle with Emperor Tian's arrival had already used up all his reserves of elixirs, and now he really needed to replenish them. He carefully selected the elixirs that were still usable and put them into a small bottle, which he put into the Mingyu Ring, intending to use them together when he challenged the title.

His current attitude towards elixirs is that good steel should be used on the blade. When upgrading on a daily basis, he would lay a good foundation for his soul power and mental strength, and then squander the accumulated wealth when he really needs an instant burst.

On the other side, Chi Qiu searched the bookcase and storage cabinet thoroughly, and stuffed a lot of high-level soul guides and rare metals that could be taken away as trophies into the storage soul guides. Although she herself was not very interested in these, she remembered that Huo Yuhao was very interested.

As she searched, she suddenly found a locked cabinet. There was a note with the words "Notes" on it. She asked Huo Yuhao to find the key. Huo Yuhao used his spirit to search every corner of the room, even the dust in the corners, but still couldn't find the key. They remembered that when Ye Xishui, Long Xiaoyao, and Zhongli Wu were captured, no keys or anything like that were found on them.

“It seems that she didn’t even look at this cabinet, and the key is in someone else’s hands.” Huo Yuhao touched his chin. “If she said that she didn’t know, then it means that the Holy Spirit Church’s records are most likely kept here…”

Before he finished speaking, Chi Qiu spread his hands towards him and said, "You'll know after you take a look."

Then, the golden dragon spear appeared in her hand. Under Huo Yuhao's admiring gaze, she used the spear to tear the locked cabinet into pieces, turning it into meaningless wooden boards, and the files and documents inside were scattered all over the floor.

“Let me see…” Huo Yuhao picked it up and read very quickly. “…Well, this is correct. This is the record of the coup. It is basically consistent with what Zhongli Wu said, but there is a small mistake. The person who recorded this should not be Zhongli Wu himself.”

"Here...here, it all matches up. That's it. As for the earthquake, a year ago..."

When Huo Yuhao quickly flipped to a certain page, he paused for a moment. He read the text again and then called out, “Qiu’er, look at this!”

So, he and Chi Qiu leaned their heads against each other and read this description together:

"The Sky Soul Empire branch sent a message, they claimed that they found the will left by God in this world. All this leads to the use of secret methods to open a strange passage, and there is no other explanation, but no one in the sect can determine where the passage leads to. This incident was suppressed by the leader, but the Sky Soul Empire branch soon sent another letter, secretly sent to the Sun and Moon branch outside the headquarters, hoping to open a passage somewhere in the Sun and Moon Empire as soon as possible. When asked the reason, they only said that this was the only remaining will of God and must be executed as soon as possible, but the result of the execution seemed to be unsatisfactory."