Chapter 188 The Uprising Plan 1

I don't know if the base that the girl Lu Chan saw is the same thing that I saw. She stood at a distance and studied it for a while before she made a judgment: "...The one engraved on this base should be a 'release seal' formation."

"What seal are you breaking?" I inquired further.

As expected, she replied, "Inner strength, memories, bloodline, and so on... Simply put, the purpose of this device is the same as what the Zhu family has recently wanted to do to Zhu Chang'an."

This is really strange.

After Ying Lingyun ordered Chenlong to kidnap Chang'an, he actually intended to do what Elder Zhu was originally planning to do: unsealing Chang'an's demonic bloodline. Wasn't it the same no matter who did it? Was there some reason that made him feel only he could do it? Or had he actually overlooked the Zhu family's plans?

If Mr. Zhu's goal was to ensure that Chang'an had the power to guarantee its safety, then what was Ying Lingyun's goal?

Is it to revive Silvermoon? Is there a connection between breaking the seal on the demonic bloodline of Chang'an and reviving Silvermoon?

If we were to force a connection between the two, then I could only speculate that Yin Yue might have left some kind of resurrection plot in Chang'an, such as whether her soul was reincarnated into Chang'an, and that as long as the seal on Chang'an's demonic bloodline is broken, she would automatically be resurrected from Chang'an.

Assuming this is the truth, and that Ying Lingyun already knew this information, then he wouldn't have waited until now to kidnap Chang'an. However, Chang'an may still hold an important position in his "grand plan" to revive Yin Yue—something I must anticipate.

My friend has really had a lot of bad luck.

He might have been influenced by my "jinxed constitution" before, but recently I've cut off contact with him, and we've been apart for a long enough time. Even so, he still got involved in this kind of event, which only shows that he was originally burdened with the cause and effect of "being involved in this kind of event".

Let me help him.

"Has his seal been broken now?" I asked.

The young girl, Lu Chan, seemed to have used some kind of detection spell, and then said, "...It should still be in the process of being deactivated, and it will take quite a while."

"Can I take him out halfway through? Will it have a negative impact on him?" I asked.

“It won’t have any impact,” she said. “However, the container is made of very sturdy material. In my observation, it’s impossible for a level of firepower to damage it.”

Upon hearing this, I touched the outer shell of the container, trying to sense its defensive capabilities. "Sensing the defensive capabilities of an object" is a rather abstract concept, and I wasn't sure if I could accurately assess it. Perhaps influenced by Lu Chan's earlier words, I also felt that "my current firepower is insufficient to destroy it."

That's alright, I never intended to rescue Chang'an first. The important thing is to confirm his location and destroy this independent reality space before I can bring him out of this dangerous place. Until then, let's "deposit" Chang'an here.

Let's leave this room for now, walk back to the manager's office along the corridor, and restore the hidden door and bookshelves to their original state.

"So... what should we do next?"

Although Lu Chan said this, she seemed to have some ideas. She looked at me and continued, "Since you can resist Dr. Silver Mask's restart power, his invincible golden body has been broken. Perhaps we can really kill him."

She didn't ask me why I could resist the power of restarting, but instead started the conversation based on that premise.

"Let me make this clear beforehand: I can only resist the power of rebooting myself. If Dr. Silver Mask wants to use the power of rebooting to revive himself, I cannot stop him," I reminded him.

"Is it really unstoppable?" she said. "You should be able to teleport with items other than yourself, right? Suppose you take the black jade from his heart and cause his death, it will certainly trigger his 'reboot' automatically, but you will not be affected by the power of the reboot."

"In other words, you can teleport to the outside of the stronghold with the black jade, which is likely the core lifeline of this stronghold. After that, the stronghold will collapse, and then we will win."

"This idea is wonderful, but I probably can't do it," I said.

She paused for a moment, then asked, "Why?"

"The reason my flame teleportation can carry external objects is because they are all my personal belongings," I said. "When you walk outside, you should feel that wearing clothes is natural, and not wearing them would be abnormal, right? It's the same for me. The clothes and pants I wear, as well as the cell phone and other items inside my pants, are all part of me, so I can elementalize them at the same time as I elementalize them."

"Although the Sword of Impermanence of the Heretic Path is not such a natural object, I can still barely regard it as a personal item and decompose it into flames to teleport with myself."

"But Dr. Silver Mask's god... the black jade is different. It's like his heart. I can't just take it and immediately treat it as my own personal item."

The young girl, Lu Chan, asked persistently, "Is it really impossible no matter what?"

"No, this is a matter of values. If I were an extreme egocentrist who would take what I robbed for granted as my own, then maybe I'd have a chance. But as for me in reality..." I thought for a moment and then said, "I'd at least have to actually kill the other person first."

"Your values ​​are, in some ways, even more extreme than those of an ultimate egocentrist," she complained.

I can only consider the spoils of war as my own after killing the opponent, but Lu Chan's method requires me to kill the opponent on the condition that I consider their spoils as my own, which is a reversal of cause and effect. Unfortunately, this line of thinking must be abandoned.

However, I'm not one to simply dismiss other people's ideas. After realizing that I wasn't affected by the power of the reboot, I developed my own method.

That is killing.

"—If I just keep killing Dr. Silver Mask, I should be able to kill him completely, right?" I said.

"How so?" The young girl, Lu Chan, seemed to realize what I was thinking.

"No matter what kind of immortality it is, there are limits. There is no such thing as an immortal being that can resurrect infinitely. Even 'rebooting' should be no exception."

I actually suspect that Dr. Silver Mask's power of reactivation is capable of infinite resurrection, because the source of this power isn't Dr. Silver Mask himself, but rather the fragments of the Divine Seal. Regarding the power of the Divine Seal fragments, I think it's best to avoid relying on common sense for interpretation.

My real strength lies ahead.

“Even if his power to restart can be used an unlimited number of times, his own soul ultimately cannot withstand an unlimited number of deaths,” I said. “Those witchers are on the verge of soul collapse precisely because they cannot bear countless deaths and pain. Just let the same thing happen to Dr. Silver Mask. Even witchers who automatically forget death and pain will be like this, so Dr. Silver Mask, who can remember everything, will be even more unable to bear it.”

"And my consciousness, body, and flames will not be affected by the power of reboot, which means that even if everything inside the base is rewound, I can stay in the closest place to Dr. Silver Mask and kill him repeatedly until his soul is destroyed."

"I see, this method works!"

The young girl, Lu Chan, was initially excited, but then frowned: "No, what do you plan to do with Chen Long? He won't just stand by and watch you 'slaughter' the Silver Mask Doctor; he will definitely intervene and stop you halfway through."

"This is the only difficulty with this method: I must be able to exert power equal to or greater than that of Chenlong in this place," I said.

"If only I could know why he was able to unleash the power of a Great Perfection level expert inside this stronghold..." she thought.

"Do you have a solution?" I asked earnestly.

She fell into distressed thought.

After a long time, her furrowed brows finally relaxed, as if she had some ideas.

I straightened my posture and listened attentively.

"To solve this mystery, we at least need to actually watch a scene where Chenlong fights seriously with the power of a Great Completion level. The answer is probably hidden in that scene," she said.

“I understand that, but I can’t force him to use his full strength right now,” I said.

“It’s alright, you don’t need to take action.” She said in a deep voice, “As long as all the demon hunters imprisoned inside this stronghold are released from their cells and magic seals at the same time, and work together to create a riot, he will be forced to use his full power to deal with them.”

At the same time, freeing all the Witchers and causing a riot—that alone sounds like an insurmountable challenge.

The person who said this was Lu Chan, a girl who had secretly planned two prison breaks, and she might actually have a way to do it.

"What if it's not Chenlong who takes action, but Dr. Silver Mask who resets everything with the power of reboot?" I asked.

“Judging from past riot cases, he wouldn’t do that,” she said confidently. “In his view, it’s more important to figure out the cause of the riot and the loopholes in the internal detention mechanism than to stop the riot itself. Therefore, if he has the opportunity, he will choose to let Chenlong eliminate the riot first, and then investigate the information he wants.”

"So, next, I need to persuade those imprisoned witchers to participate in this plan."

"Are you sure it's okay? This is basically trying to convince them to carry out a suicide attack," I asked.

“They are the only people who can barely believe they are alive here, but living here is just an endless living hell,” she said. “So, as long as it’s to destroy this place, they will do whatever they are asked to do, let alone commit suicide.”

"Is there anything I can help with?" I asked.

“Yes,” she asserted. “You are the key to 'simultaneously freeing all the Witchers'!”

(End of this chapter)