Chapter 54

After the three of them finished their discussion, they turned around to see Sun Cheng huddled in the spherical wind prison, his hands clasped together in pleading. Even without being able to see his face, the three could tell from his body movements that he was anxious.

"Please save my friends. We've been playing together since we were little, and their families have been very kind to me. If anything happens to me, nothing must happen to them."

"Then do you know where they are being held?" Perhaps touched by a certain sentence, Zhu Changan felt some sympathy for him and asked proactively.

Sun Chengcheng was lost in his memories. "I only remember that I was captured by the Pen Fairy and locked up in a small room over on the playground for a while. I don't know where the two of them were imprisoned, but they should be in that area. Shall I take you there to have a look?"

The three of them looked at each other, and Mo Xuanji nodded.

"I'll lead the way for you. Can this thing..." Sun Cheng pointed at the wind prison, feeling a little embarrassed.

"The wind ball will protect you from the Pen Fairy. Just guide us from inside." While lying might be a pang of guilt, he felt no guilt at all in deceiving the strange Mo Xuanji. And he wasn't lying. The essence of the wind prison was to separate the inner and outer spaces, which did provide some protection.

Sun Cheng wandered around inside for a while, and finally compromised and said "OK".

Mo Xuanji stretched out his hand, and the wind ball began to move with his movements. Sun Cheng was forced to float behind them like a ghost.

"Let's leave the dormitory building first." Sun Cheng said.

The sound of rain outside gradually stopped, the dark clouds dispersed, and moonlight poured in through the window, illuminating the scene in the room.

"Lock..." Sun Cheng's eyes were a little straight.

"What's wrong?" Zhu Changan heard his voice and subconsciously turned around to ask.

"Ah, what I mean is, why does this young man carry so many locks on him? Ordinary people only carry one or two at most." Sun Cheng came to his senses and hurriedly explained.

Before Zhu Changan could speak, Mo Xuanji turned around and glanced at Sun Cheng: "Personal hobby."

This sentence blocked Sun Cheng's desire to explore.

Although Sun Cheng's situation was exactly as he said, and the level of weirdness was there, Mo Xuanji's sixth sense always made him wary of Sun Cheng.

Sun Cheng laughed awkwardly and stopped talking. Perhaps feeling bored, he soon started chatting with Zhu Changan again.

In the sea of ​​consciousness, Mo Xuanji was chatting with the system.

"System, can ordinary monsters hide their breath and not be discovered?" He only knew that SS-level monsters could hide themselves easily and could not be detected before they showed up.

"Of course you can, but in this case you'd need external objects, like magical instruments that can conceal your aura, or some magical treasures from heaven and earth. But magical treasures are long gone in this era, so the only possibility is the first one."

"Something that hides its own aura..." Mo Xuanji fell into deep thought: "Could it be that the Pen Fairy is really hidden in a pen?"

The system did not respond.

"Where did you get that notebook? It's been around for more than 20 years, and it's been preserved so well. The owner must have treasured it very much." Zhu Changan asked the question he had always been curious about.

"Oh, that belonged to my grandfather. I just happened to find it in his suitcase." Sun Cheng looked at Zhu Changan: "Is the notebook with you?"

Zhu Changan shook his head: "By the way, did you find anything in the notebook?"

Adding more people meant more perspectives, and perhaps they could uncover more information from the notebook. After all, the three of them were relatively inexperienced and didn't know much about events from twenty years ago, so they might not be able to connect the dots even if the information was there.

But Sun Cheng was different. They must have done their homework before coming here to hype things up, and they might find something that wouldn't attract attention. Sure enough, Sun Cheng nodded vigorously, then lowered his voice and asked mysteriously, "Do you know the Midnight Church?"

"Midnight Church?" Mo Xuanji remembered that this word appeared in the notebook.

"Yes, sects were very popular back then, with all sorts of boxing, kung fu, and whip-themed things. This church was one of them. It was free to join, and they would give everyone free eggs and flour, and teach them some things to keep fit."

"What kind of philanthropist is this? He doesn't take money but instead gives it away?" Shen Liuxue couldn't help but complain.

"Well, they were doing it under the guise of charity. They were pretending at first, but their true colors showed up later on. Don't they believe in some Midnight God? Let me tell you, this god is no ordinary lord. It's said that when he wakes up, he'll lead people into a brand new world. Things like bodies and money are all old things that need to be discarded; the new world doesn't need them.

If they feel miserable in the old world, they can leave early, and God will grant them a new life in the new world. Many people have been bewitched and become...sigh. "Sun Cheng shook his head and sighed.

This sounds a bit like the three men in black looking at each other, understanding each other tacitly but not saying it out loud.

"Didn't a student get into trouble here twenty years ago? It's said that the student who died at the beginning was a believer in the church, a sacrifice to the gods. Well, in reality, he was just discarded because he was no longer useful."

"What's going on with the people behind?"

"The ghost of that student came to find us. They are a bunch of fearless people." Sun Cheng said casually.

"Does the Midnight Church still exist now?" Mo Xuanji asked.

"It's gone, right? I heard the higher-ups cracked down on this evil cult and put it down."

As they were talking, the three people and the ghost had already left the dormitory building.

The puddles on the ground are connected to each other, and under the effect of reflection, they look like huge black holes connected to each other.

"By the way, I heard that you are a big anchor. How many fans do you have?" Zhu Changan mentioned it unintentionally.

Sun Cheng's chatter suddenly stopped. He thought for a moment and said, "Fans? I have quite a lot of fans, right? I haven't really counted them. They must fill a whole warehouse."

"Hahaha, is that so?" Zhu Changan scratched his hair with a smile and asked, "I've always wanted to be a blogger, but unfortunately I don't have anyone to guide me and I don't know anything. Brother Sun, you have experience, can you give me some pointers?"

Sun Cheng gave a rather stiff laugh. "Of course. But I don't know much. Ask me. If I knew, I would definitely tell you."

"Okay, then I will humbly ask for your advice." Zhu Changan smiled brightly.

Although he claimed to know nothing, Zhu Changan immediately asked a very professional and critical question: "Brother Sun, what are the configurations of your equipment? They say xxx is better than xx, but I don't quite understand. Which of these two do you think is suitable for a novice?"

"Uh...it depends on which one you like. They're pretty much the same, actually."

"Really? But I think xxx is clearer, but the other one has a few more functions. It's really hard to choose..." Zhu Changan seemed to be the embodiment of a hundred thousand whys, and one question would be followed by a new one.

Sun Cheng didn't seem particularly adept at guiding others, his initial response being rather perfunctory. Perhaps sensing Zhu Changan's doubts, he could only bite the bullet and say, "Let me think about it. I do know all this, but it's just that my mind isn't working as well as it should, so I need more time to think."

"Okay." Zhu Changan said with a silly smile.

The three of them silently changed their formation.

At the same time, Mo Xuanji's phone suddenly vibrated and a message popped up on the screen.

[AAA Playing Card Wholesale Brother Wang: Found it, it's the Soul Locking Formation]

[Soul Locking Formation?]

Wilde sent me a comparison picture of the magic circle, and the points on the two pictures overlapped perfectly.

This magic circle is classified as a forbidden technique. Its function is to lock the target's soul, trapping them within the circle with no way out, until the soul dissipates and transforms into the purest energy.

Mo Xuanji suddenly remembered that the information said this place was originally a mass grave, never developed, and for many years it was just a wasteland. It was not until twenty years ago that a school was built on it.

Combined with what Sun Cheng said, could it be that those people wanted to suppress the souls below?

[You're referring to the location of the ghost, correct? This is the most sinister blood array. The victims' innocent deaths generate immense resentment, and ghosts cannot bear this resentment. Therefore, the center of this array must be a dead object. It's very likely a treacherous weapon, so be careful.]

Mo Xuanji looked at the location of the center of the formation, then looked at the map and found that it corresponded to a red circle.

This is the earliest location where an accident occurred in the notebook.

The first student who had an accident was found drowned in the artificial lake on the west side of the playground that night after the game. Because it was far from the entrance, neither group had gone there.

Is there a ghost here? But the senior said that ghosts can't bear so much resentment...

Mo Xuanji was thinking, and suddenly a flash of inspiration came to his mind.

He realized they were now on the west side of the playground. Sun Cheng had led them to the center of the formation. At that moment, countless possibilities flashed through Mo Xuanji's mind, and finally, under the frantic warning of his sixth sense, he shouted, "Back off!"

The two, already prepared, quickly dodged backwards. The wind prison encasing Sun Cheng was flung far away by Mo Xuanji, and the next second, it exploded uncontrollably from the inside out.

Sun Cheng's sudden surge of strength shattered the wind prison. It changed its previous timid attitude, opened its arms, and laughed arrogantly: "Hahahaha, foolish humans, tremble at my feet! I never thought I would have such a disaster. Being trapped by you is a shame for my whole life."

Shen Liuxue drew his sword and used it to protect his companions. Zhu Changan's expression was serious. He bumped his fists together, and the khaki energy instantly covered his fists.

The value on the strange detector gradually increased from c to b.

"Where is the real Sun Cheng?" Mo Xuanji looked at it, and a green energy appeared silently in his hand.

"I ate it a long time ago. If I don't eat the snacks that are delivered to my door while they are still hot, am I going to wait for them to run away?"

"Damn, this guy is really good at acting. But why did it pretend that it couldn't beat us at the beginning?" Shen Liuxue asked puzzledly.

"Then we really can't defeat them, right?" Mo Xuanji looked at the strange creature and said succinctly, "Senior Wang said these ghosts formed a soul-locking formation. The center of the formation is located at the same spot as the first death. We are nearby now."

"I guess this strange thing is most likely the first student who died at that time, and the thing that serves as the center of the formation is its hiding place."

It died after the Pen Fairy game, and reappeared in the same way as the Pen Fairy. Clearly, it has become a being similar to the Pen Fairy. In the Kaidan, the Pen Fairy resides in the pen, and if the system can't find it normally, it's likely that it's hidden inside the carrier.

"Is this the case... The closer we are to the carrier, the stronger its power is, so it goes to great lengths to lure us over." Shen Liuxue quickly figured it out.