Chapter 117 Conan's Physique Under the Revival of Spiritual Energy (Part 1)

"Hehehe, your parents are dead, now there's no one to protect you—"

"Spiritual power, so much spiritual power, slurp...give it to me! Give it to me!"

When Si Yisi regained his footing, he heard some strange murmurs.

After finishing the previous holographic game world, Si Yisi accepted another mission as she watched Chi Chun running away crying because she had set a flag.

Si Yisi couldn't find any trace of the defector system that Freya had mentioned. If the defector system returned to Luo Xinxiu's world, it would immediately detect the traces left by Si Yisi.

This feud is bound to escalate.

The relationship between the defection system and the system is extremely hostile, so Si Yisi anticipated that he would definitely have a chance to confront the defection system.

But that's a story for later.

Si Yisi wasn't worried about the safety of that world either. Under Freya's supervision, the defector system couldn't possibly cause any trouble.

The focus now is on the next task.

However, before Si Yisi could settle down and process the memories of the new mission objective, a burly man in front of her spat and menacingly tried to rush towards her.

Si Yisi noticed that the man's arm was red, and judging from his expression that seemed to want to kill her... the original owner must have hit him for some reason.

A middle-aged woman next to the man supported him, putting on a kind face, but her expression also carried a hint of genuine fear: "Xiao Li, how could you hit your uncle like that? He was doing it for your own good. You're so young, what do you know!"

"Pah—" A surge of intense emotion welled up in Si Yisi's chest. Without thinking, he blurted out, "You...you want to seize the house my parents left behind!"

At the same time, a flood of memories entered Si Yisi's mind.

The mission target is a boy named Li Banxue. He was constantly ill from birth, so his parents gave him a girl's name in the hope that he would grow up safely.

However, when Li Banxue was three years old, his parents died in a car accident, and Li Banxue began living under the roof of his uncle's family.

My uncle, Liang Lingyun, has a son and a daughter. Li Banxue, who is sickly, is not well received in my uncle's family.

However… he lived a life dependent on others, so Li Banxue always behaved herself.

Just when Li Banxue finally turned eighteen, he suddenly discovered that his uncle's family had been hiding the inheritance his parents had left him from him, and they were even more greedy and wanted to embezzle it...

Li Banxue was furious and went to argue with her uncle's family. She even hit Liang Lingyun in anger, which led to the situation Si Yisi is experiencing now.

Then the memory abruptly ended.

It's clear that Li Banxue doesn't want to hand over all her memories.

His wish is to reclaim the inheritance left by his parents, open a small restaurant, and live a stable life.

Si Yisi's gaze was momentarily unfocused, but it quickly returned to clarity.

He opened his mouth as if to say something, but a contemptuous look already appeared in his eyes as he glanced at Liang Lingyun—

But before Si Yisi could finish speaking, something fell straight down from above Liang Lingyun's head...

That's a person!

The person who fell crashed down from a great height!

With a thud, Li Banxue's awful uncle, Liang Lingyun, was... blood and flesh splattered everywhere!

Early in the morning, Officer Lin from the Lincheng Public Security Bureau received a report that someone had fallen to their death outside the Mu'an residential area. She wiped the sweat from her brow and immediately rushed to the scene.

Upon arriving at the crime scene, Lin Anran immediately discovered that the statement "one person fell to their death" was incorrect.

It is true that someone fell from a building, but he didn't die from falling from such a height—an innocent passerby was hit by the falling person and died on the spot!

The police officers who responded to the scene set up a cordon, and the injured person who fell from the building was quickly taken to the hospital.

When the medical staff saw the innocent bystander's horrific condition, they shook their heads; it was too late to save him.

Lin Anran saw a middle-aged woman kneeling beside a man in a pool of blood, wailing and lamenting. Just as she was about to step forward, the woman suddenly stood up and grabbed a thin boy next to her!

The middle-aged woman cursed loudly while throwing anything she could at the boy.

"It's all your fault, you jinx! Killing your parents, killing your neighbors and classmates—isn't that enough—"

"My husband! You're such a menace, you deserve to be killed!"

The middle-aged woman used every foul language she could muster, so offensive that passersby couldn't help but cover their ears or even want to slap her!

She continued cursing, her hands never stopping, grabbing whatever she could find with each bundle. Lin Anran even saw the middle-aged woman casually pick up a pair of scissors from a nearby shop—

Her face contorted in a rage, the sharp tip of the scissors aimed directly at the thin boy's face! This was going to kill him!

Lin Anran couldn't help but curse. She leaped forward, kicked the scissors away, and temporarily brought the crazed middle-aged woman under control.

The officer looked up at the beaten boy, who was as quiet as a bamboo shoot, about fifteen or sixteen years old, and looked terrified.

Just as Lin Anran was about to say a few words of comfort, the boy called out to her, "Officer."

Lin Anran's eyes met the boy's dark gaze in the blink of an eye, and that look sent a chill down her spine, as if she had fallen into an ice cave. Those eyes were terrifyingly deep, giving her a feeling of utter despair!

The words of comfort she was about to utter were stuck in her throat. The middle-aged woman struggled fiercely, and there were still various tedious follow-up tasks to handle, so Lin Anran had to deal with these matters first.

Si Yisi never expected that Li Banxue's uncle would die so suddenly!

Before Si Yisi could even implement any measures, Liang Lingyun died so decisively, leaving a sense of powerlessness, like trying to hit cotton.

At first glance, this fall seems like a complete accident; Liang Lingyun was just incredibly unlucky.

But Si Yisi had a subtle feeling that this shouldn't be an accident!

What's more subtle is that Si Yisi's feeling didn't come from his keen senses as a system... but rather seemed to be a reaction from Li Banxue's body itself?

Is there any connection between the stories Li Banxue, the aunt, told about him bringing bad luck to his parents, neighbors, and classmates, and this reaction?

Officer Lin, her expression somewhat grim, flipped through a death record. She had just been transferred here; this fall initially seemed like an accident, but what if the same incident occurred several times in the same location within a month?

It's obvious that there can't be that many surprises!

"Let's start with the victim in this case... He appears completely innocent, but we can't rule out the possibility that someone close to him committed the crime—"

Lin Anran pursed her lips and suddenly found the record of the thin boy with her colleague.

—Li Banxue's experience can only be described as too horrifying!

Death seemed to be a constant companion to him, from his tragically deceased parents to his classmates, neighbors, and teachers...

Every single death was not a simple accident! Li Banxue was practically a walking Grim Reaper!

"Holy crap... this guy's got Conan-like physique." Lin Anran's colleague couldn't help but lean over and stare at him a few more times.

After he finished complaining, he looked through the statement of the middle-aged woman—the deceased's wife—and noticed that the deceased, Liang Lingyun, had a dispute with Li Banxue just before he died.

"Inheritance dispute—hiss."

A colleague murmured, "Could it be that Li Banxue witnessed too much death, which made her mentally disturbed, and then she orchestrated this murder of her own uncle?"

This is clearly a malicious speculation!

"Watch your words!" Officer Lin's expression turned serious, and she looked at her colleague with a grim expression.

My colleague waved his hand dismissively: "Well... so many people he knew died unexpectedly, who would believe he was innocent?"

This is a classic victim-blaming mentality... and to make matters worse, this colleague is a police officer!

"Officer Lin."

Just as Lin Anran was furious, Si Yisi quietly walked to her side and called her name.

Not only was Lin Anran frightened, but the colleague who had just spoken ill of Si Yisi was also shivering with fear.

It's so quiet... it's like a ghost!

Not to mention that although Si Yisi's expression was calm and there was nothing unusual about her, when he was stared at by those black eyes, he would always suddenly feel a chill seeping into his bones.

"Officer Chen."

Si Yisi looked at Officer Chen, Lin Anran's colleague, and extended a hand as if he wanted to shake hands with Chen Mingyuan.

Chen Mingyuan, as if bewitched, stretched out his hand—

"Ah!" he yelled, clutching his hand that felt like it was about to shatter. He truly felt that Si Yisi had tried to tear his hand off the moment they shook hands!

When Chen Mingyuan looked at Si Yisi again, he felt that Si Yisi's expression was sinister and particularly creepy.

Meeting Lin Anran's surprised gaze, he could only tuck his tail between his legs and send this plague away! Even if Chen Mingyuan had a hundred times the courage to utter any victim-blaming arguments, he wouldn't dare!

Si Yisi gave a statement and was released. The first thing he did upon release wasn't to clear his name—

Li Banxue's aunt cursed him horribly, wishing she could tear him apart. One can only imagine what she would say about Si Yisi if he didn't clear his name.

But none of that is the key issue right now!

Li Banxue is now an adult, and Si Yisi can use legal means to reclaim the inheritance left by his parents.

If it were Li Banxue himself who encountered this situation, he would probably be beaten and scolded by his aunt so much that he wouldn't dare to do anything anymore.

Aunt Yang Kaili has not yet finished giving her statement due to her emotional instability, so Si Yisi took advantage of this time difference to go to her uncle's house.

"Hello!"

Liang Ransheng, the fifteen-year-old eldest son of his uncle's family, rudely berated Si Yisi.

He kept poking at his phone screen with his finger without looking up, saying, "Go to the fridge and get me some iced Coke, peel an apple for me, and... then bring me my earphones from my room!"

He's become quite adept at using it.

"Um."

Si Yisi completely ignored her and turned to go to her room to pack up Li Banxue's things.

Li Banxue has finished the college entrance examination and has secured admission to a top university. He has also saved up some money through part-time work during the holidays.

He checked the money in the drawer and found that 500 yuan was missing.

Si Yisi turned and went to the living room without expression, snatching the phone from Liang Ransheng's hand—

"Where's the money?"

"What money?!" Liang Ransheng exclaimed irritably. "It's just five hundred yuan. You took it, fine. I'd rather you were poor than stingy!"

He knew all too well that Li Banxue was just staying at their house and could be bossed around like a pet.

Anyway, he wouldn't dare say anything!

This was something the entire Liang family tacitly agreed to, but for Li Banxue, it was an absolute tyrannical clause.

"..." Liang Ransheng reached for his phone, only to see Si Yisi pull out a knife! The blade was pointing straight at him!

Si Yisi's eyes were even darker, and it felt like... he was serious!

"You, you, you, you..." Liang Ransheng's legs were trembling. He forced himself to pull out a crumpled five hundred yuan from his pocket, his whole body shaking with fear!

Si Yisi said "oh" again and shoved the fruit knife toward Liang Ransheng.

"Peel the fruit yourself."

He shoved the knife into Liang Ransheng's hand, then closed the door and left without looking back.

Si Yisi quickly found a small hotel and checked in, not caring how lively his uncle's family must be. From every perspective, Li Banxue's indifference to her uncle's death was utterly blameless—

Because from the very beginning, it's likely that the relatives of this family adopted Li Banxue for the sake of those inheritances!

And... they want to raise this nephew into their family's free servant!

Si Yisi recalled the few murmurs he had heard when he first possessed the body—lost protection, spiritual power…

But no matter how you look at it, Li Banxue has been a completely ordinary person for the past eighteen years. Or perhaps—it's just that the time hasn't come yet?

Si Yisi realized that Li Banxue's condition of wanting to reclaim his parents' inheritance was incredibly simple; what was even more difficult was his desire for a peaceful life! If—Si Yisi wasn't mistaken.

For years, Li Banxue has lived with death; he is like a walking Grim Reaper.

Therefore, Li Banxue has already developed physical memories from these repeated encounters with death!

If we add the word "spiritual power" to it—it seems anything but simple! The death of Uncle Li Banxue was perhaps not an accident. If Si Yisi had taken another step forward, he himself would have been the one to die.

Was this an accident? Or... was Li Banxue the target of those unknown entities from the very beginning?

He narrowly escaped death time and time again, but those around him were not spared.

Si Yisi thought it was more and more likely, but Li Banxue's body was too weak, and soon she felt tired.

He fell asleep on the hotel bed, and the once translucent jade pendant around his neck had become somewhat cloudy with black impurities, and cracks had quietly crept up on it.

——

The internet is never short of dreamers who dream of becoming heroes overnight. In the early hours of this day, Hua Rongning was typing away on her computer as usual, letting her imagination run wild as she expressed her fantasies.

"One day I suddenly woke up... and discovered that I had superpowers."

At the very moment he was editing, a qualitative change suddenly occurred on the entire Earth! An invisible barrier above the Earth was shattered, and countless milky-white spiritual energies, almost solidified, flowed like a cloud in all directions of the Earth!

The spirits and ghosts lurking in the depths let out cries of ecstasy, longing, and greed that night…

Some people were so tormented that they couldn't sleep, listening to the ghostly howls of cats in heat all night long!

Nobody knew—I woke up one morning with superpowers, and this was no longer a joke!

The whole world... has thus ushered in a golden age of spiritual revival!