Chapter 43 (Catching Bugs)

"I have a guess," the leader looked at Chen Jian with his calm dark eyes, "You can't... set up a mental attraction device to imprison me in almost non-existent time."

Shen Jian glanced at the needle that delivered the drug, moved his tongue, and spit out sarcasm from a distance: "In fact, I think this should be called a life support device. Your organs have decayed to a certain extent. Although they are not completely damaged, I simply don't know why you can still maintain this expression."

The long-haired leader remained silent, glanced calmly at the boy's disapproving expression for two seconds, and then looked away.

The medicine did relieve the pain, but it also left him unable to even lift a finger.

He raised his head reluctantly: "Since you know that the scars on your back cannot be removed, then you should know that this is also futile."

Even though he didn't say anything when he first saw his wound, the leader knew very well that Shen Jian had come to this conclusion, otherwise he would not have given up treating this wound.

...They have an absolute desire to control anything that belongs to them or will soon belong to them.

The leader sneered slightly.

Shen Jian stood up, with his back to the leader who couldn't spit out ivory from his mouth, and his tone didn't change. He checked the frequency of drug replacement: "Come on, father, I'm afraid you won't survive until the day I kill you."

"This agreement will be invalidated immediately." The leader looked at Shen Jian casually, "assuming you still know what conditions you got in exchange for your life with me."

Shen Jian paused, pressed the command to stop the transmission, and then slowly turned his head to look at the familiar face carefully.

He said with a half-smile: "Don't test me, my father, the leader of the Tower of Invisibility. As long as you tell me where the medieval station is, I will release you immediately, no matter what happens to me or you."

"Also, haven't you admitted that you still have feelings for your child, Leader of the Wuyan Tower?"

After biting the word "leader of Wu Yan Tower" twice, Shen Jian rubbed the tip of his tongue and couldn't help but let out a tut.

When he first met this version of himself, Shen Jian concealed his true physical condition in exchange for a reason to live. But now the leader is threatening him with this?

As long as his symptoms were delayed, the leader would no longer need the "concealment of the condition" condition that Shen Jian had originally exchanged, so their original deal was invalid, right?

Oh, as for why you have to hide it from the entire Wuyan Tower?

Shen Jian thought sarcastically, just like when he first entered the Spark Laboratory, Shen Lanhe had to inject him with an adaptation drug even if he was punished afterwards. As long as there was a subordinate who knew that the leader had a little problem and did not carry the leader to the medical room, Shen Jian could willingly review documents for a month.

There are still four full hours left.

Shen Jian's eyes were dull, he estimated the time silently, and quickly dragged the progress bar for the time they had been arguing with each other, "That's it."

The leader took a breath, stared at the boy nonchalantly, taking in every subtle expression, and suddenly asked a word, "Do you know the Ark, or the Fire?"

The boy's hand that was pushing the door open paused.

The long-haired leader looked at Shen Jian calmly, "A library. Did Shen An show you?"

Shen Jian turned his head very lightly and smiled softly, "Of course."

"Spark"?

Shen Jian looked at the leader with a cold expression.

There is no fire in this world.

What exactly does he want to say?

"Someone has set up the...well, life support equipment here in advance." The leader seemed to have mentioned nothing. He glanced at the boy's tense expression for a moment and changed the subject again.

There was no need for Shen Jian's confirmation, he concluded calmly, "So, it's not you, and it's not everyone who is still alive in the Wuyan Tower."

The leader's thoughts jumped more and more, and Shen Jian simply leaned against the door and waited quietly for the leader's increasingly fast speaking speed.

"Is it the dead Shen Jian?"

The boy did not deny it.

The leader's mind made another big leap: "So, who are you?"

This is normal, Shen Jian thought to the leader's eyes that revealed subtle emotions that were not obvious.

After all, he is also Shen Jian, and it is normal for Shen Jian to infer these.

But Shen Jian couldn't help but cast an admiring look on the leader.

"Among many options, how did you grasp this?" Shen Jian said with a smile, thinking for a while, "I should be able to assume the result you think is most likely."

The boy did not close the door. He just rubbed the inside of his wrist with a silent expression, and his breathing slowed down as if he was distracted.

The throbbing pain on the inside of his wrist was on the verge of despair, and Shen Jian had to devote some of his mind to adjusting his pulse frequency to receive the message.

Then, the boy suddenly took a few steps forward, cupped his leader's face and brought it close, his voice almost in his ear, his fingers gently resting on his neck, "I might as well be... you. Right?"

The leader's nerves were tense, and a slight chill exploded in his ears.

Although there was not a single muscle in his body under his control, the leader still felt his fingers tightening uncontrollably.

Shen Jian smiled and pushed the leader away, “But I can tell you that I have also thought about this possibility.”

The leader's eyes were fixed on Shen Jian's.

“But it’s impossible, father. This world will not allow two Shen Jians to exist at the same time, even if they exist in different forms, right?”

Shen Jian said very lightly, "It's like the last Shen Jian committed suicide just to make you 'appear'."

The leader fell silent instantly.

His cold disguise seemed to crack briefly, and he whispered, "You know?"

When he opened his eyes in the world, he realized that his self in this world had died in order to drag him into this world.

But the leader could hardly deny that it was he who killed the original Shen Jian.

He admitted that he cared about Chen Jian, he still cared about the original him in this world, and he still cared about Wu Yan Tower, so how could he not care about his own child.

But up to now, he not only killed another self that Shen Jian must have cared about, but also concealed his true purpose from Shen Jian.

The gulf between them was already deep.

The leader lowered his eyes and fluttered his eyelashes.

Shen Jian said, “Well, I understand.”

He had long known that the leader's ultimate goal was to destroy the entire universe.

The two of them "knew" something that was completely unrelated, and neither of them could guess what the other was thinking. The temperature in the room quickly dropped to freezing point.

After a pause, looking at the leader's stiff lips that were involuntarily pursed, Shen Jian sighed softly, thinking that the leader was still stubbornly sticking to his stupid ideal: "Don't think too much, you are not ready to die yet, take a rest for a while, I don't want to ask you too much for the time being."

"Be obedient, I won't get involved in your feud, but I need your crown."

"Your Majesty." Shen Jian picked out the two words with the tip of his tongue, and laughed at the other self who was given a shameful name.

The leader raised his eyelids, patiently turned his head away, and then turned the previous incident over as if nothing had happened, and calmly retorted, "Don't call me that."

Shen Jian smiled, as if they had not just experienced a fight with hidden blades and chaotic blades, and gently signaled to his other self: "I am actually looking forward to you finding out who I am."

He was indeed looking forward to the leader’s expression when he knew that he was indeed the third Shen Jian.

Shen Jian sometimes wondered if his subordinates, who kept his video records and would watch them in a daze every day whenever they had nothing to do, had some mental problems.

However, Shen Jian sincerely understood them at this moment.

Assuming that the time really comes for his identity to be revealed, he will definitely prepare ten recording devices in advance to aim at the leader without blind spots, and then hang them in front of his desk every day to appreciate the leader's expression at that time.

The leader did not take an attitude towards this, he just looked away lightly, but immediately focused on Shen Jian again with his pupils shrinking suddenly.

Chen Jian held a blood-stained chip in his hand. Facing the leader's rare change of expression, he smiled and said, "This time it's worth recording, actually."

The leader was silent for a while, then twitched the corner of his mouth. He belatedly felt the pain coming from below his ear.

Shen Jian approached him just now just to grope for this chip.

"The library that Chen An is in charge of is called Ark. Since you are so generous as to tell me that [Spark] still exists, I will just accept it with joy." The young man said with a gentle smile, casually pulling up the cloak on the crown to wipe the blood off his hands.

When he turned around again, his expression had returned to calm.

Darkness enveloped Shen Jian, and the young man's tall figure disappeared behind the seat, leaving only a vague ending full of hints.

"Father, please watch me as I eradicate everything about you."

For a moment, the leader even thought that the boy knew his purpose.

But it was only for a second.

Assuming the child knew, how could he still treat him like this?

The leader thought calmly, and once again cut off his faint hope for some kind of emotion.

.

In the source world, there is no annihilation tower.

Chen An held a pen in his hand, sat with a soft smile where Chen Jian once sat, and complained to Chen Pingyan jokingly, "Damn the document, damn the follow-up ending... Chen Pingyan, if the gentleman doesn't come back, I will go on strike and rebel."

Shen Pingyan, who was standing aside and sorting documents, rolled his eyes rarely and smiled coldly, "You can defect. I don't know how many people are waiting for you to defect. If you run away, I will take your place as soon as possible."

"Don't worry. For the sake of our common cause, I will request the pursuit team to use a sniper rifle to ensure that you leave an intact body for the sir."

"Hey~ This won't work." Shen An held his chin and murmured, "Only this won't work."

After watching Shen Pingyan sort the documents for a while, Shen An tilted his head and stared at Solomon's display screen and said softly: "How is Xu Yinmo doing? The atmosphere for becoming emperor is in place, but the protagonist has abandoned us and it's hard for the people to end it. Ask the gentleman to come back and clean up himself~"

Shen Pingyan pushed his glasses and was about to answer something when Solomon's display suddenly flashed and a long-lost mechanical sound rang out.

[Your Excellency Shen An.]

Shen An moved his inquiring eyes to Solomon's screen.

[I seem to have captured another signal with a similar frequency to the "Spark".]