Chapter 648 The Guardian of the Collection (Part Twelve)

Sometimes overthinking isn't a good thing.

In fact, Uncle He had already given them the answer from the beginning.

Yun Zhao searched for a long time and finally found another Arctic fox.

She placed two Arctic fox plush toys side by side for comparison.

The visibility is too poor.

Yun Zhao beckoned with her finger, and Xie Tu understood. He took the flashlight from her hand, and together with the one he had, shone it on the two Arctic foxes.

"Do you think there's something wrong with the Arctic fox?" Xie Tu asked.

Yun Zhao lowered his head, comparing the two dolls in his hands as he answered, "It shook twice in a row. The first time was probably Bixi's casual probing, but it just so happened that Jiang Mu destroyed the machine room at that time. Because of its love for excitement, we mistakenly thought that was the reason."

Jiang Mu came to gather first. They learned about the power outage in the computer room and witnessed the entire ancient town losing power.

So much so that when Xia Mingang came over later, everyone thought that Bixi had sensed the commotion caused by the machine room.

It was so quiet all around.

The other three heard her words clearly.

Xia Mingang said irritably, "I told you not to believe me!"

It caused me to take many detours.

"There's nothing I can do, it's mainly because you don't seem very reliable." Jiang Mu was probably too bored, and he kept poking fun at people's hearts the whole way.

Fu Yu gave him a cold glance.

Xie Tu followed Yun Zhao's train of thought, his gaze on the Arctic fox doll gradually sharpening.

But even though Bixi tested the Arctic fox doll once, Yun Zhao, still not convinced, tested it again, and the game wasn't over yet.

What caused this?

And why can't Yun Zhao sense it?

Xie Tu recalled the question Fu Heng had just raised—why could his spiritual body sense it?

Yun Zhao couldn't sense it... but his spiritual body could.

Bixi and the little bluebird reacted, but the other three spiritual entities were completely unaware.

Could it be because the tortoise was very close to it at the time...?

No, there's actually another reason!

Yun Zhao was still comparing the two dolls, not even missing the curve of the stitches at the corners of their mouths.

Upon closer inspection, the two are almost identical, with no discernible difference.

But Yun Zhao always felt that the one he had at the beginning had a deeper, more lustrous blue eye, and the silver light spot in the pupil was clearer and more lively, as if it really had a focus.

If the gatekeeper is really in such a conspicuous position, why do you think they will never be able to find it?

She seemed to have grasped a crucial point, just one last bit away.

Yun Zhao turned to the others and asked, "Shall we play another round?"

"You're the captain, you're in charge," Jiang Mu said indifferently.

"Arctic fox?" Xia Mingang thought it was unlikely. "Hasn't this been guessed three times already?"

He had guessed, Bixi had guessed, and Yun Zhao had guessed.

That's not the answer at all.

Yun Zhao thought for a moment, "Perhaps we formatted our answer incorrectly?"

Xia Mingang: "?"

Bixi: [? 】

Yun Zhao put a doll back on the float, turned around, and beckoned Fu Pei to come out.

The big-eyed, cute girl was surrounded by dolls, her whole body tense, almost unable to think.

Let her come out and breathe some air filled with dark matter.

Fu Heng followed her, pushing Xie Tu to the back. Only after they left the dollhouse did she slowly exhale and say, "I think I understand your line of thinking a little better."

Yun Zhao looked up at the dark sky and asked, "Huh?"

She hadn't completely untangled the last loose thread yet.

"You're not guessing what it is, but what its obsession is, right?"

Fu Heng said, "Perhaps we've all overestimated the gatekeeper. After all, it's not a humanoid creature, and we can't think of it from a human perspective."

It doesn't hide itself like humans do; it will subconsciously react when it encounters familiar things.

Otherwise, it would have been impossible for the spirit to detect both movements.

"I've been struggling with this. The goalkeeper should know Shen Ying, Arctic Fox, Shen Ying..."

Fu Yu concluded, "There must be some kind of relationship between these two."

They just haven't found the relationship between the two yet.

Yun Zhao was stunned by her words.

Was it captured by a spiritual entity...?

Jiang Mu looked at Xie Tu, "Do you know?"

As a member of the Dawn Base and having obtained the Red-crowned Crane Diary, Jiang Mu didn't believe Xie Tu hadn't conducted a private investigation beforehand.

I heard he even knows the minister's computer password.

Given his position, obtaining top-secret documents would be a piece of cake.

Xie Tu replied: "I have indeed checked all the publicly available information about the base. A lot of information is missing. Most of it is not logged into the system, but is stored in text form in the homes of Chief Shen and a few others."

For example, Ding Lang and Xing Nandie have almost no information available in publicly available materials.

The top-secret document contained only a few lines recording the name and sentry's identity; nothing else could be found.

However, Xie Tu had some suspicions in his heart.

Time was of the essence, and he didn't intend to hide it. Just as he was about to speak, he saw Yun Zhao suddenly come over and shove the doll into his hands.

"I know what their relationship is now."

Yun Zhao said, "If we look at the problem without considering the gatekeepers, the Dawn Base is located inland, and there is only one way for the red-crowned cranes to come into contact with the Arctic foxes."

Her words were very clear.

Fu Yu and Jiang Mu's expressions immediately changed.

Xia Mingang: "..." It was clearly a conversation between five people, so why exclude him?

He quickly asked Bixi, "Did you understand?" Why couldn't he understand?

Bixi, exasperated: [Idiot!]

Xia Mingang was shocked that Bixi had learned a new word, only to hear a voice coming from his mind.

[It's a spiritual entity! The only way for Sentinels to make contact with animals from the old era!]

Xia Mingang's pupils dilated in shock.

He suddenly looked at Xie Tu, "Whose spirit? Xing Nandie's?"

Xie Tu reacted calmly, even utterly unperturbed, replying, "The base's records don't specify what her spiritual entity is."

Everyone knows that Shen Ying's spiritual form is a red-crowned crane.

Of course it couldn't be hers.

"So the gatekeeper knows Shen Ying and Xing Nandie?"

Xia Mingang discovered that they were simply a bunch of monsters, and they were really just guessing; they were almost able to figure out the gatekeeper.

With less than two hours left, we are getting closer and closer to the truth.

Xia Mingang suddenly understood and became more and more excited as he spoke, "It thinks we can never find it because it has no physical form."

The spiritual entity is a being formed from the spiritual energy of the Sentinels and Guides; it does not have a physical form.

It exists in the form of spiritual power.

The little bluebird and the bixi, who had relatively strong spiritual power, sensed it.

See? He said his Bixi was the most powerful.

"It likes lively places because spiritual beings are inherently playful, and the more lively the place, the more fun it is," Jiang Mu added, adding that it was the most qualified to speak on this point.

Fu Qian frowned. "That doesn't make sense. How could a spirit from the Dark Ages know about ancient tourist towns from the old days?"

The contaminated area exists based on the spiritual world of the gatekeeper.

Without imagination or factual basis, it would be impossible to create such a realistic scene.

The idea has been opened.

Yun Zhao boldly guessed, and slowly uttered, "Because... from beginning to end, the two adjacent domains complement each other."

They were heading in the right direction.

This is actually a merged contamination zone, like contamination zone 249, where the master-servant relationship maintains the complementarity and mutual support between domains.

Otherwise, even if Red Eyes doesn't move them for the time being, they alone would not be able to take the Twin Towers from Red Eyes and defend them.

So, the answer is...