When they were in the water outside, she and Guan Chen should have encountered the same thing.

It’s just that the person she met was a human pretending to be Lu Guichi, while the person Guan Chen met sounded like the prototype of the fake Lu Guichi she met, and she didn’t notice the characteristics that Guan Chen mentioned in the fake Lu Guichi at that time.

What kind of thing can change its form like this? Previously, she guessed that there was a foreign object here, and she guessed that it was the kind of vengeful spirit that she and Cheng Man had dealt with before. That is, after an ordinary person dies, if the cause of death is sudden death or unjust murder, the grudge will be very strong, and the soul will not dissipate, becoming a kind of existence with special abilities that surpass ordinary people and can easily hurt humans.

To address this issue, Xuanshi came into being. Most of the cases handled by Xuanmen involve vengeful spirits, which are beyond the ability of ordinary people to handle.

However, vengeful spirits do not have a specific form and generally cannot move freely. They need to attach themselves to the human body or some object.

She had previously guessed that some of the antique instruments stored here might have problems with their origins, and might carry vengeful spirits, and that when Bo Yuting and others came in, they were inadvertently contaminated by them.

If a person is possessed by a vengeful spirit, the spirit itself is very good at disguising itself. Except for a master of mysticism, it is difficult for ordinary people to detect any abnormality. It is normal that Bo Yuting and the others did not notice it.

It makes sense that vengeful spirits can disrupt the magnetic field, affect signals, and hinder communication.

There was also a suitable reason to explain the inexplicable disappearance of the voice she had heard before.

But compared to the fake Lu Guichi she met in that reservoir area, firstly, she could be sure that he was a living person; secondly, the other party could not be the real Lu Guichi.

Because even if possessed by a vengeful spirit, one still has consciousness, but is not able to detect the "dirty things" in one's body. If the fake Lu Guichi was actually the real one, then he would never have opened the mechanism to get her out.

He wouldn't do anything that could hurt her, so he was fake.

Lin Wu wondered if he was sent by the Huo family or someone from some other force, but she hadn't figured out why the other party could pretend to be Lu Guichi and knew what happened between her and Lu Guichi.

Now listening to Guan Chen talk about what he encountered, Lin Wu was very confused.

Is this thing the same as the fake Lu Guichi?

If so, what the hell?

How could such a thing exist in this world? She had seen so many strange and bizarre things before, but none of them could transform like this. It was no exaggeration to say that it was a monster.

Lin Wu was still thinking and realized that Guan Chen didn't continue.

She turned around the corner ahead and asked, "And then?"

Guan Chen was silent for a few seconds. "You will never believe this. I looked in the direction that Lu Guichi went in, but I didn't find anyone. Then I thought, is it that thing you mentioned that is luring the tiger away from the mountain? Maybe I have something very important there? So I went back, but not long after I went back, I saw a figure, and he disappeared out of thin air."

Lin Wu: “?”

“It really disappeared out of thin air.”

Guan Chen said: "From the back, that person is Lu Guichi. He was looking at some Buddha statues. When I was about to call him, a light suddenly flashed in front of my eyes, and then he disappeared. After that, I tried to contact him with headphones, but I couldn't get through. I also tried to contact you but it didn't work either."

"This is not right. I didn't find anyone over there, so I turned back and tried to find you over there, but I couldn't find you either. Then when I was about to leave from your side, I ran into that monster again. I don't know why, but it became much stronger this time. I had clearly stabbed it before, in a fatal spot, but when I looked at it, the wound was gone."

Lin Wu stopped abruptly when he heard this. "Are you serious?"

Guan Chen said: "I swear in the name of Lu Guichi that if I lie to you, he will not die a good death."

Lin Wu: “Uh…”

There is no need to swear like this.

Guan Chen said seriously: "I can be sure that thing is definitely not a human. It must have recovered incredibly fast, so the wound disappeared. When I met it, I saw it holding something, but it knocked my flashlight away at the time, so I couldn't see clearly what it was holding."

"Fake Lu Guichi? Buddha head?"

Guan Chen was puzzled.

Lin Wu continued to walk forward and explained in concise terms what had happened in the reservoir area over there.

Guan Chen's tone obviously turned colder: "What is this thing, and why is it pretending to be Lu Guichi?"

"Its intelligence is obviously very high. Perhaps it discovered that you and I are not on guard against Lu Guichi, so it chose to impersonate him. But I can't figure out how it did it. I am the master, but it is more troublesome than any foreign object I have encountered before." Lin Wu said in a serious voice.

On the other side of the headphones, Guan Chen's breathing also became much heavier.

Lin Wu had reached the end of the passage. In front of him was an iron door, which was tightly closed and apparently had an electronic lock.

She quickly put down her backpack, took out the parts inside and prepared to crack the code, and asked, "Where are you now?"

"I was on the same road I took at the beginning," Guan Chen said in a deep voice. "When I met the monster, I fought with it again. But it seemed to be in a hurry to leave and didn't bother with me too much, so I got away quickly."

"Are you hurt?"

Lin Wu heard Guan Chen's voice was a little weak, so he asked him.

Guan Chen said calmly: "It's just a minor injury, nothing serious."

"Can you still fight?"

Lin Wu asked bluntly.

Guan Chen said without hesitation: "Of course, it won't be a problem to go find Lu Guichi again. Do you know where Lu Guichi is? Just go ahead and do your thing. I'll find him. He should have encountered that monster just like you and me. I don't know how he is doing now."

"That's not the favor I want you to help me with."

Lin Wu assembled the parts and started to break the lock. She said solemnly, "Lu Guichi is not as weak as you think. Trust him, he will be fine for now. Even if he really encounters that thing, he can find a way to escape. But you must come to my side as soon as possible to help me. If I'm done, we're all done."

Guan Chen was stunned, "What do you mean?"

With a "click", the lock opened.

Lin Wu quickly put away his things and said, "I accidentally entered the inner storage area because of the fake Lu Guichi. There is no water here. I also met Leng Linfeng here. You may not know him, but it doesn't matter. The key is that I learned from him that there are thirty-three minutes left before the explosion."

Guan Chen's tone changed: "Explosion?!"

"Yes, I have to go in and look for someone now. I don't have much energy to look for the self-destruct device here. And from what Leng Linfeng said, there are other dangers here that will hinder me. I am not sure I can find someone and the self-destruct device under this situation. You find a way to come and help me stop the explosion."

Lin Wu kicked the iron door open with great force.

The scene that came into view was completely different from the scene outside.

The light from the flashlight illuminated her cold and resolute dark eyebrows. She spoke word by word, "Twenty minutes is the limit. If you haven't found it after twenty minutes, return to the original way and leave here."

(End of this chapter)