Chapter 708 Awareness
After Chen Chuan slashed with his knife, his eyes reflected the look of astonishment and surprise on Assistant Ling's head. The latter seemed to be unable to believe that his knife came so fast and so sharp.
At this moment, Hongfu's knife and the meteor hammer that was dragged back all fell on him, and two sonic explosions were heard.
However, despite such a powerful attack, he did not even move, and seemed to ignore the attack. At this moment, he reached out and grabbed Assistant Ling's hair, letting it hang there, and let the headless corpse fall from the True Shape Tree.
At this moment, Hongfu suddenly paused, her eyes alternating between indifference and agility, but she did not attack him again, but stood aside with a knife in her hand.
Chen Chuan held Assistant Ling's head flat in his hand and said calmly, "Assistant Ling, you lose."
Assistant Ling showed a hint of approval on his face and said with a smile, "Yes, you win. Was that a spiritual perception just now..."
He showed an admiring expression, "I was right about you. With such strength, if you join us, our vision will have a greater chance of success. What a pity."
Chen Chuan looked at him and said, "I want to ask you something. You said someone in the Bureau asked you to deal with me. Do you know who that person is?"
Assistant Ling said, "I'm sorry, I was just following the middleman's instructions. That person was very careful and didn't reveal their identity. You know, I'll leave after I succeed. I don't care who that person is, as long as it helps me."
Chen Chuan saw from his emanating spirit that what he said was true, so he asked again, "Is this true-form tree now in the fusion land?"
Assistant Ling responded swiftly, "Yes, it's there. Our people are watching it. If you're interested, Director Chen, you can try to find it. I'm looking forward to your choice, even though I can't see the outcome."
"Besides you, who else in the academy is involved in this?"
Assistant Ling smiled and said, "Manager Chen, would you believe me if I told you this?"
Chen Chuan nodded. "One last question," he fixed his gaze on the man's face. "The big bombardment is coming soon. According to your ideas, if the True Form Tree hasn't fulfilled your wishes before then, how will you deal with it?"
Assistant Ling smiled and said, "The big impact may come in a few years, or even more than ten years. But precisely because time is short, we cannot stop. We must race against time and use all means to accomplish this.
If it's not completed before we arrive, we'll advance to the fusion zone. That's where the two worlds first merged, and it can carry the reverberations of both worlds. The government and companies have established presence there, and it's the place most likely to persist. We'll continue our work there."
Chen Chuanshuo said, "So, your so-called preparations, your so-called ideals, in fact, in the end you still chose to avoid the fusion area?"
Assistant Ling asked doubtfully, "Is there something wrong with this? It's precisely because of the True Form Tree that people no longer need to be bound by their physical form. They can temporarily discard these burdens and reside within it as consciousness, simply waiting for the day they can be reborn."
He said regretfully, "Manager Chen, I really hope you'll reconsider this. You don't have to be limited by the inherent constraints and cognition of humanity or the world. The world is changing, and the people of the world should also abandon the past and reshape their cognition."
After Assistant Ling finished speaking, he saw Chen Chuan's calm eyes. Then he seemed to realize something. When he was about to say something, his face suddenly twisted and his head began to swell, as if a force was about to rush out from inside.
After the head was stretched to its limit, it exploded with a dull bang, just like a grand firework exploding here.
Chen Chuan watched calmly, and slowly withdrew his hand. A transparent and slender branch hung on his finger. It was the certificate worn by Assistant Ling.
Take this thing back and test it, maybe we can find something.
With Assistant Ling's death, the authority over the entire Sky Garden naturally fell to him, as he was the only one with the highest authority.
Chen Chuan glanced at Hongfu. The latter's eyes were confused for a moment, then they regained their alertness and looked at him deeply.
He was about to dispel the field here when Hongfu suddenly said, "I want to leave here."
Chen Chuan looked at Hongfu in surprise. This was the first time he heard Hongfu speak in this state. Usually, the voice he heard was cold and emotionless.
He asked, "Why?"
Hong Fu lowered her eyes and said, "Because of my autonomous consciousness. The academy can accommodate my autonomous consciousness because I can make more independent responses and serve them more conveniently, but that is under the premise of complying with their wishes.
But I just resisted under clear instructions, and this has been recorded. The academy will definitely try to 'correct' it and obliterate my consciousness later."
Chen Chuan nodded and asked, "What do you need me to do?"
Hong Fu looked at his knife, "The passage to the fusion land is open, I can go there. The academy's procedures do not allow external consciousness to go there. According to the procedures, if you leave, you must cut off contact in time and purify yourself.
She looked at Chen Chuan with her bright eyes, "I will try to go there. Your knife can cut my external consciousness from my main body, and then I can break away from it."
Chen Chuan asked cautiously, "Will this have any impact on your true self?"
Hong Fu answered truthfully: "There will be some impact, but my main body will recover quickly, and the consciousness that appears again in the future will be another me who fully obeys orders."
Chen Chuan understood without hesitation and nodded, saying, "Okay, I'll help you."
Hong Fu looked at him for a moment, then suddenly turned into a fluttering red shadow, turned around and fell towards the passage to the blending area.
Chen Chuan closed his eyes slightly at this moment. He felt it carefully and indeed felt a spiritual aura, which seemed like an invisible vortex, extending into the depths of the fusion area.
He stood on the branch, holding the hilt of Xuejun Knife, his aura and spirit gradually became high. After it completely climbed to the peak, he opened his eyes, leaped up, holding the knife with both hands, raised it high, then fell from the air, and swung it heavily at the same time!
A ray of knife light slashed through the channel of fusion and fell straight to the ground!
With a bang, his feet stepped firmly on the ground, and at one end of his side, on the huge intersecting passage, the soaring spiritual vortex was cut off from the end, and the front end naturally dispersed outwards.
He slowly stood up and took a look. There was no more movement coming from the opposite side. It seemed that Hongfu had broken free from the restraints and left freely.
However, I am afraid that we will never see the self-aware Hong Fu again in the academy.
He turned around and was about to choose to dismiss the scene here, but at this moment, he suddenly felt something. Looking back, he saw a red scarf floating over, then spinning and flying into the sky.
He raised his head and felt a thought coming from above. Hongfu's consciousness separated from the main body and became a rootless duckweed. It must have a place to attach to, otherwise it could not survive for long. So it did not choose to leave immediately, but wanted to choose him as its attachment.
In return, if he encounters a crisis that he cannot handle, he will appear to help and protect him. If he is unwilling, he will leave and seek other help.
Chen Chuan looked at the red scarf floating above him, thought for a moment, and nodded. The scarf then fell down, finally resting on his neck and floating up with a gust of air.
Chen Chuan took a look, then pointed at the boundary. After a moment, the surrounding scene collapsed as if it were shattered.
He looked up and watched the brains hanging on the trees disappear one by one. Teacher Wu's figure and the notes he had recorded appeared in his mind. He also remembered the first anomaly he had dealt with when he entered the central city, the innocent Xiaoman who was killed, and his brother who had turned into a mannequin.
He had an inexplicable feeling that one of the heads on the tree might be Xiaoman's brother.
As all the light and shadows disappeared, the place once again turned back into the appearance of the hanging garden.
Birds are singing and flowers are blooming everywhere, as if the ugliness before had never appeared.
He glanced at this moment and saw Assistant Ling's headless body lying there, with the set of meteor hammers lying not far away, and the scabbard of his Snow King Sword fell at the other end.
He walked over, picked up the scabbard, returned the Xuejun Knife to the sheath, then took the boundary pass and drafted a report.
Basically, Wuyi College assistant Ling Jianxing attempted to attack him and has now been shot dead. He demanded that personnel be sent immediately to take away the body and inspect it, and at the same time remind Andun to activate the no-trust clause.
Since Assistant Ling clearly stated that there was a problem in the bureau, he would of course be on guard and try to cover up the matter so that he could conduct a secret investigation.
And Assistant Ling was able to obtain higher authority, it is hard to say whether he did not get authorization from certain people, and he remembered that the arena competition was originally proposed by Vice President Tan, it is hard to say that this matter has nothing to do with him.
Vice President Tan was also attending a meeting in the White Bird District at the time and was not in the college when the incident happened. It can be said that he just happened to avoid it.
The "no-confidence clause" is used in such situations, and only the powerful investigation director has the power to activate it.
Before he submits a report to his superiors and obtains interim results, this information will not be disclosed to any other unrelated personnel, nor will it be allowed to be passed on to other places, so as to maintain the information blockade.
In just a quarter of an hour, the elite processing team from the Processing Bureau arrived at the academy, took over and began to deal with the affairs there.
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(End of this chapter)
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