Chapter 32 Chapter 32 End
A week ago, when An Zhi met Xie Luo, the settlement screen provided by the little devil he saw was actually fake.
It was the second day after contacting Xie Luo that An Zhi discovered something was wrong.
At that time, An Zhi was worried about how to get to know Xie Luo and his group. Unexpectedly, they took the initiative to talk to him, saying that they knew An Zhi and had a story they wanted An Zhi to film.
So the two parties hit it off and went to the villa area that Xie Luo rented, and listened to Xie Luo and his sister talk about the news that Xie Luo had found out in the Buddhist temple.
This part is exactly the same as what was filmed in the movie, but when Sister Xie Luo poured An Zhi a glass of water, An Zhi smelled the smell of saltpeter on the wall of the glass when he drank the water.
For a moment, An Zhi felt strange. Why would someone who looked so well-dressed have the smell of saltpeter on his hands?
It wasn't until An Zhi took the opportunity to touch Xie Luo that Xie Luo's loyalty increased, and An Zhi saw the entire picture of all of Xie Luo's plans.
She finally realized that the three of them had deceived her as well, wanting to use her film to expose the people in the Buddhist temple, while at the same time providing them with cover, buying more time for them to escape with the money.
From a real perspective, Xie Luo and the others would not be hurt at all. Xie Luo just wanted to kill the consortium behind the Buddhist temple for money and to help his nominal sister and mother out of justice.
An Zhi saw how Xie Luo's nominal sister Xie Ruoyi and mother Ye Liu jointly planned the explosion. Xie Ruoyi and Ye Liu actually came to seek revenge on the people in the Buddhist temple on the island of City A. Their loved ones were lured into gambling by the people in the Buddhist temple, and ended up owing money that they could not pay back. After they committed suicide, even their bodies were divided up and used by the people in the Buddhist temple.
The same is true for Xie Ruoyi's younger brother and Ye Liu's son. Even if their relatives were weak and got involved in gambling, their crimes were not punishable by death, let alone deliberate inducement and trapping.
Xie Ruoyi and Ye Liu were never tied up. They hid in the dark from beginning to end, followed Xie Luo's location, found the cave and doubled the explosives buried by the abbot of the Buddhist temple.
After everyone entered the cave, Xie Luo found a chain to lock up the people from the An Group and the Buddhist temple who entered the cave, and then went to the escape passage they had dug in advance and ran out of the mountain. During this time, someone also wanted to get out, but was killed by Xie Luo. However, too many people wanted to escape with Xie Luo, so Xie Luo was stabbed several times during the fight, and was temporarily caught by the police due to excessive blood loss.
Otherwise, Xie Luo would have robbed his fellow criminals and left freely.
But An Zhi didn't care about the stories made up by Xie Luo. The only thing that shocked her was that from Xie Luo's perspective, he actually followed An Ruonan and his group into the cave and saw a bound person lying inside the cave!
The person lying in the cave was actually her mother!
An Zhi could never have imagined that her mother was still alive. She was tied to the hospital bed and had an IV drip. She heard from fragments of her mother that she had been imprisoned for many years.
But from Xie Luo's perspective, she couldn't see the location of the cave, nor did she know the password, so she couldn't save her mother. That's why An Zhi took the risk of being caught by An Ruonan and followed Xie Luo's original plan to enter the cave.
At this moment, An Zhi, who was awakened by screams and pain, found himself being dragged deeper into the cave. The rubble around him was falling rapidly and the mountain was shaking.
She knew in an instant that the mountain had exploded at this moment. In order to save themselves, these powerful people had to put aside their quarrels and hide in the secret room in the cave which was firmly reinforced and would never collapse. Now they were going to open the door of the secret room in the cave!
An Zhi was so nervous that even his breathing slowed down. He stared at An Ruonan so closely that he entered the password incorrectly several times for fear of error.
“Click.”
The green light on the combination lock on the iron gate came on, and the abbot of the Buddhist temple, An Yuanting and others beside him all breathed a sigh of relief.
“Click.”
This time it was the sound of a bullet being loaded. Xie Wenchong took out his gun and pointed it at An Ruonan, sneering, "Don't move."
An Yuanting was furious: "Wen Chong! What do you mean? Are you betraying me?"
Xie Wenchong hugged An Ruonan's neck and stepped back: "I'm tired of being a dog. Why is An Ruonan the heroine? Why can't I be the hero?"
An Yuanting sneered: "You want someone to be the male lead, see if they agree or not!"
As for the other people who were forced to be tied to the An family's ship, Pei Yan, Chen Xuan and others stood on the side of Xie Wencong without making a sound.
Chen Xuan said indifferently, "Originally, I was the first to discover that this person had special abilities, but you guys have been keeping him under tight control and even installed a biometric lock. You shouldn't be trampling on our dignity."
An Ruonan threatened, "I'll go in and complain later. Do you think holding me hostage will work? You're all just paper men. If you don't obey, I'll just replace you with another batch!"
The abbot of the Buddhist temple burst into laughter. "Hahahaha! An Yuanting, I've had enough of your high-handed behavior. Now it's our turn to control this miracle. Xie Wenchong, all we ask is that if you control this miracle, you don't retaliate against us in the future, and don't interfere in our affairs. I'll give you 20% of the profits."
Xie Wenchong quickly agreed: "Deal, we are just fed up with An Yuanting using this god to control us."
An Yuanting's eyes were glaring, only Yu Shaojin had not yet rebelled.
Yu Shaojin curled his lips: "I know what you are planning. Xie Wenchong, you didn't take me with you. Fortunately, I caught An Zhi early. An Zhi, don't you want him anymore?"
An Zhi was dragged in front of Yu Shaojin. She was still pretending to close her eyes. After all, she had been given muscle relaxants and could not fight against them.
What on earth were they doing tying her mother up in this cave?
An Zhi really didn't understand.
Xie Wencong glared at Pei Yan, as if blaming Pei Yan for not completing what he should have done.
He said, "Yu Shaojin, you don't want to share your girlfriend with so many people, do you? We forced An Ruonan to hand over the method of communicating with that unknown god. We can decide what to do. There is no need to ask An Ruonan for help."
Yu Shaojin took out a knife and pressed it against An Zhi's jaw, laughing nonchalantly: "It's too late. If you all die, An Ruonan will still be mine."
An Yuanting laughed heartily: "You know, this time it was the gods' instructions to bring An Zhi with you. It's useless without An Zhi!"
The two sides were deadlocked, and Chen Xuan said directly: "Then let's destroy this god. Xie Wenchong, let's not be too greedy. Kill the woman inside and kill An Ruonan. We will still be the most powerful people in this world."
An Ruonan looked at Chen Xuan in disbelief. She never expected that the character she wrote would be so cruel to her.
Of course she was afraid of death, so she quickly lied, "Killing me is useless, and killing An Zhi's mother is useless. God will just find someone else to inhabit, and then you'll all be finished!"
Xie Wenchong said, "Chen Xuan, I can't guarantee that my company can survive without the protection of that unknown force."
An Zhi listened to them talking back and forth. Xie Luo's memory of the conversation was not so clear at that time, but now he heard them talking about some weird things. What on earth were they talking about?
The little devil poked his head out and whispered, "Anzhi, I'll give you some strength. Find a way to escape. Go inside and save your mother!"
An Zhi was startled. The little devil had been strangely silent for a while, and even Xie Luo's favorability had increased strangely. It couldn't be like Yu Feixing, where his favorability would increase with just a subtle touch, as if he was deliberately letting her see everything about Xie Luo...
The many doubts about binding the little devil in the first place, An Zhi: [Don't move for now. Whoever can't hold back will die first. But little devil, aren't you afraid that if I die, you will die here with me? ]
Little Devil: [For your mother, I'm not afraid! Let's go! ]
At this moment, there was a loud bang, and the cave mountain shook violently. Everyone's face changed. An Yuanting said, "You all don't want to die here, right? Go in first and hide in the underground air-raid shelter!"
At the critical moment of life and death, everyone reached a brief truce agreement and ran down quickly.
Just as the door was about to close, Xie Luo behind him quickly stepped forward and blocked the door silently.
An Zhi opened his eyes slightly and found that there were many stairs behind the door. Everyone went down one floor at a time and almost fell from time to time because of the shaking of the mountain.
It wasn't until a few minutes later that the light brightened.
Arriving at the bottom floor, it was brightly lit and there was a smell of disinfectant. An Zhi nervously looked at the woman lying on the bed in the middle of the room, who was trapped tightly by restraints. Just one glance and An Zhi laughed miserably.
An Zhi murmured: [Little devil, you really lied to me. Xie Luo's last scene is still a fake scene, right?]
The person lying on the bed was not her mother at all.
The little devil quickly approached the bed and dragged a dim ball of light out from the woman on the bed.
The little devil said: "An Zhi, I'm sorry. As your system, I deceived you and used you. I originally wanted to use you to find a few powerful assassin teams to wipe out these people. I didn't expect that you would lead me here in such an unexpected way."
This girl is my sister. We have family in our system too! They've trapped my sister's host here for decades, preventing her from dying or leaving. They've used all sorts of methods to force her into giving them all sorts of items! They're using the heroine halo, the Mary Sue halo, and draining my sister's energy to make them powerful.
"If you die, I will die too. I never intended to harm you. I could only knock you out before the police you called arrived. My sister's energy is almost depleted. I will drain the souls of these people to use as fuel."
When the little devil said this, An Zhi observed the reactions of An Ruonan and her group. It was obvious that they had no idea that there was an unknown creature here that was in a dimension higher than theirs.
These people are still negotiating how to distribute the benefits. Xie Wen Chong, Chen Xuan, Pei Yan and others all want to work on their own and share the right to control the woman in the bed. An Yuanting is still trying to consolidate his "emperor" position that once firmly controlled everyone. The abbot of the Buddhist temple is still thinking about taking advantage of the disagreement between Xie Wen Chong and the An family to gain some benefits for himself.
None of the three parties was willing to give in, but no one wanted to actually kill the woman on the bed, so the situation became deadlocked for a while.
An Zhi angrily said to the little devil: "You should have told me this directly. I might not have refused to help you, but you chose to lie to me! The most important thing is that you used the information that my mother was still alive to deceive me! I was so excited..."
Just at this moment, the dim white ball said weakly: [He should still be alive.]
An Zhi's whole body tensed up in an instant, and he couldn't help but look forward to it again.
Bai Tuanzi said: "My host and your mother were good friends, but I'm not sure if your mother is your mother anymore. My host's personality changed drastically when he traveled here, and your mother doesn't seem to know her friend's personality. She used to be in love with An Tingyuan, but suddenly wanted to divorce."
[Later, my host was initially in a relationship with Shen Xuan, and couldn't help but reveal his transmigration and golden finger. Shen Xuan had evil thoughts, but couldn't deal with me, so he joined forces with An Yuanting to encircle and suppress the host. I also almost exhausted my energy to save the host. After being locked up, I heard An Tingyuan talk about your mother's escape. He claimed to the public that he had died of illness.]
An Zhi's originally desperate mood now felt hopeful again.
Bai Tuanzi continued, "Brother, although you deceived the host to save me, this violates the rules set by the Lord God. You have now extracted the souls of these people. Although I'm fine, the Lord God will hunt us down. Let the police come in and capture them, otherwise your host will be in trouble and it will be difficult to explain."
Little Devil: [But, but your host's life is about to end...]
As soon as these words were spoken, tears flowed from the corners of the eyes of the woman on the hospital bed, and a relieved smile played at the corners of her mouth covered by the ventilator.
An Zhi said: [You want souls as energy, then I will go to the execution ground and take them as you please!]
The little devil's eyes lit up, and he returned to the way he was when he first bonded with An Zhi. He excitedly thanked An Zhi: [Wow, host, I knew you were the best! I will use all my energy to help you find your mother!]
After reaching a consensus, An Zhi finally shouted, "Where is this?! What are you doing?"
This sentence became the slogan of action, and as soon as it was spoken, the tear gas was thrown in.
Everyone panicked, obviously not expecting the police to come in, and they all started covering their mouths and noses and trying to escape.
An Zhi took advantage of Yu Shaojin's confusion at the moment and twisted around to avoid his control, but he didn't have the strength to continue running. He lay flat on the ground and gradually fell into coma.
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When An Zhi woke up again, he was in the hospital.
Yu Feixing was guarding her bedside, his narrow eyes full of bloodshot.
"Drink some water," Yu Feixing said hurriedly when he saw her wake up.
An Zhi moistened his throat, and the first thing he noticed was, "What's going on now? Where's that woman deep in the cave?"
Yu Feixing spoke quickly, "Everyone's been captured. The woman in the cave was rescued. She was about to commit suicide as soon as she had the strength, but the psychologist persuaded her to stop. She can't be questioned right now. Those people from Anshi Group are still gritting their teeth and refusing to confess."
However, there is solid evidence that Buddhist temples operate casinos and trade in human organs. The police also rescued many hostages who were deceived by gamblers and sold to Buddhist temples.
People from An Yuanting Group and An Ruonan's boyfriends were all present at the scene. Even with such a close relationship with the host, they could not escape the charges, especially since what An Zhi heard at the scene could be used as testimony.
When Yu Feixing helped An Zhi to the woman in the cave, the little devil was indeed guarding his sister.
The light of the white ball was getting dimmer and dimmer. An Zhi knew that if he didn't let the little devil absorb the energy for his sister, the white ball would probably really dissipate. The woman who was unconscious on the hospital bed was the only person who had contact with her mother. He had to find a way to wake her up and talk to her no matter what.
Several months passed. During this period, every time someone was executed, An Zhi would take the little devil to absorb the other person's soul and recover energy for Baituanzi.
It just so happened that due to the two major cases solved by An Zhi Film recently, the number of executions increased sharply. In just one month, Bai Tuanzi had recovered half of his energy and extended the life of the woman in the cave, Qin Yuyan.
At first, Qin Yuyan had just woken up and still wanted to commit suicide. For her, the more than ten years of being locked up were simply a nightmare.
She was originally in the late stage of cancer. On the day when the treatment failed, she was bound by Bai Tuanzi and brought to this world. Her original intention was to win over the male protagonist Chen Xuan, but something seemed to be wrong in this world. Chen Xuan was not the upright person that Bai Tuanzi knew.
They had just gotten married on the day the strategy was successfully conquered, and the next day they were locked up by Chen Xuan, who demanded that Qin Yuyan hand over the secret of her good luck and foresight.
At that time, she had managed to escape with the help of Baituanzi, but after Chen Xuan joined forces with An Yuanting, she could not escape at all. Later, in order to prevent her from escaping, they simply locked her in the deepest part of the cave.
Since Bai Tuanzi has no energy, they will torture her. Bai Tuanzi can't bear it and asks them to find some people with good luck to come and absorb their energy, and then give it to Anjia and them. This process becomes a deceptive means for the Buddhist temple to exchange their lives.
However, now, with the intervention of a psychologist and An Zhi's frequent visits, Qin Yuyan's condition has finally stabilized, and she is even interested in participating in An Zhi's filming and playing a supporting role.
During this time, in order to make up for his betrayal, the little devil used the energy he earned from An Zhi's movies to search the entire Internet for traces of An Zhi's mother's existence, but there was still no news.
In this case, the only possibility is that this person has already died.
But An Zhi was always unwilling to believe it. He attended major media events and appeared in the media, hoping that he could stand high enough to be seen by his mother.
In late autumn, An Zhi just came out from the award-winning event, with the trophy he just won thrown next to the frame.
The car stopped at the entrance of the sanatorium. She got out and rubbed her eyebrows.
Yu Feixing was also there, and this time their crew won the Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Actor awards.
The sanatorium was built halfway up the mountain. As soon as you entered the gate, you would see Wutong Avenue, with maple leaves all over the ground. An Zhi walked along Wutong Avenue for only a few hundred meters when he saw Qin Yuyan sitting under a Wutong tree reading a book.
Qin Yuyan smiled and said, "Now that you're here, why do you look so tired?"
An Zhi smiled, because she could no longer hold on. She was becoming more and more discouraged because there had been no news from her mother for such a long time.
Qin Yuyan brought good news: "The day before yesterday, my former housekeeper found a painting among Shen Xuan's seized assets. This painting was given to me by your mother. Take a look."
She took out the painting, and An Zhizhi confirmed it at a glance - this was her mother's painting style, the style of her original world!
Although An Zhi was 80% certain that her mother had also traveled through time after listening to Qin Yuyan's memories during this period, she was still not completely sure. Now seeing this painting finally made her confirmed it.
"Then where is she?" An Zhi felt sadder and sadder as she looked at the painting. An Zhi understood that it was an oil painting her mother had drawn of Qin Yuyan and her mother taking her to an amusement park.
However, he painted Qin Yuyan's smiling face and the original owner's smiling face so realistically, but only painted his own back, making it impossible for An Zhi to imagine his mother through this painting.
"An An."
A gentle and familiar voice sounded behind her.
An Zhi froze all over, not even daring to look back, fearing that it was an illusion.
"An An, it's me."
An Zhi even forgot to breathe and turned around stupidly.
The autumn sun was hanging on the sycamore tree, reflecting the broken lights. The deep orange sycamore leaves were falling down, and there, stood her mother.
An Zhi's tears suddenly burst out and he ran towards his mother.
"Mother!"
This was probably the happiest moment for her since she came to this world.
The main text is over.
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The author has something to say: First of all, I would like to apologize to the readers. I don’t know if any of you who have been following the update are still reading it. I am really sorry that the update has been delayed for so long.
There have been dramatic changes in my life (I won’t go into details, for fear of being accused of playing the victim), so I have been unable to muster up the energy to write. This article has been stuck in writing, and I have been sitting in front of the computer desk all day without being able to squeeze out a single word.
Even if I wrote it, I thought it was rubbish and deleted it. Only recently did I finally get back into shape and finish this article according to the expected ending.
The male protagonist is Yu Feixing, but the story later on seems to be beyond emotions, so there is no detail about the relationship between the two. The emotional line between the two will be treated as a bonus chapter, which you can watch or not.
Bow again. I don’t know how many people are watching. Let’s draw a red envelope to compensate the babies.
This book was tiring and heavy to write. I want to write something more healing in my next book, hoping to heal my readers and myself as well.
Finally, I wish everyone happiness every day, good health, and I hope to see you in the next book~ The next one is set in modern times, but is bound to the beast-taming system of the cultivation world. It is expected to be released on the 8th, and there are plenty of manuscripts~
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