Chapter 171 Killing That Tu Lanxun
"The key is with her. If she's dead, inject her soul into your improvised interception device. Now that she's alive, use her to generate electricity. I have something else to do, so I'll leave first."
After saying this, Viola went offline. She was already a being of a higher dimension and didn't want to have much communication with lower-level humans.
There was a long silence in the space, and Tu Lanxun suddenly asked, "Simplified interception device... is it a spiritual stem device?"
"It should be." Wenchong said.
Tu Lanxun sighed: "What do you mean by using me to generate electricity?"
Wen Chong didn't answer. Instead, he sent a message to Bu Linlin, who soon rushed in from outside and said, "You know how the Spirit Stem Device's energy supply works, right? It's a combination of physical power supply and the absorption of spiritual energy fluctuations in the air, a bit like plants absorbing carbon dioxide."
Now, there is no need to absorb the soul power fluctuations in the air anymore, the Tu Lan Xun has become the only energy source.
Bu Linlin said excitedly, "Viola must be saying that the power hidden within Xiao Tu's body can trigger switches connecting Earth and other game worlds. We just need to turn off the switches to block it... Oh, by the way, you guys are so stupid! Why didn't you call me when you contacted Viola?"
Tu Lanxun walked out without saying a word, rummaging through his pockets as he walked, and finally found a pocket watch.
Wen Chong asked, "What are you doing?"
Tu Lanxun said, "Find Kris's location."
Yan Hailing suddenly appeared in front of Tu Lanxun, blocking his way and saying, "The fourth pact is collapsing, and the first pact is about to be revealed. If you observe him, he will discover your location. This is very dangerous."
Tu Lanxun raised his head and said, "So I need your help."
She turned and looked at Wen Chong and Bu Linlin. "You already knew about Hai Ling and Yu Yehua's identities, right?"
Wen Chong smiled bitterly and said, "I just realized it too. Have you heard of the great archaeological robbery during the Republic of China period over a hundred years ago?"
"What?" Tu Lanxun was confused.
Bu Linlin obviously knew: "Newspapers at the time reported that a foreign archaeological team had unearthed an ancient tomb in a mountain cave in Eastern Province. The dynasty was unknown, but the Chinese workers on the archaeological team later said that the cave contained countless treasures and had a ghost door at the deepest point."
"Later, the local warlord sent people to investigate again. The treasure was indeed taken back and replaced with a lot of guns and cannons, but the door was never seen again. People at the time didn't take it seriously, just thinking that the Chinese translator had been frightened."
Tu Lanxun asked, "Why are you so frightened?"
Bu Linlin said meaningfully, "The team's Chinese translators and expert consultants were an unmarried couple. They came from prominent families and had received higher education, a rare achievement at the time." Then, her gaze fell on Yan Hailing. "And after the first excavation, the couple mysteriously disappeared without returning. Newspaper reporters speculated they fell off a cliff or were carried off by wild animals inside or outside the cave."
Yan Hailing stood there, her expression unchanged. She was still a little numb, and her white suit with black marks on it hung at her side.
Bu Linlin continued boldly, "And nearby villagers confessed that on the night the archaeological team left, they saw a distant fire in the direction of the cave."
Tu Lanxun had not expected to hear such a secret all of a sudden. He was worried and asked Yan Hailing in a low voice, "Did someone in the team lie and you were murdered?"
Several eyes focused on Yan Hailing. She said in a cold yet gentle voice, "There is indeed a door there."
"There was a conflict between the archaeological team and the local forces in the cave, and even internal strife broke out within the team itself." Yan Hailing finished speaking when Yu Yehua suddenly appeared beside her, his black robe like a torn black flag. "The two sides engaged in a firefight. Hailing and I tried to leave, but we were eventually killed by bandits in the deepest part of the cave."
Then Yan Hailing and Yu Yehua fell towards the mysterious door at the boundary between life and death.
From that time on, the foreign land lost a pair of erudite young ladies and gentlemen who were like pearl birds, and the world gained two more enforcers of the ghost treaty.
"Is that door still there now?" Bu Linlin asked hurriedly.
Yan Hailing shook her head: "He's gone. Before he fell into a deep sleep, we went back to check, and there was nothing in the cave."
Bu Linlin was extremely disappointed.
Tu Lanxun figured out the two's origins, but she hadn't done anything truly important yet. She said, "Please help me protect the Dharma. I must find Kris. Who knows if he'll arrive in Lucheng in a few hours or minutes."
The pocket watch was still smooth in her hand. Tu Lanxun closed her eyes. Millions of candlelight rose around her, and she kept recalling Kris's face.
Why are there two points of flame flickering around, so eye-catching?
Tu Lanxun quickly realized that one thing was Kris’s twin brother Dong Yijian, and the other thing... was Kris himself!
Tu Lanxun suddenly opened his eyes, and Wen Chong asked, "What's wrong? Did you see it?"
"He is in Lucheng."
Bu Linlin said, "That's impossible. The main areas of Lucheng are covered by spiritual devices. Not even a fly or a ghost can fly in."
Wen Chong said, "No, some places are only covered by a single layer of spiritual stem devices. Kris may be able to break through that level of defense. How do you think Lu Lianbing was hit?" She waved her hand to unfold the map, and saw several small areas marked out. Those were places where there was no double-layer spiritual stem device cross-coverage.
"At this location." Tu Lanxun's fingers fell and his eyes suddenly froze.
The place where Kris's spirit stayed was a place with a name that she was very familiar with.
Yan Gui Sanatorium.
This is where Ms. Tu Penglai was hospitalized.
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Kris is undoubtedly making his last attempt. So far, the situation is hopeless. If Tu Lanxun, who is the key, closes the passage from the game world to the earth, he will no longer have so many evil spirits to use.
So what is Tu Lanxun's weakness?
From Kris's perspective, a tough soft spot is chasing him from behind, while another soft spot is living in a nursing home.
Tu Lanxun suddenly received a text message on his mobile phone. The sender was Ms. Tu Penglai: She was kidnapped by me.
Tu Lanxun felt like a basin of slightly cool water was poured over his head. He didn't feel too scared, but his hands were shaking slightly.
This scene seems familiar.
Kris sent another message from Ms. Tu Penglai's phone: "Stand with me, and I'll spare her life. I can give you a good reward. What's the point of a development zone? You were supposed to be the master of the entire Eastern Province."
The last time this happened was seven years ago, except that the person who was kidnapped was Tu Lanxun.
At that time, Ms. Tu Penglai chose to give up.
Wen Chong and the others focused their attention on Tu Lanxun. Tu Lanxun slowly breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Let's go to the Yangui Sanatorium first."
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The Yangui Sanatorium has been surrounded, but Kris spread the word inside that if a layer of spiritual stem device is activated, he will kill a patient or medical staff inside. If he gets annoyed by it, he will slash at Tu Penglai with a knife.
"Well, he's quite generous." Xiao Zhang was so nervous that he started talking in his sleep, not knowing how to comfort Tu Lanxun. "You see, he didn't even dare to force you to commit suicide. He knew that your relationship with... wasn't that..."
Li Ao glared at him, and Xiao Zhang immediately shut up. He just handed Tu Lanxun a bottle of juice and said, "Have a drink."
Tu Lanxun received the third message from Kris on the way, which was a video.
Ms. Tu Penglai was tied to a chair, her long curly hair covering half of her face, but she still had that lifeless and dull expression, as if she was not sitting on the kidnapper's chair, but an expensive chair designed by a foreign designer. She was even more arrogant than Kris outside the picture.
The curtains must have been drawn, and the light was dim, with only a few silver-red rays penetrating the room. Mu Xiaozhen saw it and said, "Anti-soul monitoring and positioning and anti-infrared detection device."
"Speak." Kris's voice came from somewhere.
Tu Penglai looked at the camera lazily, but her eyes were sharp. She said, "You know what you should do. Don't hesitate, just do it."
This sentence is ambiguous. It sounds like it's telling Tu Lanxun to save the man without hesitation, but it also seems to mean something else. In any case, out of consideration for Kris and the officials on both sides of the camera, it was not said directly.
Three seconds later, Tu Penglai's sneer disappeared into the black screen.
Bu Linlin livened up the atmosphere: "If Kris hadn't appeared so suddenly, I would have thought Chairman Tu had teamed up with him, haha."
Several stern glances were directed at Bu Linlin, and she shut up and was sent to sit at the same table with Xiao Zhang.
Tu Lanxun was stunned for two minutes.
No one could understand Tu Penglai's words better than her.
Ms. Tu Penglai asked her to follow and implement her long-standing teachings: be tough and ruthless, and put her own overall interests first.
In other words, Ms. Tu Penglai's words translate to: Just do what you need to do, don't overthink it. If you want to be the King of Eastern Province, then defect and save me. If you don't want to be, or if the circumstances don't allow it, then I'll die, and don't worry about it.
This person really put her philosophy of life into practice until the very last second.
Wen Chong gently patted the back of Tu Lanxun's hand and said, "Don't worry too much. They're not the only ones there."
N is still there.
Kris is in the nursing home, and N, who has been following him, is probably there too, but I don’t know if Kris knows where N is.
Tu Lanxun closed the battle plan on his lap and asked Mu Xiaozhen, "Professor, are the devices Kris installed in the sanatorium so that even souls can't penetrate them?"
Mu Xiaozhen shook his head. "That's what I observed. But that thing has a characteristic: its overall extension area is not very large, so each small area must be reassembled and covered. In fact, it's just countless inviolable restricted areas pieced together."
Therefore, N’s current status may be that he is “confined” in a certain position, waiting for an opportunity to move.
Souls can't enter, and living people can't enter, so...
What about the half-dead person?
"Can you kill me?"
Wen Chong became alert: "What do you mean?"
Tu Lanxun looked Wen Chong in the eye and uttered something that made everyone around them feel as if they had seen a ghost: "Can you extract my soul, isolate my body's 'entry mechanism', and put it in a state of near-death or even decay? Then I can use my soul to possess my own body. In this case, it wouldn't be the living soul returning to the living body, but the living soul possessing its own corpse."
"If this is the case, it's neither life nor death. It should be able to pass through Kris's defenses, right?"
Bu Linlin shouted excitedly: "Ah? What if you rot?"
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