Chapter 88
Gu Shuo was startled, and immediately hugged him back, saying in a hoarse voice, "Ah Xuan, have you remembered everything?"
Su Xuan nodded vigorously and held Gu Shuo tightly with his hands.
When Su Xuan gave half of the spirit core to Gu Shuo that day, he didn't actually think too much about it, or rather, he couldn't think too much anymore.
What happens when a half-demon possesses a complete spirit core? Will it also have the same longevity as a first-generation monster? How will this transformation process be completed?
What would happen if he lost half of his heart and only had half of his soul core left?
Su Xuan couldn't think at all.
Su Amei once said that as long as one is willing to explore matters of the heart, one day things will become clear naturally. Su Xuan did not think too much and made his own choice.
But in that chaotic world, there were too many things beyond their control——
After Su Xuan discovered that his half of the spiritual core and Gu Shuo's half of the spiritual core had merged perfectly, he was stunned for a moment, breathed a sigh of relief, and then felt that he could no longer maintain the half heart formed by spiritual power in his chest.
He asked A Tu to help him - when Gao Ruhan took away his heart, A Tu was still in a hallucination. When he suddenly found that Su Xuan had become like this, A Tu's face changed drastically, and he quickly poured his spiritual power into it, and created a complete heart for Su Xuan instead.
This heart could have continued beating like this forever, but after all, only half of it was left. It was not a good idea to continue like this, as there was no guarantee that something unexpected would happen.
But where did Gao Ruhan go?
Soon, the remaining Night Guards met up with Gu Ruqing, who had escaped from Gao Ruhan's body and rebuilt his physical body. After finding them, Su Xuan propped himself up and said that he wanted to look for Gao Ruhan in the surrounding area again, so A Tu went with him.
They returned to the woods where the battle took place, but there was no sign of Gao Ruhan anywhere. A'Tu said he would go and search the surrounding area again and asked Su Xuan to rest where he was.
Su Xuan sat down obediently.
He was very tired at the time and could no longer maintain his energy. He felt drowsy.
The sky was already turning white, and the morning light was filtering through the clouds.
Thousands of birds have awakened, and their clear and lovely chirping sounds can be heard from time to time in the mountains and forests.
In this peaceful silence, Su Xuan heard a rather interesting sentence: "It seems that a fierce battle took place here last night?"
It was an unfamiliar voice. Su Xuan tensed his body, raised his head, and saw a strange monster.
The monster squatted on the tree like a monkey, glanced around, licked his lips, and said, "Such a rich spiritual power."
Then, he turned his gaze to Su Xuan and said meaningfully: "What a great monster."
The ferocious beast, Zhu Yan.
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"Zhu Yan, 'Mr. Zhu,'" Su Xuan said softly, "It was he who shattered my spiritual core."
Su Xuan finally remembered everything.
It was probably just a coincidence that Zhu Yan appeared there - no, or rather, he was attracted by the rich spiritual energy that remained in the air after their battle that night.
It wasn't like Su Xuan couldn't just turn around and run away—but could he? Ah Shuo and the others were right behind him. If he ran, the Zhu Yan, following the spiritual energy, would be the first to find them. Not to mention that the Night Guards were just ordinary humans, Gu Ruqing's spiritual body had already been severely damaged by Gao Ruhan's devouring!
Su Xuan could only fight back and hope that Atu would come back soon. If Atu's spirit was intact, he might not be able to kill the Zhu Yan, but at least he could repel him.
But Su Xuan really couldn't hold on any longer at that time.
The only thing he was thankful for was that Zhu Yan seemed very keen on playing with other people's lives. When he was crushing Su Xuan's spiritual core bit by bit, Su Xuan could feel that A Tu was coming quickly.
However, it seemed like he was going to break his promise to Ashu again.
He probably wouldn't be able to appear in front of Asuo intact after he woke up.
But even at that moment, Su Xuan still firmly believed that they would meet again.
No matter how long it takes... they will meet again and become "husband and wife".
Su Xuan raised his head and looked at Gu Shuo. There were many words stuck in his throat that he wanted to say but couldn't.
More than a thousand years ago, their journey came to an abrupt end on that morning. And what happened next? What happened to Ah Shuo and the others?
But before he could ask more, the sound of a cell phone vibrating came from the living room again.
Su Xuan paused, clenched his hands, and calmed down. "Let's answer the phone first. Gao Ruhan's matter must be dealt with."
Su Xuan sweated a lot when he was in a coma just now.
Gu Shuo brushed away the hair stuck to his forehead, kissed him gently on the lips, looked at him and said, "Ah Xuan, we will never be separated again."
Su Xuan trembled.
He looked at Gu Shuo steadily.
The two held hands tightly.
Afterwards, Gu Shuo got up and went to the living room to answer the phone. After a few whispered words, he came in and said to Su Xuan, "Let's go."
Su Xuan saw the blood on Gu Shuo's body and said, "Change your clothes before leaving."
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The person who called was indeed Yan Yue.
Gu Shuo's guess was indeed correct - Yan Ning'an and Xian Mo had been studying the time-space shuttle spell recently, and had developed a spell that could monitor time-space fluctuations across the country.
Whenever someone travels through time and space, this spell will immediately light up and indicate the coordinates.
The two of them were chatting casually about whether there would be a story like a modern killer traveling back to ancient times, or an ancient emperor traveling back to modern times. Yan Ning'an complained to Xian Mo that he had read too many old-fashioned romance novels recently, but he was secretly looking forward to it. Unexpectedly, while looking forward to it, he expected a madman to come over.
Yan Yue called Gu Shuo to report, of course. In fact, they had already sent people to the coordinates indicated by the spell, but unfortunately they came back empty-handed. When they finally got through to Gu Shuo, Yan Yue was shocked.
——The time traveler they had missed had actually been locked up by Gu Shuo in the apartment he had lived in a long time ago.
When they all arrived at the apartment and saw Gao Ruhan, Yan Yue and the others, they all swallowed their saliva.
Gao Ruhan's chest was covered in blood. He was lying on the ground unconscious, and even his breathing seemed very weak.
Yan Yue thought he knew Gu Shuo quite well. He knew that this man was not as gentle as he appeared, but under normal circumstances he would never dirty his hands so easily.
Moreover, this man didn't contact them the first time he found Gao Ruhan, but directly locked him up in this apartment. This meant that he didn't even intend to hand him over to them, but instead planned to...
Yan Yue adjusted his glasses.
Fortunately, Boss Gu finally controlled himself and didn't do that, otherwise they would have a hard time explaining themselves.
And what would make him lose control to this extent, I'm afraid——
Yan Yue glanced at Su Xuan.
I'm afraid it has something to do with this guy.
Su Xuan walked forward, felt Gao Ruhan's breath, was silent for a moment, and then passed a trace of spiritual power over.
The next second, Gao Ruhan shuddered and opened his eyes in a daze.
His vision was slack for a moment, and it took two seconds for it to focus.
When Gao Ruhan saw Su Xuan, Yan Yue, and Gu Shuo, he was shocked and instinctively struggled to retreat: "What do you want to do? What else do you want to do?!"
This person who had absorbed dozens of spirit cores and made them feel difficult was now just a rat.
Su Xuan frowned, grabbed his collar, and stopped him from retreating. He said coldly, "Let's clean up the mess from over a thousand years ago today."
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After bringing Gao Ruhan back to the Monster Bureau, after a not-too-difficult interrogation, Su Xuan and his team finally pieced together what happened more than a thousand years ago.
Gao Ruhan was able to absorb the first spirit core at the beginning purely by luck.
At that time, he did not have such great ambitions. Although his spiritual power was already strong as a human, it was still far from that of a real monster. At most, he envied the monsters for being born monsters, and he could not think of anything else.
Until he met a dying first-generation monster and easily obtained a spirit core.
He was greedy and stupid. He didn't know that if an ordinary human casually devoured the spirit core of a first-generation monster, he would most likely explode and die - but thanks to his stupidity, he dared to try it easily.
After trying it, his body successfully accepted this spiritual core, and his spiritual power also surged.
After that, it was out of control.
Gao Ruhan approached the capital because he heard that there were more first-generation monsters in the capital.
In addition, his target was the imperial palace and imperial power.
He felt that he had become the most powerful person in the world. No, he was no longer even a mortal, but a god, an immortal. It was only natural that the world fell into his hands.
At this moment, he just sat in the interrogation room, his hair disheveled and his face covered in blood, shouting like a madman: "Why are you looking at me like that? Do you think I'm crazy? If I hadn't failed to fuse those dozens of spirit cores together in time, you could have caught me so easily?! I almost killed Gu Lanyu and the first-generation monster beside him!"
Yan Yue and Yan Ning'an frowned and wanted to step forward, but Su Xuan suddenly said, "You did almost kill me and Ah Shuo. I admit that you are very powerful after absorbing dozens of spirit cores."
Gao Ruhan snorted coldly, and then listened to Su Xuan slowly say: "But even if we can't kill you, there will be more people who will come to kill you. You don't really think that you can get everything by relying on spiritual power alone, right?"
Gao Ruhan froze.
A powerful madman can indeed make the world a mess, but it is impossible for him to overturn the world so easily.
Su Xuan and Gu Shuo would die, but Gao Ruhan would never succeed. Su Xuan believed this.
Of course, they were indeed tortured badly by this madman.
But Su Xuan would never let such a thing happen a second time.
He took a deep breath, turned to Yan Yue and the others and said, "You have to keep a close eye on him."
Yan Yue said: "Don't worry."
How could they possibly let such a person escape again? Gao Ruhan's physique that could absorb spirit cores was too dangerous. After reporting it to the higher-ups, they would probably take him away directly. There was no way he would be detained here.
Su Xuan nodded and didn't want to stay here any longer. He was afraid that if he stayed here any longer, he would be unable to control himself and attack Gao Ruhan like Ah Shuo. He had already exhausted all his self-control to stay calm.
But he didn't expect that just as he turned around with Gu Shuo, Gao Ruhan suddenly said: "...As long as you are strong enough, why is it impossible to seize everything with spiritual power?"
Su Xuan stopped.
He and Gu Shuo squinted and looked over.
Gao Ruhan stared at them straight. Maybe it was because his obsession and long-standing desire were too strong, but his eyes gave others goosebumps.
At this point, he probably knew he had no way to escape, so he simply wanted to make Su Xuan and the others unhappy. He sneered and said, "Since the beginning of this world, the law of the jungle has been the law of the jungle. The most powerful person gets everything. You imprisoned me, or even killed me, so what? Is there only one 'me' in this world? As long as there is spiritual power in this world, there will always be those who desire it, and there will always be someone who will be so powerful that no one can resist him, and no one can resist him."
Gao Ruhan leaned back in his chair and said, "Gu Lanyu, you asked me if I knew a First Generation Zhuyan."
Su Xuan was startled and quickly turned to look at Gu Shuo.
Gu Shuo didn't look back. He held Su Xuan's hand and said calmly, "That should be your memory, Xuan. After you transferred half of your spirit core to me, our spirit cores also shared some of our memories."
Su Xuan was stunned and his expression became complicated.
After saying that, Gu Shuo stared at Gao Ruhan again and asked, "So, what do you want to say?"
Gao Ruhan sneered, "I don't know any First Generation Zhu Yan, but more than a thousand years ago—for you now, that was more than a thousand years ago, right?—I heard that there were ferocious beasts looking for some ancient tribes."
Everyone was stunned.
Ancient tribe?
Yan Ning'an was the quickest to react, his voice tense as he said, "Are you talking about those tribal peoples mentioned in the Southern Classic and other volumes of the Classic of Mountains and Seas?"
There are Yumin Kingdom, Huantou Kingdom, etc. According to records, the people of these ancient tribes have all kinds of strange appearances that look like monsters, and some are born with special abilities like monsters.
Gao Ruhan had obviously never read the Classic of Mountains and Seas, and had no idea what Yan Ning'an was talking about. He just sneered and said, "I don't know what they are looking for in those ancient tribes. Why don't you guys take a guess?"
There was a lot of malice in the slightly raised ending of his tone.
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a knock on the door.
Yan Yue came back to his senses and said, "Come in."
A staff member opened the door, glanced anxiously at the people in the room, and whispered, "Director Yan, Boss Gu, something happened online and we need you to take a look."
"Come in and tell me what's the matter?" Yan Yue said with a frown.
This person came in and handed the phone to Yan Yue and the others.
When Su Xuan and the others saw it was a Weibo post, it already had tens of thousands of reposts, comments and likes.
The blogger posted a photo, which was obviously taken on the highway. Because it was captured in an instant, the image is a bit blurry.
But a thin figure could be vaguely seen on the side of the highway. The man was shirtless, and his body from the neck to the exposed feet was covered with a thick layer of white feathers, just like a bird.
But it was not a bird at all. "He" had distinct limbs and was obviously a human.
But if it is a person - the side profile of this person captured by the camera is as long as three people's faces, with a pointed head and a chin that reaches the chest.
Even Yan Yue and Yan Ning'an got goosebumps when they first saw this photo.
Blogger: “…Hahaha, is this some kind of ghost story character cosplay…?”
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