Chapter 70 Mission Area [Mission: Assassinate Bian Shaoyan and seize the Holy Grail...]
You Shi had already stepped one foot into the vortex. Gu Tu seemed to have thought of something and asked casually:
"That lord sent people to stage such a play in order to find someone who can escape the trajectory of fate. What will happen if they find someone?"
"How about it?"
Yu Shi chuckled, then nervously gripped his hair, almost tearing his scalp off, a painful groan escaping his throat.
“Three hundred years! We’ve been searching for a full three hundred years! We thought it would be that nameless one, but he deceived everyone! He dared to lie to the gods!”
"cheat?"
Gu Tu was speechless for a moment. The only one who was qualified to be called "the one who abandoned his name and past, voluntarily banished from fate, and was currently imprisoned at the bottom of the superpower prison, was that former resistance leader. He had done many horrific things, but according to what You Shi said, the truth was far more than that.
"What do you think is the cruelest form of punishment in the world? Skinning, slow slicing? No, no, no, compared to that, that's incredibly merciful."
Yu Shi smiled mysteriously, his expression a mixture of pity and schadenfreude: "Of course, it was a [Lamp]-level sealing artifact that parasitized you like a bone marrow extractor, slowly draining all your spirituality. But because of your special ability, you can keep splitting and regenerating, so you can't die no matter what. This kind of life has lasted for twenty-six years, and it will continue until that person forgets him, without end."
Gu Tu felt a chill run down her spine. She was no longer an ordinary person who had no concept of superpowers. Spirituality was not the same as mental power. Even a slight depletion would cause a superpowered person to have a splitting headache, let alone exhausting their spirituality to the point of near depletion. That would be a hundred times more intense and painful. If they were not careful, their spiritual body would dissipate and they would become an idiot!
This inhuman torture continued day after day for a full twenty-six years.
"Oh, don't worry. If you behave well, at most that person will think you're useless and send you to your death. It's not worth torturing you like this."
Gu Tu was speechless for a moment, then changed the subject: "You haven't said what would happen if someone deviated from the trajectory of fate."
"She will become a god."
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"You need to contact the main body, and then what?"
Those beautiful eyes stared at her innocently for a moment, then she honestly said, "I don't know."
Du Yu silently repeated "Don't argue with a fool" three times in his heart, and then changed his question: "Then why did you contact the main body?"
"This...I think I've seen it before. I need to tell you..."
Xiao Yi pointed to the pattern on the wooden door, her eyes filled with confusion, which told Du Yu that this was all he knew.
"Pattern?"
Du Yu held the puppy by the scruff of its neck with one hand and turned to look at the spatial door.
Tian Yinuo stayed by Gu Yinglan's side and discussed with her how to write a version of the forum rules first.
Having confirmed that the [Dream Petri Dish] and the branch church had integrated well, Du Yu returned home first. As soon as he stepped out the door, he met the gaze of Xiao Yi, who was squatting outside.
Is there something wrong with this door?
After being modified by the system, the door has become more antique in appearance, looking like it was stolen from the props department of some period drama. I haven't looked at the patterns on the door in detail yet.
On the dark brown wooden door, instead of the usual carvings, a ferocious-looking giant beast was vividly carved from left to right. Du Yu observed it carefully and felt that the pattern was somewhat similar to the dragon patterns carved on some buildings in the south of his previous life, but the differences were also very significant.
Asking Xiao Yi yielded no results. As Du Yu pondered, the little dog under his paw whimpered and wagged its tail ingratiatingly.
"Let him go; he might be surprised by what he gets."
A six-winged pigeon flew out from nowhere and landed with a thud on the back of Du Yu's hand, which was holding the dog. It pecked the dog ball mockingly, and a few black feathers fell out as it opened its mouth.
"Um?"
Du Yu gave 166 a deep look. She was originally inclined to accept it, but she didn't expect 166 to agree as well: "You two knew each other before?"
"Gurgle."
Just moments ago, 166 was swaggering in front of Xiao Yi, but suddenly it became like an ordinary pigeon, tilting its head and making an innocent "coo-coo" sound.
Du Yu pursed his lips, looked away, rubbed the little dog ball again, put it on the ground, and gently pushed it on the back: "Here, go, go find your original form."
"Waaah."
The puppy twitched its nose, as if trying to find its way, and waved its short, thick limbs toward a certain direction. Its movements were so difficult that Yu almost accused Xiao Yi of employing child laborers.
The puppy crawled forward a few steps, then stopped as if it were lost, its nose twitching in the air and making "woof woof" sounds.
Du frowned. After returning to the primary temple from the mahogany church—the name she had just given to that spacetime rift—she temporarily released her supervision of Xiao Yi. Logically, he should be able to locate the spirit world by now.
Xiao Yi also looked up, her brows furrowed in confusion, her nose twitching: "I can't find it, why?"
"You can't locate your own body anymore?"
Du Yu watched the puppy stand on the ground, looking lost, for a long time. Suddenly, it turned around, wobbling as it looked back, its two front paws struggling to hold onto the toe of its boot, and then lay down and didn't move.
Du Yu picked up the dog with a headache, looked at Xiao Yi who was equally bewildered, and asked helplessly, "Under what circumstances would you be unable to find your true form?"
Those golden eyes stared blankly at her, seemingly lonely for no reason, "...when the original body was about to die."
Du frowned, about to ask more questions, when his ears twitched, and from the connection deep within his mind, a voice gradually became clearer:
"The time traveler in the eroding rift, the six-winged white dove that devours the riddles of time, the listener who hears from both ends, your loyal follower Kou Qingyi begs for your attention..."
A blurry image appeared before Du Yu's eyes: in a narrow space, Kou Qingyi recited a prayer. After feeling the gaze of a great being, she suppressed her excitement and nervousness and briefly explained the whole story.
As she listened, a strange look appeared in Du Yu's eyes. She couldn't help but look up at Xiao Yi, who was still confused. She moved her legs and lifted the little black dog that was lying motionless on her foot. Purple flames danced in the air, outlining the memory images transmitted by Kou Qingyi.
The camera angle is strange, as if the viewer is lying on a high place, with most of the scene blocked by the wall, and only a corner of light showing at the very bottom.
But Du Yu and Xiao Yi are both superhumans, so they can see it clearly.
The footage appears to be taken at the entrance of a building, showing a group of people escorting a vehicle loaded with goods. It's unclear how Kou Qingyi used her abilities, but she managed to see through layers of obstruction and "see" what was inside the vehicle—
A ferocious, enormous black dog!
Even though the image was somewhat distorted, Du Yu could still tell that the black dog, which looked a bit like a wolfhound from his previous life but had much smoother muscle lines, was much larger than a normal dog. It lay inside the car, its ears perked up alertly, and golden flames occasionally shot out with its breath.
Looking at this scene, and then at the little black puppy lying stubbornly on the shoe, resembling a newly weaned puppy, Du Yu was speechless for a moment: "...Are you really from the same source?"
Why is the one Bian Shaoyan brought so handsome, while the one I have is so small?
Xiao Yi watched the purple flames dissipate in the air, blinked, and said, "It looked like that?"
Du Yu picked up the puppy and rubbed it a few times, trying to see the handsome appearance of the black dog from its messy and soft fur—unsurprisingly, he failed.
Although their appearances are vastly different, when judging a creature, observing its spiritual energy fluctuations is much more intuitive and accurate than its appearance. The images that Kou Qingyi observed using special methods also replicated the black dog's spiritual energy fluctuations—they were exactly the same as the fluffy, soft little thing in her hand.
After returning the puppy to Xiao Yi, Du Yu pondered the information Kou Qingyi had conveyed: the search for the Holy Grail fragments had repeatedly failed, and Bian Shaoyan could no longer sit still. He personally brought the sub-body of the sealed artifact 001 to the lower city to search for the lost fragments.
For the Kou Qingyi and Kou Qingman sisters, if you were to ask who the person Kuaikeli hated the most, it would undoubtedly be Bian Shaoyan. His actions presented them with a golden opportunity for revenge.
For him, this was a good opportunity to collect Holy Grail fragments. After all, the Upper City was difficult to enter, and Yu Zheng was having a headache about how to snatch the fragments from Bian Shaoyan. He didn't expect the other party to deliver them to his doorstep.
and……
"If your body were a little stronger, would you be able to connect with your true form?"
Du Yu stroked his chin. Although Xiao Yi couldn't recall the specific characteristics, he could tell from the process of the other party splitting into puppies that the offspring of Xiao Yi's main body were not uniform, with some being strong and some weak.
For some reason, Du Yu inexplicably began to pay attention to the patterns on the spatial gate. If a weak sub-entity couldn't connect, could adding another sub-entity strengthen the signal and allow it to connect with the main body?
"Okay, let's give it a try."
Xiao Yi thought for a moment and nodded solemnly.
In this way...
Du Yu's eyes were deep and unfathomable. He tapped his chin with his finger, summoned the system panel, opened the newly appeared [Gugu Communication] interface, first gave himself the pseudonym "Bishop D", and began editing his first post on the forum.
Since Bian Shaoyan has run right into my hands and I can't help the original owner regain his special ability for the time being, I'd really be letting down my followers who I've cultivated for so long if I didn't give him a proper "welcome".
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"Sister, how are you?"
Kou Qingman watched her sister finish her prayer and seemed a little dazed. She couldn't help but ask, "If we don't act this time, I don't know when we'll be able to seize another good opportunity to catch Bian Shaoyan leaving the Upper City."
"...The Lord granted our request."
"Very good!"
Kou Qingman couldn't help but cheer softly. She asked a few questions about the details, but her sister's expression was strange, as if she was questioning life. However, she still told her sister about the divine message she had received.
"...As for the details of the mission, please check the forum."
"?"
Kou Qingman was stunned for a moment, but quickly realized that the forum her sister was talking about was the strange software that had suddenly appeared in her personal computer today and could not be deleted.
Out of caution, neither of them dared to click on it. How could the assassination of Bian Shaoyan be related to the forum?
The two of them simultaneously opened the strange software called "Gugu Communication". The strange forum called "Listening Lord Believers Management Center" was empty except for a few pinned Q&A posts.
Kou Qingman was pondering the meaning of the wordless book when Kou Qingyi tentatively clicked on the [Task Area] section, her eyes lighting up: "Sister, look!"
In the concise forum, only one post was floating in the 【Tasks】 section:
[Mission: Assassinate Bian Shaoyan and seize the Holy Grail fragments]
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Author's note: I'm finally almost at the end of this volume, so tired...
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