As soon as he finished speaking, more than a dozen Zhou family members rushed into the alley and surrounded Su Yao and the others.
The man in the lead was Zhou Chenglang, the second young master of the Zhou family. He was dressed in wedding clothes and was obviously the groom.
He stared at Xu Ruyan and said viciously, "Xu Ruyan! You are not a faithful wife. You dared to commit adultery with my eldest brother! My Zhou family will never tolerate a shameless whore like you!"
"Today, I will clean up the house on behalf of the master of the family and restore the reputation of both the Zhou and Xu families!"
Xu Ruyan desperately shook her head: "I didn't! I was framed... I didn't have an affair with Big Brother!!"
"Zhou Chenglang! You must believe me! You and I grew up together as childhood sweethearts, you should understand me well..."
"It was my own fault that I trusted you! You drugged my brother and killed him. You are the culprit!"
Su Yao suddenly interjected, "Zhou Chenglang, Xu Ruyan didn't lie."
"Who are you?!"
Wen Wushang sneered: "Another one with amnesia."
Zi Mou said calmly, "Except for us, everyone who entered this space has lost their original memories and has become a puppet."
"I don't care who you are, just stay out of the Zhou family's business, or I'll be rude to you!" Zhou Chenglang waved his hand, and the people around him were about to capture Xu Ruyan.
Frightened, Xu Ruyan immediately hid behind Su Yao, trembling all over, and said, "Save me... I don't want to be put into a pig cage and drowned in the lake..."
"What's the purpose? Are you trying to fabricate a rumor and take people's lives?" Wu Yan suddenly felt overwhelmed and thought that these tools in front of her were pathetic and ridiculous.
What's even more ridiculous is that they still want to participate in it.
Broken script!
Suddenly, a line of red words appeared in the air: Su Yao, if you want to find Su Wentian’s exact location, you must save everyone in this city.
"Is this the rule of the game?" Wen Wushang said.
Su Yao looked calm as she turned to Zhou Chenglang, "I can prove that Xu Ruyan was framed. Your brother's drugging had nothing to do with her."
"How are you going to prove it?!"
"Take us to see your elder brother. If we are half an incense stick later, he will be dead."
Zhou Chenglang was horrified. Although he still had some doubts, he didn't dare to take the risk and turned around and left: "Follow me!"
The group went to Zhoujiabao.
As we walked along, the whole city seemed like a dream, with towering buildings and the streets bustling as usual, but with an unreal air.
The crowd, vendors, children, and the elderly are all in an orderly manner, as if it were an ordinary day, but they are also like puppets repeating their actions on a set track.
Wu Yan was stunned: "Is this... an illusion?"
Su Yao whispered, "It's not just an illusion, it's a formation within a formation."
Liu Yuting stood aside, his eyes also solemn.
Wu Yan looked up at Zi Mou and said, "Director Su, are these... these people real people?"
"It's souls," Su Yao said, his voice so calm that it barely showed any fluctuation. "Their bodies have long been annihilated, and the remaining souls have been anchored here by an extremely complex soul formation, forming this 'Soul Formation City'."
Wu Yan's expression changed slightly: "Soul Formation...are they still conscious?"
"Yes." Su Yao nodded. "And they don't know they are souls. They just think they are alive. They live the same 'day' every day and never notice the passage of time."
Wu Yan felt a chill run down her spine. She cast her gaze towards the old man and child who had passed by, and couldn't help but whisper, "Then... how do we break the formation?"
Purple eyes were calm: "The person who set up the formation arranged all the souls into a formation line... the Yin-Yang Qiankun Formation.
“The entire city is a battle formation.
"Streets are the threads, buildings are the directions, and human presence is the 'living chess piece' that moves the formation."
Wu Yan was stunned: "So these souls are part of the formation?"
"Yes." A cold light flashed in Su Yao's eyes. "And what's even more terrifying is... as long as one of them dies, the seal of the soul-suppressing formation will automatically open."
"What will happen after it is opened?" Wu Yan asked in a low voice.
"The entire Soul Formation City will be completely imprisoned in the void, forever unable to escape. And Su Wentian will be sealed at the center of the formation, trapped there forever."
Wu Yan's body trembled violently. "No wonder the scarlet letter said at the beginning, 'Save everyone in this city.'"
Since they are residual souls, they must be saved!
She suddenly remembered something and her eyes focused: "Is this a test?"
Su Yao nodded slightly: "The other party used the 'Dao Heart Killing Game'."
"This is……"
"It's a test of how I can escape this predicament. If I abandon them and only save my loved ones, I will embark on a path of slaughter and exile, and fall into doom."
Wu Yan could hardly believe her ears: "Are they forcing you... to make a choice?"
Wen Wushang looked at Zhou Chenglang and Xu Ruyan in the distance, his eyes full of contempt.
Even those insignificant people needed Su Yao to find a way to save them... The person behind the scenes was really vicious.
Su Yao had a blank expression on his face: “With every solution, someone will be harmed.
"But they overlooked the fact that even the script has the opportunity to be changed."
Wu Yan whispered, "Do you have a solution?"
Su Yao looked towards the ancient city and said softly, "The first step to breaking the formation is to recognize the map.
"The second step is to not move the array center and not hurt the soul."
"The third step is to alleviate the soul power fluctuations from the outside, creating a 'false cycle', temporarily replacing the original array wave frequency, and then implanting a substitute array soul fire inside it, making the fake look real."
Wu Yan's scalp tingled after hearing this: "This, this is too difficult..."
Su Yao turned and looked at her, his eyes calm: "That's why I need you."
"Me?" Wu Yan almost exclaimed.
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