Chapter 643 The Guardian of the Collection (Part 7)
After urging him on, Xia Mingang righteously questioned the Arctic fox plush toy in his hand, "Are you the gatekeeper?!"
Bixi was extremely disgusted.
That's not how you ask it, you idiot.
Xia Mingang threw down the toy in his hand and said angrily, "Damn it, can you stop swearing?" He couldn't be insulted, but he could insult other people.
As you said yourself.
"Damn..." Xia Mingang picked up another teddy bear, "Then how do you suggest we ask?"
Bixi demonstration: [The gatekeeper is an Arctic fox plush toy.]
Xia Mingang rolled his eyes. "Isn't it the same?"
The stone tablet of the bixi slowly emerged, but suddenly stopped. The light bulb above its head suddenly went out, and there seemed to be an unusual fluctuation in the air.
Did you feel it move...?
Xia Mingang instinctively dropped the doll in his hand, exclaiming in surprise, "The teddy bear moved!?"
Bixi: [Idiot, I was talking about the gatekeeper.]
Xia Mingang: "..." He felt nothing at all.
The gatekeeper seems to have deliberately blocked your senses, preventing you from perceiving its movements.
Xia Mingang asked curiously, "Then how could you sense it?"
They are one entity. If we only seal the sentinel but not the spiritual body, wouldn't it be a waste of effort?
Bixi: [I don't know.]
Xia Mingang intuitively felt that this was a clue, but if he couldn't figure it out, he would let a smart person figure it out later.
He picked up the Arctic fox he had put down, hugged the plush toy to his chest, thought for a moment, and decided to ask about the other plush toys in the gift shop before leaving.
"The goalkeeper is a teddy bear."
"The gatekeeper is a penguin."
"The gatekeeper is SpongeBob SquarePants."
Xia Mingang went through each shelf one by one, asking questions. After more than ten minutes, he felt his mouth dry and his patience wearing thin. "The gatekeeper is an idiot..."
...
By the time Xia Mingang finished and rushed over, the others were already waiting at the town's exit.
The town's exit is not a grand gatehouse, but rather the natural end of a bustling street.
The polished bluestone pavement was gradually replaced by a wide and flat asphalt road. On one side was the last row of antique-style shops with white walls and black tiles, selling tea and silk souvenirs, with brightly polished windows; on the other side was a row of newly planted willows, their branches drooping softly and brushing against the wooden benches.
Four people, their clothes gleaming, were standing in front of a white car. The door was open, and Uncle Qin could be vaguely seen sitting inside.
Jiang Mu found the car, and the plan was to meet up and go out to explore together.
The area guarded by the artifacts is not limited to the ancient town. For now, the 5S team definitely needs to expand its search area and go out to explore.
"I've made a major discovery!"
Before Xia Mingang even got close, he shouted to the crowd.
He held up a fluffy Arctic fox to the group, casually tossing his hair, and said, "When Bixi called this Arctic fox doll just now, he noticed the gatekeeper moved."
He was at least the second person to discover the clue.
Xia Mingang was prepared to receive everyone's 'different gaze' and deliberately struck a pose that he thought was handsome.
Unexpectedly, the other four remained calm.
Yun Zhao glanced at the Arctic fox plush toy in his hand and said quietly, "The little bluebird sensed that it was vibrating frequently, and we all thought it had found a clue..."
Xia Mingang was taken aback: "What do you mean?"
Jiang Mu slowly raised his eyes: "Oh, about half an hour ago, I passed by the motor room and on a whim, I cut all the wires inside."
Fu Heng looked at Xia Mingang and said speechlessly, "Didn't you notice the town was without power when you came here?"
Xia Mingang: "..."
He didn't want to squeeze in with the mutants, so he came over via the roof. As for the gift shop losing power, he assumed it was because he had discovered a clue.
Xia Mingang realized what was happening and turned to Jiang Mu, asking, "Why did you cut the power lines for no reason?"
Jiang Mu was too lazy to answer.
Yun Zhao kindly explained, "The only definite clue we have right now is that it likes liveliness. Jiang Mu wanted to try to disrupt the medium of 'liveliness,' so he turned off all the sound systems and neon signs in the town."
The gatekeeper reacted as expected when the noise and activity were attacked.
But it only moved slightly and remained hidden for the time being.
After Xia Mingang figured out what had happened, he stared at the doll in his hand with a suspicious look, unsure whether to throw it away or hold it.
"This shows that the method works."
Xie Tu glanced at the doll in his hand and said, "The gatekeeper is arrogant and loves 'excitement.' The fact that it can tolerate this level of interference means that it is within its tolerance range, or that it thinks it is not worthy of its personal response."
Fu Yan thought for a moment: "Blindly searching will likely fail. Since it's useful, we might as well turn the tables and force it to reveal its weaknesses."
The game rules don't say you can't use other means to obtain clues.
Everyone agrees on this point.
Jiang Mu's actions inspired Yun Zhao. After thinking for a moment, she asked for everyone's opinion: "How about we have one more big one before we leave?"
Everyone looked over.
Jiang Mu already had a premonition that if she said "big one," then this matter was definitely not small.
He hadn't forgotten that when they first met, their cloud guide had encouraged everyone to become terrorists in the contaminated area.
Xie Tu raised his eyebrows slightly, as if he already knew what she wanted to do.
Soon, Yun Zhao, unfazed by his teammates' stares, said, "Let's just cut off its supply line directly. It likes excitement, so let's make sure this place is quiet..."
Xia Mingang, holding his Arctic fox plush toy, became excited upon hearing her plan.
"Okay! What should we do?"
...
After the power outage, all lights, sound systems, and electronic billboards in the tourist town went out.
The streets were still bustling with people, a dense mass of heads moving about, but without a stage and background music, the mutants' behavior became sluggish and chaotic.
A few minutes later.
A little bluebird appeared in the sky above the town, letting out a clear and melodious cry.
In an instant, its body became transparent, its wings became long and beautiful, its tail feathers extended with dazzling light trails, and elegant feathers grew on its forehead.
A blue phoenix, its entire body shimmering with a bluish-green light, has appeared in the world.
The exit parking lot opened up to a dark, sloping passageway leading downwards.
The great bluebird raised its head and sang a long song, the sound waves spreading out as if they were tangible, carrying an aura of purification and domination.
The enormous, dreamlike blue wings suddenly flapped!
Beneath the shimmering, iridescent wings, countless turquoise fluorescent lights rippled.
The lights twinkled like millions of tiny fireflies, or like a flowing blue galaxy, stirring up gusts of wind and instantly spreading throughout the entire town.
[Leave! Enter! Sleep!]
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