Light Fortress-Chapter 73 - 71 Joining the Game
73: Chapter 71: Joining the Game
73 -71: Joining the Game
Jiangtan serial killer.
The crazed Transcendent carrying a sealed object.
An extremely dangerous out-of-control being.
These words had all been used by Hu Danian last night to describe the man before him, but in fact, it was only upon truly meeting him that he realized the guy’s image was even more striking than these words… His entire body was cloaked in a set of ragged, foul-smelling black clothes, and his exposed skin was dry and pale, looking like a corpse or more like a ghost floating just above the ground.
Describing him as a lonely evil ghost couldn’t be more apt.
Seen on the street by people, he would evoke the sensation of “encountering a ghost in broad daylight.”
Qu Shui was startled at the sight; she hid behind Gu Shen, and upon seeing the owner of the dry, withered palm in such attire, she whispered with a very small voice.
“Dr.
Xiao Gu… this person… I think I’ve seen him before…”
“Relax.
I’m here.”
Gu Shen’s expression remained calm.
He glanced over, the door was being held ajar by a hand, seeming like it wouldn’t give up until it came in.
Seeing this cold, resolute demeanor, Gu Shen figured that even if he firmly slammed the door shut, it likely wouldn’t let go.
Gu Shen simply didn’t bother closing the door, but rather opened it wide and stepped aside for the hunched-over man, “Come in.”
At this, the hunched-over man paused, seemingly taken aback.
He slowly walked inside, eyeing the surroundings with wariness.
“Just a moment.”
Gu Shen spoke lightly, taking Qu Shui to the western compartment; the girl hadn’t slept all night, her demeanor both exhausted and frightened.
She was about to say something when she heard Gu Shen’s soothing voice.
“Look at me.”
Qu Shui instinctively looked up, her gaze met Gu Shen’s eyes, a flicker of Chi Huo reflected and danced in her pupils…
The next moment, the girl’s warm and soft body was steadily supported by Gu Shen as she drifted into a deep sleep.
Gu Shen walked out of the western compartment with the hunched-over man, leading him to another partition, drawing the curtains.
The room instantly became dark, leaving only the mottled light seeping through the gap in the curtains.
“Drawing the curtains makes the room darker, you should like that better,” Gu Shen said indifferently.
“After all, you haven’t slept in so long… right?”
The man narrowed his eyes, silent, just staring quietly at Gu Shen.
“The Lipu Street mass insomnia incident… Having stirred up such a commotion in Da Du, you must be aware that you’ve been watched,” Gu Shen began slowly.
“Yet, you continue to offend and even took the initiative to show up… Obviously, you don’t care, not about being caught, and not about dying either.”
At the mention of not caring,
The man across smiled.
“Gu Shen, you really… keep your cards close to your chest.”
The other party addressed him by his name… Gu Shen’s eyes lowered.
“If you can call out my name, it means you’ve seen my file…” Gu Shen gently tapped on the table, smiling.
“Could it be regarding the fire case?”
No response.
Gu Shen continued softly, “In fact, upon seeing the files of this Transcendent event, I sensed something was amiss.
The earliest insomnia patient appeared on the river bank the night of the 8th… That was my first day in Da Du.
From that day on, the sleepless began to appear one after another near Jiangtan Lipu… It’s been nine days straight, and this range has never expanded.
It doesn’t seem like something an out-of-control being who has lost their mind would do.”
On the plane, Cui Zhongcheng had told him.
This mission… his own file was classified.
And those who knew his itinerary were only the “very few people” Mr.
Xiao Cui spoke of, which was the key to the mission.
Gu Shen finally understood what Cui Zhongcheng’s true purpose was in sending him to Lipu Street.
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Actually, from the first day I landed in Da Du, the real mission had already begun, and I just didn’t know it yet…
There were already people hunting all over Da Du and along the river bank with the stone sculpture in hand, and their target was me!
“The person behind you…
only knew I had arrived in Da Du and was near Jiangtan Lipu, but not my exact whereabouts,” Gu Shen whispered with a low chuckle, “He was too impatient, thus he sent you.
But the Suzhou Stone Carving isn’t an artifact under your control.
That’s why there were mass insomnia events in the Jiangtan Lipu area…
In truth, you were just trying to find me; the appearance of these insomniacs wasn’t your intention.”
“…”
The man fell silent, “What are you trying to say?”
“What I’m trying to say is…
quite simple,” Gu Shen said.
“Any attempt to use fanatic actions to stop the progress of an era is both foolish and ignorant.
The tide of an era will not cease for the death of any individual.”
Veins throbbed on the man’s forehead.
Gu Shen’s hands clasped together, his gaze fixed on the other party, his voice even deeper, like that of someone judging a criminal.
“To despise life, to kill the innocent wantonly, to trample on the rules…”
“If you believe what you’re doing symbolizes light and justice, then why does the Changjiu Foundation hide underground?”
A burst of angry protest sounded.
“Enough!”
The man cut off Gu Shen, and flames of rage burned fiercely in his eyes.
Perhaps due to extreme fatigue, even his voice sounded weary and weak despite the fury.
“Justice is nothing but the most magnificent excuse in this world…
Those standing in the light, they’re just the victors.
We hide underground only to reach a farther end!” He looked down at Gu Shen from his lofty position and asked coldly, “What do you think the Judgement Institute is, if not another tainted institution?”
Gu Shen’s expression did not change; he fixed his gaze intently on the gaunt man…
This line of dialogue had been his provocation.
It was to infuriate the other party!
Indeed, this man was a member of the Changjiu Foundation!
With this response, a weight settled in Gu Shen’s heart, yet it also gave rise to greater wariness.
His fear was not of the Changjiu Foundation, but of Cui Zhongcheng.
Many feared Mr.
Xiao Cui.
Even Senior Sister Luo said that Cui Zhongcheng was a cold and unfeeling person.
At that moment, Gu Shen truly felt the terror that was Cui Zhongcheng.
The pleasant conversations they had before seemed to be a facade.
Arriving in Da Du, he had unwittingly become a pawn in Cui Zhongcheng’s scheme…
On the plane, Cui Zhongcheng had said his file was highly confidential, disclosed to only a few.
Clearly, his file was disclosed only to those Cui Zhongcheng suspected.
Under the situation where the fire case clues had been disrupted.
This move of “luring the enemy into a trap” made the undercover agent of the Changjiu Foundation jump gleefully into the trap.
The price was…
I had to face the ensuing deathtrap alone.
“Since we’ve met, it doesn’t matter if you know my identity…”
The man chuckled softly, “After all, we’re both already corpses.”
“Clang.”
A delicate stone sculpture was taken out by the man and placed heavily on the table.
The sculpture’s surface bore the fierce face of an evil ghost, causing a sharp pain in the head of any normal person who glanced at it from even a distance.
A D-level sealed artifact, the Suzhou Stone Carving!
Recorded in the files, if touched, or if one got too close, one’s spiritual power would be absorbed by the sculpture.
In fact, the fundamental reason it seized dreams was that an evil ghost Dream capable of devouring spirit was engraved within it.
Due to carrying the stone sculpture for an extended period, the man was already withered.
His spirit had long been devoured to exhaustion.
But at this moment, his expression was unusually excited.
After taking out the sculpture, the man’s actions did not stop there.
He lifted the wide, foul-smelling, black coat to reveal bulging, heavy objects underneath.
Gu Shen’s pupils contracted…
those were old explosives strapped around his body.
“To hell with the new age!”
The man abruptly stood up, the deep sockets of his eyes reflecting intense flames.
He lunged at Gu Shen, shouting loudly.
“Long live the Changjiu Foundation!”
