Barrier of Light

"I am..."

When Zhou woke up, he saw a blurry throne.

She has memory lapses.

After a long time, I slowly remembered what happened.

I was hypnotized.

The person who hypnotized himself was the young man sitting on the throne.

The moment she raised her eyes, her spirit received a strong impact. The man sitting on the throne was no longer wearing the white robe of the Crescent Church, but was shrouded in countless radiances.

This was an unprecedented feeling...as if there were billions of rays of light surrounding her.

The skin, blood, and soul all seemed to become warmer.

She, who believed in the new moon, suddenly felt shaken at this moment.

Who would believe in the "Crescent Moon" if they could get close to the "Scorching Sun"?

She slowly looked around at this huge wilderness, blown by the warm wind. Although it was empty, it did not feel deserted.

Wild grass grows in the flat wilderness.

This world seems to be new, everything here is so... intoxicating.

Gu Shen sat on the Iron Throne and narrowed his eyes slightly.

Scenes appeared in front of him, which were "Zhou's" memories.

This scene is like a movie, which can be paused at any time according to Gu Shen's thoughts.

His eyes were fixed on a certain scene.

After leaving the holy elephant.

Zhou stood on top of the building, watching herself leave... Judging from her reaction at this time, she had no motive for coming to find him, but she quickly lowered her head and glanced at the communicator.

It seemed like someone had sent her something.

The memory trembled, and the picture began to become blurry... Gu Shen felt that this woman's mental strength was not stable, and if she forced herself to read it, it might lead to "collapse."

Is this some secret technique of the Crescent Church?

Gu Shen waved his hand to dismiss these mental images and stopped plundering memories.

He was not panicked and asked softly: "Whose message did you receive?"

The voice sounded very gentle.

But in fact... it carries irresistible pressure, like an oracle.

Zhou's mental strength gradually returned to calm. She could not control herself to remain silent, and hissed with difficulty: "I... don't know."

To prove innocence.

"I couldn't find the sender's name or address... That person seemed to be a ghost, as if he just sent a reminder email." Zhou whispered again: "The ghost said your name is not A Mir is not a Crescent either.”

Gu Shen looked at the woman in silence.

It was obvious that this was not a lie.

Zhou really didn't know.

But the situation suddenly became weird. One email exposed his file?

Then...there was this door-to-door investigation.

Fortunately for Gu Shen, this woman acted very quickly. She took action as soon as she received the news, and then took the initiative to deliver it to the door. The Crescent Church should not know about this yet.

But the bad part is.

Since there is a first email, there can be a second one.

Gu Shen didn't say anything more and directly erased "Zhou"'s memory... This time the hypnosis process was very smooth, much simpler than he imagined.

Looking at the entire battle, it can be said that the emblem of the Storm God Seat only produced a "shock" effect. It seems that this so-called divine object is not as powerful as he expected, or it is just a perfunctory way of God to his people. ?

Maybe... he has too many people.

Or maybe...he just doesn't care.

But no matter which one, it gave Gu Shen more confidence to "fight away from home".

He erased "Zhou"'s memory, and at the same time used the method of treating his boss to exert some guidance on the mental content. Finally, he gave "Zhou" a clear memory. He returned to his residence and had a good sleep. Nothing happened.

Send "Zhou" away.

Gu Shen suddenly realized... what it was like for Xiao to establish the "Long-lasting Foundation" in Dadu District.

If a transcendent's spiritual power is strong enough.

So powerful that... he can continuously expand his spiritual links and accept "believers", then these hypnotists will become the most loyal "believers". This is the most trustworthy group of people in the world, and they will completely grow around you. , dedicate your life at any time.

However, there are too few extraordinary people who meet such conditions.

Even if a psychic transcendent reaches the twelfth level, he cannot establish a stable connection with others for a long time.

Xiao Xiao's "Blood Fire" and Gu Shen's "Blazing Fire" are both one-in-a-million examples.

Although he really didn't want to be together with Xiao, Gu Shen had to admit that their two abilities seemed to be born to "make people surrender".

Now, he has clearly felt the horror of "blazing fire"... His four-season wilderness seems to be able to accommodate many "souls". If Gu Shen is willing, he can even absorb enough "souls" in Nanzhou, the land of faith. Believers come to practice the doctrines they created.

"Wait a minute...Xiao..."

Thinking of this, Gu Shen suddenly realized something was wrong!

He immediately spoke: "Can you check Zhou's email?"

"Before you spoke, I was already checking." Chu Ling moved faster than Gu Shen. Her tone was calm and she showed the results calmly: "The sender of that email cannot be checked because [Deep Sea] Permissions were seconded and bugs appeared. Judging from the results, this is indeed a 'ghost email'... but knowing this information seems to be enough."

Seconded [Deep Sea] authority to send out ghost emails.

As far as Gu Shen knew... there seemed to be only one person who could do all this.

"Boom, boom."

There was another knock on the door.

It was the hotel manager who drove the waiter away earlier. No matter how you looked at it, he was just an ordinary person, not an extraordinary person... But at this moment, his eyes were extremely calm. If you look carefully, you can still see the red color deep in his pupils.

The hotel manager smiled and said, still in the respectful tone before: "Mr. Xiao Gu, are you satisfied with the result of the handling just now?"

Gu Shen smiled.

This thing... is more interesting than I thought.

The manager closed the door.

He didn't make any other unnecessary moves. He just leaned against the door and said softly, "Don't worry, I only sent one email. If you are willing to cooperate, the Crescent Church... won't know what happened."

"Your dog's nose is really sensitive."

Gu Shen said calmly: "I landed in Xiyin City, and within twenty-four hours, I was smelled by you."

"That's not surprising."

Xiao Xiao smiled, not feeling offended, but accepting the compliment calmly.

"After all...this is my 'home'."

Yes.

His base camp is not in Dadu, but in Nanzhou... After the last church case, Xiao changed his subject. The year when Gu Shen meditated was also the year when Xiao secretly developed his power.

He may have cultivated countless "shells" this year.

Cunning Rabbit Three Cave... This guy's true body is no longer known where it is hidden.

"You have too many homes."

Gu Shen said leisurely, "I don't know about anything else... I'm afraid this is not your real home, right? Otherwise, the person who comes to see me now wouldn't be such a mortal body."

"Don't say that, I'll be sad...Who would want to live in a place like this if they had a choice?"

There was no trace of sadness on Xiao Xiao's face. He looked at the sky, squinted his eyes and said, "The mental power of that old guy in Nanzhou is much more terrifying than the [Sky Eye] in the metropolitan area. If you are not careful, everything will be broken." Once caught... it will be an outcome worse than death."

Thinking back to the last time, his mental power was captured by [Backflow], and countless ports were killed together.

Xiao didn't want to experience that kind of pain again.

And if he is discovered by the "Storm Throne", he will only suffer greater torture.

Gu Shen knew Xiao very well.

This guy noticed his "movement" immediately and only sent an email. Obviously he didn't want the "situation" to become serious... and he and he were already in an incompatible situation.

The blazing fire wants to swallow up the blood fire.

Similarly, Blood Fire also wants to eat Blazing Fire.

Xiao hopes that he will die, but he does not want to die at the hands of the Crescent Church... The reason why he took the initiative but did not take action himself is very simple, that is, the powerful body linked to the "blood and fire" does not live in Xiyin City.

If you do it.

He was not sure about killing himself.

"Using such a body to negotiate with me... you are looking down on me too much." A ray of fire flashed from Gu Shen's fingertips, "I have nothing to talk about with you. This ray of fire of yours... I will I accepted it with a smile.”

"Oh My God……"

Xiao Xiao quickly raised his hands to indicate surrender. He sighed and said with a smile: "Are you too cautious? You want to kill me when you meet such a useless body? Are you not afraid of killing me? Are you coming to hunt down the Crescent Church?"

Gu Shen said calmly: "I can leave Nanzhou, can you?"

Xiao has spent a long time and countless efforts to cultivate a mature force in the metropolitan area, but his body is hidden in Nanzhou thousands of miles away... At the beginning, this may be considered a "caution", but it is a matter of course. Looking back later, he clearly had a better choice.

There is only one reason for not leaving Nanzhou.

Can't live without Nanzhou.

"If you choose to send an email to the Crescent Church... I can leave Xiyin City immediately and return to East Continent, and you should be prepared to face the wrath of the 'Storm God Seat'. I have a hundred ways to let him understand what you have done. and became interested in your identity." Gu Shen said slowly, "You seem to be an amazing earthworm, you can divide into hundreds of bodies and have hundreds of lives, but for the storm...kill Killing you for hundreds of lives is just a thought."

The smile on Xiao's face gradually disappeared.

His expression grew gloomier little by little.

"All right……"

The man raised his hands and slowly revealed a string of compounds on his waist.

Trinitrotoluene...a familiar explosive.

He said calmly, "Nobility is the epitaph of the noble, and despicability is the passport of the despicable. I have tried to communicate with you calmly and noblely, but it seems to have had little effect. Now I can only use the best method... My The heart is connected to a pacemaker, and if you kill me, the explosives will explode instantly."

Gu Shen narrowed his eyes.

"I know you don't care about my life..."

Xiao Xiao smiled and said, "This past year, your mental power has advanced so fast, it's amazing. I'm afraid you can suppress these explosives in an instant without causing any casualties on site."

Xiao Xiao guessed correctly.

Gu Shen's other hand was silently holding the Ruler of Truth, ready to contain the explosion at any time.

"It's just... who stipulated that the explosives linked to the pacemaker can only be carried on the body?" Xiao said calmly: "If you kill me, this hotel will explode instantly. I just don't know that with your current ability... you can... In an instant, how many people were saved. Do you want to give it a try?"

"Are you threatening me?"

Gu Shen pressed the ruler and asked coldly.

There are many innocent people here... If Xiao really planted enough explosives in advance, then Gu Shen could only "protect himself" in this explosion. He knew very well that he could not save everyone. .

He knew better.

For Owl, such a threat can be used countless times.

If you give in once.

Then...it will be countless times.

"This explosion happened... you can't escape the investigation of the Crescent Church. Once you attract the attention of the Storm God, do you really think you can escape?" Gu Shen did not accept the threat.

"I can't escape, and you can't escape either." Xiao Youyou said, "I can assure you that once this explosion occurs... you will not be able to leave Nanzhou. In the eye of the storm, there is no difference between the two of us."

It was like this for a few seconds.

"Please..."

Xiao stared into Gu Shen's eyes, and the gloomy expression on his face disappeared without a trace in an instant.

It was as if all the unpleasantness had never happened.

He suddenly smiled and said: "You gave me a shot in Dadu, and you took my life in the snowy field. I should be the one who is really angry. In this situation, why do you have to... be so nervous?"

"Obviously... this is a lose-lose situation." Gu Shen said calmly: "If you threaten me, this situation will arise."

"Loose-lose?"

The owl smiled again.

He slowly lowered his raised hands, quickly adjusted his sleeves, and wrote lightly: "No... this is not a lose-lose situation."

"What I just did, I just want to tell you... For a gambler like me, I am already ready to sacrifice everything. Every second of my life may be the last second. I don't care at all. I can do anything whether it's my own life or death. I don't even care about life or death, so how can I care about winning or losing?"

“What do you want to say to a gambler who doesn’t care about winning or losing, it’s a lose-lose situation?”

Xiao no longer leaned against the door, slowly and casually found a chair and sat down, as if he was not worried that Gu Shen would take action.

He picked an orange from the fruit plate, put it into his mouth without peeling it, and chewed it slowly.

Gulu.

He swallowed a whole orange.

He looked very comfortable, narrowed his eyes, looked at Gu Shen, and said sincerely: "If you are willing to negotiate with me, maybe we will have another situation... We can win-win."

"..."

Gu Shen just thought that everything Xiao said now was just fart.

Win-win?

Cooperating with anyone can be a win-win situation, but it is impossible to cooperate with Xiao.

"From your eyes, I see strong distrust." Xiao raised his eyebrows and said, "I know where your hostility comes from... Next I will share something that interests you. Maybe in You'll change your mind after hearing it."

"If you guessed correctly."

"You should be looking for... something like this."

Xiao slowly reached out and took out a photo from his inner pocket.

An ancient bronze lamp.

Gu Shen controlled his emotional fluctuations. When he saw the lamp, his expression did not change.

But they fought many times.

Now Gu Shen and Xiao know each other too well. When face to face, neither one can try to deceive the other.

"Stop pretending."

"Although I am not in Dongzhou, I am afraid that few people are more concerned about Dongzhou's news than me. The Li family in the Snow Forbidden City has been looking for ancient antique lamps this year. This is indeed an unreasonable and strange behavior. Most of them People don’t understand why, so they don’t pursue it.”

He did not take back the photo, but put it on the table and said with a chuckle: "But I am different from those people. Before the storm comes, the rain clouds always gather first. There is always a reason for everything. Li's search There must be a reason for Operation Lamp. Fortunately, I remember the Tundra thing very clearly...many inconspicuous burial objects fell out of the coffin, including a bronze lamp."

Gu Shen said calmly: "Do you have the lamp in your hand?"

"..."

Of course Xiao Xiao did not answer this question. He smiled and said: "I came here just to tell you that I know where the lamp you are looking for is."

"Why should I trust you?"

Gu Shen shook his head.

It was impossible for him to believe Xiao's words... just these few words were not enough to make him trust him.

"Of course you don't have to believe it."

"It's just...what if your search always yields no results?"

Xiao Xiao calmly adjusted his sitting position.

He lay lazily on the chair, stretched out his fingers, lowered his head and slowly broke them, and said at the same time: "One, two, three, four... You seem to have found a lot of helpers. Those guys in the slums are very hardworking, Xi Yinhe It won’t take long for that place to be searched again. If the lamp you’re looking for is really in that place, that’s fine, but... what if it’s not there?”

"Or, let's take a step back."

"No matter how small the sound is, it is still a sound. Are you sure that the actions of these guys will not attract the attention of interested people?"

Xiao Xiao shrugged and said, "For example...me."

Gu Shen stared silently at the unscrupulous man in front of him.

How many "eyes" has this guy planted in Xiyin City?

"I want to know...what that light is."

Xiao slowly leaned forward and said seriously: "As far as I know, it is just an ordinary object without extraordinary aura. It is not worthy of Li's effort to search it, let alone your coming to Nanzhou in person."

Gu Shen no longer tensed up.

He sat opposite the owl and said softly: "You seem to want to know the news about the 'Light'... OK, I can tell you."

Xiao was startled.

"One question, another question." Gu Shen stretched out a finger and made a request.

Xiao thought for a moment, smiled slightly, and leaned back again: "...Okay, but my request is to take turns asking questions."

"Yes, but I have to ask first." Gu Shen said, "In order to ensure the authenticity of the answer, you and I will separate a ray of flame at the same time to observe the other's mental fluctuations."

Blood fire and blazing fire have the qualities of attracting each other.

Once two wisps of flame are close, they will feel each other's mental fluctuations very clearly.

Xiao snorted coldly.

His body is already weak in ability, and the amount of "blood and fire" it carries is extremely small.

If you separate a strand, there will be nothing left.

But...he didn't refuse. According to what Shen Shen said, he squeezed out a very small wisp from the center of his eyebrows.

The two flames merged with each other.

Seeing this scene, Gu Shen felt a little relieved.

He got right to the point with his first question.

"What is written on the ancient inscription tablet that the Church of the Evening Bell took away?"