Chapter 117 The Death of Mr. Zhuang

The moment the high wall voice sounded.

Gu Shen suddenly disappeared from his original position.

Of course, he wouldn't just obediently stop there.

"Boom!"

A gale swept through, and the long night almost merged with the black trench coat. Because Gu Shen's speed was too fast, by the time the people inside the wall reacted, he was already stepping on the iron wall, leaping high above the high wall—

This high wall was indeed very high.

But wanting to stop a fourth-level... was far from enough!

"Holy crap?!"

The original rude voice was first startled, and then turned into an angry shout: "Fire!"

"Bang bang bang—"

On the wall, in the dark night, a burst of flames was stirred up.

Gu Shen glanced around, there were about seven or eight transcendents, as he expected, all low-level.

He was very clear... that this kind of confrontation was meaningless. No matter what he said, the people inside the wall wouldn't listen or believe him. The simplest way to prove that he was a "good guy" was to disarm them all first.

At that time, they would naturally believe that he was a good guy.

As countless gunshots exploded on the wall.

Adam啧啧 sighed: "Bandits entering the village?"

Shen Li said unhappily: "If you can't speak properly, sew your mouth shut."

Flames intertwined on the high wall. The moment Gu Shen swept onto the wall, he re-entered the darkness. He bent down, and a "simple and unadorned" sweeping kick ended the battle.

In the next moment, all the gunshots fell silent... He stood up, raised his hand, and the iron scales flew out from his sleeve, carrying these inferior firearms back.

"噼里啪啦!"

The disarmament was completed in three seconds.

Gu Shen looked down at the fallen transcendents, waved his hand, and those floating firearms fell to the ground one after another.

"I said we're on the same side, do you believe me now..."

The several Sangzhou Cave native transcendents who were knocked down at the first encounter looked at each other.

A good guy?

Maybe.

At least, the crushing of strength forced them to believe.

Anyway, the high wall was now completely silent... The "shelter" in Sangzhou Cave was actually very rudimentary. Although [Deep Sea] was conducting awakening experiments here, the main system deprived every citizen of the power to link with the deep-sea area. The communication network here was completely undeveloped, and information exchange was basically cut off, but fortunately, there were mental-type transcendents.

The moment Gu Shen climbed the wall.

A mental-type transcendent had already reported the information to the inside of the wall... This wisp of mental fluctuation was of course captured by Gu Shen. As a "top expert" in this area, he didn't say anything, nor did he stop it.

He didn't care how many people came, it just saved him the trouble.

Gu Shen looked around, and finally his eyes fell on the most burly one among the crowd.

It was the one who had roared to fire earlier.

After being knocked down, the others vaguely leaned towards him. Judging from this, this guy should be the leader among these night watchmen. Gu Shen walked forward and grabbed the back collar of this transcendent.

"Holy crap?!"

The strong man who was lifted up by Gu Shen looked shocked and surprised, and cursed again.

He never expected that this young man who didn't look very strong actually had such great strength, lifting him up effortlessly... Moreover, he tried to struggle, his hands clasped on Gu Shen's tiger's mouth, but he didn't move at all.

He couldn't pry it open at all.

The level of strength was completely different!

Gu Shen walked to the top of the wall, lifted him up, and looked down at the bottom of the high wall: "Look at that person, do you know him?"

"Damn it, what did you eat to grow up..."

The strong man muttered, but in the next second, his eyes swept over the bottom of the high wall, and his expression suddenly changed: "Vias? Boss! You're back!"

"Old Six?!"

Vias was stunned for a moment when he saw the head exposed on the high wall, and then shouted to the high wall: "Patil, it's me! Mr. Gu, I know this person!!"

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The things that happened after that were much simpler.

Gu Shen and his party were treated as "one of their own". They successfully entered the high wall. A stove that had not been extinguished was standing on the wall, and a giant rabbit nearly one meter long was hanging on it, sizzling with oil.

"This thing... is a rabbit?"

Shen Li looked at the stove, a little dazed. This rabbit looked almost as big as a lamb!

"Giant Rabbit No. 101, enhanced muscle fibers after extraordinary mutation..."

Patil, also known as "Old Six" in Vias's mouth, cut off a rabbit leg and distributed it to Gu Shen. He said seriously: "This is currently the best 'extraordinary mutation', it's top-level food, you can try it."

After running around all the way, they were indeed a little tired.

"Smells good."

Gu Shen drove the blazing fire, and performed the final scorching processing on the rabbit leg. At the same time, he condensed iron scales with the [Iron Throne], cut it into five equal parts, and then the iron scales pieced together to form a tray, bringing the divided rabbit legs to Bai Shou, Shen Li, Vias, and Adam.

"Giant Rabbit No. 101..."

Although it sounded a bit weird, Shen Li still swallowed. When in Rome, do as the Romans do. He didn't hold back and started eating the rabbit leg.

Even Xiao Xiu, whose white clothes were spotless, did not refuse this plate of delicious rabbit meat, and ate it politely.

Patil was an honest and simple young man.

He smiled and, taking advantage of this moment, began to talk about the past of the s3 living area: "Boss, not long after you left that year, those lunatics from the Church all left... We were wondering at that time, how could the cave suddenly be so quiet? Everyone was thinking, could it be that 'Tanyao' was about to break out?"

"But everyone didn't think much about it. It was a good thing that the lunatics from the Church left, and the chaos in the living area could be stopped... Although there were still many people 'fighting', these 'fights' soon disappeared."

When Patil said this, the smile on his face almost disappeared.

He said in a low voice: "Three years ago, the living area became very quiet overnight... I just felt like I had a disease, a buzzing sound came from my head, and I couldn't move at all. It seemed like my consciousness was being dragged into a deep sea, endlessly diving. For those two days, I couldn't distinguish between reality and dreams."

"..."

Gu Shen knew that this was a sign of [Deep Sea]'s forced link.

This also meant that the awakening experiment had officially begun!

Every native of Sangzhou Cave was connected to the deep-sea area, and next... was mental stimulation, forced awakening!

"But this disease doesn't seem to be very serious."

Patil said self-deprecatingly: "Maybe I'm lucky. Two days later, I opened my eyes and all the negative symptoms disappeared... It was as if I hadn't been sick at all. I ran faster than before, jumped higher than before, saw farther than before, and could clearly hear sounds hundreds of meters away. Boss, I was very happy at that time. I thought I had become a 'awakened' lucky one. I became the next you!"

Vias and Patil were both "orphans" taken in by the "Neutrals", but the former was nearly twenty years older than the latter. When Vias left Sangzhou Cave, Patil was still a young boy.

So, about the "extraordinary awakening", he already knew about it before the experiment.

"But later I realized that I was wrong..."

"The whole street was full of 'awakeners' like me. I heard their dense conversations, countless voices, and everyone seemed to be able to communicate with 'spirit'."

Patil said with a wry smile: "Awakening is not a lucky thing, but a bad thing. Many people's 'diseases' did not disappear. They had high fevers, insomnia, and couldn't even get out of bed to move freely... The s3 living area suddenly became ill, very seriously ill. Among those who could go out on the street like me, there was only one out of ten."

"One out of ten?"

Gu Shen and Bai Shou looked at each other, seeing the solemnity in each other's eyes!

According to the data given by [Deep Sea]... the success rate of the link was 99.9%!

Yes, the success rate was indeed very high.

According to what Patil said, the entire s3 living area was full of the sound of mental communication... These people were forcibly linked, stimulated to awaken, and were still in a state of confusion, but their spiritual power had already been released, and they had become transcendents!

It was just this kind of awakening...

Compared with naturally awakened transcendents, there was still a big difference.

Among them, many people directly overdrawn their bodies, paying the price of becoming transcendents... But these people were also considered part of the "successful awakening", and the [Deep Sea]'s report was never wrong from beginning to end.

It just chose to "conceal".

And the things that happened later, there was no need to say more.

These "failed" transcendents would be naturally eliminated... The awakened extraordinary creatures in Sangzhou Cave rioted after the first awakening, and the "transcendents" in the s3 living area were attacked before they could react.

Those collapsed houses, and the "mummified corpses" that were bitten to death in the beds.

That was the result of that attack.

"Many people died... The remaining survivors, under the leadership of Mr. Zhuang, built a 'high wall'. This 'high wall' helped us successfully resist many 'attacks'."

Patil said: "Hanging 'lanterns' on the wall can prevent beasts from approaching."

"Mr. Zhuang taught us how to practice extraordinary cultivation, how to adjust our breathing, and how to use firearms..."

When he mentioned this person, his face was full of respect.

Gu Shen asked: "Who is Mr. Zhuang?"

"Remember the 'Neutral' I mentioned to you earlier?"

A smile appeared on Vias's face, "Mr. Zhuang... is a member of the 'Neutral'. That's how he taught me back then. The breathing method he taught me, I've been using it until now."

Neutral...

The moment Gu Shen saw the [Lantern], he actually had a bottom line in his heart.

The production process of this [Lantern] was really a bit similar to Lion Alley. It was left by Lu Cheng. Except for the internal personnel of the Ancient Text Society, no one else should know about it... So his guess should be correct. The "Neutral" living in Sangzhou Cave should be the "embers" of the Ancient Text Society.

"I'm sorry..." Gu Shen took a deep breath and asked sincerely: "Can you take me to see 'Mr. Zhuang'?"

"No problem! Of course, no problem!"

Before Patil could speak, Vias agreed with a smile on his face. He came back this time to see "Mr. Zhuang" too!

"Little Pa, is Mr. Zhuang okay? Where is he now..."

He turned to look at Patil, and seeing the latter's gloomy expression, the smile on his face slowly solidified.

Patil shook his head.

"Sorry..."

He said in a very soft voice: "Mr. Zhuang is dead."

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(ps: I can't sleep at night, so I'll make up for the update. But the leave request will not change. There will still be an update tomorrow at noon, try to be before 12 o'clock.)