Chapter 1860: Chapter 973: Taboo ACE-015, Wooden Fish_3

The Black Spider brought Yi to the underground parking lot, opened a maintenance door of the sewage system, and waded forward with the unconscious Qing Chen on her back.

Traveling upstream for a full two kilometers, the Black Spider groped for something on the wall.

After half a minute, she found a stone brick and pressed it hard, revealing a stone door that opened to reveal numerous boxes wrapped in oilcloth.

The Black Spider found a plastic bucket and splashed the liquid inside the stone door.

Yi curiously asked, "What is this?"

"It’s for masking the scent." The Black Spider said, "We just went against the drainage flow, and this liquid will mix with the sewage downstream, erasing our tracks along the way. It will evaporate completely in 5 minutes, leaving no trace."

Entering the safe house, the Black Spider finally breathed a sigh of relief. She carefully laid Qing Chen flat on a camp bed, "When will the boss wake up?"

Yi shook its head, "Uncertain, there is no reference information."

The Black Spider sat beside Qing Chen, the cancer cell reconstruction was complete, yet Qing Chen had not awakened.

Yi looked at the Black Spider and said, "My father once said that for that path, body reconstruction is merely the ’preface’ before the beginning; Qing Chen’s danger has just begun."

The safe house quieted down, with Qing Chen lying still holding the Black Eye of Truth, even his breathing disappeared, as if he were already dead.

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In City No. 5’s Ginkgo Manor, the old family head Qing Xun looked at Qing Ji’s miserable state, "You’ve worked hard."

Qing Ji shook his head, "Not hard, leaving me with a ruined life is already lucky."

Li Kerou, dressed in a white suit, had already summoned the mute servants for emergency treatment of Qing Ji’s injuries.

Qing Ji asked, "Has Qing Chen been brought back?"

The old man calmly shook his head, "No, the four teams responsible for receiving him didn’t wait for him, but it’s fine."

Qing Ji struggled to get up, "I’ll go find him!"

Li Kerou said, "Pelvic fracture, even if you’re an A-Class expert, you need to be on bed rest for a month."

The old man smiled, "This is already the best arrangement of fate, don’t worry."

"What about later?" Qing Ji asked, "Can he become a god?"

"I don’t know," the old man said frankly.

"Hmm?" Qing Ji was puzzled, "Aren’t you able to see fragments of fate with the chessboard of heaven and earth? Why wouldn’t you know?"

"Now telling you doesn’t matter," the old man said, "The moment he injected the potion, he began detaching from this world. Whether it be the Drama Master or the chessboard of heaven and earth, they ultimately originate from this world, existing based on the world’s will. Their rules can forcibly determine everything only because the world’s will allows it."

The old man said, "But now it’s different, Qing Chen no longer belongs to this world; he is a world himself. Simply put, from today onwards, all taboos have no effect on him and might even repel him. The chessboard of heaven and earth can’t see his fate, and neither can the Drama Master."

The Arbiter can’t curse him.

The Drama Master’s God’s perspective doesn’t include him.

He is no longer a piece on the chessboard of heaven and earth but another world outside of it.

Henceforth, only Qing Chen himself will know his fate.

Qing Ji was stunned, "Since you can’t see, why did you... what if he fails?"

"Why did I put all my efforts to help him get to this point? I’m gambling, even if I’m not sure I can win," the old man smiled.

"Then why are Uncle Li Dong and Li Yunshou willing to cooperate with you?" Qing Ji asked.

The old man sat beside Qing Ji’s sickbed, lost in thought, "Together, we’ve seen thousands of fates, but no matter which one, the outcome is always failure. Only this current fate is one we can’t see."

In fact, before Li Yunshou willingly went to his death, he didn’t know if the Eastern Continent could achieve victory either.

Thousands of methods couldn’t save the Eastern Continent; whether this last one will work, no one knows.

No one knows if Qing Chen can become a god, no one knows if he will live or die after this step, but these humans with great courage have the bravery to gamble.

Indeed, those who sacrificed for fate are braver than imagined. They didn’t choose victory, but after witnessing thousands of failures, they chose not to give up.

The old man smiled, "It’s like the last meter of a cliff, what’s left is Qing Chen’s own path."

Qing Ji: "What if he succeeds?"

The old man: "Then the Roosevelt Kingdom would mean nothing."

Qing Ji: "What if he fails?"

The old man: "At least we tried."

At this time, Li Dongze, Uncle Li Dong, and Samoyed returned to City No. 5 through the Key of Gate. Everyone’s pupils suddenly shrank; Uncle Li Dong was even dragging back the half-dead Duke of Phoenix!

This Demi God Knight had actually captured a duke from the West Continent alive!

The Duke of Phoenix’s body was covered with cracks like porcelain, forcibly shattered by Uncle Li Dong!

The old man smiled, "Quite a harvest."

Uncle Li Dong didn’t ask why Qing Chen didn’t come back. Having seen the fate fragment of today, he naturally knew Qing Chen is now missing, neither they nor the West Continent could find him.

He threw the Duke of Phoenix to the ground, "He should have a taboo keeping him alive. Take away the taboo, and he will die."

Samoyed said, "Kill him; I’ll interrogate him."

Uncle Li Dong thought for a moment, then personally gouged out the Duke of Phoenix’s eyes to hand to Li Dongze, "Qing Chen’s friend Jindai Yunlo seems to need this, you give it to him."

He searched the Duke of Phoenix for a moment and found a porcelain doll, which was also covered in cracks, identical to those on the Duke of Phoenix.

The moment Uncle Li Dong took away the porcelain doll, blood immediately gushed from the cracks on the Duke of Phoenix, resulting in his death.

Then Samoyed took out a wooden hammer and a wooden fish, sitting cross-legged next to the body, and softly recited the opening verses of the Sutra of Ksitigarbha: "The unsurpassed, profound, and wondrous Dharma, seldom met with, even in a hundred thousand million eons, I now can see and hear it, receive and uphold it, and I vow to fathom the true meaning of Tathagata."

In an instant, a green soul body emerged from the Duke of Phoenix’s corpse, the gouged-out eyes empty, expression numb.

Taboo ACE-015, the wooden fish from Fayun Temple, sacrifices human life for soul interrogation, the soul exists for 5 minutes.

Samoyed asked, "What are the containment conditions of the porcelain doll?"

The Duke of Phoenix replied numbly, "To marry it, never betray in a lifetime."

As soon as he spoke, everyone turned to look at Qing Ji; this thing seems suitable for Qing Ji!

Qing Ji raised an eyebrow, "What are you all looking at me for?! Giving me a single buff here?! I have to be single for life to possess the Door of Shadow; even if the marriage partner is a taboo, it won’t work!"

Uncle Li Dong thoughtfully said, "Seems like it too!"

Samoyed said coldly, "Only five minutes, no idle talk."

The old man said, "Let me ask, outside this battlefield, what is the West Continent doing?"

The Duke of Phoenix: "Covering for the Kingdom’s Land Group Army to reach the Eastern Continent, the King is worried about transport boats along the coastline being destroyed, so designed this trap to confuse others. By now, the Land Group Army should have reached six cities in the northern part of the Eastern Continent, ready to rapidly advance on the Southwest Qing Family."

The old man asked, "How many troops does the West Continent have left?"

The Duke of Phoenix: "Apart from the Garrison Forces, none. The Parents’ Meeting has the Key of Gate, with too strong mobility; His Majesty the King wants to attack the Southwest Qing Family, so the Parents’ Meeting must abandon its high mobility to protect the southwest."

Everyone’s minds were sharpened; the Roosevelt Kingdom was actually willing to abandon its original foundation, using offense instead of defense in the Eastern Continent!

And this plan to hunt Qing Chen was merely the prelude to conceal the full-scale invasion.

The strangest part of this battle was that, despite their full preparations, the Drama Master shouldn’t have suffered such a loss: none of them died, while the West Continent lost a Duke of Phoenix.

This fell short of the Drama Master’s standards.

Just like the battle in Silver City, where all the Eastern Continent people thought they had achieved victory, the enemy took away a key taboo item like the Poison Cup; the Drama Master always liked to hide the true target deep in the sea.

The old man solemnly asked, "Who is the real target of this hunt? What does the Drama Master really want?"

The Duke of Phoenix: "The taboo item, Queen Ant."

Qing Ji frowned, "Little Three is in danger."

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