Bulwark of Light

Chapter 567 The Temptation of Freedom

Until Gu Shen finished speaking, the ruler of truth did not respond.

These words, of course, were not meant for the dead Pluto, who died like a lamp, and Pluto was the same, even though the river of Pluto was still scattered with the will he had laid down.

It's just that Pluto couldn't hear a single word of Gu Shen's words.

"Don't you want to say something?"

Since the devil didn't open his mouth, Gu Shen simply asked.

"What do you want me to say?"

The devil said indifferently: "I am in your hands now, so I should say something you like to hear... Well, I agree, understand, and fully support your choice."

"I'm curious, what did the last guy with the ruler do?"

Gu Shen said calmly: "You don't know anything about it, do you? Since you can call it 'Styx', then you should know something."

"..."

silence.

The inside of the ruler is extremely quiet.

If you use spiritual power to penetrate and sink, you will see that in the large space where light and shadow intersect, the devil is sitting lazily on the throne, as if he has fallen asleep with his eyes closed.

It has the right to remain silent at all times.

Obviously, the devil doesn't want to talk about his past experience in this ruler.

And Gu Shen, who has just completed a deal, can't use "black silver" to threaten him at this moment, at least for the next ten days...he has to fulfill his promise and give the devil "freedom".

"Okay." Gu Shen shrugged and said, "Don't you want to make another deal?"

The word transaction has inexplicable magic power.

The devil sitting on the throne raised his eyebrows, raised his head, and said impatiently in a gloomy tone, "Gu Shen... don't take me for a fool, I know what kind of person you are."

Cunning, insidious, despicable, shameless...

This young man calls himself a "devil" in his heart, but in this unequal transaction relationship, he is the one who is more like a devil!
transaction?

I'm afraid the sky is falling, and Gu Shen won't really deal with him.

Originally, it was lucky, trying to achieve the purpose of the transaction by relying on temptation, opportunity, and persecution on certain occasions.

But now it has given up these ideas.

Because it has thoroughly confirmed that Gu Shen is the kind of guy I hate the most, who is extremely cautious and afraid of death... Even if there is a little bit of opacity in transactions like this, the details that may bring risks have not been figured out. Will not agree.

It's a long game.

This is the case for Gu Shen.

The same is true for the devil.

"We've already opened up deals, haven't we? That's a good sign."

Gu Shen follows good temptations, he wants to ensure that his relationship with the devil is close enough and far enough away...

Close enough to come in handy at critical moments.

Far enough, it is for the sake of your own "safety".

Several confrontations, several games.

He understands the devil better and better, and the devil understands himself better and better.

If this guy doesn't take the initiative to propose a deal one day, then it won't be a good thing... Perhaps one day in the future, Gu Shen will encounter a huge crisis that is difficult to resolve.

And at that time, the devil may not try his best.

For it, the word loyalty is like shit.

It would be the best if this ruler could change to another owner, and it would be the kind that is stupid, impatient, and eager for power!

In these transactions, the reason why the conditions offered by the devil are so attractive, to put it bluntly, is that the supply and demand relationship between the two sides is not balanced.

Gu Shen needs to adjust this balance, neither missing nor relying on it.

"What do you want to say?"

The devil spoke quietly, not interested in Gu Shen's words.

"I think, you should know what the previous owner of the ruler, 'Pluto'...is going to do." Gu Shen thought for a while, and said slowly: "That's right?"

It's not hard to guess.

For the past 20 years ago, the devil keeps silent.

Obviously, this is because he doesn't want himself to know the secrets of his previous master... But thinking about it carefully, Pluto left the ruler of truth in Dongzhou and set off to the [Old World] by himself, obviously planning everything.

How could the devil be unaware?

"Sorry, this is not part of the transaction content we can carry out."

The black shadow on the throne gave Gu Shen a rather unexpected answer.

To test what Pluto is going to do...is it a "non-tradable thing"?
Gu Shen was a little surprised.

He smiled and stabilized his mind: "Oh? So you also have something that cannot be traded... I thought that as long as you can afford the price, you can agree to all transactions."

"I hope so."

The devil also smiled, but it was just a sneer: "It's a pity that some things are priceless. It's not that I don't want to trade, but that I can't trade. You should have figured it out. The so-called trading rules are very simple. You Pay the price, I fulfill the promise, and use the soul and spirit as the medium to ensure that neither party can break the contract. Therefore, what I promised will definitely be fulfilled. However, even if you give me everything, I can’t help you kill it The seat of the God of Light on the mountain. After all... I am just a lonely ghost living in the ruler, not a real god who is so great that he can rewrite history."

At the end of this sentence, there is a sense of desolation and loneliness.

But Gu Shen never accepted this trick.

Speaking of the God of Light Seat, he suddenly realized that the past few minutes had been too quiet.

"Styx is a bit too quiet... Has the Seat of Light descended successfully?"

Gu Shen has already swam for a long time in the black river, the surroundings are pitch black, even if he is the King of Hades, he can't see anything at the bottom of the black river.

It's not because there are rules, or anything blocking it.

But at the bottom of the "Styx" river, there is only silence.

No life can survive here.

The "will" left by the previous Pluto here is only the spiritual toxins that are full of obliteration, erosion, and infection...

"This is tradable content."

The devil said quietly, "Do you want to know the situation on the other side of the Black Snow Mountain? I can tell you, but I want more freedom, at least for the next 30 days, you can't use 'Black Silver' to block the perception of this ruler .”

"Sorry, I don't want to know."

Gu Shen smiled slightly, politely refused, and then said leisurely: "Although I don't know what happened in the Black Snow Mountain, I guess that the coming of the God of Light has a high probability of failure... Even if it succeeds, that God will not be able to step into the Styx for a while. , otherwise you wouldn’t be as calm and relaxed as you are now. Think about your previous performance in Black Snow Mountain, if the God of Light was sitting behind my ass, you should have been impatient.”

The devil's face was shrouded in black mist, and no expression could be seen.

But he was really angry, and after listening to Gu Shen's words, he couldn't hold back and hammered the armrest of the throne heavily.

This young man is completely unreasonable.

Not only mothers-in-law and mothers-in-law on the matter of "trading", but nine out of ten sentences on weekdays are all about trying to get their own information... As a nihilistic spirit living in the ruler space, it is really Not so much mind.

As long as there is a game of similar rhetoric, it will fail miserably.

Seeing the devil's reaction in the ruler, Gu Shen felt more at ease, and confirmed the general situation on the top of the mountain.

He swam towards the boundless darkness of the Black River, and said with a smile: "Actually, I don't want to inquire about what Hades is going to do. When it comes to the past, you don't need to be so nervous."

The devil paid no heed.

It has gradually understood that getting along with Gu Shen is completely different from getting along with the previous owner of the ruler.

An old trick.

And some familiar routines are useless to Gu Shen.

It has to change itself, at least... to play a relatively fair game in the matter of trading.

The first step is to prevent Gu Shen from getting "information" from himself. The reason why a transaction is called a transaction is because the employer who pays the price has to "purchase", and Gu Shen gets too much from himself for free. up.

So he decided to keep silent.

Gu Shen just smiled at this.

He continued on his own: "If you guessed correctly, not revealing Pluto's plan should be part of your deal with him... As you said before, it's not that you don't want to make a deal with me, but that you You can't trade with me. You have promised 'Pluto', absolute secrecy, and the rules of the ruler will not allow you to disclose it."

While speaking, he paid attention to the reaction of the shadow of the throne.

This time, Gu Shen didn't gain anything.

That guy is determined not to give himself any feedback.

It doesn't matter if you don't give it or not. Whether these guesses are correct or not is not that important to Gu Shen.

What matters is the condition he throws next.

Gu Shen said seriously: "I said that I want to make a deal with you, and I am serious... But the premise is that the rules allow you to make a deal with me. If you have an agreement with Pluto, then just pretend I didn't say it."

This statement came out.

The devil narrowed his eyes slightly.

"This time, it's still speculation..." Gu Shen asked, "Although you are unwilling to reveal Pluto's past and plans...but I guess, you don't care whether he really succeeds or not."

Previously, during the labyrinth mission, when I came into contact with Jin Suihua, until I rewritten the slaughter spirit left by Hades, the devil did not appear in the ruler... For it, the time has not yet come.

But look at it from another angle.

The devil doesn't care at all whether the previous Pluto's layout in the maze can be successful.

My own "rewriting" of Jin Suihua is tantamount to a major change in Pluto's previous plan that was out of control... Once the "subconscious" of this big snake no longer kills, then it will no longer attack the transcendent who is out of the fortress, nor will it Will collect dead souls for Pure Land again!
If the ruler has a deal with Pluto on a protection plan.

I'm afraid it won't be so easy for me to subdue Golden Spike Flower.

In the spiritual space of the ruler of truth, two cold words came.

"so?"

Gu Shen smiled: "So...you don't care whether his plan is successful or not, why not help me smash his plan completely."

He held up a finger.

"This is a fair deal. You don't need to tell me where Pluto is, what foreshadowing is buried, what objects are hidden... I will find and destroy it myself. You don't need to put in too much effort in this process, I just need your guidance at critical moments."

Same, change the same.

The devil thought briefly and asked, "What good am I?"

"free."

Gu Shen said seriously: "The previous deal we reached was to give you ten days of freedom... During these ten days, you can not be sealed by the black silver, and you can sense what happened in the outside world. But you should also be very clear, ten days Once the deadline is up, I will seal you up again!"

Although he knew from the moment the transaction was completed that he would be re-sealed on the 11th day, hearing this from Gu Shen at this moment, the devil was still very upset.

A sullen look appeared on that dark face.

This is the first day of ten days!
Gu Shen started to threaten himself?

"If there is no seal for No. 11 days, ten days of freedom are meaningless." Gu Shen said lightly, "It's also for your own good. If you don't experience the pain of being in a cage, how can you know that freedom is valuable?"

The reason why Gu Shen's deal with the devil was carried out with ease was because he held a card in his hand that could be played infinitely.

That is... freedom!
At the end of the day, the devil is just a wisp of spirit.

For it, being soaked in black silver... is more than losing its freedom, it is simply suffering!

It's just that Gu Shen also knows that the hole card of "freedom" looks easy to use, but in fact it is not very effective... This card can only be used to complete small transactions. This devil can endure 20 years of loneliness. If you are in a hurry, you will definitely be able to endure the torture of Heiyin.

Gu Shen guessed that this guy's ultimate goal should be to "take" his body.

So he has to keep proposing deals, throwing out new goals one after another, pointing to the ultimate goal.

At least, don't let the devil lose hope.

On the other side, it's the same idea... In this silent game, the two sides are each other's hunters and prey. Looking at it now, Gu Shen seems to have controlled the overall situation, but in fact he is the one walking on thin ice.

To make a deal with the devil is to walk a tightrope on a precipice.

If you are not careful, you will fall heavily and never return.

"I want to remove the 'spiritual toxin' from Styx."

Gu Shen held the ruler in front of him, and said calmly: "If you lead the way and help me complete this 'clearance'...then I can guarantee that after leaving Styx, you will not use black silver to seal the ruler again. This transaction, you do you accept?"

In ruler space.

The black shadow on the throne fell into deep thought.

He looked at the outside world, the extremely dignified young man holding a ruler.

Here's an enticing deal...

But something doesn't sound right?

"You only have three seconds to think about it."

Gu Shen's voice sounded again.

The devil frowned.

The instinctive vigilance made him want to refuse... But just leading the way, he can gain long-term freedom.

This is a surefire deal.

Don't wait for Gu Shen to count down.

The devil said in a deep voice, "Okay... I agree."

The sound was transmitted, and a silent link was formed above Gu Shenxin Lake.

The deal is done!

The devil fulfilled his promise and used his mental power to point Gu Shen in a direction.

"Buzzing—"

At the far end of the boundless black river, a light spot appeared vaguely.

(End of this chapter)