Bulwark of Light

Chapter 674 Life Sacrifice
The scarlet blood that filled the room, stimulated by the ancient Chinese formation, emanated layer upon layer.

The three people in the center of the pattern seem to be a whole in the invisible spiritual link.

At this moment, they should immerse themselves in the "interpretation of ancient texts"...

But Gu Shen opened his eyes.

Hooper stared blankly at this scene, he didn't understand why Gu Shen woke up.

At this time, Gu Shen should be enlightening.

No matter how fast enlightenment is, it will take time.

Unless... there is no comprehension.

"actually."

"From the first time we met, I felt a little strange."

Gu Shen, who was standing in the center of the pattern, slowly raised his palm from "Ian".

The old man and Chu Ling are still in the sleepy stage of spiritual connection. Things like comprehending ancient prose are not serious in nature. This kind of spiritual connection is equivalent to the transmission and exchange of knowledge, so the spirit exuded by the two at this time The breath is still soft.

"You should be only 30 years old, exactly the age of young Lisheng...why is there such a stagnation about you?"

Gu Shen looked at Hooper, and said calmly: "Although all the stagnation on your body dissipated after I delivered the 'letter' and met again, the intuition of a spiritual supernatural person can't go wrong. If you keep If you have the temperament of 'twilight', maybe I won't be suspicious, but it's because of 'flash' that I pay special attention."

Hooper was silent for several seconds, and said, "Mr. Gu, I don't understand what you are talking about."

"At this time, there is no need to call it that."

Gu Shen opened his mouth lightly, tearing off the disguise: "Think carefully about the 'things' that happened after we met, haven't you found those unreasonable things yet?"

unreasonable?
Hooper's pupils contracted, and he began to frantically recall in his mind.

Where is unreasonable...

The previous story should be no problem, how many years did this young man live...

"An old man who is too old to speak can only sit in a wheelchair. Only by wearing a special spiritual link device can he convey his own thoughts."

"Can such a person really be considered a 'living person'?"

Gu Shen turned his head and glanced at the old man in the wheelchair.

He said softly: "In this case, the description of the living dead will be more accurate. His every move is like a puppet on a string, a puppet, and the person who really controls the right to speak is actually you... Even wearing a You need to do things like the instrument. You can easily connect your mind to the device, and he can't even say a word, he can only sit."

Under the disparity in spiritual strength, it is actually not difficult to accomplish all this.

"You want to say that I controlled 'Ian'?"

Hooper seemed to hear a joke.

"Yes, it appeared again... The second unreasonable place is here."

Gu Shendao: "When we met for the first time, you directly refused us to enter the courtyard. At that time, you directly called 'Ian' by the name...Although you have never called me that way since then, I am still very puzzled. You Your teacher, but an antique-level bachelor who is well-known in Central Continent, why do you call him that?"

"Then 'the man' reminded me."

Hooper was startled again: "That person?"

"The test subject who escaped from the 'Ancient Text Society Experiment'."

Gu Shen paused, then said quietly: "He told me that people who have never seen it with their own eyes should not make a judgment... Before this trip to Central Continent, I didn't even see 'Ian' with my own eyes. The scholar’s ​​information was kept in the upper city, and because he lived for too long and lived in a deep place, even [Deep Sea] couldn’t find his information over the years. No one knows what ‘Ian’ looks like.”

When I saw a young man pushing a wheelchair, an old man who was paralyzed and unable to control himself sat on the wheelchair.

Everyone will subconsciously think that this old man is Grand Scholar Ian.

But perhaps, the truth is just the opposite.

"Don't you think what you said is too absurd?"

"Reality is often more absurd."

Gu Shen said calmly: "I think you are the real 'Ian Leonard'."

"You lied when you entered the cellar for the first time. The research on the 'Forbidden Ancient Text' was not as you said. You only studied a wedge. Just because you deciphered the correct 'Ancient Text', the one you took out at that time Only a stack of drawings can be just right without key information."

"You also lied about Huo Lin's story. There is no way to verify the past in the laboratory, but you concealed the real reason why he worked hard at Holy Cross College."

"The real reason that drove Huo Lin to devote himself to penance is none other than the 'ancient text' collected in this basement... This is a taboo ancient text that contains the 'ultimate power', so it was destroyed by Turing's order, but The reason why you are reluctant is probably because you have already tasted the sweetness in this ancient text."

Long pause.

Gu Shen said word by word: "If my conjecture is true, if you are really Ian who has lived for 120 years, then the power corresponding to this taboo ancient text should be the 'Longevity Technique'."

The forbidden technique that Xiao called "the most powerful" was something that could make a creature like him chase after him so frantically.

I am afraid that there is only immortality.

Xiao wants to defy the extraordinary iron law and "live forever".

In the same way, if Huo Lin, who made a big mistake in the experiment that year and killed his fiancée, wanted to make up for his regrets, looking around, only the legendary "Longevity Technique" could create miracles.

And to support this conjecture, the most important evidence——

It was the "lifeless" young man in front of him.

The room was full of blood, all from his "handwriting". He had bled and engraved more than once, and his recovery speed was astonishingly fast. This is no longer the power of a normal superhuman.

"These...are you guessing?"

"Hooper" listened to this quietly, and he looked at Gu Shen seriously and asked questions.

This question is equivalent to an answer.

"It is."

Gu Shen silently took out a broken pendant and shook it in front of his face. "Hooper" didn't know what the pendant meant, but he vaguely guessed that Gu Shen probably used some divination techniques.

"As expected of a key."

The voice of the young man returned to the vicissitudes of life again, and he praised it lukewarmly.

Unexpected.

Since the other party did not deny anything.

Gu Shen raised his eyebrows.

The young man put his hands in his pockets, quietly watching the bloody lights all over the room, perhaps because he has lived for too long, he is too lazy to fight for many things, since it has already happened, he might as well accept it.

The longer a person lives, the more he will understand a truth.

Everyone has a set of views on the world in their hearts, and this set of views will gradually become fixed with age, and will not change in the end, but the set of views belonging to "Ian" has been established as early as 20 years ago The dust has settled and nothing will change.

"What is contained in this room is the ancient text drawing of the 'Longevity Technique'."

Ian said calmly: "It's just that it's incomplete."

He casually picked up a thick stack of drawings from the table, his eyes became a little sarcastic: "These drawings took me so many years... I deciphered them all. Every piece of paper in this room, I have deciphered every word, but pieced it together, but only got incomplete power."

He spoke angrily, and at the same time threw the stack of drawings away.

"Alan Turing took away the key blueprint! He went far beyond the Great Wall, and even took away the secret of 'longevity'!"

The fluttering pieces of paper danced wildly in the air, stained with a layer of blood.

This time it was Gu Shen's turn to be silent.

After revealing the truth, the young man said in a low voice, "Do you know how Alan Turing grew up? Do you know how his whimsical ideas were realized one by one? You know that the ancient Chinese society, at the beginning Who is supporting it?"

"it's me!!"

He slapped the case hard and asked: "I have paid so much to him, I have paid so much to the Guwenhui... At the last moment of my life, he took away the 'life-saving' things. He once said that I was treating him Best teacher ever! You see, that's what he did to me!"

The room was filled with blood.

Gu Shen asked coldly: "Then how do you treat others?"

The young man was stunned.

If we say... the "Hooper" standing in front of him at this moment is actually Ian who has lived 120 years.

Then those who sit in the wheelchair are the students who serve him.

Everything makes sense.

Those words he subconsciously said when squatting in the yard to pull weeds.

【"One, Ian doesn't see strangers. Two, Ian doesn't know you."】

It is from Ian's own perspective.

"I'm always going to survive."

The young man quickly regained his composure. There was no trace of pity in his eyes. He recognized the previous sentence very firmly, and repeated: "In order to survive, I always need to do something."

"So...he is just a pawn..." Gu Shen said, "You never cared about his feelings."

"You think too much, he doesn't feel it, why should I take care of it?"

Ian said coldly: "After absorbing life, he has lost hearing, vision, language, and sense of touch... He is just a puppet in a wheelchair, and every word he speaks to you comes from me. 'Spirit'."

The link device was placed by him.

Since his memory is real, no matter how much he asks, it will not be revealed.

On the one hand, he plays Hooper, a student who respects his teacher.

On the other hand, he plays the old Ian.

In this absurd drama of fate, he teases all who intersect with the courtyard...

It's just that all the forbidden techniques in this world need to pay a price.

The stronger it is, the more violent the price will be. Longevity is no exception!

Judging from the current situation, Ian has cracked a part of the "Longevity Technique", but it is not complete. This requires him to pay a more extreme and unstable price... But at the moment, he is sitting in a wheelchair, unable to speak, seeing An old man who cannot see or hear is one of the costs.

And the other price is not difficult to guess.

"You are looking for the next 'Life Absorption' object."

Gu Shen looked at the dense blood on the ground, his eyes were a little sad, "Your longevity technique is flawed, it needs to absorb other people's life to fill you up... It's just the ratio of absorption and transformation, not the same rate. Compare one."

"One to twenty."

Ian looked at the old man in the wheelchair and said calmly: "Hooper is the best 'death giver' I have ever seen. He has provided me with more than three years of life."

"More than three years...so your time is running out. Let me and Chu Ling enter the hospital this time to find the next target." Gu Shen asked: "So, Mr. Ian, you want to treat me as a 'life'?" The target of absorbing, even if... I am the key?"

"After absorbing, I will get the memory of the one who was absorbed."

Ian said calmly: "When the time comes, it won't matter whether you are the key or not. As long as I want, I can be the 'key' at any time."

That's right... Ian has perfect "prestige", coupled with the memory of "key", as long as he wants, he can take over again and bring together the entire scattered ancient text society.

After Gu Shen finished listening, he looked at the man in front of him with a complicated expression.

I still remember, not long ago, when the inheritance of ancient texts was about to start, Ian said in the spiritual sea.

"Life is a limited journey, and the time I have traveled has been much longer than others, and I am very content."

Looking at it now, how ridiculous are these words?
"You can try to attack me, I won't defend... because all of this is meaningless, the more serious the injury you inflict on me, the more life will be consumed after your companion is absorbed by me. sharp."

Ian said in a very soft voice: "My crippled body is running out of time. It doesn't matter if I get hurt or suffer. The spiritual inheritance I left to her is chaotic and disorderly, with no logical knowledge. She comprehends In the end, only the 'sacrifice' of this pattern will be opened."

He spread his arms and offered no resistance.

And inside the room, there were strands of dim blood light burning.

Chu Ling, who comprehended the ancient prose, really sailed to the end of "thinking".

Ian didn't leave her any really useful information... The inheritance of ancient texts over the years, in the spiritual link, has all been disrupted into countless fragmented meaningless words.

And at the end of all the information collection, the ancient texts converge into a vast ocean.

Countless bloods gathered at the bottom of the attic.

On the soles of Gu Shen's feet, dead ancient symbols seemed to have life, and they came alive at this moment... A sea of ​​blood rose up in the cramped cellar space.

The white cat mask cracked open with a click, revealing the girl's bewildered expression.

Her spirit and soul seemed to be forcibly deprived and left under the influence of the formation.

"I'm sorry... Leave it to me for the next few decades of your life."

A cold and ruthless voice that decayed and aged at the same time resounded over Chu Ling's soul sea.

Above the young man's head, a withered soul floated in the air.

"I will live for you."

The withered soul opened its arms and hugged Chu Ling's illusory soul from the air.

Then it opened its mouth, facing the neck of the soul, like tasting fish... slowly biting down.

(End of this chapter)