The male protagonist tricked me

Song Ao's eyes quickly tracked the "ribbons" in the air, some of them were wider, and some of them were already very slender, almost looking like thin threads.

From the perspective of the trend, those ribbons are almost all connected to their nearby positions, while those thin lines are scattered and scattered in many places in the city.

Song Ao focused his eyes on one of the closer thin lines, followed its trajectory, his eyes gradually moved down, and finally landed on the opposite side of the street.

There was a homeless beggar sitting there. He was dressed in rags, his eyes were dull, and he hugged his knee silently, like a wandering spirit.

Song Ao can almost completely conclude that these "threads" connecting them to some unknown place are precisely the power of the stars that they disappeared without knowing it.

"That beggar..." Song Ao fixed his eyes and frowned, "He also has the power of the star sea?"

Jiang Heng guessed further and more simply, "Maybe, he is the person who came here before us, and the person who came from the same place as us."

Looking at the guy whose eyes were not out of focus, who was just like a walking corpse curled up on the street, Song Ao felt a chill run down his spine.

Even though they have paid close attention, they are still "caught in the trap" and have been robbed of a lot of power of the star sea without knowing it.

If it hadn't suddenly occurred to them today that they continued to slowly listen for news here, looking for a sliver of progress, would they have become like those people on the street in the end, trapped here and could never get out? ?

Just at this time, as the ambiguous voice in the next room became more intense again, Song Ao saw that the red ribbon leading to the next room in the air became thicker and more colorful.

The two looked at each other, and both came to the same answer from the scene in front of them. The power of the star sea next door was being swallowed at a faster speed.

For the convenience of investigating the situation, they happened to enter the room next to Li Zhi, and Song Ao could even distinguish Li Zhi's voice.

Although they didn't like to listen to other people's privacy like this, Song Ao and Jiang Heng had to keep the windows open in embarrassment to observe the situation, observing the red ribbons leading to each room and their changes.

In the meantime, due to the weakening of the power of the star sea remaining on the eyelids, the two had to try many times to ignite the reincarnation of the five elements with the power of the star sea again, soak in the power of the star sea, and continue to observe.

In the middle of the night, the movements in the rooms around them gradually stopped, and the fluctuating red ribbons in the air also calmed down and gradually became thinner—although when these red ribbons were shrunk to the thinnest, they were still smaller than those on the street. The beggar's body was thicker.

Of course, on the way, Song Ao and Jiang Heng also tried some other methods to observe the fluctuation of the power of the star sea on their bodies, as well as the situation of the two red ribbons connected to them.

"The preliminary conclusion is that the deeper the contact with this world, the faster the power of the star sea will be absorbed. When we eat and drink, the rate of absorption will increase."

This realization made Song Ao feel a little annoyed, thinking that every sip of water he drank and every morsel of food he ate was overdrawing his star power, and these meals that were very similar to Chinese cuisine on earth also made him disgusted. s things.

"However... what will happen if the power of the star sea is drained?" Song Ao asked hesitantly.

Under normal circumstances, the sea of ​​stars will run naturally, absorbing the power of the sea of ​​stars from the whole body, making the sea of ​​stars gradually fill up.

Although they didn't pay attention when they entered Tiancheng, but now they can feel it carefully, there is no power of the star sea in Tiancheng, and they can't absorb it from the surroundings at all—no, maybe it's not right to say that, their power of the star sea Isn't it being absorbed, heading towards a centralized place?

"I'm afraid there won't be such a good result." Jiang Heng pointed to the figure of a beggar curled up in a ball on the street outside the window, "The red line connected to him is already very thin, it should be that the power of the star sea has been extracted almost Yes. Maybe in a day or two, we'll see what happened when we see him."

Song Ao's eyes were heavy, and he glanced out of the window.

He intuited that the result might not be pleasant.

"I'm going to find out where those red lines are connected, and you go tell others about the current situation." Jiang Heng made a decisive judgment.

Song Ao did not agree with Jiang Heng's plan, "We still know too little about Tiancheng, in case something happens to you..."

"This is the plan of this city." Jiang Heng looked at Song Ao, with a touch of tenderness under his firm eyes, "It is precisely because we still don't understand the situation of Tiancheng, that old thing follows us every day, urging us to get along with the city. Contacted in the street, drunk and dreamed of death in the hands and feet, and finally became a beggar on the street."

Although this ancient secret book was completely different from the one Jiang Heng had entered and known, he still vaguely felt that this time he had touched the edge of the truth of the world.

Perhaps, this will also be the key to unlocking more secrets.

Song Ao pursed his lips, he had actually been persuaded by Jiang Heng.

But worry is still unavoidable.

"You don't have to worry too much." Seeing Song Ao's worry, Jiang Heng said in relief, "I think the law in this secret realm is that no matter what the Lord of Tiancheng wants to do now, he can't hurt us. .”

Song Ao has always been smart and has a keen perception of the world. Hearing what Jiang Heng said at this time, he understood it.

Although they still don't know what happened in this secret realm and what they want them to do, but if the secret realm can directly force them to do it, they don't have to spend so much trouble and make things so tortuous from the beginning.

"Then I'll go with you." Song Ao took a step back, but he was still unwilling to let Jiang Heng go alone.

A smile flashed across Jiang Heng's eyes, "At least I need to explain the situation to others first, if it's just in case..."

"There is nothing in case." Song Ao interrupted what Jiang Heng was about to say next, pursing the corners of his lips.He knew intellectually that Jiang Heng's analysis and arrangements were the most appropriate and the best plan, but it was difficult for him to accept and admit all of this emotionally.

"There is nothing in case, so I can agree." Song Ao raised his eyes and stared at Jiang Heng seriously.

"Okay." There was a gentle look in Jiang Heng's eyes, "I promise you, nothing happens."

He glanced at the sky outside the window again, "There should be three or four hours between now and dawn. That old thing will follow us all day, and he must rest at night. He has to report the situation to the city lord. Now is the best time to investigate. , I promise you, I will be back before dawn."

Song Ao nodded, and didn't say anything to waste time. He just said to Jiang Heng, "Safety comes first. It doesn't matter if we don't find any news. I'll wait for you to come back."

Jiang Heng's figure flew out of the window and instantly merged into the night.

In the current situation, the power of the star sea cannot be replenished, and it is still being absorbed continuously, and every point used will be lost by a point. Therefore, the power of the star sea, which was originally not very valuable, has become extremely precious.

In this case, using air stepping has become a very extravagant thing, and Jiang Heng had to sneak in Tiancheng purely with physical strength.

But at this moment, thanks to the unusualness of Tiancheng City, it provided great convenience for Jiang Heng's sneaking activities-there were almost no people walking on the street, and those scattered beggars, they Their gazes were even closer to nothingness, as if nothing could make their cloudy eyeballs turn.

Leaving aside the power of the star sea, Jiang Heng is indeed much stronger than Song Ao in terms of physical strength.

He deftly flew over the eaves and walls, quickly shuttled through the alleys and tile walls, and soon found their places among the increasingly dense red lines.

The place where all the red lines converge is the City Lord's Mansion.

This can be regarded as what Jiang Heng expected, but when he wanted to take a step closer and continue to sneak into the City Lord's Mansion, he found that outside the entire City Lord's Mansion, there was an invisible barrier that completely blocked him.

Jiang Heng narrowed his eyes.

Others may not have seen the material of this enchantment, but he had seen it in the research room of the high-level military department in his previous life.

This kind of barrier material is insulated from the power of the star sea—that is, if a person or object contains the power of the star sea, it will be separated by this barrier, and if it does not contain the power of the star sea, the barrier will be It will be as if it does not exist, allowing people to come in and out at will.

Jiang Heng took two steps back, randomly picked up a small stone on the street, and then threw it lightly, and saw that small stone easily passed through the barrier and entered inside.

It really is an insulating barrier.

Jiang Heng stood on the ground, raised his head, and looked deeply at the red lines of star power that were constantly gathering towards the top of the City Lord's Mansion.

What does this city lord want to do?

At the same time, in the middle of the night, the entire Tiancheng fell into a deep sleep, and even the prostitute that was open until the latest was completely quiet. After Song Ao reopened the door and walked out, he lightly knocked on the neighbors. room door.

Unlike those guys who were full of wine and food and then went to bed early, everyone who didn't enjoy the entertainment was still fully awake, and none of them fell asleep.

Even though they had gotten used to the life in Tiancheng without disputes and dangers these past few days, they had arrived in a brand new place after all, so basic vigilance still needed to be preserved.

Song Ao was very satisfied to see that the comrades he had chosen were still vigilant.

And after Jiang Heng left, the worried expression on Song Ao's face disappeared completely, replaced by the indifference that he had always had since he returned from the Boundless Realm.

Everyone gathered in Song Ao's room, Lin Youyou was the last one to come in, and she was the first to ask after closing the door, "Where's Jiang Heng?"

"He went out to check the situation." Song Ao said, "We just discovered something, which is why I called you here. First, I will let you watch something."

Everyone's faces were a little dignified, and seeing the power of the star sea condensed on Song Ao's fingertips, there was a wave of waves in their hearts.

Before they knew it, they seemed to have forgotten that they were cultivators and the use of the power of the stars!

Although every day in Tiancheng, they have been thinking and trying to guard against all possible dangers, they have never felt that their vigilance has been lowered, even today, they have never slacked off in such a brothel, Not be fooled by those beauties.

But seeing the power of the stars at Song Ao's fingertips, they realized how wrong they were!

I thought I had guarded against the most important thing, but unexpectedly my mind was attracted by these heretics, and I even completely forgot the most original cultivation!They didn't even check their star sea again, and run the power of the star sea again!

This is really too scary.

Song Ao saw the faces of the people, and knew that they were the same as himself at that time, and it was an incredible feeling to wake up in an instant.

For a cultivator, moving the Xinghai is like breathing.Isn't it absurd that a man should think of everything else and forget to breathe?

But Song Ao planned to show them something more terrifying.

The "danger" in Tiancheng is not the dangers they are used to familiar with.But if you take a closer look, this kind of danger is a thousand times more terrifying anyway. It will eat up a person's life and will without knowing it.

Just now Song Ao and Jiang Heng have tried many cycles of activating the power of the five elements.

In this regard, Jiang Heng has never been ashamed to admit that his talent is not as good as Song Ao's, which is why Song Ao must be allowed to stay and explain everything to everyone.

Without him, Jiang Heng must contact Song Ao's power of the wood element in order to resonate with the power of the three elements, and finally evolve the five elements.However, after Song Ao tried a few times, he was able to directly use the wood element attribute to achieve all these operations.

"Come to the window and close your eyes."

After listening to Song Ao's words, everyone stood in an arch around the not-so-big wooden window, and then closed their eyes.

Immediately afterwards, they only felt Song Ao's fingers passing by with a slightly cool touch, leaving something on their eyelids.

The feeling was slightly cool at first, then warm, and finally it seemed to seep down along the eyelids, gently attaching to their eyes.

"Okay." Song Ao said, "Be prepared mentally first, don't make any noise, and then you can open your eyes."

Everyone was nervous for a moment when they heard the words, and after doing enough psychological construction for themselves, they slowly opened their eyes.

Immediately, a world full of terrifying red lines appeared in their eyes.

Bai Yu covered her mouth in shock.Lin Youyou also widened his eyes, Jiang Zijin was completely confused, Zhang Moxi frowned, and immediately looked at his Xinghai as if remembering something.

Seeing that his expression gradually changed from surprise to solemn, Song Ao knew without asking, that Zhang Moxi probably also found that a considerable part of his Xinghai had been depleted.

"Sit." Song Ao called the shocked people to sit down in the room, and then explained the conclusions that he and Jiang Heng had reached after observing for most of the night, which made everyone feel terrified.

If Song Ao hadn't noticed it early, I'm afraid that if they delay for a few more days, they won't even have the chance to fight back. Without the power of Xinghai, cultivators are physically stronger than ordinary people.Without the blessing of the power of the star sea, even if their flesh and blood can defeat a hundred, in a real large-scale battle, there is absolutely no chance of winning.

"So, will we end up like that?" Bai Yu obviously also saw the beggar on the street, and immediately asked the question that worried her most.

"Maybe." Song Ao replied indifferently, "It may be worse than that, so we must find a way to leave here before the power of the star sea is completely exhausted."

"Leave the city directly?" Although Jiang Zijin didn't fully understand what happened, his intuition told him that it might be very bad if he continued to stay in this heavenly city.

"It's an idea." Zhang Moxi commented, "But I'm afraid, since we've come here, they won't let us leave the city easily."

"I think so too." Song Ao nodded, "And now we can't replenish the power of the Star Sea, and our combat effectiveness is greatly reduced. After all, the power of the Star Sea is used less and less. In this case, even if we can go out of the city, we can go where?"

Realizing that he had made a very unreliable idea, Jiang Zijin scratched his head in embarrassment, "Don't listen to my nonsense, I'm just thinking..."

Lin Youyou had been rubbing his chin in thought, and now he also joined the discussion, "I remember, at the very beginning, that old Uncle Liu said that Tiancheng does not allow contact with beggars on the street... Another way of thinking Think about it, what if we start from here? If we get caught by the city guards, maybe we can find another way of thinking."

"We won't be caught." Just then, another voice sounded.

Song Ao turned his head in surprise, and saw that Jiang Heng had climbed through the window and stood firmly in the room.

He turned around and closed the window, walked behind Song Ao, patted him on the shoulder to reassure him, and continued: "We can't enter the city lord's mansion at this stage, so they won't come to arrest us—because The prison is just behind the City Lord's Mansion."

"Why is the prison behind the city lord's mansion, and the city guards won't come to arrest us, why can't we enter the city lord's mansion?" Zhang Moxi was a little confused about the logic.In other words, these few things don't sound like they can be related to each other.

"I just went to check. All the red lines are connected to the City Lord's Mansion, and they are continuously entering in. This is not surprising, but the strange thing is that there is an insulating barrier outside the City Lord's Mansion. I don't know if you have it. Haven't heard of it?"

"I've heard..." Lin Youyou's face darkened a little when he heard the insulating barrier.

Seeing Jiang Heng gave her a look, gesturing for her to explain the insulation barrier to everyone, Lin Youyou straightened his expression and said, "Our Lin family is not considered a big family in the 32nd world, but because of the secret law passed down in our family, , almost all of them entered the Imperial Medical Department and engaged in work related to psychotherapy."

In order to clarify the source, Lin Youyou first briefly introduced the situation of the Lin family, "In recent years, foreign wars have gradually decreased, and there have been no internal wars, so the soldiers' physical conditions are usually no major problems, so the entire medical department Put the main research direction on psychotherapy."

"Everyone knows that due to the particularity of military life, many soldiers who have retired from the battlefield, or have been stationed outside for a long time, cannot integrate well into their original social life after returning. At this time, psychological treatment is needed. intervention."

"For us therapists, although we also practice, the main direction of the power of the star sea is healing and influence. Compared with soldiers, the lethality is really not enough. There have been several cases where soldiers had stress reactions and used the power of the star sea to injure After the matter of the doctors and nurses, the medical department specifically applied to the military department and asked the scientific research department to jointly develop the insulating barrier."

"The insulating barrier is a one-way barrier, which only works against the power of the star sea. Anything with the power of the star sea, whether it is a living body or not, cannot pass through the insulating barrier."

"Of course, if you attack the insulating barrier with the absolutely powerful power of the stars, the barrier will break when it exceeds the upper limit of the barrier's capacity."

"Under normal circumstances, some special medical rooms will be wrapped with an insulating barrier. The purpose is not to prevent attacks, but to allow the soldiers to be healed to absorb the power of the star sea in the star sea before entering the medical room. Let it go, and then you can enter through the insulating barrier."

"Because the power of the star sea cannot pass through the insulating barrier, the power of the star sea cannot be restored in the barrier. In this case, doctors and nurses will have greater coping capabilities in the face of manic soldiers, rather than any The destructive power erupted by soldiers is too great."

After listening to Lin Youyou's explanation, everyone understood and nodded in thought.

But Song Ao couldn't help but think of another question, and the eyes he looked at Jiang Heng became more and more complicated.

This is not the first time that Jiang Heng has shown a knowledge far beyond what he should have.

In fact, there have been before, but they were all brought up by Song Ao with the reason that "Jiang Heng has the halo of the hero", and he didn't go into it.

But if in this real world, there is no "male protagonist halo" to explain all this, why does Jiang Heng know so many things?

"That is to say, under the current circumstances, we cannot enter the City Lord's Mansion." Zhang Moxi took Lin Youyou's words and continued, "But part of our star sea power has been consumed unconsciously. If If we remain stuck in the city and do nothing, the final result will be that the power of the star sea will gradually be exhausted, and finally we will become those beggars on the street, with no future."

Called back to his senses by Zhang Moxi's words, Song Ao settled his expression, and said with a final word: "You have to find a way to try it, and you can all imagine the result of sitting and waiting. Tomorrow, I will find a way to provoke Old Liu, and further request to meet the city lord as soon as possible or Missy."

"Bai Yu, you and Jiang Zijin will go for a walk around the streets tomorrow, and buy a copy of all the things we use every day. Let's see if we can further study the relationship between the loss of the power of the star sea and this world."

"Zhang Moxi, walk around the streets and observe those beggars as much as possible. If you can avoid the sight of others, you can also try to see if you can communicate with them."

"Lin Youyou, you are good at communication, continue to talk to Li Zhi and the others tomorrow to see how they are doing."

With the task assigned, everyone's nervous hearts suddenly settled down again.

"Yes!"