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On Airship Eleven.
Qing Chen sat in a chair in the command room, silently pondering the prophecy Xiao Zhenji had drawn.
The person whose eyes flow with light will be swallowed by the light. The person who pursues ideals will betray them and fall into the abyss.
The forr is definitely himself. At first, Qing Chen thought "being swallowed by the light' referred to a big explosion, such as the mont the Eternal Spear fell.
However, although that explosion was violent, it did not affect him.
So, where will being swallowed by the light apply?
And that person who pursues ideals and betrays them, Qing Chen always thought it might be the Storm Duke, but now it seems that the other party has never pursued any ideals, only power.
Strange, this prophecy has not shown any signs so far.
At this ti.
"Cough, cough, cough," He Jinqiu coughed violently. No matter how hard he tried to suppress it, he couldn't stop it.
These days, Qing Chen could even feel that the other party's condition was deteriorating at a visible speed.
When he first t He Jinqiu in the West Continent, this once heroic Boss He was only a little thinner, but now he really looks sick.
In the command room, Old Eleven asked strangely, "What kind of disease do you have? There aren't many incurable diseases in our Roosevelt Kingdom now. If it doesn't work, just replace the organs, replace them all over the body, it should be cured. Is the salary Bolton gave you not enough for treatnt? Then co to …"
Barton glared at him: "Are you finished? You're a playboy who eats, drinks, and plays. Why are you always poaching my people?"
Old Eleven shrugged: "It's fun."
He Jinqiu explained: "I have cancer, and the cancer cells have spread throughout my body."
"Oh, this is incurable," Old Eleven said carelessly, "If it wasn't discovered and treated early, it would definitely be too late now. Now it is said that there are drugs that can coexist with cancer, but the technology is not yet mature, and it is easy to turn people into monsters. However, since there has been a breakthrough in this technology, maybe one day cancer can be completely cured."
He Jinqiu replied with a smile: "I won't live to see that day."
Old Eleven pondered: "If you had the Forbidden Artifact "Death's Cup', it would be fine."
"What does this Forbidden Artifact do?" Qing Chen curiously asked.
Old Eleven beca interested: "This thing is quite magical. Fill the goblet with your own blood, and the blood will turn into a cup of poison. As long as you drink it, you can remain in a state of suspended animation, no matter how long, you can live like a vegetative person, without eating, drinking, or breathing, and you won't age. It's also easy to wake up. A direct blood relative also puts a cup of blood and gives it to you to drink, and you will wake up."
"This isn't used to treat diseases," Marquis Barton was stunned: "What's the point of being a vegetative person all the ti?"
Old Eleven continued: "Before, a person had lung cancer, and he thought he wouldn't live. But the doctor said that the targeted drug for his lung cancer would be developed in at most two years. So, he drank a cup of poison, wanting to wait for technological advancents before coming back to life for treatnt."
"Then what?" He Jinqiu asked.
"Oh, then his son died in a car accident. Although the targeted drug appeared, there were no direct blood relatives to wake him up," Old Eleven said with a smile: "Do you think he's unlucky?"
Qing Chen asked: "Who has this Forbidden Artifact?"
Old Eleven shook his head: "I don't know. I haven't paid attention. Help him back to his room to rest, we still have a few hours before we arrive at Silver City."
Back in the room.
Qing Chen looked at He Jinqiu and asked softly: "How are you?"
He Jinqiu thought for a mont: "I should have about a month left… Of course, it could be shorter."
If Boss He wasn't so strong, he would have been bedridden long ago.
Qing Chen remained silent; he could feel the other party's unwillingness.
He finally Cultivated to A-class, only one step away from Demi-God, but now, because of an incurable disease, he will die in the best ti of his life.
If it were him, he wouldn't be reconciled either.
Qing Chen typed on his phone to prevent eavesdropping devices in the room: "Actually, I always knew that drugs that coexist with cancer have side effects. After injection, you will beco very bloodthirsty and extrely crave protein… But I once saw a test subject underground, he still retained his consciousness. According to him, over the long years, he has learned how to control his desires."
He Jinqiu looked out the window and responded in writing: "You're thinking that maybe I'll beco that kind of monster?"
Qing Chen nodded: "I know what you want to do. Cancer, True Sight Eye, drugs that coexist with cancer, you've almost gathered all the known conditions for the path to becoming a god, but you're missing one last thing… You don't have a Knight's body, and you haven't opened the Gene Lock that the Knight opens."
Therefore, Qing Chen knew that if He Jinqiu rashly used the drug, he wouldn't beco a god; he would beco a gray monster.
He Jinqiu: "I was also hesitant before, but I no longer have the chance to open the Gene Lock. Later, I thought, Ren Xiaosu's ascension to godhood was a chance encounter. Is it possible that the technology of coexisting with cancer doesn't require Gene Lock, but A-class strength? And those who beca gray test subjects were ordinary people."
Qing Chen asked: "What exactly is the Easter egg in World 1?"
He Jinqiu: "Ren Xiaosu, it's an Easter egg left by Ren Xiaosu, about the path to becoming a god. But he only talked about how he used the Black True Sight Eye to seal his spiritual will, preventing his will from rging with the world, and then, after his body also surpassed the Demi-God limit, he completely released all his spiritual will to complete the transformation from human to god. From then on, you will be independent of the world's will; you will be a world yourself."
He Jinqiu: "He also said in the end… Don't reconcile with the world, what you insist on is aningful, even if your sharp edges are broken and bloodied by the world, those sharp edges are the most precious things in your body, blood, and spirit. I didn't quite understand what this ant, whether it was related to becoming a god, or maybe just chicken soup."
Because there is only one successful case of Ren Xiaosu, everyone cannot use overlapping elents to accurately analyze the necessary conditions for the path to becoming a god.
Even Ren Xiaosu himself may not be able to confirm that the Knight's path is necessary. To be precise, the path to becoming a god is never just one path.
It is precisely because Ren Xiaosu himself cannot be sure that He Jinqiu wants to gamble.
He has no choice.
Qing Chen nodded: "I understand what you an. I'll help you gamble. But if you beco a test subject, I will find a way to imprison you until you learn how to control your desires."
He Jinqiu laughed: "If I really beco a gray-skinned test subject, you'd better just kill . I can't accept myself becoming such an ugly monster. Rember to burn to ashes, don't let anyone see what I look like after I die."
Boss He is still that elegant Boss He.
Qing Chen also smiled. He turned and went out, pulling Barton aside and asking: "Marquis, can you tell the Fifth Princess to help find the drugs that coexist with cancer? As long as you help get this drug, it will be considered as repaying the previous rits, and I won't be poached by Silver City."
Barton's eyes lit up, and he quickly nodded: "I'll call right away."
At this mont, Barton was competing with Old Eleven, and Qing Chen made such a simple request. How could he not be satisfied? This is not a particularly precious drug, it's just a bit unorthodox.
He imdiately made a call on speakerphone, and the Fifth Princess on the other end didn't hesitate, and directly promised, saying that the research institute that researches this drug is in her pharmaceutical company.
At most eight hours, her people can get the drug and send it to Silver City as quickly as possible.
The Fifth Princess instructed: "This drug currently has major flaws and is not recomnded for He to inject. If He loses his mind after injection, he must be killed."
It seems that the Fifth Princess knows very well that this kind of drug can create ferocious, gray-skinned test subjects. Those test subjects have an extre craving for protein and are easily turned into man-eating monsters.
But He Jinqiu has already considered the consequences.
After hanging up the phone, He Jinqiu felt much lighter, whether he lived or died, there would be a result.
However, two hours later, the Fifth Princess suddenly called: "The research institute in Storm City was suddenly attacked by mysterious experts of unknown identities. They destroyed all the data and took away the only two samples of the drug! The most crucial thing is that the AI didn't alert us or issue an arrest order. The other party left no trace at all, escaping along the blind spots of the surveillance caras."
Qing Chen and He Jinqiu looked at each other, feeling that this was too coincidental.
They had just made this request to Barton, and the lab was attacked imdiately?
The security asures of that research institute were not strict, but the lack of warning from the sky-eye system caught Qing Chen's attention.
The other party should have decided to act temporarily, otherwise the ti wouldn't be so coincidental.
So, a person who temporarily decided to act, but was able to perfectly arrange the route so that the sky-eye system could not find any clues or traces?
Even Qing Chen would find it difficult to do!
At one point, He Jinqiu even thought that Qing Chen had sent soone to steal the two doses of dicine, but he knew it was impossible.
So now there are three possibilities.
The first is that the Fifth Princess didn't want to give it, but didn't want to refuse Barton's face, so she staged a play, pretending to get it, then falsely claiming it was stolen.
The second is that a Fate Weaver used prophecy to perceive sothing and arranged this robbery.
The third… When Qing Chen thought of the third possibility, he fell into serious thought.
He Jinqiu stood there, his energy and spirit seed to dissipate in an instant, and even his expression beca much more tired.
When Qing Chen looked over, Boss He smiled: "This is probably fate."
"I'll go back to Storm City to track down the culprit right away," Qing Chen said solemnly: "I don't believe they left no clues at all."
He Jinqiu said: "It's definitely too late, and maybe they directly destroyed the dicine… I'll go wash my face."
As he spoke, he went into the bathroom, Qing Chen could only hear the sound of rushing water, and Boss He seed to be in a daze, until half an hour later, he ca out of the bathroom.
He Jinqiu typed on his phone to show Qing Chen: "Before I die, I'll help you destroy the imperial military base. This is the last thing I want to do. Where are the coordinates?"
Qing Chen replied: "700 kiloters south of Silver City."
He Jinqiu and Qing Chen both had determined expressions on their faces. If this military base isn't destroyed, the East Continent will always be under the shadow of nuclear deterrence…
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"How about we go hunting?" Old Eleven suddenly said in the command room: "It's too boring to go back to Silver City so early, let's go get so ga!"
Barton complained: "You were slow on the return trip, and now you're making excuses not to return to Silver City. My wife's Airship has arrived in Silver City, but we haven't yet! You just want to delay ti, trying to poach people before we reach Silver City!"
Old Eleven smiled: "So what? Otherwise, jump down?"
Marquis Barton looked at the ground through the window, then shrank his neck: "Let's go hunting!"
He Jinqiu typed on his phone to Qing Chen: I looked at the map, this place is only 230 kiloters from the military base. With our speed, we can get there in one day. After we land, we'll follow Old Eleven to hunt, then quickly leave the team.
Qing Chen looked at the map on the Holographic Sand Table, pondering.
On the holographic map, the ground is flat and empty 230 kiloters away.
But he knew that the imperial military base was there.
However, Qing Chen had a strange sense of worry.
After thinking for a mont, he typed back: "We'll act after the hunt begins."
Airship Eleven slowly landed on the ground.
Old Eleven changed into a training uniform and unloaded dozens of mountain off-road motorcycles from the Airship. The three huge wheels of this motorcycle were like a giant's feet, with extrely strong grip.
Old Eleven laughed: "How about we gamble? If I hunt more ga than you, you'll give your butler."
Barton was furious: "Bullshit! You have more than 300 soldiers with you, how can I compete with you? Besides, he's a free man, not my slave. Why would I use him as a bet?"
Old Eleven snorted: "Chicken."
With that, he twisted the throttle and rushed out, the huge tires kicking up dust, making Barton choke on dust.
Barton sat on the motorcycle for a long ti without knowing how to drive it: "Butler, butler! Why isn't this working when I twist the throttle? Oh? Where's the butler?"
Barton turned his head, but found that He Jinqiu and Qing Chen had already ridden their mountain off-road motorcycles far away, and he could only watch their backs slowly disappear.
"He probably doesn't want to see lose to the Black Knights, so he went to help hunt ga," Marquis Barton thought sadly…
But strangely, from morning to evening, Qing Chen and He Jinqiu never appeared again.
Old Eleven ca back with hundreds of ga, but he was shirtless, carrying a wild boar king on his shoulders, with bloodstains on his body.
Barton saw this fierce scene, his heart skipped a beat. At this mont, He and the butler were gone. Even if he killed himself and exposed his body in the wilderness, no one would know.
He nervously said: "He and the butler will be back soon, don't do anything rash…"
Old Eleven chuckled: "You can't even lie."
Marquis Barton said timidly: "Did you see them when you were hunting?"
"No, but I know what happened," Old Eleven shook his head: "Don't worry, we'll wait here for two days, as for whether we can see them again, I can't say."
Barton was stunned. What happened that he didn't know about?
However, at this mont, Old Eleven said to several soldiers: "Take Marquis Barton to the Airship, confiscate his phone and all electronic devices, don't let him go out, don't give him a chance to contact the Fifth Princess!"
Barton was startled. Old Eleven is far from as friendly as he imagined!
"What are you trying to do?" Barton was lifted up by the arms and dragged into the Airship. He roared: "Do you have so kind of conspiracy? My wife won't let you off!"
Under the setting sun, Old Eleven sat sideways on the motorcycle and lit a cigarette.
He looked towards the imperial military base, not knowing what he was thinking.
A thick cloud floated in the sky, completely obscuring the setting sun.
Drip, drip.
Raindrops fell on the ground, stirring up the sll of soil.
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