Shortly after Long Jinyu left, Liu Tao opened the door and walked into the ward, and saw Jiang Wantang standing in front of the monitor, staring at the two stable life curves in trance.
"Still watching?"
"Hmm."
Jiang Wantang came back to his senses, his eyebrows softened slightly, and a faint smile appeared on his lips, "The information is much better than expected. The dean... is really incredible."
Liu Tao walked to the window, looked at the bright sunshine outside, and suddenly smiled.
"What are you laughing at?"
"Nothing."
He shook his head, "I just remembered the day I first met the dean."
Jiang Wantang also laughed.
"That day at the entrance of the ICU, you mistook her for 'Ms. Long'."
"That's not true."
Liu Tao's eyes became distant, "Silver hair like a waterfall, wearing a small skirt, at first glance, she looked like a fairy walking down from the moon palace. I thought at the time... that she was some hidden master invited by Dean Su."
"Speaking of..."
Jiang Wantang laughed out loud, "The dean looks pretty cute in a skirt."
"Don't say it in front of the dean, or he will transfer you to clean the warehouse."
"Pfft--, our dean is the 'King of Sister Controllers'. He is so beautiful and kind-hearted that he can't bear to part with her~"
The two laughed for a while.
Jiang Wantang put away his smile and said softly, "But the most shocking thing that day was the moment when he cured all the patients in the building."
"Yeah."
Liu Tao paused, as if he had returned to that moment again, "The entire Medical Pavilion was shrouded in emerald green light. Those seriously ill patients who we had been unable to save opened their eyes one by one."
"At that time, everyone thought it was Dean Su who was back."
Jiang Wantang murmured, "There were cries and laughter everywhere in the corridors and wards... Some people knelt on the ground and kowtowed, and some hugged their relatives and cried bitterly..."
"Later I took that 'Ms. Long' to sit down and begged her to become the dean."
Liu Tao smiled and said, "Think about it, a fool would not ask for a master who happened to pass by our place and cured all the patients casually."
Jiang Wantang was silent for a moment and said softly, "That day in the office, when the dean successfully took out the token, you were the fastest on your knees."
"Aren't you also kneeling?"
The two looked at each other and smiled again.
"Who would have thought..."
Jiang Wantang looked back at the two figures who were gradually coming back to life on the hospital bed, "The young man we thought of as 'Miss Long' is now able to stand alone."
"He has been able to do it for a long time."
Liu Tao corrected, "It's just that we didn't know it at the time."
The ward became quiet.
Sunlight filtered in from the window and fell on the two faces that gradually regained their color.
Wu Ming's fingers moved slightly.
system space.
Long Jinyu As soon as he stood still, Yu's figure followed closely behind him, and the emerald halo gently rippled between the silver-white bulkheads.
"System Treasure, where is he?"
His voice was very low, as if he was holding back something.
A silver-white figure floated out from behind the main console. System-chan was wearing the iconic silver-white robe, with his heterochromatic eyes reflecting the cold light of the light screen, and his expression was rare without laughter.
"Found it."
She raised her hand and swiped in the void, and the huge light screen unfolded in response, and the data posted by Star Luo Chess poured down like a waterfall.
"The enemy used a lot of anti-reconnaissance methods. The Soul Power fluctuations were deliberately disrupted, and the spatial coordinates were also disguised in multiple ways. But..."
She raised her chin slightly, and a hint of sly pride flashed across her eyes.
"In front of the adults in this system, it's all just tricks."
The flow of data on the light screen suddenly stagnated and turned into a clear three-dimensional topographic map.
Mountains, rivers, towns... were enlarged layer by layer, and finally settled on an area marked with dense energy marks.
She tapped her fingertips, and the coordinates suddenly lit up with red light, flickering on and off.
"According to the scan, Zhang Lexuan is still in the Heaven Dou Empire. It has not been transferred out of the country."
"Still at Heaven Soul?"
Long Jinyu stared at the red light, and his tense shoulders finally relaxed slightly.
"That's good. If those beasts have escaped back to Evil Demon Forest and reached their territory, it will be difficult to deal with."
His clenched fists slowly unclenched, and the coldness on his fingertips was dissipated by the heat surging in his chest.
"Where is the specific location?"
System-chan did not answer immediately. She floated aside, took out two crystal clear crystal cups from an unknown dimension, poured light golden liquid in, and handed one cup to Long Jinyu, one cup for healing.
"Don't worry yet. Have you forgotten? The time in the system space is ten times that of the outside."
She also held a glass and took a sip, "Drink some juice, calm down, and let's talk slowly."
Long Jinyu took the cup and sat down, taking a big sip. The sweetness melted on the tip of his tongue, and the knot that had been stuck in his chest since he heard the news seemed to be diluted a bit.
"System Treasure, thank you."
"Huh?"
"Although you're usually a little horny--"
He put down the cup and said in a serious tone, "But at critical moments, you are always so reliable."
System-chan's hand holding the juice paused slightly, and her silver-white eyelashes fluttered twice.
"I... what's wrong with me?"
She whispered, "You say that to me every time."
She turned her face away, but her ears were quietly stained with a thin layer of powder.
"Okay, okay, why are you being polite to me?"
She cleared her throat and turned back, "Relax a little, don't keep a straight face."
Long Jinyu is not smiling.
He put down the cup, raised his hand to hold his forehead, pressed his thumb to his temple, and his silver hair fell down, covering half of his face.
"I was too careless. Why didn't I react at the time... Damn it."
Yu approached silently, sat down beside him, stretched out her hand to lead him towards her, letting him rest lightly on her shoulder. The emerald dragon's tail came around from behind and rested on his lap, like a silent comfort.
"It's not your fault. You are young and it is inevitable that you will not think well. Everyone has limitations. There is no need to criticize yourself for everything."
System-chan also came over and echoed solemnly, "Yes, yes, yes! It's also Shrek's fault - they are too weak and cannot protect their students."
Long Jinyu raised his head slightly from Yu's shoulder and glanced at System-chan.
"Sister Yu, I am not a child anymore."
There was a hint of helplessness in his voice, "I understand what you mean. But this matter can be avoided. If I could have thought of it earlier-"
He paused and did not continue.
"As for System Treasure."
He turned to the silver-white figure and said, "Don't say that Shrek. Cai Meier has tried his best. No force will be able to reap the rewards when faced with a Transmigrator who wants to cause trouble."
System-chan curled his lips in dissatisfaction. "I don't care about that much, I only look at the facts. Zhang Lexuan was arrested, isn't it because Shrek and they are too useless?"
"Poor information."
Long Jinyu was not angry, but calmly explained, "This is the essential difference between Transmigrator and the 'aboriginals'."
His eyes fell on the map on the light screen.
"It's like right now, Shrek's people have no idea how to find Zhang Lexuan, but I can rely on your power to locate him instantly."
"Think about it on the other hand, if - I mean if - I want to kill the genius of the Sun Moon Empire, and when the students of the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy are out hunting Soul Ring, I take you and Sister Yu to kidnap Xiao Hongchen. The teacher who led the team tried his best to stop it. Do you think they are too useless, or are we too strong?"
System-chan blinked and fell silent.
After a moment, she said "hum" without changing her expression, and put her hands on her hips. "I'm not a fool, I still understand this point! I just saw you so depressed, so I said that on purpose. Yes, I said it on purpose!"
Long Jinyu's lips twitched, but he didn't expose her.
He leaned back on his shoulders again and closed his eyes.
"If I had thought of it earlier, maybe I could have stopped it in advance."
He curled his fingers slightly, "From the Mingdou Mountain Range being rescued from death by Sister Yu, to meeting you, to meeting Nine Dragon God Guards, and the breakthrough... everything happened so fast, and the amount of information was so huge that I completely forgot to think about a very important issue."
Yu's dragon tail gently brushed his cheek.
System-chan approached curiously. "What's the problem?"
Long Jinyu raised his hand and put Yu's dragon tail against his face, feeling the slightly cool touch.
"Why did that Holy Son help Death Messenger and give him evil weapons? Why did Holy Spirit Cult strong men like Long Xiaoyao and Nether Douluo happen to appear in the Mingdou Mountain Range?"
"Didn't you say that it was a shot against you?" System-chan asked.
"That's what I thought at the time."
Long Jinyu explained, "Because I repeatedly ruined his 'good deeds' - protecting sister Xiaotao and protecting Tang Ya. He figured out my tactics and was sure that I would continue to take risks to change the tragedy of the original work. Death Messenger was one of the major disasters. He knew that I couldn't let go, so he set up an ambush in advance."
System-chan nodded thoughtfully. "This explanation is very reasonable."
"Wrong."
Long Jinyu sat up straight, "Grandmaster After sister was taken away, I realized that this was not the case at all."
He shook his head and smiled bitterly, "I think too highly of that Holy Son. How can he be so smart?"
System-chan was anxious. "What do you mean? Stop playing riddles and just say it!"
The more he put down the crystal cup in his hand, a hint of understanding flashed in his green eyes.
"Jin Yu means--"
She spoke slowly, "Then Holy Son conquers Death Messenger. Not only can he target Xiaotao and his generation Seven Monsters in the future, but he can also establish an Ming Dou stronghold. Killing two birds with one stone. Mingdou Mountain Range is located on the border between the Star Luo Empire and Sun Moon, and its geographical location is extremely important. Their real goal has been Zhang Lexuan from the beginning."
Long Jinyu nodded.
"After abducting her, moving quickly from the Mingdou stronghold is the shortest route. We asked Long Xiaoyao to take charge because we were afraid that Jin Yu would ruin their good deeds again. But I didn't expect that Jin Yu would just raid Death Messenger and bump into them."
"Long Xiaoyao doesn't know you. If he knew that you were Mu En's disciple, he would probably find an excuse to let you go. But now that they have met, Nether Douluo recognizes you as 'the silver-haired boy who caused big trouble last time', so he can't stand idly by."
"And my arrival completely disrupted their plans."
Yu's eyes softened, and there was a clear and leisurely smile on his lips, "They are afraid of my power and dare not approach Mingdou Mountain Range. So they can only change their route and evacuate from the Heaven Dou Empire."
She turned her head and met Long Jinyu's eyes. "Am I right? My Lord."
Long Jinyu sat up straight and opened his eyes, his golden and silver pupils were clear and bright.
"He who knows me is the better sister."
He took a long breath and said, "That's right. In this way, everything will fall into place."
System-chan stood aside, looking at Long Jinyu to the left and to the right. The data flow in the heterochromatic pupils was scrolling crazily.
"Um..."
She covered her forehead with a look of despair, "Being with people like you with high IQs really hurts my head. Am I the only one who doesn't see the emotion?"
Long Jinyu ignored her complaints.
"System Treasure, you haven't said where exactly Grandmaster is. Isn't she... already at the border?"
System-chan put down the hand covering his forehead, his expression suddenly became a little subtle.
"It's not anywhere else."
She said word by word, "It's a place you are very familiar with--"
The map on the light screen zoomed again, and a place name slowly enlarged in the center.
"Sunset Forest."
Long Jinyu stood up suddenly.
"Sunset Forest?!"
He raised his hand and flicked System-chan on the forehead.
"Boom."
"It hurts--!"
System-chan covered his forehead and took half a step back in grievance.
"KAO! It's such an important place, why didn't you tell me earlier?!"
Long Jinyu's voice rose a little higher, "Those guys are obviously going for Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well!"
System-chan rubbed his forehead and muttered in a low voice, "I told you that there is a lot of time! We discussed for a long time, and only a few minutes passed outside! And I am monitoring it in real time. If you don't believe it, just look at it-"
She stretched out her hand and pointed at the light screen, silver light flowing on her fingertips.
The static terrain map on the light screen suddenly switched to a dynamic picture.
In the picture, in a dark and humid cave, more than a dozen figures wrapped in black robes are sitting or standing, surrounded by a vague black mist. The cave wall is burning with a faint green Soul Guidance Lamp, making everyone's face appear ghostly.
In the deepest part of the cave, a huge cylindrical container stood quietly, with dark red runes flowing on the transparent wall.
Inside the container, a woman's eyes were closed, her long hair was floating in the water, her face was as pale as paper, her lips were slightly black, but she was still breathing weakly. Several thin tubes were connected to her arms from the top of the container, and the liquid was flowing slowly, as if it was extracting something.
"Grandmaster sister!"
Long Jinyu's fists were clenched tightly, the joints turned white, and there was a slight clicking sound.
"These beasts! How dare you...!"
He gritted his teeth, his chest heaved violently, and his gold and silver pupils were filled with rage--
But.
He didn't move.
Three seconds. Five seconds. Ten seconds.
He slowly unclenched his fists and took a deep breath.
"System Treasure."
His voice was eerily calm.
"Where is the data on that container? Has it been analyzed?"
System-chan looked at him in surprise and called up another set of information.
"It's a little complicated and it's still ongoing."
Her fingertips slid quickly in the void, "The material is unknown. It's not just metal or crystal. It seems to be mixed with some kind of biomass. The energy fluctuations are very special. I scanned that there are three layers of rune arrays embedded in the container - sealing, extraction, and self-destruction. It should be the handiwork of 'Holy Son'."
Long Jinyu's brows jumped suddenly.
"Self-destruct?"
"Hmm."
System-chan's tone was a little more solemn, "The most disgusting layer. The rune chain is buried in the mezzanine of the container and is connected to Zhang Lexuan's vital signs. If it is forcibly broken, once the container cannot sense her heartbeat, the self-destruction program will be triggered immediately - the explosion yield is approximately equivalent to an eight-level Fixed Soul Cannon Shell."
Long Jinyu's breath was slightly choked.
Level eight.
It's enough to blow up the entire cave and the people inside.
"Can it be dismantled?"
"Yes."
System Treasure nodded, "But it takes time. I have to analyze the rune sequence first and find the breakpoint of the 'self-destruct' chain. This is not a brute force attack, but a surgical operation - cutting one thread, the other two cannot be affected."
"How long?"
"It's about two hours here."