After all, it's a stone wall, and even though it's in a terrible state now, it's still not so easy to knock down.
However, feeling the wall shake, Zhou Ziwei felt more confident. Although he couldn't knock it down with one kick, since the wall was shaking, he figured he could knock it down with ten or twenty kicks.
However, the sound produced by this kick was quite loud, and echoes reverberated through the corridors of the ancient tomb. This made Zhou Ziwei slightly worried, wondering if the sound would attract the powerful souls inside the tomb.
But with things having come to this point, Zhou Ziwei had no other options but to take a desperate gamble. At most, he could try to knock down the wall as quickly as possible, and once he was out of the tomb, he would be basically safe.
Zhou Ziwei didn't dare to waste any time. After kicking once, he kicked out again with great force. This time, some stone chips and dust began to fall from the wall with a clatter.
"Boom boom boom..." After seven or eight stomps, the rotten wall finally collapsed with a "boom".
As soon as the stone wall collapsed, Zhou Ziwei was overjoyed. He reached out and pulled out the stones that had fallen into the natural mountain crevice behind the stone wall, making enough space for a person to pass through.
But just as he was about to crawl into the tomb to escape, a sudden gust of cold wind blew from behind him. Zhou Ziwei was startled and turned around sharply, releasing his soul power to probe behind him. He immediately saw a soul entity, as solid as a physical object, rushing towards him like a bolt of lightning.
The soul body is composed of a pure, special energy, and can be said to be almost weightless, so its speed of movement is quite astonishing. From the moment Zhou Ziwei discovered the soul body, before he could even react, the soul body had already fiercely pounced on him... and then suddenly disappeared.
Before she knew it, Luan Yuqing had finished listening to two CDs, and more than an hour had passed. Zhou Ziwei still hadn't returned, and Luan Yuqing gradually began to feel a little anxious.
She peered out the car window, but all she could see was darkness and she couldn't make out anything.
She wanted to open the car door and get out to take a look, but then she remembered Zhou Ziwei's instructions before he left, saying that as long as she stayed in the car, she would be absolutely safe.
That means that once she gets off the bus, she may encounter unknown dangers.
After thinking for a moment, Luan Yuqing immediately abandoned the idea of getting out of the car and stayed obediently inside, continuing to listen to another CD.
Just as she was listening to most of the CD, she suddenly heard someone gently knocking on the car window. Luan Yuqing was startled and exclaimed. She turned to look out the window and saw Zhou Ziwei standing outside the car, staring intently at her. She then breathed a long sigh of relief.
Luan Yuqing hurriedly opened the driver's side door, but heard Zhou Ziwei say, "Open the back door first, I need to change my clothes."
Upon hearing this, Luan Yuqing noticed that Zhou Ziwei was covered in mud from head to toe, and his clothes were torn in several places, making him look incredibly disheveled.
"Ah... okay..."
Luan Yuqing was stunned for a moment before hurriedly opening the back door. Zhou Ziwei had already moved to the trunk, opened his suitcase, took out a set of clothes, and climbed into the back seat of the car.
“Um… Miss Luan, could you… could you wait by the car for a moment? I… need to change my underwear too.”
Zhou Ziwei unbuttoned two buttons on his shirt, and when he looked up, he saw Luan Yuqing sitting in the passenger seat, still staring at him curiously. He stopped what he was doing.
Although he wasn't exactly thin-skinned, he wasn't shameless enough to strip naked in front of a woman he barely knew.
"Get off the bus? Oh... no no no... I... I'll just close my eyes and not look at you... Please don't make me get off the bus... I... I'm scared!" Luan Yuqing said as she closed her eyes.
Seeing that Luan Yuqing only closed her eyes and did not turn her head, Zhou Ziwei felt awkward, but he was too embarrassed to ask Luan Yuqing to turn around.
He figured he wasn't some super handsome guy with a great physique, so why would a pretty woman like her spy on him?
Thinking of this, Zhou Ziwei didn't say anything more. He quickly took off his clothes one by one, wiped the mud off his body with a clean towel, and then put on the clean clothes he had just found.
After all, being completely naked in front of a young and beautiful woman gave Zhou Ziwei, who had the potential to be a lecher, a strange feeling from his heart to his body. Unconsciously, his body reacted a little. He felt ashamed and therefore did not look at Luan Yuqing at all during the process.
However, Zhou Ziwei did not expect that Luan Yuqing, whom he thought would never spy on him, not only squinted and spied on him for a long time at first, but later widened her eyes even more, staring at Zhou Ziwei's slightly swollen part with a look of disbelief.
It was him... It really was him that night!
After Zhou Ziwei ran away that night, she really thought she was seeing her fiancé in a dream. But when she later discovered that her usual bath towel had mysteriously disappeared, she began to have doubts.
Later, when she went to the bathroom and habitually turned on the shower to take a cold shower, she was even more certain of her earlier guess when she found that the water coming out of the shower was warm.
She then recalled the incident carefully and realized that the man who had suddenly appeared naked in her bathroom was almost identical to her fiancé in appearance, but his height and build were quite different.
If she was really just dreaming, then the fiancé she dreamed of should be someone she knew well in life. If she was really seeing her fiancé's ghost, then why could she truly feel his body temperature, heartbeat, and breathing when she hugged him?
So after careful analysis, Luan Yuqing believed that the person she encountered in her bathroom was a person, a living person, but it could not possibly be her fiancé. Even if her fiancé was not actually dead, that person could not be her fiancé. But... if it wasn't her fiancé, then how could someone look exactly like her fiancé?
It wasn't until Luan Yuqing saw Zhou Ziwei in the hotel lobby that she vaguely felt that Zhou Ziwei was somewhat familiar, but she clearly had never seen this person before, so this feeling was very strange.
Today, after seeing Zhou Ziwei for the second time and having more opportunities to spend time with him, that feeling of familiarity grew stronger and stronger.
In particular, Zhou Ziwei's height and build were almost identical to the naked man she had encountered in the restroom that time, which made her even more suspicious.
However, clothes make the man, and a person's appearance often changes when they are dressed. Moreover, because of the clothes, Luan Yuqing could not see clearly whether Zhou Ziwei's physique was exactly the same as the person she met in the restroom. Therefore, she kept her doubts to herself and did not reveal them.
However, she kept waiting for the right opportunity to see Zhou Ziwei completely naked. She believed that once she saw Zhou Ziwei without clothes, she would be able to confirm whether the person that day was indeed Zhou Ziwei...
Volume 1, Rebirth of a Prodigy, Chapter 178: He's a Superman
When she saw Zhou Ziwei changing clothes in the car, she was immediately intrigued and didn't want to miss this opportunity to verify his identity. So she refused to get out of the car and wait, pretending to close her eyes. But when she heard Zhou Ziwei take off his clothes, she immediately opened her eyes slightly to secretly observe his body. When she saw a light red mole on Zhou Ziwei's lower abdomen, near that embarrassing area, she was finally completely certain of her earlier guess: Zhou Ziwei was indeed the naked man who had impersonated her fiancé that night...
As a result, Luan Yuqing's heart could no longer remain calm.
Even though she was certain that Zhou Ziwei was the one, she still couldn't understand how he had dressed up exactly like her fiancé, or why he had used that method to approach her.
If Zhou Ziwei intended to use this method to seduce her, then he did nothing afterward. Later, when she was clearly starting to feel something for him, Zhou Ziwei hurriedly ran away.
If Zhou Ziwei's intention was to trick her into giving him the fragment of the treasure map, then why didn't he ask where the fragment was at the time? Even today, when he could have simply taken it for himself, he still acted with disdain...
Luan Yuqing was really confused and couldn't figure out what Zhou Ziwei's purpose was. Of course... with her imagination, she would never have imagined that Zhou Ziwei had just entered the wrong room in a hurry that day. In order to avoid embarrassment, he had no choice but to stick the amoeba on his face to change his appearance, and accidentally discovered that the amoeba could transform into anyone's appearance at will.
Luan Yuqing is a smart person, and the smarter a person is, the more likely they are to overcomplicate a simple matter, thus overlooking the most likely coincidence.
Zhou Ziwei was completely unaware that a beautiful woman had spied on his private parts. After he put on clean clothes, he thought for a moment and then carefully wiped the bullet-shaped pendant hanging on his chest before letting out a long sigh of relief.
This bullet pendant is the bullet that trapped him for three years. When he was reborn in the body of his predecessor Zhou Ziwei, he managed to squeeze a thin crack out of the bullet.
However, if someone were to observe closely now, they would discover that this tiny bullet has somehow become smooth and new again, without leaving the slightest trace.
After Zhou Ziwei was reborn into this body, he was always filled with emotion when he thought back to the years he spent as a wandering ghost. He couldn't bear to take off the bullet pendant, after all, it was his "home" for three years...
However, Zhou Ziwei never expected that if it weren't for this bullet-shaped pendant, he might have met with misfortune today.
At that moment, the powerful soul rushed towards him like a cannonball. Zhou Ziwei had no time to react at all. He didn't even have time to use the skill he had just learned when dealing with the four evil spirits, which was specifically designed to attack and absorb souls. He was directly hit in the chest by the soul.
Zhou Ziwei could clearly sense that although this soul entity had no body and was merely a mass of pure soul energy, its power was almost comparable to that of the Bat King outside. Once this thing burrowed into his body, he wouldn't have time to react and would be immediately attacked into his sea of souls. And at that point... whether he could survive would depend solely on whether the sea of souls could truly disintegrate this thing.
Even if it really does disintegrate... can his sea of souls contain this enormous creature? I'm afraid it wouldn't even last a second before his sea of souls explodes!
Similarly, even if Zhou Ziwei had time to recite the Six-Syllable Mantra or use his disintegration skill that mimics the roar of a soul, the result would be the same. This soul entity was simply too powerful; if Zhou Ziwei swallowed it, he would undoubtedly be burst apart...
However, just as Zhou Ziwei was filled with fear and unease, the ferocious soul disappeared with a "whoosh" after it collided with Zhou Ziwei's chest.
Zhou Ziwei initially thought that the thing had also entered his body like the evil spirit transformed from the ghost bat, but after he released a large amount of soul power to search his body, he found nothing at all.
The soul seemed to have vanished into thin air...
But at that moment, Zhou Ziwei suddenly felt something violently bounce around in his chest. He was slightly startled, and when he unbuttoned his shirt, he discovered that the small bullet hanging on his chest seemed to have come to life and was shaking rapidly.
Zhou Ziwei was stunned for a moment, then realized that the soul had most likely drilled into the bullet... or rather, the bullet had forcibly sucked the soul into it.
Regardless of the situation, the soul should now be trapped inside this bullet and unable to escape. Zhou Ziwei himself lived inside this bullet for more than three years, so he naturally knew that this bullet seemed to be quite strange. At that time, he was able to absorb the souls of more than a hundred death row inmates in succession, and his soul was considered to be very powerful, but no matter what he did, he could not break free from the restraints of that small bullet.
Of course... the bullet itself shouldn't have been the problem. The problem was the six-syllable mantra that Zhou Ziwei recited at the moment of his execution. That six-syllable mantra not only refined and transformed Zhou Ziwei's soul, but it should also have given that small bullet an extraordinary binding ability, which is why Zhou Ziwei was imprisoned for three years.
And now... this bullet has actually imprisoned that vicious soul inside again.
Zhou Ziwei was truly at a loss, unsure whether to keep the bullet pendant or simply throw it away.
Although the bullet could trap a soul, when Zhou Ziwei broke free, he had already torn a crack in the bullet. Presumably, the soul must have crawled in through that crack.
Since it can go in, it should be able to come out too, right? In that case... keeping this thing around is like carrying a time bomb on your body, isn't it? However, this soul contains incredibly powerful soul energy, so it would be a shame to just throw it away.
Zhou Ziwei hesitated for a moment, unsure of what to do. He couldn't help but extend a wisp of his soul power and carefully examine the bullet head. He suddenly discovered that the crack that had been left on the bullet head had disappeared.
Zhou Ziwei was taken aback when he saw this, but then he felt that when his soul power came into contact with a certain point on the bullet, a torrent of soul power was suddenly released.
Zhou Ziwei was startled again, thinking that the soul had indeed emerged from the bullet again. He was about to throw the bullet far away and flee for his life when he suddenly realized that the force surging out of the bullet was actually unclaimed soul power, a pure soul energy without any consciousness.
Moreover, as soon as that pure soul power surged out and merged with Zhou Ziwei's own soul power, it immediately became one with him, no longer distinguishable from him.
However, the surge of soul power was too fast. In the blink of an eye, Zhou Ziwei's soul power reserves increased by three or four hundred remnant soul energies.
Seeing that he might burst if things continued like this, Zhou Ziwei hurriedly withdrew his soul power, not daring to let it get any closer to the bullet. As a result, the soul power that was constantly gushing out of the bullet naturally stopped being released.
Wow... this works too!
Zhou Ziwei was stunned for a moment, then couldn't help but feel a surge of joy.
It seems that the soul trapped inside the ancient tomb is definitely not going to escape anytime soon, but he can absorb the soul power released by the soul inside the bullet at any time. In this way, wouldn't the bullet be like a battery that can replenish his energy at any time?
Although this battery may be somewhat dangerous, with the risk of explosion.
However... it's only a possibility. For such a small possibility, Zhou Ziwei was really reluctant to give up this huge temptation.
If the crack in the bullet were still there, Zhou Ziwei might not have been able to put his mind at ease and wouldn't have dared to keep it by his side. But since the bullet had miraculously healed itself, it was definitely not a problem to trap the soul inside for at least a short period of time. As long as he had this buffer period, Zhou Ziwei could continuously extract the soul energy from the soul and claim it for himself. With this ebb and flow, even if the soul could break free and escape after a while, it wouldn't be a threat to Zhou Ziwei.
It was precisely because of this certainty that Zhou Ziwei dared to keep the bullet with him, still tightly wrapped around his neck. He dared not linger in this damned tomb for even a second longer, and immediately sped up, fleeing as fast as he could through the crack left by the earthquake in the mountainside...
After Zhou Ziwei finished getting ready, he looked up and saw that Luan Yuqing was still there with her eyes tightly closed. He couldn't help but smile slightly and said, "Alright... I've changed my clothes. We can leave now. Otherwise, if someone finds us at the scene of the car accident after dawn, we won't be able to explain ourselves."
Luan Yuqing finally pretended to open her eyes, then secretly glanced at Zhou Ziwei. She remembered that night when she was urinating in the bathroom, and then this guy appeared in front of her, standing there naked, and then she inexplicably ended up hugging him...
Luan Yuqing still couldn't understand why Zhou Ziwei did what he did, but for some reason, she couldn't feel any ill will towards him.
With a sigh in her heart, Luan Yuqing decided to ignore these matters for the time being. After all, she was just a powerless woman. If Zhou Ziwei really wanted something from her... it seemed that besides her body, all he had was the fragment of the treasure map in his hand.
However, Zhou Ziwei was willing to take the fragments of the treasure map, but she... seemed to have little interest in him.
If that's the case, then what else is there for her to worry about? In fact... in Luan Yuqing's heart, there was a bold guess and a faint expectation, that is... maybe the person in front of her and her fiancé are actually the same person.
After all, Luan Yuqing and her fiancé met online and had only met a limited number of times in real life. Therefore, although their relationship had always been good and they had even reached the point of discussing marriage, their actual understanding of each other was still quite limited.
So if her fiancé is indeed a special person with amazing abilities... just like Superman in American movies, it's not impossible for him to have a very ordinary identity in reality.
Moreover, if that weren't the case, it would be difficult to explain why Zhou Ziwei appeared in her bathroom that day disguised as her fiancé.
Although the idea seemed absurd upon closer examination and couldn't withstand scrutiny, Luan Yuqing preferred to believe it was true... yet fearing that it would all turn out to be nothing more than her wild imagination, she dared not ponder it further, much less investigate or verify its authenticity.
"Oh well……"
Luan Yuqing responded absentmindedly, then glanced at the pile of rubble blocking the road ahead, and then at the two mangled "cars" behind her, completely blocking the road. She frowned helplessly and said, "But... it seems we can't get out now... What should we do? We can't just abandon these cars and walk out, can we?"
Zhou Ziwei shook his head and said, "Walking to the destination is fine, but... if we leave this car here, it will be very troublesome, so... I'll have to trouble you to drive the car out later."
"Ah... I'll drive... How can you do this?" Luan Yuqing was startled by this and hurriedly waved her hands, saying, "No, no... Although I have a driver's license, but... the road is completely blocked in front and behind, how am I supposed to drive the car out? Ah... You don't mean to push those two cars off the cliff yourself, do you?"
Zhou Ziwei laughed and said, "No, no, no... Push those two cars off the cliff? How could that be... This is the most original and authentic accident scene, the main basis for the traffic police to determine the nature of this traffic accident. As a law-abiding citizen, I certainly can't destroy the accident scene, so... I'll trouble you to drive forward later, and then I'll give it a push from below so our car can jump over the wreckage of those two cars... Just don't damage the accident scene..."
Zhou Ziwei spoke casually, but Luan Yuqing was stunned for a long time upon hearing his words before nodding somewhat blankly, indicating that she would cooperate with Zhou Ziwei.
He was actually going to lift this car over... over the wreckage of those four cars... God, is he kidding me?
If someone else had said those words, Luan Yuqing would only have one reaction: to assume the person was crazy and simply ignore them.