How did something so dangerous turn into a simple push...?
What exactly happened in between?!
In fact, Li Shutong, who was standing to the side, had already understood why his apprentice was in such a hurry when he heard his familiar voice...
He got anxious too.
It wasn't that he had lost the composure of a demigod, but rather that he carried too much debt on his shoulders.
Not only was he anxious, but the old guys in Forbidden Land No. 002 were anxious too.
His master had already given this demigod an ultimatum: if he didn't seize dozens of forbidden items, he was not to return to Forbidden Land No. 002!
However, the moment the Gao brothers saw Li Shutong, they began to run away.
They knew Li Shutong!
As Gao Long ran, he pulled a pair of scissors from his pocket and slashed at his shadow.
Before he could even cut off the shadow, Li Shutong had already vanished into the crowd like a phantom, and when he reappeared, he slapped Gao Long across the face: "Who gave you permission to use my forbidden object?"
With a loud crash, this A-level expert, who reigned supreme in the wilderness, was sent flying like a kite with its string cut, and the scissors in his hand fell into Li Shutong's grasp...
There were originally more than ten people blocking Li Shutong and Gao Long, but the knight leader did not dodge at all. In that instant, all the people blocking the way were sent flying backward, their bones broken!
Qing Chen immediately became anxious. He turned around and rushed towards Gao Hu. There was still a chance. The revolver had not yet fallen into his master's hands!
But Li Shutong had already seen through his thoughts, and with a loud laugh, he turned to capture Gao Hu.
Qing Chen shouted, "Is this demigod even human?! He's starting to fight with his own disciple for forbidden items! I was the one who found it first!"
Li Shutong laughed heartily: "What do you mean you discovered it first? Treasures belong to the virtuous. Besides, wouldn't Master give them to you anyway? What's the rush?"
"How can that be the same?" Qingchen was exasperated...
Trying to steal something from a demigod? There's no way you could win!
Gao Hu ran for his life, without even glancing back at his brother.
But he hadn't run far when Li Shutong arrived first, blocking his path and asking with a smile, "Where do you plan to take my forbidden item?"
Hearing this, and looking at the demigod who was ruthlessly crushing the bandits in the wilderness, Da Yu thought to himself that there really wasn't a single good knight.
The forbidden item was still on someone else, and it's already yours...
Inside the camp, swifts continued to pierce through the bodies of the wilderness people, transforming into blood swallows. The once seemingly united and large wilderness family was thus annihilated by them.
And even now, they don't even know what Gao Long and Gao Hu's abilities are, nor do they need to know...
The wilderness people scattered like birds and beasts, fleeing towards the mountains and fields. Da Yu waved his hand to drive away the Blood Swallows, not intending to eliminate them completely.
He was already in a state of mental exhaustion, and the forbidden object in his hand was special, connected to the host's strength, which meant that he was continuing to exhaust his mental state. He would probably fall into a deep sleep again soon.
On the battlefield, Li Shutong carried Gao Hu in his left hand and Gao Long in his right, as if he were carrying two tattered sacks.
He poured a bucket of cold water from the camp to wake the two men: "What are your abilities?"
Gao Long was still in a daze: "Huh? What's wrong? Where am I? Why are you asking about our abilities?"
Li Shutong said with a smile, "I will plant you two in Forbidden Land No. 002. After a few decades, the forbidden substance will be extracted. So I need to ask in advance to determine what kind of forbidden substance you will extract."
Da Yu's lips twitched.
In fact, Li Shutong rarely did this before. If he encountered an enemy, he would just kill them and wouldn't go through the trouble of replanting the superhumans in Forbidden Land No. 002.
But life is tough these days, even demigods have to be careful with their money!
During this period, Li Shutong searched everywhere for criminals who had committed crimes and those suspected of carrying forbidden items. However, people with forbidden items usually hid them very well, making them extremely difficult to find.
Later, he realized that finding forbidden items was not necessarily as efficient as finding certain forbidden items.
Qing Chen walked over, annoyed. "Master, you're really lacking in martial ethics! How can a demigod act so casually?! By the way, I was just thinking, where's the Forbidden Tribunal? We're supposed to kill two A-levels here, why didn't they come?"
Li Shutong said calmly, "I sent them back."
Qing Chen: "..."
Da Yu: "..."
Zard: "..."
Is the Forbidden Inquisition something that can be summoned and dismissed at will?!
Li Shutong held the silhouette of the forbidden ACE-026 and the forbidden ACE-055 revolver, which had nothing to do with fate, in his hands: "Give one of these two things to Chen Zhuoqu and the other to Hu Jingyi. Don't you dare embezzle them yourself."
Qing Chen chuckled and said, "You're really something. Even though the person ran away, you still managed to find out who passed the Heart-Searching Test. But their strength is still low, so I'll keep them safe for now... I'll give them to them after they advance to A-level."
However, at this moment, Gao Long's expression changed, and he looked at Qing Chen with great interest: "It's you again, interesting."
After saying this, he and Gao Hu closed their eyes together and died, bleeding from all seven orifices.
Li Shutong and Qing Chen were stunned for a moment: "A puppet!"
No wonder two A-rank individuals suddenly appeared in this wilderness, and they just happened to be brothers! A family with two A-rank individuals—such talent and bloodline shouldn't have been buried in the wilderness forever!
Moreover, it's no wonder that no one knew their abilities. It turns out that these two were not awakened beings, but rather puppets who carried forbidden objects to integrate the wilderness for others.
Da Yu asked in confusion, "In the history of the Federation, who has ever been able to create a puppet and forcibly upgrade its power level?"
He felt a chill run down his spine. What kind of person could create an A-level puppet?
Li Shutong sighed, “There have been two such figures in the history of the Federation. The first was Zong Cheng from the last civilization era, but he died before reaching the level of a demigod. The other was Liu Yue from 600 years ago, who created countless puppets and could forcibly stimulate the potential of ordinary people, at the cost of shortening their lifespan, to create superhuman puppets. However, these puppets only had the level but no ability… I should have thought of this sooner. Now another puppet-type superhuman has emerged, and his ambitions are far greater.”
Low-level puppets are dull and lifeless, while high-level puppets begin to develop their own consciousness, but still retain the master's commands in their minds.
Once the master dies, it can even be reborn directly in any high-level puppet.
"How did Liu Yue die?" Qing Chen asked.
“Killing more than half of his puppets in a single day would have killed his main body. At that time, he was still very inexperienced and had no experience to draw upon, so he was careless,” Li Shutong said. “He controlled more than half of the soldiers in an army, but the conglomerate bombarded him with a single shot.”
Qing Chen calmly said, "I originally thought that the person who created the puppet was Qing Yuan, but now I realize that I guessed wrong. He is too young and does not have this ability. I guess it is not easy for this person behind the scenes to create an A-level puppet, otherwise he would have already dominated the world."
Qingchen was determined to find this person. He knew very well that this person might be the direct murderer of Ningxiu's sister-in-law.
Back then, Yuan Yang was also turned into a puppet.
Chapter 713, Take a Look at the New World for Me!
Return countdown: 30:00:00.
In City 20, a taciturn man, holding a hard drive, slowly walks towards the meditation hall of selflessness and purification.
Having witnessed Qing Chen's bloodbath, the security level here has been raised.
Within a 3-kilometer radius, there are guards every three steps and sentries every five steps, drones patrolling the sky, and hundreds of war robots.
The city's garrison was also reinforced with a field brigade, and the other two cities each received an independent regiment as part of their garrison forces.
From a certain perspective, Qing Chen, through a magic trick and his own efforts, managed to hold back a field brigade and two regiments, rendering them unable to move.
At that moment, soldiers outside the Mindfulness Dojo raised their automatic rifles and stopped the expressionless man: "Where's your electronic identification? What are you doing here?"
But then the man slowly raised the hard drive in his hand and mechanically said, "This contains some information from the parent-teacher conference; it might be helpful to you."
The soldiers' expressions changed, and one of them quickly snatched the hard drive from the man's hand and said to the soldier next to him, "Arrest him and interrogate him properly!"
The man who delivered the hard drive smiled and said, "More foolish than I imagined. Hurry up and deal with the parent-teacher conference, or they'll be your gravediggers. Oh, and there's some news about Qing Chen included on the hard drive."
As he spoke, blood began to flow from his eyes, ears, and nostrils, and he died standing there.
The soldier quickly returned to the Mindfulness Dojo with the hard drive in hand.
Six hours later, a Shindai air fleet suddenly returned to the skies above City 20, hovering over the lower three districts.
Another brigade-level ground force entered the city and moved closer to the Lower Three Districts.
The residents of the lower three districts were fast asleep when they were suddenly awakened by the commotion. The garrison troops were broadcasting through loudspeakers: "We are now apprehending members of the Parents' Association and the Community Federation. Anyone who reports members of these two organizations will receive a cash reward of 10,000 yuan!"
At the same time, the army also began to move into the three lower districts.
They first blocked off the streets, then conducted a thorough search of each building, and precisely located the command center set up there by the parents' association, arresting all six people inside!
People were being arrested in various buildings, and within just two hours, 1,102 people were arrested from the three lower districts.
Nowadays, the number of parents in each city exceeds 10,000. Even with the Key Gate, it's not so easy to retreat. Moreover, there is still a lot of follow-up work to be done, so it's impossible to withdraw them all so quickly.
After Qing Chen instructed Luo Wanya to evacuate, this member of the Black Family had only slept for two hours for four consecutive days, constantly organizing his family to destroy documents and materials, planting more secretive family members as informants, and then evacuating.
However, he still underestimated the speed of Kamishiro's actions. He did not expect that Kamishiro could uncover their secrets so quickly!
Keep in mind that the Kamishiro Foundation has only been investigating for five days!
When Luo Wanyi learned that the arrest operation had begun, he fell silent.
Where exactly did things go wrong? Could it be that a core member of the parents' meeting has defected?
He called Xiao Liu: "How's the evacuation going?"
Xiao Liu stood in a building in the Lower Third District, watching his family members enter the Key Gate one by one: "It's too late. There are still more than two thousand family members who haven't evacuated. We originally planned to quietly evacuate another five hundred today, but I can already hear armed helicopters and drones circling outside. This place has been exposed. They came directly to us. Black family members, we may not be able to leave."
Luo Wanyi was silent for two seconds: "Close the door. I'm sorry, Xiao Liu, there won't be any reinforcements."
Parents' associations can no longer stand against conglomerates. Kamishiro has already laid a trap in City 20, and Qingchen's arrival will be of no use.
Xiao Liu smiled and said, "What are you talking about? As the one who opens the door, this is my responsibility. By the way, I don't know if we'll ever meet again. Please take good care of my family in the outer world. Thank you... I've had a very happy time joining the PTA. It's a life I never imagined before."
With that, Xiao Liu hung up the phone.
Inside the building, he used a red Eye of True Sight to turn the door counterclockwise ten times, closing the Key Door.
With an apologetic look, Xiao Liu said to the family members who were still in line, "I'm sorry everyone, in order to protect the family members who have already been evacuated, I must close the Key Gate now. From now on, none of us can escape. I didn't do a good enough job and failed to transfer you all to City 10."
At this moment, the sound of hard military boots hitting the ground could be heard in the emergency exit downstairs, dense and brutal.
The sound of breaking windows echoed from the rooftop as four war robots leaped from an armed helicopter, smashing through the glass and entering the building.
They advanced in a pincer movement, heading straight for the location of the key gate.
The family looked at Xiao Liu: "It's okay, you did your best."
Xiao Liu smiled and said, "Put down your weapons and don't resist. Don't give Shendai a reason to kill us on the spot. Leave us alive so we can meet again someday. Back then, our parents fought their way out of Base A02."
"Will he still be alive?"