The inhabitants can walk inside; the flow of time inside the painting is 96 times that outside.
This forbidden item is often used in spiritual practice, as it grants practitioners an extra four days.
But if the inmates don't come out before 1 a.m., they will forever remain scenery in the painting.
The hundreds of people frozen in the oil painting are those who are lost within the painting itself.
Forbidden item: Skull ring.
This set of rings consists of a main ring and a secondary ring. They were created by an extremely controlling superhuman who had seven wives who committed suicide because they could not endure his controlling nature.
When both wear the rings, the stronger one can control the other to become a clone.
This is also why the kingdom leader K was able to control Arthur.
Arthur, shirtless and with a tanned upper body, walked onto the deck and smiled broadly at the others: "We're about to arrive in Mumbai. From there, we'll fly directly to Kathmandu, Nepal, on a private plane. Our prey is there. Once ashore, everyone must maintain a clean lifestyle and prepare for battle. Remember, the Roosevelt family will not tolerate our continued failures."
As he spoke, he looked at the white female timewalker and smiled, "Nikita, you look a little boring."
Nikita chuckled coldly: "It's because your entertainment is too low-class. I don't need this kind of animalistic pleasure. Give me all the information on your prey; I want to study how to kill them."
Arthur pulled a USB drive from his beach shorts pocket and tossed it to Nikita, warning, "This information was provided by the Kamishiro Foundation and the Kashima Foundation, but please don't take it entirely at face value."
“Didn’t you say that Kamishiro and Kashima have already submitted to us?” Nikita said coldly.
“That’s only temporary,” Arthur explained with a smile. “These two conglomerates from the Eastern Continent just want to use us to weaken the power of other conglomerates and use us to achieve the unification of the Eastern Continent Federation. Once they feel that we are no longer of any use, they will immediately turn around and bite us.”
"Then why cooperate with them?"
“Because they know nothing of our power,” Arthur said. “Once the door to this Eastern Continent has been opened for us, it can never be closed again. Once we have secured half of the Federation’s lands, the Roosevelt House will immediately provide more support. Kamishiro and Kashima don’t know what kind of entity they are cooperating with. Nikita, at that time I will become the fifth Duke of the Roosevelt Kingdom.”
"What is the significance of these three people being hunted down?" Nikita asked.
Arthur laughed and said, "Actually, Shindai wanted us to spare Shindai Yunluo's life, as he seems to have other uses. As for the other two, we can just kill them. One of them, Qing Chen, has extremely high influence in the Eastern Continent and is a core figure in the Qing Clan. He was the one who caused the big strikes in Shindai and Kashima. In addition, he was also the one who caused chaos in Europe in Amsterdam."
"Why didn't you tell me from the beginning that he was the Joker!" Nikita was clearly intrigued when she heard the name Joker.
In North America, the most well-known characters among the Time Travelers of the Eastern Continent are Joker and He Jinqiu.
Arthur laughed and said, "Nikita, I see a desire to conquer in your eyes, just like your name."
The name Nikita itself means conquest.
"How strong are they?" Nikita asked, licking his lips.
"According to the information provided by the Kamishiro faction, this person is a B-level cultivator and an A-level awakener, with the lightning element, and the girl next to him is a rare force field type," Arthur recalled. "Kamishiro Unra is an A-level Onmyoji who possesses six powerful shikigami."
"What forbidden items are you carrying?" Nikita asked.
Arthur shook his head: "Kamishiro and Kashima didn't tell us, they only said that the other party possesses a forbidden object that can change one's appearance at will."
Nikita sneered, "How could someone as powerful as him not have any other taboos? At least I know that if he is the Joker, then the taboo 'power' must be on him. Are Kamishiro and Kashima completely unaware of this?"
Arthur laughed and said, "That's why I said to be careful of Kamishiro and Kashima."
At this moment, the Black Sea luxury yacht has docked in Mumbai, and everyone has changed their clothes and is preparing to disembark.
A large logistics team was already waiting at the port; it was the vanguard of the Kingdom Organization.
The Kingdom Organization has a very distinct class system, just like the Roosevelt Kingdom, which is divided into nobles, citizens, and free citizens.
The organization was also divided into four classes, with everyone serving the nobles and citizens.
Nikita asked, "Aren't you going to kill that Kamishiro Unra?"
“I won’t kill him. As far as I know, the rulers of the Divine Era are eyeing his body,” Arthur laughed. “But what I want to do is talk to Yunluo of the Divine Era and see if he has any intention of overthrowing the current Divine Era family. The Divine Era wants to cause us trouble, so why don’t we cause them some trouble first?”
Nikita suddenly asked, "You've been possessed, haven't you? You're actually a member of the Roosevelt royal family."
Arthur smiled but did not answer.
Just then, someone made a satellite phone call, and Arthur listened for a moment before becoming serious.
After Arthur hung up the phone, he said to Nikita, "Just now, the Future Organization discovered that Qing Chen might not be an A-level, but a demigod! He was exempted from the judgment of the forbidden item 'Hypnotic Radio'."
“A demigod?” Nikita was taken aback. “If you’re asking us to challenge a demigod, I suggest we take this yacht and leave right now, immediately.”
Arthur shook his head: "I always feel something is strange. With the talent of this body of Arthur's, plus the forbidden item 'The Artist's Oil Painting', he has only just been promoted to A-level. When he became a time traveler, he was just an ordinary person. How could he have reached S-level? I think... he can't be a demigod. If he were a demigod, he wouldn't have needed to leave when he attacked City 20. He could have fought a little longer."
Arthur continued, "If he's not a demigod, then there's only one possibility: this Joker isn't actually that powerful, but rather exempted himself from the forbidden item assessment through other means. The Kamishiro family has concealed a lot of information; their intentions are despicable."
Nikita asked, "But what if the Joker really is a demigod? You're just a stand-in, so it doesn't matter if you die, but what about us?"
Arthur shook his head: "Even if it's a substitute, it's the best substitute I can find right now. I'd be heartbroken if it died. Let's test it with a human life. This time we not only have a large number of A-level experts, but also many forbidden items bestowed by the royal family. Even if he really is a demigod, I want to give it a try."
While Qing Chen's act of pretending to be a demigod may allow him to get through his injury period smoothly for the time being, the consequence is that his opponent will be unimaginably powerful.
There are only so many A-level experts in the world of the surface world, and nearly half of them are about to arrive in Nepal. Let's treat him as the ultimate boss of the surface world and use him to defeat them...
This was definitely not what Qingchen wanted to see, but he had no other choice...
He needs time.
On the one hand, he needs time to recover from his injuries. Only when he is back to his peak condition can he play with these Timewalkers.
On the other hand, his and Zheng Yuandong's plan did not allow him to give up halfway.
...
...
By the campfire in the Lop Nur village camp, Qing Chen smiled at the tour guide, Xiao Zhang: "Dare to assassinate a demigod? Do you have nine lives?"
On the other end of the communication channel, someone felt a sense of suffocation upon hearing Qing Chen's own admission.
In despair, tour guide Xiao Zhang ripped off his button and threw it into the campfire; communication was cut off.
Next door, the sounds of Shindai Yunluo and the women singing and dancing could be heard, but the atmosphere on Qingchen's side was very peaceful. Apart from him and the tour guide Xiao Zhang, everyone else had fallen asleep.
Qing Chen smiled and said, "Let me see my radio."
Tour guide Xiao Zhang: "..."
He didn't dare say anything and quickly handed over the radio.
Qing Chen asked, "Do you have any other forbidden items on you?"
Tour guide Xiao Zhang: "...That's all."
Qing Chen said with some regret, "Why didn't you bring more? You guys don't show me the respect I deserve."
The radio was still playing the news.
Chapter 734, Repeated Tests
First of all, this news is real-time and is broadcast on a local Nepalese mountaineering channel specifically for mountaineers, entirely in English.
In other words, the content heard on the radio is no different from that on a regular radio.
Qing Chen asked, "What are the containment conditions?"
“There are no containment conditions,” said tour guide Xiao Zhang. “As long as you press the switch, you will temporarily become a containment subject.”
“Oh,” Qingchen nodded, “The news channel is hypnotic, so what about the other channels? What’s their purpose? Tell me, and I’ll give you an extra hour to live.”
Tour guide Xiao Zhang was sweating profusely: "There's also a music channel. After it plays, people who hear it will start wanting to dance and won't be able to stop until they die. Of course, people listening to the music won't feel anything unusual; they'll just feel very excited."
Yangyang sat up again and rubbed her head: "This thing is pretty weird, I actually fell asleep... Tell me, does the sex channel have any use?"
Tour guide Xiao Zhang gritted his teeth and replied, "Yes... in the past, inmates used it specifically to persecute women; it has a long history. It was also used to persecute men..."
Yangyang said with a smile, "Boys really need to be careful when they go out."
Qing Chen: "...Why did the style of the story suddenly change as soon as you woke up?"
"It's probably a special talent," Yangyang said with a smile.
Yangyang was affected by the hypnotic radio, but she quickly woke up after Qingchen turned it off.
To save his own life, tour guide Xiao Zhang desperately explained, "However, this thing is actually quite useless. There are no more wireless radio stations in the inner world, so it can only be used in the outer world. Although it is more powerful in the outer world, the main battlefield is still in the inner world."
Qing Chen glanced at the tour guide, Xiao Zhang, with surprise: "Why not just build a wireless radio station and record broadcasts every day? How much would it cost to build a radio station covering the entire federation..."
Tour guide Xiao Zhang was taken aback for a moment: "What you said makes a lot of sense."
Qingchen's understanding of things was simple: if there are conditions, go for it; if there aren't, create the conditions. Since there was no wireless radio station in the inner world, then build one himself.
To create a forbidden item that could affect Class A, a separate wireless radio station was established, and specific programs were broadcast on various channels in an infinite loop.
Isn't it worth it?
Absolutely worth it!
Qing Chen then used a satellite phone to call Luo Wanya and asked him to build a radio station in both the real and virtual worlds simultaneously. City 10 was located in the center of the Federation, which would better serve the entire Federation.
With the technological capabilities of City 10, it can be completed in just three days.
Qing Chen had already figured out how to get the Chen family soldiers to perform their talents...
However, this is taboo in North America, so will it have to be broadcast in English? If so, he'll have to find someone who speaks English well to record the content.
Yangyang said with a smile, "I came to climb Mount Everest and someone actually came to give me forbidden items. I am grateful for the gift of nature."
Qing Chen asked, "How many people came to kill me this time?"
"I don't know, I'm just a gofer," the tour guide, Xiao Zhang, said weakly.
"Since you are Chinese, why are you running errands for overseas forces?" Qing Chen said coldly.
Tour guide Xiao Zhang fell silent.
Qingchen knew that it was simply because "they gave too much."
Qing Chen asked, "I need to know the real names of all the A-level experts from the kingdoms and the Future Organization. Can you give them to me?"
Tour guide Xiao Zhang paused for a moment: "Is a code name okay? In North America, real names are taboo. Some taboos are directly related to real names. There's a phone that you can call as long as you know the other person's name."
"There's another forbidden item, the 'Hunter's Lighter,' which is in K's hands. As long as he gets his hands on the paper with your real name written on it, he can burn the paper with the lighter and obtain your whereabouts for a period of time."
"There is another forbidden item. Anyone who knows that your real name is written on it will die within 24 hours. Some people speculate that it is also in K's possession. All superhumans who are loyal to the kingdom must hand over their real names to K individually. This is one of his methods of controlling everyone."
"In the western continent of the inner world, there is a lineage called the Arbiters. As long as they know your real name, they can cast black magic on you to curse you."
Qing Chen was taken aback. Why was the usage rate of real names so high in North America? There was no one in the Eastern Continent who specifically protected real names. He was afraid he would suffer a great loss in the future.