Light Fortress
Chapter 177 - 164: I Can Push This Door Open

Chapter 177: Chapter 164: I Can Push This Door Open

"This door..."

Gu Shen had already touched the red door.

He had previously feared touching the red door because he feared unknown, uncontrollable events might occur.

While being treated at the Sleep Talker Clinic, thinking of the renowned lady... Gu Shen reminded himself to be extremely careful not to stir up any trouble.

After all, there still was a mad dog tied up outside the door.

Of course, this time was no different... With Song Ci guarding outside the old mansion, Gu Shen felt very reassured.

The term ’mad dog,’ in this context, was a great compliment.

Now.

The blood light enveloping the red door, along with one talisman after another, wrapped around him, slowly swirling and opening... There wasn’t the sharpness and edge he imagined, but rather a flow of warmth, delivering a sensation direct to his spirit.

Having truly touched this red door, Gu Shen felt a surge of calmness within...

"No ’Transcendent event’ happened as I imagined."

Gu Shen felt as if the talismans wrapping around him were scanning something...

The red door conveyed a spiritual warmth to him.

After flowing through, it returned once more.

This was like some sort of... information exchange?

"Is this door scanning me?"

Gu Shen faintly sensed the true meaning of these ancient characters wrapping around him; the conditions for opening this red door must be meeting the right person.

And that sense of summoning towards him... could it be...

Before Gu Shen could ponder further, the ancient characters emerging from the red door slowly retracted, signalling withdrawal.

"Scanning... is it over?"

Gu Shen exerted a slight force with his palm.

The red door was unshakable... not at all moved by this.

Gu Shen felt somewhat embarrassed.

Despite his precautions, he found himself isolated, completely unable to open the door...

However, Chi Huo’s sensing had never been wrong before, and Gu Shen was willing to believe that the initial feeling of summoning had not been baseless, but since he couldn’t push open the red door, he no longer forced it.

...

...

Under the banyan tree, the two of them slowly returned to normal.

"Madam... I have examined your dream, and there is nothing unusual..."

Gu Shen slowly exhaled a long breath, earnestly saying, "It must be just due to excessive fatigue, try to clear your mind before sleeping."

Lu Nanzhi woke up from her dream state.

She pressed her hands against the marble table, staring intensely at Gu Shen, her brows furrowed tightly. After a long time, she finally slowly asked, "Did you... see that red door in my dream?"

Gu Shen’s heart skipped a beat.

Indeed... touching the red door had been somewhat reckless; was it discovered?

He sighed helplessly and cautiously said, "Yes... I saw the red door at the end of your dream."

"Did you touch it?"

"Yes, but..." Gu Shen quickly explained, "You might not believe it, but it felt more like it was reaching out to touch me... However, I can assure you, I did not push it open."

"Why didn’t you push it open?"

Lu Nanzhi’s counter-question stunned Gu Shen.

Why didn’t he push it open?

"Actually, I tried... the door is thick and unmovable, and those strange, ancient characters seemed to be scanning me..." Gu Shen scratched his head, saying, "All in all, you can rest assured, the door remained unopened."

The doors in the dream, each had a respective Spiritual Lock.

Although Gu Shen did not know what secrets were sealed behind those iron doors along the corridors, he guessed that the red door at the end was the most important, and the one the lady least wanted people to know about.

"The door did not open..."

The lady, propping herself up with both hands on the marble tabletop, fell into an abnormally bewildered state, a look no stranger had seen on her for many years.

Lu Nanzhi muttered unconsciously, "He saw the door... he touched the door... but the door... did not open..."

She could not understand any of this.

firmly believed to herself that Gu Shen was the key.

That’s why she decided to take a gamble... The Ancient Literature Society was at a do-or-die moment, and nothing was more important than finding the key to open the red door.

But now, looking back.

She had found the key, and yet she hadn’t.

Gu Shen could see the red door in his dream and even touch it, but he just couldn’t open it.

"...Madam?"

Looking at the dazed Lu Nanzhi, Gu Shen couldn’t help frowning and asked in a low voice, "Would you mind telling me... what that red door is?"

Lu Nanzhi snapped back to reality.

She looked at Gu Shen, tangled in dilemma... If she confirmed that this boy was indeed the strenuously sought key, then the secrets about herself and the Ancient Literature Society need not be concealed anymore today.

But now...

"Ding-dong—"

The familiar sound of an email delivery rang out.

Still the familiar ID.

Still the familiar five-second countdown for automatic deletion.

This was the second email from 031.

The content carried a clear caution and a reminder.

"Regardless of whether the door has opened or not... now is not the time to reveal the true nature of the key."

Lu Nanzhi calmed down.

She slowly sat back down on the rattan stool, silently putting her earrings back on.

She took only a second to concoct a lie, "That red door... is a relic left by my father. It guards something very important of my father’s."

Gu Shen was not only sharp but also a Spiritual Transcendent.

Ordinary lies couldn’t deceive him...

And Lu Nanzhi’s words just now, in a sense, were hardly a lie.

The one who guarded the red door before and searched for the key was indeed Old Lu.

This door is a legacy, a belief, something countless have chased fervently... Allen Turing’s heritage.

No one knew what it was.

But everyone knew it was something important.

"You’re right, I’m not actually troubled by insomnia, it’s just that I haven’t been resting well," Lu Nanzhi whispered, "Because I want to unlock that red door dream left by my father... so I sought you out. I heard you consecutively completed three nightmare-level Dream Interpretation trials during the S-level review at the Judgement Institute, thought you might be able to help me."

"Is that so..."

Gu Shen fell into thought upon hearing this.

He did not suspect anything.

After thinking for a while, Gu Shen seriously said, "Perhaps I can push open this door... just give me some time."

"What...?"

The lady’s eyes brightened, then she immediately furrowed her brows.

Her previously extinguished hope reignited with Gu Shen’s words, but she did not understand why pushing open the red door would need any additional conditions. Why was there a need to wait?

"Hmm... it’s difficult to explain to you, you could think of it as my spirit not being very good recently. Or perhaps... the version of me entering the dream now is not yet at my peak."

Gu Shen smiled silently, thinking to himself, indeed he still couldn’t do without Chu Ling.

In his heart, he had a premonition... If Chu Ling were here.

That red door would have already opened.