Light Fortress
Chapter 352 - 43 Goddess (Part 1)

Chapter 352: Chapter 43 Goddess (Part 1)

Brother Gu Shen, you call him so sweetly.

"What’s that..." Gong Zi coughed and, with a cheeky expression, said, "I also want to hear you call me Brother Gong Zi."

Li Qingsui quickly stepped back and said, "Brother Gong, please behave yourself."

Gong Zi: "???"

This little girl, playing favorites?

Feeling the solid and authoritative gaze from behind the umbrella, the young master of the Gong Family scratched his head, speechless.

Indeed, that call of ’Brother Gu Shen’ was really sweet—

That’s what everyone thought.

Except Gu Shen.

"Hey hey hey, are you there? Give me some advice?"

Gu Shen quickly sought help from Chu Ling using his mind voice.

The girl in unit 001, mimicking Li Qingsui’s tone, said with a smile, "Brother Gu Shen... in trouble?"

Li Qingsui may seem innocent and cheerful, but among the descendants of the five major families, who could be simple?

After speaking, Chu Ling coughed lightly and changed her tone.

She said softly with a laugh, "The strength of the uncle next to Li Qingsui is quite formidable. It seems you have no choice but to go for another meal."

With a mix of resignation and surprise, Gu Shen asked cautiously, "If that’s the case, wouldn’t you..."

"Don’t worry, it’s just a fifteen-year-old girl; I’m not going to be jealous of her. That’s how you use the word, right? Moreover, strangely enough... I feel a kind of..."

Chu Ling thought earnestly.

She spoke uncertainly, "I feel a strange fondness towards Li Qingsui."

"A strange fondness?"

"It’s like... I had seen her a long time ago."

Chu Ling, sitting in the train, massaged her temples.

The vast data flowed through her mind like seas, and she began to search through her past data. Perhaps on some day when monitoring the outside world, she had seen this girl and left a unique memory in the database...

But the search yielded[nothing].

...

...

As Chu Ling said, Gu Shen had no choice.

He was politely invited into the car by Uncle Gao holding the umbrella, although he was seated in the passenger’s seat.

Before getting in the car, Li Qingsui cheerfully greeted Gong Zi and Mu Nan. After the car window was rolled up, her innocent and cheerful smile slowly disappeared, the alley and the flying snow retreating from her sight. The girl rubbed her cheeks, her eyes turning somewhat cold, aloof.

"Mr. Xiao Gu... I am very pleased to meet you."

As expected.

Her way of addressing him had changed as well.

Hearing this mature and deep voice, who would think she was a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl?

Gu Shen felt somehow relieved, and he slowly said, "Miss Qing Sui must have gone through some trouble to find me."

"Indeed, it took some effort."

Li Qingsui did not deny it, saying, "There are only so many in Changye City who control the ’Wind Eye,’ and I don’t have the good fortune of Bai Lu to borrow the eyes of the heavens."

She smiled slightly, "But the end result was good."

Li Qingsui did not explain how she found Gu Shen.

From the final "entrance time," if she had used the same method as Gong Zi, she would not have arrived so late.

So... she must have used some other method.

Gu Shen glanced at "Uncle Gao," who was driving.

The Extraordinary Aura of this man was unfathomably deep; when they entered the alley, it even blocked the detection of the "Wind Eye," indicating that he must be a Titled power with exceedingly abundant spiritual power.

With him by Li Qingsui’s side... finding himself probably wouldn’t be difficult.

"Among the five great families, the Li Family is the most secretive."

Within the Spiritual World, Chu Ling, while browsing through files, spoke, "Gu, Bai, Gong, and Mu, to some extent, extend their influence into other major areas of Jiangbei... Only the Li Family tightly self-consolidates, almost never infiltrating outward. This is also the reason why it ranks last among the five families—a very low-profile and secretive family."

Gu Shen slowly nodded, indicating understanding.

He spoke again, attempting to pry some information, "Since you went to such great lengths to find me... it can’t just be as simple as having a late-night snack, right?"

"You worry too much," Li Qingsui said indifferently. "It really is as simple as ’having a meal.’"

Looking out the window at the scenery, she spoke softly, "All other questions, when we get there, you will know... For the rest of this trip, just rest well, and I hope Mr. Xiao Gu would close his eyes."

The implication of her words was very clear.

After the vehicle left Snow Forbidden City, it headed north, taking a secluded path.

They didn’t want Gu Shen to remember the way they came... were they heading to some secret location?

Gu Shen slowly closed his eyes.

"That strand of flame within your pupils... close them too," Li Qingsui, who was sitting in the back seat, said as she watched the faint glow reflected in the front seat glass.

Gu Shen frowned.

"Don’t worry, you will be fine, the eldest son of the Gong Family personally witnessed us taking you away..."

It was at this moment that Uncle Gao spoke, his voice magnetic and filled with a seasoned authority, saying, "As a disciple of the Grand Judge and the much-watched S-rank, after the matter concludes, I will bring you back to Snow Forbidden City."

Gu Shen kept his composure and slowly extinguished the flame at the center of his brow.

On the surface, it seemed he had given up on remembering the route.

But actually... the Wind Eye above the dome continued to flicker, as the eyes within the clouds became disordered with the vehicle’s advance; these data were being accessed by the "Source Code."

Chu Ling was secretly recording this travel trajectory... Although the presence of Uncle Gao prevented the Wind Eye from capturing the route precisely, the disordered records formed a twisted long line.

"We are nearing the border of Northern Changye,"

Chu Ling reported in real time, uploading the entire route into Gu Shen’s mind.

"Wait a minute, this is..."

Chu Ling’s voice suddenly became intermittent.

In the next moment!

Gu Shen felt a slight jolt in the vehicle, Uncle Gao seemed to take a turn... and then the transmission of the route map ceased, and the other end of the Spiritual Link also lost sensation.

"!!!"

In that moment of emotional fluctuation, Uncle Gao precisely captured it.

"What’s wrong... Are you not feeling well?"

Uncle Gao continued driving, speaking faintly.

In reality, he was well aware that even if Gu Shen opened his eyes this moment, he would see nothing... An invisible Extraordinary Power was swirling in front of the young man’s face, a "vision-obscuring technique" from a Titled Transcendent.

"Nothing,"

Gu Shen shook his head, maintaining a calm demeanor and said with a wry smile, "I just feel a bit... carsick."

In his heart, he tried calling out Chu Ling’s name.

After several attempts, he received no response.

The Spiritual Link was definitely severed...

Gu Shen quickly regained his composure.

This situation, he had encountered it before; there was only one explanation.

Now, he must have entered a certain independent "Special Territory"... a region akin to Qingzhong.