Light Fortress
Chapter 543 - 128 Conspiracy

Chapter 543: Chapter 128 Conspiracy

The Secret Silver Heavy Door opened.

Gu Shen saw a "corpse" lying on the ground, a warm, blood-colored flame still leaping above the corpse’s forehead.

"Is this what you call ’handling it’?"

His expression froze for a moment before darkening.

"No choice, the minds of these guys are all branded with ’Spiritual Imprints’, which can’t be affected by hypnosis," Xiao said with exceptional calm, "Believers aren’t mannequins; they won’t stay here quietly without speaking, watching us move around. Even if we tie them up, they’d struggle desperately, betting on their loyalty to the Moon God to prevent thugs from disturbing the tranquility of the Underground Church. The best way to take the items without anyone noticing... is to kill the guards."

"Don’t worry, my ’Blood Fire’ can maintain their state of life. That’s why we have 15 minutes of action time..." Xiao glanced at his wristwatch and chuckled softly, "After 15 minutes, Lan Wei’er might realize something. But by that time, everything here will be plundered."

As for this shell... it certainly ended up being discarded.

Xiao has never cared for these "useless" lives; being able to pull off such a big score, the owner of this shell died rightfully so.

Gu Shen took a deep breath.

He said nothing more.

He was to take away the [Lamp], and Xiao was to take all the seals in this place... The impact of this incident was already terrible, and with the death of the believers, Lan Wei’er was likely to fly into a rage and pursue them upon discovery.

The priority was to find the [Anger Lamp].

Gu Shen swiftly moved towards Chamber No. 13, noting that Xiao had pulled a tattered pouch from inside his robe and headed towards another chamber... The spiritual power represented by the corpse’s Bloodfire was not strong, and its strength was quite average.

Xiao’s power level clearly related to his "host".

When the host was strong, he could wield destructive forces like [Dissolving Dream] that enshrouded the whole city.

But when the host was weak, he could only resort to the high-explosive trinitrotoluene strapped to his waist to threaten the weaker Transcendents in the first stage of power.

The strand of "Chi Huo" that Gu Shen sent out kept its distance, carefully "observing" Xiao’s actions.

Xiao reached a chamber and began to collect seals in the "pouch"!

And then, something strange happened.

The seals were put into the pouch, but the pouch remained limp... showing no sign of bulging, as if it were a bottomless pit that could endlessly contain items!

Is this the method he mentioned?

"Trait-based sealed items... that pouch probably connects to a far-off space," Chu Ling said slowly, "Some trait-based abilities can achieve a similar ’teleportation’ effect, but with distance limitations. These sealed items must have been sent to a hidden storage point, though I speculate it’s not too far away."

Gu Shen pondered... He quietly touched an [Iron Quality Item], hid a faint wisp of Chi Huo within the rust, and attached it to a sealed item of decent quality.

Then, he entered Chamber No. 13.

This chamber was filled with a small number of sealed items and a large number of case files... He glanced at the files, picked up one, and the bulk of the content was about the glorious deeds of Church Believers offering sacrifices to the Moon God in the lower reaches of the Xinyin River.

Sacrifices in the lower reaches of the Xinyin River?

Gu Shen was momentarily stunned.

There were no sacrifices in the lower reaches of the Xinyin River... it was crowded with people...

He understood why these files were kept here, and why Cui Zhongcheng had said that Deep Sea needed to expend significant computational power to balance the Southern Continent.

Tragically, such events, even if they do occur, can still be covered up.

These case files filled an entire room.

But the real tragedies that unfolded here, could they be contained in just one room?

Five minutes passed, and Gu Shen searched Chamber No. 13... He hadn’t yet found the so-called [Lantern], when the next moment, alarm bells sounded from the distant Secret Silver Heavy Door.

All chamber doors closed.

"Hey!"

A faint voice rang out from outside the door.

"Are you... looking for something like this?"

Xiao stood outside Chamber No. 13, looking at Gu Shen across the railing, showing the lantern he held in his hand.

Of course, the Copper Human Lamp wasn’t in Chamber No. 13.

If a liar... is willing to tell the truth, there is only one reason: to weave an even bigger lie.

With dozens of chambers here, it took him a long time to ascertain the placement of every single item.

If what Gu Shen was looking for wasn’t a sealed item without Extraordinary Aura, Chamber No. 13 couldn’t fool him at all... Spirit could resonate with sealed items, it just took a few seconds to detect anomalies!

But Gu Shen was looking for a regular object.

This search process... would take much longer.

For Xiao, the real "action time" was the time Gu Shen spent "searching" for items... Once Gu Shen was about to discover the truth that there were no sealed items in Chamber No. 13, he had to take action.

Trigger the alarm.

Shut down the defense system.

Lock down the entire Underground Church... leaving only himself and Gu Shen inside!

Fortunately... the kid who entered Chamber No. 13 seemed to have seen some case file that made him dazed for a minute.

Xiao seized the opportunity to plunder the most valuable seals within the New Moon Church.