The Beautiful CEO’s Dragon Blood Bodyguard
Chapter 868 - 0868: Soul-Draining Formation

Chapter 868: Chapter 0868: Soul-Draining Formation

Last time, Long Fei failed to save the student and had been brooding about it internally.

This time, someone dared to target Li Wenwen.

Long Fei asked the girls to clear some space, and he planted eight apricot yellow flags into the wooden floor around Li Wenwen.

The Eight Trigrams Soul Locking Formation, originally intended to be used against the Silver Soul.

It could block a small range of magnetic fields, preventing any primordial spirits within from escaping.

Li Wenwen had been cursed, her essence blood seemed to have vaporized into something akin to a wireless signal, continuously sucked away by a distant magnetic field.

According to traditional beliefs, someone was devouring Li Wenwen’s soul.

Once the formation was set, the eight apricot yellow flags fluttered simultaneously.

A mysterious light kept flashing above them, forming a circular eight trigrams pattern.

The formation flags fluttered without wind, mysterious and profound.

Long Fei pried open Li Wenwen’s mouth and placed a first-grade Qi Replenishing Pill inside.

At this stage, Li Wenwen’s body could only tolerate such beginner-level pills.

Higher-grade pills would have burst her stomach.

Lin Shanshan asked worriedly from behind, "Can setting up this formation really save Wenwen?"

Long Fei nodded and stared at Li Wenwen inside the formation, furrowing his brows, "This formation only isolates the surrounding gravitational pull of the arrays, which is like blocking the surrounding wireless network signals. To really save her, we need to cut off her connection with the central server. Otherwise, she’ll always live within this formation."

Lin Yingying asked curiously, "What you’re saying sounds like it’s from a video game? Can’t you just log off yourself?"

Long Fei explained, "This game really doesn’t work that way."

Ding Xue said, "Right, right, that young man the other day, although he was rushed to the hospital for emergency treatment, he turned into a mummified corpse in just a moment. Could it be that there’s an array operating outside?"

"Wouldn’t breaking this array solve everything?"

Lin Shanshan analyzed along with them, taking turns speaking, quite convincingly so.

Only Emily was completely confused, thinking how vast and profound Eastern Daoism was.

Now it even appeared to be connected to networks.

Long Fei said, "You all stop making random suggestions, once Wenwen wakes up, we’ll know more."

While they were talking, Li Wenwen opened her eyes, looked up, and asked weakly, "Where am I?"

"You’re at my place!"

Lin Yingying brought her a cup of water.

Li Wenwen couldn’t come out, but everyone else could enter the formation.

She took a sip from the cup and glanced around at Lin Shanshan, Ding Xue, and Emily.

When she finally saw Long Fei, she shyly lowered her head.

Long Fei asked her, "What exactly happened? Where did you get this game?"

Li Wenwen confessed honestly, "That day after you guys left, I bought the computer, hacked the backend of this game, and then set up some permissions for myself."

Long Fei reprimanded disappointedly, "What did I tell you that day? Look what you’ve done now. You could play, but why didn’t you tell me? If I hadn’t run into you today, you would have been dead, you know?"

Li Wenwen’s eyes reddened, and she burst into resentful tears, curling up as he scolded her.

Lin Yingying pushed Long Fei aside, sat next to her, and shouted at Long Fei, "Why are you yelling? Wenwen was also trying to help you! Couldn’t you figure it out yourself, and now she made a mistake while helping you?"

Li Wenwen clung to her arm like she was a lifesaver and scooted back.

Ding Xue watched from the side, feeling that this seemed like an olden-day scenario of a master scolding a concubine, with the main wife stepping in to help.

Once Lin Yingying spoke up, Long Fei indeed wilted and begrudgingly sat down, "If I don’t scold her, will she ever learn?"

"If scolding could make people learn, then teachers wouldn’t need to teach lessons, just scold all day long, and that would be enough."

Lin Yingying dominated the scene like a boss, completely subduing Long Fei’s arrogance.

Ding Xue wanted to laugh, so she quickly changed the subject to save Long Fei from embarrassment, "Wenwen, what’s special about this game? How can it devour people?"

Li Wenwen shook her head and said, "I don’t really know, I just follow the rules and hunt for treasure layer by layer. When playing the game, it feels like you’re playing a VR game. You’re completely in the game. You can only get out after completing a level. The game is dark, with nothing inside, just like walking in a cave and searching for lights. These lights represent the treasures. Once you find a light, you can pause the game and even exchange it for money."

The girls listened in amazement.

Only Long Fei realized that the game actually focused one’s spirit in one place.

And through this place, it sucked away one’s essence, Qi, and spirit.

The creator of the game must be a master of formation, somehow able to dissociate a person’s physical structure into a spiritual state.

Fortunately, Li Wenwen was just an intruder and hadn’t entered through a regular disk.

The game had only drained her spirit, but had not extracted her fleshly essence and Qi.

Otherwise, she would have been in danger too.

Lin Shanshan asked Long Fei, "Brother-in-law, what should Wenwen do in the future? She can’t stay in the array forever, can she?"

Long Fei replied, "I will find out who’s behind this as quickly as possible. As soon as we destroy the array, Wenwen will be fine."

Lin Yingying said, "Don’t worry, I’ll stay at home with Wenwen these two days."

Lin Shanshan replied, "Sis, you go on with your work, I’ll stay with Wenwen."

Ding Xue said, "Since this happened because of me, should I take care of Li Wenwen?"

Long Fei asked her, "Aren’t you working on a case?"

Ding Xue grimaced and replied, "I’m leaving it to you, I haven’t found any clues anyway."

Emily laughed, "Then let’s all stay home together! With more people, it’ll be livelier, and we can look out for each other if any bad guys show up."

"Agreed!"

The three Lin sisters exchanged glances and unified their opinion.

In the face of an enemy, they were indeed united.

Long Fei took out a bottle of pills and handed it to Lin Yingying, "Alright, I feel better knowing you’re together. Here is the pill for you, help Wenwen with her Foundation Establishment. If we can’t find the person behind this, this is the only way to go."

"Understood."

Lin Yingying took the pill, and as he was leaving, she got up to see him off.

Once outside, Lin Yingying asked him, "I heard you’ve been quite close with a popular girl at school lately?"

"Who’s spreading rumors?"

Long Fei guiltily widened his eyes.

Lin Yingying pulled out her phone and waved it, saying, "It’s all over the school forum. Haven’t you been topping the news these days? Besides you, who else could be naturally pixelated?"

Long Fei stared at the phone blankly, thinking about how bored these students must be to post everything online.

Although he had intentionally hidden his face, Lin Yingying knew him well.

Long Fei coughed twice, defending himself, "This girl ran into some trouble, I just gave her a little help, I definitely didn’t do anything else."

Lin Yingying giggled, "Why so nervous? I didn’t say anything."

She wiped the sweat from Long Fei’s forehead and told him, "Honey, I’ve always said, what you do outside doesn’t bother me, just keep it within limits."

The more she gave him leeway, the less daring Long Fei felt to misbehave. Any such thoughts made him feel guilty towards such a kind and generous wife.

He smiled, waved goodbye to Lin Yingying.

Lin Yingying tilted her pretty face upward, and Long Fei kissed her, only then letting him leave.

A husband is like a kite.

You need the right tension for him to hover around you.

You can’t let it go too loose, nor can you pull too tight.

Too loose, and he may drift away; too tight, and the string might break.

Lin Yingying watched Long Fei’s retreating figure, her lips curving up slightly, thinking, "Nice try, playing games with me – you’re still not up to par, buddy."