fictionpage Chapter 183 A Difficult Suppression!
Chapter 183 A Difficult Suppression!
Chapter 183 A Difficult Suppression!
The three of them came out this time to absorb the energy of acting, but they actually had another plan.
Given the near-prophetic abilities of the mastermind hiding in the shadows, the other side would surely have discovered that they were making two preparations.
Therefore, that guy will most likely be paying attention to the progress of the Northwest Cinema at the same time, and will continue to keep an eye on the recovery of Tongcheng.
If the person behind the scenes makes a mistake in any way, Luo Shuo will quickly discover and locate them.
And things progressed much as they had predicted. This guy was just keeping an eye on Tong Cheng's side. He knew that Tong Cheng had a killer move, so he didn't dare to make a move.
However, on the theater side, they had already been set up in advance by that prescient fellow, who used the high-level theater enthusiast Chang Qinghuan as bait, and there may be more actions to come.
However, that guy couldn't have foreseen the existence of the Azure Lotus Child, because the child is a being beyond cause and effect.
The mastermind behind it all was unaware of the boy's existence, nor could he possibly have foreseen what the Azure Lotus Boy would be used for by Li Jiuhe and the others.
In fact, Tong Zi had done two things before. One was to try to sever the causal relationship between the mastermind and Li Jiuhe, but it turned out to be a failure.
The second thing is based on the first thing. As long as the mastermind connects with Li Jiuhe during this period, Tongzi can use the cause and effect between the other party and Li Jiuhe to track down the mastermind's whereabouts.
Even the slightest cause and effect would suffice; as long as this information, or rather, the tracking data, is provided to Luo Shuo, he can pinpoint the location of the mastermind.
Although this positioning is only temporary, since the two sides are not far apart, positioning once more will be enough to lock onto the other side.
The reason for doing this is that the guy's ability is like that of a prophet; he can know almost anything in advance.
Therefore, if we want to use a strategy against them, the usual methods simply won't work. Only by adopting this method of migration can we increase the probability of success.
And now it seems that the positioning plan has been successful.
Luo Shuo located the guy using the information provided by the Green Lotus Boy, and this action was protected by the boy's karma.
So even if that guy has prophetic abilities, he can't know for the time being that he has actually been located.
Of course, this effect is limited in time, and the longer it lasts, the greater the risk of being discovered. Therefore, they need to find the mastermind's location as soon as possible.
"Where is he now?" Li Jiuhe asked.
"Just in case, let's not discuss it," Luo Shuo said cautiously. "You all follow me, we'll go straight there!"
"Okay, let's go!"
The three hailed a taxi, and the car soon returned to the vicinity of the hospital.
While in the car, Li Jiuhe was about to return the Azure Lotus Boy to Mu Nian, but Mu Nian told him that the thing had now established a connection with him, and that he should keep it until things were settled.
It's not too late to return it to her after this matter is resolved.
Upon arriving at the hospital, the three got out of the car.
Li Jiuhe and Luo Shuo, carrying the red curtain, quickly returned to the inpatient building and headed towards Tong Cheng's ward.
Mu Nian lagged a few steps behind and paid the taxi fare.
At this time, Li Jiuhe and Luo Shuo had already entered the hospital building.
The two arrived at the elevator lobby and saw four elevators. Three of them were stuck on higher floors for some reason, and the other one was showing "under maintenance".
The two exchanged a glance and then chose to climb the stairs.
Upon reaching the fourth floor, I saw that the staircase was blocked by a movable temporary notice board that read, "Stairwell cleaning, please choose another passage."
An elderly cleaner is holding a hose and cleaning the stairwell.
Seeing this, Li Jiuhe chuckled and said, "It seems you really don't want us to enter the ward."
The old man looked up in surprise, then said apologetically, "Excuse me, the hallway is being cleaned. Please take the elevator."
"What if I don't?" A woman's voice suddenly came from behind the old man.
Mu Nian somehow managed to appear directly behind the old man.
Her nickname is "Spider Woman." She doesn't need to use elevators or ordinary staircases; getting to any floor of the building is a piece of cake for her.
Upon hearing this, the old man calmly turned his head and replied, "Please don't make things difficult for an elderly person who works at a hospital."
At that moment, the elderly cleaner suddenly noticed that Li Jiuhe and Luo Shuo were blocking the two directions down and into the corridor on this floor, while Mu Nian was blocking the top of the stairs.
The three people had clearly surrounded him.
"What are you doing?"
"So you can use disguise? No wonder!"
Mu Nian chuckled softly and raised her hand to scratch the old man's face.
The old man immediately retreated at an extremely fast speed, and soon his back was pressed tightly against the wall. It was visible to the naked eye that his body directly merged into the wall of the stairwell and disappeared.
Li Jiuhe and Luo Shuo looked at each other in bewilderment.
After Mu Nian's hand grasped at empty air, he witnessed this bizarre scene unfold.
However, she showed no surprise. Instead, she flicked her finger at the spot where the old man had disappeared. Her finger then moved as if plucking a string, as if an invisible thread connected her fingertip to the spot where the old man had vanished.
After a few attempts, the wall trembled slightly, and something fell down with a clatter.
Li Jiuhe and Luo Shuo looked closely and realized that the old man was still standing there and had not disappeared. However, something in front of his body was shaken off by the invisible threads, which made him re-expose.
Upon closer inspection, they realized it was a Bagua plate that the old man was holding.
The old man shook the Bagua compass, and the pointer on it quickly pointed to the "Xun" position. Then the pointer trembled violently, and the old man's figure disappeared from the spot again.
This time, Mu Nian's expression also showed doubt. She looked around and simultaneously flicked out invisible threads with both hands—
Luo Shuo pointed to the corner of the stairs leading to the fifth floor: "There!"
Mu Nian's invisible spider silk shot out almost instantly, quickly sticking to something. With a sudden tug, something else fell off with a whoosh.
As soon as the old man appeared, the Bagua compass started spinning again. This time, it was impossible to see which direction the pointer was pointing because the speed was too fast.
The old man's figure disappeared again in the next second.
This time, however, he didn't wait for Luo Shuo to find him again, but quickly appeared behind Luo Shuo.
A black ink line extended out, wrapped around Luo Shuo's neck, and tightened suddenly.
Luo Shuo only had time to show his horror, and couldn't even utter a cry, before his head was severed by the ink line and rolled away after falling to the ground.
At the same time, Li Jiuhe's vision blurred, and he felt as if he saw himself. The person he saw who had just been killed was not Luo Shuo.
Shocked, he heard Mu Nian's sharp shout beside him: "Die!"
With a loud bang, followed by a crashing sound of shattering.
Mu Nian was clearly genuinely angry, and Li Jiuhe then realized that what he had just seen was a mirror, a small bronze mirror from the center of the Bagua plate.
However, Mu Nian had already shattered the mirror, which also saved Li Jiuhe from the danger of almost falling into a hallucination.
Luo Shuo's headless body lay on the ground, bleeding profusely.
The old man's attack plan was almost flawless: kill Luo Shuo, who could find him, and then make Li Jiuhe fall into a hallucination, preventing him from activating the mission reset.
But little did he know that he had underestimated Mu Nian's strength.
"Little girl, you're even stronger than Tong Cheng! But now—"
As he spoke, the ink line, like Mu Nian's invisible spider silk, rapidly wrapped around Mu Nian's entire body, seemingly endless.
Although the bronze mirror in the center of the Bagua plate had been destroyed, its other functions remained, and it seemed that these functions had been further enhanced after the bronze mirror was destroyed.
The pointer above quickly split in two, pointing to two different directions simultaneously.
One of the positions seemed to be exactly where Mu Nian was standing, instantly freezing her body in place, making it impossible for her to move.
The position of the other pointer caused the old man's figure to disappear again.
The next second, Li Jiuhe felt a chill run down his spine. He knew that the old man was about to attack him.
This guy's attack methods are unbelievable, completely integrated with the use of the Bagua compass, making him impossible to defend against.
However, just as Tong Cheng said, this guy was a powerful Sequencer who was able to freely enter and exit his stage back then.
As expected, even when he directly confronted Mu Nian, the chief special investigator, he still had plenty of strength left.
Unless Tong Cheng and Mu Nian join forces, they might not be able to confront this guy head-on.
The moment the biting cold hit him, Li Jiuhe didn't hesitate and immediately activated the mission reset.
After all, Luo Shuo had already been killed, and he couldn't let his close friend die right before his eyes.
The scene returned to the moment when the three of them cornered the elderly cleaner in the stairwell.
"Watch out, he can hide himself, right there on that wall! Mu Nian, pay attention to his chalk lines! Luo Shuo, get behind me—"
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Before the fight between the two sides had even begun, Li Jiuhe issued a series of detailed instructions.
Speaking at an extremely fast pace, each word preceding the old man's actions, Mu Nian was able to seize the initiative, quickly shattering the old man's bronze mirror and knocking the Bagua plate to the ground.
The old man's ink line spun out rapidly like a spider web. Only then did Li Jiuhe realize that the old man was actually spitting out the ink line directly from his mouth.
He seems more like a spider than Mu Nian, the Spider Woman, except he spits out black silk threads.
On the contrary, the silk threads there were invisible and could not be seen at all.
The ink lines were blocked by Mu Nian's silk threads beforehand, and Luo Shuo was not killed this time. The old man knew something was wrong.
He knew very well that Li Jiuhe's mission reset ability played a key role, but strangely, he hadn't been able to predict that the other party would find him this time.
He found this completely incomprehensible, unless the other party possessed a sequence ability that could interfere with his predictions or some kind of special item.
The theater addict Chang Qinghuan, whom he had just planted at the cinema, was just like that. However, after the betrayal conditions were triggered, Chang Qinghuan immediately activated the curse of death.
The old man knew that what was happening now was probably not the first time, and that the current situation had reached a point where it was not in his favor.
Seeing that he had failed to kill the pursuer Luo Shuo, the old man retreated to a corner, intending to hide and then escape through some means.
However, Mu Nian found it again very quickly.
He tried to retreat several times, but Mu Nian swiftly intercepted him each time. Not only was he unable to leave, but he also felt that he was bound by some invisible threads, which made him very uncomfortable.
After finally regaining his previous understanding of Li Jiuhe, the old man had been avoiding direct conflict with them, instead trying to use his skills to deal with Li Jiuhe.
But at this moment it seems that the other party has not only located him through some unknown means, but also wants to trap him here.
The old man's expression turned sinister, and the fallen Bagua plate quickly rose up, hovering above his head and slowly rotating, as if empowered by some kind of force.
Then, he produced a tattered gray Taoist robe from somewhere and quickly put it on.
For a moment, the robe flashed with a golden light, but the area it covered was small, and some of the golden light spilled out from the tattered holes in the robe.
Even so, the old man's power was greatly enhanced, and his strength increased dramatically.
Three copper coins appeared in his palm and popped out one after another, all aimed at Mu Nian.
Because he knew very well that as long as he dealt with Mu Nian with swift and decisive measures, Li Jiuhe and Luo Shuo probably wouldn't even be able to withstand a single move from him.
At that time, Li Jiuhe was so shocked that he probably reset the mission and left the place, not daring to cause trouble again.
Mu Nian dodged the first coin with incredible speed, the second coin struck his shoulder, and the third coin suddenly grew to the size of a palm and flew directly toward Mu Nian's head.
If it hits the target, Mu Nian's head might explode instantly like a watermelon.
Mu Nian's heart raced, her hair stood on end, and she quickly pressed her body against the ground. But then, as if the copper coin had eyes, it suddenly changed course and smashed into the ground, its target still her head.
However, the next second, a dull thud was heard, and the copper coin was sent flying.
A dark figure appeared beside Mu Nian; it was Tong Cheng, who had been sleeping in the hospital room.
Tong Cheng's face was still somewhat pale, and he was panting heavily, but he had clearly recovered some of his injuries and strength.
Just now, after learning that Li Jiuhe and the others had retrieved the red curtain that had absorbed the power of theatrical addiction according to plan, and located the position of the mastermind, he immediately released the "Nuo Mask Breath" stored in his chest to heal his injuries without hesitation.
According to Tong Cheng's estimate, after absorbing the Nuo Mask's Breath, he would not only be able to fully recover from his injuries within about six hours, but also enhance his strength to its peak.
The downside is that there are no more drastic measures to save one's life.
However, he could use it with confidence now, because according to their plan, Li Jiuhe and the other two had already found the hidden mastermind.
As long as they find and keep this guy occupied, they don't need to worry about him attacking them after he uses the Breath of the Nuo Mask.
Because the situation has now reversed, they have gone from being passive to being active.
After Tong Cheng noticed that his injuries were starting to heal rapidly, he did not hesitate and immediately got up and rushed downstairs.
Ma Li stayed in the ward with Li Yi, releasing her ant larvae to guard the ward.
Although Tong Cheng has not fully recovered, he is at least capable of fighting against this villain, especially with Mu Nian's cooperation and some special methods.
With a wave of his hand, the red curtain that was originally on Luo Shuo flew up rapidly and directly covered the spinning Bagua plate above the old man's head.
The old man was taken aback. He had already learned that Li Jiuhe and the other two had gone to the cinema to use the red curtain to absorb the energy of the actors' passion for acting, so that Tong Cheng's injuries could be healed more quickly.
But unexpectedly, Tong Cheng didn't use the energy from the red curtain to heal his injuries; instead, he used it to fight him!
The red curtain had absorbed a great deal of Chang Qinghuan's theatrical energy, and now it was full and bulging, moving without wind and rustling. Under Tong Cheng's control, it suddenly covered the rotating Bagua plate completely.
Tong Cheng simultaneously used the energy from the beach within his body to heal his injuries, while also manipulating the red curtain to attack the old man.
He sneered, "You thought your acting prowess was meant to heal my injuries? Wrong, it's actually used to deal with you!"
The old man was shocked, but his expression remained unchanged.
He does possess a certain degree of precognitive ability, but this ability cannot reveal the unspoken thoughts of the other party.
At this moment, the old man clearly noticed that the Bagua plate above his head was under control, its rotation began to slow down, and the power of the Taoist robe supporting him greatly diminished.
He reached out and grabbed the Bagua plate above his head, bit off the tip of his tongue, spat a mouthful of blood at the Bagua plate, and then pressed it towards Tongcheng.
Unexpectedly, with a tremor in her hand, Mu Nian grabbed at the air, and the Bagua plate was hooked by her invisible threads. The blood on its surface dripped quickly down the threads, hissing white smoke as it hit the ground, as if it had a strong corrosive effect.
Mu Nian retreated quickly, but at the same time released more invisible spider silk, which hooked onto the old man's clothes, trying to pull off his strange Taoist robe.
At the same time, Tong Cheng stepped forward, his pale lips parted, and the power of the stage emanated from him as he shouted, "You scoundrel~ Prepare to die~"
The red curtain still hovered above the old man's head. A large amount of theatrical passion and stage power merged and, under Tong Cheng's control, poured down on the old man's head like a shower of energy, all of which were forces of attack, balance, and restraint.
The old man's face was ashen, and he muttered incantations. The ink lines inside his clothes flew out quickly, wrapped around his body, and firmly bound the tattered Taoist robe to his body.
Then he shouted again: "Everyone in the room—enter the divination hall—!"
The air in the entire stairwell jolted.
"A divination!?"
Just then, Mu Nian, who witnessed this scene, seemed to remember something, and suddenly exclaimed, "It's divination again! This guy's sequence isn't prophecy, and he doesn't have precognitive abilities. His sequence ability is—divination!"
boom!
Tong Cheng didn't rest either. He directly manipulated the red curtain to pour all his acting power, along with the little bit of attack power he had just recovered, onto the old man's head.
The old man's body instantly turned into dust, leaving not even a fragment of flesh or blood.
Everyone was stunned.
Mu Nian looked at Tong Cheng in surprise: "You're already...that strong?"
Tong Cheng shook his head: "No, that's not right, it seems like he did it intentionally—"
Before he could finish speaking, Luo Shuo suddenly screamed, clutching his head with both hands. His face changed rapidly, and in just a few seconds, the guy who had been hiding behind Li Jiuhe had his features altered, vaguely resembling the old man from before.
He covered his head, turned around, and rushed out of the stairwell.
Seeing this unbelievable scene, Li Jiuhe was the most surprised, because at the moment Luo Shuo changed, he clearly had a familiar feeling.
This feeling comes from the morning bell of the 27th that I haven't seen for a long time!