252: Chapter 253 The True God Descends: This Great God Uses a Lot of Electricity

Xiao Zhenguo's legs went weak, and he collapsed to the ground.

He gasped for air, his body soaked through with cold sweat as if he had just been fished out of water. The relief of surviving a catastrophe intertwined with the extreme terror he had just experienced, leaving his mind blank.

"Living in... his world?"

"What does that mean?"

Before he could think it through, he felt a strange movement in his chest.

He looked down in horror and saw a tiny, visible black thread slowly "drifting" out from the position of the third rib on his left chest.

As soon as the black thread left his body, it twisted and struggled in the air for a few moments before vanishing into nothingness with a "hiss."

The hidden injury that had plagued him for decades, that cold force like a maggot on the bone, was just... gone?

Xiao Zhenguo pressed his chest in disbelief and took a deep breath.

"It's smooth!"

"Unprecedentedly smooth!"

That cold sensation that had dwelled in his lungs and viscera, making him suffer in agony every rainy day, had vanished without a trace.

He stared blankly at Lin Qi's back. The youth had already returned to the truck and was preparing to board.

The other party hadn't even touched him.

It was just that a moment ago, at the brink of life and death, the Law power of that "world" had swept across his body and casually "erased" this "foreign object" that didn't belong in his body.

A god.

This was the true method of a god.

Compared to this power, Li Qingcang's "System rejection," which sounded unfathomable, was simply like a joke.

No, not a joke.

It was presenting this True God with the most handy weapon!

Realizing this, Xiao Zhenguo scrambled to his feet, rushed toward Lin Qi's back, and shouted with all his might, "Mr. Lin! Please stay!"

Lin Qi's footsteps halted.

Zhang Wei had already sat back in the driver's seat. Watching the crazed-looking Xiao Zhenguo in the rearview mirror, then looking at Lin Qi beside him, whose breathing was steady but whose face remained pale, he asked in a low voice, "Brother Qi, are you okay? What happened just now? I almost thought you were about to undergo Ascension."

"I'm not dying," Lin Qi said calmly. "Just changed my way of living. The consumption is a bit high."

Maintaining the operation of this "My World" burned his willpower every second. It was like a Mortal trying to lift a mountain with their mind. Although his current willpower was comparable to a god's, it couldn't withstand such consumption.

He had to find the "source" that attacked him and destroy it as soon as possible.

"Does the head of the Xiao Family have anything else?" Lin Qi turned around, his voice calm.

Xiao Zhenguo trotted over and stopped three steps away from Lin Qi, not daring to get any closer. He bowed respectfully at ninety degrees, his posture more than ten times more fawning than before.

"Mr. Lin, previously, this old man was blind and held onto wishful thinking, nearly causing a major disaster! Please forgive me, Mr. Lin!"

He raised his head, his face full of sincere panic, "The conditions you previously set, the Xiao Family not only agrees to all of them, but we are also willing to add double the resources! I only ask... I only ask that Mr. Lin can let me out of... out of your world."

He finally understood the meaning of that sentence.

His hidden injury had been judged as a "foreign object" in Lin Qi's "world" and erased.

Then what about himself?

If one day he displeased Lin Qi, would he, Xiao Zhenguo, also be treated as a "foreign object" and casually erased?

This feeling of life and death not being under one's own control was more terrifying than any threat.

"Let you out?" Lin Qi smiled, a smile that looked more chilling than a devil to Xiao Zhenguo. "Why should I let you out? I think this is quite good."

The blood drained from Xiao Zhenguo's face instantly.

"However..." Lin Qi changed the subject, "The price can be negotiated."

"You name it! You name it! As long as my Xiao Family can do it, there will be no objections!" Xiao Zhenguo grabbed at the life-saving straw.

"Those resources before were just money for your life," Lin Qi held up a finger. "Now, I want to buy another life."

"Li Qingcang's?" Xiao Zhenguo asked subconsciously.

"No," Lin Qi shook his head. "I will take his life myself. I want you to help me buy the life of the person behind him."

Xiao Zhenguo was stunned, then said with a bitter face, "Mr. Lin, I... I don't know who that person is at all! I only know that Li Qingcang said there was a mysterious person who could help him deal with you, but I have no idea who it is or where they are!"

"You don't need to know who he is," Lin Qi's gaze became sharp. "You just need to tell me what price Li Qingcang paid to exchange for that person's help."

He knew very well that whoever could drive a rule-level attack like "System rejection" was definitely not a Mortal. And driving such power inevitably required some kind of "offering" or "medium."

This was the key to breaking the deadlock.

Xiao Zhenguo didn't dare to hide anything and spilled all the fragments of information he had heard from Li Qingcang.

"The price... Li Qingcang said the other party didn't want money, only three things. It seems they are called... the compass of the Earth Fiend Cave, a stone called the 'skull of the old god,' and something like... the main control core of a simulator."

That's it!

Lin Qi understood. These three things must be the key components the mysterious person used to launch the "Law attack."

As long as he could prevent him from collecting these three things, or get them first, he could nip this crisis in the bud at its source.

"Where are these three things now?" Lin Qi pressed.

"I... I don't know!" Xiao Zhenguo was almost crying. "These are all strategic materials controlled by the Federation; how could I..."

"Investigate." Lin Qi said only one word.

"Yes, yes, yes! I will immediately use all of the Xiao Family's intelligence networks to investigate!" Xiao Zhenguo nodded repeatedly, then asked cautiously, "Then... Mr. Lin, as long as I help you find them, can I..."

"Depends on my mood."

Lin Qi dropped this sentence, ignored him further, turned around, and got into the truck.

Zhang Wei stepped on the gas, and the modified heavy truck let out a roar as it sped away.

Leaving only Xiao Zhenguo behind, standing there in a daze, not knowing whether to cry or laugh.

On the truck.

While driving, Zhang Wei secretly sized up Lin Qi.

"Brother Qi, what exactly is your state right now? It feels like you... are very far away from us."

"You can understand it as me putting an absolute defense shell on myself," Lin Qi closed his eyes, feeling the consumption of willpower within him. "But this shell has a battery limit and cannot be recharged. I must find the enemy's socket and unplug it before the battery runs out."

Zhang Wei understood this analogy.

"Are those three things the sockets?"

"They are the plugs," Lin Qi corrected. "What I need to do is snatch them all."

"Then where are we going now? Straight to the Kyoto Li Family to kill them?" The fatty was a bit excited.

"No. Li Qingcang is just a messenger right now; killing him is useless." Lin Qi opened his eyes. "Since that person wants these three things, they will definitely find a way to get them. We just need to wait for the rabbit."

He took out his terminal and dialed Instructor Su Qing's number.

After the battle at the port, he had given his new number to Instructor Su Qing just in case.

The call connected quickly, and Instructor Su Qing's cold voice came through: "You're still alive."

"By luck," Lin Qi said concisely. "Help me check on three things. The core compass of the Earth Fiend Cave in the Mass Grave west of the city, the 'skull of the old god' at the Tianhai City Museum, and the main control core of the 'Abyss Rift Simulator' at Longya Academy. I want to know their current status and location, as fast as possible."

There was silence on the other end of the line for a few seconds.

"Did you run into trouble?" Instructor Su Qing keenly sensed something.

"Big trouble."

"Understood. I'll give you news in half an hour." Instructor Su Qing didn't ask more and hung up the phone directly.

Lin Qi put down the terminal and leaned back on the chair; the consumption of willpower made him feel a trace of exhaustion.

However, not even ten minutes had passed before Zhang Wei's private terminal suddenly rang frantically.

It was an informant he had planted in the underground black market of Tianhai City.

After answering and listening for a few moments, the fatty's face changed instantly.

"Brother Qi!" He slammed on the brakes, parked the truck on the side of the road, turned his head to look at Lin Qi, his voice changing pitch.

"The first thing you mentioned... that Earth Fiend Cave core compass!"

"Tonight, it's being publicly auctioned at the underground Black Gold Auction in Tianhai City!"