154: Chapter 154 All Pawns are People

Inside the pit.

That line of text hung on the black light screen.

[Intervener: First Blue Star Agent.]

[Codename: Cuilan.]

The air seemed to have been pressed with a pause button.

On the ground, everyone could see it.

Li Yan's expression changed on the spot.

Zhang Changlin's breathing hitched.

Xiao Zhenjiang did not speak, only raised his hand, suppressing the movements of everyone behind him.

Shen Qingni stood outside the cordon, the frost just condensed at her fingertips dissipating completely in an instant.

Cuilan.

This name was too close.

So close that everyone's first reaction was not "codename."

But rather, Jiang Feng's mother—Liu Cuilan.

Zero Seven also froze.

She looked cautiously at Jiang Feng.

If this was true, then the matter was not that the enemy had broken in.

It was that the enemy might have been cooking in Jiang Feng's house all along.

This was what was most terrifying.

Jiang Feng stared at those two lines of text, his face expressionless.

But the stone walls around the pit began to sink silently.

It was not a collapse.

It was being pressed down by an inch due to his mass.

Zero Seven's throat tightened: "Mr. Jiang, don't be anxious yet."

Jiang Feng glanced at her.

"Am I anxious?"

Zero Seven shut her mouth.

Not anxious.

Just that the Awakening Plaza under their feet was about to be stomped into a basin.

On the ground, Li Yan finally couldn't hold back, his voice very low.

"Lao Xiao, this matter..."

Xiao Zhenjiang interrupted directly: "Shut up."

Li Yan gritted his teeth: "That's his mother!"

Xiao Zhenjiang looked at the pit, his voice heavy.

"That's why we can't speak nonsense."

As this sentence fell.

The high-level professionals around all lowered their heads.

No one dared to move.

No one dared to speak.

If Jiang Feng were to truly get angry now, let alone Fourth High School, countless worlds would have to be restructured.

At the bottom of the pit.

Jiang Feng reached out and tapped that line "Cuilan."

The black light screen shook.

The next second, another hidden record popped out.

[Codename Cuilan: Not a real name.]

[Identity: Name used for Reality Anchor disguise.]

[Deployment time: Seventeen years before Jiang Feng's Awakening.]

[Mission: Approach the Variable body's family.]

[Status: Lost contact.]

Zero Seven frowned: "Lost contact?"

Jiang Feng's eyes flickered.

"Continue."

The stone platform didn't respond.

It seemed to be playing dead.

Jiang Feng pressed his fingers against the crack.

Crack.

The entire stone platform cracked another circle.

"I don't like to ask a second time."

The light screen immediately became obedient.

[Querying Reality Anchor...]

[Matching object: Liu Cuilan.]

[Match rate: 0.0003%.]

[Conclusion: Not the Agent's original body.]

On the ground, many people breathed a sigh of relief simultaneously.

Li Yan cursed out loud: "Scared the hell out of me!"

Xiao Zhenjiang also slowly let out a breath.

Shen Qingni stared blankly at that line of text.

It was not Liu Cuilan.

That ordinary woman who would cook for Jiang Feng, brew hawthorn water for the Dragon girl, and nag about whether soy sauce was expensive, was still Jiang Feng's mother.

For some reason, Shen Qingni also breathed a sigh of relief.

Jiang Feng's expression remained calm.

He asked: "Why did it match with my mother?"

The light screen paused.

It seemed reluctant to answer.

Jiang Feng raised his hand.

The second blue star earth key spun gently in his palm.

The stone platform immediately became sensible.

[Reason: Agent used Liu Cuilan's destiny shell.]

[Time: The night Jiang Feng was born.]

[Duration: Three seconds.]

[Result: Failed.]

[Failure reason: The target host's will is abnormally firm.]

Zero Seven was stunned.

"Host's will?"

A ripple finally appeared in the depths of Jiang Feng's eyes.

"Speak human language."

The light screen flickered a few times.

The next second, it changed to a more direct record.

[The Agent attempted to borrow Liu Cuilan's body to mark the Variable body in advance.]

[Liu Cuilan instinctively refused.]

[The Agent was squeezed out.]

[Marking failed.]

On the ground, there was dead silence.

Li Yan opened his mouth, held it in for a long time, and only managed to choke out one sentence.

"Auntie... is amazing."

Zhang Changlin glanced at him.

The words were crude.

But they were correct.

An ordinary woman with no cultivation at the time had actually forcibly squeezed out the Agent of the First Blue Star.

This was not combat power.

This was toughness of fate.

And even more, it was protecting her child.

Xiao Zhenjiang whispered: "A mother protecting her child is instinct."

Jiang Feng didn't speak.

He recalled many small things.

When he had a fever as a child, Liu Cuilan didn't sleep all night.

During the hardest times for the family, she always put the meat in his bowl, saying she didn't like to eat it herself.

On the day he Awakened as B-grade, she wasn't disappointed, nor did she blame him, only saying she would fry two eggs for him when he got back.

She didn't know anything about high dimensions.

Didn't know anything about variables.

And didn't know anything about the First Blue Star.

She was just protecting her own child.

Jiang Feng only had one judgment in his heart.

My mother is my mother.

Whoever touches her, dies.

The black light screen continued to unfold.

[After Agent Cuilan lost contact, the First Blue Star switched to using the Awakening Formation to observe the Variable body.]

[Deployment of control sample: Shen Qingni.]

[Deployment of pressure dungeon: Mutated Chicken Farm.]

[Deployment of disguise tag: B-grade Diligence Makes Up for Lack of Talent.]

[Note: The Variable body's emotions are stable; did not collapse as expected.]

Li Yan grimaced as he watched.

"They even wanted you to collapse?"

Jiang Feng said indifferently: "They thought too much."

Zero Seven glanced at him.

Indeed, they thought too much.

This person, after Awakening as B-grade back then, his first reaction was not inferiority, nor complaining about heaven or people.

But rather pondering how to enter the dungeon to kill chickens and drop attributes.

Putting such a person into a chess game is the type that the System would have to work overtime all night for.

Just at this moment.

Outside the cordon, Shen Qingni suddenly spoke.

"So, I was also arranged by them?"

The voice was not loud.

But everyone heard it.

The officer wanted to stop her.

Xiao Zhenjiang raised his hand, letting him step back.

Shen Qingni walked closer step by step, stopping at the edge of the pit.

She did not look at Jiang Feng.

She just looked at the light screen.

"My S-grade talent."

"My Frost Empress."

"Also to stimulate you?"

Jiang Feng looked up: "The record says so."

Shen Qingni smiled.

The smile was very light.

And also very ugly.

"I used to think that I won at the starting line."

No one replied.

She looked down at her palm.

Frost condensed bit by bit, then shattered bit by bit.

"As it turns out, even my starting line was drawn by someone else."

This sentence was even more painful than she had imagined.

She was once proud.

Once high and mighty.

Once thought Jiang Feng was just an ordinary person with a B-grade talent.

But now she knew that her pride was also in someone else's script.

This was the real heartbreak.

Jiang Feng withdrew his gaze.

"What's fake is the positioning they gave you."

Shen Qingni was stunned.

Jiang Feng continued: "The talent is real, and the path is also real."

"How you walk it is your own business."

Shen Qingni stood in place, her eyes a bit red, but no tears fell.

She suddenly understood that Jiang Feng never treated her as an enemy.

He didn't even really take her seriously.

This was more ruthless than humiliation.

And also more sober.

Xiao Zhenjiang looked at Jiang Feng: "Can this record be taken away?"

Jiang Feng looked at the stone platform.

"Yes."

The stone platform shook.

The meaning seemed to be saying no.

Jiang Feng stomped down.

Boom!

All the patterns at the bottom of the pit lit up simultaneously, then extinguished simultaneously.

[Stripping hidden record...]

[Stripping successful.]

A blue-black crystal chip flew out from the stone platform and landed in Jiang Feng's hand.

The System prompt popped up.

[Obtained: Awakening Formation Black Curtain Record.]

[Can be used to track the residual coordinates of the First Blue Star Agent.]

[Obtained all attributes increase: 5 points.]

[Current base six-dimensional attributes: 65 points.]

Jiang Feng glanced at it.

Attributes increased again.

Not bad.

Even a mosquito's leg is meat.

On the ground, Li Yan shouted: "Jiang Feng, should this thing be handed over to the military for public announcement?"

Xiao Zhenjiang did not stop him.

This was not a small matter.

All Awakened on Blue Star might have been screened by this formation.

If announced, the whole world would explode.

If not announced, the hidden danger would remain forever.

Jiang Feng tossed the chip to Xiao Zhenjiang.

"You handle it."

Xiao Zhenjiang caught it.

The chip was not heavy.

But it held the fate of Blue Star for decades.

Jiang Feng added another sentence.

"Don't rush to publish it all."

Xiao Zhenjiang looked at him.

Jiang Feng said: "Investigate first."

"Whoever jumps out to protect this formation has a problem."

Li Yan's eyes lit up.

"Fishing?"

Jiang Feng: "Hmm."

Li Yan grinned: "I'm familiar with this."

Zero Seven looked at this group of people, suddenly feeling a bit of sympathy for the First Blue Star side.

They thought they were setting up a chess game.

But Jiang Feng backhanded the chessboard to fish.

This wave belongs to having the bigger picture opened up.

Xiao Zhenjiang put away the chip, saying in a deep voice: "China will cooperate."

Jiang Feng nodded, turning to look at the stone platform.

The second Earth Key was already in hand.

But at the deepest part of the pit, there was still a thin crack.

Inside the thin crack, a bit of red light faintly shone through.

It didn't look like an Earth Key.

More like some kind of old equipment that hadn't been activated.

Zero Seven's expression changed.

"There is still something below."

Jiang Feng asked: "What?"

Zero Seven squatted down to take a look, her voice dropping.

"Backup Awakening Formation."

On the ground, Li Yan was stunned.

"Backup?"

"Who is it for?"

Zero Seven looked up at Jiang Feng.

"It's not for the people of the present."

"It's for when the Agent returns."

As soon as the voice fell.

Deep in the pit, that red crack suddenly lit up.

A new record automatically popped up.

[Detected that Agent Cuilan has been out of contact for over eighteen years.]

[Initiating substitute plan.]

[Matching substitute container...]

[Matching successful.]

[Target: Liu Cuilan.]

[Current location: Tianshu Dragon Garden.]