197: Chapter 197 Meeting Zhao Hongchan

After harvesting a large amount of spirituality value, the System sent a prompt.

[ Your talent skill is about to expire. Would you like to spend 10 spirituality value to extend it for 1 hour? 10 seconds remaining... ]

— — Extend it for me, thanks.

Compared to the 90 spirituality value spent when first entering the dream, the 10 spirituality value for the extension is extremely cost-effective. Since he wasn't in a dead end, it was naturally more worthwhile to choose the extension.

Next, Chu Xuan rummaged through these people again, harvesting a total of 124 spirit money.

From Xinyue Fox, he found 38 coins.

Chu Xuan was slightly surprised; it seemed he hadn't completely squeezed her dry in the previous two times.

As for the others, they were all broke; a dozen or so people combined had less than 100 spirit money.

Without hesitation, he absorbed it all directly through the System.

[ Absorbed for you... Absorption complete! Your spirituality value + 124 ]

[ Current spirituality value: 910 ]

Seeing Tang Zheng preparing to call people to clean up the scene, Chu Xuan waved his hand and said: " Don't worry about this, let's just leave. "

" Where to? "

" To see Zhao Hongchan! "

Next, the two drove towards the Research Base.

According to Chu Xuan's original plan, he intended to have Tang Zheng kill all the team members in the dream to confirm the identity of Azure Dragon.

In the message sent by [ Future Tang Zheng ], his future self had clearly already confirmed through the dream that Azure Dragon was Ming Xiucheng and had even discussed cooperation matters with Zhao Hongchan.

However, Ming Xiucheng was unexpectedly killed easily by a sneak attack and did not turn into flames and Smoke, which led Zhao Hongchan to believe she had been deceived, causing her to attack in a rage.

What exactly went wrong here?

Chu Xuan frowned.

After a moment of contemplation, Chu Xuan chose to follow the original plan and try it out in this dream. He wanted to see for himself what was going on.

On the way, Chu Xuan sent a message to [ Future Tang Zheng ]: [ You said earlier that there is a Specter inside Zhao Hongchan's child. How was this discovered? ]

[ Tang Zheng: In the timeline of your previous dream, we escaped Haicheng under the threat of Chu Huan along with visitors from the capital. During this period, I inadvertently discovered that when the child was extremely hungry, it would show signs of becoming a Specter, and when its stomach was full, it would return to normal. Zhao Hongchan clearly knew about this from the very beginning. ]

In that case, Zhao Hongchan is also very strange!

Chu Xuan then asked: [ Have you found the trail of Azure Dragon? ]

[ Tang Zheng: Already found it, preparing to make a move. Once I uncover the true identity of Azure Dragon, I will tell you immediately. ]

Putting away his phone, Chu Xuan gave Tang Zheng some instructions on what to do next. Then, the two hurried without stop and arrived back at the living area of the Research Base half an hour later to visit Zhao Hongchan.

On the balcony outside the living room, Zhao Hongchan was lying half-reclined on a bamboo chair, holding her baby, basking in the early morning sun.

Her complexion looked like it had returned to normal. She was still wearing red, but she was no longer dressed like a lolita; she looked much more mature.

" I suppose you still have some conscience. "

Receiving the [ Golden Growth ] infant bracelet handed over by Chu Xuan, Zhao Hongchan gently stroked the baby's fair and delicate cheeks with the back of her hand, asking without looking up: " Shouldn't you be very busy recently? You still have time to come see me? "

" Courtesy demands reciprocity; didn't you also give me a dose of potion before? "

Chu Xuan smiled slightly. Seeing that Zhao Hongchan's gaze remained fixed on the baby without shifting an inch, her eyes filled with maternal love, he narrowed his eyes and asked abruptly: " Has the child ever been hungry? "

" Of course not. How could I bear to let the baby go hungry? " Zhao Hongchan said without looking up.

Chu Xuan's expression remained normal as he continued to ask: " If the child is hungry, will there be any special behavior? For example... becoming less like a normal baby? "

In an instant, a scorching wave of Qi swept out.

" What do you know? "

Zhao Hongchan suddenly looked up, staring fixedly at Chu Xuan. The surrounding temperature became increasingly scorching; the curtains on the balcony spontaneously ignited without fire, and the furniture in the living room quickly turned scorched yellow, then black.

Chu Xuan, who was closest, felt his cheeks burning.

Chu Xuan glanced at the baby in Zhao Hongchan's arms, who was still giggling non-stop, and a smile appeared on his face as he got straight to the point: " I am guided by heaven's secrets to come here and see you, to tell you that there is a Specter inside your child, and the person who did this is Azure Dragon from the Resurrection Society! "

Zhao Hongchan stared at Chu Xuan for a long while before the scorching aura around them slowly dissipated. After a moment of silence, she asked: " Do you know who Azure Dragon is? "

Chu Xuan said: " I am still confirming his identity. "

After another moment of silence, Zhao Hongchan's voice was somewhat cracked: " Is it Ming Xiucheng? "

" Why do you think it would be Ming Xiucheng? " Chu Xuan felt slightly surprised.

" Because Qin Qing has already investigated and found that the reason Ming Xiucheng suppressed the rest of us team members from using our abilities on ordinary people without authorization, and endured the harassment and suppression from the Investigation Team led by Tao Jiajia at every turn, was not just waiting for a one-time reckoning after Haicheng's restructuring. "

Zhao Hongchan said with a calm expression: " His deeper purpose is very likely to deliberately indulge Specters to eat people and grow stronger, and then hunt them to obtain more spirituality value! "

" Qin Qing? " Chu Xuan raised an eyebrow.

Just then, a cold voice rang out from a guest room near the balcony: " Although I don't have concrete evidence, I am 70% sure that Ming Xiucheng is farming Specters! "

Chu Xuan turned his head to look and saw Qin Qing walking out of the guest room.

" Ming Xiucheng's talent skill is Hunting; he is fully capable of doing this! He can capture the aura of a Specter, and once it has grown strong, he can track it down and hunt it. "

Saying this, Qin Qing looked at Chu Xuan with a complex gaze and sighed softly: " Didn't I tell you to leave a long time ago? Why did you still stay? "