140: The odds of winning Chapter 140? Too slim.

There was no information on these three doors; they were just three seemingly ordinary doors,

The Fatty looked at the doors and quickly spoke up,

"As long as we enter these doors, there should be abundant Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, right?

Like the situation in the Queen's Palace?"

No one responded to him; instead, they all sized up the three doors.

But at this moment, Lin Tianyi turned his head to look at Lu Ziliang,

"Elder Lu, if I remember correctly, you said before that the act of resolving a Forbidden Zone can be replicated.

Ordinary people like us aren't aware of this information.

Is there something the authorities haven't announced yet,

but you, the Official Archaeological Team, know about it?"

He spoke quite cryptically,

not directly mentioning the words spoken by those tentacles after they saw Lu Ziliang.

He hoped Lu Ziliang could be honest and speak up on his own,

rather than only speaking because he was forced to.

Everyone's gaze fell upon Lu Ziliang,

but just then, Shi Yao spoke up,

"Elder Lu has already suffered enough of a fright. Stop pressuring him. Since there are things the authorities are unwilling to reveal,

it means they can't be said in the livestream room.

I hope you can show some self-respect!"

"Holy crap!"

Fatty rolled up his sleeves and prepared to give the other guy a good taste of his knife, so he'd realize who was truly in charge!

But at this point, Lin Tianyi pulled him back just in time. Everyone was a bit agitated right now, and it would be easy for a violent conflict to break out.

However, Lu Ziliang let out a deep breath.

"Phew..."

He found a place to sit down slowly, then looked at the massive Buddha statue and said calmly, as if he had made up his mind,

"Once, we came here. Once, we also successfully eliminated a Forbidden Zone.

And once, we failed."

These words exploded in everyone's minds like a clap of thunder.

It wasn't just Fatty who was making a fuss; even Shi Yao and the other members of the Archaeological Team were filled with shock.

"What? Professor? For real? Something like this actually happened?"

"We successfully eliminated a Forbidden Zone before? Then why has this news never gotten out?"

"Yeah! Elder Lu, if that's the case, what's there to keep quiet about?"

Everyone's words were urgent. To them, this was undoubtedly a matter of monumental importance.

But Lu Ziliang shook his head slightly and said,

"There are some things I cannot explain with science.

But all I can say is that as long as we can eliminate the Forbidden Zones one by one, perhaps we can truly triumph over them!!"

After these words, everyone fell into a collective silence.

The danger of the Forbidden Zones was already self-evident.

Most critically, there was also a faction named Penglai causing trouble; they had enemies both in front and behind.

The probability of winning? It was too slim.

...

In the bullet chat section,

[Holy crap! We've eliminated a Forbidden Zone before?? Good grief!! To think something like this happened!]

[I always thought Forbidden Zones were invincible. I didn't expect us to have succeeded once?]

[Although we succeeded, I seem to hear a sense of sorrow in Elder Lu's words.]

[Failing is sorrowful, of course, but why did we fail that time? How could we fail?]

[Yeah! If we could destroy one Forbidden Zone, we should have been able to keep going! Why...]

[Hey! Do you think this might be related to Master Yu Lin's falling out with the authorities?]

[Holy sh*t!! Is the person above me a fortune teller?? Quick, tell us, do you know some inside info?]

Netizens were frantically flooding the bullet chat,

and at the same time, related news was spreading like wildfire across the internet.

...

On the battleship, Bai Yu, as the commander, was also watching the various events in the livestream room.

Song Yiqing's narrow escape filled him with joy, but when Lu Ziliang spoke of the events from fifteen years ago,

his eyes also grew a bit lonely as he fell into memory.

Bang—!

Bai Yu slammed his fist onto the table and, under the gaze of all the staff present, spoke up,

"We failed last time, but this time, failure is absolutely not an option.

Full firepower coverage!!!

Let these pieces of trash know that technology can also slay immortals!!"

...

Meanwhile,

on the livestream screen,

after a brief silence, Lin Tianyi quickly asked,

"Elder Lu, how deep did you all venture back then?"

"We were just one step away!"

As he spoke, he looked at the doors behind him.

"Just a little bit more, just a little bit more, and we could have conquered the Second Forbidden Zone—this Black Sand Great Buddha Temple."

"Wait?"

Lin Tianyi spoke up, somewhat confused,

"Elder Lu, I still don't understand. What do you mean by the Second Forbidden Zone being the Black Sand Great Buddha Temple?

And we were clearly inside the Taklamakan Desert Forbidden Zone at the time, so how..."

"I said, things in here are too profound and mysterious,"

Lu Ziliang shook his head slightly.

"But what is generally known is that among you people who came from the Taklamakan Desert, there is a 'Chosen One'.

As long as this person doesn't die, then we have a chance to overturn the Forbidden Zones.

Otherwise, once he dies,

this game will have to restart!

Do you understand now?"

"Once he dies, it has to restart..."

Lin Tianyi murmured to himself, then looked at Song Yiqing and made a small summary.

"So the reason those tentacles were hell-bent on killing Song Yiqing is that he might be the Chosen One.

Therefore, he cannot die, or else everything will have to start over like a game save?"

"Exactly,"

Lu Ziliang nodded slightly, confirming his guess.

However, Lin Tianyi's brow furrowed slightly as a theory formed in his mind.

Was the failure of Lu Ziliang and the others fifteen years ago because the Chosen One died?

He then pushed aside his thoughts and directly asked Lu Ziliang which door they should take next.

After all, if they continued to linger, the Tentacle Monster would very likely catch up.

That was something their current team, with little physical strength and Qi remaining, could not defeat.

Lu Ziliang nodded slightly, then raised his hand and pointed to the first door on the left.

"Back then, this was the door we entered. This one is the correct path."

"Then let's go! What are we waiting for!"

Fatty spoke up immediately.

But just as he was about to move, a voice slowly rang out.

"That is a dead end."

"Mr. Song?"

Lu Ziliang looked in surprise at Song Yiqing, who was slowly raising his head.

It was visible to the naked eye that his complexion had recovered slightly.

In contrast, Zhang Qilin's face had turned a bit paler.