149: Chapter 149 Intentional Action!

"A new game?"

Tian Cai slowly put away his phone. When facing the monk in the black cassock just now, he could multitask and fend off the enemy with ease.

But facing the person before him, he clearly could not do the same.

"What do you mean by that? What kind of trouble is Old Man Wei stirring up now?"

"Hahaha,"

Gong Zhigao chuckled.

"Weren't you just watching the livestream?"

As he spoke, he looked as if he had suddenly remembered something.

"I just remembered, you betrayed us long ago, so it's understandable that you're not clear on many things."

"Betrayal?"

Tian Cai suppressed the fury in his heart and squeezed out a few words through his teeth.

"Wei Chengjun kidnapped my wife and my son!! He used them for experiments!!"

"And you're telling me that I'm the one who betrayed Penglai?"

"I was wholeheartedly loyal to Penglai, and this is the result I get in the end?"

"You're too narrow-minded,"

Gong Zhigao shook his head slightly.

"You cannot understand Elder Wei's painstaking efforts."

"Hahahahaha!"

Tian Cai couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"Painstaking efforts? So that's what you call it!!"

"What a ridiculous joke!"

"Killing my wife and child can actually be explained by you as 'painstaking efforts'?"

"Gong Zhigao, is there something wrong with your head?"

"It just goes to show, Tian Cai, that you are not one of us after all."

As Gong Zhigao spoke, he took off a pendant from his waist, which was strung with several beads.

However, the texture of these beads was quite peculiar; they didn't look like jade or stone.

At this moment, Gong Zhigao said,

"There are five beads on this string. The first is my wife, the second is my son, the third is my daughter, and the bottom two are my parents."

"These are beads I ground from their skulls. See, they're quite beautiful, aren't they?"

"..."

Tian Cai stared at him fixedly.

"Have you lost your mind? Those were your closest kin!! How could you even do that?"

"Tian Cai!"

Gong Zhigao spoke as he carefully put away the pendant, then continued,

"The spots for survivors are limited. Even though my Penglai has only ten thousand people,"

"That number is still too many."

"So we always have to make some trade-offs."

"Furthermore, once the grand plan is complete, we will eventually achieve eternal life."

"And at that time, why would we need descendants?"

"Eternal life? You actually believe such nonsense?"

As Tian Cai spoke, his chest heaved violently.

"Fine, I don't want to waste any more words with you. Today, don't even think about going in!!"

"I never said I was going in,"

Gong Zhigao smiled faintly and said no more.

But in the next second, Tian Cai realized something important.

That text message from fifteen years ago was very likely real!!

And even more important was this:

Wei Chengjun clearly had many more cards in his hand, yet he hadn't truly played them all.

Why?

Because he wanted everyone to know that Penglai was doing its utmost to stop them,

And that it was only because Song Yiqing was too powerful that they failed.

But the truth was that he was doing it on purpose.

He was deliberately letting Song Yiqing break through the First Forbidden Zone and then enter the Second Forbidden Zone!!

This was an open conspiracy!!

The breach of the Second Forbidden Zone was inevitable. Only when the Second Forbidden Zone was breached could everything proceed according to Wei Chengjun's plan!!

Boom!!!

In an instant, all the events in Tian Cai's mind successfully connected.

He quickly took out his phone, attempting to send the most important message.

But in the next second,

A slender tentacle had wrapped around his body at some unknown time and snatched the phone away with lightning speed.

Gong Zhigao still wore that smiling expression.

"Let us look forward to the start of the new game. It will surely be very exciting!!"

"Get lost!!!"

...

In the bullet chat section,

[Hey, hey, hey! What's the situation? Song Yiqing, you can't really just stop here, can you?]

[Exactly! If you don't go in, what will happen to us humans?? You have to go in! That must be a Penglai conspiracy!! Don't believe it!]

[Right! Don't believe it, whatever you do, don't believe it!!]

[It's a conspiracy! It's a conspiracy!!]

Countless bullet comments were expressing the same sentiment, while a few others were opposing them,

[Don't go in! You can't go in!! You can't go in!!]

But the number of these comments was too small, and in an instant, they were drowned out by even more comments,

As if they had never truly appeared.

On the livestream screen,

Lin Tianyi spoke up,

"Lord Song, what should we do now? If we believe this bullet comment, we can only turn back."

As he said this, he was very unwilling in his heart.

Because perhaps by going deeper, they could find the tuo luo flower and go back to save their clansmen.

But looking at Song Yiqing's reaction now, he was likely going to give up.

At this moment, Fatty also quickly spoke up,

"Lord Song, I think this is a conspiracy by the Penglai people. Don't believe it for a second."

"Who knows what kind of bad intentions these people are hiding! They just want to trick us!"

"..."

Song Yiqing remained silent because he was waiting—waiting for the system's mission prompt.

But even though he had reached the end of the tomb passage, the system's mission prompt had never appeared.

This meant that going in wasn't necessarily required.

The price of entering would surely be extremely high.

So he fell into hesitation.

But just then, Wang Shan squatted down to the side. After looking at several symbols on the wall, she suddenly spoke,

"Lord Song!! These are symbols left behind by my father!! He left them!"

"Hmm?"

Hearing her words, Song Yiqing also quickly stepped forward and carefully observed the symbols on the wall.

But he was completely in the dark and couldn't understand them at all.

"What do they mean?"

"My dad said we can't keep going,"

Wang Shan slowly looked up at Song Yiqing.

Beside them, Fatty frowned upon hearing this.

"Eh?? Wait a minute! That's not right! Didn't Wang Shan's old man go down the tomb with Elder Lu and the others back then?"

"Could he have come in another time?"

"..."

Looking at that line of text, the image of Kang Mo immediately surfaced in Song Yiqing's mind.

His first thought before had been that the organization Kang Mo and the blind man belonged to had entered the Black Sand Great Buddha Temple together with Lu Ziliang and the others back then.

But now it seemed that wasn't the case at all!

In the next second,

Song Yiqing suddenly looked back toward the rear.

"Retreat!"

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