From the end of the world

Chapter 217 The End of the Divine Gun
I once told the young lady Lu Chan that I knew Lu Youxun might become my enemy in the future, but I didn't plan to attack him now. If we really became hostile, it would just be a matter of fighting each other.

I didn't expect that "then" would come so soon, and my mood was worse than I thought. Maybe I still wanted to trust Lu Youxun.

When Lu Youxun saw that I had restrained the remaining three demon hunters, he stopped talking. His expression changed several times and he said bitterly, "How did you find out? Firefly should have been dealt with, and the GPS bracelet was also frozen. And judging from her attitude and behavior, you should not have left any other means of surveillance..."

As he spoke, he looked towards Ma Zao in the crystal coffin, his eyes falling on the frozen GPS bracelet.

Then, he seemed to realize something: "... Could it be that in addition to this GPS bracelet, you also left other monitoring methods hidden from her? Is it 'heat'? But I didn't observe similar traces on her... Wait, are you hiding in her internal organs? Does she know about this herself?"

According to my impression, he never asked Ma Zao for similar information from beginning to end, but perhaps he had his own unique means of observation and analysis, and it was the conclusions drawn from this observation and analysis that led to his misjudgment.

As for the thermal mark on Ma Zao's body, I actually set it on her in order to rush to the scene quickly when Chen Long attacked the Zhu family residence. Although I got Ma Zao's consent when setting it, I did not tell her afterwards that I did not remove it, and even transferred it to the internal organs "according to convention".

If you ask me why I did this, there is actually no special reason. Although this thermal energy mark later had the purpose of "guarding against the magic gun that could attack at any time", at the beginning I just did it naturally. If you have to analyze my psychology, it may be that I am worried about the existence of Ma Zao, and I can't help but do small actions that can increase my sense of security. Although if Ma Zao insists on leaving me, such small actions will be useless.

This seemingly unnecessary "cleverness" has come in handy now. I really have to thank my past self.

I didn't continue Lu Youxun's words, but raised my right hand. With a flash of fire, a black rope lock heart ring appeared on the middle finger, and the palm became virtual; then the right arm made of fire stretched out, and the palm quickly penetrated into Lu Youxun's chest and grasped his beating heart.

He suddenly became unable to move.

The black rope lock heart ring was a gift he gave me in the past. I don't know if it will work on him, but it won't hurt to try. I have a lot of questions I want to get out of him. He just said that only he and Shenqiang know the inside story of the kidnapping mission of Ma Zao, so asking him first is the most efficient.

I have now grasped some of the inside story. First of all, from his previous words, I can gather that he and the Sharp Gun are accomplices, and the one who can command the Sharp Gun is most likely Da Wuchang, and his backer is probably the same person. Secondly, although I don't know what the purpose of the mastermind is, the probability that Ma Zao will die after being kidnapped is very high, which shows that the mastermind probably does not intend to take advantage of, or is not aware of, the Jinx physique.

The fact that he and the Divine Gun were accomplices was somewhat contrary to my previous knowledge. Since they were in the same boat, it shouldn't have happened that the Divine Gun didn't know my level and launched a rash attack. In addition, since Lu Youxun was in an enemy position with me, he shouldn't have been able to calmly synchronize his thoughts with me in the past.

If my speculation is correct, the opportunity that led to Lu Youxun's betrayal should have come very late and very suddenly, even he himself was caught off guard and had no time to communicate with the Divine Spear.

My fire elemental body is equivalent to an oversized "firefly", which can retrieve past memory information with incredible precision. The past scenes replayed in my mind at super high speed, and finally froze at a certain place - that was after I was forced to log out of the independent reality space for the first time. At that time, Lu Youxun's mobile phone suddenly received a message, and he reflexively frowned when he saw the message.

I asked him if he had any bad news, but he just said that the magic gun responded to his request, but that should be the "good news" that met his needs. Then he changed the subject, which made me focus on the problem of the magic gun. After that, he quickly left the reception room, saying that he wanted to do another bathing ritual to purify the heart - a ritual to temporarily wash away the malice in the heart.

——What news did he receive at that time?
I think Lu Youxun must have decided to betray me at this point. I never thought I would be fooled by my usual trick of changing the subject. At that time, he should have had the opportunity to contact the magic gun secretly. The reason why he didn't do so was probably due to two reasons: first, he didn't know whether he would need to help me enter the independent reality space for the third or fourth time, so he had to temporarily try to maintain a psychological state of cleansing his malice and could not perform any actions that were unfavorable to me;
Second, he probably didn't expect that the magic spear would start to attack right away - this optimistic thinking certainly didn't match Lu Youxun's cautious thinking, but he couldn't think too deeply about the premise of being my enemy at that time. These are all my guesses, I don't know how many of them are right.

"Tell me, Lu Youxun, who is directing you behind the scenes?" I asked.

“…I can’t answer that.”

Lu Youxun said this even though he had to answer.

"Do you really have a way to resist the Black Rope Heart Lock Ring?" I asked.

"Since there is a spell that can force an answer, there must be a spell that prohibits it. I have placed a restriction on myself, and I cannot reveal information about the person behind the scenes by my own will. Even if I am forced to reveal the inside story, or if I use spells like mind reading to dig out information, it will only trigger the restriction and burn my brain."

As he spoke, he glanced at the other demon hunters and said, "Besides, they were also subjected to similar methods before they carried out the mission. It is useless for you to use the Black Rope Locking Heart Ring on them."

The feedback from the Black Rope Locking Heart Ring told me that he was telling the truth, but I didn't believe it completely. I glanced at the other three demon hunters who were caught by the huge flaming hands, and then looked at him.

"Really? Since you put the restrictions on yourself, you can remove them yourself." I said, "If you don't, your good friends will be in danger of their lives."

"...Don't implicate them, they are nothing but knives..."

Before he finished speaking, the huge flaming hand that was holding one of the men suddenly clenched it, emitting a burst of fiery flames. After the light, the man had disappeared, leaving only ashes flowing from the gaps between the fingers of the huge flaming hand and drifting away with the wind. Seeing this, the faces of the two survivors turned even paler with fear.

“That’s not what I want to hear,” I said.

"I won't reveal any information about the person behind the scenes." He gritted his teeth and said, "Kill me if you want to, Zhuang Cheng. They are all helpless and just following orders, otherwise they might lose their lives." "They have no choice but to kidnap Ma Zao because they are helpless and just following orders, and they are afraid that they might lose their lives - I will believe this for the time being, but when they were against me, didn't they ever think that they might lose their lives, how come they are not helpless now?" I said, "You said they are just knives, so I just broke the knife. Are they only knives when they are against me, and when I take action against them, they all collectively turn back into living people with flesh and blood?

"It doesn't matter if you don't want to say it. I have my own ideas."

After saying that, I pulled out my right arm and stretched it towards the other two.

At the same time, I also sent several "fireflies" towards the portal, wanting to see what was behind the portal and where they were going to transport Ma Zao. Maybe the person behind the scenes was on the other side.

Unfortunately, after passing through the portal, these "fireflies" did not reach another space, but came out directly from the other side of the door frame, as if the portal was just an illusion. I speculate that this portal may have a whitelist mechanism, and those who are not allowed are not allowed to pass through.

Not only that, my interrogation of the other two also ended in failure. Just as Lu Youxun said, they really seemed unable to tell what they knew about the person behind the scenes. They either remained silent or said that they could not tell the information. Both of them were stiff, as if they knew they were doomed.

It doesn't matter if we can't get information from them alive, just bring their heads back and let Ma Zao investigate. But compared to them, Lu Youxun's head is obviously more significant. I turned to look at Lu Youxun. At this moment, a strong and familiar mana fluctuation came from afar.

I didn't even need to look closely to know that this was the magic fluctuation of the divine spear. Through the heat from the old base, I could sense that a space suddenly became turbid and twisted like sugar water, and then a figure like thunder pierced through it. It was the divine spear holding the silver spear.

As his magical power swept through the area, it seemed as if his eyes were also sweeping over here. He suddenly turned his head and looked in this direction.

Without any verbal explanation, he seemed to understand everything immediately, and then turned into a silver flash and rushed over here.

With just a flick of the finger, the magic spear crossed a distance of three miles and shot to where I was.

I was about to raise my hand to meet the attack, but when he was about to hit me, his path suddenly made two sharp angles like lightning, and then he stretched out his empty left hand to grab the crystal coffin that sealed Ma Zao, and rushed towards the direction of the portal!

It seems that the mission goal is more important to him than to me. If I let him enter the portal, I am afraid I will not be able to track him and Ma Zao. Judging from the whitelist mechanism of the portal, even the heat I left in Ma Zao's body may not be able to be carried to the other side. The result may be that he and Ma Zao pass through the portal, but I cannot use the heat to transport myself to the other side. This is absolutely unacceptable.

At the critical moment, I used my eyes to ignite the door frame of the portal device. A huge amount of heat appeared out of nowhere, causing the door frame to explode on the spot, and the portal itself also collapsed. The magic gun grabbed the crystal coffin and passed by the place where the portal was originally located in vain. At the same time, I prepared to teleport myself in front of him.

But he seemed to realize that he had to defeat me first, so he threw the crystal coffin where it was, turned 180 degrees, and came back at lightning speed.

The tip of his spear was emitting a surge of mana, and I could feel the terrifying force that was enough to tear apart space itself. Without a doubt, that was the ultimate killer move he was going to use to forcefully penetrate Dream Dragon's "portal armor". At this moment, he aimed this ultimate killer move at me.

I didn't intend to take this attack head-on, but just as I was thinking of teleporting to avoid it, it was as if space itself had frozen, and my body was frozen in place like a bug in amber. I couldn't move, I couldn't parry, and I couldn't even use fire teleport. I could only watch the attack of the magic gun come at me.

I am very familiar with this kind of power. I have been locked by the same power before. The so-called freezing of space is just a superficial phenomenon. Even if I shatter the space itself, I cannot avoid the next attack. Because the nature of this phenomenon stipulates that I must take this attack head-on.

Must hit, must wear——

The silver spear pierced through my fire elemental body, and also pierced through my soul. If Chenlong symbolizes the ultimate defense, then the divine spear symbolizes the ultimate attack. The power of this attack was even greater than Yinyue's final killing move, destroying more than half of the volume of my soul.

It's really lethal. Maybe even I can't perform such a powerful attack now. Such a powerful ultimate move must be a heavy burden for him. He stopped his advance more than ten meters behind me, and then his body became shaky. He supported himself with the spear and panted.

However, this level of lethality still can't kill me.

He quickly pulled the spear out of the ground, took a look at the damaged portal device, and then walked towards where Lu Youxun was, as if he wanted to say something. Lu Youxun looked at me, then showed an unbelievable expression on his face, and shouted loudly: "God Spear, behind——"

It's too late, it's over.

I summoned a large amount of fire from within my body and quickly restored myself to a complete state. At the same time, I came behind the Sharpshooter, stretched out my right hand, and clasped the top of his head with my five fingers.

He turned his head stiffly and looked at me in disbelief.

(End of this chapter)