The night before the promotion

Chapter 87 Burning the Tower
Huo Daochuan had a dream, an extremely long but beautiful dream.

He dreamed that he had returned to the early morning of the Gulf of Mexico, no longer in the iron tower-like shell of his avatar, but in a real body of flesh and blood.

Huo Daochuan just lay on the beach, peacefully feeling the warmth of the sun, carefully feeling the friction between his skin and the sand, and listening to the sound of the tide and the wind.

There were footsteps coming from not far away, Huo Daochuan opened his eyes and looked at her...

The pale light fell from above my head, like a few eyes flashing strong light, quietly watching me who had escaped death.

The warmth of the sunlight was gone, replaced by a bone-chilling cold that permeated Huo Daochuan's body, causing him to shiver uncontrollably.

The air was filled with the smell of disinfectant and blood, and the sharp pain seemed to be released from the bone marrow, gnawing at the bones and nerves.

"Ha ha……"

Tears welled up in Huo Daochuan's eyes. He fell into an endless nightmare and could not find relief.

This painful torture lasted for several minutes before Huo Daochuan calmed down a lot. He regained consciousness and looked around.

"Oh? You're awake."

A familiar voice sounded from the side. Huo Daochuan opened his eyes reluctantly and saw Ji Siling sitting next to him. She looked extremely tired and was still wearing a surgical gown stained with Huo Daochuan's blood.

"You're in a bad state. You'd better just lie there."

Ji Siling lit a cigarette and said, "I just saved you from the brink of death. No one can say for sure whether your condition will continue to deteriorate or improve."

Huo Daochuan took a deep breath and said in a suppressed voice, "At least I'm still alive now."

“Haha, that’s not wrong.”

Ji Siling laughed twice, and then said, "What are you going to do next, Huo Daochuan?"

"what?"

Huo Daochuan tried to sit up, but he had no strength to do so, and his whole body was twitching with pain.

"I mean, what are you going to do next?"

Ji Siling raised the corner of her mouth to smile, and looked at Huo Daochuan as if she was examining a prey.

"You were unconscious for six hours. During this time, the Supervisory Bureau completely controlled Cloud City and captured all of your remaining members... In fact, you should have died so that you wouldn't have to face such a cruel reality. Even if you walked out of here now, you would only become a wanted criminal."

Ji Siling crossed her legs and asked curiously, "You have nowhere else to go."

Huo Daochuan closed his eyes and lay back down. He thought deeply until an answer emerged in his mind.

“I have some things to do,” he said.

"what's up."

Huo Daochuan opened his eyes again and glanced at Ji Siling, "I'm going to see Madam Cui."

"Mrs. Thuy?"

Ji Siling's expression was slightly surprised. "Why did you ask Madam Cui to help you smuggle out and buy a new life from her?"

She stood up, her expression serious, like a sharp scalpel.

"Huo Daochuan, don't forget, you still owe me the surgery fee?"

Huo Daochuan shook his head, "I don't have any money."

"This is troublesome," Ji Siling looked at Huo Daochuan's body, "Your organs are still healthy, and should be able to sell for a good price."

Huo Daochuan fell silent, his bloodshot eyes staring at Ji Siling. She still had that contemptuous smile on her face, as if everything was under control.

"I am a felon wanted by the Supervisory Bureau. You could have thrown me out and left me to die after I passed out, but you saved me anyway."

Huo Daochuan tried to figure out what Ji Siling was thinking, "I am useful to you... at least I have some value, right?"

"You are indeed of some value to me, but only a little."

Ji Siling encouraged, "Say something else and see if you can improve your own value. This will determine whether I will help you or hand you over to the Supervisory Bureau."

"say what?"

"Like what do you want to do with Madam Cui?"

When mentioning Madam Cui, Ji Siling unceremoniously took out her sharp scalpel, as if if Huo Daochuan could not give her a satisfactory answer, she would cut Huo Daochuan's throat and drain his blood.

Huo Daochuan pondered for a moment. He understood that his life depended entirely on Ji Siling. No matter how many lofty ambitions he had, they would all be meaningless if he died now.

"Madam Cui intends to make a deal with us and have Paradise launch a terrorist attack in the city of Anyan."

Huo Daochuan let out a long sigh, "I plan to continue with this deal."

Ji Siling said, "Oh? But Cloud City is gone, and the Land of Bliss has also perished."

"Cloud City is indeed gone, but not all members of the Elysian Land have been captured," Huo Daochuan tried hard to recall the list in his mind, "We still have many members in the outside world, enough to stir up trouble."

"Why do you want to continue this deal?" Ji Siling didn't understand. "The Elysium is over. Why don't you hide your identity and find a place to live? Instead, you want to step into the vortex. What's your reason?"

Huo Daochuan suddenly laughed, with anger hidden in his voice, "Why else? Of course it's revenge."

"Revenge for Elysium?"

Ji Siling put away the scalpel and looked at Huo Daochuan with interest.

"For the Elysium? No, the so-called Elysium is just a deformed product of a group of blind fools and their desires..."

When Huo Daochuan was on the deck and pulled the trigger to kill the tiger, he had clearly realized all of this.

He was surprised and delighted.

Huo Daochuan was very sad that he had only seen his own heart clearly so late. He was also very happy that he had seen his own heart clearly instead of turning into ashes like those believers who died in the flames.

"I once loved someone, but because of my illness, because of my incarnation as a laborer, because of all the suffering in the world... I know her ending, I just don't want to believe it."

Huo Daochuan murmured, "I want to avenge her, and avenge the tragic sources that led her to such a fate."

He changed the subject, turned his head, and looked at Ji Siling. Huo Daochuan asked curiously, "Doctor Ji, you should have enough knowledge about Lishi disease."

Ji Siling had been working here as early as when Zhou Si came to Yinxiang to practice medicine. It can be said that she was the earliest doctor in Yinxiang.

However, Ji Siling seldom does business with patients with Li Shi disease. The reason is very simple. These patients with Li Shi disease are often troublesome and cannot make much money from them. They are real garbage customers.

In today's world, it is rare to find a doctor as compassionate as Zhou Si.

Ji Siling replied, "Of course, the hidden alleys are full of patients with Lishi disease, so even if I don't understand them, I am familiar with them."

"What do you think is the real source of suffering for those suffering from the disease of dissociation?"

While Huo Daochuan was questioning Ji Siling, he was also questioning his own heart, recalling the conversation he had with the "immortal" not long ago.

Ji Siling did not directly respond to Huo Daochuan's question. "The root cause is very complicated, like a scattered building block tower. Taking away any one of them will cause the entire system to collapse."

Huo Daochuan bared his teeth, "You are unwilling to face the root of this."

"We just can't do anything about it," Ji Siling vaguely guessed Huo Daochuan's purpose, "Do you want revenge for all the patients with Illness?" Ji Siling was moved by Huo Daochuan's novel idea, and her curiosity was completely aroused.

"What are you going to do? Cooperate with Madam Cui to carry out a terrorist attack?" She shook her head. "That sounds a bit too stupid."

"But apart from this method, what other channels do I have to express my opinion?"

Huo Daochuan said in despair, "Posting on the Internet? It will only be blocked and drowned by a large number of robot armies. Joining the parade? The security avatar will easily pin us down? As for using legal means..."

A sad laugh sounded, and Huo Daochuan muttered to himself, "The 524 Draft has been proposed for so many years, but its implementation is still so slow that there is almost no end in sight."

Ji Siling said, "The 524 Draft is indeed a correct means of advancement."

"But it's moving too slowly. I want to speed it up."

Huo Daochuan's voice became stronger, and unimaginable strength burst out from his weak body.

Ji Siling was silent for a while, and the only sounds in the room were Huo Daochuan's breathing and the low noise of the equipment running.

From these words, it was obvious what Huo Daochuan wanted to do.

Ji Siling thought he was crazy.

"You...you want to attack the Shenwei Building?"

"Shenwei Building?"

Huo Daochuan laughed, "Well, I did have this thought before. The crystal tower is too dazzling. Who wouldn't want to bury it in the mud?"

"But even if we attacked the Shenwei Building, even if we knocked it down, what's the point?" Huo Daochuan asked back, "With the financial resources of Shenwei Technology, they can rebuild another tower at any time."

"then you……"

"The Shenwei Building is just a symbol, and symbols cannot be burned or knocked down."

Huo Daochuan gathered enough strength and stood up with difficulty. His figure was shaky, but his voice was extremely firm, like a towering iron tower.

"We must attack the root of all this, the deeper essence, the existence that involves the underlying logic of this world."

Huo Daochuan was intoxicated with the great cause he imagined. "I have a better goal than Shenwei Building."

"Enough to hurt them and wake them up."

Ji Siling stared at Huo Daochuan seriously, and suddenly walked closer to him.

"What is your goal?"

"I don't need to tell you this," Huo Daochuan asked again, "Am I showing enough value now?"

“It’s adequate and quite entertaining.”

Ji Siling laughed. "I was originally planning to hand you over to the Supervisory Bureau. This would save me a lot of trouble, but congratulations, you have won your own destiny."

She said, walking to the side. "A target more valuable than the Shenwei Building... How curious."

Ji Siling took off her bloodstained surgical gown, opened the drawer, took out an emerald green robe, and gently put it on.

The emerald green silk brought out the curves of Ji Siling's body. She waved her hand gracefully and greeted Huo Daochuan.

"Okay, Huo Daochuan, it's time to tell us your real plan."

Ji Siling was like a kingfisher, with a meaningful smile on her face.

Huo Daochuan was stunned for a moment, then he realized and asked, "Madam Cui?"

"But let me say this in advance, Huo Daochuan."

Madam Cui reminded, "No living person can know what I look like, so you'd better die in your great vision. Can you do this?"

"Death?" Huo Daochuan said indifferently, "I have died once. Every minute and every second now is a blessing."

"Besides, I believe that my vision will never be realized without the determination to die."

Huo Daochuan took a deep breath and stated his goal.

"I'm going to attack Stone Keep."

Madam Cui stood there motionless. She suspected that she had heard wrongly and repeated, "Stone Castle?"

"Yes, attack the stone fortress in Anyan City."

Huo Daochuan explained his thoughts, "Tearing down the Shenwei Building will at most cause the stock price of Shenwei Technology to collapse, but as long as the stone fortress is burned down, everyone will be terrified of the incarnation body from the bottom of their hearts, and then the Lishi disease will be taken seriously."

Madam Cui's pupils shrank into a dot, then slowly relaxed and sighed, "What a crazy feat."

Huo Daochuan asked back, "I have stated my wishes, and what about you? Madam Cui, who are you serving?"

Madam Cui said contemptuously, "This is a stupid question."

"That's right," Huo Daochuan gave up asking, "You represent all those who hope that Shenwei Technology will be destroyed, not those who care about patients with Lishi Disease like me."

"You and I just have the same interests at most. As for who you represent, that is also not important."

"Then I'm very curious, Huo Daochuan, what did you rely on to burn down the stone fort?"

Madam Cui continued, "Only those remnants of Elysium? Don't forget that the Stone Fortress is protected by real armed incarnations."

"Of course I have my preparations."

Huo Daochuan staggered to the side, where his clothes and a thought storage core were placed.

The square metal chip was lying there obediently, but Huo Daochuan kept blinking again and again, as if he couldn't believe what he was seeing.

"Hahaha."

Huo Daochuan laughed for no apparent reason, as if all the pressure in his heart was released and he felt extremely refreshed.

He stretched out his hand and held the cold metal in his hand. It was not until this moment that Huo Daochuan was sure that it was not an illusion of his dying, but a real reality.

An opportunity that could change his and everyone's destiny.

"Madam Cui, this thought storage core will turn into a raging fire and burn away all the shackles."

Huo Daochuan let out a long sigh, "And... I can sell you another piece of information."

"what?"

"The Immortal is not dead."

Huo Daochuan's smile turned evil, "The journey to the paradise of bliss is far from over."

There was a louder sound of wind and rain outside the door. General Lin swung his fists and repeatedly smashed the standing city.

Wash away the dirt and start anew.

(End of this chapter)