Eternal Night

Chapter 690 Stealth
"You are radiating an aura of death."

In a dream world of level 0.8, Xu Ruonan was silently sensing within an ancient magic circle, praying to heaven and earth above and communicating with ghosts and gods below.

Suddenly, a pale white snake shadow emerged from the phantom behind her, its face displaying a humanoid, ferocious smile, and it even spoke.

Xu Ruonan's expression changed, and she stretched out one hand to form a hand seal. At the same time, some mysterious energy emanated from her body, instantly transforming into visible incantations that captured the pale white snake shadow.

The pale snake shadow remained motionless, its smile growing even more ferocious, tinged with mockery.

"So what if you control part of my true spirit? Once you die, I will immediately be free. I can devour your physical body, consciousness, spirit, and soul. This is the contract between you and me."

Xu Ruonan was initially startled, but after calming down, her eyes revealed a thoughtful expression.

"Bai Cang, I know your background. You are a descendant of the Bashe, the bloodline of an ancient great demon king. It was by chance that I was able to bind you. However, your true spirit is too strong. Even if I could bind you, I could only rely on a contract and forcibly bind you using the reality of my era's civilization. I know you are not convinced, but what do you mean by what you are saying now? If I am really filled with death energy, then just watch me die. Why are you reminding me?"

A satisfied expression appeared on the pale snake shadow's face. It said, "You are nothing but a mortal. Even if I were to obtain your physical body, spirit, and soul to devour you, what difference would it make? You still wouldn't be able to withstand my true form's single breath of the sun and moon. What I truly value is you as a person."

Xu Ruonan pondered: "Talent? Or influence?"

The pale, snake-like figure chuckled: "Aptitude? You? Don't be ridiculous. Who with good aptitude becomes an assistant sorcerer or divine sorcerer? Aren't they all becoming great sorcerers and transcendent beings? To be honest, your aptitude is practically zero. You even had to rely on an equal backlash contract to bind part of my true spirit. You can imagine how bad your aptitude is. As for power, that's even more laughable. Although you are a member of the true civilization of the new era, you occupy too little of your civilization's share. I estimate that at most, you only have one in a million. And that's because of your family background and bloodline. You don't have a single bit of ability on your own. So, do you even deserve to talk about aptitude and power?"

Xu Ruonan's face flushed red, and the veins on her forehead stood out, but she remained calm and kept quiet until she calmed down after a long while.

A slight hint of admiration appeared on the pale snake-like face: "That's right, what I admire about you is your character. You're patient and shameless enough. Even though it's for your own desires and ambitions, you can often package it as something that benefits the country and civilization. The key is that you really think that way. You can even deceive yourself."

Xu Ruonan sighed and said, "Let's talk about the death aura on me. What does it refer to? A curse? Or something else?"

The pale snake shadow said, "I am not a pure descendant of the Bashe ancestor's bloodline, and I don't need to hide that. There is another demon king-level bloodline in my bloodline, so I can see the fortune of a life. Although I am not as accurate as a professional demon or a professional superhuman, I can at least see the flourishing and stagnant fortune. As for you now, your fortune is murky and gray, which will surely lead to your violent death. I won't say it will be long, but it will come true within a day!"

Xu Ruonan's eyebrows twitched. She stopped testing the ancient magic circle under her feet and sat down cross-legged to ponder silently.

After a long pause, Xu Ruonan suddenly asked, "Is there any unusual activity in the Land of Redemption?"

A figure suddenly appeared, knelt down, and said, "There was no unusual movement."

Xu Ruonan continued, "...What about the Warhammer Dreamworld battlefield?"

The figure said, "Within the information loop, it is no longer possible to penetrate or query it through the main brain."

Xu Ruonan shifted her body uneasily, murmuring, "That's the root of the problem. Has it been so long and there's still no winner?"

The pale-faced snake shadow also said in confusion, "Indeed, this shouldn't be the case. Going to the meeting alone, and facing the root of all evil, and not even being a sublimated being, it shouldn't have taken so long to determine a winner..."

Xu Ruonan suddenly became agitated. She stood up and paced back and forth, muttering something to herself.

At this moment, the pale snake shadow mocked, "When you forced that person to come to the meeting alone with your words, didn't you boast that you could evade the supercomputer's emotional perception? Why are you hesitating here now?"

Xu Ruonan shook her head and said, "You don't understand. My Xu family has detailed information stored in the super brain, so I know that the super brain's emotional perception is more of a wide-area information screening. If you don't think about it, it won't appear; if you think less about it, it will appear less. So as long as they don't ask me for key information directly, they won't know that I have dealings with Mi, nor will they know that I deliberately said those things to Wu Pifu. And in just one more month, this information in my cerebral cortex can be directly erased. At that time, they can ask me directly, and even I won't know. But it's not possible now because the cells for shallow and deep information are still there. Once they ask me for key information directly, they can sense it all."

The pale-faced snake asked curiously, "But can't you even deceive yourself? You can portray something so despicable as something for the country and for civilization, putting on a righteous and awe-inspiring act?"

Xu Ruonan's lips twitched. She argued, "While my actions were also for my own power and status, weren't they also for the sake of all humanity? Besides, I only mentioned it to Wu Pifu this time; who knew he would be so extreme... But you're actually wrong. You might be able to justify it to others, even to Chu Minghao and Liang Min, but not to Wu Pifu..."

At this point, Xu Ruonan recalled her several encounters with Wu Pifu, especially the fact that her family's influence had gathered a large number of professionals to form a think tank to analyze Wu Pifu's personality model. Some of the information she gathered made her tremble involuntarily.

"...Based on the analysis results, we suspect that Wu Pifu is not a normal personality. Although he is not a virtual intelligence like the cryogenically frozen hibernators we have recorded before, his mental personality has a very large component of paranoid personality, and it even makes reasonable inference that his personality model is composed of this paranoia as its core..." In addition to reading these reports, Xu Ruonan also has an understanding of human nature, especially the dark side and life and death. At this moment, just thinking that Wu Pifu is still alive makes her tremble all over.

The pale-skinned snake shadow was very curious: "Are you so afraid of that Wu Pifu? Didn't you force him to come to the meeting alone with just a few words? You can certainly have a lot of excuses now, right?"

"No, you don't understand."

Xu Ruonan said with a livid face, "It works on others, but it won't work on Wu Pifu. He doesn't even need to ask anything else, he just needs to ask me one question..."

Am I not even a human being...?

Xu Ruonan felt a chill run through her.

She could offer countless excuses and speak with righteous indignation, but if she uttered any key words or revealed even a trace of her true feelings, Wu Pifu would kill her immediately, without hesitation or regard for any consequences.

The Xu family, the Eleven Families, presidential candidates, various forces, and even the harmonious unity of all human civilization—none of these are in Wu Pifu's consideration.

If Wu Pifu returns alive, and if he asks her any key questions, then she is doomed!

Xu Ruonan immediately stared intently at the pale snake shadow and said, "Tell me the truth, am I really filled with death energy?"

The pale, snake-like figure sneered, "What's the point of deceiving a mortal like you? If you don't make any changes, you'll be dead within a day!"

Xu Ruonan fell silent again, making a difficult decision in her heart while carefully sensing the contract information with the pale white snake shadow.

Contractors cannot actively harm, destroy, or cause harm to each other. If the pale snake shadow is deceiving her, it will make her future path suddenly difficult, which is actually very disadvantageous to her. It violates the core underlying structure of the contract, so there will inevitably be a reaction.

But now, the contract remains unchanged, and there is no doubt that what the pale snake shadow said is true.

"...Jia Yingyi, immediately gather all those whose contracts I have implanted and assemble them. This must be accomplished within twelve hours. At the same time, activate all the Xu family resources that I can currently use and convert them all into points. Selling them off cheaply is also acceptable. This must also be accomplished within twelve hours!"

The kneeling figure nodded and vanished in a flash.

The pale-skinned snake shadow's voice became serious: "You do have a decisiveness. The Xu family is, after all, an important part of current human civilization. You can't just abandon it like that?"

"...What good is power and status if one has no life?"

Xu Ruonan's expression calmed down instead. She said, "Besides, the Xu family is the Xu family, and I am me. Unless it becomes my own resource, what does the Xu family mean to me?"

The pale, snake-like figure asked, "So, what do you plan to do next?"

Xu Ruonan looked up at the sky and said, "Once I leave the Land of Redemption, Gaia can't go back either. Otherwise, Wu Pifu will definitely kill me. In that case, even the mastermind can't be trusted. His hidden authority is far superior to mine, and he will discover me sooner or later. At the same time, because of Liang Min, the People's Revolutionary Alliance can't be trusted either. Mi doesn't dare to face Liang Min directly, at least not at this time. As for the other leaders... let's not talk about them. As for the company, unless all the members of the company's dark side are revived, someone like the chairman of the First Company simply can't protect me. So my only option now is to 'escape'..."

"Break away? You mean..."

The pale, snake-like figure seemed lost in thought.

"That's right!"

Xu Ruonan's eyes seemed to shine: "Since we have no choice, there's nothing we can do. I'm going to the Primordial Realm now!"

"One of the five transcendent worlds! The Primordial World!"

(End of this chapter)