Deity Investigation Report

Chapter 391 Twenty-seven lives, all must pay with blood.

"What is this man saying?"

"He thought he could just come over so casually and say a few words and still look presentable?"

"Even when watching a movie, I hate it when bad guys are whitewashed!"

While everyone's attention was focused on the eccentric doctor who was walking over, Han Su was gritting his teeth and looking down at the briefcase he was clutching tightly.

At this moment, he did not attract attention because, like Captain 300, he was in a state of complete mental exhaustion, and his mental activity was even lower. Even Captain 300 had not recovered, so he was even worse off.

This is due to the excessive burden on oneself; in this state, one cannot even summon a spiritual surge from the abyss.

However, he also had a trump card, which he had never used.

Out of vigilance towards the No. 01 life line, and also out of caution for this trip to Lin Yuan City, he deliberately kept several means in reserve, such as the ghost truck and his own "battery-like" mental model.

The former meant he could still possess a powerful impact that defied common sense, while the latter allowed him to retain some residual mental strength that he could use.

So at this moment, as he looked at the approaching man, he secretly tightened his grip on the dagger formed from copper blood.

The brain is already working hard, calculating the route and the force of its strike.

He knew how terrifying the man was; if he charged straight at him, he wouldn't have a chance to succeed, so he had to wait until the man got closer.

I won't engage in any dialogue with him; I'll only seize the opportunity to strike and kill him in one fell swoop.

This was his own determination, and the vow he made on the 04th life line: no matter what, he would kill him.

Even if I still have questions for him, I will summon his soul back to ask them after I kill him!

"Shh!"

At the same moment, on another street, Ms. Shen pulled a gun from the fallen Lin Yuancheng investigator beside her, released the safety, gripped it with both hands, and although her hands were trembling, she still stared intently at "him," her eyes blazing with hatred.

She and Han Su, one lying in wait for an opportunity, the other walking faster and faster, their eyes fixed on the eccentric doctor.

They all have only one purpose!
As the eccentric doctor stopped and spoke of family reunion, he turned and smiled at them.

Both of them were on edge, their mental strength becoming increasingly heavy as their hatred intensified.

The air around them was also distorted and oppressive due to this change in spiritual power.

My heart was pounding.

Squeezing the eardrum is extremely uncomfortable.

thump! thump!
But at that moment, the sound of their heartbeats seemed to attract attention from the outside world, causing the earth to tremble slightly, followed by the buildings nearby.

Jinshui Manor was in complete chaos. Ripples began to appear on the surface of the pool in the manor, followed by a tremor in the air. Then, the whole world seemed to suddenly contract.

Everyone present, regardless of their social standing, felt as if their brains were being squeezed by an invisible force.

Han Su felt his hair stand on end, and suddenly realized something, so he looked up abruptly.

He stared intently ahead, meeting the face of the eccentric doctor, who gave him a slight smile.

The next moment, Han Su was enveloped by an instinctive sense of horror. His body instinctively tried to jump up, but then an endless, heavy pressure pressed down on his body. The force was so great that it almost crushed his entire skeleton. He instinctively swung the dagger in his hand, wanting to slash at the man.

However, even this dagger, the instant it left his hand, was pressed to the ground by an invisible force.

Above them, the night in Lin Yuan City was growing deeper and deeper, until it formed a vortex.

The vortex was so enormous that it covered the entire city of Lin Yuan.

Then, at the center of the vortex, a beam of light suddenly descended, as if someone had turned on a flashlight in the pitch-black night and shone it straight down.

It's sizzling!

The beam of light shone directly on the man standing at the crossroads.

It was extremely strange, because the beam of light only enveloped him from the shoulders up, covering his head.

Under the almost dazzling beam of light, his smile was so clear, it even seemed to carry a hint of pleasure.

The next moment, before anyone could speak, including the man, the beam of light suddenly contracted, and his head exploded strangely within the beam, blood, brain matter, and bones scattering everywhere.

However, these things did not burst out. Instead, they were instantly vaporized by the intense heat of the beam of light, turning into wisps of strange data that were directly absorbed by the beam.

The whole process seemed slow, but it only took a moment.

And, without a sound, everything happened in such dazzling silence.

The eccentric doctor, who was standing there with a smile on his face just moments before, was now nothing but a headless corpse.

Above the neck, there was nothing.

"This……"

Han Su, who failed to swing his knife, and Ms. Shen, who was struggling to raise her gun on another street, both froze in place.

They even thought they were seeing things, so they rubbed their eyes hard and looked again, and sure enough, there was no head.

They refused to believe their eyes, relying instead on their intuitive spiritual senses, and discovered that the man was indeed lifeless; he was dead, utterly and completely dead, and not even a trace of his spirit remained.

That beam of light not only killed him, but also absorbed all his remaining spiritual energy.

"How could this be?"

The sudden turn of events caught Han Su completely off guard, making him feel as if it were all unreal.

This man schemes against his wife and children, and plays tricks on the whole world.

The world's most ambitious schemer, a madman who worships emperors, a man worth using an entire aristocratic clan as bait.

He just showed up here, said those utterly disgusting things, and then...

...He died?
"what is this?"

Han Su stood up unsteadily, still finding everything strangely bizarre.

Because this bizarre situation locked his emotions, he felt as if the scene before him had not actually happened.

He turned to look at the captain of the 300th floor of the patrolling knight, and asked in a surprisingly calm voice.

"Project to Capture the Gods!"

Not far away, the VIP among the traveling knights slowly adjusted his suit and bow tie beneath his white robe, then sat up straight on the collapsed railing of the corridor by the pond, as if waiting for something.

He responded to Han Su's question with great politeness: "Only the five major central cities have the means to unleash superdimensional attacks."

"What you see is the portion controlled by Zhen Dan City, called the Annihilation Light Cannon!"

"This is a weapon that killed gods before the Reconstruction Era!"

"You may have heard that there are three lines of defense in this world. The third line is the ordinary people living in the comfort of reality, the second line is the secret cults and the nobles who are enfeoffed in various places."

"And the weapon you just saw belongs to the first line of defense in reality. It is the most powerful weapon in the hands of human civilization, surpassing everything else."

"..."

As he said this, he suddenly smiled apologetically and said to Han Su, "I want to apologize to your whole family!"

“You know what? I originally thought he didn’t care about you and your mother because he’s an ambitious man who can sacrifice everything. So I didn’t take the orders from above seriously and thought that only the golden pen could lure him out.”

"But in the end, I have to admit I was wrong, because he only showed up in front of us when the gold pen was taken away and hidden."

"This means that what he said at the end was not false; he really cares about the two of you."

"..."

Han Su instinctively found these words laughable: "He..."

"His presence here says it all."

The captain of the 300th floor seemed to have a mouth that was rented; he seemed to have a great desire to talk. He continued, "You probably don't understand how difficult it is for him to appear here, in a place that can be predicted."

"The Guardians of the World have wanted to kill him for a long time. Ever since he escaped from prison and was no longer under their control, they have sentenced him to death!"

"And killing him is very simple; all you need is his coordinates."

"But he's really clever; he's so good at hiding that even the Guardians have never been able to locate him."

"That's why I was given this task."

"..."

As he spoke, he stretched and sighed, "Originally, if I could lure him out and capture him, that would have been fine. But as it turns out, this eccentric doctor is indeed terrifying. I don't even have the qualifications to fight him."

"Then I can only carry out the second task: to use myself as a catalyst to witness his arrival, and then let the City of Zhen Dan take action to kill him."

"you……"

Han Su's emotions finally wavered; he disliked this feeling of being shrouded in the unknown.

In particular, with his mental strength recovering, he also had the desire to make a move.

"do not move!"

But as if sensing his thoughts, the captain of the 300th floor waved his hand wearily and said, "It's meaningless!"

Han Su suddenly realized something and turned his head sharply.

The beam of light did not recede; after it shattered the Doctor's head, it remained motionless above it.

It was at this moment that Han Su suddenly realized that the pillar of light seemed to be a living thing.

It appears motionless, but there are subtle dynamics between the beams of light.

Moreover, it's not just dust flying around under a normal beam of light, but the light beam itself, or rather, the material within the beam itself, that's moving.

This dynamic even had a touch of beauty, but Han Su suddenly felt a strange sense of dread.

That was a deep-seated fear.

"There's no escaping it..."

The captain of the 300th floor laughed and said, "How do you think this thing killed a god?"

As he spoke, he sighed softly, “Those gods have reached a level of life that we cannot comprehend. They are immortal, indestructible, and coexist with time and space.” “Their spiritual activity can easily turn any living being into their clone. Their golden cells have coexisted with the world and will never perish. Therefore, they were able to escape the world-ending catastrophe of the Machine Mother.”

"But humans are so intelligent..."

Captain of the 300th Floor laughed and said, "Our ancestors, the emperor who rebuilt civilization and the twelve knights, created this weapon based on the data provided by the Mother of Machines."

"It can not only destroy the bodies of these gods, but also collect data, and then use this data to kill all the creatures that are connected to these targets, have their memories, or even exist within a certain range."

"To truly erase and remove it from history."

"Even though these gods were unwilling and harbored endless resentment, even though they still had some things left behind, they were dead."

"That's why I said that the fact that the Guardian used this weapon to kill Dr. Freak is the greatest affirmation of him."

"Of course, this will also cause a small problem, which is us."

"..."

He sighed heavily again, his gaze sweeping over the people around him, and said, "We are all within the attack range, and once it is activated, it will not stop."

"The reason that the beam of light is not moving now is simply because it is analyzing all the brain data and mental traits of that eccentric doctor, and thus precisely annihilating and destroying everyone present."

"Although he is indeed not as powerful as those gods, this person is too otherworldly, so the guardians of the world have taken a very serious approach. I knew from the beginning that once this weapon is detonated, I, as a witness, would not be able to escape..."

"From the moment this weapon appeared, we were all shrouded in death!"

"..."

"you……"

Before Han Su could say anything after hearing this, chaos suddenly broke out around him.

The candidates from Lin Yuan City, the old marquis, and even the traveling knights who had come with San Bai Lou were all shocked by the news. Some glared angrily at San Bai Lou, while others seemed to wake up from a dream and suddenly fled into the distance.

Seeing that eccentric doctor will kill you.

Those who know that eccentric doctor will die.

People who appear within a certain area and timeframe in the region where he appeared will also die.

Then, all living beings in the entire Lin Yuan City will die under this strange weapon from Zhen Dan City.

This weapon is specifically designed to kill the unspeakable!

"Buzzing..."

But when they moved, the pillar of light that had been stagnant for so long suddenly split apart, with individual pillars of light breaking apart.

Each beam of light pointed with exceptional precision at a fleeing, panicked figure. The next moment, the beams of light contracted slightly, and the heads of these people suddenly vanished, leaving not a drop of blood or any fragments behind.

This weapon even has an anti-routine mechanism that will lock onto panicked crowds in advance.

Han Su and Ms. Shen, who should have been eliminated earlier, were not the first targets.

But perhaps it's because these two are too important, and their combined size is greater than that of other individuals.

"Mr. Butcher, you've failed..."

As Han Su's mind raced, he also heard Miss Ai's voice.

"fail?"

Han Su found it somewhat bizarre: "Such favorable conditions have already been created..."

"Because I have detected that the smooth progress of our plan was all created for us by someone through some mysterious force."

"Now, this part of my thinking has been captured by some kind of high-dimensional weapon, because the trajectory of my invasion has been detected by the Guardians of the World. Now, this weapon is trying to track me. I can only slow down its activation speed with all my might."

Miss Ai's voice remained rational: "But I don't recommend you run away now, because in my calculations, it's pointless."

"No, I have another way..."

Having witnessed the death of the eccentric doctor, Han Su was surprisingly unfazed by the disappointing news. Instead, he stood still and immediately made a decision: "I don't know what possessed that person to come here to die."

"But there's still a chance. I want to go back and change all of this!"

"..."

As he spoke, he channeled his mental energy into the black briefcase, intending to activate Mechanical Fragment No. 01.

If I return to the castle and then come back, I can turn back time to an earlier point.

In any case, things can't end like this!

"Stop, Mr. Butcher."

But at that very moment, Miss Ai's voice even carried a hint of anxiety: "This weapon has also locked onto you."

"If you return to the castle now, you will bring back this power of annihilation!"

"..."

"Bring it back to the castle?"

In an instant, countless questions came to Han Su's mind.

Are those guardians also trying to take this opportunity to destroy the castle? But as the initiators of the Divine Descent Plan, why would they need to go through such trouble?
In theory, they should know where the castle is and how easily it can be destroyed. Or perhaps they are thinking of going back to that castle of the past and destroying it?
But more importantly, I can't just do nothing and stay here waiting to die...

The mechanical fragments have many uses, but many of them can only be used after returning to the castle; leaving them here won't work.

"Don't panic, Mr. Han Su. Perhaps some things have already been arranged..."

Meanwhile, as Han Su pondered these questions, Miss Ai's voice rang out again, but with a hint of doubt:
"Didn't you sense that this eccentric doctor seems to have brought something else with him..."

"Ok?"

Han Su also tried to calm himself down, silently sensing the situation, and then looked up in surprise:

"The fifth mechanical fragment..."

"..."

"Yes!"

Miss Ai replied, "I don't know why this eccentric doctor, after quietly arranging everything, suddenly appeared and shattered all the arrangements, as if he really came to meet you and that Ms. Shen at the same time."

“But I can sense that a part of me… or rather, something belonging to the heart of the Mother of Machines, has entered a certain area.”

"Om..."

As the calculations progressed, the beam of light began to tremble once again.

This time, it wasn't because someone in the area was panicking and wandering around that triggered its emergency protocol. Instead, it began to calculate the next task based on its calculations. Han Su felt that the particles inside those beams of light seemed to have grown eyes.

They were fixated on themselves.

Without a doubt, the beam of light had calculated the cause and effect and logic of Doctor Strange's origins and determined the next target to be eliminated.

Miss Ai's voice immediately quickened: "I tried to retrieve that machine, but I couldn't..."

"This machine is already being remotely controlled..."

"..."

"It's no use..."

At this moment, Han Su's conversation with Miss Ai was conducted in an encrypted manner.

Miss Ai had already taken over the third line of defense in Lin Yuan City, which gave her the ability to utilize the mental power of ordinary people in the city. She could transform her voice into subtle mental vibrations and transmit them directly to Han Su's brain.

But the captain of the three hundredth floor seemed to have guessed what Han Su was thinking. On the verge of death, his desire to speak intensified, and he uttered a mocking remark:
"I know you're thinking about how to break free right now. Is it because you're thinking about the fragment of the throne that man has?"

"Ha, a weapon that can alter reality, that's truly terrifying..."

He rubbed his forehead and smiled slowly: "One of the uses of the Annihilation Cannon is recycling!"

"All information was collected, including the mental model, which of course included the methods and records of Doctor Oddity Man's use of the throne fragment. Therefore, when he was killed, everything about him was no longer a secret to the Guardians..."

"..."

"So, the people who guard the world want to use this one shot to solve all the problems?"

Upon hearing this unintentional remark, Han Su felt a strange tremor rise from the depths of his soul.

That shot was devastating.

Not only did they kill Dr. Strange without warning, but they also severed all ties with or influences of Dr. Strange, erasing him from reality and even retrieving all his data.

But it was precisely because of the decisiveness of this shot that Han Su unexpectedly remembered that the whole thing, which seemed sudden, was actually all revolving around a core theme.

Mechanical debris!

In fact, Han Su didn't know much about these mechanical fragments that served different purposes.

However, on the 04th life timeline, this man had specifically emphasized one particular sentence to him...

"The throne has been divided into seven parts, and each part has a corresponding spell."

"You have authority, so you can operate these machines, but that doesn't mean you are their master..."

"..."

So how can one become the master of these machines?

Han Su suddenly opened his eyes wide and looked hard. He couldn't see where the mechanical fragment was now, but he could intuitively tell that it was indeed somewhere in this area.

So, he suddenly gritted his teeth, mustered all his strength, and activated all his mental energy, and recited the incantation he had memorized for the third time towards the city:
"Twenty-seven lives, all must be paid for with blood!"

"..."

Tick-tock tick-tock...

The situation changed again. Suddenly, the sound of machinery starting up rang out. This time, it wasn't just one piece of machinery, but all the mechanical fragments started operating at the same time.

(End of this chapter)