Forbidden Zone of Deception

Chapter 214 People leave and the tea cools down
The assassination attempt on Li Yuanxiu was like a bombshell, causing unprecedented waves throughout the entire world of reincarnators.

Whether it's underground taverns, mission handover points, or training grounds in various camps, almost everyone is talking about this.

"Have you heard? That madman Li Yuanxiu actually killed Ye Xiu!"

"Tsk tsk, Ye Xiu was a Level 5 class powerhouse, and he's just gone like that?"

"Don't talk nonsense. I heard he's still hanging on by a thread, but it should be soon."

"Hey, you guys know what? It's supposedly because of a woman!"

"A woman? What do you mean? I heard that Li Yuanxiu defected to the Insect Den in order to advance his witchcraft rank?"

"Hehe, your information is clearly outdated. Let me tell you, I know people in the monitoring department who know the inside story! The whole thing is incredibly dramatic!"

Rumors spread like wildfire, and the findings of the Meme Contamination Monitoring Department only fueled the storm.

The investigation results were released quickly.

The monitoring department discovered that Li Yuanxiu and Di Nanyin had booked hotel rooms multiple times in the past!
Therefore, the conclusion is obvious... Li Yuanxiu assassinated Ye Xiu precisely to release Di Nanyin's soul from its bondage.

The moment this news broke, the gossip world of reincarnators was instantly ignited.

"I knew it! How could Li Yuanxiu, who is usually so calm, suddenly go crazy for no reason? It turns out he was driven to madness by a woman! A reincarnated version of Wu Sangui!"

"Tsk tsk, Ye Xiu, that old lecher, I heard he already had his way with Di Nanyin."

"That old lecher deserves it! He even went after my daughter's best friend!"

"A couple of years ago, it was revealed that he had been keeping many female college students as mistresses, but nothing came of it."

"Di Nanyin is really pitiful. Being mentally enslaved for so long, she must have broken down long ago, right?"

"Look, there are still a lot of posts on the Reincarnator Forum using this incident to attack feminists, arguing that the Monitoring Department has been too lenient with the Soul Stealer class, causing female Reincarnators to suffer greatly, and that Ye Xiu is getting his comeuppance."

"They can fight like this? Isn't Madam Pustuca a woman too?"

However, the one most affected by public opinion was Ye Xiu's daughter, Ye Yinghuo.

"I heard that Ye Yinghuo was there at the time and watched her father get stabbed to death?"

"Ha, serves her right! Who told her dad to do such a despicable thing?"

"But then again, with Ye Xiu dead, Ye Yinghuo is in real trouble now..."

"How to say?"

"Unlike the Holy Temple, Yongmeng doesn't only have Ye Xiu at LV5. Most of the team members have had their soul imprinted by Ye Xiu. Once Ye Xiu is completely gone, do you think they'll rebel, rebel, or rebel?"

"No need to ask, that old devil Mo was the first to betray us. If he's truly loyal, I'll change my surname!"

"Not only that. Yongmeng's resources may be greatly downgraded now, and Ye Yinghuo, who was originally a good-for-nothing, was fed resources by her father to reach LV3. Who will still treat her like a princess now? At that time, I'm afraid a bunch of enemies will not let her go!"

"Then she's in trouble... Sigh, I heard she's quite pretty, I'm afraid..."

"She brought this on herself. She asked Ye Xiu to undo the [Turtle of Achilles] at the wedding. Otherwise, would Ye Xiu have been stabbed and poisoned? This filial daughter is regretting it now!"

Ye Yinghuo's name quickly became the talk of the town. Some people sympathized with her, but many more were gloating.

After all, in the world of reincarnators, the fall of the strong is the most exciting drama, not to mention the melodramatic love triangle plot.

However, another focus of this assassination attempt unexpectedly fell on Jiang Jin.

"Did you know that Jiang Jin, the one who wiped out four powerful figures from the Old Core Realm, was also there at the time?!"

"I heard that if it weren't for him, Ye Xiu would have died on the spot?"

"I heard he almost used his rule-based abilities to instantly kill Li Yuanxiu!"

"How can this be!"

"Seriously, I heard that Li Yuanxiu was corrupted by the rules back then, and he was doing the 'Chicken You're Too Beautiful' dance while dribbling between his legs!"

"I don't believe it. Is this some kind of deification? The last genius surnamed Jiang claimed to be the 12th best math genius in the world, comparable to Wei Shen, but he couldn't even write mathematical symbols correctly and failed his vocational school math exam!"

"How can this be the same? Minister Long Mingzhang personally endorsed him! If you don't believe me, go search the forums!"

Jiang Jin's name became a legend in the world of reincarnators overnight, and it became one of the top three trending topics on the reincarnator forum.

Rule-based professional skills are among the rarest and most difficult to control abilities, but Jiang Jin's performance made everyone realize that he was not just an ordinary rule-based genius, but an absolute prodigy.

What followed was increasingly outrageous.

“I saw him use his ability with my own eyes; it’s something no ordinary reincarnator could do!”

"It's said that he has a technique called 'Absolute Restriction' that can even suppress a Level 5 expert?"

"Damn it, how long has this kid been a reincarnator? If he advances another level, wouldn't he be defying the heavens?"

"Could he be a reincarnated person who came from another world? The kind with a built-in system?"

"You've read too many online novels. Under the reincarnation system, what system can exist independently?"

The top executives of various teams have begun to reassess Jiang Jin's potential.

However, behind this media frenzy, undercurrents are brewing.

Ye Xiu's assassination attempt drove the Eternal Dream team into a frenzy.

They could not accept that their leader had been assassinated for such a reason, and they could not accept that Ye Xiu's reputation had been completely tarnished.

"Li Yuanxiu must die!"

"And that Jiang Jin, who does he think he is? Does he even deserve to climb up to the top by stepping on our leader? I won't accept it!"

"That's right, I think he might have been involved in this too!"

"Isn't that a bit of nonsense? If it weren't for him, Li Yuanxiu would have killed Commander Ye with a single slit in the throat!"

"Hmph, who knows? I don't believe a newly promoted LV2 has that kind of ability."

"Don't say things like that. He's a favorite of Minister Long right now!"

"Hmph, you're afraid, but I'm not! I'm going to find him and get to the bottom of this!"

"A genius of rules? Ha, no matter how talented you are, you're just a corpse when you're dead."

"I heard that the old nuclear organization has its eye on him..."

Faced with the overwhelming discussion, Jiang Jin remained unusually silent.

"Aren't you going to say anything?" Yu Tianlun asked him.

Jiang Jin shook his head: "There's nothing to say. We're about to enter the Lanruo Temple instance; we'll let our strength speak for itself then. Let them think what they want; I'll just do what I'm supposed to do."

Yu Tianlun looked at him and suddenly laughed: "You're quite composed." Jiang Jin didn't answer, but just gripped the boning knife in his hand tighter.

He knew that the storm was far from over.

And his name is destined to be at the center of the storm.

at the same time……

Ye Yinghuo stood in the center of the training field.

"I must kill them..." Her voice was hoarse, as if squeezed from the depths of her throat, carrying an almost pathological obsession.

The surrounding air seemed to distort because of her anger, and the lights in the training ground flickered on and off, as if disturbed by some invisible force.

"Firefly, calm down!" Chen Muyu, the priest reincarnator of the Yongmeng team, rushed forward and tried to grab her shoulder, but she pushed him away hard.

"Calm down?" Ye Yinghuo looked up abruptly, her eyes bloodshot, as if burning with the flames of hell. "How can you expect me to calm down?! Di Nanyin—she's my best friend! Li Yuanxiu—is my fiancé! And they…the two of them almost killed my father! He's still in critical condition!"

Her voice suddenly rose to a high pitch at the last sentence, almost a scream, and the glass window of the training field shattered with a "crack".

Chen Muyu gritted her teeth and stepped forward again: "Have you forgotten the function of the Soul Imprint? Di Nanyin could not betray you, she—"

"Shut up! Soul Imprint? Ha..." Ye Yinghuo sneered, but tears streamed down her face uncontrollably. "If the Soul Imprint were truly effective, how could she possibly have escaped with Li Yuanxiu?!"

Her logic has been completely distorted by anger and grief.

In her mind, all the clues pointed to one conclusion—Di Nanyin betrayed her, Li Yuanxiu used her, and she herself... was the most foolish one.

“I killed my father…” Her voice suddenly lowered, carrying a chilling self-destructive tendency, “If I hadn’t trusted them… if I hadn’t…”

Her father is critically ill, but there's nothing she can do. Her mother absolutely forbids her from going to the Lanruo Temple instance with him.

"Don't stop me." Her voice was terrifyingly cold. "I'm going to the insectoid lair's home world... I'm going to kill them with my own hands."

The main world of the Insect Nest, [Miao Jiang Gu Shi], is located at the terminal station of Line 14!

"Going alone is suicide!" Chen Muyu said sternly. "You know how dangerous the Insect Nest team's home world is! Li Yuanxiu is practically invincible there!"

"Then let him kill me!" Ye Yinghuo suddenly looked up, her eyes filled with a near-desperate madness. "I don't care about anything anymore!"

Suddenly, a commotion broke out outside, startling Ye Yinghuo and Chen Muyu.

When they rushed out of the training field, the courtyard outside was already in chaos.

The members of the Yongmeng team split into two groups, facing each other with tense tension. Mo Xiu stood in the center of the group, dressed in a dark red robe, a faint, cold smile playing on his lips. On the other side, Ye Yinghuo's mother confronted Mo Xiu.

This situation clearly indicates a split within the team!

Behind Mo Xiu stood more than a dozen reincarnators, many of whom Ye Yinghuo recognized—these people had all had their soul imprints planted by their father!
The Soul Imprint has failed?
The thought slithered into Ye Yinghuo's mind like a venomous snake, sending chills down her spine.

This means... the father is dead?
"Mo Xiu!" Ye Yinghuo's voice was filled with barely suppressed anger. "What do you mean?!"

Mo Xiu slowly turned around, his gaze sweeping over her, his smile deepening: "Oh, so the young lady has finally decided to come out?"

His tone was flippant, but his eyes were as cold and sinister as a venomous snake.

Ye Yinghuo gritted her teeth, "How dare you—"

“The soul imprint has failed,” Mo Xiu sneered. “This proves that your father, our Commander Ye, has passed away and is now in paradise!”

Ye Yinghuo felt a wave of dizziness and almost lost her balance.

Madam Ye looked at the reincarnators standing behind Mo Xiu and questioned them sharply, "Have you forgotten who gave you power? Who allowed you to survive in the dungeon?!"

Their eyes flickered, some lowered their heads, but most just looked at her indifferently.

A medium who had once received favors from the Ye family spoke in a low voice: "Young Miss... with Commander Ye gone, the Yongmeng team will fall apart sooner or later. We... just want to survive."

"Survive?" Ye Yinghuo's voice trembled. "Following this traitor, how long do you think you can live?!"

Mo Xiu laughed loudly: "Traitor? Miss Ye, that's a very unpleasant way to put it."

He strolled forward slowly. "I just... found a better way out for myself."

His gaze passed over Ye Yinghuo and landed on Madam Ye behind her, a lewd glint in his eyes: "Madam, don't you think so?"

Madam Ye's face was pale, but her back was ramrod straight: "Mo Xiu, you will pay the price for what you have done today sooner or later."

"The price?" Mo Xiu licked his lips. "Madam, shouldn't you be the one worrying about the price now?"

He deliberately dragged out his words: "Such a nice villa...it seems that it's not really suitable for you two to continue living here."

Madam Ye sneered: "You want to kick us out?"

“No, no, no,” Mo Xiu shook his head, but his eyes became even more blatant. “If Madam insists on staying… that’s fine too.”

He paused deliberately, a lewd smile playing on his lips: "But... if you and your daughter want to stay, you'll have to pay a 'price'."

The implication of this statement couldn't be clearer.

Madam Ye's face instantly turned ashen: "Shameless!"

Mo Xiu didn't take it seriously, and instead laughed even more wildly: "Madam, your husband is gone... What choice do you think you have left?"

Ye Yinghuo could no longer hold back. She stepped forward and blocked her mother's path, saying, "Mo Xiu! If you dare to touch my mother, I'll fight you to the death!"

Mo Xiu narrowed his eyes, and a sweet, metallic smell of blood filled the air: "Miss Ye, do you think... you still have the right to threaten me?"

"Mo Xiu!" Chen Muyu shouted angrily, "Do you really intend to kill us all?!"

“As I said, if Mrs. Ye is willing to ‘cooperate,’ I wouldn’t mind keeping them here.”

"You're dreaming!" Ye Yinghuo roared.

Mo Xiu shrugged: "Then there's nothing I can do. From now on, I, Mo Xiu, will be the leader of Eternal Dream!"

He snapped his fingers, and the reincarnators behind him said, "Please understand, Madam, and move out quickly."

As the situation teetered on the brink of conflict, the Ye family mother and daughter found themselves isolated and helpless, with only Chen Muyu silently standing by their side.

"I'll go with you." Chen Muyu's voice was soft, but unusually firm.

Ten minutes later, Chen Muyu bent down to help Madam Ye lift her suitcase, which contained only a few changes of clothes.

Mo Xiu crossed his arms and sneered, "Oh, so there's someone who's not afraid of death. Fine, all of you get out of here! Remember, whoever you are, don't even think about coming back out of this door!"

Madam Ye's lips trembled as she tried to say something, but her daughter pulled her sleeve.

Ye Yinghuo's face was pale, but she stubbornly straightened her back: "Mom, let's go."

The three of them were thus... pushed out of the villa gate.

Father...is he really dead?
(End of this chapter)