They traveled through time at the same time, but the villainous scientist

Chapter 195 Stone Soldier Eight Formations
"Does failing to reach an agreement mean resorting to violence?"

"It really does fit my stereotypes about your country..."

Facing the dozen or so dark gun barrels and the ghostly blue arcs of electricity flashing on them, powerful enough to instantly paralyze the Qi of any supernatural being, Zhuge Qing showed no fear whatsoever. Instead, he raised an eyebrow and a playful smile appeared on his lips.

His voice wasn't loud, but it echoed clearly in the deathly silent office.

"So what is your answer, Mr. Zhuge?"

Ron Keller ignored his teasing, his gloomy face devoid of its previous enthusiasm, replaced only by a smug sense of control.

He slowly raised his hand and gestured behind him. The fully armed Behemoth special forces soldiers immediately understood and moved forward in unison, tightening the encirclement.

Ron himself, meanwhile, quietly withdrew from the scene and found himself in a completely safe position.

This top-floor office was an impregnable fortress.

In this environment, he was absolutely confident that no matter how powerful the opponent was, there was absolutely no way he could escape alive.

"Ah……"

Seeing the opponent's confident expression, Zhuge Qing's smile deepened.

He seemed completely oblivious to the potentially lethal weapons, and simply asked casually:

"Do you know what methods my ancestor used in 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms' to escape the pursuing army of Lu Xun, a general of Wu?"

Before he finished speaking, an invisible wave of energy suddenly spread outwards from him!
On the mirror-like marble floor of the office, circles of blue light patterns appeared out of thin air, quickly intertwining and spreading, outlining a mysterious and complex Bagua diagram.

The atmosphere in the entire space became viscous and eerie in that instant.

Upon hearing the question, alarm bells rang in Ron Keller's mind, and a strong sense of unease instantly gripped his heart!
In order to fully assess the potential threat posed by Zhuge Qing, he recently read "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" so many times that he almost wore it out, and even watched the TV series several times.

According to their research, the power of faith, or the abilities of clergy, is likely related to public perception.

For example, one of their experimental subjects, the god-born warrior Besdia, is a similar individual. The god worshipped by their tribe is the Death God of the Burial Lake.

The people of their tribe believed that the god of death dwelled in the lake and would send the dead to the underworld.

Besdia, who coexists with the deities formed by this power of faith, possesses the ability to drag things underground.

Therefore, theoretically speaking, that country's understanding of Zhuge Liang most likely came from that novel and TV series.

And what Zhuge Qing was referring to was exactly that part of the story...

The fire spread across seven hundred miles of camps, resulting in a major defeat for Liu Bei, who fled in panic to Baidi City.

Lu Xun pressed his advantage, but was trapped near Kuiguan by the "Eight Trigrams Formation" that Zhuge Liang had laid out in advance.

Countless elite soldiers rushed into those seemingly ordinary piles of eighty or ninety rocks, only to be instantly thrown into a dizzying frenzy, disoriented, and filled with murderous intent. In the end, if it weren't for Huang Chengyan leading the way, the entire army would have been wiped out...

If the other party truly possesses the means to manipulate and utilize the power of faith...

"Oh no! Fire!"

Ron's pupils contracted sharply, and he almost roared as he gave the order.

However, it was too late.

The moment he uttered those words, a thick fog, so dense that one could not see their own hand in front of their face, rose without warning throughout the entire Qimen formation, just like in the story.

The fog was not water vapor condensation, but a purer form of energy that seemed to devour all light and sound.

The sense of time and space is completely stripped away the moment you step into the formation.

The soldiers felt the scenery rapidly changing before their eyes; the ground beneath their feet was sometimes hard and sometimes soft. Comrades who were just inches away vanished in an instant. A noisy crackling came from the communicator, the high-tech aiming system completely malfunctioned, and all that remained was a blur.

not good!

Ron stood inside the formation, his face pale as he stared at the churning, thick fog before him, a chill running through him.

In the end, he was just like the arrogant Lu Xun, stepping into the trap that the other party had already set.

……

On the other side, on the streets of New York.

A barely perceptible ripple of space flashed by, and Zhuge Qing's figure appeared silently in a small alley opposite the Behemoth headquarters building.

What he was using was a high-level application of Qimen Dunjia – the Eight Gates Movement.

The Eight Gates represent eight directions, so in Qimen Dunjia, it can even appear in any location.

He straightened his slightly wrinkled collar and walked calmly out of the alley, as if he were just an ordinary passerby who had just come out of an office building.

A moment later, he easily "borrowed" an inconspicuous car from the street, merged into the traffic, and drove slowly toward the airport.

It seems that Behemoth is not going to let him leave so easily.

Transportation hubs like airports and ports have likely already been thoroughly ensnared.

In that case, we'll have to resort to some special methods...

Zhuge Qing gripped the steering wheel with one hand, his mind racing, but his face remained completely calm.

But at that moment, the car was silent, and the car stereo, which should have been off, suddenly started making a buzzing sound.

"Hello, hello... Is this Zhuge Qing?"

A synthesized voice, electronically processed and indistinguishable as male or female, was transmitted through the speakers, speaking standard Mandarin.

"can you hear me?"

"Ok?"

Zhuge Qing paused, his brow furrowing slightly. He hadn't even turned on the car radio. The other party not only pinpointed his location but could even hack into the electronic system of this ordinary car—that was too outrageous!

Wait, this feeling... could it be...?

A thought suddenly flashed through his mind, and a dazzling golden light flashed in his eyes.

【Sharp Eyes】!
This method is a high-level application of Samadhi True Fire.

Just like in the story of "Journey to the West", Sun Wukong was thrown into Laozi's Eight Trigrams Furnace and refined by the true fire of civil and martial arts for forty-nine days. Not only did he develop an indestructible body, but he also gained a pair of fiery eyes that could see through all falsehoods and pretenses amidst the smoke and fire.

Samadhi Fire is a flame that combines the three treasures of essence, energy, and spirit, and naturally has similar functions.

The next moment, in Zhuge Qing's vision, the whole world transformed into a completely different scene.

The appearance of the material world fades away, replaced by a torrent of energy and information.

On the unremarkable car radio in front of him, there was a tiny, palm-sized Q-version figure made up of countless tiny electric lights and data streams.

It had no facial features and its form was extremely blurry, resembling a spirit or some kind of highly condensed electromagnetic wave life form, hopping and waving its tiny hands made of data streams at him...

(End of this chapter)