Bulwark of Light

2022-09-27

“Wake up!”

A low voice resounded in the pendant spiritual space.

The curled up soul was awakened. Gu Shen didn’t give “Hong Zhong” any time to react. The moment he made a sound, the flames surged up, covering the wisp of soul and drowning it. …

The hypnosis is completed in an instant.

In Gu Shen’s heart, this cross pendant is a highly rated sealed item.

The ability to retain the “spirit of the deceased” is beyond the scope of normal sealed objects, and it is no exaggeration to call it “divine object”.

So, from the moment of dipping into the pendant space, Gu Shen was full of energy.

But…

The whole process went smoothly beyond imagination.

The curled up soul stretched out, “Hong Zhong”‘s facial features were blank, and a blazing fire slowly burned in the position of the soul villain’s eyebrows… This guy’s spirit has been exhausted by Gu Shen. master.

Just a single thought and it can be erased.

“This completes hypnosis?”

Gu Shen was also a little surprised.

He thought that this pendant was reserved for him by “Hong Zhong”. If he encounters an accident, he can save his soul, but now, it seems that this is not the case…

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“What’s your name?”

“Hong Zhong, the flood of Hong, the sincere heart.”

“Your identity.”

“Investigate Legion’s second team members, when he was… the temporary captain of the Maze 38 mission.”

Gu Shen tried to ask a few simple questions, and Hong Zhong’s soul answered them all, indicating that he still Preserves the memory of the past.

“What kind of sealed artifact is this?”

Next question, Gu Shen straight to the point.

“…”

Silence.

A long silence.

The pale Soul Spirit raised his head and looked at Gu Shen in bewilderment, his eyes full of emptiness and confusion.

Obviously, this question stumped him.

Gu Shen frowned: “How did you get here?”

There was another dead silence.

This is also a “superclass” problem.

This single Soul Spirit, although it can answer questions under hypnosis, does not seem to have high intelligence.

“I…”

Hong Zhong said in a hoarse voice, “I don’t know… I should have died, but thanks to ‘it’, I seem to hold The last ray of hope in life.”

The fire burned between the eyebrows.

Gu Shen feels Soul Spirit’s mental state… Hong Zhong’s memory has been slightly damaged and his cognition has been impaired. He is in a state of half life and half death, and it is not clear that he is the only one left. Soul, and does not know what “here” Gu Shen is talking about.

“Do you recognize this thing?”

Gu Shen raised his palm.

With spirit strength, he condensed a virtual image of a “cross pendant” and placed it on the palm of his hand.

“Of course I recognize…that ‘it’ saved me!” Hong Zhong, who was in a hypnotic state, raised his voice for a moment, then lowered his voice again, muttered: “‘It’ saved me more than Once…”

“What is it?”

The pale Soul Spirit, feeling the flames burning between his brows, murmured, “If you’re asking for its name, then There should be no answer. I found this pendant in [Old World], and I call it ‘Goddess’s Shelter’…”

Blazing completed the fit for the soul of “Hong Zhong” .

A lot of turbulent memories poured out from the flames.

Gu Shen doesn’t ask anymore.

He watched these memories silently…

Hong Zhong went out to perform a mission many years ago. Captain.

In that mission, the Explorer Squad was wiped out.

Except him.

The reason is very simple…he found this “cross pendant” in the [old world].

Hong Zhong put on this pendant by accident. On the verge of death, he was lucky to avoid several large black holes along the way, and successfully touched the [door] that could span a long distance and return directly to the fortress. ], completed an incredible trek… Gu Shen, who watched this memory, felt a little complicated, because what Hong Zhong experienced back then was really similar to himself not long ago.

The incident certainly attracted the attention of the Beizhou military.

It’s just that Hong Zhong’s strength was low back then, and the file was completely reasonable… No one paid attention to him, and Beizhou executives thought this guy was just a lucky guy.

It turns out that Hong Zhong’s luck is far beyond everyone’s imagination.

In every mission after that, Hong Zhong would wear a pendant, and this cross pendant took him out of danger countless times… and in the years that followed, he began to explore slowly, trying to master the inner workings of the pendant. the power of.

With this “fortuitous encounter”, he became an elite member of Legion’s second team, and he could serve as the Captain of the difficult mission such as [Maze Quest].

However, Hong Zhong has always been very careful.

He cautiously guarded his “luck”, the existence of this pendant, he didn’t tell anyone…

He was not an ambitious.

He knew he’d found something incredible, but he just wanted to live longer.

This guy’s memory is easy to read.

And sarcastic.

I am afraid that at this moment, no one in Beizhou will believe that the “Hong Zhong” who fell from the altar from the hero and was scolded by countless people, his true thoughts are so simple: he got this Divine Level Sealed Artifact , he didn’t even think about using this power to become the Captain who investigates the Legion… Hong Zhong’s plan for his life is extremely simple. With the power in this sealed artifact, he will bring the good brothers who are performing tasks in the Legion together. Live to retire, then enjoy your old age, and finally, before dying, hand over this Sealed Artifact to the top of Legion.

The idea is really simple.

So destined to be broken——

This time…The development of the labyrinth mission directly shattered Hong Zhong’s dream.

This pendant has always given Hong Zhong correct guidance in the past… But this time, an “accident” occurred. After Jinsuihua’s dream unfolded, the instrument for detecting the extraordinary source quality would give a false alarm. .

The squad was having trouble making decisions at that time.

And Hong Zhong’s “pendant” wants him to step back… Hong Zhong was hesitant for the first time. His experience in investigating Legion told him that he would encounter a “black hole” when he stepped back. This was also the first time he did not Follow the “pendant” instructions.

So next, his spirit was dragged into the “Golden Spike Dreamland”!

There, he saw an oasis and a traveler in the distance.

He saw the greatest hope of human exploration for six hundred years…

Finally, he saw the huge snake shadow covering Heaven and Earth.

When he woke up, he had already left the [labyrinth], holding the unsheathed sword in his hand, the blade was stained with hot and fresh blood… He had no wounds all over his body, and the blood on the knife was only Possibly a teammate’s.

Because he has a drenched with blood energy core on his body, which is the backup energy that supports him returning to the giant wall of the castle.

Hong Zhong took a second to realize what happened in the [Maze].

The pendant is not what it’s supposed to be, just a light “guideline”.

This is a very hard seal.

Under the condition of being bewitched by his spirit, this pendant still activates the effect of “immortality”. It controls his body and completes the escape from the “mortal state” in the labyrinth…and Killing teammates and taking out the energy core is also a necessary part of escape. What Hong Zhong could not do, this pendant helped him to complete it.

It’s not enough to escape the maze if you want to stay alive.

We must also have enough energy…

So in the heavy snow, I regained my sober heart and looked at the hands drenched with blood, so I could only choose to “return home”.

He had no choice.

However, on the road of life, if you choose the wrong step, you will miss the Second Step. Toxins”, the more it is delivered, the wider the spread, and the less the impact on the host.

After returning to Gubao, Hong Zhong fell into a deep sleep.

Everyone thinks that this is “an omen of dying”, and the return trip consumed too much of his strength… But the truth is the opposite, “Goddess’s Asylum” chose for him. The absolute way to survive is to spread “toxins” and accept his own soul to avoid the erosion of toxins.

Without the intervention of external forces.

When the psychotoxin of Golden Spike Flower finished spreading, it all left his body.

The soul of “Hong Zhong” will return from the cross pendant, and he will usher in an unprecedented “rebirth”.

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Is there really a lucky Goddess in this world?

Gu Shen didn’t believe it before.

But seeing Hong Zhong’s memory, he had to change his mind.

Maybe…it does.

This pendant provides the protection of “immortality”. This is a power that Gu Shen cannot understand at present. It is somewhat like the exhaustion of data revealed by [Deep Sea].

This pendant can guide the most correct one among the countless paths of death.

It’s just that Hong Zhong finally failed to escape the fate of “death”.

He meets himself here.

And fleshy body is doomed to be burned to ashes.

It can be seen…this pendant does not necessarily allow the “host” to survive.

Gu Shen suddenly thought of something.

He became serious.

No…

It’s not that simple.

Thinking about it carefully, is the encounter between yourself and “Hong Zhong” here also an arrangement by fate?

If there are really thousands of causal lines in this world, after making the wrong choice in the original maze… the probability of Hong Zhong’s “death” is close to 100%, he does not have enough energy, no With the ability to detoxify, even if he escaped back to Gubao to disperse toxins, his body would be burned by Zhong Yuan who came later. Gu Shen couldn’t think of any way to make this guy really survive.

Except meeting myself.

Among countless causal lines…Only by encountering the “Pluto”, it is possible to survive.

This moment.

Gu Shen felt the vague power of “destiny”. That power was neither words nor spirit, but an illusory and real “guidance”.

That guidance told myself.

If you cast the “Pure Land” at this moment and accept Hong Zhong’s Soul Spirit…

Then this pendant will fulfill the oath.

Fate Goddess’ undead sanctuary…will be transferred to himself.

He raised his head and looked at the white and boundless “dome” of this spiritual space. There is no other color or size here, and the endless white fills the whole world.

“Is this a deal?”

Gu Shen laughed at himself.

He vaguely felt…this cross pendant, the grade is probably scary, it is at least a “S-Rank” sealed item, and it is still a broken item. Ruler of Truth” is the same object as Level 1.

If a white “angel” appeared on the zenith, then he could agree with peace of mind…Unfortunately, after waiting for a while, there was nothing, completely different from Ruler of Truth, this cross pendant and Not dealing with yourself.

Gu Shen may choose not to include “Hong Zhong”.

But if so, Gu Shen will get nothing, pendant will not recognizing Master.

And the Soul Spirit of the deceased will gradually dissipate. This is the “iron law”. Even this cross pendant, which can be said to defy the sky, cannot violate this iron law.

But…

With the “characteristics” of this pendant, will it be possible to re-find a character who can accommodate Soul Spirit, or “think” of other solutions ?

“Okay…”

Gu Shen laughed at himself and said: “I won’t take the bastard if there is any advantage.”

He wiped it with two fingers…

A crack opened in the spiritual space, and it instantly descended on the head of the soul of “Hong Zhong”, covering it all, and then swallowing it.

Gu Shen stared at the bewildered, confused, and bewildered Soul Spirit and spoke in a low voice.

“Congratulations, Pluto bestows you ‘eternal life’.”

The fire raged.

Hong Zhong disappeared in the pendant’s spiritual space.

From this pure land, there is a ray of soul.

After completing “Hong Zhong”‘s undead asylum…the pendant’s spiritual space slowly closed.

For a moment, Gu Shen opened his eyes.

He looked at the pendant lying in his palm and felt the subtle changes in his soul.

This pendant is slowly merging with its own spirit.

His spirit strength has not improved, but his sensitivity to the surroundings has increased, and… Gu Shen doesn’t know if it is his own illusion, after this pendant recognizing Master, the “fighting” on his forehead The “Golden Hoop” also seems to have widened a bit.

Could it be said that this pendant can also enhance spirit strength?

It seems to take some time to fully integrate.

Gu Shen put away the pendant and laughed softly.

“The undead asylum of Goddess, what would you… look like if you got it all together?”

This is really interesting.

He has a ruler on his body that wants his life all the time.

There is also a pendant that provides undead asylum.

A spear of which there is no stronghold one cannot overcome.

An unbreakable shield.

Gu Shen is a little curious… Is the spear sharper or the shield thicker?