Chapter 164 - Sending Everyone Out of the Array
Looking at Li Haoran"s corpse, everyone sank into silence!
After a series of chases, they finally found the murderer, only to find an even stronger mastermind hiding behind this murderer"s back.
"How can my avenging my mother be so complex?" Long Wanqing asked, an ugly look on her face.
Grandmaster Liunian shook his head, looking downcast.
"Their schemes are enough to hide from your Grandfather. This person is extremely troublesome. However, no matter who it is, I will avenge Xiaoyue!" Wei Shengren proclaimed in a grim voice.
"What should we do with Li Haoran"s corpse?" Long Wanqing asked, furrowing.
"Hall Lord Long, Senior, please let Commander"s corpse go, Commander is already dead. All the grievances should have disappeared already!" At this time, a group of still living Divine Battalion soldiers rushed over.
The group knelt down to Long Wanqing, begging for mercy for Li Haoran"s corpse.
"Kill them!" the cultivators in all direction shouted, their faces livid with anger. Apparently, the crowd was still incensed at them.
However, even if many of them were shouting, no one came forward to follow up.
The remaining Divine Battalion soldiers were less than a hundred in number. Their bodies were riddled with countless wounds. Nonetheless, every one of them was kneeling, begging for mercy.
Long Wanqing"s face turned ashen.
Grandmaster Liunian took a deep breath and said, "Forget it, take Li Haoran"s corpse with you, and give it to Li Shenji. Also, explain clearly to Li Shenji that the murderer of Li Haoran was that final mastermind!"
"Yes, thank you very much, Grandmaster Liunian! We will definitely bring your words!" The hundred scarred Divine Battalion soldiers continuously kowtowed to him.
Li Shenji!?
Many people seemed to have heard of this name. Now that Li Haoran was dead, no one wanted to draw any sort of trouble because of a corpse.
Many cultivators slowly drew back, allowing the team of Divine Battalion soldiers to retrieve the trunk of a tree, and chisel a simple coffin out of it. Afterwards, they placed Li Haoran"s headless corpse inside it, along with the two skeletal arms.
After putting Li Haoran inside the coffin, the team of Divine Battalion soldiers cautiously bowed to Grandmaster Liunian, and then to Gu Hai, before retreating to one side.
Long Wanqing"s eyes flickered with a sliver of unwillingness. "We are out of clues! How are we going to proceed next?"
Gu Hai replied, "Hall Lord, after Ding Rui died, I found a letter inside her token; I haven"t read it yet! Also, there may be some clues hidden in Li Haoran"s storage s.p.a.ce. Let me look for them!"
While speaking, Gu Hai retracted the defensive barrier and took out a small box with a flip of his hand. It was the very same box with the letter that Gu Hai had found in the storage s.p.a.ce of Ding Rui"s token. Gu Hai had not opened it yet.
"Oh?" Grandmaster Liunian received the box.
As Li Haoran was already dead, it was very easy to refine his storage bracelet. In the blink of an eye, Gu Hai could send his consciousness into it.
After having sent his consciousness inside, Gu Hai found the Divine Battalion"s flying s.h.i.+p, hundreds of thousands of high-grade spirit stones, and piles of miscellaneous items.
Pills, secret records, golden arrows, golden swords; all were in there, along with that Dragon Drawing Jade.
Gu Hai took out the Dragon Drawing Jade, along with ten different letters.
Gu Hai didn"t open them, he just handed them to Grandmaster Liunian.
"Hall Lord, your Dragon Drawing Jade!" Gu Hai stretched his hand out to give it back.
But Long Wanqing shook her head and said, "Back then, my mother was killed for this dragon vein. Dragon Drawing Jade! Dragon Vein!? Haha! It"s useless to me, you can keep it. Only you can receive the dragon vein!"
Gu Hai nodded his acknowledgment and didn"t try to be hypocritical.
As for Li Haoran"s other items, Gu Hai naturally didn"t take them out, but kept them for himself.
"Well!" Suddenly, Grandmaster Liunian"s brow twitched. "This letter!"
"What"s wrong?" Long Wanqing asked uncertainly.
"Out of ten letters of Li Haoran, nine are irrelevant, only this letter has no signature, and no label either. There are only words, it"s rather strange!" Grandmaster Liunian stated firmly.
Gu Hai stepped to one side, as if he didn"t want to do anything with this.
"Throne Master Gu, it"s useless to avoid this, perhaps, you are already in it. You can"t avoid it. Why not just look at it bright and candidly?" Grandmaster Liunian laughed.
Gu Hai, furrowing his brow, sighed slightly before ultimately nodding his agreement.
In the next moment, Long Wanqing had already started reading. "Li Haoran, Long Wanqing will lead you an earth dragon vein!"
A total of eleven words; eleven baffling words that gave an extremely strange feeling.
"Li Haoran requested a military a.s.signment from Grandpa; he requested the a.s.signment to protect me because of this letter? How did the sender of this letter know so much about me? Is it that mastermind? Do I also know him?" Long Wanqing said, frowning.
"What about the handwriting?" Gu Hai asked.
Grandmaster Liunian shook his head and answered, "I don"t recognize the handwriting; furthermore, there isn"t any life aura on these characters. It should be intentional, or maybe he asked someone else to write it! The handwriting is also quite average!"
"This man"s way of doing things are rather clean!" A complex look appeared on Gu Hai"s face.
"What about Ding Rui"s letter?" Long Wanqing looked to Grandmaster Liunian.
Grandmaster Liunian opened the letter rather carefully and started reading.
"Just like before, no signature, no label, just words! Average handwriting," Grandmaster Liunian stated with a downcast look.
"Ding Rui, collaborate with Li Haoran, muddy the waters!" Long Wanqing started reading.
Listening to these nine words, everyone sank into silence.
"Ding Rui should know about, where is her corpse? Bring me to her!" Wei Shengren said grimly.
Gu Hai, holding the golden pieces, commanded, "Gu Qin, take two people with you and bring Senior Wei Shengren to Ding Rui"s grave!"
"Yes!" From outside the Weiqi of Death, Gu Qin promptly replied.
Although Gu Hai could not see Gu Qin, the people could clearly see the last player, Gu Hai!
Wei Shengren, without saying anything, took a step, and exited the Weiqi of Death.
"How can he go leave?" Many people looked surprised.
"When Wei Shengren entered the game, why didn"t he have a weiqi piece clone?" Gu Hai looked at Grandmaster Liunian and asked out of curiosity.
Grandmaster Liunian smiled wryly. "Because he is Wei Shengren, someone who has yet to be born, he is someone who doesn"t exist! So, how can he be recorded by the grand array?"
[TLN: Wei Shengren, it means an unborn.]
"Wei Shengren, someone who has not been born!? Someone who doesn"t exist!?" Gu Hai looked confused.
"You will come to know about it in the future. His lineage is richly endowed by nature, and yet suffers repeatedly,!" Grandmaster Liunian sighed, shaking his head.
"What should we do now? That mastermind has done everything, neat and clean. How are we going to investigate next?" Long Wanqing asked worriedly.
Grandmaster Liunian also furrowed his brow.
"Perhaps...!" Gu Hai mused, thinking hard.
"Perhaps what?" Grandmaster Liunian asked, curious.
"You can investigate the sheets of the two letters; what materials were used to make them, where these sheets were produced. First, determine the general location according to the paper sheets! Also, since we can"t check the handwriting, you can investigate the ink! Maybe we can find something, maybe we won"t, I don"t know! There is no harm in trying!" Gu Hai proposed, heaving a sigh.
"Oh? Yes, we can do that! Thank you, Throne Master Gu!" Grandmaster Liunian"s eyes lit up immediately.
After all, paper was produced almost everywhere. But because the materials used to produce them was different, there were some subtle differences. Maybe something could be found. The same was true for the ink, as well!
"Mister Gu, can you solve this Weiqi of Death, let us go out?"
"Yes, Mister Gu, I don"t want to stay here for a single moment longer!"...
Everyone looked at Gu Hai in antic.i.p.ation. Although Li Haoran was defeated, everyone was still somewhat worried about Gu Hai, wondering whether he would go crazy like Meng Tai and Li Haoran as well!
"Everyone wants to leave?"
"Yes!" Everyone nodded, again and again.
"Then, ladies and gentlemen, please be careful, I will be sending you out of the array!"
"Ah? Thank you very much, Mister Gu!" Everyone was suddenly br.i.m.m.i.n.g with joy.
"You are welcome! Now that I am all three players, I can solve the Weiqi of Death anytime!" Gu Hai stated firmly.
While speaking, Gu Hai waved his hand.
In a flash, a gale of wind blew over out of nowhere, immediately taking everyone along with it high up in the sky, including Long Wanqing and Grandmaster Liunian.
"Ahhh~!"
Everyone promptly cried out as they soared into the air. Some kind of power took everyone into the sky at an astonis.h.i.+ng speed. In the blink of an eye, they seemed to have crossed some kind of area filled with clouds.
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!...
Everyone was abruptly out of the Weiqi of Death, scattering out of the giant peony like flower petals showered by a heavenly maiden.
"Ahh~! I am falling, I am falling down!"
"Hahaha, out, I am finally out!"
"Thank you very much, Mister Gu! Thank you very much!"...
Tens of thousands of people rained down from the sky. Breathing the outside air, everyone felt extremely grateful to Gu Hai.
Everyone crashed down to the ground, one after another. Although they suffered some injuries, it was still better than losing their lives inside.
Once everyone was out of the Weiqi World, everyone promptly retreated at an astonis.h.i.+ng speed, getting far away from the giant peony.
Long Wanqing, and her three subordinates, who were supporting Grandmaster Liunian, flew their way to the top of a mountain.
"Everyone is out, all the weiqi pieces on the weiqi board have disappeared! Well, no, there are still two pieces remaining!?" Long Wanqing exclaimed in surprise.
"That golden piece should be Gu Hai! Then, who is that black weiqi piece?" one of Long Wanqing"s subordinates wondered aloud, confused.
Inside the weiqi word, everyone had been thrown out by Gu Hai, including the Divine Battalion soldiers. There was only one person remaining.
Slowly, Gu Hai made his way to the last remaining man, a weak and limp figure who was lying on the ground.
"Ke ke ke, hahaha, did you come to kill me?" the man asked as he broke into a despondent laugh, wiping the blood at the corner of his mouth,.
"Meng Tai!" Gu Hai stared at Meng Tai, narrowing his eyes.
"Only I remain! I knew you would not let me go, come on, hahaha!" challenged Meng Tai with a forlorn laugh.
"You know? Can"t you see what you have done? As far as my personal feelings are concerned, I still hate you. You are a very terrible man! For your ambitions, you stopped at nothing, you even disowned your own relatives! You are insidious and cold-blooded! Ha, you are really annoying!" Gu Hai sneered.
"I am who I am! I can"t change myself!" Meng Tai said as a sliver of a cold smile appeared on his lips.
BANG! Gu Hai suddenly smacked the back of Meng Tai"s head.
Meng Tai"s eyes rolled up as he fainted.
Gu Hai, with a flip of his hand, retrieved a coffin and placed Meng Tai inside it. Sealing the coffin shut, Gu Hai waved his hand.
The coffin flew out of the Weiqi of Death, flying into the Weiqi of Life.
"Gu Qin, look after this coffin!" Gu Qin, still holding the golden piece, ordered.
"Yes!" Gu Qin, still outside, complied immediately.