Who wants to become a god? Aren't you all forcing me?

#319 - Chapter 318: Sleepiness

Li Chenqiu wasn't a fool. When Takahashi Linna brought him to this room, he understood her intentions, or rather, the intentions of the Takahashi Conglomerate.

This so-called missing person case wasn't the main point at all, because Takahashi Linna never intended to solve it. Her goal was to confine him here reasonably, in a place he could leave whenever he wanted.

After that, as expected, he would be confined indefinitely, until he had the urge to escape.

And as long as he chose to escape by force, Takahashi Linna could issue an arrest warrant and openly deal with him.

Because escaping from this room was a crime in itself, whether he was the real culprit in the disappearance case was no longer important.

Li Chenqiu's well-defined fingers rhythmically tapped his temple as he closed his eyes with some annoyance.

He had thought that the Takahashi Conglomerate would send someone to deal with him, but he didn't expect them to elevate it to the level of law, which was both brainless and unsolvable.

"Hoo..." Li Chenqiu sighed and smiled helplessly.

He absolutely couldn't be stuck here. If there was really no way to leave in the right way, then he would have to resort to the wrong way.

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In the following days, as Li Chenqiu had expected, apart from the punctual three meals a day, the Imperial Guard made no move, as if they had forgotten about him.

On the seventh day, in order to save himself, Li Chenqiu sent his Soul Soldier out through the window to contact Wenren Qing.

The Soul Soldier completed its mission well, but to Li Chenqiu's disappointment, even after he sent the message, Wenren Qing made no move for seven consecutive days.

Whirr, whirr, whirr—

In front of the faucet, Li Chenqiu wiped his wet hair with a towel, and looked up at the camera in the upper right corner of the bathroom, revealing a bright smile.

After washing his hair, Li Chenqiu returned to the living room, lay on the soft sofa, and leisurely watched anime from the Southern Federation, without a trace of anxiety on his face.

At the same time, in an ordinary-looking room.

Takahashi Linna sat in a chair, calmly staring straight ahead.

It was an electronic screen over a hundred inches, divided into nine blocks by horizontal and vertical lines, each displaying different content.

The three screens in the middle showed Li Chenqiu watching TV from different angles, with the time constantly jumping at the top of the screen, accurate to the minute and second.

Li Chenqiu had been living in this electronic screen these days, being monitored by Takahashi Linna.

Besides Takahashi Linna, there were also several investigators sitting on her left and right sides.

"Chief, Li Chenqiu doesn't seem to be in a hurry at all!"

"Yeah, all he does all day is eat and sleep, or sleep and eat. I'm getting tired of watching him."

"Chief, do you think there's a chance that Li Chenqiu guessed our intentions, so he doesn't plan to go out?"

Takahashi Linna said, "Li Chenqiu is not a fool. He must have guessed it. If he wants to stall us, we'll stall him."

"Chief, if he really has the patience to stay here for a few months, or even longer, wouldn't we have to stay here for that long too?"

Takahashi Linna held up a finger: "One month. If Li Chenqiu is still the same as now after a month, we won't wait for him to come out on his own."

"Not wait for him to come out on his own?"

Takahashi Linna explained, "If he doesn't take the initiative, we can only invite him out."

"We take the initiative?" An investigator frowned: "Chief, Li Chenqiu has the strength of the Ninth Forbidden. If he doesn't want to come out, we..."

"What you can think of, the higher-ups have already considered." Takahashi Linna interrupted him: "You should all know about Soul-Bewitching Incense, right!"

"Soul-Bewitching Incense! Is it the Soul-Bewitching Incense from the Chaotic Valley in the Land of Curses?"

Takahashi Linna nodded.

Upon seeing this, everyone's faces lit up with smiles.

They naturally knew about the Soul-Bewitching Incense from Chaotic Valley.

In the deepest part of Chaotic Valley in the Land of Curses, there is a purple flower called the Soul-Bewitching Flower. Grinding the Soul-Bewitching Flower into powder and burning it with fire will produce a colorless and odorless clear smoke.

This is the Soul-Bewitching Incense. Below the Eighth Forbidden, one will fall asleep upon smelling it.

"Kawahira." Takahashi Linna turned her head: "I'll leave it to you next. You should understand what to do, right!"

"Understood!"

...

Days passed, and Li Chenqiu's patience gradually wore down, as did Takahashi Linna's.

On a slightly sultry midnight.

Ding-a-ling—

A pleasant telephone ring sounded, and Takahashi Linna, who was staring at the monitor, answered the phone and held it to her ear.

"Hello."

...

"I have no problem here."

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"Now? Isn't it a little too fast? Should we wait a few more days?"

...

"Understood, I'll prepare right away."

Takahashi Linna frowned and hung up the phone. She stood up from her seat and clapped her hands forcefully.

Clap, clap, clap—

"Wake up, everyone, stop sleeping."

The people who were dreaming wearily opened their eyelids, straightened up with dazed expressions, and looked at Takahashi Linna with scattered eyes.

"Chief, what's wrong in the middle of the night?"

Someone glanced at the monitor and scratched his head in confusion: "Li Chenqiu hasn't run away!"

Takahashi Linna said coldly, "It's not a matter of running or not. Get ready, everyone. We're going to take action now."

"Now? Chief, there's still..."

"Have I been with you for too long that you can't even tell the difference between an order and a joke?" Takahashi Linna's cold gaze swept across everyone's faces.

With just one glance, the people who were still drowsy immediately woke up and quickly stood up.

"Hurry up!"

"Understood!"

...

Three o'clock in the morning.

Li Chenqiu was covered with a thin blanket, his hands crossed over his lower abdomen, lying down with a peaceful expression. If his chest wasn't still rising and falling, many people would have mistaken him for a corpse.

"More than twenty days have passed. I guess I can't count on Wenren Qing. I have to rely on myself. If I break out by force, I'm afraid the risk factor will be very high.

There are probably Ninth Forbidden Heavenly Chosen hidden nearby, and it's even possible that there are higher ones, just waiting for me to come out. If I rely on the strength I expose on the surface, I'm afraid it will be difficult to escape.

But with the Seventy-Two Transformations, the chances of escape should be greatly increased. But what about after escaping? Rescuing Lu Xiancong will only become more difficult, and I will be hunted down. It's a bit uneconomical. Should I do it?"

Li Chenqiu frowned slightly, and his lips subconsciously pursed tightly.

At the same time, a sense of sleepiness gradually filled his mind, squeezing those chaotic thoughts into the nooks and crannies.

Li Chenqiu's tightly locked brows also relaxed, and his breathing became slower and deeper...