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

#333 - Chapter 332 The Truth of the Cursed Land

Li Chenqiu stopped and looked back, asking, "What's wrong?"

Gaoqiao Meisheng said softly, "If you don't plan to let Gaoqiao Yuncang go after you leave, and still intend to use him to negotiate with me, what should I do?"

Li Chenqiu said indifferently, "With the means of your Gaoqiao Consortium, even if I don't plan to let Gaoqiao Yuncang go, you probably have ways to solve his problems.

Besides, I'm not stupid. Knowing that doing so will make me face a powerful enemy like you, I wouldn't stubbornly disregard life and death, and form a deadly feud with the Gaoqiao Consortium. That would be too stupid."

"That's true," Gaoqiao Meisheng agreed, nodding.

A normal person wouldn't do such a thing.

After speaking, Li Chenqiu moved his mind and summoned Huang Jianhua from Ember, lightly leaping onto his back and leaving the place with a "whoosh."

Seeing Li Chenqiu leave, Gaoqiao Meisheng brought the phone back to her ear and asked, "How is Yuncang now?"

"Master, Young Master Yuncang seems to have returned to normal!"

Hearing this, Gaoqiao Meisheng breathed a sigh of relief, and then quickly ordered, "Immediately send Yuncang to…"

After arranging everything, Gaoqiao Meisheng hung up the phone, put it back in her pocket, and slowly walked to Lu Xiancong, smiling, "Where's the key? Did you already give it to Li Chenqiu?"

"Uh… uh… uh…"

Lu Xiancong shook his head with a blank expression.

"Hmph, after all these years, you still can't lie!"

Gaoqiao Meisheng slowly squatted down and placed her hand on Lu Xiancong's head, "Expressions can deceive people, but spirit cannot. You can't fake that. You've already given him the key, haven't you!"

"Uh… ah… ah…"

Lu Xiancong still maintained his previous blankness.

Gaoqiao Meisheng asked in confusion, "I've had people act out plots like this before. Why didn't you believe it then? Was it the actor's problem, or was there a problem with the script I wrote?"

Gaoqiao Meisheng slowly stood up, threw down her crutch, and laughed heartily, "Hahaha, just wait, you'll see him again soon!"

At this time, Li Chenqiu didn't know that his taking the key had already been exposed.

...

Inside a dark and narrow cave.

Whoosh—

Deep red flames rose up, driving back the surrounding black smoke and moisture, reflecting Li Chenqiu's fair face.

This was the meeting point he had agreed upon with Xiang Nanzhi.

"I have to leave the Southern Federation as soon as possible. If I stay too long, Huang Ping will be exposed sooner or later, and it will be difficult to leave then!" Li Chenqiu's brow was furrowed with seriousness as he turned to look at Huang Jianhua, "Go out and be on guard. Alert me to any abnormalities."

"Yes, sir!"

Huang Jianhua's figure flashed and disappeared.

"What exactly is it that the Gaoqiao Consortium values so much?"

Li Chenqiu opened his palm, and the flesh in his palm wriggled for a moment. Soon, two items appeared in his palm.

One was a dark blue round bead, and the other was a rusty, ancient-looking bronze key.

Li Chenqiu remembered what Lu Xiancong had said earlier, and reached out to pick up the dark blue bead, "This should be the image-recording pearl Lu Xiancong mentioned. How do I use it?"

Thinking this, Li Chenqiu clenched the image-recording pearl and shook it back and forth, and then… nothing happened.

Just then, Li Xuanyou's voice sounded in his mind, "Master, you just need to break this pearl."

"Huh?" Li Chenqiu asked with slight doubt, "Break it?"

"Yes, this is a man-made Xuan artifact, an image-recording pearl. As long as it's broken, it will display the video stored inside."

"Really? I haven't read many books, so don't lie to me!" Li Chenqiu's tone was tinged with suspicion.

Li Xuanyou affirmed, "You are my master, how could I possibly lie to you?"

"I'll trust you this once."

With a nervous feeling, Li Chenqiu released his palm, and the image-recording pearl fell to the ground in free fall, shattering with a "snap!"

Immediately afterwards, specks of starlight floated out from the fragments, forming a rectangle with a hollow center and a starlight-connected border in front of Li Chenqiu, just like a television.

Li Chenqiu's eyes lit up, and he quickly took out his mobile phone from his pocket, aimed the camera at the front, and was about to record a video when a "buzzing" electrical sound suddenly came from inside the phone.

"Huh?"

Before Li Chenqiu could react, his phone screen suddenly went black, and white smoke billowed out.

"This… what's going on?" Li Chenqiu looked at his lifeless phone with a bewildered expression.

"Master, the video played by the image-recording pearl cannot be recorded or filmed. Once you do, you've seen the consequences."

"Then why didn't you say so earlier!"

"I didn't know you were going to film it…" Li Xuanyou's voice grew softer and softer.

Li Chenqiu's face darkened, and he put the dead phone back in his pocket, no longer speaking.

After waiting for half a minute, the rectangle condensed from starlight finally reacted. The hollow ground in the middle gradually gained varying shades of color, and the whistling sound of wind came from within.

It was a vast expanse of snowy land.

Li Chenqiu stared intently at the screen, afraid of missing anything.

"Cough cough!"

A series of forceful coughs came, and the image displayed by the image-recording pearl began to shake and rotate. Soon, a clear human face appeared in the center of the screen.

This person was none other than Lu Xiancong.

Unlike his appearance in the prison cell, he now had a full head of black hair, and his eyes were deep and bright. Although his face was covered with the vicissitudes of time, he was very energetic.

"I am Lu Xiancong, an archaeology professor at Zhaixing Academy. What I am about to say is very important and concerns the entire Northern Federation. I hope you in front of the screen listen carefully!"

Li Chenqiu crossed his arms in front of his chest, and his expression became serious.

Lu Xiancong in the screen took a deep breath and said solemnly, "The creation of the cursed lands is indeed related to ancient civilizations, or rather, to ancient civilization lifeforms that still exist today!"

As he spoke, Lu Xiancong took out a folded piece of paper from his arms and then unfolded it in front of the screen—it was a plain A4 sheet of paper.

"Huh?" Li Chenqiu narrowed his eyes.

He seemed to have a similar A4 sheet of paper. Was it the same one?

Lu Xiancong pointed to the paper and explained, "This paper is called the Seal of the Gods by the Gaoqiao Consortium. It is a product of the ancient civilization period. Its ability is to seal. Each Seal of the Gods can seal a single lifeform.

According to my speculation, during the ancient civilization period, there were many monsters beyond our imagination. In order to survive, the ancient humans then used the Seal of the Gods to seal these monsters one by one and place them in different locations.

As times changed, the Seal of the Gods' restraint on these monsters became smaller and smaller, to the point that they could affect the outside world, and this is what we know as the cursed lands!"