Chapter 1134
Can't wait
Chapter 1134 Can't wait
Palm grove.
The outer protective shield lit up, and layers of gold spread out, enveloping the palm grove like a grid.
Outside, the out-of-control figures crashed into each other one after another, like birds hitting the glass curtain wall of a tall building, making a series of dull and frantic thuds.
Each time one was smashed, a patch of colorful, sticky gooey flesh and blood would appear on the outside, slowly sliding off, and then wisps of colorful mist would rise up.
These drifting clouds slowly stretched into slender shapes, like wriggling umbilical cords attempting to connect with the protective shield of the entire floating island—
However, the protective shield of the Covin Group has now been completely replaced by the golden Sky Net, so those umbilical-like mist cables can only writhe futilely at the edge of the light net and can never truly connect.
"This scene feels so familiar."
Liu Sheng stood on the balcony of the suite, gazing into the distance, and sighed softly.
Just then, a sword light suddenly slashed out from outside.
The sword light arrived extremely fast, like a clean and crisp stroke of white, sweeping across the colorful chaos, instantly clearing the field of vision.
The protective shield is activated.
A silver teardrop-shaped car slowly drove into the palm grove.
On the roof of the vehicle stood a round, chubby figure.
His white hair was disheveled, and he held a long sword that didn't seem to shine. It was hard to imagine that the sword light just now had come from his hand.
Taibai Sword Immortal spotted Liu Sheng standing on the balcony at a glance. With a light step, he rose into the air and landed lightly on the edge of the balcony.
"I finally managed to take a bath, and now it's all dirty again. Who would have thought these guys would act so quickly?"
“There’s nothing we can do.” Liu Sheng shook her head. “We just have what they want.”
The silver teardrop-shaped car was parked downstairs.
The car door slid open, and a man and a woman got out of the car one after the other, both clearly still somewhat shaken.
Then, the silver droplet rose silently and hovered outside the balcony. Two golden tentacles emerged from inside the vehicle, wrapped around the two people lying inside, and gently lowered them down.
"How is it?" asked the Taibai Sword Immortal.
Liu Sheng glanced at it once and then shook his head.
"It's no use."
"How could this be?" The Sword Immortal Taibai was taken aback. "I clearly held back!"
“It’s no use holding back.” Liu Sheng raised his hand and pried open one of the people’s eyelids. “This thing probably has a unified brain behind it. Once it’s confirmed to be exposed, it will only receive one instruction—self-destruct.”
Liu Hongyi walked over.
"Biological neural networks?"
Liu Sheng said calmly, "Or rather, it's similar to a cellular network."
Liu Hongyi bent down to examine it and came to the same conclusion.
"These two people also became vegetative, their brains were completely emptied, and only the most basic reactions remained."
"So, they'd rather cripple someone than let us get more information?" Taibai Sword Immortal narrowed his eyes.
"That's probably it."
Taibai Sword Immortal muttered a curse under his breath.
Liu Hongyi instructed, "Take these two away. Don't leave them here. Sooner or later, they will undergo the same changes as those outside."
"clear."
So Ozer manipulated the silver droplets to drag the two ruined bodies back into the car and quickly transport them out of the palm grove.
The Sword Immortal Taibai frowned. "Then what do we do? Now we have no way of knowing who's behind this?"
Liu Sheng: "There's another key figure."
You mean Helena?
Ozer, appearing on the suite's light screen, replied:
“I’ve already looked for her, but I haven’t found her in her room, office, or other places she frequents.”
Where is Angela?
"I didn't see it either."
"Disappearing at this time, could it be that they deliberately lured us to the floating island so they couldn't wait to make their move?" The Sword Immortal stroked his beard. "If that's the case, their acting is too good. On the 'Kouveen,' I couldn't tell at all; I thought they were being very sincere..."
“Helena is definitely not that kind of person!” Ozer argued loudly.
Liu Hongyi asked coldly, "How can you be so sure?"
“I…” Oze stammered, “I’ve known her since I was a child, and I know what kind of person she is—she’s a woman of her word and never hypocritical. It’s Eshir who might be that kind of person.”
“But Esir is just a pawn, not the leader.”
The Taibai Sword Immortal knew this best.
Liu Hongyi also said, "You can't even tell if your own memories are real or fake, so how can you be sure that the Helena in your memories is the real one?"
Although she was smiling, her words were like sharp knives, piercing deeply into Ozer's... CPU.
"I--"
Liu Sheng interrupted the argument, saying, "We'll find out the truth once we find the person behind it all."
Taibai Sword Immortal: "But the clues have gone cold?"
"It's alright, we can still find someone. Look, they're here!"
As soon as Liu Sheng finished speaking, a long corridor on the side of a building in the distance suddenly exploded.
The debris inside burst out, clattering and rattling—broken porcelain, heavy armor, and numerous shattered plaster statues.
At the same time, vibrant colors surged out from the broken space, as if someone had splashed an entire box of paint into the air, spreading out in a dazzling array of hues. But these colors were different from the colorful clouds outside; they were purely brilliant and extravagant.
Immediately afterwards, a figure was shot out from within.
It's tiny.
He's just a little kid.
"Gavin!"
Oze saw it from afar and cried out in surprise.
But Gavin's body is now strangely thin, almost without any real thickness, like a draft human figure that has been forcibly peeled off the paper.
The next instant, the surrounding pale plaster swarmed up, trying to reattach itself to the "body".
But the vines that had been lying in ambush in the lawn suddenly sprang up, intertwining and entwining like serpents, completely blocking the plaster.
The orchids, blooming to the size of heads, devoured all the plaster.
Then, thousands of troops emerged from the ruins.
But those were all oil-painted figures, bearing the marks of brushstrokes, with the light and shadow remaining unchanged as they moved.
They rushed toward the flat-faced child.
Perhaps it was the suppression of blood ties, or the suppression of "numbers," but the paper child's resistance was completely ineffective, and he was eventually held down firmly.
And amidst the churning crowd of people covered in oil paint, another small, thin figure finally emerged.
Liu Hongyi cupped her hands to her lips and shouted, "Ariel!"
Hearing the call, Ariel looked up at the balcony and smiled brightly.
He then took the thin human figure from the oil-painted figures.
Ozer stared blankly at the oil-painted figures, as if only now realizing what he was seeing.
"This is……"
His voice was almost ethereal.
"These are the first board members of the Covin Group..."
"And my ancestors..."
"Lady Tolena...is inside too..."
These oil-painted figures did not disappear; they simply rebuilt their respective scenes once again, following the colorful paint seeping out from the cracks.
An old and gloomy mansion, a sun-drenched tea garden, a small boat gently swaying under wisteria vines, and afternoon tea in the garden.
It still feels like living in a painting.
Replacing those lifeless and eerie statues, they form a unique landscape in the Palm Garden, as if the old dreams of the Coveyne family have returned.
Meanwhile, Ariel, carrying the light and thin "Gavin," was carried upstairs to the suite by Zhang Lan's vines.
As soon as he stepped into the suite, he swayed violently and almost lost his footing.
Only then did everyone realize that he was covered in wounds—his clothes were torn in many places, and there were marks on his skin that looked like paint peeling off.
Fortunately, Zhang Lan caught him, preventing him from immediately collapsing to the ground.
Liu Hongyi quickly stepped forward to help him treat his wounds.
Liu Hongshan also walked over from the side, grabbed the "Gavin" card, and examined it carefully. "Looks like a troublesome kid. Maybe we should just tear it up."
Gavin was so frightened that his face was filled with terror, and his mouth trembled so much that he dared not speak.
Liu Sheng said softly, "Of course they're troublesome. The closer you are to that person's bloodline, the more troublesome they are. That's the rule."
She paused, then looked at Ariel.
"Let's get him back to normal first."
Ariel nodded.
He had calmed down a bit by now and gently flipped his hand over.
The next instant, the thin human figure swelled up again, slowly transforming back into a three-dimensional form.
As soon as Gavin recovered, a deafening wail erupted from his trembling mouth.
"You're bullying me... You're so mean! You're bullying a little kid! Waaaaah!"
The crying was so shrill and loud that it made one's eardrums tingle.
Liu Sheng didn't even lift his eyelids. "Alright, stop crying. Take us to find your mother."
Gavin's crying stopped abruptly.
He raised his head, sobbing, and rolled his eyes around as if he were calculating something.
"my mother?"
"Of course not Helena, but your real mother."
Gavin's feigned crying was instantly silenced.
He darted around and another eye appeared, much smaller, barely filling his eye socket, squeezing his original eye to the side, which looked quite unpleasant.
"You guys know?"
Gavin's lips were slowly stretched open.
Then, a tiny head burst out of his throat.
It was clearly the shape of a baby.