After Chen Chuan's blade flashed, his eyes reflected the astonished expression on Assistant Ling's head. The latter seemed unable to believe that his blade was so swift and sharp.
At this moment, Hong Fu's blade and the meteor hammer that had been dragged back both landed on him, each producing a loud sound.
However, despite such powerful attacks landing on him, he didn't even flinch, and as if ignoring them, he reached out and grabbed Assistant Ling's hair, suspending him there, while letting the headless corpse fall from the True Form Tree.
At this moment, Hong Fu suddenly paused, her eyes flickering between coldness and agility, but she didn't attack him again, instead standing to the side with her blade.
Chen Chuan, holding Assistant Ling's head up, said calmly, "Assistant Ling, you've lost."
Assistant Ling's face showed a hint of agreement, and he smiled, saying, "Yes, you won. Was that Spiritual Perception just now…"
He revealed an admiring expression, "I was right about you. With such Strength, if you joined us, the chances of our vision succeeding would be greater. What a pity."
Chen Chuan stared at him and said, "I want to ask you, you said someone in the Processing Bureau asked you to deal with me. Do you know who that person is?"
Assistant Ling said, "I regret to say that I only received the message from an intermediary. That person was very careful and didn't reveal their identity. You know, I would leave after the success, so I don't care who that person is, as long as it benefits my actions."
Chen Chuan saw from the Spirit emanating from him that he was telling the reality, so he asked, "Then is this True Form Tree currently in the Convergence Zone?"Assistant Ling answered this very readily, "Yes, it's there. Our people are watching it. If Supervisor Chen is interested, you can try to find it. I look forward to your choice, although I won't be able to see the result."
"Besides you, who else in the Academy is involved in this?"
Assistant Ling smiled and said, "Supervisor Chen, would you believe me if I told you the answer to that question?"
Chen Chuan nodded. "Last question," he fixed his gaze on the person's face, "The Great Boom is coming. According to your plan, if the True Form Tree hasn't achieved what you want before then, what will you do?"
Assistant Ling's smile didn't change. He said, "The Great Boom might arrive in a few years, or it might be in more than ten years. Precisely because time is pressing, we can't stop our steps and must seize every second to complete these things by any means possible.
If it's not completed before it arrives, then we'll enter the Convergence Zone in advance. That's where the two worlds first merge, capable of bearing the aftershocks of both worlds. The Government and Company both have arrangements there. It's the most likely place to continue existing, and we will continue our work there."
Chen Chuan said, "So, your so-called preparations, your so-called ideals, in the end, you still choose to retreat into the Convergence Zone?"
Assistant Ling asked in confusion, "Is there something wrong with that? It's precisely because of the True Form Tree that people no longer have to be confined to their physical forms, they can temporarily abandon these burdens and reside within it in the form of consciousness, simply waiting for the day of rebirth."
He said regretfully, "Supervisor Chen, I really hope you'll reconsider and not limit yourself to the inherent shackles and perceptions of humans or the world. The world is changing, and the people in the world should also abandon the past and reshape their perceptions."
After Assistant Ling finished speaking, he saw Chen Chuan's calm eyes, and then he seemed to realize something. Just as he was about to say something, his face suddenly twisted, and his head began to swell, as if a Strength was about to burst out from within.
After the head stretched to its limit, with a muffled bang, the head exploded completely, like a grand firework bursting here.
Chen Chuan watched calmly. He slowly retracted his hand, a transparent and slender branch hanging on his finger, which was the Boundary Token that Assistant Ling wore.
Testing this thing might lead to some discoveries.
With Assistant Ling's death, the energy field authority of the entire aerial garden naturally fell to him. Because he had the highest authority here.
Chen Chuan glanced at Hong Fu, whose eyes were momentarily confused before returning to their agility, and she stared deeply at him.
He was about to deactivate the energy field when Hong Fu suddenly spoke, "I want to leave here."
Chen Chuan looked at Hong Fu in surprise. This was the first time he had heard Hong Fu speak in this state. Most of the time, he heard a cold and emotionless voice.
He asked, "Why?"
Hong Fu lowered her eyes and said, "Because of my autonomous consciousness. The Academy can tolerate the existence of my autonomous consciousness because I can make more autonomous reactions, to better serve them, but that's on the premise that it conforms to their wishes.
But just now, I resisted under clear instructions. This has been recorded, and the Academy will definitely try to "correct' it, to obliterate my consciousness."
Chen Chuan nodded and asked, "What do you need me to do?"
Hong Fu looked at his blade. "The Convergence Zone's passage is open. I can go there. The Academy's program doesn't allow external consciousnesses to go there. According to the program, if I break away, I must cut off contact in time and self-purify."
Her agile eyes looked at Chen Chuan, "I will try to go there. Your blade can sever my external consciousness from the main body, and then I can break free from it."
Chen Chuan cautiously asked, "What Influence will this have on your main body?"
Hong Fu answered truthfully, "There will be some Influence, but the main body can recover quickly, and the consciousness that appears again in the future will be another me who completely obeys orders."
Chen Chuan understood and nodded without hesitation, saying, "Okay, I'll help you."
Hong Fu's eyes looked at him for a moment, then she suddenly transformed into a fluttering red shadow, turning and falling towards the Convergence Zone's passage.
At this moment, Chen Chuan closed his eyes slightly. He carefully felt it, and indeed felt a Spirit aura, which seemed like a wisp of invisible vortex, extending towards the depths of the Convergence Zone.
He stood on a branch, held the hilt of the Snow Emperor Blade, and gradually raised the Spirit aura on his body. After fully ascending to the peak, his eyes opened, and he leaped, holding the blade with both hands, raising it high, and then falling from the air, swinging it heavily at the same time!
A Blade flash swept across the Convergence Zone's passage, straight to the ground!
With a bang, his feet firmly stepped on the ground, and on one side, on that huge Convergence Zone's passage, that flying Spirit vortex was severed from the end, and the front end naturally dispersed outward.
He slowly straightened up and glanced. There was no more movement coming from the opposite side. It seemed that Hong Fu had broken free from her restraints and left freely.
However, in the future, the Academy would probably never see the Hong Fu with self-awareness again.
He turned around, about to choose to deactivate the scene here, but at this moment, he suddenly felt something. Looking back, he saw a strand of red scarf floating over, and then spinning and flying into the air.
He looked up and felt a Thought transmitted from above. Hong Fu's consciousness, detached from the main body, became rootless duckweed and had to have a host, otherwise it could not survive for long. Therefore, she did not choose to leave immediately, but wanted to choose him as her attachment.
In return, if he encountered a crisis that was difficult to handle, she would also show up to help and protect him. If he was unwilling, she would leave and seek another sustenance.
Chen Chuan looked at the red scarf floating above, thought for a moment, and nodded. Then the scarf fell down, finally draped around his neck, and fluttered with a gust of air.
Chen Chuan glanced at it, then tapped the Boundary Token. After a moment, the surrounding scene collapsed like shattering.
He looked up and watched the brains hanging on the tree disappear one by one. The figure of Instructor Wu appeared in his mind, as well as the notes he had recorded. And he remembered the first Anomaly he handled when he entered Central City, remembered the innocent Xiaoman who was killed, and his brother who had become a mannequin.
He had a strange feeling that one of the heads on that tree might be Xiaoman's brother.
As all the light and shadows disappeared, this place once again turned into the aerial garden.
Everywhere was filled with birdsong and the fragrance of flowers, with colorful flowers and trees, as if those ugliness had never appeared before.
At this moment, he glanced and saw Assistant Ling's headless corpse lying there, with the set of meteor hammers not far away, and his Snow Emperor Blade's scabbard had fallen to the other end.
He walked over, picked up the scabbard, Sheathed the Snow Emperor Blade, then tapped the Boundary Token and drafted a report.
It roughly stated that Wuyi Academy's Assistant Ling Jianxing had attempted to attack him and had been killed. He requested that personnel be dispatched immediately to take away the body and inspect it, and at the same time reminded Safe Shield to activate the distrust clause.
Since Assistant Ling had clearly stated that there was a problem in the Processing Bureau, he certainly had to be on guard. He had to try to cover up this matter in order to conduct a secret investigation.
Also, Assistant Ling was able to obtain higher authority, it was hard to say that it was not authorized by some people. And he remembered that the ring competition was proposed by Vice-Principal Tan, it was hard to say that this matter was not related to him.
This Vice-Principal Tan was also attending a meeting in White Bird District at this moment, and was not in the Academy when the incident occurred, which could be said to have avoided it perfectly.
The "distrust clause" was used in this situation. Only the Investigation Director with real power had the authority to activate it.
Before he submitted the report to the higher-ups and reached a preliminary conclusion, this news would not be disclosed to any other unrelated personnel, nor would it be allowed to transmit messages to other places, in order to maintain a state of information lockdown.
In less than a quarter of an hour, an elite processing team from the Processing Bureau arrived at the Academy, took over and began to handle the matter.
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