Chapter 139: Use your invincible metaphysics to think of a solution (6k)

"The blasphemer created a mysterious liquid underground... Yue Hong was an insider and deliberately let the demon go..."

Ruan Qingsha was extremely surprised by what Shen Cheng said.

If someone else said this, she would definitely think that the other person was joking.

But Ruan Qingsha completely believed what Shen Cheng said. She believed in her own judgment of people and knew that Shen Cheng was not the kind of person who would frame someone for his own selfish desires.

Not to mention that he is also a star ranger and is irreconcilable with evil.

"A person like Yue Hong would actually collude with demons."

This is something that Ruan Qingsha couldn't understand. Yue Hong's grandparents were all businessmen and politicians. They were local bosses in the state capital and had a lot of connections and resources.

A person like him who comes from a prominent family and has a bright future will be able to hold a high position in the future even if he follows the rules.

If his collusion with the devil is exposed, it will definitely be a devastating blow to his future, and he may even be thrown into jail.

Shen Cheng gave another possible angle: "Maybe they are not colluding with the demons, but using the demons to do something shady?"

Ruan Qingsha shook her head: "No matter what the situation is, being associated with demons is a serious stain."

Seeing her say that, Shen Cheng couldn't help but laugh: "Is it really a major stain? Why do I find that many high-ranking officials and politicians are willing to turn into monsters? It can't be that they like COS, right?"

Not to mention people far away, so many upper-class people in Tailing City are flocking to the demon serum and are willing to become demons.

High-level demon hunters like Li Kedi, as well as the demon hunters and the Living Tribunal that Shen Cheng had dealt with, all turned into demons at the slightest disagreement.

If Yue Hong was simply colluding with demons and had not turned into a demon himself, he would appear to be handsome.

"Those high-ranking officials and politicians are willing to turn into demons because they hope to gain a longer life or a stronger body. Turning into a demon is just a shortcut, and they don't really want to go along with the demons."

Having said that, Ruan Qingsha also knew that her explanation was very weak.

If a person turns into a demon, can he still sit on the side of humans?

Shen Cheng didn't continue to dwell on this question: "What are you going to do?"

"I can only secretly watch Yue Hong's every move."

Ruan Qingsha thought for a moment, then said helplessly, "It's a pity that it's useless for me to be the only one who believes you. Without solid evidence, others will not believe what you say."

Shen Cheng suggested: "Can't you use the fishing enforcement you used in Tailing City again?"

In Tailing City, the evidence of the production of the demon serum was destroyed by Li Kedi and others, but in the end he was forced to jump out by Ruan Qingsha.

Ruan Qingsha shook her head: "The situation is different. We already have a general understanding of the demon serum. Li Kedi has no other way to go. He was forced into a desperate situation by us and had to take action."

"Now we have no evidence except your oral account of the experience, and we don't know what Yue Hong's purpose is. Any rash action will only alert the enemy."

Seeing that she was at a loss, Shen Cheng said thoughtfully: "When I was underground, I accidentally discovered the source of the mysterious liquid."

Ruan Qingsha immediately looked at him in surprise: "Where?"

"I've already written down the location, but..." Shen Cheng said to her, "We should keep this a secret and not report it to the Public Security Bureau."

"why?"

Ruan Qingsha frowned, and quickly reacted: "Are you saying that there are people like Yue Hong in the Public Security Bureau who are colluding with demons?"

"I just thought it was a possibility."

Shen Cheng reminded her: "I now remember the way to the source of the mysterious liquid. If this matter gets out, do you think the other party will block that way overnight, just like the explosion in the sewer today?"

Ruan Qingsha understood what Shen Cheng meant.

If there is a traitor in the General Security Bureau, then when she reports the matter, the other party will immediately destroy the road leading to the mysterious source. There is no need to go through so much trouble, just install a bomb and detonate it.

It will be difficult to find such a road again in the future.

But if we know the source but don't solve it quickly, there will be more victims who accidentally come into contact with the mysterious liquid.

Seeing Ruan Qingsha frowning in thought, Shen Cheng suggested: "Do you have someone you absolutely trust, such as your teacher? You can tell her about this and let her make the decision."

"My teacher is very busy and won't take care of such trivial matters."

Ruan Qingsha hesitated for a moment, then nodded slowly: "But I will find time to talk to her."

……

Ruan Qingsha left Shen Cheng's house not long after she left, preparing to investigate Yue Hong in secret.

Shen Cheng put the matter behind him. After all, it had little to do with him, so he just let Ruan Qingsha deal with it.

In the next few days, Ruan Qingsha was so busy that she was nowhere to be seen and didn't even call her. Shen Cheng was happy to have some free time.

However, he still had something that had been put off for a long time - to help Xiao Qingque overcome the fear of death.

Only by overcoming the fear of death can a vampire master his true form.

If Xiao Qingque can also reach the extraordinary level, then Shen Cheng will have an extra capable helper and will not have to worry about protecting her in the future.

Early that morning, Shen Cheng called Xiao Qingque to his bedroom.

"What did you ask me to do?"

Xiao Qingque looked like he hadn't woken up yet.

She had a very comfortable time during this period. Shen Cheng did not give her any hellish training, nor did he urge her to update more.

She now plays cards all night long every night, and spends the day at home catching up on sleep or playing games or reading novels, as if she has returned to the happy times when she first occupied Shen Cheng's house.

Shen Cheng didn't keep her in suspense and went straight to the point: "I said before that I would help you overcome your fear of death. I happen to have some time these days, so I will help you solve this problem."

Xiao Qingque had just sat on the ground when he heard Shen Cheng's words. He shuddered all over and stood up again in fright.

"I suddenly remembered that I haven't updated today. I'll go write something first, hahaha."

As she spoke, she turned and ran out.

Vampires are inherently more afraid of death than ordinary humans, and Xiao Qingque is the worst among them.

Overcoming the fear of death, these words made her tremble in her heart.

She would rather live like this for the rest of her life than try to overcome death.

What if I can't overcome it, then I'm really dead, right?

When it comes to his fear of death, Xiao Qingque is very confident in himself.

"Come back here."

Shen Cheng's face darkened and he pointed at the ground in front of him: "Sit down."

Under her order, Xiao Qingque had no choice but to roll back obediently and sit in front of Shen Cheng.

Seeing her sad face, Shen Cheng said earnestly: "Have you forgotten what Du Tianming said? Only those with strong strength are qualified to obtain his research results. Don't you want to break the curse of open blood?"

Xiao Qingque answered without hesitation: "No!"

Shen Cheng's words of persuasion were immediately choked back by her: "Why don't you want to?"

"Just resolve the curse of the blood, I'm not afraid of being implicated by you."

Xiao Qingque blinked, as if it was a matter of course: "If an enemy appears that even you can't deal with, if you die, then even if there is no source blood curse, won't I have to die with you? Then what's the point of me removing the curse?"

"Then can't you become stronger and help me?"

Shen Cheng was so disappointed: "I was the one who protected you every time, but now all you do is eat and sleep, play cards and have fun. Are you still any use?"

Xiao Qingque lowered his head and muttered softly: "Then every time we encounter trouble, it is you who causes it. I stay at home all the time and I don't cause trouble."

Shen Cheng: “…”

I couldn't refute it for a moment.

He was somewhat helpless: "Didn't you want to become stronger before? Why did you suddenly regress?"

Xiao Qingque explained in a low voice: "I wanted to become stronger before because I wanted to settle accounts with my mother. Now that my mother is dead, I certainly have no motivation to become stronger."

Seeing that she seemed to have forgotten what happened, Shen Cheng had to remind her: "Have you forgotten that there is a woman watching you in secret? Aren't you afraid that she will cut you into pieces again?"

Before, Shen Cheng had suspected that this woman was Du Haijing, but after reading Du Haijing's memory, he found that she had never done so.

The identity of this woman who had chopped Xiao Qingque into pieces twice is still unknown.

Shen Cheng also has another suspect, that is the magician who always likes to steal his car.

Maybe she was the one who cut Xiao Qingque into pieces. Only such a fun-loving person could do such a boring thing.

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Sneeze!

A magician somewhere suddenly sneezed again.

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Hearing Shen Cheng's words, Xiao Qingque's face suddenly turned pale again, recalling the helplessness and fear of being dismembered.

At that time, she did swear in her heart that she would become stronger and no longer let others bully her.

However, she was a person who was a bit erratic to begin with, and she hadn't encountered any danger during this period, so she suddenly became lazy again.

Seeing that Xiao Qingque had nothing to say, Shen Cheng did not give her a chance to refuse: "Don't delay any longer, start now."

"So how are you going to help me overcome death?"

Xiao Qingque asked pitifully, "Are you going to beat me half to death and then rescue me?"

If such a violent method is used, she would rather die than surrender.

No, it should be non-violent non-cooperation.

"That's too troublesome. I have a more efficient method that will not cause any harm to your body."

Shen Cheng reached out to Xiao Qingque, ready to use cognitive modification to help her overcome her fear of death.

Cognitive modification can simulate perceptions that are more realistic than hallucinations, allowing people to experience death that is exactly the same as the real thing.

We are honest and fair to everyone and never add water to the products.

So Shen Cheng planned to use cognitive modification to let Xiao Qingque experience death many times, so that she would become more and more familiar with the feeling of death.

All fear comes from the unknown. No matter how scary something is, once you experience it many times, it will no longer be a big deal.

Just as he stretched out his hand, Xiao Qingque suddenly stopped him: "Wait a minute, can I go ask Xiaoyanzi for a fortune first?"

With Yan Qiuli, a genius in metaphysics, by his side, Xiao Qingque has developed the habit of asking her for divination no matter what he does.

Shen Cheng nodded in agreement: "Go ahead."

It would be possible if divination could be used to make Xiao Qingque relax.

Xiao Qingque ran out of the room. After a while, she ran back with a nervous look on her face, holding a Joker card in her hand.

"shit!"

Xiao Qingque handed the Joker card to Shen Cheng: "The result of the divination is dangerous. We can't continue."

Shen Cheng looked at Yan Qiuli who followed him and asked, "Is there really any danger?"

Yan Qiuli corrected him, "It should be said that there is danger, just like when we were on a plane and encountered robbers before." Shen Cheng nodded, then took the Joker card from Xiao Qingque and tore it up directly: "Divination is fake, it's just a psychological effect, don't be superstitious."

Xiao Qingque: “…”

Yan Qiuli: “…”

You could at least say it behind my back, brother. Aren't you calling me a liar to my face?
Xiao Qingque was extremely angry.

But she knew that getting angry at Shen Cheng was useless, so she could only turn her head to look at Yan Qiuli and give her a look for help.

Little Swallow, please use your invincible metaphysics to think of a solution!

Yan Qiuli shrugged, showing a helpless expression.

Xiao Qingque still wanted to resist stubbornly, but Shen Cheng had already activated his ability to modify cognition.

Xiao Qingque suddenly felt his feet were empty.

Pfft!
She suddenly fell into the sea, and the cold sea water poured into her mouth and nose.

She struggled subconsciously, but her hands and feet could not move.

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"

Xiao Qingque opened her eyes wide in horror and found herself falling into a sea of ​​red.

Above my head is the sun-drenched water surface, which seems to be within reach.

She lowered her head and saw the bottomless darkness. Iron chains stretched out from the bottom of the sea, tightly locking her limbs and dragging her down.

The sea surface represents new life, and the seabed represents death.

Sinking means heading towards death.

After this thought emerged in his mind, a huge fear of death tightly enveloped Xiao Qingque's body and mind.

The fear turned into more chains, tightly wrapped around her body and dragged her towards the bottom of the sea.

The more fearful you are, the faster you sink, and the closer you are to death, the more fearful you become. It is almost an unsolvable cycle.

Xiao Qingque struggled desperately and tried to use her abilities, but she found that she had become an ordinary person and could not use any of her abilities.

As he sank deeper, in the dark seabed, Xiao Qingque saw countless people with distorted faces and faces full of fear. Like himself, they were bound by chains and floating in the sea.

Xiao Qingque was so frightened that his expression was distorted and he quickly sank to the bottom of the sea, becoming one of the countless losers below.

"Brother Shen, will this really work?"

Yan Qiuli stood beside Shen Cheng and asked with a worried look on her face.

In front of the two men, Xiao Qingque was lying on the ground, his face pale, his distorted expression full of fear, and his hands and feet twitching constantly.

Like a drowning person.

Shen Cheng frowned slightly. He was just simply simulating the situation he had encountered when he overcame death before.

I didn't expect Xiao Qingque to be so fragile that he couldn't hold on for just a few seconds.

Shen Cheng did not give up halfway and continued to proceed according to the established plan.

Xiao Qingque, who felt like he was drowning once, suddenly found himself back on land.

She didn't bother to look at the situation around her. She lay on the ground gasping for breath. Her mind was full of fear and she was unable to think.

Before she could recover, a dozen people armed with weapons suddenly appeared around her.

This group of people surrounded Xiao Qingque and chopped him into meat paste on the spot just like chopping melons and vegetables.

"Brother Shen, please stop now."

Yan Qiuli was walking around in the room, unable to help but pleading with Shen Cheng, "Sister Qingque is dying."

Xiao Qingque, lying on the floor, looked like he was on the verge of death. His eyes were rolled back, his mouth was open, his limbs were twisted abnormally, and even his heartbeat was failing.

Seeing her like this, Shen Cheng frowned and had to cancel the cognitive modification.

Although vampires are difficult to die, cognitive modification has a very scary effect, which is to make you think you are dead.

If Xiao Qingque really accepted her own death under cognitive modification, even if her body was fine, her brain would become brain dead.

"No, I don't want it anymore."

When Xiao Qingque woke up, she burst into tears and curled up under the bed.

Although Shen Cheng could force Xiao Qingque to continue with orders, when he saw her pale face and frightened and panicked eyes, he knew that her spirit had reached its limit.

If this continues, she will most likely suffer a mental breakdown.

Seeing this result, Shen Cheng was also very helpless.

It was obvious that during the previous hellish training, Xiao Qingque had gritted his teeth and persevered, showing himself to be very resilient and could not be harmed no matter what the training was like.

I didn't expect that just letting her experience the feeling of death would completely break her defenses.

Shen Cheng guessed that this situation occurred because Xiao Qingque's mental resistance was relatively low and she was too afraid of death.

Rather than helping her overcome her fear of death, cognitive modification actually made her fear of death worse.

This will create a dead loop.

In order for Xiao Qingque to overcome her fear of death, she must first get used to death. However, when she experiences death, her fear of death will deepen.

With Yan Qiuli's comfort, Xiao Qingque gradually stopped crying and crawled out from under the bed.

However, she curled up in Yan Qiuli's arms, her eyes like a frightened little animal, and she was unwilling to separate from her no matter what.

Seeing this situation, Shen Cheng was a little embarrassed. He didn't expect that he would end up making things worse.

But he won't give up, he can only find another way.

Just at this moment, Shen Cheng's cell phone rang.

He took it out and saw that it was Tianxuanxing who called.

After they parted in Tailing City, the two sides had not been in contact since then, and Shen Cheng had been waiting for a call from Tianxuanxing.

He asked Yan Qiuli to comfort Xiao Qingque, and then went outside to answer the phone.

"You finally called me."

Shen Cheng's tone carried a hint of joy at meeting an old friend again: "I thought you had forgotten me and found a new lover."

Tian Xuanxing's calm voice rang out from the phone: "The possibility that I will forget you is only 0.0001%, which can be basically determined to be zero in probability theory, so you don't have to worry about this impossible thing happening."

"I was just joking with you, you don't have to explain it so seriously."

“I’m kidding you too, because probability doesn’t have a hard and fast limit that defines when a probability can be considered zero.”

"..."

Shen Cheng suddenly understood how others felt when they heard his jokes. It was really awkward and cold.

He changed the subject: "Have you reached the state capital now?"

"I have arrived here for a long time. I was dealing with some matters before. I only have some free time today."

Tianxuanxing invited Shen Cheng: "If you have nothing to do now, I hope you can come over. I just happen to have something to ask of you."

"No problem, I'll be there right away."

Shen Cheng happened to have nothing to do now, and after hanging up the call, he wanted to ask Xiao Qingque to take him there, but in her current condition, it might not be appropriate for her to go out.

"Qiu Li, I have to go out for something. You stay at home and take good care of Qingque."

"Okay, take care, brother."

After Shen Cheng left, Yan Qiuli whispered after a while, "He's gone."

Xiao Qingque, who was lying in her arms, opened his eyes immediately and did not look like he was on the verge of a mental breakdown.

She let out a long sigh: "It was a close call. Fortunately, my acting skills are excellent, and I was suppressing my heartbeat the whole time, so no one noticed the flaw."

Just now when Xiao Qingque ran out to find Yan Qiuli, he quietly asked her to help him act out a play.

The clown card was also fake, and Yan Qiuli's divination for Xiao Qingque today was not dangerous.

However, the appearance of the Joker card made Shen Cheng mistakenly believe that cognitive modification would really pose a danger to Xiao Qingque, so he stopped in time.

This is the power of metaphysics. Even though Shen Cheng said he didn't believe it, his body was honest.

Yan Qiuli asked in confusion: "Why did you lie to Brother Shen?"

"How can I not lie to him? Didn't you see how ruthless he was?"

A hint of fear flashed across Xiao Qingque's eyes: "If I don't act, he will play me to death."

Although she had not yet reached the point of a mental breakdown, Shen Cheng's cognitive modification just now made her feel extremely frightened and almost peed her pants.

It’s real urine, and I’m still holding it in.

If this continued, she couldn't rule out the possibility that she would be frightened to the point of having a mental breakdown.

"It's not as serious as you say. Brother Shen is obviously doing this for your own good."

"Don't let him fool you. He just wants me to become stronger and find a free helper."

Xiao Qingque hugged Yan Qiuli, put his face on her little lotus, and hummed twice: "Sister, you are the only one who is really good to me."

"Go away, go away!"

Yan Qiuli pushed Xiao Qingque away with disdain: "If I help you deceive Brother Shen like this, he will definitely be angry with me if he finds out."

"What are you afraid of? Just push it all onto me when the time comes."

Xiao Qingque pounced over and started playing with Yan Qiuli.

……

It is very inconvenient to travel without a car. Shen Cheng once again experienced the helplessness behind this sentence.

But he didn't want to buy a car, otherwise it would only benefit the magician who was probably still watching him secretly.

So he could only wait and see if some kind-hearted person would give him one.

It would be best if it was a famous car, and the price could not be lower than Ruan Qingsha’s luxury car, and the color could be black, but white is also fine.

Sitting in the taxi, Shen Cheng recalled what had just happened and always felt that something was wrong.

But before he could think it through, he had already arrived at Tianxuanxing's new residence in the provincial capital - still the familiar private warehouse.

The door was not locked. Shen Cheng pushed it open and saw it was filled with familiar boxes.

He came to the middle of the warehouse and saw the familiar display again.

The display lit up, and the familiar Tianxuan star appeared on it.

At this moment, Shen Cheng felt as if he was not in the provincial capital, but returned to Tailing City.

(End of this chapter)