Otherworld Advance Team
Chapter 1420 - 1413: Copy Paste

Chapter 1420: Chapter 1413: Copy Paste

Cheng Ziang didn’t notice her guilt, but held the pendant in both hands, bowed his head, closed his eyes, and murmured, "Hear my call, come forth..."

In fact, his incantation was meaningless, as Liseya could appear whenever he wanted, and in very rare dangerous circumstances, Liseya would even come out to protect him against his wishes. However, this was just a formality; after all, it felt somewhat off not to say anything.

With his murmuring, magical power in the air quickly converged to a point, creating familiar magical fluctuations, and Liseya’s image abruptly materialized in front of Cheng Ziang.

She still only had the form of a head, as that was all she had constructed in the beginning, not a body. However, having grown accustomed to this image, Cheng Ziang didn’t find it frightening. On the contrary, it was comforting to him.

"Liseya, ancestor, please help me. I need to know the secrets inside his head," Cheng Ziang looked up earnestly and pleaded with Liseya.

Here he was pleading rather than commanding. He usually only commanded during battle situations. After all, Liseya was, in the end, his ancestor, and the traditional values he was steeped in made it impossible for him to disregard his own ancestor’s dignity.

Liseya continued to gaze at Cheng Ziang with gentle eyes, and her silver hair, flowing with her will, softly brushed against his cheek, seemingly to comfort him.

Then suddenly, she turned her head, her eyes sharpening instantly. Shadow Edict presented a fearless front in front of everyone, but at the first sight of Liseya, he trembled in fear, his body shaking like a sieve.

As mentioned before, one of the demigods’ spirit forms’ functions was mind-reading. Liseya just needed to enter his body and come into contact with his consciousness to obtain the desired information without him having to speak.

However, correspondingly, because of the consciousness contact, the other party would also learn Liseya’s secrets. Therefore, once the Advance Team performed this kind of mind-contact interrogation, it was essentially a death sentence for the subject. They didn’t enjoy wanton killing, but they would never allow the secrets of the Advance Team to be leaked.

If Fulajie’er were present, this task would usually be hers since she was only in her thirties and possessed fewer secrets; thus, there wasn’t much risk of anything significant being exposed.

Liseya made preparations, dispersing the magic that formed her body to avoid killing him upon contact. As her image began to blur, Liseya shot into Shadow Edict’s chest like a blue comet.

Faced with the unknown terror, Shadow Edict instinctively let out a heart-wrenching scream. It was unexpected that such a ruthless killer, undaunted even by severed hands, could be so terrified of ghostly entities.

It was understandable, after all, most people during the feudal era were fearful of ghosts and spirits. The Advance Team came from a civilized world but even they were quite startled when they first encountered Fulajie’er.

Shadow Edict continued to wail, not only out of fear but also due to the discomfort of the consciousness contact. He instinctively resisted Liseya’s invasion, but she persisted in forcing her way in regardless, causing severe discomfort.

Cheng Ziang had also experienced this type of consciousness contact, but since it was voluntary on his part, he didn’t find it uncomfortable. On the contrary, the affection conveyed by Liseya gave him a warm feeling inside.

Liseya’s invasion this time was somewhat lengthy, lasting nearly half a minute, and Shadow Edict wailed throughout. Finally, Feng could no longer bear it and pressed his face to the ground with a foot to prevent him from screaming again.

Liseya, emerging from Shadow Edict’s back, guided the surrounding magical power to re-form into a visible image and then turned to look at Cheng Ziang gently.

"Is there a result?" Cheng Ziang asked urgently.

Liseya didn’t speak; she never did. She simply squinted her eyes, smilingly gazing at Cheng Ziang. At last, her image gradually dimmed and then floated to Cheng Ziang, circling him before slowly merging into his body.

The long-absent discomfort caused Cheng Ziang’s breathing to become rapid. But correspondingly, he once again felt the long-missed warmth from Liseya.

Demigods didn’t necessarily need language or text to pass on intelligence, their method of acquiring and conveying information was somewhat akin to the copy and paste function on a computer.

Liseya infiltrated Shadow Edict’s body and began to copy the information he held upon contact with his consciousness. Then she disengaged and entered Cheng Ziang’s body, connecting with his consciousness, where she only needed to paste the intelligence she’d acquired into Cheng Ziang’s mind.

It had taken Liseya half a minute to capture the information and another half a minute to paste it to Cheng Ziang. Cheng Ziang had only intended for her to find a way to rescue Yichuan Ying, but Liseya went straight ahead and copied everything that Shadow Edict experienced in most of his life to him.

After half a minute of information transfer, Cheng Ziang lowered his head and fell silent, overwhelmed by the influx of information and unable to sort it out immediately, necessitating some time to organize these reports.

He remained silent with his head bowed, lasting for about five minutes, which even made Feng start to worry about him. Then, a pained groan from Yichuan Ying disrupted his thoughts. Cheng Ziang ceased his sorting and, opening his eyes, said to Feng, "Kill him!"

Feng had been waiting for those words. Even before Cheng Ziang finished speaking, her knife had already fallen. The Kedal metal blade penetrated Shadow Edict’s nape effortlessly, severing his spine and throat, and deeply embedded itself into the soil, the gushing blood instantly staining the earth beneath his neck.

Feng then easily withdrew her long knife and wiped the bloodied blade a few times on Shadow Edict’s body. Cheng Ziang stared at Shadow Edict emotionlessly, feeling no inner turmoil. After all, the moment he decided to invade Shadow Edict’s privacy, Shadow Edict was as good as dead.

After ensuring that Shadow Edict was truly dead, Cheng Ziang quickly walked over and, together with Feng, flipped the corpse over to search for medicine. If Shadow Edict used poison, then he should’ve had some antidote to treat the toxin or at least suppress it; otherwise, being poisoned himself would be his own undoing.

Having inherited most of Shadow Edict’s knowledge and experiences, Cheng Ziang accurately found a small porcelain bottle hidden in Shadow Edict’s embrace, turned and tossed it to Hu Daoke, emphatically instructing, "First, apply two drops on the wound, then have her drink the rest."

"What’s this medicine?" Hu Daoke instinctively asked.

"Don’t worry about it; it will temporarily suppress the toxins in her body and buy us some time," Cheng Ziang said.

"Alright, I’ll do as told," Hu Daoke nodded and then opened the small porcelain bottle.

"I’m sorry..." Feng lowered her head and began to apologize to Cheng Ziang upon approaching him.

"Why are you apologizing? It’s not entirely your fault," Cheng Ziang sighed.

"But..." Feng bit her lip a bit aggrievedly.

"Nobody knew this guy still had a backup plan," Cheng Ziang patted her shoulder and instructed, "Bring his left hand here, let me look at it."

"Yes," Feng nodded, then stood up to pick up Shadow Edict’s severed left arm and handed it to Cheng Ziang, seemingly unfazed by the gruesome scene.

Cheng Ziang received the arm, and after removing the wrist guard and sleeve, he saw a hidden weapon mechanism strapped tightly to the skin. This mechanism, powered by springs, launched pencil-thin steel spikes to catch the opponent off guard. To compensate for insufficient damage, the spikes were coated with a deadly poison.

Cheng Ziang disassembled the device, noting that Feng’s chop was clever, avoiding damage to the mechanism entirely, which was merely smeared with blood. The steel spikes within the device had been fired, and the whole mechanism was in standby mode.

"Nice gadget," Cheng Ziang nodded in satisfaction. Although accustomed to high-tech equipment, he appreciated such primitive mechanical devices.

If he wasn’t mistaken, this mechanism must have been crafted by the Divine Machine Sect among the Nine Streams. He had thought these high-ranking cultivators would scorn such methods, but now it seemed, even a Dual Dao master like Shadow Edict couldn’t help but resort to little tricks.