Chapter 707: Torii Wall

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# 706

Chapter 707: Torii Wall

Seeing this scene, Wei Dong's expression remained unchanged, but his heart had already begun to panic.

He wasn't afraid of death. As a member of the Oath Society, serving as the "paratrooper" for this "Human Enclosure" destruction plan, he had long cast life and death aside.

What worried him was that he had already set up the signal transmission device, which would inevitably guide the "sentinel." If these two Magatsu Blade Lords found the signal transmission device and destroyed or relocated it, the "sentinel's" actions would definitely be affected.

In the best-case scenario, these two Magatsu Blade Lords would simply destroy the transmission device, causing the "sentinel" to lose its signal source. But if they relocated this device to some dangerous location, leading to the "sentinel's" death...

Then both the "paratroopers" and "sentinels" of this "Human Enclosure" destruction plan would be wiped out, and all the Oath Society's efforts for this operation would come to nothing.

His life and death were minor matters, but this involved the Oath Society's grand plan, even the fate of all humanity!

Wei Dong could not sit and wait for death.

"Wait!" Wei Dong suddenly spoke.

Amemiya Haruki, who had walked over to Wei Dong with blade in hand, raised an eyebrow and stopped his movements.

"I admit it." Wei Dong spoke helplessly. "That coordinate is a treasure hideout. I found a large amount of precious treasures there, but I couldn't carry them all alone, so I left the coordinates and planned to bring some equipment next time to transport them."

Hearing this answer, Lin Qiye was反而愣住了.

He had considered many possibilities. Perhaps Wei Dong would use all sorts of strange excuses to deflect, or even directly say that place was extremely dangerous, trying every means to keep himself and Amemiya Haruki away from that coordinate.

But he never expected Wei Dong to so directly and cleanly reveal the existence of treasures.

Too straightforward, too simple, too clean...

He studied Wei Dong carefully. Could someone of this person's skill, professional knowledge, and peculiar equipment really blurt out such important information so easily? After all, he hadn't even started interrogating yet.

Once these words were spoken, Lin Qiye began to find him hard to see through, and started hesitating about whether to go to the so-called "treasure." After all, to him, these "treasures" simply held no attraction.

If this was Wei Dong's trap, then stepping into it so easily would be somewhat counterproductive.

And this was precisely the effect Wei Dong wanted.

This kind of psychological博弈 was also required learning at the Oath Society.

Lin Qiye stared at the coordinate on that watch for a moment, but in the end, he wasn't trapped by Wei Dong's words. He put the watch away and glanced at Wei Dong lightly,

"In that case, you'll come with us."

Lin Qiye couldn't determine the truth of Wei Dong's words, but if there really was danger in that place, he could completely use his spiritual sense to perceive it in advance and leave.

The perimeter of this ruins had basically been searched already. They needed to go deeper.

Hearing these words, an imperceptible glint of disappointment flickered in Wei Dong's eyes, but it quickly returned to normal.

"Alright." He nodded.

Lin Qiye had already removed all weapons from his body and searched him repeatedly with spiritual sense, confirming there was no threat before tightly binding his wrists with rope, then letting him walk at the very front.

Amemiya Haruki walked to Lin Qiye's side and asked疑惑ly in a low voice, "The treasure... does it really exist?"

"Not necessarily." Lin Qiye思索着 said. "I think he's playing tricks on us, but I still can't figure out his real purpose... Let's take it one step at a time."

Amemiya Haruki had no objection.

The three followed Wei Dong toward that coordinate location. By the time the surrounding area basically no longer showed any city debris, the environment suddenly became desolate and empty.

The three walked in this direction for a long while. At the end of the horizon, like a wilderness, something finally appeared that was different.

Lin Qiye squinted toward that direction—a row of vermillion torii gates, arranged in a line like a city wall, sitting on the barren earth.

Floating debris and seaweed in the air were bounced away the moment they touched these torii gates, as if an invisible barrier blocked their entry. Even after standing in this desolate ruins for a hundred years, the surface of these torii gates still had no dust whatsoever.

The pale blue light scattered across the sky surged out from behind this torii wall, like a rushing river, splitting into numerous branches in the dark sky and covering the entire ruins' sky.

"The end of the Aurora River, seated the supreme existence dwelling in past and future."

The moment he saw this blue river surging from behind the torii, Lin Qiye immediately recalled one of Lady Wu's prophecies. His eyes narrowed slightly.

If this pale blue light was the so-called "Aurora River," then the "end" pointed to by this prophecy was somewhere behind this torii wall.

But in this chaotic, disordered ruins, how could such a bizarre torii wall appear?

Lin Qiye guessed that the core area of these ruins lay behind this torii wall, and perhaps the hidden mysteries of this place's existence were also concealed here.

"The treasure is inside there." Wei Dong stopped in front of the torii wall, turned to look at Lin Qiye and the other, and said calmly, "Do you want to go in?"

"Yes."

Lin Qiye did not hesitate in the slightest.

If before he still had doubts and apprehension about this so-called "treasure" location, seeing that it matched the prophetic location and was also the core of the ruins, he now had no other choice.

He and Amemiya Haruki had come to these ruins for this place.

Wei Dong paused for a moment, said nothing more, and walked toward one of the torii gates in front of him.

The moment his figure crossed the vermillion torii, his entire person vanished into thin air. Behind the torii, it was empty and void, completely losing any trace of his existence.

Lin Qiye's pupils constricted sharply.

In his spiritual sense perception, the moment Wei Dong stepped onto the torii, he had been like something vanished from this world. His spiritual sense searched the surroundings thoroughly but could not find the other party.

"Disappeared?!" Amemiya Haruki was equally startled.

"Don't panic." Lin Qiye calmly looked at the torii that Wei Dong had entered,沉思片刻后 said, "I'll go in first. Follow behind me."

"Alright." Amemiya Haruki nodded.

Lin Qiye's eyes clouded over with night, his entire aura becoming deep and serene. Every muscle in his body tensed as he walked to that torii gate and stepped in vigorously!

Lin Qiye's form immediately vanished behind the torii.

After Lin Qiye's form disappeared, Amemiya Haruki paused for a second before also stepping in and vanishing from the spot.