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Chapter 291: Trouble Caused by Slaying the Dragon

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After the message was relayed back to Beitian Academy, Tian Zhenggang immediately connected to the communication channel, "I’ll notify the bureau right away and arrange personnel to head over. In the meantime, please stay put and don’t act alone."

"Don’t worry," Honglian readily agreed, "we’ll stick to our previous plan."

The plan was for the police to handle the search and arrest operations.

Honglian, Wang Baihu, and Lin Qing were merely backup for dealing with the Ability Users, assisting the police action.

"You stay here, I’ll go check on Miss Lin." She instructed Wang Baihu.

By now, the vehicle had moved two blocks away from the Hongda Daily Chemical Factory, a distance from which only Wang Baihu could clearly observe the entrance of the factory.

Her partner gave an OK gesture.

Honglian jumped out of the car and went to the medical compartment at the back. As soon as she opened the door, she couldn’t help but sneeze.

So cold!

There was heating in the driver’s cabin, so the cold wasn’t noticeable, but the back compartment was just as cold as outside, with wind continuously blowing. An ordinary person would probably freeze in about ten minutes.

But the person and the dragon inside were completely unaffected, calmly facing the biting wind.

"By the way, there’s no need to keep the collector on now." Lin Qing reached out to turn off the power, smoothing her slightly disheveled hair, "Come in."

Honglian climbed into the carriage, casually closing the back door. "So..."

"I guess you want to ask if Gua Gua is really certain this is the place?" Lin Qing said proactively, "Let’s put it this way, I can understand Gua Gua’s calls. What it tells me is a hundred percent match."

"Gua!" As if to prove her words, Gua Gua also nodded vigorously.

Honglian was stunned, "Ah? Miss Lin... you can communicate with dinosaurs?"

"Unbelievable, right? Actually, I didn’t expect it either. Shixin even helped with such details." Lin Qing laughed, "It gave me an ability, which allows me to do this."

"Why didn’t you say so earlier?!"

"I also acquired the power in the Consciousness Space. Because it felt too much like a dream, I didn’t tell you immediately."

Honglian couldn’t help but twitch her mouth—turns out Wang Baihu’s intuition was right! The changes in Gua Gua happened because someone understood it! Just think... on one hand it could only command cats and dogs in a yard, while on the other it could be a sharing and communicating ’partner,’ who wouldn’t choose the latter? It’s no wonder it didn’t mind Wang Baihu!

"...Why?"

"Sorry?" Lin Qing didn’t quite understand what she was asking.

"Why does Shixin favor you so much? Isn’t it the collective consciousness of abilities, connecting countless worlds? According to you, even if this world really perished, it wouldn’t affect its existence..." Honglian couldn’t comprehend.

Lin Qing shook her head, "You still don’t get it... The World Ability Center isn’t some nebulous god; all Ability Users are closely connected with its fate, so the destruction of any world is a loss to it. It’s not omnipotent, so even though it provides help, it can’t prevent the total destruction of a world; it just keeps trying."

"..." Honglian was silent for a moment, "Sounds like it’s fighting against entropy."

Though entropy increase is a fundamental cosmic law and the end of all things, in the face of this destined conclusion, all intelligent life forms strive with all their might to delay that moment by decreasing entropy, using small orders to combat immense chaos.

"That analogy is quite apt." Lin Qing complimented, "You’re now one step closer to it."

"So when will it directly contact me?"

"Well..." Lin Qing deliberately hesitated, "I don’t know. Perhaps when you truly become someone who can determine the world’s direction, it will appear before you."

Honglian chuckled, "Me? I have no such capability."

Lin Qing didn’t answer.

After a couple of dry laughs, she paused in surprise, "Miss Lin, are you serious?"

"There are so many people in the Dimensional Limit Mechanism, if you were just an ordinary Ability User, why would I risk contacting you?" Lin Qing said indifferently.

There was a momentary silence between them.

"Gua?" Gua Gua tilted its head in curiosity.

Until they received a new message from Tian Zhenggang, it was a summary of the investigation information on Hongda Daily Chemical Factory.

"Jiang Wenbin?"

Honglian murmured softly.

Lin Qing glanced down and discovered that this person was the actual controlling shareholder of the factory, although there were multiple acquisition relationships in between, only the police could easily sift through those transfer records. "What’s with this person? Is he special?"

"Do you remember the Jiang City TV incident?" Honglian responded with another question.

"Yes."

"The special guest invited for the show at the time was the president of Gaosheng Group, Jiang Wenbin. He is quite well-known among the entrepreneurs in Jiang City, mainly operating in the network media sector."

"Ah... I remember now, the guy who moved a hundred million in cash to the show?" Lin Qing was actually on the scene back then, but she never really paid much attention to these sponsors, "An internet entrepreneur, why would he buy a chemical factory like this?"

"The time was about half a year ago..." Honglian gradually fell into deep thought, "Half a year ago?"

"Have you thought of something?"

"At that time... Jiang City experienced a strange infiltration phenomenon that occurred in mid-air. The logistics group promoted it as a mirage..."

"Uh... that was caused by Liu Shuyue." Chen Xuan could naturally hear their conversation, "She drew her sword against a dragon in the Wanshan Wilderness, accidentally creating an infiltration point. At that time, you weren’t yet a customer of the Ability Store."

Lin Qing blinked, "And then?"

"The infiltrated space didn’t last long before disappearing, but some special items seeped over from that world and fell into a park in the Celestial Ridge District." Honglian said solemnly, "At that time, Wang Baihu and I rushed to the park, finding a puddle of liquid glowing with golden light. A dog licked the liquid and underwent a terrifying mutation."

"What kind of mutation?"

She hesitated for a moment, ultimately deciding to speak up, "...it gained an ability!"

"Damn, is she talking about Dragon Blood?" Chen Xuan covered his forehead.

"What’s going on?" Lin Qing asked inwardly.

"Actually, you may have heard somewhat... " He briefly explained Liu Shuyue’s act of dragon-slaying for the people, "...refugees bathing in Dragon Blood can gain Spiritual Qi, thus crossing the threshold of practice, this is their only choice to survive in the Wanshan Wilderness. I did not expect blood would seep through the infiltration space and land over here."

That the sword could break through the world’s barrier was already beyond expectations.

Now Lin Qing understood, "Were those dragon... the liquid gleaming with golden light, collected by the Dimensional Limit Mechanism?"

"Yes, the logistics group worked overtime for three days, searching every inch of land nearby to ensure no liquid was left behind." Honglian nodded, "This item was classified as High-Level secret; if Wang Baihu and I hadn’t arrived first, we wouldn’t have qualified to access this information."

"You see, I told you so." Lin Qing couldn’t help but let out a cold laugh, "This thing is bound to be sent to headquarters for research, and then the agency would attempt to replicate it and use it on living people."

"But... this doesn’t make sense." Honglian instinctively refuted, "The mechanism’s purpose is to limit the spread of abilities; there’s no reason to proactively increase uncontrolled Ability Users! Moreover, if they really wanted to experiment, headquarters has much better options, why choose a city like Jiang City where order and public security are among the best?"

Lin Qing thought for a moment and found that what the other party said made sense. The agency is ruthless enough to spare no expense to achieve their goals, she had no doubt about that, but testing Ability Potions in Jiang City? The remote islands in the Pacific would obviously be better choices.

Moreover, based on Zhang Zhiqui’s testimony, the potion doesn’t seem quite mature yet, having a certain failure rate, and the two Ability Users forcibly triggered were of no aid to the agency, it did not align with the agency’s experimental style.

"Then who else could get this liquid?" Lin Qing asked.

Honglian opened her mouth, but no sound came out.

Bang bang bang!

Just then, Wang Baihu suddenly knocked hard on the rear window.

"There’s black smoke coming out of the factory, it seems like there’s a fire!"