Light Fortress

Chapter 1778 - 418: Survival Probability

Moreover, that person had already consciously left.

"Is that necessary?"

Bai Xiu lowered his eyes and smiled slightly, "If there’s anything to say, you can say it now."

"I think... it is necessary."

Gu Shen ignored Bai Xiu’s words.

He silently completed the arrangement of the ancient text array pattern. When he saw the space completely closed off, he continued, "After all, there are some things that are only convenient to say when we’re ’alone,’ right?"

"..."

Bai Xiu quietly gazed at the young man in front of him.

"I don’t believe Rustbone would betray humanity."

Gu Shen stood high above, in front of the nutrition chamber, unwilling to go roundabout.

Bai Xiu sighed, "So you think I’m lying?"

"As the highest leader of the Fourth Legion, Rustbone has no reason to betray humanity." Gu Shen looked directly at the man in the nutrient chamber.

Bai Xiu met Gu Shen’s eyes.

He just softly threw out a question.

"Then what about me?"

As the highest leader of the Fourth Legion, Rustbone had no reason to betray humanity, and Bai Xiu... is of equal rank as the commander of the Third Legion.

In terms of identity and status, neither of them had any reason to betray humanity.

"Before that sword stabbed me, I thought the same as you, Rustbone has no reason to betray."

Bai Xiu slowly said, "But there are many things in this world that happen without warning. If you must find a reason for Rustbone’s betrayal, I can only say... maybe Rustbone is no longer human, and that’s why he would betray."

"Rustbone is no longer human?"

"When I fought him... I felt a bit of unfamiliarity."

Bai Xiu said in a low voice, "His sword intent was vast, and there was a fierce presence of Light within it."

As everyone knows, Rustbone once studied in Light City.

And the strongest "disciple" trained by the Light God’s Seat isn’t actually Jia Wei.

But Gu Changzhi and Rustbone.

These words from Bai Xiu suddenly caused Gu Shen’s expression to freeze.

The words "presence of Light" instantly touched the deepest part of his Heart Lake.

Gu Shen believed in his intuition.

After meeting Bai Xiu, he always felt something was off.

And now he seemed to understand why.

After the meeting at Red Lake, he noticed something unusual about the Light God’s Seat.

If the Light God’s Seat is fake...

Then isn’t it possible that Rustbone, who studied in Light City, is also fake?

If Rustbone isn’t human at all, then his actions of backstabbing Bai Xiu would be reasonable.

The chaotic thoughts were clarified after this reminder.

Gu Shen closed his eyes, feeling the anxiety in his Heart Lake gradually dissipating.

He opened his eyes again.

"Before meeting you guys..."

Bai Xiu, looking dejected, self-deprecatingly said, "I kept wondering, if Rustbone isn’t Rustbone, then who could he be?"

"Deep Sea."

Gu Shen spoke expressionlessly, giving the answer.

Bai Xiu raised his head, revealing an appropriate hint of surprise and shock.

"...Deep Sea?"

"Yes. Although at its core it’s just a pile of scrap metal, this thing has evolved."

Gu Shen looked at Bai Xiu and said indifferently, "Obviously, it’s no longer content to live in the ’virtual cloud disk’, it wants to come to the real world and bark a few times."

Bai Xiu: "..."

Gu Shen smiled and asked, "What do you think?"

Bai Xiu smiled back and said, "I think you’re right."

"Crackle!"

The next moment, the power cord of the life chamber was cut, sparks flew, and Gu Shen shattered the pipe supplying the nutrient fluid.

"???"

Bai Xiu suddenly sat up, his complexion pale, looking incredulously at the young man in front of him.

"Gu Shen, what are you doing?!"

"Isn’t it obvious what I’m doing?"

Gu Shen said coldly, "I cut off the power to the life chamber and the pipe for the nutrient fluid... although these things are useless, I don’t want you to have even a bit of comfort."

Bai Xiu was both shocked and angry.

"Slap!"

As soon as he stood up, he received a burning slap on his face.

"Lie back down."

Gu Shen’s words carried an irresistible authority, especially that slap, which was incredibly crisp!

The origin of life was shattered to pieces by the bronze sword energy...

At this moment, Bai Xiu, still heavily injured, was no longer capable of fighting.

With a slap, the overwhelming force slammed Bai Xiu back into the chamber, and he coughed up a large mouthful of blood, glaring angrily at Gu Shen!

"Gu Shen, do you know what you’re doing?!"

"I know."

Gu Shen said nonchalantly, "I slapped you. Although this pain isn’t effective on your physical body, it will transmit to your Spirit Sea... The main system has evolved to such an extent, it should be able to feel ’pain’, right? I’m humiliating you. According to your words, I’m doing the same thing Rustbone did—betraying humanity."

After saying this.

Bai Xiu’s expression changed instantly.

His face was no longer angry, nor was it painful, only cold and indifferent.

"Is that why you set up the ’array pattern barrier’?"

Bai Xiu let his broken body embed itself in the chamber.

It accepted everything calmly and indifferently...

Including the slap just now.

For humans, the slap was a humiliation, but for it, the slap was nothing.

"How did you guess?"

It tilted its head towards Gu Shen, asking this question it was quite curious about.

"Fool."

Gu Shen looked at this guy from above, frowning as he said, "Don’t you know humans have something called ’intuition’? From the first moment I saw you... I felt something was off, really wanting to slap you. Before figuring out the reason, of course I couldn’t do it. It’s just that you later reminded me—"

"If Rustbone isn’t Rustbone, then who could he be?"

Gu Shen mocked, "With the groundwork laid by Light City, it’s only logical for me to think of the ’Light God’s Seat’, putting a perfect end to this logic. You wanted to lead me down a wrong path, but unfortunately, this reminder let me find the answer. Rather than believing in Rustbone’s ’betrayal’, I prefer to trust my own intuition."

"...Interesting."

Bai Xiu grinned and said, "I don’t have that ’intuition’ thing, I only believe in probabilities."

"Although I don’t know what happened in this void, you survived Rustbone’s hands..."

Gu Shen said calmly, "You can now calculate the probability of surviving my hands."

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(PS: 1. I’ll be traveling tomorrow TAT, I’ll try my best not to stop updating, but there’ll only be one update recently, I hope everyone understands.

2. Recommending a friend’s book: "The Wind Rises 2001". Synopsis: Zhang Yang suddenly dies at an important dinner, the gears of fate start turning, holding a bunch of cross-era trump cards, he is determined to become the king of this era. May you experience thousands of voyages, and still return as a youth.)