si-mexico Chapter 181, Part 5
Chapter 181, Part 5
"You're kidding, right?"
Chen Ji calmly stated, "The Three-No-Monkeys is my third domain, and there were newcomers in that domain as well—"
He suddenly stopped talking at this point.
His expression instantly became very complicated: "You entered Yun Yuan's domain?"
"Still Zhang Heng?"
Xu San said, "It doesn't matter."
"The difference between 3 and 8 is not significant. If you're unlucky, the difficulty of the earlier rounds might be higher than the later ones."
"However, the domain of the Three Wise Monkeys is quite strange."
He said thoughtfully, "I think the final step, [words], is incomplete."
Chen Ji didn't say anything, and silently tightened his backpack.
He had realized that the “words becoming law” that had been displayed in the Three Monkeys Domain was merely a microcosm of the power of speech.
Those ghosts who imitated them, despite saying so much, couldn't even compare to a single, light syllable from the Three Wise Monkeys...
He added, "But I was still a newbie at the time."
As soon as Chen Ji said this, he immediately thought of Liting Apartments and felt a little guilty.
“Yes.” Xu Sandao nodded: “So the difficulty of that domain was a compromise.”
Chen Ji remained silent and did some calculations.
He has already illuminated one and a half stars five times.
The stars were being lit up at an increasingly faster pace.
Xu Sandao didn't know when he obtained the mark, only that he had at least two stars, which meant he was at least at the 6th domain or higher.
Then there are Su Qiuyue, Chen Yuetan, and others, who had already reached at least the 9-12 range seven years ago.
Correspondingly, the Netherworld was also opened.
"So you lied to the company?"
"why?"
Chen Ji couldn't help but give Xu Sandao a deep look, and many guesses flashed through his mind.
"What if I get an A-level artifact next time?" Xu Sandao rolled his eyes. "The company is extremely strict with people in that category."
Chen Ji believed he was lying.
Xu Sandao couldn't possibly be unaware that the more times one enters the domain, the stronger one's abilities and the higher one's position.
It's probably because he underreported the number of times that Xu Sandao has remained under Tang Qin's command... which makes Xu Sandao's previous statement about "opening the Netherworld" seem very fake.
However, there is still a problem.
What was Xu Sandao's purpose in feigning weakness?
Chen Ji didn't intend to press the matter further. After getting to know Xu Sandao for a while, he discovered that Xu Sandao's speech was very unreliable.
Sometimes sincere, sometimes feigned.
"OK then."
Chen Ji simply said as he got into the car, "I'll go into the domain myself."
......
A few days later.
Spring City, Donghe District.
Chen Ji sat in a beverage shop near the school, silently waiting for the bell to ring.
Xu Sandao was on the opposite side, slurping his milk tea and looking around with a bit of curiosity.
Chen Ji was chatting in a group on his phone:
[Extremely: My uncle said something last night]
[Extreme: He once existed in the Netherworld, but was "imprisoned" there.]
[Six: What do you mean? You can be imprisoned in the Netherworld??]
[Listening to the Wind: No wonder]
[Tingfeng: He hadn't even opened a business when he was facing the company at the time.]
[Extreme: It's said that the pocket watch bound to the Netherworld has malfunctioned.]
[Extremely: But it shouldn't be broken, right? The pocket watch saved me back then, though I never saw my uncle take it out.]
[Faye: It might have been eaten by Wusu]
[Extreme: Probably not, that's an A-level monster.]
Chen Ji was chatting enthusiastically in the group when he suddenly heard laughter coming from the bar counter of the beverage shop.
It was Xu Sandao, who had walked up to the bar at some point and was chatting with the staff.
"...Yes, our store only opened in the last few years."
"Business? It's booming. There's not much competition around here."
"The Fifth Middle School lets out early, so we can close up shop earlier too. Yes, it's quite relaxing."
Chen Ji heard the employee answer very patiently, as if he regarded Xu Sandao as a franchisee.
After a while, Xu Sandao returned.
"No. 5 Middle School lets out students early in the evening," he said. "It's a rule that was established more than ten years ago."
"You can sneak in in about half an hour."
Chen Ji nodded.
He came to No. 5 Middle School to investigate the matter of Luo Lin's son.
Using Rowling as a starting point, we will slowly recreate everything that happened back then.
Neither of them spoke anymore.
The shop was quiet.
Only Xu Sandao was making a lot of noise as he sucked the last pearl from the cup.
After a while...
Xu Sandao suddenly asked, "Why are you so determined to investigate this case?"
"To be precise, it's about investigating Zeng Guichuan."
Chen Ji corrected him: "He committed a series of murders and killed a whole plane full of people."
Moreover, it was located in southern Yunnan, which made Chen Ji suspect that it might be related to the Yunnan Grand Tomb.
"Oh."
Xu Sandao said, "So you want to seek justice for the victims of that year."
"That's part of the reason," Chen Ji nodded.
"pretty good."
Xu Sandao smiled and said, "Besides you, no one else would do this for them."
He gazed at the street outside the door; night was slowly falling, and a cold wind blew away a few leaves.
Ding-dong-
Ding-dong-
Almost all the students have left.
Chen Ji lowered his head, and just as the gatekeeper turned around, he sneaked inside.
"Where did this thug come from?"
Suddenly, a woman's voice shouted angrily!
Chen Ji was startled. He saw a female teacher, around fifty years old, pointing in his direction and shouting!
"I'm talking to you, you kid with the red hair!"
As she spoke, the female teacher walked past Chen Ji; it turned out she was talking about Xu Sandao.
Xu Sandao stood there, stunned, seemingly not expecting the female teacher to have such sharp eyes.
Two seconds later, he realized what was happening and ran away in a flash.
Chen Ji silently turned his back, slung his backpack over his shoulder, and walked toward the teaching building.
Xu Sandao, may you have good fortune.
It's already evening, and there's not a soul in sight on campus; the teaching buildings are pitch black.
"Luo Lin's son was in No. 5 Middle School in 2011, so the search area..."
"You can look through the data from 09 to 13."
Chen Ji thought for a moment, then entered the teaching building by the light of his flashlight.
The traces of its recent construction are faintly visible here. The brick-red facade is almost undamaged, and as Chen Ji passes by a few classrooms, he can also see the latest teaching equipment.
It was very similar to Chen Ji's high school.
He went up floor by floor, and on the third floor, he saw the archives.
Click.
Chen Ji easily unlocked the lock.
"2024, 2023....."
"2018, 2017....."
Chen Ji's brows gradually furrowed.
The earliest student files in the archives date back to 2014!
This archive only contains data from the last ten years.
"But we can't lose the rest, can we?" he said softly, after thinking for a moment.
This building is newly built. Is it possible that old materials were stored in the old teaching building?
at this time.
A cold hand suddenly patted Chen Ji's shoulder.