My Misfortune Crushed Instances-Chapter 73: You Mean That Zuo Qiutian?
Wang Ba was a bit bewildered.
Before Li Rui entered the Secret Realm, he had anticipated that things inside might get turned upside down.
But he originally thought the term "turned upside down" was an exaggeration, not expecting it to be a literal description.
The Demon King as tall as a mountain burst out from the ground, three NPCs shattered the Silent Forest into pieces, and most miraculously, Li Rui survived amidst the storm all by making up stories with his mouth.
Not just Wang Ba, even Wen Yan and the knowledgeable Wu Bing felt that it was utterly unbelievable.
At this moment, Li Rui also expressed his doubt: "Isn’t it said that the higher the level, the slower the upgrade? How come I feel it’s getting faster?"
"Without the world events, you’d be at most level 14 now!" Wang Ba replied irritably.
Everyone was now waiting in the small meeting room for Wu Mengying to arrive. Although Li Rui had already awakened, they couldn’t randomly share the news with other agencies; they had to first report to the direct supervisor.
Wang Ba scratched his chin: "But... I feel like I’ve forgotten something?"
"You didn’t have tasks today, you didn’t even have to come, what could you have forgotten?" Wu Bing asked. He always envied the action group for not needing to be on duty; their support group had to come almost every day.
Suddenly, Wen Yan exclaimed softly: "Oh no! He Chengli and Wu Sun haven’t been released yet."
The group hurried out, releasing the two who were still muttering in the awakening rooms next door.
"Ahem, the sound isolation in the awakening room is pretty good." Wu Bing chuckled awkwardly.
While everyone was comforting Wu Sun and the others, Wu Mengying arrived.
The three people involved were immediately called to the meeting room to report on the situation in the Secret Realm.
.....
"Son, you’re awake?"
The woman’s voice conveyed immeasurable joy.
Huo Yun opened his eyes to see his parents, friends, and the concerned expression of the guard Luo Que.
The Huo family’s preparations were always thorough; just as he woke up, a private doctor approached to check his condition, their actions were swift, some were preparing equipment, while others were loosening the safety straps.
However, as soon as Huo Yun loosened his restraints, he immediately jumped off.
"Checking can wait, Dad, I need to choose a piece of equipment for Li Rui."
"Who?"
Huo’s father was startled, "You mean the person you want to recruit?"
"Not recruit, but to befriend."
Huo Yun said assertively, "Can you lend me some authority first, I’m afraid that equipment of lower quality won’t catch his attention."
The competition within the Huo family was quite intense, unlike He Chengli, who could pick freely; as a younger competitor, his authority was restricted.
Huo’s father listened to his request and hesitated: "Why exactly...."
"Come on, Dad, hurry up, I have to get the stuff out right away, it can’t wait even a day."
Huo Yun’s parents exchanged glances, feeling quite puzzled.
Earlier he was confidently stating, he would use his strength to make others submit, and then recruit them as underlings.
But after coming out of the Secret Realm, he immediately became the one who was persuaded and actively went to become someone else’s underling?
...
The final meeting of the Baili Association’s Highest Committee regarding the Secret Realm battlefield had already begun.
All committee members and provincial presidents were in attendance, decisions regarding candidates, support policies, and other relevant matters would be finalized today.
However, at this moment, Hee Qiunian and Huo Yingjun were passing notes under the table.
[Received news, those kids are all out, everyone else has regained consciousness as well.]
[What’s going on?]
[The other two world NPCs have appeared.]
[But that’s Zuo Qiutian, before the other two arrive, it’s enough to kill them ten times over.]
[I don’t know, we’ll ask after the meeting.]
The two old men began to feel the torment.
They even recalled the feeling of the last 20 minutes of the last class before the weekend during this incredibly important meeting.
"The decision has been passed unanimously, now I’ll submit it to the headquarters. Thank you all for these few days of hard work."
After a round of polite applause, the meeting officially ended.
He and Huo immediately went to find Song Yao.
"What are you doing?"
President Song looked puzzled, sitting with other presidents, not participating in the note-passing activity.
"Hurry, ask about the people in the Silent Forest who’ve come out."
Upon hearing their words, he quickly took out the phone he had put on silent mode.
Missed calls 99+.
He glanced, seeing all sorts of people, inquiries from relation networks of others in the Silent Forest and provincial associations.
Scrolling further, he saw Wu Mengying’s call and promptly dialed back.
"Hello, Xiaowu, Li Rui woke up, tell me about the situation."
He spoke while walking over to the window.
Huo Yingjun whispered: "What’s his relationship with Li Rui, why directly ask there?"
Hee Qiunian replied: "Probably thinks if there’s a problem in the Secret Realm, it’s likely related to that kid."
"How can it be so accurate." Huo Yingjun was skeptical.
The two had already regained their calm mindset, silently waiting for the result beside him, also using their experience to speculate what had happened.
Having dominated the Secret Realm World for decades, their experience was immensely rich.
After pondering for a while, they both reached only one conclusion.
"Only thing to do is find a place to hide, wait for the righteous world NPCs to rescue."
They spoke in unison.
Being authoritative figures in the Extraordinary World, their conclusions, if not a hundred percent correct, were mostly accurate.
"However."
Hee Qiunian shook his head slightly, "I can’t figure it out, I’ve been to the Silent Forest, back then even led my team to publish a premium strategy, if Zuo Qiutian wants to find them there.... easy as pie."
Huo Yingjun agreed: "Indeed, I also can’t think of any way to delay it for so long."
"Stop guessing."
Song Yao had finished his phone call and sat opposite the two, "You could never guess the truth in this lifetime."
"Hurry up and spill." Huo Yingjun impatiently slapped the sofa armrest.
"Zuo Qiutian has a method to create human skin puppets, he placed seven puppets in the forest to search for Secret Realm agents, after killing them sealed their souls with soul box, hence we’ve seen reports of souls dissipating all over."
As Song Yao spoke, the other two were deep in thought.
"Li Rui’s team of three killed the puppets, saved Huo Yun, and the four hid at the southwestern edge of the Silent Forest, trying to avoid Zuo Qiutian’s search."
Hee Qiunian frowned, "It’s not wrong to think so, but in the face of absolute power, ideas are useless. If they killed the puppets, Zuo Qiutian would definitely find a way to locate them."
"Indeed."
Song Yao hesitated a bit and said, "He found them, but what I’m going to say next might sound a bit absurd, but both Xiaohe and a novice agent from Huangliang’s association can prove it’s true."
The other two nodded quickly, they were extremely curious.
"Li Rui threatened Zuo Qiutian with a soul box, forcing him to let the others go. Then he ventured with him into the depths of the Silent Forest, where there’s a Demon King’s remains, and the man named Zuo wanted to resurrect that thing."
"So, he prevented the Demon King’s resurrection?"
"Exactly." 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮
"How is this possible? What’s the reason for Zuo Qiutian to listen to him?"
Song Yao was also speechless: "He fabricated a story, convincing Zuo Qiutian that resurrecting the Demon King was a trap set by Shenxiao Palace, successfully stalling the event."
?
Huo and He’s eyes, nose, and mouth scrunched together.
"Just that simple? That’s not right."
"You’re talking about Zuo Qiutian, the one who wreaked havoc on the Eastern Lands, orchestrated the Cyan Dragon Sect’s downfall, assassinated Eight-Faced Vajra Temple’s Abbot Qin Yin, cunning and sly, with profoundly deep skills of Zuo Qiutian?"
