Light Barrier - Chapter 7: The Ruler of Truth

The scorching light above emitted electrical noise, and the light flickered along with the holographic screen.

The next moment, the light source went out.

The entire bedroom plunged into darkness.

Gu Shen immediately got up to lift the curtains and looked sideways. In the depths of the night, the few street lights by the roadside of the old, unfinished building were also extinguished. It was pitch-black as far as the eye could see.

People wanted to kill him.

Those people had already taken action… Cutting off the power was only the first step.

“Meow.” A calm meow sounded in the darkness. The orange cat sleeping lazily in its nest had appeared beside Gu Shen at some point. It stood on its tiptoes and nudged his pant leg.

Chu Ling’s words appeared in his mind.

“I will contact you in another way.”

Gu Shen was stunned. Could it be…?

But the orange cat only nodded indifferently and raised its claws to point at the door.

With the sound of impacts, burning smoke seeped through the gap of the door. The door lock was corroding, and this outdated and dilapidated residential door couldn’t resist the corrosion at all. The door frame trembled, and the uninvited guests outside would soon break in.

“Meow.”

The window opened, and Orange lightly jumped onto the windowsill, signaling Gu Shen to move quickly.

Are you kidding me? This is the seventh floor… Gu Shen’s expression changed drastically.

With a meow, Orange jumped out and landed steadily on an external air conditioner metal bracket. It looked down at Gu Shen coldly.

Gu Shen took a deep breath, glanced at the door frame that could break at any moment, and made a prompt decision to jump out of the window.

There was not much time left for him to be indecisive!

His skills were actually not bad. He climbed out of the windowsill and jumped lightly. Then he used the air conditioner bracket as a springboard, hugged a pipe, and stepped on the edge of the wall of the old building. The protruding stones were only enough to support half of his foot.

Phew… Made it… Gu Shen heaved a sigh of relief. Just as he was about to rest for a moment and slide down the pipe, Orange called out anxiously, signaling him to climb up quickly.

Up… Is it a dead end below? Gu Shen didn’t hesitate. He quickly followed the orange cat and climbed up.

Boom!

The next moment, a violent air blast exploded from below. Rolling air waves surged and broke through the glass. The crackle of heat waves seemed to be mixed with a few faint screams before they were engulfed by the flames.

Gu Shen’s face turned pale.

The gushing flames dyed his peripheral vision crimson, and the pipe became scalding hot. But under the crisis, Gu Shen climbed extremely quickly. This old, unfinished building had a total of eleven floors, and after reaching the top, there was a wide rooftop terrace. The clothes and bedding hanging on the clotheslines on the roof fluttered loudly in the hot wind.

“Is there still the law?!” Gu Shen couldn’t believe the scene just now.

He supported himself on the edge of the roof and barely managed to stand. He leaned over to look down and felt dizzy.

These people were simply crazy. What they did just now was no longer as simple as breaking in and murder. Were these people trying to blow up the entire building?

The sudden explosion shattered the silence of the night, waking up many people with its cacophony. The fire had already spread from the seventh floor. At a close distance, this old, unfinished building stood tall amid the raging sea of fire, its silhouette swaying in the flames, resembling a mirage of hell.

However, the true disaster was not only this fire.

The awakened people tried to make calls but failed. For some reason, the signal was unusually bad, and the power and network were cut off.

When disaster struck, humans were too insignificant.

They could do nothing except watch helplessly as the scene of Hell on Earth unfolded before their eyes.

Several charred and blurry shadows were flailing in the flames, trying to seek help.

Even though they couldn’t hear the voices, they could still feel the pain and despair of the suffering.

This sudden explosion trapped the innocent residents on the seventh floor and above in the tide of fire.

Some chose to jump out of the window to survive.

Whoosh! Bang!

Burning bodies drew messy arcs in the air and fell from the sky. When they hit the ground, there was a crisp sound. The pitch-black, charred remains shattered into pieces upon impact, scattering sparks of fire into the air.

These people jumping from the building didn’t know that the flames from the explosion were mixed with a strong corrosive power.

Seeing this, Gu Shen clenched his fists. He realized that he had made an incredibly correct decision at the critical moment… If he had escaped downward, he would already be a charred corpse by now.

But now that he was trapped by the flames, what should he do?

Those people chasing after him… with such overwhelming killing intent would soon reach the roof…

At this moment, Gu Shen was unprecedentedly calm. Due to the huge explosion, his body was still trembling with physiological reactions, but his fingers were steady.

He looked at Chu Ling… the orange cat standing at the highest point of the roof, looking at him.

Their gazes met.

In a moment of epiphany, Gu Shen took out the silver ruler that A-009 had passed to him.

The orange cat spoke again, its voice still in the cat language of ‘meows’.

But after hearing it, Gu Shen inexplicably understood the orange cat’s thoughts.

“There are two enemies. They are estimated to reach the rooftop in twenty seconds and forty seconds respectively… Your escape route has been blocked. You need to use the Ruler of Truth to fight back here.”

The Ruler of Truth… So, the name of this ruler is the Ruler of Truth!

“How do I use it?” Gu Shen held his breath and anxiously looked at the door lock on the roof… Time was running out. He didn’t know if it was an illusion or not, but he seemed to be able to hear heavy footsteps!

The orange cat quickly explained, “Infuse your mind and imagine a scene. The Ruler of Truth can transform thoughts into reality… The stronger the mental power, the more successful the transformation of thoughts. “

Boom!

A loud bang resounded.

The door lock was hit with such force that it almost shattered.

Gu Shen held the silver ruler with both hands and concentrated while staring intently at the door.

His mind was blank, all his mental power concentrated on one point. The scene of Nan Jin fighting against A-009 flashed and collided in his mind. The silver saber domain formed by the two sabers seemed to have turned into condensed beams of light.

The markings on the Ruler of Truth lit up bit by bit.

A gust of wind arose out of thin air and swept across the roof, sweeping up rows of clothes and bedding.

Boom!

After a short moment of silence…

With the second collision, the door lock shattered. A tall black shadow flew forward sideways with his body pressed against the door. His burly body resembled that of an adult bull!

The silver ruler burst out with brilliant light.

Thousands of thin threads cut through the clothes fluttering on the roof, and countless tiny gaps appeared. The silver blades swirling in the strong wind slashed over and over, colliding with the reckless bull-like figure.

Nan Jin had swung her two sabers and forced the tall lady back.

Gu Shen aimed the ruler at the burly man.

The two scenes were shockingly similar, but the latter one was… even more bloody and terrifying.

“Ah!” A muffled sound of horror burst out from the throat of the burly man who charged onto the roof. The short moment of silence had been him deliberately pausing to toy with his prey. According to the intelligence, the target was only an ordinary person.

But never in his wild dreams did he imagine that… what greeted with such vast and relentless murderous intent. Countless overlapping blades tore his petrified skin apart in an instant. Accelerated by the tremendous inertia after ramming into the door, he personally pushed himself into an irreversible abyss.

Countless sharp blades hung above the rooftop.

The tip of the Ruler of Truth, wrapped in a silvery glow, carved the roof into Nan Jin’s saber domain that Gu Shen ‘imagined’.

The reason why it was an ‘imagined’ saber domain was that Gu Shen couldn’t understand how Nan Jin had created the saber domain… So he relied on his imagination to construct a new saber domain.

The other party’s behavioral traits were very simple and arrogant… They casually ignited an entire building, indicating a high probability of disregarding life… So it was reasonable for them to treat Gu Shen as an ant.

Thinking of this in an instant, Gu Shen decided to arrange the roof into a quagmire of hanging blades.

And this intruder who charged into the quagmire at high speed looked like a seeker of death who was willing to be cut into pieces by thousands of blades… In this still scene, he took the initiative to cut himself apart…

Streams of blood burst out.

A hot splash splattered on Gu Shen’s face.