“That’s pretty much what happened.”

A gust of wind blew by.

The curtains swayed gently.

The window creaked openly slightly, letting in the faint chill of autumn into the room. Evening had fallen, and with no lights on in the room, it was dark and somewhat oppressive.

Hu Danian observed the scene in the room in silence.

It was hard to believe that a terrifying explosion had just happened here. According to Gu Shen’s description, the yield of the explosives could have easily leveled half of Lipu Street. Yet, with so much firepower, it didn’t even tear a piece of paper in this room.

This room remained clean and tidy, and it was so quiet that people could fall asleep.

Seated at the table, Gu Shen said softly, “In short, the situation has been resolved. There’s no need to dwell on the details. You can report to Cui Zhongcheng like this: I used my ability to suppress the explosion.”

Hu Danian looked meaningfully at the young man sitting across the table, whose face was expressing gentleness and sincerity. He had completely changed his first impression of Gu Shen… He had thought of him as just a rookie with some cleverness who had been lucky enough to gain Mr. Cui’s attention.

Now, he felt that none of this was a coincidence. He was definitely a monster-level transcendent secretly trained.

How powerful would a transcendent have to be to suppress this level of explosive force?

In any case, it was beyond his capabilities!

“Don’t worry, little monster. I’m not interested in your information. I’m only responsible for completing Mr. Cui’s mission.”

Hu Danian clicked his tongue and sighed. “The River Shoal serial murders made me unable to sleep well for several days. Today, I can finally rest easy.”

He took out an old-looking bronze safe. The safe wasn’t large, and an adult could easily wrap their arms around it. It was just big enough to hold the small stone sculpture. After opening it and taking a closer look, one would find that the inside of the bronze safe was coated with a red crystal-like coating.

He put on a pair of black gloves, which also had a thin layer of red coating on the surface.

“What is this?” Gu Shen asked with a frown.

“The coating material is ‘red silver’, a high-logic material,” Hu Danian replied succinctly. He carefully picked up the stone sculpture and placed it in the safe, moving extremely slowly and cautiously. It wasn’t until he closed the safe that he heaved a sigh of relief.

He patiently explained in detail, “Different sealed objects need different methods of storage. Sealed objects like the Solemn Stone Sculpture, which emits malice autonomously and cannot be tamed, need to be completely isolated. Generally speaking, for sealed objects below Class A, red silver can suppress the transcendental characteristics.”

In fact, upon hearing about the high-logic material, Gu Shen roughly understood the principle.

Transcendence was a chaotic force that destroyed logic.

And high-logic materials… were most likely special substances that suppressed transcendental characteristics.

“What about Class A and above?” Gu Shen asked.

“There are even more special materials for those. In fact, red silver is quite useful. It can be artificially synthesized and works pretty well, so it’s used widely to store sealed objects… I heard that many of the special materials used to store high-classification sealed objects can’t be synthesized.” Hu Danian shrugged. “With my level, I probably won’t encounter such sealed objects in my life.”

At this point, he glared at Gu Shen. “Brat, why do you have so many questions?”

“You know… I’m a newbie.” Gu Shen scratched his head and smiled before quickly changing the topic. “So, after you take back the Solemn Stone Sculpture, is the mission complete?”

“Yes,” Hu Danian replied and looked at his watch. “Next, we’ll take back the sealed object and report to Mr. Cu to complete the mission. By the way, the two next door…?”

He pointed at the adjacent room through the wall.

Sister Xin and Qu Shui… were still sleeping.

“They’ll wake up in about half an hour. They don’t know about this incident, and they’re victims,” Gu Shen said calmly. “Even if they recover, the people whose dreams were deprived by the Solemn Stone Sculpture will feel exhausted for a while. More sleep will be good for their bodies.”

Since they didn’t know, there was no need for special treatment.

Hu Danian nodded and picked up the bronze safe. “Alright, if there’s nothing else, I’ll be going.”

“Wait.” Gu Shen stopped him, slowly raised his head, and said seriously, “I want to meet Cui Zhongcheng.”

During the conversation by the lake, Gu Shen had had a very good impression of Cui Zhongcheng.

But now, after being dragged into this situation, Gu Shen’s opinion of Cui Zhongcheng had completely changed.

The gentle conversation by the lake was entirely a facade. The moment he arrived in Dadu, he had been thrown out as bait. If not for his quick reaction and accurate response to the assassination attempt, he would have died.

With such cold-blooded and ruthless behavior, it was no wonder even the big shots of the assessment team feared him.

Even if it’s to investigate the fire case, there’s no need to use such an extreme method, right? Gu Shen was now full of anger and wanted to confront Cui Zhongcheng face-to-face.

Hu Danian turned around helplessly.

“As far as I know, Mr. Cui is very busy.” He gave Gu Shen a strange look. “Didn’t he give you his contact information?”

“…” Gu Shen fell silent.

Only then did he realize that Cui Zhongcheng had not given him his contact information from the time of their lakeside meeting to the moment the plane landed.

“That means he doesn’t want to see you.” Hu Danian grinned when he saw Gu Shen’s reaction. “Mr. Cui is a very thorough person. He always handles matters meticulously and with purpose. Since he didn’t give you his contact information, then he definitely doesn’t want to see you. However… on account of our cooperation on this mission, I’ll mention it when I report the progress. But let me be frank. There’s a high chance he’ll ignore you.”

Gu Shen’s expression stiffened. He could only swallow his anger and nod. Is my anger… also within Cui Zhongcheng’s calculations?

After Hu Danian left, the room returned to silence.

Gu Shen let out a long sigh. He raised his arm with difficulty and felt the soreness in his palm spreading throughout his body.

From noon until evening, he hadn’t moved from the chair, maintaining the same posture for several hours. It wasn’t because he was lazy but because activating the Ruler of Truth consumed a lot of mental power.

Energy in the material world was conserved.

The amount of mental power consumed to suppress the high-yield explosives was… immense.

When Gu Shen wielded the ruler, immersed in the state of domination, he didn’t feel anything. It wasn’t until the power of the ruler dissipated and the fanatical believer of the Eternal Foundation was blasted into nothingness that he felt something was wrong.

Standing on a mountaintop, the higher one stood, the more painful the fall from the clouds.

Three or four hours had passed before the soreness slowly dissipated.

However, it had to be said that… Gu Shen’s cultivation of the Jingzhe Breathing Technique had greatly improved his mental power. If he had used the ruler like this twenty days ago, he would have immediately fallen into a deep sleep after falling from the clouds.

Gu Shen slowly reached out and brought a piece of white paper that had not been destroyed in the explosion in front of him.

He turned on the table lamp, illuminating the table.

There was a drawing on the paper. It was just a few strokes outlining an innocent girl holding a book.

Gu Shen looked at the simple sketch he had drawn and smiled gently.

His fingers slowly touched the girl on the paper. It’s been ten days… I wonder how you’re doing.

Touching the drawing, Gu Shen calmed his mind and quickly entered a state of meditation.

He had already grown accustomed to entering the Deep Waters at any time. Here, there was a space that belonged only to him, where he could return to his quietest, most primal mental state.

Every day, he would meditate quietly for a while and leave some of his thoughts in the mental network of the Deep Waters.

In this era, few people kept diaries anymore.

But Gu Shen was an exception.

[November 17th, clear skies. It’s the tenth day since Chu Ling stopped connecting. I hope everything is going well for her and she’s safe.

A lot happened today. The mass insomnia case on Lipu Street has been solved, the Solemn Stone Sculpture has been retrieved, and the out-of-control individual has been punished.

Cui Zhongcheng’s guess was right. It’s the Eternal Foundation that wants to kill me, and they won’t give up easily. If I don’t catch the mastermind, there might be more waves. I can’t just sit and wait for death. I have to take action…]

At this point, Gu Shen’s train of thought became somewhat sluggish.

Someone knocked on the door.

It should be Sister Xin or Qu Shui waking up.

Gu Shen clenched his fists, feeling the soreness had almost faded.

He opened his eyes and sat up straight. “Please come in.”