Chapter 726: Divine Miracle

A sense of foreboding suddenly surged in my mind.

“I… I have to go check.” I said this as I dashed toward the door, but the auntie quickly blocked my way.

“Hero! You can't go!” the auntie said. “Shen Nü specifically instructed that she and you can't ascend together. Today, only one can go. Be good and wait until tomorrow. We can all ascend together then, okay?”

“She and Shen Nü can't go together?” I frowned, looking at the auntie with a puzzled expression. “What's going on here… Exactly what did my sister tell you all?!”

“Shen Nü only told us about Zhou Zheng Long's conspiracy.”

“Zhou Zheng Long's… conspiracy?”

“That's right.” The auntie broke the steamed bun in her hand in half and handed one piece to me. “If Shen Nü hadn't secretly told us while healing us, we would still be in the dark. She had already figured out a way to escape from here, but Zhou Zheng Long threatened her to hand it over, and she refused no matter what. That's why she was thrown into prison.”

After saying this, she looked at me with some suspicion. “How… didn't you know about this?”

I swallowed hard after hearing that. “I know… I just didn't expect my sister to tell you all.”

“Ah.” The auntie shook her head. “No one can blame anyone for this; it's all Zhou Zheng Long's fault. If Shen Nü hadn't contacted us in private, he really would have kept us fooled for a long time.”

I paused for a moment and asked, “But why do you all believe that my sister is Shen Nü? Just because she can heal your injuries?”

“If it were only about healing injuries, what would make her different from an ordinary Qing Xiang Zhe?” The auntie smiled. “Hero, you've been so busy these past couple of days that you didn't see it— yesterday, Shen Nü performed a Shen Ji for us! She just waved her hand in front of us and restored a collapsed house right before our eyes!”

“Wh… what?” I was stunned. Although I've seen countless kinds of Qing Xiang here, I've never encountered anything like that.

“It was truly like a Shen Ji!!” The auntie exclaimed excitedly, gesturing with her hands. “You didn't see that collapsed house… It just 'boom' restored itself in front of us! Turns out Shen Nü had already found the way to ascend at Shen Long's place; she gained divine power long ago!!”

Only then did I finally understand where that earlier unease came from. Those people were clearly going to die… yet they kept charging forward to challenge Zhou Zheng Long, as if they weren't afraid of death at all.

Even knowing that rebelling would lead to execution, they still feared nothing. Was this what my sister meant by… something only faith could achieve?

“I have to find her… I feel something's wrong…”

I pushed past the auntie and ran out the door. There were just too many suspicious points in all this!

How did that destroyed house get restored?

Why does my sister have this kind of divine power?

The entire office building was already quite empty. A place that once housed thousands of people now only had a few scattered individuals.

“Hey, Hero, where are you going?”

A few people stepped forward to grab me, but I dodged them all with quick moves. What was going on…?

Were they trying to stop me?

“Quick, grab him! He's supposed to ascend with us tomorrow!!”

“Tomorrow… ascend…” I felt increasingly anxious, as if I'd overlooked something important.

More and more people gathered around me, and I realized there were still about twenty people in the whole building.

Why were these people left behind?

I scanned their faces and vaguely noticed that those staying fell into two categories: one group was from my room, and the other was those who could create food.

My sense of unease grew even stronger. Before they could reach the ground floor to catch me, I grabbed a few sticks of wood while running, then turned back after exiting the door. I wedged the sticks into the revolving door and propped up the doors on both sides. Once that was done, I bolted toward the distant group without looking back.

But after running a few steps, I gradually found that my legs wouldn't obey me.

They felt as heavy as a thousand pounds, and I slowly came to a stop, completely unable to move… What on earth was happening?

Watching the crowd in the distance gradually disappear around the corner, I was frantic. I reached out and kept pounding my legs with my hands, but I really couldn't move…

“Little brother, you need to understand the logic here.” A voice rang out nearby. “Because you didn't rest well last night, you're so tired today that you can't take another step.”

I turned my head in confusion and saw a woman I'd never met before standing there. She had long hair and was dressed in black.

What puzzled me was the thick Qing Xiang emanating from her, on the verge of turning foul, called Yin Guo.

“Yin Guo… Who are you…?”

“I'm just a friend of Gu Yu.” The woman smiled. “I'm doing a favor for someone. I have a rough idea of your situation.”

“A friend…?” She wasn't lying; the scent on her was faint. “Did you make me unable to move…? Let me go!! I have urgent business right now!”

“I'm sorry… little brother.” The woman sighed softly after hearing that. “Precisely because I know you have urgent business, I have to keep you trapped here.”

“What…?”

“Your sister has made her decision, and it's the right one.” The long-haired woman said, “If you run over there now… you'll disrupt her plans. That's why I was asked to hold you here. It won't be for long, just an hour.”

I clenched my fists, feeling like the whole world had abandoned me.

“Yin Guo, what exactly are you and my sister planning?” I asked. “Do you have some kind of plan?”

“I don't have a plan; it's all that young girl's plan.” The long-haired woman shook her head. “I just helped her restore a house. Such a big project was indeed tiring.”

“So it was you…” I blinked. “Why did you do that? Just to solidify my sister's position as Shen Nü and make her the divine figure?”

“No…” The long-haired woman shook her head. “Little brother, the Yin Guo relationship is wrong. You think restoring the house is the 'cause' and her becoming Shen Nü is the 'effect,' but actually, becoming Shen Nü is the 'cause'.”

I was slightly taken aback. “Then what kind of 'effect' will this 'cause' lead to?”

“She wants to completely liberate you.”

The long-haired woman slowly walked over to me, patted my shoulder, and pointed toward the distance.

“The purpose of her becoming Shen Nü is to liberate you. Right now, she's leading all the survivors of Yu Cheng to Shen Long's game site for a life-or-death gamble. You just need to wait an hour, and everything will be over.”