Was He Murdered?
As his voice fell, Kong Baosheng carried the large bag of medicine and dashed towards the second floor like an arrow released from a bow string.
Only after his figure completely disappeared on the stairs did Li Qingshan step towards the house, only feeling his body incomparably exhausted.
Wang Jincheng, beside the Theater House door, witnessed everything just now. His expression changed repeatedly. After hesitating for a moment, he ultimately stood up supporting himself on the wall and walked slowly towards him.
"Mr. Li Qingshan, right?" Wang Jincheng took the initiative to speak.
Seeing Wang Jincheng approaching on his own initiative, Li Qingshan was startled, and subconsciously nodded, "Is there something?"
Wang Jincheng glanced at the empty stairs and the relatively distant Huang Suyue, but still said seriously:
"Tell me the truth... Boss Lin, was he murdered?"
Li Qingshan: ???
You came back alive, which means Boss Lin has in all likelihood already been caught up by the Calamity, and then..."
Wang Jincheng didn't say the last sentence, but looking at Li Qingshan's dumbfounded expression, he felt he had already guessed correctly...
In fact, his guess was also quite reasonable. If any two Ordinary Persons could survive in front of a Calamity, then what had the Nine Great Human Realms been worrying about all these years? Li Qingshan coming back alone in a sorry state, and hesitating to speak when talking about Chen Ling, was enough to explain everything.
The crux of the matter was, now Li Qingshan also felt Wang Jincheng made sense. In front of that gaze that seemed to see through everything, Li Qingshan could only bite the bullet and say,
"I... I don't know. At that time, Brother Lin lured that Calamity away for me. Later, whether he escaped alive or not, I also..."
Li Qingshan lowered his head, remaining silent.
Seeing this, Wang Jincheng already had an answer in his heart. He let out a long sigh and patted Li Qingshan's shoulder,
"You don't need to blame yourself too much, this can't be blamed on you... Boss Lin is a good person. I'm not surprised he would make this choice."
"..."
Li Qingshan truly had no choice but to go along with Wang Jincheng's meaning and make slight modifications. At least muddle through this hurdle first... At worst, he would wait at the door later. If Chen Ling came back, he would hold him back first.
Right at this moment, the Walkie-talkie at Wang Jincheng's waist suddenly rang.
His expression changed slightly. He immediately walked to the Theater House door and pressed the button...
"This is the Eighth Hall Yang Muquan. I have discovered the lair of the remaining Scarlet Heaven Cultists!" Behind the Walkie-talkie, a hurried voice sounded,
"Their numbers are too many. Sixty or seventy people gathered together seems to be holding a World-Ending summoning ritual. Among them, there are also two bishops. The Divine Pathways in the surroundings have been completely disrupted... There are also Calamities prowling around. I can't get close.
I need backup, repeat, I need backup!!"
Hearing this sentence, Wang Jincheng's expression instantly became serious, a sharp light flickering in his eyes.
He had thought just now that this group of Scarlet Heaven Cultists would hide in some dark corner attempting to summon the World-Ending Tier of the "Sighing Wilderness". He didn't expect his words to become prophetic!
The good news was that someone had found the location of the Scarlet Heaven Cultists. The bad news was... Even Hall Masters were helpless facing such a massive Scarlet Heaven Cult lineup.
As the police chief, Wang Jincheng naturally couldn't sit idly by. Although he still carried injuries on his body and his movements were very inconvenient, he still had to go no matter what... What if they were just short of his one pair of hands? What if they ultimately failed to stop the Scarlet Heaven Cult, causing the World-Ending Tier to descend? Then the entire Red Dust Domain would be dead for sure, and him healing here would also be waiting for death!
"I'll be right there!" Wang Jincheng replied seriously.
Not only him, most of the other Floating Life Painting personnel also responded to the rescue request and began to gradually approach the location of the Scarlet Heaven Cult.
Wang Jincheng put away the Walkie-talkie and staggered out of the Theater House doors. Li Qingshan's voice followed closely from behind:
"Chief Wang, where are you going?"
"Going to resolve the source of all this." Wang Jincheng turned his head and said, "Hide well in the Theater House, absolutely do not run around... In a little while, this farce should be over."
After saying that, Wang Jincheng left without looking back, his figure disappearing in the gale.
Seeing this scene, Li Qingshan also slightly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart;
This guy left, the biggest unstable factor in the Theater House was finally removed. The matter between him and Chen Ling probably wouldn't be exposed... right?
...
Wang Jincheng gritted his teeth and, following the address announced in the Walkie-talkie, walked step by step into the distance.
That address wasn't considered too far from the Theater House. At least the current Wang Jincheng could still persist in walking there. His only worry was that a Calamity would suddenly pop out on the way. He was already prepared to fight a bloody battle all the way.
But the facts left him looking dumbfounded.
Along the way, he indeed encountered many Calamities, but these Calamities seemed to have no mind to care about him... Monsters resembling shadows and monsters created from skeletons slaughtered each other. The scene was extremely chaotic. Especially in this block, the number of shadow monsters was very large, almost chasing the skeletal monsters all the way to kill them.
"The ones shaped like skeletons are Calamities from the 'Sighing Wilderness'... Where did the shadow-like Calamities come from? 'Ghost Mockery Abyss'? But how could Calamities from the 'Ghost Mockery Abyss' appear here??"
Wang Jincheng couldn't figure out this point, and could only bypass these melee Calamities and continue forward. After a long time, he finally arrived near the address described by the Walkie-talkie.
However, as he walked forward slowly, the Divine Path within his body suddenly began to perturb, as if affected by some weird magnetic field, flickering unsteadily... Moreover, the further forward he went, the stronger this perturbation became.
Wang Jincheng's brows furrowed deeply.
He naturally knew this was the ability of the Scarlet Heaven Cult. If there was only one Scarlet Heaven Cultist, this perturbation wouldn't be too great. But if a group of Scarlet Heaven Cultists gathered together, and there were also bishop-level ones mixed in, this influence would superimpose on each other, like heat radiation dispersing in all directions when flames burned.
He was currently stepping closer step by step to the "fire source" of the Scarlet Heaven Cult.
"Damn it... Gathering so many Scarlet Heaven Cultists, if I go further in, wouldn't all my skills lose control?" Wang Jincheng looked down at his own hands, muttering to himself.
At this moment, even though he hadn't activated his skills, the dust under his feet began to float towards the surroundings unconsciously... An extremely weak shockwave was rippling out with him as the center. That was a skill originally belonging to the [Pioneer], yet it was gradually escaping his control.
Just as Wang Jincheng was feeling worried in his heart, he suddenly felt as if something flashed past deep underground beneath his feet. Its speed was surprisingly fast, like lightning!
This abnormal movement was only felt by Wang Jincheng, who was most sensitive to the "earth". But he couldn't activate his skill to track it... He could only mutter to himself:
"What was that... it just went 'whoosh' and passed by?"