Chapter 596: Isolated Island (9)
Chapter 596: Isolated Island (9)
As dawn approached, Pei Yun and Fu Lingchen returned to the hospital building. This time, Pei Yun pointed to the clock on the ground floor wall and said to him, "Look, we still have three days. If we haven't completed this trial in three days, everyone will probably be eliminated..."
Fu Lingchen looked at the clock on the wall, frowned, and asked, "How did you figure that out?"
"This clock has numbers from 1 to 12. Every day, the hour hand moves one position backward. Right now, the hour hand is at position 3. When the hour hand returns to 12, that should be the final deadline for the trial mission..."
"So this disc is constantly counting down..."
"Yes."
……
That night, before midnight, Pei Yun received a call from Minglu: "Fellow Daoist Pei, you were right. Cai Dongcheng's team has arrived at the outer perimeter of the island. Moreover, they stole the guards' guns in advance, shot and killed several guards, and broke through the gate. Now the guard post is in chaos..."
"Senior Pei, Wen Ping's team has also gone to the outskirts of the isolated island..."
"Park Bu-bum also rushed there with his teammates!"
"Pei Yun, are we really not going?" Fu Lingchen and Pei Yun were standing by the window in the hallway, looking at the situation outside. "We don't have any extra materials or manpower to forge another flying artifact..."
"If we go now, they'll just shoot us dead..."
Pei Yun shook her head, not having time to explain to him, and only said to Minglu on the phone, "Minglu, stay far away, whatever you do, don't let them find you..."
"Ok."
"Two more members of Guo Cai's team were eliminated by Cai Dongcheng's team..."
"Two members of Wenping's team were also eliminated..."
"Park Bu-fan and Cai Dong-cheng are making their move! They've each eliminated one member..."
"...It's midnight." My spiritual power and divine sense are beginning to recover.
But at this moment, the three teams that were fighting each other stopped. They glanced in the direction where Pei Yun was, discussed for a moment, and then broke through the gates defended by the guards and flew towards the sea...
Cai Dongcheng took out a boat-shaped magical artifact from his pocket. After activating it, the artifact instantly grew larger, and the remaining members of the three teams boarded the boat. Cai Dongcheng, Pu Bufan, and Wen Ping stood in the control room at the bow of the boat and together poured spiritual energy into it. The small boat started and gradually sailed into the depths of the sea...
At this moment, Pei Yun and his companions finally arrived at the beach. The small boat was already some distance from the shore, and they could hardly see each other with the naked eye, but since they were all cultivators, they could use their divine sense to detect each other.
The three teams on the ship, especially Cai Dongcheng's team, looked at Pei Yun with triumphant smiles. Seeing this, Pei Yun also smiled...
"Pei Yun, what do we do now?"
"We have a lot to do, and now comes the most crucial moment!"
Upon hearing this, the other four perked up, but they had no idea what Pei Yun was up to.
"However, before that, I need to confirm one thing."
As soon as Pei Yun finished speaking, waves rose on the distant sea, and a sudden storm struck, capsizing the small boat. In a panic, the people on board tried to fly back, since they still had spiritual power and it wouldn't be difficult for them to return to the island.
But at that moment, countless vengeful ghosts suddenly appeared on the sea surface. These mutilated and hideous ghosts gradually surrounded the three teams, forming a huge cage of resentment...
At first, these people had the upper hand, after all, these vengeful spirits were not powerful, but their numbers were simply too great.
As their spiritual energy dwindled, all members of these three teams eventually had to voluntarily remove their badges and be eliminated, or they would be devoured by vengeful spirits...
Compared to Pei Yun's calm demeanor, the other four were completely stunned by the scene filled with resentment before them, and stood there dumbfounded.
"Pei Yun, did you know this would happen all along?" Fu Lingchen asked, and the other three also looked at her.
"I naturally don't know what they will go through. I only know one thing: they wanted to leave the island before completing the mission, so they would naturally be eliminated. I just didn't expect them to be eliminated in this way..."
At this point, Pei Yun turned to Zhou Feng and asked, "Zhou Feng, if I asked you to set up a purification array to deliver these vengeful spirits by tomorrow night, could you do it?"
“Well… I’ll try my best…” Zhou Feng said after a moment of contemplation.
"So you deliberately entrusted the magic artifact to Cai Dongcheng for safekeeping, just to set him up?" Fu Lingchen couldn't help but ask Pei Yun.
Not only Fu Lingchen thought so, but the other three also thought so. Pei Yun had predicted the actions of Cai Dongcheng and his group.
"...I only handed the magic weapon to Cai Dongcheng. As for his current fate, it was his own choice. If he hadn't harbored selfish motives and had secretly led his own team away, I would have told him that now was not the time to leave. I gave him a chance, but unfortunately..." Pei Yun said this with righteous indignation.
"It's almost dawn! We need to officially begin our operation..."
Pei Yun took out the pills that He Changxuan had refined and gave each of them a bottle: "These are Spirit Replenishing Pills refined by Junior Brother He. Carry them with you to replenish your spiritual energy whenever you need to..."
He then handed the elixir bottle in his hand to Fu Lingchen, saying, "This contains the elixir I refined. Dissolve this elixir in water and give it to the patients in the ward... The elixir I refined isn't very potent, so ordinary people can also take it..."
Fu Lingchen nodded and put the pill bottle into his bag. Following Pei Yun's advice, they each carried a backpack filled with various supplies.
"Minglu, have you finished making all your talismans?"
"It has been refined."
"Then every night you go to the prison in the north, break down all the prison gates, and let those people out..."
"Ok."
"Zhou Feng, take control of those people in the villa area and prevent them from contacting the outside world for help."
"no problem."
"Junior Brother He, you've taken control of the doctors and director of the research institute..."
"Yes, Senior Sister Pei."
After Pei Yun gave the orders, the four of them split up and began to act separately. After the fierce fighting between the three teams, the outer perimeter of the island was now in chaos...
Pei Yun stood still without taking immediate action, but instead first used his divine sense to investigate.
At this moment, apart from their team, there was only one other participant left on the entire isolated island. This person was the last remaining member of Guo Cai's team.
Seeing that his two companions were about to leave with Cai Dongcheng, he became suspicious and hid to observe. Sure enough, Cai Dongcheng did not keep his promise and had no intention of taking them away. Before they even reached the dock on the shore, they were shot dead.
This action frightened the man so much that he dared not show himself again and hurriedly took advantage of the chaos to head towards the inner perimeter of the isolated island.
When Pei Yun found the other person, the other person was hiding in the storage room, trembling with fear.
"You've seen that Cai Dongcheng's three teams have all been eliminated. Now only our team is left. If you go against us, this will be the only outcome. Why not join us and cooperate..."
The man seemed surprised that Pei Yun would ask him to join the collaboration, and his eyes widened in astonishment: "Of course, I... I'm willing to cooperate..."
"What's your name? Which temple do you belong to?"
"My name is Yu Feng, and I'm a disciple of the Talisman God Temple." Yu Feng said somewhat embarrassedly, "But as you know, I wasn't allowed into the talisman-making room, so I don't have any spirit talismans on hand..."
“It’s alright, you and my companion will work together. Tonight you’ll go to the prison to release the people inside…” Pei Yun said, leading him to see Minglu.
By the time the matter was resolved, it was already broad daylight. This time, Pei Yun did not return to the ward, but instead disguised himself as a security guard and went to the system control room in the logistics area.
The door was kicked open, and the three people inside jumped in surprise: "It's you again!"
Enraged, the three were about to call security when Pei Yun stunned them with a stun gun, tied them up, and then cut off the power and shut down all systems.
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