Chapter 120: Chapter 106: Li Kang: He Stole My Lines
Inside the apartment.
Chu Bamboo placed his phone on the desk and continued writing the two technical documents.
By nine o’clock, he had finished a third of the two documents. He glanced at his phone.
"Still no calls from an unknown number! Don’t they believe me? That’s to be expected, I guess."
Chu Bamboo felt a slight headache. ’What should I do? Find my student advisor? That doesn’t seem right. But it’s even more impossible to go see the principal over something like this.’
A crisp notification sound made Chu Bamboo glance at his phone instinctively. He saw a news pop-up on the screen—
Some major entrepreneur was investing in some region and meeting with the local secretary.
"Sigh, it all comes down to status," Chu Bamboo lamented.
’If I were a famous billionaire, arranging a meeting with a high school principal would probably be a piece of cake, right?’
"It’s all up to you now!" Chu Bamboo patted the manuscript he had written, which was lying on the desk. Afterward, he washed up and went to sleep.
Lying in bed with his eyes closed, Chu Bamboo’s mind was still filled with images of the two technical documents.
There was also the unfinished Star Sea and Star Sea Detailed Explanation, and even the artificial intelligence department’s textbook...
’This is killing me...’
...
Chu Bamboo opened his eyes, pushed himself up, and stared at Zhang Hai, who was sitting in a chair.
Zhang Hai: "..."
Chu Bamboo: "..."
"Is—is there something wrong with me?" Zhang Hai fought the urge to look down and check his clothes.
"Around four in the afternoon, a group of believers will rush into the church," Chu Bamboo stated expressionlessly. "They’ll shout, ’We pledge our faith only to God,’ and then detonate themselves."
"Immediately after, bathed in the white light of the explosion, white wings will sprout from your back. You’ll transform into an Angel and begin a massacre, destroying all the buildings on the nearby streets. Finally, Captain Qi Heng from the Second District’s Captain’s Office will appear, use Forbidden Artifact 4-24, and execute you."
At first, Zhang Hai was completely bewildered, but as he listened, his expression changed. By the end, a tempest was raging in his heart.
He stared intently at Chu Bamboo.
"Who—who are you?!" Zhang Hai’s mind was in utter chaos.
"You don’t need to ask how I know all this." Chu Bamboo cut him off. ’Since this life is probably going to be reset anyway, I don’t need to hold back.’
"You just need to tell me how you plan to solve this. Also, what’s the deal with your Angel transformation? And why does the white light from the explosion affect you?"
Chu Bamboo thought it over and realized he had too little information about the Extraordinary. ’In a situation like this, I should just throw the problem back at the person involved and let them deal with the headache!’
Zhang Hai opened his mouth, then closed it again, his expression twisting.
"It seems you already know the answer. Spit it out," Chu Bamboo said coldly. "And don’t try to brush me off with some nonsense about keeping it a secret from me!"
"If you tell me, I might even be willing to join the God Worship Sect. If you don’t, then even if you die, I won’t be able to find anyone to avenge you... Of course, if you really do die, don’t blame me for printing all your dirty little secrets on flyers and scattering them all over the streets."
"..." Although Chu Bamboo was clearly threatening him, Zhang Hai couldn’t bring himself to get angry. After thinking it over and over, he finally looked up to the heavens and said, "I understand!"
"First, the Angel," Zhang Hai said, grinding his teeth, his words laced with uncertainty. "It’s supposed to be the Extraordinary Form of the God Worship Sect’s core believers? Probably?"
Chu Bamboo didn’t speak, indicating that he was listening intently.
"The so-called Extraordinary Form is a strange state that manifests after one’s Cultivation enters the Fourth Realm."
"And those who practice the unique Secret Technique of our lineage will have that form." Zhang Hai glanced at Chu Bamboo cautiously. "If you really join, then practicing our lineage’s Great—"
"Skip it. Get to the next topic," Chu Bamboo said, expressionlessly hitting the skip button. ’After all, I’ve already sampled the Great Brightness Technique!’
"Fine." Zhang Hai realized with a pang of sorrow that he had already been conditioned by Chu Bamboo and was completely used to it. Even with this attitude from him, he couldn’t get angry.
He said, "But you said I go on a killing spree. That’s not normal."
"In a normal Angel state, I should be able to maintain my sanity. What you’re describing... I can only say..."
Zhang Hai hesitated for a long moment before finally saying, "Right now, I’m more or less at the absolute Peak of the Third Realm. It’s possible that the situation you described is caused by some kind of Forbidden Artifact. Its function might be to forcibly make me break through to the next level!"
"But if it’s a Forbidden Artifact, there should be a price! And that price might be the loss of my sanity—you said it yourself, this happens inside the church. But what you might not know is that the church actually has a kind of protective ritual. So!"
"I see," Chu Bamboo nodded slightly. ’So it wasn’t a case of him losing control?’
’Still, Zhang Hai figured out the possibility so quickly. Does this mean it’s not the first time something like this has happened?’
’Interesting!’
’Wait, then what’s the deal with the Zhang Hai from the ’ruin’ timeline? Chu Bamboo suddenly realized a blind spot. Did that one already break into the Fourth Realm?’
Chu Bamboo looked at Zhang Hai with suspicion. ’Then why are you still in the Third Realm? You can’t even beat another version of yourself? You should just quit the group chat!’
"..." Although Zhang Hai didn’t know what Chu Bamboo was thinking, he had the distinct feeling he was being looked down on and humiliated.
Shaking his head to forcibly dismiss this unsubstantiated illusion, Zhang Hai said cautiously, "Um, actually, I suspect the ones making a move against me are most likely from the All-Powerful Lineage."
"Isn’t that obvious?" Chu Bamboo sneered, speaking in a deadpan, mocking tone. "What a coincidence. You lose control one second, and the next, Qi Heng shows up to kill you."
"And this Qi Heng just so happens to be connected to the All-Powerful. And you just so happened to have a conflict with the All-Powerful. How could there be such a coincidence?"
