This Spiritual Energy is Lethal!

Chapter 72: Chapter 072 New Questions

Chen Ke wasn’t sure how many people were in the Si’s consortium squad, but he knew that the group must have gotten separated when they entered the Great Void. It had taken them some time to regroup.

If, as Chen Ke guessed, the consortium squad had sacrificed themselves with the Blasphemous Dagger to open the door to the Great Void, then the door would definitely be very unstable.

Members of the squad entering the same Teleportation Gate ended up in different places. Chen Ke had yet to verify whether the Teleportation Gate he used was the same as the one they had used.

But this led to a question. If one person could open a door by sacrificing themselves with a dagger, how would the squad exit after entering?

Was there someone on the outside who would use another dagger to sacrifice another person and then open a door to let them out?

Chen Ke wasn’t very familiar with the principle behind it, but he thought that doing so seemed unreliable based on the most straightforward reasoning.

How could you be sure that the Great Void opened by the second dagger would be exactly the same as that opened by the previous one? Could some connection be formed by using the daggers consecutively at the same time?

It shouldn’t be the case because if many people were to use the Blasphemous Dagger simultaneously at any given moment, wouldn’t they all enter the same Great Void?

Chen Ke rejected this hypothesis because it raised too many new questions, such as whether the connection of the dagger had anything to do with the timing and spatial scope of its use? Were there multiple Great Voids, and so on, and so forth …

Occam’s razor principle, Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily, hence this hypothesis was invalid.

Perhaps there was a unique ritual that could link two daggers?

It could be possible, in a world of Holy Relics, mutated beings, and Transcendent skills, it wouldn’t be hard to understand if there existed a complete set of Evil God rituals.

Chen Ke pushed his speculation about the Blasphemous Dagger to the back of his mind, reasoning that everything would be clear once he got another Blasphemous Dagger and took a closer look at its affixes.

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Whether or not the consortium squad had left the place wasn’t something Chen Ke could determine yet, but through the content of the three messages, Chen Ke guessed the situation of the squad in the Great Void.

After using the dagger and their own lives to open the door, the consortium squad had successfully entered the Great Void, and due to the multiple fissures that randomly appeared in various parts of the Great Void as a result of opening the door with the dagger, the trapped Parker was able to escape and arrive at the West Gold Building, perfectly missing the squad.

For some reason, a squad member named Miles became separated from the rest, and the other squad members did not wait for him but marked their trail with a marker pen to guide him.

This should have been an easy task for them. Given their level of equipment, even a squad member who was alone should have been able to deal with the monsters here, and this was why they confidently left marks instead of waiting for a full assembly before setting off.

This meant that Si’s consortium was very familiar with the Great Void and had come here with a clear purpose.

This Miles was probably entering for the first time and wasn’t as familiar as the other members, which is why they left various hints to caution him not to provoke Brother Discouraged …

Wait a second … just how long had Brother Discouraged been here? With the near-future style equipment used by Brother Discouraged and the various boxes marked with “HCP” here, was it true, as he had previously guessed, that these were things from the Administration Bureau?

Then came the message by the stone door, the first message was definitely written before the squad members had opened the stone door, telling Miles this was a dead end.

The consortium squad members probably thought that Miles wouldn’t catch up before they found a way to open the stone door, so they deliberately left a message near the dead end to prevent Miles from mistakenly thinking his teammates had gone through.

The second message looked like a warning, alerting Miles that behind this stone door, there was something so dangerous that even with their equipment, it was still risky.

It seems that even until they opened the stone door, the squad members had not regrouped with Miles, so they could only leave a new message by the door. When Miles got here, the door must have already been open.

And now, the door in front of Chen Ke was tightly closed, and even pressing his face against it, he couldn’t hear any sound from inside. He had no idea whether the Si’s consortium squad was still there.

It seemed the squad had definitely gone down another staircase from the hall to find the key to open the stone door.

Chen Ke wanted to follow suit, since they could open this stone door, he should be able to as well. Since the entire Great Void was in a loop, obviously everything here had reset to its original state since he entered.

Suddenly, an unusual emotion flashed through Chen Ke’s mind – it was like finding discrepancies within two identical pictures.

He turned back and took another careful look at the message left for the second time, and couldn’t help but read it out loud.

“Be careful… Miles.”

“Be careful, Miles.”

“Watch out for Miles.”

He switched through different tones and pauses, meticulously chewing over the true intent of this phrase, and another entirely opposite conjecture emerged in his mind.

The message wasn’t warning Miles… Instead, it seemed to be advising other team members to be wary of Miles…

Chen Ke’s brows furrowed, sniffing a hint of conspiracy.

If his guess was correct, it would explain why the squad had run into trouble after entering the stone gate, which led to further separation among members and having to fend for themselves.

One of the team members encountered Miles and noticed something amiss. After exiting the gate, they left the message beside the gate, cautioning the rest.

Chen Ke suddenly recalled the first time he crossed over. The Black Brother also seemed to be searching for Miles in the building.

Moreover, when the Black Brother saw Chen Ke, he also immediately questioned where Miles was, as though it was Chen Ke who had lost him.

Chen Ke placed his hands on the stone railing, gazing down at the grand kingdom below the cliff, attempting to untangle the relationships between these people.

The Black Brother had been killed by the Holy Relic Diamond, he might have known the value of the Holy Relic, but he certainly didn’t know how it was summoned, or else he wouldn’t have been killed covertly by Chen Ke in the beginning.

To put it simply, the Black Brother was involved in Si Consortium’s plan that night but wasn’t a core member, and possibly not even from the Consortium. The weapon he used was just an ordinary gun without spare bullets.

This meant he wasn’t meant to fight; his role that night was very limited.

The consortium squad was the core of the whole operation, without them, there would be no plan to execute. They were well-equipped, possessing weapons powerful enough to slaughter creatures of the Great Void and were probably Spiritual Ability Users themselves.

Miles was also a member of the squad, but not any core member, rather like a rookie new to the team. However, this rookie was not to be underestimated.

Lin Mo, his only apparent role was to open the gate.

Pankia was the mastermind behind everything.

The puzzle was not yet fully assembled, but Chen Ke had already made a rough judgment about the events that had occurred the night before at West Gold Building.

That evening, Lin Mo followed the Black Brother, Miles, and Pankia to the West Gold Building.

Chen Ke sacrificed himself to open the Teleportation Gate to Fan Hede Kingdom; either before or after that, Miles and the other squad members had already separated.

The Black Brother sought Miles, thinking he might be with Chen Ke, so he came looking.

It was then Chen Ke crossed over into what should have been Lin Mo’s dead body.

The Black Brother thought Lin Mo hadn’t acted according to the plan and took the blood on the ground as Miles’s. He might’ve assumed Lin Mo refused to make a sacrifice at the crucial moment and killed Miles.

But the gate had indeed been opened, West Gold Building turned into the Black Box Space, and in Fan Hede Kingdom, the opened gate caused random seams of light, trapping Parker inside, who then arrived at West Gold Building.

What followed was the series of events Chen Ke experienced upon waking up.

What exactly did Miles want to do? What was Si’s consortium trying to find in Fan Hede Kingdom? In the midst of it all, everything seemed interwoven by Chen Ke’s own actions.