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"And when he was still in Bo City, I was planning to send him to Greece."
Greece is the stronghold of the Black Vatican. After years of development, she has enough power there to ensure Lü Cheng's safety. Moreover, it is close to Europe. With Lü Cheng's dragon-attracting physique, finding a few rich young women in Europe would be a piece of cake!
Even if we accidentally expose ourselves, there's still Su Lu.
Although Su Lu is ruthless and cruel, Lu Cheng has talent, and he's also his nephew. That guy definitely won't just stand by and watch.
But Lu Cheng won't go; he wants to stay in China. Can she force him?
Staying in Shanghai is also an option. The Black Vatican has some manpower there, and with Lu Cheng's relationship with the young girl from the Mu family, he'll be safe in Shanghai.
As for the exchange students at the academy and the trials in Jinlin Wasteland, with Lü Cheng being a high-level mage and having a spatial ability, plus the mind stones she gave him and that commander-level sub-dragon, she couldn't imagine what dangers Lü Cheng could encounter!
Even if they arrived in the ancient capital and Lü Cheng was involved in some kind of execution plot, she could safely take him away. When Lü Cheng was imprisoned in solitary confinement, she volunteered to go in with him, just in case something happened to him. She even prepared to activate a spatial scroll to escape with Lü Cheng at that time!
But she couldn't understand what happened afterward!
What demon, what dark sorcerer, she just appeared out of nowhere!
Lu Cheng has always lived under her watchful eye. When exactly did he start mixing with these things?
"Then what did he mean when he said that none of us were there when he needed us most?" Su Meng asked.
Ye Chang was speechless. "I also want to know where that sentence of his came from!"
Having grown up in Bocheng since childhood, and having had his memories erased by her, he remembers nothing. He grew up under the care of the Mu family, that local tyrant. What does Lü Cheng have to worry about?
She arrived in Bo City shortly after he awakened his magic, and prepared and delivered everything he needed.
She went to great lengths to find cultivation resources, even the Mind Stone. Once in Shanghai, with the protection of that old man from the Azure Sky Hunting Grounds, Pang Lai also learned about Lü Cheng's background. With so many people protecting him and so many connections, she couldn't understand where Lü Cheng's unease came from!
Did he encounter any danger?
Why did he say that?
"Could it be that your forgetfulness medicine didn't completely erase his memory?" Asha Ruya guessed.
"He left behind some... inexplicable fear?"
"Impossible!" Ye Chang said definitively.
“I tested him before I left. He couldn’t remember a single word about anything before he went to Bo City!”
The time she deliberately scared Lü Cheng wasn't just for fun, nor was it solely to make him hide his mind-based talent; it was also to test whether he remembered the past.
The fact that Lü Cheng didn't react at all under that kind of stimulation is enough to prove that her medicine is perfect!
"Then why would he do that?" Su Meng couldn't understand.
Ye Chang shrugged. "I want to know too."
Honestly, she had no idea where Lü Cheng's unease came from.
Who gave him this unease?
The Black Vatican?
“If he were just a simple child, then there would be absolutely nothing wrong with what you’re doing.” Dao Long, who had been eavesdropping, slowly stepped out.
"But unfortunately, he is not."
"..."
"What do you mean?" Su Meng frowned slightly.
"Do you remember that Saint Seiya?" Daolong asked.
"Reincarnation is real. He must have encountered some accident during his reincarnation, and his memories of his past life weren't erased, so..."
Dao Long looked at Ye Chang and said, "Your memory erasure might have backfired."
Adults think differently from children.
If Lü Cheng was indeed a five or six-year-old child whose memory had been erased, then he would have lived a very happy life under this woman's arrangement.
But not Lü Cheng. The memory Ye Chang erased, the missing memory, became a source of fear in his heart.
"Who exactly are you?" Su Meng asked.
Why do you know my son?
"And what about those demons?"
Daolong shook the staff in his hand. "I think he should tell you these things himself, since I don't know them very well either."
"However, you can rest assured that I am definitely on his side."
"Because if something goes wrong with him, I'm finished."
Ultimately, he is Lu Cheng's special summoned beast. It's just that his original world and this world are compatible, so he is almost never rejected.
But if something happens to Lü Cheng, and the summoning contract malfunctions, he will be expelled back.
Moreover, he trusted Lü Cheng more than the demon.
At least, he gave him everything that Lü Cheng had promised him.
144. Chapter 142: The Sequel to the Ancient Capital
144.
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Meanwhile, in the magical palace.
The calamity of the dead in the ancient capital has indeed been resolved, but now, an even bigger problem has arisen.
"Demon God, what is that?"
In the spacious conference room, Shao Zheng, who had returned to China, promptly organized an offline meeting, which was also attended by Han Ji and several other high-ranking officials who had survived in the ancient capital.
Since the demon god disappeared, the spirits around the ancient capital have also disappeared, or rather, they have all returned to their tombs and hardly ever leave their homes.
The last time this happened was hundreds of years ago.
But whether all of this was due to the Black Vatican's successful plan to revive the Ancient King, or because of the summoned demon god, no one knows.
Moreover, the exact attributes of the demon god are currently a complex issue.
The appearance of the demon god did save the ancient capital, but it also brought a new problem.
"The statistics are in. Under that giant fireball called the Wrath of the Demon God, nearly 30,000 people in the ancient capital fled the barrier out of fear and died tragically at the hands of the undead."
"Nearly 500,000 people have had their souls burned, to varying degrees. Nearly 50,000 of them were severely burned, and nearly 7,000 of them were burned into mental idiots."
"During our investigation, we found that those people's minds seemed to have been cleansed; they remembered nothing, which was even more terrifying than the Black Vatican's amnesiacs."
"In addition, nearly two thousand people were burned into their soul form."
As he spoke, the reporter placed the so-called "soul state" photo on the big screen.
"This……"
Looking at the "soul" kneeling on the ground, twisting and struggling to look up at the sky, like a demonic image from a horror movie, the expressions of everyone present changed slightly.
“These souls are untouchable, untransferable, and even ordinary people can see them,” the reporter said.
"Whether it's a mind mage, a curse mage, or a necromancer, none of them can touch these souls. They look like images, but they are incredibly real. When you get close, you can even feel the fear that the soul was in. According to eyewitnesses, they watched those people being burned alive in that state."
"At present, we can only have earth mages build an earth wall around those souls to surround them and minimize the subsequent impact."
"However, the people of the ancient capital... they all opposed hiding those whose souls were burned to ashes."
"Why?" Shao Zheng asked.
Why would anyone object to something that can send chills down your spine just by looking at the photos?
"Because they are worried that it might incur the wrath of the demon god," Han Ji said.
"In the eyes of the people of the ancient capital, those souls that were burned are people who deserve to die for disrespecting the demon god. We should not only not hide them, but also let everyone know that this is the consequence of disrespecting the demon god."
"..."
The conference room fell silent.
Even Han Ji, who said those words, looked somewhat unnatural.
This reaction is so much like the state of someone who has been brainwashed by a cult!
However, this is not just one or two people, but the entire ancient capital, nearly a million people are like this now!
It was the demon god who saved the ancient capital, not the sorcerer, nor the government, and even, as someone unknowingly spread the word, the higher-ups had already abandoned the ancient capital.
The atmosphere in that city is now extremely strange, and no disrespectful remarks about the demon god are allowed. Even out-of-town mages who come to help with post-disaster reconstruction will be kicked out by the locals in no time if they say anything like that.
There have even been numerous incidents of conflict between monks from the ancient capital and monks from outside the capital who came to provide assistance!
“We initially suspected that the fireball might be some kind of special magic with brainwashing capabilities, but…” The reporter unconsciously looked at Han Ji and the other high-ranking officials who had personally experienced the ancient capital incident.
"No." Han Ji shook his head.
"It's not brainwashing."
“That was the fear that came from absolute power,” Zhu Meng said.