It was a strange feeling. It was like seeing something that would unconsciously remind you of a specific person—their voice, their smile, their face.

Su Xuan felt this way upon laying his eyes on the two sets of red armor. He could even sense the owners of the armor searching for him.

"Boss, there are also two sabers." Chu Hongfang then took out two sabers and placed them beside the armor.

The two blades had obviously been wiped clean by Chu Hongfang. They were free of mud and showed no signs of rust.

"Is there anything else, Chu Hongfang?" Su Xuan asked, lifting one of the sabers.

Red armor and sabers! These things were exactly like what he had seen in his dream!

"Yes, yes." Even though there was no one else in the command room, Chu Hongfang still lowered his voice. "Boss, I secretly stripped the armor and sabers from two corpses. As for the bodies, I already had them sent to the Heritage Bureau. I didn't dare handle them myself, lest we repeat the last developer's fate. And it's strange—those two bodies have been buried for who knows how many years, yet they hadn't decomposed into skeletons. They still had flesh on them!"

"Understood. Thank you for your hard work." Su Xuan patted Chu Hongfang's shoulder, but his expression held a hint of disappointment.

He really wanted to see the two bodies and find out if they were just like the ones in his dream. In his dream, he was their lord, and they were his subordinates.

Su Xuan then had Chu Hongfang wrap up the items and move them to his car before he drove home with them. As for the two bodies, he figured he could visit the Heritage Bureau tomorrow.

It was already eleven o'clock at night. While driving home, Su Xuan scanned the surroundings, wondering if he should find a suitable place to detonate an Ascension Pot and test its effects.

「About half an hour earlier.」

A pickup truck caked in mud drove out from the construction site, heading toward the city center. The truck's driver was also behaving strangely. He didn't take the closer asphalt road—the one Su Xuan had used—but instead chose a more spacious provincial highway that was further out of the way.

In the truck's bed lay two long black bags, swaying back and forth with the vehicle's motion.

CLICK!

The driver lit a cigarette, took a deep drag, then glanced at the rearview mirror and muttered to himself, "What rotten luck, having to haul two corpses in the middle of the night…"

Yes. The truck was carrying the two bodies that had been wearing the red armor.

THUMP!

The truck suddenly ran over a stone in the middle of the road, jolting violently and causing the two bodies in the back to jump.

Suddenly, with a sharp RIIIP!, a shriveled hand tore through one of the black bags and stretched out! One of the bodies sat up, its eyeballs twitching erratically, its gaze filled with confusion.

Then, the other body also ripped its bag open and sat up.

"GURGLE…"

"GAK…"

The Adam's apples of the two bodies moved stiffly, producing an incredibly eerie sound, as if they were calling out for something.

KRAK! KRAK!

The two corpses stretched their limbs, then used the sides of the truck bed to pull themselves to their feet. Their gazes simultaneously fell upon the driver through the rear window. The two exchanged a glance, then swung their fists at the same time, shattering the rear window and crawling inside.

CRASH!

The pickup truck suddenly swerved, careening off the road and plunging into the farmland below. A few seconds later, it erupted in a ball of fire! But just before the truck caught fire, two figures dragged the unconscious driver out of the vehicle and tossed him to a safe distance.

"GURGLE…"

"GAK…"

Making strange noises in their throats, the two figures began running through the farmland. They ran faster and faster, until they were moving with incredible swiftness, like falcons diving for their prey. They seemed to be rushing toward a certain place, searching for a certain person.

"Better not." In the end, Su Xuan abandoned the idea of testing the Ascension Pot's power. It was windy tonight, and Elder Qi had said the pot was poisonous. It wouldn't do to accidentally harm innocent people. He would find a more remote place to try it tomorrow.

"Yunshi, are you asleep?" Su Xuan then called He Yunshi.

"Su Xuan, what a coincidence! I was just about to call you," He Yunshi's voice was excited. "Did you know your net worth has already surpassed 700 billion?"

"Really?" Su Xuan grew excited as well. This was the very reason he had called her.

"Yes, to be exact, it's over 750 billion!" He Yunshi said. "And that's just your tangible assets, not including the returns from my investments. If you add those in, your net worth is already over 800 billion! The investment outlook is excellent right now. With long-term holdings, the returns will become even more astonishing. For example, let me just pick one investment…"

He Yunshi began to analyze investment data for Su Xuan, but he wasn't particularly interested in the details. He only needed to confirm that his net worth had exceeded one hundred billion.

Five or six minutes later, he hung up and made another call, this time to Xia Zhengye, the president of Fei Lian Airlines. He gave him one instruction: to have a private jet ready for him, as he would need it at a moment's notice.

The purpose of the private jet was self-evident. He was going to see Alice.

But he wouldn't go right away. He was only one deal away from completing the second phase of his mission, and he preferred to go after that was finished. After the final deal, his net worth was bound to skyrocket again. When he met that old man, Richard, he would have even more confidence.

You said I couldn't meet Alice until I had a net worth of one hundred billion US dollars! Well, not only have I reached that, I've far surpassed it!

"Heh heh!" Su Xuan couldn't help but chuckle in his car.

But his smile vanished in an instant, and his gaze shot straight ahead. In the beam of his headlights, he saw two faint figures by the side of the road. They were like transparent men, an extremely bizarre sight!

One of the figures suddenly lifted a gray stone from the roadside—one weighing a good five or six hundred pounds—and hurled it at his car!

The boulder traced an astonishing parabola through the air!

Fortunately, Su Xuan had sensed the anomaly early. Just before the boulder could hit, he executed a clean, deft drift and dodged it!

But the other figure also made a move! It didn't lift a stone but simply shot forward like an arrow loosed from a bow, rushing to the side of Su Xuan's car and slamming a palm down hard!

Su Xuan's car had just completed the drift and hadn't fully stabilized. Under the force of that blow, it spun and slid into a roadside ditch before coming to a stop.

The two eerie figures immediately closed in on the car. A ripple spread across their bodies, revealing their true forms. One of them was none other than Wei Junhao, who had escaped from Zhong Huilan. The other was an elder dressed in a black, traditional Chinese jacket.

"Su Xuan, are you dead?" Wei Junhao asked coldly, his gaze falling on the car's interior.

His eyes then widened in shock.

The car was empty.

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