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Chapter 1586 Final Chapter: Crossing the Sea [52] "Who Killed the Mockingbird (6)"

Alright, alright, we've arrived at this point. Ladies and gentlemen, please answer one question for me.

Who killed Shi Ying?

[Is it the pink-haired man, Phoenix, Ming, Shiroishi, or some other unimaginable master?]

Can you arrive at the correct answer? If the answer is correct, the reward is...

……

Su Ming'an took a deep breath.

"roll."

"Trosolius, you can look all you want, but don't come up to me and make a racket."

The sound in my ears disappeared.

Su Mingan rubbed his ears, walked towards the ruins, and checked on Ming. Ming wasn't dead, but was bleeding from all seven orifices. He must have suffered an extremely strong mental shock. Fortunately, Ming was strong and had high physical strength, but his mental points were the weakest point, so he was targeted.

Su Ming'an then looked at the pink-haired person, who remained silent, his body tilted to one side, with no obvious wounds.

Finally, we see Phoenix covered in blood, which he must have vomited.

Su Ming'an approached Shi Ying. Her head was bowed, her face showing lingering fear, and a steel bar had pierced her chest. She had clearly eaten the white stone before being killed; feathers grew near her ears, and some white stone fragments remained on her chest.

“She knelt down, blood flowing down the steel bar to her abdomen. It was stabbed from behind.” Qi Zhou’s voice rang out: “If it had been pierced from the front, the steel bar might have come out from the back with bone fragments and pieces of clothing, and the blood would have spurted out.”

Qi Zhou's explanation was timely.

“The other side of the steel bar was firmly fixed to the wall, so she must have been thrown over there, impaled on the steel bar, and fell down with the force of the impact, with the steel bar piercing through her from back to front.” Qi Zhou continued to observe: “Her expression was one of terror… It’s a pity. With her chest pierced through like that, she must have struggled for a while before dying. Possessing a treasure is a crime. If she hadn’t been greedy and swallowed the white stone, she wouldn’t have met such an end.”

How do you know all this?

"Have you forgotten that I was the first champion of the Disciple Game?" Qi Zhou glanced sideways: "I've seen countless crime scenes."

The Disciple Game is a traditional infinite flow game with a small space and many mechanisms, which does require this kind of knowledge. The World Game, on the other hand, is more inclined towards the real saving of the world.

Two “champions” are standing here, one a disciple game, the other a world game.

Su Ming'an picked up an item.

……

"Ding dong!"

You have obtained the (Golden Sunflower Hair Tie)

……

[Golden Sunflower Hair Tie (Red Tier): "Let's go, Toria, let's... go home together."]

[Cooking Proficiency Level +1]

Cake Mastery Level +2

[Special Skill (Seeking Fish by Climbing a Tree): When you make a "begging" gesture towards someone, there is a high probability that the person will give you an important item they are carrying (cooldown: 10 minutes).]

[Note: Taking it out in front of a specific person will elicit a certain response.]

……

...What a strange thing this is.

Su Ming'an took a look; it was Shi Ying's hair tie. It seemed she had survived by begging using this magical item in the past. However, it was irrelevant to the current situation; he couldn't equip himself with such a specialized piece of equipment.

He looked at Shi Ying's final expression of fear.

Her singing voice is so gentle and beautiful... why did she still make this decision?

He closed his eyes and reopened the book. His "book-turner" abilities had improved slightly; he had acquired new page orientations, and soon he opened his eyes again.

As he entered different pages of the book, he possessed different objects. His original possession object, "White Ball," was still sleeping under the ruins, and he acquired a new possession object, "Tian Yu."

"Wow---"

—He arrived at the point in time before Shi Ying's death.

The setting sun cast dappled light, his white hair fluttered, his clothes were as white as snow, and he had large white wings spread behind him, his pupils swirling with frost.

"Help...help me..." Suddenly, he realized that a white stone at his feet was crying for help.

He looked up and saw Phoenix standing on the ruins chanting incantations, while Shi Ying lay unconscious on the ground, the white stone rolling from her hand to his feet.

—So that's how it is. Before Shi Ying died, she was controlled by Phoenix, so Phoenix... is the murderer?

"Tianyu, hand over the stone!" Phoenix looked at Su Ming'an.

Su Ming'an immediately picked up the white stone and jumped, and large white wings grew from his back.

But doubts still lingered—if Phoenix controlled Shi Ying and wanted her to eat the white stone, and then kill people to take the stone, then why were Pink-haired Man and Ming injured?
……

Oh, oh, so, dear readers, here's the question.

[The final murder scene doesn't match the current situation. What part of the story is confusing?]

Who is the real killer...?

……

"Get out!" This time, Su Ming'an was utterly rude.

To merely observe is one thing, but to treat someone else's death like a detective story is quite another. The Supreme Lord is so cold-blooded that he treats everything as entertainment.

"Swish, swish, swish!" Su Ming'an directed the white feathers to stab at Phoenix, like a flurry of snowflakes. Tian Yu's attack technique was exceptionally beautiful.

Phoenix smiled and said, "Attack me? You seem to misunderstand my race..."

The high-hanging dome was gray and vast, with molten iron-like rays of light splashing across the sky.

Suddenly, an indescribable heat erupted from where Phoenix was standing!

That was a rebirth fire powerful enough to melt gold and iron. Golden red burst forth from his body in an instant, violently sweeping around—forming an even more dazzling and violent "sun"!
Flames surged and coalesced, and the silhouette of a colossal bird, its wingspan large enough to obscure the ruins, became clearly visible amidst the flames! It looked down, each feather composed of pure, burning golden-white flames, its tail feathers trailing dazzling streaks of light. Those white feathers, powerful enough to pierce steel plates, melted away silently, like snowflakes thrown into a furnace.

—The legendary phoenix, Phoenix!
This was the first time Su Ming'an had seen the Rovasa people reveal their true forms; they were practically identical to the true forms of martial spirits.

"Wow—!"

The phoenix flapped its wings violently, like a giant wielding a burning warhammer! Its enormous fiery wings, carrying a terrifying power capable of burning the entire world, slammed directly towards Su Ming'an, who was suspended in the air!
The ruins crackled and groaned under the scorching heat, and the bricks and stones quickly turned reddish-brown!
Su Ming'an had seen many grand scenes, but such a serious battle was extremely rare. His pupils contracted slightly as the massive fiery wings so close at hand brought a suffocating feeling of incinerating everything.

He understood the root of Phoenix's arrogance: Tianyu was a Celestial, and the Phoenix was an ancient race, the king of all winged races! Tianyu's entire strength would be suppressed.

“Then…” Su Ming’an raised his hand: “I won’t use Tianyu, I’ll use Beiwang’s power…”

An ice flower bloomed from his fingertips.

Centered on his palm, a layer of ice half a foot thick, shimmering with a ghostly blue light, instantly rose from the ground! It condensed into countless sharp and thick ice spikes, like a wall of ice with barbs standing upright, pointing diagonally upwards!

"boom--!"

The burning giant wings slammed heavily against the icy barrier!
Ice and fire, extreme cold and intense heat, two extreme energies collided violently and completely less than fifty meters above the ruins!

At the moment of impact, time seemed to freeze for a single frame.

next moment--

The shockwave, like a cataclysmic wave, swept across the area with overwhelming force. All objects above ground in the ruins, whether broken walls or broken pillars, were first covered with a thick layer of frost, and then exploded in the terrifying heat of the explosion inside!

Two figures—one enveloped in shattered, dark blue ice crystals, and the other engulfed in flickering golden-red flames—were thrown out from the center of the explosion in two completely different directions!

Su Ming'an, carrying Shi Ying and Bai Shitou, quickly rolled around on the ground and into the shadows.

He looked down, but Shi Ying's gaze remained blank; she was still under control.

(I give you my feathers.) Her heart murmured a poem:
(I give you my eyes.)
(I take the gun I made from bones and aim it at the night.)
(You will see that even the proud Klitschko is afraid of you...)
"Wake up!" Su Ming'an slapped him across the face.

After receiving the Personality Correction Palm, Shi Ying's eyes gradually returned to normal. She stared blankly at Su Ming'an, then suddenly smiled:

(So ​​you always manage to come to my rescue.)
...She always recognized him so quickly.

"Listen carefully." Su Ming'an immediately slapped her awake to prevent her from doing anything foolish: "If you want wealth, I will give it to you. If you want power, I will give it to you in the future as well."

Most of the people he knew were noble individuals with firm ideals, and he rarely tried to persuade people like Shi Ying. He could only offer dry monetary incentives, and he felt like he had a lot of energy but nowhere to use it.

Shi Ying's eyes moved slightly.

Su Ming'an quickly said, "You were just controlled by Phoenix and almost ate the White Stone. I know not everyone has to be great and selfless. You also have the freedom to be selfish, and you also have the dream of getting rich, but the White Stone is not your possession. Let go of those obsessions!"

As he tried to persuade her, he heard Shi Ying's inner thoughts drifting away.

(Hmm... he looks even more handsome when he roars, his eyelashes blinking... Strange, am I under some kind of spell? High charm is terrifying, I've tried countless romance schemes, yet I still fell for him...)
(It's not that feeling of wanting to be in a relationship, it's more like hoping he's okay, hoping he won't get hurt, hoping he'll be happy...)
(Is this... love? So that's what it feels like. So this is what people mean by "love"... I've never experienced anything like this before...)
Her hand touched his cheek, and she could feel his cheek getting hot and warm.

(He's shy again... It's such a hassle to hear my thoughts, I have no privacy at all...) Shi Ying's face also started to burn.

Su Ming'an had countless strategies, but at this moment he felt like he had punched cotton. He pursed his lips, glanced at Shi Ying's burns all over her body, and led her into a hidden pit.

Then, he reached for the white stone in her arms.

She hugged it tightly.

"Aren't you going to let go?" Su Ming'an said, "This is not your opportunity, not your chance to change your destiny... If you keep clinging to it, you will die, and if you die, you will get nothing."

He had witnessed her death firsthand; her final expression was one of utter terror, and she clearly felt remorse.

White Stone also displayed an emoticon (￣△￣) to express his disapproval.

(I have a question for you, Xiaoshanzhu.) Shiying gazed at him: (After you take the white stone... what will you do with it?)

"I don't know," Su Ming'an said frankly. "I just want to get it away from danger first."

(I see.) Shi Ying said softly, (You didn't know either.)
She paused, then asked her second question:

(So, are you confident you can keep it away from danger?)
Su Ming'an thought for a moment, then gave the same answer: "I don't know."

He was silent for a moment, then said, "If it were my original body, I would be 100% confident that I could escape with it, but now it is Tianyu's body... The pink-haired people are very powerful, and the Phoenix race suppresses this body. I am not confident that I can defeat them."

(Then.) Shi Ying looked at him: (How can I trust that after I hand it over to you, it won't fall into the hands of someone even worse than me? Someone worse than me.)
Su Ming'an stared at her in surprise.

He truly hadn't expected that this was what she was thinking.

He wanted to say something, but she pressed her lips against his and closed her eyes slightly.
(Listen, the nightingale is singing, the nightingale is singing.)
(It says, it says, you must believe how persistent and tenacious a despicable person can be for enough benefit.)
(Little Bamboo, I am a despicable person. I am dirty, a thief, a cheat, and utterly repulsive. Therefore, in order to gain enough profit, I am capable of doing things that a noble person like you could never even imagine.)
(To protect this treasure that could bring immense wealth, to vindicate my ancestors, and to make myself a high-ranking nobleman in the future...)
Her eyes suddenly turned fierce, the look of a slum child whose bread had been stolen by stray dogs:

(Help me complete a plan.)
(If we succeed, we'll kill those three bad guys here—that arrogant blondie, that pretentious pinkie, that haughty blackie… Then, we'll loot all their treasures, and I'll become a super-important big shot!)

“No, you will fail,” Su Ming’an said immediately. He guessed that last time Shi Ying also cooperated with Tian Yu to try to kill those three people, but she failed and only managed to kill Ming. Shi Ying also died.

(You're different.) Shi Ying chuckled and winked mischievously: (If you and I team up... it'll definitely work.)
Su Ming'an thought for a moment. Last time, Shi Ying and Tian Yu worked together to trick Ming, which showed that the plan was quite reliable. If he were to cooperate this time, he might actually be able to trick three people.

"Go ahead," Su Ming'an said after considering for a moment, "Let's give it a try."

……

The moon's shadow is sparse and diffused.

Siber, clutching the white stone, ran through the forest in the night.

Behind her, Feng Chang had already led more than three hundred clansmen to pay homage to the Mother Goddess.

"Sisi...can we really escape?" Accompanying Siber in the escape lottery was a girl named "Tiantian," who had bright red pigtails and whose eyes always held a hint of fear.

Tian Tian had always been the unluckiest person in the clan, and no one expected that she would draw the escape ticket this time. She was weak and unpopular in the clan, but she became the last hope.

“Even if everyone else fails to escape, the two of us must escape. The ten of us are divided into five groups, and we are the only group escorting the White Stone. We are the only hope.” Siber gritted her teeth, afraid to use her abilities for fear of being detected by the Radiant Mother Goddess. She didn’t know where this was in Rovasa, but seeing such a similar group of people, she couldn’t remain indifferent.

Since she was already here, she wanted to fulfill their last wish and... resolve the regret in her own heart.

"Only by making up for the regrets can I continue to pursue higher dimensions without any inner demons... Yes, that's it, and this is also for my own sake..." Siber thought to herself.

Suddenly, she spotted the Dawn Knights in the distance, a patrol sent by the Red Tower.

“I’ll take care of them!” Siber told Tiantian to step back and took out a shotgun from behind her back.

The shotgun felt both familiar and strange to her. Holding it, she paused for a moment, then suddenly laughed.

Since becoming a god, she has never touched a hunting rifle again, because she has mastered a power that is tens of millions of times stronger than a hunting rifle.

Unexpectedly, holding it today, the touch is still the same as it was a long time ago, as if it were her skin, as if it were her soul.

Her red robes fluttered as she touched her hair, where the cursed fire flower was no longer.

"Sister Xixi, what's wrong?" Tiantian looked at her fearfully.

“I never thought… I’m back, I’m back again…” Siber suddenly laughed wildly, raised her shotgun, and pointed the muzzle at the target.

"Come on, come on." Her eyes turned wild and fierce:
"Get them out of here! Get that damned Radiant Mother Goddess out of here! Don't keep the people I'm protecting waiting any longer!"

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