Chapter Thirty: Zong Kuo

  Only four people were left in the room: Old Mo, Jin Tianxing, Lan Xinlin and Huang Zhen. Lan Xinlin glared at Huang Zhen, "How did you get discovered."

  Huang Zhen lowered his head and said, "I saw that you guys didn't come back for half a day, I was worried that something happened to you, so I followed over to take a look, didn't expect to be discovered as soon as I boarded the ship."

  Lan Xinlin became even angrier, "Didn't I tell you to think of a way to leave and then go report to the police?"

  Huang Zhen also got a bit angry, "We are in the Ghost Cave, how can I leave? Let you go out of the cave alone, would you be able to get out? I'm not a god."

  Jin Tian Xing held onto Lan Xin Lin, "Don't blame him, the trap set by Lin Tian Xue is waiting for us to fall into it. She seems to have known that someone was following her all along."

  Lan Xilin thought carefully for a moment, "It's impossible, before we arrived at the Shinobu Maru, we were far away from them, they couldn't have discovered us."

  "Perhaps there is a problem in other aspects?"

  "Unbelievable." Lan Xilin thought of Captain Han not answering the phone, "Could it be that something went wrong at the police station and the mole found out?" Lan Xilin began to worry about Captain Han's safety.

  Cough...cough...cough...

  Mr. Mo started coughing again, bringing up thick phlegm with streaks of blood in it. No one noticed that the blood streaks were all dotted. After he finished coughing, Mr. Mo was completely cured, and his recurring old illness had miraculously healed on its own without any medicine.

  After a while, footsteps echoed outside the door, and the four of them huddled together, waiting for their fate to arrive.

  The door opened, and Long San was the first to walk in. He saw that the four killing stars had all lowered their heads. Long San's face was filled with a murderous aura, and his gaze towards Jin Tian Xing was no longer as friendly. The second person to enter was Lin Tian Xue, who looked at everyone with an evil smile, making everyone's hair stand on end. Finally, a middle-aged man walked in, exuding an air of elegance. Huang Zhen saw him and shrank into a ball in fear.

  Jin Tianxing had met him once before, "Secretary Yang, you're here too. I didn't expect that something like this would require your presence."

  The middle-aged man burst out laughing and said, "Sorry about that, I'm not Secretary Yang, my surname is Zong, and I suppose you've mentioned my name often."

  Jin Tianxing shouted loudly, "You are Zong Kuo!"

  Zong Kuo smiled and said, "Young people shouldn't be too excited, it's just a name after all. I think you have many questions to ask me, so I'll give you the opportunity to figure things out. No matter what the final result is, today should have an outcome."

  "Why did you send someone to burn down my house and give me a hundred million dollars? That's not a small amount for anyone."

  "That's not what I wanted to give you, it's what your wife wanted. I think you still don't know your wife's true identity, she is actually a person from this cave, and she also escaped from this cave, but she knows more than me, she knew that I wanted the secret of the mountain cave and took the initiative to find me, she said she deeply fell in love with you and was willing to return to the cave as my insider, on the condition of one hundred million US dollars. Do you think someone who claims to be a god would fall in love with you? I don't think so, she fell in love with one hundred million US dollars, so I took the liberty of giving that one hundred million US dollars to you, see how good I am to you."

  "What's she doing there now? What have you done with her?"

  "Don't think too badly of me, she's my ally, my partner, I won't do anything to her. She should be somewhere in this cave right now, but I'm not sure exactly where. In another ten or so minutes, according to her method, the round gate will open, do you want to come with me and take a look at the world inside the round gate, see the so-called paradise of the gods?"

  Everyone has it in their heart, but no one speaks out. Even if they did, it would be useless. Everything falls into Zong Kuo's hands. If he doesn't let you go, you can't go no matter how hard you try. If he lets you go, you have to go even if you're dead.

  "Is my sister okay? Is she still alive? Is she also in this cave?"

  "Your sister?" Zong Kuo looked at her, "Sorry, I don't know who your sister is, nor do I know if she's still alive in this cave. But one thing I can tell you, your plan has fallen through, Captain Han won't be coming to rescue you tonight."

  Lan Xinlin was shocked, "What did you do to him?"

  "Don't worry, he's still alive, just temporarily lost consciousness. He'll probably wake up by tomorrow morning, but his head might hurt for a day."

  "Who is your mole in the police force?"

  Zong Kuo smiled, "I still can't reveal this secret to you now. After I pass through the Round Gate and grasp the secrets of the gods, I'll tell you who he is. However, I can give you a hint: his surname is Zong, and he's my son."

  Lan Xilin ran through all the male police officers of suitable age in her mind, and finally thought of Li Gang, cursing, "It can't be that bastard."

  Zong Kuai said with a sly tone, "I didn't say anything, it's all your own thoughts. You all rest well, when the round door opens I'll come to call you, how can such an important matter be without you?" He gave a warm smile to the four of them and left with Lin Tian Xue and Long San, the cabin door was locked again.

  As soon as Zong Kuo left, Huang Zhen jumped up and said, "This bastard Zong Kuo, from what I know of him, he's definitely afraid that there's danger at the other end of the round gate, so he's asking us to go scout ahead for him."

  Lan Xinlin just couldn't stand Huang Zhen's appearance and sneered, "Now scolding him, he can't hear it, but earlier you didn't make a sound."

  Jin Tianxing was still immersed in Zong Kuo's words just now, could it be that Luo Yi never loved him at all, and everything was just a conspiracy? He didn't believe it, his feelings for Luo Yi were real.

  "Old Master Mo said, "Young people should be more open-minded. The road ahead is still long, and maybe someone else loves you even more, but you just haven't seen it yet.""

  Lan Xinlin, who was arguing with Huang Zhen just now, fell silent upon hearing this sentence, her face turning pale with a hint of red.

  A loud noise came from outside the cabin.

  "Is the person who's going to save us here?" Huang Zhen eavesdropped at the door, his expression changing from hope to despair and then to secret delight. He turned back to everyone with a gloating tone and said, "One of Zong Kuo's underlings was bitten by a poisonous insect and it's quite serious, he might not make it."

  Jin Tian Xing thought of the giant centipede he had seen in the cave, which could kill even a god with one bite. But on their journey so far, they hadn't encountered any poisonous insects at all. What was going on?

  After the poisonous insect storm, Zong Kuo's arrival was delayed by half an hour, and he lost two subordinates, which made his temper a bit violent. The elegant atmosphere was gone, replaced by a fierce look on his face. He didn't even enter the cabin, standing at the door and saying coldly, "The round door is open, let's go take a look." With five or six black gun muzzles pointing at them, they had no choice but to go.

  Huang Zhen said that one thing is right, Zong Kuo brought them here just to explore the way. The four of them walked in front, and the people from the Zong Tian Group were behind. Zong Kuo was in the middle of everyone, he didn't have any danger at all.

  Jin Tianxing and Lan Xinlin walked on either side of Old Man Mo, while Huang Zhen walked alone behind them, occasionally looking back.

  Old Mo asked in a low voice, "Did you bring the Heaven's Eye Token?"

  Lan Xinglin said in a low voice, "The token is on me."

  "Alright, the Heaven's Eye Token mustn't fall into the hands of people like Zong Kuo. At a critical moment, we'll still be relying on the token to save our lives."

  They soon arrived at the Round Gate, and Jin Tian Xing felt a lot of emotion as he looked at the bullet holes all over the ground. Qingqing had saved his life here. Old Man Mo also sighed, "I was also blocked by the Round Gate when I walked to this point, and I tried to force my way through it. As a result, I was blinded in one eye by the poisonous sand sprayed out by the mechanism. I didn't think that after so many years had passed, I would be able to see the Round Gate again."

  The round door was fully open, and everyone looked inside. The world inside seemed to be no different from the cave. Under Lin Tianxue's urging voice,

  "Lan Xinlin asked, 'Why are there so many holes on the wall over there?'"

  Jin Tian Xing looked in the direction that Lan Xin Lin had told him, and indeed on the wall there were many holes, some as big as one meter in diameter, others as small as a bowl mouth. When the wind blew through, it made a mournful sound, like the sorrowful crying of a woman, which echoed far away in the cave environment, sending shivers down his spine.

  Huang Zhen said, "It's just some wind-eroded caves, which are rare underground, but not unheard of. Nothing strange about it. Don't believe me? I'll go take a look and show you."

  Old Mo leaned in to listen, his face changed, "Don't make any sudden moves, there's something strange, the wind carries a tearing sound, that is a fierce gust of wind, even gods can be blown away by this kind of wind."

  Zong Kuo and others also passed through the round gate. A small servant came forward and said, "Why have you stopped and not moved? Hurry up and go."

  Old Mo said, "The wind tunnel ahead is strange and can't be walked through. If you go through it, someone will lose their life."

  Xiao Guoer didn't believe it. "It's just the wind, what's so strange about that?" Xiao Guoer was eager to show off in front of Zong Kuo, "I'll go take a look."

  Xiao Guo walked a few steps and arrived in front of the wind tunnel, nothing happened. Xiao Guo said with satisfaction, "See, there's nothing strange, just a bunch of cowards."

  The sound of breaking air came again, and the miserable cries were not even emitted, instantly being stirred into a mass of bloody fog by the whirlwind. The crowd let out a cry of surprise, and the wind actually generated a strange attractive force, which was pulling everyone over.