Chapter Thirty-Four: The Missing Link

  Qiao Mu Si glanced at Dong with a mixture of emotions: "Dong, those are the respectful and imaginative activities of our ancestors' ancestors. How can they be applied to science? The soul is embedded in the body, I'm facing it for the first time, I need to think carefully, there can't be any mistakes, otherwise Yu Zi's safety can't be guaranteed." The New Zealand descendant gazed at Yu Zi's soul and physical body with a complex expression.

  Although the two were speaking in a lighthearted tone, the weight on their minds was also evident. After all, they had been comrades-in-arms for many years, and that kind of friendship is hard to describe. Moreover, in Jom's and Fat Dong's eyes, Ruo Zi was like their little sister, with an intimacy that was hard to put into words. Now that their little sister's body and soul were separated, how could her "older brothers" be at peace?

  The two of them looked at each other and let out a sigh simultaneously.

  What was most anxious was Fang Kai, the more anxious he became, the calmer he had to be. "I think, what should I do...what can I do?" Fang Kai closed his eyes and tried hard to recall some information about souls and bodies from the database, but it was all blank. He suddenly remembered that the information stored in the Mars database belonged to scientific categories, so these things were naturally not included. Since there was no breakthrough here, he could only start from the scene.

  Golden coffin, Horus' eye, Khufu pharaoh, Egypt, gods, offerings, vengeful spirits, corpse lake, skeleton, murals... Fang Kai quickly thought back to everything he had encountered along the way and finally stopped at Horus' eye.

  Everything is made by this thing, and if the child loses his soul, he can still drive the cedar boat. Obviously, all of this points to a fact that high-tech has transformed the defensive structure of Khufu's pyramid, turning the Eye of Horus into a magic eye, and then using eleven-dimensional technology to create a world that combines reality and illusion.

  The mustard seed is stored in the universe, and the heavy spaces that Fang Kai and others have experienced are just a "small object". The center of the virtual image realm is Horus's eye, and the center of the real image realm is the golden coffin. The bridge connecting the two - the magic eye vortex, is the key to breaking through the fantasy realm!

  As soon as he thought of this point, Fang Kai was enlightened, his mind cleared up instantly.

  "Alright guys, forget about Ruo Zi for now, let's go and destroy that shriveled up magic eye in the Golden Coffin!" Fang Kai burst out laughing and charged towards the Golden Coffin with his laser shovel. The remaining two were stunned, thinking to themselves "Kaizi must have gone crazy, what is he doing?!"

  "Kai zi, hey... You, you're kidding, right?" Looking at Fang Kai holding the laser shovel, digging in the corner of the golden coffin, Huang Dong's mouth was wide open, standing still on the spot, his face a bit unsightly. While Qiao Mu Si furrowed his brow, thinking for a moment before suddenly realizing something.

  He snapped his fingers and gestured: "Buddy, pick up the stuff and go! Kay is right, our exit is ahead!" Chomps pulled Fat Dong forward to assist Fang Kai in action. Dazed, Fat Dong also picked up a laser shovel and pried at the coffin. After the three of them took turns blasting away, the shrunken Magic Eye was finally pried out, leaving the golden coffin behind.

  The three of them were so exhausted that they couldn't speak, and sat on the ground with their backs against the coffin. They leaned shoulder to shoulder, watching the strange changes in the magic eye together. The baby-fist-sized magic eye rotated rapidly around its own axis, and soon, under Fang Ke's stunned expression, countless "thorns" grew out of the magic eye, and the entire pupil instantly became a ball of thorns.

  The thorn ball jumped and continued to evolve. For a moment, it transformed into an eight-legged spider, for a moment, it turned into a thousand-footed caterpillar... In the end, it actually became a gear wheel with light teeth.

  After the spiked ball transformed into a gear, it stopped changing and flew directly onto the golden coffin without making a sound. It wasn't until this moment that Pang Dong came to his senses and realized that the entire coffin was actually a mechanism, and Horus's eye was the key to opening it. However... everything seemed so logical, but Pang Dong couldn't shake off the feeling that things weren't as simple as they seemed, and there were still many suspicious points.

  Time was running out, but the moment arrived quickly. As soon as the gear wheel was embedded in the recess of the coffin lid, the crisscrossing rays lit up. In an instant, the golden coffin was activated. With a "click", the coffin lid automatically opened. The three people leaned over to take a look and found that there was no pharaoh's mummy in the coffin, but only a purple electric field.

  At the same time, the space around it began to collapse.

  A violent shock shook Fang Kai and the others, leaving them disheveled. Pang Dong panted, his voice urgent: "It's bad, the space is unstable! Kaiz, Qiaomu Si, Ruozi is still behind!" Suddenly, Pang Dong remembered Ruozi's soul body and physical body, turned his head to look, and damn it, they had already disappeared without a trace.

  The space behind was fragmented piece by piece, let alone the floor, which was also occupied by nothingness.

  "Fat Dong! You actually don't even...!" Fat Dong's face turned red with rage, his teeth clenched in anger. But before he could spit out the word "gu", Fang Kai cut him off: "Shh, I know you can't understand. Let me put it this way, everything we were in before, every thing we touched, except for ourselves, was fake. From the moment we entered the Stone Arch Gate, we've been controlled by Horus's Eye and separated from the real world... Wait, no, how could that be?"

  As he spoke, Fang Kai suddenly remembered that the fat Dong in front of him was the one he met after entering the stone arch gate, and Horus's eye was on the stone arch gate. So to speak, isn't it...

  "What's wrong?" Fat Dong heard that everything was fine, but suddenly saw Fang Kai stop, and then his own neck was blocked by a laser beam.

  Fang Kai's face was cold, and he said coldly: "It's not right, it's you. You're not Pang Dong. Tell me, who are you? I've been believing all along that you were our comrade-in-arms, but you're just a despicable piece of trash from the planet Zekle." Fang Kai exerted a bit more force, and the laser was less than an inch away from Pang Dong's neck.

  Feeling the threat of death, Pang Dong swallowed hard. He looked bitter and was on the verge of tears: "You're the one who's a piece of trash, I'm Pang Dong, the real deal! Damn it, Fang Kai, did I offend you? Is it worth it, to betray our brotherhood like this, you actually don't believe me?"

  "Hmph, spare the nonsense. You're in cahoots with that Cygnus X-1 alien, aren't you? Spit out where Ruò Zǐ and Pàng Dōng are, or else don't blame me for being ruthless with my laser." Fang Kǎi brandished his laser shovel menacingly, while Pàng Dōng was both enraged and helpless, his facial expression a wonderful sight to behold.

  However, Fang Kai thought again, if the Fat Dong in front of him was fake, why would he help himself catch that second-class Klay star person? Moreover, if the Fat Dong who entered the stone archway before was real, why did he flash a strange expression on his face in the desert? Is it true or false, and is the whole inference reasonable?

  Previously, Fang Kai speculated that the two worlds of Zhen and Xū were independent, connected only by the Great Vortex. But now it seems that's not the case after all. Zhen and Xū don't seem to be completely separate, with some permeability between them still unknown. Moreover, looking at Pang Dong's anxious expression, he doesn't seem to be lying.

  Most importantly, he was the one Fang Kai met in the tunnel behind the stone arch, and he belonged to the virtual world. However, since the magic eye had transformed into a light wheel and merged with the support point of the real world - the golden coffin, the virtual world would have to shatter. The actual situation developed along this line, but this raised a question.

  The fat Dong in front of him appeared in the virtual world, but now he hasn't changed back to his original form. The only explanation is that he is the real fat Dong. If so, how could he have fallen into the virtual world before Horus's eye appeared?

  Could it be that someone has set a trap? As soon as he thought of this, Fang Kai suddenly felt cold sweat breaking out all over his body. What a huge plot!

  "To prove you're real, evidence." Although Fang Kai had denied his own inference, he wouldn't easily determine that the Fat Dong in front of him was the real Fat Dong. He needed proof. Hearing this, Fat Dong hesitated for a moment, scratching his head and muttering: "What's there to prove? Can it be fake?... Ugh, I'm so annoyed. Luckily, I still have the Hero's Badge awarded to me back then for successfully attacking the WR-34 enemy camp control center."

  Fat Dong touched his pants pocket with his hand, and a piece of metal fabric popped up with a light press. Fat Dong carefully pulled out an object from inside, took a closer look, and it was a gold medal engraved with the word "Ying". Before arriving on Earth for their mission, both Fat Dong and Fang Kai were in the same special forces team "Ying Shen", which meant to silently approach the enemy and harvest lives.

  The badge appeared, and Fang Kai was even more certain that the fat Dong in front of him was indeed the fat Dong he knew. Because of that one attack, he was surrounded by enemy mechanical troops and couldn't escape, but Fat Dong blew up the central base, destroying the energy line of the mechanical troops, and he was lucky to be saved. It was after that time that the two became close comrades-in-arms.

  "Good brother, I was wrong to blame you." Fang Kai returned the badge to Pang Dong and then hugged him, with a face full of apology, making the latter very embarrassed.

  At this time, both of them ignored one thing, that is...

  Bao Dong Zheng was about to say something when he suddenly saw Quam's pulse cannon not far away, aiming at himself and Fang Kai. "Quam, what are you doing?!" Seeing the terrifying light wave condensing on the muzzle, Bao Dong shouted loudly. Fang Kai suddenly came to his senses, turned around, and also saw this scene.

  "I get it, so you're the one who's wrong. You piece of trash." Fang Kai was filled with regret and silently cursed himself for missing such an important detail.

  Only to see "Qiaomu Si" coldly smiling, sinisterly saying: "Fang Kai, you're very clever. But it's your cleverness that led to your foolish guess. Haha, no mistake, I am the great warrior of Xickle Star." Zhao Dong, do you know who wrapped you up like a mummy and threw you into the stone gate? No mistake, it was me, haha!" "Qiaomu Si" sneered, his face twisted, and he actually transformed into the appearance of Pang Dong.

  "YOU!" Fat Dong pointed at the Zeklei star person, his eyes wide with anger. Fang Kai's heart skipped a beat as he suddenly understood everything. The Fat Dong he had met in the desert was fake, and it was all a setup by this Zeklei star person. That gray shadow was him. In order to lure himself into the trap, this Zeklei star person could even harm his own companion, how terrifying!

  In a moment, the second Klay star person returned to his original appearance. He cast a disdainful glance at Kai and the others, his voice indifferent: "Goodbye, self-righteous little mouse."

  Fang Kai and Pang Dong's pupils suddenly contracted, but they saw the familiar silver-white cannonball, like a runaway horse, fiercely bombarding themselves.