Chapter 782 - Falling Into a Trap

Chapter 782: Falling Into a Trap

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Even though they couldn’t check out the center of the explosion, Ren Baqian still accompanied the empress around the outer periphery of the area.
Although there was radiation, with their physical qualities, they wouldn’t be easily affected by it.
At a close distance, the scene of the giant crater wasn’t terrifying, but had a strange beauty to it instead.
This beauty came from the sparse crystals in the pit that reflected the morning sun.
“Are there gems below?” The empress saw the crystals and immediately thought of those sparkling things. Even though she wasn’t fond of them, it was said that no woman could resist the temptation of sparkling things, regardless of whether they were gold or gems.
Picking up gems from the road was an unexpected surprise for any woman.
Furthermore, the thought of chancing upon a gemstone mine had already risen in the empress’s mind.
“Your Majesty, there aren’t gems below. Those are crystals formed from some substances in the soil that have condensed after burning at high temperature. They are actually glass.” Ren Baqian felt slightly regretful when telling her this.
“Oh! Red glass?” The empress asked as she pointed in a certain direction.
She had seen glass before, but not red glass.
“Perhaps there is a higher concentration of iron here?” Ren Baqian guessed.
Before he could even finish his sentence, the empress disappeared. When she appeared again, she had a red “gem” in her hand.
“Your Majesty, you shouldn’t touch that!” Ren Baqian hurriedly warned.
“I’m just taking a look at it.”
The empress didn’t care much about his warnings.
“It seems like there is blood in it.” She held the “ruby” against the sun and squinted her eyes.
Ren Baqian looked at it and realized that it was indeed very similar. There seemed to be a body of dark red fluid inside that reflected magnificent colors in the sunlight.
“There seems to be something inside?” He felt that there was something thin moving inside the gem.
At this moment, something abnormal started to happen.
The glass enveloping the red liquid suddenly split open.
The empress immediately threw it away, but at the same time, a thin blue line pierced out of it and went straight for Ren Baqian’s forehead.
In the blink of an eye, the empress’s hand appeared in front of Ren Baqian’s face.
However, the blue line was extremely agile and passed under her hand.
The empress turned her hand around and grabbed it, but its front end, which was almost invisible to the naked eye, separated from the rest of the blue line and went straight for Ren Baqian’s forehead.
He felt that something had hit into him. He suddenly felt dizzy and immediately fell backward.
“Ren Baqian?” The empress held him with one arm. She carefully observed his forehead and saw that there was no wound. However, his eyes were shut and seemed to have lost consciousness.
She then looked at the blue line in her hand, which had already turned into a liquid. She then threw it into the air where it instantly vaporized.
Her face was gloomy, and she hadn’t expected to fall for this trap.
She didn’t even think that the herdsmen had such means.
They weren’t strong, but they had really strange methods.
The empress carried Ren Baqian to the rest area. When few of the winged cavalry warriors came forth to report, she simply dismissed them to hunt for food.
She was very upset at the moment.
She placed him on the ground and put her hand on his shoulder. She carefully sensed the situation in his body and found that was no change.
He had not suffered any injuries either.
Based on that thing that was invisible to the naked eye and Ren Baqian’s current comatose state, she guessed that he very likely had a problem with his mind.
However, the empress was helpless when it came to problems like these. Aboriginals had a weakness when it came to this matter.
“Your Majesty, what happened to Sir Ren?” Hong Luan walked toward her and asked softly.
He was still fine a while ago and became like this after accompanying the empress to the explosion site.
The empress frowned. Hong Luan’s voice made her even more annoyed.
At this moment, Ren Baqian’s consciousness was in darkness.
In front of him was the presence of a faint blue light.
“Is this my sea of knowledge?” As Ren Baqian reached out his arm, a yellow cloud appeared in his palm. He was very familiar with this place, but it was just that he always used to have direct control over it.
At present, he was merely an entity here. He didn’t have the feeling of manipulating everything like he used to have.
“Who are you?” Ren Baqian looked up at the figure in front of him who was emitting a blue light. It was he who crashed into Ren Baqian’s sea of knowledge just now and brought about such changes.
In his mind, he already knew who the other party was.
“I didn’t expect that we would die by your hands… What was it? How did you do it?” The blue figure spoke in a deep and magnetic voice.
Ren Baqian felt like laughing, but he couldn’t do so given the current situation he was in. “You actually struggled until now just to find out how you died?”
“No, of course not. I still have another chance. A chance for you to be me and for me to be you,” the blue figure replied. “If you satisfy my curiosity, I can help you fulfill your final wish.”
Ren Baqian immediately knew the other party’s intentions. He didn’t expect that there was actually a way to occupy other people’s bodies in this world.
According to fantasy novels, this was called possession?
“You don’t stand a chance. Let’s not even talk about whether you can occupy my body. Even if you do so, Zixiao will kill you and this body in a flash.”
“Is Zixiao that abandoned lady? I will obtain your memory and occupy your body. I just need to hide it from her for a short period of time before I will be able to escape,” the blue figure said in a very plain tone that made Ren Baqian feel cold all over his body.
“Will you tell me how you did it? I can fulfill your last wish,” the blue figure repeated himself.
Ren Baqian’s face looked gloomy as he thought about countermeasures to deal with this situation. From the other party’s words, Ren Baqian could tell that the blue figure was full of confidence, so he must have the corresponding means to do what he said. Ren Baqian knew nothing about that, and there was no way that he could oppose the other party like this.
Since the blue figure actually asked him about it, this meant that the other party couldn’t take away all of his memories. However, this in no way would help Ren Baqian in beating the other party. The only difference it would make would be how much of his memories the other party could obtain.
If they were in the outside world, Ren Baqian could at least have a chance to escape. In the current situation, there weren’t any such chances.
However, this was his own sea of knowledge. According to the novels, he was the master of this world, and it should flow with his own thoughts.
It was like how he had condensed the five elements before.
At the thought of this, Ren Baqian felt that he wouldn’t necessarily lose.
He suddenly looked up at the blue figure and asked, “Do you think you have won?”
“Yes!” The blue figure nodded honestly. He couldn’t think of any possibility where Ren Baqian could defeat him.
Ren Baqian sneered and shouted loudly, “Big! Big! Big!”
Based on his own expectations, he should be able to control his body with his mind in his own sea of knowledge and turn into a giant that could swat the other party to death.
It turned out like what he expected, and the blue figure started becoming smaller and smaller until he was about the size of Ren Baqian’s pinky.
Ren Baqian was delighted. He was indeed a genius, and those fantasy novels were truly useful.
“Now, I’m interested in answering your question, but you also have to answer my question.” At this moment, Ren Baqian was filled with confidence, and he felt that he could crush the other party with just a finger.
The blue figure watched as Ren Baqian became a giant and lightly praised, “I didn’t expect you to realize this since most people don’t understand that they are the masters of their own sea of knowledge. So, you have the confidence to fight me now? Alright, if you answer my question, then I will also answer one of yours.”
“Why do you call us abandoned people!” Ren Baqian asked the blue figure something he had wanted to know for a while.
He hadn’t gotten any information from those foreigners before, but the herdsman in front of him should be able to answer his question.