After listening to Gu Shunzhi's analysis, everyone nodded. In the end, a keeper of order was a keeper of order. It looked like there was a reason why the Heavenly Dao had taken a liking to Gu Shunzhi. To be able to resolve the mystery with just a few words was probably the accumulated experience of a keeper of order who intervened in disputes between various races in the universe all year round and was responsible for mediating.
But it was clear that these deductions alone weren't enough to deduce the identity of the person behind the scenes.
"If we're going to pretend to be one of them and make the jump, we have to at least confirm the identity of one of the seven ID cards …" Wang Zhen folded his arms as he stared at the list on the ground, feeling completely clueless about what to do. Although the cultivation civilization on Earth wasn't as developed as that of the Domain of the Gods, Wang Zhen felt that he had come to the right place for being trapped on Earth by the Heavenly Dao this time.
Where there were people, there were disputes, and the disputes on Earth weren't any less than in the Domain of the Gods. Although Wang Zhen had felt a little aggrieved when he had first been trapped here, after getting used to life here, he even started to like life on Earth a little.
Studying with Ling Zhenren was indeed a very happy thing.
"What did Ling Zhenren say?" Wang Zhen asked at that moment.
"Little master is still doing homework …" Loopy Toad couldn't help looking at Wang Zhen, Gu Shunzhi and the other people from the Domain of the Gods. "By the way, have you finished your homework?"
"No." Wang Zhen shook his head.
Loopy Toad: "Then why are you so calm …"
At that moment, Wang Zhen looked at Gu Shunzhi. "Old Gu hired someone from No. 60 High to send us the answers to all the homework via DingTalk at exactly two o 'clock every day. He just copied them. "
Loopy Toad took a deep breath and couldn't help frowning. This learning attitude was too bad!
But it wasn't that it couldn't understand … Earth's cultural knowledge was very easy for these bigwigs from the Domain of the Gods. Given Gu Shunzhi's IQ, he might have developed solutions that hadn't been developed on Earth yet. If they answered the questions based on their habitual thinking, their true identities might be exposed.
So in this situation, Gu Shunzhi had chosen to hire someone to do the homework, and then copied it himself. Copying homework was the easiest thing to do … Gu Shunzhi had learned this skill from Super Chen and Dopey Guo, these two wily old foxes who worked from dawn to dusk to copy homework, after coming to Earth.
Of course, only Gu Shunzhi would spend money to hire people. He was a keeper of order, and his salary was paid by the Heavenly Dao. Wang Zhen and Liu Qingyi also basked in the limelight. After being baptized in "poverty," they had become very sensitive to all kinds of expenses.
If one did not know their true identities, who would have thought that these two people were the Wang Clan's Young Master and the Liu Clan's Young Miss?
At this time, the few of them stared at the list on the ground and fell into deep thought. Although they already had Gu Shunzhi's deductions, they still had no idea what to do next.
But Odd Zhuo had a feeling that Old Liang had left him more clues than that.
At this moment, Li Huanran said, "Can I have a look at this list?"
"What did you find?" He could clearly sense that Li Huanran's body couldn't help trembling when he took the paper.
This was just an ordinary piece of paper, but it could actually frighten Li Huanran to this extent.
"I'm sorry … I forgot myself …" Li Huanran suppressed the fear in his heart. He held the paper in his hand for a long time, his body trembling. In less than a minute, he let go of the paper. As the paper fell to the ground, Li Huanran looked as if he had been relieved of a heavy burden.
"What on earth is going on?" he asked.
"Everything is as I guessed. There's that smell on this paper," said Li Huanran. "Everyone should know that I once wanted to open the Void Gate by force …"
"What does this have to do with anything?"
"Although I didn't break through the Void Gate at the time, the truth was that I opened a tiny, invisible crack … I can now sense the same smell on this paper as the Void Gate."
Hearing this, everyone suddenly understood, and Odd Zhuo also looked surprised.
If this was the case, then it seemed that they had found the epicenter of the incident … there was no doubt that it was the Void Gate!
As for why Li Huanran couldn't help trembling all over when he took the list, this was probably a symptom of "post-traumatic stress reaction." Back then, when Li Huanran had tried to break through the Void Gate in an attempt to find his father but had failed, the fear of facing death had probably been carved into the depths of his soul.
"When you broke through the gate back then, what on earth did you sense and see?"
"It was probably a kind of … spirit? I could sense an invisible spirit wrapped around me like a glutton. There were so many of them that they were like locusts. They swarmed around me, wrapped me up, and then started to devour, bite, and tear my body apart … "
Everyone shuddered at Li Huanran's words.
"Then let's call this creature a hollow spirit for the time being."
At this point, Odd Zhuo finally saw a clue as to what was going on. He turned to Gu Shunzhi. "Does Senior Gu know anything about the Void Gate?"
As a keeper of order, Gu Shunzhi danced back and forth between the ten universes all year round, so it went without saying that he was very knowledgeable. Now that there was a clue as to what was going on, Odd Zhuo's first thought was to get some information from Gu Shunzhi.
Unfortunately, Gu Shunzhi shrugged his shoulders. "It's a pity. This Void Gate isn't part of Dao and isn't under the jurisdiction of Heavenly Dao. As a keeper of order, I'm useless. "
"There are actually things in the world that keepers of order don't know about." Odd Zhuo tsked.
"To put it bluntly, keepers of order are just envoys sent out by Heavenly Dao to do odd jobs. The universe is vast, and there are many things that aren't part of Dao. As keepers of order, we can only watch from afar and can't intervene. Otherwise, we'd be breaking the rules. "
Gu Shunzhi smiled bitterly. "But thanks to little friend Li Huanran, we finally have some clues as to what's going on. From Li Daoist's description, there should be some powerful creature behind this Void Gate that surpasses cultivators on Earth. If my guess is correct, I'm afraid that Keown's purpose in coming to Huaxiu twenty years ago was to investigate the Void Gate.
"The Void Gate has only appeared twice in history. The first time was when Li Daoist's father, Martial Dao Master Li Xiaokai, challenged and broke through it. Unfortunately, Master Li was only able to open a crack for less than half a fist before he was swallowed up. The second time was when Li Daoist opened the Void Gate a second time in search of his father. "
"Two Void Gates, what does that mean?"
"I remember a famous scientist on Earth once said that humans should never try to have an equal conversation with a high-level civilization. At the same time, we should 'don't respond' to all signals sent out by high-level civilizations."
"There is a chain of contempt between high-level civilizations and low-level civilizations. For example, the creatures inside the Void Gate may or may not be interested in Earth at all, so both sides have always coexisted peacefully."
"But I'm guessing that this peaceful coexistence was already broken when Li Daoist broke through the Void Gate a second time …" Gu Shunzhi's voice gradually turned gloomy. "If these hollow spirits inside the Void Gate start to show interest in Earth, I'm afraid it'll be a disaster for human cultivators."
"Do you have any proof?" Wang Zhen asked at that moment.
"Of course." Gu Shunzhi picked up the list. "The answer is in the list that Warden Liang left for us."
Gu Shunzhi gently caressed every name on the list. At the same time, he diverted his attention to observe Li Huanran's reaction. Li Huanran was now like a reaction vessel. He had a natural sensitivity to the smell inside the Void Door.
When Gu Shunzhi's finger touched the word "judgment," he saw Li Huanran's entire body start to tremble uncontrollably.
"It's him," Gu Shunzhi said. Gu Shunzhi said, "It turns out that there are already high-level creatures from the Void Gate who have infiltrated Earth … If my speculation is correct, this person with the code name Judgment is from the Void Gate."
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