Chapter 491: Chapter 490: Eternal Life

“You’ve come.”

Lu Qingyang’s voice had lost all vitality by now, coming out mechanical and stuttered.

Upon hearing this, Lu Zixun narrowed his eyes and asked indifferently, “What exactly are you right now? A human… or a shell?”

“Hehehe.”

Lu Qingyang laughed creepily twice and maneuvered his chair to face Lu Zixun, “I didn’t expect you to know about the shells. Did Old Yang tell you?”

Under the twilight’s light and shadow, Lu Qingyang’s body had twisted to an extent.

It looked as if, even if he wasn’t a shell now, he was about to become one.

However, a shell with its own consciousness was something Lu Zixun had never seen before.

And the ‘Old Yang’ mentioned by Lu Qingyang was likely Yang Guohong.

His speculative gaze fell on Lu Qingyang, wondering what this man really wanted to say to him.

Seeing Lu Zixun shake his head, a murky and indistinct light appeared in Lu Qingyang’s eyes as his body sank deeper into the chair, and his shellification worsened by three degrees.

“I had thought that shellification could be controlled through a mechanical brain. However, the extent of its contamination still exceeded my imagination.”

After a pause, Lu Qingyang spoke even more slowly, “The people from the Light and Shadow Association began contacting Crimson Academy six months ago. At that time, everyone could still resist its temptation, but as the war of contention was about to begin, more and more people were willing to accept shellification.”

“Is the war of contention genuinely just about seizing blocks?”

Lu Zixun couldn’t help but ask.

But now, Lu Qingyang seemed to be in a state where he could not hear external sounds, muttering to himself while sitting in his chair.

“I couldn’t resist either, but I was lucky that in the moment my consciousness was stripped away by an unknown power, I hid my consciousness using my superpower.”

His facial expression twitched for a moment, and then Lu Qingyang returned to normal, “After I modified my brain, I gradually began to feel the changes brought about by this ‘power of faith’. It isn’t really the power of faith but a force from the void. It merely disguised itself very well, and everyone was deceived!”

Gazing at the increasingly irascible Lu Qingyang, Lu Zixun sensed the unwillingness in his tone and the deep remorse.

However, the power of faith that the Light and Shadow Association used to transform people was actually from the void, and even the system couldn’t discern it.

Without interrupting Lu Qingyang, Lu Zixun listened quietly, always feeling that it might trigger the World Mystery.

“And the reason the Light and Shadow Association tempts people into degeneration is that after shellification, humans can obtain eternal life.”

Even as Lu Qingyang was on the brink of irreversible shellification, his eyes still revealed a manic fervor upon mentioning eternal life, appearing utterly insane.

A flash of red light passed through his eyes, and Lu Qingyang’s mood stabilized once more.

He spoke in a calm tone, “Indeed, as they said, eternal life exists, but it’s only your consciousness that is eternal. Your body, however, is controlled by another consciousness.”

Lu Zixun furrowed his brows.

That is to say, after becoming a shell, this person is still this person, yet not the same person.

What kind of existence could replace and control a body’s consciousness? An Evil God?

“Our world is being continuously corrupted, the real enemy of mankind isn’t the Insect Clan, but the Light and Shadow Association, the shells! We have all been deceived!”

At this point, Lu Qingyang’s eyes were filled with utter despair.

As his consciousness began to collapse, his body started splitting and regenerating tissues, his physical strength gradually increasing, and at the same time, his Spiritual Energy aura was breaking through towards J-level.

“Kill me and tell Old Yang what I just said.”

With dullness in his eyes, Lu Qingyang spoke softly, “At our age, the closer we get to death, the more we are tempted by eternal life. Never… never…”

He couldn’t finish his sentence before his jaw began to split, entering the shellification stage.

The Night Evil Sword soared into the sky, its Sword Qi decapitating Lu Qingyang’s mechanical head.

“Ding—Lu Qingyang of J-level has been killed, reward 5000 Super Energy Particles.”

“Thank you.”

As soon as he finished speaking, Lu Qingyang activated the self-destruct program in his mechanical brain, and his consciousness vanished along with the cessation of his shellification.

The half-transformed shellified body now appeared especially horrific.

Like a illogical piece of dark art, grotesque and glaring.

“Da Ju.”

At this moment, Lin Siyin entering the office with Wang Linfan, saw the mass of flesh and blood on the ground and couldn’t help but feel nauseous; the scene was too disgusting.

“What is…”

Seeing the clothes on Lu Qingyang, Wang Linfan frowned deeply, “Mr. Lu? Did he undergo shellification?”

“Yes.”

Nodding slightly, looking at the system that did not trigger the World Mystery, Lu Zixun squinted and asked, “Brother-in-law, have there been any strange occurrences among the teachers at Crimson Academy recently?”

“Strange occurrences?”

Raising his hand to his chin, pondering for a moment, Wang Linfan replied, “Some teachers acted strange on the first day, but they were fine the next day. Initially, I thought it was due to ill health, but now it seems it’s not just that.”

After a moment of silence, recalling Lu Qingyang’s words, Lu Zixun took a deep breath, “How many teachers are like this?”

Knowing Lu Zixun might have heard something and was suspecting these teachers, Wang Linfan carefully recalled and looked shocked.

Although such abnormal behavior among the teachers seemed intermittent, for a Spiritual Ability User, it was something unforgettable.

Having thought about it, Wang Linfan realized the seriousness of the issue.

It seemed that apart from him and the dean, other teachers had all demonstrated such problems.

Hearing this, Lu Zixun’s pupils shrank; these teachers had likely all undergone shellification, and there were over fifty teachers at the Crimson Academy…

The Light and Shadow Association’s play was a big one.

“Unless I am mistaken, they are all shells now.”

With heaviness in his tone, Lu Zixun took a deep breath, “The urgent task now is to gather all J-level Spiritual Ability Users at Crimson Academy, otherwise, with so many shells, the entire Zone 3 will fall.”

“I’ll handle it.”

Nodding, and understanding the severity of the situation, Wang Linfan immediately took out his phone to contact Sha Fei and the Elder Council.

Meanwhile, Lu Zixun, failing to contact Zhen Zhuoxiu, looked hesitant upon seeing the last message sent by Zhen Zhuoxiu.

Before Zhen Zhuoxiu followed the High Priest into the teachers’ apartment, he had already informed Lu Zixun.

Now knowing that the teachers were essentially all shells, the teachers’ apartment was undoubtedly a place of horror.