Chapter 460: The Hanged Man

"Is this... dead?"

Looking at the toad statue on the altar that had faded from its golden color and become as dim as a mud statue, the people in the secret room full of anticipation couldn't help but be shocked.

"How is that possible?!"

Among them, a middle-aged man with a full head of blonde hair performed the most excitedly. He looked at the toad statue that had already cracked and said in disbelief:

"I clearly investigated! Old Charle, besides having a very precise business eye, is just an ordinary person through and through. How could he possibly block the holy spirit of the Chengjin Sect? Something must have happened there that we don't know about!"

"There are too many things you don't know!"

Looking at the shattered statue on the altar with great heartache, an old man with a rose emblem embroidered on his chest slammed the table and roared at the middle-aged man with full indignation:

"Thomas! Back then we agreed that as long as we cooperated with you to squeeze Charle Department Store, the Laien family would join the York family to buy shares and make our Masaini family's department store bigger.

As a result, the shares of Rose Department Store were given to you! We followed you to invest money in the hydroelectric company! We also worked together to dig up the dam of the Road Administration Department! But Rose Department Store didn't get bigger, instead, it is about to be squeezed down!"

When he said this, it seemed it wasn't enough to vent his anger. The old man of the Masaini family slammed the table violently, and scolded the blonde middle-aged man with his manners lost:

"You said Old Charle's promotion kidnapped too many people, and you didn't have any good methods, so you could only solve it with some abnormal means.

Fine! Then use abnormal means. I even invited the holy spirit of the Chengjin Sect for you! Is this method abnormal enough?

You bastard didn't say that as long as the holy spirit descended and caused a mass death event, we could find an excuse to let the municipal side issue an order to forcibly stop Charle Department Store's promotion for safety reasons, and cut off its last breath...

But what was the result? Tell me what the result was! The result was that the holy spirit died!!! How do you expect me to explain this to the Chengjin Sect? You ** are simply..."

"Enough!"

Seeing that the words of the old man in Chinese clothes were becoming more and more impolite, the blonde middle-aged man's expression also darkened, and he asked back with an extremely ugly face:

"I am a human! Not an omniscient god! How could such a low-probability thing be predicted?

Also, I didn't want you Masaini family to get involved back then. It was you who came to find me! Even the holy spirit of the Chengjin Sect was invited by yourself!

And have you forgotten? To invite that toad, how many benefits did you ask from us! As a result, it didn't even make a sound and was slaughtered by someone! I think that so-called Chengjin Sect of yours is simply..."

"The two of you, stop."

Just as the conflict between the two sides was about to break out completely, a cold, hard tone full of "ice slag" sounded, curbing the situation that was about to escalate.

"Lord Thomas."

After calling the blonde middle-aged man's name, the black-robed person turned around and stared at him with a serious face:

"Although the Chengjin Sect is not a great cult, it has a True God behind it after all. If you don't want to be assassinated endlessly by them, you had better pay attention to your words. Also..."

After turning his head to look at the old man in Chinese clothes who was full of murderous intent, the black-robed person continued to speak in that cold tone that made people shiver, without any emotion:

"The holy spirit you invited wasn't killed by someone, but encountered some situation that couldn't be understood, which led it to doubt the philosophy it had always believed in, so it walked toward destruction."

After hearing the black-robed person's judgment, the representative of the York family, who had been silent, couldn't help but ask in surprise:

"Just because it started to doubt... it died?"

"Not just doubt, but it could no longer convince itself... But it's not impossible for you to understand it that way.

As holy spirits born from faith and concepts, their existence itself is an aggregation of beliefs and rules. When it starts to doubt what it believes in, it is equivalent to being deprived of the meaning of existence, and naturally, it will uncontrollably walk toward death."

When he said this, the black-robed person shook his head and summarized indifferently:

"Only extremes will be remembered, only paranoia dares to move forward, and only madness can understand greatness."

"For you humans, this extreme paranoia about philosophy might be a bit hard to accept, but this paranoia is precisely the root of the holy spirits' strength, and it is also their most fatal weakness. If you still can't understand, just imagine them as the Hanged Man who firmly believes that the sky is below and the earth is above, and therefore can walk freely in the sky.

And once they start to doubt the philosophy they firmly believed in the past, it is equivalent to destroying the rationality of standing in the sky, and they can only dance and fall from the sky, falling to death on the earth... Understand?"

"Roughly understand a little..."

The York family member frowned and thought for a while, then asked:

"So... what exactly did that holy spirit of the Chengjin Sect encounter? Can you guess?"

"Can guess a little bit."

Hearing this, the black-robed person squinted his eyes and said expressionlessly:

"It might not be so easy to guess elsewhere, but since it's in the capital... the only person who can completely destroy a holy spirit's philosophy is that one."

"Achoo!!!"

Strange... am I actually still sneezing?

After rubbing his suddenly itchy nose with some surprise, the red-haired bureau chief in the office sat up straight and opened the file in her hand with curiosity.

【Cleanup Report on the Descent Event of the Chengjin Sect Holy Spirit】

【Event Rating: Disaster Level】

【Event Status: Cleared】

【Event Handler: Li Ang Laien】

【Anomalous Objects Used: Demon Horn, Witch's Broom】

【Casualties: 1 person slightly injured】

【...】

At the same time...

"I'm sorry! I'm really, really sorry!!!"

Looking at Li Ang, who was wrapped in a thick circle of bandages on the hospital bed with a neck brace under his neck, the doll-faced girl wearing a professional suit bowed to the ground, crying and apologizing with teary eyes:

"When that money box was custom-made, if I could have been more careful during the acceptance and had someone reinforce the box body, you wouldn't have been injured by the gold wheels falling from the box! Woo... it's all my fault..."

Uh... this injury of mine really isn't your fault...

Looking at the doll-faced girl who was crying very sadly with both eyes swollen high, Li Ang, who had his cervical spine and ribs injured by the gold wheels on the hospital bed, didn't know what to say for a while.

If he remembered correctly, during the last incident at the Red Brick Road Hospital, it was modified by the Brain of the Evil God into a gas pipeline explosion. The person who took the blame for improper acceptance and came to apologize while crying was also you.

And this time, the holy spirit descent event was modified into an accident where the gold wheels in the money box collapsed, injuring him as he passed by. It turned out to be you taking the blame again, crying and coming to apologize to him.

After examining the doll-faced girl who was crying quite sadly, Li Ang couldn't help but smack his lips with a complex expression.

Girl... is your luck a bit bad?

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 461 =====