Chapter 688

The locomotive engine called the Leaving Suishenju "Little Train."

The Leaving Suishenju called the locomotive engine "Old Train."

This proved one thing: the locomotive engine before him was Train Grandpa.

It made sense logically, but the problem was, Train Grandpa should have been trapped in the Inner Continent; why did he appear at the Dark Star Bureau?

The Leaving Suishenju was now colliding with the locomotive engine. The wheels of both trains were constantly spinning, and there were faint railway tracks beneath the wheels. Sparks were flying between the tracks and the wheels, and the ear-piercing friction sound caused many glass display cases to shatter.

The Leaving Suishenju shouted: "Ah Seven, run!"

Li Li Banfeng said: "If I run, what will happen to you?"

The Leaving Suishenju shouted: "I will follow the key!"

Li Li Banfeng rushed toward the warehouse gate. When he was less than five meters from the entrance, the gate suddenly retreated rapidly.

It wasn't just the gate; the walls were also retreating.

In a flash, Li Li Banfeng felt danger attacking from behind.

He looked back and saw the locomotive engine chasing after him.

What about the Leaving Suishenju?

Li Li Banfeng ran wildly, but he couldn't run in a straight line; he couldn't outrun the locomotive engine.

Helpless, he could only jump sideways. Li Li Banfeng turned left. Fortunately, his turning speed was much faster than the locomotive engine.

Rushing to the left wall, Li Li Banfeng wanted to use "Unimpeded Passage" to drill out, but found that the left wall was also retreating rapidly.

Li Li Banfeng looked back again; the locomotive engine had already caught up close.

He couldn't touch the left side, so he turned to the right side; the right wall was also retreating rapidly.

He had tried all four walls, and Li Li Banfeng couldn't touch a single one.

These walls and the locomotive engine seemed to have strict distance restrictions. Once the locomotive engine was too close to the wall, the wall would automatically retreat.

Was this the locomotive engine's technique?

There was no time to ponder this now. He couldn't get out through the walls, so Li Li Banfeng prepared to tunnel underground.

Bang!

Li Li Banfeng kicked, but the ground was too hard; he couldn't drill through.

This wasn't a problem of poor technique; Li Li Banfeng found that the ground of this warehouse had obvious restrictions on the "Unimpeded Passage" technique.

Li Li Banfeng leaped up, wanting to drill through the ceiling. He stuck his whole body to the ceiling, but still couldn't drill out.

The locomotive engine was still on the ground. For Train Grandpa, flying certainly wasn't difficult, but this steam locomotive engine didn't seem able to fly. Li Li Banfeng was stuck to the ceiling, temporarily safe.

The locomotive engine's headlights lit up, and its whole body was shrouded in mist.

By the headlights, Li Li Banfeng saw the full picture of the warehouse. After the chase just now, all the equipment in the room had been affected.

All the glass covers were shattered.

A pile of equipment was overturned on the ground. They must have been hit by the train, or even run over, but the quality of this equipment was truly top-notch; from the outside, there was no obvious damage.

Li Li Banfeng stuck to the ceiling and moved rapidly toward the entrance.

Whoosh!

The locomotive engine exhaled a large patch of white mist, and the temperature in the room rose sharply.

Li Li Banfeng reached the entrance, and the train on the ground also reached the entrance. The entrance and the walls retreated synchronously, and Li Li Banfeng still couldn't get out.

"Return it to me!" The locomotive engine emitted another low moan, and the temperature in the whole warehouse rose quite a bit more.

Li Li Banfeng was sweating profusely; he couldn't hold on much longer.

It wasn't just him who couldn't hold on; many pieces of equipment couldn't withstand this high temperature either.

The fluorescent screen of the floor-standing television cracked. The television turned on by itself, and after a patch of static, it received a program.

This was a quiz show that had been popular nationwide twenty years ago. The female host was in her prime, so this show was definitely not recorded recently.

The floor-standing radio next to it also turned on: "Dear listeners and friends, on this bright spring day when the grass grows and the warblers fly, Ah Hui wants to say goodbye to all the audience and friends.

As always, Ah Hui will be away for a while. During these days, Ah Hui's heart will always be with everyone. Ah Hui will continue to work hard to build a new, orderly, and civilized Star Fall Continent."

Ah Hui?

Song Song Laoshi?

This segment should be a live broadcast, but why could the radio here receive a Star Fall Continent station?

The television show reached a small climax, and the host said: "Congratulations on completing the first round of questions. Please state your first dream."

The guest replied: "I want a new dress!"

Tat-tat-tat!

The steam sewing machine in the warehouse kept making noise, and soon sewed a dress. The dress flew to the ceiling and chased Li Li Banfeng everywhere.

After circling for a while, the quiz show reached another climax, and the host said: "Congratulations on completing the second round of questions. Please state your second dream!"

"I want a set of stereo speakers!"

Whoosh!

In the warehouse, several old-fashioned speakers combined together, a DVD player started playing electronic music, and the intense bass made Li Li Banfeng's chest tremble!

Steam boiling, dress chasing, plus the harassment of the speakers, Li Li Banfeng was about to collapse.

At the critical moment, Li Li Banfeng rushed rapidly toward the right wall. The locomotive engine walked to the right synchronously, and the right wall retreated accordingly.

Li Li Banfeng accelerated, and the locomotive engine accelerated accordingly.

Li Li Banfeng pushed his speed to the limit, turned abruptly, abandoned the right wall, and rushed rapidly toward the large gate.

The locomotive engine's turning wasn't that agile, and it was left behind by Li Li Banfeng for a distance.

But the locomotive engine also had precautions. The dress newly made by the sewing machine stuck to the ceiling and blocked Li Li Banfeng's path.

If he chose to dodge, even if he delayed for one more second, the locomotive engine would immediately catch up, and all previous efforts would be wasted.

Since he couldn't dodge, he had to rush forward. The Tang Dao left its sheath first and stabbed the dress.

The sickle followed, exerting force from both sides, wanting to tear the dress to pieces, but it didn't succeed; the material of this dress was very tough.

Since he couldn't tear it, he nailed the dress to the ceiling. After Li Li Banfeng rushed past, the Tang Dao and the sickle released the dress.

Li Li Banfeng did indeed rush past, and the sickle and Tang Dao also successfully escaped.

But he didn't expect that the steam sewing machine had never stopped. During this time, it had made more than a dozen dresses, and these dresses had arrived at the entrance in advance, waiting for Li Li Banfeng.

This time he couldn't avoid it. If he rushed through, he would definitely be entangled by these dresses.

With Li Li Banfeng's movement technique, bypassing the dresses wouldn't be a problem, but the locomotive engine chased from behind again, and the warehouse entrance moved away from Li Li Banfeng once more.

The steam grew more and more, the sound of the speakers grew louder and louder, the sewing machine spun faster and faster, and Li Li Banfeng seemed to be trapped in a desperate situation.

The Leaving Suishenju appeared again and collided with the locomotive engine once more.

This time it wasn't a head-on collision; the Leaving Suishenju hit the side of the locomotive engine.

The locomotive engine flipped over on the spot, and Li Li Banfeng took the opportunity to rush to the warehouse entrance.

A halo of light lit up, and a boundary line rose at the entrance.

This wasn't the first time Li Li Banfeng had seen a boundary line at the Dark Star Bureau, and to this day, he hadn't found the source of the boundary line.

Li Li Banfeng took the boundary line switch from his bosom and pulled the wooden lever, causing the boundary line to extinguish for a short segment.

Passing through the boundary line and rushing through the gate, Li Li Banfeng returned to the corridor.

Looking inside along the gate, the Leaving Suishenju was gone, and the locomotive engine had flipped itself up and stood up. The headlights were still on, shining directly on Li Li Banfeng's face.

It exhaled thick smoke, and its wheels spun rapidly, seemingly speeding toward Li Li Banfeng.

But from Li Li Banfeng's perspective, this train had been driving in place and hadn't moved at all.

After a short while, the locomotive engine calmed down, the headlights went out, and the surrounding clouds and mist disappeared.

The steam sewing machine stopped working, and its built-in boiler extinguished its flame.

The floor-standing radio returned to the wall, and the sound disappeared.

The "stereo speakers" disassembled into six speakers on the spot, each returning to its original position.

The shattered glass shards floated in mid-air, aggregated together, turned back into glass covers, and covered each piece of equipment.

The tailored dresses didn't recover; they opened the wardrobe by the wall and hung themselves neatly on the hangers.

In the blink of an eye, the warehouse was swept clean, and even the dew left behind after the steam condensed was wiped dry by a few rags next to the sewing machine.

It was as if no one had ever been here; all traces in the warehouse were wiped away, except for that floor-standing television.

The shattered fluorescent screen had also recovered, but unlike the other equipment, it was still playing the television show.

"You have already realized three dreams. Do you want to continue the challenge?"

"I choose to continue the challenge."

"Reminding you again, you have three opportunities for outside help that you haven't used—"

Creak, creak, creak!

Clang!

The large iron gate closed.

The gloves asked Li Li Banfeng: "Boss, do you still want to open this door?"

"Can it still be opened?" Not knowing if it was an illusion, Li Li Banfeng felt this iron gate was locked tighter than before.

Li Li Banfeng was indeed not mistaken. The gloves fumbled at the door crack: "This door has added strength. With my previous ability, I'm afraid I couldn't open it,

but it's different now. Give me a quarter of an hour, and I can open this door one more time."

Before Li Li Banfeng could speak, the Leaving Suishenju spoke: "Don't, we can't fight the Old Train again now. I'm pulling the carriage, I can't beat him."

Li Li Banfeng returned to the sixteenth-floor stairwell, went out through the stair door, and arrived at the elevator entrance.

Enter from where you exit; the maze of the stairwell had disappeared.

Li Li Banfeng glanced at each office; everyone was working normally, and he didn't see anything unusual.

Just a moment ago, two trains had collided in the Dark Star Bureau building, and they had collided more than once. How could these people not notice at all?

Returning to his office, Li Li Banfeng locked the door, hid the key, and entered the Leaving Suishenju.

The room was a mess; the table was overturned, the shelves were knocked down, and Xiang Xiang Hongying was cleaning up.

Li Li Banfeng stepped forward to help and explained to his family: "Just now I went to a warehouse in the Dark Star Bureau, and there I met..."

Xiang Xiang Hongying lifted the overturned shelf: "We all saw it, we saw it from the fifth room."

Nine Girls was picking up the broken bottles and jars: "I think I shouldn't have seen it wrong, that person was the Old Train."

Li Li Banfeng confirmed it again: "You mean, the locomotive engine in the warehouse is Train Grandpa?"

"Yes, that's him."

"Train Grandpa is a train?"

Nine Girls said: "No one can clearly describe the appearance of the Old Train. Sometimes he is an old man with white hair, sometimes a young man in his prime, sometimes a factory, sometimes a train.

He has extremely high attainments in industrial cultivation. He has manufactured many things, including his own body."

Li Li Banfeng tidied up the bed and sat on the edge: "Train Grandpa was trapped in the Inner Continent; he told me this himself. I even saw his shadow in the Inner Continent."

Nine Girls said: "He is the man my sister likes the most. I even learned quite a few traveling cultivation techniques from him. I absolutely wouldn't recognize him wrong. If you don't believe me, you can ask our family's Old Man; he is most familiar with Train Grandpa."

The room fell into silence. After a long while, the Old Man spoke: "Ah Seven, this is the Old Train, the incomplete Old Train."

The gloves said: "I haven't met this senior, but this skill is truly terrifying. Old Man, even if this senior is incomplete, you can't beat him?"

"Hehe, Ah Gloves, your mouth is truly sweet," the Leaving Suishenju chuckled dryly, "He is incomplete, and I am also incomplete. Besides, I have to look after this whole family."

Li Li Banfeng confirmed two things with the Leaving Suishenju.

"He kept saying 'return it to me.' Was he wanting me to return the car key to him?"

The Leaving Suishenju replied: "Yes, although he didn't say it explicitly, he definitely wants to take me back."

"If I don't return the key to him, will he kill me?"

"Yes!" The Leaving Suishenju was very certain, "Judging by the posture just now, he is indeed out to take your life."

"Impossible..." Li Li Banfeng shook his head, "Train Grandpa isn't that kind of person..."

The Leaving Suishenju said: "I don't know what kind of Old Train you've seen, but the Old Train I'm familiar with has this temperament.

Killing has never been a big deal to him. One moment you're brothers, the next moment he turns hostile. From the day I gained intelligence, he has been like this."

Li Li Banfeng sat on the edge of the bed, his expression dull.

He asked again: "He called out 'brother.' That was calling me, right?"

"Yes, he recognizes you; otherwise, he would have killed you the first time he attacked."

"Why would he recognize me? If this train is a part of him, and this part has been trapped in the Dark Star Bureau, this part of Train Grandpa shouldn't have seen me."

The Leaving Suishenju didn't know the experience between Li Li Banfeng and Train Grandpa; he could only infer based on his own memory: "His other parts should have some sensing with this part. I don't know exactly how they sense each other.

Ah Seven, don't go looking for him again, absolutely don't. I want to save him, but it must be at the right time. If you save him rashly, you don't know what the consequences will be.

I'm injured and need to rest for a while. Ah Seven, the family matters are left to you. Absolutely don't be reckless."

Li Li Banfeng suddenly realized: "Old Man, where are you injured? What medicine do you need? I'll go get it."

The Leaving Suishenju laughed: "What medicine can cure me? Just let me have two days of peace."

The Leaving Suishenju went silent.

The gloves whispered in Li Li Banfeng's ear: "Why do I feel that the Old Man is truly old today?"

After cleaning up the house, Li Li Banfeng left the Leaving Suishenju.

Arriving at the office, he called Chen Chen Zhangrui in.

"Old Chen, is there any news from above?"

Chen Chen Zhangrui shook his head: "Ever since you said you wouldn't attend the meeting, the higher-ups put the matter on hold. I heard from Gao Gao Yina that the higher-ups haven't mentioned the disbanding of the Dark Star Bureau again."

Li Li Banfeng nodded; the Dark Star Bureau was temporarily safe.

"You haven't received any other news, have you?"

Chen Chen Zhangrui was stunned; he didn't know what "other news" meant: "Director Li, are you talking about the new batch of conditioning agent materials?"

"I'm talking about... that's the matter."

Chen Chen Zhangrui said: "The new materials have all been sent to the warehouse. We learned from previous lessons and conducted strict inspections."

Li Li Banfeng shook his head: "We cannot lower our guard; we must keep the alarm bells ringing. In a few days, we will conduct another special inspection."

It was time to conduct a special inspection. There were more and more three-headed people on hand, and all those who had entered the Dao Sect were waiting for conditioning agents. One three-headed person needed the portion of three people. Relying solely on the Lady to produce and process them, the output couldn't keep up.

Li Li Banfeng asked Chen Chen Zhangrui again: "Besides this, nothing else?"

"Nothing else."

Li Li Banfeng stared at Chen Chen Zhangrui for a long time. Judging by his expression, Chen Chen Zhangrui wasn't lying.

If the warehouse Li Li Banfeng entered was the true archives room, and two trains collided inside, the true archives room must have been destroyed.

In this situation, Chen Chen Zhangrui should have received information.

Since Chen Chen Zhangrui hadn't received information, it proved that this warehouse wasn't the true archives room.

Where exactly was the true archives room?

Could the things inside be even more astonishing than this warehouse?

"Old Chen, have you heard of Prison Cell No. 6?"

In less than a second, Chen Chen Zhangrui blinked seven or eight times. In this situation, if he said he didn't know, Li Li Banfeng definitely wouldn't believe him.

After weighing the options, Chen Chen Zhangrui decided to tell the truth: "I have heard of Prison Cell No. 6; I learned about it from Director Shen. At that time, we were executing an important mission, and the entire Security Team was dispatched. Director Shen suddenly said he wanted to return to the bureau.

He selected thirty key members to return with him, including me. During an important mission, letting the Security Team Captain leave the scene was a very abnormal move.

After returning to the bureau, Director Shen left me with one sentence: if any accident occurred, I should report to the higher-ups that there was a problem with Prison Cell No. 6.

Having worked at the Dark Star Bureau for so many years, I only knew that the Dark Star Bureau had five prison cells. I asked Director Shen where Prison Cell No. 6 was, but Director Shen didn't answer.

Afterward, Director Shen didn't show up for the whole day. I suspect he must have gone to Prison Cell No. 6. The next day, Director Shen came to work as usual and summarized the mission from the day before. He never mentioned the matter of Prison Cell No. 6 again."

The information Chen Chen Zhangrui knew was limited to this. Li Li Banfeng asked a detail: "About what time did Shen Shen Jingye return to the bureau?"

"10:30 AM."

The time Zhong Er entered Prison Cell No. 6 was 3:50 PM. The times didn't match.

Could it be that time wasn't the key condition for the stairwell maze?

Then what was the key condition?

What exactly was the reason that the warehouse on the fifteenth floor appeared on the nineteenth floor?

Li Li Banfeng couldn't think of an answer.

At night, Li Li Banfeng returned to the Leaving Suishenju and went to the fifth room. He had the fifth room girl reproduce the scene in the warehouse.

This work had always been done by the projector, but at that time, the projector had to control the surveillance equipment, so it was left outside the warehouse and had no time to film.

Compared to the projector, the fifth room girl's perspective was relatively singular. Her field of vision was equivalent to a car window on a train. Many key details,

she hadn't been able to see.

After watching it from beginning to end, Li Li Banfeng found a key detail: the warehouse walls were moving synchronously with the train's movement.

Li Li Banfeng watched it twice repeatedly and asked Xiang Xiang Hongying: "Is this a traveling cultivation technique?"

Xiang Xiang Hongying pondered for a moment: "It's a bit like 'Breaking the Path and Opening the Way.' The train is about to hit the wall, there's no road ahead, so he extends a section of road for himself."

Nine Girls laughed: "Let's not talk nonsense. 'Breaking the Path and Opening the Way' opens up a road. If he opened a hole in the wall, that would be 'Breaking the Path and Opening the Way.' He's moving the whole wall back; this doesn't look like opening a road at all?"

Xiang Xiang Hongying raised her eyebrows and looked at Nine Girls: "Then you tell me, what technique did Old Train use at that time?"

Nine Girls shook her head slightly: "I can't tell what technique this is."

Xiang Xiang Hongying said angrily: "You can't tell, yet you have so much to say? Are you looking for a beating?"

Nine Girls sighed: "I said I can't tell, which proves this shouldn't be a traveling cultivation technique. Old Train also has great attainments in industrial cultivation.

It's very likely that there is his industrial cultivation technique in this room."

Xiang Xiang Hongying thought carefully: "Walls moving; it has indeed been seen in industrial cultivation techniques."

Everyone was still guessing when the image began to shake violently.

Similar shaking had appeared many times. Xiang Xiang Hongying scolded the fifth girl: "Didn't you eat? Are your hands shaking? Why are you always shaking here, it makes me so dizzy!"

The fifth girl didn't dare speak. Nine Girls said: "This is because the Old Man is fighting with the Old Train. Their movements are too fast. We are looking from inside the house to the outside, so naturally, it shakes violently."

Xiang Xiang Hongying asked Li Li Banfeng: "Seven, did you see them fighting at that time?"

Li Li Banfeng only saw two train collisions. He was busy running for his life at the time, so he didn't see many details.

But since the Leaving Suishenju was injured, it proved they must have had a fierce battle.

Nine Girls said: "Ah Seven, look to see if there are any mechanisms or the like in this warehouse. If you can find the mechanism, perhaps you can find a way to control the walls."

This suggestion was very valuable. Li Li Banfeng had the fifth girl play the footage repeatedly, and everyone looked for traces of mechanisms in the warehouse together.

The gloves whispered a sentence in Li Li Banfeng's ear: "Boss, don't forget the Old Man's instructions. Now is not the time."

Now was not the time to rescue Train Grandpa; the Leaving Suishenju had indeed said this.

But Li Li Banfeng would continue to investigate the stairwell. If he entered this warehouse again next time, he had to know how to escape.

Late at night, the whole family went to sleep. Li Li Banfeng sat on the sofa in the fifth room and also fell asleep.

The scene in the warehouse was played again on the wall. The image was a bit blurry and was slowly replaced by a patch of static.

A silhouette of a person was outlined on the static. It was a beautiful young woman with a pair of braided hair, wearing a student outfit unique to the Star Fall Continent, similar to a cheongsam, walking slowly among the flowers.

She picked a bouquet of fresh flowers, turned her face toward the screen, and revealed a smile.

She seemed to be smiling at Li Li Banfeng.

A table appeared in front of her, and there was a vase on the table. She inserted the fresh flowers into the vase, and the scene in the image slowly began to change.

The flowers disappeared, replaced by a brightly lit studio hall.

The braided hair turned into a standard number five hairstyle, the student outfit turned into a white suit, and the beautiful female student turned into a dignified and beautiful female host. She was talking.

"Congratulations to this guest, you have already realized three dreams. Do you want to continue the challenge?"

"You still have one opportunity for outside help. Are you sure you want to use it now?"

"I want to remind you that if you answer this question wrong, all previous dreams will vanish into thin air.

Time is up, you must give me an answer as soon as possible."

This voice wasn't loud, but it wasn't small either, yet in the entire Leaving Suishenju, no one could hear it, including the Peeping Cultivator in the seventh room, and including Li Li Banfeng's Silk Earrings.

Did Honglian heard it; only she heard it, because this voice had a target.

Did Honglian came to the fifth room silently. She unfolded her lotus leaves, revealed her lotus heart, and she was also talking to the host on the wall:

"What does this mean? Threatening me?"

The host on the wall looked at Did Honglian: "I am not threatening you, just giving you a reminder. Your dream is about to be realized, and the promise to me should also be fulfilled."

Did Honglian waved her lotus leaves: "Is that so? Really about to be realized? I feel that there is still quite a distance between me and my dream."

The host maintained a professional smile: "I feel the distance is very close. She is not at home, he is asleep, I can help you convey some messages. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."

PS: Who is Did Honglian going to convey the message to?

Thank you to all the lords for your support. On the night of the 31st, an extra chapter will be added!