Otherworldly Affairs Office-Chapter 734 Poisonous Plan (Request for Subscription)

"Could it be that this person found someone who looks exactly like them to replace them?" Jiang Feiyang, who had never seen Bai Ze, curiously leaned in and poked the corpse with his finger, puzzled.

"Impossible. One can imitate appearance, but can they mimic the essence? When he came, everyone felt his aura. Could it be that he cultivated someone similar in source energy just to die in vain? That'd be a grand gesture from Shenyu!" Zheng Jia Ru immediately refuted.

"Don't panic—look, his body is changing!" At this moment, Liang Qian pointed at the corpse and exclaimed. Everyone followed the direction of her finger, seeing the corpse on the ground become a blur, oil-like colors spreading, with liquid flowing over its surface, emitting a pungent odor.

Everyone promptly held their breath and moved away. In just a moment, the liquid flowed faster, and with a burst of crackling sounds, all the liquid turned into a cloud of steam and rose up. When the steam dissipated, Zheng Jia Ru leaned over again to look, shocked: "Who is this person?"

The previous corpse was now a shriveled, emaciated mummy, clearly not Bai Ze who had just died. Thinking this, Zheng Jia Ru looked up at Pei Yan, who had been calm from beginning to end, and couldn't help but ask, "Did you foresee this happening from the start?"

Pei Yan covered his nose and nodded, "Although I didn't know what method he'd use to escape, I knew he wouldn't be foolish enough to come and die. I just didn't expect his Substitute Technique would be so flawless that none of us spotted any flaws. Impressive. I just wonder if this transformation technique only allows for personal change or can become someone else's appearance. If it can, we'll need to be even more cautious daily." 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

"Pei Yan is right. We can't control outsiders, so let's start with ourselves. From today, Elder Lin, Director Mei, and I will come up with separate passwords. Upon meeting each morning, we will issue a new one, changing it daily. If anyone in the team is out of sight for a long period, on reunion, they must confirm identity by matching passwords." Gu Shenghui finished speaking, looked at Pei Yan, and said, "Seal this corpse into the spatial ring, Elder Lin will take it back to the Equipment Department to see if they can find any clues."

"Understood." Pei Yan said, raising his hand as two mechanical avatars formed, stepping forward and lifting the front and back ends of the corpse to seal it inside the spatial ring.

After finishing, Gu Shenghui ordered his men to clean the room and dispel the odor, while inviting Elder Lin and others, "Let's hold a meeting to discuss how to make the other dimensions accept this proposal, and how to handle the competition that follows."

Meanwhile, as Gu Shenghui and others were preparing for their meeting, Bai Ze sat with a blank expression in a basement of a mansion in Luocheng, a huge scroll laid out before him. As paint flowed from the center of the scroll into Bai Ze's body, his facial expression gradually became more complex. After a while, he suddenly looked up, emitting a strange moan from his throat.

"Returned," a voice suddenly sounded, not from any mouth in the room.

"Ah, returned!" Bai Ze said, taking the towel handed over by a servant and wiped his face, turning to look at Mu Fanchen, who was watching him with a smirk, helplessly saying, "You win, that guy is indeed a rogue, a shameless rogue without any grace!"

Mu Fanchen wasn't surprised, shrugged indifferently. Then he looked up into the void, asking, "Master, are you sure they'll accept this condition?"

"It doesn't matter. Whether they accept or not doesn't affect our real plan much—it's just another smoke bomb I've released. If they accept, all the better." The voice in the void paused mockingly, "Lin Junzhao, that greedy little girl, would nurture such greedy disciples. Among the dimensions, her power is the weakest, so she's always hoped to build her own force. How could she pass up such a good opportunity? Unfortunately, she's always blinded by immediate gain—a foolish woman. Once she agrees to compete, her newly recovered strength will be greatly reduced due to the splitting of seeds and fragments, which means one less worry for me in the upcoming battle. Once the dust settles, I'll grant her her own space to continue being her little queen."

"Master, you always seem to favor the original body of the Keystone dimension," Bai Ze rose to stretch the still-stiff body after using the transformation technique, jokingly remarked.

"Hmm?"

"Disciple admits fault!" A light hum void of emotional fluctuation signaled the master's displeasure, prompting Bai Ze to quickly bow and apologize. After a while with no response from the air, he daringly inquired, "Master, are you sure you want us to participate in this operation? Once these dimensions agree, will they truly abide by the competition rules? I don't quite believe they hold any honor or sincerity. Should they truly intend to besiege us? Master, Suhabaru is our precedent for caution."

"Do you think I'd let you go to die in vain? Sending you is merely giving them an excuse to accept the competition—the real game is with me. Once those old fools realize that combining their forces is futile against me, they'll accept this competition. They still think this is a reshuffle of new and old powers, yet fail to comprehend my true aim is clearing the field!" Candle Dragon mentioned this with a painful, muffled groan, causing Bai Ze's attention to be drawn, panic rising, "Master, you?"

"It's nothing, ha-ha-ha. I underestimated that kid Li Songtao. Didn't expect him to gather so much resentment within the source fragment. While I was dealing with the old woman Lin Ruxue, returning suddenly gave me some trouble." Candle Dragon remarked, then changed the topic: "That set of stuffs presented by Celestial Secret Pavilion, did he accept it?"

"Accepted. Though he sensed a problem with the puppets, greed drove him to take the bait." As he spoke, Bai Ze's face uncontrollably displayed a smile of success after scheming.

"Ah, that's right! That boy's hunger for power matches anyone in this room. He merely abides by mundane rules, adhering to useless boundaries. This time, I'll see if his boundaries can withstand it!" Candle Dragon shifted his tone, chuckled, and directed a teasing question at Mu Fanchen in the room: "Fanchen, credit to your quick wit coming up with such a vicious plan immediately after acquiring the items. Your strike against your former companions was quite ruthless. Are you certain the opponent will fall into your trap?"

"They will. Someone will surely fall for it, no matter who—the Investigation Hall will lose an arm." Facing Candle Dragon's jest, Mu Fanchen remained composed, responded calmly, as if referring to strangers they'd never met rather than former companions.