I Don't Agree to the Terms

Yunxing City, this is a third-tier city surrounded by mountains. If it weren't for modern transportation, getting in and out would be extremely difficult.

Gu Shanhai took a plane here, although he could have taken a train, but that would have taken too much time.

As for using the Five Elements Great Escape to teleport directly here, Gu Shanhai didn't even consider it because he was leaving traces for himself.

Whether buying tickets or communicating, it's a way to deepen the traces.

Besides, if you were at the Eternal Life Technology Headquarters thousands of kilometers away one second and arrived in Yunxing City the next, wouldn't that blatantly reveal you had a problem?

If it went unnoticed, it would have been fine, but attracting unnecessary trouble once detected would be a huge loss.

It was only half a day's journey by an evening flight, time that Gu Shanhai could afford to waste.

Upon arriving in Yunxing City, Gu Shanhai found that there were quite a few construction teams taking measurements today.

"So soon?" Gu Shanhai, of course, knew this was Xiao Yongsheng's investment in redeveloping Yunxing City. He just hadn't expected the efficiency to be beyond his expectations.

From his Prophetic Divination results, they had communicated at noon yesterday, the design was out by evening and had been approved, and there were a series of procedures to follow. Normally, these procedures would take at least a month to complete, and even with Xiao Yongsheng's large investment, it should still take about ten to fifteen days.

But here they were, starting the next day—money really could make the world go round.

Of course, Eternal Life Technology had not just money but power, and so their plans naturally got the green light all the way.

"I'll find a way to perform a Soul Search on one of the people in charge."

Investigate? Gu Shanhai indeed came to investigate, but with his ability to directly Soul Search memories, why bother to ascertain the truth bit by bit?

For him, evidence was unimportant—he wasn't in need of it. If there was a suspicion, he would act on it.

The reason he didn't go after Xiao Yongsheng was due to concern because his Prophetic Divination's failure suggested some interference, which indirectly proved a potential life-threatening danger to him.

Out of caution, he decided to probe indirectly at first and then take action when the opportunity arose.

It wasn't about charging in mindlessly; he had to prepare and eliminate hidden dangers before doing so—that was called overwhelming force.

"Find the construction foreman, or the official executives, or the designers. They all talked to Xiao Yongsheng yesterday."

Gu Shanhai quickly located all the informed individuals using Prophetic Divination and Spiritual Sense and then remotely extracted their memories.

Then he reconstructed the meeting that had taken place.

"Sure enough, part of my Prophetic Divination is missing."

Actually, the content was pretty much the same. The only thing missing was certain nodes in the planning design.

"An Array or a ritual?" After carefully filtering through, Gu Shanhai extracted the core elements from the design. The rest wasn't a problem; the real issue was the effect after the Array or the ritual was activated.

"That is to say, Xiao Yongsheng controls the only Transcendence in this world."

He truly didn't understand what the Array or ritual was for. He had never been to this world, nor had he mastered this world's language, script, or related constructs.

The worlds of the "First Era" were vast as smoke; he couldn't possibly collect them all.

The reason he could identify it as an Array or a ritual was due to his own rich knowledge and inference, much like how an illiterate person might not understand the words on a roadside advertisement but years of common sense let them recognize it as an advertisement.

This was Gu Shanhai's current problem.

"So Xiao Yongsheng can also travel between two worlds..." Gu Shanhai couldn't help but think of Transdimensional Travel. Perhaps Xiao Yongsheng could travel to other worlds, which enabled the acquisition of so much technology. It's possible he'd traveled through several worlds. For instance, this Array/ritual might not exclusively belong to a technological realm but instead to a completely new Transcendent world.

As for why someone with a Transcendent world would still get cancer, the answer was simple: he might have just recently unlocked that world.

"If that's the case, then isn't Xiao Yongsheng more of a protagonist than his domineering CEO son?" Gu Shanhai muttered to himself.

"Oh, wait, his son isn't the protagonist—Su Man is. This world is of the women's fiction genre."

Gu Shanhai also realized that Xiao Yunting, at most, was a male lead; the real protagonist was Su Man.

"Then can I possibly swipe—erm, borrow it?" Gu Shanhai felt that if it were true, then directly taking it would mean he could also travel to other worlds.

But after thinking it through, if he did get it, he wouldn't dare to use it. It obviously looked problematic.

"Alright, maybe it's a System." Gu Shanhai reconsidered; it didn't have to be Transdimensional Travel. It could be some Genius System, for all he knew.

Without the presence of this Array/ritual, Gu Shanhai might have chalked it up to top-tier genius. But now, even knowledge not of this world had surfaced, which undeniably indicated a problem.

In fact, there was another possibility: the knowledge might have inherently existed, belonging to a time when Spiritual Energy proliferated, and as it's now the End of Dharma, it vanished along with the era. However, this possibility was so small it was negligible, as Gu Shanhai had already collected various related records and literature of this world.