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The advantage of hypnosis in the Tsukuyomi illusion is that you can spend a long time inside it, but in reality, it's only a fleeting moment.
After hypnotizing Zhang Ronghua, Gu Ran first asked a few simple questions, such as the whereabouts of the Zhang family headquarters in Nanyang, information about the drugs they were researching, and the location of his mother, Zhang Qiong.
Under hypnosis, Zhang Ronghua's eyes were glazed, and he recounted everything he knew in detail.
When he revealed Zhang Qiong's location, Gu Ran was still taken aback.
At this moment, Gu Ran released Zhang Ronghua from the hypnosis, but still left his consciousness in the Tsukuyomi illusion.
"You... how did you do that..." Zhang Ronghua realized that he had just said everything.
Gu Ran's methods are unpredictable and beyond his understanding of hybrids and dragons.
"Fine, I admit defeat at your hands... But don't think you're a savior who can save everyone!" In the illusion, Zhang Ronghua suddenly turned ferocious.
Gu Ran keenly sensed that he must have some backup plan, and asked directly, "What else did you do?"
Zhang Ronghua knew that if Gu Ran hypnotized him again, he would still tell the whole story, so he laughed and said, "You secret party members are on the side of humanity, right? You want to save humanity? I'll just have to destroy it for you!"
Gu Ran looked at him silently. The Secret Party's mission was to stand on the side of humanity in the war between humans and dragons, not to save humanity.
He seems to have misunderstood something.
Zhang Ronghua laid it all out: "Guess where the town's power supply comes from? It's from a small dam power station we built 500 meters upstream. This year's rainy season ended late, so the river is still in its high-water season, and the dam is still storing water. Guess how many people in this town can survive if I detonate a bomb and blow up the dam?"
It turns out that the town was built in a low-lying area. The Zhang family from Nanyang had previously invested some money to build a dam to supply electricity to the town, as well as a flood control dike, and secretly altered the waterway.
However, the Zhang family in Nanyang had already planned to destroy the evidence, so they installed plastic bombs, or C4, on the dam and the dike.
This bomb is very stable and can still detonate even after more than ten years.
The dam has always been maintained by the Zhang family from Southeast Asia, so according to their requirements, the dam must always be kept full of water.
Myanmar has a tropical monsoon climate, and this year's rainy season lasts until mid-November. Moreover, the area is located on the windward slope of the mountains to the north, so it receives more rainfall than other places.
Not only that, they also planted bombs in buildings, underground sewage pipes, and even in this cave.
They want to blow everything up, people and things alike. After the explosions and collapses, they will flood the area, burying all traces.
It must be said that this wicked plan was truly vicious.
Just as Zhang Ronghua was about to break out of the cave, he pressed the detonation button, and the bomb went into a five-minute countdown.
"Are you guys the main villains in Detective Conan? Why do you like setting off bombs so much?" Gu Ran complained.
Then, he chuckled softly and continued coldly to Zhang Ronghua:
“I think you’ve misunderstood something. You seem to think I’m a hero from Western stories or a saint from Eastern mythology who saves all people. But I’m not. I’ve always been a very selfish person… So you’re trying to disgust me by bringing up the lives of those people outside. I can only say you’re overthinking it.”
Yes, Gu Ran knew that she had always been a selfish person.
He just wanted to stay in his own little corner of the world and protect his family.
Saving the world was just something he did incidentally, something he did to the best of his ability.
If the Great Sage is to go to the Heavenly Palace and not return, then he will not go!
He is not stupid.
Because of his selfishness, he knew that Chu Zihang and Xia Mi would fall in love and hate each other, but he did not stop this tragedy. Instead, he collected blood samples from Jormungandr and Fenrir after Jormungandr died.
He did not stop Caesar from proposing to Nono, even though he knew that there was a huge conspiracy behind their marriage that could not be told to outsiders, and that Nono might not find happiness in this marriage.
Because changing these things is not in his interest, his biggest goal is to stop Ragnarok. If he can't stop it, then he'll find a way to survive with his family after Ragnarok.
Let the world be destroyed; as long as they survive afterward, that's enough.
If the person he loved was Xia Mi, he would never have stabbed her like Chu Zihang did. He would have taken Xia Mi away and gone far away, regardless of whether he slew the dragon or not, and regardless of any conflict of identities.
What does saving the world have to do with him?
Zhang Ronghua was surprised that someone from the Secret Party would say such a thing. He said, "So why are you still harassing us?"
Gu Ran said, "I only heard that my mother is not dead, so I want to save her. As for dealing with you, it's just a side effect."
"You mean, we messed with someone we shouldn't have?" Zhang Ronghua sighed helplessly. "Fine, it's been enough to keep you here this long. The bomb should be about to explode, right? I've been silently counting down in my head, and there are probably five seconds left before it explodes..."
A bright smile suddenly appeared on Zhang Ronghua's face. He thought to himself that the bomb in the cave was enough to collapse the entire mountain, and even if Gu Ran didn't die, he would be half-crippled.
In this way, he could be considered to have made some final contribution to the family!
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Zhang Ronghua finished his countdown and waited for the explosion and death to arrive.
However, after waiting for a while, no explosion was heard.
He looked at Gu Ran in surprise: "Why didn't the bomb explode?"
"I already said, this is an illusion, my world, so I control the flow of time here. What seems like five minutes has passed here is actually less than a second outside."
Gu Ran finally said to Zhang Ronghua, "By the way, whether you can leave the illusion is now up to me. Don't think you'll die easily. I won't let you die until I've found out all the secrets."
After saying that, he left the illusion and began timing in his mind.
There should still be more than four minutes before the bomb explodes; there's still plenty of time.
He first took the laptop from Zhang Ronghua, then removed the hard drive and put it away.
Zhang Ronghua is over eighty years old and his mind can't keep up with the times. He only needs a hard drive to store data; there's no need to carry around an entire computer, which would be too cumbersome.
Then, Gu Ran stood still for a while and began to gather natural energy. Soon he entered immortal mode, his whole body covered in dragon armor.
With the protection of the dragon armor, he could survive even if he faced a bomb head-on.
Gu Ran used the Instantaneous Movement Technique to re-enter the hall. The ten Death Servants had just been attracted by the fire set by Zhang Ronghua, and a group of Death Servants were dancing around the flames.
These Deadpools are incredibly stupid; they're a bunch of really bad, defective products.
The technology acquired by the Zhang family in Southeast Asia was extremely outdated, and these Dead Servants were not activated with dragon blood, but were created by forcibly enhancing the strength of dragon DNA using blood samples from super hybrids.
Therefore, these Deadpools have very short lifespans; even if left unattended for half a month, they will die on their own.
However, Gu Ran couldn't let these dead servants stay outside for half a month; he still had to kill them all here.
So Gu Ran activated the spirit talisman on his right hand and took out the Dragon Slayer Sword.
The Dragon Slayer Sword is long enough to make slaying easier.
He then instantly teleported to the vicinity of the ten Death Servants, drew his sword, and slashed in a circle. A circular sword light appeared out of thin air, instantly beheading all ten Death Servants.
The next second, the Dragon Slayer Sword was sheathed, and the ten Dead Servants' corpses that had been surrounding the flames fell into the fire and burned.
"What disgusting stuff did you give me to drink!" The usually silent Dragon Slayer Sword spirit suddenly complained, "Wash this filthy blood clean right now, it's disgusting!"
"We'll talk about it later, I'm in a hurry now." Gu Ran slung the Dragon Slayer Sword over his waist and then went to the iron box.
The iron box was two meters long and eighty centimeters wide. Zhang Ronghua was going to throw it away, but Gu Ran knew that the contents were very important, so he immediately carried it on his shoulder and went back to the cave entrance, taking Zhang Ronghua with him.
There's still a lot of information in this person's mind that we haven't gotten in detail, so we can't kill him yet.
Gu Ran used Earth Release: Light and Heavy Rock Technique to reduce the weight of the two objects, so they were not heavy to hold, but they were too big and took up too much space.
After dispelling the ninjutsu at the cave entrance, Gu Ran leaped up with the two large items. At this moment, the shadow clones he had sent out also ceased to exist, relaying the information back to his main body.
The town remained as usual: scammers were still scamming, pyramid scheme operators were still brainwashing people, gambling addicts were still barking loudly, and the people in the brothel... well, they were sleeping, since it was still morning.
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The people in the town were unaware of what had happened inside the cave base; they simply assumed that Boss Mingchangda had led his troops out to seek revenge and would be back soon.
Holding the two items, Gu Ran flew directly to the top of the tallest building in the town and looked around with disdain.
The Zhang family of Nanyang was truly ruthless. Because they were worried that people in the town who had been in contact with them would leak information, they secretly planted bombs on the foundations of all the buildings in the town.
Once the bombs explode, all the buildings in the town will collapse, and even the ground of the entire town will collapse into a huge hole, burying many people under the rubble.
Then, after the dam exploded and the floodwaters submerged the area, very few people survived.
With the unleashed Deadpools wreaking havoc, the town was destined to be deserted in the Zhang family's plan for Southeast Asia.
Fortunately, Deadpool has been dealt with by Gu Ran.
Gu Ran could actually ignore those people below completely; they were not relatives or friends, so it didn't matter whether he saved them or not.
However, he felt that these people should still be given a chance to survive as much as possible.
So he sent another shadow clone to the town's broadcasting center to issue an emergency evacuation order.
How many people listen, and how many survive, is none of his concern.
A short while later, Zhou Yancheng, carrying a girl, waved to him from a platform not far away.
Gu Ran jumped down and joined him.
The girl was found by Gu Ran's shadow clone based on the information left by Ming Changda. After finding her, the shadow clone handed the girl over to Zhou Yancheng and then went to another place.
After a while, a shadow clone threw a scroll up from the ground. Gu Ran caught it, and the shadow clone disappeared in the process.
This shadow clone was sent by Gu Ran to find Ming Changda's treasure trove; the spirit scroll contained Ming Changda's belongings.
Gu Ran put the scroll away and glanced at the girl Zhou Yancheng was holding. Her gaze was somewhat vacant, her face expressionless, and she seemed completely unaffected by the events around her.
It seems that she has suffered very severe mental abuse during this period. Fortunately, there are no obvious physical injuries, and she looks rosy-cheeked and relatively healthy.
Gu Ran looked away and spoke to Zhou Yancheng about the current situation: "This town will explode in about three minutes. The floodwaters from upstream will rush down and submerge this place. When will Zhou Shushu arrive?"
Zhou Yancheng was stunned for a moment before he understood what Gu Ran was saying and replied, "Zhou Shushu will probably take another half hour. He is in a town 150 kilometers to the south."
Meanwhile, Gu Ran's shadow clone was at the radio station, broadcasting news in both Chinese and English that an explosion and an impending flood were coming. He also told the townspeople that Ming Changda had been killed by him, that they were free, and that they should run away quickly.
However, seemingly because Gu Ran's words were so sudden, the people in the town were momentarily skeptical and at a loss for what to do.
“These people… seem too scared to run away, so are they beyond saving?” Zhou Yancheng seemed to feel a little sorry for them.
"I don't know." Gu Ran had already rolled his eyes at the ground below. There were many bombs buried there, and it was impossible to defuse them all. Moreover, real bombs are not like those in movies and TV shows, where you can just cut one of the red and blue wires and it won't explode.
If they're going to make bombs, then a normal bandit would make bombs that are impossible to dismantle; why would they be foolish enough to make a bomb and wait for someone to dismantle it?
However, although Gu Ran couldn't stop the explosion, he could think of a way to deal with the flood.
He first led Zhou Yancheng and his sister to a place outside the blast wave, to the top of a towering tree.
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