Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 621 Zuo Jun
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Zuo Jun's room was located in a "mezzanine" of the Tian Shu Tower—from the outside of the building, it did not look like a room at all, and the surrounding space was completely enclosed, with no passage connecting it to the outside world.

According to the design drawings of Tian Shu Tower, this area should have been part of the load-bearing structure of Tian Shu Tower. If it were hollowed out, the stability of the building would be greatly reduced. However, this is only the result from the perspective of ordinary people's understanding of architecture and materials science. For Tian Shu Tower, hollowing out the load-bearing column and then using some "black technology" to ensure its original strength is just a very simple "experimental project".

Even the technical difficulty pales in comparison to the method of entering this room.

This room has no windows, no doors, and no secret passages. To enter it, one must use a short-distance teleportation device, or rather, a magical artifact with short-distance teleportation capabilities.

The intended user of this mysterious device is an agent of the Tian Shu Tower's covert security department. With just a thought, this room can be transformed into a secluded "prison."

Because the space was carved out from within a load-bearing structure, the room itself is incredibly sturdy. According to Professor Cao, even if the room were to be bombed by a strategic nuclear weapon, the people inside would not be harmed. If necessary, this part of the load-bearing structure could even be sunk directly underground to "connect" with the Origin Palace.

"A prison from which there is no escape?" Sun Hang jokingly said to Professor Cao beside him as he stepped onto the short-distance teleportation device.

“It’s not that escape is impossible.” Professor Cao shook his head, then let out a burp. “At least for ‘Number One,’ that’s the case.”

"So he willingly allowed himself to be imprisoned by you?"

“It’s not imprisonment. In fact, he’s very free. His authority level in the Tian Shu Tower is even higher than mine,” Professor Cao said. “It’s just that he likes to stay here… This room was also built according to his requirements.”

"...Autistic shut-in?" Sun Hang was somewhat taken aback when he heard Professor Cao say that.

However, at this moment, the white light characteristic of the teleportation device had already illuminated, and Sun Hang only saw Professor Cao's lips move a few times, but did not hear any sound.

When everything around him returned to normal, Sun Hang found himself standing in a large, empty room, but with very dim lighting.

The room is shaped like a regular hexagonal prism, fifty meters high and ten meters on each side. Each wall of the room is inlaid with bookshelves that stretch from the floor to the ceiling, and they are piled with densely packed paper books.

In the very center of the room, a person sat cross-legged at a desk with their back to them, a single candle standing at the corner of the desk flickering with a tiny flame – this was the only source of light in the entire room.

Besides the candles, there were only piles of books of varying heights on the table. The person had his head completely buried in a thick tome, seemingly unaware that two more people had suddenly appeared in the room.

Sun Hang and Professor Cao exchanged a glance. It has to be said that although the atmosphere in the room was slightly strange, Sun Hang felt a strange sense of security in this place for some reason... Apart from the rustling sound of the person turning the pages of the book, the only other sound in the room was the slight crackling of the candle burning.

Sun Hang took two steps forward and then broke the silence: "Isn't it bad for your eyes to read in such dim light?"

The person sitting at the desk turned around, and a chilling gaze fell on Sun Hang.

Sun Hang then noticed that the other person's eyes had no whites at all; the two pitch-black eyes were like two bottomless wells, exuding an aura that could almost devour everything.

“Okay, never mind.” Sun Hang shrugged. “Nice to meet you. Let me introduce myself. My name is Sun Hang.”

"Zuo Jun." The other person closed the book, which probably weighed ten kilograms, and the dust rising from between the pages looked like microorganisms floating in the candlelight. "I know you." "So I'm that famous?" Sun Hang scratched the back of his head a little embarrassed.

“Pei Zongjun has mentioned you to me more than once,” Zuo Jun said. “He thinks you can save the world.”

"Uh……"

“But I don’t like you,” Zuo Jun quickly added.

Is it because I took the position that originally belonged to you? Sun Hang couldn't help but think to himself... If he hadn't appeared, perhaps Pei Zongjun's successor would have been this man with no whites in his eyes?

Of course, the heavy responsibility of "saving the world" will also fall on this guy's shoulders.

Sun Hang had already made a decision in his heart: if the other party asked, he would immediately hand over the position along with the crushing responsibility to this guy.

There are always people who yearn to be heroes, but Sun Hang is not that kind of person.

He just wanted to live, and incidentally satisfy his curiosity.

“Because you are beyond my control,” Zuo Jun continued. “I can reverse countless out-of-control experiments, but I cannot reverse the trajectory of a person’s life… Do you believe in fate?”

“I don’t believe it.” Sun Hang shook his head.

"Let me tell you a story." Zuo Jun sat down again, and Sun Hang, as if they were old friends, found a stack of books on the floor and plopped down on them.

“I had already mastered this ability when I was a child, but at that time, the Tian Shu Tower had not yet discovered my existence, and I was still living the life of an ordinary person.”

"Is it a true story?"

"In this timeline, it's just a story; you just need to listen," Zuo Jun continued. "Just one block from my home, I witnessed a bloody car accident. A van with failed brakes crashed into a young man on the crosswalk who was engrossed in his phone. Amidst the gasps of the surrounding crowd, I heard the sound of bones breaking, and warm blood splattered on my face..."

"And then you used your abilities to save him?"

"I activated my ability almost instinctively. The blood disappeared, the chaotic crowd disappeared, and everything returned to normal... But I knew that in thirty seconds, an out-of-control vehicle would rush out of the street... I found the young man who had been hit and pulled him back."

"and then?"

"Thirty seconds passed quickly, and the other person even showed signs of impatience, repeatedly asking me what I wanted... but the van that should have hit him was nowhere to be seen."

(End of this chapter)