They won the Holy Grail War, but this turned out to be the Virtual Tree Universe.

Chapter 145 Combing Black Tower's Hair

Seeing that Dan Lei shamelessly hugged him and then went to hug Ruan Mei, Hei Ta was so angry that he gritted his teeth.

However, it will be difficult for her to attack now, because she will also attack Nguyen Mai.

Furthermore, Heita said that he called Ruan Mei over to see Dan Lei caught in a dilemma, but now it seems that he is the outsider? Ruan Mei compromised so easily? This is not like her.

Here, Ruan Mei was certainly not so easily won over; giving Dan Lei a hug was simply because she felt it was no big deal.
Nguyen Mai said that having nurtured so many creatures, she understands the principle that children need candy to behave.

However, after the hug, Nguyen Mai began asking questions. Although her attitude was relatively friendly, the unyielding tone in her voice was even stronger than that of the Black Tower.
"Okay, that's enough hugging."

Danlei, explain why we've been out of contact for five years. We made a pact that Black Tower and I wouldn't lose contact or block each other for a hundred years, but you've already lost contact for five years.

Both the Black Tower and I need an explanation.

Seeing that Ruan Mei was putting up a fight, Heita temporarily put aside his intention to deal with Dan Lei and decided to see how Dan Lei would respond.

However, Danlei was prepared for this problem.

Before setting off, Dan Lei told Hei Ta and Ruan Mei about the outer imaginary storm at the place where Zhu Luo fell, but they didn't know about the internal situation.

This was the first time Dan Lei had ever seen a planet completely shrouded in the shadow of [Ⅸ]. He only knew of a few images of a black sun, rain, and blood spirits in the sea, but he had no idea that the environment here was so harsh.

Therefore, Danlei first used synchronized memory to explain his environment, Huang Quan's situation, and Tirnan's situation to the two geniuses, and then said with extreme helplessness.
"After entering the imaginary storm, my connection with the outside world was severed."

Afterwards, I ventured deeper into the planet that had been completely eroded by the shadow of [IX]. The power of nothingness added an extra layer of isolation, making external communication impossible for me.

As for why it took so long, it's mainly because this place is too dangerous, and I don't want to go there a second time.

So he thought of sweeping away all the interests at once.

Moreover, the Blood Demon of Zhuluo has been gestating for too long, which has delayed me for too long, and I dare not leave.

Because at the time I didn't know that Huang Quan's combat power was strong enough to instantly kill Zhu Luo Xue Zui Ling.

At the time, I thought that if I left, it would be fully formed and start fighting with the Yellow Springs, and by the time I returned, the entire planet might be gone.

Here, Dan Lei concealed the fact that he knew Huang Quan's true combat strength in advance.

Even though Dan Lei had already boasted that Huang Quan could kill Polkakakaka with a single blow.

A strike that severs a star system without damaging a planet is a completely different concept from a precise, instantaneous kill.

Normally, after being transformed, the Blood Sin Spirit of Zhuluo would still possess the strength of a Commander, and would be a Void Commander just like Huang Quan.

Even if they are relatively weak, it wouldn't be surprising if the aftershocks of a fight between the two envoys destroyed a planet.

Therefore, Dan Lei's reasoning was plausible, and Hei Ta and Ruan Mei did not dwell on Huang Quan's combat strength, because through Dan Lei's memories, they had personally experienced the splendor of this strike.

Given Dan Lei's skill level, it's understandable that this strike was completely beyond his comprehension.

However, in order to reap enough benefits, even after being out of contact for five years, he is still "exempt from death but cannot escape punishment."

Even though Dan Lei showed a good attitude in admitting his mistakes and immediately raised the white flag to accept punishment, he was still subjected to various soul-searching questions from Heita and Ruan Mei.

Fortunately, their main purpose was to teach Danlei a lesson, so he wouldn't go to such deadly places as the Void and Shadow.

The Black Tower held this memorial service specifically for Dan Lei.

Heita and Nguyen Mai still have rather complicated feelings towards Dan Lei.

Although their feelings for Danlei still haven't reached the level of love, their relationship is more than friendship but not quite lovers.

But Danlei had already lost his virginity to both of them, and it would be strange if the man who took her virginity died inexplicably.

Black Tower and Ruan Mei felt that for the next few hundred years, they would most likely experience frequent episodes while sleeping where they would suddenly feel that losing their virginity was extremely unworthy, and they would wish to drag Dan Lei out of the underworld, beat him up, and then stuff him back in.

Therefore, seeing that Dan Lei was practically asking himself questions and was about to have his soul leave his body to see his true feelings, and that he promised not to leave the Black Tower and Ruan Mei Ke's communication range until a better way to contact him was found, the authorities temporarily let Dan Lei go.

Of course, after the mental torture, it was time for physical punishment. Black Tower hadn't forgotten Dan Lei's forceful hug of him earlier.

For Black Tower, being hugged by Dan Lei isn't necessarily a bad thing, but Dan Lei's self-righteous behavior must be suppressed.

However, when Dan Lei saw Hei Ta suddenly grinning and raising her hand to wave her staff, she immediately realized what Hei Ta was about to do.

Then Dan Lei decisively pretended not to see it and laughed.

"Alright, training time is over. Next up is the loot distribution."

"Your Majesties, your tribute figures have all been brought."

After saying that, Dan Lei took out the jar containing the power of the Yellow Springs Envoy-level Void Fate.

Immediately afterwards, Dan Lei looked at the black tower's raised staff and asked, feigning confusion.

"Black Tower, why are you taking out your staff? You don't mean to open this container here, do you?"

Heita finally understood what it meant to be stopped in his tracks. Seeing Dan Lei's lips curl up involuntarily, Heita knew that Dan Lei was doing it on purpose.

However, this is also what Black Tower finds interesting about Dan Lei. He's the only one who dares to provoke him like this and challenge him.

At this moment, the jar containing the power to control the void is Dan Lei's life-saving charm.

With this thing around, the Black Tower wouldn't dare to act recklessly. If it were broken, the three people here would probably all be unable to escape the fate of being corrupted by the Void Destiny.

After all, Dan Lei had already shown the Black Tower the power of Huang Quan, and she could sense the difference between the two.

Moreover, the Black Tower is even more curious about the power of the Envoy-level Void Fate.

Studying this power of destiny is far more important than beating up Dan Lei, so Black Tower decisively put down his staff, took out a device, connected it to the container, and then, with a face full of excitement, checked the parameters while saying...
"Interesting, very interesting. So this is what the Void Fate of the Envoy-level is like."

"Ruan Mei, take a look too. The simulated Void Star God you cultivated is going to undergo major changes."

Upon hearing this, Ruan Mei immediately took the instrument and began to reconstruct the simulation of the illusory star god in her mind, looking at the data.

About ten minutes later, Nguyen Mai smiled.
"Phew, the result is not bad. We don't have to start from scratch. We just need to make a small upgrade, which can be done in a month or two."

Seeing that Ruan Mei had finished thinking, Dan Lei took out the relics of the Sea Patrol Knight and the box containing a small portion of Zhu Luo's remains, and said...

"Besides the Void Destiny of the Envoy-level, these are my other two important gains from this trip."

This bow and arrow is a relic that only legendary seafaring rangers can leave behind after their death, composed entirely of a high concentration of the power of the seafaring destiny.

This thing has the ability to travel through time. By using its power, it can instantly reverse time to inform all the patrolling rangers of its current location, ensuring that the person coming will arrive at the exact moment.

The remaining one is the bone of the Great King of Annihilation, Zhu Luo.

Although they failed to obtain the Destruction Path Power of the Envoy level this time, the Zhu Luo skeleton has been soaked in seawater with a high concentration of Void Path for a long time.

The forces of destruction and nothingness coexisted strangely within these bones. There was no element of balanced destiny involved here; it should be quite valuable for research.

After Dan Lei finished speaking, the Black Tower, who specializes in energy, immediately picked up the hunting arrows, while Ruan Mei picked up the box containing Zhu Luo's remains and examined it carefully.

Nguyen Mai was clearly very interested in the remains of Zhu Luo and immediately said...

"Black Tower, I need to borrow a laboratory. I need it now."

Upon hearing this, Black Tower immediately said...
"No problem, the one you always use."

However, don't get too carried away; don't forget we have a big project coming to fruition soon.

After hearing this, Ruan Mei nodded, greeted Dan Lei, and then left the room with Zhu Luo's remains.

After Ruan Mei left, Hei Ta fiddled with the arrows in his hand and said to Dan Lei with a smile.

"Danlei, I have to say, since you came into my life, my life has become more and more fulfilling."

One experimental project after another, you're not going to let me rest at all.

To be honest, I'm starting to doubt the true purpose of your century-long agreement.

You don't actually want me and Nguyen Mai to work for you for free for a hundred years, do you?

You're just dumping all the things you can't figure out on us.

Dan Lei felt a chill run down his spine at Hei Ta's words, because Dan Lei actually had the idea that even if the two of them still didn't accept him a hundred years later, it wouldn't be a loss for him to have them do a hundred years of research for him.

However, Dan Lei dared not reveal such thoughts.

So instead of answering the Black Tower's question, he said...
"Black Tower, do you still remember the bet we made five years ago when I went to Ruan Mei's place from the space station?"

Black Tower certainly remembered something that happened five years ago, so he replied...
"I remember, but that was just you saying it to yourself. I didn't promise anything."

Dan Lei wasn't surprised that Heita seemed to be cheating. He stood up and stood behind Heita, saying...

"Don't try to cheat. Even if I'm pursuing you, we're equals. I'm not going to be a simp, and you wouldn't like someone who's always meek and subservient in front of you."

"But if you won't let me touch your head, let me comb your hair."

Danlei's words were actually a way of showing that he wasn't using them as tools, but genuinely liked them.

Hei Ta found it acceptable when Dan Lei changed "patting head" to "combing head," especially since the previous questions were mostly joking.

Our Black Tower lady is very confident in herself; she thinks it's perfectly normal for Danlei to fall in love with her.

So Black Tower took off his hat, took out his special comb, and said...

"Alright, but my hair is very precious. You'll ruin it if you try to comb it."

Dan Lei knew that messing up Hei Ta's hair would definitely not end well for him, but he was actually quite good at combing hair.

In her previous life, when she was an apprentice under Aozaki Touko, she often had Danlei comb the hair of the dolls. After Danlei learned how to do it, she would sometimes let Danlei comb her hair.

Moreover, Danlei had already rehabilitated his hair-combing skills when he was taking care of Orpheus, so combing Black Tower's hair now should be no problem for him.

Sure enough, the moment Dan Lei took the comb from Hei Ta and started using it, Hei Ta realized he was an expert and asked...

"Huh, so skilled? Did you always comb women's hair before? I remember you said you spent most of your time in the Ten Kings' Court of Luofu, right? Were you also in charge of shaving and combing the prisoners' hair back then?"

When asked about this, Dan Lei only gave a half-truth.
"This is what my puppetry teacher taught me, but you'll have to find the secrets of this yourself in the Black Tower."

Upon hearing this, Black Tower realized it involved Dan Lei's secret, which he needed to uncover himself, and immediately prepared to ask a few more questions.

Five years have passed, and Black Tower is at a loss as to what to do about Dan Lei's secrets, if not stagnant.

The simulation of the universe was used to simulate Dan Lei's past, but the result was only a simulation of a boy who lived silently in the Dan Ding Si and You Qiu Yu.

Then this boy would often inexplicably injure himself and then heal himself with Abundant Fate, suggesting he might have masochistic tendencies. Nothing else could be simulated.

Of course, Black Tower never really wanted to uncover Danlei's secrets; it only used Danlei as a case study for simulation testing when it was completing and developing the simulated universe.

However, after more than ten attempts yielded the same result, and Danlei's secret remained completely undiscovered, Black Tower gave up. Otherwise, the development progress of the simulated universe would have been disrupted.

As an aside, Black Tower's persistent simulation of Danlei's past has already caught the attention of Screw Goom and Stephen Lloyd.

Black Tower's obsession with understanding a person, especially a man's past, is extremely unusual.

Therefore, they have already remembered the name Danlei.

It's hard to say what Stephen Lloyd thought after remembering Dan Lei's name.

Anyway, after some calculations, Screws eliminated all possibilities and left with an answer that even he couldn't quite believe.

This AI genius has already started thinking about what gifts to give when Black Tower gets married in the future.

The scene shifts to the present, where Black Tower is seen fiddling with the arrows in his hand, casually asking...

"Your puppetry teacher? He must be the one who taught you magic too."

"Your technique for influencing reality with special life energy is quite interesting," Ruan Mei told me. She said that after learning it, she discovered its profound potential and how it could even help her research the nature of life.

Dan Lei wasn't alarmed by the Black Tower issue, because magic is quite dependent on the environment. Rune magic is slightly better, but if the Great Source isn't active, Dan Lei has to use his own magic power to replenish the energy needed to release the runes.

In the context of the Star Iron Universe, destiny is paramount, and these two technologies must ultimately be combined with destiny to unleash a combat power greater than the sum of its parts.

So Danlei answered honestly.
"Yes, she was indeed my mentor in magic."

However, if you ask about the potential of magic, I can only say that if someone were to truly understand it, the universe would probably have another star god.

Seeing that Dan Lei hadn't suspected anything, Hei Ta pressed her advantage and asked the question she most wanted to know.
"So what's your master's name?"

Dan Lei answered without hesitation.
"Her name is Aozaki Touko. Without her, I probably wouldn't be here today combing your hair."

Having said all that, Dan Lei, unless he's completely stupid, should realize that Black Tower is trying to trick him into revealing information.

Therefore, Dan Lei deliberately revealed Aozaki Touko's name.

Dealing with a genius like Black Tower is like fishing; you have to show her the bait before she'll take the bait.

If Dan Lei really doesn't provide any clues, the story of the core spirit stationed at the Black Tower Space Station IF line has already made things very clear.

She wouldn't stubbornly continue her research if she couldn't figure out the truth about the Black Tower.

After the initial enthusiasm fades, she will lose interest and stop paying attention to you.

(End of this chapter)