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Chapter 201 Sokun chickened out! (Two chapters combined)

The latest chapter content made Chen Miao feel much more at ease.

The information revealed in the content delighted Chen Miao.

First of all, without the spirit tablet to suppress the soul, the other party really cannot cast a spell again.

Secondly, the opponent also has a venomous scorpion leader on them.

Finally, there's a 90% chance that the person in question is Sokun!

Why does Chen Miao believe that he is Suo Kun?

The first reason is that the other party is made of flesh and blood!
In the book, Chen Miao regarded the other party as a vessel for the flying skull descent, so he thrust his sword towards the head.

But the sword did not pierce the head.

This proves that the other party's head was not a flying skull!
This aligns with Chen Miao's speculation about the cultivation of "Flying Skull Descent." Who would choose to cultivate their own head instead of someone else's?

The second reason is that the other party has a leader scorpion on them, and when Chen Miao rushed upstairs, the other party had their hand raised, preparing to release the scorpion.

Unexpectedly, the windmill above Chen Miao's head was spinning, and he was immediately brought under control!

This allowed Chen Miao to deliver a fatal blow.

The probability that someone who can control the leader of the Gu Scorpion is not the master of the Gu Scorpion is very small.

Moreover, when the two fell to the ground at the same time, all the scorpions rushed towards each other.

This is very likely a backlash from the Gu worm.

Of course, it's also possible that Chen Miao was bitten by the leader of the Gu Scorpion, and the other Gu Scorpions dared not bite him.

As for the final 10% uncertainty, it's because there's still another possibility.

That means Sokun didn't go there at all; all of this was done by Sokun's people.

But the probability is very small.

Because the other party came to take away Wen Hao's flying skull.

The flying skull cannot be collected by other sorcerers.

Whoever takes it, it belongs solely to that sorcerer!
For these reasons, Chen Miao was 90% certain that the other party was Suo Kun!

Having made up his mind, Chen Miao immediately turned around and returned to Shannan City.

Since they've already perished together, it means the other side has run out of options.

If they can both perish in the book, then in reality, Chen Miao is confident he can kill him and survive!
Chen Miao knew all of the opponent's abilities, and also knew that there was a second Suokun hidden.

If he still can't win this game, then Chen Miao has nothing to say.

……

Back at the hotel, Chen Miao put the memorial tablet back into his bag.

Not needing to bring it doesn't mean you won't bring it.

Afterwards, Chen Miao bought a new safety helmet and took it to the same welder for processing.

This time, Chen Miao had the other party reinforce it with slightly thinner steel bars.

Feeling the helmet was much lighter, and after reading the contents of the book, Chen Miao left satisfied.

As for the problem of the fan being damaged, Chen Miao didn't have a good solution for the time being. He simply asked the master from earlier to install a baffle in front of it.

However, now that he knew the situation, Chen Miao naturally wouldn't let the flying skull succeed in its sneak attack.

The reinforcement was merely a precaution.

After everything was prepared, Chen Miao left Shannan City with his belongings and headed towards Lin'an City.

Three hours later, Chen Miao entered the territory of Lin'an City under the cover of night.

Lin'an City is the city where Chen Miao went to university.

Compared to the area around Shannan City, where traces of mountains can still be seen, there are no mountains near Lin'an City.

Without the mountains, Lin'an City would lose its characteristic as a "mountain city".

Lin'an City has a university town, as well as Lin'an University, which is the best among the surrounding ten or so cities.

Therefore, there will naturally be no shortage of speculators.

Chen Miao lived here for three years, and many of his classmates and friends were here.

But this time, he didn't have the chance to see him.

After driving to a hotel near his destination, Chen Miao didn't go directly to the unfinished building; he planned to go there after dawn the next day.

Who knows if Sokun will be there tonight.

When the time comes, should we do it or not?

If he goes during the day, even if they meet, he will have a greater advantage.

Silent all night.

The next morning, just as dawn broke, Chen Miao took his things to the unfinished building.

Upon arrival, there were no new changes in the book, which at least indicated that no unexpected incidents occurred during the reconnaissance.

As Chen Miao walked towards the very center of the unfinished building, he smiled when he saw it.

Because in the center of this unfinished construction site, there is only one building.

If the unfinished building hadn't been abandoned, this building would probably be what the sales staff called the "king of the building."

"Eight floors?"

Chen Miao recalled the contents of the book as he climbed the steps.

On the seventh floor, Chen Miao stopped, looked around at the structure of the seventh floor, and then went to the other side and went up the stairs on that side.

"The structures are all the same. Qi Ning greeted me when he was on the seventh floor, so Suo Kun should be on the seventh floor or somewhere between the seventh and eighth floors."

"The problem now is that we don't know which side of the staircase is where Sokun stayed, and which side is the one I went up in the book."

With no clue, Chen Miao continued to the eighth floor.

Upon reaching the eighth floor, Chen Miao looked around and then ventured further inside.

After walking about ten meters, Chen Miao stopped.

Because he saw more than a dozen jars stacked in the corner!
Chen Miao's heart raced slightly as he glanced at the contents of the book, but nothing had changed.

With his Yin-Yang Eyes activated, the faint blood-red aura emanating from the jar confirmed Chen Miao's guess.

"So, should I burn them?"

Chen Miao shifted his gaze from the jars to the ground.

He could vaguely make out some footprints in the dust on the ground.

"These jars and the insects inside weren't brought by Sokun that day, but were placed here beforehand?"

"To deal with me?"

Chen Miao quickly dismissed this guess.

“There are many footprints on the ground, and they are of different depths. They were obviously not left on the same day, or even in the last two days.”

“But Wenhao died yesterday, so that doesn’t add up.”

"So this unfinished building was originally one of Sokun's bases?"

"That should be it."

Chen Miao took a bottle out of his vest; the bottle contained insect-attracting pills.

Chen Miao placed the bag at the top of the stairs and walked towards the jars.

If anything goes wrong, the insect-attracting pills can help him escape.

As for killing those insects, Chen Miao had no intention of doing so.

According to Zhong Cai, after the leader Gu worm dies, the other Gu worms will become chaotic.

Conversely, if the other Gu worms die, will the leader notice?

If they kill him prematurely and alert Sokun, it would be a greater loss than gain.

Walking over, Chen Miao looked towards the mouth of the jar and could vaguely see some things, but due to the lighting, he couldn't make them out clearly.

He took his phone out of his pocket, turned on the flashlight, and shone it towards the jars.

The moment it came into contact with the light, something inside the jar began to wriggle, as if trying to avoid the light.

Using the light, Chen Miao was able to see the insects clearly.

They were indeed scorpions, and all of them were black. Chen Miao had seen these scorpions on short videos before; they seemed to be called Emperor Scorpions.

Chen Miao remembered it because the scorpion was not only completely black, but its two large pincers at the front were also very conspicuous.

However, it seems that this type of scorpion does not exist in Daxia.

"Did Sokun bring this from abroad? Can something like this pass through security?"

Chen Miao thought it was unlikely.

With today's security checks, even if Sokun swallowed a scorpion whole, he would still be discovered, detained, and forced to pull the scorpion out. This is especially true for flights from international destinations to China.

Unless Sokun didn't come by plane, but that's unlikely.

If he hadn't come by plane, then Sokun wouldn't have needed to search for a target in Great Xia and create the Flying Skull Drop.

Chen Miao didn't believe that Suo Kun didn't have a flying skull abroad.

So these scorpions and flying skulls were probably re-cultivated after Sokun arrived here.

The fact that this species of scorpion is not found in Daxia does not mean that no one sells it.

It should be quite easy for Sokun to buy it.

However, the scorpions purchased should not be considered Gu scorpions. So Kun placed them here, is he cultivating Gu scorpions?

"What should we use to cultivate it?"

Chen Miao's gaze fell on the thick stains on the jar.

He held the phone's light closer.

Under the light, the black stains revealed a hint of dark red.

After having some guesses in mind, Chen Miao retreated to the stairwell.

“These scorpions have a great impact on me. Without them, given the methods I’ve demonstrated, it’s questionable whether Sokun would even dare to show himself.”

"Since we can't kill them, can we make some arrangements to prevent them from coming out, or delay their appearance?"

Chen Miao recalled the contents of the book, which included two kinds of pills and the fact that peach wood shavings could affect these scorpions.

Immediately, Chen Miao began to scoop sawdust out of the book.

When I made spare Seven-Star Peach Wood Swords and Peach Charms last time, I also replenished the supply with peach wood shavings.

Looking at the plastic bag that was already full of peach wood shavings, Chen Miao walked over to the jars again.

Chen Miao tentatively grabbed a handful of peach wood shavings and moved closer. When he was only twenty centimeters away from the jars, the scorpions inside began to stir.

When it was ten centimeters, scorpions had already crawled out of the jar and were heading to another jar.

Chen Miao thought for a moment and then began to sprinkle peach wood shavings about 20 centimeters away from the jar.

Soon, Chen Miao had scattered all the peach wood shavings cleanly.

Using the angle between the two walls, Chen Miao drew a quarter circle to enclose the jars.

The edge of this quarter circle is more than half a meter wide.

After doing all this, Chen Miao stepped back again.

The content of the book has changed, with the addition of the section where Chen Miao scatters wood chips, but the process itself remains the same; the scorpions emerge at the same speed.

"No change is good, which means that the peach wood shavings I placed did not attract Sokun's attention."

"But why didn't it affect the speed at which the scorpions appeared afterwards?"

Looking at the pile of peach wood shavings, Chen Miao felt that this shouldn't be happening.

But when Chen Miao's gaze shifted to the wall behind the jar, he was immediately taken aback.

"Hiss... I forgot that scorpions can climb walls. I just blocked the path on the ground. If this path is blocked, the scorpion will naturally take another path."

Chen Miao looked at the two walls at a 90-degree angle behind those jars.

"Wood chips can't be applied to the wall. Would applying realgar or sulfur to the wall be effective?"

Chen Miao glanced at the time; it was eight in the morning, still early.

After getting up, Chen Miao took his bag and walked around the entire eighth floor again, then went to check out the ninth floor.

Compared to the eighth floor, the dust on the ninth floor remained intact.

It seems that Sokun's activities are limited to the area below the ninth floor.

Chen Miao quickly went downstairs.

Two hours later, Chen Miao returned to the eighth floor where the scorpions were placed, carrying his bag in his right hand and the things he had bought in his left.

Putting on gloves, Chen Miao took the things and walked over.

First came the sulfur powder. Chen Miao tried it, his hand almost touching the rim of the jar, before the scorpions started to stir.

"The results don't seem to be very good."

However, since he had already bought it, Chen Miao decided to paint the wall first and see how the book would react.

Chen Miao poured a bottle of mineral water into the bag of sulfur powder, and then added some starch to increase the viscosity.

After mixing it into a paste, Chen Miao used a spatula to apply it little by little to the wall.

Soon, the lower part of both walls, about one meter in diameter, was covered with sulfur paste.

Before dealing with the realgar, Chen Miao first opened the book to look at the effects of sulfur.

"Hmm...it works! Last time, the Gu scorpion came out after the first Sokun's head was cut off. This time, the Gu worms only swarmed around after the umbrella was opened."

"continue!"

Following the same procedure, Chen Miao applied another layer of realgar paste to the sulfur paste, alternating between layers.

He opened the book again, and this time not only opened the umbrella, but also took all six ghost infants into it before the scorpions appeared.

"The effect is better, but the delay time is still too short."

Chen Miao was suddenly taken aback when he saw the smear on the wall.

Immediately, he grabbed a handful of peach wood shavings from the ground and stuck them on the wall.

Looking at the wood chips stuck to the wall that hadn't fallen off, Chen Miao started working again.

After the wall was also covered with sawdust, Chen Miao opened the book.

But upon seeing this, Chen Miao was stunned.

This time, not only was the time not extended, but the scorpion even came out faster than last time. As soon as the umbrella was opened, the scorpion appeared.

"How is this going?"

Chen Miao looked at the 'sealing' circle he had created, which stretched from the wall to the ground.

Logically, adding sawdust should have improved the results, but that wasn't the case.

After thinking it over, Chen Miao came up with a possibility.

"It's better to block than to dredge?"

"Once their paths are blocked, and there's no other choice but to force their way through the weakest point and leave as quickly as possible?"

"In this case……"

Chen Miao used a shovel to scrape all the mixture off the wall. After hesitating for a moment, he mixed the paste with peach wood chips and then poured in water and starch.

Soon, a bunch of things that looked very similar in color to poop appeared.

Chen Miao didn't pay attention and picked up the spatula to start applying the paste.

A circle appeared, covering the walls and the floor, enclosing all the jars, but the circle was not sealed, leaving an opening about two fist-widths wide.

After that, Chen Miao painted two tracks on either side of the exit.

Chen Miao laid these two tracks along the wall all the way to another room in the corner, and the ends of the tracks were not sealed either.

Chen Miao estimated that the straight-line distance was more than ten meters.

Immediately, Chen Miao took out two pills that had been kneaded together, one containing an insect attractant and the other an insect killer.

The insect-attracting pill has an insect-attracting range of ten meters. So as long as the scorpions crawl one or two meters along the path Chen Miao planned for them, they will smell the insect-attracting pill and then follow the path towards it.

Chen Miao's goal was not to kill the Gu scorpions, but to keep them occupied.

So two are enough.

After thinking for a moment, Chen Miao went up to the ninth floor.

The floor height of the eighth and ninth floors is about four meters.

After calculating the location and distance, Chen Miao placed eight mixed insect-attracting pills in different locations on the ninth floor!

Even if Gu Xie is forcibly summoned away by Sokun, he will still experience temptations every time he travels a certain distance.

Chen Miao didn't believe that these scorpions would be so obedient.

Ultimately, Gu worms are insects controlled by Gu masters using various methods.

What Chen Miao is doing now is stalling!

The longer it drags on, the more relaxed Chen Miao will be when dealing with Suo Kun!
After placing the pills, Chen Miao opened the book.

After glancing at the contents, Chen Miao was stunned.

Sokun actually chickened out!

……

(End of this chapter)