200: Chapter 200 Silencing
The youth raised his hand.
The white porcelain bowl on the dining table flew toward Jiang Feng.
An image surfaced within the bowl.
In a darkness devoid of stars.
The young Jiang Feng sat at a dining table.
The face of the woman opposite him was blurred.
She pushed the rice toward him.
Jiang Feng took a bite.
Outside the door.
A White-Clad Garden Keeper held an umbrella, standing in the darkness.
He said, "Garden Master, the Seed Outside the Flowers has been contaminated."
"According to garden rules, it must be purged."
The woman did not look back.
"Give him the time it takes to finish a bowl of rice."
The White-Clad Garden Keeper said, "You have overstepped."
The woman whispered, "Then record it as a strike against me."
The image skipped.
The young Jiang Feng had not finished eating.
He looked up and asked the woman,
"Can I go home?"
The woman fell silent.
Outside the door, a white chess pin fell.
It pierced through the young Jiang Feng's chest.
The woman reached out to block it.
She failed.
In the next instant.
She personally pressed down on Jiang Feng's brow center.
"Don't die by their hands."
"Go find someone who will truly call you to come home."
The vision cut off.
The dream fell silent for a moment.
Liu Cuilan was speechless for a long time.
Finally, she asked, "So she killed Xiao Feng just to send him away?"
The youth nodded.
"She struck before the Garden Keeper could."
"She killed him once."
"But she also gave him a path to survival."
Liu Cuilan's expression turned grim.
"Saving is saving, and killing is killing."
"These accounts can't be calculated together."
Jiang Feng looked at the white porcelain bowl.
A System prompt popped up.
[Detected: Original Record of the First Bowl of Rice.]
[Contains: Garden Master's Rescue Karma, Garden Keeper Purge Order, Death Scene Outside the Flowers, Path into Blue Star.]
[Plunderable.]
Jiang Feng reached out and pressed the rim of the bowl.
"The record belongs to me."
The White-Clad Garden Keeper's voice suddenly turned cold.
"Forbidden."
The garden gates swung wide open.
Ten Garden Keeper Soldiers marched out.
This time, they didn't hold scissors.
Instead, they held white rice ladles.
On every ladle, two words were engraved.
[Forget Kin.]
[Forget Name.]
[Forget Home.]
[Forget Origin.]
Zero Seven said urgently, "Those are Oblivion Ladles!"
"If you are fed once, you will forget an anchor point!"
Jiang Feng stood up.
"You dare use rice ladles to fight?"
He stepped forward, crushing the edge of the dining table.
The first Garden Keeper Soldier swung its ladle at Liu Cuilan.
Jiang Feng reached out and caught it.
*Crack.*
The rice ladle shattered.
[Plundered Forget Kin Ladle.]
[Obtained All Attributes: 2.6 asankhyeya.]
The second Garden Keeper Soldier tried to flank him.
Outside the dream, Jiang Jianguo roared,
"Xiao Feng, don't let it touch your mother!"
Jiang Feng struck back with a palm.
The Garden Keeper Soldier exploded along with its ladle.
[Plundered Forget Home Ladle.]
[Obtained All Attributes: 2.9 asankhyeya.]
The third one.
The fourth one.
The fifth one.
Until the tenth one.
All shattered.
Before the white garden gates, broken ladles littered the ground.
[Cumulative Plunder: Ten Oblivion Ladles.]
[Obtained All Attributes: 18.8 asankhyeya.]
[Current Base Six-Dimensional Attributes: 120.46 asankhyeya.]
[Obtained Special Authority: Meal Without Forgetting Home.]
[Effect: Within the Host's protective range, any meal given, acknowledged, or shared by family cannot be tampered with by external rules as a medium for forgetting, sacrifice, contract, or archiving.]
At the Huaxia Command Center.
The technician's voice had gone hoarse from shouting.
"Commander!"
"The Name-Guarding System has gained another life anchor!"
Xiao Zhenjiang immediately gave the order.
"Connect all national cafeterias, military kitchens, and school dining halls to the local protection array!"
Li Yan slapped his thigh upon hearing this.
"This is great."
"From now on, eating from the public pot can truly save your life."
The Dragon Girl's eyes lit up.
"Then can I eat more?"
Liu Cuilan glared at her in the dream.
The Dragon Girl immediately hugged her lunch box tight.
"I'll eat a little less."
Jiang Feng ignored the outside world.
He grabbed the white porcelain bowl.
[Secret Art: Pangu Plunder activated.]
[Plundered Original Record of the First Bowl of Rice.]
[Obtained All Attributes: 16.6 asankhyeya.]
[Current Base Six-Dimensional Attributes: 137.06 asankhyeya.]
[Obtained Key Clue: Inner Entrance to the Forbidden Garden Outside the Flowers.]
[Obtained Authority Fragment: Never Forget the Way Back.]
[Effect: The Host's origin, destination, and path home cannot be forcibly overwritten by external oblivion contracts.]
The white porcelain bowl shattered.
The ball of hot Qi in the youth's chest began to dissipate.
He looked at Jiang Feng, his voice much softer.
"I can finally tell the truth."
Jiang Feng looked at him.
"Speak."
The youth raised his hand and pointed deep into the white garden gates.
"Inside the Forbidden Garden Outside the Flowers, the true Garden Master's dream is imprisoned."
"The Garden Keeper isn't guarding the garden."
"He is using the Garden Master's dream to nourish an execution ground."
Liu Cuilan's face darkened.
"What about the child?"
The youth was taken aback.
"What child?"
Liu Cuilan pointed at the youth from the soup noodles who had first called her 'Mom.'
"You called me Mom just now; that wasn't just an act, was it?"
The youth froze.
The hot Qi paused for a moment.
He looked down.
Deep within his chest, a tiny red dot appeared.
It looked like a peace buckle.
The System prompt suddenly turned crimson.
[Detected: Unfinished Sub-fire of the Tenth Lamp.]
[Associated Object: Liu Cuilan.]
[Associated Object: Jiang Feng.]
[Status: Trapped in the Inner Layer of the Forbidden Garden Outside the Flowers.]
[Note: It is not an enemy.]
Deep within the white garden gates.
The tip of the White-Clad Garden Keeper's umbrella appeared again.
This time, the tip pressed against that red dot.
"Dream ends."
"Silence the witness."
The youth's body began to crumble and dissipate.
Liu Cuilan grabbed his wrist.
"Jiang Feng!"
Jiang Feng had already reached the garden gates.
He smashed down with a fist.
The garden gates cracked open.
But behind the gates was not a vegetable garden.
It was an even larger kitchen.
At the end of the kitchen stood a long table.
On the long table were one hundred and eight bowls of rice.
Behind every bowl of rice sat a Jiang Feng.
They all looked up at the same time.
They all spoke at the same time.
"Mom."
Liu Cuilan's face turned pale for a moment.
Jiang Feng narrowed his eyes.
The System prompts flickered frantically.
[Warning: Inner Layer of the Forbidden Garden Outside the Flowers has opened.]
[Detected: One hundred and eight death backups.]
[Detected: Garden Owner's Dream Execution Ground.]
[Detected: Coordinates of Jiang Feng's true origin are about to be exposed.]