Chapter 11656 — Stop, All of You
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In a situation like this, no one could afford to blame anyone else. Sticking together was the only sensible choice.
Zhang Tailing glanced at Wei Zhao from the corner of his eye. "This poor Daoist is ashamed to say he has yet to find a way through. But from Young Hero Lin's manner, it seems he may already have one?"
The others instinctively looked toward Wei Zhao, then hurriedly caught themselves and fixed their eyes on the crimson apes before them.
Seeing this, Wei Zhao said, "Daoist Zhang, your skill at reading people is first-rate. I do have a rough idea, but whether it actually works will have to be tested first."
With that, he strode straight toward the crimson ape ahead.
Everyone was startled.
It was true that the crimson apes were currently in a petrified, invincible state—so long as no one looked away, they would not move.
But the tall elder's fate had already proven that even if the rule held, it was not a sure thing.
The crux was that to this day, no one knew how these crimson apes actually moved.
Their mode of movement, their speed, the strength of their attacks—none of it was understood in the slightest.
To approach them rashly under such circumstances was undoubtedly a highly risky move.
Yet Wei Zhao simply walked over—and more than that, he picked one of the crimson apes up.
Under everyone's bewildered gaze, he carried it before another crimson ape and made the two face each other.
No one present was a fool. They caught on at once.
The short elder slapped his thigh. "Why didn't I think of that!"
The others wore strange expressions too.
The solution was, frankly, absurdly simple—even a three-year-old could have thought of it.
But once trapped in a rut of thinking, people of their caliber, the more they overcomplicated things, the more it became a complete blind spot.
Zhang Tailing frowned slightly. "The ancient texts record that only human gaze can restrain them. Do they restrain one another as well?"
Hearing this, the others too began to feel it was unreliable.
Wei Zhao walked back. "Whether it works or not, one test will tell."
The others were skeptical, but in their current predicament there truly was no other way. They could only follow Wei Zhao's idea and try.
At a single command, everyone looked away together—then snapped their gazes back.
"Incredible! It actually works!"
The short elder was instantly elated, and the others' faces lit with excitement as well.
Apart from the two crimson apes facing each other, the others had clearly moved; only those two showed not the slightest change from before to after.
Zhang Tailing murmured, "Within five paces there is always an antidote—that saying really is no lie."
For something as invincible as the crimson apes, it turned out their greatest counter was themselves.
At this rate, so long as they made the apes face each other in pairs, no matter how many more descended, they would be mere decoration, no threat to anyone at all.
Holding out three days would be more than easy.
Only, looking back now on everything that had just happened—whether Zhang Tailing killing his own disciple Li Hongshou, or the three ancestors of the Prince of Qi's Estate selling out the tall elder—it all seemed especially absurd and laughable.