Chapter 1007: The Non-Existent Him

A Tier 8 [Asura] was almost impossible to kill. Even the Silver King could not completely erase her existence; after all, the Path of the Thief God was not a divine path skilled in slaughter...

Therefore, the Silver King could only use this method to curb Hongxiu's life, making her infinitely close to death.

Like a kind of alternative seal.

"You lost." The Silver King looked at the corpse and said lightly,

"From now on, in this world... there will be no more Law Enforcers."

The sobbing cold wind blew over Hongxiu's corpse nailed to the city gate, and the tattered Law Enforcer trench coat rustled in the dim light...

……

"Hongxiu actually... lost?"

Jian Changsheng muttered to himself, seemingly unable to accept this outcome. "She is the [Asura] leader, she is so strong... and yet she still lost to the Silver King??"

"I told you long ago that Tier 8 and Tier 9 are different." Sun Bumian shook his head. "She was able to force the Silver King to that point, and even almost killed him; that is already shocking..."

"But..."

Jian Changsheng still couldn't accept it. He and Hongxiu were on the same path, and the current Hongxiu could be said to be the powerhouse Jian Changsheng dreamed of becoming. But in the end, his dream was still crushed by the Silver King...

"Now is not the time to talk about this!"

A faint light flickered in Chen Ling's eyes, and he immediately said, "Quick, let's run in different directions!!"

"Run in different directions??"

"The Silver King can steal space. Hongxiu died in battle, so it will only take him an instant to catch up to us... His target is me. If you stay with me, you will only be implicated and killed!!"

"I don't want to." Jian Changsheng retorted on the spot without thinking. "Last time, you sacrificed yourself so we could survive. This time, we die together. No matter what, I won't be a deserter again!"

"No! I have the Mockery Disaster in my body; he won't dare to kill me easily! But killing you would be as simple as crushing an ant..."

"But..."

"Less nonsense!"

Chen Ling didn't say another word, grabbed Jiang Xiaohua by the collar, and tore most of the bandages off his body with force!

Jiang Xiaohua, who was almost completely naked in an instant, exclaimed, covered himself with both hands, and looked at Chen Ling in disbelief, with an expression that said, "I didn't expect you to be this kind of person."

Then, Chen Ling pushed Jiang Xiaohua toward Jian Changsheng and spoke again:

"Go!!"

Without the isolation of the bandages, Jiang Xiaohua's concealment power immediately took effect, and the three of them's presence in the world became infinitely close to zero... Jian Changsheng and the other wanted to say something more, but Sun Bumian grabbed them one by one and ran wildly into the distance!

"Red Heart is right; now is not the time to be impulsive... Only if we survive will we have a chance to save him!"

As the three of them went far away, Chen Ling could no longer sense their presence, and his heart finally settled a little.

Then he turned his gaze to Fang Liangye:

"You should go quickly too. You are an ordinary person; if you escape through the sewers, the Silver King won't notice you."

Fang Liangye looked at the manhole cover beside him and nodded heavily:

"Okay..."

Fang Liangye didn't think that he, an ordinary person, could help Chen Ling with anything. All he could do now was to save his own life as much as possible.

Fang Liangye was about to leave when he suddenly stopped, as if thinking of something.

"What's wrong?"

"Chen Ling..."

Fang Liangye hesitated for a moment, then turned back to look at him, his gaze somewhat complex. "Do you remember the thing you asked me to investigate? I'll tell you the result now... stay calm and listen to me..."

This journey of running for his life had made Chen Ling almost forget about this matter. Hearing Fang Liangye's tone, an ominous premonition inexplicably rose in his heart.

"First of all, I want to tell you that the database of the Wuji Base does not contain information on the first batch of victims... Too many people sacrificed themselves during the Great Cataclysm; no one could count this data, and even if they did, it wouldn't be in the Wuji Realm."

At this moment, Chen Ling was extremely nervous. When he heard that there was no information on the victims, for some reason, he felt relieved.

"But I found some other things." Fang Liangye said seriously,

"I checked the list of all personnel who once lived in the Wuji Base and found that among the first group of refugees who fled to the Wuji Base, there was the principal of the original Shangjing Theater Academy..."

At that time, Fang Liangye had inherited all of Chen Ling's memories and naturally knew his past, including his university.

"The principal of the Theater Academy? You mean Wang Li?" Chen Ling was stunned. "What happened to him at the Wuji Base?"

"Wang Li must have encountered something during his escape during the Great Cataclysm. Not long after entering the Wuji Base, he died of a serious illness... According to the records, they found several books among Wang Li's belongings, as well as photo albums of him with various academies and students from various years when he was principal..."

Photo albums...

In Chen Ling's memory, Principal Wang Li was a very kind and nostalgic person. When he was studying at the Theater Academy, every graduating class would have their certificates personally awarded by him, followed by a group photo with every class... When Chen Ling graduated, he had also taken a photo with him along with other classmates.

"And then??" Chen Ling asked immediately.

Fang Liangye looked at Chen Ling deeply, his eyes full of complexity...

"After the Wuji Base disappeared, that photo album, along with other things, was uploaded to the 'Alice's Cellar Library'... I searched through that album, but... but you weren't in it."

Chen Ling stood frozen in place.

"Not in it? How is that possible??" Chen Ling shook his head immediately. "I definitely took a group photo with him at the time... I remember very clearly that there were two classes in our major, and because the number of people in each class was small, they were combined to take the photo... After graduation, I even printed that photo... Maybe he didn't put that photo in?"

"No..." Fang Liangye paused for a moment and said something that made Chen Ling's scalp tingle,

"That year, that major, there was only one class in total...

The Class 2 in our memories... simply didn't exist."

A roar sounded in Chen Ling's mind.

Chen Ling's brain went blank. He had experienced this familiar feeling in the era archives... The non-existent internship at the Shangjing Theater, the non-existent Class 2. If there was no record of the internship, it might indeed be incorrect information...

But if neither the school nor the workplace had any record of his existence, then...

Chen Ling's mind was a mess. He controlled himself not to think too much for now, endured the headache, and waved his hand at Fang Liangye:

"I know... you go quickly! Go!"

Fang Liangye didn't say anything more. After looking at Chen Ling deeply, he gritted his teeth and drilled into the manhole, not knowing where he was going...

Chen Ling's chest heaved violently. As he turned and ran wildly out of the realm, the fear from the depths of his heart began to erode his inner self like a tide...