Chapter 1025: It’s you... isn't it?

The thin man casually tore off the tape covering Wu Duo's mouth, and the latter immediately cursed:

"Why did you come to save me!! Do you want to die?!"

The man laughed, "If we don't come to save you, can we even survive?"

Wu Duo was speechless...

"This realm has gone mad, Wu Duo. No one can survive." A deep sorrow flowed in the man's eyes. "Rather than waiting to die miserably in the sewers, it's better to go crazy one last time..."

BOOM—!!

As the man spoke, a figure leaped down from the top of a nearby building.

It was a massive figure clutching a butcher's knife. He landed with the weight of a crashing cannonball, and accompanying his descent was a blade of light that was fast to the extreme...

The next moment, the body of a Rat Party member was shattered into countless pieces of flesh in mid-air, splattering against the wall.

The Arbiter, [The Butcher].

To bait these rats, they had actually sent an Eighth-Order to follow in secret. It turned out they had indeed overestimated the current strength of the Rat Party... Now, including Wu Duo, among the seven remaining Rat Party members, the highest was only Fifth-Order.

Now, that sole Fifth-Order had also become meat on the wall, not even leaving behind a final word before dying.

"Screw you, Fire-Tampers!! You even brought out your grandfather! Why don't you kowtow to him while you're at it?!" A Rat Party member laughed, pointing at [The Butcher] and mocking him.

Witnessing the death of their companion, the other Rat Party members were not discouraged; or rather, they had already prepared themselves for death before coming... Following the original plan, since they couldn't escape via the west road, they immediately charged toward the south road!

The remaining members of the Rat Party still had some combat power. With a flurry of blades, they hacked the Third-Order Fire-Tamper who had been conducting the execution to death, and incidentally severely wounded two other low-order Fire-Tampers, tearing open a small gap.

But the next moment, two Sixth-Order Fire-Tampers rushed out from the crowd, glaring at the Rat Party members and directly beheading the two in the lead.

Like the Twilight Society, the Fire-Tampers had a large number of Sixth and Fifth-Order mid-level combatants in addition to the Seventh-Order Thief Saint. If one looked up now, they would see countless such figures standing in the hazy haze in the distance, watching this struggle of a trapped beast as if it were a joke.

"What a nuisance..." Lan Yu’s voice sounded slowly from the east road. She casually tossed the heads of two Rat Party members onto the ground and wiped the blood from her fingertips with a handkerchief.

"Just a few little rats, and they've ruined my sleep..."

She covered her mouth and gave a light yawn.

She was the only one on the east road, but like [The Butcher] on the west, she stood like an immovable mountain. Just by standing there, she blocked all paths to survival.

With three paths blocked, Wu Duo and the man in purple retreated slowly...

Within a few short seconds, only the two of them remained of the Rat Party. They looked at the dark, oppressive figures surrounding them, like a night that could never be crossed, radiating intense despair.

They looked back toward the final south road, only to find that, at some point, countless silver monsters had emerged from the shadows, sealing the road off completely like a tide.

If Chen Ling were here, he would recognize these as the killing machines Lou Yu created in the Red Dust Realm. At that time, these silver monsters were nearly infinite, nearly destroying the entire realm, and Huang Suye and others had died because of them.

And as Lou Yu’s strength recovered, these killing machines had reappeared in the Wuji Realm.

Silver monsters, Fire-Tampers, Thief Saint, Arbiter...

All paths to survival were blocked; standing before them were walls of despair. By this point, both Wu Duo and the man in purple had found peace. They knew they couldn't leave alive today. After exchanging a look, they forced smiles onto their pale faces.

"Who goes first?"

"I'll go first. I joined the Rat Party earlier than you, so I should go before you." The man shrugged. "Besides... what if you still have a chance to live? That young man is still waiting for you."

Wu Duo knew who the "young man" he referred to was. She opened her mouth, but said nothing...

"Today, none of you are escaping." Lan Yu sneered. "What's the point of who goes first or last?"

"Bitch, don't get too cocky."

The man gave the middle finger directly to the walls of people in the night. "I admit you guys are tough in the Wuji Realm, but in this world, no one can cover the sky forever... Whether it's you or the Silver King, when the day the sun rises comes, you'll be just like me—none of you will escape."

Lan Yu’s eyelid twitched, and she scoffed disdainfully:

"Then I advise you to kneel down and beg for mercy now; maybe we'll consider sparing your life... That way, before you die of old age, you might even see that so-called 'sun' being trampled under our feet."

"Kneel and beg for mercy from you? Keep dreaming!"

The man’s gaze swept over the corpses of his companions, as if recalling something, and a smile curled at the corner of his mouth.

"Although the number of people we saved is limited, we have briefly served as the sun in the darkness... Since that's the case, when the real sun rises, why must it be me who bathes in the light?"

He slowly spread his arms, and purple flames began to flow from beneath his feet. Amidst the fragments of the shattered crystal ball, his figure exploded violently!!

BOOM—!!

Purple flames obscured the view. Wu Duo, at the edge of the fire, held back her tears and turned to charge into the street filled with silver monsters... She knew it was almost impossible to escape, but even if there was a glimmer of possibility, she didn't want her companion's sacrifice to be meaningless.

The silver monsters' blades glinted coldly in the darkness. They watched the charging Wu Duo coldly, standing motionless...

Just then,

A series of urgent honks rang out. Wu Duo’s tear-filled eyes looked ahead, and she saw a burning truck roaring toward them from behind the silver monsters...

Like a burning sun!

……

Confessional.

Chen Ling opened his mouth and swallowed the food from the spoon.

The warm air mixed with the aroma fell into his body along his throat, like a raging fire... The maid patiently prepared the ratio of rice, vegetables, and meat on the spoon, gently delivering it to Chen Ling’s mouth.

Chen Ling ate this meal very quietly. In the entire confessional, only the light sound of the spoon scraping against the tray remained.

"Eat slowly, eat slowly... No one is fighting you for it." The maid smiled slightly as she watched Chen Ling eat. "I saw you didn't seem full the last two days, so I added extra today. It should be enough."

Chen Ling’s eyes were slightly red. As he silently ate the food delivered to him, he looked into the maid’s eyes. The suspicion that had been buried in his heart for the past two days was being confirmed bit by bit...

Drip—drip...

For so many days, the sorrow and grievance suppressed deep in Chen Ling’s heart couldn't help but surge outward. Tears kept sliding from the corners of his eyes, dripping into the tray.

Seeing this, the maid was slightly startled, then looked at Chen Ling’s expression with complexity, her eyes filled with indescribable heartache.

"Oh my... why are you crying while eating?"

Chen Ling chewed the food in his mouth, swallowed it with a sob, and then spoke hoarsely:

"Fourth Senior Brother..."

"It's you... isn't it..."