Chapter 1117: Wilderness Migration

Hearing this, Jian Changsheng could only sigh helplessly.

The Gray Realm at night was indeed eerily terrifying; everything in sight was as pitch-black as ink, making it very difficult to distinguish direction... It gave one the feeling of loneliness and horror one might feel looking out into the night from an offshore oil rig.

"What are you in such a rush for, Spade?" Sun Bumian said unhurriedly. "Don't you know Heart? He can thrive anywhere he goes. Even the Wuji Realm couldn't do anything to him, let alone the Fusion Faction he was invited to. This guy might just be enjoying himself in the Fusion Faction right now."

"Little Sun is right." Jack of Diamonds agreed, which was rare.

"The atmosphere at the Fusion Faction is very good, even better than most realms. You can be absolutely assured about Heart 6 going to the Fusion Faction... He will live very well."

Jiang Xiaohua put down his wine bottle and suddenly looked at Jack of Diamonds. "...Then why did you leave?"

Jack of Diamonds' hand, which was holding the wine bottle, paused in mid-air.

Jiang Xiaohua, who was usually silent, silenced Jack of Diamonds with a single sentence, like a thin but sharp needle piercing directly into his heart...

Jack of Diamonds couldn't help but look at Jiang Xiaohua a few more times and sighed:

"I... just discovered some problems that couldn't be ignored. After thinking for a long time, I decided to leave... In a sense, it was a disagreement in philosophy."

Sun Bumian's eyes behind his small round sunglasses narrowed, as if he had caught the scent of a secret, and he said casually:

"From the 'Radical Faction' that pursues the fusion and evolution of humans and Calamities, to the 'Conservative Faction' that wants to reverse the era and restart the world, that's quite a leap you've made."

Jack of Diamonds didn't intend to discuss it further, instead raising his wine bottle again to clink with Jiang Xiaohua.

"That's all in the past... Drink!"

Jack of Diamonds shouted drunkenly and drank the wine in one gulp.

Jiang Xiaohua didn't speak, just silently raised his glass to accompany him. After finishing another bottle, he lay lazily on the ground, his long snow-white hair spread out messily across the earth.

He looked quietly at the deep night sky above, his eyelids closing gently, as if he were preparing to fall asleep right there.

Just then,

Tiny grains of sand trembled slightly by his ear, and his eyes, which had already closed, suddenly opened again.

Jiang Xiaohua lay there blankly for a few seconds, then sat up and asked in confusion:

"Did you guys hear any sound?"

"Sound?"

Jian Changsheng was stunned and pointed at Jack of Diamonds. "Does his hiccuping count?"

"Not that kind of sound... It's a sound from further away." Jiang Xiaohua tried to explain clearly. "I feel like something is coming..."

The drunken Jack of Diamonds frowned upon hearing this, suddenly sobering up, and pressed his ear against the ground.

A moment later, his expression turned incredibly grim.

"Not good, a Calamity is really coming... and there are quite a few of them!"

Buzz, buzz, buzz—

As Jack of Diamonds finished speaking, Jian Changsheng and the others also vaguely heard the sound, like thousands of horses galloping across the earth, swarming toward them, making the very ground beneath their feet tremble.

"It's the Calamities of the Sighing Wilderness!" Sun Bumian's pupils dilated with colorful rings as he stared fixedly in the direction the sound was coming from. "Damn it, judging by the number, there are at least a hundred... What is this? A great grassland migration?"

"A hundred? That's about the same as the Red Dust Realm back then, right?" Jian Changsheng frowned. He turned to look at the most experienced Jack of Diamonds. "What do we do?"

"What do we do? Run!!"

At this point, Jack of Diamonds couldn't care about direction anymore. Even if they had Jiang Xiaohua to mask their aura and hide from the Calamities, the other side was an entire wave of Calamities that could destroy half a realm just by charging through. If this hit them head-on, they wouldn't even have a place to hide.

Jack of Diamonds didn't even have time to grab his wine, taking Jian Changsheng and the others and rushing in the opposite direction of the Calamity wave, pushing their speed to the limit.

Jian Changsheng looked back while running. Vaguely, he could see at the end of the horizon under the night sky, mountain-like skeletal silhouettes charging frantically, kicking up a thick dust storm from the earth, as if it were the end of the world.

"Have the Calamities of the Sighing Wilderness gone crazy?" he couldn't help but ask.

"Logically speaking, large-scale Calamity migrations rarely occur in the Gray Realm... I stayed at the Fusion Faction for so long and never heard of it." Jack of Diamonds was also incredulous. "This is hell, how can we be so damn unlucky?"

Hearing the word "unlucky," Jian Changsheng's heart shook. He seemed to realize something and suddenly stopped talking...

His fists clenched silently.

"Let's escape their path first!" Sun Bumian knew very well that no matter how fast they could run, they couldn't outrun the Calamities of the Sighing Wilderness. It was like running into an avalanche; running in a straight line was certain death, so they had to avoid the Calamities' trajectory at an angle.

Sun Bumian stepped on the cloud-walking technique, his speed the fastest, and leaped directly above the others, as if looking out for the trajectory of those Calamities.

"How is it, did you see clearly?!" Jack of Diamonds shouted.

A moment later, Sun Bumian waved his hand.

"This way!!"

……

The night was like ink.

Chen Ling rode the shadow centipede, speeding across the rugged earth.

As he delved deeper into the Gray Realm, more and more Calamities of the Ghost-Mockery Abyss were summoned. Most were called by the big centipede beneath his feet. Driven by a powerful desire to survive, it backstabbed its distant relatives, skillfully digging out one centipede nest after another, and calling all the shadow centipedes out to help.

The big centipede's logic was quite clear: either find the people for Chen Ling, or drag the whole clan down to die together!

Those shadow centipedes who were innocently dragged into this, although they hated the big centipede's backstabbing behavior, didn't dare to make any move because Chen Ling was standing on its head. They could only bite the bullet and help search the surroundings.

Chen Ling stood there quietly watching everything, his expression somewhat subtle...

It had to be said, although the Mockery Calamity deserved to die, sometimes this identity was quite useful. In the human realm, he was hated by everyone and had no one to rely on, but in the Gray Realm, he could summon wind and rain, easily pulling Calamities from the Ghost-Mockery Abyss to do his bidding.

An inexplicable sense of dominance rose from the bottom of Chen Ling's heart—familiar, yet longed for. His pupils radiated a faint scarlet glow, and the audience emotions he had suppressed in his heart loosened slightly at this moment...

He seemed to have experienced a hint of the joy of "Mockery."

【Audience Expectation +3】

【Current Expectation: 52%】

"...Still no clues?"

Chen Ling asked impatiently.

Without waiting for the big centipede beneath him to respond, he directly raised his hand and grabbed behind him.

The arm under the opera robe directly transformed into red paper and extended rapidly, like the eerie tentacle of an octopus, tightly wrapping around the smallest centipede running at the very back, and dragging it here!