Chapter 1359: Shen Qingzhu

Chen Ling’s gaze landed on him once again.

From the young man’s words, Chen Ling keenly caught a piece of information... "your two worlds."

"You are not from these two worlds?" Chen Ling asked.

"No, I come from another candlelight world."

Chen Ling was extremely surprised. "Is it possible to travel freely between candlelight worlds?"

"In the vast majority of cases, no." The young man paused for a moment. "However, after this world was pierced head-on by [Y-012], a gap appeared in the barrier, so I was able to enter... But my power is mutually exclusive with this world, so the space-time around me is extremely unstable. Only by utilizing the chaos and disorder in the deepest part of the Embers of Civilization can I suppress it."

No wonder the sightings of the Angel of Extinction in the human domain were always sudden appearances followed by inexplicable disappearances... Chen Ling had originally thought this was the Angel of Extinction’s own special means of movement. Now it seemed it was purely because he was rejected by this world.

After hesitating for a long time, Chen Ling asked tentatively:

"Then your world... also had a meteor shower?"

"It did." The young man’s mouth curled up slightly. "However, it has already been resolved."

"Resolved? How was it resolved???"

After seeing the fate of the Gray Realm and the human domain with his own eyes, Chen Ling had deeply realized the terror of the Red Star. He couldn't imagine what kind of world could resolve the attack of a meteor? And the living beings within it could leave their own candlelight world and enter other worlds?

"The process is quite complex... Facing different meteors, the methods of response are different. Moreover, as far as I know, aside from us, there is another world that survived the attack of a meteor... They faced a J-series meteor. And now, the savior of that world is fighting side-by-side with the savior of our world."

The young man paused for a moment. "In short, our experience cannot provide any help to you. The only ones who can save this world are yourselves."

Chen Ling was silent for a long time, then smiled helplessly:

"Who the savior of this world is, I don't know... In any case, it won't be me."

The young man watched him for a long time.

"Perhaps..."

Before the young man could finish, a collapse began to brew around the submarine. He grabbed Chen Ling’s wrist directly and flew him out of the submarine.

"The aura on your body seems to catalyze the collapses here." The young man scanned the several collapsing black holes forming in sight and said in a deep voice, "You should go... If you stay too long, I’m afraid this place will collapse directly."

"Then can I come back?"

"Occasionally... As long as you are confident you won't be swallowed by these collapses, you can."

"Alright then." Chen Ling nodded slightly. "Once I gather some more intelligence, I'll come back to find you."

Chen Ling identified the direction and walked straight toward the outskirts of the Embers of Civilization where Wu Yi was.

Suddenly, he seemed to remember something and looked back at the young man:

"I still don't know your name... Since you aren't a Calamity, you should have a name, right?"

"Yes."

The young man paused for a moment. "My name is Shen Qingzhu."

Chen Ling silently kept the name in his heart and turned to continue walking outward. The vermilion theatrical robes moved continuously along the ruined streets. Just then, the young man seemed to remember something:

"Wait a moment."

Chen Ling looked back again.

"If it's convenient, bring me a few packs of cigarettes next time you come." Shen Qingzhu said.

Chen Ling’s brow raised slightly.

"Alright."

Chen Ling’s figure disappeared at the end of the street.

……

When Chen Ling found Wu Yi, it was curled up on the roof of a landmark building, sleeping.

"Wake up, it's time to go back." Chen Ling knocked on its head.

Wu Yi opened its eyes in a daze. Seeing Chen Ling before it, it let out several surprised hisses.

"What did you say?" Chen Ling was startled.

"I've already been inside for two days??"

Wu Yi nodded frantically.

Chen Ling turned his head violently to look at the depths of the Embers of Civilization. In his perception, he had only been inside for a few hours, yet two days had already passed outside?

Had the space-time in the Embers of Civilization, pierced through by the Red Star, become so chaotic?

Fortunately, Shen Qingzhu had urged him to leave in time; otherwise, by the time he came out on his own, a month might have passed outside...

"Let's go, let's hurry back to the Abyss of Mockery." Chen Ling said immediately.

Before leaving, he had told Jian Changsheng and the others that he was just going to find something and would be back soon. He hadn't expected that this trip would take so long... Plus the return journey, he estimated that in their eyes, he had been missing for three days.

However, three days wasn't too short, nor was it too long; it was still within an acceptable range.

Under Wu Yi’s full-speed dash, it took Chen Ling less than half a day to see the outline of the Abyss of Mockery.

……

"Block..."

"Hungry!"

Jian Changsheng stared with a pair of glowing green eyes, looking straight at Sun Bumian before him.

Sun Bumian: ...

Sun Bumian took a deep breath, held his breath, conjured a candied hawthorn, and shoved it directly into Jian Changsheng’s hand. "Go find a corner to eat it yourself. Don't let me see you; you're making me sick."

Jian Changsheng took the candied hawthorn and was about to take a bite, but as that extremely familiar scent of candied hawthorn entered his nasal cavity, an instinctive nausea surged into his heart.

He looked at the candied hawthorn he was tired of eating in his hand, then looked at the pile of "poisonous insect sashimi" on the table, and his mouth began to twitch violently.

"Ugh—!!"

He didn't know which one had finally broken his psychological defense, but he turned his head and dry-heaved under the table!

Ever since Chen Ling left the Abyss of Mockery, although his centipede subordinates still "delivered meals" to them on time every day, they didn't have Chen Ling, the master chef, so they couldn't even eat hot food when they ate insects...

What was placed on the table were fresh centipede legs that had just been removed and were still covered in mucus, or lizard tails that were still twitching. Compared to these things, the Five-Poison Feast Chen Ling had made for them on the first day looked quite appetizing.

On the first and second day after Chen Ling left, the three of them hadn't eaten a single bite, relying purely on Sun Bumian’s candied hawthorns to stave off hunger. But after eating candied hawthorns for three days, they really couldn't take it anymore; they felt nauseous just smelling the scent.

One was fresh poisonous insect sashimi, the other was candied hawthorns they were sick of eating. When there were only two things left in the world to eat, Jian Changsheng and the others felt that their lives had lost all hope...

"Block, can't you cook something for us to eat?!" Jian Changsheng complained right after he finished heaving.

"???" Sun Bumian had an expression that said, "What are you thinking?" "The prerequisite for cooking is having ingredients, right? Should I stir-fry two poisonous insects for you? I’m not Red Heart... Aren't you afraid of being poisoned to death by me?"

"...Damn, Red Heart has been gone for three days now. When will he be back? Did he ditch us and run off on his own?"

Just as Jian Changsheng finished speaking, a series of hisses from poisonous insects rang out from outside the underground palace.