Chapter 1367: A Long-Lost Taste

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As the radio button was turned on, a burst of static sounded in the dim palace.

"I am Chen Yu, a frontline reporter for the Xuanyu Realm!"

"Today, the war situation on the front line is still relatively stable. Although we occasionally encounter large-scale impacts, it is generally within a controllable range. Please do not panic, listeners. Reinforcements from the two major realms should arrive at the battlefield very soon..."

"Next, we will invite a commander from the front line to conduct an inter..."

"Wait, what is that?"

Amidst a chaotic burst of exclamations and running sounds, the reporter seemed to have stood on some high ground. Immediately after, her pleasantly surprised voice sounded again:

"A gap has been torn open at the rear flank of the Calamity tide... Someone is breaking out from the outside toward the Xuanyu Realm. Have reinforcements from other realms arrived?"

"No, that's not right..."

"It's General Jian!! General Jian and two other partners are killing their way into the battlefield!!"

"After several days, General Jian has returned! He broke in from the rear of the Calamity at the most critical node, leaving a breathing gap for our defense line... Wait!! What is behind them?!"

"Reinforcements!! Reinforcements from the other two major realms have arrived!! The situation in the Xuanyu Realm is about to stabilize again. This defensive battle is within sight of victory!!"

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Unprecedented cheers and shouts came from the radio. It seemed that the Xuanyu front line was already incredibly excited. They had held on for so many days, and the people of the Esoteric Sect had long been numb or even desperate... Now that reinforcements had arrived, it undoubtedly gave them a shot in the arm. Both the front line and the public in the rear saw hope for survival.

Chen Ling on the throne was a bit surprised. He didn't expect that at the node where Jian Changsheng and the others returned, reinforcements from the other two major realms would also happen to arrive...

Jian Changsheng definitely couldn't have communicated with them, so the only explanation was coincidence... And when the two things were put together, in the eyes of the people of the Xuanyu Realm, it became "Jian Changsheng went to fetch reinforcements" and "brought reinforcements back to kill their way into the Xuanyu Realm." The rumors of Jian Changsheng's disappearance over the past few days not only collapsed on their own, but would also bring Jian Changsheng's popularity to an unprecedented height...

No matter what the Xuanyu government thought, in the hearts of the people, Jian Changsheng was the savior of Xuanyu at this moment.

Chen Ling knew that the status of Jian Changsheng and the others in the human realm had been completely solidified... As long as the Xuanyu Realm didn't fall, they would be the eternal heroes of humanity.

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Chen Ling turned off the radio, lay quietly on the throne, and closed his eyes...

In the lonely palace, he fell asleep with peace of mind.

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In the days that followed, Chen Ling returned to his boring life in the Abyss of Ghostly Derision.

Sleeping, eating bugs, patrolling the Abyss of Ghostly Derision... Every day, Chen Ling's pastime was to turn on the radio and listen to the situation in the human realm.

In addition to the Xuanyu Realm, the three major realms of Tian-Shu, Cang-Yun, and Nanhai also opened war channels. The content of the Tian-Shu Realm was similar to that of the Xuanyu Realm, basically broadcasting the war situation on the front line, but the situation in the Tian-Shu Realm was better than that of the Xuanyu Realm.

On one hand, the Tian-Shu Realm was the core hub of the human realm, with many experts. In addition to the Red Dust Monarch Su Zhiwei sitting in town, several owners of the Heaven-Reaching Star Position were also there. Moreover, after hundreds of years of accumulation, the foundation of the Heaven-Reaching Tower was extremely vast. As long as the Red Dust Monarch entangled the Calamity of Breath, it wouldn't be so easy for ordinary calamities to rush and shatter the war tools of the Clever God Path.

The situation in the Cang-Yun Realm was quite special. On the surface, there had never been a large-scale Calamity conflict, but the cities within the realm were already covered with vines, and strange flowers and vegetation grew everywhere on the streets. Therefore, the content of the Cang-Yun Realm channel was mostly teaching residents how to deal with various plants growing in their homes, and to avoid contact with these plants as much as possible.

Since the Forbidden Sea attacked the Nanhai Realm, it seemed to have disappeared. No enemies had crawled out from under the sea, but the Nanhai Realm still hadn't lifted its war alert state, sending people to patrol the surrounding area every day, with vigilance fully raised.

As for the Ling-Xu Realm... As the only realm that hadn't been attacked by calamities so far, it didn't have its own war channel at all. At most, it had set up a special channel to broadcast the situation of other realms to residents, looking like a peaceful and quiet time.

A month passed quietly, and the tug-of-war between the human realm and the Calamity territory continued.

Over the past month, Chen Ling's expectation value rose and fell, eventually dropping from around fifty to the death line of twenty. Helpless, Chen Ling could only activate the Era Archive again.

In the past, as long as the cooldown of the Era Archive ended, Chen Ling would find free time to enter. But now, the archive was more of a means for Chen Ling to maintain his expectation value. Only when the expectation value was about to drop to the freezing point could he launch a life-extension.

As the familiar number flashed by, Chen Ling opened his eyes again and had returned to the ruins of the city.

After such a long time, Chen Ling, who lived in the bug cave and the dark palace all day, was a bit dazed when he saw the modern buildings towering into the clouds again... For a moment, he even thought that his human life was just a dream.

It's just that most of the city in front of him had also become ruins, broken and dilapidated.

The last time Chen Ling entered the archive, he had left from Wushan Town. He had intended to see the situation in other cities nearby, but after arriving at the city next to this Wushan Town, he found that the situation here was not much better...

Against the backdrop of the world nuclear war, except for the secluded paradise where few people visited, almost all city gathering places would be impacted.

However, after experiencing a round of nuclear strikes, many people still came out of the shelters, looking at the devastated city in front of them, their eyes full of confusion and helplessness... Crying, calling, and the sound of sirens and ambulances in the distance were endless.

Chen Ling looked around, and his gaze quickly locked onto a large supermarket. A glimmer of light finally returned to those silent eyes.

He quickly stepped into it.

The glass door of the supermarket had been shattered by the aftermath of the nuclear weapon. Chen Ling stepped directly over the glass shards all over the floor and came to the rows of messy shelves, searching carefully...

Potato chips, instant noodles, bread, spicy strips, pickled chicken feet, canned yellow peaches... Dazzling human snacks filled the ground, making Chen Ling's saliva almost drip from the corners of his mouth.

After eating poisonous insects for a month, he had almost forgotten what human food tasted like.

Chen Ling didn't hesitate to tear open a bag of potato chips, tilted his head, and poured it all into his mouth, chewing hard. As the rich taste exploded on his taste buds, a long-lost look of enjoyment appeared on Chen Ling's pitch-black face.