Chapter 1370: Seeing the Aurora Again

A figure draped in a bright red theatrical robe streaked across the dim sky like a crimson meteor.

The strong wind brushed against Chen Ling’s cheeks, blowing his pitch-black hair into a mess. Those scarlet eyes swept over the surroundings faintly. Between the thick clouds, several roaring fighter jets were shuttling in the distance.

This fighter formation had been following behind him since just now. They must have received orders from above to only monitor and track Chen Ling’s whereabouts, and not to approach or fire easily.

Chen Ling didn't intend to eliminate them. These planes following him could constantly create a sense of tension, allowing the audience's expectation value to maintain or even steadily increase. Moreover, he wanted to expose his location actively; otherwise, how would the subsequent conflicts erupt?

Seeing Chen Ling turn his head and smile at them from afar, the pilots immediately got goosebumps!

Having followed for so long, they still couldn't figure out how this monster was flying in the sky. Its existence seemed to completely violate the laws of physics, and its speed was incredibly fast. Most importantly... it seemed to be able to see through what they were thinking.

This deadly sense of oppression made everyone subconsciously tense up, keeping their planes at what they considered a "safe distance" from Chen Ling.

After flying for a long time, ribbons of aurora gradually appeared at the end of their line of sight.

"Hell... is there really an aurora??"

Inside the internal channel of the fighter formation, a pilot muttered as he saw the miraculous scene before him.

The originally dim sky was now shrouded in cyan and blue aurora. Looking from afar, it looked like a thin sea of light swaying and surging, making everyone who saw it briefly lose their focus... A natural wonder that originally only existed at specific latitudes had actually appeared before their eyes!

Even Chen Ling was slightly stunned the moment he saw this aurora...

The aurora before him gradually overlapped with the aurora domain in Chen Ling’s memory. Those distant memories, as if from a past life, reappeared in his mind bit by bit.

Chen Yan, Zhao Yi, Han Meng, Frost Street, the Snow Train, Xi Renjie, Aurora City, Wen Shilin, Tan Xin, Hong Xiu... At that time, he was just a little law enforcer who didn't even know who he was. But precisely because he knew nothing, in the bitter cold, he instead possessed a kind of confidence and calmness.

Memories are like a jar of old wine; the more they ferment, the more mellow they become. The current Chen Ling took a light sip and felt a bit intoxicated.

"Unexpectedly... there would be a day to see it again."

Chen Ling looked at the silently swaying aurora and let out a long sigh.

Under this beautiful sea of aurora, a charred, dead, and silent city stood silently.

Chen Ling’s figure gradually decelerated and landed in the center of this charred city. The fighter jets began to circle overhead, seemingly still monitoring Chen Ling... but the current Chen Ling had no time to pay attention to them.

"Can't feel Yang Xiao’s aura... Is he not here?"

Chen Ling frowned slightly, "What on earth... happened here?"

After hesitating for a moment, the bright red theatrical robe walked slowly along the broken streets.

This place looked like the coverage area of the second round of nuclear strikes. The buildings were completely incomplete and broken. Everywhere he looked, there were broken walls and ruins. The original skyscrapers were like gaunt skeletons stripped of their skin, standing alone in the air...

Dust carrying excessive nuclear radiation danced in the wind. There was not a trace of life to be seen, and the entire block was as dilapidated as the end of the world.

Chen Ling’s gaze fell on a broken wall. A humanoid black shadow was imprinted on the surface, looking like the situation where the body was instantly sublimated by high temperatures, leaving some residue on the wall...

And shadows like this were almost everywhere in the block.

With every step Chen Ling took, he could step on several residual black shadows. Some looked like they were running, some looked like they were crowded and knocked to the ground, and others were curled up in pain. These residues covered every corner of the street, dyeing everything in sight black.

Just by looking at the scene before him, Chen Ling could imagine what kind of hell on earth this place had become when the second round of nuclear strikes descended.

After walking around, Chen Ling could confirm that there were no living creatures here, and Yang Xiao was not here either...

The existence of the aurora meant that Yang Xiao definitely hadn't met with an accident. Since that was the case, where did he go?

After thinking for a moment, Chen Ling’s gaze fell on the surging aurora.

After possessing 【Self-Reconstruction of Biological Magnetic Field and Consciousness Frequency Band】, Chen Ling could already feel the uniqueness of this aurora. Although the aurora itself is a change in the magnetic field, there were clearly traces of biological magnetic fields remaining in this aurora... which is "soul."

But after Chen Ling sensed it carefully, he found that the soul itself didn't seem to be here. This aurora shrouding the ruins was more like a "shell" left behind by the biological magnetic field. The souls themselves seemed to have been taken away, leaving only some lingering thoughts behind, existing in the form of an aurora sea.

Chen Ling couldn't do this kind of change... at least he couldn't with only the two skills of the Aurora Lord.

The only one who could do this was the true Aurora Lord, Yang Xiao.

The bright red theatrical robe rose from the abandoned city and flew directly into the aurora. He slowly raised his hands and reached toward the void...

"Let me see... what exactly happened here."

Chen Ling closed his eyes.

Even if it was just a "shell," it should leave behind residual information. Chen Ling could communicate with souls, so naturally, he could read a part of the information within it.

In the next second, messy images flooded into Chen Ling’s mind!

A black shadow trailing fire fell from the sky like a sword of judgment;

In the already shattered city, a large number of figures were fleeing frantically. And behind them, a figure bathed in faint aurora rose into the air a few meters off the ground, staring fixedly at the black shadow descending from the sky, roaring in anger, hands grasping at the void as if trying to change its landing point...

Behind that aurora figure, it seemed to be protecting a woman dressed in simple and elegant clothes. She stared blankly at the figure trying to prop up the entire sky, her eyes full of disbelief.

In the next image, the aurora figure seemed to shout something. Among the people fleeing in all directions, some turned around and ran toward the aurora figure. They raised their palms in the chaotic crowd, reaching out to the aurora figure like drowning people craving help. Some parents even picked up infants in swaddling clothes and handed them to the aurora figure... They were praying that the aurora figure, who looked like a god, could help them escape this catastrophe.

Then, the black shadow fell into the center of the city.

Blinding fire swept across the world, and the images in Chen Ling’s mind turned completely pale...