Chapter 1460: Tears of the Red King (IV)

Killing that group of scum from Ice Spring Street made me a target for the law enforcers.

That District 3 law enforcer, Han Meng, was very troublesome. He was like a jackal, able to sniff out my whereabouts. Fortunately, I had no attachments to the Aurora Realm anymore. I found an opportunity, changed my face, directly boarded the Realm Train, and left this realm.

After arriving at the Red Dust Realm, I immediately made contact with the local Twilight Society members. They assigned me a task, which seemed to be to execute a mission with a member of the Green Divine Dao...

I didn't change back to my own face; I still used my brother’s face.

I was only fifteen years old, and my age was really too young. Using my own face to execute missions was too inconvenient... and I would be looked down upon.

My brother shouldn't have died. If I had given my heart to him, he could have lived... Using his face and living as him was perhaps a continuation of his life.

In the Twilight Society, I experienced a lot and grew a lot.

Task after task, I met one powerful senior after another. I learned their respective strengths from them, and I would even change into their faces during missions, deliberately imitating them, simulating their thoughts, and summarizing them all in my mind.

Gradually, I began to think more and further, and I surpassed most of them...

I would never be flustered again. No matter how troublesome the situation was, I could quickly calm down and find a way to break the deadlock.

During my mission in the Red Dust Realm, I met a friend of the Green Divine Dao. Not long after we met, he was recruited into the Twilight Society by the Gray King and became the Spade 6; there was also a girl of the Yellow Divine Dao whom I met with Spade 6 while exploring the Ancient Treasury of the Yellow Dao. We also developed her into the Twilight Society, and she became the Plum Blossom 6.

I heard from my seniors that the card face of Diamond 6 had already been given out, also to an Opera Divine Dao practitioner, but we had never met him. Perhaps he was also an interesting person.

At the same time, everything in the Era Archive gradually got on the right track. I used opera tricks to conjure up documents, learned to take the subway, bus, high-speed train, and even the plane. I learned to use smartphones and learned to use the internet to understand everything about this era.

Later, the Red King sent me another USB drive.

He said there were three such USB drives in the Twilight Society... He had never used his own [Origin]. He was waiting for me to gradually master how to live in the Era Archive before giving me his [Origin], allowing me to have a second chance to restart my layout.

He said he would back me up... and he really did.

After getting the [Origin], I immediately entered the Era Archive and acted from the initial save point. This time, I caught the plane, arrived at Shennongjia, changed my face to replace their original guide, and successfully mixed into the exploration team!

They called me Director Chen... Hearing this name, I felt a bit dazed.

I did have the surname Chen.

Perhaps, this was fate?

Later, we received a mission from the Red King to return to the Aurora Realm.

It wasn't until then that I discovered that because the Aurora Sovereign’s lifespan was coming to an end, all areas except Aurora City had fallen, including my hometown... District 3.

The residents of District 3, those neighbors, playmates, and classmates I once had, and even the law enforcer Han Meng who had hunted me down, all died at the hands of the Forbidden Sea disaster.

The three of us from the 6-generation stood by in Aurora City until that day arrived...

Turmoil occurred in Aurora City. The internal law enforcers seemed to have split. At the same time, the Forbidden Sea disaster began to impact the realm, and both inside and outside the city were in chaos. The disaster was killing people, the severe cold was killing people... and people were killing people too.

That was the first time I felt the insignificance of humanity, and it was also the first time I witnessed the greatness of humanity.

Watching figure after figure die tragically, I had an urge in my heart; I wanted to do something to comfort these pathetic souls, but I couldn't... The only way I could think of was to sing an opera, but I racked my brains through all the operas I had learned, and none of them could fit the current situation.

Perhaps after everything ended, I could write a ballad... I had already thought of the name: "Requiem."

Later, the Aurora Sovereign woke up.

I don't know why, but he sought me out.

He saved me from the encirclement of the disaster, brought me back to a safe place, and said a few words to me, as if he were reminiscing about his past, and as if he were looking forward to my future.

Before leaving, he patted my shoulder. He looked at me with a complex gaze; I couldn't understand what kind of emotion that was...

But what was certain was that he had no malice toward me.

In the end, the Aurora Sovereign died in battle, and the split within the law enforcers ended. A law enforcer killed the Aurora Sovereign with his own hands, using his power to turn everyone’s souls into aurora, fluttering above the realm.

That was the first time I realized that the aurora that had accompanied me since childhood was actually so beautiful.

I personally recovered the Aurora Sovereign’s corpse. Looking at that pale and cold face, I had an indescribable feeling in my heart. Even counting the exploration in the Era Archive, I had only been in contact with him for a few hours, but seeing him die before me, I felt as if I had lost an important friend.

It doesn't matter... even if the Aurora Sovereign of this era is dead, I can become friends with him in the Era Archive.

I thought to myself.

The Aurora Realm was destroyed. We took a tractor and left this dead and silent realm.

Later, we experienced many, many things together... The Red Dust Realm and the Wuji Realm fell one after another. Wuji Sovereign Lou Yu betrayed the Nine Sovereigns and set up his own portal, and the situation facing humanity became increasingly severe.

We witnessed the demise of every realm and the ending of every Nine Sovereign. I became stronger and stronger, and the speed of my progress was too fast; my peers couldn't catch up with me at all.

In the era archive, I successfully became friends with Aurora. His real name was Yang Xiao... In exchange, I also told him my real name and showed him my true face.

He was very surprised to see that I was so young, but perhaps he had already grown accustomed to it; after that, he still called me Director Chen.

The Red King kept issuing us missions,

and I accomplished one feat after another that others deemed impossible, becoming partners with more and more members of the Twilight Society.

The realms were dying, but the Twilight Society was getting better and better. After that, the Red King would come to see me regularly, bringing me various new styles of theatrical robes and delicacies from other realms. We would often chat together, and I thought this life would last forever...

Until,

the Red Star streaked across the sky once again.