Chapter 1570: Abyss of Pain

The Amber Knight clenched his fists silently as he walked through the Lingxu base. His steps were messy and heavy. When he stepped out of the base gate, a calm voice sounded from the side:

"Something on your mind?"

The Amber Knight turned to look and saw a figure wearing a dark cyan knight uniform leaning against the wall, watching him quietly.

Seeing that person, the Amber Knight's previously tense body gradually relaxed.

He stood on the mountainside, overlooking the Lingxu Domain below. The original residential area had been cleared and demolished, and a massive tower rose from the center of the city. Countless black shadows moved around it like ants.

"The Lingxu Domain of the past... wasn't like this," the Amber Knight muttered to himself.

"...Indeed," the Commander of the Yaqing Knight Order said slowly.

"The Lingxu of the past, although relatively far from other domains, was basically self-sufficient... No climate crisis, no political struggle, and very few Calamities. Coupled with the influence of the Game God Path, the spirit of competition prevailed. Whether it was sports, mental competition, or folk games, it provided endless fun..."

"We so-called Knight Commanders, to put it bluntly, were just 'players' who had reached the pinnacle in our respective fields."

"But now, we 'players' are being forced to kill people!" The Amber Knight turned to look at the Yaqing Knight. "Don't you think this is absurd?"

The two knights looked at each other in silence. Their eyes glowed with a faint light, and each could see that hidden beneath those eyes were some fierce and firm things.

"It's absurd... and then what?" The Yaqing Knight said slowly.

The Amber Knight took a deep breath.

"Perhaps..."

"We can try to solve the source of all this."

……

Clap—!!

With a crisp explosion, a window in Cangyun Jun's office shattered, and half a brick fell heavily onto the floor, glass shards scattering everywhere.

Cangyun Jun, who was dozing on the table, was awakened by the loud noise. His bloodshot eyes looked forward, and after seeing the brick that had flown in, he was stunned on the spot...

Immediately afterward, a series of noisy sounds erupted from outside the broken window!

"Cangyun Jun!! You pig-and-dog-like beast!!"

"Give me back my husband!!"

"I'm telling you! Others are afraid of you, but I'm not! I don't care if you're one of the Nine Lords! Or some guardian god! In my eyes, you're just a dog! A stinking dog raised by Lingxu Jun!!"

"Cangyun Jun! You're amazing, you're powerful!! With one order, you transferred my husband to the Lingxu Domain! To build that broken tower! Leaving me and my child, who isn't even a month old, to guard the house alone..."

"For over a month, no money, no clothes, no house... I endured it all. I held my child and slept under a bridge, using cardboard to keep him warm. The child got sick, and I couldn't even beg for decent medicine... We were tough, we survived!"

"But you... but you all! Why did you execute my husband publicly!!??"

"He just couldn't stop worrying about us! He just wanted to come back and see us!! What did he do wrong?!?"

"What right do you have to take him away from us?! What right do you have to decide his life and death? Did he break the law? Did he do something bad?!"

"Now my husband has been executed by you, and my child has died of illness... You... you... how do you expect me to live now?!!"

The woman's hysterical roar echoed through the street.

It was already winter, and cold snowflakes were drifting down from the sky. A woman in thin clothes was holding a swaddled infant, kneeling helplessly on the road. She sobbed painfully as if she had exhausted all her strength. No matter how she screamed and trembled, the infant in the swaddle remained as motionless as a stone.

Many people had gathered around her. They were also dressed thinly, haggard and gaunt, coughing from time to time.

Their eyes were full of sympathy as they looked at the woman. Some immediately stepped forward to comfort her, trying to help her up, while others were ignited by these words with anger and resentment, pointing at the shattered glass and cursing:

"Cangyun Jun!! You son of a bitch!! Hurry up and send my son back from the Lingxu Domain!"

"There aren't enough hospital beds! Those medicines can't cure my mother's illness or mine! As the guardian god of the Cangyun Domain, can't you think of a way?!"

"What kind of bullshit Cangyun Jun, I think you're just like that dictator in the Lingxu Domain, birds of a feather!!"

"You're all Nine Lords, but you're not even worth a hair on the heads of Xuanyu Jun and Tian Shu Jun!!"

"Pah, don't put his name together with those two, it's an insult to the Nine Lords!"

“……”

Cangyun Jun didn't get up.

He just sat quietly in his chair, listening to the curses and cries outside the window, his bloodshot eyes slowly closing... Wisps of blood flowed from his palms; he didn't know when his fingernails had dug into his flesh.

At the same time, several figures hurried in from outside. Seeing the half-brick on the table and the glass shards all over the floor, their expressions were ugly.

"Quick, quick, seal the window!"

"You guys! Drive away the people making trouble below!"

“……”

While everyone was in a flurry, a figure in cyan walked in from outside. He looked at the scene in the room, and his gaze then turned to Cangyun Jun... After a long sigh, he took the initiative to step forward.

"...Mr. Qi, you..."

"I'm fine."

Cangyun Jun silently hid his hands in his sleeves and stood up from his seat. "I'm just... a bit tired."

Cangyun Jun kept his head down, his bloodshot eyes revealing deep exhaustion, as if he hadn't slept well in a long time. He refused the cyan figure's help and moved toward the office door alone.

The next second, his heart stopped suddenly, and he stumbled, nearly falling to the ground.

"Mr. Qi?" The cyan-clad person was quick-witted and caught him.

Cangyun Jun didn't speak. He just shook his head to indicate he was fine, then stepped out again.

He walked through the corridor of the Cangyun base, ignoring the gazes of the base staff coming and going, and walked down the stairs step by step. As he went deeper, fewer and fewer people passed by.

When he reached the deepest part of the Cangyun base, he was the only one left on this entire floor.

Only Cangyun Jun could enter here.

As he slowly pushed open a white door, a figure lying on a hospital bed, covered in various tubes, came into his view.