Chapter 1579: Meeting the [Letter-Bearer] Again

Familiar.

Too familiar!

Ever since his contact with Mo Yao, Chen Ling had developed a reflexive sensitivity to "letters." Moreover, the last time Chen Ling received a letter, it was also while he was having hotpot with the Red Dust Lord and the others...

But a doubt immediately flashed through Chen Ling's mind.

That shouldn't be right... In this current era, the Great Cataclysm hasn't even passed yet, and Mo Yao hasn't even been born. How could he possibly send a letter to himself? Could it be that there is a [Letter-Bearer] in the modern era too?

Impossible. In an age where information technology has reached its peak, a traditional [Letter-Bearer] simply couldn't be born. Furthermore, even if there were a [Letter-Bearer] in this era, he had never interacted with him or the Nine Lords, so why would he send a letter to him?

Could it be...

Chen Ling immediately spoke up: "Give me the letter."

Qi Muyun handed the letter to Chen Ling. The moment the latter's fingertips touched the paper, his heart skipped a beat...

The familiar material, the familiar texture.

When his gaze landed on the corner of the envelope, a line of familiar small characters confirmed his suspicions:

"To be opened by the Sixth Generation Red King."

"Mo Yao's handwriting... how is this possible?" Chen Ling muttered to himself.

"What handwriting?" Qi Muyun, standing nearby, looked bewildered. "Director Chen, do you know where this letter came from?"

"...Yeah."

Under the reflection of the orange stove fire, Chen Ling's red eyes emitted a deep, faint glow. "This letter comes from the future."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone present was stunned.

Chen Ling tore open the envelope. Almost simultaneously, a sense of urgency and danger rushed toward him—it was the emotion the Letter-Bearer had infused into the words while writing. The few scribbled characters made Chen Ling's pupils shrink instantly!

—"FIND JI XUAN!!!"

Chen Ling stood up abruptly from his seat!

This sudden movement startled the others, who were still immersed in the leisurely atmosphere of eating noodles. They looked blankly at Chen Ling, whose expression had changed drastically, feeling as if the surrounding temperature had plummeted along with his gaze!

"Director Chen, what happened??" Yang Xiao was the first to realize the gravity of the situation and asked immediately.

"Ji Xuan!!"

Chen Ling's figure turned into a streak of lightning, charging straight toward the quiet tent in the distance.

Seeing this, the others couldn't continue eating either; they stood up one after another and ran after Chen Ling toward the tent!

But when they pulled back the tent curtain, the entire tent was empty... The bed where the unconscious Ji Xuan had been lying was now vacant, with only a hat tied with a red silk ribbon lying quietly on the ground.

"Where is Ji Xuan?"

"That shouldn't be... We weren't far away. If he had gone out, we should have seen him."

"Could it be that he awakened his ability and teleported away, just like his future self?"

The group couldn't figure out how Ji Xuan had vanished like a magic trick in such an enclosed environment...

Chen Ling's gaze swept across the entire tent and finally landed on the overturned hat.

He frowned, walked over, and picked up the hat.

He remembered very clearly that when Lord Xuanyu left this hat, the ribbon on it was blue... Could Ji Xuan's disappearance be related to the color change of this hat?

Although he didn't know how the Mo Yao of this world managed to send a letter across time, the fact that he had delivered it to his current self meant that the current situation would significantly influence the future... He had to find the missing Ji Xuan!

Chen Ling held the hat in his hand, examining it carefully for a long time, but couldn't find any clues.

After a moment of hesitation, he said to the others behind him:

"Step back."

The several Nine Lords who had yet to fully grow took a step back in unison.

After that, Chen Ling gripped the top of the hat with his five fingers and slowly placed it on his own head...

The moment the hat settled on his head,

Chen Ling's figure vanished into thin air!

……

When Chen Ling opened his eyes again, he was stunned where he stood.

Lead-gray clouds, a desolate black earth, the occasional screech of monsters in the distance... At this moment, Chen Ling subconsciously thought he had exited the Era Archive and returned to the Gray Realm, but he quickly realized something was wrong.

If he had exited the Era Archive, why wasn't Wu Yi there?

And no matter how powerful that hat was, it shouldn't be able to kick him out of the Era Archive and back to the real world, right?

"Is this... the Gray Realm of this world?"

A flash of astonishment crossed Chen Ling's eyes.

You have to realize, at this point in time, the Gray Realm and Earth had not yet experienced a large-scale intersection. They were like two eggs placed very close together; although they occasionally collided, they were fundamentally not connected... Yet, after putting on that hat, he had actually crossed the barrier of worlds and arrived in the Gray Realm??

That hat, besides being able to store Red Star Willpower, could actually traverse space and teleport to the Gray Realm?!

Where on earth did Lord Xuanyu get this thing?

Chen Ling subconsciously raised his hand to touch his head, but he didn't feel the hat... If Chen Ling guessed correctly, the hat could only send people to the Gray Realm and then remained in the tent.

In other words...

It could only send people over, but couldn't send them back?

Chen Ling could be certain that Ji Xuan had been teleported to the Gray Realm because he put on that hat, which was why he went missing... But the Gray Realm of this era was at its most rampant, with the highest number of disasters. For a human to fall here, it was almost certain death!

No wonder the future Mo Yao had to send him a letter to save him immediately. If Chen Ling didn't save him in time, the human Nine Lords would lose another member.

But...

Why would Lord Xuanyu do this?

Since he didn't want to kill himself directly like Lou Yu did, why send the past Ji Xuan to the Gray Realm, a place of certain death?

You must know that although Lord Wuji killed Lou Yu, they were not from the same world. Even if he killed the Lou Yu of this world, Lord Wuji wouldn't die immediately... But the Ji Xuan here and Lord Xuanyu were from the same era. If he killed his past self, Lord Xuanyu himself would disappear immediately.

Chen Ling's mind was in chaos. He found that he couldn't understand Lord Xuanyu's thoughts at all. Although he seemed to have assembled the Nine Lords clearly, their future selves seemed to have deviated from the trajectory he had set for them...

He didn't know if it was his imagination, but he always felt that in the future of this world, there was an invisible hand laying out some kind of plan.

"Damn it, where did that guy Ji Xuan go?"

Chen Ling's gaze swept across the surroundings, trying to find Ji Xuan's whereabouts. He could see a few human footprints on the ground nearby—they were indeed Ji Xuan's... However, the traces of large-scale disasters crawling over them had completely trampled those footprints, making it impossible to tell where he had gone.