Chapter 1608: The Desperate Si Zai

The Nine Sovereigns refused to participate in the war and even indiscriminately banished the nuclear weapons of all countries. When these words were spoken, Lu Xun knew they had been completely excluded from the system. To put it more deeply, they could no longer be considered part of this country.

But Lu Xun had long thought of this outcome; it was even one of the best outcomes he had envisioned...

After all, Chen Ling had said:

The Nine Sovereigns are the Nine Sovereigns of humanity.

After everyone had left the conference room, Lu Xun slowly walked out. Standing in the empty corridor, looking at the stars filling the sky, an indescribable sense of frustration and self-reproach welled up in his heart.

He took a deep breath and dialed Yang Xiao's number.

"Hello? Old Lu! How did it go?? Did you find a way to rescue Director Chen?"

As soon as the call connected, Yang Xiao's nervous voice rang out. The other Nine Sovereigns were also gathered around, holding their breath, waiting for Lu Xun's reply.

Lu Xun was silent for a long time before slowly opening his chapped lips:

"We... cannot save him."

The other end of the phone fell into a deathly silence.

The simple six words shattered the fantasies of the Nine Sovereigns, who had yet to fully mature. They stared blankly at the glowing phone screen, and it was a long time before they came to their senses...

A sense of self-reproach and powerlessness, identical to Lu Xun's, welled up in their hearts.

Thud—!

Qi Muyun punched the ground in frustration:

"Damn it!!!"

Wu Tongyuan and Wen Ruoshui both hung their heads, the scene of Chen Ling charging toward Chao Zai at the end still playing in their minds... Ji Xuan had also woken up by now. He sat there like a statue, opening his mouth to say something, but nothing came out.

On the other side of the phone signal, Su Zhiwei's voice was also somewhat hoarse:

"Then... is there anything else we can do for Director Chen?"

Lu Xun was silent for a moment.

He looked up at the silently flickering stars and said softly:

"Pray for him..."

"I hope Director Chen can... carve out a path to survival in that hellish world."

……

"Click, click, click, click, click, click—!!!"

The beastly black shadow stood up, laughing wildly. Its left hand held a severed centipede limb, and its right hand clutched a blood-dripping snake head. It suddenly opened its gaping maw and shoved all the food in both hands directly into its mouth, then chewed frantically.

By now, its feet were piled high with the remains of various venomous insects, like a small mountain, and the smell of blood permeated the entire abyss.

It wasn't until it had eaten hundreds of venomous insects that it let out a slight burp...

Then it patted its stomach with satisfaction.

It looked around; apart from the small calamities that hadn't escaped and were still shivering in place waiting for death, there was no sign of Chao Zai.

But it didn't matter. Now, it would be the new king of this Ghost-Mocking Abyss. The Chao Zai of this world would ultimately only be its defeated subordinate, skulking and struggling to survive in the Gray Realm.

After eating its fill, a brutal light flickered in the beastly calamity's eyes once more, and it walked down the mountain of corpses with a hideous grin...

As it stretched its muscles and bones, its whole body emitting cracking, explosive sounds, it tilted its head to think for a moment before stomping hard on the ground, rushing out of the Ghost-Mocking Abyss, and flying toward the Forbidden Sea!

Every Chao Zai personality had its own preferences and habits.

The Chao Zai of this world, besides liking to toy with others, loved to study dresses and then force its "toys" to wear them... But the beastly Chao Zai before us didn't have these human perversions. It only pursued two things.

Filling its stomach;

And... slaughtering the strong.

The calamities of the Ghost-Mocking Abyss were too weak, so weak that the beastly Chao Zai only treated them as food. Now that it had eaten and drunk its fill, it was time to satisfy the brutality in its heart. Since it didn't know where the Chao Zai of this world was hiding, it would go find other strong beings.

However, just as the beastly Chao Zai was flying along with a hideous grin, it suddenly seemed to sense something...

It stopped in the void.

Its beastly scarlet eyes locked directly onto the void to one side.

"Click, click, click, click..."

It felt it.

It didn't need to go find those world-destroyers itself... There was one world-destroyer that seemed to have been secretly following it all along.

The moment those eyes looked at Si Zai, alarm bells rang in Si Zai's heart. It had only left a thought on this Chao Zai to monitor it at all times; it never expected the beastly Chao Zai's intuition to be so sensitive that it could directly sense its presence.

Si Zai wanted to withdraw its thoughts from the beastly Chao Zai's body without hesitation, but as the beastly Chao Zai let out a hideous grin, the Power of Negation was activated again!

Si Zai, which had already escaped to the Storm Island in an instant, was forcibly dragged back to the beastly Chao Zai's side. What made Si Zai's scalp tingle the most was that the opponent had actually activated a "Thought Storm" identical to its own!!

In this era where all world-destroyers avoided Chao Zai, Si Zai was the only one who dared to approach or even monitor it. After all, it was just a thought, without a physical form, and extremely difficult to kill... And as far as it knew, Chao Zai didn't have the ability to erase it on a conceptual level, which was why it dared to be so bold.

But it never expected that at this moment, the beastly Chao Zai would also use a Thought Storm to forcibly drag its thoughts in!

This meant...

It really could die at the hands of this Chao Zai!

At this moment, Si Zai's wariness of the beastly Chao Zai before it soared infinitely, to the point where it could even be called fear... When a Chao Zai that was already ridiculously powerful also possessed the same power as itself, it would be easier for it to kill itself than to kill any other world-destroyer.

To be honest, when that strange Chao Zai personality had a remote conversation with Si Zai in the audience, Si Zai hadn't taken his words to heart... After all, so what if Chao Zai lost control? So what if it turned the Gray Realm upside down?

It was a calamity without dependents and without a physical form; even the Storm Island was composed of thoughts. Even if Chao Zai killed all the other world-destroyers, it might not be able to kill it... It had no intention of following Chen Ling's instructions to insert that so-called script after ten minutes.

If this script was really a good thing that could stop the Chao Zai personality, then why should it listen to Chen Ling? It could insert it whenever it wanted; it could even use Chao Zai to eliminate other world-destroyers before inserting it. To it, this was completely a controller!

But now it realized it was wrong... If it didn't do as Chen Ling said, the first world-destroying calamity to die would definitely be itself!

Chen Ling hadn't given it a chance to play tricks from the very beginning!

Seeing the beastly Chao Zai's eyes, filled with mockery and brutality, Si Zai knew it couldn't escape. It could only bite the bullet, forcibly swirl all its thoughts, and charge into Chao Zai's mind, approaching that theater...