Chapter 1612: Wait for Me

"It's not really hard work."

Yang Xiao waved his hand and joked, "I'm the strongest now, so I should take on the greatest responsibility... Perhaps, when you all become stronger than me in the future, I can easily slack off."

Lu Xun smiled, and the two continued to walk forward side by side.

Just then,

a weak voice suddenly rang in their minds.

The two stopped at the same time and looked at each other!

"...Director Chen?"

……

Wushan Town.

A beautiful figure was lying on the table, looking at the blank letter paper before her, but she didn't know how to start writing for a long time...

The candlelight by the table flickered silently, illuminating the elegant handwriting in the corner of the envelope:

——To Yao Qing.

Su Zhiwei picked up her pen repeatedly, only to put it down again, and finally let out a long sigh.

Just as she finally gathered the courage to write the first line, the same voice rang in her ears, and the tip of the pen she had just placed on the paper paused slightly.

……

"...Are you in such a hurry to start?"

In a simple hotel, Wen Ruoshui, who had just escaped death, looked at Wu Tongyuan, who was sitting seriously on the other side of the bed with paper and pen, and spoke somewhat helplessly.

"Yeah." Wu Tongyuan nodded heavily.

"If... if I could have helped Director Chen improve the probability of the missile accurately linking to the Gray Realm when we were in the Gray Realm, he wouldn't have needed to detonate so many nuclear weapons at once to gamble on the location of the door... Even if I could have helped him save one more nuclear weapon, Director Chen would have had one more chance to return!"

"In the end... it's still because I was too useless."

"So, I want to learn."

"Only by mastering the formulas of quantum mechanics can I construct a 'random field' and have the possibility of changing the probability of events!"

Looking at the firmness in Wu Tongyuan's eyes, Wen Ruoshui rubbed her tired eyes and sighed lightly:

"Alright then..."

The moment the voice rang in their minds, they were both stunned.

A flash of complexity crossed Wen Ruoshui's eyes.

……

"Tell me, when will Old Chu wake up?"

In the next room, Qi Muyun rolled up his sleeves, dipped a towel in a basin of hot water, wrung it out, and walked straight toward the dead, wood-like figure on the bed.

"Who knows." Ji Xuan lay weakly on the bed next door, biting into an apple. "But didn't Director Chen say? Give him time, he will definitely wake up."

Qi Muyun used the warm towel to wipe the bloodstains and dirt off Chu Changqing's body bit by bit, unable to help but complain:

"By the way, why did you let me bathe Old Chu? Why didn't those two next door come?"

Ji Xuan thought for a moment:

"Because you are the most loyal."

"...If you put it that way, that makes sense." Qi Muyun suppressed the smile on his lips, and while seriously wiping Chu Changqing's body, he asked boredly, "By the way, tell me... why did your future self insist on sending you to the Gray Realm?"

"My future self doing this must have his reasons." Ji Xuan answered without hesitation. "Perhaps he wanted me to grow rapidly under high pressure?"

"High pressure? You almost died."

"...I don't care, he must have his reasons."

"You trust him that much?"

"Nonsense, that's myself. Don't I know what I'm like?"

"But people change."

Ji Xuan gently lifted the half-eaten apple in his hand toward the incandescent lamp overhead. With his eyes narrowed, the shadow of the apple core looked like a sword...

"Others will change, I won't."

His tone was firm.

Qi Muyun turned his head to look at him and couldn't help but mutter:

"Chuunibyou."

Just then, both were stunned.

"Old Qi, did you hear that?"

"I heard it. It's Director Chen's voice."

The two looked at each other in silence.

"...What did he say to you?"

"It should be the same as you."

"How do you know we heard the same thing if you don't say it?"

"Nonsense, he must have said these two words to all of us at the same time... If you don't believe me, I'll count to three, and we'll say it together."

"Okay!"

"One, two..."

"Three!"

At this moment, the eight Nine Sovereigns of this world, either facing each other or facing the void in the distance, gently repeated the weak yet firm voice that Chen Ling had just echoed in their minds:

[Wait for me.]

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Bang—!!

With a cloud of blood mist exploding without warning, Wu Yi, who was crawling on the edge of the Cangyun Domain, woke up from its sleep with a start!

It took a full two seconds to react to what had happened...

The Great King had exploded on its back!!

At this moment, Wu Yi felt the sky falling. It searched frantically for the enemy who had ambushed the Great King, but no matter how deep it dug, it found nothing.

A few hours ago, Wu Yi had already arrived near the Cangyun Domain carrying Chen Ling, but the Great King seemed to have fallen into a deep sleep, so Wu Yi didn't disturb him and found a place nearby that looked like a cave to stay... But who could have thought that the Great King could explode on his own??

What kind of terrifying enemy could hurt the Great King like this from a distance?

But the good news was that the Great King didn't seem to be dead. A small half of his head and neck were still lying in the blood mud, tragic enough to be shocking.

After Wu Yi didn't find any enemies, it immediately looked toward the human domain not far away. It didn't know how to heal. Although there were venomous insects in the Ghost-Mocking Abyss that could, that place was too far away. If it turned back, the Great King would probably die before reaching the Ghost-Mocking Abyss... Right now, perhaps only that domain had someone who could heal the Great King!

Wu Yi hissed and charged toward the Cangyun Domain without hesitation.

Just then, Chen Ling on its back opened his eyes with difficulty, his turbid eyes trying hard to maintain a trace of clarity.

"Wu Yi... stop."

Chen Ling's voice was very faint, but Wu Yi heard it.

It immediately obeyed the order and stopped, looking back at Chen Ling on its back, emitting bursts of worried hisses.

"Your Great King... how could he die so easily..."

"Don't worry about me..."

"Drop me at the gate of that domain, and you go... go underground, don't cause panic in the domain."

Chen Ling finished the last word, and his consciousness blurred again, and he passed out directly.

Chen Ling had dodged half of Chao Zai's last strike. If the era archive had brought him back half a second later, he probably wouldn't even have his head left and would have turned into residue... But even so, Chen Ling's injuries were extremely severe.

If it weren't for the fact that Chao Zai's own physical fitness was extremely strong, coupled with the [Blood Garment] bonus, Chen Ling would have been dead even if he had returned. Now he was in a half-dead state, relying on the Blood Garment to repair his body bit by bit.

Although Wu Yi was a bit worried, this was the Great King's order after all. After nodding, it carried Chen Ling and approached the direction of the Cangyun Domain rapidly.