Chapter 1622: Pastoral Couple

Chen Ling was stunned.

"Birthday? When is it?"

"The, the day after tomorrow..." Kong Baosheng was a bit embarrassed. "But after Grandma died, I haven't celebrated my birthday anymore... Cake and such, it's just something I occasionally crave, it's not like I have to have it... Actually, bread is pretty good too, and I still have the canned luncheon meat Mr. Li brought me!"

Chen Ling didn't answer. He just looked quietly at those eyes wrapped in blood-stained bandages, remaining silent for a long time...

He patted Kong Baosheng on the shoulder:

"I understand."

……

Cangyun Domain.

Northern edge.

This was the most remote place in the entire Cangyun Domain, where human habitation was almost invisible. If viewed from the air, one could see fields of brightly colored flowers surrounding a small wooden house, as if forming some kind of obscuring formation that made it difficult for people to approach.

Flowers of all colors bloomed in every corner of this pastoral land. As the breeze blew, a strange fragrance wafted into the air. Even the residents or the city defense teams in the Cangyun Domain hadn't noticed that such a place existed here... This was an undiscovered flower-sea utopia, a quiet, undisturbed Peach Blossom Spring.

At this moment, a girl with golden hair was darting through the flower fields like an elf. She held a mysterious slip of paper in her hand and waved toward the wooden house:

"Honey! Honey!!"

"Lord Red King has issued a mission to us!!"

At the entrance of the wooden house, a young man with willow-green hair was weaving something with branches. Hearing the girl's shout, his whole body trembled... and then he stood up excitedly.

"Really?"

"It's true!"

"That's great, we haven't received a proper mission in almost a year, have we?"

"Yeah... who told us that neither of us has any combat ability? For those dangerous missions, the role we can play is too limited." The girl stuffed the paper into the young man's hand and said expectantly, "Quick, let's see what Lord Red King needs us to do?"

The young man took a deep breath and began to unfold the paper in his hand bit by bit. Just as he was about to see the content clearly... the blonde girl beside him immediately leaned her head over.

"Hey, honey, you're blocking me."

"Ah? Sorry, sorry..."

"What does it say?"

"Uh..." The girl scratched her head and looked at the young man blankly. "Honey, do you know how to make a cake?"

Young man: ?

……

When Li Qingshan dragged his weary body back to the theater, it was already evening.

As soon as he pushed the door open, he saw a figure draped in a theatrical robe with a red base and black patterns, sitting alone at a square table drinking tea.

"Your work at the Tongtian Star Position must be quite busy." Chen Ling raised his eyebrows slightly upon seeing the weariness on his face. "Let me guess... you went to track down the Turbid Calamity?"

Hearing this, Li Qingshan was taken aback. He walked to the table in surprise:

"Brother Chen, how did you know?"

"I can sense that the Turbid Calamity is in the Cangyun Domain, so that Cang Yun-jun can naturally sense it too." Chen Ling poured a cup of tea for Li Qingshan at a leisurely pace. "You're working for him now, aren't you?"

"Yes."

Li Qingshan did not deny it.

"How is he doing now?"

"...Very painful." Li Qingshan was silent for a long time. "More painful than anyone else."

In Chen Ling's mind, the image of Qi Muyun from the era archives immediately surfaced, and combined with the cruel situation in the current Cangyun Domain, he sighed silently in his heart...

Chen Ling knew Qi Muyun's personality and understood the current situation in the Cangyun Domain. He could actually imagine the pressure Qi Muyun was facing now. Looking back at the nine major domains of humanity over the past three hundred years, among the Nine Lords, there was probably no one more tormented and struggling than him right now.

It's just that he didn't know if the Qi Muyun of this era was the same as the Qi Muyun in Chen Ling's memory.

"Does he know I'm here?" Chen Ling asked again.

"He knows, I told him."

"What did he say?"

"He said it's not time to see you yet..." Li Qingshan shook his head bitterly. "Actually, I can't see through what he's thinking either. Sometimes he seems easy to understand, and sometimes... he feels unfathomable."

Chen Ling's eyes narrowed, and he suddenly thought of something:

"He's still drinking the blood of the Nanhai-jun, isn't he?"

"I don't know, but he probably is."

Chen Ling nodded, lost in thought.

"Anyway, the Turbid Calamity is really hard to find." Li Qingshan couldn't help but pour his heart out. "Today, Mr. Qi roughly calculated its trajectory, and then I took people to look for it all day, but we still found nothing... I'm starting to doubt if it's really in the Cangyun Domain."

"It is."

Chen Ling said firmly. "It is definitely in the Cangyun Domain, and it is very weak."

"Brother Chen, do you have a way to find it?" Seeing Chen Ling so firm, and having pointed out the fact that the Turbid Calamity was in the Cangyun Domain, Li Qingshan's eyes lit up as he looked at him.

"I'm just more sensitive to its aura." Chen Ling thought for a moment.

"I can take some time to help you narrow down its range, but that's all I can do... How to surround and suppress it, and how to deal with the Turbid Calamity, that is Cang Yun-jun's business."

After all, this was Cang Yun-jun's territory. For him, a Red King of the Dusk Agency who was shouted at by everyone to be killed, to be willing to help was already quite good. This was still out of his trust in Qi Muyun... He had no obligation to help a Cang Yun-jun he wasn't familiar with in this era, in the other party's territory, to kill a world-destroying calamity.

A lean camel is bigger than a horse; even a severely injured and weak Turbid Calamity wasn't something just anyone could handle... Furthermore, Chen Ling had his own things to do.

"That's enough." Li Qingshan was naturally very happy to hear that Chen Ling was willing to help.

Chen Ling changed the subject:

"However... I might need you to do me a favor as well."

"Brother Chen, just say it. Given our friendship, no matter what it is, I won't refuse." Li Qingshan said earnestly.

Chen Ling gave a hum, turned, took a script from the drawer of the cabinet, and placed it in front of Li Qingshan.

"Since leaving the Red Dust, I haven't performed much..."

"How about we perform a piece together the day after tomorrow?"

Seeing the script in front of him, Li Qingshan was stunned.

He certainly knew whose hand this script came from. In fact, when Chen Ling first arrived in the Cangyun Domain, Li Qingshan had the same idea as Chen Ling... But they hadn't seen each other for a long time, and Li Qingshan couldn't tell if Chen Ling was willing to perform this play, so he never brought it up.

But now, as Chen Ling took the initiative to place the script in front of him, Li Qingshan knew that Chen Ling was still the same Chen Ling he had known back in the Red Dust Domain.

He looked into Chen Ling's eyes, and the smile on his face became even brighter:

"Brother Chen..."

"It would be my absolute honor!!"