Chapter 1772: Old?

The glow of dawn slowly brightened from the edge of the horizon.

This domain, which had experienced a nightmarish long night, finally returned to its usual calm. Sleepy workers complained while putting on their clothes to go to work; school bells rang on time, and students who were still excitedly discussing last night’s battle walked reluctantly toward their classrooms; the first domain train started slowly with a roar, traveling along the immovable tracks toward other human domains, fully loaded with supplies and passengers, and also carrying the news of the world-destroying attack...

In the ruins of a maintenance factory that no one noticed, a red-clothed figure stepped onto the earth silently, like a ghost emerging from a wall.

Behind him, a boy in a black vest also stumbled out of the wall.

"Just like that..."

"Escaped?"

Li Laide looked around, watching the calm Chengtian Domain in the early morning, still feeling somewhat dazed... Everything from last night felt like a nightmare, and for a moment, he couldn't tell what was real.

Li Laide had thought he would never be able to leave the Black Tortoise Avenue again. He hadn't expected that the world-destroying starry fist would suddenly turn into endless petals. The moment the petals obscured his vision, a hand grabbed his collar from behind...

And then, he traveled through the chaotic streets from a bizarre perspective, as if he had become a shadow on the wall.

Li Laide immediately looked to his side.

Chen Ling, wearing his opera robe, brushed the dust off his hem calmly. The cracks on his skin were healing at a speed visible to the naked eye, retreating into the mark between his eyebrows.

Looking at this calm, peaceful, delicate, and mysterious red-clothed actor, Li Laide found it hard to connect him with the Calamity of Mockery who had overturned the Chengtian Domain last night...

"Is he..."

"Really old?"

Chen Ling looked toward the palace and muttered to himself.

Chen Ling had a clear understanding of the strength he could exert. Below the demigod level, no one in the world was his match. If he faced a demigod-level enemy, he could open a corner of the seal and use the Red Star Wish Power to have the strength to fight...

But Ying Fu was no ordinary demigod. He ruled the entire dynasty and had more than one demigod-level combatant under his command, so he could also rule multiple demigod paths... If such a person went all out, suppressing a world-destroying calamity one-on-one would not be difficult.

Precisely because of this, Chen Ling wouldn't be stupid enough to go head-to-head with Ying Fu right now. His goal was only to destroy the Taishi Bureau, so he only mobilized the Red Star Wish Power to have a brief exchange with Ying Fu before taking Li Laide and retreating.

However, it was this brief exchange that made Chen Ling vaguely sense that Ying Fu’s state might really not be optimistic... His starry fist strike last night seemed imposing, but it was still quite a bit short of the strength Chen Ling had expected from Ying Fu.

But Ying Fu was calculating and cunning; perhaps this was just a trap to show weakness to the enemy.

Regardless, Chen Ling didn't intend to fight Ying Fu now. If Ying Fu’s days were truly numbered, then waiting quietly for him to die of old age was undoubtedly the safest choice.

Chen Ling raised his hand and tore at his cheek, his figure turning into Lin Yan, wearing a brown coat, extremely low-key.

"Are we... not running?"

Li Laide held it in for a long time before asking.

You have to know, they had turned the Chengtian Domain upside down last night, and now that they had just escaped from the Emperor’s hands, they were still standing here like nothing had happened?

Shouldn't they run away immediately, as far away from the Chengtian Domain and the Emperor as possible?

Chen Ling glanced at him. "No one can recognize me... Why should I run?"

"..." Li Laide’s mouth twitched slightly.

"Then... what about me?"

"What does that have to do with me?"

“？？？”

Li Laide was speechless for a moment, unable to say a single word.

But fortunately, Chen Ling had made such a big scene last night that no one on the Black Tortoise Avenue paid any attention to him, and everyone who had seen him at the Taishi Bureau was dead, and besides...

Li Laide looked at Chen Ling resentfully, silently raised his hand and wiped his face, and his features instantly turned into someone else’s.

It was a good thing he was smart and had a backup plan.

When he was at the Taishi Bureau, Li Laide had thought about how to escape, and he had secretly stolen the "faces" of several corpses for backup... He hadn't expected it to come in handy now.

Seeing this, a faint, imperceptible smile curled at the corner of Chen Ling’s mouth.

He seemed to have discovered something and turned to look outside the factory ruins. In the golden glow of early morning, Li Shangfeng, covered in wounds, was carrying a girl with a cast on her leg, walking toward here step by step.

"Li Shangfeng! You big idiot!"

"Who told you to leave me alone and turn around and run away!!!"

"Do you know how scared I was there by myself?!"

"I hate you, I hate you, I hate you, I hate you..."

The girl’s hands hammered on Li Shangfeng’s back like hammers, and bird-like chirping sprayed from her mouth like flowing water. Li Lanhua seemed extremely angry, her little face flushed red.

Li Shangfeng just chuckled, letting his sister beat his back, and continued to walk home steadily.

Li Laide also watched this scene in the ruins and was about to say something to Chen Ling, but the latter spoke first:

"Clean up."

"We’ve been busy all night, let’s have a meal together in a while..."

"By the way, throw away those dirty things... it’s bad luck to carry them on you."

After saying that, he took the initiative to walk toward Li Shangfeng and his sister.

Li Laide was stunned for a moment, as if he had remembered something, and looked down at his right hand...

A bloody heart had stopped beating.

It was Brand’s heart.

Li Laide looked at it with disgust, threw it into a trash can nearby, and took off the blood-stained vest, wearing only a clean white shirt with beautiful ruffles, looking bright and elegant in the sunlight.

He followed behind Chen Ling and walked out.

……

Grey World.

A domain train was traveling rapidly across the barren land.

This domain train seemed to be an express train from the Chengtian Domain, and there was only one passenger on it... Lord Chong sat by the window, looking at the Grey World land flying by outside, feeling uneasy for some reason.

He reached into his arms, took out the Emperor’s handwritten secret letter, and opened it slowly...

Four small characters caught Lord Chong’s eyes.

——【South Sea Prison】.

That night, Eunuch Zuo found him with this secret letter and said nothing, just giving him an express ticket to the South Sea Prison at the same time... Lord Chong still remembered the look Eunuch Zuo gave him.

It was an extremely complex look. Lord Chong couldn't say what he was thinking, but combined with his own identity, the four characters on this secret letter, and the recent rumors about His Majesty’s condition...

A bold idea naturally appeared in his mind.