Chapter 1790: Newcomers "Assist"

*Hum*—

The roaring whistle echoed over Ruoshui Prison.

Billowing smoke rose from the train engines. Numerous figures were crowding onto the trains. On the spiderweb-like, intricate tracks, trains fully loaded with civilians were departing toward different realms.

Jing Si ran hurriedly onto the platform. The crowded masses almost filled the place. The noise, the commands, and the roaring whistles intertwined, leaving one feeling empty, as if the city that had held their entire lives was bidding them a grand and thunderous farewell.

Jing Si looked back toward a certain direction in Ruoshui Prison. In a daze, he seemed to see that aged figure standing alone by the window, watching the city gradually disappear...

"Mr. Jing Si, please get on the train." A figure from the Chengtian Prefecture approached. "The train to the Chengtian Realm is about to depart."

"...Yeah."

Jing Si withdrew his gaze and stepped into the carriage of the realm train.

Due to the special circumstances, the seats on the realm trains had all been removed. All passengers were crowded together like sardines in a packed can... Because of this, the number of people each train could transport had increased several times over.

Jing Si managed to squeeze on, his body moving uncontrollably within the crowd, and finally reached the window.

*Hum*—!!

The roaring whistle sounded again, and the train doors were closed.

Accompanied by a jarring shake and the uncontrollable leaning and squeezing of the crowd, the train moved slowly along the tracks...

The train pulled out of the station, and the city ruins in the distance slowly receded behind the window. Billowing smoke rose from the scarred streets. Under the earth-shaking tremors, this vast and prosperous realm was already teetering on the brink of collapse. Seeing this, the previously noisy crowd gradually quieted down...

Every person here could find the place where they once lived in the ruins before them. Those daily routines they were experiencing just yesterday had, in the blink of an eye, become a home they could never return to.

*Clack-clack*—*clack-clack*—

The train continued along the tracks. Due to the special nature of the trains and tracks, the disasters within the realm did not attack them. Jing Si witnessed one terrifying monster after another pass by outside the window, grinding their home into ruins.

"...Huh?"

"Is that... a person?"

Behind the train window, someone looked at a building in the distance and asked in confusion.

Jing Si followed his gaze and saw two figures speeding across the rooftops amidst the surging tide of disasters!

It was a boy carrying a drawing board and a youth flying through the air like a rocket. They weren't fleeing outside the prison, but were firing indiscriminately at the surrounding disasters as if seeking death, drawing the angry glares of the monsters, who then roared and charged toward them!

Looking behind them, more than a dozen massive disasters were crazily chasing them. From afar, it looked like a world-destroying disaster legion.

The youth laughed wildly while flying, leading the furious, mighty disaster horde straight into the depths of Ruoshui Prison!

*Whoosh*—

His and the boy's figures flashed past the train window.

In an instant, Jing Si and Li Shangfeng’s gazes briefly met... Inside and outside the window, silence and chaos, separated by a pane of glass, two different lives caught a glimpse of each other at this moment.

Jing Si stared at that grinning, laughing face, frozen on the spot.

It wasn't until Li Shangfeng and Lin Xi moved away outside the window and the mighty disasters swept past the train, shaking the earth, that Jing Si gradually came back to his senses...

Who were they?

The Ruoshui Realm was about to perish... Why were they moving toward the most dangerous place instead?

Even as the train moved away, Jing Si still stared blankly in that direction. Those two figures, who seemed to completely defy mainstream understanding, were destined to leave a deep mark in his mind.

He didn't know who those two were, and he wouldn't know that, a few days later, an organization called the Dusk Society would become world-famous.

……

"How about that! Am I smart or what?!!"

Li Shangfeng laughed while being chased by countless disasters. "In terms of strength, we really can't beat that group of guards, but we can outsmart them!"

"Where is the 'outsmarting' part?!!" Lin Xi tried his best to dodge the biting of the disasters behind him, unable to help but curse.

"You're just seeing whose life is tougher! You're a lunatic!!"

"Hahahahaha, stop pretending, kid. You say I'm a lunatic, but you've lured even more disasters than I have." Li Shangfeng looked toward the approaching inner wall guard tower, the madness in his eyes growing more intense.

"Hold on a little longer! We're almost at the inner wall! Let's... do another big one!"

"??? Another big one?!"

*Thump-thump-thump-thump*—

Meanwhile, at the inner wall guard tower.

Accompanied by violent earth tremors, the Ruoshui guards and Dusk Society members currently in the melee were simultaneously stunned, turning their heads to look in the direction the sound came from...

When they saw the mighty disaster horde currently surging toward the inner wall like an angry tide, their eyes widened in unison!

"What's the situation?!" The Queen of Diamonds was dumbfounded.

The Ruoshui guards were even more despairing. They were already at their limit, fighting off the Dusk Society while also fending off disasters... With so many more disasters arriving at once, they shouldn't be able to defend against it no matter what.

However...

Aren't there two people in front of that disaster horde?

At the same time, a resonant voice rang out from the front of the disaster tide!

"Greetings, seniors! Dusk Society's Nine of Hearts, leading the disaster army! Here to provide you all with some support!!"

Twilight Society members: ?????

"No way... is this guy sick in the head?!"

Jack of Diamonds, currently locked in a fierce battle with the garrison, widened his eyes. "Is he trying to kill us along with the garrison??"

"Is this what the '9' generation newcomers are like..." Spade 9, dressed in a black Chinese-style long gown, wore a strange expression. "He's actually a lunatic."

"Heh, I, for one, find it quite interesting..."

Heart J gripped his curved blade, his golden accessories jingling as he moved at high speed. He squinted at the massive, crashing army of Calamities, the corners of his mouth curling upward.

"What does this bit of Calamity amount to... Once the Calamities break through the inner wall, we can just wipe them all out in one go."

No sooner had Heart J finished speaking than Li Shangfeng let out a roar. His shoulders popped open, and countless missiles rained down like a storm toward the other nearby Calamities, the continuous explosions echoing through the sky!

Pairs of furious eyes opened within the rolling smoke and dust. Immediately, they glared toward this direction... The number of Calamities chasing Li Shangfeng suddenly doubled!

The smile on Heart J's face froze instantly.