Chapter 483: Storm

Rustle—

The rice fields under the night sky made a soft sound in the wind. In the ink-black world, only two beams of headlights cut through the silence like swords.

Through the rearview mirror, Yang Xiao witnessed the entire process of Chen Ling changing his face. He saw the familiar face in the dim light, and his heartbeat seemed to skip a beat!

"...Is it you?" Yang Xiao tightened his seat belt involuntarily, his brows locked. "What do you want to do?"

"Dr. Yang Xiao, I have no malice."

Chen Ling's gaze met Yang Xiao's through the rearview mirror. "I'm here to protect you."

"Protect me?"

Yang Xiao was stunned. He instinctively recalled the scene in Shennongjia where Chen Ling saved him from numerous disasters, and the tension he had felt just moments ago gradually relaxed... Just as Lu Xun said, Chen Ling had no malice toward him; otherwise, they would have died hundreds of times over in Shennongjia.

"Protect me from what? Those monsters in Shennongjia?"

"No, what's more terrifying than disasters is the human heart."

Chen Ling unbuckled his seat belt and rolled down the window. The cool night wind blew into the car, ruffling his hair... He looked at the ink-black night outside the car and spoke slowly, "Dr. Yang Xiao, do you believe that science will regress?"

"Science regress? How can science regress?"

"To be precise, it's human material civilization. After long years of accumulation, the tower of material civilization that humans have built grain by grain like sand will collapse from a certain day. The era will uncontrollably regress, and disasters will follow."

Chen Ling sat in the car, in the wind blowing through the window, calmly and briefly narrating everything,

including the world war, the arrival of the Gray Realm, humanity on the verge of extinction, the birth of the nine realms, the legend of the Nine Sovereigns, and the fourteen God Paths... By the time he finished narrating everything, the time had jumped to the early morning, and the world was so quiet that only the hum of the car engine remained.

Yang Xiao was stunned for a long time and shook his head: "This is too sci-fi... No, too magical."

"But it really happened. I think you have already felt some changes in yourself... haven't you? That extra knowledge in your mind, your sensing of the magnetic field itself, and that absolute authority that is gradually emerging..."

Chen Ling raised his hand and pointed to his head. "You are already becoming the Aurora Sovereign step by step."

Yang Xiao was stunned.

Indeed, ever since he woke up from his coma, things had been constantly emerging in his mind. He originally thought it was perhaps because he was too tired, but his body's reactions wouldn't lie... He could sense something else in the void of the air, though he hadn't realized what he was sensing at the time. After Chen Ling's reminder, he woke up as if from a dream!

Magnetic field... could he actually sense the magnetic field faintly?!

"If you still don't believe me, I can prove it to you..." Chen Ling took out his flip phone from his pocket and said calmly,

"Are you ready to witness the storm?"

Storm?

Yang Xiao didn't understand what Chen Ling meant, but when Chen Ling pressed the "dial" button, a sudden change occurred!

The electromagnetic signals dispersed in the air seemed to be guided at this moment, approaching the direction of this business car simultaneously. In the blink of an eye, they crossed space, surging like overwhelming fine sand over this rice field!

The flip phone in Chen Ling's hand was like a core stirring everything. Endless electromagnetic signals began to surge, like a giant tornado over the desert, beginning to descend toward the business car bit by bit, like a pure electromagnetic "dragon sucking water"!

Yang Xiao's pupils contracted suddenly. Now he could feel the existence of these electromagnetic signals. The originally calm sea surface seemed to be controlled by Chen Ling, crazily gathering here. In his pupils, he could see endless information wrapping around the business car, and their location was the "eye of the storm"!

Ding—ding—ding—

The city lights in the distance went out one by one, as if swept by the aftermath of this storm, directly cutting off all communication signals and electricity. Everything in sight fell into darkness...

Only around the business car, the roar was like a storm and thunder!

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【……】

Countless messages and electrical signals swept through the storm, completely submerging everything around. Yang Xiao looked at all this in shock and astonishment, grabbing the door handle tightly, as if afraid of being swept away by this terrifying storm!

This was a storm of "void," a storm that only Chen Ling and Yang Xiao could "see" in the world!

This storm lasted for dozens of seconds. When Chen Ling pressed the "hang up" button, the surrounding information instantly disappeared, and the electromagnetic turbulence sweeping around the business car gradually dissipated, returning to its normal trajectory.

Yang Xiao grabbed the handle on the car tightly, and finally relaxed. He lay weakly on the back seat, and through the window, he could see the city lights in the distance lighting up again, bit by bit illuminating the night sky in the distance...

After a long time, he finally calmed down and said hoarsely:

"Why... did you choose me?"

"Because I have seen you in another era, and you are trustworthy." Chen Ling replied calmly. "Of course, you can also pretend that nothing happened, ignore the growing power in your body, continue to return to your laboratory, study the science that will not exist in the near future alone, and quietly wait for the end of the world...

Or, explore the secrets within with me. Perhaps one day, we can reverse the era with our own hands and avoid the tragedy."

Yang Xiao leaned on the back seat, his eyes full of fatigue and complexity. He turned his head slightly to look out the window, where the city lights were like distant torches of civilization, silently lighting up the long night.

The red meteor streaking across the sky, the mysterious world brushing past the Earth, and the bizarre monsters appearing in the depths of Shennongjia... This world was no longer the one he knew, and he was no longer the ordinary Dr. Yang Xiao. Even if he covered his hands and immersed himself back in that isolated laboratory, pretending that nothing had happened, it would just be self-deception.

"Knowledge is power."

Yang Xiao's eyes reflected the city lights, and he said slowly,

"If the knowledge I have studied all my life can make a small contribution to humanity... then I have no regrets."

Hearing this, Chen Ling was stunned. In his mind, the figure in white within the shattered Aurora City immediately appeared... the Aurora Sovereign who supported his broken body, fought the Forbidden Sea alone, and turned everything into eternal aurora.

He looked at Yang Xiao through the rearview mirror. That familiar face perfectly overlapped with the Aurora Sovereign's face, and his expression became somewhat complex...

After a long silence, Chen Ling turned to the back seat and reached out a hand:

"Welcome to the team, Dr. Yang Xiao."