Chapter 627: Above Dimensions

Chen Ling suddenly realized that he had fallen into a logical trap before.

He subconsciously assumed that the Red Dust Base was the core of the Red Dust Domain, the most important place that could not be lost... just like the Aurora Base was to the Aurora Domain.

But at this moment, Chen Ling realized he was wrong...

For the Red Dust Lord, Su Zhiwei, the most important thing was not the Red Dust Base, but the "Red Dust Domain" itself. That was why she hid the entire domain in a high-dimensional world, hidden on a small flower that no one cared about.

If this was the case, Su Zhiwei couldn't be hiding in the Red Dust Domain... On the contrary, she needed to be in a lower dimension than the Red Dust Domain, more "vast" than the domain. Her position could only be... the Gray Realm.

It was the Red Dust Lord protecting the Red Dust Domain... not the Red Dust Domain hiding the Red Dust Lord.

At this moment, most of the clues connected in his mind. So the Red Dust Base itself was not in Willow Town; perhaps Willow Town was just a passage connecting the "low dimension" and the "high dimension"? Then the mountain forest where he was found by Li Qingshan, strictly speaking, was actually the exit of the Floating Life Painting’s exclusive "employee" passage...

Then what about the road that he and the other Dusk Agency members took? A back door?

And the reason the Red Dust Lord chose Willow Town, perhaps it was because of the "Red Dust" painting that Yao Qing gave her back then? No, perhaps the entire Willow Town was built according to the "Red Dust" painting?

Just as Chen Ling was shocked by this, Yang Muquan moved again.

Yang Muquan stood in the white flower field and stomped his foot on the ground. A corner of a huge scroll extended from the distance to their feet, wrapped around their figures, and then quickly retracted, eventually shrinking into a gray leaf, adorning the small flower that carried the Red Dust Domain.

A breeze blew across the white flower field, and the figures of the two were nowhere to be seen. Only the most inconspicuous little flower swayed silently in the wind.

……

Meanwhile.

Three figures swept out of Red Dust Main City one after another and arrived around Willow Town.

"Where is this place? It looks so desolate." Jian Changsheng looked at the quiet town with white walls and gray tiles and asked in confusion.

The Jack of Clubs and the Nine of Hearts looked at each other and tacitly didn't respond. They didn't even know the way back to the Opera House, so how could they recognize a nameless town outside Red Dust Main City?

"There are hundreds of towns like this around Red Dust Main City, the names don't matter."

The Jack of Clubs pointed to a mountain forest in the distance,

"They went that way."

"Walk faster, don't lose them."

The three set off again, approaching the mountain forest rapidly. Because Yang Muquan was with Chen Ling, the three of them didn't dare to follow too closely and could only trail far behind. Fortunately, the Jack of Clubs’ dove had left a mark on Chen Ling, so as long as the distance wasn't extremely far, the Jack of Clubs could locate Chen Ling’s position.

The three landed in the dense mountain forest one after another. The Nine of Hearts scanned the surroundings and was about to say something when the Jack of Clubs’ brow suddenly furrowed.

"Strange..."

"What's wrong?"

"The mark disappeared here."

The Jack of Clubs scanned the surroundings, followed the last position of the mark in his mind, and came to a tree, but didn't find anything unusual, and couldn't see the figures of Chen Ling and the other at all.

"The mark disappeared?" Jian Changsheng’s mouth formed an "O" shape, and he boldly guessed, "That spotted dog wouldn't have slaughtered Heart of Hearts 6 here, would he? I was wondering why he didn't go to the Red Dust Base but brought people to this wilderness... This place is perfect for murder and body disposal!"

"...Even if a person dies, the mark should remain, allowing us to find his corpse."

"That's true, that guy isn't that easy to kill... If he really was slaughtered, the Red Dust Domain isn't far from death either."

"Then where could they have gone?"

The Nine of Hearts squatted down and pondered carefully in front of the pile of fallen leaves on the ground, "The footprints disappeared into thin air here... Could they have been teleported away by some means?"

"Very likely, only teleportation could instantly move them out of the range where the mark takes effect."

"But now that the mark is gone, how are we going to find the Red Dust Base?"

Just as the three were frowning and thinking hard, a white dove with blood-colored patterns on its body flapped its wings and flew down from a tree, flickered gently in the Jack of Clubs’ hand, and turned back into a piece of stationery.

On the front of the stationery was the "Need support?" that the Jack of Clubs had left earlier. Below it was the four-character answer written by Chen Ling in blood:

——【Everything is under control】.

"Everything is under control?" Jian Changsheng clicked his tongue, "Control what... Now that the mark is gone, even if he infiltrates the Red Dust Base, we can't locate him! He’s imprisoned, and we can't go to save him. Isn't this just pure suicide... I didn't expect Heart of Hearts 6 to have a day where he plays himself into a corner."

The Jack of Clubs pondered for a moment, then suddenly seemed to have discovered something and flipped the stationery in his hand over...

A second line of small blood-colored characters appeared before everyone:

——【If there is an accident, find Liu Qingyan】.

……

Chen Ling opened his eyes again, his feet already stepping on solid ground.

At this moment, he had broken free from the comic frame. Beneath his feet were large, smooth marble tiles, reflecting the paintings hanging on both sides of the wall, extending to the end of his vision...

At the top of this corridor was a semi-hollow arched dome. Through pieces of glass-like material, one could see the lead-gray sky outside.

Inside the corridor was a colorful world; outside the dome was a dangerous and monotonous gray world.

In a sense, this place was more magnificent and spectacular than the Louvre before the Great Catastrophe.

"This is..." Chen Ling looked around in a daze.

"We usually call this the 'Floating Life Hall' or the 'Architectural Institute'... but facing the other eight major domains, this place has another name." Yang Muquan paused for a moment and spoke slowly,

"Red Dust Base."

"How did you do it?" Chen Ling pointed to the semi-transparent dome, "Is this the Gray Realm, or somewhere else?"

"Of course it's the Gray Realm, it's just that we are currently in the domain of the Chief Hall."

"...Chief Hall?"

"The domain of the Nine Lords can support a domain; although our Chief is only Tier 8, it is not difficult to set up a domain of his own in the Gray Realm."

Yang Muquan didn't explain much to Chen Ling and walked straight toward the end of the corridor. Although Chen Ling was no longer bound by the frame, there was no other way to go here except forward, so he had to follow helplessly.

"Why aren't you locking me in the comic frame anymore?"

"Here, you have nowhere to escape." Yang Muquan said confidently and calmly.

"Alright... then where are we going now?"

"To see the Second Hall."