Most of the vehicles on the streets were bicycles, whose design resembled that of a composite bow, while the bicycles Zheng Yichen rembered were more like recurve bows.
The prevalence of bicycles was high, making other modes of transport like automobiles seem rather ordinary.
It wasn’t long before Zheng Yichen heard a commotion; several shabbily dressed individuals were being pinned down by law enforcent officers. They were shouting, but were briskly hauled away. Afterwards, one of the remaining officers showed his badge, explained the situation, then hopped on a nearby bike and left.
"This..." Well, it made sense that many people who weren’t natives of this world had run out of the Dusk Cathedral, and their attire clashed with this world, so it was normal for them to be taken away.
Because of his current state, Zheng Yichen wasn’t suspected of anything; after walking around for a while and realizing that the technology here was relatively ordinary but highly developed in terms of environntal technology, he returned to the Dusk Cathedral, a world committed to environntalism.
Not too bad.
"I’m going back."
Tia nodded, taking Zheng Yichen to a small room used for traveling between worlds. Zheng Yichen felt awkward, "I’m not a child."
"I know, but I can’t see you when I turn around now."
"...Are you joking?" Zheng Yichen gestured to his height. Even if he split his current body’s age in half and acted quite young, he still wouldn’t be out of Tia’s normal field of vision, and there’s no way she couldn’t see him when she turned her head.
Moreover, he seriously doubted that beings like Tia would need an insignificant organ like eyes to see things.
"Yes."
——Click.
The door opened and Zheng Yichen yawned, probably because his body was so weak now that when he ca back to the Hazy City world, he didn’t feel any ’flutter’ in his body. When exceeding the limit, it would be suppressed, but when already at the lower limit, it didn’t matter how the environnt was adjusted.
Looking at his small hands, Zheng Yichen went to his locker, took out his phone, and called Katrina, "Hey? Can you co pick up? I ran into so issues, and it’s not good for to go back alone."
Last ti he had shrunk a few years, and even riding a bike ho had gotten him stopped by traffic police. Now, if he dared to ride, the police would just as boldly package him and the bike together, and then have him contact his nonexistent parents to pick him up.
Before Katrina arrived, Zheng Yichen rummaged through the locker and found many ssages; Chiang Wei had left a tablet. After having several remote conversations with Zheng Yichen, she didn’t seem keen on using letters anymore.
On the other hand, Qi Xiangyun and her group always seed to enjoy the thod of writing letters.
Looking at the ssages from Chiang Wei, Zheng Yichen scratched his cheek. There wasn’t much to say about the hacker girl; her daily work was pretty much the sa. When there were no ergencies, Chiang Wei’s job was to maintain the database security of the World Security Departnt and to monitor so sensitive information.
If soone attempted to breach the World Security Departnt’s database, she would coordinate with the Shell System to handle them.
With plenty of free ti, most of the ssages she sent to Zheng Yichen were chit-chat about daily life, and occasionally she would ask about the developnt of the artificial intelligence Lilith, suggesting that he send Lilith’s main program to her for a check when he had ti.
ssages from Qi Xiangyun were quite rich in content; the general situation remained as it had been, with people almost wiped out still vying for supremacy in the world.
The girl skilled in chanical Techniques wrote her letter with an undertone of irritation; she wanted to revive Qi Family Town and make the already tragic world a better, more suitable place for the human race to recuperate and regain strength. However, the better she did, the more people set their sights on them.
Qi Xiangyun was extrely annoyed with those always looking to reap the benefits.
Then there was Lin Yaoyao; her main focus was on studying ’alien demons.’ She had almost beco a monitoring officer. The latest situation was that alien demons were getting smarter, with many starting to form groups, integrating into tribe-like structures.
There were also the traces of the Supre Demon. Battle Maniac Asura had severely wounded a great number of them, but beings like the Supre Demon didn’t just disappear. At most, they were seriously injured and needed quite a long ti to recover—a period that might seem long to humans but perhaps insignificant to a Supre Demon.
A new great war between the alien demons and the human race of that world was inevitable.
Lin Yaoyao was currently traveling with Liu Hongzhao. Liu Hongzhao dealt with alien demons while Lin Yaoyao researched them.
Furthermore, Liu Hongzhao’s request for a photo was discovered by Lin Yaoyao and Qi Xiangyun, who also wanted photos of Zheng Yichen and enclosed their selfies with the request.
"All so young, what are they thinking about?" Zheng Yichen muttered as he looked at the selfies sent by the three girls, so of which were group photos.
Murmuring to himself, Zheng Yichen gathered the photos, checked his appearance on his phone, took several pictures, and then placed them into a storage locker. The three girls had all recently faced substantial troubles, and verbal consolation didn’t seem very effective. It might be better to give them sothing they desired...
After closing the storage locker, Zheng Yichen went to the courtyard and didn’t have to wait long before Katrina arrived.
After she arrived, she couldn’t find Zheng Yichen for a mont, until he raised his hand; her expression then shifted from uncertain doubt to recognition.
"You, how did you beco like this again?" The girl imdiately ran over and hugged Zheng Yichen, her face filled with affection.
When Zheng Yichen’s appearance was that of a strong adult, she seed dependent, but now the roles were reversed, and she was the one who showed affection.
"There are many reasons; the situation this ti is quite special. Let’s go back and we can talk about it slowly," said Zheng Yichen, tilted in Katrina’s embrace. He noticed so curious glances from others, but he didn’t care, as his stature made it clear, those onlookers wouldn’t get any ’dog food’ from seeing them.
"Mm, let’s go now," Katrina said, nodding her head, intending to pick up Zheng Yichen.
Zheng Yichen rolled his eyes, "Just holding hands is fine, I’m not really a little kid."
Katrina smiled, "But you do look really cute right now, even cuter than last ti. I’ll enjoy holding you while we sleep tonight."
Last ti, Zheng Yichen had the appearance of a sowhat younger youth, but now he was straight-up a child. Losing a few years had a significant impact on his appearance.
"Ah... got it," Zheng Yichen sighed, "I do want to recover quickly. I feel pretty insecure in my current state."
He touched his hair; it wasn’t long now. His body was weak, without sufficient external nourishnt, and would recover in due course. To grow back to his original state might indeed take as many years as it would for a normal person.
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