Going Ho and the Bridge Underpass
Wu Tongyuan fell silent.
The gentle breeze lightly brushed his elegant outer garnt that resembled a monk's robe. Wu Tongyuan slowly picked up a scattered Chess Piece from the ground and placed it gently back into the chess basket...
"Things that have not happened are just illusions, why care about them."
"I said, I'm curious." Chen Ling answered truthfully.
"I don't know."
Hearing these three words, Chen Ling's gaze narrowed slightly, as if he wanted to see through Wu Tongyuan's deep eyes to see into his heart... Did he truly not know, or was he pretending not to know?
"So... you actually never intended to make a move against from the beginning, right?" Chen Ling asked in return.
Wu Tongyuan didn't follow Chen Ling's question anymore. He knew this was Chen Ling probing him:
"You should go."
"You're really letting go just like this? This might be the only chance I'm left alone in the Spirit Void Domain... If you miss this chance, you'll never find a better opportunity to kill ." Chen Ling paused for a mont,
"You know what the Dusk Society needs to Reboot the World..."
"Even if you don't kill , when the final mont arrives, I will personally co and take your corpse. If by then you haven't beco a corpse..."
"I, will personally kill you."
This was a probe, a threat, and also a preview.
But this ti Wu Tongyuan truly didn't intend to answer. Facing Chen Ling's provocative words, it was as if he hadn't heard them at all as he slowly stood up...
He glanced calmly at Chen Ling, then turned around and walked towards the direction of the Spirit Void Ancient Temple.
The elegant outer garnt resembling a monk's robe fluttered without wind;
"I'll wait for you to co and kill ..."
His faint voice sounded, "If, you can do it."
...
Wu Tongyuan left.
Leaving with him were the six great Knight Orders.
On the massive square, apart from the densely packed masses of citizens surrounding them, only Chen Ling and the four K-cards remained... There were no specific personnel escorting him, no guides leading the way. The Lord of Spirit Void seed completely unafraid of Chen Ling starting a massacre here and directly withdrew all defenses.
The hem of his red-based, black-patterned Theatrical Robe fluttered on the square. He took a deep look at the Lord of Spirit Void's retreating back surrounded by everyone, then similarly turned around and walked towards the outside of the Spirit Void Domain.
As Chen Ling approached, the citizens crowding White Pigeon Road to watch the spectacle imdiately parted a path for him with a swish...
Unlike the support and cheers when Wu Tongyuan left, after Chen Ling passed by, these people stopped arguing and stopped discussing. Pairs of eyes that were either curious, fearful, wary, or nervous gazed at him. The citizens closest to Chen Ling even had their hearts in their throats, deeply afraid that this moody person would directly tear them to pieces.
The giant trees of White Pigeon Square still swayed their dancing shadows.
To its left, it led to a high tower supported by tens of thousands; to its right, it was a fearful and wary abyss.
Chen Ling had long grown accustod to these people's gazes. He humd an opera tune as if no one was around, a pair of cinnabar-like earrings swaying slightly in the sunlight.
"Little Junior Brother, where are we going now?" Ning Ru Yu asked softly.
Chen Ling thought for a mont:
"Ho."
...
A few hours later.
The bleak cold wind brushed past the edge of the Spirit Void Domain.
On the barren land of the Gray World, three figures sat neatly in a row, facing the direction of the Spirit Void Domain head-on, as if waiting for sothing.
"No... why isn't Hearts out yet?" Jian Changsheng rubbed his buttocks that had been sitting for a long ti, "It's been several hours now, did sothing really happen to him inside??"
"There's not a single sign of a fight breaking out inside, what could happen?" Sun Bumian sighed, "I already told you, the Spirit Void Domain has several exits, how could it be so easy to block him? He probably left from another exit a long ti ago..."
"...Can't be, right?"
Jian Changsheng mumbled, "No matter what, we are his old comrades-in-arms, won't he even co to et us once..."
"Sigh, Hearts becoming the Red King is indeed unexpected..." Sun Bumian shook his head, "During that ti we were in the Hanging Jade Domain, he must have experienced quite a lot of things. Not to ntion other things, his relationship with the previous generation Red King was very complicated. The Red King ascending to the heavens, he must be feeling terrible in his heart too..."
Jiang Xiaohua thought for a mont, and still spoke up:
"Should we go comfort him?"
"Where are we going to comfort him? We are blocking the door and we still can't block him."
Just as the three were talking, a figure dressed in tatters like The Beggar walked unhurriedly around the edge of the domain.
Seven of Hearts, Jin Fugui, was slightly stunned when he saw Jian Changsheng and the other two sitting here:
"Why are you guys still here?"
"We're waiting for Hearts here." Jiang Xiaohua answered truthfully.
"? You an the Red King?" Jin Fugui looked at the three with a strange expression, "He left a long ti ago... He left from the eastern gate together with the four K-cards, I saw it with my own eyes."
Hearing these words, Jian Changsheng's dangling heart finally died. He stood up, rubbing his buttocks that hurt from sitting, and couldn't help but complain:
"Good for him, Six of Hearts. After becoming the Red King, he just forgets about us old comrades-in-arms, right... Hmph, and to think I was the first one to rush out and protect him just now."
"The eastern gate?" Sun Bumian looked thoughtful,
"Could it be... he returned to the Ancient Vault of the Drama Path?"
"Then I have no idea. Where the Red King wants to go and what he wants to do, how could a beggar like know." Jin Fugui shrugged.
"Then where are you going?"
"? I'm going back to the Tianshu Domain." Jin Fugui pointed in the direction of the Spirit Void Domain, "I don't dare go to the Spirit Void Domain right now, afraid of being caught to act as coolie labor. It's still easier to beg for food in the Tianshu Domain."
"..."
Sun Bumian turned his head to look at Jian Changsheng, "What do you say? Should we go to the Ancient Vault of the Drama Path to find him?"
"...Forget it." Jian Changsheng thought seriously for a long ti and shook his head, "He is the Red King now, he must have important things to do... It wouldn't be good for us to rashly go find him again. Let's go to the Tianshu Domain and stay there for now."
Although in the hearts of the 6-series generation, Chen Ling was still that Six of Hearts, he now bore the responsibility of the entire Dusk Society. That they didn't block Chen Ling this ti showed that Chen Ling didn't plan on seeing them yet. Even Jian Changsheng didn't dare to rashly visit him directly like before...
Red King Chen Ling, and Six of Hearts Chen Ling, perhaps were more or less sowhat different.
Sun Bumian noticed that trace of hard-to-hide disappointnt from Jian Changsheng, but he also didn't say anything, just nodded slightly:
"True, we'll just wait for him to co find us."
"What do you an? You guys want to go to the Tianshu Domain with ?" Jin Fugui blinked his eyes, "Let's make it clear first, the Bridge Underpass I live in can't fit four people!"
The corner of Jian Changsheng's mouth twitched: "...Who wants to live in a Bridge Underpass with you? We have our own money!"
Sun Bumian: "You got triple wages, and you still can only live in a Bridge Underpass??"
Jin Fugui: "Sigh, my situation is a bit special. Money can't stay in my hands..."
Jiang Xiaohua: "Actually... I kind of want to live in a Bridge Underpass."
Everyone: ...
From the corner of his eye, Jian Changsheng glanced one more ti in the direction of the Ancient Vault of the Drama Path, then turned around and left. The four figures gradually faded away on the edge of the Spirit Void Domain, disappearing at the end of the horizon.
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