Two figures, one black and one red, were silent in the Gray World.
Chen Ling looked at the Liu Qingyan before his eyes, complexity flashing through his eyes... To him, the last ti he saw Liu Qingyan seed to be yesterday, but to Liu Qingyan, they hadn't seen each other for more than three hundred years.
The current Liu Qingyan was no longer that sowhat green young girl. Her posture was taller than before, and her features were also more mature. Her gaze revealed a calmness and profoundness polished by ti. In a trance, there unexpectedly was a bit of the previous generation Grey King's shadow.
In the more than three hundred years of ti, she seed to have changed a lot, but what remained unchanged from beginning to end was only that star yarn-like black dress, and the figure of Chen Ling reflected in her eyes.
Chen Ling knew that from the mont he stepped out of the Red Dust Prison, Liu Qingyan had arrived.
But she didn't show herself imdiately, instead silently following behind. She hid herself in nothingness, looking at the back of the theatrical robe that appeared again after more than three hundred years, her face covered in tears...
She originally wanted to wait for her mood to calm down a bit more, at least not cry anymore, before appearing in front of Chen Ling... Not having seen him for more than three hundred years, she didn't want to still be weeping when she saw Chen Ling again.
She was now the Grey King of the Dusk Society after all, she couldn't be so childish anymore.
But who knew... Chen Ling still called out her na.
"Liu Qingyan..."
Chen Ling looked at the black-dressed woman whose face was covered in tears, softly opening his mouth, "These years... you've worked hard."
Chen Ling could imagine that from rebooting the world until now, Liu Qingyan must have been waiting for him the whole ti, just like the other Eight Monarchs.
With his absence, the heavy burden of the entire Dusk Society entirely fell on Liu Qingyan alone. It was hard to imagine how this young girl with shallow qualifications and strength walked through the more than three hundred years of ti all alone when he wasn't here...
And when he returned again after more than three hundred years, the first one to appear before him was still Liu Qingyan.
Liu Qingyan's eyes were reddened. She shook her head without hesitation:
"It wasn't hard..."
"This is all what I ought to do."
Chen Ling helped her up from the ground. The latter looked up, once again eting Chen Ling's gaze. A trace of hesitation flashed through her gaze... But after hesitating for a long ti, she still asked probingly:
"Red King, My Lord... Will you... still leave?"
Chen Ling was startled for a mont.
"I won't." He answered firmly. "These more than three hundred years were an accident... Since I've already returned, I won't leave again."
Liu Qingyan breathed a sigh of relief as if relieved of a heavy burden.
"These years, did everything go smoothly?"
"...It was okay." Liu Qingyan cald her mood and said thodically,
"At the current point in ti, most of the original Dusk Society mbers haven't grown up yet, so the formal mber recruitnt hasn't started... But these more than three hundred years, I have always been planting informants and setting up hidden intelligence strongholds within the major prisons. Currently, there are about three hundred unofficial personnel. Purely in terms of intelligence penetration, we have already far exceeded the Chengtian Domain's control over the major prisons."
"However, there is still so gap from the intelligence network of the Dusk Society in the 5th generation world..."
Liu Qingyan's lips pursed slightly, lowering her head sowhat guiltily:
"After Ying Fu controlled the major domains, he began to vigorously push the 'Fixed Household Checked Na System' system. Every person in every prison of every domain needs to make regular identity records, and he strictly controls the domain trains. Every person riding the train also has to be checked in detail... Therefore, the expansion of the intelligence network is extrely difficult."
"If I hadn't already spread the intelligence network and set up hidden pieces in the major bases more than three hundred years ago, staying one step ahead of him, I'm afraid we wouldn't even be able to achieve one-tenth of the current scale..."
"In short, the intelligence network we currently have is already the limit of what I can achieve accumulated over so many years."
The gaze Chen Ling looked at Liu Qingyan with was sowhat surprised.
Chen Ling had long anticipated Ying Fu's thods. After all, he was that rumored Emperor of the ages, this aspect was precisely his strong suit... But he didn't expect that Liu Qingyan could actually abruptly spread such a massive intelligence network right under Ying Fu's nose.
Even if the current intelligence network wasn't as good as the 5th generation world, but one must know, this ti was a hellish difficulty opening.
To be able to achieve this step, Liu Qingyan was already considerably formidable.
"According to Ying Fu's thods, aren't those Dusk Society mbers of ours who haven't grown up yet already under the supervision of the Chengtian Domain?" Chen Ling frowned tightly. "If that's the case, wanting to absorb them into the Dusk Society in the future, I'm afraid it will be considerably difficult..."
"Red King, My Lord, set your mind at ease. I've already made preparations in advance." Liu Qingyan answered with a smile,
"Aside from a few individual mbers, a few years ago I already used the intelligence network to locate the ho locations of the other mbers in advance. Since before they were born, there has been an intelligence squad of at least five people secretly serving them..."
"For every single one of them, starting from birth, the intelligence registered on the Chengtian Domain's side was secretly tampered with by us. As long as we want to, we can make them disappear from the Chengtian Domain's field of vision at any ti."
This early layout by Liu Qingyan made Chen Ling look at her with even more newfound respect. One must know that with so many Dusk Society mbers, wanting to trace back to the source and find out their locations before they were born was absolutely not an easy task...
Not to ntion, she also had to ensure she could deceive the Chengtian Domain at all tis. Liu Qingyan's layout could be said to have laid the foundation for the future developnt of the Dusk Society.
"Aside from a few individual mbers... what does that an?"
Liu Qingyan was silent for a mont, answering truthfully, "The developnt trajectory of the world this ti has so differences from the previous world. A portion of the mbers in this world... perhaps won't even be born at all."
Chen Ling was startled for a mont, subsequently nodding slightly.
The changes in the world line would inevitably trigger a series of chain reactions. So people from the previous world fundantally wouldn't be born here, and in this world, there would also be many more people who didn't exist in the previous world.
"Right, since you set up an intelligence network in the major bases in advance... then regarding the Red Dust Base encountering a nuclear strike back then, how much do you know?" Chen Ling seed to have rembered sothing.
Liu Qingyan's expression instantly beca serious.
"This matter... I indeed know."
"Moreover, in the 5th generation world, Master and I actually also investigated the events of that year. Once we thought the one who launched the nuclear strike on the Red Dust Base was the Lord of Wuji Lou Yu, but through my investigation this ti, I found the facts are not so..."
"The ones who attacked the Red Dust Base was an organization of the Path of the Witch God that existed since before the Great Cataclysm. They ca from overseas. Back then when the Gray World intersected and Calamities attacked Earth, they also followed the overseas refugees and infiltrated our bases..."
"They, called themselves the [Alchemist Association]."
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