Almost the instant she received the ssage, Vigina pulled herself in, retreating, trying to slide down along the massive pillar.
But her movent quickly halted, she raised her head, looking around.
The entire world had, at so point, beco utterly silent. The urgent downpour, the howling evening winds, even the buzzing sounds of vehicles passing below had entirely vanished.
The world was so quiet, unnaturally quiet.
Quiet, as if she had stepped into a silent and soundless "Alternate Space."
She gazed intensely at everything, her hand gripping her waist, silently observing everything around her.
The massive steel pipe had sohow beco even wetter, preventing her body from clinging to it.
She lowered her head, looking beneath her, only to see bright red blood seeping from the gaps in the steel pipe, swiftly dyeing the entire pipe a dull red.
And upon this redness, her body was rapidly losing grip, about to slide off the massive steel pipe.
At that instant, everything around her seed to grow hot, surging flas along with dark red magma erged from the depths of darkness.
In an instant, it seed to flood the entire vast space.
Scorching magma flowed down from the skies, like a burning downpour, lting and erasing everything it touched.
The massive steel pipe lted into hollow spaces, and the solid alloy was bitten into cracks by the magma like ice.
Below Vigina’s feet, the originally silent and wet earth turned into a boiling sea of lava.
The vast airport transford into towering cliffs, almost instantaneously, everything around seed to beco a boiling, erupting volcano.
Vigina clung tightly to the blood-stained steel pipe, quickly sliding up and down to dodge the lava flowing from the sky, stabilizing herself to avoid slipping off and falling into the sea of lava below.
Countless thoughts raced through her mind; she indeed felt she might really die.
She hadn’t even seen who the enemy was, and she was about to die.
Burning droplets of lava landed on the steel pipe she embraced, easily piercing the enormous alloy steel pipe.
She tried to cling to this last lifeline, but the lifeline itself was already riddled with holes.
Under that fierce lava rain, the whole steel pipe abruptly snapped without any pause, falling from the sky, descending towards the lava sea below.
anwhile, Vigina’s body flipped over, completely losing grip on the massive steel pipe, falling towards the scorching lava below.
Between heaven and earth, hot winds blew across her face.
She didn’t know what she should think, didn’t even have ti to think.
Was Paxiu now in the sa predicant? Could he get out?
She rembered the last ssage she received.
But before she could react further, a scorching wind wave swept in, and then she directly collided into a wide embrace.
The burning world around shattered like thin ice, falling apart visibly.
Cold and damp winds once again brushed against the woman’s sowhat dry face.
The rustling sound of rain also returned to her ear.
She raised her head, seeing the blood-stained side profile in view.
"We must leave here imdiately."
But before she could say anything, a familiar and steady voice sounded beside her ear.
Imdiately afterward, she only felt her figure rapidly change, scenes around swiftly flashed by in an overwhelming manner.
Before she realized, the silent, dim street appeared before her.
They were at the mouth of a sowhat secretive alleyway.
The blood-stained figure set her down.
The fierce downpour fell on them, wetting their cheeks and skin.
"What was that just now...?"
She turned her body, looking at the figure beside her.
What entered her eyes was an entire blood-stained body, with a wound almost piercing through the person’s body.
"We need to leave first..." The figure raised its head, glanced at her, and was about to speak, their body tipping to one side.
Vigina, almost without hesitation, rushed straight over, supporting the person.
"Cough—" He Ao covered his mouth and coughed lightly, "We’re not far enough, we need to move a bit further."
The power of the Space Sword had not completely dissipated, parts of it still lingered within his body, continually damaging him.
"Can you still walk?" Vigina looked at the figure before her, and without hesitation, sidled up, raising her hand to carry him on her back.
She lifted her gaze, eyes passing through the downpour, "Which way should we go?"
"Forward," He Ao coughed lightly, wanting to struggle off Vigina’s back to continue ahead, but he indeed had no strength now, "Keep going forward, first through this district, I’ll guide you, don’t worry, I’m navigating."
Vigina was montarily stunned by his final words, then she lowered her head and smiled, "Alright."
Carrying the person behind her, she quickly darted through narrow alleyways.
She ran with all her might forward.
Thunder flashed across the sky, illuminating the darkness amidst the rain, showcasing the woman swiftly running below.
He Ao was heavier than she imagined.
Without any added support from Extraordinary Power, the sheer physical body of a powerful Transcendent was inherently heavier than a normal person.
The fierce downpour soaked Vigina’s brown-golden curls, and she ran silently.
Her speed was very fast, even faster than her usual pace.
From ti to ti, weak directives rang behind her, guiding which direction to continue.
The whole world seed to calm down at this mont, quiet like the just past silent and desperate space.
She ran silently, constantly traversing through one secretive alleyway after another.
"Alright, alright," When they stopped beneath the eaves of a convenience store side wall, a weak voice sounded from behind, "We should have more or less left the surrounding area."
The fierce raindrops beat against the surrounding broken neon signboards, creating crackling noises.
"When I ca over," Vigina gradually opened her mouth, "I saw there seed to be a Stars Pharma hospital over there."
"I saw it too, they can’t treat ," He Ao smiled, then before Vigina could speak further he said, "We need to find soone who can change the situation."
Vigina was silent for a mont, then softly asked, "Can he heal you?"
"Maybe," He Ao smiled, "Right now it doesn’t matter, it’s not the first ti I’ve been this badly hurt,"
He spoke hoarsely, "Now, pick up your bracelet, use the Federation Bureau of Investigation software, and send a ssage to the chief, just say we want to et him."
Upon hearing this, Vigina was slightly stunned, then she hesitated before quickly editing a ssage while softly asking, "Will he et us? Will he help us?"
"I don’t know," He Ao smiled, "but he should be eting us."
Vigina edited the ssage and sent it out.
What followed was a dull silence.
The urgent rain pounded on the broken neon lights, making a crackling sound.
He Ao looked at the droplets on Vigina’s cheek and asked softly, "Are you crying?"
"No," Vigina shook her head, "maybe the rain just fell on my face."
"Don’t be afraid, I won’t die, don’t be afraid," He Ao smiled, "at least not now."
"Hmm." Vigina lowered her head and replied softly.
She sniffed, lifted her head, and looked towards the street ahead.
Brightly painted driverless taxis zipped through the dimly lit streets.
Bright neon lights illuminated the old buildings on both sides of the street, rain trickled down the lights, falling on rusty iron awnings with a crisp sound.
Fine droplets of water seeped from the pretty brown-gold curls, falling on the woman’s clean profile.
Buzz——
At this mont, Vigina’s bracelet vibrated twice.
She imdiately lifted her hand to look at the content on the bracelet.
It was an exaggerated promotional ad full of colorful strips.
Beneath the ad was a ssage alert from the Federal Bureau of Investigation software.
A location ssage.
The address was a small bar in the city center.
Vigina retracted her hand, glanced at the raindrops outside, and was ready to leave imdiately.
"Wait," just then, the figure behind her gently called out to her, "I’ve called a taxi."
——
Seville Airport
A pretty airport staff mber slowly walked into the spacious boarding bridge.
She looked around at the vast emptiness in confusion, slowly moved forward, and eventually reached the open cabin door of a private jet.
"Mr. Kavent?"
She raised her head and looked inside the plane.
Luxurious leather sofas, a delicate wine cabinet quietly displayed in the spacious cabin.
But the figure that should have been inside the cabin was nowhere to be seen.
She withdrew her gaze in confusion and turned around.
At that mont, a black figure appeared in her field of view.
It was a slender elderly man, dressed in simple and plain black casual wear, holding a curved cane. He looked at the staff mber and asked softly, "Is there anyone inside?"
The staff mber looked at the elderly man before her, initially wanting to say sothing, but after hearing the man’s question, she was slightly taken aback, then shook her head and said, "No, no one. This plane wasn’t arranged with a crew. The inside should be full of passengers."
She glanced at the empty boarding bridge, "But I just saw them walk in, how co there’s no one left."
"Perhaps you should call the Federal Bureau of Investigation," the elderly man said softly as he looked at the at-a-loss staff mber, glancing around the space, "Maybe they were just hiding sowhere, but missing people is never a small matter."
"Yes, I should call the Federal Bureau of Investigation." The staff mber nodded, picked up her bracelet, and imdiately dialed the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s number.
"Hello, this is the Federal Bureau of Investigation call center," a gentle female voice ca from the phone, "How can I help you?"
"Hello," the female staff mber raised her head and looked at the boarding bridge.
The elderly man who was standing beside her just now had vanished, as if he had never existed.
But everything seed reasonable sohow.
She lowered her head, looked at the phone, and continued, "I have so missing passengers here..."
——
Sel Bar
Vigina and He Ao got out of the taxi.
She looked up at the less dazzling neon sign, at the brown decoration in front of the bar, and the small brown door with an ’Open’ sign hanging on it.
This bar wasn’t big, at least it didn’t look big from the outside.
Its facade appeared only to be the size of a small shop front.
However, standing at the door, the noisy sounds from inside could still be faintly heard.
Vigina raised her hand, glanced at the locator on the bracelet, and after confirming there was no issue, reached out and slowly pulled open the bar door.
The interior of this bar was slightly larger than it appeared from the outside, but not by much. Looking up, one could vaguely see scattered old wooden tables, and people sat at the tables guzzling beer, shouting noisily.
And at the entrance of the bar was a place akin to a small bar counter, with a wine cabinet behind the counter stocked with an array of beers, and so simple mixing equipnt and base liquor placed on the counter itself.
A shapely, voluptuous woman was standing behind the bar, leaning against the wine cabinet, yawning.
She wore a black, slightly form-fitting black gauze dress that traced her silhouette, with her faded maroon curls casually draped over the dress, complenting her mature face and makeup, resembling a bewitching sorceress from stories, both alluring and enticing.
Seeing this woman, Vigina was sowhat surprised.
Although the woman’s looks were sowhat far from that person from the Julia family, she could also be considered stunning.
Theoretically speaking, such a character shouldn’t appear in this small bar.
Moreover, for so reason, she felt a sense of familiarity looking at this woman.
"Glass slippers." He Ao, beside her, seed to sense Vigina’s confusion and spoke slowly.
Upon hearing this "hint," Vigina was slightly stunned, and at this mont, the image of the fairytale princess in a gray-brown long dress with glass slippers from the gala appeared in her mind.
Slowly, that fairytale princess’s image rged with the voluptuous, shapely sorceress in front of her.
Despite finding it incredulous, they seed to be the sa person.
Even though their hair, style, aura, and even physique were entirely different.
At this mont, the "sorceress" also noticed the two who entered. She looked at Vigina, then at He Ao beside Vigina.
She slowly straightened up, walked over to them, yawned lazily, and said softly, "We et again, follow ."
Is it really the sa person?!
If it were before, Vigina might have been shocked for a mont, but now she didn’t have the luxury to dwell on these things. She spoke quickly, "The Chief Director—"
"Don’t worry, little sister," The "sorceress" placed her index finger vertically before her red lips, making a shushing gesture, smiling at Vigina, "Just follow , the ’Boss’ is waiting for you inside."
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