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Chapter 968, Even if it's just to see him one last time.
Inside 78 Victor Avenue.
It was a sweltering summer afternoon.
Qing Ji looked at the unconscious Qing Chen, whose lips were bloodless and whose hair was dry.
He looked at Yi and Xiao San: "What did Qing Chen experience in the real world?"
Xiao San said bitterly, "When the boss was facing a life-or-death challenge, he was ambushed. He forcibly activated the gene lock, giving us the opportunity to control the remnants of the entire Kingdom Organization, and also giving Boss Zheng the opportunity to find the hidden time traveler of the Chen family."
Qing Ji understood: "He was worried that he would fail this time, so he wanted to use his last bit of light to help you resolve any future troubles and give you more time to grow."
The mistress remained silent: "We know."
“Let him sleep a little longer,” Qing Ji said. “How’s the cockroach scouting going? When will the Storm depart?”
Xiao San said, "Duke Storm plans to set off tomorrow, and the seven golden coffins will be transported to the Storm tonight under the escort of experts."
Black Spider stood to the side, deep in thought: "I've looked into history. The term of office for each Roosevelt king was around 59 years and 10 months. Then they would choose a successor and disappear. In other words, even if the poisoned wine cup could resurrect these old monsters, they could only live for a maximum of two months. Therefore, the Roosevelt royal family had to be very careful with their money."
At this moment, Black Spider received intelligence: "Multiple Timewalker informants reported that the Roosevelt Kingdom has issued a wartime mobilization order. They need to complete the assembly and allocation within 24 hours and prepare to set off for the Eastern Continent Federation. What should we do?"
Qing Ji said, "Let's wait until Qing Chen wakes up before discussing anything else."
Before he could finish speaking, Qing Chen coughed violently. He slowly opened his eyes and asked, "How long have I been in this world?"
He has overcome the last two life-or-death challenges, but the cancer will not disappear just because the genetic code is unlocked, and his illness will not be cured.
Cancer cells attached themselves to his lungs, kidneys, liver, and bones, affecting everything about him.
“Just 20 minutes after crossing over,” Xiao San asked, “Boss, what are the coordinates of your world? Liu Dezhu said they were attacked, and you ordered the Key Gate to be smashed to evacuate them all.”
Qingchen thought for a long time: "I climbed out of the Mexican Swallow Cave... but I'm not sure if I'm still at the entrance."
Qing Ji's heart tightened. He knew how cautious and meticulous Qing Chen was, but now the other party had lost his sense of time and was not even sure where he was in the real world.
"Your body?" Qing Ji asked.
Qingchen propped himself up and sat up: "It's alright, we can still fight. Xiaosan, have the cockroach swarm infiltrated the entire city yet?"
Qing Ji said, "Why don't you inject yourself with the potion first? Once you become a god, you'll naturally be able to deal with those seven old monsters."
Qing Chen was silent for a moment: "Even Ren Xiaosu thinks the path to godhood is dangerous. I am not entirely confident that I will not be assimilated by the world. Moreover, even after becoming a god, I will lose my fighting power for a period of time, and then it will be too late. These old monsters of fate are not only monsters when they are alive, but they are also in danger even when they are over sixty years old."
Qing Ji asked in confusion, "What do you mean?"
Black Spider seemed to have thought of something: "The Virtuosos do not die of natural causes after the age of 60. Instead, the world's will brings them misfortune. There was once a Virtuoso who hid underground but was killed by a meteorite, which affected an entire city."
Qing Chen nodded: "These old monsters will fight for Roosevelt when they are alive, and when they are about to die, they may even drag our troops down with them. They will squeeze every last drop of value out of themselves before they are willing to die."
Qing Ji asked, "But Qing Chen, you are the best at calculation. Calculate your own body. Can you still withstand high-intensity combat? There are Duke Storm and King Roosevelt in the palace. Do you think storming the palace is the wisest choice? Moreover, you are facing the Fate Master. You have just gone through a battle. Why not activate the Black Spider's intelligence network and intercept them halfway when the golden coffin is brought out from underground?"
The atmosphere in the villa became quiet, and everyone waited silently for Qingchen to make a decision.
Qing Chen sighed, "This is indeed the best plan, Yi, what do you think?"
Yi nodded: "My calculations yielded the same result."
Qing Chen turned to look at Black Spider: "Go buy groceries and cook. We'll wait for the old monster to come out from underground."
Qing Ji asked, "I'm curious, you're already a demigod, have you made any new breakthroughs after completing two life-or-death trials?"
"have."
Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment. Qing Chen was already a demigod. Could he possibly break through to the next level after completing the life-or-death trial?
Qing Chen seemed unwilling to say more. He said, "I'm more worried about Da Yu and Zard now. Judging from the time, they should have already started preparing to break through the encirclement. I wonder if they will be able to break through."
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Inside the secret prison of City Seven on the Eastern Continent.
Da Yu was resting with his eyes closed, while Zard drew his crimson longsword from his wrist and sang a song to a forbidden object to fulfill today's containment conditions: "You are a little duck, quack quack quack..."
Da Yu said calmly, "Can you give me some peace and quiet?"
Zard said nonchalantly, "But I have to complete today's containment mission. I have to sing every day."
Da Yu fell completely silent. After Qing Chen gave the crimson longsword to Zard, it was like a child getting his favorite toy, but from then on, he was never quiet again.
"Why do you know so many children's songs?" Da Yu asked after a long pause.
Zard recalled for a moment: "Xiaoyu liked to listen to it. When he was in the mental hospital, he would often be so scared that he couldn't sleep, and I had to sing nursery rhymes to lull him to sleep. Xiaoyu was just as cute back then as he is now, but every time I think about how cute he was because his life was forever frozen at the age of six, I feel a little sad."
Zard, who is usually quite unserious, has become unusually serious. Or rather, at the most dangerous and critical moments, he forces himself to become a normal person again.
Da Yu remained silent for a long time: "Xiao Yu is so lucky to have you by her side, so you really want this crimson longsword because you know Xiao Yu will like it, right?"
Zard thought for a moment and replied, "Yes."
Da Yu: "Do you sympathize with Xiao Yu?"
Zard suddenly said, "I didn't play with Xiaoyu because I felt sorry for him. It's because I have a lot of fun playing with him. If it weren't for Xiaoyu, I might have become like Zhongyu long ago, taking revenge on those relatives who took my family's property and killing them all."
The next moment, Da Yu opened his eyes and looked ahead. In the darkness outside the transparent glass prison door, a young man slowly walked in: "I'm very curious, Chen Yu, don't you cherish your mother's life at all? She's in my hands, yet you still cooperated with Qing Chen to scheme against me. You humans should have a special feeling for your mother, don't you have any humanity?"
Da Yu sneered: "You dare to talk to me about humanity? You're not even human, what are you talking about humanity for? You don't have a mother, so of course you don't know my anger, but even if I want to save her, I can't disregard the sacrifices of so many people and ruin their hard-won, short-lived victory."
As soon as he finished speaking, Zard brandished his longsword: "There's only one mother in the world who's good, a child with a mother is like a treasure... a child without a mother is like a blade of grass..."
Da Yu: "..."
Puppeteer: "..."
This thing can actually be used to insult people!
Da Yu stood up and stared at the puppeteer through the glass of the cell: "This world will never belong to you. You will definitely lose. Make your move!"
He took out bags of swiftlets from his spatial ring. Those pure white origami swiftlets, like bullets, fiercely crashed into the specially made glass door.
Under the impact of the swift, the glass prison door, which even an A-level expert would find difficult to break, was quickly cracked with a spiderweb pattern!
Swifts crashed into the same spot until their bodies broke and scattered on the ground.
The puppeteer watched the cracks bloom like ice shards, but he remained calm. He smiled and said, "These seven cities in the southeast are all mine now. Do you really think you can break out of here?"
"How will you know if you don't try?" Da Yu replied coldly.
As soon as he finished speaking, the glass shattered after repeated impacts, and the remaining six hundred or so swifts filed out of the cave, turning the puppeteer outside the door into a bloody mess.
But even now, the puppeteer still smiled: "I hope you understand what awaits you, and that your actions will make your mother pay the price. Since you can't cooperate with me, I'm now more interested in that forbidden object in your possession that can restore paintings... I inquired in North America, and that forbidden object is called the Shroud of the Saint, right?"
After saying that, the puppeteer fell straight backward and remained silent.
The swift flew to the end of the secret prison corridor, struck the switch on the cell, and the hydraulic transmission sounded as the cell opened.
Da Yu did not rush out. He twisted all 25 of his paintings into pieces, wrapped them in a shroud, and put them into his spatial ring.
“Let’s go, Zard,” Da Yu said, controlling the Demon-Subduing Vajra, the Flying Goddess, Qing Chen, and Li Shutong as they walked out together, revealing all their trump cards!
The guards and mechanical prison guards were no match for them.
The secret prison was located underground. When they fought their way up from the bottom, it wasn't in the suburbs, but in the bustling city center of District 4 in City 7.
People come and go in front of the gate.
Zard asked curiously, "Where are we going? Are we going to rescue your mother, or are we going straight out of the city to fight our way out?"
Da Yu hesitated.
How many sons in this world could abandon their mothers? She is the one who raised you. When you were little, she would remind you to put on an extra layer when it got cold, and she was always worried that you would go hungry when you went out.
Sometimes she will love you in ways you don't like; she will nag you, and she will complain about you while missing you at the same time.
Sometimes you might feel like you want to get away from her, but when everything is gone, you realize that it was the most precious family bond.
However, Da Yu knew very well that he could not rescue his mother Chen Ningzhi, and the puppeteer must have made thorough preparations.
Zard looked at Da Yu and said, "Go save her."
Da Yu: "Hmm?"
Zard lowered his head and said, "When I was little, my parents went back to their hometown to sweep the tombs during the Qingming Festival. They asked me if I wanted to go, but I thought it was pointless and didn't go. I even had a fight with my mother about it. Later, when I heard the news of their car accident, I thought, if only I hadn't had that fight with her. Her last memory of me was that we were arguing... Every time I think about this, I feel very guilty."
Da Yu suddenly realized that Zard's mental problems were not caused by his parents' departure, but by this extreme self-blame, which caused him to act abnormally!
From then on, Zard faced the world with a nonchalant attitude, and that indifference to everything was like his armor.
Zard said, "Sometimes I envy people like you who have parents, so go save her, even if it's just to see her one more time, so you don't have any regrets."
Da Yu: "Thank you."
The Demon-Subduing Vajra and the Flying Goddess began their charge out of the city, where they engaged in battle with the garrison troops.
In City 7, those controlled by the puppeteers were only high-ranking members of the Chen family, so when the battle began, the civilians scattered in terror, and the entire city suddenly fell into chaos.
At 1:34 a.m., the busiest time in the city, the crowds were scattered by gunshots, which also shattered the darkness of the night.
In the chaos, the three-headed, six-armed Demon-Subduing Vajra wielded four heavy machine guns and had bright yellow ammunition belts hanging from his body, looking exactly like a ruthless bandit.
The fleeing civilians were horrified when they saw this scene!
They had seen Chen's paintings of gods and Buddhas before. During festivals, Chen would hold temple fairs for the City God, where paintings of gods and Buddhas by Chen's artists would be offered as sacrifices.
However, the common people of City 7 have never seen such gods or Buddhas before!
At this moment, the garrison troops of City 7 were frantically pursuing these 'bandits', while Da Yu and Zard secretly mingled in the crowd and quickly ran towards the Chen family manor.
The direction they were heading was completely opposite to the direction in which the Demon-Subduing Vajra was charging!