Shadow was a little worried: "Dad, don't sell your organs."
The father said irritably, "Don't I have any money to save?"
That evening, they returned home covered in dust, where Ningxiu had already prepared dinner and urged them to wash their hands and eat.
The gentle wife, wearing an apron and beaming with smiles, recounted how she had just found an office job, which would help ease the family's mortgage burden and make Xiao Chen's tuition fees less of a concern.
Meanwhile, Qingchen was still in his room studying for the exam, completely focused.
The room was dimly lit, making everything seem old yet cozy.
Shadow walked over cautiously and placed a carton of milk and two eggs on the table. Qingchen looked up and said, "Brother, why did you buy these again? Save some money. I heard from Dad that you and your wife are planning to buy a house in the Fifth District."
Shadow patted his head and laughed, "You don't need to worry about adult matters. You're still growing, you need to eat well."
Qingchen hesitated for a moment: "Actually, if I hadn't taken the entrance exam for Qinghe University, our family wouldn't be in such dire straits, and you and Dad wouldn't have to work so hard."
Shadow raised an eyebrow: "If you say that again, I'll beat you up."
Qingchen was silent for a few seconds: "Then when I graduate and start earning money, I'll buy a big house and we'll all live there."
The shadow walked outside: "Quite the boast."
Qingchen: "Brother."
Shadow: "Hmm?"
Qing Chen said earnestly, "Thank you."
The shadow laughed: "Why are you being so polite with me?"
This dream is ordinary and commonplace.
But everything is fine.
It was so wonderful that even the shadow wanted to relive his life in a dream, but unfortunately, the dream was too short.
The shadow in the dream had clearly realized that this was a good dream... He had to wake up.
Return countdown: 4:00:00.
8 PM.
The moment the shadow awoke, Lee Byung-hee began to disintegrate his clones, and in the blink of an eye, he had created 24 clones.
Although his expression was calm, his actions showed the shadow sufficient respect.
Or perhaps it's fear.
Chen Yu also took out six scrolls from the bamboo basket and twisted them into pieces.
But instead of divine figures leaping out of the scroll, six tiny suns rose in the sky.
The sun hung high above everyone's heads, releasing an unbearably hot temperature. The rays of light they cast intertwined, making the wilderness as bright as day, and all shadows disappeared.
This is a shadow gate meant to restrain shadows.
At that very moment, 300 kilometers away, at Chen's first air force base, seven Class A airships suddenly took to the sky.
The huge air force base was brightly lit.
Eighteen escort aircraft had already been launched, and hundreds of Class B airships were activated, with the fleet soaring into the sky like a dense swarm of locusts.
Chen Yu is truly treating this hunt as a war.
The shadow chuckled and asked, "You wasted six paintings just to cut off my retreat? What if I hadn't intended to leave?"
Chen Yu said calmly, "It's just a backup plan."
Qingchen: "Brother, can you get off my back first?"
"Sorry, I forgot," Shadow jumped off Qingchen's back and said with a smile, "You've done a good job protecting me along the way. I don't even have a scratch on me. To be honest, I was prepared to wake up missing an arm or a leg."
Qing Chen was both amused and exasperated: "What kind of time is this to still be telling such awful jokes? Can't you at least improve your joke-telling skills?"
"Huh? Isn't it funny?" Shadow smiled at Zard: "The Faceless Men army has arrived?"
Zard honestly replied, "I've already given you my pledge of loyalty."
“Very good,” Shadow nodded, then looked at Zhang Mengqian: “Kid, are you scared?”
Zhang Mengqian calmly shook her head: "I'm not afraid, it's just death."
Shadow laughed loudly: "Chen Yu, Li Bingxi, did you see that? The kids around me aren't afraid of you at all."
The three demigods stood in a tripartite balance on the wilderness, and the outer forces did not approach any further without orders.
The situation is now beyond the reach of ordinary people.
In the midst of this tense atmosphere, Zard suddenly looked worriedly in the direction of Forbidden Land No. 002.
Qingchen asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?"
Zard looked at the towering tree and said, "Boss, I can't take this thing with me."
Qing Chen: "...Who said we came to Forbidden Land 002 to take it away!"
The previously somber atmosphere suddenly dissipated for some unknown reason.
The shadow chuckled, "That's a good joke, Zard. I'm starting to like you a little."
At this moment, Chen Yu said with a hint of regret, "I have always admired Mr. Shadow. I have reviewed many of your plans, and they are truly as exquisite as a gazelle hanging its horns, leaving no trace. I know you are facing death today, and I also know that Senior Li Bingxi and I may perish here. But I am very curious, even if you can take us with you, you cannot take away the army group and soldiers scattered across the mountains. After you die, Qing Chen and the others will become lambs to the slaughter. How will they leave?"
Chen Yu: "I don't know if the news of your impending death is true or false, but the Chen family's First Air Force is about to arrive on the battlefield. Regardless of whether the news is true or false, and regardless of whether Li Bingxi and I can defeat you, we must ask you to leave this world today."
Shadow paused for a moment: "You think you have the upper hand? You only brought two divisions, didn't you?"
Lee Byung-hee sneered, "No need to bluff. Someone within the Kyung Clan has betrayed you. The Kyung Clan patriarch is still sitting motionless in City 5. Your Shadow Army is also tied up in the north and cannot reach you using the Shadow Gate... You have no more trump cards left."
Shadow laughed, "You're very well prepared."
Yangyang turned to look at Shadow, wanting to hear what other plans Shadow had. After all, just as Li Bingxi said, the Shadow Gate was now unusable. Even if Shadow could take away the two demigods, the rest of them would surely die.
At this moment, Shadow said, "I'm not very popular. Even within the Qing family, there are many people who want to kill me, so I really don't have any trump cards left."
Yangyang, Sun Chuci, Tuanzi and the others looked at the shadow in shock.
The next second, Shadow laughed and said, "You are all focused on being wary of me, but my younger brother is the one you have underestimated."
Lee Byung-hee was stunned for a moment, wondering what it meant.
Before this, Lee Byung-hee had no concept of Kyung-chum.
How powerful can a mere B-level be?
No matter how powerful a time traveler is, can he be more powerful than a shadow?
Even if this kid has made friends in the other world, there are still two demigods here, two field divisions of the Chen family are here, and the Southern Fleet is on its way.
At this moment, even if someone in the Federation wanted to help him, how could they dare to take such a big risk to come over?
No one will come.
Shadow laughed and said, "Actually, from the moment he arrived in City 18, I was thinking of handing over the Shadow Force to him, handing over the Secret Service to him, handing over... everything of mine to him. I wanted to teach him what political maneuvering is, I wanted to teach him what humanity is. At that time, I was afraid that he was just a clueless kid, so I wanted to teach him everything."
So at that time, Yingzi often appeared in Qingchen's apartment, lay down for a while, brewed a pot of tea, and waited for Qingchen to come home.
So at that time, Shadow was teaching Qingchen how to face this other world.
"But later I found out that my younger brother didn't need me to teach him at all. Even without my help, he made many friends and didn't need me to give him anything."
When Shadow said these things, there was even a hint of pride in him.
For no apparent reason, Qingchen became a guest of honor of the Li family patriarch and the future tutor of the Li family.
Without any help, Qing Chen created Daylight on his own and became the next leader of the knights, and also had a parent-teacher association with terrifying potential.
The shadow said softly, "I was quite anxious back then. If he was so powerful, what else could I give him? So I taught him how to fight and how to win people's hearts. But before I could teach him, he learned it all on his own."
Qing Chen fought his way out of the A02 secret military base alone, bringing back more than 900 intelligence personnel from the Li and Qing families.
Shadow suddenly laughed: "What surprised me the most was that he later actually killed Kamishiro Yunhe, and then dragged Kamishiro Jingcheng away like a dog. Everyone, whose brother is as powerful as mine?"
When Qingchen first transmigrated, Shadow hoped that he could take on the role of a father and elder brother, so that Qingchen could be proud of him.
As a result, he couldn't help but praise his younger brother to Qingye and Qingqu at some point.
He began to feel proud of having such a younger brother.
Qing Chen listened silently. He didn't know how long Shadow had been holding these words in, but now that the other party was speaking to the enemy, he was also speaking to himself. If he didn't speak now, it would be too late.
Shadow laughed loudly, "You've underestimated my brother, and that makes me very unhappy. You've almost seen all my cards, so why don't you come and see his? I've brought all his cards here!"
Qing Chen was stunned.
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...
The southern fleet swiftly traversed the sky.
Under the cover of dark clouds, the black airships and fighter jets looked like an army from hell.
On the bridge inside the main ship, the commander looked at the holographic sand table and listened to the operations staff's report: "We are 30 kilometers away from the target location. Currently, the ship's power room, main fire room, and secondary fire room are all in normal condition. There are no suspicious targets within 300 kilometers."
Commander Chen thought for a moment and said, "After arriving at the battlefield, the Southern Fleet will immediately surround the battlefield and directly cover the entire battlefield with firepower, killing everyone, including Shadow and Lee Byung-hee."
"Sir, what will happen to Mr. Chen Yu if we are hit by enemy fire?"
"Don't worry about him."
“Received,” the operations staff officer nodded.
The commander looked at the thick dark clouds in front of him, and for some reason felt uneasy.
The next moment, in the dark clouds ahead, it seemed as if the base of a steel island was slowly breaking through the clouds and falling down.
It was as if a kingdom had fallen from the sky and appeared before everyone!
Its appearance came without any warning!
Even seven massive Class A airships looked incredibly small in comparison.
Suddenly, three soldiers in charge of the radar roared into the communications channel: "Qingshan! It's Qingshan!"
Aoyama-class aerial fortress!
No one knows why it appeared here, nor when it arrived, and its location is precisely on the route that the Southern Fleet must take to reach the battlefield.