The note was given by Qing Chen. According to Qing Chen, as long as you follow this path, the exit will be on the edge of the city!
Gradually, the flying goddess was left behind.
The strength of A-level paintings lies between that of A-level gene warriors and true A-level superhumans, so their speed is not as fast as Da Yu and Zard.
In this enormous underground labyrinth, if you lose sight of Da Yu for even a few seconds, he could very well disappear.
They had to scatter through the various passageways and search again.
The head of the Chen family stood in the Chen family manor and laughed, "How interesting. They have taken environmental factors to the extreme. It must be Qing Chen's doing. He was so well prepared... but it was no use."
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Da Yu carried his mother through the underground garage. He lowered his voice and instructed, "If... I mean if we really can't escape, then use earth magic to take the shroud and leave with my mother, understand?"
Earth Release is not a panacea. When Zard uses Earth Release, traces can be seen on the ground. If he brings two more people with him, his speed will definitely not be as fast as the Flying Goddess.
If the enemy drops a missile, we'll all suffocate underground.
If the shroud falls into the hands of a puppeteer, it will be a terrible disaster.
At this moment, Da Yu glanced at the note and said, "Go back! Take H291!"
Zard yelled wildly, "Why do we have to go back to our deaths?"
Da Yu: "That's what Qing Chen wrote on the note."
When the two turned back, they saw three scattered flying goddesses coming towards them.
The goddess shook the red silk in her hand and struck Da Yu in the chest, but Da Yu did not stop despite being injured. The remaining three hundred or so swifts beside him passed through the flying goddess's body like bullets.
Da Yu continued running back, not even glancing at the scattered Flying Goddess.
They were gradually forming a circle around each other, intending to block the two's path at the next intersection.
Unexpectedly, Da Yu and Zard suddenly turned back and fought their way out of the encirclement.
The formation of the Flying Goddess was instantly pulled and deformed, and there were not many left who could keep up with Da Yu and Zard!
Upon arriving at area Z341, Da Yu exclaimed, "This is it!"
The two men opened a sewer inspection door, behind which lay the city's sewage ditch, as wide as a one-way street.
Da Yu closed the maintenance door, carried his mother through the water, the sewage ditch reeked and the ground was muddy, but none of that mattered anymore.
Zard chuckled and said, "We really saved them."
After a two-second silence, Da Yu said, "Thank you."
“Why thank me?” Zard said. “You were my former boss, after all!”
Da Yu: "Thank you for reminding me that I was once your boss!"
Just then, the two saw a red light flashing in the dark sewage ditch. Da Yu leaned closer for a look and said, "It's a vital signs sensor to prevent people from 'smuggling' through the sewage ditch. Hurry, there's no time to lose."
The two of them started running again.
As Zard ran, he remarked, "When I was a child, right after my parents' car accident, before I developed my illness, the teacher asked everyone to write down their dreams on the podium. Everyone else wrote that they wanted to be an astronaut, a teacher, a doctor, or a lawyer, but I wanted to be a scientist."
“Your dream isn’t anything special,” Da Yu retorted.
Zard laughed: "My dream is to be a scientist, build a time machine, go back to the summer night my parents had their car accident, and tell them not to leave, or to go with them. Later, every time an expert on the news said that time travel is impossible, I really hated them."
Da Yu fell silent.
Zard continued, "At that time, I had just started staying with relatives, and they were very unkind to me. So I carried my schoolbag and walked seven kilometers to the cemetery to see my parents. On the way, a policeman stopped me and asked why I was out alone in the middle of the night. I said I wanted to go to the cemetery to see my parents. The policeman was quite sad at the time. They told me to go home first and that they would pick me up during the day. But I disagreed because everyone said that the place was haunted at night, so I could only see them at night."
In the dark drainage ditch, only the sound of wading in the water remained. Over the years, Zard's mental state gradually spiraled out of control until he was sent to a mental hospital by his relatives.
He was reluctant to face reality because reality was not warm.
Zard looked at Da Yu and smiled, "So if you have the chance to save your mother, you must do so, or you'll regret it. There really is no time machine in this world. If you do something you'll regret, you'll regret it for the rest of your life."
At this moment, Zard was unusually normal, more normal than ever before, so normal that he almost didn't seem like himself.
As the two emerged from the sewer, Da Yu looked at the flying goddesses suspended in the sky before him, and there were even thirty A-level fire gods named Zhu Rong among them.
These gods and Buddhas blocked their path, preventing them from advancing any further.
Da Yu sighed, "You guessed we couldn't escape, right?"
No wonder Zard suddenly became normal; it's because he knew he had to stop running away and face reality.
Zard nodded: "Yes, the boss said that if we see a vital signs sensor in the sewage ditch, it means we've been figured out."
Da Yu said to himself, "I'll buy you some time. You can use Earth Escape to leave and take my spatial ring with you. The condition for its acceptance is that you must feed it a forbidden item for it to recognize you as its master."
This is a unique spatial ring, but containing it requires another forbidden item as a sacrifice, at an extremely high cost!
Da Yu's painting has been restored by the shroud once again. However, just as he was about to take off the spatial ring, he heard Zard laugh and say, "Go. Whether it's a mother losing her son or a son losing his mother, it's always a sad thing. I have no ties. Even on the battlefield, a soldier like me is more suited to be a suicide squad."
Da Yu: "Shut up, listen to me at a time like this..."
But as soon as he finished speaking, quicksand appeared beneath his feet.
Zard said softly, "If you die, Xiaoyu will die too. Let's go, don't look back. Remember to play nursery rhymes for Xiaoyu with that longsword. I discovered it can record, and now I sing all the nursery rhymes in it."
Da Yu was stunned. No wonder Zard had been singing to the crimson sword whenever he had free time lately; it turned out he wanted to record his singing into the sword.
The soft sand quickly engulfed Da Yu, and Zard threw his crimson longsword into it as well. The quicksand carried Da Yu and Chen Ningzhi rapidly toward the outer perimeter.
Thirty fire gods, Zhurong, wanted to melt Dayu into the ground, but as soon as they spewed out their crimson flames, huge sand waves rose up like tsunamis, forcefully blocking all the flames!
Outside the city, the elderly Chen family painter laughed and said, "How touching! But they probably can't hold their breath underground for long. They'll have to come out eventually. Once they kill you, they won't be able to escape either."
Zard shook his head: "You can't kill me."
When he chose to shed his pretense and face the world, it was like a child suddenly raising a military flag and growing into adulthood.
The child longed to return to that summer he once knew, as if that summer would never end as long as he didn't grow up.
But today he finally realized that he could never go back.
The child was not afraid.
He chose to grow up because he wanted to protect others!
Zard's willpower soared, reaching for the heavens!
Xiaoyu always liked to ask Zard in the mental hospital, "Brother Zard, aren't you amazing?" Zard would laugh and reply, "Of course!"
Zard laughed and said, "I'm really amazing."
The next moment, his hair turned crimson again, and a giant hand suddenly rose from the ground, lifting Zard into the sky.
"combine!"
The Flying Goddess and the Fire God Zhurong flew in the sky, and the ground beneath their feet, which was originally solid, turned into sand. Like the calm surface of the Forbidden Sea, a gaping maw suddenly opened, as if a huge whale lurking there was about to leap out.
The gods and Buddhas in the sky realized something was wrong and tried to increase their altitude, but before they could react, they were swallowed up by this one mouthful!
The sand on the ground returned to silence, as if the gaping maw of the abyss and the hundreds of flying goddesses had never existed!
At that very moment, three kilometers away, Da Yu had just been thrown to the ground to prevent him from suffocating to death underground.
Turning around, Da Yu witnessed this astonishing scene.
He wanted to rush back, but then he saw Zard looking at him from afar, smiling and mouthing, "Let's go."
Let's go, don't waste my efforts, let's live on together with Xiaoyu.
The puppeteer dispatched thirty flying goddesses to hunt down Da Yu, while the aged Chen family painter whispered, "He burned his life force to become a demigod, how unexpected."
As he spoke, he surprisingly chose to smash another two hundred paintings!
Da Yu was in despair when Zard said again, "Let's go."
At this moment, Zard's willpower surged once more, and the sand beneath his feet shot outwards like bullets, raining down on the gods and Buddhas in the sky.
For a time, the countless gods and Buddhas were completely unable to get close, and some were even accidentally pierced by the sand and fell.
In the history of the Federation's superhumans, no earth elemental awakener has ever reached the demigod level, but now there finally is.
Centered on Zard, dozens of tentacles made of sand suddenly stretched out from the earth.
Zard is like a giant squid at the top of the food chain in the Forbidden Sea, using its tentacles to drag all the gods and Buddhas into the mud and bury them!
The fire god Zhurong spewed flames, trying to melt the sand into a glaze.
The problem is, this restraint only exists among those of the same level!
When the fire god Zhurong melted the sand tentacles that were slapping him into glass glaze, sand from those tentacles broke through the glaze and grew new tentacles!
The terrifying tentacles were draining Zard's life and will, and continued to grow!
Upon witnessing this scene, the painter Chen remarked, "It's fortunate that the problem has been resolved now, otherwise it would have caused a lot of trouble later."
At that moment, he saw Zard's hair gradually drying out, and his life was about to come to an end.
The painter, surnamed Chen, asked, "You can't hold on for long, can you? What are you waiting for?"
Zard didn't answer him, but just quietly looked in the direction of Da Yu.
But then they saw thirty flying goddesses rushing towards Da Yu. If Da Yu was still carrying Chen Ningzhi, he would not be able to escape.
But Zard was more worried that Da Yu would lose his mind and come back to kill him.
The Chen family painters do not have the concept of breaking through in the heat of battle. Even if you break through to the demigod level, you still have to repaint the painting to give it the power of a demigod.
The gods and Buddhas drawn at the A-level will remain at the A-level even if the owner becomes a demigod.
Only gods and Buddhas drawn at the demigod level can possess the power of a demigod.
This is also why Chen Yu only has a few dozen paintings in total.
Therefore, the Chen family's inheritance has always had two paths: one is to accumulate quantity after reaching B-level or A-level, or to continue to move up and win by quality after becoming a demigod.
Zard watched quietly.
Da Yu also looked back, his gaze passing through the gaps in the flying goddess's eyes, looking towards Zard, who was like a god in the sky.
Zard suddenly laughed: "Don't turn around."
As the morning sun pierced through the thin clouds and reached the ground, cracks gradually appeared on his face and body, like the bottom of a dried-up lake, cracking into fissures under the sunlight.
At this moment, Da Yu suddenly took off his mask and licked the forehead of the mask.