In an instant, the mask in Da Yu's hand transformed into a giant Maine Coon cat.
This Maine Coon was a massive six meters long, its muscular body concealed beneath its long fur.
Zard exclaimed, "Wow!"
Da Yu glanced at Zard one last time, then jumped onto Da Fu's back and gripped its fur tightly.
Dafu sprinted into the distance, and even with two people on his back, he was still a fraction faster than the Flying Goddess!
Zard was relieved.
It's like waiting through a sweltering summer in vain, finally welcoming the golden autumn. There are no regrets, and I am not alone.
The painter, Chen, controlled by the puppeteer, asked from afar: "Isn't your own life the most precious? Why abandon yourself to save others?"
“You don’t understand,” Zard replied with a smile, and the two of them stopped fighting and quietly waited for time to pass.
The puppeteer shook his head: "It was a huge struggle for me to escape from underground. The Fire Seed Base wanted to extract the breathing fluid from our culture dishes. If I hadn't woken up unexpectedly that time, I probably would have died inside. After I crawled out of underground, some people wanted to sell my organs, some people wanted to kill me, and I almost starved to death. You might not believe it, but in those years, to survive, my physical body even went down into the coal mine to earn money... Living is really hard, why give up your own life?"
Zard thought for a moment and said, "Maybe it's because this time I don't want to be the one left alone."
As soon as he finished speaking, his body began to turn into sand.
The surging tentacles, along with Zard himself, turned into flying sand and scattered on the ground, never to be seen again.
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Da Yu carried her mother on her back and lay on Da Fu's back, clinging tightly to the fur on Da Fu's back.
The large gray cat ran wildly across the plains, covering an unknown distance. Da Yu remained calm, showing no sign of distress.
At this moment, Chen Ningzhi, who had been controlled by the puppeteer, woke up: "Don't you feel sad?"
Da Yu said coldly, "Shut up."
The puppeteer said, "The vines of Black Leaf Plain are really strange. They are just a piece of plant vine, yet they can bind powerful humans."
Da Yu asked, "How is Zard?"
The puppeteer shrugged: "I don't know either. Haven't you all figured it out already? Puppets can't communicate over long distances. But I guess he's already turned into a handful of sand."
After saying that, the puppeteer turned around and glanced at the flying goddess behind him: "They're still chasing us."
Da Yu asked, "Does each puppet have its own independent thought?"
“Of course,” the puppeteer chuckled. “We worry every day that other puppets will slip up and end up dying together… The giant cat you suddenly summoned is the second-tier form of the forbidden artifact ACE-005, isn’t it? That’s amazing. But can it exist indefinitely, or only for a limited time? I feel it might have peak A-rank strength, so it shouldn’t be used without restrictions, right? You’ve been riding it for about six hours already, how much longer can it run?”
Da Yu's heart tightened.
The puppeteer was right. Dafu's second-stage form could only be maintained for six hours. If he couldn't shake off the Flying Goddess, he was in danger.
It's not a question of whether he's afraid of death; he doesn't want Zard's efforts to be in vain.
At this moment, the outline of a forest appeared in the distance, and the puppeteer was somewhat surprised: "Forbidden Land No. 002? How did it end up here?"
In the center of the vast forest stood a giant tree, and Da Yu roared loudly, "Ding-dong!"
A giant stood on the tree trunk, gazing in this direction. Dingdong saw only Da Yu but not Zard. He climbed to the top of the World Tree and reached the Vermilion Bird's nest: "Dingdong!"
(Help him!)
Zhuque glanced at him but ignored him.
Dingdong got anxious: "Dingdong!"
(Or we'll tear down your birdhouse! They've built houses for the animals in the forbidden land!)
Zhuque rolled its eyes. Who would have thought that the good child Dingdong would start threatening people? It flapped its wings and let out a long cry.
Above the treetops, thousands of birds followed the Vermilion Bird on its expedition, and within a few breaths they reached the edge of the forbidden land, smashing the thirty goddesses to pieces.
As Dafu ran wildly, just as he was about to reach the forbidden place, he suddenly vanished, turning back into a mask.
Caught off guard, Da Yu and Chen Ningzhi both fell through the air and rolled several times on the ground.
Da Yu looked up at the battle in the sky, but no one knew what he was thinking.
Footsteps sounded behind me.
He turned around and saw Dingdong running towards him, bending low, under the tree canopy: "Dingdong!"
(Where's the other person?)
Da Yu forced a smile; he couldn't understand what Ding Dong was saying.
Dingdong tapped Da Yu's hand with her index finger, and the next second, the burly giant burst into tears.
Da Yu was stunned.
This scene had happened before; when Qing Zhun left, Ding Dong saw the same sadness in Qing Chen's heart.
He picked up his mother again and patted Dingdong's hand to signal her to lead the way. The parents' association had left a key door in the center of Forbidden Land No. 002.
The two walked into the forbidden area, and when they passed a small pebble path, Da Yu suddenly froze.
He saw a small sculpture in the roadside grass. The sculpture depicted him, Zard, Qingchen, Dayu, and others in a fighting pose, like the workers, peasants, and soldiers at the gate of a state-owned enterprise.
Zard initially wanted to make a bigger one but was stopped, so he made a small one and hid it here.
Da Yu walked over in a daze and squatted down. He saw a sentence written on the base of the sculpture: "Not one less."
He suddenly burst into tears.
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Outside of City 7, countless grains of sand suddenly seeped into the ground, gently gathering together one by one. Eventually, they squeezed out a small space underground, condensing into a heart that beat slightly.
Grain by grain, the sand gathers towards the heart, slowly but steadily.
Chapter 970, Melting the Golden Coffin
Inside Forbidden Land No. 002, Dingdong picked yellow fruit for Dayu, but Dayu only managed a weak smile, holding it in his hand without eating it.
Dingdong patted Da Yu with her hand, which was as big as a tire: "Dingdong!"
Da Yu carried Chen Ningzhi on his back again and said to Ding Dong, "Take me to the depths of the forbidden land. I need to meet up with the others."
The two walked deeper into the forbidden land, and Chen Ningzhi said, "The entire creatures of the forbidden land are helping you, it's truly amazing."
Da Yu said expressionlessly, "From today onwards, killing you will be my lifelong goal."
Chen Ningzhi smiled and didn't say anything more.
Arriving at the World Tree, Da Yu looked at the stone house that Zard had built for the animals, which was still intact.
The little animals remembered that he was the one who built the houses with Zard, so they brought him fruit. With these houses, they no longer had to get wet in the rain.
Each stone house also has a design drawn by Zard; the squirrel's house has a squirrel drawn on it, and the python's house has a python drawn on it, in order to distinguish them.
He also saw the house Zard had built for him, with a simple smiley face drawn on it and the names Da Yu and Xiao Yu written on it.
Just then, someone peeked out from the key gate. It was Xiao Wu greeting Da Yu: "Finally, we've been waiting for you... Huh, are you the only one here?"
Da Yu bid farewell to Ding Dong and stepped behind the Key Gate, into City Five.
Qingye had already escorted the syringes and was waiting. He drew eight vials of black blood from Chen Ningzhi and then injected them into the war criminals of Shendai.
Seeing that his mother had regained her senses, Da Yu finally breathed a sigh of relief.
He got a satellite phone from someone and dialed Qingchen's number: "I'm sorry, I killed Zard."
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78 Victor Avenue, West Continent.
Qingchen stared blankly at the phone for a long time, his mind completely blank.
Yi asked in confusion, "What's wrong?"
Qing Chen looked at Yi: "Zard has sacrificed himself."
As he spoke, he coughed up a mouthful of blood, his face turning even paler. Already terminally ill with cancer, he could no longer bear such heavy news.
The mistress murmured, "How could Zard..."
The next moment, he changed the subject: "Boss, soldiers from the palace have entered the underground cave. They're probably preparing to move the golden coffin!"
Black Spider glanced at his phone again: "The inside man is ready."
More than three thousand potential time travelers from the Western Continent have completed their replacements and learned to infiltrate under the training of the parent-teacher association. Now, it's time to put them to use.
After taking a few deep breaths and calming himself down, Qing Chen stood up and said, "Let's get ready to make our move."
Qing Ji asked, "Do we need giants?"
“No need,” Qingchen shook his head: “Let’s bring Da Yu over. He’s the key person today.”
The next moment, the swarm of cockroaches that had been lurking in the sewer system came to life. They had a clear division of labor: the large cockroaches provided cover at the front, the sapper cockroaches fought with their evolved mouthparts, and the smallest cockroaches were responsible for reconnaissance.
But then they saw the manhole covers in the seventh district of the central royal city being pushed open, and countless cockroaches crawled onto the surface, divided into 721 small teams, rushing to attack all the official facilities in the central royal city!
Even the deceased Kamishiro Chika probably never imagined that the biological contamination he created, while causing indelible damage to the Federation, would ultimately become Qing Chen's most terrifying weapon.
At this moment, the Central Garrison Police Station realized the seriousness of the situation and immediately ordered the activation of the garrison robots and patrol drones in the station. However, when they went to start these powerful war machines, they found that the power cores of the garrison robots had been stolen and the rotors of the drones had been removed.
There was a mole within the Central Garrison Police Station. The mole had access to the armory and had compromised the Central Garrison Police Station's weapon system!
Orders were relayed aboard the Storm, and the Grain Department was ordered to evacuate the grain depot and be escorted to the coastline by the Royal City Garrison.
Before the garrison's transport convoy arrived, both granaries simultaneously burst into flames. Someone had used their internal authority within the grain department to burn all the grain!
The same as the pharmaceutical department.
The Transport Department's surveillance system was also shut down.
The power company was also precisely targeted and blown up, plunging half of the city into darkness.
In an instant, it seemed as if the entire kingdom had been infiltrated!