“The Western Continent is more experienced than us in this regard,” Qingchen said to Xiao San. “First, use the small cockroaches to scout the terrain, and leave the larger ones to bite the metal mesh. Black Spider, share your intelligence with Xiao San so that after the cockroach army breaks through, they can directly gather at the residences of those nobles.”
Mistress: "Okay!"
Black Spider: "Received."
Time passed second by second.
The youngest scouts in the cockroach army began infiltrating the city center, even reaching the vicinity of the palace.
Here, even the sewers are equipped with surveillance cameras to monitor everything underground.
The mistress broke into smaller groups, sending only a few cockroaches to infiltrate, pretending nothing was wrong.
They were so small, like normal growing insects, that they didn't look like biological contamination at all.
It also failed to attract the attention of the palace guards.
Just then, a tiny cockroach noticed a crack in the wall of the sewer, from which gusts of cold air were blowing.
It quickly crawled inside...
Return countdown: 01:30:00.
Xiao San initially thought it was just an ordinary building crack, and that sending the cockroach in was unintentional. However, the deeper the crack went, the more alarmed he became.
This deep crevice seemed to have no end, and it grew colder and colder.
The next moment, the scout cockroach spotted a light ahead. It sped up and rushed out of the crack, hovering in the air, flapping its wings, and observing its surroundings in astonishment.
At this moment, Xiao San suddenly turned to Qing Chen and said, "Boss, the cockroaches have infiltrated the city's core. They've discovered an underground fissure that leads deep underground... There's an empty military base there with many houses built on it. Among them, there's a strange villa that looks like a haunted house, painted with mysterious red symbols."
The mistress hesitated for a moment: "There are seven golden coffins inside."
Qing Chen suddenly turned to look at him!
Seven golden coffins—this number perfectly matches the seven sleeping ancestors of the Fate Master. And what kind of person is so important that they would be enshrined in a pure gold coffin?
Qingchen said to the mistress, "Continue."
The next moment, more cockroaches in the sewer converged on the crack. They crawled down the crack and, after entering the underground palace, split up to find a way out.
However, after searching painstakingly for more than an hour, they found that the entire underground palace was sealed off, except for a long staircase passageway.
The lockdown was very thorough.
There are dozens of rooms in the entire underground palace. A small cockroach crawled into room number 7.
The room was covered in dust and empty.
At this moment, the little cockroach slowly raised its gaze to look at the ceiling. What came into view first was a pair of withered feet floating in the air. When it looked up again, it saw dozens of desiccated corpses hanging from the ceiling of the room!
The mummified corpses had their necks tightly bound; they were all women, their white dresses having turned gray due to age.
When the mistress saw this scene through the cockroach's eyes, she was utterly terrified!
How could such a bizarre mummified corpse be kept underground?!
He manipulated the little cockroach into all the villas, only to find that half of the villas in this underground palace were empty, while the other half were full of hanged female corpses.
It's strange, why is there such a bizarre place?
After a moment of contemplation, the mistress urged a tiny cockroach to climb up the wall of the staircase.
I don't know how long I climbed, until I was stopped in place by a door.
The door and wall were completely sealed together; there was no way to squeeze through.
Just then, the door suddenly opened.
King Roosevelt and Duke Storm walked one after the other toward the underground palace.
But then King Roosevelt calmly said, "The poisoned cup is in hand. Immediately transport the seven ancestors to your Storm Fortress and begin the Empire's expedition. Destiny has arrived, and our nation will be reborn."
The countdown has reached zero.
return.
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Whale Island.
"Boss! Boss!" Xiao San shouted loudly, "I overheard King Roosevelt and Duke Storm talking. They're going underground. The old king said he's got the poisoned wine cup and told Duke Storm to transport the seven golden coffins to the Storm, preparing to head to the Eastern Continent!"
Qing Chen was startled.
Even though he and Boss He had already killed the Silver Duke, the secret of the poisoned wine cup should have vanished with him, but the poisoned wine cup ultimately fell into the hands of the Roosevelt royal family.
Which part of the process went wrong?!
The young woman asked curiously, "Boss, what's inside those seven golden coffins?"
Qing Chen certainly knew what that was!
If the Roosevelt Kingdom were to truly awaken these seven demigods of the Fate Masters, the Eastern Continent would likely suffer a great loss.
Qing Chen looked at Xiao San: "Can your swarm of cockroaches destroy that place directly? Or kill the person in the golden coffin?"
Xiao San shook her head: "That gap is very small. Only the smallest scout cockroaches can squeeze in. They don't have much strength, so they probably can't open the golden coffin lid."
Even if a golden coffin lid is crafted to be the thinnest and most exquisite, it would still weigh at least seven or eight tons, and possibly even more than ten tons. It is certainly not something a cockroach could pry open.
Qing Chen thought for a moment and then asked, "Where is this underground base located?"
The mistress thought for a moment and said, "It should be directly below the palace."
Chapter 965, Twenty-Four Jade Heart Swords
That underground palace is right beneath the imperial palace!
The royal family has blocked all roads in and out; if anyone wants to break in and destroy the seven golden coffins, they must enter through the palace.
Moreover, they must simultaneously confront two demigods, Duke Storm and King Roosevelt.
Qing Chen's current state is not so arrogant as to think he can kill two demigods on someone else's home turf.
Zheng Yuandong arrived at the war fortress.
Qing Chen looked at Boss Zheng: "I'm ready to face the final life-or-death challenge."
Zheng Yuandong asked in confusion, "So urgent?"
At this moment, Qingchen coughed violently, as if he were coughing up his lungs, and blood spilled from his mouth.
After a bout of coughing, Qingchen's face visibly became haggard, and even with his strong will, he was starting to feel the strain.
Zheng Yuandong understood: "So you have no choice anymore. You have to walk the same path that He Jinqiu wanted to take."
“Yes,” Qingchen thought for a moment and said, “If you succeed, you become a god; if you fail, you are assimilated into the world and vanish into nothingness.”
Is Qing Chen confident he can become a god? No, he is not.
Zheng Yuandong asked in confusion, "I didn't see you training beforehand. What were the last two items?"
"Gambling with your life."
"Gambling with your life?"
Qing Chen smiled and said, "The last two life-or-death trials are not as difficult as the others. You just need to leave your life to fate. However, the biggest problem is that even if I succeed, I may lose my fighting ability for a while."
Zheng Yuandong said, "I'm here on the Eastern Continent."
"Then I can rest assured," Qing Chen breathed a sigh of relief. At this moment, his biggest worry was not whether he could survive, but whether the Eastern Continent could hold on if he did survive but needed to seal himself and separate himself from the world, as Ren Xiaosu had said.
"When do you plan to leave?" Zheng Yuandong asked.
"I'd like to stay on Whale Island for a few days and take another look around."
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Whale Island is bustling with activity, as potential time travelers are frantically learning new knowledge.
They learned how to disguise their identities and how to handle their respective political affairs.
Once these people learned a skill, they immediately went to Xiaoqi to memorize materials in exchange for points, as if to claim credit. After accumulating enough points, they would then exchange them for items such as Eternal Heaven, Mountain Camellia, Early Summer, Asking the Cold, and Enlightenment.
The way they recited the text to Xiaoqi was just like students reciting the Preface to the Pavilion of Prince Teng...
Australian tycoon Mosley remained stubbornly unwilling to compromise with Qing Chen, but Qing Chen completely ignored him. He only needed to offer things like empowerment and the Eternal Heaven, and the potential time travelers around Mosley would naturally know what to choose.
But Qing Chen deliberately increased the difficulty of exchanging rewards, intending to squeeze every last bit of value out of the Time Travelers of the Western Continent until the war ended.
Qingchen didn't pay much attention to these people. Yangyang had returned to Whale Island. She had finished all her business and returned to Whale Island to spend her last few days with them.
She treated every day as if it were her last day with Qingchen.
Every night she would stay by Qingchen's bedside, watching him struggle to fall asleep and wake up in agony.
When Qingchen woke up in the early morning, he looked at Yangyang lying on the side of the bed and said with a smile, "You don't seem to be driving lately."
Yangyang rubbed her eyes: "I'm not in the mood for that at all."
In the morning, Qingchen washed up and looked in the mirror in the war fortress. He took off the forbidden item ACE-005 and looked at his haggard appearance in the mirror.
This has nothing to do with his mental state anymore; it's the cancer cells that are robbing his body of all its vitality, causing him to fall into a state of weakness.
Qing Chen put the cat-face mask back on, tidied his appearance, and walked out of the war fortress with a spirited air, arriving at the Time Traveler Academy.
He did nothing but silently watch the enthusiastic students exchange papers.
The students greeted him warmly when they saw him, and Qingchen had changed from his haggard appearance yesterday to a tall and straight figure, making it impossible for anyone to tell that he was already terminally ill.
Yangyang whispered from the side, "Actually, you don't have to be so strong all the time."
Qing Chen shook his head: "If even I can be defeated, how can these students have the confidence to face danger?"
Yangyang shook her head: "Give them some confidence. They are not so easily defeated. I know you are worried that you will die or disappear for a while after merging with cancer. You are their spiritual leader, but you are only a mortal. You will get tired and you will get hurt. So sometimes you need them to stand up for you and protect you from the wind and rain."
Qing Chen was taken aback.
After a moment's thought, he removed the forbidden item ACE-005 and revealed himself to the students in his true form.