However, this was still an accidental injury...?
Luo Wanyi thought for a moment and said, "Forget it, they're all no good anyway, killing them is fine... but where are we going to find the boss now?"
Zheng Yuandong: "I requested to view the satellite surveillance footage. Starting from the village that was looted, we traced the gang of thugs all the way. Their convoy disappeared after entering a forest, a 6-hour drive from the village. This time, I'm leading a team to search that forest. We're determined to find Qingchen. But everyone, please be prepared."
Chen Zhuoqu stood up: "All knight reserves, come back with me for training. Before this journey, we must complete the life-or-death test."
Before leaving, Qing Chen made a final effort. He killed 12,000 garrison soldiers in the Central Royal City, destroyed most of the official institutions in the Central Royal City, destroyed the Polar Night Organization that Zhong Yu had just established, and captured Chen Yu.
Qing Chen was making preparations almost every second, because he was worried that if something happened to him, the Eastern Continent would be powerless to fight back.
Qing Chen is indeed missing now, but he has done everything he can to buy time for the Eastern Continent.
Now, someone must stand up for Chen Zhuoqu and others who were once protected.
Before leaving.
"Where's Maki?!" Li Tongyun suddenly asked loudly, "Wasn't she just sitting in the conference room? Why did she leave?"
Lu Yuan replied, "I just saw her leave with Shen Dai Yunluo. They probably went to eat."
"Something's not right!" Li Tongyun went to the spot where Jinguji Maki had just sat and found the tissue that was wet with tears. She immediately became anxious: "Everyone, please help me look for Maki. I have a feeling that something is wrong."
The group searched Whale Island for a long time, but Maki and Kumashiro Yunra seemed to have vanished into thin air.
"What should we do?" Hu Jingyi asked. "We still need to train her together."
Xiao Tongyun said thoughtfully, "There's no need to look for her."
"Do you know where she went?" Chen Zhuoqu asked.
Xiao Tongyun said, "She's gone to walk her own path."
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High above the sky, Shindai Yunluo sat smilingly next to Xiao Zhenqi atop Bai Rongyi's head. Xiao Zhenqi held a fire fox to warm her hands, and carried a specially made little umbrella bag on her back, looking extremely cute.
Hyakume-ki, dressed in a white cloak, flew beside them, protecting them.
During this time, some passing flights saw the enormous white dragon below, and all the passengers opened their small windows to look at it longingly, filled with envy.
Shen Daiyunluo said, "I can actually answer Luo Wanya's questions about Zero. The key to victory in the East and West continents lies on one side with the forbidden ACE-002 Heaven and Earth Chessboard, and on the other side with the Fate Master's God-like perspective. In fact, everyone has seen the destiny that transcends time and space, and thus made their own arrangements. The reason Zero sent me to Jianmen Pass is that she knew only I could help the Parents' Association safely pass through Jianmen Pass under those circumstances. And the reason she let Li Tongyun, Nan Gengchen, Liu Dezhu, and others board the Green Mountain is because she saw you in destiny."
Maki Jinguji listened silently.
Kamishiro Unra continued, "Now, it's not enough for you to complete the life-or-death challenge of wingsuit flying... Are you ready?"
Maki nodded seriously: "I'm ready."
Maki Jinguji's expression was exactly the same as when she burned down her own thatched hut built with prayer flags.
Stubborn and determined.
In a daze, Shen Daiyunlu even thought he saw Qing Chen, because he had seen the same expression on Qing Chen's face before.
He said with a smile, "No wonder Qingchen wanted to take you as his apprentice."
A knight with the ability to breathe can reach the level of a demigod by passing seven life-or-death tests. All knights in training have now gone through five tests: diving, surfing, rock climbing, downhill cycling, and skiing.
The remaining options include wingsuit flying, skydiving, and penetrating the Earth's core.
Only the latter two require you to use your body to control the airflow and fall into the sinkhole without opening the umbrella; you can only open the umbrella after entering the sinkhole.
If Maki wants to control the Yamata no Orochi and the giant whale, she must complete two life-or-death trials during this return cycle, so she chooses to gamble with her life.
Even though she had already received training in wingsuit flying and skydiving, this trip still presented her with a high risk of death.
Jinguji Maki, holding the obedient foxfire, said absentmindedly, "My master once said that he would take me on the path he had walked. At that time, I asked him worriedly if I would have to live in a pigsty, and he said yes... Later I found out that in our lineage, masters like to trick their disciples... Master, I miss my master. He is now missing. I want to do some of the things he had to do so that he wouldn't have to work so hard."
Kamishiro Unra smiled and said, "We will meet again."
As the white dragon approached Guatemala, it rapidly ascended in altitude, maintaining its speed without diminishing.
Just as they were about to reach the top of the Guatemalan sinkhole...
breathe.
Flame patterns suddenly burst forth on both sides of Jinguji Maki's cheeks as she leaped down.
Just as she had promised Qingchen, she would walk the path Qingchen had once walked.
Chapter 980, A Note
Countdown 12:00:00.
Qingchen glanced at his arm out of the corner of his eye; there were still 12 hours until he would cross over.
He didn't intend to confront these two hundred-plus armed thugs head-on, especially since they had heavy machine guns on the other side, which looked quite menacing.
I'd never seen anything like this in high school!
At this moment, Qing Chen, his face covered with a mask, stood beside the wooden table, pressing the white powder into powder bricks with practiced ease.
What takes others half an hour to press into square bricks, he can do in ten minutes. The thugs, seeing his enthusiasm for work, even allowed him to eat with them, showing they were watching and cultivating him as a potential key member...
From afar, a bandit shouted, "Open the gates! The bosses are here!"
The wooden-walled village was in chaos. The bandits opened the gate and seven off-road vehicles drove in, their wheels covered in mud from the rain.
A group of Black people jumped out of the car. Qingchen felt a strange sense of familiarity when he saw them, but he couldn't remember where he had seen them before.
These black people were all strangely shaped; some had antennae on their heads, and others had barbs on their arms, making them particularly terrifying and ferocious.
Upon seeing this, Qing Chen became even more cautious...
One of the leading Black men said, "We were worried that we'd taken business away from the three major drug cartels and would be targeted by them, but we never expected the parents' association to wipe them all out in just two days..."
“We are time travelers, so there’s no need to be so afraid of the three major drug cartels. We are all genetic warriors, and we will eventually unify the drug cartels in Mexico.”
“I’m not afraid of those three major drug cartels, I’m afraid of the parents’ meeting… In the battle of Guatemala, out of more than a thousand members of the Polar Night Organization, only a few of us survived,” the leader of the black men said. “Have you heard? They even stormed into the Arranger prison and killed Cartel.”
The PTA's efforts to dismantle Mexican drug cartels have become headline news worldwide, and there's even a Twitter poll urging the PTA to eliminate the Golden Triangle and all other drug production sources.
Ordinary people feel excited when they see the news, but drug dealers feel scared, mainly because the methods used by the parents to eradicate drug trafficking are too ruthless, and even hiding in prison is not an option.
It's clear that parent-teacher conferences have become a nightmare for both the underworld and criminal organizations.
At this moment, one of the village's subordinates approached the black man and said, "Boss, we've already produced a new batch of goods and distributed them. Now that the three major drug cartels have been taken down, it's a great opportunity for us to seize the market. I heard that the price of goods in Europe has already doubled!"
But then the black man kicked him in the chest, sending him flying more than ten meters away.
Qing Chen was shocked. So powerful!
The black man said coldly, "Who gave you permission to distribute the goods privately? With the parents' association watching, we must be extra careful. We should store the goods for now and not distribute them. If they find out, we might all be wiped out."
The shadow cast on their minds by the parent-teacher conference is one that can never be erased.
Someone nearby said, "That's strange. I have a feeling they're not really fighting crime. What are they doing?"
Black man: "It doesn't matter, we just need to stay hidden."
His gaze swept across the factory, and after looking around without finding anything unusual, he walked straight into the depths of the village.
This drug manufacturing plant was newly established, which is why it needed so much new labor, and that's why it became a target of the parents' association's crackdown on illegal and criminal activities.
These escapees from the polar night organization, having survived the Guatemalan parent-teacher association's crackdown and heard of the downfall of the three major drug cartels, were originally living a carefree life outside, but were forced to hide in this seemingly safe and remote area to avoid the limelight.
Timewalkers do have a significant advantage over ordinary people. By injecting a few gene serums in the inner world, they can become local tyrants in the outer world. Although they can't compare to true masters, they can still live very comfortably.
The Black man reiterated, "Keep a close eye on these workers. Don't let them escape and expose our location. If we are exposed, we will all be dead."
This is the oppressive feeling of parent-teacher meetings.
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At night, Qingchen and all the workers were imprisoned together and slept in the open on the ground.
There is no overtime pay here; all you get is working day and night, with a minimum of 16 hours of work per day.
He calculated the time it would take to travel through time, tallied up his questions, and prepared to have Black Spider and Yi answer them for him after he traveled through time.
However, at this moment, several workers could no longer endure the high intensity of the work and discussed escaping together.
Because of the arrival of a member of the polar night organization who slipped through the net, a huge bonfire was lit in the center of the village, and people were drinking, singing, and dancing.
Some people thought they had found an opportunity, so seven people bent down and ran outside. As long as they crossed the 300-meter flat terrain, it would be easy to climb over the fence at the edge of the village.
But before they even reached the wall, they were spotted by the sentries on the tower.
The ruthless bandits at the outpost opened fire with heavy machine guns, riddling them with bullets in just a few seconds.
The gunshots at night startled everyone. The workers sat up in fear, only to see the old woman who had taken care of Qingchen crying out. Those were all villagers from her village, and one by one, their vibrant lives were gone.
Qing Chen watched silently, unmoved.
If time could turn back, and 17-year-old Qingchen had just arrived at Prison No. 18, he would still remain unmoved when he saw the new prisoners being welcomed by the older prisoners.
At this point, he was still that selfish boy; the world had never given him anything, and he had no intention of giving anything back.
Several thugs approached, laughing and joking. They dragged the seven corpses by their legs and brought them in front of the workers: "This is what happens when you try to escape, understand?"
The thugs brought over some wooden stakes and hung the seven corpses on them: "Keep a close eye on them, and then think about whether you want to run away."
When the bodies were being hoisted up, a black wallet fell out of one of the body's pockets. One of the thugs opened the wallet and found it was full of red banknotes. They had never seen this kind of currency before, so they took the banknotes and threw the wallet on the ground.
Qingchen was stunned. He didn't recognize the wallet, but the banknotes inside were RMB, so the villager must have taken the wallet from him.
Before leaving, the bandits dragged fifteen or sixteen young girls of marriageable age from among the workers and led them deeper into the village.
Qing Chen shifted slightly, then suppressed his movement.
The woman rushed over, crying and grabbing the thug's leg: "My daughter is still a child! Please don't bully her!"
One of the thugs kicked her to the ground and said with a sneer, "We just like children."
Qingchen turned his head away, unable to bear to look any longer.
After the thugs left, he quietly retrieved his wallet, opened it, and found his second-generation ID card and a black China Merchants Bank card inside.
Finally, there was one more note.