Princesa Mercenaria

Capítulo 30

Ye Xiao insisted on pushing Sun Zichu away, and Dingding walked over and said, "Ye Xiao, are you really sure?"

"Yes, I must keep my promise."

His decision left everyone in disbelief. Tong Jianguo returned to him and sighed, "You really are a man!"

"This is fate!" Ye Xiao gave a bitter smile. "Tong Jianguo, although you once hunted me down, I admire you greatly. Now that you have a gun, the responsibility of protecting everyone is entrusted to you! Please!"

Don't worry!

Looking at this young man who could be his son, Tong Jianguo felt only regret. He walked back through the stone gate, beckoning everyone to follow him, but his grandson, Sun Zichu, continued to grumble, "Ye Xiao, have you lost your mind?"

"That's enough, let's go!"

Tong Jianguo forcibly dragged his grandson, Sun Zichu, into the stone gate.

No one could understand Xiaozhi, let alone Ye Xiao, so everyone could only bid them farewell with regret.

The last one to enter the gate was Dingding. She turned to look at Ye Xiao, but received a resolute look in return.

Goodbye—no, we'll never see each other again.

After they all entered the stone gate, Ye Xiao slowly closed it forever, leaving himself in the world of Tianji.

Before the three stone doors, only Ye Xiao and Xiao Zhi remained, looking at each other without speaking.

Xiaozhi looked into his eyes, but turned off her flashlight.

Ye Xiao had only one flashlight left in the stone chamber, but he immediately turned it off.

The world was plunged into darkness once again.

Utter darkness.

"Why? Why did you do this?"

Ye Xiao leaned against the stone gate, sighing helplessly. Perhaps this was his fate.

"I don't want to leave, and I don't want you to leave either."

"Do you know?" Now that everything was pitch black, he closed his eyes. "I don't love you at all, although I don't hate you either."

"Then why did you stay?"

"promise."

These two brief words made Xiaozhi pause for a long time before she said, "You value your promise more than your life?"

"yes."

“So—” she said, her voice trembling, “I love you.”

"I'm sorry, your love has nothing to do with me."

Have you thought about the future?

"The future does not belong to me, because my love was lost in the past."

The Gate to the Future.

Tong Jianguo, Sun Zichu, Lin Junru, Elena, Qiuqiu, Dingding.

The six people walked through the passageway one by one. Six bolts of lightning shone straight ahead. None of them had ever been through this passage before. They only felt that it was so deep that it seemed to lead to hell.

Dingding was still thinking about what was behind her, wondering if Ye Xiao would suddenly catch up. But after walking for a while, there was no movement behind them at all. Complete silence enveloped the six men and women, and their uneasy hearts filled with uncertainty about the future.

As they descended the steps, their flashlights swept across the reliefs on the stone wall, revealing countless faces staring at them. Their first reaction was one of dread, but they quickly stopped in amazement.

All the flashlights were pointed at the wall, like an art gallery suddenly turned on, illuminating exquisite art treasured for thousands of years—a relief sculpture group tens of meters long, vividly depicting many figures and buildings, showing the light and shadow in the electric light, like a historical scroll.

No, that's not history, it's the future.

Sun Zichu's eyes almost popped out of their sockets as he trembled as he approached the magnificent relief, getting so close that only a few centimeters remained, yet he dared not reach out to touch this great masterpiece.

This is not the future eight hundred years ago; the future back then was now. This is the future eight hundred years from now, the future of today, the future that will unfold in the next ten, twenty, thirty, fifty, one hundred, five hundred, one thousand years…

In the passageway of the Gate to the Future, six pairs of eyes were stunned. They dared not approach or retreat, staring at the stone wall that recorded the future of humanity, at this shocking relief sculpture. It was as if they were watching a movie trailer to be released tomorrow, reading the outline of a new book to be released next year, or listening to a demo tape of a song that will be popular ten years from now...

The 21st century? And the 22nd century... all the way to the fourth millennium!

What will the future look like?

What changes will occur in the future?

What will become of humanity?

Although the answer has been given on the ancient stone wall, it is all a secret of heaven—it cannot be revealed!

This is the secret of heaven.

As everyone stood before the future of humanity, desperately trying to find their place, to find a key or a password, unwilling to leave, a tremendous roar came from the tunnel behind them.

Then came a deafening tremor, and a surge of heat rushed in from the Gate to the Future, transforming into a powerful explosive shockwave!

"Get down!"

Tong Jianguo, with his bandages in his sling, dragged his grandson Chu to the ground, and the others quickly curled up on the ground as the heat swept over their heads.

The stone walls overhead and the stone slabs beneath them were all trembling violently, making everyone's hearts almost shatter. Tong Jianguo thought of the tons of explosives buried in the Nanming Stadium—was this a massive explosion in the sleeping city?

"Run!"

After the first shockwave subsided, they stood up and hurriedly ran forward. Tong Jianguo was still maintaining order to prevent them from crowding each other and slowing them down.

They swiftly traversed the narrow passageway, leaving behind the violently shaking stone walls and the future of humanity.

Although air currents continued to rush towards them, none of the six were injured. They gradually moved away from the Rakshasa Kingdom along the downward-flowing tunnel.

After passing through another stone gate, there were no longer any traces of human excavation. Everyone shone their flashlights around and discovered that it had become a natural underground environment, with stalactites hanging everywhere, displaying a variety of colors under the flashlight. This is a common karst cave spectacle in Southwest China.

There must be an exit!

Despite the pain in his arm, Tong Jianguo shouted excitedly.

Most caves are as complex as mazes, but this cave has no other branches. Once you exit the stone gate, there is only one direction, so just follow this path straight ahead.

After walking for a short while, we heard the sound of flowing water. Shining a flashlight at our feet, we saw that it was an underground river flowing rapidly through a cave, a clear sign of karst topography.

The obvious truth that water will flow out gave everyone hope. They carefully followed the direction of the water downstream, seeing stunning stalactites and even strange little fish in the underground river.

life!

Fish are life; this is not a grave, but a tunnel leading to life, like a second birth in the womb.

Dingding suddenly realized, "I understand! This is the secret passage through which the Rakshasa King escaped eight hundred years ago."

Accompanied by the sound of flowing water, the group walked faster and faster, as if summoned by a call to rebirth. No one checked the time anymore, for here time had lost its meaning.

But the cave seemed incredibly long, and no one knew how much longer they would have to walk. They had been walking for most of the night without sleep or rest, and felt exhausted and hungry, their strength almost completely depleted.

Just when some people were feeling hopeless, a glimmer of light appeared ahead.

This light was like the only candlelight in a dark room, giving even the most exhausted person strength.

People rushed up to look and discovered it was a gap, through which the underground river flowed out, and they could even smell the forest!

free!

They waded through the gap and climbed out, finally leaving the dark cave. The surroundings were still covered by forest, but a few rays of sunlight pierced through the leaves and fell on their heads.

This is the morning of the second day!

Tong Jianguo, the first to emerge, knelt on the ground in anguish, gazing up at the sky and basking in the sunlight.

The others emerged from the cave one by one, all too excited to speak. The last to come out was Dingding, who saw the morning sunlight in the forest, but then looked back at the huge rock, which had split open a hole several meters wide, from which sweet spring water flowed.

However, instead of feeling excited, she was overcome with a deep sadness.

The six fugitives couldn't tell which way to go, but they kept walking straight ahead, trying to get as far away from the cave leading to the Land of Rakshasa as possible.

The forest was filled with birdsong, and the people breathing in the fresh air could endure even hunger. After walking for half an hour, they suddenly saw a winding mountain road through the gaps in the leaves.

road!

They excitedly ran out of the forest and rushed to the side of the winding mountain road. On one side were mountains, and on the other side were cliffs; it seemed to be the same road the tour bus had traveled on the first day of the story.

Soon a bus arrived, and they rushed into the road to block it. The driver immediately stopped the bus.

This was a tour group of German retirees returning to Chiang Mai from the Lanna Royal Tombs. Most of these elderly Germans were viewers of the reality TV show "The Secret," and they immediately recognized Tong Jianguo and his companions. They were as excited as if they had met celebrities, readily offering water and food to the six exhausted survivors.

A retired German doctor examined Tong Jianguo's left arm injury. Sun Zichu and Lin Junru were enjoying their meal, Elena and Qiuqiu were crying in each other's arms, and Dingding was sitting alone on the side.

At noon, the bus gradually entered Chiang Mai city, and the survivors of the Tianji Travel Group finally returned to the human world they had been missing for so long.

Goodbye, Sleeping City.

Goodbye, Land of Rakshasa.

Goodbye, empty city night.

Goodbye, Last Judgment.

Goodbye, Xiao Fang, Tu Nan, Cheng Li, Tang Xiaotian, Huang Wanran, Li Shu, Yang Mou, Qian Mozheng, Henry, the driver, Yu Ling, X, Ma Qianlong, Li Xiaojun... a total of 4 people turned into ghosts.

Goodbye, Xiaozhi and Yexiao, they will remain in Nanming City forever.

Goodbye. Tong Jianguo, Sun Zichu, Lin Junru, Elena, Qiuqiu, Dingding. After paying the price of many lives, they may have left the City of Sleep, but they will never leave the world of Heavenly Secrets.

Someone said something as they got off the bus—

"Bodhi has no tree. The bright mirror is not a stand. Originally there is nothing. Where can dust alight?"

The End of the Complete Version of "The Secret of Heaven Season 4"

It's not over yet.

Nearly a year after the events of The Secret, in August 2007, the first season of The Secret, "The Sleeping City," was released; in November 2007, the second season, "The Kingdom of Rakshasa," was released; in March 2008, the third season, "The Night of the Great Empty City," was released; and in May 2008, the fourth season, "The Last Judgment," was released... This was supposed to be the finale, and there would be no fifth season.

But before the final volume of *The Secrets of Heaven* is published, there are a few questions that readers are concerned about, and I need to address them—

For example, the management of Dragon Satellite TV in the United States was thrown into chaos after the death of its top leader, Li Xiaojun. The testimonies of six survivors who escaped the ordeal exposed all of Dragon TV's lies, shocking and angering television viewers worldwide. US judicial authorities intervened, some executives faced criminal charges and were forced to face imprisonment. Dragon TV's stock price plummeted, and it was quickly delisted from the stock market. The company was forced to agree to compensate all victims, totaling hundreds of millions of dollars. After months of turmoil, Dragon TV declared bankruptcy and went into liquidation.

After a brief return to her parents in Taipei, Lin Junru quickly flew across the strait to Shanghai, where she soon became engaged to Sun Zichu. The wedding was scheduled for September 19, 2008, the same day they met two years earlier when the Tianji Travel Group departed.

Dingding returned to Beijing with unusual discretion, and her solo album was released a year later. From then on, she never tried hypnosis again, nor did she ever tell anyone about her legendary experiences in the world of esoteric arts.

The most pitiful one is the girl Qiuqiu, who has become an orphan without parents and is now being raised by her uncle's family. Her greatest wish is to find the remains of her parents—including Qian Mozheng's—and move their ashes back to China for burial.

Elena quickly returned to the United States and organized a lawsuit and claims against "Dragon TV." But less than two months later, she discovered she was pregnant! This unexpected discovery left her with mixed feelings; she knew the father of the child was the Almanac. After a brief hesitation, she decided to give birth to the child, because this embryo was created in the Sleeping City, created in the world of celestial secrets. In the summer of 2007, Elena gave birth to a son, a very beautiful mixed-race child, named Messiah Li.