Li Ke, who was at the front of the group, suddenly turned around with his replica backpack on his back and said, "Everyone, I have to go first. Time waits for no one."
Xiao Qi said earnestly, "Live until we arrive."
"Um."
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The battlefield of A5 was littered with corpses and rivers of blood.
The originally yellow soil was gradually stained black by the dried blood.
The battlefield, stretching for more than ten kilometers between two mountain ranges, was already incredibly desolate.
It was afternoon, and the sun was blazing, making everyone look as if they were coated in gold.
Qingchen is now eager to regain his memories and break his seal.
This time, he genuinely hoped to have more means of killing, instead of just killing those beast soldiers with punches and kicks.
It's so slow!
Other bosses, once their health drops to the critical value, will immediately unleash a powerful attack to wipe out all the weaklings on the screen, but Qingchen is different.
He hoped that if he fought a little longer and got injured, he would remember something, but he didn't.
Qing Chen had been fighting for too long, and he had been going all out every time he attacked. Gradually, he began to breathe heavily, and his speed gradually slowed down.
Before, no one could see his punches clearly, but now it's different; every move he makes can be captured by the naked eye.
The battlefield was vast, and the beast soldiers were bustling about. Qing Chen felt as if he were in the most crowded train station during the Spring Festival travel rush, and he couldn't see anything else at all.
What a wonderful metaphor… Qingchen thought to himself.
The next moment, an old monster, a master of fate, seeing that he was exhausted, quietly appeared again from among the beasts.
The old monster, the charlatan, did not approach rashly. He simply took out an Indian blowgun from his sleeve from several dozen meters away and blew it forcefully.
But just as he blew out the blowgun, Qing Chen suddenly turned around, pinched it between two fingers, and crushed it with a casual grin!
The old monster, the Fate Master, was completely distraught. Qing Chen, on the other hand, showed no signs of his previous exhaustion.
The Fate Master had tested it before; the speed of this blowgun was much faster than bullets from a gun, yet Qing Chen could easily catch it and crush it in his hand. His previous exhaustion was clearly feigned!
The Qing family has already destroyed two forbidden items in succession.
Even though the Roosevelt royal family had many forbidden items, they couldn't withstand such waste!
Moreover, the old monster was filled with doubt and apprehension at the sight of the man's bare-handed ability to destroy forbidden objects, and dared not personally step forward to assassinate him.
But in reality, Qing Chen did not crush the forbidden object with force. The forbidden object was a concrete manifestation of the world's rules and will. Now that he had become a world of his own, when he came into contact with the forbidden object, the rules of the two worlds would collide.
Qing Chen felt that before he had even exerted any force, the dagger from before, and now the blowgun, shattered...
Even Qing Chen himself found it strange. After he lost his memory, he kept hearing Black Spider and Yi talk about the power of various forbidden objects... but these aren't that powerful!
At this moment, the old monster felt extremely fortunate. Luckily, he had only used a forbidden object to test the waters, otherwise he would have died instantly!
But Qing Chen had no intention of letting him go. After crushing the blowgun, he charged at him and chased him for three miles through the midst of the army!
The old monster kept running, never daring to look back!
A legion of over 100,000 orcs plus three demigods—killing them felt like pushing a boss. And to make matters worse, this boss would chase you all over the map, and you couldn't control him.
Where can I go to reason with this?
There's nothing we can do now but wait and see if Qingchen truly runs out of energy.
Every human being eventually reaches a point of exhaustion.
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When Qing Chen was once again surrounded by the orc army, he was already deeply entangled in the battlefield.
He wanted to fight his way back, but the orc legion saw through his intentions and immediately surrounded him layer by layer until they completely separated him from the parents' meeting.
Gradually, Qing Chen went from being able to kill dozens of beast soldiers with a single kick to being able to kill only one beast soldier with a single kick. Everyone could see that his physical functions were declining.
By this time, Qing Chen had single-handedly killed a full 30,000 beast soldiers, all through sheer force of his own fists and kicks.
The old monster, the Fate Master, believed their time had finally come. Under the cover of the beast soldiers, he approached again and, from a distance of over a hundred meters, removed a butterfly brooch from his black robe.
But then he blew a light breath, and the butterfly fluttered its wings and flew towards Qingchen.
As soon as the butterfly appeared, Qing Chen became fierce again, chasing the old monster for another two miles. He even found an opportunity to throw beast soldiers, causing the old monster to bleed internally.
The old monsters who played the Fate Masters were all speechless. So all you know is to feign weakness and act? Where's the Divine Cut? Where's the Cloud Qi?
So you've put all your skill points into acting now?
The old monsters of the Fate Masters suddenly felt somewhat powerless; it seemed that they couldn't push over Qing Chen, this Boss, no matter what they did.
After that, Qing Chen performed the act six more times within an hour, destroying a total of seven forbidden items belonging to the Fate Masters, leaving the old monsters of the Fate Masters completely bewildered.
But... even the fiercest boss can eventually be defeated.
Qing Chen's movements became slower and slower. Just as he was killing 50,000 beast soldiers by himself, a beast soldier rushed to his side and left three bloody marks on his back with its claws.
The wound wasn't deep; others might not be able to withstand such a claw strike, but on him, it felt like a kitten scratching him.
This was only a minor injury for Qing Chen, but it meant a beginning.
The beginning of exhaustion.
Qingchen stood panting in the middle of the battlefield, feeling that he had no companions around him, only demons.
This time he wasn't faking it; he was genuinely exhausted.
However, when he was truly exhausted, the old monsters of the Fate Master dared not approach him again.
Looking at the wound on Qingchen's back, they whispered, "It's a ruse, definitely a ruse."
Just like the story of 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf,' the little boy only cried three times before everyone stopped believing him.
Qing Chen performed the act nine times in total, and the old monsters who were playing the Fate Masters really dared not believe it anymore.
He suddenly turned back towards the parent-teacher meeting; he had to leave before he was truly exhausted, or he would mess things up.
Before he arrived, Qing Ji told him that all he needed to do was stall for time as much as possible; if he could hold out for six hours, reinforcements would arrive.
But by this time, Qingchen had already delayed for six hours, and had not seen a single reinforcement.
Moreover, he felt something was wrong. The orc legion numbered around 100,000, and he alone had killed 50,000, yet the enemy seemed to be showing no mercy and continued to whittle down the orc soldiers.
Qing Chen felt that this shouldn't be the case. It seemed that the other party had a backup plan. Otherwise, why would they dare to come all the way to the Eastern Continent like this?
If the Western Continent has no backup plan, then the other side will seem incredibly foolish.
He remembered Zero saying something in the safe house: Never underestimate a fortune teller.
Therefore, the Western Continent must still possess some trump card that they are unaware of. It could be something like the mechanical spider that has been hidden for a long time, or... the other side might have a forbidden object that could destroy everything in the Eastern Continent!
Qingchen used all his strength to rush back, preparing to meet up with the parents.
One of the old monsters suddenly realized something was wrong: "He really can't hold on this time. Surround him and don't give him a chance to meet up with the parents!"
Qingchen wanted to reunite with the parents' association, but no matter how hard he tried, new orc legions would always fill the gap, widening the distance between him and the parents' association once again.
However, at this moment, Qing Chen suddenly roared and raised his hands, facing the orc legion blocking his way with unparalleled grace!
The old monsters who were playing the Fate Masters were immediately startled, and for a moment, even the orc legion paused for a few breaths.
In that instant, Qing Chen leaped up and soared over a hundred meters to meet up with the parents!
The old monster, the Fate Master: "..."
What kind of operation is this?
The image that Qingchen had previously created for everyone was so powerful that when he raised his hands, everyone thought he was about to unleash a powerful move. But all that was said was a lot of noise and nothing happened!
After the battle, we didn't see many of Qing Chen's signature techniques, but we did see quite a few of his fancy moves!
After meeting up with the parents, Qingchen hurriedly said, "Retreat, retreat, retreat quickly!"
The parents retreated to the last line of defense like a tidal wave. Qingchen nervously looked around, trying to see if any reinforcements would arrive.
However, fate has long been blurred, and even Ginkgo Mountain cannot know the answer to time.
Qingchen tried to buy time to bring reinforcements, but ultimately they didn't arrive.
On the retreat, the orc legion attacked again. Qingchen used his remaining strength to fight back and forth, creating an opportunity for the parents' association to retreat.
But the battlefield was too vast, and even he could not protect everyone from the overwhelming tide of orcish legions.
Qing Chen was a little sad because both Yi and Black Spider had said that everyone was waiting for him to come back, as if everything would be fine once he returned.
Qing Chen also hoped that after he returned, he would wreak havoc everywhere, just like Saitama from One-Punch Man, who could plow a huge trench on the earth with just one punch and annihilate the entire orc army.
However, reality and imagination are always different.
Xiao Er was one of the few A-level soldiers on the A5 defense line. After Qing Chen joined him, he stayed by Qing Chen's side like a royal bodyguard.
Qing Chen looked at the waiter: "Um... what's your name?"
The waiter chuckled: "You can just call me waiter."
As Qing Chen snapped the neck of a beast soldier, he said with shame, "I'm sorry, I couldn't kill all these monsters."
The waiter paused for a moment: "You're using the most apologetic tone to say the harshest things... This is the defensive line with the largest number of orc legions, it's normal that you can't kill them all."
At this moment, the orc army split off on both flanks to flank them, raising dust across the vast plain.
Their speed far exceeded that of the parents' meeting, and their pursuit was always faster than their retreat, so much so that by the time the parents had retreated to the last line of defense, the entire defensive position was already surrounded.
Even if Qing Chen had three heads and six arms, he couldn't save them this time.
Qingchen originally thought the parents would be in a panic, but Xiao Er suddenly raised his arm and held up one index finger.
The next moment, commands were relayed out, and a group of parent association members stepped forward to stand at the outermost edge of the defensive perimeter.
The moment the parents' meeting clashed with the orc legion, some were instantly pierced by the orc soldiers' claws. But those pierced did not give up; they continued to pull the trigger, coughing up blood, and creating deep, bloody holes in the orc soldiers.
The beast soldiers formed a giant millstone around them, and when the millstone started to spin, it would grind blood out of them, as if it wanted to grind out the bones of the parents and swallow them.
The parent-teacher association members kept retreating, but for every step they took back, the orc army would move forward one step.