Chapter 307: Surprises and Shocks

In the snap of a finger, infinite thunder burst forth from the clouds.

The void lightning condensed into substance. Under the pouring of inner malice, it manifested as the shapes of blades, spears, swords, and halberds. After gathering the aftermath, it poured destruction into that dreamlike crystal.

Spiritual Quality Shaping!

Combining one's own soul with the operation of the world, turning one's own spiritual quality into a container for the changes of heaven and earth, and using one's own will to act on behalf of the destruction of the mortal world!

At this moment, all kinds of thunder crystals appeared out of thin air between her unfolded hands. Then, amidst the storm that shrouded most of the Federation, the infinite, mighty heavenly power descended from the sky along with the downpour.

The terrifying destructive power that crowned the Twelve Supreme Virtues manifested here—

Matrix · 【Shadow Origin】, going all out!

All that could be seen were streaks of intense light that instantly pierced the heavens and earth, condensed and not dispersing, showing no signs of collapse even when piercing into the earth.

No screams or wails could be heard, no blood or corpses could be seen; thunder and lightning covered everything!

In this kind of thunderstorm weather, the Entropy-rank, whose destructive power was naturally the most exaggerated, naturally expanded again. There was no need to gather thunder light or construct Yin and Yang; one only needed to wantonly squander this destructive power.

The humid air was instantly filled with the smell of scorching rot. After the air was ionized, the stench and countless faint blue lightning streaks spread layer by layer.

It was as if someone was shouting something loudly, but it couldn't be heard clearly at all.

The writhing phantoms collapsed rapidly amidst the thunder, scattering, wanting to escape, but after breaking through the thunder cage with great difficulty, they slammed into a high wall of distinct ink-black.

"Come again, come again! Continue, continue!"

Lou Yanyue laughed, her laughter becoming more high-pitched along with the thunder. Amidst the communion between heaven and man, her nature and the madness of the thunder blended, so refreshing. A casual snap of her fingers sent thunder like whips raining down, crisscrossing, and then crushing everything she saw, and it still wasn't enough.

Even when torn to pieces, she didn't stop, still grinding bones and scattering ashes.

Not until the last scorched trace disappeared, and all the clouds in this domain were thoroughly squeezed dry and emptied, did she stop, feeling somewhat unsatisfied.

She gradually descended.

Stepping barefoot on the scorched earth that had been burned away, she spat disdainfully at the scorched marks: "Three old bastards combined aren't as tough as one Wasteland-rank. With just this bit of skill, you dare to come out and sell? If you ask me, Little Tong, you still need to practice."

Tong Shan sighed, wisely not asking what the hell the title "Little Tong" was, just nodding: "Hard work."

"Hey! We're all brothers, why be polite?"

Lou Yanyue waved her hand, stood on tiptoe, patted his shoulder, stood akimbo with a proud smile, showing her loyalty, "If you have anything, call me!"

"..."

For a moment, Tong Shan looked at that clearly underage face, wanting to speak but stopping.

I still prefer the way you looked when you were disabled; at least you were quieter...

"No, thank you."

Facing the stick-shaped peppermint candy sent to his eyes, he subconsciously waved his hand, and then Lou Yanyue skillfully tore off the packaging herself, biting into it with a crunch.

"Calculating the time now..." She thought for a moment, then suddenly said: "That kid should have reached Kunwu by now, right?"

"Yes, he arrived yesterday. It is said he caused a huge mess again." Tong Shan sighed: "It's made Tiancheng go crazy. They were the first of the four families to be knocked out. If they aren't reconciled, I'm afraid they'll cause some trouble."

"Fighting back and forth, saying so much, in the end, isn't it just life or death?"

Lou Yanyue sneered: "Now that so many people are being mobilized toward Dragon Abyss... when they fight again, I'm afraid there will be fun. Outside Cliff City hasn't been peaceful these two days either, right? It is said there is an Aether Heaven-Human causing trouble in the dark? Can you hold on?"

"It's nothing more than a bit of chaos, using chaos to control chaos."

Tong Shan shook his head: "A bunch of people who eat inside and out, greedy and never satisfied. After raising them for so many years, it's time to clean them up once."

"What about Lu Yingyue?"

Lou Yanyue asked indifferently: "I heard that mother fox is coming back?"

"..."

Tong Shan glanced at her, and she glanced back indifferently, without the slightest sense of guilt for gossiping behind someone's back, making Tong Shan increasingly helpless.

After all, her reputation was like this... As a subordinate, it was very difficult to correct.

Since she didn't care herself, let others say what they wanted.

"Yes."

Tong Shan looked up toward the direction of the Central City in the northwest, "It should be in these three or four days."

Dark clouds gathered, and the heavy rain was endless.

The Central City could not be seen, only an endless gloom.

"You say, if I go back today, will everyone be pleasantly surprised?"

At this moment, outside the Central City, on the slowly rising airship, Lu Yingyue put down her teacup and asked with a smile to the side.

"I don't know about pleasant, but a shock is certain."

The young secretary sighed, exhausted in body and mind.

Having suffered for so long in the sea of documents and meetings in the Central City with the Director, struggling every day against endless meeting records, and being exhausted by the Director's behavior of tearing up schedules every few days.

Every time Lu Yingyue had a whim, he would suffer; he already had complete PTSD.

At such a critical juncture, Lu Yingyue had secretly left the Central City without warning. He really didn't dare to think about the considerations behind it. Anyway, he knew for sure that some unlucky guy was going to suffer.

Besides that, things you shouldn't know or understand, it's best not to think about blindly.

Thinking is also a crime.

Even on the airship, work continued. When he finally organized a portion of the records on the screen, he realized that no one had spoken in the cabin for a long time.

A silence.

He looked up in confusion, looking at the opposite side.

On the sofa, Lu Yingyue held her teacup, calmly staring out the window. The various changing shattered lights flowed across that graceful and elegant face, but left no traces.

"What are you looking at?"

"The Central City, of course." Lu Yingyue smiled slightly, looking down at the countless flickering lights outside the window: "Every time I look, I feel, it's really big."

Hearing this, the secretary looked curiously out the window, and then, he also fell into silence.

Amidst the gloomy night and the drizzling light rain, everything seemed to become blurred, but the light became clearer and more dazzling.

Looking down from the sky at this moment, it was like an endless ocean.

On one street after another, countless lights flowed silently, bright inside and out. Under the outline of the lights, everything hidden during the day became clearer.

The Nine Heavens Palace, towering like a mountain, rose into the clouds.

Even though he was in mid-air at this moment, staring at the countless lights rising to the sky, he could still feel the towering spirit, and even his own insignificance.

Like an ant.

"Look, we are under the feet of a giant." Lu Yingyue sighed, then suddenly asked: "If you want to be a cell, what do you want to be?"

"Ah?" The secretary was confused, but noticing Lu Yingyue's serious gaze, after thinking for a moment, he tentatively asked: "Uh, plate... let?"

"So cute."

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Lu Yingyue smiled, making the secretary even more confused: "Then what about you, Director? Neuron? Or gray matter?"

"I don't know."

Lu Yingyue shook her head without hesitation, admiring the secretary's speechless look, and said slowly: "When I was young, I had many unrealistic fantasies. As a result, at this age, all ambition is almost gone.

Because I know my own nature too well, to the point that I can't even raise the slightest expectation. Calculating everything can't make a good medicine, and struggling in vain, I'm not reconciled to becoming a fierce poison. Turning around and around, in the end..."

She thought for a moment, her smile becoming more pleasant: "Not being treated as a cancer cell is success, right?"

The secretary was silent and didn't speak again.

He didn't ask much either.

He lowered his head and continued to work.

Just like that, in the swaying night rain, the airship gradually climbed, crossed the thunder and lightning clouds, and returned to the view of the stars and the moon.

Thus, it gradually moved away.

Until it was swallowed by the fire of the explosion.

Two hours later, the Air Traffic Control Bureau issued a notice—private airship number D7660 was suspected of encountering a high-altitude thunderstorm and lost contact.

At the same time, in Liang City, Dragon Abyss, someone uploaded a video they had accidentally filmed: in the downpour, the thunder-filled clouds were burned to a scorching red, like a cracked iron curtain, as if some behemoth was looming, stirring the storm and clouds.

Finally, the broken airship frame fell from it, burning.

It slid slowly toward the earth.

Amidst the roar, countless flames and fragments splashed.

And before this, the night sky of Outside Yacheng in Haizhou had already been illuminated by fire. The flames above the power station danced fiercely in the downpour, while the city quickly fell into darkness.

Without warning, a massive power outage began.

In a narrow rock cave between the mountains, under layers of secret spiritual quality seals, Little Niu Ma lay silent in the darkness.

In the back carriage, on the propped-up table, the massive firearm had already been disassembled. Parts of all sizes were placed on the table in categories. Some needed maintenance, while others were completely twisted and damaged, only fit for scrap recycling and replacement.

The price of the endless pursuit of muzzle velocity and power was the sacrifice of everything that could be sacrificed.

After just one shot, the entire firearm had fallen to the brink of being scrapped. If it weren't maintained and repaired, it wouldn't be of any use at all.

Ji Jue had a magnifying glass in his eye socket, lowering his head to carefully polish the gun barrel workpiece in his hand. His hands were as steady as pliers, slowly and carefully cutting the rifling. Wisps of iron filings fell from his fingertips, piling up into a small hill on the table.

"Don't move."

He warned without looking back, but the mercury limbs behind him suddenly appeared, lashed out, and slapped An Ning's not-so-restless little hand, saving his gun mechanism from disaster.

"Stingy ghost, let me see."

An Ning lay on the edge of the table, slowly poking her head out, looking at the parts of all sizes, still eager to try: "Teach me, what's wrong with that? Maybe I'll learn it all at once!"

"Teach you? Sure."

Ji Jue didn't hesitate. The mercury limbs pointed to her phone, and the screen suddenly lit up, with countless traces and symbols flowing past: "This first volume of 'Material Mechanics' is the secret of our sect. I'll teach it to you today. After you memorize and learn it tomorrow, we can start learning 'Non-Standard Design' and 'Advanced Structural Mechanics'.

Study hard and look hard. After I finish, I'll give you a pop quiz. If you get one question wrong, I'm confiscating a little mouse."

Immediately, the Bai Lu academic failure let out a scream of being uncultured. Just as she was about to say something, she saw Ji Jue's movements suddenly stagnate, as if frozen.

"Something's wrong."

He raised his head, as if listening intently, "The rain seems to be getting heavier?"

That wasn't all.

Just that moment, a distant cracking sound seemed to reach his ears. It was clearly like a hallucination, hard to distinguish, but it caused his spiritual quality to instinctively fluctuate.

It was as if...

Some glass bottle had been smashed?

The gale continued, the downpour didn't stop, and the sound of distant landslides and mudslides raging remained high-pitched. Just for some reason, amidst the many chaotic noises, a wisp of a familiar lingering sound suddenly emerged.

When he listened intently, the wind was shrill, the rain was violent, and it seemed nothing had changed, but within it, a wisp of a sob-like wail clearly sounded, as if weeping and complaining.

Yet it made everything become completely different.

The subtle changes he had experienced many times before emerged again from his perception. The moment the anomaly appeared, Ji Jue felt his spiritual quality becoming increasingly active, as if flames were rising amidst the smoldering firewood.

So familiar.

That was... Sin-Tainted pollution!

That moment, accompanied by the spread of the rift, an infinite black storm erupted from the shattered bottle, rushing into the sky. Cries and wails spread from the rain, shrouding the mountains.

Kunwu darkness.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 308 =====