Chapter 188: Three Days on the Mountain

The Southern Light District has already been destroyed; although it wasn't a true calamity, that doesn't mean such a disaster no longer exists.

On the contrary, among all the threats humanity has faced so far, this kind is the most terrifying.

When the entire Southern Light District fell and became a human inferno, the nearby Northern Light District, not far away, would naturally also encounter trouble.

This planet has never been peaceful; every year a settlement collapses, and countless people die, transformed into the monsters that roam the earth.

Humanity has already reached its end; everything is over, and even though it has lingered for a thousand years after the disaster, it is merely a feeble survival.

In the end, they still march toward destruction, toward death.

The outbreak of true calamities follows no pattern, or rather, humanity's current technology cannot fend off their onslaught.

When confronting a true calamity, all humanity can do is rush to suppress it at the moment of outbreak, search for patterns; if that fails, they can only send a suicide squad in, using special means to trigger the entry point and cause it to shift.

As for annihilating a true realm, with current human technology it is absolutely impossible.

At this moment, inside the building, everything has fallen into a state of stillness.

Time seems to have stopped flowing at this instant, but consciousness has not.

Wang Wu can even swivel his eyes to look around, though his body is completely immobile.

From left to right, from up to down, from front to back, and then from…

"What's happening, master?"

Wang Wu doesn't know whether his master Yin Shenli has been affected, but he remains confident in his master and calls out in his mind.

But Yin Shenli gives no response.

"Master?"

So Wang Wu calls out again.

"Master?"

"Master, master? Xiao Li? Wife? Lady?"

The successive calls still receive no reply. This makes Wang Wu grow solemn.

Because Yin Shenli exists, Wang Wu has no doubt about his safety. Yin Shenli is the very reason his nerves are so lax.

But now, he receives no response from his master at all.

This makes Wang Wu's previously steady heart suddenly hang in his throat.

So he hurriedly called his other master, Qin Xiang.

However, this time the phone that had always worked flawlessly seems to have failed.

Beep—beep—beep—beep

Only a rapid tone, without even a "out of service area" notice.

This situation makes Wang Wu's heart jump to his throat.

His eyeballs begin to spin rapidly, trying to locate familiar figures around him, while his spirit mind swiftly expands outward in all directions.

But even the phone has lost all signal, let alone his spirit mind.

After many futile attempts, Wang Wu realizes something: everything here seems to have entered a stagnant state.

Except for him and his consciousness, everything else is stuck.

"But…" At this moment, Wang Wu feels little fear; logically his temperament would be panicked now, yet he shows none of that.

Now his mind holds only curiosity and doubt.

"If my consciousness can still flow, there's no reason the master's consciousness couldn't flow either, right?"

Although his spirit mind's probing is blocked, Wang Wu's eyes can still see many things, including the Chai Zhi opposite him.

The two—ah no, the two demons—four eyes meet; although Chai Zhi cannot move even an eye, Wang Wu can confirm that the female demon's consciousness is also flowing.

And she is definitely looking at him now, staring intently.

"Can you hear me?"

So Wang Wu tries to send her a message.

Even though his spirit mind cannot transmit, Wang Wu decides to try, since there's no loss.

Staying here is just idling, boring; might as well do something.

"Damn it, this beast, how can it have no sense of tension at all?"

As Wang Wu sends the message to his demon compatriot, a thought flashes in the air above his head.

"Shouldn't he be so cowardly? How is he now not scared at all?"

Normally his heart would be in his throat, but Wang Wu, who otherwise shows no difference, is different now.

In Chai Zhi's mind opposite Wang Wu, her mood is completely different.

She doesn't know what's going on, why a true calamity would erupt here. Logically, beneath this place lies a cult altar, and that cult worships "demon".

Two things that are completely unrelated can still blend together. She cannot grasp why.

In this star system, demons and monsters cannot mix, at least according to records from Chai Zhi's hometown, such a situation has never occurred.

But demons and monsters can indeed appear simultaneously.

Rarely, but not never.

However, as a fugitive, Chai Zhi is a criminal; she was once just a village female demon from a small town, not a world‑worn great monster.

The Feng Guo is a massive demon empire; although the demon population is far fewer than those human empires, compared to the Tian Yuan civilization of Wang Wu's side, it dwarfs it by an unknown magnitude.

With tens of quadrillions of demons, this is indeed a colossal scale.

It exceeds the combined populations of the Earth where his master resides, Wang Wu's home Earth, the entire Tian Yuan civilization, and the San Yue civilization.

The Earth where his master is has a modest population, perhaps a few hundred billion, while the Tian Yuan realm here has even fewer, not even matching Wang Wu's home Earth.

As for the San Yue realm, its population isn't large either; though it's a technological society with decent human fertility, total numbers are only about a trillion.

Compared with this super‑empire that occupies nearly fifteen percent of a star system, that is certainly far inferior.

Wind Country, a highly developed demon race empire.

As for why there are demons on other planets, that's actually simple: after all, the Sanyue people and the local Tianlu people look no different from the Tianyuan people, so it's not surprising that other parts of the universe also have demons.

Although extraterrestrial demons still take human form after transformation, this left Wang Wu somewhat disappointed.

"Can you hear me?"

Even though he couldn't see the other's eyes move, because she wasn't as strong as Wang Wu, her eyes naturally couldn't move at all.

He received no response, yet Wang Wu didn't give up, calling out to Chi Zhi as persistently as he would call out to his master.

"Can you hear? Can you hear?"

Chi Zhi stared at the wildly spinning eyeballs before her, while Wang Wu's voice echoed crazily in her mind; she had originally intended to respond.

But unfortunately, she wasn't Wang Wu and lacked that ability.

Thus, she could only silently endure Wang Wu's endless torment.

"Hey hey hey, can you hear? Can you hear?"

"Hey hey hey! Speak, speak!"

"Are you there, are you there!"

"Hey hey hey?"

Wang Wu can sometimes be truly annoying; he wasn't like this before, but ever since he cultivated the Earth cultivation method, his demeanor became somewhat abstract.

Or rather, it's closer to how he was before ever being soaked in society's great dye vat—more annoying, more disgusting, more…

Ugh, never mind.

Wang Wu didn't know whether time had passed, nor whether the counterpart had heard his words.

Anyway, he couldn't do anything now; instead of staying idle, he might as well spam the people around with junk messages to pass the time.

Yes, that's what Wang Wu is doing at the moment.

As for scouting the surroundings, his divine sense couldn't reach out, sensing nothing; he could only spin his two eyeballs, and there was nothing worth seeing nearby.

So Wang Wu could only look at the female demon opposite him.

Of course, not her figure but her face. Though he is a demon, he remains quite proper or conservative toward an unfamiliar female demon.

After all, even though he guessed she was a scorpion spirit, without knowing her exact race or her views, any out‑of‑line action toward her would be absolutely impossible.

He wouldn't even think of it; he's not some sowing machine, collider, or pile driver.

Thus Wang Wu was merely looking at Chi Zhi's face.

"So beautiful."

Even though he's seen countless demons and lives in a demon city, a demon's face truly never becomes tiresome no matter how many times one looks.

Even though he has become resistant to this kind of beauty, it doesn't mean Wang Wu no longer enjoys looking.

A truly nation‑toppling beauty is like this; there could never be a day when one gets "tired of looking" at it.

Of course, living in such a place has its downside: it raises his threshold for "beauty" dramatically.

Thus, Wang Wu's few human wives were somewhat insecure at first, but that insecurity vanished after Wang Wu harshly scolded, punished, guided, and opened them up.

Of course, it also relates to their own temperaments, and not every girl feels a bit insecure.

There are four humans, Zi Yuan included, so four in total. Among these, only Wang Lan experienced insecurity, because she was the weakest at the start.

"Speaking of your beauty, you must have many suitors here, right?"

"Have you ever had a boyfriend here? How many? How many are you dating now? Or are you already married? How many husbands?"

"Or are you a staunch monogamy supporter?"

"Or…"

Chi Zhi silently endured Wang Wu's information bombardment, from initial excitement to later awkwardness, and now numbness.

At this moment, she has completely emptied her mind, letting herself think of nothing and care about nothing.

Because Wang Wu is indeed a bit too tormenting.

However, to speak of dislike, she doesn't feel much aversion.

When she first met him, Chi Zhi thought Wang Wu was somewhat special.

She couldn't articulate what the feeling was, but it made her linger on this man's face for a while.

Of course not his appearance; as a demon, Wang Wu's looks are common in the demon race, essentially average.

In terms of looks, the demon race seems to have only an average level; everyone is on the same tier.

Thus, although demons are beautiful, in a sense they really have no particular standards for appearance.

Scholars—no, among humans there are always some love stories involving demons. Yes, even in the space era, such stories remain plentiful.

A plain‑looking human cultivator meets a stunningly beautiful demon; after some time together, the demon becomes completely enamored, devoting everything to the human.

Moreover, that demon is the very loyal type, extremely faithful in love, loving only one person in a lifetime.

And they keep chastity like a jade, yet upon meeting their lover they instantly fall, offering everything that very night.

In short, it's the typical trope of scholar novels.

But such cases indeed have many real‑life examples here.

Take Chi Zhi, for example; she is a relatively few loyal‑type demons in Wind Country, nearly two thousand years old yet still pristine, because she hasn't met her destined true husband.

She has read quite a few of these novels and quite enjoys them.

Time ticks second by second, though time here might not actually pass.

It's unknown how long has passed, since time has lost meaning; it could be a hundred years, a thousand, even ten thousand or a million years.

Such occurrences were not unprecedented in the past; on the contrary, there are many examples.

He mistakenly entered the True Realm, yet was extremely lucky; after wandering the True Realm for a while, he found an exit and escaped.

But after escaping, he found the present world had long changed; everything he once knew had already vanished.

In Chi Zhi's hometown, she had heard of some such cases; the one she remembered most clearly was a demon of the demon race who mistakenly entered the True Realm, and when she emerged, a full one hundred thousand years had already passed outside.

A full one hundred thousand years.

At the time, the incident made the news and spread far and wide throughout Wind Country.

Chi Zhi didn't know why she suddenly thought of this matter; perhaps Wang Wu's rambling had scattered her thoughts, or perhaps she simply thought of it on her own.

But at that moment, she, who had been unable to move, found her eyes flicker.

To be precise, when Chi Zhi saw Wang Wu's face on the other side twitch, her heart jolted. Immediately after, she tried to move her own body.

After several attempts, she also discovered that her eyes could move.

Then, Chi Zhi looked at the opposite side again and found that Wang Wu, who had been there, had disappeared at some point.

That made her heart tremble again.

"I... finally can move!"

Immediately, a voice sounded behind her.

(End of chapter)