Chapter 143: Saving Others, Saving Self, Saving the Heart

The summer heat was sweltering, and the international metropolis of Shanghai was becoming increasingly restless.

The pale-faced Meng Yi walked to a shopping mall, paused at the entrance, looked up at the cloudless sky, and his deep, pitch-black pupils seemed to reflect the future.

The background of the first dungeon of the second rank was very detailed. With so many elements combined, it would be strange if he couldn't guess it was "Dragon Raja."

Meng Yi reminisced: "The youth of a generation, can't go back."

With a sword of intent to cut off sorrow, no matter what "Dragon Raja" was like, it had nothing to do with him now.

Personally enter the field to talk about love with the little dragons?

Not necessary at all!

If a player managed to reach the second rank with this kind of mentality, they would be a super weirdo.

Meng Yi strolled through the air-conditioned shopping mall, thinking about what was worth his attention in the "Dragon Raja Dungeon."

After calculating, only the Star Spirit status technology was somewhat interesting.

The rest of the alchemy and Spirit Speech technology wasn't even worthy of carrying the shoes of the "Infinite World Tree · Omnipotent Power."

The Dragon race's cocoon resurrection technology had no comparability with the "Information Indestructible Body," let alone the "Rule Concept Indestructible Body" he planned to upgrade to later.

Blood Rage, Path to Godhood...

These amplification levers—let them come and challenge him after they can beat the side-effect-free "Constant · Eight Inner Gates Formation · Gate of Death" and "Constant · Ten-Tails Baryon Mode."

"Red Queen."

"Chairman, I am here."

The information-state light detached from Meng Yi's body, manifesting the form of a black-haired, red-dressed girl from virtual to real.

"Psionic · Mind System" tampered with the thinking and cognition of living beings.

In the bustling shopping mall, no one felt that Red Queen's appearance was the slightest bit abrupt.

Meng Yi pondered for a moment, "Take over the civilization network of this star."

"Yes."

Little Red Queen touched the network medium with her fingers, and the domineering information erosion spread out in a virus-like division.

The original Red Queen was an artificial intelligence, later transformed through psionic life, cell-level computer matrix, and the second butler of the Star of Infinity, and also gained the "Information Circulation Physical Rule" buff, which could be called the nemesis of technological civilizations.

The Secret Party's NOMA (EVA)?

Kaguya-hime of the Serpent Eight Families?

The Ruins of Yin of the Chinese hybrid families?

Weak, weak, weak! Too weak! All of them were vulnerable!

In a few seconds, the network of the Blue Star civilization welcomed an absolute master.

Red Queen blinked her ruby-like, gorgeous eyes, had a flash of inspiration, and compiled a legal and reasonable identity for herself and Meng Yi.

Referring to the "Information Hub," she extracted and summarized valuable intelligence.

"Chairman, task complete."

"Timeline: July 3, 2004, Landing Location: China · Shanghai, this place has a marked unit: Shilan Middle School."

Meng Yi raised an eyebrow; the time point of his landing was quite clever.

July 3, 2004, Shilan Middle School—from this, several keywords could be extended, such as "Rainy Night," "000 Elevated Bridge," "Maybach."

"Hmm, don't deal with the dungeon natives for now."

"With the help of the network, secretly distinguish the transcendent systems different from the 'Dragon Raja Dungeon' Spirit Speech and Alchemy, and lock onto the traces of other second-rank players."

A week-long healing period was neither long nor short; finding clues about other players would just be a bonus.

"Yes."

At Meng Yi's command, Red Queen began her operation.

Countries around the world, major economic bodies, and major hybrid organizations didn't know that the entire civilization's technological network had become Red Queen's toy, and outer space orbital satellites had become eyes for scouting enemy traces.

A slight overflow of matter from the "Positive and Negative · Star of Infinity."

Meng Yi rewrote the atomic structure, turning mud into two mobile phones that surpassed the current human civilization's technology by hundreds of years.

Giving one to Red Queen, Meng Yi played with his phone casually, and the compiled identity registered for various software in one second.

"Still missing something; need bank cards too."

As soon as the words fell, two bank cards connected to the whole world were produced.

Over a hundred countries would pay for Meng Yi's consumption, and no matter how they checked, they wouldn't find any problems.

After strolling for a while, Meng Yi bought a bottle of water and a pack of cigarettes at the checkout counter.

As he walked out, a slightly decadent middle-aged salaryman also happened to walk out.

The suit and leather shoes couldn't hide the man's explosive physique, and his powerful heart pumped highly corrosive dragon blood to his limbs and bones.

Those decadent, depressed eyes seemed to hide a lion looking down on the heroes, and the imperceptible time fluctuation was detected by Meng Yi and Red Queen.

'Chairman, target suspected: Chu Tianjiao, Spirit Speech: No. 84 · Time Zero.'

Red Queen immediately pulled up Chu Tianjiao's information, but Meng Yi raised his hand, signaling that there was no need to make a fuss.

"It can be considered a coincidence. Give him a chance and see if he can grasp it." Meng Yi replied in a flat tone.

When he watched "Dragon Raja" back then, there were many regrets, and the rainy night high-bridge Maybach was undoubtedly one of them.

Help someone out if you can.

Don't ask for anything else, just be happy yourself.

And, if he remembered correctly, the trunk of Chu Tianjiao's Maybach hid the reincarnation container of the "Black Emperor · Nidhogg," and he was about to trade with the "Incomplete Star Spirit · King of Sky and Wind."

The Black King's cocoon, the complete incomplete Star Spirit status—it was worth the price of the ticket to save a father-son relationship.

A cynical young man turning into a cold-faced knife man?

Forget it, it's better for Chu Zihang to be taken care of by his father.

Meng Yi stepped forward and blocked Chu Tianjiao's path.

The middle-aged salaryman looked up at the young man and woman, and based on the principle of avoiding trouble, weighed the pros and cons and chuckled: "Brother, what can I do for you?"

Society had smoothed out the edges of this hybrid.

His wife and children were even more like chains binding him.

To shield his wife and children from the wind and rain, Chu Tianjiao used all his savings to open a company, letting his subordinate become Chu Zihang's stepfather, just so his wife and children could stay away from the dangers of hybrids and enjoy a peaceful, wealthy life.

As a husband, as a father, as a warrior, Chu Tianjiao was undoubtedly qualified; the only thing he lacked was communication.

Meng Yi shook the cigarette pack he had just opened.

"Friend, can I borrow a light?"

Chu Tianjiao breathed a sigh of relief, looked at Meng Yi's cigarette pack, took a lighter from his pocket, and handed it over.

"Hwa cigarettes, little brother has good taste."

Meng Yi took out two cigarettes, lit one for himself, and handed the other one and the lighter to Chu Tianjiao.

The middle-aged salaryman waved his hand repeatedly, explaining: "Thanks for the kindness, little brother, but I won't smoke."

"I have to go to school to pick up my son after school later; it's not good to have the smell of smoke on me."

Mentioning the word 'son', there was truly light shining in Chu Tianjiao's tired eyes.

"I'll be going if there's nothing else."

"Hey, overtime, overtime, working overtime every day, is it easy to earn this pocket money?"

Chu Tianjiao complained about his life; he was purely playing a role-playing game of the Long Wang's return.

How could a driver use his boss's Maybach as his own private car?

He opened the company, and the company boss was his agent.

Su Xiaoyan and Chu Zihang, mother and son, had lived under the protection of this man's wings from beginning to end.

From the fact that Chu Tianjiao disappeared in the original work, his subordinate never went home to live, found excuses to go on business trips every few days, and treated Chu Zihang and his mother with courtesy, one could see the clues; it was just a case of the bystander seeing clearly while the person involved was confused.

"Don't be in such a hurry, the weather is bad."

"Seeing that you are a driver, meeting is fate, how about giving me a ride?"

Meng Yi pinched out the cigarette he hadn't smoked, threw it accurately into the trash can in a parabola, and placed his palm on Chu Tianjiao's shoulder.

The weather is bad?

Chu Tianjiao was confused, "This isn't clear sky..."

"Pitter-patter—"

Lightning spreading at the speed of light covered the sky.

"Boom boom—"

Thunder spreading at the speed of sound followed closely behind.

Lead-gray clouds covered the clear sky for ten thousand miles, and the whistling wind blew the roadside green trees like duckweed swaying, and bean-sized raindrops smashed into the human world.

Before long, the misty water vapor blurred the vision, drawing curses from many passersby.

A sound came from the news channel of the shopping mall's TV.

"The weather station is urgently interrupting with a piece of news: 'Typhoon · Dandelion' has suddenly changed its predicted route and will arrive in Shanghai in half an hour. Citizens, please..."

Chu Tianjiao's heart skipped a beat, his wide-open mouth could fit an egg, and he looked at the man and woman in front of him in disbelief.

Damn it! What the hell!

Calling the wind and summoning the rain, are you God?!

Tampering with the weather in a few words, I'm afraid even the King of Ocean and Water couldn't do it?

But Chu Tianjiao really didn't detect the aura of a hybrid on Meng Yi and Red Queen.

'Intentional or coincidence?'

Chu Tianjiao's mind worked rapidly; his car trunk had something extraordinary, so it was understandable to attract the peeping of 'monsters'.

'Test it!'

'Time · Zero!'

Time power lingered, Chu Tianjiao accelerated his time flow, and the wind, rain, and pedestrians became a slow frame-by-frame animation.

"First-degree Blood Rage!"

"Second-degree Blood Rage!"

The brilliant golden pupils ignited, and the lion that was pretending to sleep roared at the world!

In the 'still' world, Meng Yi and Red Queen recovered their vitality.

Meng Yi tilted his head and pressed a finger against Chu Tianjiao's forehead.

"Friend, isn't that a bit much?"

"!!"

Chu Tianjiao's mentality exploded; ignoring Time Zero, manipulating the flow of weather, easily crushing second-degree Blood Rage—it was a Long Wang hammer!

"I admit defeat because my skills are inferior; do whatever you want!"

The burly warrior with bristling hair and beard burst his suit, preparing to delay time to enter a deeper, more uncontrollable Blood Rage.

"Erase."

Meng Yi said two words softly, "Positive and Negative · Star of Infinity" slightly covered a bit of the material universe, and the Dragon race bloodline and Dragon race Spirit Speech that were not allowed by him came to an abrupt end.

Time returned to flow.

Chu Tianjiao was desperate! This damn thing couldn't even be fought!

Meng Yi: 'No need to be desperate.'

The light words echoed in the middle-aged man's mind.

Chu Tianjiao's face was as pale as paper, damn it! It's mind reading!

Meng Yi explained: 'Not mind reading, you have too many overflowing emotions. Although I have the means to read minds, modify memories, and overturn cognition, I don't use them much anymore.'

"!!"

Admitted! This monster actually admitted it!

Meng Yi said unhappily: 'Hey hey hey, calling me a "monster" is going too far, right?'

Outrageous!

Chu Tianjiao wanted to collect his scattered emotions, but he couldn't calm down no matter what.

"Big boss, what can I do for you?"

The same words, said just now and said now, were completely different mentalities.

The warrior lowered his arrogant head and begged humbly: "I promised my son I'd pick him up after school; if you want to kill me, can you give me a little more time?"

"A little bit, just a little bit."

'Snap—'

Meng Yi raised his hand and snapped his fingers, and time power acted on Chu Tianjiao's ruined clothes.

'Localized Time Reversal!'

Time flowed backward, and the damaged suit was restored to its original state.

"Why kill you?"

"Drive, find a hotel to take me there, and then you can go pick up your son."

Chu Tianjiao was granted amnesty, couldn't care about the clothes problem, and revealed the dog-legged smile of a mature salaryman.

"Okay!"

"Rest assured, I am the best-fighting driver in Shanghai!"

"Through wind and rain, I will definitely get you to the hotel!"

A super hybrid who dared to swing a knife at a complete Long Wang called himself the 'best-fighting driver'.

A driver whose driving skills were better than Chu Tianjiao's couldn't fight as well as Chu Tianjiao.

Those who could fight better than Chu Tianjiao wouldn't be drivers.

Just like how Uesugi Koshi calls himself the "strongest ramen chef," and Gen Chisato calls himself the "strongest sunscreen salesman."

The corner of Meng Yi's eye twitched; Chu Tianjiao almost rendered him speechless.

"Lead the way."

"Eh!"

Chu Tianjiao nodded and bowed, covered his head with his palm, and strode into the rain curtain, wanting to go to the Maybach to get an umbrella for Meng Yi.

A wide black umbrella appeared in Red Queen's hand unknowingly.

The petite girl stood on tiptoe, opened the umbrella, and tilted the larger side toward Meng Yi.

"Chairman."

"You."

Meng Yi didn't refuse Red Queen's diligence, and the two followed Chu Tianjiao to the Maybach parked in the open-air parking lot.

Chu Tianjiao, who was almost drenched into a drowned rat, was dumbfounded.

A fall into the pit, a gain in your wit; the middle-aged salaryman who was used to being beaten didn't express any opinion.

"Big boss, please get in the car!"

Chu Tianjiao opened the rear door of the Maybach, Meng Yi got in first, and Red Queen recycled the umbrella into basic molecular materials and followed closely behind.

'What level of alchemy is this?'

Just by one hand of 'decomposition', seeing a spot and knowing the whole leopard, Chu Tianjiao admitted he was no match for Red Queen.

The middle-aged salaryman clicked his tongue and sighed to himself: 'Amazing, the big boss's female secretary is also a big boss!'

The 'best-fighting driver in Shanghai' returned to his position, and the Maybach shuttled quickly in the rain curtain.

Meng Yi, sitting in the main seat in the back, knocked on the car window and said half-jokingly: "Nice car, how about giving it to me?"

Chu Tianjiao, who was driving, was stunned for a moment, just wanted to talk nonsense and say he was a driver, but thinking of Meng Yi's 'mind reading', he immediately became honest.

"Of course! It's my honor to give you a car!"

"But can I ask you to wait a moment?"

"I have to send my son home after school first, then go to the hotel to give you the car; do you think that's okay?"

Chu Tianjiao observed Meng Yi's expression changes carefully through the rearview mirror.

"No need."

Meng Yi rejected the whim and said again: "Is he very important to you?"

Chu Tianjiao knew who Meng Yi was asking about.

The middle-aged man scratched his head and giggled, but his tone was resolute.

"Important! Our Chu family has only this one seedling."

"He is my son! He is the last light in my world."

Meng Yi didn't answer; Chu Tianjiao's human flash of light made him decide.

'Meeting is fate; you gave me a ride, I'll save you once, and from now on we are even.' ===== CHAPTER 144 =====