Chapter 1025: It's You... Right?

It's You... Right?

The skinny man casually ripped off the tape covering Wu Duo's mouth, and the latter immediately cursed:

"Why did you come to save me!! Do you want to die?!"

The man laughed heartily. "If we didn't come to save you, could we live?"

Wu Duo was speechless...

"This Realm has already gone crazy, Wu Duo. No one can survive." Deep sorrow revealed in the man's gaze. "Rather than stiflingly waiting to die in the sewers, it's better to go crazy one last time..."

Boom——!!

As the man spoke, a figure leaped down from the top of a nearby building.

It was a massive figure holding a Butcher Knife. He was as heavy as a plummeting cannonball, and accompanying him as he fell was a blade light that was fast to the extreme...

Judgment Proxy, [Butcher].

To bait their Rat Party, they actually sent an 8th-Rank to secretly follow them. Facts proved that they had indeed overestimated the current strength of the Rat Party... Right now, among the remaining seven Rat Party members including Wu Duo, the highest was only 5th-Rank.

Now, that sole 5th-Rank had also been turned into minced meat on the wall, not even leaving behind a single last word before dying.

"Fuck you Fire-Stealers!! You even brought out your great-grandfather! Why don't you all kowtow to him together?!" A Rat Party member laughed, pointing at [Butcher] and cursing sarcastically.

Witnessing their companion's death with their own eyes, the remaining Rat Party members were not dealt a heavy blow. Or rather, they had already made preparations for certain death before coming... Following the original plan, after the road on the west side became impossible to escape from, they immediately charged toward the road on the south side!

These remaining few people of the Rat Party still had some Combat Power. They raised their knives and swung them down, killing the 3rd-Rank Fire-Stealer who had been executing the sentence just now, and seriously injuring the other two low-rank Fire-Stealers along the way, forcefully tearing open a small gap.

But the next moment, two 6th-Rank Fire-Stealers charged out from the crowd. Glaring angrily at the Rat Party members, they directly decapitated the two Rat Party members charging at the very front.

Just like the Dusk Society, aside from the 7th-Rank Thief Saints, the Fire-Stealers also had a massive amount of 6th-Rank and 5th-Rank mid-level Combat Power. If one looked up at this time, they would discover countless of these figures standing in the hazy smog in the distance, seemingly playfully watching this struggle of trapped beasts.

"How truly troublesome..." Lan Yu's voice slowly rang out from the road on the east side. She casually tossed the heads of the two Rat Party members onto the ground and gently wiped the blood from her fingertips with a handkerchief,

"Just these few little rats caused me to not even be able to sleep well..."

Covering her mouth, she let out a light yawn.

She was the only one on the road on the east side, yet just like [Butcher] on the west side, she was like an unshakable mountain. Just standing there was enough to seal off all paths of survival.

With three paths of survival blocked, Wu Duo and the man in purple slowly retreated...

Within just a few short seconds, only the two of them were left in the Rat Party. They looked at the densely packed figures around them. Like an eternal night that could never be crossed, they exuded a dense despair.

They looked back at the final south side, only to discover that at some point, countless Silver Phantoms had already walked out from the shadows, completely sealing off the road like a tide.

If Chen Ling were here, he would instantly recognize that these were the killing machines Lou Yu had manufactured in the Red Dust Domain. Back then, these Silver Phantoms were nearly endless and almost destroyed the entire Realm. Huang Suyue and the others had all died because of them.

And as Lou Yu's strength recovered, these killing machines had also reappeared in the Wuji Domain.

Silver Phantoms, Fire-Stealers, Thief Saints, Judgment Proxies...

All paths of survival were blocked dead. Standing tall before them were walls of despair one after another. Having reached this step, whether it was Wu Duo or the man in purple, both had already accepted it. They knew they wouldn't be able to leave alive today. After looking at each other, smiles squeezed out on their pale faces.

"Who goes first?"

"I'll go first. I joined the Rat Party earlier than you, so I should walk ahead of you no matter what." The man shrugged. "Besides... what if you still have a chance to survive? That young man is still waiting for you."

Wu Duo knew who the "young man" he spoke of was. She opened her mouth, but couldn't utter a single word...

"Today, none of you will escape." Lan Yu sneered. "Who goes first and who goes last, what meaning is there?"

"Bitch, don't be too arrogant."

The man directly raised his middle finger at the towering walls in the dark night. "I admit that you guys are very badass in the Wuji Domain, but in this world, no one can cover the sky with one hand forever... Whether it's you guys or the Silver King, when the day the sun rises arrives, just like me, none of you will escape."

Lan Yu's eyelids twitched, and she scoffed disdainfully:

"Then I advise you to kneel down and kowtow for mercy right now. Perhaps we will consider sparing your life... This way, before you die of old age, perhaps you can still see the so-called 'sun' being trampled under our feet."

"Kowtow and beg you for mercy? Dream on!"

The man's gaze swept over the corpses of his companions all over the ground. As if recalling something, a smile curved up at the corner of his mouth,

"Although the people we saved were limited, we have already briefly acted as the sun in the darkness... In that case, when the real sun rises, the one bathing in the sunlight... why must it be me?"

He slowly spread his arms open, and purple flames began to flow from under his feet. Amidst the shattered fragments of the crystal ball, his figure exploded with a boom!!

Boom——!!

The purple flames obscured vision. Wu Duo, who was at the edge of the flames, forcibly held back her tears, turned her head, and charged straight into the street filled with Silver Phantoms... She knew it was almost impossible for her to escape, but even if there was only a sliver of possibility, she didn't want her companions' sacrifices to be meaningless.

The sharp blades of the Silver Phantoms emitted cold glints in the darkness. They looked coldly at the charging Wu Duo, standing absolutely still...

Right at this moment,

A series of rapid honking sounds rang out. With tear-filled eyes, Wu Duo looked ahead, only to see that behind the Silver Phantoms, a burning truck was roaring and crashing toward this place...

Like a burning sun!

...

Confessional.

Chen Ling opened his mouth and swallowed the food on the spoon.

The warm aura mixed with fragrance traveled down his throat and into his body, like a raging fire burning... The maid patiently prepared the ratio of every mouthful of rice, vegetables, and meat with the spoon, gently handing it to Chen Ling's mouth.

Chen Ling ate this meal very quietly. In the entire Confessional, only the soft clinking of the spoon scraping across the food tray remained.

"Eat slowly, eat slowly... No one is fighting you for it." Seeing Chen Ling's table manners, the maid smiled slightly. "The past two days, I saw that you didn't seem full, so I specially increased the portion for you today. It should be enough."

Chen Ling's eyes were somewhat red. While silently eating the handed-over food, he looked into the maid's eyes. The speculation that had been buried in his heart these past two days was being confirmed bit by bit...

Pitter-patter—— Pitter-patter...

After so many days, the sorrow and grievance that had always been suppressed in the depths of Chen Ling's heart could no longer be held back and surged outward. Tears continuously slipped from the corners of his eyes, dripping into the food tray.

Seeing this, the maid froze slightly. Then, looking complicatedly at Chen Ling's expression, unspeakable heartache appeared in her eyes.

"Aiya... How can you cry while eating?"

Chewing the food in his mouth, Chen Ling choked out a sob as he swallowed it. Only then did he speak hoarsely:

"Fourth Senior Brother..."

"It's you... right..."