Chapter 1345: Can't Go Back

Can't Go Back

"Why worry about me?"

Locked in Jian Changsheng's arm, Chen Ling didn't have the slightest intention to resist. He spoke unhurriedly, "I am the King of the Ghost Mockery Abyss to begin with. I was born to be here... This is my home.

Going home, what is there to worry about?"

"A couple days ago, we had a dream. In the dream, you gave each of us a slap." As if remembering something, Jian Changsheng looked at Chen Ling questioningly.

"... That was just a small accident. It has been resolved now."

"Really?"

"En."

"Then you can't stay here either." Jian Changsheng pointed his chin at Sun Bumian, who was still dry heaving in the corner of the wall. "Diamonds said this place is a place of Great Inauspiciousness. If you stay here, bad things will happen."

Chen Ling's gaze turned to Sun Bumian.

After finishing his dry heaving, Sun Bumian also happened to look up at Chen Ling, and the two looked at each other from a distance... A barely perceptible golden light flashed in Sun Bumian's pupils.

In the next second, Sun Bumian was directly stunned in place.

"Say something, Diamonds!" Seeing Sun Bumian dumbfounded, Jian Changsheng urged.

Looking at Chen Ling, Sun Bumian's expression changed consecutively. Finally, a trace of complexity flashed in his gaze...

"En... Great Inauspiciousness."

"You see!" Jian Changsheng let go of his arm hugging Chen Ling, clasped his hands behind his back, and strolled around the dining hall inspecting like a leader, even clicking his tongue from time to time.

"Hearts, it's not that I want to say... but this place of yours really won't do."

"It's cold and dark, with no sunlight all year round. Let me tell you, if you live in this place for a long time, even if you aren't unlucky, you'll definitely get rheumatism."

"And look at your walls, how long has it been since they were maintained? They're all damp... The infrastructure is also too poor, not even a single electric light. If you don't light these candles, you simply can't see anything... I see this Underground Palace of yours, besides being a bit big, has nothing good about it."

After nitpicking a bunch of faults, Jian Changsheng stopped in front of Chen Ling, putting his hands behind his back smugly, looking at him with a smiling expression, only short of writing "I have a pleasant surprise" on his face.

Seeing him finding fault inexplicably, Chen Ling was also somewhat puzzled, but still shook his head and explained:

"The Ghost Mockery Abyss is a Calamity territory, not a Human Domain. There are no good architects, nor is there a power supply... Here, this is the only way."

"Hehe, guess what?"

Jian Changsheng's eyes shone like stars. He drew out a document from his chest with two fingers, the corners of his mouth rising uncontrollably.

"Here with me, I happen to have an Amnesty Writ signed by the Hanging Jade Domain government... On it, not only does it write off all of a certain person's past 'crimes' with one stroke, but it also specially invites a certain person to become a citizen of the Hanging Jade Domain, and comes with a fully-furnished small three-bedroom flat in the city center as a bonus...

You call me Big Brother Jian, and I'll tell you who this person is, how about it?"

Jian Changsheng had never been so pleased with himself, as if what he pulled out wasn't a document, but a "Hearts Admiration Voucher". Once this thing was pulled out, he could already imagine Chen Ling's incomparably shocked expression from before!

Pardoning the notoriously infamous "Six of Hearts" from the rumors, and giving him a legal Domain citizen identity...

In the whole world, besides him, Jian Changsheng, who else could do it??

With this thing, Chen Ling could leave this dark and dilapidated underground bug den and return to live in the Hanging Jade Domain with them, never having to live in fear and trepidation like a rat crossing the street again. Those grievances he had suffered before would also have a chance to be cleared.

Originally, Jian Changsheng planned to tease Chen Ling a bit first, and then take out this generous gift at the end. But he truly couldn't hold it in; he couldn't wait to see Chen Ling's expression after receiving this gift.

And Chen Ling, indeed just as he expected, was stunned on the spot.

Looking at Jian Changsheng's smug and proud smile, and that document signed by the Hanging Jade Domain in his hand, Chen Ling suddenly understood what exactly the transaction between Jian Changsheng's trio and the Hanging Jade Domain was...

A long-lost warmth and feeling of being moved surfaced from the bottom of his heart, but what followed was an even heavier pain and bitterness.

Chen Ling just quietly looked at Jian Changsheng.

His gaze was incomparably complex...

After a brief silence, Jian Changsheng shrugged unhappily,

"If you aren't willing to call me Big Brother Jian, you should at least praise me a couple of sentences, right? What's the meaning of not saying a word?"

The Great Crimson Theatrical Robe remained silent, not even intending to reach out and take that document...

For some unknown reason, Jian Changsheng suddenly felt a bit scared in his heart. He muttered softly and shoved the document directly into Chen Ling's hand:

"Good on you, Hearts. Working so hard to get this thing for you, and you aren't even willing to call me something nice... Forget it, forget it. I'll give it to you. Pack your things and leave with us in a while... okay?"

Jian Changsheng was like a child who had made a mistake. He looked at Chen Ling's eyes, and when saying the last two words, his voice even carried a trace of pleading.

Chen Ling looked down at that Amnesty Writ with the big name "Chen Ling" written on it in his hand. He opened his mouth wanting to say something, but couldn't say anything.

At this moment, even someone as dense as Jiang Xiaohua felt that the atmosphere was a bit wrong.

He looked at the deadlocked Chen Ling and Jian Changsheng, then looked at Sun Bumian with a complex expression on the side. Just as he was preparing to step forward and say something, Jian Changsheng's furious voice abruptly rang out.

"No, Hearts!! What exactly do you mean by this?!"

"Do you know how much effort the three of us put in to get this document?? It wasn't easy getting it for you, running all this way wanting to take you back to enjoy life, and now you... you pretend to be mute and don't say a word?!

Take off this ugly, broken mask of yours and speak!!"

Jian Changsheng's chest heaved violently. He directly struck out like lightning to grab Chen Ling's mask, wanting to take it off. But unexpectedly, the material of this mask was too fragile; with just a slight exertion of force, it directly shattered in midair!

A cold wind blowing from nowhere swept through the dim dining hall, blowing the Torchlights along the walls and the candlelight on the table until they flickered violently.

Amidst the swaying shadows, a pitch-black and bizarre face met the trio's pupils.

The three were simultaneously stunned.

Face skins like shadows continuously peeled off from that hideous face. On this face, human facial features could hardly be seen clearly; there was only a scalp-numbing bizarre and ghastly feeling... This was the face of a Calamity.

Chen Ling stood there quietly, the Great Crimson Theatrical Robe swaying gently with the wind.

He just looked at Jian Changsheng, who was close at hand, a bitter smile surfacing at the corners of his pitch-black mouth. But regardless of his emotions, this smile on this face only appeared creepy and bizarre...

"Hearts... your face..." Jian Changsheng only then realized that the face he saw before wasn't an hallucination.

Chen Ling sighed lightly:

"Spades..."

"I, can't go back."