Chapter 1465: Recovery and Rescue

Recovery and Rescue

At the same time.

Deep within the devastated Gray World.

After the Red Star's second pass, the deeper into the Gray World, the more the form of matter's existence approached chaotic Civilization Embers. In this area hovering on the edge of "Annihilation" and "existence", three figures were calmly shuttling through.

"How is it? Did you find it?" Bai Ye, wearing a Suit, swept his gaze around.

"...Not yet."

Standing beside him was also a figure wearing a Suit, with pale cyan long hair tied behind his head. The snake-shaped tattoo on his neck was mostly covered by his collar. His faintly glowing pupils gazed at the sky, as if deducing the trajectory of something.

In the front pocket of his chest, a [Queen of Diamonds] Card Face was placed quietly.

"But, it should be right around here."

Between the two stood an old woman with greying hair. Her hunched body was only as tall as Bai Ye and Queen of Diamonds' waists. She leaned on a Walking Stick with both hands, looking advanced in age, as if a gust of wind could blow her down.

"Granny here is old and can't withstand you guys tossing me around like this... let's speed up a bit... cough, cough, cough..."

The corner of Bai Ye's mouth twitched slightly, and Queen of Diamonds' expression beside him was also somewhat strange.

The two tacitly ignored the old woman's groans.

Riding the wind, Queen of Diamonds searched among the surrounding shattered ruins for a long time. Suddenly, as if sensing something, his gaze locked onto a deep pit in the distance.

"Found it."

His figure rapidly approached that deep pit.

It looked like a Meteorite Crater that had experienced a terrifying impact. However, due to the influence of Civilization Embers, the surrounding terrain had already floated into the sky, so it was difficult to restore the appearance of a Meteorite Crater from its exterior... But at this time, massive star fragments were buried on top of the deep pit, incomparably heavy.

"Are you sure?" Bai Ye asked.

"Sure." Queen of Diamonds turned to look at the old woman, "Granny Spades, he is right under here... I'll have to trouble you to take action."

The old woman sighed softly.

"You youngsters... you don't know how to be considerate of us old folks at all. You always think of Granny here for any heavy or tiring work... sigh, public morals are degenerating..."

The old woman slowly took off her Chinese-style outer coat, revealing a black tank top underneath, as well as those well-proportioned and highly powerful muscles. On her bronze skin, a ferocious and complex poker suit was tattooed on her left shoulder...

[Spade Q].

She "tremblingly" placed that Walking Stick on the ground, then walked to the front of the Meteorite Crater, grabbed with five fingers, and lifted a meteorite fragment over a hundred meters tall with her bare hands, then threw it several kilometers away like throwing garbage.

The heavy meteorite crashed to the ground, once again smashing a cobweb-like deep pit into the distant Gray World earth!

The old woman casually cleaned up these meteorite fragments from the deep space of the universe, as easily as bagging garbage bags at home. In just a dozen seconds, the entire deep pit had already been completely cleared.

After finishing all this, the old woman tremblingly put her coat back on, sat on a rock beside them, and pretentiously wiped her sweat:

"Sigh... I'm getting old... the rest is up to you youngsters."

Bai Ye: ...

Queen of Diamonds: ...

The gazes of the two simultaneously looked at the bottom of the deep pit.

The corpse of a youth wearing a white coat was lying quietly among the finely broken meteorite residues. Under the illumination of the hazy sunlight, he seemed to be sleeping amidst the stars.

Bai Ye reached out and grabbed at nothingness. A Coffin was stolen through space by him and placed beside the corpse.

Queen of Diamonds gently raised his hand, and the breeze held up that corpse, slowly suspending it in mid-air... His hair was combed in the wind, the wrinkles of the corners of his clothes were smoothed out, and ultimately he sank into the Coffin bit by bit, lying neatly in the center.

"Lord of Tianshu, successfully recovered."

Right at this moment, Bai Ye seemed to sense something and frowned, looking in the direction of the Ancient Vault of the Courtesan Path...

Then he raised his hand and grabbed at nothingness, and a Note was grasped in his hand.

"A letter from the Grey King?" Queen of Diamonds raised an eyebrow.

Bai Ye glanced at the contents of the Note, seemingly not surprised, and then passed it to Queen of Diamonds to look at. The latter's expression, however, was extremely shocked... When the Note finally passed into Spade Q's hands, this old lady squinted and looked left and right for a long time before finally seeing the words on it clearly.

The corners of the old lady's mouth curled up slightly,

"Interesting..."

"Has a new big boss arrived?"

...

Tianshu Domain.

"How is it? Are the casualty numbers calculated yet??"

"Calculated. Thanks to Mr. Han's Domain, although over 80% of the Tianshu Domain's area was destroyed, the death toll of both residents and Divine Path Possessors does not exceed five hundred... Most of these people suffered heavy injuries on the battlefield and died from ineffective rescue after Mr. Han's Domain disappeared."

"Fortunately, the Tianshu Domain invited the Paper Kite Rescue Association in advance, so our medical emergency system didn't collapse..."

"That's good, that's good. Destroyed buildings can be rebuilt. Talents are the foundation of everything."

"Not... not good!!"

"What happened?"

"It's... it's Mr. Han..."

"? What's wrong with Mr. Han?"

"Mr. Han's corpse that we just transported back to the morgue... is gone!!"

"??????"

...

Tianshu Domain, in a certain hidden underground space.

Delicate girlish fingers, like scallion jade, gently pulled open the zipper of a black body bag. As the surgical light overhead turned on, a tragic corpse with almost no flesh or blood lay quietly beneath the light.

"How tragic." The girl's sigh sounded from the side, "What's the difference between this and death by a thousand cuts..."

Under the pale light, a white-haired girl with a bun hairstyle flashed a look of pity in her eyes. The gauze-like surgical gown seemed to exist between reality and dreams, flowing like ripples under the faint light. A surgical light was worn aslant on top of her head, and below was a cold baby face.

On the table beside her, a Playing Card and a scalpel were placed side by side.

[Heart 8].

"The difference is, he didn't die." Chu Muyun's calm voice sounded from the other side of the operating table.

He slowly put on rubber surgical gloves and opened the suitcase beside him. A dazzling array of over a dozen hammers, screwdrivers, and saws would make one's scalp tingle just looking at them!

"On the surface, he is indeed dead. His heart has stopped beating, his blood has almost dried up... But his Domain locked in his near-death self."

"But from another perspective, he is already dead... Under extreme overexertion, his Spiritual World has already collapsed along with his brain death. Once the last bit of his Spiritual Power is consumed and the Domain is undone, his physical body will definitely die..."

"To put it more advancedly, he is currently in a superposition state of 'dead' and 'near-death'."

"Hehe, Schrödinger's cat, right?" The girl glanced at Chu Muyun, "Haven't seen you for so long, your cultural studies have improved? Work harder, you might catch up to Bai Ye in a few centuries."

Chu Muyun: ...

"I can handle his physical injuries." Chu Muyun couldn't be bothered to bicker with her, "But the death of his Spiritual World is your domain... Can you handle it?"

"What 'you, you, you'... I see you've truly forgotten your roots. You're not even willing to call me 'Teacher'."

The girl snorted coldly and straightened the skewed surgical light on her head,

"Don't forget, even your life was saved by me."

"..."

Chu Muyun closed his eyes helplessly, wearing a "Say whatever you want, I won't call you that even if you beat me to death" expression.

"Alright, let's get to work quickly." A scalpel between dreams and reality danced at the girl's fingertips as she spoke leisurely, "I'll handle the spirit, you handle the body. Whoever cures him last pays for the meal."

"No problem."