Chapter 1527: Escape

Escape

"Cough, cough, cough, cough..."

Chu Muyun's light coughing sounded from amidst the dust.

Around his waist was tied a bandage, extending all the way underground, seemingly tightly binding something...

Chen Ling and the other three were all heavily injured and overdrawn, and Sun Bumian's Awakened Lion could no longer be summoned. Ultimately, they could only rely on Chu Muyun to drag the four of them, forcefully climbing out from underground. The faint rumbling just now was the sound of him smashing the earth with his hammer and ascending rapidly.

And right now, Chu Muyun was also the first to climb to the surface.

As the dust dispersed and he saw the situation around clearly, his expression instantly turned incomparably ugly!

Numerous fully armed figures had already surrounded this place, like ambushers waiting to hunt prey. Hostile weapons pointed coldly here. Among them, the most terrifying ones that made one's heart tremble were the three suffocatingly terrifying figures above...

One of the Nine Monarchs, and two peak Rank 8s?!

Did the Tianshu Domain already know they entered the Ancient Vault of the Ghost Path? Were they specifically here to encircle and suppress the Dusk Society?!

But this lineup was a bit too grand!

A flash of determination flashed through Chu Muyun's eyes. He immediately took out a scalpel, about to directly sever the bandages on his body...

Right now, only he, Chu Muyun, was exposed; Chen Ling and the others were still below. It didn't matter if something happened to him, but if this group discovered that the Red King and the other 6-series members were all heavily injured, it would be equivalent to someone having the throat of the entire Dusk Society in their grasp!

No matter what, the Red King must be protected!

The scalpel swung down, but only sliced through nothingness... The bandage originally wrapped around Chu Muyun's waist had disappeared at some unknown point.

Chu Muyun froze in place.

Whoosh——

A gust of cold wind brushed across the ruined earth.

At some unknown point, four figures stood like four oppressive mountains, respectively at the four compass points beside the entrance of the hole.

A black theatrical robe with red patterns fluttered silently, a pair of bright earrings flashing with sharp cold light;

A torn leather jacket exuded a thick stench of blood, one hand already gripping the hilt of an invisible sword behind his waist;

The small Round Sunglasses on the bridge of a nose were gently pushed up, a pair of eyes with nested rings sweeping coldly across the surroundings;

White hair fluttered all over the sky, and a figure began to silently loosen the bandages on his body... A bizarre aura of Curses spread through the air.

The four of them turned their backs to each other, standing just like that around Chu Muyun. On them, there wasn't the slightest trace of overexertion or severe injury anymore. They looked like fierce generals who had just fought their way out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, their gazes dangerous and deadly.

"The Dusk Society??" In the crowd, someone drew a sharp breath of cold air!

Who would have thought that their Waiting for the Rabbit in the Tianshu Domain would actually bump into the Dusk Society?

Moreover, wasn't that figure wearing the black theatrical robe with red patterns the newly appointed Red King who had just negotiated with the Lord of Spirit Void a while ago and even made it into the newspapers?

Why would people from the Dusk Society appear here??

Seeing these four people, not only the crowd below, but even Su Zhiwei, Hong Xiu, and Lü Liangren were stunned...

The theatrical robe fluttered silently as Chen Ling slowly raised his head to look at the three people above.

His gaze was deep and calm.

"Everyone..."

"Long time no see."

Although Su Zhiwei wasn't the Su Zhiwei that Chen Ling knew from the Save Point, she had also interacted with Chen Ling a few times. In the Red Dust Domain, they had also dealt with Hall Masters like Lü Liangren. As for Hong Xiu, it went without saying; in the Wuji Domain, Chen Ling personally awakened Hong Xiu, whose "yesterday" had been stolen, and jointly breached the Fire-Stealers.

These three people were indeed all old acquaintances of Chen Ling.

"Chen Ling..."

Su Zhiwei frowned slightly in surprise, "What are you doing in the Ancient Vault of the Ghost Path?"

"Fetching some things." Chen Ling's mind raced, but on the surface, he still spoke calmly. "Since you've been standing guard here all along, presumably you've also encountered someone else, right?"

"If you are talking about that Wang Jian, he is already a prisoner of the Tianshu Domain now," Lü Liangren answered truthfully.

Sure enough...

This Wang Jian was truly quite unlucky.

Chen Ling's gaze swept across the surrounding crowd, suddenly giving a light chuckle:

"What's the matter, Dr. Su... Do you also want to turn us into prisoners of the Tianshu Domain?"

As soon as this sentence came out, the three people above simultaneously fell silent.

Although Lü Liangren couldn't say his impression of Chen Ling and the others was very good, at least there was no hostility. Hong Xiu was already thinking about how she should hold back if a fight broke out later so that Chen Ling and the others could leave safely...

Su Zhiwei, on the other hand, looked at Chen Ling with a complex gaze. No one knew what she was thinking.

Just as waves of rustling sounds rang out from the crowd below, Su Zhiwei ultimately still let out a long sigh...

"Make way."

The rustling in the crowd instantly vanished without a trace. Everyone who had originally surrounded Chen Ling quickly retreated to both sides, clearing a broad path for the four of them.

Chen Ling didn't seem surprised by this. He gently raised his hand and thanked Su Zhiwei:

"Thank you."

Chen Ling shot the others a glance.

Jian Changsheng, Sun Bumian, and Jiang Xiaohua instantly understood. They slowly took steps, turning and leaving unhurriedly...

They walked very slowly. Every step brought an extremely strong sense of oppression to the surrounding crowd, as if they weren't the surrounded prey, but rather the crowd on both sides were their targets... Steady, calm, like a male lion looking down proudly on the world.

The crowd simply didn't dare to move recklessly, just watching Chen Ling and the others walk bit by bit toward the end of the road like this.

Looking at their backs, the confusion in Hong Xiu's eyes gradually turned into strangeness...

She opened her mouth, but ultimately still didn't say anything.

"Lord of the Red Dust, My Lord, are we just letting them go like this?" A figure asked in a low voice after they walked far away. "Up ahead are residential areas, I'm afraid accidents might happen... Should we send someone to follow them to ensure they leave the Tianshu Domain?"

"There's no need," Su Zhiwei answered calmly. "They won't attack civilians."

Once the figures of Chen Ling and the others completely vanished from everyone's sight, Su Zhiwei ordered everyone to leave. Hong Xiu took one last look at the direction Chen Ling and the others left in, before still following Su Zhiwei and the others toward the temporary base.

Almost at the same time, on the other side of the road.

Thud, thud, thud, thud——

Four figures collapsed to the ground one after another.

Having suffered such heavy injuries, it was naturally impossible for Chen Ling and the others to recover instantly. Just now, they were completely forcing their bodies, bluffing... If someone had really made a move to stop them then, the four of them probably would have truly fallen.

Now that they had finally left the other party's line of sight, their forcibly supported bodies completely gave out. One by one, they fell into a coma, just collapsing like this in the empty Alleyway.

The corner of Chu Muyun's mouth twitched. He immediately looked around swiftly, trying to find somewhere to temporarily hide them. After all, the Tianshu Domain wasn't the Ancient Vault of the Ghost Path; dragging them down the street on four wooden carts would definitely be discovered.

Just as Chu Muyun was feeling anxious, a Beggar carrying a Broken Bowl strolled leisurely from under a Bridge Underpass not far away...

"...Huh??"

Seeing the four people lying neatly in a row before him, Jin Fugui froze in place.

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[TL Note: The author is taking a day off for a book signing today.]