Chapter 1579: Meeting the [Letter Bearer] Again

Meeting the [Letter Bearer] Again

Familiar.

Too familiar!

Ever since coming into contact with Mo Yao, Chen Ling had a reflexive acuity towards "letters". Moreover, the last time Chen Ling received a letter, he was also eating hot pot with the Lord of the Red Dust and the others...

But a doubt subsequently flashed through Chen Ling's heart.

That shouldn't be... In the current era, the Great Cataclysm hasn't even passed yet, and Mo Yao hasn't even been born. How could he possibly send a letter to him? Could it be there are also [Letter Bearers] in the modern era?

Impossible. In this era where information technology has reached its peak, a traditional [Letter Bearer] couldn't possibly be born. What's more, even if there were [Letter Bearers] in this era, he hadn't had any intersection with him and the Nine Monarchs, so why would he send a letter to him?

Could it be...

Chen Ling immediately spoke: "Give me the letter."

Familiar material, familiar touch.

When his gaze fell on the corner of the Envelope, a line of familiar small text directly verified the conjecture in his heart:

"To be opened personally by the Sixth-Generation Red King".

"Mo Yao's handwriting... How is this possible?" Chen Ling muttered to himself.

"What handwriting?" Qi Muyun at the side was somewhat blank. "Director Chen, do you know where this letter came from?"

"...Mm."

Under the reflection of the orange stove fire, Chen Ling's red pupils emitted a deep glimmer. "This letter came from the future."

As soon as these words came out, the few people present were all stunned.

Chen Ling tore open the Envelope. Almost simultaneously, a feeling of urgency and danger instantly blew against his face. That was the emotion injected into the words by the Letter Bearer when writing the letter. Several scrawled large characters directly caused Chen Ling's pupils to violently constrict!

——"GO FIND JI XUAN!!!"

Chen Ling abruptly stood up from his seat!

This sudden action gave a fright to the other few people who were still immersed in the leisurely atmosphere of eating noodles. They blankly looked at Chen Ling, whose expression had drastically changed, only feeling that the surrounding temperature rapidly dropped along with Chen Ling's gaze!

"Director Chen, what happened??" Yang Xiao was the first to realize the severity of the matter and immediately asked.

"Ji Xuan!!"

Chen Ling's figure almost turned into a bolt of lightning, charging straight towards the quiet tent in the distance.

Seeing this posture, the other few people couldn't possibly continue eating either. Instead, they stood up one after another, running in the direction of the tent behind Chen Ling!

And when they lifted the tent curtain, the entire tent was already empty... The bed where the unconscious Ji Xuan was originally lying no longer had any figure, and only a hat tied with a red silk ribbon quietly lay on the ground.

"Where is Ji Xuan?"

"That shouldn't be... we weren't far away. If he went out, we should have been able to see him."

"Could it be that he awakened his ability and teleported away like his future self?"

The crowd couldn't figure out how Ji Xuan disappeared like a living person vanishing trick in such a closed environment...

And after Chen Ling's gaze swept over the entire tent, it finally fell on that flipped hat.

Frowning, he walked forward and picked up that hat.

He remembered very clearly that when the Lord of Hanging Jade left this hat back then, the silk ribbon on it was blue... Could Ji Xuan's disappearance be related to the color change of this hat?

Although he didn't know how Mo Yao of this world managed to send a letter across time in the future, since the other party sent this letter into his hands at this moment, it meant that the current situation would largely affect the future direction... He had to retrieve the missing Ji Xuan!

Chen Ling held this hat in his hand and carefully inspected it for a long time, but couldn't see any clues.

After hesitating for a moment, he still said to the crowd behind him:

"Step back."

The several Nine Monarchs who hadn't yet grown up all took a step back in unison.

After this, Chen Ling's five fingers buckled the top of this Fedora, and then, slowly placed it towards his own head...

The moment the Fedora buckled onto his head,

Chen Ling's figure vanished into thin air!

...

When Chen Ling opened his eyes again, his entire person froze in place.

Leaden-gray clouds, a barren black earth, the occasional hissing of monsters from the distance... At this moment, Chen Ling subconsciously thought he had come out of the Timeline Save File and returned to the Gray World. But he quickly realized something was wrong.

If he had come out of the Timeline Save File, then why wasn't Wu Yi here?

Moreover, no matter how powerful that hat was, it shouldn't be possible to directly kick him out of the Timeline Save File and return him to the real world, right?

"This is... this world's Gray World?"

A flash of astonishment passed through Chen Ling's eyes.

One must know that at this point in time, the Gray World and Earth had not opened up a large-scale intersection. It was like two eggs very close to each other; although there were occasional collisions, the two fundamentally didn't communicate... But after putting on that hat, he actually directly crossed the barrier of the worlds and came to the Gray World??

That hat, apart from being able to store Red Star Aspiration Power, could actually cross space and shuttle to the Gray World?!

Just where did the Lord of Hanging Jade get this thing from?

Chen Ling subconsciously raised his hand and touched his head, but didn't touch that hat... If Chen Ling guessed correctly, that hat could only send people to the Gray World, and then would continue to stay in the tent.

That is to say...

It could only send people over, but had no way to send people back?

Chen Ling could be certain that Ji Xuan was teleported to the Gray World precisely because he put on that hat, which was why he disappeared... But the Gray World of this era was precisely when the number of Calamities was at its highest and most rampant. A human like him falling here was practically Ten Deaths and No Life!

No wonder the future Mo Yao had to send a letter to him, telling him to immediately come save him. If Chen Ling didn't save him in time, the Human Nine Monarchs would have to be reduced by one more.

But...

Why did the Lord of Hanging Jade do this?

Since he didn't want to directly kill himself like Lou Yu did, why did he send the past Ji Xuan to the Ten Deaths and No Life Gray World?

One must know that although the Lord of Wuji killed Lou Yu, the two were not from the same world. Even if he killed the Lou Yu of this world, the Lord of Wuji wouldn't die immediately... But the Ji Xuan here and the Lord of Hanging Jade were from the same era. If he killed his past self, the Lord of Hanging Jade himself would also immediately disappear.

Chen Ling's mind was already in chaos. He found that he couldn't understand the Lord of Hanging Jade's thoughts at all. Although he currently seemed to have gathered the Nine Monarchs clearly, the future them seemed to still have broken away from the trajectory he set for them...

He didn't know if it was Chen Ling's illusion, but he always felt that in the future of this world, there was a pair of invisible giant hands laying out some kind of layout.

"Damn it, where exactly did that guy Ji Xuan go?"

Chen Ling's gaze swept across the surroundings, trying to find Ji Xuan's whereabouts. He could see a few human footprints on the ground nearby, exactly Ji Xuan's... However, the traces of large numbers of Calamities crawling over had already completely trampled and scrambled those footsteps, making it simply impossible to distinguish where he went.