Chapter 1648: Stab

Stab

Boom—!!

A roaring explosion rang out from the Hidden Cloud Government.

The shouting citizens outside were stunned, but they didn't panic. Instead, they became even more indignant, all thinking that the molotov cocktails they just threw successfully blew up something. Like a swarm of bees, they were about to rush into the main doors!

"Jack of Clubs," a faint voice rang out from under the Great Red Paper Umbrella.

The moment Chen Ling's voice sounded, Jack of Clubs behind him gently took off the Magician's Top Hat on his head.

As the magic hat flipped, white doves flew out from the hat like magic tricks. They were like a white storm, directly swirling in the rainstorm, dazzling the impassioned citizens around. For a moment, they didn't know where the doves came from.

When the magician lightly snapped his fingers, those sky-filling white doves directly turned into countless feathers. Everyone who had gathered their gazes on them simultaneously rolled their eyes back and fainted on the spot...

The Hidden Cloud Government, which was just noisy and chaotic, fell into a deathly stillness in the blink of an eye.

He stepped into the Hidden Cloud Government and gently closed the Great Red Paper Umbrella.

"Don't let anyone else come in."

He said faintly.

Queen of Diamonds and Jack of Clubs outside the door nodded at the same time: "Yes!"

A trace of cyan light dyed Queen of Diamonds's pupils. In the next second, a dense mist rolled out from the void, directly wrapping up the entire Hidden Cloud Government, as if completely isolating it from the outside world. Not the slightest bit of Aura leaked out.

After finishing all this, Queen of Diamonds and Jack of Clubs stood firmly in front of the door, like two mysterious and powerful gatekeepers.

Tick tock— tick tock...

Scarlet fresh blood dripped from the ceiling of the corridor.

The figures of several Dragon-Strangling Warriors covered in blood were directly nailed to the ceiling. They widened their eyes in terror, and everyone's body was covered in hideous slash marks...

Between the dripping drops of fresh blood, the figure draped in the red-bottomed, black-patterned Theatrical Robe slowly passed through.

As he passed by, several soul phantoms floated out from those corpses, as if attracted by some kind of powerful force, successively drilling into the inner side of the Great Red Paper Umbrella...

Chen Ling didn't let Red Heart J leave any survivors.

Since the death knell of human civilization had already rung, everything would lose the meaning of existence. Rather than leaving them to continue struggling in this world, it was better to directly take away their souls and bring them to the next world as much as possible.

"Heaven dizzy and earth dark, the common people fall by themselves;"

"Slaughter Is Not Sin; The Red Boat Ferries Those in Pain."

Chen Ling now somewhat understood the meaning of these few words from Master Sun Bumian.

Holding the Red Paper Umbrella in his hand, Chen Ling advanced calmly through the corridor. Red Heart J held the hilt of the Curved Blade behind his waist with one hand, smiling as he closely followed behind him. As long as an enemy appeared ahead, the blade light would slash out immediately...

By the time Chen Ling walked to the enemy's position, the other party had most likely already become a bloody corpse.

The Cangyun Base was right below the Hidden Cloud Government. Chen Ling just shuttled through the path of blood like this, arriving at the very bottom level of the base unhindered all the way...

At the end of the corridor, a quiet room door entered his sight.

"Wait for me outside the door."

"Yes."

Red Heart J stood firmly at the door, while Chen Ling gently pushed open the room door and walked inside.

...

"Pfft—"

Scarlet fresh blood splashed onto the walls of the Alleyway. Lord of Hidden Clouds wiped away the bloodstains at the corner of his mouth with the cuff of his shirt, his face becoming even paler.

He looked down at his chest, only to see the hideous blood vessels on the surface of his skin still extending towards the surroundings. It was as if the Calamity of Corruption in his body was unwilling to have its life and death controlled like this, and was bravely resisting.

"With just you... you still want to devour me?" Lord of Hidden Clouds snorted coldly.

He took a deep breath. After forcefully suppressing the Calamity of Corruption once again, he slowly walked forward...

Vaguely, he saw a figure lying on the ground in the distance.

It was a woman with graying hair at her temples. She lay motionless in the rain, completely drenched, as if she was already dead... But when Lord of Hidden Clouds walked up and felt her neck, he found that the other party seemed to only be unconscious.

"Hey..."

"Wake up!"

Lord of Hidden Clouds gently shook the woman. After hesitating for a moment, he pressed his thumb directly against her philtrum.

Under the intense stimulation, the woman's pale face twitched slightly, and a pair of despairing and hollow eyes slowly opened in the curtain of rain...

"A-Qiang..."

"Xiao Sheng..."

"Don't... leave me..."

Faint murmurs rang in Lord of Hidden Clouds's ears. Perhaps because the sound of the rain was too loud, the latter couldn't hear clearly at all.

"What did you say?"

The woman didn't repeat herself. She hazily looked at this man who woke her up. When she saw that face clearly, her entire person was slightly stunned...

"You... you are..."

Lord of Hidden Clouds didn't speak. He looked at the woman in front of him who was already so sick that she didn't look human, and silently pursed his lips... In those exhausted eyes, it was hard to conceal the pain and struggle welling up.

Lord of Hidden Clouds naturally knew why these people had become like this. In the final analysis, he was the chief culprit who facilitated all of this. In the past, he just silently locked himself in the Hidden Cloud Government, pretending not to hear the crying outside, pretending not to hear the suffering of all living beings. This way, at least his heart would feel a little better...

He had no choice. Since he decided to bear all of this, he could only do this.

But when he really saw the outside world, the pain in his heart that he thought he could already suppress surged up again, even more violently than any previous time.

Lord of Hidden Clouds didn't know what he could do. After a long silence, he bent down, directly carrying the woman on his back, and then staggered step by step towards the shop next to them.

"Don't be afraid..."

"I'll take you to take shelter from the rain..."

Lord of Hidden Clouds's footsteps were very heavy, because at this time, he was also exhausted.

He clearly knew that no matter what he did, he couldn't change anything. He even felt that this kind of self was pretentious and disgusting, but... he still did it. He wanted to atone for what he had done, even if it was just a tiny bit.

However, just as he was carrying the woman on his back and was about to walk under the shop's awning...

A burst of severe pain came from his waist!

Lord of Hidden Clouds stiffly lowered his head, only to see the woman he was carrying on his back tightly gripping a pair of Scissors. Perhaps because she was using too much force, the veins on the back of her hand bulged one by one... And at this moment, the blade of those Scissors had already deeply pierced into Lord of Hidden Clouds's body.

Scarlet fresh blood flowed along the Scissors.

"Lord of Hidden Clouds!!!"

The woman's wet hair was scattered messily. She was like an evil ghost crawling out from hell, roaring heart-wrenchingly at Lord of Hidden Clouds.

"It's all your fault... it's all your fault!!!"

"You beast worse than pigs and dogs!!!"

"Give my children back to me... give them back to me!!!!"