Chapter 1791: Guest

The Inner Wall was shattered to pieces amidst a rumble.

The earth trembled, and rolling dust flew up, blotting out the sky...

Several kilometers away from the battlefield, an aged figure stood in front of the window, looking at this scene from afar, and weak coughing sounds rang out gently.

Marquis Wei sighed lightly.

He didn't look at the distant battlefield anymore. After all, he knew the ending was already destined... He calmly supported himself on the table and turned around. From the corner of his eye, he saw the front hall, and discovered that the incense Jing Si had just lit had burnt out at some unknown time.

He was silent for a long time, as if hesitating.

It was already this time, and that person still hadn't appeared. Marquis Wei was also very clear in his heart that he mostly wouldn't come... but Marquis Wei still wouldn't give up.

Ultimately, he still shook his head, slowly walked to the table, and took out a new stick of incense to insert.

Regardless of whether he came or not, he himself had to first bring out the highest specification of etiquette for treating guests... Not just for himself, but also for the entire Path of Divination, and even the myriad living beings of this world.

Marquis Wei slowly stood up. In the next second, he froze in place.

At some unknown time, a figure draped in a Theatrical Robe had already stood in front of the door like a ghost. Faint smoke drifted around him, and a pair of ruby-like pupils calmly watched everything in the room...

It's him...

Even for Marquis Wei, this most outstanding Path of Divination practitioner in the past several centuries, he was somewhat surprised at this time. He looked complexly at Chen Ling. Only after a long time did he smile bitterly and open his mouth:

"I thought... you wouldn't come."

"Originally, I indeed didn't plan on coming." Chen Ling stepped forward slowly, speaking faintly, "It was the four words 'Ruoshui Domain' that changed my mind... Moreover..."

Chen Ling paused for a moment. "You remind me of an old friend."

"An old friend?"

"When the domain was about to be destroyed, he also didn't choose to leave... but instead remained there forever."

Hearing this sentence, Marquis Wei froze slightly.

Before the Ruoshui Domain, not a single domain had been destroyed... Could it be...

"Sure enough, just like His Majesty, you are also one of The Prophets." Marquis Wei looked at Chen Ling complexly. "Even the conversation between Jing Si and me, you knew..."

Chen Ling shook his head. "I knew, not because I can foresee the future... but because my intelligence network is sufficiently vast."

"You must be joking. When I said that sentence, there was only Jing Si and me here..."

"Oh?" Chen Ling smiled faintly,

"Are you certain... there were only two people?"

A gentle breeze brushed past Marquis Wei's side. For some unknown reason, he felt that the surroundings seemed somewhat cold.

Chen Ling unhurriedly sat down at the table. Marquis Wei was silent for a moment, then also sat down. He lifted that warm kettle and earnestly began to brew tea.

"If you have anything you want to know, just ask." Chen Ling spoke calmly.

Ever since Marquis Wei stepped onto the Path of Divination, it had always been others coming to ask him things. Now that the roles had been completely reversed, if others saw this, their jaws would probably drop in shock...

But Marquis Wei didn't feel anything improper at all. After earnest thought, he still asked:

"This world of ours... which time is this?"

"The sixth time."

Chen Ling replied faintly.

On the surface, Chen Ling was calm and unruffled, but in his heart, he was somewhat slightly surprised... This Marquis Wei indeed had some capability, to actually sense that the world had been restarted.

However, since Chen Ling came as a guest, naturally he had made preparations to resolve Marquis Wei's doubts. He actually quite appreciated this Marquis Wei. Now that the other party was about to die, telling him some things was nothing...

But looking at it now, with Marquis Wei's ability, maybe he could even reverse it and give him some surprises?

Hearing the answer of the sixth time, Marquis Wei's face turned pale. Chen Ling's answer not only confirmed his guess, but also transmitted a terrible signal to him...

The situation humanity faced was even more severe than he imagined.

"This time... will it be the last time?"

Marquis Wei deliberated for a long time, but still asked this question.

"This, I cannot answer you." Chen Ling paused for a moment. "If possible, of course I hope this is the last time... but if it's not the last time, it isn't necessarily a bad thing. At least it means... we still have a chance to make a comeback."

Marquis Wei was a smart person. With a little thought, he understood Chen Ling's meaning.

If the so-called last time meant completely wiping out the Red Star, that naturally would be the best... But if it meant they didn't even have the chance to restart, then humanity had completely failed.

"Those outside, are they all your people?"

"Yes."

"Why are you guys doing this?"

"I came to bid farewell to an old friend... and at the same time, retrieve some things."

"Things?"

Chen Ling was silent for a moment. "Humanity's last line of defense."

Marquis Wei's brows wrinkled slightly. This answer, he didn't seem to understand... but looking at Chen Ling's meaning, he didn't plan on explaining it to him either.

He asked again:

"Then what is your relationship with His Majesty?"

Chen Ling's eyes narrowed slightly.

He didn't answer directly, but asked in return: "What do you think?"

He didn't know if it was Marquis Wei's illusion, but when Chen Ling asked this sentence, the surrounding temperature dropped once again... Within those ruby-like pupils, a trace of faint Oppressive Aura was revealed.

This time, Marquis Wei thought for a long time before giving an answer: "Enemies... but also not entirely."

"Why?"

"You guys are definitely not friends, otherwise the major bastions wouldn't need to specifically set up Inner Walls to guard against outsiders barging into the bases... At this moment, the Inner Wall also wouldn't fall into the unrest of both sides slaughtering each other. If I guessed correctly, His Majesty doing all this, is exactly to guard against you." Marquis Wei paused, then his tone changed,

"But if you were truly mortal enemies, His Majesty wouldn't need to temporarily change the guards, transferring away the original garrison troops and exchanging them for a batch of Parasites with obvious major problems... Those two Dukes of the State also wouldn't only escort the trains outside the bastion without stepping half a foot inside the bastion."

"If you were truly mortal enemies, you wouldn't let those newcomers who will grow into His Majesty's wings leave, and wouldn't wait until all the evacuation procedures were activated before taking action against the base."

"Although you are enemies with each other, sometimes, there is an inexplicable... tacit understanding?"

Marquis Wei probingly spoke the final sentence.

Chen Ling's eyes narrowed into long, narrow crescents. In an instant, the atmosphere of the entire front hall seemed to drop to the freezing point. Under this indescribable Oppressive Aura, Marquis Wei, an Eighth-Tier powerhouse, actually felt his hair stand on end.

He didn't know how long passed before Chen Ling spoke coldly:

"The questions you asked, are a bit too many..."

"Next..."

"It's my turn to ask you... how about it?"