Chapter 279: Low Temperature

Chen Ling looked at the figure rolling up his sleeves and busy on the counter, thoughtful.

To speak the truth, the feeling the Lord of the Aurora gave him was completely different from his imagination. The first time seeing him inside the base, even without opening his eyes, his body was emitting an indescribable kind of "Divine Nature". And now after he woke up, "Human Nature" seemed to have occupied his body again.

Even though between raising his hands and moving his feet he still emitted the temperament uniquely belonging to the Lord of the Aurora, but the two were cleverly combined together. "Divine Nature" and "Human Nature" perfectly coexisted.

The Lord of the Aurora turned his head back. "What do you want to drink?"

"...Latte is fine." Chen Ling answered with a weird expression.

"Alright."

"..." Chen Ling hesitated for a moment, unable to help but ask, "Lord... Dr. Yang, the matter of you leaving the Aurora Base, do the people inside the base know?"

"Don't know, but they should know by now."

Hearing this, Chen Ling could already guess how chaotic the base was now... The Lord of the Aurora disappeared out of thin air, regardless of whether it was the base or the Law Enforcer Headquarters, it was estimated they had all crazily begun looking for him. But who could have thought, he was actually leisurely brewing coffee here for a "World-Ending" Calamity?

"No reason." The Lord of the Aurora was silent for a moment. His gaze pierced through the window full of cold frost, looking towards the outside. "I... merely wanted to come out and take a walk."

Seeing this, Chen Ling was just about to open his mouth to ask something more, the Lord of the Aurora's complexion suddenly changed!

"Cough cough cough cough——"

He abruptly put down the grinder, his whole person violently coughing up. The aged lungs were drumming like a broken bellows, emitting hoarse and weak coughing sounds, reverberating inside the uninhabited coffee shop.

The Lord of the Aurora at this moment, although his face still looked like a young man in his twenties, his voice was already like eighty or ninety years old.

Chen Ling immediately got up, seeing the Lord of the Aurora's white hair messily scattered on his shoulders. Along with his violent coughing, wisp after wisp of dim and gloomy fresh blood, flowed from the cracks of his fingers, falling pitter-patter onto the ground...

...

Courtyard.

A patch of bonfire burned in the Courtyard. Raging fierce flames dispersed somewhat the coldness, adorning the frost-white Courtyard with a touch of red intent.

Chu Muyun sat beside the bonfire, holding a few pieces of firewood in his hands, from time to time throwing them into the flames, emitting crackling sounds.

As a figure flew past the courtyard wall, the burning flames suddenly rolled with the wind. Chu Muyun seemed to have perceived something, turning his head looking towards one side. He only saw Bai Ye currently bringing Jian Changsheng, not knowing when they were already standing there.

Chu Muyun saw Jian Changsheng, his eyes lighting up slightly.

"Came back? Where is Six of Hearts?"

Jian Changsheng's mouth corner twitched, his expression somewhat gloomy. "...Don't know."

"Don't know? Weren't you guys acting together?"

"That guy, seemed to have sold me out..."

Jian Changsheng recounted the cause and effect of the matter once. Chu Muyun was thoughtful.

"Six of Hearts shouldn't be that kind of person... Mm... however it's indeed hard to say..." Chu Muyun sighed. "In short, you still aren't sure if he has come out from the base or not, right?"

"Right."

"Do you need me to make a trip?" Bai Ye leaned against the wall, slowly speaking.

"...No need, that kid's abilities are not small, he shouldn't end up having an accident. However if you go and accidentally alert that one, none of us can defeat her."

"That legendary [Asura] Pathway Chief?" Bai Ye thought about it. "Indeed very tricky."

Chu Muyun threw all the remaining firewood in his hands into the flames in one breath, subsequently slowly standing up walking towards the other side of the Courtyard. He plucked down the tree branches in the yard one by one completely. The originally still considerably aesthetically pleasing few large trees, immediately turned into bare poles.

"Speaking of which, why did you start burning your own trees?"

"Scientific regression, the Aurora City's heating system has failed. Wanting to get warm, can only think of a way yourself... Now outside there are people buying Coal everywhere, it's already a mess. Anyway the things in this yard also can't be taken away, simply just burn them and be done with it."

"Heating failed?" Jian Changsheng's heart was startled. "Without heating on such cold days, it will freeze people to death..."

"There are already quite a few people frozen to death, and the temperature is still dropping..."

Chu Muyun sighed. His gaze looked outside the courtyard wall, at that Aurora City thoroughly covered by ice and snow, seeming to have recalled something. "Another living purgatory on earth, is about to be born."

"The temperature drop came too suddenly, and the auroras clearly have already begun to be unstable..." Bai Ye raised his head taking a glance at the sky, pressing the brim of his peaked cap downwards, unable to see what expression it was. "The time is almost up."

"Yes ah... it's also time to end."

Jian Changsheng listening to the two's inexplicable conversation, couldn't help but speak, "What are you guys talking about?"

"Nothing, after a period of time, you will naturally know."

"..."

Jian Changsheng clicked his tongue, turning around walking towards outside the main gate.

"Where are you going?"

"Going out to casually stroll around." As Jian Changsheng's voice fell, he had already pushed the door leaving.

Bai Ye turned his head looking at Chu Muyun. "At this time, is it suitable for him to run outside?"

"What's unsuitable about it." Chu Muyun shrugged.

"He's so hard to kill, the problem is not big."

Bai Ye: ...

After Jian Changsheng went out the door, a burst of cold wind brushed past, freezing his whole person into shivering.

"So cold... it's really going to kill people." Jian Changsheng silently shrank his neck, walking towards a certain direction.

For him to go out to endure the freezing now, it wasn't purely because he was bored to panic. The Aurora City had already messed into a clump, and within this city there were still people he cared about. If he didn't go over to see, he fundamentally wouldn't feel at ease.

However, he had just walked a few steps, when he saw a few figures stumbling and running towards here.

"Young man... young man!"

"Young man, is there still Coal in your home?"

"If you have Coal, share a bit with me... My son is already almost frozen to death!"

"And me! First share a bit with me! My husband is sick on the bed, it won't do without things to warm up ah..."

"In our home everything that can be burned is all finished burning... Tables, chairs... other than a piece of clothing to defend against the cold on our bodies, we really have nothing left..."

"I'm begging you, I'm really begging you... Coal is fine, pieces of wood are also fine... casually give me anything!! Young man, auntie is kowtowing to you..."

This was a group of elderly aunties. Pulling Jian Changsheng's garment corner, they then began bitterly begging. The water droplets on their eyelashes were all frozen into drops of ice particles. Their faces were deathly pale same as the snow ground underneath their bodies.

Jian Changsheng blanked out. He saw one of the aunties plop kneeling down, immediately speaking:

"Don't... don't! The things you want I also don't have... You go look somewhere else."

Hearing this sentence, looks of despair emerged on the faces of the few aunties. They muddle-headedly turned around, seemingly without direction, mechanically walking towards the distance...

Plop,

One of the aunties' figures swayed, planting headfirst onto the snow ground.