Chapter 961: Inclusive Big City

Inclusive Big City

The train slowly started moving.

A woman looked out the window at the gradually receding metropolis, a trace of coldness flashing in her eyes. She casually spat the sunflower seed shells from the corner of her mouth into the stainless steel plate, making a soft clinking sound.

This woman was none other than Chen Ling after activating [Formless].

Faking death to escape, Chen Ling was already very familiar with this kind of thing. After the missile shattered his body, the remnants fell down the cliff and into the dense forest... And following the deduction of 50% Expectation Value, he quickly resurrected in a deserted place.

In fact, the Chen Ling at that time wasn't truly forced into a desperate situation. He still had many ways to maneuver and delay. But the most important reason why Chen Ling chose to commit suicide was to eradicate the tracking spell in his body.

Although the ranks of the Divine Path Possessors in this era were not high, their methods were completely different from the era of the Nine Monarchs. The Path of the Arts activated using a camera, the Path of the Soldier with flick-shot sniping and incurable wounds, the tracking spells that could lock onto someone inexplicably...

Even Chen Ling found these abilities impossible to defend against effectively. He didn't know where he had been hit by the tracking spell, nor did he know how to resolve it, so he simply chose to resurrect directly to clear all the negative effects on himself.

In order to leave the Shanghai border, Chen Ling also thoroughly changed his appearance. Not only his appearance and age, but he even disguised his gender. He didn't believe that even after he went this far, those "White Hands" still had the means to track him.

"Fifty for one portion."

"Scan the code."

A figure stood at the door of the carriage for a while, then held a Fruit Platter and unhurriedly walked toward Chen Ling's location.

Because it was a green-skinned train, the front and back rows of seats faced each other, with a small table in the middle. At this time, an old lady was sitting next to Chen Ling, happily chatting with another old lady opposite her.

"Excuse me, can you make some room?" The youth holding the Fruit Platter stood in the aisle. "My seat is inside by the window."

The woman by the window was looking out at Shanghai. Hearing this voice, her eyes trembled slightly, then she glanced at the standing youth and the hideous mask at his waist, pretending not to know him and silently looking away again...

The old lady dawdled and leaned back, barely leaving a path for the youth. After the latter struggled to move to the seat opposite Chen Ling, he slowly sat down.

"What a coincidence." The youth pushed the Fruit Platter in front of the woman opposite him. "You are here too."

Chen Ling glanced at him and spoke coldly:

"Do I know you?"

The two old ladies who were still chattering and gossiping immediately closed their mouths at the same time and silently pricked up their ears.

"Oh... it's my negligence." The youth seemed to have realized something. "Let's reintroduce ourselves. My name is Shen Nan."

"I don't know what you're talking about. I have no interest in knowing you."

"I'm quite curious, how did you manage to change so much... Is it makeup? Plastic surgery? No... You even changed your gender... Could it be that you..."

The two old ladies' eyes were fixed straight ahead, and they even began to uncontrollably take sunflower seeds from Chen Ling's bowl. While secretly glancing at this man and woman beside them from the corner of their eyes, they skillfully stuffed sunflower seeds into their mouths, as if some instinct engraved in their bones had been activated.

As expected of a big city like Shanghai, when they say it's inclusive, it's truly inclusive!

Chen Ling's gaze toward Shen Nan was incredibly complex, and he couldn't help but speak:

"I've already gone this far, how did you find me??"

"I saw it." Shen Nan paused for a moment. "At that time, when you jumped off the cliff, I was just preparing to go save you... But as you know, those people besieging you are considered my own people. I couldn't come out openly, so I planned to take action from the bottom of the cliff to take you away, the further from Shanghai the better...

But I didn't expect that they actually..."

Shen Nan didn't continue speaking.

But before the eyes of the two old ladies, a magnificent and wonderful drama had already been mentally filled in. The speed at which they cracked sunflower seeds got faster and faster, wishing they could stick their ears onto the two of them!

"Then why did you still come looking for me?" Chen Ling frowned and asked.

"I'm just a bit curious, I want to know what exactly you're going to do..."

Shen Nan casually peeled an orange and continued, "I followed you all the way. Although you changed a lot, so much that I couldn't even recognize you... But there are some things I can sense."

"What?"

"The two souls in your body."

The old lady opened her mouth wide in shock, dropping sunflower seeds all over the floor.

"This grandmother, you have already arrived at your station, please get off quickly," a kind-hearted Train Stewardess walked over and said.

Without a second word, the old lady pulled out a few banknotes from her pocket and stuffed them into the Train Stewardess's hand,

"One more stop, I want to ride for one more stop!"

Train Stewardess: ?

Perhaps because the next stop was too far away, the old lady ultimately didn't choose to buy another ticket. She looked at Chen Ling and the other reluctantly a few times, and finally patted Shen Nan's shoulder:

"Grandmother supports you both."

Shen Nan: ???

No one knew what kind of story would spread rapidly in the village following the departure of the two old ladies, making countless people refresh their understanding of the love-hate entanglements among Shanghai's wealthy families, and filling them with curiosity about this magical and inclusive city.

Chen Ling and Shen Nan didn't realize anything was wrong, nor did they know what roles they would play in their mouths. They only knew that after the two old ladies left, their seats became much more spacious.

Chen Ling adjusted his sitting posture and continued speaking:

"I thought you would arrest me and take me back, or tip them off."

"I don't have that deep of an affection for Bureau 749. Becoming a 'White Hand' was just because I wanted a reasonable and legal identity." Shen Nan sighed. "After saving you, those people would constantly come to question me, batch after batch, annoying me to death... I also wanted to take this opportunity to go out and lay low."

"You want to run away with me? You trust me that much?"

"Before coming here, I gave Elder Xiao a call." Shen Nan spoke calmly. "She asked me to take good care of you, saying her family owed you a huge favor... Elder Xiao was kind to me back then. I couldn't refuse her request."

So it was Elder Xiao who stepped in... Chen Ling understood in his heart.

Although Shen Nan's path was special, his strength was definitely not weak in Bureau 749. For him to risk protecting Chen Ling, it was enough to show how great Elder Xiao's face was.

"It's hard to say who will take care of who." Chen Ling stuffed an orange into his mouth expressionlessly. "After all, most of the time, you are an Ordinary Person... If I hadn't kicked you away back then, you would have already died once."

"Perhaps."

Shen Nan shrugged. He leaned against the back of the seat, propping his head up with one hand, and spoke leisurely,

"But there is one thing I can indeed help you with."

"What?"

"Resolve your problem of having one body and two souls."

Hearing this, Chen Ling's eyes narrowed slightly.