Chapter 1001: Memory Return

Memory Return

Factory District.

On the floor of the warehouse, rows of curse runes gradually faded away.

Almost at the same time, two figures sat up from the ground like they were waking from a deep dream!

Beads of sweat hung on Wu Duo's face. It seemed that activating 《Alice's Cellar Library》 was quite draining for her. She turned her head to look at Fang Liangye beside her.

"How is it, did you find what you were looking for?"

Fang Liangye sat there blankly like a sculpture, deep confusion and incomprehension churning in his eyes...

"Liangye?" Wu Duo called out again.

"... Hmm, found it."

"I told you... Never mind, let's leave here first."

Wu Duo lacked the energy to correct Fang Liangye's form of address. She led Fang Liangye directly out of the warehouse. Jian Changsheng and the other two were still standing at the door, waiting out of sheer boredom.

Seeing Fang Liangye come out, Jian Changsheng was about to ask something when a deafening roar came from afar!

Boom——!!!

Intense firelight surged towards the sky. Figures flew above the thick smoke like a dense swarm of insects, then scattered in all directions. The auras of various divine pathways erupted simultaneously, and the scene was incredibly chaotic.

"Isn't that the direction of the church?" Seeing this, Wu Duo spoke in surprise, "What happened??"

Jian Changsheng and the others also looked over at the same time, their eyes full of incomprehension.

"Six of Hearts let that bunch of guys in the dungeon out." Fang Liangye seemed completely unsurprised by this. "The empty fort strategy will be discovered sooner or later. Since that's the case, we have to muddy the waters first... Now, our chance has come."

Fang Liangye turned to look at the three of them. "You guys come with me."

"Go where?"

"To back up Six of Hearts."

After saying that, Fang Liangye turned and ran in the direction of the church.

Just after running two steps, he felt himself being hauled up by someone. His feet left the ground, and he moved swiftly into the distance as if riding the clouds and mounting the mist!

Fang Liangye looked back, only to see Sun Bumian shrugging his shoulders:

"If we wait for you to run all the way there, Six of Hearts will be long dead... We'd better hurry up."

Jiang Xiaohua and Jian Changsheng flew close to the ground like cannonballs, instantly swiping past from beneath Fang Liangye. Sun Bumian took him along, stepping with Cloud Steps, and similarly disappeared at extreme speed at the end of the street.

...

"We should go."

In the dungeon, Chen Ling looked at the completely empty cells around him and spoke slowly.

After Chen Ling opened the entire dungeon, those prisoners had already rushed out from underground and entered the church. Without any surprises, the church had now become a chaotic battlefield between them and the Fire-Stealers.

But after Hong Xiu took charge of the church, the Fire-Stealers stationed inside had basically all been dispatched outside. With just the remaining few personnel, it was simply impossible to be a match for this group of prisoners... In other words, the fall of the church was inevitable.

Chen Ling's gaze returned to what was in front of him. At this moment, in the entire dungeon, only one prisoner had not left...

"You're not leaving?" Chen Ling looked at the knight, slightly raising his eyebrows.

"'I' am right here, why should I leave?" The knight raised her hand and pointed to Hong Xiu beside Chen Ling. "Didn't you bring her here just to find me?"

Chen Ling looked at the knight in surprise, seemingly not expecting the other party to actually realize that her memories had been swapped.

"You guessed it?"

"If the Silver King hadn't sneak attacked, he wouldn't have been able to swap my memories at all, nor could he control me... It's just a pity that right now I'm only a fifth-tier knight. Even if I know everything, there's no way I can leave here."

The knight shook her head helplessly.

Hong Xiu had methods to resist the Silver King's memory theft, but it seemed she hadn't had the time to execute them. By the time she came to her senses, her memories were already in this fifth-tier knight's body. Even knowing everything, she had absolutely no ability to break out of the dungeon.

Chen Ling had many questions he wanted to ask, but this was obviously not the best time. He directly opened the lock to the knight's door and took a few steps back.

"We can't leave through the church; we need to open another path out." Chen Ling looked at Hong Xiu.

Hong Xiu nodded slightly, raised her hand, and pointed at the wall to the side. A wisp of killing intent pierced directly through the rock layer and soil, opening up a passage leading outside the church.

Without the slightest hesitation, Chen Ling and the other two swiftly sprinted along the passage!

Facts proved that Hong Xiu's control over distance was extremely precise. The location where the three returned to the surface was right outside the church. By this time, the church was already filled with roaring explosions, and numerous figures could be faintly seen fighting within.

"... Should be arriving soon..." Chen Ling looked around and muttered to himself.

"Who?" Hong Xiu asked.

"The other 'me'."

Just as Chen Ling's words fell, he saw a few familiar figures rushing over to this place.

Fang Liangye and Sun Bumian descended from the sky. After them, Jian Changsheng and Jiang Xiaohua arrived one after the other, soon reaching this place as well.

"How can you still run so fast while carrying someone?" Jian Changsheng looked at Sun Bumian in dissatisfaction. "Since you can run so well now, why didn't I see you carrying me and running together when we were eating and dashing?"

Sun Bumian: ...

"Hearts!" Seeing that Chen Ling was perfectly fine, Jiang Xiaohua finally let out a sigh of relief. "It's so good that you're still alive."

Although it sounded a bit awkward, it could be seen that Jiang Xiaohua was truly speaking from the bottom of his heart. He was the only one among the group whose memories regarding Chen Ling had not been taken away. Now, seeing Chen Ling return, a rare smile appeared on his tense little face.

Chen Ling immediately spoke: "Clubs, we need your help... Help swap our memories back, as well as the memories of those two. Can you do it?"

Jiang Xiaohua's gaze shifted to Chen Ling and Fang Liangye, then to Hong Xiu and the knight. After staring blankly for a moment, he nodded:

"Mhm... Should be able to."

Jiang Xiaohua had the four of them lie down. He plucked a strand of hair from each of their heads and began to tie knots at his fingertips...

At the same time, obscure curse runes sounded from the tip of Jiang Xiaohua's tongue, and the aura of the Path of the Witch God spread through the air. As the last knot was tied, he placed the two hair rope knots between the four people.

"Curse."

Jiang Xiaohua pointed a finger, and the two rope knots instantly vanished without a trace.

A familiar wave of weariness flooded Chen Ling's mind, and his eyelids closed heavily. It was the same for the other three. They lay flat on the ground one by one, as if falling into a deep slumber.

After finishing all this, an unhealthy paleness surfaced on Jiang Xiaohua's face, and his whole person was incomparably exhausted.

Looking at the chaotic environment around them, Sun Bumian felt somewhat uneasy in his heart:

"How long will it take for them to swap back?"

The prisoners were out of their cages, and the church had fallen. Those Agents and Thief Saints scattered outside would definitely react. If they all rushed back and this wasn't over yet, everything would be finished.

"3."

"3 minutes?"

"2..."

"???"

"1."

As Jiang Xiaohua's words fell, the four figures sat up violently from the ground at the same time, like awakening from a nightmare!