Chapter 614: World Fusion Successful

"Ke Xin Jie has been doing great lately; Dad has been handing many important tasks over to her."

"Originally, when a department head had an incident, Dad wanted to simply promote Ke Xin Jie to be the supervisor, but she refused; however, lately things have indeed been a bit strange."

"Just a few days ago, Ke Xin Jie even took the annual leave she had been hoarding for a long time—could it have anything to do with you, kid...?"

Listening to Sun Yu's doubtful voice, Yang Yixie twitched the corner of his mouth.

No matter how he argued, Sun Yu seemed convinced that he was into lolis, and any rebuttal was useless.

Then he was truly wronged.

Suddenly, a gust of wind swept in.

At first the wind merely teased the leaves, but then it changed its mood, bending the trees lining the sidewalk and then letting them snap back.

The phone screen lit up briefly; hailing a ride in the rain was especially difficult, but after chatting so long, the ride‑hailing car was only two hundred meters away.

After finally getting into the car, a thin fog instantly formed on the window due to the temperature difference inside and out; rain streamed down the glass, and the sound of rain enveloped everything, as if it melted the city's clamor.

The world outside the window was undergoing a grand cleansing, while Yang Yixie was trapped in a small metal box—temporarily safe, temporarily still, like the quiet vortex at a storm's eye.

"I always feel the hot pot here in Shoudu isn't as tasty as City C's."

The mall was crowded; Sun Yu and Yang Yixie had come by a spontaneous arrangement, queued for a number ticket, and only around two o'clock did they finally eat their fill.

"Can't help it; people from different regions tolerate spiciness differently."

Yang Yixie merely sighed, idly poking the oil dish in front of him with his chopsticks.

Because he was drinking the hot pot's base broth, a layer of oil formed on the surface for a while after he finished.

He and Sun Yu sat by the window, and through the clear glass could still see the crowds moving outside.

Of course, Yang Yixie chose the seat; it happened to allow a view of everything on the outer aisle, and the outside could see inside, whereas other seats struggled to see this area clearly.

In other words, those watching him could only look from the outer aisle as he and Sun Yu ate heartily inside.

Yang Yixie was so bored that he could only tinker with his watchers for amusement.

He leisurely ate the post‑meal fruit, watching the watcher who seemed merely to be waiting for someone, gnawing fiercely on a now‑cold chive pastry.

Suddenly, the entire mall dimmed a few degrees.

【Sizzle—】

A burst of electric crackling sounded beside Yang Yixie's ear.

He furrowed his brow slightly; his first reaction was to think the mall's lighting was faulty, but when he glanced back at the aisle, he saw everyone looking up toward the ceiling, as if something particularly eye‑catching was up there.

Someone curiously went outside to check, followed by a few shouts calling their friends to come out and look.

"Hey hey hey! Come out and see! What is that?"

It felt just like spotting a UFO.

Many were swept up, walking outside out of curiosity to investigate.

The mall spans a huge area, overall a massive U-shaped structure, entirely indoor, but with a hollow center; especially the Dome's transparent glass, cleansed by today's torrential rain, was exceptionally clear.

Many people like to stay on the inner plaza at the mall's very center, sitting there to see the sky above the Dome crystal clear.

Today's weather was poor, a gray haze, so originally no one would deliberately look up at the sky.

But the once‑gray world unknowingly turned into pure black.

Sun Yu, who loves joining the crowd, immediately dragged Yang Yixie to the outer corridor, curiously looking up at the sky Dome.

Only the massive Dome above seemed to be receiving some signal interference; within the original pitch‑black, faint, ethereal snow‑flake specks appeared, then quickly reverted to pure black.

"What is that?"

"Maybe the mall is prepping for the upcoming event? Looks like some kind of projection?"

It indeed looked like that, but after the truth was revealed, others thought those earlier people were overreacting; yet people always love to join the excitement, seeing the crowd head out, they also wanted to go and see the situation.

【Sizzle—】

As the disinterested people prepared to leave, the girl who had first called friends out to check the situation was heard excitedly urging her friends to look at her phone.

"You guys, look at your phones!!! It's already trending, about the Shoudu one!"

Sun Yu, being among the uninterested, returned with Yang Yixie to their seats, but outside a wave of exclamations kept rising, as if something truly interesting was happening.

He opened his phone and saw an entry climbing the rankings nonstop; just minutes after posting, it had already surged into the top three trending spots.

"What on earth is this?"

Sun Yu frowned slightly at the picture, "A massive unknown black object appeared over Shoudu's Dome, covering the entire sky?"

【Zzz... Zzz— Receiving mail—】

This time, Yang Yixie finally identified the source of the sound—it was indeed a system popup, as the long‑unseen notification window reappeared.

Yang Yixie had fully mastered his Aberrant Arts, so he naturally no longer needed any system popup to aid him...

【Zzz... You have... a new email... please check...】

"Damn, what the heck is this!"

Unlike the intermittent, faulty‑like system sounds ringing in his ear, Sun Yu across from him let out a startled shout.

"WTF, Old Yang, look at the message I just forwarded to you... never mind, just look at mine directly!"

Yang Yixie, as soon as he opened the jumbled email that landed in his hands, saw the phone Sun Yu handed him.

"Shoudu's Dome Suddenly Shows Massive Black Shadow!"

But within moments, the entry had surged to the top of the trending list.

The most liked, still climbing reply was a freshly posted photo.

Unlike the pure black others saw, this was the only picture taken from a considerable distance, faintly showing the black shadow's general outline.

【Zzz— Email opened—】

The shadow's base resembled a huge semicircle, more like an ellipse, sinking into the grayish cloud layer; cloud wisps brushed its edges slowly, and at one spot a rail‑like extension protruded, its break looking as if something had sliced it off.

Above that semicircle was the outline of a city.

The Gothic spire pierces the sky; it is the highest and most conspicuous spot of the whole Floating City, while the roofs elsewhere, with utterly different shapes, rise and fall alternately—that is a city.

One...

Floating City.

【Ding, prompt: Customer service 501 is online!】

【Sizzle——】

【System Prompt: The Heavenly Crown of Floating City is invading the current space......】

【System Prompt: Fusion successful.】