Across the city, and even among the thirty-plus cities watching this place, everyone was captivated by this ultra-long-distance financing Moxel voice.
–Li Mi?–
–Who is that?–
People in some cities were surprised to find that they had heard the voice of the financing proclamation without any referral or acceptance of the –Super Financing from the Demon Hero Hall.–
Could this financing proclamation actually transcend the boundaries of the cities?
Lü Bu sensed something was off.
–Fang Tian! Stop nurturing the ultimate amplification—just attack directly!–
Yang Zicang on the platform quickly withdrew his head.
–Little Matt Chao, don’t stop—keep running!–
{Wait, hold on.}
Yang Zicang thought he had misheard—Little Matt Chao rarely ignored his command. A slight unease crept into his mind; he worried that this Enightmare train might falter at such a critical moment.
The train turned its body slightly, staring at a distant object resembling a giant radio telescope.
{It seems…}
Little Matt Chao murmured softly, its voice tinged with melancholy.
–Seems like what?–
Yang Zicang anxiously observed its state.
The train was fixated on the thing propped up on the distant hilltop, and the sky above it.
{How envious.}
–Envious?– Yang Zicang looked bewildered, listening to the train’s voice.
Meanwhile, Lü Bu was already roaring on the platform, shouting Fang Tian’s name over and over, but the swirling red cloud vortex in the sky showed no response to him.
–Could it be… that Li Mi has some way to deal with Fang Tian?–
On the distant mountaintop, the parabolic antenna that looked as if it had been abandoned for decades or even centuries was already in tatters, yet it still managed to unfold—a sheer miracle.
{Mr. Fang Tian, please look at me.}
Li Mi’s voice continued.
{Do you see it, Fang Tian!}
Some sharp-eyed people, or those using optical aids, vaguely glimpsed something rising from the distant peak.
–What is he trying to do?- The people in the city were puzzled.
The giant –radio telescope,- emitting powerful waves, broadcast a gentle sentence—
{Mr. Fang Tian, I think you must be very lonely, all alone in space…}
–？–
The people in City 41, and indeed everyone from City 11 to City 35, Hub Town, and the Lost Frequency Land, all froze in shock.
Space? Lonely?
The red clouds in the sky erupted with a boom, the spinning mass shaking violently.
As if their deepest thoughts were exposed, the thunder blazing with orange light within the red clouds grew even fiercer!
–Ah? No way!-
Countless people began to realize what was happening.
In the sky, the swirling red light behind the thin clouds swiftly drifted to the mountaintop where the –radio telescope- stood, illuminating the low hill area, already shrouded in gloomy twilight, with a joyful red glow.
Fang Tian’s voice came through, tinged with confusion and a simple, almost disbelieving tone.
{You… this is… you…}
{They are all my dearest children. If you are willing, they can keep you company in the vast and lonely night.}
Yang Zicang stood dumbfounded, his mouth agape. He had never imagined that such words could come from the young man who seemed honest yet aloof, aloof yet spirited with gentle warmth.
Amid the bewilderment and chill of hundreds of thousands, countless eyes—directly or indirectly—watched as hot air balloons, hidden in the twilight, rose one by one beneath the sky lit by crimson vortex clouds, drifting gradually toward the heavens.
The Enightmares, exuding enchanting shimmering patterns and elegant scaly lines, floated and swayed like budding flower buds, rising into the sky.
{You, you are their –father,- Father Li Mi? Oh no, s-sir.}
{You may call me that, my nephew who roams beyond the heavens. I am their father, Li Mi!}
–No——!- Lü Bu screamed in utter collapse.
{My children need the mightiest guardian to ensure their safety as they venture out to play, allowing them to return safely every few days. Are you willing to become their guardian knight, Fang Tian?}
{I do, father-in-law.}
–Ahhh!- Lü Bu roared in frenzy, clutching his head and howling like a madman.
Rumble—boom—boom!
Thunderclouds churned wildly!
–Fang Tian!- Lü Bu roared in fury, staring at the thundercloud that had completely left him behind.
Its vortex had shrunk considerably.
The violently trembling red thunder gradually revealed a gentle vortex.
The thundercloud churned the air, as if trying to pull the dozen or so Enightmare hot air balloons—with their elegant inverted teardrop curves—toward itself.
{I see… I see… such a beautiful circle, such beautiful big eyes…}
The thunder within the clouds grew much gentler.
Faint electric light flickered, like a tingling caress and joy, awaiting the arrival of a night that would no longer be lonely.
{Ao… she’s blinking at me~ Ao yo~ What virtue and ability… Father-in-law!}
Fang Tian in space, as if possessed, let out an indecent excited moan.
The hundreds of thousands of people watching here were all numb with shock.
–Fang Tian! Aaah!!- Lü Bu stomped his feet in desperation.
The members of the Xiongying Group surrounded him, shivering, at a loss for what to do. They were all stunned, feeling this couldn’t be real.
At this moment, Lü Bu finally pulled out a phone he had never shown anyone—a phone covered in fine scales.
In the phone’s cracked little screen, a sleepy eye opened hazily, like a broken flower screen.
{Is it time to renew the chat subscription again? Can he no longer hear your voice?}
The young man frantically pressed the number keys on the Enightmare phone:
–Quick, quick, send a text to Fang Tian—no, make a satellite call!-
Enightmare phone slowly extends the antenna hidden inside its body. A few seconds later.
{Oh… Can’t get through. It doesn’t respond to me.}
Enightmare phone looks toward the distant large launch terminal and the figure of Enightmare on the hot air balloon floating toward the sky.
{They have already bewitched Mr. Fang Tian’s mind.}
–Ah!- Out of his mind, Lü Bu viciously threw the phone to the ground.
Meanwhile, the people at headquarters were even more bewildered, each more than the next. They still didn’t dare to confirm that this was something their own people had caused.
A zigzag line shot in. Yu Dong’s spirit jolted.
[Li Mi wants to perform Pro-Invest for me.]
[Li Mi invests 1R for me.]
[Good job, Li Mi, from now on you are…]
{I am Li Mi, now is the most critical moment to attack the Xiong Ying Group. Immediately, act now!}
–I… okay, okay, okay!-
Yu Dong immediately turned around with trembling hands, suppressing the urge to cheer. The Moxel on his chest appeared, and with his back to everyone, the threads expanded into the void.
[Su’e… it’s up to you!]
……
Yang Zicang’s jaw nearly dislocated.
He didn’t expect that the contact person from headquarters, who had just been trying to communicate with him, would actually cause such a thing.
He remembered the –Sky Lantern Plan- that Li Mi had mentioned to him a few months ago. At this moment, his mind was full of helplessness. What bullshit about shooting down satellites—it turned out to be delivering packages for others.
{Sigh.}
Little Matt Chao sighed despondently.
{Let’s go. There’s no use envying.}
–Xian… wait.- Yang Zicang suddenly stared blankly at the train beneath his feet.
Inexplicably, a bad premonition.
Although he didn’t ask…
The chilling dread brought by his intuition grew ever stronger.
{Having the little white shadow’s company is good enough.}
–I…!-
Suddenly, a flash of light up ahead, and a woman’s figure abruptly appeared beside Lü Bu.
The moment the person next to him reacted,
Bang!
A bullet with red light crashed into the brain of the frenzied Lü Bu, who stood close at hand.
After this shot, the woman, covered in red light, gripped her pistol tightly, unable to move her whole body. She shouted hoarsely in anguish from her throat:
–Lü, I will avenge the hatred of you killing my teammates in the past today!-
In Su’e’s eyes, the scalp of the youth code-named Lü Bu split open, but the faint red light emitted from the bones underneath was neutralized to gray-white, then turned red in an instant.
–Some other time.-
Lü Bu, slightly calmer, raised his head and glared at the woman he had reduced to charcoal the last time.
–I have already super-funded—a breakthrough funding that spans ten thousand years. I am about to step onto the trajectory of fate, right after this battle ends.-
–Lü Bu!- The surrounding Xiongying team members looked at him in disbelief.
Bang! A layer of energy materialized into bricks enveloped Lü Bu, shielding him from the Paleshade Wyrm’s attack.
–Yang Zicang,- the young man turned his head, a trace of loneliness in his gaze. –Hmph, you thought I wouldn’t guard against your psychic power?-
Shlick! Lü Bu’s head drooped slightly.
A –Void Zero Dagger- with gray ripples had pierced through his heart.
He turned his head dully. Beside him, a man in black sunglasses watched him calmly.
–You…-
The people surrounding Lü Bu instantly fell into chaos—some tried to rush forward, others tried to flee.
The man said, –On the night we contained the Defenders, Sun Xin, who was waiting on that building for Matt Chao to arrive—I used Chronos to send him back and get him out.-
Lü Bu’s gaze trembled. –You… defected…-
–There is no defection.-
The man in sunglasses was wrapped in a slowly rotating, half–Taiji fish- energy mass, like a distorted water droplet.
–A bit high-sounding, I know. But the color of Moxel is not the root of allegiance; good and evil are. Lü Xinjun, you’ve been lost for too long.-
In Lü Bu’s eyes, the divine light slowly faded and grew dim.
The hundreds of people who had been threatened by the Xiongying Group now roared and rushed forward.
Shao Min drew his shortsword and said, –Brothers, don’t be impulsive!-
Tong Wenqi led a group from the other entrance. These representatives from headquarters worked to pacify the crowd, gradually stabilizing the inconclusive Chronos war of attrition.
–Yang Zicang, I know you’re eager. Come on, I’ll go down with you.-
This young man, a year or two older than Bo Boli, squeezed through the chaotic crowd and said.
Su’e’s hand began to stir. –And me.-
Shao Min, no longer eligible to win, removed his sunglasses.
–If you don’t mind, I could also come along as Feihong’s liaison. It’s just that in my current state, I can’t use my abilities anymore.-
In both pupils, two swirling circles of condensed mist slowly rotated, like something from a cartoon.
–It’s you… All right, let’s go.-
Yang Zicang nodded. The train carried him toward the pool, and the five different-colored barbs emitted an even stronger glow.
……
Mu Xiaoyu and the others watched the scenes from the Mo Ying Hall through the Syn-Link relay set up by Li Mi’s people.
She, Zhang Yang, Liu Ming, and some ordinary people who hadn’t yet received their own Moxel stood dumbfounded witnessing this. Only then did Mu Xiaoyu realize that the hot air balloon she had created had been turned into an Enightmare monster by Li Mi to entice the satellites above.
In this enclosed theater’s alternate dimension, a dozen ordinary people without Moxel watched the TV broadcast and embraced each other in excitement.
The dark cloud of threat that had weighed over the people of City 41 was instantly overturned by that little-known figure.
–I feel like I’ve become an unsung hero.- Mu Xiaoyu choked out, wiping tears from the corners of her eyes.
Liu Ming gave her a concerned look and let out a soft sigh.
Before anyone could dwell on the moment, the screen suddenly showed Lu Bu being ambushed.
Mu Xiaoyu spotted Yang Zicang. Watching the young man she hadn’t seen in half a year, his skin was more radiant and he looked even more handsome, but now an air of deep exhaustion seemed to cling to him, making the girl—who couldn’t quite pin down her own feelings—feel a twinge of pity.
–We’ve fallen way too far behind,- Zhang Yang murmured.
–I hope Zicang knows that… I-I made a contribution too,- Mu Xiaoyu whispered, lowering her head.
But what she didn’t realize was that, in the subconscious perception of everyone present, the three of them were the most harmonious people here, and being near them felt most comfortable.
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