Environmental changes.
The city twisted and vanished!
The sunlight near dusk shone down on them.
Su Ze blinked, his eyes aching from the sudden brightness after being in a dim environment for so long.
Soon, they heard noise, and all of them let out a sigh of relief.
It was freakin' Chinese! They were back!
Su Ze no longer forced himself to stay awake. His eyes closed, and he fainted.
After an unknown amount of time.
The glaring surgical lights shone on him, making him squint. He turned his head and saw a familiar scene: the anesthesiologist, holding a phone, stared at him in shock!
Su Ze's pale face showed a mix of emotions.
He was both surprised and delighted. Delighted because he saw the anesthesiologist playing with a phone.
Even more delighted because, freakin' hell, he saw the anesthesiologist playing with a phone!
The anesthesiologist was completely stunned! His face filled with terror and shock!
The dosage for supernatural beings and transcendents is difficult to control since everyone's physique is different.
As they grow stronger, they become less and less human, and their physiques become even more different!
Some Candle Realm experts can withstand a missile and walk away unscathed, finding a secluded corner to glance around and then spit out blood.
Others in the Candle Realm can also withstand a missile, but only once. The second time, there's nothing left—the missile explodes, and there's no trace of them.
The doctors operating on Su Ze seemed to sense something and turned to look at him simultaneously.
Even more terrifying for the anesthesiologist was the sight of Su Ze's dry lips moving as he weakly said, "Doctor... anesthesia... pain..."
The instrument nurse, a girl, had seen countless bloody scenes, but she had never seen anything like this. A patient being anesthetized woke up on the surgery table and even spoke!
For her, this was no less terrifying than a corpse in the morgue getting up to do radio exercises and telling the night guard, "Don't mind me, my body's a bit stiff, so I need to move."
At the moment Su Ze spoke, her pupils dilated, and she fell straight to the ground with a thud!
Su Ze didn't know when he fainted again. When he woke up, he felt something soft in his hand.
Turning his head, he saw Uesugi Akizuki's innocent face light up with a surprised smile. The warm sunlight hid half of her adorable face in shadow. She was smiling, but tears flowed down her cheeks.
Uesugi Akizuki gently held his hand, careful not to exert too much pressure, afraid that the fragile boy covered in cracks might break.
Su Ze sat up and gently hugged the girl.
The little witch hugged him silently, crying softly without a sound. Su Ze could only feel her trembling body.
Su Ze's fingers ran through her smooth auburn hair, gently stroking her back.
"Is that Brother Ze? Why the sudden change? You're falling behind!" Shen Qingsheng said, biting into an apple as he sat on the adjacent hospital bed.
Seeing Su Ze wake up, Shen Qingsheng showed no excitement; his expression was calm.
Since joining the Forerunner, they had become regulars at the hospital, almost like going home.
Meng Xingyao handed Su Ze a glass of warm water.
Su Ze took the water and drank it all in one go.
"Do you feel like this is a last-minute surge of energy before you kick the bucket?" Shen Qingsheng asked. "If you do, go ahead and give us your bank card password so we can withdraw some funeral expenses for you."
"4689..." Before he could finish, Su Ze rolled his eyes and fell straight back onto the bed!
"Doctor! Doctor! Defibrillator! The patient's not looking good! We need to at least drag him back from the Grim Reaper for a few seconds!"
"Forget it! I'll do it! I'll perform CPR! Today, I'll slap the Grim Reaper himself to let my buddy live a few more minutes! At least let him finish essential matters!" Shen Qingsheng rolled up his sleeves and stepped up to Su Ze, prying open his mouth in front of Uesugi Akizuki, who was stunned and shocked.
Uesugi Akizuki quickly reacted, gritting her teeth. She pushed Shen Qingsheng's head away with one hand while shielding Su Ze with her body.
"No... no hanky-panky! Absolutely not!" Uesugi Akizuki struggled to resist Shen Qingsheng's shameless behavior, her face a mix of shock and fear.
How could the naive Uesugi Akizuki stop the slippery Shen Qingsheng? He dodged her hand and was about to kiss Su Ze!
Suddenly, bubbles gurgled out of Su Ze's mouth!
"Damn it! You're playing dirty, aren't you!" Shen Qingsheng jumped back in fright.
Su Ze hugged Uesugi Akizuki like a pillow, retreating, his face full of panic. "You're the one playing dirty, alright?"
Shen Qingsheng rolled his sleeves back down, returning to his bed to continue playing games.
Bantering was their way of greeting each other.
"What about the other two who came back with me?" Su Ze asked, thinking of Mo Ziang and Xuanyuan Jin.
"That monk woke up before you. He sat by your bed and chanted scriptures all night, leaving just this morning," Meng Xingyao said.
"I thought he was trying to perform an exorcism on you," Shen Qingsheng said with a look of regret. "I had already started preparing your funeral when you woke up."
"How badly do you want to eat my funeral feast?" Su Ze complained, then asked, "What about the other one?"
Shen Qingsheng was silent for a moment before saying, "He was severely injured and has been sent to the Phantom Prefecture. Is he one of the Phantom Brigade?"
Phantom Prefecture was the headquarters of the Phantom Brigade, so Shen Qingsheng guessed it right away.
Su Ze nodded, helping Uesugi Akizuki wipe away her tears. "Stop crying. Let's go home."
As they left the hospital, the golden sun had already set halfway behind the mountains.
The cracks on Su Ze's body rapidly healed as soon as he woke up, leaving only faint traces. When his energy and mental strength were at their peak, his body could showcase incredible healing abilities.
"Want a ride?" Meng Xingyao drove up in a sports car.
Su Ze held Uesugi Akizuki's hand as the sunset elongated their shadows on the street. "No, I think we need to slow down our pace of life. Going too fast isn't good."
"Yeah, men, going too fast isn't good," Shen Qingsheng said, getting into the passenger seat, "Huaxia University."
"..." Meng Xingyao turned her head to stare at him. Finally, Shen Qingsheng felt uneasy. "What's wrong?"
"Are you calling a cab? Do I look like a rideshare driver to you?"
"Sister, don't be so sensitive. If I don't give you money, then you're not a rideshare driver, are you?" Shen Qingsheng shrank his neck.
Meng Xingyao couldn't help but laugh softly. Just seeing Shen Qingsheng made her want to smile, as if the man was naturally hilarious.
Looking out the window, she watched as Su Ze and Uesugi Akizuki walked farther away, toward the setting sun. Meng Xingyao reversed the car and drove toward Huaxia University.
"Candle Realm Peak?!" Su Ze exclaimed, pinching Uesugi Akizuki's cheek in surprise.
Just now, he had sensed a fluctuation in Uesugi Akizuki's energy, and upon probing, he was genuinely shocked!
Seeing Su Ze's astonishment, Uesugi Akizuki's delicate face showed a slightly proud smile. She raised her left hand, and her wide sleeve slid down, revealing her slender, pale arm with smooth, soft lines, as if saying, 'Impressed?'
Su Ze was speechless for a moment, not sure whether to feel proud or sad.
Before Su Ze left, she was still at the Candle Realm Mid stage. In just half a month, she had reached the Candle Realm Peak!
One could imagine how much effort Uesugi Akizuki had put in.
"I... can protect you!" Uesugi Akizuki said with some stuttering but great seriousness. The little witch opened her arms and hugged Su Ze. Her auburn hair glowed beautifully in the sunset.
Because of Su Ze's words, she had not slacked off in the past two weeks, whether in class or during her training sessions with Meng Xingyao. She had studied with full effort!
When she learned that Su Ze had returned but was hospitalized, she had stayed by his side the entire time. Seeing the cracks all over Su Ze's body, she felt both heartbroken and furious!
She inherited the domineering personality of her ancestor, Uesugi Chikaharu, but it was overshadowed by her innocence.
But when Su Ze was beaten to such a state and lay in the hospital bed, her anger was buried deep within her. No one knew what she was thinking. She looked as usual, her face appearing innocent and adorable.
But inside, her anger burned like a wildfire!
This made her even more determined to become stronger.
Now, with her Candle Realm Peak strength, she had the confidence to say this to Su Ze!
ions, keeping it grounded and realistic】 After quitting his job, office worker Su Yang accidentally binds with the "Enjoy Life System." As the name suggests, simply by indulging in life's pleasures, he can earn random rewards from the system—no need to spend money on beautiful women or grovel before anyone. Just enjoy, and the money follows, making it all about effortless fun. The system comes with a scanning feature, allowing him to establish a favorability bond with women rated 85 points or above. Every 20-point increase in favorability unlocks additional rewards. After suffering through over twenty years of hardship, Su Yang trembles with excitement, his dull eyes suddenly gleaming with newfound hope. "Enjoy life? How hard could that be?"
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
world slacker. But a genius female disciple just had to get clingy, insisting that he take her as a disciple. Not only that, she was always making advances on him, thoroughly disrupting his peaceful slacker life...
he colors of other people’s emotions. Light red meant anxiety. Gray meant exhaustion. Orange meant excitement. Yellow... meant repression. At the same time, he could gain unlimited control over one of those colors. Pale cyan: relaxation. Using this ability, he started offering “two-yuan hugs,” spending an afternoon exchanging emotional-color experiences with others. Then came his final female customer of the day— a girl whose emotional color was pure black... —— A week later, Xu Chuan had become skilled at using pale cyan—Relaxation—treating it like a bottle of menthol balm whenever he needed it. That was when he discovered he had unlocked another unlimited emotional color: Purple, the color of fear. So these emotional colors refresh every week? Fine, I take it back—I’ll never call you useless again... —— Much later, after Xu Chuan had accumulated countless emotional abilities, one night, he suddenly found himself inside someone else’s dream. There, he could use the emotional colors he possessed to paint. And in her dream, he painted her a shower of pink shooting stars, spreading across the depths of the night sky...
