Jin Rongxu looked up.
To his horror, the three people walking towards him were Ma Dong, the army medic, and Pot Lid, who he was certain had turned into terrifying creatures. His hair stood on end.
"Captain!" Ma Dong called out first, his tone more animated than before. "What happened? All we remember is that we fell asleep, and when we woke up, there were dead bodies everywhere."
Pot Lid nodded and added, "Yeah, they were all... just standing there motionless..."
"We guessed that the dungeon was over," the army medic said calmly. "So as soon as we woke up, we came here."
Zhu Yan, hiding inside the puppet of Zhu Zeyu, nodded repeatedly.
That's right, buddy, just go all out.
Jin Rongxu sneered and stood up.
He had lost his combat uniform jacket, and his charcoal - gray undershirt was stained with the blood of terrifying creatures and his own. The cuff of his left wrist was rusty with dried blood.
Jin Rongxu reached out and grabbed Zhu Zeyu, then skillfully activated the blood - lock cheat.
Zhu Zeyu felt a tightness in his chest. "Captain—"
"Shut up!" Jin Rongxu scolded. "Can't you see the dungeon isn't over yet? Idiot, what are you shouting for?"
Zhu Zeyu fell silent.
Under the dim yellow glow of the landscape lights, Ma Dong, who was leading the group, showed a look of appropriate confusion on his face.
He took a step forward, and the fresh sweat on his forehead and the blood - red aura emanating from him were clearly visible. He looked like a real, living person.
"Captain, are you okay?"
Just then, the female voice on the broadcast rang out as expected.
"Congratulations! Congratulations to all players for clearing the dungeon [Where Is Mom]."
For a moment, Jin Rongxu was stunned.
He exchanged an incredulous look with Zhu Zeyu, hoping to find a glimmer of suspicion and alertness in the other's clear eyes.
But there was none. Zhu Zeyu just patted him as if relieved. "Captain, we cleared it."
"Due to the special nature of this dungeon, we have decided to transfer the surviving players to Anwu City first, and then conduct a game summary and distribute rewards."
Jin Rongxu was still a bit dazed.
He warily took a few steps back from Ma Dong. Suddenly, the scenery in front of him began to swirl.
When his vision cleared again, the surrounding environment had completely changed.
They were now at the entrance of a bustling commercial street.
Even though Anwu City was under full - scale martial law, there were actually a milk tea shop, a restaurant, and several clothing stores here. Under the hazy yellow sky at eight o'clock in the midsummer evening, the shops were lit up with a gentle glow.
"…What's going on?" Zhu Zeyu asked.
The commercial street wasn't long, and there were only a few people walking around.
Jin Rongxu looked around, then stepped closer to take a look at the passers - by. Only then did he relax.
"I understand," he said indifferently, as if he was used to this kind of situation.
"This is near my home. It's the commercial street in the neighborhood."
In the neighborhood...?
Zhu Zeyu immediately turned his head to look around.
Sure enough, there were villas and low - rise apartment buildings around.
The apartment buildings were neatly constructed, with beautiful exteriors. Warm light could be seen shining through the floor - to - ceiling windows.
Zhu Zeyu had only seen such luxurious mansions from afar in the high - end neighborhoods of Bailu City.
They surrounded this short little street, like a circle of dwarfs guarding their precious secret treasures.
"Wasn't the city under martial law?" Zhu Yan asked in a low voice.
Jin Rongxu gave him a cold sideways glance and grabbed his wrist to pull him out.
"These are all rich people. This block was built by them through crowdfunding because they were bored staying at home."
"What about the raw materials and supplies..." Zhu Zeyu silently sighed, thinking, "Money makes the world go round."
I don't know if Jin Rongxu heard this thought, but the corner of his mouth actually curled up in a somewhat proud arc.
"They have their ways to transport them."
He avoided talking about the negligence of the Anwu branch of the [Human Alliance]. "Come on, I've sent for a car to pick us up."
"Let's go back to the Human Alliance headquarters tonight. Zhu Zeyu..."
The group walked out one by one, passing by the shadowy camphor trees on both sides.
"Get ready. After the memory reading and routine check tomorrow, you'll go back to school and take a long - term leave."
Zhu Yan couldn't figure out what this guy was up to.
Jin Rongxu sensed the other's confusion but didn't bother to explain.
He had already experienced how hard it was to manage Zhu Zeyu.
Before officially entering the public - test dungeon in a month, he couldn't let this guy out of his sight easily.
Of course, Zhu Zeyu couldn't participate in the training to improve his abilities, but even if he was just going to have hot pot with Yang Zhanbai and the others, he had to go back to the alliance to sleep every night.
This guy was like a runaway as soon as you let go!
"Not everyone has the chance to live in the [Human Alliance] and receive training. It's a rare opportunity."
"Now is a new turning point, and everything is changing. It should be easy for someone like you to move up."
The female voice hadn't appeared yet, and Jin Rongxu was really getting carried away with his leadership act.
Zhu Yan watched as a black SUV slowly drove over from a distance. He felt a rare sense of restlessness.
There were thin red warning light strips around the car body, indicating that it was an official vehicle.
—It should be here to pick them up, right?
Would the life - saving female voice appear after they got in the car?
"I'll write you a recommendation letter when it comes to your ranking later."
"Zhu Zeyu, I hope you can follow the command and be worthy of this recommendation letter."
"You can't be worse than Yang Zhanbai—"
The window of the official vehicle rolled down, and an excited shout interrupted Jin Rongxu's endless chatter.
"Damn! Zhu Zeyu! You're out!"
Yang Zhanbai's distinctive red hair glowed brightly under the warm yellow streetlights. He waved excitedly at them.
"Quick! This car can seat three people! You and Captain Jin get in first!"
"Another car will come later. The others will take that one!"
Zhu Yan turned to look at the other three "walking corpses".
Jin Rongxu frowned, as if he finally remembered something important.
He lowered his head and stared at his left hand, logged into the [Player Forum], and carefully checked his private message page.
The avatars of Pot Lid, the army medic, and Ma Dong were lit up again.
When he clicked in, the chat records were still there, and there was no sign of anything abnormal.
It was as if the "User has been deleted" message before was just his imagination!
Jin Rongxu gave the three of them a deep look and then casually pointed at Pot Lid, who seemed the weakest.
"You. Zhu Zeyu, the three of us will get in the car first."
Pot Lid nodded obsequiously and quickly opened the car door.
It was a six - seat commercial vehicle, and both Yang Zhanbai and Guan En were inside.
Yang Zhanbai was sitting in the back row, and Guan En was in the passenger seat.
Seeing Zhu Yan, Yang Zhanbai quickly patted the seat next to him.
"Here."
Zhu Yan was glad not to sit next to Jin Rongxu.
He scrambled into the narrow back row and asked, "You also went into a dungeon? With Officer Guan? What dungeon was it?"
He was talking so fast that there was no room for Jin Rongxu to interrupt.
There was still some unwashed blood on Yang Zhanbai's face. Hearing this, his face darkened.
It was Guan En who turned around and gently explained.
"Little Yang has performed very well. Xiao Zhu, our broadcast hasn't started announcing the settlement yet. Let's talk about it after the broadcast settlement."
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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...
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
