Isn’t it?
The air seed to plunge into silence at that mont; this silence was sohow even stranger than the one earlier with War.
The atmosphere was extrely awkward.
Because Lu Ce’s own movents were unusually fast, almost like teleportation, and his muscles had tensed in that instinctive action,
to everyone else he looked like he’d been sitting upright the whole ti, quietly watching the person at the door.
What does this an?
Why didn’t you speak when soone knocked just now? Are you possessed? Your stare is kind of creepy.
But from Lu Ce’s perspective, his sowhat dull and sleepy brain was racing, and he still couldn’t figure out what was going on.
This should be the real world, not the ga.
Why did so many people co looking for , and even barge in like this!
Did I break so rule?
But these people all felt so weak... are they planning to deal with using those guys?
Wait... what cri did I commit?!
I’m not going to be the first to speak, am I? Can soone else say sothing?!
Lu Ce’s mind was a little foggy as he scanned the crowd. When he spotted a figure, he suddenly froze.
Wait...
In the crowd, he actually saw Xie Antong.
After the door opened, Xie Antong had felt the silence around her, like her heart had dropped into an abyss.
When her emotions grew confused and began to slip out of control, she opened her eyes...
Huh?
She locked eyes with that guy in the room who’d been sitting upright, looking a little dazed.
Sowhat dispelled calm instantly re-gathered inside her chest.
This shouldn’t be an illusion, right?
In her assumptions, she only hoped when the door opened it wouldn’t be empty.
Because that would an he hadn’t returned from the ga.
She didn’t know how she’d handle it if that were the case—if she could even bear it.
As long as it wasn’t empty, even if he’d gone mad, lost his mind, beco a Divine ssenger, or even if there was only a corpse lying there!
It would still be okay!
There would still be ways, still future chances.
But she never expected he would truly be completely fine.
Huh?
A bit of an overused expression, maybe.
But...
So good.
Xie Antong slowly closed her eyes and exhaled, feeling as if sothing heavy had been lifted from her entire body.
“Oh! So it’s you, kid?!”
Suddenly, the silence was broken; an unexpectedly loud voice ca from beside Xie Antong.
A Dragon Group mber wearing a red robe strode into the room.
A tall silhouette blocked Lu Ce’s view of Xie Antong, forcing him to look at the newcor.
For so reason, he felt this person looked vaguely familiar.
Tsk... haven’t I seen him sowhere before?
“You don’t rember ?”
“We’ve t before. So you’re Lu Ce—when the ga first started, I already thought you were suspicious!”
The Dragon Group mber laughed boisterously like an old acquaintance, patting Lu Ce on the shoulder.
“My na’s Zhao Jiacheng, I’m with the Dragon Group.”
He glanced at the cramped room and the scattered furnishings.
Under a ssed-up pillow, sothing like an invitation card peeked out.
It was a business card.
“Heh, well, would you look at that—this card’s still here. Didn’t expect you to keep it.”
Zhao Jiacheng tapped the pillow and chuckled.
The mories from Lu Ce’s dead life started to stir, and he felt he had a faint impression of the man in front of him.
This Zhao Jiacheng seed to be the first official person he’d encountered—back when people from the Heaven and Earth Society ca to cause trouble at school, it was Zhao he’d run into.
At that ti Lu Ce had concealed his identity and struck subtly, but this guy recognized him.
For a while after that he’d tried to avoid him.
“I thought you were off from the start. Looks like you were already a player back then.”
“Why join Divine Punishnt? Why not think about joining the Dragon Group?”
“Seems like having a beautiful leader is more attractive than a rough guy like , hahahaha!”
Seeing Lu Ce today gave Zhao Jiacheng a feeling of “case closed,” and he looked quite pleased.
But Lu Ce was more perplexed.
Lu Ce: ?
When exactly did I join Divine Punishnt?
What does that even an.
“Why so quiet?”
Zhao Jiacheng looked at Lu Ce and asked oddly.
Lu Ce: ......
“Your words are too few, I can’t get a word in.”
Zhao laughed; he was genuinely happy to see news that an old acquaintance survived this ga after it ended.
“Do you live here? Are your living conditions rough? Where’s your family?”
“No one,” Lu Ce said flatly.
“Oh... is that so.” Zhao Jiacheng paused, didn’t press further, and glanced around the room’s furnishings.
“This place is pretty shabby.”
“You should’ve entered the ga early, right? Want to move to a more centralized place to live?”
After thinking for a mont, Zhao took a step back, settled into a stance, and produced a gigantic light shield in front of him that looked brimming with energy.
“Co on, try attacking with your full strength.”
Xie Antong: ......
Lu Ce: ......
Lu Ce was speechless for a mont, then said, “Are you sure?”
Most of the others had left to find other “rescue targets.” Only three people remained here now.
Xie Antong stepped forward and finally spoke—she didn’t want to see Lu Ce kill soone here.
She didn’t know Zhao Jiacheng’s true strength, but if Lu Ce really hit him, he’d definitely die...
“Why didn’t you reply to ssages?” Xie Antong asked calmly.
Although Lu Ce hadn’t looked at his phone, he knew he’d probably missed a bunch of calls and ssages.
“Exactly! Why didn’t you follow the rules Divine Punishnt agreed on? Not replying made us all co all this way for nothing,” Zhao Jiacheng interjected.
Lu Ce thought this Zhao fellow was saying all kinds of nonsense...
His lips trembled, and he could only tell the truth:
“I fell asleep.”
Fell asleep...
Xie Antong almost couldn’t breathe.
That’s the reason?
She’d wasted so many expressions, applied for a flight to rush over, and arranged preplanned excuses and people.
You just fell asleep.
Well... fine.
Knowing this wasn’t the ti to argue, Xie Antong nodded in acknowledgnt.
Lu Ce felt the conversation was too dry, so he smiled and added,
“Uh, sorry. Thanks for your concern.”
Xie Antong: !
Huh?
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