Dark Blood Age

The speed of the white shadow was as fast as the wind, but the little sword formed by the black gas was even faster. Moving like a lightning bolt, it caught up with the white shadow within a blink of an eye.

The white shadow let out a confused noise, turned around, jumped into the air, swung the sword to cast out three crescent-shaped Sword Qi blades that were filled with fierce cold gleams, locking on the black small sword.

The thin Yuan Qi energy in the air was disrupted like something dropped in a calm water surface. The ripples it caused quickly spread out.

As a ‘Puff’ noise was heard, the black small sword qi penetrated the first white sword qi blade. The first white sword qi was instantly shattered and dissipated in the air like a cloud of white smoke. The black small sword paused, vibrating, and making metal clanking noise, exposing dark gleams. Then it shot out again and dispersed the second white sword qi.

The white shadow used this extremely short period of time to suddenly speed up, turn around, and begin running quickly. It seemed like it just wanted to take away the ancient book, and was reluctant to fight.

The small black sword eventually penetrated the third white Sword Qi blade as well, turning all three Sword Qi blades into three white clouds of smoke behind it. Its traveling trail was like a long thin black line, piercing the three white smoke clouds, without causing the slightest disturbance to the Yuan Qi in the air. Then it shot out to chase the white shadow again.

As if the white shadow could feel the cold intent from its back, it suddenly changed direction sharply while running, its movement was like the Sword Qi blade it cast out, it was simple and swift.

But the little black sword had no intention of giving up on the target. It was turning sharply in midair, still locking on the back of the white shadow, as if it would not stop until its head was cut off.

Yu Jian obviously understood this too, especially after seeing the battle between Chu Yunsheng and the white shadow, although he was a strick and diligent man, it didn’t mean that he was stupid. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have been able to be promoted to a leading position.

“All right.”

Yu Jian took out a black mobile phone from his pocket and gave it to Chu Yunsheng and then said. “We can be contacted at any time with this, it uses a special frequency. So no one else should be able to hear our conversation. Also, don’t go back to Mingdu Garden housing estate or the hospital for the time being. Don’t contact any other people you know. The military and the people from the capital are watching them. The CCTVs in the area are controlled by us, so you don’t need to worry about it.”

Chu Yunsheng didn’t have any money with him, and he was also short of communication tools. It wasn’t completely dark yet, so he couldn’t just go out on the street and rob some stores. Besides, by that time, mobile phones would be useless. But he urgently needed it in the next few days, so he didn’t mind if they had bugged the phone or not. He reached out his hand and said, “Only a few days left, even if they could hear our conversation, it would be useless.”

A strange look flashed in Yu Jian’s face, but he didn’t say anything. He just waved his hand and signaled the team to go back to the car.

“Wait!”

Chu Yunsheng suddenly said while holding the mobile phone.

Yu Jian stopped and looked at him.

“If I do not return to my place, I have no money to buy food. Can you lend me some first?” Chu Yunsheng originally wanted to return to Mingdu Garden housing estate to take his bank card so he could withdraw money, and use that money to get through the last few days. Even if he met a few agents when he got back to his flat, he would still be able to deal with them easily. He didn’t think any accidents would happen.

Since those people were here, there was no need for him to cause unnecessary trouble.

Yu Jian was obviously dazed for a second. He didn’t expect that Chu Yunsheng would borrow money from him. Taking out his wallet, he took out all the cash he had and then collected some money from all his colleagues as well. In the end, they collected two thousand and six hundred Chinese Yuan and handed it to Chu Yunsheng. “Is this enough? If it is not enough, call me in the evening. We spent a lot of cash during the morning mission so we don’t have much left now.”

“Thanks, that’s enough.”

Chu Yunsheng just needed some to buy food, at most, he would buy a new set of clothes. The student’s outfit that Wang Yijian gave to him was something he couldn’t get used to.

“Goodbye then, and take care.” Yu Jian said with a straight face and then got into the car.

Chu Yunsheng took the money and immediately squeezed out of the crowd of onlookers. He stopped a taxi and went straight to the Ruijin hotel.

The reason to go there was that he had been to this five-star hotel in the dark age. It was the hotel where he saved Yu Xiaohai and also killed some thugs.

Moreover, a key person was going to live there. She was Lin Shuiyao.

So many years have passed, he has already forgotten who had the second jade pendant. He only had some vague memory. But Lin Shuiyao knew. So he could only start from her.

According to his memory, Lin Shuiyao would arrive at the hotel in these two days, so he just needed to wait for her in the hotel. In terms of the first pendant. Unexpectedly, he and Zhao Ling got to know each other this early, so he guessed that it would not be as difficult as the last time.

Sitting in a taxi, Chu Yunsheng was checking the ancient book, page by page, character by character, extremely carefully.

After a long time, while the taxi was still driving on an overpass, and the radio station was still discussing the darkness, with a long sigh and a gloomy face, he closed the book slowly.

He finally confirmed which one was real and which one was not.

This world was indeed the world inside the Pseudo-Monolith, and there was indeed an outside world.

But…

What made him feel strange was, why did he feel a hint of disappointment? Maybe a place deep inside his mind still hoped that the memory of the outside world was just a dream. A big, complex, and cruel dream…

In this way, he would not have to lose someone that was important to him or go through the tragic events again.

Chu Yunsheng could not help but laugh at himself for having this kind of thought. He then turned and looked outside the window.

Through the window of the taxi, he could see rows of high-rise buildings, gray and white. The glass walls outside buildings were reflecting the dazzling sunlight. A river winding and twisting, splitting the tall, concrete forest into two. The warm sun sparked in the middle of the Huangpu River and the shimmering water surface reflected a peaceful modern civilization.

Under this kind of warm sunshine, if he was still dreaming, then the only dream he had was the ridiculous thought that was hidden deep inside his mind.

If there were no silly Dumb Insect; no Liu Li, who waited for him until the moment she died; no Dark, who treated him as if he was its father and master; and no Edgar, who never betrayed him… If there wasn’t any one of them, even if the world before him was real, how many “colors” would it have?

Chu Yunsheng didn’t know the answer to it, but there was one thing he knew. Even if he could relive his life, it didn’t mean that it would be wonderful. Not to mention that he was currently inside the world created by his own memory.

However, even if he understood this, how was he going to face his family inside the Pseudo-Monolith? And how was he going to face Liu Li, who was still alive in this world?

This was something that Chu Yunsheng had to consider, because so far, the people he had seen, and the people he had been dealing with, including the taxi driver, were all clearly real living people.

Before entering the Pseudo-Monolith, he didn’t have much time to think about this problem, nor did he ever think about the world inside the Pseudo-Monolith would be so real. After he woke up, he studiously avoided this problem, even if when he met Yu Jian earlier, he didn’t ask about his auntie’s situation. But now, he must face this problem. How exactly was he going to face them?

The reason why he restrained himself from going to the first people’s hospital immediately was because of this reason. On one hand, he wanted to see his aunt’s family, which had died a long time ago, very much; on the other hand, he did not know what to do if he went there…

Gradually, Chu Yunsheng fell into deep thought.