A Lily

The world was plunged into darkness.

It lit up again.

Return countdown: 720:00:00.

This time, the journey will still take thirty days.

Qing Chen has experienced countless time travels and returns, but he still finds it wondrous every time he goes through this process of changing worlds.

It's as if the gods used the most magical means to forcibly combine two worlds together, influencing each other and gradually blurring the lines between them.

Some things that cannot be done in the Inner World can be done in the Outer World.

Some people you can't kill in the Inner World, you can kill in the Outer World...

Qing Chen looked at the pitch-black night in front of him. A month later, he was still in the stinking pigsty, with shackles weighing hundreds of pounds on his hands and feet.

Wang Yuchao and Zhao Mingke are still hanging outside the pigsty.

The discrepancy Inner World' timelines gave Qing Chen the illusion that these two had been hanging there for a month.

This illusion caused Qing Chen's emotions, which had already calmed down somewhat, to surge up again.

Qing Chen slowly stood up from the pigsty and waited.

He silently counted down ten seconds in his mind.

As the countdown ended, a piercing alarm suddenly sounded throughout the entire A02 Secret Military Base.

The alarm hadn't sounded here for a long time, and the prisoners who had been sleeping in the cell block got up one after another.

They pressed their ears against the tightly closed iron gate of the prison area, trying to hear what had happened.

However, all they heard were disordered footsteps, and they had no idea what they were hearing.

Qing Chen stood in the pigsty, slowly lifting the heavy shackles from his arms, stepping through the muddy ground mixed with ice shards, and then walked to the edge of the pigsty.

The shackles were so heavy that everything he did seemed to move in slow motion; even though he had just been promoted, he couldn't ignore their weight.

Qing Chen stood at the edge of the pigpen, looking in the direction of the military camp. He then slowly opened his palm and placed the lily he had been holding for who knows how long next to Zhao Mingke and Wang Yuchao.

He looked up at the night sky and said softly, "I wish you would be born in a peaceful era in your next life, where birds sing and flowers bloom, old men practice swordsmanship in the park, and people sell breakfast downstairs. Children can run carefree, and the weak are not bullied."

That was something he brought from the Outer World.

Many people assumed that since Qing Chen was trapped here, what he brought back from the Outer World must be something that could help him escape. Even if he couldn't carry a large weapon, a grenade would be good enough.

But Qing Chen didn't bring any; he only brought a flower and the gold coin the old man had given him.

Qing Chen smiled at the corpses of Wang Yuchao and Zhao Mingke and said, "Don't worry, I will avenge you. Also, I will take the rest of the Qing family brothers with me. Thank you."

This thank you is to thank the people here for redeeming me from my past loss.

Surprisingly, after doing all this, Qing Chen sat down in the pigsty.

He didn't immediately lash out and kill anyone, nor did he try to escape; he was calmer than someone who was imprisoned.

On the other side of the military camp, Kamiyo Yunzhi, who was in charge of the entire A02 Secret Military Base, was staring at the dormitory in front of him with a livid expression.

The spacious dormitory, which could accommodate hundreds of people, was like a makeshift hospital, with a bed every few meters.

This place should have been occupied by 621 Time Walker participated in the training camp, but now it is empty, with only a dozen or so people left, their bodies covered with burns, gunshot wounds, and knife wounds.

Those dozen or so people were letting out miserable howls.

Kamiyo Yunzhi knew what had happened: someone in the Outer World had carried out a precise extermination of the trainees at the A02 Secret Military Base!

For the Time Walker, a month has already passed.

For Kamiyo Yunzhi, he had just finished inspecting the camp when his more than 600 men were gone.

It's important to know that when Time Walker dies in the Inner World, their body returns to the Outer World.

If you die in the Outer World, you will disappear into thin air the next time you travel through it.

Previously, federal news reports have covered many cases of people disappearing into thin air; some were drinking in a bar and suddenly turned into nothingness.

It's as if it was forcibly erased with an eraser.

It must have been Qing Chen who did it.

However, Kamiyo Yunzhi found it hard to understand. How could a mere prisoner, even if Time Walker could move freely in the Outer World, possibly pull off such a grand scheme?

This was the final task Qing Chen entrusted to Ji Guanya.

The satellite phone that Kamiyo Yunzhi carried with him rang. As soon as he returned, Kamishiro Yunxiu reported everything that had happened in the Outer World to the ten directors.

The first thing the ten directors did was to inform Kamiyo Yunzhi raise the alert level and that reinforcements had already set off.

"Baiyue," Kamiyo Yunzhi, looking at the now empty Time Walker camp, before leading over a hundred soldiers toward the prison area.

The commander of A02 Base was in turmoil.

He hadn't expected that the heavy blow he had suffered was just the tip of the iceberg of what the other side had done in the Outer World.

The four core disciples Kamishiro Unichi, Kamishiro Yunjue, Kamishiro Yunwu, and Kamishiro Yunye, all met a tragic end.

There were also shrines destroyed in the Outer World, and thousands of people killed by the Lord of Daybreak and Zard in a joint operation—an act that can only be described as horrific.

Is this the price of imprisoning a person?!

That's too high a price to pay!

"Open the door to the prison area... wait a minute!" Kamiyo Yunzhi was originally going to go directly to Qing Chen, but he stopped, stood there for more than ten seconds to adjust his expression, and then his expression returned to calm. "Open the door."

He arrived at the pigsty, looked at Qing Chen sitting on the ground inside, and calmly said, "I thought you would run away as soon as you came back, but I didn't expect you to be much more cowardly than the rumors say."

Qing Chen smiled and said, "I guess you've calmed down just now, right? After all, you now know the price of imprisoning me."

Kamiyo Yunzhi was speechless for a moment. He looked down at his feet, where a lily lay peacefully, as if offering a tribute to the dead soul.

He sneered, "I thought you'd bring back something life-saving from the Outer World, but all you brought back was a useless flower? They're all dead now, what good is a flower to them?"

Qing Chen laughed and said, "Don't envy them, your own grave will grow too eventually."

Kamiyo Yunzhi's face turned completely gloomy.

Qing Chen said, "Want to kill me? I bet you don't dare, because there are others waiting for me to advance to B-Class. Am I right?"

Kamiyo Yunzhi gave Qing Chen a deep look. "Even if you guessed it, so what? This is a key rear stronghold of my Kamishiro Corporation. The garrison and field troops patrol the wilderness year-round. If someone wants to rescue you, they must first pass through layers of military defense zones from the south. After rescuing you, they will still have to face the pursuit of the Group Army. The Aerial Fortress in the sky is enough to destroy everything. Even a demigod would have to avoid its sharp edge."

Kamiyo Yunzhi continued, "In this situation, even if you can take revenge on the Kamishiro Family in the Outer World, so what? You still can't shake the foundation of an entire conglomerate. Even if you manage to escape the A02 Secret Military Base, you'll still be caught by us. As a prisoner, you should have the awareness of a prisoner. Witty words won't help you."

Qing Chen smiled and did not refute.

One point that Kamiyo Yunzhi made is quite right: the Li and Qing clans were located in the Central Plains, while the north was Shindai and Kashima's private territory.

This A02 Base is located at 52 degrees north latitude, further north of the Kamishiro Family.

If anyone wants to save him, they must travel through the entire Age of Gods to get here, then find a way to avoid all the pursuit and blockades, and return to the Central Plains.

On their escape, they also have to face an entire Kamishiro Group Army and the technological weapons and equipment of this era that are capable of killing gods.

This is almost an impossible task.

This is why Qing Mu was imprisoned here back then, and no one ever came to his rescue.

Too difficult.

What Qing Chen had to do was not only escape himself, but also take the Qing family intelligence agents from the A02 secret base with him.

If Kamiyo Yunzhi knew what he was thinking, he would probably burst out laughing.

Because that idea is too naive.

Kamiyo Yunzhi his foot, the white flower being trampled into the mud. "Do you think your boss from the Daytime Organization will come to your rescue in this situation? He's just a B-Class. Even Li Changqing's Azure Falcon Aerial Fortress has already returned. Who else will come to your rescue? Just stay here and wait patiently, and pay the price for your arrogance."

After saying that, Kamiyo Yunzhi conduct a final check. He summoned a shikigami and slowly approached Qing Chen.

ATS-331, Nekomata.

This shikigami with two tails, which only catches mice, did not kneel down when it approached Qing Chen.

Having confirmed this, Kamiyo Yunzhi left, as he still needed to report on the situation at the A02 Secret Military Base.

After the other party left, Qing Chen stood up and said to the sound of the night wind, "You two, wait with me in this cold wind a little longer. I will let you witness the destruction of this base. I will bury you in the northern lands, not to abandon you, but to let you watch the moment the flag of the Kamishiro Family falls."

The message he sent upon his return should have already been delivered through this cold wind.

Give those friends far away some time.

Qing Chen looked down and calculated the time. "Wait five more days."

There will be another chapter at 11 PM.