His father's voice boomed like a great bell, exploding in his mind!
Scorching blood burned wildly in his chest!
"Wait for me to come back."
With those words, his father's figure began to blur and fade.
"No! Dad! Don't go!"
Yue Xiaofei reached out like a madman, trying to grab him.
But his hands caught nothing.
He could only watch helplessly as his father's figure vanished completely into the endless darkness.
"Dad!!!"
Yue Xiaofei let out a heart-wrenching cry!
His eyes snapped open, breaking free of that endless darkness!
The sight before him was no longer that despairing blackness.
It was a scene of utter destruction, like purgatory.
Scorched earth, vitrified rocks, and flames still blazing sky-high in the distance.
"Who... am I?"
Yue Xiaofei's mind was still muddled.
Where am I?
What happened?
Countless fragments of memory flooded into his mind like a raging tide.
The Sun King...
Ning Hongye...
The Spear of Longinus...
Earthshaking...
And that world-destroying missile that had fallen from the sky...
He remembered!
He remembered everything!
"I'm... not dead?"
Yue Xiaofei instinctively felt his body. It was completely intact.
Aside from feeling a little weak, he didn't have so much as a scratch.
How was that possible?!
How could I have survived an explosion like that?!
His gaze fell on the man before him.
Though the man wore a mask that concealed most of his face.
Though he hadn't seen this man in five years.
Though the man now carried a weathered gravity and authority he couldn't understand.
But...
Those eyes!
That familiar gaze! That familiar build! That familiar presence!
Yue Xiaofei's body jolted!
His lips began to tremble uncontrollably.
A name he had only dared to call again and again in his dreams slipped almost instinctively from his throat.
"Dad?"
Though his voice was