"Your Highness. Your Highness?"
Hearing the familiar voice, Ziyue struggled to open her eyes. Her body was burned beyond recognition, with not a single patch of skin intact. Fortunately, her eyes were not burned and remained as bright as purple gemstones.
"Priestess?" Ziyue asked in confusion, her eyes darting around as she realized that she was already protected by the Four Saints Army, and she immediately felt relieved.
"Where are the imperial army's Ghost Army?"
Upon being asked this, the high priest immediately looked ashamed and whispered, "The female general who commanded us was extremely capable. Her impromptu tactical change was incredibly ingenious. Such a complex and massive military formation, on the verge of collapse, retreated into a defensive formation resembling Mystic Turtle and held her rear. The imperial soldiers were also strange; their execution under those circumstances was astonishingly high, like a group of puppets, truly unaffected by the momentum. I am not skilled enough, and my reaction was too slow, ultimately only managing to kill less than 20,000 rearguard soldiers."
"Twenty thousand." Ziyue gasped. She'd risked her life for this? And this was the result?
The Ancient Demon Clan is only at this level, yet they dare to dream of Heaven Swallowing? Where do they get the audacity?
The imperial Ghost Army. Losing 20,000 at once seems like a lot, but the soldiers who can be used to cover the rear are by no means elite. Moreover, with the mechanism of the Mother and Child Temple, the imperial army's speed of mobilizing troops is probably the fastest among all forces. Perhaps only the Heavenly Python Palace, which can continuously send Heavenly Python in from outside the sky, can suppress it to some extent.
Twenty thousand will probably only slow down their progress by a month at most.
My life is really worthless.
Then Ziyue looked in another direction, and the eerie figure was still there.
No one dared to do anything to him. Even though the Four Saints Army had completely surrounded the area, the High Priest still dared not make any move. The fact that he had saved Ziyue was one thing, but the strange ability he had just possessed was the most crucial factor.
That figure filled Ziyue with incredibly complex emotions.
That King of King of Qin, as expected, put this thing into use.
When Chen Qing returned safely from the real world and said he had dealt with the King of Qin, she didn't quite believe it. Of all the people she knew, the King of Qin was the most meticulous and resourceful person she had ever met.
The main reason why the Xiao Household was able to successfully rebel back then was that luck was on his side; otherwise, he would never have been able to harm a hair on the head of the King of Qin, even if he died a thousand deaths.
Chen Qing's method of dealing with the King of Qin was quite surprising. After all, no one would have thought that the Federation high command, who was wary of Chen Qing, would actually be willing to cooperate with Chen Qing, using the safety of the command center and even the people in a region as bait to lure the other party there. The King of Qin did not deserve to fall in that scheme, but she still did not think that the King of Qin was gone just like that.
Now it seems that this was indeed the case.
She had long suspected that the King of Qin's Heavenly Moon Plan must have erased their key memories. She had been communicating with A Li recently, and A Li, who had been tricked and severely humiliated during that period, was extremely resistant to those memories. Even though her mindset had improved considerably, her memories of that time were still fragmented. She only vaguely remembered that the King of Qin had ordered the deletion of some of their key memories about the Outer Heaven Demon Statue.
One of the key words is: Bai Hua!
My heart skipped a beat when I heard that word.
She was the game's chief data engineer, responsible for professional data adjustments. Although she wasn't a designer, she obtained a lot of information firsthand. She knew exactly what Bai Hua was; it was a top-tier demon used to set the stage for the fourth version's Outer Heaven Demon Statue dungeon.
Although testing hadn't started yet, she already had intelligence that this thing was the key to unlocking the fourth version!
What was the King of Qin trying to do by concealing that memory of such a being?
There are two answers. Most of those who were with her back then were from the design team, and they had probably all heard of Bai Hua's name. To prevent anyone from having any inappropriate thoughts, that part of her memory was deleted.
But another possibility is that he himself had inappropriate thoughts!
His slogan was that the world would be at peace, that there would be no more such great suffering in the world, and that Reincarnator could enjoy a relatively safe and peaceful world instead of living in fear and being turned into the flesh and blood of demons at any time.
But if that's all he wanted, he should have sealed Bai Hua away completely instead of secretly transferring him out.
As it turns out, the King of Qin was not an idealist, but a true ambitious man!
However, she was unaware of Bai Hua's abilities. She had only suspected that the King of Qin, who possessed Bai Hua, might be using some strange power to create a backup of himself, but only the original designer, Pu Yunchuan, knew the specifics of Bai Hua's abilities.
Chen Qing, are you Pu Yunchuan?
Do you know?
A complex emotion flashed in Moon Eye.
--
" Chen Qing, are you Pu Yunchuan?"
"I"
In the past, Chen Qing would have nodded without hesitation. He had always believed that he was Pu Yunchuan, but after experiencing a series of events, he was no longer sure.
His memories only extend to before his serious illness. His memories after that, the sequel to that game, and the initial design of life in Data City, are all just vague shadows, and he only has fragments of them after arriving in Data City.
Before coming to Cloud Capital, Wang Ye gave him one last piece of intelligence.
Pu Yunchuan back then was by no means just a simple game designer.
Pu Yunchuan was in the late stages of cancer, was invited to participate in a project called the Digital Life Plan. Before it was banned by the Federation, a mysterious capital force was investing in it. Among those invited to participate in its creation, in addition to some top artificial intelligence experts and big data specialists, Pu Yunchuan was also among them.
Wang Ye also found some original records in the Data City, all of which mentioned Pu Yunchuan. Many pieces of evidence prove that Pu Yunchuan has played a significant role in this data era. The fact that the Demon World has become a data world capable of generating the highest energy is not an accident, but rather Pu Yunchuan's initial design.
Wang Ye even came to a conclusion.
That person... the one who created the Demon World... might still be alive!
After receiving the intelligence, Chen Qing barely slept for three days and three nights, constantly wondering, "What exactly am I?"
"I have a feeling," Ziyue said to Chen Qing before setting off, "There's definitely some connection between the King of Qin and Pu Yunchuan. He impersonated Pu Yunchuan, and you saw through his disguise, but if you're not the real Pu Yunchuan either, then is he really an imposter?"
Chen Qing: "."
"That Bai Hua, I remember it was the key to unlocking version four, do you recall?"
"Some." Chen Qing was confused when she heard the name, and didn't even want to think about it, refusing to recall the question.
Chen Qing didn't know why this was happening either.
However, he agreed with Ziyue's words that the King of Qin might indeed have a backup plan, and if so, he would most likely appear during the trip to Cloud Capital.
"My lord?"
Back in reality, Chen Qing stood up on her own. Seeing that Chen Qing looked extremely unwell and was swaying as she stood up, Shen Qi quickly got up and helped her. "How about you try to recover some more?"
"What can we use to restore this place?" Chen Qing looked around with amusement.
As a core fragment, the elements here are chaotic, and one dares not even breathe easily, relying solely on spiritual power for purification. Otherwise, the air contains too many other elements, and inhaling it will only worsen one's health.
"So, my lord, are you... going to make a move?" Shen Qi asked cautiously, his brows furrowed.
The situation outside doesn't sound good, and intervening at this time is definitely not a good opportunity. Moreover, given the lord's current physical condition, he really doesn't think it's a good idea for him to go out.
"My lord, shall we wait a little longer?"
"We can't wait any longer." Chen Qing shook his head. "If we wait any longer, everyone will die!"
He remembered—the ability to Bai Hua!