"What!" Upon hearing Zhou Shoushan's words, Zhou Kaifeng couldn't help but react, stunned as if struck by lightning, frozen in disbelief.
Cheng Miao refused to accept the reality. He frantically used their communicator, shouting at the guards at the entrance of Luocheng Base, "If you don't follow orders, I'll chop off your limbs and feed them to dogs!" His eyes were already bloodshot with agitation.
"...Sss... Sizzle—" Only the sound of static filled the communicator.
"Attack! I said! Attack, all of you!" He exerted all his strength, clenching his fist, and opened all spatial passages simultaneously.
He intended to release the zombies from other dimensions!
To flood this place with zombies!
"What? This... this is impossible!" Cheng Miao looked at his unresponsive hands in despair.
"Are you looking for your spatial switch?" Zhou Shoushan picked up a teacup from the table and took a slow sip.
"Oh, that master switch has turned me off." After speaking, he cast a lingering glance at Cheng Miao.
"You didn't know?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a pair of twins, through teleportation, appeared directly in the office.
They were wearing four pairs of sunglasses...
Holding a remarkably bright energy sphere in their hands, illuminating the entire office!
It was blinding!
Zhou Shoushan, however, closed his eyes, opened his drawer, took out several pairs of sunglasses, and handed them to Luo Xiaole and the others.
He himself did not wear any, seemingly unfazed by the intense light!
Luo Xiaole's eyes widened, instantly filled with awe...
Commander Zhou had even prepared sunglasses? But he wasn't afraid of this light...
He was truly formidable!
"Pfft! You..." With his energy depleted and seeing this scene, Cheng Miao, driven by anger, vomited a mouthful of blood.
"Zhou... Zhou Shoushan! I should have killed you with one blow when I was at the base!" Cheng Miao's face contorted with hatred as he pointed at Zhou Shoushan, looking at him as if he were a mortal enemy from a bygone era.
"You shouldn't have killed me, but your own endless desires, the desire for more, even when you were already living a comfortable life." Zhou Shoushan looked up, his sharp gaze fixed on Cheng Miao, fearless.
"You all lost to greed." He then looked at his "dear son," Zhou Kaifeng.
Zhou Kaifeng, stimulated by the bright light, desperately covered his eyes, yet exclaimed in disbelief, "You... you knew all along?"
How could this be? For so long, he had never revealed the slightest bit of information to his father.
How could it all be lost at the end?
Impossible, this was absolutely impossible!
He couldn't accept this reality, his entire being wracked with pain as he clawed at his hair, his eyes like a hungry tiger, fixated on Zhou Shoushan.
Under the glare of the light, tears streamed down his face like those of a madman in despair...
"Although I call you 'father,' I know you never treated me as your own son. This Luocheng Base, which you cherish, could never be handed over to me in the future!"
"Instead of passively waiting, I'd rather take matters into my own hands and get what I want!" he shrieked hysterically.
"Since I can't have it, let's all be destroyed together!"
Zhou Kaifeng roared, his eyes flashing with intensity. Lightning crackled in his hand, and a piercing thunderbolt instantly struck down in the office with lightning speed!
"Crack—"
"Damn it, don't drag me down with you!" Cheng Miao roared.
The moment the thunder sounded, he pulled a subordinate beside him to shield him from the first strike.
"Blink!" With his last ounce of strength, he used the Blink Scroll, and his figure vanished from the spot...
"Hold on tight!" Luo Xiaole only heard a sharp cry.
Her arm was suddenly grabbed, and accompanied by a blinding flash of light, the thunder beside her ear vanished.
The next second, she was standing outside the city hall!
Luo Xiaole turned sharply, seeing one of the twins holding her and the other holding Zhou Shoushan, both still carrying the glowing sphere.
Although she was grateful they had saved her...
Couldn't they avoid holding such a blinding object right in front of her?
Even with sunglasses, she was about to be blinded!
"Get down!" another voice commanded.
Luo Xiaole instinctively dove to the ground, making quick, accurate, and powerful contact with the earth.
One of the twins reached out a hand, intending to save her, but grabbed only air!
He looked back to see Luo Xiaole already plastered to the ground!
And stuck as if glued!
"Wow!" The twins exclaimed as they also got down, "This sister's escape skills are top-notch..."
"Boom!" A deafening explosion erupted from behind them at the city hall.
Waves of heat swept through the entire building, and surging flames and lightning scorched past their backs.
"!!!" Mo Chen, who had just returned from outside after finishing his task, witnessed the terrifying inferno.
"No!!!" His heart clenched in an instant, and for the first time, he let out a heart-wrenching howl.
Like lightning, he dashed towards the towering flames!
"Cough, cough..." After the terrifying flames passed, Luo Xiaole stood up, patted the dirt from her hands, and casually wiped her nose, smearing her face like a war mask...
"Are you alright?" Zhou Shoushan's concerned face appeared before her...
"Huh? What did you say?" Luo Xiaole covered her ears, watching Zhou Shoushan's lips move but unable to hear him clearly.
The deafening explosion had temporarily made her hard of hearing. Luo Xiaole's face was filled with regret; she should have brought earplugs to protect her ears as well!
"Woooo..." A mournful whimper seemed to pierce through the ash and mist, reaching Luo Xiaole's ears directly.
"Holy crap... could this be... a soul-calling sound? Black Impermanence? Have I already been blown to bits? That's why I can't hear them speak?" Luo Xiaole's entire body turned cold in an instant!
Mom, I don't want to die yet!
Am I going to die young?
But this Black Impermanence figure, why does it look so familiar...
She looked at the figure kneeling amidst the pitch-black ruins, motionless, enveloped in despair, and trembled violently.
She walked over.
"Mo Chen?" She called out the unbelievable name.
Hadn't Cheng Miao sent them to different dimensions? How could they be here?
Luo Xiaole was still struggling to comprehend when she was abruptly pulled into an incredibly secure embrace. The heat from the person, even hotter than normal, instantly engulfed her. His strong yet rapid heartbeat conveyed an intense message to her.
It was relief and love...
Mo Chen's surging tears instantly dampened her left shoulder, his voice filled with unhidden panic and choked sobs.
"Thank goodness... you're still here..."
The scent of tangerines flooded her nostrils.
Luo Xiaole's heart was touched.
She had never seen such a vibrant, human, emotionally charged, and out-of-control Mo Chen...