“Wenwen, Mo Ran, and Little Ruan?!”
Zhang Chen was exceptionally excited to see the two people and one soft he hadn't seen in a long time.
Zhang Wenwen really wanted to give Zhang Chen a big hug, but she dared not. She hesitated significantly before rushing to Zhang Chen, then knelt respectfully before him.
It had been originally agreed that kneeling was not required, but for some unknown reason, it had reverted to kneeling.
Little Ruan spun around Zhang Chen, expressing its inner excitement.
Mo Ran, however, paid no mind to such formalities. She directly stretched her long legs and clung tightly to Zhang Chen's waist, burying his head in her chest, her face alight with excitement.
“Hmm… with so many students present, I need to maintain some semblance of image!”
Zhang Chen said, forcefully detaching the clingy Mo Ran from himself, finally regaining his breath.
“Dad, it’s so good to see you!”
Although she was “detached,” Mo Ran still seemed boneless, pressing herself against Zhang Chen’s side, her little head resting on his shoulder, as if she wished she could transform into liquid and envelop Zhang Chen completely.
“Wuwu! ~Weng…”
Loid also let out a cry.
The sound caused the entire city to tremble.
“Is this… Teacher Zhang’s daughter?”
“This daughter is already this old…”
“What is this True God about?”
“And this… this spider that’s too big for me to describe…”
“What’s that smell? Did someone wet themselves?”
None of the students fled this time, not because they weren’t scared, but because in the face of such a colossal being as Loid, fleeing would be futile.
Even if they were given an hour’s head start, it would only take him a slight movement to catch up.
“True God, since you’ve arrived, there’s something… that needs to be reported to you!”
With Zhang Chen’s permission, Zhang Wenwen stood up and said respectfully.
“What is it?”
Zhang Chen asked in surprise.
He had indeed been away for too long and was unsure of the changes that had occurred here.
Everyone else was fine, with no significant changes.
However, Mo Ran had clearly grown considerably; she could no longer be described as a young girl.
She was a completely sexy and mature woman, with a hint of allure in her eyes and radiating a powerful, stimulating aura.
“This matter… it’s best to report it to you privately…”
Zhang Wenwen glanced at the group of students and then said softly.
“Alright then, you all go back first… But… someone needs to guide them…” Zhang Chen said, pondering.
“True God, my name is Fang Lan, and my awakened ability is shapeshifting. I can undertake this responsibility!”
The girl who had first found Zhang Chen knelt on the ground, volunteering for the task.
“Can she do it?”
Zhang Chen looked at Zhang Wenwen.
The latter nodded slightly and said,
“Fang Lan is the captain of the seventeenth squad of the Shadow Guards. She excels in shapeshifting, infiltration, reconnaissance, counter-espionage, and subversion missions. She is sharp and very capable!”
“Moreover, she is one of the four instructors for the reserve Shadow Guard team. Her strength is slightly weaker, being at the first stage of Junior Inheritor, but otherwise, all her qualifications are suitable!”
When Zhang Wenwen mentioned the first stage of Junior Inheritor, Fang Lan’s face flushed with shame.
In fact, among all the Shadow Guard captains, the strongest were only at the third stage of Junior Inheritor, and even that strength was considered among the strongest in the entire Ultimate Apocalypse, second only to the higher echelons of the Dream Nightmare organization and the True God Cult.
However, in the presence of the True God, Fang Lan was acutely aware that her strength was far from adequate.
“Hmm, this level of strength is not insignificant; she is fully capable of undertaking this mission!”
“However, you must be mindful that the energy in that world is extremely scarce, so you must restrain your abilities!” Zhang Chen instructed.
“Understood. Thank you for the trust from the True God and the Cult Master. Fang Lan will not disappoint!”
Fang Lan nodded excitedly, then walked to Zhang Chen’s side. With his permission, she gently touched the back of Zhang Chen’s hand.
Instantly, Fang Lan transformed into Zhang Chen’s likeness, even her outer clothing morphing into the same style.
“Having listened to the True God’s teachings, I have already mastered the characteristics of your vocal cord…”
Fang Lan said, and her voice suddenly changed: “How do you find this voice? Are you satisfied?”
The voice that followed was exactly Zhang Chen’s.
“Good, I’m very satisfied. You can go on your mission!”
Zhang Chen said, taking a small piece of clone from the Pluto Mushroom and sticking it onto Fang Lan’s arm.
“It can absorb any energy escaping from your body and will also remind you to control your power.”
“I hope you can be an excellent teacher in my absence!” Zhang Chen said with a smile.
“Rest assured, True God, I will not fail my mission… However…”
“These students have overheard our conversation, which might not be conducive to my subsequent infiltration work!”
“Should I eliminate them here directly?”
As Fang Lan spoke, her left hand transformed into a Mithril longsword.
“These are my students, and naturally, they will be your students in the future. Of course, they cannot be killed!”
“I’ll just reset them to the state they were in when they first saw you!”
Zhang Chen said, waving his hand towards the dumbfounded students.
In an instant, their positions, physical forms, and expressions reverted to what they were ten minutes prior.
“And this… this spider that’s too big for me to describe…”
“What’s that smell? Did someone wet themselves?”
The students collectively looked at the enormous Loid, exclaiming in amazement.
Suddenly, a portal opened.
Fang Lan, who had shapeshifted into Zhang Chen, said to the students:
“Let’s go. If you don’t want to be spider food, follow me back!”
Hearing this, the students, frightened, scrambled into the portal one after another.
As the portal closed, Zhang Chen finally deactivated his invisibility.
If two Zhang Chens had appeared before the students simultaneously, it would have required another reset.
“What happened? Is it serious?”
Zhang Chen asked Zhang Wenwen.
“This matter… it’s serious in a way, and not serious in another…”
“Do you remember the parallel space portal created by the progressive faction in the seventh walled city?” Zhang Wenwen asked.
“Of course, what about it?” Zhang Chen asked in surprise.
“There were some issues with that portal. After Professor Tang Houde of the Blue Ring organized manpower to inspect it, it was discovered that…”
“Some equipment and computers were missing, the computer controlling the generation of the parallel space-time portal was incomplete, causing a large amount of space-time turbulence, thereby greatly increasing the instability of non-linear space…” Zhang Wenwen reported in detail.
Zhang Chen: “Speak plainly!”
Zhang Wenwen: “The portal to the parallel world is out of control, and some monsters have escaped into it.”
(Those who can read this far are all dedicated fans, my darlings. As darlings, be generous and leave comments on which world you want the protagonist to travel to, or whose side story you want to see. I’ll spoil you all!)