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How the hell are we supposed to play this?
This was beyond the comprehension of all the Taotie warriors.
"No... not..."
The captain of the Taotie made a dry sound in his throat, trying to explain something, but his tongue got tied.
Pan Zhen's golden eyes, as bright as burning stars, slowly turned and landed on Captain Taotie.
"How do you intend to deal with this general?"
His voice wasn't loud, but it carried a scorching heat that caused the surrounding metal walls to emit a faint distorting sound.
"May I have the honor of seeing this?"
Captain Taotie's legs went weak, and his massive beastly body knelt directly on the cold deck with a muffled thud.
The Taotie soldiers behind him were so terrified that they could barely hold their weapons.
"No, no, no! It's a misunderstanding! A huge misunderstanding!"
"It is our greatest honor that General Pan Zhen has come in person. We are more than happy to welcome him!"
"How could we dare to go against you! It was her...it was her talking nonsense!"
The Gluttonous Captain extended a trembling claw and pointed it at Lena inside the glass case.
Pan Zhen's gaze didn't linger on him for even a second longer.
He merely glanced disdainfully at the group of ugly creatures.
"A spacefaring-level beast civilization dares to pry into the secrets of my divine genes."
"You guys are really tired of living."
As soon as he finished speaking, Pan Zhen slowly raised one hand.
There was no earth-shattering energy convergence, nor any dazzling special effects.
He simply waved his hand lightly.
Like brushing away dust from the corner of a garment.
The desperate roar of the Taotie captain was still stuck in his throat.
His enormous body, along with all the Taotie soldiers kneeling behind him, turned to ashes silently in an instant.
It vanished into thin air without leaving even a trace of burnt smell.
Immediately afterwards, the glass ball that had trapped Lena melted away as quickly as ice and snow scorched by the blazing sun.
The pale blue electric current binding Reina's body also dissipated.
Lena stretched her somewhat stiff body, revealing her perfect figure.
She didn't seem to care about Pan Zhen's gaze, and simply made a gesture in front of her.
A miniature wormhole opened, and a brown trench coat appeared out of thin air and automatically put on her.
Pan Zhen looked at Lena, who had regained her spirits, and respectfully lowered his head.
"My God, should this place be... completely wiped out?"
Lena glanced coldly at the empty cabin, her eyes devoid of any emotion.
"What do you say?"
Although his tone was cold, even carrying a hint of impatience.
But a sense of relief welled up in Pan Zhen's heart.
This is what my God should be like.
Indifference, ruthlessness, and the judgment of everything.
Pan Zhen said no more. With a flash, he pierced through the metal hull of the warship and hovered in the cold void of space.
The next second, an invisible wave of scorching heat suddenly spread out from him.
The dozens of massive and ferocious Taotie warships around them did not emit any explosions.
They were like pieces of paper that had been set ablaze, silently emitting a blinding red light from the inside out.
Then it quickly turns into the most insignificant dust in the universe.
The whole process was eerily quiet.
In a short while, apart from the main ship where Pan Zhen and Lena were, no trace of the Taotie civilization could be found in this dark star field.
The surroundings fell into complete silence.
Just as the Gluttonous Captain had said, it was dark and gloomy here, with not a single star in sight.
Endless darkness and cold enveloped everything.
Lena flew out of the cabin and came to Pan Zhen's side, looking at this unfamiliar starry sky.
"Pan Zhen, how did you find this place?"
Pan Zhen turned around and answered Lena respectfully.
"It was His Excellency the Lord of All Gods from the Angelic Civilization who teleported me here directly."
Upon hearing this name, Lena's golden pupils instantly lit up, and her icy aura vanished completely.
Lena's heart started racing for no reason, and an indescribable joy welled up inside her.
She hadn't seen that bastard in so long, she missed him terribly.
Although every time they met, he completely dominated her, making her feel utterly inferior.
But for some reason, during the time he was away, I always felt empty inside, as if something was missing.
"Then what are we waiting for! Let's go back!"
Lena's tone carried an urgency she herself was unaware of.
However, a hint of embarrassment appeared on Pan Zhen's perpetually serious face.
“My God… Lord of all Gods, he… he only sent me here.”
"They didn't say how they were going to take us back."
The joy on Lena's face froze instantly.
"You mean...we've been abandoned here?"
"Um, that should be the case..."
After Pan Zhen disappeared, the ancient study fell into a deathly silence once again.
Only Lin Ci and Karl remained.
Karl remained rooted to the spot by that invisible force.
His illusory body, made of data, felt "cold" for the first time ever.
In his perception, the core of the great clock's operation had fallen into a deathly silence, as if it had been forcibly shut down by a higher-dimensional being.
Lin Ci picked up the teacup on the table, took a small sip, and didn't look at him.
Suppressive silence is more agonizing than any form of torture.
In the end, it was Karl who spoke first.
His voice carried an unusual calmness, as if he were stating a scientific fact that had long been foreseen.
"Tens of thousands of years ago, during that meeting at the raging sea, I knew that you would come looking for me sooner or later."
Lin Ci put down his teacup and raised an eyebrow slightly.
Why do you say that?
"No reason."
"It's an intuition, based on my judgment of the unknown and the ultimate."
A playful smile appeared on Lin Ci's lips.
"Your intuition is very accurate."
Upon receiving an affirmative answer, a hint of resentment seemed to appear on Karl's perpetually calm face.
"So, is my fate this time to be imprisoned by you?"
Lin Ci seemed to have heard something interesting.
"Why do you say that?"
Karl's gaze deepened, as if recalling a scene from ten thousand years ago that still sends shivers down his spine.
“You escaped by chance last time, but I know very well that you didn’t use your full strength at all.”
"It's like... just waving your hand casually at a buzzing mosquito."
"Your killing intent is not intense, but it is incredibly pure; it is an erasure that transcends all concepts."
Lin Ci had to admit that this scholar, who was obsessed with death, was indeed very intelligent.
That's a very apt description.
He looked at Karl and chuckled softly.
"You don't need to be so pessimistic."
"I did not come here to imprison you."
A hint of doubt flashed in Karl's eyes.
What else could it be?
Lin Ci leaned forward slightly, his deep gaze seemingly able to pierce through the essence of Karl's data and reach the core of his void theory.
He spoke slowly in a tone that carried supreme authority yet also a hint of seduction.
"On the contrary, it is to grant you a... better new life."