Chapter 1025: Is It You...?

The thin man easily tore off the tape covering Wu Duo's mouth. The moment it was removed, she immediately cursed, "Why did you come to save me?! Do you want to die?!"

The man chuckled, "If we don't save you, will we live?"

Wu Duo was speechless...

"This realm has gone mad, Wu Duo. No one can survive," the man said, a deep sadness in his eyes. "Rather than stiflingly wait for death in the sewers, why not go crazy one last time..."

Boom—!!

As the man spoke, a figure leaped from the top of a nearby building.

It was a massive silhouette holding a butcher knife, heavy like a falling cannonball, and accompanying his descent was an incredibly fast flash of a blade...

The next moment, a member of the Rat Party was torn apart in mid-air, their body exploding into countless pieces of flesh splattered across the wall.

The Adjudication Agent, the Butcher.

To bait this group of Rat Party members, they had secretly deployed an eighth-tier agent. It turned out they had indeed overestimated the Rat Party's current strength... Now, among the remaining seven Rat Party members, including Wu Duo, the highest-tier member was only fifth-tier.

And now, that sole fifth-tier member had become a splattering of flesh on the wall, not even leaving a last word before dying.

"To hell with you, Flame Usurpers!! You brought out your grand-daddy! Why don't you all bow down to him?!" a Rat Party member scoffed, pointing at the Butcher and cursing sarcastically.

Witnessing their comrade's death, the other Rat Party members were not disheartened; or rather, they had already prepared for death before coming... Following their original plan, after finding the western road blocked, they immediately charged towards the southern road!

The remaining Rat Party members still possessed some combat ability; they raised their blades and struck, killing the third-tier Flame Usurper who had just executed their comrade, and severely wounding two other low-tier Flame Usurpers, forcing open a small gap.

But the next moment, two sixth-tier Flame Usurpers burst from the crowd, glaring furiously at the Rat Party members, directly beheading the two Rat Party members who had charged ahead.

Like the Twilight Society, the Flame Usurpers possessed a large number of mid-tier combatants at the fifth and sixth tiers, in addition to their seventh-tier Thief Saints. If one were to look up now, they would see countless such figures standing in the hazy gloom in the distance, seemingly watching this trapped-beast struggle with amusement.

"How troublesome..." Lan Yu's voice slowly drifted from the eastern road. Casually, she tossed the heads of two Rat Party members onto the ground and gently wiped the blood from her fingertips with a handkerchief.

"Just these few little rats, and I couldn't even get proper sleep..."

She covered her mouth and let out a small yawn.

On the eastern road, she was alone, yet like the Butcher on the western side, she stood like an unshakeable mountain, her mere presence blocking all escape routes.

With all three escape routes blocked, Wu Duo and the man in purple slowly retreated...

Within mere seconds, only the two of them remained from the Rat Party. They looked at the overwhelming number of figures surrounding them, like an endless night they could never cross, radiating profound despair.

They turned to look at the last, southern side, and found that countless silver monsters had emerged from the shadows at some point, blocking the road completely like a tide.

If Chen Ling were here, he would immediately recognize these as the killing machines created by Lou Yu in the Mortal Realm. At that time, these silver figures were almost endless and nearly destroyed the entire realm; Huang Suyu and others had died because of them.

Now, with Lou Yu's power restored, these killing machines had reappeared in the Boundless Realm.

Silver monsters, Flame Usurpers, Thief Saints, Adjudication Agents...

All escape routes were sealed, and towering before them were walls of despair. At this point, both Wu Duo and the man in purple had found peace; they knew they wouldn't leave alive today. After exchanging a look, a smile appeared on their pale faces.

"Who goes first?"

"I'll go first. I joined the Rat Party earlier than you, so I should at least go before you," the man shrugged. "Besides... what if you still have a chance to live? That young man is still waiting for you."

Wu Duo knew who he meant by "that young man." She opened her mouth but said nothing...

"Today, none of you will escape," Lan Yu sneered. "What does it matter who goes first or last?"

"Bitch, don't be too arrogant."

The man directly raised his middle finger at the towering walls in the darkness. "I admit you're amazing in the Boundless Realm, but in this world, no one can forever rule everything... Whether it's you or the King of Silver, when the sun rises, none of you will escape, just like me."

Lan Yu's eyelid twitched, and she scoffed disdainfully:

"Then I advise you to kneel and beg for mercy right now. Perhaps we'll consider sparing your life... That way, before you die of old age, maybe you'll even see your so-called 'sun' trampled under our feet."

"Kneel and beg for mercy from you? Dream on!"

The man's gaze swept over the corpses of his comrades on the ground, and a smile touched his lips as if recalling something.

"Though the people we saved were few, we have briefly served as the sun in the darkness... So, when the true sun rises, why must it be me bathing in its light?"

He slowly spread his arms, and purple flames began to flow from his feet. Amidst the shards of a broken crystal ball, his body exploded with a *boom*!!

Boom—!!

Purple flames obscured the view. Wu Duo, on the edge of the flames, bit back her tears and turned to rush towards the street filled with silver monsters... She knew it was almost impossible to escape, but even with the slightest possibility, she didn't want her comrade's sacrifice to be meaningless.

The silver monsters' sharp blades gleamed coldly in the darkness. They stared at the charging Wu Duo, unmoving...

Just then,

A rapid honking sound echoed. Wu Duo's tear-filled eyes looked ahead to see a burning truck roaring towards them from behind the silver monsters...

Like a blazing sun!

The Confession Room.

Chen Ling opened his mouth and swallowed the food from the spoon.

Warm air mixed with fragrance flowed down his throat and into his body, burning like a fierce fire... The maid patiently prepared each spoonful, balancing rice, vegetables, and meat, gently bringing it to Chen Ling's mouth.

Chen Ling ate this meal very quietly. In the entire Confession Room, only the soft clinking of the spoon against the plate could be heard.

"Eat slowly, slowly... no one's going to snatch it from you." Seeing how Chen Ling was eating, the maid smiled slightly. "I noticed you didn't seem to eat enough the past couple of days, so I specially increased the portion for you today. It should be enough."

Chen Ling's eyes were slightly red. He silently ate the food offered to him while looking into the maid's eyes, the suspicion that had been buried in his heart for the past two days slowly being confirmed...

Plip—plop...

The bitterness and grievance that had been suppressed deep within Chen Ling for so many days could no longer be contained, surging forth. Tears continuously streamed from the corners of his eyes, dripping onto his plate.

Seeing this, the maid paused for a moment, then looked at Chen Ling's expression with a complex gaze, her eyes filled with inexpressible heartache.

"Oh dear... Why are you crying while eating?"

Chen Ling chewed the food in his mouth, then swallowed it with a choke before speaking hoarsely:

"Fourth Senior Brother..."

"It's you... isn't it...?"