Chapter 1416: The Last Voice in the South Sea Region

Chapter 1418: The Last Voice of the South Sea RealmBy Sanjiu Yinyu

Teacher Ye endured intense mental agony, forcibly unleashing a storm of thoughts to knock out the surrounding civilians. Yet, this simple action caused his body to sway again, nearly making him collapse on the spot.

Breathing raggedly from pain, Teacher Ye took one bloody step after another, moving towards Xiaotao, who snarled viciously at him.

His pale knuckles slowly tightened their grip on the gun.

"Teacher Ye...?"

Xiaobai didn't know what was happening, but he sensed a change in the way Teacher Ye looked at Xiaotao... He stood there dumbfounded, momentarily at a loss.

Xiaotao's frenzied eyes fixated on Teacher Ye. Her body blurred into a yellowish-brown afterimage as she lunged towards his wavering form.

Teacher Ye took a deep breath and activated his ability once more.

The storm of thoughts swept through Xiaotao's mind, temporarily dispelling the madness that had consumed her consciousness. Xiaotao, who had already reached Teacher Ye, visibly regained clarity, and her four-limbed posture gradually gave way as she stood up...

As if waking from a long dream, Xiaotao looked at the unconscious people around her, then at her own hands. Disordered memories from moments ago flooded her mind.

"I..."

"What was I doing?"

*Thud*—

Teacher Ye's body completely lost support and crashed heavily to the ground.

"Teacher Ye!!" Xiaotao gasped, rushing to his side and trying to help him up.

But the moment she touched Teacher Ye's skin, a bone-chilling cold jolted her. His almost non-existent pulse became the countdown to his life's end.

Teacher Ye lay on the ground like a rag doll, his chest heaving violently like a broken bellows. It seemed he couldn't even move a single finger.

Teacher Ye could feel that he had lost control of his physical body. Even his last shred of mental will was fading, as the Mind Calamity storm relentlessly devoured his remaining clarity.

"Teacher Ye... what's wrong, Teacher Ye??" Xiaotao was so scared she was on the verge of tears.

"Xiao... Tao..."

Teacher Ye's pained, struggling eyes fixed on Xiaotao, who knelt before him. His hand, clutching the gun handle, trembled slightly but refused to lift.

Finally, as if making a crucial decision, he merged his last thought into a storm of thoughts and sent it into Xiaotao's mind.

Xiaotao's body trembled slightly.

In that instant, she saw many things...

She saw one familiar figure after another transform into frenzied monsters; she saw the entire South Sea Realm trampled into ruins by the calamities of the Forbidden Sea; she saw Teacher Ye, tears in his eyes, shoot down the very children he had raised...

Xiaotao was stunned, her face as pale as paper, as if she had just experienced a nightmare.

She stiffly lowered her head to look at the figure in her arms.

The blood-stained shirt was frozen solid by the cold wind. The teacher who had founded the Fusion Faction and raised all the children had now closed his eyes. His face, etched with regret and sorrow, no longer held the warmth of life.

He was dead.

His body had turned into a stiff block of ice, and his thoughts, devoured by the Mind Calamity, had returned to the void from which they came...

*Clatter*—

Teacher Ye's tightly clenched hand had, at some point, loosened, and a black handgun slid to the ground.

Xiaotao understood.

She knew why he had come.

"Teacher Ye!!!!" Xiaobai rushed over like a gust of wind, embracing the now lifeless Teacher Ye and crying out heart-wrenchingly, like a child who had lost everything.

Xiaotao's pale, chapped lips parted slightly...

"Xiaobai..."

"Xiaotao, Teacher Ye, he..."

"Xiaobai!!"

Xiaobai's voice cut off abruptly. His bloodshot eyes turned to Xiaotao, filled with bewilderment.

Xiaotao took a deep breath and slowly spoke:

"Xiaobai... will you do me a favor?"

"...What favor?"

"Carry Teacher Ye outside, and then wait for me by the door."

Though Xiaobai didn't understand why Xiaotao was suddenly saying this, he nodded obediently and carefully carried Teacher Ye's body onto his back.

"Xiaotao... what are you going to do?"

Xiaotao silently picked up the handgun Teacher Ye had dropped, slowly straightened up, and forced a faint smile.

"Nothing much. Just wait for me at the door... It won't take long."

"Oh, okay."

Xiaobai carried Teacher Ye's body out of the room.

Xiaotao's grip on the gun handle tightened. She turned back, her gaze falling upon the dilapidated radio station.

Cold wind ceaselessly poured in through the broken windows, coating the equipment and microphone with a thin layer of frost. Tangled wires swayed silently in the wind, with the ravaged city stretching out behind.

As if having made a profound decision, she walked straight to the microphone. Her yellowish-brown overcoat flapped in the blood-scented wind.

She gently blew on the microphone's surface:

"...Hello?"

Meanwhile,

Radio stations across various realms, long since out of contact and silent, suddenly picked up a signal from the South Sea Realm once more.

The Lingxu Realm's radio station, which was broadcasting real-time updates on the battle situation across all realms, erupted into chaos. Voices filled with shock and surprise rang out:

"Is that a signal from the South Sea Realm??"

"What's going on? Wasn't the South Sea Realm declared lost just ten minutes ago?"

"They survived?? Are there still survivors in the South Sea Realm?"

"—Silence!!!"

An authoritative voice rang out, interrupting everyone's discussions.

A figure in a suit walked to the radio equipment. Everyone fell silent at that moment.

"The government of the South Sea Realm has activated the 'Fall' key... declaring they have been completely breached." The man paused, his gaze at the radio complex.

"What we're hearing now..."

"...might be the South Sea Realm's last voice."

At this moment, the entire room fell silent.

Similar scenes unfolded in other major realms.

Tian Shu, Zang Yun, Xuan Yu—these realms, engulfed in war and despair, simultaneously received this voice from the South Sea Realm. Some already knew the fate of the South Sea Realm, while others were still unaware, but this voice from the South Sea Realm, that of a young, unrefined girl, captured their attention.

And the moment that "Hello?" sounded,

In an underground palace deep within the Grey Realm, a figure in red robes, slumped drunkenly on a throne, felt his eyelids twitch slightly.

He seemed to be having a nightmare, half-asleep and frowning deeply... He apparently found the radio's sound disruptive to his sleep, reaching out to fumble around, intending to turn it off.

But the next moment, the girl's voice sounded again from the radio:

"I am the Fusionist, Xi Xiaotao."

The hand clad in the grand red opera robe suddenly froze in mid-air.