Starting with SSS-rank talent, I contracted the Forbidden Ferocity.

"You're finally back."

The sound was very soft.

Yet it was clearly transmitted to everyone's ears.

At the blockade line of the old Jiangcheng, everyone paused for a moment.

Qin Wuji's expression was strange.

"Does it recognize you?"

Shen Ye stared at the dark figure deep within the ruined city.

"I don't know it."

Xue Li whispered:

"The strange beasts of the Heavenly Abyss cannot be judged by common sense."

"It might recognize your blood."

Lu Chenzhou shook his head.

"No."

"It means come back."

"They're not here."

These two characters are very different.

Returning means that the old Jiangcheng is more than just a goal for Shen Ye.

It is also the starting point.

Shen Ye did not wait any longer.

"Go into town."

Lu Qingshan raised his hand.

The military's blockade array opened a passage.

"Notice."

"The space in Old Jiangcheng is unstable; no one is allowed to leave the front-line perception range."

Zhou Xuan immediately released the array plate.

Seventy-two miniature array flags floated around the group, forming a moving coordinate network.

"As long as the banner remains, I can bring you back once."

Qin Wuji asked:

"And then what happens after you pull it back once?"

Zhou Xuandao:

"From now on, rely on your legs."

Qin Wuji nodded.

"Understood."

The group entered the old Jiangcheng.

As soon as he crossed the blockade line, Shen Ye felt that the world had changed.

The air is very thin.

The spiritual energy was intermittent.

The asphalt road beneath my feet cracked, and grayish-white crystals grew out of it.

The tall buildings on both sides are leaning, and some windows still show traces of life.

toy.

textbook.

An upside-down water glass.

There was even a rusty bus with half of its body stuck in a crack in the space.

This doesn't look like a secret realm.

It's more like a city abandoned by time.

Shen Ye looked at the street and felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity welling up inside him.

These are not the original owner's memories.

It belongs to him.

The old Jiangcheng in this world is very similar to some street corners in his previous life's city.

Lu Chenzhou glanced at him.

"You can feel it?"

Shen Ye said:

"Like the place I came from."

Xue Li's expression changed slightly.

"That would be even more dangerous."

"Tianyuan might use these things to influence you."

The voice just fell.

The traffic light at the end of the street suddenly turned on.

red light.

Green light.

Yellow light.

The city had been abandoned for three years and its power had long been cut off.

But the lights were still flickering.

Then, the sound of traffic could be heard in the distance.

drip.

The sound of brakes.

The sound of people talking.

There were also vendors hawking their wares.

The streets of the old Jiangcheng began to overlap.

Half of it is ruins.

Half of it consists of images of modern cities from Shen Ye's memories.

Qin Wuji's eyes widened.

"What is this thing?"

Li Xuance gripped his sword.

"phantom."

Lu Chenzhou said:

"It's not entirely an illusion."

"It's an echo."

"The lingering echoes left by the rift between the two worlds."

A boy in a school uniform ran past the street corner.

His body was translucent.

Holding a mobile phone in my hand.

As I walked past Shen Ye, my phone screen lit up briefly.

There is only one line of text on the screen.

The door is not fully open.

Coordinates lost.

Shen Ye's eyes turned slightly cold.

He had seen this line of text in the file.

Suddenly, the dust on his shoulder growled.

Heavenly punishment shines its light ahead.

The echoes of all modern cities instantly distorted.

Deep inside the street, a small black door appeared.

A small animal was lying in front of the door.

Its body is only the size of a cat.

It is completely black.

It has no hair, and looks like a flowing shadow.

There is a small crease on his forehead.

It has two translucent, thin wings on its back.

Its eyes are strange.

One is black.

One is silver-white.

That black eye was like the abyss.

Her silvery-white eyes were like starlight.

A system notification appears.

[Target: Gate Cub.]

[Attributes: Rift, Gate, Void.]

[Status: Echoing Parasite, not fully awake.]

[Contract compatibility: Extremely high.]

[Hint: This target is causally related to the host's crossing of the rift.]

Shen Ye looked at it.

Do you know me?

The young beast at the boundary gate tilted its head.

When it opens its mouth, the sound is still in human language.

But it doesn't seem like it can actually talk.

It sounds more like something learned from a lingering echo.

"You fell from here."

"The door is broken."

"I fell down too."

Everyone's expression changed.

Qin Wuji said in a low voice:

"So you wore it with him?"

Xue Li is more concerned about another point.

"Did it fall from the abyss, or from the rift between the two realms?"

The young beast from the boundary gate suddenly looked at Xue Li.

His black eyes narrowed slightly.

"The smell of blood."

Xue Li's face paled, and she subconsciously took a half step back.

Shen Ye raised his hand to block it.

"She is now a witness."

The young beast of the boundary gate stared at Xue Li for a moment, as if making a judgment.

Then it looked at Jie Chen.

Jie Chen also stared at it.

The two little guys looked at each other.

A divine punishment.

A boundary gate.

The atmosphere suddenly became very subtle.

Jie Chen let out a low cry.

The young beast at the boundary gate also opened its mouth and cried out.

The sound was like the gentle turning of a door hinge.

Qin Wuji couldn't help but say:

"What are they talking about?"

Shen Ye said:

"have no idea."

A system notification appears.

[The gatekeeper cub is evaluating the host's contract system.]

[Beast Taming Dust Detected.]

The two sides possess both conflicting and complementary attributes.

[Recommendation: Stabilize the target's reverberation state first.]

Shen Ye asked:

"How can we stabilize it?"

System prompt:

The young beast from the Boundary Gate was bound by the lingering echoes of the old Jiang City.

[It is necessary to enter the center of the crack and cut the reverberating anchor chain.]

[Warning: The center of the rift will reflect the host's memories of their original world.]

Shen Ye looked towards the center of the old Jiangcheng.

The upside-down shadow of that door is right there.

"Walk."

The young beast at the boundary gate did not move.

It raised its paw and pointed behind Shen Ye.

"It's here too."

Shen Ye turned around.

From the depths of the lingering echoes in the street, a figure slowly walked towards them.

The man was wearing a white shirt and black pants.

His appearance was ordinary.

He was holding a briefcase.

He looked like an office worker that Shen Ye could easily find in the city in his previous life.

But his face had no features.

Xue Li's voice was strained.

"Projection behind the door."

Lu Chenzhou drew his sword.

"No."

"Not a complete projection."

"It's a shell created by borrowing the echoes of Shen Yeyuan's world."

A faceless office worker stopped in the middle of the street.

He raised his head.

It has no mouth on its face, yet it makes sounds.

"Shen Ye."

"Going home?"

This one sentence is more insidious than any deadly move.

Qin Wuji looked at Shen Ye.

Shen Ye remained expressionless.

That's not my home.

The office worker with no face tilts his head.

Are you sure?

next moment.

The echoes on both sides of the street lit up.

High-rise buildings.

Traffic flow.

crowd.

Hotel signboard.

Subway entrance.

The noise of the evening rush hour.

There is also a small rental room.

The computer screen is lit.

The phone is on the table.

The takeout bag hasn't been opened yet.

That was Shen Ye's room on his last night before he transmigrated.

The faceless office worker spoke gently.

"go back."

"The war here."

"The blood here."

"Death here."

"It's none of your business."

Shen Ye looked at the rented room.

There was a moment of silence.

Then, he raised his sword.

"Indeed, it has nothing to do with us."

The faceless office worker seemed to be smiling.

But the next moment, Shen Ye had already unleashed a sword strike.

"But it's relevant now."

The sword light sliced ​​through the echoing street.

The rental house is broken.

The traffic was shattered.

The crowd shattered.

The faceless office worker was also cleaved in half by a sword.

Shen Ye's eyes were icy cold.

"You took it home to fool me?"

You've got the wrong person.

Black veins surged within the cracked body of the faceless office worker.

"Don't you want to go back?"

Shen Ye said:

"think."

"But you're not the one sending me back."

Night Feather Black Sun Netherfire fell.

The nine-nine candles, the shadow of the burial, lock the faceless shadow.

Long Yuan took a step forward, and the Fighting King Fist smashed the ground with a resounding crash.

The Heavenly Punishment Gate Lock pinned the black gate pattern shut.

Shen Ye's second sword strike landed.

The faceless shell shattered completely.

Before the sound faded away behind the door, he whispered:

You'll regret it.

Shen Ye sheathed his sword.

"queue."

The young beast at the gate looked at him.

His silvery-white eyes lit up.

"Aren't you going back?"

Shen Ye said:

"I'll be back."

"But not now."

The young beast at the gate asked:

"Where to now?"

Shen Ye looked at the upside-down gate shadow in the center of the old Jiangcheng.

"Let me take you out first."

The young beast from the boundary gate stared at him for a moment.

Then, it took its short legs and walked to Shen Ye's feet.

"I'll lead the way."

A system notification sounded.

[The affinity between the gatekeeper and the young beast has increased.]

[Prerequisite quest for the contract begins: Cut the Echoing Anchor Chain.]

The old Jiangcheng center.

The inverted door shadow slowly rotated.

Beneath the gate, three black anchor chains descended from the void, locking the remains of a beast egg shell that resembled shattered starlight.

The young beast at the boundary gate stopped and lowered its voice.

"My shell."

"It's still there."