Arknights: Studying medicine can't save Terra

Zuo Le sheathed his sword, letting Taihe drag away the terrified Shan Hai people. He then turned to the panicked crowd and shouted:

"Everyone, please calm down. I am Zuo Le, the son of General Zuo Xuanliao. The culprit has been executed. Please do not panic."

Hearing Zuo Le's shouts, the still-terrified people finally felt reassured.

Seeing this, Zuo Le breathed a slight sigh of relief and stepped forward to continue comforting the people.

But when he faced those people, before he could even speak, he noticed that their expressions had all changed.

"Young Master Zuo, be careful!"

"Stop, you thief!"

Zuo Le didn't have time to turn around; all she could feel was an inexplicable, intoxicating peach blossom fragrance filling her nostrils.

A chilling killing intent was already pressed against the back of his neck.

Under the murderous intent of his attacker, Zuo Le felt as if he had lost control of his body and clearly realized the difference in strength between himself and his attacker.

That person's strength far surpassed his own; even in a direct confrontation, he might not be able to resist, let alone now that he had been ambushed.

In the face of life-or-death crisis, Zuo Le felt as if time itself had frozen in that instant.

He could clearly see the people's fear, the angry expression on Taihe's face beside him, and the pink peach blossoms drifting from behind him.

The sound of a sword being drawn suddenly intruded into Zuo Le's world, which seemed to have been paused.

A familiar longsword pierced into Zuo Le's field of vision, desperately trying to stop the blade that was descending upon the back of Zuo Le's neck.

Time returned to its normal flow rate.

Taihe suddenly rushed forward and crashed into the person behind Zuo Le.

Just moments before, Qiu Bai, who had leaped from the eaves to block the blade with her sword, gritted her teeth, grabbed Zuo Le's shoulder with one hand, and forcibly dragged her out of the blade's range. Then, she herself immediately withdrew.

Zuo Le, still breathing heavily after surviving the ordeal, looked at the beautiful figure before him and said gratefully:

"Thank you so much, Sister Qiu Bai, for your help..."

"Don't be careless, adjust your breathing, prepare to retreat!" Qiu Bai interrupted Zuo Le urgently. "Everyone leave this place immediately, the enemy is very dangerous! Taihe, we can't fight them head-on, come back!"

Zuo Le was stunned.

This was the first time he had ever seen Qiu Bai so flustered. After calming himself down, he noticed that Qiu Bai's arm holding the sword was trembling slightly due to exhaustion.

On the other side, Taihe, who had just exchanged three blows with the attacker, was kicked in the chest and fell back to Zuo Le and the other man in a sorry state.

"Uncle Taihe?!"

Zuo Le bent down to help Tai He up, and was horrified to find that Tai He had been injured internally by the opponent in just three moves, with a streak of bright red blood spilling from the corner of his mouth.

"Ha, another bunch of overconfident mortals."

Ya retracted his right foot and stood still, his eyes filled with arrogance as he commented, "A fool who can match my brute strength, a passable swordsman, and a completely useless piece of trash."

Zuo Le, young and impetuous, could not bear such humiliation and immediately glared angrily at the other party.

Qiu Bai quickly pressed down on his shoulder and said in a deep voice:

"The other party is a behemoth agent. Don't act rashly. Try to evacuate the crowd and then escape immediately."

Zuo Le was shocked and panicked.

It wasn't that he was afraid to fight back against the giant beast, but the crowds on the street were so dense that they couldn't be dispersed so easily. Moreover, the enemy was right in front of him, watching him intently. How could he let them move freely?

"Cough cough, this is really outrageous."

Taihe struggled to his feet, clutching his chest in pain, and said, "As a giant beast, you have to resort to sneak attacks to deal with us mortals. If I'm not mistaken, you are the one who fought Wei Gong at Longmen before, right?"

"Could it be that you've been terrified of Lord Wei, which is why you're behaving so despicably?"

Ya's narrow eyes narrowed, and an uncontrollable rage erupted from the depths of his heart.

"You are not the first mortal to dare to provoke me."

Ya raised his long sword, aiming it at Taihe from afar.

Qiu Bai and Zuo Le were both somewhat surprised, not understanding why Tai He would provoke the other party at a time like this.

Taihe wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, forced a bitter smile, and muttered:

"I hope that promise wasn't just a lie, Qi..."

"Stop shouting."

A clear, cool female voice sounded behind Taihe: "My brother is busy. He asked me to look after you for a while."

Taihe turned around and looked back, then her face lit up with joy.

Qi Lin walked slowly to the front of the three, casually sizing up Ya, then seemed somewhat puzzled:

Why are you... so weak?

The most sincere inquiry turned into the coldest knife, stabbing cruelly into Ya's most painful scar.

"You're asking for death!" Ya Nu roared.

"It seems that you're the one who will die."

A faint blue glow gathered at Qi Lin's fingertips, and the temperature in the entire block began to drop rapidly, with frost spreading from Qi Lin's feet toward Ya.

Ya's anger froze abruptly, turning into horror. He retreated in disbelief, unwilling to confront Qi Lin's power head-on.

"Why do you possess this power... Are you one of them?"

"I think you're focusing on the wrong thing."

The one who answered Ya was not Qi Lin, but a calm male voice that came from behind Ya.

Chongyue had one hand behind his back and the other outstretched in front of him, in a defensive stance, and had somehow blocked Ya's retreat.

"It's you...no, it's not you."

Ya stopped in her tracks, caught between a wolf in front and a dragon behind, leaving her in a difficult predicament.

“I am who I am,” Chong Yue said calmly. “I was worried about Qiu Bai, so I followed her all the way, but now it seems that my worries were unnecessary. It turns out that everything was part of Qi Yan’s plan.”

Faced with such a desperate situation, Ya gradually calmed down.

She glanced at Qi Lin, who had stopped using her methods, and then at Chong Yue, who was blocking her way, and suddenly let out a contemptuous sneer.

"A setup? A boring trick."

Ya laughed incessantly: "With our status, to manipulate these mortals like this, you have truly fallen, completely forgetting how noble our era was."

We trekked through the sleepless chaos, becoming the first living beings here, watching the rise and fall of the primordial chaos, the order of time, and the arrangement of things. We gazed at each other in the sky, collided, the rivers turned red with silt, the mountains were leveled, and corpses rose into the clouds, their putrid rot transforming into new peaks...

But now, you've cowered among these lowly, despicable creatures, forging laughable bonds with them. Laughable, utterly laughable! You are utterly laughable!

Her laughter grew louder and louder, gradually turning into uncontrollable hysteria, but finally stopped abruptly as if in a frenzy.

“I’ve become so ridiculous,” Ya said coldly.

Chongyue frowned slightly and replied calmly:

“You are looking for Him, and all your views correspond to Him, but I am not Him, I am just myself.”

Ya did not reply, but turned to look at Qi Lin.

Faced with Ya's gaze, Qi Lin thought seriously for a moment, then imitated him and said:

"Who are you calling a god? Your whole family are gods!"

Ya: "..."

For some reason, Qi Lin's two short sentences evoked a feeling in Ya that ordinary people jokingly call a breakdown.

Ya's face twitched twice, forcibly suppressing the unpleasant emotion, and he continued to sneer:

"You can't keep me here. The me standing before you right now is just a phantom I casually cut out. Before we truly meet, there's one more eyesore I need to get rid of."

Chong Yue's expression changed, and he no longer hesitated before making his move.

But his fist went straight through Ya's body.

As Ya faded into the distance, he paid no attention to the towering peaks before him, but instead looked up and gazed at the western side of Yumen.

"It's all because of you, it's all because of Him, that I've even started playing these ridiculous tricks of mortals."

"That direction...Longmen?!"

Chongyue secretly thought to himself that things were not going well.

As he came to his senses, the entire Jade Gate City suddenly began to shake violently, as if some enormous thing was crashing into the Jade Gate.

A dark figure leaped and bounded among the buildings in the city, quickly arriving in front of Chongyue.

"Wei Gong's shadow guards?" Chong Yue asked immediately. "What happened at Longmen?"

The shadow guard spoke rapidly: "Grandmaster, the Black Serpent has invaded control of the Dragon Gate, and it is controlling the Dragon Gate to collide with the Jade Gate!"

Upon hearing this devastating news, even Chongyue was momentarily stunned.

The unforeseen circumstances are far from over.

Almost simultaneously, everyone noticed that the sandstorm that had been spreading due to the impending natural disaster was rapidly dissipating.

"Manipulating natural disasters...is the work of a complete behemoth."

Chongyue slowly raised his head, looked at the scene that appeared in the sky, and immediately gritted his teeth.

Above the sky, a mirror with no visible edge took shape and slowly fell towards the twin cities on the ground. The clouds and mist were shattered by the mirror and turned into wisps of long white smoke at the edge.

The mirror reflects two mobile city-states that are identical to the Twin Cities, which expand in everyone's view as the mirror falls.

Chongyue could even see the panicked people, and himself, in the streets and alleys of the two cities within the mirror.

Chapter 912: Please be careful when reversing

Two man-made behemoths appear to be moving slowly across the desert.

But only those in Yumen and Longmen can sense the speed at which these two cities they live in are moving.

The inertia brought about by acceleration made it difficult for ordinary people to even stand up, and even martial artists with some skill began to stagger.

Chongyue, leading Qi Lin, Zuo Le, and others, was not greatly affected. They quickly made their way through the streets and alleys towards the military camp.

After a brief period of shaking, Yumen began to change course in an effort to avoid colliding with Longmen.

The two enormous creatures, one desperately moving forward and the other constantly retreating, rubbed against each other at their edges, and for a short time, they actually achieved a delicate balance.

However, the fragility of this balance is obvious to anyone with discerning eyes.

When Chongyue and his party arrived at the military camp, they found that a large crowd had already gathered in front of the camp.

Among them were martial artists from Yumen and members of the Shan Hai Clan who had been captured, but all of them were kept outside the military camp by the Yumen soldiers, and none of them were allowed to go forward.

Zuo Xuanliao stood guard at the entrance of the military camp, his expression barely managing to appear calm.

Chongyue's arrival was met with no obstruction. Both military men and soldiers spontaneously made way for him, allowing him to walk directly to Zuo Xuanliao.

"Grandmaster, thank you for your hard work."

Zuo Xuanliao's first words were a polite but distant greeting: "It seems you've finished with the Grandmaster's matter. I wonder what the outcome was?"

Chongyue was taken aback for a moment, but quickly recovered and showed no anger:

"I fell for their trick. Ya Ben had no intention of making a move at Yumen. She was just trying to keep my attention at Yumen while her true body remained hidden in Longmen. I suspect she has her eye on Wei Gong."

"Lord Wei had anticipated this."

Zuo Xuanliao waved to two soldiers and instructed them, "Master has just been on a long journey. Take him back to rest and recuperate."

Chongyue cupped his hands in greeting, did not refuse, and led Qiu Bai, following behind the two soldiers, turned and left the military camp.

Zuo Le watched as his father dismissed Chong Yue with just a few words, and couldn't help but feel a little surprised and anxious.

Several colossal beasts lurk within the twin cities, and Grandmasters are among the few high-end combatants on their side. Why then should they keep Grandmasters hidden away?

Taihe noticed Zuo Le's anxiety and silently grabbed his wrist, signaling him not to make any rash moves.

Zuo Xuanliao continued to look at Qi Lin and said politely:

"Miss Qi Lin is here too. I wonder where your brother is now?"

Qi Lin glanced slightly to the west and replied, "I went to Longmen."