Chapter 64

No one noticed what was happening in the safety corridor; it seemed like an abyss, swallowing everything.

Outside the restaurant, the sound of solitary footsteps echoed.

A young man in a dark blue suit slowly walked into the Sunlight Pavilion restaurant. The cuff of his sleeve was embroidered with a small white spiral pattern.

Li Shutong had already finished a whole plate of braised pork and was quietly watching the young man eating fried sauce noodles.

From the young man's perspective, he could see Li Shutong's face clearly but only the back of Qingchen.

Just as he was about to say something, he saw Li Shutong gently raise his hand to stop him.

And with a smile, he pointed at Qingchen and said, "We'll talk about everything after he finishes eating."

The young man was taken aback and gave Qingchen's back an odd look.

Because Qingchen was facing away from him, he couldn't identify who Qingchen was.

He was curious about who this person could be, someone who could make Li Shutong wait so patiently.

Moreover, even with someone waiting, Qingchen still ate at a leisurely pace.

As if he hadn't heard the massive noise created by Black Kite-01 outside the window, or seen the dozen or so airships circling the Eternal Tower, and the strange bombs they carried.

These flying killers hovered.

Like asteroids orbiting a star.

"I'm done," Qingchen wiped his mouth, put on the cat face mask, and looked at his teacher.

Li Shutong smiled at the young man outside the door, "Chen Yehu, the eldest grandson of the Chen family? I heard you've advanced to A-level."

"The level I've reached isn't important. We have no intention of starting a war with the Knights or the Eternal Society. We just want to ask you to return to Prison 18... There's no need to cause a commotion," Chen Yehu bowed.

"Don't worry, we'll chat here for a while and then leave. We won't make things difficult for you," Li Shutong smiled.

"That's good. I won't disturb you. We'll leave after you do," Chen Yehu left the Sunlight Pavilion restaurant. The combat team downstairs stopped and waited, and the armed helicopters began to hover in place.

The helicopters even turned off their searchlights, and the engine noise was reduced to the lowest possible level.

It seemed that everything had ended so simply.

But it wasn't that simple.

Li Shutong looked at Qingchen, "Once I step out of Prison 18, I'll stir up too many people. So you know why I don't come out, right?"

"Are they afraid of you?" Qingchen asked.

Li Shutong shook his head with a smile, "In this era, even if one reaches the semi-god level, they're not invincible. They're not afraid of me, but of the fire. Let's go home."

"Okay," Qingchen followed Li Shutong up to the rooftop.

Qingchen, wearing the cat face mask, stood in the night breeze at the top of the cloud. He took another look at the galaxy in the city and the helicopters circling below.

He knew that he would eventually come back.

...

Chen Yehu stood alone by the floor-to-ceiling window, calmly watching the black knight air car disappear into the night.

He asked, "Did you find that combat team?"

Someone behind him answered, "Yes, they were all unconscious. I believe someone attacked them in the safety corridor and then escaped."

Chen Yehu smiled, "This is telling us that the net we've woven isn't tight enough. Let's retreat and go home to sleep."

But while the parties involved went home to sleep, those whose night was disturbed couldn't fall asleep.

Many people walked into remote conference rooms in the middle of the night, and many analysis reports were made.

The news spread through the network, and the media began to report it.

Some people analyzed that the person who met with Li Shutong was unknown, possibly a representative of some external force.

Others analyzed that the recent frequent occurrences of time traveler events and the appearance of the surface world had caused turmoil, so Li Shutong reappeared in everyone's view, planning something new.

Tonight, it might have a significant impact on the entire federation.

People were more inclined to the first guess: Li Shutong, after eight years, stepped out of prison just to meet someone important and discuss something very important.

Although they didn't know who this person with the cat face mask was, they were definitely very important.

Judging by the figure, it could be Qing Xun or Lohama from the Qing family? Or Li Jeong-jae from the Koshima Group? Or Kamakura Konno from the Kamakura Group?

It couldn't be determined.

However, what they didn't know was that Li Shutong came out of Prison 18, and watched the armed helicopters and artillery aim at him, just to show Qingchen the scenery.

As he said, what others had seen, his student should also see.

That's all there was to it.

And the reason he ate braised pork was simply because he wanted to eat it.

On the way back, Qingchen sat in the soft seat of the air car, and Li Shutong asked him, "Do you know why I had you wear the mask?"

"Because you don't want the outside world to know I'm related to you," Qingchen answered.

Li Shutong asked again, "Do you know why I've taken you as a student but don't want to acknowledge it? Do you feel a bit unbalanced?"

"No," Qingchen shook his head calmly, "You know it's hard to remove the shackles from yourself, so you're worried those shackles will also bind me. Thank you, teacher."

"You've always been very smart, with infinite potential," Li Shutong praised, "And precisely because of that, I think you should enter this battlefield without any burdens."

Li Shutong thought that as a teacher, what he could do was never to bind his students and fight together.

But to accompany Qingchen for a while and then watch how far he could go.

Qingchen didn't respond to this, but suddenly asked, "Will we have a chance to come out again in the future?"

Li Shutong asked with interest, "Do you want to come out and play again?"

"Yes," Qingchen nodded, "Because I might need to race against time, or against other time travelers."

"Then we'll find a chance to come out and play again in a few days," Li Shutong said with a smile, as if the commotion tonight didn't bother him at all.

This middle-aged man seemed to have never been afraid of anything.

It was only 3 a.m., and he had just returned from the past for three hours.

But Qingchen felt that these were probably the most exhilarating three hours of his 17-year life.

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At this moment, Zheng Yuandong quietly arrived at the mercenary bar in City 18. Lu Yuan had been waiting here for a long time.

Zheng Yuandong asked, "Did you see the news?"

Lu Yuan said, "Yes, boss. I think we should try to contact Liu Dezhu again. Li Shutong is too important a figure in the inner world. Even if you dislike Liu Dezhu, you must consider that he is the closest person to Li Shutong right now."

Zheng Yuandong still shook his head, "I trust my intuition, and I trust it more and more. Lu Yuan, you need to understand that someone like Li Shutong wouldn't be interested in Liu Dezhu. There must be a third time traveler in Prison 18."

"What should we do then?" Lu Yuan was helpless.

"Find him."

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