Chapter 97

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“What new move is this? Flower fist and embroidered legs?” Chen Baiqi easily blocked Qi Leren’s flying kick with one hand, and the latter stumbled because of the unsteady center of gravity and almost fell.

“My physical skills really have only reached this level, I tried my best.” Qi Leren said, feeling wronged.

How long has he been training? He despised the horse stance (1), his lower body parts are unsteady, and Chen Baiqi is beating him one-on-one.

“Learn and watch, don’t always feel uncomfortable with physical education. Let me tell you, this is very helpful for a harmonious sex life.” advised Chen Baiqi.

“???” Qi Leren looked confused, did he just hear those strange words coming out of his teacher’s mouth?

“Why, you don’t believe me?” Chen Baiqi looked at him with a half-smile.

“Ahem, I’ve already reached half-field. When will you change the curriculum and teach me how to use it?” Qi Leren coughed twice awkwardly, holding up a slowly rotating light ball in his right hand to change the subject.

Since breaking through the half-field in the underground ant city, this half-field world is like a space that he can carry with him. He can control its appearance and disappearance, and can enter and exit freely, but how to use it, making it really strong and solidifying it, it’s really unpredictable to Qi Leren.

He thought about whether to ask Ning Zhou, but after thinking about it, he swallowed the question—because Ning Zhou never took the initiative to mention his half-field, and he didn’t even let Qi Leren see it.

Obviously, this is a taboo in Ning Zhou’s heart that he doesn’t want to talk about. He hates this kind of power.

Qi Leren decided to find a more suitable time to talk about this issue, such as after their engagement.

Engagement… Thinking of this, Qi Leren couldn’t help how the corners of his mouth slowly raised.

There was still a month before Ning Zhou’s birthday. He quietly asked Dr. Lu about buying a ring. Dr. Lu reluctantly said that he didn’t know much, but he would help him take care of it. A few days ago, Dr. Lu came to him and said to help him inquire about it to Xue Yingying. There is a famous ring shop, and he took him to check it out recently.

Qi Leren couldn’t help his excitement so he was a little absent-minded in the training this morning.

It’s a pity that all his beautiful imaginations were broken by Chen Baiqi, she sneered: “You dare call this piece of crap a half-field? Leren kid, you’re still far behind.”

“Ah?” Qi Leren was a little confused.

“What is the maximum diameter of your half-field now?” Chen Baiqi asked.

“Um….. about one or two hundred meters.” Qi Leren said.

Except that one time it exploded when breaking through the Devil of Slaughter’s field projection, this is the usual limit.

“Oh.” Chen Baiqi rolled her eyes and responded indifferently.

Qi Leren was stunned for a while, not daring to speak.

“Do you know how big the Village of Dusk is?” asks Chen Baiqi.

Qi Leren shook his head.

“Sunset Island, together with the corner of the mainland, adds up to a total of 476 square kilometers, not counting the sea area.” Chen Baiqi said slowly.

Qi Leren looked down at his toes guiltily.

“Among the several areas currently inhabited, the Village of Dusk is the largest, but even the smallest ‘cloud vortex’ field has an area of more than 100 square kilometers.”

“The cloud vortex field, what is it?” Qi Leren had never seen this term when he was playing “Nightmare Game”, so he can’t help but be curious.

“A player named Yun Wo’s (2) field, is far away from the Village of Dusk, and it’s in the sky. The field holder is very young, very low-key, and has a neutral force. This kind of small field is not absent in the nightmare world, but it can’t be compared with the Village of Dusk.” Chen Baiqi said slowly.

“After all, it is the last pure land of mankind.” Qi Leren said.

Chen Baiqi was silent.

The setting sun hovered near the horizon, she took out a cigarette and lit one for herself, looking at the setting sun, her eyes filled with melancholy.

“The Prophet is like the crumbling sunset in the Village of Dusk, it never sets. But it will always fall, nothing is immortal, and everyone will have that day. Leren, you… and you youngsters, don’t let him shine alone in the sky for the rest of his life.”

An uncontrollable sadness filled Qi Leren’s heart, and he had many things to ask, such as why the prophet’s pocket watch appeared on SuHe’s body. But Chen Baiqi obviously didn’t know, she didn’t even know the truth about the Village of Dawn.

Obviously, only a very few people know about the Village of Dawn and SuHe.

Maybe someday will be the time to meet the Prophet again? Qi Leren thought silently.

“Come on, let’s go to the beach for a walk and chat on the way.” Chen Baiqi hooked Qi Leren’s hand, turned around and left.

Today’s training is not done yet, but it seems that class has ended early? Qi Leren, who couldn’t help but snickered for a few seconds, controlled the excited expression on his face and followed behind Chen Baiqi respectfully.

“Half-field, very good. In fact, in terms of strength, you have already surpassed me.” Chen Baiqi exhaled a smoke ring (3), and the thin smoke was instantly blown away by the sea breeze.

Qi Leren shook his head quickly. He had been beaten by Chen Baiqi for a long time. This difference in strength had already caused him to have a psychological shadow (4).

Chen Baiqi laughed and flicked the cigarette butt as she walked: “If it was when my half-field still existed, I would have no problem with bullying you, but unfortunately I was too young at that time, and I didn’t know the vastness of heaven and earth (5), and how sinister people can be. I always thought that I’ve reached this step in the half-field so I should shoulder my responsibilities and do what I can do. But some people are not worthy of your protection, and this is also the reason why I don’t understand the prophet. “

“I respect him very much. He and Ning Zhou are the kind of people that possess ‘divinity’. I used to think that I was like this. Even if I experienced deception, betrayal, and setbacks, I would not change myself. I understand, I’m just a selfish ordinary person. I’m afraid that justice will be buried, that the despicable will be praised, that the good deeds will be slandered, and their sacrifice will be forgotten. I became more and more indifferent to the affairs of the world, and I often feel that the warm-hearted (6) me from back then had died along with my shattered half-field. You see, people are easily changed by reality, and it’s easy to use indifference to cover up their fear and incapability.” Standing beside the seawall, Chen Baiqi watched the sunset near the sea level, the sea breeze blowing away her long curly hair.

This was the first time Qi Leren heard her evaluate herself.

There were so many things about her that he didn’t actually know, and she wasn’t going to let him know.

For a long time, Chen Baiqi hardly talked about herself. Everything he knew about Chen Baiqi was based on his impression of her words and deeds. She acts cold, but she was still human, and she wasn’t as cold and philistine as he thought she was.

Her business was never just business.

“For the blood of innocents, I used to pay a painful price. Looking at the prophet, I often think, maybe only someone like him can become a ‘God’, and we are all just beings sheltered by God, struggling to survive in the crumbling dusk.” Chen Baiqi stroked her left leg with her left hand, looking towards the distance and her expression showing a bit of tiredness and melancholy.

“The Prophet and I talked about one thing.” Qi Leren said after thinking for a while, “He wants me to inherit a part of the Villlage of Dusk.”

Chen Baiqi raised her slender eyebrows and showed interest.

“But I refused.” Qi Leren chuckled.

“Then you’ve lost a lot” Chen Baiqi laughed.

“Do you think the Prophet is happy?” Qi Leren asked her.

Chen Baiqi frowned, took a deep breath of nicotine-filled air, and let it swirl in her lungs, damaging her organs in a controllable way, but it brought her a momentary peacefulness. This feeling makes people want to indulge in it.

“I’m afraid I can’t answer, and so can’t he. For him, happiness is no longer important, like you don’t ask an ant if it’s happy, you don’t ask God if he’s happy, because it’s a human experience.” Chen Baiqi replied.

This answer surprised Qi Leren a little, maybe it was his expression that pleased Chen Baiqi at that moment, she stretched her back against the seawall, and said slowly: “Anger, sadness, joy, love… these feelings born from the brain, without the human body and identity, are nothing. You see that, the two crabs fighting for their territory on the beach, for them, this is a matter of life and death. But if you disregard the crabs’ identity, what we saw was just a boring fight between two crabs. If you are interested, you can go over and catch them one by one, put them in a pot and steam them.”

Qi Leren stared at the crabs, thinking quietly for a long time.

“….I kind of understand what you mean.” Qi Leren said.

“No, you don’t understand. Let me guess why you rejected the Prophet, because you know that the further you go, you’ll gradually be swallowed up by the power of the source and lose your human emotions and maybe memories, but you don’t want to lose those emotions, especially love.” Chen Baiqi said.

“Hmm…..”

“Let me correct one point. Neither the Prophet’s nor your source power is very extreme. The impact on you will not be as big as killing or destroying.” Chen Baiqi said.

Qi Leren’s eyes lit up.

“But that doesn’t mean you won’t be affected. The Prophet once made a joke that he almost forgot whether he was a man or a woman, and he only remembered when he went to the toilet because his body remembered him standing to pee. “

“……” Qi Leren wanted to beg the Prophet to stop talking nonsense. He was really self-deprecating once he opens his mouth.

“After stepping into the field level, people will gradually forget everything in the past. The most memorable things can be remembered, but they are easily distorted, especially those with extreme forces….” Chen Baiqi said.

Qi Leren couldn’t help but think of the Demon King of Destruction who had forgotten his beloved. He forgot, but he didn’t forget, maybe it was that distorted obsession that made him desperately tear open the gap leading to the human world, and finally led to such a tragedy.

“Right now you are only at half-field level, enhance it and solidify it, then look for an opportunity to break through. You may never encounter this opportunity in your life, or you may encounter it tomorrow. Until then, protect your half-field well, and don’t use it to go head-to-head with someone else’s half-field often. Your current power can only be exerted in your own half-field, such as the tree tomb, which allows you to quickly recover from serious injuries. But if you achieve field level, it’ll be terrible, because the power in the field can even interfere with reality.” Chen Baiqi explained.

“Interfere with reality?” Qi Leren murmured this sentence.

“Yes, if I have a field, I can easily crush your half field and let the power in my field affect you. For the simplest example, I can use the gravity in my field to push you to the ground, and even grind you into a lump of flesh.”

Qi Leren have seen something like that before. In the dream of the holy nun, SuHe used this method to unleash the power of the field to control the nightmare witch, and he also used the power of the field to interfere with the monsters within the field of vision, so that those monsters won’t be able to detect them.

A chill seeped in from the soles of his feet, and the more he walked forward, the more he realized what a terrifying enemy he once got along with.

“Maybe when you achieve the field, your field will be a land of immortality. Even if you die, you will return to your own field to be reborn until your soul power is completely exhausted. It’s terrible, to be against someone who has the origin source of rebirth is like a cockroach who refuses to die.” Chen Baiqi sighed.

“….Teacher, can you use a better metaphor?” Qi Leren said depressedly.

Chen Baiqi laughed loudly: “Go and count the tombstones on the Undead Island and then try refuting that sentence.”

Qi Leren, who couldn’t refute, had no choice but to shut up.

Suddenly, he suddenly heard a clear voice of an eagle, and turned his head sharply.

Facing the gorgeous sunset, the world seemed to be coated with a layer of orange light, and at the end of the light, a person was walking towards him.

Qi Leren smiled and asked Chen Baiqi urgently, “Can I go home?”

“Go away!” Chen Baiqi said angrily.

When Qi Leren heard this, he even forgot to say goodbye to Chen Baiqi. He couldn’t wait to run to Ning Zhou.

In the sea breeze, in the sunset, they exchanged a hug. They’ve only been apart for less than ten hours, but it felt like they’ve been separated for a century.

Translator’s Notes:

Horse stance (扎马步)The player’s name (云涡 Yún wō) literally translates to ‘cloud vortex’.Smoke ring (烟圈)Psychological shadow (心理阴影) is either an unconscious aspect of the personality that the conscious ego does not identify in itself, or the entirety of the unconscious; that is, everything of which a person is not fully conscious. In short, the shadow is the unknown side.A Chinese idiom (天高地厚 Tiāngāodìhòu)The word used here is warm-hearted, but the literal translation is warm/hot blooded (热血), it can refer to to the lofty and ambitious young people who are willing to sacrifice their lives for justice.Incase you don’t know, this is a seawall.

Hello friends it’s Finn, hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. If there’s any typos or mistakes please point in out in the comments so I can fix it.