Light Fortress
Chapter 138 - 126: Long Night (End)

Chapter 138: Chapter 126: Long Night (End)

"You remind me a lot of that guy I fought earlier,"

The man, with his eyes closed as if deep in thought, pondered for a while before he remembered the name. Opening his eyes, he smiled and said, "Got it, Chen San’s nephew, his name is Chen Jingtan."

"I don’t know why, but you all seem to think that I am a clever person, harboring complex thoughts, and that everything I do is for some long-term, convoluted purpose... Do I really look like that kind of person?"

Su Cha was stunned.

He looked at Crow with a complex expression, thinking to himself, aren’t you exactly that kind of person, luring enemies deep into your territory before striking, a strategy not conceived by simple minds.

Song Ci spoke softly, "So the things you say and do are all the same, either flaunting your own reputation or analyzing pros and cons with me. Why can’t you just speak your truest thoughts?"

Upon hearing this, Su Cha felt a foreboding premonition.

He took a slight step backward, not wanting to stay too close to this dangerous fellow anymore.

"You say all this probably because you are afraid of getting beaten, right?"

Su Cha’s mouth twitched. Who talks like that?

Unfortunately, Crow was just that kind of person.

Song Ci said indifferently, "If you’re afraid of being beaten, just plead for mercy directly. That’s the simplest way, isn’t it? Then things wouldn’t be so complicated."

As his voice dropped.

A tremendous sense of oppression suddenly emanated from in front.

Su Cha’s eyes widened as he watched the fist rapidly enlarging before him.

He stomped down, and in a flash, numerous droplets surrounded him, forming a sturdy wall of water waves just in the nick of time, but it shattered instantly upon contact with the fist!

"Crack!"

The water wall instantly shattered into pieces.

Su Cha, like a kite with its string cut, was thrown out, with a trail of blood pearls scattering in the air—everything happened so fast, so fast that no one could react. By the time they realized Crow had made his move, it was all over.

Song Ci disappeared from his spot and appeared where Su Cha had been standing.

For him, stepping back one step or ten steps made no difference.

The attack happened in an instant.

Su Cha lost consciousness, and the Heavenly Curtain broke, the pale blue arcs turning into flying fireflies all over, the frozen ice bridge on the river turning into sprinkling debris, and the previously persistent river fog was swept away by the howling wind in an instant.

As the fog dissipated, the cold river in the long night became clear.

What seemed like extinguished warfare rekindled at that moment, except the convoy’s heavy motorcycles, losing their support from the ice bridge, slowly plunged into the river.

The headlights were extinguished, and the light faded, and these surviving members of the Sincere Heart Transcendents finally realized... that the long night was indeed so dark.

Just when they thought it was all over, it turned out Song Ci had made an unreasonable move.

Was this going to completely destroy the peace between North and South of the Sincere Heart Association?

"Let it be."

Unexpectedly, after beating Su Cha, Song Ci put his hands back in his pockets.

He no longer intended to make any more moves and spoke indifferently to the only person in the convoy who still had a say, Qi Lv, "Take your brothers back to South Bay... they are all alive, just find a hospital and rest for ten days or half a month."

Qi Lv stared fiercely at Crow.

Sweat seeped from his forehead... What was this damn man thinking, daring to make a move?

After hitting Su Cha, did he still expect tonight to pass by uneventfully?

Qi Lv knew that after tonight, his foster father’s fury would pour out on the Sincere Heart Association, Zhao Family, and this man who violated laws with martial force.

A massive tsunami was going to erupt underneath Da Du.

...

...

"We’re almost there."

Chu Ling reminded, "I’ve tracked Crow’s location... he’s currently downstream of the South Bay River, not far from here."

"A duel on the riverbank, he’s moved the battlefield."

Gu Shen faintly guessed Song Ci’s plan, knowing that he was in South Bay... so hoping that he could find him faster.

"Perhaps it’s because Chen Mei didn’t appear on the frontlines that he made such a decision?"

Gu Shen murmured softly, "Though from what I know of Crow, he doesn’t seem like the meticulous type... Can you ’monitor’ the situation over there?"

"It’s very difficult," Chu Ling quickly said. "By hacking into Deep Sea’s system, I can track his location, but there are very few cameras along the South Bay riverbank. I’ve mobilized several nearby drones in sleep mode, but there’s a Domain Expansion over the river, and the drones’ vision is completely blocked."

"This is to prevent ordinary people from straying into the battlefield..." Gu Shen narrowed his eyes, sounding a bit worried: "It seems the Sincere Heart South Hall Transcendents are well-prepared... Can Crow hold up?"

"Vital signs are normal, he doesn’t seem injured,"

Chu Ling said this and then suddenly added, "Wait a moment, just now, the Domain was lifted..."

Then she fell silent.

Gu Shen, driving toward the river, was curious yet a bit anxious, "How did the battle go?"

"It’s over..." Chu Ling spoke with a strange tone, "Song Ci is uninjured, Sincere Heart lost completely. According to the records, this battle’s outcome wasn’t unpredictable, but the discrepancy in strength shouldn’t have been so vast. Chen San’s four sworn sons are not nobodies, each being at least of the Deep Sea Eighth Layer Transcendent. Su Cha was a Natural System Tenth Layer Transcendent. The moment the Domain was lifted, I caught a glimpse of footage."

"Beep—"

Gu Shen’s glasses displayed the footage captured by the drone.

In the mist, flickering pale blue arcs, an outward expanding domain shattered like a curtain, a figure being embarrassingly thrown out.

Deep Sea Tenth Layer, thrown nearly a hundred meters with a single punch.

Simply looking at that image, stepping into Su Cha’s perspective, Gu Shen subtly felt the pain.

His expression was complex as he muttered, "Song Ci said he could punch twenty of me...isn’t that a bit conservative?"

"Song Ci never connects to the deep water area, so his strength has always been a mystery," Chu Ling said. "But judging from his performance in conquering the Sincere Heart Beitang, his achievements in the deep water area are roughly the tenth layer... However, the punch he just threw wasn’t something a mere tenth layer could deliver. Chen San’s four foster sons suffered a great loss; they completely misjudged Song Ci’s strength."

The Spiritual Link of the deep water area can only serve as a basic assessment.

It can’t truly measure someone’s strength or weakness.

The deeper the layer reached in the deep water area... it only means that one has more comprehensive control over their Extraordinary Power; theoretically, the stronger the combat power.

But real combat is another matter entirely.

"This is an unconventional combat genius who acts on intuition," Chu Ling quickly analyzed. "Many of Song Ci’s actions... can’t be gauged with common sense, as if... he was born with an incredibly sensitive radar, without needing to think too much, just following his heart, he can unleash extremely powerful combat power."

Gu Shen glanced behind apprehensively. In the far distance, a long straight line, at the edge of his peripheral vision, he could already catch a glimpse of a vague vehicle shadow following.

Chen Mei was right behind him.

Their speeds gradually converged.

"Then may I boldly ask, can this radar see me?"

"His choice to move the battlefield...must be due to intuition," Chu Ling suggested. "We can’t worry about it anymore, let’s just drive directly there."

Gu Shen glanced at the nearly empty fuel gauge. This heavy motorcycle was indeed very fast, but it was also a fuel guzzler. From escaping the South Bay Building to the river bank, it had almost depleted all its fuel.

He took a deep breath.

Twisted the throttle to the max!

"Boom!"

The heavy motorcycle, burning the last of its fuel, roared wildly towards the river bank.

...

...

"Retreat!"

Qi Lv issued the final command.

This battle, they were utterly defeated.

The members of the convoy, stepping on the river surface covered with a thin layer of ice, supported each other as they moved closer to the river bank. After the Heavenly Curtain shattered, even retreating became laborious... It required a nature Transcendent to forge a retreat path.

As the Transcendents of the Sincere Heart Association were preparing to leave the scene disheartened,

a roar

pierced the long night.

Someone looked up in astonishment at a blinding long light breaking through the night.

It was a heavy motorcycle jumping from the railing of the riverside highway, burning the last boiling blood in its fuel tank, someone noticed a stopwatch image specially engraved on the side of the motorcycle.

"Is this...reinforcement?"

Qi Lv was somewhat bewildered.

He quickly realized that it wasn’t reinforcement.

He had never seen a reinforcement coming alone.

What exactly was this situation?

Immediately after, a second roar sounded.

The railing of the riverside highway completely shattered, following that, the second motorcycle smashed through the railing and flew across.

"It’s reinforcement!"

Someone shouted loudly.

Everyone recognized the driver on the second motorcycle, that curly-haired, gloomy young man.

Amidst the strong light, Qi Lv could hardly open his eyes, but he still recognized the other.

Because that young man named Chen Mei was too dazzling.

Qi Lv suddenly realized that his initial thought was wrong... Reinforcement coming alone might be feasible, as long as the person arriving was strong enough.

The highway was built, providing a height difference of several tens of meters from the river, hence the guardrails for protection.

But at this moment, the fragments of the guardrails flew together with the two motorcycles.

The cold wind howled fiercely.

Chen Mei took his hands off the handles, the vehicle launched into the air, crossing laterally in midair, and in the moment of weightlessness, he crouched on top of the motorcycle, as if standing on a plank, and suddenly exerted force—

The entire heavy motorcycle beneath him exploded like fireworks.

With a bang,

this burst of fireworks completely lit up the long night.

Amid the numerous sparks, he fell like a meteor.

In midair, Gu Shen twisted the handle to the extreme, but at this moment, no matter how he twisted the throttle, he couldn’t accelerate... He could only watch helplessly as in that burst of fireworks exploding in an instant, Chen Mei collided with him like a shooting star.

At that moment,

Song Ci, who was standing alone on the cold river, suddenly moved.

Their legs collided like a whip.

The fireworks fragmented.

The long night dazzled.