Chapter 893: 549, Taking you all home_5

Li Cheng suddenly said, “You guys were all soldiers before. If the military order was for you to hold the ground to the death, what would you do? Even if there’s only one of you left on the battlefield and there are still ten thousand enemies, but no one tells you to retreat, what would you do?”

“Just hold on…” Someone said weakly, “I know what you mean, Lao Lee, don’t make it sound like we’re all cowards. Since you say it’s a military order, then we’ll all stay here and die here. Besides, if we all die together, it won’t be lonely. It saves us from heading out again, with brothers falling behind and feeling too lonely.”

“Qing Ling, you’re good with skills. Climb up the valley and take a look. What’s outside the valley,” Li Cheng said.

Qing Ling nodded, without saying a word, started climbing towards the top of the valley along the cliff.

Because his fingers were somewhat unresponsive, he nearly fell several times.

When Qing Ling reached the top of the mountain, he froze in place.

Li Cheng shouted from the valley, “Qing Ling, what do you see? How come you’re dumbfounded?!”

In Qing Ling’s view, on the far horizon, the densely packed Northern Fleet was heading this way. Their navigation lights were flickering in the night sky like the stars, one of the formations all soldiers on the front line were least willing to face.

Qing Ling murmured, “I see Jindai’s Northern Fleet…”

Li Cheng: “Damn…”

Qing Ling analyzed, “At most 40 kilometers away from us, over two hundred of them, they’ll be here soon!”

Forty kilometers is where humans see the horizon on the sea.

The valley fell silent, they never imagined that what Qing Ling saw would be a fleet!

Over two hundred floating ships, must be equipped with more than ten A-Class Floating ships… Actually, analyzing all this is useless, just one B-Class military floating ship would be enough to annihilate all of them.

“Come down, Qing Ling,” Lao Lee said lowly.

Qing Ling returned to the valley in a daze and sat on the ground in silence.

Li Cheng laughed and said, “Looks like we won’t be able to wait for the boss. If I were him, upon seeing this fleet from a distance, I’d turn around and run immediately.”

Qing Ling suddenly said, “How did the boss teach us to sing that song again? Why don’t we sing it a few more times.”

Lao Lee laughed and cursed, “With your off-key voice, what are you singing for? Don’t ruin the boss’s song.”

“Just because I’m off-key, I can’t sing? Did being off-key eat your family’s rice?” Qing Ling shouted, “Why didn’t I realize before how much you liked to suck up, old chap?”

Lao Lee lowered his head and said, “I don’t feel like singing, if there was a cigarette that would be good. I haven’t smoked in nineteen years, I forgot what it tastes like, I just remember the first time I smoked when I was a kid, I got dizzy after one puff, it was fantastic.”

“When we go back, you can smoke as much as you want. After going home, take a hot bath, eat a bowl of sweet and sour ribs made by your parents, and have a couple of drinks.”

“Going back, go back my ass,” Li Cheng laughed and cursed.

But just after cursing, he suddenly realized something was off because it was Qing Chen’s voice!

All the soldiers abruptly turned their heads to look at the end of the valley, where the teenager stood panting, with a wound on his shoulder deep enough to see the bone.

Li Cheng immediately stood up, “Boss, why are you here?! The Northern Fleet is almost here, you need to leave! With just you, you’re a small target, maybe they won’t notice!”

Qing Chen just spoke in his own way, “Your favorite Federation frontline female celebrity Zhang Lanlan, she married a rich businessman and had two kids.”

“There’s a new model of floating cars, with a top speed of 460 kilometers per hour.”

“Federation’s synthetic meat is still hard to eat, but at least it’s better than A02 base’s.”

“LGD Team won ten consecutive championships in the holographic e-sports league.”

“The bars in the city lifted the prohibition last year.”

“Now in City 10, they’re starting to issue IDs for cats.”

Qing Chen said, “There’s no other meaning in saying these things, I just feel that I should take you back to see, you must go and see what it has become.”

“Do you believe in miracles, someone once told me, those who believe in miracles are themselves miracles,” Qing Chen grinned, “Let me show you a magic trick? To be honest, I’m not very confident, but if this magic trick fails, I’ll stay and die here with you.”

“Huh?” All the warriors were stunned.

Qing Chen looked at the time on his right forearm and said, “10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1!”

All the soldiers waited silently.

As the countdown ended.

Bang!

A black steam train, billowing thick smoke, emerged from the void at the depth of the valley.

Stopped right beside everyone.

The one who believed in miracles truly created a miracle.

Qing Chen slowly walked to the cabin door of the steam train, extending his right hand with the Black Tail Ring, gently turning the door handle.

With a click, the door opened.

The black smoke erupting from the train’s chimney suddenly stopped, as if something incomprehensible had happened…

Qing Chen turned back to smile at the over nine hundred soldiers, “Let’s go, I’ll take you home.”

The soldiers, dazed, boarded this train from an unknown origin, then watched from the carriage as it re-entered the void.

Heading to a destiny not yet known, but surely glorious.

Shadow stood alone atop the distant mountains, silently watching this scene and said with a smile, “It’s not that I won’t take him back to Ginkgo Manor, it’s just that I couldn’t find him… I hope to see these kinds of magic tricks again someday, interesting.”

Meanwhile, Jindai’s Northern Fleet had already arrived.

They dropped a Susano’s Man right above Shadow’s head, while Shadow smirked at the sight, had it not been for the inability to open the Door of Shadow horizontally, he would have let this Susano’s Man fall right on Jindai’s military base instead.

As Susano’s Man was about to land, Shadow opened the Door of Shadow and disappeared.

Utterly composed.

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The Third Volume, Chapter Three of the Night: Variation.

The End.

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