345: One moth can crush the world

"Mhm, I heard you've been guarding the Great Wall for the past three years?"

"I think the scenery here is quite nice."

Tang Ping looked outside the city wall at the pitch-black earth and the gray sky.

"Thank you for your hard work."

"It's just my duty. On the contrary, Leader Tang has also worked hard; after all, you were gone for four years."

"Hahaha, is that so? It's been that long." Tang Ping rubbed his nose, his expression suddenly becoming a bit dazed. In Sophia's place, he had stayed for hundreds of years, but apart from the first thirty or forty years, he had mostly been in closed-door cultivation.

Although only four years had passed on Blue Star, the weight of these four years was deeper than those hundreds of years because there were too many people he was familiar with here. To him, Sophia's world was like a game world.

"Can you tell me about the situation in the Thunder Realm in detail?"

Shang Wan nodded, "I can."

Suddenly, Tang Ping frowned. "Wait a moment, I'm going to deal with a few bugs."

Inside every battlement was the equivalent of a small trading market, filled with Talent Users from other places and the defense army.

Where there are people, there is demand, and where there is demand, a market is born. This was how the trading markets inside the battlements came to be. Moreover, as Talent Users who were at least Level Three, they naturally had more or less some good things in their hands.

The Great Wall was forty meters wide, and the battlements were of the same width and a hundred meters long. Therefore, the space inside was not small. The Tianfu Safe Zone had even built small booths on both sides. Many Survivor Bases, families, and factions would even lease a shop for the long term; wine, food, clinics, and armor repairs—they had everything.

At this moment, inside one of the shops, four people were sitting in a small back room.

"What's going on? Why did those Calamity Beasts suddenly die?"

"Damn it, trouble had to happen at this specific time!"

"We originally wanted Shang Wan to be heavily injured by two Calamity Beasts so Lord in White could step in, but now the Calamity Beasts have died for no reason!"

"Bai Thirty-five, did you find some sick Calamity Beasts?"

"Dammit, you're the one who's sick; the Calamity Beasts wouldn't be sick."

"Then tell me, why did those Calamity Beasts just die like that?"

"You're asking me? How should I know?"

"Alright, stop arguing. The priority now is to send a message to Lord in White."

One of them used a shelter item to send the message to the so-called Lord in White, but they didn't know that the so-called Lord in White was currently pinned under someone's foot.

The so-called Lord in White was precisely the bug Tang Ping had noticed—a Level Five Talent User with top-tier A-rank talent. However, he had a strange energy within him. If it erupted, even a Level Five Talent User with a common S-rank Talent likely wouldn't be his match.

"Someone from the Old Days Society."

The Red Lotus in Tang Ping's eyes vanished. He had already plundered the other's memories; now, only a mentally broken fool remained on the ground.

The Old Days Society was an old acquaintance. Although there might not have been much interaction between the two, Tang Ping loathed this organization.

Unfortunately, this Old Days Society hid truly deep. Even a Level Five Expert comparable to an S-rank Talent knew nothing except for a branch in the Tianfu Safe Zone and some small contact points in nearby Safe Zones.

However, it wasn't a total lack of gains. At least in this branch of the Tianfu Safe Zone, there was another true S-rank Level Five Talent User.

Their status in the Tianfu Safe Zone was even quite high.

Flames passed like light smoke, and the so-called Lord in White on the ground dissipated into ash.

A Level Five Expert died just like that, silently.

With a flick of his finger, several wisps of flame flew into a certain room in the battlement market below, and four people died silently.

"Who was that person just now?"

Shang Wan's expression was somewhat solemn. Just now, she had felt an extremely powerful aura from that person, even exceeding her own. If she didn't have Little Peanut's help, she would definitely not have been a match for that man in white.

"He's from the Old Days Society. Do you know of them?"

"Old Days Society."

"I don't know. I have no impression of them at all."

"It's normal that you don't. If I didn't also possess an SS-Rank Talent, I probably wouldn't have been able to break through the Dream Haze in his sea of consciousness to learn more information."

"Leader Tang, did you know about this organization before?"

"I've had contact with them. The person behind it hunts the souls of other humans as materials. Using a certain SS-Rank Talent as a foundation, they seem to have created a place called Dreamland."

"Dreamland?"

"Correct. A place of eternal youth, immortality, and no pain. As long as Dreamland does not collapse, the people inside will not die."

"This... there's actually such a place!" Shang Wan had thought the so-called Old Days Society would be extraordinary, but she didn't expect it to be this extraordinary.

"Of course, most people will only be fuel. While I don't know where the other party's Dreamland is, I'm certain they can't make people immortal without limit."

"Even if it's just a few, it's enough to drive countless people mad."

"Indeed. Of course, it shouldn't be as few as a handful or a few dozen, but I suspect that maintaining the existence of those who enter Dreamland requires a continuous supply of human souls as fuel."

"Then isn't this just an evil cult?" Shang Wan frowned.

"An evil cult, it is indeed very sinister. However, the temptation of immortality is indeed great. For example, someone in our Tianfu Safe Zone is currently being recruited."

"Someone wants to join this evil cult!" A hint of killing intent immediately appeared in Shang Wan's eyes. "Who is it?"

"You'll know once you come back with me."

"Go back?"

Shang Wan hesitated slightly. "I'm still needed here to guard. The Great Wall cannot be left without a top Level Five Expert to defend it."

"Since I've come, I naturally won't let the Great Wall fall."

Tang Ping then threw out a small purple Little Lion. "Watch this place carefully. If any Calamity Beasts approach, deal with them. If the Great Wall gets even one more crack, you'll be in trouble."

On the ground, a Little Lion the size of an orange cat was thrown and rolled a few times before whimpering aggrievedly.

"Uh, Leader Tang, maybe I should stay here after all."

"What, looking down on my Little Lion? Don't let its small size fool you; it swallows those in Zhang Xile's group in one bite."

Shang Wan was shocked. She naturally wouldn't think Leader Tang was joking with her. It seemed this purple Little Lion was indeed very powerful. That made sense; after all, it was the leader's pet. Her eyes suddenly dimmed slightly.

"Then, should we notify the Chief Steward? He seems to still be on his way."

"No need. Staying cooped up at home all day isn't good for the health; it's good to come out and exercise."

Exercise? Shang Wan's mouth twitched. A round trip was over five thousand kilometers—that was quite the exercise.

Tang Ping looked at the world and sighed, "Blue Star is indeed different. At level six, one can't even fly through the air. Great Emperor Moth, let's go!"

He could forcefully control a sliver of Blue Star's spatial rules to perform void flight, but the consumption was too great. It seemed Blue Star's spatial rules only opened a bit of permission at level seven. It was completely different from Sophia's broken world. It was still easier to ride a flying mount.

Besides, he had left his Great Emperor Moth to roam in the ancient world for two or three hundred years; it was now very extraordinary.

Great Emperor Moth, semi-level seven.