split sky ride

Chapter 1384 - Picking Up a Bargain
Walking through the deserted city of Delan, the former capital of the Slan Dynasty, Princess Lin Ziyu introduced to Chen Fei: "Cangqiong Star now has less than ten million people left. Most of the people who remain are troops responsible for collecting supplies."

The two were essentially revisiting a familiar place, but the contrast between the scenery before and after made it feel like a lifetime ago.

The sudden, massive earthquake shattered the entire city of Delan. Roads cracked and even broke apart, creating bottomless ravines. Houses and walls were covered in cracks, high-rise buildings were incomplete, and once-smooth glass curtain walls were either covered with fine cracks or reduced to dark, empty frames, leaving behind only ruins.

The rampant weeds and shrubs gave the whole city a fuzzy look.

Some wisps of smoke rose in the distance, and some people remained here. Apart from a very few residents who voluntarily gave up seeking refuge through the "Star Gate," most of them were criminals who had been deprived of their right to pass through the "Star Gate" and were just waiting to die here in vain.

With the withdrawal of the Slan Dynasty's power structure, the Azure Sky Star has become a lawless zone, except for the gathering points specifically for collecting supplies, and true barbarism has followed.

"Don't waste precious manpower on those who clearly refuse. In case of an emergency, you'll only drag others down. Instead, hurry up and gather more supplies. Mark all the important supplies and buildings clearly, and I'll pack them all up and take them with me."

Chen Fei held a tablet computer in his hand, with important areas and buildings marked on the screen. His mental power could cover tens of thousands of kilometers. While strolling and chatting with the princess, he also took the marked buildings along with the land, along with a large number of nearby plants and animals, to fill the ecological environment of the "Boundary Pearl" life space.

Intelligent races unwilling to leave are left to fend for themselves. Although their numbers are small, they still exist. Everyone must take responsibility for their choices.

"Couldn't we have taken everyone with us back then? Relocating the entire city in one go shouldn't be too difficult, right? Like 'Atlanta'."

Lin Ziyu was somewhat puzzled by the current practice of "picking up bargains".

"It will be affected by resistance, and unexpected situations may occur. Most importantly, I don't have that much time and energy to move them one by one, so I can only pick the important ones."

Chen Fei naturally wanted to move the entire city, or even the entire continent, into the "Boundary Pearl" life space, which would be convenient and save him a lot of trouble.

If it were just a few hundred or even tens of thousands of people, it wouldn't be a big problem. But with hundreds of thousands or even millions of people, the combined soul energy and will to resist of intelligent races are not to be underestimated. With Chen Fei's current abilities, he is somewhat willing but unable to do so.

Therefore, we can only evacuate people first, and then move our belongings.

Shen Fei followed closely behind Lin Ziyu and Chen Fei. In addition to the necessary armed personnel, there were several ferocious golden dragons scattered nearby, and a full-strength airship combat group in the sky, ready to provide support at any time.

The adult gold dragons have given up on thinking. Brains are a good thing, but unfortunately they don't need them. So the leader is the underage Yilan. Nobody mentions gold dragon knights anymore. Who cares?

The leader of Dragon Nest is really powerful now, known as the new generation leader in the Warcraft and Dragons community. Who knows, when Chen Fei dies of old age, she might be the next captain. Sigh, I don't even want to think about it!

The noisy chirping of birds grew louder and louder as a "dark cloud" flew in from afar. Little Chirp brought back the flock of pure-light sparrows around the capital, a massive swarm of hundreds of thousands that blotted out the sky, including many other birds unaware of the situation.

The breeding season of the Pure Light Sparrow has now passed. Chen Fei scanned the nest with his spiritual power and found very few chicks and eggs in the nest. With a thought, he put them into the "Boundary Pearl" life space in advance. This time, he came to Cangqiong Star with Princess Lin Ziyu not only to collect materials and facilities that were difficult to move manually in a short time, but also to take away as many Pure Light Sparrows as possible.

Three silver rings, each 100 meters in diameter, appeared out of thin air and stood amidst the ruins.

Two striking red signal flares soared into the sky, rising higher and higher, indicating that unidentified individuals were approaching.

The alert combat robots then launched stun grenades with explosive explosions and intense flashes as a warning.

Is it 'Sagara'?

Princess Lin Ziyu watched the signal flare that had not yet landed, while the distant booming sounds continued incessantly.

The royal guards and the adult gold dragons have not made any moves yet; only the outermost defensive line has encountered some problems.

"No, they are criminals! It looks like they want to force their way through the 'Star Gate'."

Chen Fei received an immediate notification from the AI ​​"Adam." Any disturbance within a radius of thousands of kilometers could not escape his mental coverage and the alert system of the airship combat cluster. The main threat was not the criminals, but the "Sagali" parasitizing the celestial bodies in the sky, who were the greatest threat.

"These guys really won't give up! Since they've committed crimes, they have to pay the price."

Lin Ziyu had no sympathy for these guys who had been abandoned by the dynasty. They could escape the death penalty, but they couldn't escape punishment. A large part of them were prisoners with long sentences in jail. If they had behaved even slightly better, they wouldn't have been abandoned here.

More violent explosions rang out in the distance. Some people, hoping for a lucky break, wanted to take a gamble, including many high-level ability users.

After warnings proved ineffective, the combat robots and airships in the sky launched a devastating attack.

Since there is a way to die, one can naturally get what one wants. However, it is simply wishful thinking to try to enter the "Boundary Pearl" life space with a sinful body. Even if one successfully enters the "Star Gate", one will only become nourishment for the "Tree of Life".

The "black cloud" composed of hundreds of thousands of Pure Light Sparrows began to swoop down, plunging into the three "Star Gates" and smoothly entering the "Boundary Bead" life space. At Xiao Chirp's command, none of the other sparrows dared to disobey.

With so many Pure Light Sparrows gathered, even "Sagali" would have to be wary.

Two minutes later, the projections of the three "star gates" disappeared, the impact on the outer defense line came to an abrupt halt, and all the criminals involved in the operation were killed without exception.

The other criminals who were still watching from a distance slowly retreated, probably having given up completely.

These people are thinking too simply. The "Boundary Pearl" life space is both heaven and hell, entirely up to Chen Fei's whim.

Boom! ~
A deep rumble echoed from the depths of the earth, and the ruins of the city began to undulate slowly at a visible rate, the commotion growing louder and louder.

"It's happening again! Mr. Brown, move to the airship!"

As soon as Chen Fei finished speaking, he, Princess Lin Ziyu, and the others appeared inside the flagship of the airship combat cluster in the sky.

The combat robots on the ground rushed towards the nearest small transport ship, while the golden dragons flapped their bladed wings and took to the air.

Standing before the floor-to-ceiling windows and looking down at the ground, Princess Lin Ziyu said with lingering fear, "It seems we evacuated just in time. Sure enough, it's started again."

This "timely" was not the emergency evacuation of her and Chen Fei to the spaceship by S-class space-type ability user Herseman Brown using his ability "space teleportation," but rather the large-scale relocation of all registered citizens of the Slan Dynasty. If the residents of Delan City had remained here, the casualties would probably have been a hundred times, a thousand times, or even the entire city would have been wiped out.

The undulations on the ground were like ocean waves, with a drop of hundreds of meters, smashing all the buildings to pieces. Even if the criminals gathered in Delan City had not been attacked by combat robots and airships, there probably wouldn't be many survivors this time. Chen Fei could save them, but he was too lazy to do so.

A massive mountain rose abruptly from the ground, hurtling towards the airship fleet in mid-air.

Everyone felt their bodies sink as the airship battle group automatically climbed to avoid the malicious impact from the ground.

At an altitude of 2000 meters, the ever-rising peaks finally receded, the ground continued to undulate, and the entire Delan City area was completely unrecognizable from what it used to be, with not a trace of human intervention remaining.

“Those parasites seem to have completely taken control of the entire planet. Next stop, Sandfire Continent, ‘Adam’, activate the ‘Stargate’.”

Chen Fei guessed that the "Sagali" people's parasitism on the Azure Star was already on the verge of exploding, and he could also achieve a similar level, after all, the "Tree of Life" and the "Sagali" civilization were of the same lineage.

The entire planet Celestial was terminally ill and beyond saving; its 100,000-year struggle had ultimately become meaningless.

If there were any other way, none of the people of the Slan Dynasty would have chosen to leave their homes.

At this moment, the Sky Dragon City is completely empty.

Inside the grand hall of this floating island, snoring and teeth grinding mingled together.

"...zzzZZZ...Go up, push up for Grandpa Long...Phew...10 for 5...Grandpa Long isn't a sucker...I need to break even...Ah, ahh, don't trigger the circuit breaker...Don't liquidate, Grandpa Long still has margin, still..."

A ferocious golden dragon seemed to be half asleep, rolling out of the main hall on its back, clattering and tumbling down the steps to the wide plaza. It took a long time before it opened its blurry eyes and looked around blankly.

Huh?
Where's the dragon?

What about people?

……