Generation Z Mainland

Chapter 16 Are you willing to sign a contract with me?

Zuo Qihan said seriously, "In short, that matter requires the combined efforts of the five of us to accomplish. Not even one of us can be missing." He looked at Niu Yinuo and continued, "I saw it in the ancient book that Zhao Xue had written."

Niu Yinuo gently pressed his brow and asked, "You know how dangerous this situation is. What if something happens to them?"

Zuo Qihan asked again: "Do you want to protect your own little family or this continent?"

Niu Yinuo sat up straight and said in a deep voice, "I admit that I was a little selfish in this matter."

Zuo Qihan sighed and said, "But, brother, to be honest, you are a little selfish. You saved your lover, but what about your family? What about your friends?"

Niu Yinuo curled his lips and smiled: "Then are you willing to let her follow you to take risks?"

Zuo Qihan lowered his head slightly and chuckled, "What can I do if I'm willing to give it up? What can I do if I'm not willing to give it up? I understand your feelings, but we have to put the overall situation first, right?"

Zhang Hanrui came over again with a gossipy look on his face: "Wow, Qiqi, are you really falling in love with Ling Zhaoxue?"

Zuo Qihan was speechless. He looked at him with disdain and pushed him away: "Go and miss your Siyin!"

Zhang Hanrui was gently pushed by him and sat back on the stool. After a cold snort, he muttered something and turned to look out the window.

Zuo Qihan continued to talk to Niu Yinuo, "Brother, this is up to you. If you want to protect everyone, then let Sister Zhiyuan join us in protecting this continent. If you only want to save Sister Zhiyuan, then this continent will disappear, and so will the people who live on it, and those lovely elves... Can you bear to see everyone displaced?"

Niu Yino was stunned. He looked up at Zuo Qihan. The young man was looking at him with a puzzled look.

"How do you know this continent will disappear?"

Zuo Qihan sighed and remained silent for a moment before speaking: "Because of a dream I had. In the dream, the war that happened on this continent more than ten years ago broke out again..."

Niu Yinuo frowned. He had never seen an eighteen-year-old boy talk about this matter so seriously. He took a deep breath and exhaled slowly, as if thinking about the seriousness of the matter.

"Are you sure this dream is real and not your imagination or something else?" Niu Yinuo asked, with a barely perceptible tremor in his voice.

Zuo Qihan looked at Niu Yinuo and knew what he was worried about. He said slowly, "I know this sounds crazy, but I could feel the despair and powerlessness of everyone in the dream, as if the whole world was on the verge of collapse."

Niu Yino was silent for a moment, then slowly raised his head and looked at Zuo Qihan: "So, what do you think we should do?" he asked with a hint of determination in his voice.

Zuo Qihan looked into Niu Yinuo's eyes and knew he had made a decision. He smiled slightly and said, "We need to discuss countermeasures with the others as soon as possible. I believe that as long as we unite as one, we will be able to protect this continent."

Niu Yinuo nodded, completely convinced by Zuo Qihan. He couldn't hesitate any longer. He had to make the right choice for this continent, for his family and friends. He stood up and walked out the door.

"Where are you going?" Zuo Qihan asked.

"Go find Zhiyuan." Niu Yinuo replied, his voice full of determination.

Zuo Qihan watched Niu Yinuo walk out of the room, took a deep breath, and turned to look at Zhang Hanrui: "Arui, Jiasen, Zhaoxue, Niu Yinuo and Sister Zhiyuan and the others will discuss countermeasures with them. If something happens and we're not around, you and Guiyuan will protect everyone together. Haohao and Xiaozhi should be able to help you too..."

Zhang Hanrui was stunned for a moment, his lips twitching slightly: "You mean...we will break up?"

Zuo Qihan thought for a while and then comforted him, "Not for now, right? ... Oh, don't think too much. Whether we're together or not, we're still a team! Right?"

Zhang Hanrui looked at Zuo Qihan firmly and said, "Zuo Qihan, I still want to go on an adventure with you!"

Zuo Qihan shook his head and said, "No, what will happen to the others if you leave? Wei Zichen, Chen Junming, Zhang Zhongyu, Siyin, and the others, they all need you and Zhang Guiyuan!"

Zhang Hanrui panicked and pulled Zuo Qihan's clothes and shook them twice: "But, but..."

Zuo Qihan gently pushed his hand away and said seriously, "Zhang Hanrui, everyone has their own destiny. Everyone is born with their own value. Your mission is to work with Zhang Guiyuan and Enhan to take good care of the other companions without superpowers."

Zhang Hanrui stared into Zuo Qihan's eyes: "Zuo Qihan, will you disappear?"

Zuo Qihan was a little confused: "Huh?"

Zhang Hanrui continued to stare: "I heard Haohao say today that when the elements merge into one, the main body will disappear."

Zuo Qihan lowered his head, avoiding his gaze: "That, I can't say."

Zhang Hanrui suddenly became excited: "Now, Nie Weichen and Wang Shuoran don't know where they are, and you are leaving too, what should we do!"

Zuo Qihan patted Zhang Hanrui on the shoulder: "I'll go to Li Jiasen's place for a while."

After saying that, Zuo Qihan turned around and walked out of the room. Zhang Hanrui wanted to call him, but he didn't say it out loud.

In the ancient castle hall filled with a strange and eerie atmosphere, a woman stood up from her magnificent throne and said to the people around her: "Come here, bring those two children to me!"

"Yes!"

After a while, Nie Weichen and Wang Shuoran were brought to the woman by several female attendants.

Wang Shuoran shouted, "What are you going to do now?"

The woman snorted coldly and said, "Do you know what... copy... paste is?"

Nie Weichen thought about it and suddenly had an idea, and said: "? The two sides of the mirror of Mandola in Ye Luoli?"

Wang Shuoran was speechless: "What weird things do you usually watch?"

Nie Weichen turned his head and looked at Wang Shuoran and said with a smile: "You haven't seen Ye Luoli? Then I'll take you to see it when we get out!"

Wang Shuoran shook his head: "No need..."

Nie Weichen nudged him with his arm: "Look! It's very beautiful!"

The woman felt she was being ignored and immediately became furious. "You two...are you treating me like I don't exist?"

Nie Weichen chuckled: "Oh! Look! Look! It's very beautiful!"

Wang Shuoran turned his head and snorted: "I'm not watching!"

The woman clenched her fists: "Hmph, wait until I catch them and then I'll deal with you two!" As she said that, she waved at Nie Weichen. After a puff of smoke, a copy of "Nie Weichen" appeared. She curled the corners of her mouth and smiled contemptuously.

"Wait until I catch your good friend Yang Jiahao. Then, even the five elements won't be able to do anything to me! Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!"

Nie Weichen stared at the man in front of him who looked exactly like him with his eyes wide open: "Yang Jiahao! What are you doing!"

The woman snorted coldly: "Humph, it seems you don't know yet, your good friend Yang Jiahao is one of the ancient spirit weapons, the Aurora Sword. If I get him, you, and even those five elements, will be defeated by me!"

Wang Shuoran pouted at the woman: "Really, if you don't practice with the upper sword, you will practice with the lower sword. If you don't practice with the iron sword, you will practice with the silver sword. You have really reached the point where you are one with the sword, bitch!"

Nie Weichen turned to look at Wang Shuoran: "Where did you learn that?"

Wang Shuoran said with a cold face, "I learned from Yang Hanbo."

Nie Weichen gave a thumbs up: "Okay, very strong!"

The woman waved her hand and walked towards the door while laughing: "I don't want to waste time talking to you. Wait for my good news. Hahahahahahahaha!"

Wang Shuoran curled his lips: "Hiss~ I'll have at least eight hundred nightmares tonight."

Nie Weichen nodded in agreement.

"Stop looking! Go! Go back!" The two men were lost in thought as they stared at the direction the woman had left. Two attendants came over and patted them. The two men looked at each other helplessly and said to the attendants, "Alright."

The woman came to Zhiyuan's garden and hid in a corner that was not easy to be discovered. She saw Wei Zichen and Yang Jiahao playing with their younger brothers. She couldn't help but smile: "Huh, I will definitely get the Aurora Sword!"

The teenagers who were playing hide and seek didn't notice anything unusual.

Zhang Zhongyu adjusted his eye mask, coughed twice, and said, "I'm going to start catching them~Hide them~"

Chen Junming raised his hand to help Zhang Zhongyu pull off the blindfold: "Wait, wait, your blindfold is about to fall off, let me tie it back on for you."

Wei Zichen pulled the others to find a place to hide: "You tie him up first, and we'll hide first."

After Chen Junming was tied up, Zhang Zhongyu felt around and found a place to hide when Chen Junming dodged.

"I said stop, you guys can't move~"

Yang Jiahao smiled lovingly and said, "Okay~"

Ji Eun-han ran from one bush to another: "Run!"

After searching for a long time, I found a spot next to Zhi Enhan and hid there: "I'm hiding."

Zhi Enhan whispered: "Get out of here, you bookworm!"

I glanced at him carefully: "Tsk~coward~"

"Stop!" With Zhang Zhongyu's order, everyone became extremely nervous.

Wei Zichen heard Xiaozhi and Haohao's conversation from the bushes across the street and said helplessly, "Oh my god! Keep your voices down, both of you!"

The woman quietly walked behind the boys and nudged Yang Jiahao with her arm. Yang Jiahao turned around and looked up and down: "Nie Weichen? Where have you been?"

Nie Weichen frowned and said aggrievedly, "I got separated from Wang Shuoran."

Yang Jiahao looked at him doubtfully: "Then how did you find your way here alone?"

"Nie Weichen" didn't say anything.

At this moment, Zhang Zhongyu groped and grabbed Yang Jiahao's arm: "I got it! Brother!"

Suddenly, everyone gathered around. Zhang Zhongyu took off his blindfold and was stunned for a moment. Chen Junming said, "Nie Weichen~ You're finally here!"

Yang Jiahao pondered for a moment, then turned to look at Wei Zichen beside Chen Junming: "Zichen, take them somewhere else to play. I have something to ask him."

Although Wei Zichen wanted to ask something, he still agreed and left the flowers with the other boys.

Jiahao watched Wei Zichen and his men walk away, then turned and glared at "Nie Weichen" seriously: "You're not Nie Weichen, are you? Who are you?"

"Nie Weichen" pretended to be embarrassed: "Brother Hao, I am Nie Weichen! Don't you recognize me?"

Yang Jiahao sneered: "Stop pretending! You can deceive them, but you can't deceive me!"

Nie Weichen suddenly curled his lips into a wicked smile: "As expected of one of the ancient spirits!"

Yang Jiahao frowned as he watched the woman transform back into her own appearance: "It's you! Tell me! What do you want to do?"

The woman sneered and approached him step by step. "Don't be so fierce! Of course I'm here to take you away and sign a contract with you!"

Yang Jiahao snorted, turned his head and said, "You're dreaming!"

The woman was not intimidated by him. She grabbed his arm with one hand and said viciously: "Little devil! This is not your decision!"

Yang Jiahao tried to break free from her in pain: "Let go! I won't go with you!"

The woman held his hand tighter, and Yang Jiahao's face began to turn pale: "Let me go! The person I really want to sign a contract with is not you!"

The woman raised an eyebrow and released his hand. "Oh? Really? But the person you want to sign doesn't seem very willing?"

Yang Jiahao covered his arm, which was hurt by her grip, with one hand and looked up and said, "You are not him! How do you know he doesn't want to?"

The woman tilted her head to look at him, and with her long nails, she lifted his chin. "Don't be so hard on me, kid! You have to sign today, even if you don't want to!"

Yang Jiahao shook her hand off and took two or three steps back: "Then you have to catch me first!"

The woman shrugged and sighed, "What a pity! If you don't come with me, you'll never see the person you care about again."

Yang Jiahao's eyes widened, his voice trembling slightly: "What did you say? Who do you care about? You already said that I am an ancient spirit, there is no one I care about!"

The woman looked at Yang Jiahao innocently: "That~that Li Yudong..."

Yang Jiahao almost shouted, "You are not allowed to touch him!"

The woman suddenly made a surprised expression, covered her mouth with one hand, and said with a smile: "Wow, so excited?"

Yang Jiahao gritted his teeth and said fiercely, "Where is he? You can't hurt him!"

The woman smiled and poked Yang Jiahao's shoulder: "If you want to know so much, come with me!" After saying that, she waved her hand and disappeared.

Yang Jiahao stood there in a daze, thinking for a while, then turned around and saw Wei Zichen playing happily with other teenagers. He turned around, waved his hand, and followed them.

Zuo Qihan came out of the room and looked at the boys playing. He smiled softly, then glanced around but didn't see Yang Jiahao, so he asked Wei Zichen: "Zichen, where is Haohao? Isn't he with you?"

Wei Zichen pointed to the flowers in the distance: "Brother Hao is talking to Nie Weichen over there."

Zuo Qihan was a little confused: "Nie Weichen?"

Chen Junming also walked over and said, "Yes, Nie Weichen showed up suddenly, and then Brother Hao said he wanted to talk to Nie Weichen alone, so he asked Wei Zichen to bring us here."

Zuo Qihan pinched his brows and looked at Zhi Enhan: "Xiaozhi, use the little butterfly to see where they are now. I always feel something is wrong. If you find anything, come to Li Jiasen's room to find me."

Zhi Enhan responded: "OK!" Zuo Qihan walked quickly to Li Jiasen's room and pushed the door open: "Hi~"

Li Jiasen turned around and looked at him: "Why are you here?"

Zuo Qihan closed the door and turned around to see Zhang Yiran there: "Oh, Zhang Yiran is here too, I'm sorry I came at such a bad time, if I had known he would come~"

Li Jiasen asked Zuo Qihan to sit down: "That's enough, if you have something to say, just talk!"

Zhang Yiran was speechless: "Am I redundant? Am I disturbing you two elements?"

Zuo Qihan waved his hands repeatedly: "No, no, no! It was just a joke!"

Zhang Yiran looked down at the necklace: "It's because Jiayin misses her brother!"

Suddenly, a sweet female voice came from the necklace: "How could I have that? Brother Yiran, you're talking nonsense!"

Zhang Yiran chuckled. "Okay! Which little girl was crying and making a fuss looking for her brother just now?"

There was no sound from the necklace.

Li Jiasen said: "Okay, Zuo Qihan, you haven't told me why you came here!"

Zuo Qihan instantly became serious: "I came here to discuss with you the matter of our five elements."

Zhang Yiran jokingly said: "Sure enough, I am redundant."

Li Jiasen lowered his head and whispered: "I guessed you would come to see me, but I didn't expect it to be so soon..."

Zuo Qihan continued, "Now that the five of us are together, the next step is to defeat that mysterious woman and maintain peace and stability here!"

Li Jiasen was silent for a moment, then said, "If you become an element, what will happen to the Holy Fire? After all, you are not just an element, you are also a container of the Holy Fire!"

Zuo Qihan sighed: "I have been thinking about this matter these days, so I came to discuss it with you."

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhienhan and Haohao ran into the room: "Oh no, oh no!"

Zhi Enhan gasped and said, "Oh no! Brothers!"

Zhang Yiran suddenly felt something was wrong. He stood up and looked at Haohao and Zhi Enhan: "Could something have happened to someone?"

He breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Yang Jiahao was taken away by that woman!"

Zuo Qihan slammed the table and stood up suddenly: "What!"

Zhi Enhan raised his hand, and a butterfly landed on his arm: "The butterfly told me that the woman threatened Brother Jiahao with something about Li...something Dong."

Li Jiasen rested his chin on his hand and thought: "It should be Li Yudong. When we were in college, this junior often came to the dormitory to see him."

Zuo Qihan nodded: "I think so too. He is Haohao's most precious brother."

Zhang Yiran asked: "What should we do now?"

Zuo Qihan looked at Li Jiasen and said, "I'll go check out the situation first. Jiasen, call everyone together to discuss countermeasures. Oh, and it would be even better if you can call Niu Yinuo and Sister Zhiyuan!"

Haohao replied: "Leave them to me and Brother Xi."

Li Jiasen pulled Zuo Qihan's arm worriedly: "But it's too dangerous for you to go alone!"

Zhang Yiran also walked over and pulled his arm: "Yes!"

Zuo Qihan smiled and gently pushed away the hands of his two brothers: "Don't worry, I'll be fine. That's it, bye!" As soon as he finished speaking, he ran out of the room quickly.

Zhang Yiran held his forehead with his hand, looking helpless: "No, big brother, you're playing jungle by yourself again!"

Li Jiasen sighed: "Oh, forget it, let's go find other people now! Okay, you and Yu Junxi go find Niu Yinuo and Sister Zhiyuan. Hurry up! If we delay any longer, two lives will be lost!"

Haohao: "Brother, there are more than two, right?"

Li Jiasen: "Don't worry about the number of them! Saving people is the most important thing!"

Haohao: “Yeah!”

Zhang Yiran looked at the butterfly on Zhi Enhan's arm and said, "Enhan, use the butterflies to lead Zuo Qihan to the destination, and then take us there after they bring Zuo Qihan to the destination!"

Zhi Enhan nodded, said a few words to the butterfly, and then let it fly away.

Li Jiasen looked at Zhang Yiran: "You are really good at saving trouble!"

Zhang Yiran: "It's a waste not to use navigation! It's better than banging your head against the wall, right?"

Zuo Qihan hurried out of the room and ran into Ling Zhaoxue and Siyin who were strolling in the garden with Zhiyuan.

"Zuo Qihan! What's wrong?" Ling Zhaoxue asked first.

Zuo Qihan didn't stop, just glanced at her: "Go find Yang Jiahao!"

Siyin was puzzled: "What? What happened to Yang Jiahao?"

Zhiyuan looked at Zuo Qihan's hurried steps and frowned: "I feel like something is wrong! Mengmeng! Tiantian!"

"Master, we are here!" Two flower-type elves flew over.

"Mengmeng, follow Zuo Qihan closely. Tiantian, call everyone to the lobby! Including Arnold!"

"Yes!"

As soon as Zuo Qihan ran out of the village, he found a butterfly flying around him.

"Are you going to take me there?"

The butterfly turned around again, as if in agreement.

"Okay, let's go!"

So, Zuo Qihan followed the butterfly sent by Zhi Enhan remotely to find the location of the woman and Yang Jiahao.

Yang Jiahao was taken to a cave by the woman. Zuo Qihan asked Butterfly to go back and inform others, while he hid behind a big rock not far away and observed.

Yang Jiahao asked seriously: "Where is Dongdong? Where is he?"

The woman turned her back to him and sneered, "Don't worry! Let's sign the contract first, and then everything will be fine!"

Zuo Qihan stuck his head out to see what was happening over there. When he heard that the woman was going to sign a contract with Yang Jiahao, the hand that was holding onto the stone began to tremble violently.

Yang Jiahao smiled and said, "Sign a contract, sure! But I have one condition."

The woman said "Oh" and looked at Yang Jiahao with interest: "I want to see what tricks you can play."

Yang Jiahao: "You should know that we ancient spirits all know a spell, right?"

The woman was puzzled: "A spell?"

Yang Jiahao continued, "If we are forced into a contract, we can activate this self-destruct spell."

The woman sneered and slowly approached Yang Jiahao: "Heh, are you trying to trick a three-year-old?"

Seeing that she didn't take it seriously, Yang Jiahao shrugged and said, "If you don't believe me, you can try it."

"Then I'm going to give it a try!"

The woman grabbed Yang Jiahao's arm. This time, Yang Jiahao did not show any expression of pain, as if he had resigned himself to his fate.

Yang Jiahao said coldly: "The heaven and earth rise and fall, and all things disappear..."

Zuo Qihan cried out inwardly: "Not good!" He rushed out, hit the woman fiercely, and rescued Yang Jiahao from her hands.

The woman finally recovered and looked up to see who it was. She couldn't help but laugh, "Oh, who was that? Turns out you're the leader of our five elements! Where are your friends?"

Zuo Qihan hugged Yang Jiahao and called him nervously: "Haohao! Are you okay?"

Yang Jiahao covered his chest and said lightly: "It's okay, brother, why are you here?"

Zuo Qihan said a little angrily: "If I don't come, you will sign a contract with her!"

Yang Jiahao just laughed off what just happened: "It's not that easy to sign me!"

Zuo Qihan was about to say something when suddenly, the woman shot a beam of light at them. Yang Jiahao was quick to push Zuo Qihan away, but he was hit instead.

“Haohao!”

Zuo Qihan rushed over and helped Yang Jiahao up from the ground. The woman sneered and said, "This is what happens when you ignore me!"

Zuo Qihan gritted his teeth and was about to rush forward when Yang Jiahao stopped him: "Brother, let's go together. I think Dongdong is in her hands now. If you rush in like this, not only will we not be able to save anyone, but she might also catch us all!"

Zuo Qihan frowned and said worriedly: "But, you were just injured..."

Yang Jiahao smiled and shook his head: "It's okay, can't the two of us beat her alone?"

Zuo Qihan was still a little worried: "Didn't they say that if you don't sign the contract, you will suffer backlash?"

Yang Jiahao smiled and looked at his brother: "Brother, then... are you willing to sign a contract with me? Let's protect them together!"

Zuo Qihan asked in a low voice: "Will signing the contract really not harm you?"

Yang Jiahao just smiled without saying anything. He raised his hand and gently shook hands with Zuo Qihan. In an instant, a colorful light flashed and turned into a sword in Zuo Qihan's hand.

"Brother, let's go!"

Zuo Qihan gripped the Aurora Sword tightly in his hand and looked forward with a firm gaze: "Okay! Let's work together! Protect everyone!"

The woman witnessed the entire process of Yang Jiahao and Zuo Qihan signing the contract, and her eyes instantly turned red: "Damn Chi Yan! How dare you ruin my plan! Watch out!"

Zuo Qihan and the woman started fighting, and while fighting, they rushed out of the cave...

Zhiyuan called everyone to the lobby for a meeting. Haohao and Yu Junxi went to find Niu Yinuo, and Li Jiasen and Zhang Yiran went with the others.

Everyone was sitting in the lobby. Zhang Guiyuan noticed that Zhang Hanrui was not in good condition and asked, "Zhang Hanrui, are you okay?"

Li Yunchenrui, who was sitting next to Zhang Guiyuan, looked at Zhang Hanrui worriedly: "What happened to him?"

Yang Hanbo sighed and said, "Just now, Li Jiasen and the others said that Zuo Qihan went to find that woman alone."

Wang Lujie was surprised when he heard this: "Huh? Is this guy used to playing alone in the jungle?"

Fu Ziming: "Who knows?"

Yu Junxi: "When my brother Zuo doesn't play jungle by himself, he's not really himself anymore."

Zhang Yiran spread his hands helplessly: "Maybe it's because Yang Jiahao was also taken away by that woman. He was anxious and impulsive at the moment, and couldn't stop her even if he called her!"

Ling Zhaoxue nodded: "Just now in the garden, we saw him rushing around. We wanted to ask him what was wrong, but he just said he was going to find Yang Jiahao and left."

Si Yin patted Zhang Hanrui's back gently: "Alright! Although Zuo Qihan's actions were a bit impulsive, if we rush over together, it will backfire. Right now, we should think of a strategy to deal with that woman!"

Zhiyuan nodded: "Yes, Arnold, what do you think we should do next?"

Niu Yinuo shook his head: "I don't know either. But I just contacted your senior..."

Guan Junchen asked, "What did you say, senior?"

Niu Yinuo: "They said they would send people to support us, and..."

Wang Hao: “And?”

"And they looked up information about that woman. She's also from your college."

Wang Junxi cried out in shock: "Oh my God! Who is she?"

Niu Yinuo was about to say something when Mengmeng suddenly flew in from outside the door: "Oh no... Oh no!"

Zhiyuan stood up and asked, "Mengmeng, what happened to Zuo Qihan and the others?"

Meng Meng nodded hurriedly: "A strange woman started fighting with them!"

——To be continued——

(End of this chapter)