Void Jigsaw Puzzle

Guo Ling tried to reach out and grab Zhong Chenmu, while subconsciously wanting to call him.

But at the last moment, he stopped himself from saying what he was about to say.

In the thick fog of silence, nothing can betray you more easily than sound.

Of course, he was unable to hold Zhong Chenmu back.

The slender boy had climbed down again and gently closed the board.

Guo Ling hesitated for a while, but still did not open it again.

"Take care... But you have superpowers, so even if you encounter danger, you can turn it into a blessing..."

Guo Ling then remembered what Zhong Chenmu had asked him to do: quickly inform the Jigsaw Team that Pierce and the others have a large number of heavy weapons, and even tell everyone in Wuming City.

"Things have gotten so out of control that there's no telling what Pierce and his ilk will do with those killer weapons. They initially gathered the first wave of Prophet Society believers under the guise of a 'broken civilization,' but later changed course. And now, they're using the rules of the 'Reunification' game to incite slaughter. Deep down, who knows if they truly want to leave Nameless City, or if they just want to manipulate it..."

Just thinking about it a little more deeply, Guo Ling felt a chill creeping into his heart and shivered unconsciously.

The thick fog surrounding him seemed even heavier, making it difficult for him to breathe.

He forced himself to be strong, moving forward inch by inch, and carefully recalling the experience of coming to Cuiyun Corridor with Fan Ting last time. He tried hard to grope his way towards the Cuiyun Corridor Trail, the only place in the entire Cuiyun Corridor that was not covered by thick fog.

......

If Zhong Chenmu had come down a few seconds later, he would have been exposed to the enemy.

Fortunately, he did not drag his feet and was not held back by Guo Ling. Therefore, when he returned to the road that meandered upwards from the underground factory, he keenly noticed that someone was coming from below, and there happened to be a pile of wood stacked next to him.

So he rolled over quickly.

Before he could adjust his posture behind the wood, he heard footsteps approaching and stopping.

"The president has instructed us to go up and confirm the terrain so that we can open the official entrance to the ground from this avenue at any time. We can't just rely on this wooden ladder to go up and down."

"Yes! At your command! Loyalty!"

"..."

Apparently, the two men were standing in front of the escalator leading to the ground, and were discussing with each other the tasks given to them by Pierce, without noticing that Zhong Chenmu was just behind the pile of wood a few steps away.

"But what the hell is this 'loyalty' thing?"

Zhong Chenmu was a little confused.

However, he did not think too much about it. Instead, he gently adjusted his posture and watched from the gap in the wood pile as the two people walked up the escalator one after another, lifted the wooden board, and walked out.

Just like what he and Guo Ling did not long ago.

"Brother Guo, I hope you've gone far away..."

Zhong Chenmu prayed silently, then crouched down and crawled out of his hiding place, walking firmly and lightly along the edge of the avenue towards the underground factory.

Looking down from a high vantage point, he could see the appearance of most of the factory and couldn't help but marvel at the hidden world underground.

When he and Guo Ling came up just now, they were only focused on escaping as quickly as possible and had no time or energy to look back. Now Zhong Chenmu just needed to take a bird's-eye view to observe the overall situation so that he could quickly take action after arriving at the factory.

Nearly twenty structures, roughly the size of factory buildings above ground, were regularly spaced throughout the area, their steel pillars and beams seemingly supporting this entire underground world. However, each building was empty, devoid of any large items, only scattered parts and materials.

Considering the conversation between Pierce and the other person just now, there should have been weapons here, but they have been pulled to other places for final acceptance testing.

However, if each factory produced at least one set of such weapons, there would be nearly twenty sets in total, which is not a small number. In other words, somewhere out of his sight, there is at least an area equivalent to the area under his feet for testing these weapons.

However, Zhong Chenmu stared and scanned everything within his sight, but saw no trace of the existence of this area.

The underground factory area was still very quiet at this time. It seemed that most people were still upstairs and had not come down yet. This was a perfect opportunity to find Pierce. If he waited until everyone came back, his plan to find Pierce and fight him one-on-one would encounter a lot of trouble.

So, he stopped dwelling on this issue and continued to move forward carefully.

After that, no other members of the Yayue team appeared on the avenue. Zhong Chenmu walked down the avenue smoothly and returned to the place where he and Guo Ling had just started - the wide intersection based on his memory.

He became much bolder and simply stood in the middle of the intersection, slowly turned around, looked around and observed.

There are several empty factories on both sides of each road, and the end of the road seems to lead to other places, but at this moment it is blocked by a tightly lowered gate.

When he was up there just now, Zhong Chenmu didn't see this gate, but now he suddenly realized it.

"The other side of the gate is most likely where they conduct acceptance tests. When the gate opens, that's when those crazy, murderous weapons will be officially unleashed..."

He clenched his fists unconsciously, and suddenly felt that standing here at this moment had become even more tragic.

If he felt like a traffic policeman directing traffic just now, at this moment, he seemed to have turned into a lone brave man with only a sword, about to face the siege of a dragon.

"There's no time..."

Thinking of this, Zhong Chenmu took a deep breath and shouted loudly: "Pierce! Come out! I know you are nearby and can hear me! If you can hear me, come out and let's have a duel between men! This damn game should be over!"

His youthful voice echoed in the empty underground, but no one responded.

Zhong Chenmu knew that he had made the right bet.

All the people underground went up.

It seems that the battle above is very intense, or the Jigsaw Team has the upper hand, otherwise, there is no need for the Meiyue Team to go out in full force.

And if his previous analysis was correct, the real Pierce would definitely not go up.

What kind of battle can an old man fight? What's more, there is his substitute as a totem above.

So he shouted a few more times, finally adding fuel to the fire: "Whether you come out or not, you're doomed! Our team up there has already taken the initiative, otherwise why wouldn't any of your men come down? If you don't come out, we'll set a fire here and burn the ground clean, and let these pieces of iron and wood be buried with you!"

Not long after shouting this, Zhong Chenmu's eyelids twitched and he felt a gust of wind behind him. He subconsciously fell to the right, and then his body turned backwards due to inertia.

A crisp sound was heard on the pillar of the factory building at the intersection. It was the sound of a crossbow arrow colliding with it.

Immediately afterwards, the crossbow arrow fell to the ground, making another crisp sound.

Zhong Chenmu looked at the old man who had appeared behind him and was now facing him.

It was he who shot the arrow just now.

There was a hint of regret in his light blue eyes, and then he fumbled for something in his back pocket.