Chapter 461 - 293: Tier Six Dual Space
Chapter 461: Chapter 293: Tier Six Dual Space
So painful...
Opening his eyes again, Su Zhi immediately winced, his entire body screaming in protest. The pain was so sharp it jolted his hazy consciousness into full clarity.
He looked around, but all he could see was darkness.
However, when he reached out, he could clearly feel sharp rubble of all sizes, completely filling the space around him.
’Was I buried by the collapsing cave?’
Su Zhi frowned.
Logically speaking, Shan Bao’s Flash Gold Teleportation was extremely efficient. A problem like this shouldn’t have happened.
It had taken less than a minute to send Fuyue and Zi Lu back to the surface, but he had been trying to get back for a full two minutes without success. Something was definitely wrong...
’In any case, the most important thing right now is to get out of here!’
"Wu Bao!"
"Wooo!"
A deep blue Light Array flickered, and Wu Bao, having used Doubling to shrink to its smallest size, appeared near Su Zhi.
Then, Wu Bao enlarged itself again, simultaneously activating Perfect Block.
The moment the tightly packed rubble touched the Wubao Shell, it was vibrated away. Wu Bao then shrank back down, momentarily creating a small space of a few cubic meters.
However, because of Perfect Block’s high-frequency vibrations, the already unstable collapsed structure now threatened to cave in a second time...
Yu Bao appeared next. It activated its Earth Force Field, stabilizing the trembling rubble.
"Woof wooo!" "Wooo!"
Wu Bao and Yu Bao instinctively high-fived.
Then they realized what they’d done, blinked at each other, and pulled their paws back with looks of disdain.
The two beasts’ rivalry diluted some of the loneliness and helplessness of being buried alive.
Just as Su Zhi breathed a small sigh of relief and was starting to plan how to dig through the rubble to the surface, he heard voices from above:
"Report to Captain Sai! There’s movement in A2! Looks like something’s buried down there!"
"Huh? Impossible, we just searched A2 yesterday... Holy shit, there really is a life signature! It looks like one Beast Tamer and three Pet Beasts!"
"All units, proceed with caution. Don’t cause a secondary collapse... Hey, little miss? You..."
"Su Zhi! Is that you, Su Zhi!"
Her long-unheard voice reached him, filled with sorrow, surprise, and all the longing she had felt over the past few days.
The moment he heard that voice, Su Zhi felt his heart drop.
Even when facing the undefeatable Disaster White Tiger, Su Zhi hadn’t shed a single tear. But now, he found he couldn’t stop the tears from streaming down his face.
"Xiaoya! It’s me!"
Su Zhi wiped away his tears, trying to make his voice sound calmer.
"It’s okay! I’m fine!"
"Mmph! Y-You just wait, we’ll dig you out right now!"
Shao Ya seemed to collect herself, her voice no longer choked with tears.
Then, the urgent sounds of digging came from above. No machine could be this efficient; this was a modified Pet Beast called a Ruins Rescue Tiger, widely used in difficult disaster relief operations. Sending such a Pet Beast here showed just how much importance the Flying Shadow Alliance placed on Su Zhi.
But Su Zhi didn’t care about any of that right now.
He just wanted them to dig faster, and faster still...
CRACK!
The last piece of rubble was moved aside, and the long-lost sunlight of the Current World shone on the young man’s face.
Su Zhi, momentarily blinded, instinctively raised a hand to shield his eyes. But when a flowing streak of bright white entered his vision, he lowered his hand again.
It had been so long since he’d seen it—that long, white hair that was always so radiant in his memory.
The girl paid no mind to the dirt and rubble on the ground, sitting before him with her legs tucked underneath her. Her lips were pressed into a thin line, trembling up and down.
Her sapphire-blue eyes, shimmering with unshed tears, trembled slightly. It was early morning, and beautiful specks of light swirled in her eyes, as if they held the entire starry sky.
After spending so long at the disaster site, Shao Ya could only be described as disheveled.
Her white hair, which he remembered as being as smooth as a waterfall, was now dry, frizzy, and as messy as a bird’s nest. Her snow-white skin was covered in dust, along with cuts and bruises of all sizes. Her short-sleeved shirt was torn.
She was clearly a refined young lady, but now she looked like a little beggar, covered in grime.
But Su Zhi didn’t care.
No matter how grimy she became, that brilliant color was still the most beautiful one in his memory.
Finally reunited after brushing with death, Su Zhi pulled the girl before him into a tight embrace.
Shao Ya hugged him back just as fiercely, hooking her chin over his shoulder as if afraid he’d run off and get buried by an earthquake again.
"I’m sorry. The situation was complicated, so I had to cut off contact."
"It’s really you... It’s really Su Baby..."
The girl’s voice was once again choked with tears. "We searched this area before but couldn’t find you. What happened to you down there?"
Su Zhi gave a wry smile. "That’s a long story. By the way, can I ask how long it’s been since we last spoke?"
"Mm, not that long. Thirty hours," the girl replied, remembering the exact number.
Su Zhi gently patted her back. "I’m sorry for making you worry for so long. I’ll treat you to a nice meal when we get back."
—Thirty hours. Compared to the several days he’d spent in the Secret Realm, it really didn’t seem that long.
And yet, thirty hours was also an eternity. He had lost contact in the evening, and now it was late the following night.
She had waited for him in these dangerous, quake-torn ruins for a whole day and night, never leaving.
"Hmph..."
The girl let out an aggrieved little sound.
But when she felt the wounds on his body, her heart softened in an instant, and the tension that had gripped her for so long finally melted away.