Max Level Return—I'll Protect That Fragile One

He took Ying Ziyao and Zheng Qin and jumped into the Black Sea, their destination unknown.

Ying Zhongmei stared blankly in the direction where Huo Wen’an jumped into the water. Xu Xingguang asked with a smile, "Sister Zhongmei, did you clearly see his face or hear his name just now?"

Xu Xingguang’s smile was indeed bright, but Ying Zhongmei thought of a phrase—

A knife hidden in a smile.

Ying Zhongmei shook her head, "It was pitch black, I couldn’t see anything."

Xu Xingguang smiled at Ying Huai, "Little friend, how about you?"

Ying Huai, with his innocent and clear eyes, asked loudly, "Sister Xingguang, what are you saying? The wind is too strong, I can’t hear!"

"Very good." They were both sensible and perceptive.

At this moment, another set of footsteps sounded from behind.

The three of them turned to look towards the cabin and saw Ying Jing, her face iron blue, walking out from the corridor. Seeing that Xu Xingguang and the others had safely passed through the Barrier Gate, she asked coldly, "Is everyone alright?"

All three shook their heads.

Ying Jing quickly glanced around the deck, saw no one else, and asked Ying Zhongmei, "Where are those three men?"

Ying Zhongmei, stroking her low ponytail, frowned and said, "I don’t know where they went."

Ying Zhongmei had an honest-looking face, the kind that seemed incapable of lying. Ying Jing didn’t probe further, assuming that Huo Wen’an and the other two had been crushed to dust by the Barrier Gate.

On Ying Jing’s left wrist was a black watch. She gently swiped her thumb over the watch face, causing a faint light to flash across it. Then she extended her index finger and tapped lightly a few times in the air in front of her.

Ying Huai curiously tugged on Xu Xingguang’s clothes, "Sister Xingguang, what is the thing that Envoy Ying Jing is using?"

Ying Jing glanced at Ying Huai but said nothing.

Xu Xingguang said, "It’s an Invisible Smart Brain." She tapped her temple, patiently explaining, "Every Smart Brain, when created, is paired with a Pupil Film, which is typically bound to the user."

Ying Huai and Ying Zhongmei both looked at Ying Jing’s eyes, and only then noticed that Ying Jing’s pupils seemed slightly larger than normal, as if she was wearing cosmetic contact lenses.

Hearing Xu Xingguang’s explanation, Ying Jing gave her a surprised look, "How do you know?"

How did she know?

She had once lived through a life in the interstellar age, where such Invisible Smart Brains were already universally popularized.

"I guessed." Xu Xingguang said.

Ying Jing assumed she was like a blind cat stumbling upon a dead mouse, guessing correctly.

"Wait half an hour, and someone will come to pick us up."

"Okay."

The season and climate in the Divine Martial Realm are basically the same as in the Mortal World. Here, too, it was late winter and early spring, and the cold wind on the sea made people shiver.

Just as Ying Huai was frozen into sneezing three times in a row, the boat that was to pick them up finally came close.

It was a small vessel, with a cabin design somewhat akin to a double-decker bus.

Ying Jing led them onto the boat, said something to a staff member waiting outside the cabin, which neither Ying Huai nor Ying Zhongmei understood a word of.

The language currently used in the Divine Martial Realm is almost identical to the language of the Divine Xia Country from two thousand years ago, which Xu Xingguang did understand.

What Ying Jing said to the staff was: [These three are students from the landfill. Under the order of the Ying Family Head, I am to escort them to the Ying Family for reporting, and we request to be taken to the dock.]

Landfill.

It turns out, in the eyes of these people in the Divine Martial Realm, the Mortal World doesn’t even deserve a name; it’s just a landfill.

Xu Xingguang sat quietly by the window, and the ferry quickly brought them to a dock. By now, dawn had broken slightly, and Ying Huai stood at the glass window, looking towards the dock ahead.

In the dim light of dawn, he saw a town built against the mountain. The buildings here were densely packed, one next to the other, and each was about eight stories high.

The bottom of each building was supported by thick columns, and each room had a large pane of ventilated glass.

The buildings were uniformly ink-black, covered with climbing ivy, making the town appear shabby and outdated, exuding decay and backwardness.

Ying Huai frowned and whispered to Xu Xingguang, "This isn’t even as good as our place."

Although Ying Zhongmei said nothing, her expression was clearly one of surprise as well.

In their imagination, the Divine Martial Realm should have been a grand, fairy-like dwelling. Seeing such a decayed and shabby scene suddenly created a sense of disappointment in their hearts.

On the shore of that dock stood a paifang tower, inscribed with the words [Black Water Sea Dock No. 9] in the script of the Divine Xia Country.

Xu Xingguang frowned and whispered, "It’s not that the Divine Martial Realm is backward, but this small town is too backward." She gazed at the townspeople carrying seafaring tools and pondered, "These townspeople are most likely ordinary people who have not awakened to superpowers."

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