【Pure Land】.

"Qingyu, the oracle has left."

Jiang Er, wearing a blue bathrobe, floated to An Qingyu's side, sat down with a smile, and his voice was transmitted into An Qingyu's ears through the Bluetooth headset.

"They can't break through the 'Automatic Defense System', so of course they have to leave." An Qingyu slowly placed the chess piece somewhere on the chessboard and said with a smile, "It seems that I won this round..."

"From now on, this big flying saucer will be named An."

"Hmm? Isn't your last name Jiang?"

"That's about right. People with the surname Jiang will listen to those with the surname An anyway."

Hearing this, An Qingyu smiled gently.

After a moment, he stood up, dusted himself off, and walked towards the prison area.

"Let's go and rescue Cao the thief first. I have done what I promised him."

"good."

The two men walked to the door of Cao Yuan's cell. Jiang Er just waved his hand lightly, and the heavy cell door opened automatically. The light from the corridor projected into the dark cell, illuminating Cao Yuan's face.

The sudden strong light made Cao Yuan a little uncomfortable. He squinted his eyes and looked outside the door through the crack. When he saw the two familiar figures, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"So soon? Wasn't it three days?"

"I always like to prepare for the worst, and three days is a conservative estimate."

An Qingyu walked into the cell with a smile and took out a black scalpel from his pocket. A sharp edge flashed on the tip of the knife. He squatted in front of the thick black chains, analyzing their structure while cutting the chains with the blade, as if he was performing a delicate large-scale operation.

"Did you really kill all the oracles?" Cao Yuan couldn't help but ask.

"Kill them all? I don't have that ability." An Qingyu shook his head, "I just robbed their house and then locked them out."

Cao Yuan: ...

Cao Yuan stared at An Qingyu for a moment, a bitter smile appearing on the corner of his mouth.

"After we return to Daxia, if you don't become our team's vice-captain, I will be the first to disagree..."

Hearing this, Jiang Er on the side shook his head seriously, and his mouth opened and closed as if he said something, but Cao Yuan didn't hear a word.

"Forget it, you don't have Bluetooth headphones."

An Qingyu seemed to have remembered something. He took out a small Bluetooth speaker from somewhere and placed it on the ground. After a faint sound of electricity, Jiang Er's voice came from it again:

"I am the first one who disagrees. You can only be the second one." Jiang Er looked into Cao Yuan's eyes and said seriously.

Cao Yuan looked at the Bluetooth speaker on the ground, then looked at the Bluetooth headset hanging on An Qingyu's ear, his expression seemed a little subtle.

"Are you using a private channel? Are you whispering?"

"Usually there are only two of us, and it's not very convenient to play the sound out loud in a place like this, so it's more appropriate to use Bluetooth headphones," An Qingyu explained.

"Oh..." Cao Yuan's expression was still subtle.

After all the bone-eroding locks were removed, Cao Yuan's body lost its support and fell heavily from mid-air. An Qingyu stretched out her hands to catch him steadily, and carried him out of the dark cell in a princess hug.

This chain has penetrated Cao Yuan's bones for two years, constantly corroding his body. Now Cao Yuan can't muster any strength at all. Although this action is quite shameful for him, it seems that he has no choice...

"Your bones and body injuries are very serious. When the chains pierced your body, they scraped off some bone fragments that are embedded in your body. Surgery is needed to remove them."

An Qingyu placed him on the makeshift operating table, glanced at Cao Yuan's body full of blood holes, and said.

"Take it." Cao Yuan said calmly, "I believe in your ability."

“There’s no anesthesia here.”

"I don't need that kind of thing." Cao Yuan didn't care. "In the past two years, the pain I've suffered was much more unbearable than this."

An Qingyu was silent for a few seconds, without saying anything. He just quietly took out his scalpel set, began to disinfect it according to the procedure, and then performed the operation.

"By the way, how did you get caught here?"

An Qingyu performed the operation while talking to distract Cao Yuan.

Cao Yuan looked at the light above his head. Even though the scalpel was already cutting into his flesh, his expression did not change at all. He said calmly:

"Back then, after I drifted to this country, I remembered the foreign cultures I had learned in the training camp before the fog descended, and guessed that this should be Japan. Although I didn't know why I came here, I still began to hide my identity as an outsider, learning the language here bit by bit, slowly exploring the situation in this country, and at the same time traveling everywhere, looking for your whereabouts.

I traveled around for about two months, met some special people, mastered some basic languages, and learned about the structure and current situation of this country, [Pure Land], Oracle, and Huojin Sword...

Until one day, I faced an oracle, he told me to kneel, I didn't, and then we fought. "

An Qingyu raised his eyebrows. This plot was pretty much what he imagined. "And then? After you drew your sword, didn't you feel the gaze of that mysterious gaze?"

“I felt it…” Cao Yuan sighed helplessly, “But you also know that once I draw my sword and enter that state, I can’t easily retract it. So I felt that gaze getting stronger and stronger, and finally locked onto me completely. Then I saw a red beam of light flash by, and I knew nothing.”

"Red beam of light?"

"Well, when I regained consciousness...something was a little strange." Cao Yuan closed his eyes and recalled the scene he saw at that time.

“At that time, I was in a city called Hachimantai. When I opened my eyes, I found that the city had completely fallen into ruins.

Everywhere I looked, there were messy and dilapidated building wreckage, thick smoke and a pungent smell of blood floating in the air, and black evil flames were dancing in every corner of the city. At that time, there was an electronic screen with half of it black above my head, with my wanted poster hanging on it. Above my head, the words "Extremely Evil" were written.

In front of me, there were two broken oracles' bodies lying, all charred black, as if they had just exploded. There were three more oracles lying on the ground, seriously injured and dying. In front of me, there were only one oracle in black robe and one in white robe.

At that time, my body was pierced by chains, and I was surrounded by a prison made up of dense black spikes. There were a total of nine layers, and I was locked inside and couldn't move at all.

But I remember the way those two oracles looked at me, as if they were looking at some monster..."

As Cao Yuan spoke, An Qingyu's expression gradually changed. He looked at Cao Yuan in confusion.

"【Extreme Evil】? The Oracle who self-destructed and was seriously injured? Are you sure you really don't remember anything?"