127: Chapter 127 Snow That Fell in Luoyi

Su Chen stood frozen in place, as if struck by lightning.

If his two investments were truly recorded.

Then his image in those investments must have been incredibly selfless.

This was not surprising.

After all, he only invested for the sake of returns, and the returns he received were in the real world, unseen by the investment targets.

However.

Love?...

He could indeed feel the adoration the three investment targets held for him.

But what about himself?

At the beginning, he had defaulted himself to the role of someone who could walk through a garden of flowers without a single petal clinging to him.

Everything he did, the kindness and affection he showed them, was merely a heartless machine pushing the game's progress forward.

After all, he had thought the investment worlds were virtual, similar to the Gala-Ge-Mu.

But looking at it now...

If the investment worlds were real.

Then the love was real too.

The three thousand kowtows Zhuge Jinyu performed for him, the sorrowful appearance of Ye Jingjun on their wedding day, and Cang Mingyue's vow by the sea...

Had he truly not been moved?

How was that possible?

Although Su Chen did not consider himself a good person, he was definitely a normal one.

Even people loved paper-thin characters in games.

Let alone the three women he had raised little by little...

They had all been trained by him into top-tier experts back then.

With the spiritual energy resurgence, if the ruins of the Great Ning and Great Qian civilizations were truly discovered.

They might even still be alive.

Thinking of this, Su Chen could not help but shiver.

Back then, in order to motivate them to increase their Darkened Value, he had adopted the most extreme methods for every "death escape."

If they knew he was still alive and found him...

Then he would be finished!

Furthermore, it was not just one; there were three...

In the future, to increase his strength, there might be even more.

Thinking of this, Su Chen made a secret resolution.

Investment could not stop.

If his strength was insufficient, he would not even have the ability to pacify his harem in the future.

After racking his brain for a long time, Su Chen finally remembered that he had not answered her question yet.

"If it is love..."

"That should be quite reasonable, right?"

"Although I do not consider myself to have ever seriously loved anyone, I have actually failed the feelings of many people, even though they sacrificed so much for me..."

Especially Su Wanyue.

"The power of love might truly be able to support that investor in completing all of this."

Su Chen gave an ambiguous answer.

She fell silent.

For a long time.

She spoke again, but her voice was even more hollow and weary than before, as if she had exhausted all her mental energy:

"...A very good insight. We are almost at Jinguan City."

She did not ask any further.

All the probing, all the hope.

Had crashed into an invisible wall with Su Chen's polite and guarded response.

His answer was impeccable.

As if he knew nothing.

But strangely, Sir would also be able to give such an answer.

She looked at the gradually clearing Jinguan City and the tens-of-kilometers-long Tianfu Avenue ahead, and sighed softly.

The identity of the Huaxi Hall of Heroic Spirits Master was indeed inconvenient.

She could not expose her real name, appearance, and voice.

But since he had come to Jinguan City and even participated in the Heroic Spirit Contract Ceremony.

She had a better, more convenient identity to close the distance with Su Chen.

And he would not have the slightest pretense.

That was the identity of a Transcendent Heroic Spirit.

The Heroic Spirit Contract Ceremony was not merely a simple exchange of power and the signing of a contract.

Even an ordinary Heroic Spirit was an existence that ordinary human martial artists could only hope for but never seek.

In a situation where demand far exceeded supply.

The Heroic Spirit contract was often a two-way selection process.

And the initiative of the choice lay in the hands of the Heroic Spirit.

The essence of the contract was resonance and compatibility on a spiritual level.

After the martial artist entered the Spirit Realm, the Heroic Spirit would choose their preferred martial artist.

Both parties of the contract needed to open parts of their memory fragments to each other in the Spirit Realm for deep perception and selection.

Only when the soul fluctuations were highly compatible and mutually recognized could the contract be established and stabilized.

A forced contract would only lead to a backlash.

Not all eligible candidates could successfully contract, and not all Heroic Spirits were willing to contract with people.

Some Heroic Spirits had waited too long, and their obsessions were too deep.

Their requirements for the contract object would be exceptionally harsh.

Even, they were just waiting for a certain person.

If words could not awaken, if the appearance was just a coincidence.

However, memories would not lie.

Just as Su Chen had said back then.

As long as she never forgot Sir, Sir would continue to live in another way.

She wanted to participate in this ceremony for the first time as a Heroic Spirit, and slightly probe this "Xiao Yan."

In that sacred moment when their memories were opened to each other, she would show him the snow of Great Qian and the moon of the Wuhou Shrine without reservation.

Every crack on that broken ancient mirror that intertwined with her life.

At the same time, she also wanted to walk into the depths of his memories.

To see if there was still a gentleman named "Su Chen" sleeping within the soul named "Xiao Yan."

No matter the result, she wanted an answer.

An answer that had been waited for a thousand years, pained for a thousand years.

An answer that was now close at hand yet unreachable.

...

The stream of light fell into the Huaxi Hall of Heroic Spirits in Jinguan City.

Zhuge Jinyu was the first to withdraw the spiritual energy shield, her graceful body landing lightly on the ground.

She walked in front to lead the way.

Su Chen felt inexplicably that, although the female martial artist before him still had a tall and straight posture and a cold attitude.

There was a bit more loneliness in her figure.

The two walked one after the other in the hall, Su Chen curiously examining the various records of extraordinary civilizations and advanced martial artist equipment hanging on the surrounding walls.

To his surprise, he did not find any records of the Great Ning and Great Qian civilizations.

Along the way, they passed some martial artists wearing the Hall of Valor work uniforms.

Under Su Chen's spiritual perception, the cultivation of those people could definitely not be considered low.

However, after seeing Zhuge Jinyu.

They still shuddered all over, then bowed with extreme respect, and only left after politely greeting her.

Even the look they gave him, an outsider, was a bit strange.

Su Chen did not take it to heart.

Didn't this woman say she was the big boss of the West China region of the Hall of Valor?

It was normal for employees to have this reaction when seeing the big boss, right?

What he didn't know was.

After the two had left a certain distance, those trembling martial artists dared to start discussing.

"Was that Lord zhuge? I didn't see wrong, did I?"

"Absolutely not! God, I have been in the Hall of Valor for five years, and this is the first time I've seen her!"

"Why did she suddenly appear here, and who is the male martial artist next to her?"

"No way... I have a very outrageous guess."

"Haven't you all read the archives of Great Qian?"

"Screw you, the archives of the Great Qian civilization are top-secret level. We aren't like you guys in the Cultural Relics Department who have first access, how could we know?"

"I heard that when that person unified the Three Kingdoms back then, a heavy snow fell in Luoyi..."