90: Chapter 90 Hell on Earth

Thinking of this, he solemnly accepted the warm, smooth pearl.

Feeling the immense vitality and pure emotion contained within it, he smiled slightly and whispered:

"Thank you, Miss Yue."

"I really like this gift."

Seeing that the man she admired had finally accepted her gift, a satisfied smile finally appeared on the Mermaid Maiden's pretty face.

She no longer asked Su Chen to teach her anything, nor did she ask him to take her anywhere else.

Moonlight poured gently onto the sea surface.

Su Chen stood quietly on the reef, smelling the slightly fishy sea breeze, wondering what he was thinking about.

Yet the more he was like this, the more his charm attracted the Mermaid Maiden.

She quietly moved closer to his side.

Naturally, she leaned into his embrace.

"Miss Yue, as you know by now, I am merely a sword soul within a sword."

"I am not even... considered a real person."

"Are you really not..."

Cang Mingyue shook her head and said nothing more.

She just looked at him gently.

Then, using her two delicate jade hands.

One covered his mouth.

The other held his hand.

...

Red.

Fire red.

In Ye Jingjun's field of vision, only red remained.

Her consciousness was even becoming a bit unclear.

Her figure darted back and forth within the city, unable to find her direction.

She wanted to find Su Chen.

But she searched along the coastline once and did not find any trace of Su Chen.

Later, she thought that Su Chen was Ye Yuan's sword.

Perhaps this "father" would know where Su Chen was.

However, when she returned to the small courtyard, she discovered.

Ye Yuan had also disappeared; she didn't know where he had gone.

"Master Su Chen..."

Upon thinking that Su Chen had very likely been taken away by Cang Mingyue and that she might never see him again.

The young girl felt.

That something in her heart was cracking inch by inch.

That feeling was extreme exhaustion, extreme pain.

The world before her eyes also slowly turned blood-red.

Several people dressed in official government uniforms brushed past her.

They seemed to be carrying several sacks in their hands and driving a huge animal.

Looking closely, the sacks contained several large rats and a weasel, while the animal being driven behind them was an old yellow ox.

Ye Jingjun had no intention of greeting them and continued searching for Su Chen's whereabouts.

In a trance, she seemed to hear someone running.

Someone shouting, someone wailing.

The sound of tongues of fire devouring wooden planks rang out with a crackling sound in her ears.

Ye Jingjun turned her head subconsciously.

It was the direction of the Prefectural Governors Residence.

In her blood-red vision, some shadows were constantly swaying in the courtyard of the Prefectural Governors Residence.

The shadows took the shape of flames.

Standing directly above the courtyard was a black figure.

Slightly familiar.

"No!"

The young girl instantly sobered up.

She saw clearly.

The person standing on the flames burning in the courtyard.

Was clearly Ye Yuan.

At this moment, he was being besieged by several cultivators from the residence who had suddenly attacked.

...

Meanwhile, at the seaside.

Three-quarters of an hour had passed.

Su Chen's transformation time had only a final quarter of an hour left.

On the reef, Cang Mingyue was still snuggled in Su Chen's arms.

Feeling the reassuring scent on his body.

She felt as if, in an instant, she had grasped eternity.

The sea breeze seemed to carry a hint of sweetness.

Su Chen gently stroked her long, seaweed-blue hair.

Suddenly, his heart palpitated.

It was a tremor from the depths of his soul.

Su Chen himself was a sword soul.

Logically speaking, it was unlikely that anything could harm the origin of his soul.

But there was another possibility.

"It's Ye Yuan!"

Su Chen thought of this immediately.

Ye Yuan had signed a blood pact with his original body.

If Ye Yuan encountered a life-or-death crisis, as his sword, Su Chen would naturally be able to sense it.

"Not good!"

Su Chen's expression changed drastically, and he stood up abruptly.

Cang Mingyue was startled by his sudden movement; she looked up and saw an unprecedented seriousness in his eyes.

"Young Master Su?"

Su Chen looked down at the young girl, whose pretty face was full of worry, and explained briefly.

"You should know by now that I am a sword soul, right?"

"Right now, the user of my sword body is in mortal danger."

"We must go back immediately!"

Su Chen spoke extremely fast, grabbed Cang Mingyue's wrist, and without caring to explain too much, his figure moved like lightning as he sped towards the direction of the Donglai Prefecture city.

Although Cang Mingyue did not understand the situation, seeing Su Chen so anxious and having absolute trust in him, she followed closely without hesitation.

The two increased their speed to the limit, the wind whistling in their ears.

The closer they got to the prefecture city, the stronger the feeling that something was wrong became.

The deep night, which should have been silent, now faintly carried chaotic sounds of crying, roaring, and the clashing of weapons.

Especially after their figures passed through the bridge arch under the city wall and entered the city.

The scene before them made both Su Chen and Cang Mingyue gasp.

Chaos.

The entire Donglai Prefecture city had fallen into chaos.

On the streets, a large number of commoners who had initially believed the words of the Penglai Immortal Sect and the new Prefectural Governor and had taken the medicine were gathered.

There were even some faces familiar to Su Chen and Cang Mingyue.

Those whose conditions had originally eased were now falling to the ground in droves, wailing.

The scales on their bodies had not only not receded in the slightest but were growing crazily.

Becoming thick and pitch-black.

The scales on some people even seemed to have gained intelligence.

Constantly stabbing into their bodies, piercing their skin, and causing dark red blood to flow out.

Many people were twisting in pain on the street and dying.

The manner of death was incomparably miserable.

What was even more outrageous was.

Squads of bailiffs dressed in official government uniforms, along with some cultivators dressed in Penglai Sect attire, were brutally snatching those patients who had not yet died or had just died from the hands of their weeping families.

They were dragging those dying or already dead commoners towards the direction of the Prefectural Governors Residence as if they were dragging livestock.

At this point, they were no longer even pretending.

The situation was already very obvious.

The medicine provided by the government was not for treating the plague at all, but rather served to provide temporary relief before making the plague even worse.

Looking at the results, it was highly probable that this plague was even caused by the government.

And then they turned around and shifted the blame onto the sea demons.

Anyway, the sea demons had already done plenty of evil in the hearts of the commoners in the East Lai coastal area, so they really didn't mind one more scapegoat.

And some time ago, the so-called "human traffickers abducting patients" was also highly likely a self-directed act by the East Lai Prefectural Governor.

Those people who were secretly taken away must have also been taken by the government's people.

"Dad, Mom, let go of my mom!"

"You bunch of animals, didn't you say you could cure her?"

"Damn the government! Liars of the Penglai Sect! You will all die horrible deaths!"

The sounds of crying and cursing shook the heavens and earth, and the order that had barely been maintained in the past was completely gone.

Hell on earth, nothing more.

Su Chen's heart sank to the bottom.