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Chapter 127 I won’t let you leave

At this time, the priest suddenly raised his head and looked in another direction.

"Someone is coming. Not just humans, but beasts as well."

The four white-robed warriors behind him stood up from the ground, showing vigilant expressions, and surrounded the priest.

...No, around her to be precise.

Ji Chunzao found that the actions of these people were all centered around him, as if they wanted to protect her and defend her in the center, which was overwhelming.

"Been noticed?"

No. 7 asked in a deep voice.

"Who is the other party? How many people are there? Is it a 'warrior'? Or a 'king'?"

No. 15 - The brother of the youngest brother and sister raised his hands and poked his temples with his index fingers. His eyes were closed tightly and his furrowed eyebrows were moving, as if he was trapped in a painful thought.

No. 9 said in a robot-like cold and unemotional tone:

"Priest."

"Well, the latter is more likely."

"I read relevant information when I came here. The savior has two companions. One is a warrior with a physical prototype, and the other is a mysterious king. Could it be that they are here?"

"Come as soon as it comes. No matter who it is, we just have to wait."

The priest still smiled.

Several people stood at the intersection together, looking quietly at the visitors at the other end of the road - including Ji Chuncao. She didn't dare to act rashly now, and could only secretly hope that the person coming was her friend.

The roar of a car engine came in the distance, then stopped. Someone got out of the car and quickly approached in their direction.

After a while, the girl's appearance appeared in front of everyone.

She is young and petite, with refreshing, medium-length black straight hair. However, for the age of a junior high school girl, her clothes unexpectedly make her look mature, like a little adult.

"Yuzhi! You're here!"

Ji Chunzao's eyes lit up, and he quickly pushed away the people who were squeezing around him and ran towards him.

The people in white robes did not obstruct her. Instead, after noticing her movements, they immediately stepped aside and lowered their heads slightly.

Their attitude was quite respectful, and they seemed to sincerely admire Ji Chunzao. Even when she left, they just stared at the girl's back silently, and no one asked out loud, as if even opening the mouth to communicate was a kind of blasphemy.

The curly-haired girl ran up to the eldest lady and grabbed her hands, looking as excited as a nestling returning to its nest.

"You're finally here, I've been waiting for you for a long time!"

"I rushed over as soon as I received your call... But looking at you now, it seems like nothing urgent or bad happened?"

"There are bad things, but they have been solved. The problem is later..."

Miss Xie shook her hand, but found that she could not shake it off. She was a little speechless. Her eyes fell on the white-robed men and the tall black-robed priests. After observing them for a while, they moved back to Ji Chunzao's face.

"Who are they? What do they do here?"

"I, I don't know either..."

"They didn't speak. It seemed they planned to wait for us to finish saying hello."

Xie Yuzhi reminded.

"Then tell me what these people said to you."

Ji Chunzao nodded and explained everything that happened after she returned home. Including discovering the abnormality of her uncle and aunt, when they chased her out, a man who claimed to be a priest rescued her, and then four more warriors with physical bodies appeared.

Among these words, the key word that Miss Xie first noticed was...

"God Pillar."

She stroked her smooth chin and assumed a familiar thinking expression.

"By the way! I feel very strange. From just now, they have been talking about something... about the divine pillar, and they also said that I have this thing in my body."

Ji Chunzao scratched the ends of his curly hair hanging down on his shoulders in distress.

"I always feel like I've heard this word somewhere. I should say, we heard it together. Yuzhi, do you remember it?"

"I see."

Miss Xie nodded.

"I do have the impression. If what they say is true, this is indeed a... very critical issue."

Seeing his friend's serious expression, Ji Chunzao's heart suddenly dropped and he could only stare at him blankly.

"...when? Where?"

"In the ruins. Do you remember? The content shown on the murals records the past of Alpha Civilization and the source of power of 'warriors', 'kings' and 'priests'."

"I……"

As soon as Xie Yuzhi reminded her, vague outlines of fragments began to appear in the little girl's mind.

By the way, I do have an impression. Ji Chunzao remembered the mural he saw for the first time in the maze——

It depicts three aliens with different looks and costumes in a whole forest; countless towering trees surround them, and in the middle of them is a pillar of flesh that reaches into the sky and is covered with eyes;

Next, they dug out three things from the flesh column. Two of them held an eye in their hands, while the remaining person held a string of long thorn-like bones in their hands - most likely vertebrae.

That is the origin of the threefold power of "warrior", "king" and "sacrifice".

At the end of the mural, the pillar of flesh collapsed, replaced by endless lightning all over the sky, which together with the landslides and earth cracks formed an apocalyptic scene...

However, although Ji Chunzao remembered the origin of the "divine pillar", he was even more confused by what the priest and others said.

"The divine pillar is within one's body"? What does this sentence mean?

"I also do not understand."

When Ji Chunzao expressed her doubts frankly, Miss Xie also shook her head.

"It's better to ask myself."

With that said, she simply took Ji Chunzao's hand and walked to the priest who was waiting quietly for the two of them to finish their conversation.

"Tell me, what is your intention?" The man in black lowered his eyebrows, and the wrinkles on his face were like gaps between bluestones.

"I hope the Savior can join us to save the world."

"You just want to take her out of here, right?"

Xie Yuzhi did not talk nonsense, was concise and straight to the point.

"Yes."

"She and I are friends and we have no intention of separating."

"Then let's go together. I'll naturally welcome you."

"Humph."

Miss Xie smiled a little coldly, but also seemed a little proud.

"Don't get me wrong, what I mean is that Chun Zao is not your 'savior', but my friend. She can only listen to her friends, not you."

"We are the savior's servants. Naturally, the savior's friendship cannot allow us to question it."

"Hey... your attitude is quite good." Xie Yuzhi nodded, "You said there is a divine pillar in Chun Zao's body. What does that mean?"

"Literal meaning. If you want to know more, please come with us. This matter involves the internal secrets of Gao Zhi, and it is an extremely important research result. I'm sorry that I cannot explain it in detail in this place."

The other party's attitude was still very humble.

"I don't care about this." She changed the subject calmly. Although she wanted to find out the truth of this issue, she was currently negotiating and could not be noticed. "So in the end, you still plan to use her?"

"...I think this is not about taking advantage, but working together. We are already prepared for the arrival of the savior. With just one word, the resources and manpower we have accumulated can be mobilized."

Next, the other party seems to be planning to explain the "benefits" that can be obtained by joining them——

This is like the kind words a company would say when recruiting employees, but according to this group of people, they are recruiting their own bosses.

but……

Xie Yuzhi glanced at Ji Chunzao and saw the curly-haired girl pressing her thin lips into a straight line, her dark eyes staring quietly at the deserted place without blinking, and her expression didn't listen at all.

Although Chunzao didn't speak during this process, Xie Yuzhi could still see her resistance.

No matter what the other party says, for people like Chun Zao, what they are not interested in is just not interesting.

Ji Chunzao is an easily satisfied person. When she feels that her current life is already very happy, she will not want her life to change.

What's more, there is no one person who can really decide her attitude -

Xie Yuzhi spoke again:

"So, what if Chun Zao is unwilling to leave with you no matter what?"

The priest fell silent.

After a while, the wrinkles on his face looked more serious and dense.

"That is indeed the power to save the world. But for an ordinary underage girl, it is an extremely heavy burden. I am worried that the savior will not be able to bear it. Although we have spent a lot of time and resources to prove the coexistence of the host and the divine pillar It is possible……"

Xie Yuzhi interrupted him.

"Please tell me the answer frankly. Tell me, what will you do if she doesn't want to leave?"

There was another longer silence.

The priest looked at them quietly, as if he had seen the end of the conversation, with a bit of sadness in his eyes.

"We...if the crisis comes earlier, we will have to take action. Before coming, we have been allowed to use forced evacuation, please understand."

"Haha. 'Permitted'? By whom? Have you asked the parties for their opinions?"

Miss Xie laughed again.

"Violence, coercion, resistance, indeed this is the way people like you can understand."

"Eh-are you planning to fall out?"

It was only then that Ji Chunzao opened his mouth nervously.

"Are you not mentally prepared yet?"

During the negotiation process between Xie Yuzhi and them, Ji Chunzao remained silent——

The reason is simple, because she is already preparing to call the predator king.

Xie Yuzhi was very familiar with Ji Chunzao and had seen how she summoned the giant monster that appeared from the void more than once, so she deliberately took the initiative to act as a conversation representative to divert attention.

"Not even close."

"That's enough."

Xie Yuzhi replied.

"Just in case. Because he's already here."

Ji Chunzao blinked his big eyes, and the light reflected in his dark pupils gradually became brighter.

"Jing Xing, are you there?"

She raised her voice and shouted to everyone around her.

"I'm here. I've been listening to your conversation."

The boy's answer came from behind them. Under everyone's gaze, Yan Jingxing jumped down from the nearby roof and walked slowly to his friends with his hands in his trouser pockets.

"If Chunzao wants to leave, that's fine. If others force her to do something, I won't let it go," he said.

"I-I'm not going to leave!"

When Ji Chunzao heard this, he couldn't help pouting.

"Fine, I know."

Yan Jingxing laughed, stretched out his hand and lovingly grabbed the ends of her hair that were hanging behind her.

"I won't let you leave my side."

(End of this chapter)