Chapter 407 - 362: Who Am I? Where Am I? What Am I Doing?
"You idiot. Do you have any idea who you’ve been messing with, who you’ve been provoking this whole time?"
Lai Yu Yao tilted her head slightly, her eyes filled with disdain and mockery. Her tone was so cold it could have frozen the air around them.
"W-Who is it?"
Lai Yu Yao’s expression sent a powerful sense of foreboding through Zou Baixuan.
Still, he forced himself to keep up appearances and pressed on, steeling himself.
His voice, however, trembled uncontrollably, like a candle flame flickering in the wind, threatening to go out at any moment.
"This is the renowned Chu He, famous throughout our Great Xia Empire and across all of Blue Star!"
The moment that thunderous name left Lai Yu Yao’s lips,
Zou Baixuan froze in place as if hit by an Immobilization Spell.
His brain felt like it had been struck by lightning, instantly shutting down and going completely blank.
Cold sweat poured from his forehead and back, instantly soaking his clothes.
In that instant, his heart seemed to stop beating,
and he even seemed to forget how to breathe.
If his body hadn’t twitched uncontrollably a couple of times,
Zou Baixuan might have fainted on the spot and collapsed into a boneless heap on the ground.
A long moment passed before his brain finally, sluggishly, began to work again.
But Zou Baixuan was like a traveler lost in an endless fog,
having already forgotten about the Evil Spirit crisis unfolding around him.
His mind was now filled with only one chaotic, bewildering thought: ’Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing?’
His eyes were filled with terror and regret.
He screamed internally: ’I actually stood in front of the strongest person on Blue Star and repeatedly, shamelessly mocked him.’
He slowly turned his head, gazing at the brilliant sea of golden fire burning intensely.
His eyes were filled with despair and helplessness.
Finally, as if his entire skeleton had vanished,
Zou Baixuan collapsed back onto the ground, all the strength drained from his body in that instant.
His legs turned to jelly. Forget standing,
even the slightest movement had become an immense struggle.
This was a bone-deep, absolute terror,
many times stronger than what he’d felt when facing the Evil Spirit. It made his very soul tremble.
Zou Baixuan couldn’t fathom it.
Why would the strongest person on Blue Star suddenly appear in their tiny, insignificant third-tier city?
After all, among all the third-tier cities, Haitong City ranked near the bottom.
It was remote and utterly ordinary.
But by some cruel twist of fate, not only had he run into him,
he had also foolishly provoked this giant of a man, who could make all of Blue Star tremble just by stomping his foot.
His heart filled with terror and despair as he envisioned his own tragic future.
If his family found out what he had done,
he would likely face an inhumanly brutal beating. Getting flayed alive would be getting off easy.
In their fury, his family might even righteously disown him, sever all ties, and abandon him completely.
Zou Baixuan wanted to cry but had no tears left. His heart was filled with regret and self-blame, but it was all too late.
Seeing Zou Baixuan’s miserable state, Lai Yu Yao just gave a cold smile.
Her smile held not a trace of sympathy, only endless contempt.
Her gaze, like a cold, sharp arrow, quickly darted away from this piece of trash.
She turned back to watch Chu He’s magnificent display of power with her full attention.
In her eyes, Zou Baixuan was nothing more than an insignificant clown,
while Chu He was the one and only beacon of hope in this Dark World.
"Oh my god, what did I just hear?
That young man in the black baseball cap and black mask is actually Chu He!"
A young girl covered her mouth, her face a mask of shock, her eyes wide with disbelief.
"I... I heard it too! I thought something was wrong with my ears, that I’d misheard!"
A boy next to her chimed in, his voice also filled with astonishment and disbelief.
"Doesn’t that mean we’re saved this time? We’re not going to die here after all! No wonder that young man wasn’t panicking at all. It turns out he had nothing to fear!"
Another young person exclaimed excitedly,
his face beaming with the joy of surviving a disaster, the spark of hope reignited in his eyes.
"This is great! This is just great! There’s nothing better than finding out it was all just a scare!"
Everyone began to cheer, their voices filled with joy and relief.
They had just been forcefully dragged back from the brink of Hell.
"But that Zou Baixuan is in for it now. He’s always so smug, bullying others.
This time, he’s kicked a plate of solid steel. Let’s see if he dares to act so arrogantly in the future!"
a girl said with schadenfreude. Hearing this, the others all nodded in agreement.
The young men and women finally began to process their initial shock.
After confirming with each other that they hadn’t misheard,
each of their faces lit up with the joyous glow of having survived a great disaster.
Buoyed by this joy, their minds started working again.
No longer shrouded in fear, they began to dream of the good life that awaited them after escaping this crisis.
"I really never would have thought that in a situation so hopeless, so completely shrouded by the shadow of death—a desperate plight that seemed impossible to escape alive—the National Guardian War God of the Great Xia Empire, the strongest person on Blue Star, would just miraculously appear!"