Chapter 299: The New Emperor Ascends the Throne!

This tomb is connected to a reservoir, and many of the mechanisms in it are driven by water pressure.

When Emperor Yongqi twisted the last mechanism, the crane in the cloud escaped from the coffin, and immediately after that, the entire mausoleum entered self-destruction.

Not only did the entire mausoleum begin to collapse, but the water in the reservoir also rushed in.

"Boom Boom Boom Boom ......"

For a time, the entire mausoleum was completely in ruins.

The crane in the cloud passed directly through the waterway and was sucked into the bottom of the Dayan Reservoir.

He knew that at this time, there must be Emperor Yongqi, or the mausoleum keeper of the Empress Dowager, who was receiving him.

But the crane in the clouds will not come out of the water, because the entire reservoir may also be under the watchful eye of the warriors of the Great Salty Demon Country.

Grandpa and great-grandmother, who paid such a huge price to save his life, could no longer be handed over to others.

This Dayan Reservoir is very large, and the deepest place is tens of hundreds of meters, stretching for hundreds of miles.

Moreover, this reservoir is very wonderfully built, it uses the mountains as a natural embankment, and the real man-made embankment is on the west side, so even if someone comes to blow up the embankment, the assembly will not flood the capital of the Great Flame.

And this reservoir is not to supply water to the capital, but to irrigate countless fertile fields in the west of the capital.

This huge reservoir already existed during the Great Yan Dynasty. Later, the Great Xia Empire was renovated and expanded, and it was only then that it had its current size.

And the one who built this Great Yan Reservoir was the last emperor of the Great Yan Dynasty, Yan Xinzong.

This is a super project, even in the modern era of the earth, it is an amazing project, but it has been built in the Great Yan Dynasty more than a thousand years ago.

Yun Zhonghe knew that the entire Great Yan Capital would frantically search for him next.

He had to use the quickest and most stealthy way to escape.

What's the solution?

Once he and Li Huamei escaped from that island and left on a big fish.

This kind of giant reservoir, and it's been more than a thousand years, so there must be that kind of super big fish in it that can leave with the crane in the clouds.

But...... It is necessary for the crane in the cloud to use the talent of the twenty-fifth mental patient to be able to communicate with the big fish.

But now the mental illness of Yun Zhonghe at this time is Beethoven, not No. 25, but every time Yun Zhonghe uses the talent of a mental patient, it will leave traces in the brain more or less, that is, he will master relevant skills, but this skill is very weak.

And the bottom of the water is so deep that the sun can't shine down, and it's dark.

The most important thing is that kind of suffocation, which is almost life-threatening.

Don't show the water, don't show the water, because the Great Salty Demon Country has eagles and falcons, and you can see cranes in the clouds in the sky.

Once the crane in the clouds appears, it will definitely die.

Suffocated, unable to see five fingers, unable to control the big fish, all this is too terrible.

The crane in the cloud took out a bottle from his bosom and poured out a medicine, the medicine that Rosemary Valley had given him.

No, to be precise, it was the medicine given to him by the Emperor of Da Ying, seized from the Rosemary Valley.

The Great Win Dark King took so many pains and pains to let the Crane in the Clouds save the Emperor of Yongqi, and there was only one goal, that is, the scroll in the arms of the Crane in the Clouds.

This scroll is the only nemesis against the Great Salty Demon Kingdom.

And obviously, even if the crane in the clouds is killed, the nemesis of this Great Salty Demon Kingdom still exists.

Therefore, the goal of the Great Win Dark King is to destroy the threat to the Great Salty Demon Kingdom once and for all.

After taking a pill.

Soon, the crane in the clouds once again entered a very special state.

The whole body began to swell, swell, swell to the extreme, and the whole person exploded directly, as if there was no body.

Then, the mental power was incomparably sharp, and all perceptions were keen, as if magnified countless times.

The original dark bottom of the water has also become transparent, and the feeling of suffocation seems to have been temporarily eliminated.

Not only that, but the vague marks left by those mental patients in his brain before were also dramatically magnified.

Soon the crane in the cloud saw a big fish, this is a super catfish, more than three meters, at least more than five hundred catties.

It's almost like a boat.

It is a hundred meters away at this time, and it should be the overlord of this water.

The crane in the cloud began to unleash the ability of Psycho Twenty-Five, emitting special notes that attracted the catfish to come over and communicate with it.

Soon, the giant catfish came over.

The crane in the cloud lay on its back and gave it instructions.

But...... It is not a whale, its IQ is far inferior to that of a whale, and it is almost impossible to communicate.

The crane in the cloud can only give him the simplest instructions, keep swimming, keep swimming.

And this catfish, dragging a crane in the clouds of more than 100 catties, easily swam under the water.

No matter what direction it is, it just keeps swimming, and the speed is very fast, almost like a person running.

And this time!

Several falcons flew over the reservoir and began to monitor every inch of the water.

At the same time, one black shadow after another rushed out.

Dozens, hundreds, thousands, jumped off the reservoir one after another.

Dozens of ships, scattered around, hunted for cranes in the clouds.

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And just like that, two days later.

The crane left the reservoir, burrowed into the river, entered a city hundreds of miles away, and took advantage of the darkness to return to the surface and into a house that was uninhabited.

For the first time, disguise yourself as a beggar.

It was only at this time that he took out the scroll and opened it to look at it.

The scroll is also nephrite texture, with a flame engraved into it, leaving nothing left.

The crane in the clouds was stunned.

What the hell? This is the treasure of the Great Xia Empire?

This is the treasure of destroying the Great Salty Demon Kingdom? This is what the Great Win Dark King desperately wants to get?

What the hell is this?

Next, the crane in the cloud desperately analyzed the flame pattern on this scroll, but he couldn't come up with a reason.

I studied it for a whole day and a night, and got nothing.

So, he had an idea in his mind, there was a flame painted on it, could it be burned with fire, and the effect would be visible?

So, he carefully roasted it over a fire.

Outcome...... This thing is indeed not afraid of flames, and it is not burned.

The crane in the cloud then put it on the flame and burned it, and then a line of gold characters appeared.

109.061627,31.635966!

Suddenly, the crane in the cloud was stunned, this ...... What the hell is this?

The exact coordinates of the wreck of the Emperor Nu are counted, and the coordinates of the real tomb of the Emperor of Nu are also counted, why is it also a coordinate on the testament of Gaozu?

The key, this ...... Where is it?

Did the Dark Monarch of the Great Win Empire go to great lengths to get this coordinate?

What kind of place is this coordinate, and how can it destroy the Great Salty Demon Country?

Yun Zhonghe began to calculate in his mind, even if he didn't have the ninth quantum at this time, but after all, he had been using quantum for several years, and for his ability, the analysis was the most profound.

Close your eyes and start contemplating a map of this world.

Then, the entire world map immediately appeared, startling the cranes in the clouds.

What the hell? so fast?

The crane in the clouds discovered that the mysterious drug in Rosemary Valley seemed to have developed his brain.

As he continued to take medicine, his brain became more and more awesome, and the imprints of his previous mental illness became more and more profound.

Next, the crane in the cloud began to calculate where this coordinate was in this world.

After the calculation, the crane in the cloud was completely confused.

I...... Oh my god.

It's too far.

At this time, the crane in the clouds was in Lianzhou City of the Great Xia Empire, a full 13,000 miles away from this coordinate, and it was still a straight line distance.

Do you want him to walk on his legs?

What a dog!

But...... The crane in the clouds must also go, because this is the only hope.

The Great Win Empire, the Great Zhou Empire, and the Great Xia Empire have all fallen, and the Great Western Empire is also coming soon, or has already fallen.

Don't forget, the Emperor of the Great Western Empire also took the Rejuvenating and Longevity Pill, and he also has the blood of the Great Xian Demon Country, but like the Tianzuo Divine Emperor, the purity is relatively low, and he is not considered to be the own person of the Great Xian Demon Country.

Therefore, this coordinate provided by Emperor Gaozu is the only hope for the crane in the clouds to defeat the Great Xian Demon Kingdom.

But the crane in the clouds is really puzzled, why are there coordinates in this world?

And it seems that it appeared more than a thousand years ago, and it has achieved full unification.

It's just that the Great Xian Demon Kingdom uses coordinates, and the Great Xia Gaozu also uses coordinates, does it mean that the Great Yan Dynasty also uses coordinates?

On the contrary, after more than a thousand years, the coordinates were lost, and even the Arabic numerals were lost.

It is necessary to go to the mysterious location of this coordinate.

And the crane in the cloud breathed a sigh of relief at this time.

There had always been a time scale in his mind before, that is, before the Great Win Empire attacked the Great Xia Empire, he had to develop and grow and destroy the White Cloud City fleet.

Right now...... There is no need for this timescale.

Because, the Great Xia Empire has also fallen.

Next, the crane in the clouds has to find a way to go to this mysterious coordinate location.

The distance in a straight line is 13,000 miles.

If you go directly north, you will pass through a large area of no man's land, at least 7,000 miles of no man's land, and it will get colder and colder, directly dropping to dozens of degrees below zero.

There is another way, which is to go west first and then north.

In this way, you will pass through many small countries in the Western Regions along the way, and there are also no man's land, which is also a no-man's land for thousands of miles.

No matter which direction it is, relying on the crane in the clouds alone, it is impossible to reach the location of this coordinate.

But he had to go, because it was the only hope for the destruction of the Great Salty Demon Country.

It is 13,000 miles in a straight line, so if you walk, it is at least more than 20,000 miles. Unless an army has enough supplies, enough camels or horses, it can get to that place.

Soon, the crane in the cloud found that he was thinking about it.

He was able to go to that place because Psycho Twenty-Five's talent was to communicate with animals.

He was called the Son of the Sea, and that was because his previous abilities were only manifested on the sea, but what about the land?

Can he make the beasts kind to him?

If it could, the crane in the clouds would be able to travel thousands of miles of no-man's land alone.

He can ride a tiger, a bear and a wild deer.

And even if he doesn't have a strong force, he can survive in a no-man's land, because if he has this ability, the beast won't hurt him.

But...... Yun Zhonghe is not enough to rely on himself, he needs the No. 25 mental patient to go up, he can't take medicine every time, he doesn't have much medicine left.

At this time, it was March 26, and there were still ten days left before the sixth day of October, and he could change to a mentally ill person.

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Next, the crane in the cloud disguised himself as a beggar and went all the way north.

He plays a beggar, and there really is no flaw. It's just that beggars are the darkest environment in the world, full of killing and ferocity.

So along the way, the crane in the clouds suffered countless low-level malice.

Some beggars want to woo him, some beggars want to murder him, some gang members, and so on.

However, the cranes in the clouds are all at ease.

Don't forget, the former owner of his body, grew up in a beggar's heap.

Then a piece of news came, which made the crane in the cloud feel sad, but also a hint of happiness.

Emperor Yongqi of Great Xia let Chan, the crown prince Xia decided, and ascended the throne as the emperor.

At this point, it means the complete fall of the Great Xia Empire, and this prince, who has half of the bloodline of the Great Xian Demon Kingdom, has long secretly taken refuge in the Great Xian Demon Kingdom.

And that's not all.

There was also even more distant news that the war of the Great Win Empire against the Great Western Empire was over.

The Emperor of the Onishi Empire died, and the crown prince Li Xuan ascended the throne as emperor, and an armistice agreement was signed with the Daying Empire.

This means...... The crown prince Li Xuan also secretly surrendered.

The fall of the Onishi Empire.

It's so fast!

The four major empires in the East all fell into the hands of the Great Salty Demon Kingdom.

I thought this was a very slow process, but I didn't expect that like an avalanche, faster and faster, the order of several major empires in the East collapsed in an instant.

Of course, the Great Salty Demon Kingdom has been preparing for this day for hundreds of years.

It has infiltrated the four eastern countries for hundreds of years, just for this moment.

Next, it was the contest between the Great Win Emperor and the White Cloud City Lord, and the winner became the Dark King of the Great Win Empire.

This reminded the crane in the clouds of a scene on the sea.

At that time, Yun Zhonghe and Li Huamei's fleet had just defeated Shi Bian's fleet, and the Baiyun City Lord led the Nu Emperor fleet and left in a circle, this powerful fleet brought an unprecedented shock to Yun Zhonghe, as if the Doomsday Fleet had emerged from the depths of hell.

At that time, Yun Zhonghe asked Li Huamei, is this Bai Gu the Dark King?

Li Huamei said he wasn't yet.

Now the whole world has become a heavy fruit, just waiting for the Dark King to pick it.

I don't know when these two people competed?

If the emperor wins, how will he reign over the world?

Do you still deceive the people that you are the emperor of the Eastern civilization, or do you directly unmask and declare yourself the emperor of the Great Xian Demon Kingdom?

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The crane in the clouds traveled all the way north, and a few days later, he came to Blackwater City.

This name is a little familiar, it seems to have been seen in a book, but it is not the same thing, this is the northernmost city of the Great Xia Empire, and it is five thousand miles away from the capital.

The crane in the clouds walked for more than a month, and finally came to the northern end of the Great Xia Empire, which is also the end of the Eastern Civilization Empire.

It's already very cold, and even though it's already May, it's still snowy, around -10 degrees Celsius.

The further north you go, the colder it gets.

On the sixth day of the fourth lunar month, Yun Zhonghe once again entered the dream of X Psychiatric Hospital and successfully changed to a mentally ill person.

Sure enough, it was the twenty-fiveth, the son of the sea.

Blackwater City also has walls, and it is also heavily guarded, because further north it is a barbarian people.

It can be regarded as a wild tribe that grows in the dense forests of the Black Water, this group of people makes a living by hunting, resists civilization, and occasionally comes to raid the Great Xia Empire.

However, the Great Xia Empire is too powerful, and the so-called plundering is basically self-defeating.

For the most part, the Northland wildlings hunted and traded their furs for salt and cloth.

The beggar gang is really everywhere, even if you go to Blackwater City, there are still traces of the beggar gang.

Yunzhonghe is dressed as a beggar, and everywhere he goes, he will be targeted by the local beggar gang, but he knows the rules, and he just offers filial piety, which is regarded as road money.

And this money can't be too much, otherwise your life will be in danger.

This time, the money prepared by Yun Zhonghe to buy the road was a piece of cloth, which was considered a stolen goods of unknown origin, so it was normal.

"Come with us to the helper. The two beggars said.

Yun Zhonghe did not resist, and followed the two beggars to meet the leader of the beggar gang in Blackwater City.

This beggar is inside the underground passage, because it's warmer.

There were hundreds of people crowded inside, and I couldn't imagine that there were so many beggars in this kind of place, and everyone was in rags, even in such a cold weather, it stinked.

"Meet the helper. The crane in the cloud bowed down, and then sang directly.

Look at whether the grandmother is a parent, rich and respectful to others.

What is the use of three years of breastfeeding, and if you marry a daughter-in-law, you have to divide it.

Good wine and good meat for the wife to eat, not afraid of the grandmother starving and breaking tendons.

I have never seen a bowl of rice in my life, who will come to the grave after death?

This kind of beggar singing is also a standard skill of a professional beggar, as long as you sing it, everyone will identify with you.

After singing, the crane in the cloud offered a piece of cloth and said, "Helper, pass through the treasure land, and make it convenient." ”

"Where are you going, brother?" asked the beggar gang leader.

Yun Zhonghe said: "I can't live my life, I want to go to the wild man to ask for a daughter-in-law." ”

As soon as these words came out, many beggars burst into laughter and made fun of the crane in the clouds for not showing any interest.

There are many such beggars, who are looked down upon in the Great Xia Empire and can't marry a daughter-in-law at all, but when they go to the savage tribe in the north, they have become decent people and can marry a daughter-in-law.

However, in mainstream public opinion, these beggars would rather be beggars of the empire than be outsiders of savages.

This is probably also their pride from the bottom of their hearts, the three major empires in the East, representing advanced and civilized, even if they are beggars, they are glorious, and they can also become the subjects of the Heavenly Empire.

"That savage woman has never bathed all her life, it stinks worse than a pit, and you can go down to the birds. A group of beggars laughed.

"How can we men from the Heavenly Empire marry savage women?"

Hearing the words of these beggars, the crane in the clouds was in turmoil.

Soon this pride will also be gone, because the Eastern Civilization Empire has fallen, and the darkness of the Great Salty Demon Kingdom has enveloped the entire Eastern World.

The helper smiled instead: "Everyone has their own ambitions, there is no need to force it, I wish the senior brother a smooth journey, marry a savage mother-in-law smoothly, and spread the branches." ”

Yun Zhonghe bowed down and said, "Thank you, senior brother." ”

Then, he took his leave, and this is a fairly well-behaved helper.

Passing by some places before, the local beggars were very shameless, and after offering the money to buy the road, they wanted to get out and complete the task.

This kind of task is either stealing, or killing, in short, nothing good.

In this way, the crane in the clouds left Blackwater City, leaving a city on the very edge of the Great Xia Empire.

Left the last civilized city.

At the head of the city, the leader of the beggar gang in Blackwater City looked at the figure of the crane in the clouds, his eyes were already red, and he wiped his tears.

O uncle, crane in the clouds.

Is my disguise so successful?!

Back then, in the Great Zhou Empire, you didn't recognize me, and now you haven't recognized me, it's really a dog's day.

That's right, the leader of this beggar gang is Yan Qiqi.

He recognized the crane at the first sight of the crane, even if the crane in the cloud had changed beyond recognition and completely changed.

But...... The crane in the clouds still didn't recognize him.

Therefore, his heart was excited, happy, and helpless.

That familiar feeling came again, when I was a child, I played hide and seek with other children, and he hid it so well that others couldn't find it, so they just forgot about him.

Could it be that I am really a rat and a cockroach, and there is nothing unusual about hiding in the stinky ditch?

But Yan was happy after all.

The crane in the clouds is still alive, that's good, that's good.

He didn't know what had happened to the crane in the clouds, why he had left the Great Xia Empire as a beggar and went to the savage area.

He also had an impulse to follow the crane in the clouds.

But he soon dispelled this thought, he had no goal or direction.

It's good to be a beggar in this way, get by, be happy, maybe he should be a beggar by nature, he shouldn't go to the Black Ice Platform to be a secret agent, he shouldn't meet Jing Zhongyue, he shouldn't meet ...... Zhou Li.

Once a person has feelings, he suffers.

Looking at the disappearing back of the crane in the clouds, Yan Qiqi sang:

Look at whether the brothers are not relatives, and the three litters and two pieces are uneven.

Compatriots should also divide each other, and strive for more and less for theory.

There is wine that eats only with others, and his own flesh and blood are enemies.

Singing a beggar song is considered to be a send-off for the crane in the clouds.

He is about to live a drunken life again.

This Blackwater City is excellent, it is cold all year round, and there is no spring, summer, autumn and winter, which will make people forget the time.

As soon as you lie down, it is a muddy nightmare, day and night,

And as a helper, you don't need to beg by yourself, you have food and drink, it's wonderful.

The gods don't change, hahahaha!

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The crane in the clouds went all the way north and first entered the savage mountains.

Encountered a giant wolf.

The upper body of the No. 25 mentally ill patient really has a miraculous effect.

He has a natural affinity for animals, and even a vicious wolf will not hurt him.

With this evil wolf by his side, the primitive tribe savages here will not harm him.

Because, there is only one kind of man who can domesticate the beast, and that is the shaman of the savage tribe.

And the status of shamans in the savage tribe is quite high.

So after passing through several savage tribes, instead of being harmed, the crane in the clouds was treated as a guest.

The tribal leaders offered wine and meat, and they were not happy.

There are even women from some tribes who recommend pillow mats.

But...... It's really a bit of a mouthful, because if you don't take a bath all year round, it's really stinky.

The giant wolf accompanied the crane in the clouds for three hundred miles, and then it left, because this is its maximum range of activity, and leaving here is equivalent to leaving its familiar territory.

Next, the crane in the clouds domesticated another white tiger.

The snow here was already very deep, and with his legs, he could no longer walk, so he could only walk on a tiger.

And it's so cold that the crane in the cloud wears several layers of mink fur and doesn't work, and he has to drink deer blood every day to keep warm.

I walked more than 2,000 miles.

Completely into no man's land.

In this area, even the wild people do not come, there are primeval forests everywhere, and they are all permafrost.

There were only the tracks of wild beasts on the snow, and there were no human footsteps.

The tiger accompanied the crane in the clouds for more than a thousand miles, and then it also left, because if it went any further, it would leave its familiar territory.

The crane in the cloud continued to walk, and then domesticated a large bear.

Only then did the crane in the clouds know that there was such a big bear, about 1,600 catties, right?

Such a giant bear, I'm afraid I won't be afraid to encounter a tiger.

And this giant bear is also the easiest to domesticate, the most innocent, and the closest to the crane in the clouds.

The crane in the clouds rode it all the way.

Endless no-man's land.

13,000 miles in a straight line, at least 20,000 miles to walk.

In this way, the giant bear became the longest companion of the crane in the clouds, and it was also able to keep the crane warm when the weather was coldest.

The crane in the clouds went all the way north, to the north.

Then it went west.

More than 10,000 miles of no man's land, only dogs and bears are company.

I really forgot the time here, and the crane in the clouds even had an urge to leave everything behind and live in this vast and uninhabited area.

Here, there is no need to worry about food and clothing, and there is no carefree, completely close to nature, and after the twenty-fifth psycho is up, no wild beast will harm him.

But this thought was only a fleeting thought.

He still has a mission that has not been completed, and no matter what kind of oriental civilization he has, even if it is for his father, for his wife and children, for his grandfather, and for his great-grandmother, he must destroy the Great Xian Demon Kingdom and the Great Win Emperor.

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Another month of walking.

Is this the time to arrive?

Because there is no navigation in this world, there is no GPS, and there is no endless no-man's land along the way.

Therefore, ordinary people don't know where they are, and they can't even tell the difference between the southeast and the northwest.

The crane in the clouds is located entirely by the stars in the sky.

But no matter how accurate his brain calculations are, it is very incorrect to rely on the stars for positioning.

So there is only one question in the crane in the clouds.

I...... I'm coming?

I've arrived at the coordinates given by Gaozu Xia Zhou?

This is the place to destroy the Great Salty Demon Kingdom?

This is the secret of destroying the Great Salty Demon Country?

I...... I read a lot, don't you lie to me?

Yun Zhonghe was helpless, and walked more than 20,000 miles, I don't know how many days and nights, he became a wild man.

Finally reached the approximate destination.

But...... There's nothing here.

Boundless ice and snow, no cities, no houses, nothing.

I've walked more than 20,000 miles.

What is the only hope to save the Eastern civilization, what is the only hope to destroy the Great Xian Demon Country.

Where are you?

Emperor Gaozu, are you lying to me?

Seeing that the crane in the clouds was unhappy, the big bear rubbed it with its huge head, and then brought a piece of venison in his mouth.

The crane rubbed its huge head.

If you find nothing here, and you can't find the so-called hope of destroying the Great Xian Demon Country, then ...... Will the crane in the clouds go back?

The duel between the Great Win Emperor and the White Cloud City Lord should have begun, or it should have ended.

The crane in the clouds was not reconciled, and then rode this huge bear around this hundred-mile area.

Keep exploring, trying to find the so-called hope of destroying the Great Salty Demon Country.

But...... Completely nothing.

One day, ten days, a month passed.

He's still wandering around the area, and he's not getting anything out of it.

It's still a man and a bear, and it's lonely.

This situation is simply desperate.

At night, the crane in the clouds lies next to the big bear, covered with layers of animal skins, looking at the stars.

It gives people the illusion that this is the closest place to the sky, and the stars in the sky seem to be within reach.

The crane in the cloud couldn't help but stretch out his hand, as if to grab a certain star.

The purple microstar in the sky was already very dim, almost extinguished, and Sirius was already bright to the extreme.

Emperor Yongqi's grandfather also said that Zi Weixing was his crane in the clouds.

The bear called out, as if to say, sleep, sleep.

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Next!

When the crane woke up, he was horrified to find a room in the snowfield ahead.

A room made of snow and ice with a familiar pattern painted on it.

A flame that was exactly the same as the one on Emperor Gaozu's scroll.

The crane in the clouds was suddenly ecstatic and horrified.

Because this room came out overnight.

The crane in the clouds suddenly rushed towards the ice and snow house.

In the ice room, there is only one table, which is also made of ice.

There was a pill on the table, and three words were written on it: Eat it.

Yun Zhonghe hesitated for a second, picked up the pill, and swallowed it directly.

The next second!

His eyes went dark, and he fell into a complete sleep, completely unconscious.

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I don't know how long it took, but the crane in the cloud woke up again.

Open your eyes!

His whole body trembled violently, and he couldn't believe his eyes.

Tears instantly soaked his eyes.

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Note: I finally finished writing it until five o'clock in the morning. The pace is fast, it's all new plots, and it takes a long time to conceive.

Engong, if you have a monthly pass, please give it to me, okay? I especially need your encouragement, and I am infinitely grateful to you.