Legend Management Bureau Chapter 34

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Although the Qin soldiers were torn, they knew General Bai Qi was absolutely not someone to provoke. They had no choice but to bite the bullet and press forward. Even though the “immortal magic” of the person before them was formidable, it couldn’t possibly kill all of them in an instant.

A soldier finally closed in on Du Yu, spear in hand. Catching him off guard, the soldier thrust the weapon forward.

At that exact moment, Zhongli Chun suddenly roused. She snatched the spear away and killed the soldier with a backhanded thrust.

“Little Zhongli…”

“Mhm…” Zhongli Chun slowly pushed Du Yu away and said, “It seems I can’t sleep just yet. At the very least, I have to get you out of here first.”

Seeing the duo brace for battle, the Qin soldiers redoubled their efforts and surged forward. Zhongli Chun erupted with a sudden, inexplicable surge of strength. Wielding her spear, she lunged at the enemies with blinding speed. In the blink of an eye, she pierced the throats of seven or eight men.

Gritting his teeth, Du Yu snatched up a spear from the ground and covered Zhongli Chun’s back.

As an ordinary mortal, Du Yu had to focus entirely on everyone’s movements just to avoid getting skewered, but there were simply too many enemies…

“Argh!”

“Damn it!” Zhongli Chun turned around, her face paling in shock. She immediately killed the enemy soldier in front of Du Yu, but the enemies behind her took advantage of the opening and slashed her back.

“Little Zhongli! Watch out!!” Du Yu roared, leaping up to grapple with the enemies behind her. In the frantic scramble, he felt several more spears pierce him. His entire body screamed in agony, and he could not even tell where he was bleeding from.

The encirclement gradually tightened, and the suffocating shadow of death quietly descended.

Zhongli Chun hurriedly pulled Du Yu up from the ground. The two stood back-to-back once more, glaring at the surrounding enemies.

“Du Yu…!” Looking at the two of them on the monitor, Dong Qianqiu was just about to say something when she suddenly cried out, “Who’s there?!”

“Huh?” Du Yu felt that Dong Qianqiu’s voice sounded off, but he was completely overwhelmed on his end. “Sister Qianqiu… what happened over there?”

Dong Qianqiu did not answer, and Du Yu lost contact with her.

Inside the Legend Management Bureau.

Zhongli Chun was forcing her way into the lobby. Several staff members stepped forward to stop her, but they were sent flying one after another.

“Zhongli Chun!” Dong Qianqiu shouted angrily. “What are you doing?! You can’t come in here right now!”

Zhongli Chun’s eyes were conflicted as she looked at Dong Qianqiu. “My heart is suddenly aching. Did something happen to him?”

“Whether something happened to him or not, this is the work of the Legend Management Bureau, and we will handle it ourselves!”

“Let me in.”

“No!” Dong Qianqiu roared. “You cannot meet yourself within a legend. That is a rule of the Legend Management Bureau!”

“To hell with your legends!? Don’t you guys have the ability to teleport people to other places? Send me to his side right now, I will help him,” Zhongli Chun demanded.

“Don’t be foolish!” Dong Qianqiu retorted angrily. “If we could freely send people to his side, we would have sent someone to save him a long time ago!”

“Then you can’t just leave him in danger either!”

As the two women stood at odds with each other, He Suoyi slowly walked over.

“Zhongli Chun,” He Suoyi offered a faint smile. “Did you know? You’re not the only one in this world who cares about Du Yu. In this room, the person who wants to save him the most is probably Dong Qianqiu right in front of you.”

“Her?” Zhongli Chun cast a cold glance at Dong Qianqiu.

“That’s right. By making a scene with her here, you might very well end up costing Du Yu his life.”

“I…” Zhongli Chun was extremely anxious, but she did not know what else to do.

“The only thing you can do is return to your room and wait quietly.”

Her expression conflicted, Zhongli Chun slowly took a step back.

Dong Qianqiu wasted no more time and shouted, “Soul Summoning Team, prepare for soul retrieval immediately! Use the large-scale rapid soul extraction method!”

“Sister Qianqiu, the rapid soul extraction method is being prepared and is estimated to take five minutes. Due to the intense Yin energy, the souls of all living people within a hundred-meter radius, except for the operator, will be affected and shattered,” a staff member warned.

“We can’t worry about that right now…!!”

Zhongli Chun walked back step by step. She had clearly heard Du Yu’s screams from outside that room just now, so why wouldn’t they let her in?

For the first time, her heart was seized by sheer panic. She felt as if something incredibly precious was slowly slipping away from her. She had experienced this sensation before, but this time it was exceptionally devastating.

“Du Yu…” Zhongli Chun silently murmured his name. She had only just learned this name. Would she never get the chance to say it out loud again from now on?

“You said that after this was over, you would accompany me anywhere, do whatever I wanted to do, and always stay by my side…” A sorrowful look washed over Zhongli Chun’s face, her heart aching to the extreme.

She felt as if the two thousand years she had spent waiting were turning to dust, the gloomy scenes of her past slowly fading away.

By the time she snapped out of her daze, Zhongli Chun had returned to Dong Qianqiu’s office. She sat down despondently and hugged the jacket Du Yu had handed her earlier, feeling completely lost.

If it were possible, she would gladly trade her life for Du Yu’s. But what could she possibly do…

“Huh… what is this…?”

A black object in Du Yu’s pocket caught her attention.

…

“Du Yu!” Dong Qianqiu yelled. “Try your best to stay alive right now, even if you have to use Zhongli Chun as a meat shield! We are executing a rapid recall for you. The spell will be cast in exactly five minutes!”

“Sister Qianqiu… what kind of nonsense are you spouting…” Du Yu said weakly. “Little Zhongli is already covered in wounds from protecting me, and you actually want me to use her as a meat shield?”

“Once the rapid soul summoning begins, everyone near you will die, so it doesn’t matter anymore,” Dong Qianqiu stated.

“Everyone will die??” Du Yu’s eyes widened. “No! Little Zhongli cannot die!”

“Du Yu, this has already been decided.” Dong Qianqiu bit her lip. Over the past few days of observation, she had seen with her own eyes just how deeply Zhongli Chun cared for Du Yu. If it were possible, she truly wanted to save her.

But right now, there was no such possibility.

Even if every single person in the vicinity had to die here, the operator’s life had to be preserved!

For the sake of all the future legends, Zhongli Chun’s soul had to be shattered here, even though it meant the Zhongli Chun in the real world would vanish as well.

Du Yu turned his head to look at Zhongli Chun. She was completely exhausted. Fighting non-stop for three days and three nights had left her eyes looking exceptionally tired.

“Little Zhongli… can you still hold on?”

“I won’t fall until you leave this place alive.”

“No, the two of us are leaving alive together.”

Although Du Yu said this, he had no idea what to do.

Seeing the enemy forces gradually closing in, Du Yu could only toss out another grenade. However, the soldiers seemed to have seen through this trick. They immediately hoisted the nearby corpses to shield themselves. Even though the corpses were blown into a bloody mess, the number of casualties was significantly reduced.

Du Yu gripped the last grenade in his bag and gave a bitter smile.

Would such a method work? Using this single grenade to blow up the enemy commander, then taking out the thousands of soldiers nearby, and finally annihilating the remaining tens of thousands of enemy troops on the battlefield, all before retreating completely unscathed with Zhongli Chun.

Despite considering himself quite clever, Du Yu could not conjure up such a miraculous plan.

On this dust-choked battlefield, Du Yu stared his own death in the face.

Bai Qi looked at the two of them, knowing that their defeat was inevitable, and slowly walked over.

“I must admit, having comrades like you would be an absolute joy,” Bai Qi said coldly. “Unfortunately, we stand on opposing sides. Today, I have no choice but to send you on your way.”

“Bai Qi!” Du Yu bellowed. “Can we talk?”

“Talk?” Bai Qi paused slightly. “Interesting. You want to beg for mercy?”

“That’s right. I hope you will let Zhongli Chun and me go. In exchange, I will tell you what your future looks like.”

“Oh?” Bai Qi raised an eyebrow at that. “My future?”

“Yes. Don’t forget, the two of us are both disciples of Mr. Guigu. And I… I am the one most skilled in physiognomy and divination. I can calculate your future. I even know when you will bury four hundred thousand Zhao soldiers alive, and I know when you will die…”

“I will bury four hundred thousand Zhao soldiers alive?” Bai Qi’s expression clearly changed upon hearing this.

“So, do we have a deal?”

“A… deal? Hahahaha!”

To Du Yu’s bewilderment, Bai Qi laughed louder and louder, completely ignoring him.

“You really are an interesting person. You actually thought that telling me my future in advance would make me let you go?” Bai Qi sneered at Du Yu. “When you told me I would bury four hundred thousand Zhao soldiers alive, I was profoundly disappointed. Since I know it in advance, it completely ruins the thrill of war.”

Du Yu was stunned. Just what was wrong with this man in front of him?

“Do you know where the joy of the battlefield comes from?”

“The joy… of the battlefield?”

“For someone like me, the battlefield only brings two kinds of joy. The first is the anticipation of not knowing who I will kill today, and the second is the tension of not knowing when I will die in battle. Only by living in this state of mind does the allure of the battlefield captivate me so much.”

“You…” Du Yu felt that the man before him was nothing but a madman, galloping across this battlefield with the mindset of a gambler.

No, perhaps it was more accurate to say that only this kind of person could possibly become a legendary general.

“Since you know my future, I absolutely cannot let you leave.”

As soon as Bai Qi finished speaking, a sudden burst of frigid Yin energy permeated the air, and even the sky seemed to dim a little.

“The weather is changing?” The numerous soldiers looked up at the sky. For some reason, they only felt a chill run down their spines.

“What is going on?” Dong Qianqiu was startled as she watched. “A sudden, eerie wind has whipped up within the legend. Is it the soul extraction equipment?”

“No, Assistant Dong! The soul extraction equipment still needs two minutes to finish prepping!” a staff member replied. “The source of this eerie wind is currently unknown.”

“Du Yu! That spectral wind is extremely bizarre. Try to hide behind someone else and wait until we investigate the cause!”

“Du Yu?”

“Can you hear me?”

What made Dong Qianqiu feel confused and terrified was that no matter how much she yelled, Du Yu just stood there without any reaction.

“What happened?”

On the battlefield, Bai Qi waved his hand and commanded, “The weather is changing. Quickly chop off Zhongli Chun’s head.”

Receiving the order, the soldiers raised their weapons and marched forward one after another.

But right at this moment, a bizarre scene unfolded.

Zhongli Chun and Du Yu turned around at the exact same time. With identical movements, they stared fixedly at Bai Qi, reached out their hands in unison, and asked with one voice, “You want to take my head? Just you?”