The Outside Made Ye Zichen Collapse
He sat on a park bench.
Ye Zichen didn't know how long he'd been sitting there. He didn't talk to Yang Jian. He just sat there in a daze.
He looked around at the familiar surroundings, at the endless stream of pedestrians and cars.
"Want a cigarette?"
Yang Jian held a cigarette between his lips. He offered it to Ye Zichen.
Ye Zichen rubbed his tired head and accepted Yang Jian's cigarette. Then, he lit it with a ball of flame.
He'd done it on purpose.
He wanted to see how others would react when they saw that he could spit fire. But to his disappointment, the pedestrians didn't show any surprise at all when they saw it.
Only now did Ye Zichen feel somewhat resigned.
This wasn't the Modern Realm. Even if it was, it wasn't the Modern Realm he knew.
Ye Zichen heaved a heavy sigh and sighed.
"So this is the Outside?"
Yang Jian nodded.
"In truth, when I first got here, I was shocked too. I thought to myself …. Isn't this where my bro lives? Especially when we were on the pedestrian walkway just now. Back then, we squatted down every day to look at those beautiful legs. But can you believe it? Any random person here is at least a supreme-level expert! "
"Is that the old man practicing tai chi one too?" Ye Zichen arched his brows.
"Uh, no …."
"I knew it! Any random person is …."
"That's a ruler."
Ye Zichen was instantly dumbfounded.
The old man, who was practicing Tai Chi, seemed to notice their gazes, and even smiled towards them kindly.
"Bro, this is the Outside. Do you know why the people of the Upper Realms are so afraid of the Outside? It's because the people here are born supremes. They aren't restricted by the Laws at all. They transcend everything, "explained Yang Jian, worried that Ye Zichen didn't understand this clearly enough.
"No, I still don't quite believe it. Can you give me a few days to confirm it?" asked Ye Zichen.
Yang Jian was somewhat hesitant. His superiors wanted him to go see Ye Zichen as soon as possible.
However, when he considered his bro's current state of mind, he hesitated for a moment, then nodded.
"Alright, I'll ask my superiors."
Half a month passed.
During this time, Ye Zichen did simple things. He just wanted to confirm whether this place was exactly the same as the Modern Realm.
In the end, he came to a conclusion that broke him.
They were exactly the same.
This was where he used to study in the university, and the snack street behind the school that he used to go to the most was also here. Even the owners of the shops had not changed.
His university roommates were there too. The only difference was …
He did not exist in this world!
It wasn't just him. Su Yan, Xia Keke, Sun Yige, and everyone else who'd lived in Ye Zichen's previous world, who'd ascended while sealed in ice, no longer existed. As for those who were not expelled from the modern world, they all existed in this world.
This place was like a big mirror to the modern world. Everything was almost the same.
It was like a completely parallel world.
"Truly … truly unbelievable."
Ye Zichen couldn't help but shake his head with a wry smile. He simply couldn't believe that a world so similar to the Modern Realm would appear here.
Logically speaking, if one thought about it carefully, this was a little terrifying!
Why was the Outside so similar to Ye Zichen's own world? Could it be that his world had been replicated?
"Now you can confirm it, right?"
Yang Jian couldn't help but speak up. He'd asked his superiors to come a bit later, but they hadn't directly agreed, nor had they urged him to. All they asked was that he stay by Ye Zichen's side and protect him.
He didn't want to believe this was real.
But at this point, he had no choice but to believe it.
"I'm sure, I'm sure. This is the Outside, alright? "That's right, I'm puzzled. Don't you know that when I came here, I had to think about how terrifying the outer realms were? Isn't it pretty good now? There are so many handsome men and beautiful women here, and they're all so gentle. Why are the people outside so afraid of the Outside? "
"Because you're currently in the Outside's safety zone. Those who enter from the outside are in the quarantine zone."
Safety zone?
The quarantine zone?
Ye Zichen was rather confused by Yang Jian's explanation.
"I don't know how to explain it to you. How about we go see my superiors?" said Yang Jian.
"Alright!" Ye Zichen nodded.
He'd assumed that a transcendental organization like Yang Jian's would be located in the depths of the mountains, or somewhere completely isolated from the rest of the world. What left Ye Zichen speechless was that Yang Jian actually led him to the agency.
There was also a group of armed police officers standing in a row outside. Ye Zichen snuck a glance at them, then looked away. He'd always remembered that everyone here was born a supreme. If he were to compare it to the place where he used to live, the most ordinary person would be a supreme being.
For these people to be able to set up an organization to do things, they were at least Deva Realm or Ruler Realm experts.
In his previous world, being a sky supreme wasn't bad, but here …. Here, he was nothing.
The stone walkway was completely empty. As he walked, Ye Zichen deliberately stomped on the stone a few times, but even with his sky supreme strength, he couldn't break it.
When they reached the end of the walkway, Yang Jian pushed open a door.
"Boss, Ye Zichen's here."
The room wasn't small. There was an office desk opposite the window, with two bookshelves on either side. There was a swivel chair across from the desk, and a sofa diagonally across from it.
Based on the layout, it was clearly an office.
The man Yang Jian called "boss" had his back to them and was smoking. When he heard that Ye Zichen had arrived, he turned around and put out his cigarette in the ashtray.
"You're here. Sit!"
Ye Zichen pointed at a chair, hesitated for a moment, then sat down.
"Hello."
Logically speaking, Ye Zichen found it hard to treat this place as the Outside, a place beyond the Laws.
The boss before him, for example, was dressed in a suit and leather shoes. He looked like a government official. When Ye Zichen looked at him, he felt like he was talking to a leader of the Modern Realm.
"Allow me to introduce myself. I'm Han Nan, the mayor of Bingcheng."
"Hello, Mayor Han."
"I've wanted to meet you for a long time, but I never had the chance. Fortunately, I ran into Yang Jian. That's how I got to know you. Judging by your looks, you're quite the talent, a dragon among men! "
"....."
What the hell was this?
Was this just polite talk?
What the hell? This was the Outside. Could he not act like he was in the Modern Realm? Why did he have to say such things? Furthermore, it looked like he had a favor to ask of Ye Zichen.
"Um …. Why did you bring me here?" asked Ye Zichen.
"I called you here because I have something to ask of you," said Han Nan.
"You really know how to joke. This is the Outside. You're asking me for a favor? How can I help you? "
"Little friend, you're one of heaven's two chosen emperors, right?"
"....."
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