ITGR Chapter 79

Even after the basement is powered, it is still very dark around. There are very few lights in the corridor, and they only serve as indicator lights like the safe passage lights. Most places are shrouded in shadows. Cen Zhen is essentially half-blind, not to mention that even Shouhe almost stumbled several times. 

At this time, the Sentinels’ excellent eyesight played a great role. YaoJin’s pair of red eyes were like two burning flames in the darkness, perfectly interpreting the literal meaning of “eyes like torches”. He walked in front to lead the way. Lian Yu walked last at the back, covering the group. 

Cen Zhen turned around and saw that Lian Yu’s green eyes were also glowing faintly, just like a cat lurking in the night, gathering all the light in his eyes. He had never seen the Sentinel’s eyes so bright before. Lian Yu noticed his gaze and said lightly: “In the past, I didn’t need to look too closely at night, but it’s different now.” 

Cen Zhen shook his head. He deliberately slowed down his steps, raised his hand to hold Lian Yu’s fingertips, and slowly moved upwards until their fingers were intertwined. 

“Don’t be afraid.” 

Such a man’s voice sounded in the darkness. 

Due to his personality, Cen Zhen has always been cold and distant. Compared with Lian Yu’s fierceness and straightforwardness, being with him is like being in the morning mist, light and cool. 

To put it in perspective, it is like if their lover betrays, Lian Yu will use all means to torture the other party, and never stop until death does them apart. On the other hand, Cen Zhen will only turn around and leave at the moment of confirmation, and resolutely cut off all contact. 

Being cold doesn’t mean he doesn’t care, doesn’t mean he didn’t put his heart in, on the contrary, he truly cares and invests, just like this short phrase: Don’t be afraid. It seems that all the ethereal and invisible tenderness is poured into it, more effective than any Guide Pheromone, giving Lian Yu everything he wants instantly. 

Why did he come so late? Lian Yu thought so as he soaked himself in the great sense of security around him. Humans will forever be creatures that will never be satisfied. Even though he advised himself countless times that everything was good as long as Cen Zhen was around now, Lian Yu couldn’t help but greedily wonder why he couldn’t come earlier? More earlier. 

So that he wouldn’t be so desperate in his first life. So that he wouldn’t be so crazy in his second life. 

The basement was very quiet. Although Cen Zhen’s voice was very light, the other two still heard it. Shouhe looked back at Lian Yu. Although he only saw two blurry black shadows, he had always been interested in this man with the potential criminal genes. “Are you afraid of the dark? Then do you want me to walk in the back?” 

“I’m not afraid.” Lian Yu held Cen Zhen’s hand tightly, “He just loves me.” 

The last four words were too lingering. Shouhe didn’t know why he suddenly felt that he couldn’t continue the topic. Since no one loved him, he had to turn around and move forward. 

“This place is too complicated,” YaoJin said. There is a fork in the road every three meters in this maze basement, and each time there are three directions to choose from. There are forks after the forks, completely leaving no way for the war slaves who break in to survive.

The pedometer tied to his ankle flashed again, indicating that he had walked 500 meters, reminding the brothel customer to rest on the spot. YaoJin was surprised and said, “It has already been five hundred meters? Why do I feel that we are still in the same spot?” 

“Just now we walked to a dead end and turned back. The total distance is at least 400 meters.” Lian Yu said, “Rounding up, it can’t be more true that we’re back to the original starting point, standing stupidly at the crossroads.” 

“Why do I always feel that you say stuff better than singing?”(1) YaoJin asked a soul-searching question. For the forced break this time, he did not let Shouhe carry him on his back. Instead, he took this opportunity to discuss with everyone and said, “We can’t choose the road based on fate like this. It’s too time-consuming and physically demanding. We must come up with a better way… Pan, where are the other three people?” 

“Zizizi… Zizizizi, you guys Zizi-zizi…” As early as five minutes ago, Pan’s voice became intermittent like this, like B-box rap, probably because the signal deep in the basement was not good. 

“Your stuff is not good.” Cen Zhen pointed to Lian Yu with his finger, which was making a noise and the sound was a little distorted. 

A man cannot accept that his stuff is not good, no matter what it is. 

In order to prove that he is good, Lian Yu forced himself to loosen his hand from the Guide and snatched the communicator from Cen Zhen’s fingernail. While the other three were discussing how to pass the maze more efficiently, he stuck the communicator to the skin-colored terminal and typed a series of codes with his fingers flying. The terminal display screen suddenly flashed nearly a hundred tiny characters, which passed through his eyes like a stream. 

Lian Yu’s glowing green eyes quickly scanned left and right, and then he focused on entering the code with understanding. On the other side, Shouhe sighed and said, “If it doesn’t work, I have a simple and rough method. It’s just a little silly, you must think it’s a bad idea.” 

“Consider the situation now, of course the simpler and more direct the method, the better.” YaoJin said anxiously. Shouhe thought about it and it made sense, so he said in a deep voice: “This is what I think. The most troublesome part of the maze is these winding walls, which make us take more detours. In this case, wouldn’t it be better to tear down these walls… There isn’t a rule in the Slave Arena that mentions we can’t demolish the walls, right?” 

YaoJin: “……” 

YaoJin: “This method——” 

Isn’t it too rough? ! 

“There is no such rule.” Cen Zhen was much more indifferent than YaoJin. After all, he has halfly witnessed Shouhe dismantle a spaceship with his bare hands. “On the contrary, the Slave Arena encourages war slaves to destroy everything.” 

“Then…why don’t we try it?” Shouhe leaned against the wall behind him. He stretched out his hand tapped the wall surface, and then selected the appropriate direction and angle. 

YaoJin saw that he was going to attack with bare hands, so he quickly felt around his body, couldn’t find anything, and just ended up taking off his clothes and tying them to Shouhe’s hands to protect his bones. 

Shouhe wanted to say that he didn’t need to do this, but it felt good to be cared for by others, especially for an empty-nest old man like him who had always been alone because of the small number of people on Zhongyang Star. 

“The communicator works fine.” Lian Yu finished the inspection and put his soft hand back into Cen Zhen’s palm without notifying him as soon as possible, “But it’s only the communicator that is fine. If you want to find out why, you have to check the device from Pan’s end, but I don’t think he has the ability to do that.” 

“……” YaoJin turned his head and asked with a frown: “Lian Yu, I have wanted to ask you for a long time, these skills… where did you learn them from? I heard in the Tower before that you hacked the terminal of the Student Union President Qu, and continued each time he got a new one, is it true?” 

Lian Yu blinked and said with a smile: “You guess?” 

“…” Guess the fxxx, “You——” 

A loud noise interrupted YaoJin’s question, and the two sharp-eared Sentinels suddenly jumped into the air like frightened cats, even their postures were exactly the same. 

With the noise that was enough to scare the Sentinels away, the dust flew everywhere around where the four stood, including broken stones and bricks. Shouhe punched a hole wide enough to allow only one person to pass through the basement wall. Honestly, Shouhe could have just broken the entire wall, and it would have been easier, but he was afraid that too many broken walls would lead to the roof collapsing. Shouhe carefully restrained his strength and controlled it within the appropriate range just enough for one person to pass through. 

Cen Zhen held his breath, but before he could disperse the dust in front of him, another big hole on the next wall had already opened with a loud bang. Shouhe stepped on the broken bricks, bent, and passed through to enter the next space. What followed was a complete personal show by Shouhe. He used force wherever he went, regardless of whether there was a way or a dead end, he would just break through any wall in sight.

During the process, YaoJin didn’t want to tire him and help break down a few walls, but Shouhe complained that he didn’t break down the walls well because he was weak and slow. In the end, he just let everyone sit on the side to chill and went through the wall like a professionally skilled mole. 

What kind of maze can withstand such a cheating tactic? Shouhe got more and more excited as he went. He couldn’t see the road clearly anyway, so he just kept smashing forward, hammering the wall. He literally beat up an entire demolition company all by himself. 

“Pan, can you hear me?” Lian Yu tried to contact Pan again, but the other end of the communicator was still buzzing. He was annoyed and had to disconnect the communication and concentrate on chasing after the big hammer Shou master who had already disappeared from their sight. 

“Stop for a moment.” YaoJin suddenly shouted. He seemed to have heard something. He lowered his head and frowned. ShouHe stopped in response. He stood high above the mess. Even though his face was covered with dust, it could not hide his overwhelming momentum as an overpowering man. Lian Yu saw YaoJin posing as if he was listening attentively, and he also let go of his hearing to explore. 

In just one second, the Sentinels met their eyes and gave each other a tacit look. YaoJin quickly ran to ShouHe and told him the information he heard. Lian Yu leaned over and approached Cen Zhen’s ear, saying in a whisper: “The three are following us now. They are probably planning to follow us til the core area and then attack us.” 

This is not surprising. It would be strange if ShouHe’s devastating movement did not attract the three people. But they are not cicadas, and they will not allow the people of the Slave Market to become orioles. “I know.” Cen Zhen said softly, “I sensed them, just behind the wall behind us, following closely, one squatting, two standing against the wall.” 

“……” Lian Yu was stunned for a moment, “You can sense it?” 

“Just now, to extend your hearing to the limit, I spread my mental power as much as possible, but they suddenly rushed in and were captured by my mental tentacles.” 

Lian Yu still looked puzzled: “This is not scientific, they are not Sentinels, let alone Guides.” 

“……” Cen Zhen didn’t know what the reason was. If the situation allowed him to contact Zhou Qingchang, he would like to consult him about this finding immediately. Maybe it would become another historical breakthrough in the use of Guide mental power. 

Cen Zhen extended his mental power forward further, covering all the areas within his reach. ShouHe was also suddenly captured by the tentacles. Cen Zhen “saw” him standing side by side with YaoJin. YaoJin seemed to have just explained that someone was following him, and asked: “Do we need to get rid of the tail first before finding the core area?” 

“It seems to be too late?” Shouhe replied as he put his ear against the wall: “There seems to be a strange sound behind this wall, you listen?” 

YaoJin’s face was stern, and he closed his eyes and listened carefully. After a while, he gritted his teeth to get rid of the irritability in his heart, and nodded seriously, “I heard the noise of the machine running, and the ticking of the clock. This should be it.” 

Original Author’s Note: 

Pan: Help me——! In the toilet, there’s woooowooowoowguruguru…. 

Brother Zhen’s POV: 

Pan: Help, ziiziiiziiizizzizizzi woooooo—to… woooo

Yu: What? Wish me and Ah-Na together forever? Thank you. 

I will update 6,000 words tomorrow. The novel ranking competition is not over yet. It turns out that the deadline is the first productivity – of course, you all’s cute comments too!!! 

Thank you very much for your support. I will continue to work hard!

Translator’s Note:

1. Say stuff better than singing: has layers of interpretation or just meaningless empty words