Chapter 1900 - 977: Rescue on the Front Line (Against His Will)

No!

Where is my boss?!

Ji Jue was dumbfounded, unable to comprehend: Where did my fluffy, smiling, and clingy boss with stars in their eyes go?

Unfortunately, no matter how he looked around and kept searching, he couldn't find that figure.

There was no boss, only Du Bin.

Du Bin was expressionless, staring straight at him.

Without the boss's warmth and affection, distant and repelling, like the cold universe.

Amidst the harsh scrutiny, in those pitch-black pupils, a certain indescribable dissatisfaction and displeasure emerged.

What is the boss doing with alcohol?

After running for hundreds of years, why save such a thing?

Humans are always like this.

Ungrateful, unaware of danger, always reaching out recklessly...

Crunch!

In the instant it withdrew its gaze, an invisible giant maw suddenly shook, and incredibly, like a guillotine, split the entire bug in two.

No, that's wrong!

It wasn't Du Bin who tore the bug into two sections, but the bug that split itself directly...

Using a method that Ji Jue could not understand to evade Du Bin's restraint, it regained freedom, like ink separating from one drop into two, expanding and swelling once more, unscathed, even stronger than before!

"The 'Heavenly Track/Cage' 'Dog Slave'!"

In mid-air, two large spheres kept expanding and contracting, hundreds of faces and eyes fixated on Du Bin, their gazes seemed to penetrate the disguise of the ordinary, landing on a vast and ferocious body.

In just an instant, they suddenly realized.

"How 'pathetic/despicable'!"

The two writhing bugs emitted sharp shrieks or deranged laughs: "You, who are so conceited as 'Guardian/Turnkey', have fallen to this point!

'End/Beginning' is here! The 'existence/hoax' of you all will not last long!"

Hundreds of palms interlocked and overlapped, forming different postures, as if grasping countless weapons and something invisible, suddenly pulling, stirring up a tempest.

In an instant of bewilderment, Ji Jue felt a terrifying undercurrent whizzing past, time like a torrent, rampant in the broken maze, countless afterimages resurfacing around them, rushing toward them.

However, Du Bin's existence seemed like a reef amidst the torrent, smashing the waves of time head-on, the shadows behind like a tidal backflow, engulfing Ji Jue and them, then, countless sharp edges pierced into the surrounding afterimages and illusion light.

Cracks continually surfaced.

Gashes that seemed to gnaw appeared unexpectedly in the maze, as if subjected to unseen destructive forces.

No cause, no effect.

Just those traces...

Ji Jue squinted his eyes, staring at the crack not far away, then, moving his foot, right under him, a dust-laden gap had existed for an unknown amount of time.

Just now, were there cracks here?

Were there?

He realized he couldn't remember, even the recorded spiritual portrayal of this place seemed blurry.

Click—

Under Du Bin's protection, Ji Jue curiously observed everything around him, gazing at the scene of conflict between both sides.

The positions, front and back, surrounding structure, were constantly changing.

The split-in-two bug attacked from front and back, relentlessly closing in, yet repeatedly getting pushed back. Though it seemingly bore no visible injuries or changes, Ji Jue inexplicably felt it had weakened significantly from the beginning.

In another flicker of an instant, he suddenly realized.

"So that's it, it's frame dropping..."

Finally, he pinpointed the crucial point.

Time!

It's still about time.

At this moment, strengthening the capture of the Alchemy Eye and sensing various perceptions, Ji Jue accelerated his consciousness, virtually analyzing frame by frame, ultimately reaching a conclusion.

Du Bin's attack did not exist solely in the present.

But spanned across multiple time points in the past, present, and future, interfering with the bug's coordinates, and the bug's method of evasion was likely related to its manifestation process.

The bug, composed of countless overlapping afterimages, could essentially be considered as Mutated Transformations from countless time periods appearing simultaneously in the present, tangled together.

And the opponent's strategy against Du Bin's restraint was to thoroughly scramble its own versions from different times, then split from one set into two, reappearing in the present.

That's why the continuous frame dropping phenomenon occurred.

This should be related to the bug's composition... its timeline was disrupted, or rather, it was disordered from the start, otherwise it couldn't have become such a mess.

But since it could still appear lively, it indicated its internal structure was in a stable state.

Yet under Du Bin's restraint and attack, the originally stable composition was broken.

Therefore, the frame dropping phenomenon observed now indicated, after the hasty reconstruction, the bug across countless times could not aggregate, starting to disperse?

Based on numerous records from literature, Ji Jue speculated while observing the battle.

That's all he could do, observe.

Facing such a time-manipulating bug, Ji Jue had almost no power to resist. It was like jumping into the sea to wrestle with a shark without knowing your own limits, if the shark did nothing, he'd probably just drown.

In contrast, under Du Bin's suppression, the seemingly ferocious and rampant bug appeared to be the weaker side.

But then the question arose...

Being unable to win, why didn't it flee?

Was the hatred for the Heavenly Track that intense? Or was something too enticing here?

What could it be?

Apart from himself, the only thing here is...