NOVPUBChapter 175: Chapter 174 Little Black Mouse…
Chapter 175: Chapter 174 Little Black Mouse…
The gray sky, the chilly air, the ground a cracked expanse of ash-black soil.
Sally emerged from the black box and immediately knew where she was.
[Xiaomei, we’ve arrived at the Abyss.]
Xiaomei did not respond.
Sally checked the status of the System. This was a privilege specifically granted to Sally after the last inexplicable update by Xiaomei.
After checking, Sally breathed a sigh of relief. Xiaomei had entered an update state again, and the display showed it would take approximately 28 days, 10 hours, and 56 minutes.
Sally put away the black box and took out a Curse Stone from her space, packed it in a small pouch, and hung it around her neck, so that she now shared the same scent as the Abyssal Beasts.
She had to figure out a way to return and search for a spatial rift leading to the Holy Capital Continent.
The System Map was still reliable. Sally was relieved it hadn’t failed her, and then she followed the safe route marked out by the System, running along.
Suddenly, the System Map issued a warning—there was an Evil Beast 600 meters ahead!
Sally immediately stopped, looked at her somewhat glaring white fur, and had an idea. She took out a bottle of black hair dye from her space, mixed a small basin of hair dye solution, and jumped straight in to roll around.
When she emerged again, the little white mouse was gone, and she had become a little black mouse.
The little black mouse, paired with a pair of dark eyes, became completely invisible when it ran into a slightly darker area.
Sally continued to run forward.
When she encountered Evil Beasts, she carefully skirted around them.
It turned out that they didn’t even see her at all.
“This thing really does work,” Sally said as she glanced down at the small pouch holding the Curse Stone.
With that, she began to boldly stroll all over the Abyss.
Powerful Evil Beasts couldn’t be bothered to look at her.
And the smaller ones couldn’t defeat her.
In the blink of an eye, more than twenty days had passed, and Sally had grown tired of wandering the Abyss.
The Abyss was very similar to the Dark Continent—lifeless everywhere. Even during the day, it was gloomy and oppressive, like right after sunset or just before dawn, inciting a sense of suffocation and even despair.
Sally shivered and looked up at the dark, low clouds in the sky. The air was bone-chillingly cold, leaving her wondering whether it was going to rain or snow.
She had just run a lap with a group of Rat Clan from the Abyss, receiving a lot of information about the Abyss that she needed to sort through, and she was also hungry.
She dug a hole on the spot and crawled inside.
While eating, she reflected on the words of the Rat Clan.
The Abyssal Beasts’ recent attack on the Holy Church had, in just over half a month’s time, breached seventy percent of the Holy Church.
If it weren’t for the Holy World Empire joining the battle, the Holy Church would have been annihilated.
Even so, to have inflicted such a heavy blow on the Holy Church was seen as a great achievement in their eyes.
Their Abyss Master, Luo Chuan, signed a thousand-year non-aggression treaty with the Holy Monarch of the Holy World Empire, Frans, and also obtained some remote continents from which they could exit the Abyss.
The peace treaty was concluded quickly, which was good news for the ordinary Beast Clans, much better than living in prolonged turmoil.
However, given that the Abyssal Beasts had always fed on the Beast Clan, this peace was uncertain to last for long.
But all these matters were unrelated to her.
It was enough to know that Frans was still alive. In the future, the children would be better off left in his care.
For the Pureblood Angel Clan, according to Xiaomei, just reaching adulthood could take between eight hundred to fifteen hundred years. The purer the bloodline, the longer it took to mature, and whether she could live that long in Beast World was still uncertain.
Furthermore, she had no idea how to raise or educate an angel baby.
After having her fill, Sally began to feel drowsy.
She fetched a small bedding set Zi Qi had prepared for Xiaoqi, crawled in, and slept comfortably.
While she was asleep, an angel flew through the sky above her.
Those pristine white six wings, and the flowing golden hair, belonged to none other than Frans.
He circled the area for a good while before departing for other places.
Eventually, he stopped atop a dead tree covered in thorns.
Luo Chuan was bound with a chain radiating golden light, leaning against the thorny trunk.
Frans couldn’t conceal the impatience in his eyes and said, “You’ve already taken Zephis Herman’s place, ascending as the Pope, why must you act now during her pregnancy, during my bonding period? Even before your fall, you grew up with me and Ethan, we shared the same roof and slept in the same house, and even after your fall, I never moved against you. How have I wronged you?”
Luo Chuan didn’t make a sound… He looked down at the binding chain on his body, which couldn’t really hold him at all – it was tied around him because he felt guilty.
“Your talent has already reached the pinnacle of the Saint Rank, why do you keep it sealed? Are you afraid of angering the preceding Holy Monarch, your bastard older brother? The better you are, the angrier he becomes.”
“Don’t change the subject. If she’s not found within ten days, I will reverse time.”
“Reverse time! You’ve lost your mind,” Luo Chuan frowned.
What’s more important was that if time was reversed, it could lead to a completely different situation. Frans knew everything that happened after reversing time, while those from the Abyss knew nothing, their supposed schemes would be exposed to Frans’ open strategy.
At that time, it could lead to a situation completely dominated by the Abyss, and all the negotiations and treaties obtained now would become void.
“If she’s not here, what do I need my life for?” For Frans, Sally and the children were everything. He had agreed so readily to negotiations and treaties because he had glimpsed Sally in the Abyss; he would use all his power to find her, to find her as quickly as possible!
Luo Chuan sighed and closed his eyes.
He absolutely couldn’t let him reverse time!
He carefully recalled the future scenes Frans had glimpsed upon opening the River of Time.
The grey skies, the thorny bush below, a small white rat ran past…
It was difficult to pin down the exact time or which thorny bush, it was almost like finding a needle in the ocean, knowing only it was in the Abyss.
“In the Abyss, there are all kinds of evil beasts from the Beast Clan, and of the Rat Clan alone, there are at least a thousand kinds. Moreover, the Rat Clan is known for their hiding skills.”
Luo Chuan shattered the binding chain on his body and stretched out, saying to Frans, “I will find some helpers.”
Frans couldn’t be bothered with him; as long as he could help find Sally, Luo Chuan could continue to be the Pope for all he cared.
Inside the cave—
Sally was sleeping soundly, her belly, round and puffed, moved slightly, followed by another movement on the other side.
Frans sensed something and suddenly teleported back to the place he had flown over before.
He landed on the ground and took out his scepter.
“Time rewind.”
Peering into the future, he could only use it once a month, and there were still ten days before he could use it again, but there was no limit to rewinding time.
He watched as a group of the Rat Clan scurried past in the footage, a dark mass of various sizes.
After confirming each one, he found that there was no white rat.
Feeling somewhat disheartened, he continued to rewind time…
This was the territory of the Rat Clan, so he watched several waves of rats coming and going, yet he didn’t find any trace of the white rat.
