Before Lonemoon could reply, Pear's eyes brightened as she supported the man from beside Lonemoon. "Shen Ying!"
As she spoke, her hands loosened, she scampered over and held Shen Ying. "You're finally back, I came several times but never got to see you. How have you been? Are you hungry? Want a pear?" Then she brought out a familiar-looking pear and shoved it over.
Shen Ying: "..."
Fortunately Chef reached out and intercepted from beside her. "Thank you for your kindness but Master only likes pears that are edible." She doesn't like the kind that can trap people.
Besides isn't your plane ravaged? Where do you find so much power of the original source to make 'pears' to gift to others?
"Who said this isn't edible?" Pear frowned. "I modified it, Shen Ying do you want to give it a try?"
"..." Such a manager, do the people of your plane know?
Yi Qing frowned before reminding here. "Instead of gifting pears, it'll be better if you take care of that friend of yours, he has already fallen to the ground." He pointed behind her.
Pear fell into a momentary daze and realized that she had let go too suddenly earlier, the victim that she was supporting had fallen to the ground and passed out. He looked to be in pain, his breathing even weaker than before.
"Aiya!" She was shocked, then sighed a moment later. "Never mind, anyway he's just someone I picked up!"
Yi Qing: "..."
Lonemoon: "..."
The one who was picked up: "..."
You weren't the one who fell, of course you don't mind!
The corner of Lonemoon's mouth twitched before he squatted down and lifted the man up, throwing him onto the sofa before them. After several spells, the man looked much better, his breathing also recovering.
Hmph! Evil overly obsessed fan!
"Who exactly is this person?" Yi Qing turned his head to look towards Father Niu.
"Don't ask me!" Father Niu glanced at Pear. "Ask her."
All three gazes locked on Pear at once.
"I don't know either, I found him on the edge of the void when I was repairing my plane." Pear shook her head, her eyes dimmed a moment later when she recalled something. "But on him, I sensed the aura of those bastards from the Big Dao Organization previously, so I brought him over."
"..." Did you take our place as an asylum?
"Shen Ying." She took a step closer and requested in all seriousness. "Help me take a look, is he one of those from the Big Dao Organization who escaped unpunished, is there the energy of other planes on him." If there was, he must be one of those who had struck and destroyed the other planes.
"There isn't." Shen Ying took a bite of her fruit and shook her head.
"... Oh." She then sighed in slight disappointment, she had initially thought that she could avenge her plane or whatnot, turns out he's not? If she'd known earlier she wouldn't have carried him here, he was oddly heavy.
"Let's wake him up first." Lonemoon interrupted and glanced at Yi Qing. "Chef, give me a hand."
"Mm." Yi Qing nodded and walked over. This person was a manager after all, the usual spells probably won't be able to wake him, they needed to use the power of a manager, it would be safer with Chef around.
Both of them summoned a white array formation simultaneously. For a moment, the white light was blinding, the energy that was dispersing out of the person then gradually stopped. His initially pale face slowly regained some blood.
They did not wait for long before that person slowly blinked his eyes open. Looking around with some blankness, his eyes then fixed onto Shen Ying who was nibbling on her fruit at a side. His eyes lit up and he rolled himself off the sofa, struggling to throw himself over.
"Madam..." He reached out wanting to hug her.
Yi Qing was about to step forward with a dark look when Pear acted faster. She pushed himself in a flash. "What are you trying to do!" Even she had yet to hug!
Yi Qing who was a step slower: "..." Little b*tch!
Chef was extremely displeased!
With her push, the man fell back onto the sofa again, yet he still frantically got up and dropped to his knees. "Madam... I finally found you! I beg you! Please save my plane, if it's you, it can certainly be done... I beg you!" With that said, without any care for his injured self, he kowtowed to her.
Lonemoon frowned, the bit of essence qi that he had just recovered was about to be spent again. He turned to look at Shen Ying. "You know him?"
"Ah?" Shen Ying cocked her head to a side, looking lost.
"Alright! I got it." Seems like she doesn't know him, that's odd then. Lonemoon then stepped forward and pulled him up. "Stand up and talk. What exactly do you have for Shen Ying? Why are you looking for her, what happened to your plane?"
The man glanced at Lonemoon, then looked at Shen Ying, hesitating for a moment before slowly standing up. He sat down onto the sofa, but the anxiety on his face increased instead of lessening, he then hastily spoke. "I don't know if you still remember me, my name is Chao Kun. That day at the Big Dao Organization, you helped me to break free from the plane lock?"
The few of them faltered, don't mention Shen Ying who never remembers names, even Lonemoon and Yi Qing had no impression. At that time there were hundreds managers on scene, they naturally couldn't remember everyone.
"You are one of the hundreds of managers on that day?" Lonemoon asked.
"Yes yes yes!" He nodded fervently. "Thanks to your help, my plane was able to break free from the locks of the starry sky."
"Since you're already free, you're here now for..."
His face paled, seeming to be remembering some things, grief and indignation was all over his face. "I had no alternative but to forcefully cross the plane gates to come find Mdm. The reason being that my plane really cannot hang on anymore..." he inhaled deeply and lifted a hand to conjure a spell, but at the thought that this was someone else's plane, he turned over to look towards Lonemoon, seeking permission. "May I..."
"Mm." Lonemoon nodded, agreeing to him using spells in their divine realm.
He then pulled together his severely injured body and summoned a crystal, the reflection in it shook before displaying the image of a tree. It was a plane tree originally green and healthy but right now, the entire tree seemed to be withered, clouds of black crawling all over it, like rotten black spots. And these spots were growing bigger, slowly spreading around the whole tree. It seemed like not long after, the entire tree will turn black.
"This is... your plane?" Lonemoon was shocked, he'd never seen such a wretched plane tree, it looked even more pathetic than his own bald one.
"Yes!" He looked even more bitter. "Initially after breaking away from the lock, I had thought that the plane would get better. But a while back, an extremely special invader suddenly appeared. He went around destroying the balance of the plane and his powers were extremely terrifying, even I wasn't his match. In a few months' time, the entire plane started to fall apart, I'm afraid it wouldn't take long for it to completely collapse."
Lonemoon and Yi Qing exchanged a look, there actually existed such a formidable invader.
He became increasingly anxious as he spoke, some tears were starting to form in his eyes. Turning his head, he looked to Shen Ying with a hopeful expression. "Madam! You are the most impartial person I have met. And you are someone who could defeat the Big Dao Organization, if it's you, you can definitely help me to deal with him. I beg you, help me, please?"
"We're not going!" x4
Not only Shen Ying, even Lonemoon, Chef and Pear all spoke up in unison, rejecting him instantly!
Chao Kun: "..."
Huh?
This was different from what was agreed on?