Chapter 414: Chapter 414: Xiaojue, Is She Really Your Wife?
The following battle was completely one-sided.
Most importantly, those guards had lost all their fighting spirit.
They had been terrified of these half-human, half-beast creatures to begin with!
Pandora kicked one of them discontentedly, "So lame, I’ve been locked up for so long, and I can’t even have a proper fight!"
Sheng An said speechlessly next to her, "The focus right now shouldn’t be on fighting, but figuring out how to leave this strange place quickly."
They came here with a small squad of Beastmen, and apart from Pandora and the squad leader Kuhn, everyone else had been knocked out by the influence of the Magic Stones upon arrival.
The City Lord of Landis probably realized that these two were more formidable.
So he had them locked up where there were more Magic Stones.
But how could he have anticipated that someone even more powerful would appear?
Such powerful individuals usually wouldn’t be brought into this space since their standing was not low, so how could they end up here?
The City Lord of Landis and his confidants were tied up properly and thrown in a corner.
The ordinary people weren’t touched, but their guards were also taken into custody.
Gu Jue pinched Su Wan’s delicate hand, and for a long while, he said nothing.
Su Wan said, "Ajue, how do you feel? Don’t use your superpower for now. That will help stabilize your spiritual power."
An outburst of spiritual power was no trivial matter.
In other words, if Gu Jue lost control, all of them combined might not be able to contain him!
Fortunately, fortunately, his reason was still intact.
But what Su Wan didn’t know was that the last shred of Gu Jue’s sanity was because of her.
And the fact that his spiritual power almost went berserk was also because of her.
So, since their reunion, Gu Jue had been gripping her hand tightly, never letting go for a moment.
Lin Yu and others, who had been left outside the city, were also brought back.
Agros breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the members of both squads were all intact, standing there.
There were other Beastmen as well.
There were those who had mistakenly entered this world over the years.
And then...
When Gu Yuan and Miao Yue appeared, Gu Jue took the rare moment to divert his gaze from his newly regained delicate wife.
He said, "Brother, we couldn’t find you for so many years; turns out you’ve been vacationing here."
The corner of Gu Yuan’s mouth twitched.
Why did his younger brother have to say something so heart-piercing!
After handing over their affairs to Zilan and Xiaojue, they had planned to travel around the world.
After a full circle, they ended up back at the Wasted Star they started from.
It was actually just a trip to the old sites, reminiscing about the older generation’s stories.
They were even worried about potential accidents, so they never went to the city center.
But who could have expected that the time-space portal would be on the edge of the city!
No, that’s not important!
Gu Yuan looked up at Su Wan, and finally asked uncertainly, "Xiaojue, is she really your wife? You really got married, and you even have a child?"
Gu Jue surreptitiously glanced at his delicate wife’s still flat belly.
No, perhaps they already had two children.
His expression remained calm and composed, "Hmm."
However, Gu Yuan became excited, "Hey, you finally got married. Now our parents, they should really be at ease!"
Miao Yue felt somewhat embarrassed by her husband’s behavior.
She walked over to Su Wan and looked at this beautiful young girl, saying gently, "Thank you."
Su Wan: "Don’t thank me, I just happened to rescue you. I didn’t know you were here before."
Miao Yue shook her head with a smile, "No, I’m not talking about that. I mean, thank you for being willing to be with Ajue."
Gu Yuan and Miao Yue were actually much older than Gu Jue.
Though they were siblings-in-law, due to their parents’ early demise, they were somewhat like substitutes, raising Gu Jue.
Gu Jue’s childhood experiences had deeply moved Gu Yuan and Miao Yue; later, when he was nearing forty and still unmarried, they were even more anxious.
They hoped that by Gu Jue’s side, there would be someone who understood him, someone to accompany him for the rest of his life.
Previously, Miao Yue had not refrained from searching for a suitable girl for him.
But Gu Jue had not taken to any of them.
Now, they had merely taken a few years off to travel and ended up trapped here for several years.
To think that Xiaojue not only got married but also had babies?
Meanwhile, Gu Jue had taken people to interrogate the Landis City Lord.
They finally understood that it was the ancestors of the Landis City Lord who had accidentally come upon the Magic Stone...
Because they were purebred humans, they looked upon the newly emerged Beastmen with great hostility.
Latterly, even within Landis City, two opposing factions appeared.
They used Spatial Mushrooms to create this space-time portal and then utilized the Magic Stone to absorb the spiritual power of the Beastmen, transforming this energy into a protective barrier to sustain the existence of this new Landis City.
Su Wan came to realize that, in fact, many of the residents here had ancestors who were actually Beastmen.
Some Beastmen, after having their spiritual power completely drained by the Magic Stone, turned into ordinary people with no memory.
Others became real animals.
They forgot all about their past and began a new life here.
The Landis City Lord said fiercely, "What’s wrong with me! I just wanted to create a paradise where purebred humans could live without the oppression of you Beastmen, to live and work in peace and happiness!"
"Why, why should you Beastmen be more suited to life in the Universe!"
"The God of Fate allowed my ancestors to possess the key to the space-time portal and the Magic Stone, supporting us in creating a blissful planet for purebred humans only!"
Su Wan looked at him speechlessly, "There’s no need to dress up your selfishness with such noble-sounding excuses. Kidnapping Beastmen and absorbing their spiritual power to achieve your goals, how noble can you be?"
The Landis City Lord: "You don’t understand! You don’t understand anything at all! Don’t talk nonsense!"
Su Wan nodded, "Indeed, I don’t understand, after all, I am a Beastman but when I first came through the space-time portal, I was outside the city. I never entered your secret chamber."
Landis City Lord was suddenly at a loss, "Impossible! That can’t be!"
Su Wan revealed her mermaid fins and gently fluttered them a few times.
She said, "If you don’t believe me, you can ask your steward Li later. It was he who recruited the chefs and brought me in to deliver food to your guests. I simply took the opportunity to rescue my companions."
"And that so-called Magic Stone didn’t absorb my spiritual power, nor did it cause me to lose control and devolve."
The Landis City Lord had already slumped to the ground, completely at a loss for words.
On this side, Gu Jue spoke indifferently, "What must be done to return to the Wasted Star?"
