Chapter 601: 12.3 Unknown Star - SSS World: Vearth, The Case of An Liang (3)
Chapter 601: 12.3 Unknown Star – SSS World: Vearth, The Case of An Liang (3)
Everyone who had witnessed the scene of Hei Anjing suddenly appearing to protect An Juehua was witnessed by everyone in the prison. This includes those youngsters and young adults that tried to harm An Juehua.
Only now did they realize that her words about her uncles coming to save her are real. They had been imprisoned here for years and no one come over to these underground prisons except for the goddess subordinates who sent them meals and torture them sometimes.
When they saw Hei Anjing’s soul fragments emerge just now, they knew that the Princess of Hei Clan was telling the truth. Most of them were from Vearth, anyone from Vearth knows the Celestial Beauty that the God of Destruction possessed. His trademark is those silvery eyes that had the same shade as the moonlight.
“That’s the God of Destruction!?”
“The Venerable Young Lord of Mo Family!! Is that his soul fragment? He has been protecting us this whole time!?”
“What happened to him just now? Lord Hei…? Esteemed God Hei!? Where is he? What happened?”
“He… Did he use up his qi just now? That last attack was his last… No. No… This is impossible. The God of Destruction is an unparalleled and flawless being. This is not true.”
An Juehua was crying as she knew that his Uncle An had left. His soul fragment was used up and only a single snowflake remained from him. This is because the Soul fragment had weakened to such a point he couldn’t stay in his astral form. He had fallen into a deep coma within the snowflake.
“Shut up! Uncle An is not… Not dead! He had only fallen into a coma.” biting her lower lips is sadness and remorse An Juehua carefully held the snowflake lying on her palms. This is the fragment of his Uncle An’s soul. She must protect it until Uncle Ye comes to pick them up.
An Juehua spoke, “You heard, didn’t you? Uncle Ye is already in this abandoned star. He must be looking for us. Make preparations to leave. Someone help me destroy the iron bars.”
“As you ordered, Princess Hei!” Everyone responded.
The only ones shocked were those guys who were imprisoned inside the ice barrier. No matter how hard they attack the dome of ice, it shows no use. After all, the Eternal Ice is the hardest and coldest Ice in all realms. They wallow in regret and sadness. Never would they have expected that things would turn this way.
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Back to the Netherworld within the Nether System inside the throne room.
An Liang had brought out a communication crystal from his storage, this is something Ye Mo’s subordinate had given to him when they reported that his daughter was with them. Ten years ago when An Juehua was only 5 years old, the Hei Clan led by the elders that didn’t want his wife, Hei Jue, to become the next patriarch caused a revolt in the Hei Clan.
They had used all necessary means to weaken Hei Jue’s side but his wife was backed up by the Mo Family. Hei Sian, the second heir, even returned home to support his nephew, Hei Jue. It is just that during the fight those hateful old men took An Juehua, his and Hei Jue’s daughter as a hostage.
They used their daughter as a shield to escape. Of course! Hei Jue and he did everything to take back their daughter but who would have expected that at the end of the exchange, Ye Mo would appear. He had not only taken the traitors of the Hei Clan but also some of the loyal clansmen who jumped in to save their princess.
They even saw Ye Mo throwing their daughter into some unknown space portal that opened during the battle. Hei Jue almost went crazy when he saw the scene of his daughter’s ending. He and Hei Jue tried to follow and jump into the same portal where their daughter had fallen only for the space portal to explode.
A lot of them were wounded due to that explosion. Hei Jue fell into a coma for a few days after seeing that scene. Once the portal exploded there’s very little chance of survival for An Juehua which Hei Jue couldn’t accept. Even he, An Liang, didn’t wish to believe that his lovely daughter was gone.
He and Hei Jue had tried all means to look for An Juehua but they haven’t found any clue about her location all these years. Plus, Ye Xiajie’s trials for revival had already begun. When the second trial had started An Liang and Hei Jue could rarely leave the Nether System.
Hei Jue after wallowing in deep sadness for 8 more years suddenly becomes normal. An Liang knew how hard it was for his wife to accept that they had lost their daughter, An Juehua. Even he could hardly accept the truth but these years of receiving no helpful news and information about their daughter’s whereabouts had almost made them believe that their daughter had indeed died in that explosion.
An Liang believes the same result but one day… He received a parcel from an unknown sender. When he opened it a recording bead, a communication crystal, and a black envelope were left inside. Since the receiver is his name, An Liang accepted the parcel.
He first read the message inside the black envelope. What was written in the letter are the following:
‘Dear Nethergod Lord An Liang,
The second trial for Lord God Ye’s revival must be starting soon. Since Nether System is under his jurisdiction it is obvious that the second phase of the trial would happen in his territory.
I wrote this letter to inform you not to ask you but to threaten you to report the worlds he would be entering using the communication crystal. Please do not decline my good deed so easily. Why don’t you watch the contents of the recording bead first before you make your decision Nethergod An Liang~’
An Liang stopped reading the letter once he finished reading the first half of what was written on the paper. He moved his gaze from the letter and held the recording bead. At first, An Liang hesitated greatly about the identity of the sender of this parcel. He was deciding whether to watch the recording or not. Just when he was about to report this weird situation to the Sovereigns, the Recording bead he was about to place down suddenly played on its own.
It seems that the recording bead was programmed to play its recording as long as one touches it. An Liang had no other choice but to watch the recording. His expression was cold and vigilant at first but as he watched the content of the recording his face turned white deeply troubled, glum, and frantic. What was recorded in that bead is the growth video of his daughter, An Juehua.
It was An Juehua whom they had lost 8 years ago. The familiar face of his daughter, when he was only 5, appeared in the recording, An Juehua in his 6 year to his 7th year until the age of 13 years old which is the current year. The recording is real. That is his daughter in that recording. He wanted to watch the recording again but the recording bead turned to a dust-up in the second contact.
An Liang’s face showed an expression of despair as he gathered the dust from the recording bead. He couldn’t believe he had lost the only thing that could show his daughter’s face and the only tool to show that she was still alive.
“No. No. No! Huahua… My princess… That’s my daughter… Impossible! My daughter is alive. Who the hell will send this to me!!?” An Liang grabbed his hair in panic and almost went crazy on the spot. Then his eyes wandered to the letter he didn’t finish reading and grabbed it with urgency as he read the next half of the letter.
In the second half of the letter’s content,
‘Did you see your daughter, Nethergod An Liang? It was actually a coincidence that your daughter had fallen into my territory. I recognized her right away because of her gray eyes which are the trademark of the Bloodline of the Hei Clan. I can send you some more videos of her in exchange for some information about your friend, Lord God Ye Xiajie’s current trials.
Yes, like the worlds involved in his trials would be enough. As for why you wouldn’t have the right to ask~ I write the location where you would have to leave the information and the recording bead of your daughter would be left in the same place.
Of course, you are forbidden from telling anyone about this, or trying to capture my people for Interrogation. Once you do that your daughter will die. I would kill most painfully and cruelly record it and send it to you and your beloved wife. When that happens your dear wife would go mad in the end and your daughter would be dead.
If you don’t want that to happen just give me what I want and I will give you what you want. As for releasing your daughter, we can talk about it once the second trial of revival has ended in the way I picture it.
Though if you agree you would become the most ruthless black sheep on your side. But who cares right? The choice is yours.
Is it your daughter or your friend?
Hehehe~ if you agree, send the current situation of the Nether System through the communication crystal and the first location of exchange would flash on it. I would be waiting~’
There is no sender’s name as expected. But An Liang couldn’t forget the scene he had watched in that recording bead. That was his daughter’s face. The real one. It took hours before An Liang made his decision. He burned the letter that he had just read.
He had a choice to let his wife or the higher-ups read the letter but he chose to save his daughter and unconditionally agreed to the sender’s request. This is how An Liang becomes the informant of the Ye Gui race. The sender of this parcel is the second wife of Ye Mo.
An Liang could no longer stop himself whenever he received a recording of his daughter’s well-being but unknown to him those videos were made with the clone of her daughter’s gene. It wasn’t his real daughter as his real daughter, An Juehua was imprisoned like a slave in an underground prison suffering in line between death and life.
An Liang used the recording and spoke out about the information that is happening in the Nether System. Though he knew that the others might have started suspecting him he didn’t stop reporting.
“Failed to kill Hei Mo. Hei Mo is alive. Ye Xiajie and Hei Anjing’s location is unknown.” said An Liang to the communication orbs.
A few minutes after the report was done a parcel arrived in their place and the receiver was An Liang. As expected he once again received another recording bead. He didn’t watch the recording right away as he needed to refine the bead to make not a consumable item but a long-lasting one. He had been doing such a thing since the second recording bead had been sent to him.
While refining the recording bead, the communication crystal from them suddenly glowed and a message was sent to him. The contents shocked him badly as he read it.
‘Kill Hei Mo and I will give back your daughter alive.’
That single sentence rendered An Liang speechless. He could react right away as he reads the contents of the message more than once. Seeing that they are asking him to kill someone is shocking enough and is supposed to be a useless task to be given to someone like him.
He is a Nethergod. His only job is to gather the criminal gods’ and goddesses’ information and write the suitable punishment for them. In the Nether System, the only one allowed to kill is Lord God Ye who possessed the top authority in the Netherworld.
Even the Wardens in the Nether System could only capture and torture prisoners but they were not allowed to kill them. It was against the divine laws and if it was broken the contender would be considered a heretic. He would be punished to become a Netherworld slave whose right as a living was no different from the prisoners. They would be working as temporary systems from both Systems until someone redeemed them with merits. Merits are extremely hard to gather but they can be exchanged with points in the God System.
Those who worked for the God System as the Repairer, Executioner, and Recorder had stable income for points. It was also the same for those who worked for the Nether System as Warden, Nether Staff, and Nether Guards. Their income is also points. But for those who had broken t0he divine laws, their points would be confiscated and they cannot be used to redeem themselves. Other people but redeem them.
While An Liang was being indecisive, other lines of message flashed.
‘By the way, it wasn’t a question. If you don’t agree, the little girl will have to die. So I need to hear an announcement of Hei Mo’s death within three days. If not you would receive a recording of how your daughter died in regret of being alive.’
An Liang’s breathing hastens outrage and remorse. He couldn’t help but hate whoever is on the other side for threatening him with his daughter’s wife. An Liang almost demolished his office in a rage. He throws everything that can be thrown and breaks everything that can be broken. Even the walls and flooring ended with cracks in his anger tantrums. Thankfully, the office is soundproof and no one would hear what is happening inside unless you enter it.
With a fierce glare and red eyes as if he is a starving beast, An Liang completely lost his cool for that moment.
“If you don’t return my daughter after this. I will hunt you. Find you, torture you, and kill you with my own hands. If you dare to lie to me, then I will use my eternity to find you and destroy you until there is nothing left of you!!!” murmured An Liang in rage.