Vol 19 Chapter 9-1 (1/2)
While Xuan's party was working against the clock to get in touch with all the powers for the Buddha statue, the countdown for the next wave of Yellow Turbans were looming near. The first group contained barely any combat strength aside from Zheng. This was decided during the split since he was the strongest member of the team. Imhotep could count as strength but his abilities were mostly effective against living organisms and ineffective against spiritual beings like the Yellow Turban. Furthermore, spiritual and magical attacks could break through his defense. The Yellow Turbans were the bane of his existence. The only outcome that awaited the group if Zheng wouldn't wake up before the Yellow Turbans came was a wipe.
”Is this really going to work? They said the time in the dream has gotten faster but the only thing I see is Zheng frowning more frequently. Why isn't he waking up after so long?” Jonathan asked.
No one had the faintest idea. TengYi showed a bitter smile, ”WangXia didn't make it clear what time will he wake up, what he is actually doing, or what we should do. We can't just wait here, do we? We will die if the Yellow Turbans attack us.”
Everyone's expressions shifted. LiuYu said with a hint of hesitation, ”Xuan should know of our situation here. Why didn't he send someone to help us? TengYi, you said he's insanely intelligent.”
”Yes. He is...” TengYi confirmed him. ”He's too intelligent that we are insignificant in comparison. We can't know what he's thinking. Maybe the rest of the Buddha statue is more important than our lives to him. This isn't a team battle so our deaths will not weigh down on the team.”
LiuYu shivered. He was baffled. ”He wouldn't do that right? Aren't we comrades?”
TengYi smiled bitterly. ”I can prove that he's not doing it on purpose. Way back when our team was still weak, we experienced the movie The Grudge. He turned himself into a chess piece in that movie and died. His death brought the team an important piece of information to survive the movie. Perhaps in his mind, that information was more important than his own life… With that being said, it is possible that he currently thinks the statue's pieces are more important than our lives.”
The three movie characters weren't familiar with Xuan so they did not react. LiuYu on the other hand still had a boy's mentality and was shocked. Once the excitement from entering this realm had gone, the realistic issue of surviving was presented in front of him.
”I want to go home. I miss my parents.” LiuYu cried out. ”I want to go home. I really want to go home!”
The adults looked to each other at a loss. TengYi patted his shoulder and said, ”Don't cry. You are not the only one that wants to go home.
”... We all want to go home.”
Home… only those who had traveled away from home would come to realize it was the place they longed to return to the most.
Zheng also wanted to go home, to the one in the real world. There was no need to worry about surviving in that place, no need to anxiously await the next movie world, no need to fear the death of his comrades...
Of course, the chance of him returning to the real world was impossible in YinKong's dream. Though he thought YinKong's group hadn't returned to their home for quite a long time.