Starforce Warriors-Chapter 566: Wait For You

When Li Xiaofei entered the Secret Time Pavilion, Tan Zhenwei had already woken up. He was sitting cross-legged and as serene as ever. When he saw Li Xiaofei, a calm smile appeared on his face. It was as if he had just woken up from a dream.

"Father," said Li Xiaofei as he stepped forward and bowed respectfully.

Tan Zhenwei was momentarily stunned. "I have a son? Why was I unaware of this?"

Li Xiaofei quickly offered an apologetic smile as he said, "I’m with Little Ying now."

Tan Zhenwei looked even more puzzled. "Who is Little Ying?"

What the hell?

Li Xiaofei was taken aback.

Is he really playing the amnesia card? This is way too cliché.

He calmed himself and said, "Old Tan, you can’t joke like that."

Tan Zhenwei replied, "I’m a little hungry."

After speaking, he turned and took a fierce bite out of the air.

Crunch.

It sounded like biting into an apple as a chunk of space disappeared. Tan Zhenwei chewed loudly, the sound of crunching echoing as though he were eating something tangible. Seemingly solid space was being gradually ground away and swallowed.

The space that had been bitten away retained still had a crescent-shaped gap, as though reality itself had been defaced. Li Xiaofei felt a chill run down his spine.

What kind of ability is this? To be able to bite through space—does that mean there is nothing in the world that could survive under Old Tan’s jaws?

Li Xiaofei’s mind immediately connected this to Cave Beasts. These rare spatial creatures survived by devouring space itself. A spatial passage would form whenever they ate their way through space.

The only reason intercontinental travel was still possible on Earth, where oceans now separated continents, was due to the spatial passages left behind by Cave Beasts.

Back then, Old Tan had detonated himself to destroy the Eye of the Northwest, a spatial passage linking Jiepeng to Liuhe Base City. However, a young Cave Beast had been caught in that explosion, triggering a chain reaction where he had fused with the juvenile Cave Beast.

But Li Xiaofei hadn’t expected this fusion to manifest in such an extraordinary way. Old Tan had now become a human-shaped Cave Beast who was capable of chewing through space.

“Son, you still haven’t told me who Little Ying is,” Tan Zhenwei said, looking at Li Xiaofei, his gaze filled with confusion.

Li Xiaofei was speechless.

“I’m not your father...”

“Pfft, you’re not my son...”

“I’m not your son...”

“Wait! Old Tan, do you even know who you are?”

Flustered, Li Xiaofei stumbled over his words, making mistake after mistake in his panic. For a moment, Tan Zhenwei’s gaze grew vacant.

"Right, who am I?" He murmured to himself.

Li Xiaofei scratched the back of his head. This joke had definitely gone too far.

"Who am I? Who is me?"

"Where did I come from?"

"Where am I supposed to go?"

Old Tan muttered to himself, the confusion in his eyes growing deeper and deeper.

Li Xiaofei felt his headache worsen.

Could it be that I opened the Secret Time Pavilion the wrong way?

Li Xiaofei flashed out of the space without hesitation. He spotted Barush seated on the bronze divine throne, thought for a moment, and walked up to him. Without warning, he delivered a few loud slaps across Barush's face.

Barush was utterly dumbfounded. But when he recovered, he dropped to his knees with a loud thud.

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"What were you wrong about?"

"Whatever Master says I was wrong about, that's what I was wrong about."

"Damn it, am I that unreasonable?"

"No, no, no, Master is the most reasonable person."

"Tell me, has the consciousness of No. 88 been completely devoured yet? Didn't I tell you to disperse all the demonic seeds in Old Tan's body?"

"Master, I’ve already dispersed them!"

"Hmm?"

Li Xiaofei rubbed his chin thoughtfully.

Could I have wronged this kid? Forget it. If he did, so be it. After all, Terror wasn’t exactly something good to begin with.

Li Xiaofei turned around and re-entered the Secret Time Pavilion. Outside, the lizard and the rat who were roasting meat nearby, along with Bajie, looked at Barush with eyes full of sympathy.

Back inside the Secret Time Pavilion, Li Xiaofei stood before Tan Zhenwei again. Old Tan seemed to have regained his composure while he had been gone.

When he saw Li Xiaofei, his face lit up with joy. "Son!"

Li Xiaofei was speechless.

W(￣_￣)W.

He’s really lost it.

Black lines metaphorically dripped down Li Xiaofei’s forehead. So he hadn’t managed to cure his father-in-law.

What now?

Li Xiaofei tried a few more times to engage Old Tan in conversation but soon realized Old Tan had genuinely forgotten everything. It didn’t seem like he was pretending. There was only one thing he remembered: Li Xiaofei was his son.

"Sigh..."

Li Xiaofei scratched the back of his head in frustration. After all this effort, he had managed to rescue Old Tan, only for him to lose his memory. How was he supposed to explain this to the young lady?

Resigning himself to the situation, Li Xiaofei calmed down and began examining Old Tan’s physical condition. It was excellent. He was as fit as a young man.

Moreover, the energy within him remained at the peak of the Five Spirits Realm. Apart from his mental state, everything else was in perfect shape. So, Li Xiaofei started recounting Old Tan's past, particularly focusing on his daughter, Tan Qingying.

He hoped that the emotional bond of family might help trigger Old Tan’s memories. Tan Zhenwei listened intently, nodding repeatedly with enthusiasm.

In the end, he looked at Li Xiaofei with a cheerful smile and said, "Son."

"Oh, heavens..."

Li Xiaofei gave up. It seemed he would need to come up with another solution. For now, he decided to take Old Tan back and let the young lady see him. Until then, it was safer to keep Old Tan in the Secret Time Pavilion to avoid any further complications.

When he returned to the Palace at the Core of Black Iron, Li Xiaofei glanced at Barush. Barush shivered, then immediately and loudly slapped himself across the face a few times.

"Master, I was wrong," Barush said, his voice brimming with sincerity.

Li Xiaofei was speechless.

Why does it feel like I am some unreasonable tyrant who solves everything with violence?

"I’m preparing to head back," Li Xiaofei said as he looked at Barush. "I’ll leave the matter of finding the dog to you."

Barush responded in a loud, clear voice, "At your service, Master."

Li Xiaofei nodded in approval. He had been in Subspace for nearly a month. He wondered how things were progressing on Earth. He had a nagging feeling as if something major was about to happen.

He had initially planned to persuade Guang-chan and Little Huang to accompany him to Earth. If those two were overseeing Great Xia, they could easily sweep through all other forces on Earth.

Even the Saints of the Star Council combined might not be able to stand against the power of this lizard and rat duo. But his attempts to convince them had failed.

“We can’t enter Earth for the time being,” Guang-chan said regretfully.

The Golden Lizard King added, “We just received a summons from the Beichen Legion’s temporal war horn. A great battle is imminent. The two of us need to head for the front lines. It seems the leisure of the last ten thousand years is coming to an end.”

Heading to the battlefield!

“What exactly is the Beichen Legion fighting against?” Li Xiaofei asked curiously.

“Reapers,” the Golden Lizard King replied. “They are the bane of this universe.”

"Squeak, squeak, squeak," Guang-chan interjected.

The Golden Lizard King translated, “Guang-chan says you need to grow stronger as quickly as possible. The future battle will need you. Many are waiting for you to rise and take your place.”

Li Xiaofei froze. His recent smooth encounter with the lizard and the rat had felt off. It had been a chance meeting, yet their kindness toward him was excessive.

As the Northwest Hammer King once said.

Xiulian, you're too good to me. I have to hammer you for it.

There was no such thing as unconditional love in this world. So, what exactly had caught the attention of this lizard and rat?

Li Xiaofei had gleaned a lot of information from their earlier words. But whenever he had pressed further, the Golden Lizard King had sealed his lips and refused to speak.

Swish, swish, swish.

Guang-chan wrote two characters on a writing board.

Wait for you.

Li Xiaofei saw this and nodded lightly. Thus, he left with Bajie. Meanwhile, Earth had indeed undergone earth-shattering changes.