Chapter 1020: Sun Mengmeng, the Broken Record

The golden mammoth harrumphed. "Don't joke with me, please, Sage! You must be over-exaggerating. Li Feng told me that it would be a difficult task for humans and aliens to be together. Humans are going to move on from this realm, and it'll be difficult for them to be with us, who are closer to beasts. Li Feng told me that it would be impossible for the two of us..."

Zhang Hanxiang replied, "Logically, perhaps, but love doesn't follow the rules of logic. I can't explain it to you myself—but when you see what Li Feng's like, I think you'll understand."

The draconian sage nodded. "Indeed. If you want to verify that I'm telling the truth, simply go have a look at Li Feng."

The golden mammoth, filled with equal parts anticipation and worry that the draconian sage was lying to her, eventually made up her mind. "Very well. I'll take a look at Li Feng."

With a wave of his hand, the draconian sage sent the aliens back to their homeworlds while Hong Xi, Zhang Hanxiang, the draconian sage, and Zhang Lie followed behind the golden mammoth.

The golden mammoth allowed them to follow behind her. She was a little scared, so having some companions would give her more courage.

The draconian sage grumbled, "What are you doing here, Zhang Lie? Go be with Sun Mengmeng!"

Sun Mengmeng, again?

Zhang Lie turned to the others. "Has something happened to Sun Mengmeng?"

Zhang Hanxiang sighed. "That's why I keep saying Sun Mengmeng has a hard life..."

The others around him all shook their heads as well.

Li Feng was seated on a grassy field, his head inclined to look at the sky. He held a blade of grass in his mouth. "The autumn wind, brisk and refreshing; the autumn moon, clear and bright. The fallen leaves gather and disperse; the crows doze before startling awake. When will we meet again? I cannot bear this night."

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Zhang Lie turned to the others. "What's up with him? He's a poet now?"

The draconian sage shrugged. "Two days after you set off, he became like this. I think he's done for."

The golden mammoth stepped forward, trembling. She murmured, "Your feelings I know, my feelings you share. Long I think and long I recall, in short instants you hold me thrall."

Li Feng suddenly raised his head and turned to her. "This night's stars are not last night's stars. For whom do the wind and dew wait the night?"

The golden mammoth replied, "My lingering thoughts, a spun cocoon; my naked heart, a fruit unpeeled."

Li Feng slowly stood up. "You're back, golden mammoth?"

The golden mammoth nodded. "I'm back, Li Feng."

Li Feng's eyes slowly lit up. "You came back alive!"

"I heard the draconian sage tell me that you missed me so much you were going crazy. I thought it was all a joke, but now I'm surprisingly happy. You've missed me all along!"

Li Feng smiled. "Of course I do. It's wonderful that you're back safe and sound. I worried that something might have happened to you on the battlefield."

"I miss you, Li Feng." The golden mammoth hugged Li Feng and raised him into the air in her excitement.

Li Feng hugged the golden mammoth too, but they were so different in size and stature that Li Feng was only able to hug part of her stomach. The golden mammoth was much too large; it was as though Li Feng were hugging a tank.

Li Feng shouted, "Ouch! My bones are about to break, to break!"

However, the golden mammoth didn't seem to hear him. She was completely carried away by her emotions.

"Li Feng, I thought of you so often on the battlefield, scared not of dying, but of never being able to see you again..."

Li Feng's face turned green as his bones creaked. The passionate golden mammoth, with her muscles of steel and arms like iron girders, was slowly crushing Li Feng to death.

"I'm really about to die!" he gasped.

Zhang Lie lost interest in the man and mammoth in their throes of passion, love, and death—but Zhang Hanxiang and Hong Xi watched on with gusto. They took out some sunflower seeds from their soulshards and ate them as they watched. Zhang Lie turned and left without disturbing them.

Thinking about how Zhang Hanxiang had mentioned Sun Mengmeng, and later that the draconian sage had also mentioned Sun Mengmeng, Zhang Lie suddenly decided to meet with her to see how she was doing, and what had happened to her since his departure.

He headed to her residence.

"When do you think Zhang Lie will return?" Sun Mengmeng asked.

Sun Xiaowu grumbled, "Sis, that's the 180th time you asked that! Please, calm down! You've repeated the same thing day in and day out ever since our captain left—spare me, won't you?"

Even though Zhang Lie and the Zongming world's forces had already returned, the draconian world had expanded to dozens of times its original size, and even the members of Team Zenith were incapable of extending their senses to the entire world.

As such, Sun Mengmeng had no idea that Zhang Lie had already returned. The only one who was able to detect everything happening in the world was its king, the draconian sage.

"Have I said it that many times already?"

"Yes, you have!"

"In that case, Zhang Lie must be coming back soon, right? When do you think he'll return?"

Sun Xiaowu groaned. "That's the 181st time!"

Sun Mengmeng frowned. "Aren't you overreacting?"

Sun Xiaowu countered, "How do you think you'll feel if someone repeats the same thing to you time after time for days on end?

Sis, what's wrong with you? You've been like this ever since Zhang Lie departed!"

"Departed?" Sun Mengmeng clicked her tongue. "You make it sound as though he's dead! Say it properly!"

Sun Xiaowu groused, "Li Feng became a poet, and you a broken record! I've had enough of you. If you're so worried, go find the captain!"

"How can I? I wouldn't want to trouble him. Furthermore, it's been quite some time, hasn't it? I think Zhang Lie will be back soon. If I leave and miss his return, what am I going to do?"

Sun Xiaowu roared in outrage. "That's it! We've had this conversation far too many times. If you don't want to find our captain, I will. I will!"

Sun Mengmeng held him back. "How old are you that you're still threatening to run away from home? Zhang Lie told us that we members of Team Zenith can't show ourselves on the battlefield—that he has other plans for us."

Sun Xiaowu clutched his head in agony. "If we keep going like this, either you or I will go crazy."

Sun Mengmeng suddenly froze in the middle of the conversation. Her thoughts and words came to a halt. She turned her head and asked from the beginning, "When do you think Zhang Lie will return?"

"Argh! Save me, save me, Captain! Please, come back quickly so I don't have to deal with this!"

Just as Sun Xiaowu rushed out of the house, he saw Zhang Lie waiting outside.

"Hey, Xiaowu! Long time no see—you seem as invigorated as ever."

The moment Sun Xiaowu saw Zhang Lie, he was so shaken that he immediately knelt down and grabbed onto his leg. "Captain, you must have heard my pleas day and night to have come back so quickly to save me!"

Zhang Lie laughed.

"I need your help. Quick, come in with me. If my sister continues like this, I'll go crazy before she ?does." Sun Xiaowu dragged Zhang Lie into his house.