"What?" Fatty exclaimed first.

Han Yu gestured to the mother and daughter in the neighboring room, signaling Fatty to keep his voice down.

"Young Master isn't coming back?" Fatty said in a lowered voice.

"That's right," Han Yu replied. "The question I was asking him in the underground palace, before he interrupted me, was whether he could still descend the mountain."

"Throughout the long history of the God Realm, the God-King has never descended the mountain, and energy crystals only work near meteorites. Away from the meteorites, the host will die," Han Yu continued. "When he interrupted me, I already knew the answer. Later, the fact that he quietly told me was indeed what I had thought."

Rouyi then realized that she had overlooked the clues in the records of the God Realm, and she lowered her head in remorse.

"Is there no other way, like taking the stone out?" Rouyi asked.

"You've all seen the God-King's fate of turning to ashes, so this path is impossible," Han Yu replied calmly.

Fatty gnashed his teeth and slapped his thigh, saying, "Damn it, when I recover, I'll go back and have a drink and a whole roasted lamb with him!"

"It's too late. Young Master's last action was a suicide mission…" Han Yu said with a look of loss.

"He agreed with my guess about the meteorite and the 'droplet,' proving that my understanding is correct—energy cannot appear out of thin air, nor can it disappear out of thin air. So, Young Master is going to fill a hole, and filling this hole with just one 'Zambia' is definitely not enough, he also needs the crystal on his body."

Rouyi looked at Han Yu in horror and said, "You mean… he's going to…"

"Yes, he's going to enter the 'droplet,'" Han Yu said.

Everyone knew the horror and strangeness of the "droplet." No one knew what kind of experiences people who entered the "droplet" would have or what would happen.

In existing records, apart from the unfounded rumors that Daniel mentioned about someone coming out of the "droplet," there was no strong evidence that anyone had ever come out of the "droplet."

No one knew what the world inside the "droplet" was like.

…

That night, the conversation stopped abruptly after Han Yu's words. They all knew in their hearts that Young Master would never return. Young Master's forced smile and feigned composure at the final farewell became a thorn in their hearts.

Rouyi fell asleep unknowingly while sobbing softly.

The three of them spent three days in a daze, waking up every day to eat, and falling asleep after eating, interspersed with drinking water and going to the bathroom.

Three days later, a major earthquake occurred in the Himalayas, with an unknown depth of focus. Experts said that this situation did not look like a conventional earthquake, but more like someone detonating a huge amount of TNT explosives in the mountains.

The most direct phenomenon to corroborate the experts' conclusion was that a section of the Himalayas showed obvious collapse and subsidence.

The truth about the so-called "earthquake" in the Himalayas was only known to Fatty, Rouyi, and Han Yu.

This earthquake also caused the sinking of the flat ground in Devil's Gulch, and the depth of the sinking was unknown. The collapsed snow on the peaks on both sides then filled the volume of the sunken Devil's Gulch.

This earthquake triggered a large number of avalanche events on the mountains, and many climbers were dissuaded by the sudden shaking and avalanches on the mountains. The earthquake eventually changed the shape of some mountains, and everything in the underground palace was buried in the earthquake.

After the earthquake, Fatty and Rouyi no longer had any doubts about whether Young Master would return.

Staying in the village all the time was not a solution, they had to continue living.

Since Rouyi and the others followed the Z Organization into the underground palace, they had disappeared without a trace. What happened later, whether they were alive or dead, the Z Organization had no idea.

Therefore, as long as they changed their identities and lived in a small country, they would not be discovered by the people of the Z Organization.

But Han Yu still had to return to her studies. If she had to give up her research in physics in order to survive, it would be more painful than letting her die.

In the end, they came up with an excellent countermeasure and a seamless plan.

Rouyi left Nepal first and contacted the Z Organization in Bhutan. The Z Organization sent a special plane from the United States to pick up Rouyi and take her back to the United States. After returning to China, Rouyi reached some kind of agreement with the Z Organization. The Z Organization reopened to Rouyi, and she also regained control of the management rights of her father's company and the shares that once belonged to her.

Most importantly, the Z Organization promised to give up all surveillance and arrest operations against the descendants of the Molmon expedition team.

In other words, they finally escaped the Z Organization's siege and interception.

Twenty days later, Rouyi called Fatty and Han Yu in the United States, saying that everything had been settled and that they could return to China to live a normal life. Rouyi also gave them a sum of money as a reward for their care along the way.

When Fatty learned the news, he was very happy for a while, and often said: "The foreign young lady did not forget the comrades-in-arms who fought side by side in the past after returning to the United States. Fatty, I was born and died this time, it's worth it!"

But he was not happy for long. Later, when Fatty thought of the young master trapped in the mountains, his life and death were uncertain, and his expression began to fade.

He felt a little guilty, and once thought that his reward was obtained on the basis of others' sacrifices, and he deserved it.

Two days after receiving the call, Fatty and Han Yu set off back to China. Before leaving, Fatty and Han Yu also gave the hostess who provided them with food and accommodation a generous reward to thank her for her care during this period.

After returning to China, Han Yu called her mother as soon as possible, saying that the research was over and she wanted to go home to rest for a few days, and then called her tutor to discuss the matter of resuming her studies; Fatty finally left Han Yu's phone number and went straight back to Beijing.

…

Beijing entered winter not long after autumn. The fallen leaves on the pedestrian street flew in the wind, and were rolled into the sky again, as if they had just fallen from the trees.

Fatty had just talked to Han Yu on the phone. After hanging up the phone, he looked at the fallen branches and leaves on the ground, and felt sad from the bottom of his heart.

The wind is rising.

…

Inside the underground palace.

The moment my hand touched the "droplet," I felt as if I had been dragged into another space. Everything in the space was distorted, constantly distorted, and even I was distorted.

Finally, I lost all sensation.

After the "droplet" devoured me and "Zambia," a strange change occurred. The "droplet" first expanded sharply, then contracted sharply, and then was sucked into the meteorite like being sucked by a straw. The "droplets" in the underground palace, on the ground, and in Devil's Gulch were all sucked into the meteorite.

The cracks on the meteorite began to repair, but the meteorite seemed to be constantly kneaded, squeezed, and collapsed by an invisible hand.

The volume of the meteorite became smaller and smaller, and finally disappeared with a "shua" sound, leaving only a huge hole in the wall, showing that something had been inserted straight here.

This was not the end. The next second after the meteorite disappeared, the huge hole in the wall began to twist and rotate, as if some kind of force burst out from the hole. This force began to shuttle rapidly in the underground palace, and the walls and ground wherever it went would be twisted and closed together, as if someone was using magic to sew the stone walls together, closing all the passages and rooms.

Even those living dead who had existed for thousands of years were not spared. When this force passed by, the living dead were instantly beaten into powder by an invisible force and merged with the walls and rocks.

The temples, shrines, and the places where the gods lived were all swept away. Almost in an instant, the Gakuye God Realm and the underground palace were completely erased from existence.