My beautiful CEO wife-Chapter 1675: Catherine’s Rescue

Catherine arrived at the Demon-breaking Canyon with the remaining forces of Sky Net, which was all the power she could muster. Bai Mudan and Black Rose followed behind her, exchanging glances filled with faint concern for Catherine.

They didn’t know what Catherine had gone through when facing that man, nor did they need to know. The pallor of her face upon her return had already given them the best answer.

How cruel it was for a woman, but reality itself is cruel, especially when facing a man once revered by them as a Divine.

Since then, Catherine remained silent, as did Black Rose and Bai Mudan. Those from Sky Net did not need comfort; as warriors, all they needed was to swallow their bitterness and go about their duties.

They would only keep telling themselves.

Kill all enemies, and then survive.

Thus, even when faced with setbacks, Catherine quickly pulled herself together, then displayed the efficiency and decisiveness of Sky Net’s higher-ups.

They swiftly left the Yuan Family’s ancestral home and returned to Sky Net to bring out all available and living people, leaving only the minimum number of personnel to ensure the base’s operations.

After all, there were still many injured in the base unable to fight. These people needed reassurance and care.

Then, they headed to the Demon-breaking Canyon in the fastest time possible. Before they arrived, Long Qie and the two others had already fought their way in.

What awaited them was the pervasive smell of slaughter and blood along the entire route, with surging streams of gang qi still lingering around, pools of blood and severed limbs scattered across the ground and among the bushes, incomplete bodies visible everywhere.

Even the battle-hardened Black Rose and Bai Mudan couldn’t help but frown at the scene, but they understood that martial artists’ wars were, in many respects, no different from the wars of mortals—brutal and resolute.

Decisiveness in killing was the key to victory on the battlefield, especially at the level of martial artists where the hierarchy was strictly enforced. Often, a highly skilled martial artist could massacre hundreds or even thousands of lower-ranked martial artists.

This is the cruel reality.

The deceased are gone—this is what victors say. Those who failed can only be forgotten in this forest canyon, their bodies becoming nutrients in the soil, their final contribution to the world being as food for birds, insects, and fish.

Catherine walked along this blood-soaked path of dismembered bodies, the smell of blood making one nauseous, the scattered body parts instilling a sense of fear. Yet, at this moment, she felt no emotion.

She couldn’t even show happiness or sadness.

"I don’t know them. What do they being captured have to do with me?"

Xiao Zheng’s almost indifferent words echoed in her ears. At that moment, facing away from Xiao Zheng, she managed not to show her agitation, but inside, she felt her faith crumbling.

The man she saw as a god, the omnipotent man, dismissed the past ties of Sky Net as if they never existed.

He had lost his memory, which wasn’t his fault.

She hoped to use that reason to convince herself, but even so, it couldn’t stop the flood-like collapse of belief within her.

She took a deep breath, slowly burying the sadness within her heart.

A good fighter doesn’t show emotions before others. This was something she had learned from Xiao Zheng. Now, she was experiencing a war, the outcome of which would determine Sky Net’s future.

No matter how much sadness and grievance she felt inside, she had to put away all her feminine feelings because what lay ahead was naked slaughter. 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

"Let’s go." She slowly released the long-held breath in her chest, calm enough to be intimidating.

Xiao Zheng watched her from not far away, observing the change in mentality of the woman who had been persistently clinging to him since his memory recovery as she stepped onto the battlefield. A sense of bewilderment rose within him.

He himself didn’t know why he followed this woman here; everything he said and did today was reasonable, at least to him.

Leng Ruobing and Chu Xiaoran—he really didn’t know these two people. Although mentioning their names made his heart feel like something was clutching it, causing some nervousness and panic.

Maybe it was this slight panic and nervousness that urged him to follow them. He thought, although it didn’t make sense, perhaps these two names indeed had some past ties with him, so coming to take a look might resolve everything.

If he could find a reasonable way to stop them from bothering him, it would be a good thing.

He pondered reasons to convince himself, although at the moment, even these reasons seemed to hardly hold water in his eyes.

But now he could only temporarily use these to convince himself.

No matter what, Sky Net must have had a significant connection with him in the past, and this was something Xiao Zheng was well aware of, regardless of seeing Long Qie and the others earlier, Catherine’s sudden appearance later, or the strange feeling he had during the war between Sky Net and Beidao Guang.

It all indicated this unfamiliar organization had a significant connection with him.

Of course, the most crucial evidence was the slight disturbance he felt upon hearing the names Leng Ruobing and Chu Xiaoran.

These thoughts coming together spurred him to explore the secrets of Sky Net and his own past.

For him, this might be just a whim, merely prompted by interest to do something to dismiss boredom, yet he might not realize how this whim could impact his future greatly.

Initially, Catherine was quite cautious walking through the canyon, knowing this was the battlefield chosen by the Beidao Alliance, and ambushes could be lurking everywhere.

But as she advanced and encountered sparse resistance, she realized Long Qie and the others must have already penetrated deep into the Demon-breaking Canyon, eliminating any threats that might exist around.

Of Long Qie’s strength, she had no doubts. Among the entire Sky Net Base, these three were the strongest aside from Xiao Zheng.

In some ways, because of Xiao Zheng’s carefree personality coupled with his often laissez-faire "irresponsible" attitude, Long Qie and the others basically held up the framework of Sky Net, forming the foundation for Sky Net’s status to be on par with the Eight Great Sacred Grounds on the Huaxia Land.

A mere Beidao Guang could never block Long Qie, Titan, and Evil Eyes—all already stepping into the realm of Martial Saints.

But the problem lay with the Great Sound Buddha Sect.