Chapter 1265
Chapter 1265 - 1251: Reunion
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".....Ha, ha....so tired....."
Sudar leaned against the corner of the wall, watching as the Corpse Monsters just walked past the corner.
He covered his mouth, not even daring to breathe.
Exhaustion, lethargy, helplessness, fear—too many negative emotions had devoured him, and he no longer knew how long he could persist in such an environment.
Too tired, and in too much pain, his wound was constantly bleeding, he had become numb to the pain.
"Is this the end..."
He closed his eyes, having completely lost hope.
"...No, I mustn’t let it..."
The next moment, his eyes snapped open, the hastily wrapped "Broken Hand" in his arms was still emitting a bizarre Qi.
".....I absolutely can’t.....I was already wrong.....absolutely cannot....."
He gritted his teeth, still persevering, though his Spirit had long since surpassed its limits.
The only thing that could keep him going was knowing what was in his arms...
"Hee hee....."
Suddenly, a laugh flitted past his ear, but Sudar didn’t care; he leaned against the wall, slowly moving forward.
He was searching for someone he could entrust, someone who could Seal this thing.
The laughter echoed through the entire alleyway, but he still acted as if he heard nothing, simply gritting his teeth and persevering.
And in the place where he passed, countless Corpse Monsters silently watched him....
He could clearly see the path ahead, yet was blind to the Chasers that were close at hand.
No, perhaps from the very beginning, the pursuit never existed.
The Mortal, gritting his teeth in determination, struggled through three streets, only to return to the same alley again.
"I’m about to succeed, about to get out....."
In his Memory, he was not far from the city wall.
Only that eerie laughter, growing clearer in the deserted city, became increasingly frequent.
"The will of Mortals may be admirable, but in the face of real high-dimensional abilities, it is easily toyed with..."
Hua Xueyi, transformed into Blade Edge, easily cut down the Corpse Monsters blocking her way.
She had already taken off twice, trying to create some distance, but the energy expended had far exceeded her expectations....each time she landed, even more Corpse Monsters intercepted her.
"....Have I really moved forward?"
The scenery had completely changed, but Hua Xueyi could feel that the area still bore her marks.....Her "cells" inevitably left behind some parts as she killed her adversaries.
They would serve as her guides and also as hidden detonation points for her abilities, and now, she even felt that these Corpse Monsters were the opponents she had fought before.
However, their forms had changed, their bodies completely unscathed.
"Is it my perception that’s being fooled? My consciousness? Or have I actually entered a dream..."
She maintained her calm, knowing that negative emotions would only hold her back at this moment.
Sometimes, she envied that man, the one who seemed to have no negative emotions in battle from the very beginning.
But now, she had to fight alone.....
"Hua Xueyi?!"
The sudden voice appeared right in front of her, the man from her memories, standing before her!
"Is it an illusion?!"
"You should’ve known I’d come back, right? I heard you were trapped, and I came to help you... Ahhhhhh!"
The tearing Blade Edge ripped open the man’s chest, that "Head of Group Lu" showed a face of disbelief, then a moment later, some sense of resignation.
"Xueyi? Is this your wish...."
The man coughed up blood, seemingly incredulous, yet looking like a lover content in their fatal devotion!.
An infinite golden color devoured the skies, and mad golden Whips lashed across the earth.
While berating the other party’s poor and malicious acting, without realizing it, Hua Xueyi indeed lost her usual composure.
Just as she herself had said, "A mortal’s will might be admirable, but facing overwhelming advantage, it is easily twisted and toyed with."
The man in her memory had completely turned into minced flesh, and in the next moment, turned into ashes.
The street began to distort and change again, the scenery becoming ever more familiar.
The woman looked up to see a faint light from a second-floor window.
She had returned to the small cabin where she started.
Or perhaps she had never left from the start, or maybe, she had been in a delusion all along.
Countless Corpse Monsters again surrounded her, their faces constantly changing, mass-producing "Lu Ping’an".
This, perhaps, was the person Hua Xueyi most hoped to see now, yet had become the mask with which her opponent mocked and fooled her.
"Damn it! You deserve to die!"
Though she was biting so hard her teeth were bleeding, she still chose to turn and leave.
𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮
With the same "knowledge" as a Beast Tamer, she had gathered enough information and had some conjectures about her opponent, knowing that to engage in a battle to the death would be foolish.
But where could she escape to?
Slaughter, overcome, the next round.
Flee, glide, the next round.
Hold firm, fight to the death, the endless next round.
When the opponent was "Infinite", what could a mortal’s resistance achieve?
Her physical strength was draining away, wounds were accumulating, and as she faced more and more familiar faces, she gradually became powerless...
"...Can it read my mind?"
"No, if it could, I wouldn’t have encountered those three unlucky fellows; they really died by my hands. If it truly had such ability, I couldn’t have lasted till now..."
"Then, how does it know about Lu Ping’an? Right, his performance was overdone, he misjudged our relationship, we are not lovers..."
The woman violently opened the small box on her necklace; besides a photo from the past, there was a card...a card that had been invalid for a long, long time!
At this moment, as she looked at the dancing characters on it, she revealed a smile.
"Points paid, Long-range Transfer!"
In an instant, as the stars shifted, she vanished without a trace amidst the encircling horde.
When she calmed down again, the place she landed was still covered in familiar fog and streets.
But there was a man, holding a familiar figure, a golden figure...
"Is this me?"
At that moment, the one being crushed by the man was "Hua Xueyi".
And on that street, there lay already many golden remnants, beaten and scattered.
"Eh? Another one?"
Those lifeless pupils looked over, without sorrow, without joy, utterly out of place on a battlefield.
He reached out towards her, and in the shadows, it seemed as if some colossal entity was emerging.
Ten years of accumulation? Surpassed the him of the past? At this moment, Hua Xueyi just wanted to slap herself for her earlier conceit.
"What kind of monster..."
At this moment, close enough, she felt even more the terror of "the past him".
Those hands grew closer, and her Spiritual Intuition was frantically sounding an alarm; death was imminent.
Hua Xueyi gritted her teeth and took a fighting stance.
After finally escaping a desperate situation, if she really died by a companion’s hands, it would be a joke...
"...Have you lost your mind?"
But the man suddenly laughed.
"You ran out of my door, and you think I would mistake you for someone else?"
At that moment, the woman realized the truth, but once bitten, she still couldn’t lower the knife in her hand.
"...Say something only you and I know."
This caught Lu Ping’an off guard; in his memory, his relationship with her was more professional, what could be something known only to them.
"You skipped too many classes; you couldn’t pass several subjects, and your (early) graduation certificate was secured through my connection with Xia Qin..."
"Alright, alright! I believe you’re real! I had forgotten about it! Forget it quickly yourself!"
— End of Chapter 1265 —