People sometimes force themselves to do something.

Although everything in the eyes of the world has at least two choices: to do and not to do. When the choice comes, those rationalities, those "consciences" become meaningless...... The only way that can support people's stubborn and firm choice is the "faith" that is extremely persistent in the heart.

This is called coercion, which is also known as "sacrifice".

Li Jie took another step, or another decade in an instant. There was one more glimmering golden pattern on the floor that stretched forward.

Forty-five-year-old Li Jie has a lot of crow's feet at the corners of his eyes, and there are some gray hairs on the sideburns of his hair.

But the belief in my heart has not disappeared, and I am determined to take another step forward.

People always have to grow old, time is like a cruel knife, and there is no mercy for anyone at all.

If you follow the normal physiological changes, the terrible word "old" may be gradually forgotten by people over the years.

But here it is different. Because every step out is ten years past, and Li Jie will not be given any buffer preparation.

At the third step, Li Jie obviously felt that his physical strength had decreased. I touched my cheeks and noticed that my skin had become wrinkled and loose, and there was a heavy look under my eyes.

There are no mirrors here, and Li Jie can't see what his fifty-five-year-old self looks like. I only saw in front of me that the skin of my hands and arms had darkened, and I no longer had the original delicate luster.

"Wait a minute!"

Hu Juan's voice came from behind him.

Li Jie turned his head to look, only to find that Hu Juan had a look of horror in his eyes when he saw him.

Hu Juan stared at Li Jie, her lips clenched and her heart kept fighting. After holding it for a long time, he finally squeezed out a sentence from between his teeth: "These two steps, I'll take it for you." ”

"You...... Don't ......" Li Jie wanted to refuse, but Hu Juan didn't give him any chance to refute at all. When he walked up to him, he passed by and took a heavy step.

Thankfully, Hu Juan walked through the place where Li Jie walked without any signs of aging, and after Hu Juan took a step forward, the dark floor under her feet was also lit up by patterns.

"Thank you." Li Jie said politely. In fact, he doesn't need to say this now, because obtaining the Yanlong Ball is everyone's business, and only by obtaining the Yanlong Ball can everyone present be saved. But Li Jie is such a person, he consciously understands the pattern because he has a special ability, so Li Jie subconsciously regards the completion of this as his responsibility.

In the face of rights and responsibilities, Li Jie often thinks about responsibilities first.

Hu Juan didn't look back, her back was trembling slightly when she was one step ahead of Li Jie. Understandably, no normal person can comfortably bear the loss of ten years of life.

For example, I always hear people say, "I am willing to do it in a few decades", but when I really come here, I realize how precious and fragile life is.

Feeling that Hu Juan's heart was violently impacting at the moment, Li Jie wanted to reach out and pull her back. I really have to wait until I can't do it, and it's not too late to let Hu Juan go.

Unexpectedly, when Li Jie's palm hadn't pressed Hu Juan's shoulder, the latter quickly took another step forward as if he was afraid that he would regret it.

Hu Juan's hair is rendered, and the fiery red color on one end cannot be seen. I only heard her voice grow much lower.

"That's all I can help. I'm so sorry. ”

I don't know if Hu Juan was defeated because she finally couldn't stand it, or if she didn't want Li Jie to see how she was getting old, she covered her face with her hands and lowered her head behind Li Jie.

"Yes." Li Jie nodded and didn't look back. After walking through the two steps that Hu Juan had exchanged for him with twenty years of life, he looked up at Yan Dragon Ball from afar, and his eyes were as hot as if he was about to breathe flames.

There are five more steps.

Li Jie estimated that he was nearly sixty years old, and he didn't know if he could finish the "fifty years".

After taking two more steps in one breath, Li Jie stopped.

He was so tired, it was like he was being emptied. The previous deep breathing was to calm the mood, and now the breathing is due to physical exhaustion.

Li Jie suddenly had a strange thought in his mind.

If he got the Yanlong Ball, he would have successfully rescued everyone, and he would have rescued his wife Jing Ruohan as expected, but he was still so old.

What should I do if I can't recover my lost life?

Do you want to use this image to face your wife? Does Jing Ruohan have to face an old man who may be in the ground in a few days? If he dies, will Jing Ruohan really be happy if he is alive?

What exactly is happiness?

Li Jie remembered what Jing Ruohan said to himself: "Although I don't have much time, as long as I am happy with you." This kind of happiness cannot be bought in any amount of time. ”

Maybe he shouldn't be obsessed with extending Jing Ruohan's lifespan at all. Instead, he chose to accompany her to spend her last days happily.

Just like now, one step at a time, ten years, not a fraction of a second. Even in reality, what is the difference between living in the void and empty and living in one step and ten years?

At this moment, the "eighty-five-year-old" Li Jie was actually wondering if he had done something wrong?! Choosing the wrong path from the start!

Li Jie didn't know what the answer was, and he didn't know what to do right.

"Jing Ruohan's smile" injected energy from the bottom of Li Jie's heart.

One-step......

It's only one step away from reaching the position of Yanlong Ball. Li Jie was already able to reach out and touch the two statues.

The rhythm of the Yan Dragon Ball, which frequently radiated light, was almost synchronized with Li Jie's breathing, and it was all the same rapid.

Li Jie, who unconsciously withered up, had blurred eyes, loose teeth, and a long rubber skin that had lost the direction of his neck.

"Give up everything to get everything." Li Jie couldn't pronounce these words, so he could only encourage himself repeatedly in his heart.

"What's the joy of life, what's the joy of death?" He tried to force his leg up, but he felt unable to take a step.

At that moment, Li Jie made the final choice. Seeing that he exhaled violently, his palm was aimed at the Yan Dragon Ball, and his body leaned forward and fell away.

As Li Jie fell forward, his body was constantly changing. First, the white hair on the top of his head fell like rain, and then the skin turned from black to blue-gray, and the muscles of his whole body atrophied rapidly and clung to the bones.

The moment Li Jie's skinny palm touched the Yan Dragon Ball, the entire space was covered by the fierce light emitted by the Yan Dragon Ball.

When the dazzling white light dissipated, the three people who were waiting in place rubbed their eyes, and looked at Li Jie, who had returned to normal, with a smile on his face and a hand holding the Yan Dragon Ball, looking at them......

The exit is not from the original desert, but from an unknown island.

When Lao Yu and the others got out of the passage, they turned around and looked at the passage at the exit, slowly sinking into the ground and disappearing.

Through the satellite phone positioning, everyone was surprised to find that they had already deviated tens of thousands of miles from the place where they entered the "Xuanyuan Ancient Tomb".

It's their world for sure.

Because Lao Yu used the phone to contact his Russian friend.

After waiting for a long time, after the helicopter that came at the fastest speed descended, the tall Caucasian jumped off the plane with tears in his eyes and hugged Lao Yu tightly.

From the mouth of this Russian friend, it became known that they disappeared for half a whole year. The other party once went to the desert to find them, thinking that they were no longer "in the world".

Hearing that he had been delayed in the Xuanyuan Ancient Tomb for half a year, Li Jie, who was suddenly anxious, hurriedly urged to leave.

Before leaving, Jing Ruohan's lifespan was only half a year left.

Lao Yu understood, and asked his friend to send Li Jie and Zhang Lao Er back to Shuiyun City first, and then pick them up.

After getting on the plane, Li Jie looked at the figures of Lao Yu and Hu Juan who were gradually moving away, and suddenly remembered to ask: "Until now, I don't know what Lao Yu's full name is." ”

Zhang Laoer, who survived the catastrophe, leaned back on the seat with his eyes closed and decadently, and his mouth moved after hearing Li Jie's question. After thinking about it, he changed his sentence and said, "From now on, he won't use this name again." You won't see him again. ”

Li Jie, who understood, nodded and didn't ask anything more. It is conceivable that after experiencing everything in the Xuanyuan Ancient Tomb, Lao Yu should have seen through some things, and will no longer be "difficult to give up" for the sake of "difficult to give up......

"His original name was Yu Changhan."

"Yes." Li Jie waved goodbye solemnly to the black shadow in the distance, which was no more than the size of a grain of rice.

…… When Li Jie took Zhang Lao Er through the mirror to the void space, before passing through the flashing white light gate. Li Jie's eyes were complicated, he glanced at the "wheel of life" suspended in mid-air, frowned slightly, and bowed his head and drilled out of the door without saying a word.

Coming out of the bathroom at home, Li Jie rushed into the bedroom, but saw that it was empty. Then I turned to the living room and found a layer of floating ash on the tables and chairs, as if no one had lived in it for a long time.

Li Jie, who was in a hurry, hurriedly took out his mobile phone and dialed Zhang Liang's number.

"Li Jie?!" Unexpectedly, Zhang Liang seemed more anxious than Li Jie, and before Li Jie could speak, he immediately shouted: "Come over quickly." Jing Ruohan is dying! ”

"Where?"

"The medical hospital of Shuiyun Villa!"

As soon as Zhang Liang's words fell, he heard a hurried running sound in the corridor, and at the same time, he heard Li Jie shouting: "Zhang Liang, Jing Ruohan, where are you?" ”

Zhang Liang was already surprised by the magic shown by Li Jie, hurriedly opened the door and came out, stretched out his hand to greet Li Jie and shouted: "Quick, here!" ”

Li Jie's eyes swept over, and he rushed over with a loose step. didn't talk to Zhang Liang politely, pushed him away and rushed into the house.

In the hospital bed in the room, Jing Ruohan, with a pale face, had an oxygen tube stuffed in his nose, and several needles with various nutrient solutions and medicinal solutions hanging from his body. Just looked at Jing Ruohan's weak breathing, his eyes were closed and he was unconscious.

There were two more people beside Jing Ruohan.

One sitting on the edge of her bed, holding her palm tightly was Shi Yiguang. Shi Yiguang, who was empathetic, stared at Jing Ruohan with his eyes, and tears flowed down his cheeks.

And standing quietly on the side was the eldest lady of Shuiyun Villa, Feng Xiaoting. At this time, she saw Li Jie enter the door, and her eyes were complicated. lowered his head as if to avoid, and whispered quickly: "I tried my best, but I can only delay it for so long......

Suddenly, Feng Xiaoting's long-held tears rolled down, and she said sorry while hiding her face and crying, and rushed out of the door.

Li Jie walked up to Jing Ruohan and touched his wife's cheek lovingly. Without stopping, he reached into his arms and took out the glittering Yanlong Ball.

As soon as Yan Long Zhupu approached Jing Ruohan's side, the light turned blazing as if it had been sensed. Li Jie only felt that the Yan Dragon Ball in his hand seemed to have turned into a ball of fire, and he was in great pain.

But Li Jie just didn't let go, pinching the Yan Dragon Ball to the death, letting the light shine on Jing Ruohan's body.

Zhang Liang and Shi Yiguang on the side were all stunned by the strange scene in front of them, and they didn't dare to squeak and stare tightly.

I saw that Jing Ruohan's body suddenly became transparent and solid under the illumination of the light, and the frequency gradually increased, keeping up with the speed at which the light of the Yan Dragon Ball flickered.

Suddenly, the Yanlong Ball in Li Jie's palm shattered and exploded into a cloud of white mist. And the white mist covered Jing Ruohan's body, and it was instantly absorbed into it.

Jing Ruohan, who was lying on the hospital bed, miraculously kept his posture unchanged and floated in mid-air, his body constantly flashing.

When Jing Ruohan slowly turned into an upright position, Jing Ruohan's body radiance also reached its peak. It stabbed so much that everyone couldn't open their eyes.

In the haze, I vaguely saw Jing Ruohan's eyes suddenly open, and two white lights shot out like substance.

A deafening dragon roar sounded throughout Shuiyun Mountain Villa! Although it was late at night, everyone was awakened without exception!

…… At the same time, the wind and sand in the vast desert swept up sharply, and a whistling tornado broke out in an instant.

There was a constant rush under the dunes.

Suddenly, a thick arm stretched out of the sand.

Then another, then another......

The wind and sand howled violently, as if they were roaring about the appearance of something that should not be in the world.

In the yellow sand, teams of armored bull heads emerged from under the dunes......