Chapter 262: Time
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After accurate calculations, the game of capital, the secret war in the heart, the tragic sacrifice, and the determination to make a desperate bet, this game that has affected the fate of countless people has finally come to an end.
K, Q, and J, representing the king, empress, and acolytes, are dead, and only ghost cards and ghost cards are left on the battlefield to kill each other.
In the end, the winner was finally clear, and the winner showed a bloody grin.
Then, suddenly, something outside the rules came in. In the game of cards, there are conflicts, fights, and everywhere they pass, all rules and victories are destroyed, unreasonable, unreasonable, and inconceivable.
It's like someone who is impatient with the war of the ants, so he pours a pot of hot water; When a book is well unfolded, a meteor falls from the sky; The three-way push tower and converge on the high ground, and when it was almost about to knock down the enemy base, the net was broken.
Whoever sees this scene will have the feeling of smashing everything within their reach, and then grabbing the perpetrator and yelling into his ear:
"-What the fuck is this?!"
Qu Qingyang roared.
The blood-stained pupils stared at the moonlight, and he bared his white teeth, like an enraged beast, chewing and tearing a name repeatedly with his sharp teeth:
"Konstantin ......"
Everyone knows that Konstantin is a woe, a man who will always bring misfortune and calamity, and that working with him will only be used to turn into a mass of ashes and dross.
But when this damn guy knocks on his door, few people can say no to his offer.
Everyone knows that they can't walk with the devil, and everything about him is a disguise. All his conditions are for people to step into the abyss. Stuck in the quagmire.
The temptation of the devil is always impossible to refuse. For example, there are many control codes for inhibition force, such as the complete security plan of the relevant departments...... Like everything that the heart desires.
But no one knows what else he is hiding.
The person who was instigated by ** rushed to the front, and for a while, he became a rotten pawn, and then he didn't know when he stepped on the road he provided and fell into the abyss.
Everyone thinks they can hide, everyone can't.
"Fuck ......"
Qu Qingyang angrily smashed the monitor in front of him: "Fuck! Fuck Konstantin, fuck the world tree...... It's not fucking over yet! β
He looked angrily at the pair of cyan eyes. The cyan pupils seemed to sense his gaze, turned their heads, and looked at him.
"It's not over yet, no!"
He lay in front of the monitor and looked at the pair of indifferent eyes: "I have given so much, no one can stop me...... Even you! β
At that moment, an unprecedented light burned.
From his shell.
It was as if flesh and bone were ignited, quickly twisted, evaporated in intense pain, and ignited a white flame of light.
It was the fire of the soul.
Countless rays of light spread out of his body like sparks, falling in this sprawling city. The souls that wandered in the ruins were also ignited, and those resentments that could not be dissipated. Those unfulfilled ambitions, those unforgettable loves have been turned into fuel under the burning of crazy souls.
One, two, three, turned into a terrible wave.
It was the fire of the Avengers, and not even the ice of the moonlight could be extinguished, because it only existed in the mind.
In that white flame, Qu Qingyang's body instantly turned into a thin body, like a dried corpse that had been exposed to the sun for thousands of years. But his strength is rising, soaring madly upwards from the fourth stage, fueled by the tens of millions of people he killed, climbing to the highest peak.
In the silent explosion, a tornado of white soul fire rose from the sky.
In the hoarse screams of countless wraiths, they burned frantically, scorching all living beings that still had minds.
The weak animals were usurped in their souls at the first moment, and their bodies were involuntarily thrown into this burning, and their bodies were also converted into fuel, becoming a backup energy source.
Qu Qingyang, who sacrificed everything, has grown to an indescribable extent at this moment.
It's like the one-night dream in Shangyang City that gathered the minds of countless people, but it was countless times more powerful than it, and it was a power formed after igniting tens of millions of people.
Millions of people who have died in vain, the power of the whole body and the whole heart come together to almost tamper with the world.
He paved the way with the corpses of tens of millions of people, climbed to the peak, and the thoughts that condensed into substance rolled in all directions like a tidal wave. Everywhere they went, even the laws modified by the World Tree were in turmoil.
The fire of the soul corroded the entire city like poison, pulling it into the abyss of turbulence and change.
- Inner World.
Heaven and earth suddenly turned into a fierce realm, and the earth cracked layer by layer, spitting out lava and fire. The clouds converged in the sky, and the vast shadows of countless terrifying creatures roamed among them, lightning and thunder.
Even if the moonlight hung high, it could not break through the darkness created by this man's heart.
There was endless malice between heaven and earth, locking the young man in the center.
And at the highest place, in the white flame tornado, countless bones cast a hideous throne, and Qu Qingyang, who had been eroded into a demon by countless negative emotions, sat on it, overlooking the whole world.
"Konstantin's plan, flawless."
He muttered hoarsely, "He sent the World Tree to a place that was most suitable for its rebirth, and he took everything into his hands...... It wasn't even necessary for him to come to Zhonghai. But he forgot that even if the World Tree could change the rules, it couldn't change people's hearts...... It doesn't change my determination. β
"This city should be destroyed."
He looked down on the burning world and whispered, "Today." β
Qu Qingyang looked down at his body, and in that layer of glass-like body, there were countless resentful spirits that were locked in it. They were like being imprisoned in a bottle, struggling, crying out in pain.
But all anger, pain, and despair turned into fuel for the white flame.
The flames of resentment are burning the world. Change it into a vision in the host's mind.
- A scorched earth of the apocalypse.
"I've sacrificed so much to get here. No one can stop me. Even Konstantin. β
He roared angrily and stretched out his hand to Zhou Li, who was looking up below: "A puppet who doesn't understand anything is not worthy of being in front of me." β
At that moment, the clouds in the sky exploded.
In the flicker of lightning, the countless huge monsters floating in it all twitched in pain, and the blood-colored liquid poured down from the sky like a river, turning into a torrential rain.
Countless pieces of blood melted into the moonlight, staining it blood-red.
The air was filled with a strong fishy stench and the smell of **. It's like countless people have died, and then they have rotted.
Under the interpenetration of the World Tree and the wraiths, the city seems to have fallen into a foreign land, and in an instant it has turned into a terrifying hell where blood and flesh are entwined.
On the ground, the cracks that erupted from the lava turned into large mouths of pain and wails, and in the erosion of the blood fountains, the bones of the dead slowly crawled out of the ruins, and the deformed white bones and twisted flesh and blood sounded on their bodies, turning them into endless demons.
The mad roar of those demons. Under the command of a crazy will, he rushed out towards Zhou Li.
Some run on all fours like dogs. But the skull turned into three hideous mouths. Some of them resemble snakes, but they are covered with scales of bones...... The creatures that were supposed to be in the nightmare are here at this moment.
Thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions......
All the dead people in this city stood on the opposite side of Zhou Li, and they surrounded Zhou Li layer by layer, and frantically bit at him.
But Zhou Li didn't feel afraid, his emotions didn't even fluctuate, as if he was no longer human. Everything in this world is like dust.
"Sister...... I'm finally getting the feel of you. β
His mind drifted away, remembering the woman who was out of nowhere, and whispered softly.
In the midst of the wave of flesh and blood, he lightly kicked the stirrup.
So, in the rain of blood, four eyes lit up.
Above the face of the eight-legged giant horse, lightning shone between its four eyes, and it stood up and hissed. The horse's hooves stepped down, crushing the skulls of the two demons.
The sound of wind and thunder converged, and at its feet, every step it took forward, it was like stepping on an iron drum that shook the world. The terrible thunderclap reverberated through the world again and again, and wherever the sound waves passed, the rules distorted by resentment vibrated as well.
At this moment, the incarnation of the World Tree began to accelerate and rush up!
On top of the war horse, Zhou Li clenched the long knife, and the blade of wailing pierced through the three flying beasts, frantically sucking the blood and resentment in it, making the sound of jade cracking.
In the sound of collapse, its blade grew inch by inch.
Like a vicious beast devouring bones, it strengthens itself. It sucked up those sweet resentments and began to change rapidly. In the end, it turned into a terrifying murder weapon that was two meters long.
It is no longer colorless and transparent, and endless resentment renders it bone-white.
The two-meter-long blade quietly reflected the moonlight, unpretentious, but in the phantom of the sword light, it seemed that there were countless resentful spirits fighting and fighting, and when the wind blew, it emitted an endless mournful roar.
With the wave of the war horse, it swept through the tide of demons as lightly as a feather, and a bloody curtain was raised. The demons it slain were all turned to ashes.
The iron hooves of the eight-legged giant horse set off a storm, and the storm swept up into the sky with flying ashes, and then fluttered and fell.
The power of thunder and fire swarmed beneath its hooves, and as it advanced, the sea of demons was torn open a terrible ravine, dripping with blood. When the ashes fell, it all turned to dead ashes.
The whole world seemed to be turned into a blanket of flesh and blood, and it was in turmoil.
In this rain of blood, the eight-legged war horse advanced towards the flame tornado that ran through the sky and the earth.
Gradually, it became faster and faster, until finally, it was like a galloping electric light.
After stepping through the river of blood, rush to the sky!
If this world is a nightmare, then there must be an iron horse glacier into this dream.
Everywhere we went, everything was in ashes and scattered into mud.
On the ground. The tide of demons is breaking through at the moment. Exploded. It was reduced to countless blood and seeped into the void.
Immediately afterward, the world began to change wildly, sometimes like a dying monster, sometimes like a volcano in hell, sometimes dead and silent like a barren, sometimes manic like a star about to explode.
But no matter how it changes, it can't stop the eight-legged giant horse from advancing.
Nothing stands in the way of a burning meteor.
to the end. The world is transformed into the apocalyptic scenario depicted in the book of Revelation.
Hail and blood fell from the sky, burning mountains tumbled into the sea, and stars fell into rivers. The day is no longer bright, and the night is starless. Thousands of deformed creatures rolled on the ground, turning into blood-colored crows.
'Woe to you! Woe to you! Woe to you! β
They screamed hoarsely, rising like black clouds, soaring high in the sky, and rushed madly towards Zhou Li, pecking him with their claws and beaks.
But the flaming meteor was still advancing, and the black crow tide was broken. It's like tearing a piece of tissue paper.
Eventually, the meteor rose into the sky. Hanging high above all things, it seems to merge with that round of moonlight.
Under the moonlight, this absurd world is in turmoil, like a fortress of false lies, and when the moonlight spreads, it is about to collapse.
Endless moonlight poured from the sky and fell on the raised blade.
The blade of the sword refracted the shape of this hideous world, releasing an icy light.
Terrifying energy, weird abilities, complex changes...... Everything was stripped of its camouflage, turning into a bubble of turmoil, as if it was about to collapse in the next moment.
The tornado formed by the convergence of countless soul fires suddenly became turbulent, and the premonition of destruction was coming.
On the throne that fell apart, Qu Qingyang raised his head in amazement and saw the pair of cyan eyes in the sky, in the reflection of the pupils, everything was false.
The Moonlight Blade was in his hand, reflecting it all.
Flowers in the mirror, moon in the water.
And finallyβ
- Slash!
β¦β¦
A week later, on the morning of the sun.
On the crowded commercial street, a black sedan was quietly parked in the distance of the crowd.
"It's incomprehensible."
In the driver's seat, Luo Bai stared at the tide of people coming and going in the distance, and sighed suspiciously: "Zhonghai has become like that, but this place is still the same as the last time I came." β
"Shangyang is just a small town, and it is better to be calm. You can't make every place look like ruins, or the world will be in chaos. β
In the co-pilot, the young man leaned lazily back in his chair. The sun was shining on him, soft and warm, as if he was about to fall asleep. It's just that from those slightly narrowed eyes, you can vaguely see his cyan pupils.
"By the way, how thick your guy's lines are."
Luo Bai turned his head to look at him, his eyes were a little dark, as if he hadn't fallen asleep for a long time.
He rubbed his eyebrows and sighed softly: "Forget it, people like me who are nervous also have problems." It's been over for so long, but sometimes I still have nightmares. β
He leaned back in his chair as he recalled, his expression gloomy.
After that night, the city of Zhonghai was almost flattened, and more than half of its inhabitants died in the unrest. The next day, Lu Huaxu urgently mobilized the remnants of the relevant departments, sent a large number of capable people to revise the memory and the scene, and cooperated with public relations and propaganda, turning this war into an 'earthquake' that has not been encountered in a century. But the slightest wisp of news and rumors can't be suppressed after all, and they are circulating in some places on the Internet.
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the existence of the capable person may not be suppressed for too long.
In this turbulent time, everyone is busy and has no time to breathe, but sometimes they wonder what the meaning of being busy is. However, after cooperating with the work for a few days, Zhou Li resigned from the retention of the relevant departments and returned to Shangyang.
"You know what? Sometimes, sometimes, I wonder what's going on in your head......"
Luo Bai looked at Zhou Li next to him: "Are you sure you really want to give up that position?" After all, you're now a well-known powerhouse...... It's too much of a progressive, isn't it? β
"Everyone has their own life they want to live, Luo Bai."
Zhou Li opened his eyes and looked at him: "You have lived yours, I have lived mine." That's it. β
"But you're thinking a little too fast, aren't you?"
"Perhaps?"
Zhou Li was silent for a moment. Whispered, "I'm just...... Under someone's reminder. I just understood what kind of life I wanted to live.
You see, sometimes when you choose something, you have to give up something. It's just that I'm lucky. β
"It's easy to say."
Luo Bai squinted at him.
"It's rare for you to send me off, so don't say such bad things. I'll go first. β
Zhou Li patted him on the shoulder and came to open the door.
He got out of the car and returned to the familiar street. He looked around at the familiar scenery and breath around him, and after a long time, he exhaled softly, feeling a wave of exhaustion and lightness.
He's back again.
"Hey. Zhou Li. β
Luo Bai leaned out of the car window: "I will be the lord of Shangyang in the future, if I have nothing to do in the future, I will find you to drink." β
Zhou Li was stunned for a moment and smiled.
"No need."
He put his hand in his pocket and looked down for a moment, "Just because I'm gone, I probably won't be here in a few days." β
Luo Bai was stunned, he looked at Zhou Li in astonishment: "You ...... Going? β
"Yes."
Zhou Li looked back at him: "I said it, I'm going to live my own life, a new life, in a place where no one can find it." β
"But ......"
Luo Bai said incoherently: "You didn't ...... There's no need to disappear. β
"New life. There's always a price, doesn't it? β
Zhou Li took two steps back. Turning his head to look at him again, he waved goodbye: "After I'm gone, you should go find a woman too, so that you won't have nightmares again." I remember the woman named Chu Qingqiu...... You like him, don't you? β
"Hey, you bastard is talking ......"
Luo Bai was stunned for a moment, and looked up to say something, but the man had already disappeared from front of him.
He disappeared into the crowd.
In the same crowd, Zhou Li walked on the familiar streets again.
On this early spring day, the sun is warm, as if it has melted away all the cold and cruelty. There was no smell of blood in the wind, and no roars and roars could be heard.
He chuckled softly, his eyes relaxed and silent, washing away the dust.
Having discarded everything he didn't need, he became himself again, without weapons, without war, without conspiracy...... Say goodbye to it all.
He's going back to his rightful place.
In the street, he quietly gazed at the passing crowd, watching every old man and girl hurrying past him, and finally, his eyes fell on the shop window on the other side of the long street.
Taking a deep breath, he muttered softly.
"I'm back."
In the cafΓ© that has just opened, the waiter is busy packing coffee for the guests. At this time, the cold has not yet faded. Some people hurriedly walked into the store with hats and left early. Some people are bored and sitting at the bar and playing with their phones.
The little girl who had just woken up was obviously overasleep and was lying on the table next to the window doing her homework, scratching her upturned hair with a sad face, and then yawning. After quietly glancing at the store where no one was paying attention to him, he lay down on his notebook and found a comfortable position to take a nap.
Soon, a book gently tapped on her forehead, waking her up.
The young woman sat across from her, smiling at the girl's sad face. As if he had been taught something, Lu Xiaoshui lay on the table in frustration, his head shaking, distressed and hesitant.
Li Zijin looked at her troubled appearance, whispered something, reached out and scratched her upturned hair, looking proud and happy.
It was still the big sister who won the game, and Lu Wanshui put away her homework in frustration and turned her head to ignore her.
In the midst of the surging crowd, he stood by the side of the road, staring at the girls in the window in a daze.
It's been a month and a half, but it's like a long time.
It was so long that Zhou Li felt that he was old, but they still lived in a bright time, quiet and peaceful, and the sun shone on their cheeks, with an intoxicating halo.
They don't belong to that dark and cold world, and Zhou Li also hopes that they will never have the day when they will master weapons.
They want to live happily, peacefully, peacefully. Live your own life.
Stay away from those misfortunes and calamities. They belong to those days that are as beautiful as fairy tales.
Zhou Li looked at them. After a long time, he laughed softly.
"I've changed so much, and you haven't changed...... That's nice. β
He muttered softly, but hesitated to enter.
Until behind the window, Li Zijin looked back casually.
For a moment, her gaze fell on Zhou Li's body, but she couldn't take it off anymore.
Zhou Li was stunned for a moment and laughed embarrassedly. He waved at her.
Li Zijin looked at him blankly for a long time. It's like waking up from a dream, and my eyes suddenly turn red. She looked at Zhou Li, her eyes were a little annoyed for some reason, with mist.
Zhou Li looked at it in a daze, and suddenly felt a little at a loss, but Li Zijin glared at him, and after a long time, he laughed softly.
She covered her face and wiped tears from the corners of her eyes.
Regardless of the quiet atmosphere of the store. screamed excitedly and beckoned to Zhou Li.
Cheerful like a little girl.
Lu Qiaoshui also saw him. His eyes lit up, but he remembered that he was still fighting with him, so he stiffened his face awkwardly, turned his head and stopped talking, still childish.
Zhou Li just looked at them for a long time, and laughed softly.
Maybe he gave up so much just to see the smiling faces of these girls.
At that moment, he finally understood that he was home.
"I'm back."
Zhou Li lowered his head and took out the small square box from his arms, which was held in the palm of his hand and stained with some sweat. He hesitated, then picked up one of the rings.
As if his eyes were stung by the light of the ring, Li Zijin behind the window was stunned.
Zhou Li seriously lifted the ring, took a deep breath, and looked solemn:
"Zijin, let's get ......"
At that moment, Zhou Li suddenly felt a vibration under his feet.
A moment of trance, a moment of loud noise.
A light lit up, stabbing Zhou Li's eyes. The roar tore through his eardrums, like a mournful bird flying across the sky
The light of the flame was red, lit up from the coffee shop, and fluttered. Like a dancing tulle, it rolled up, covering Zhou Li's pupils and covering everything.
It is as if someone sowed the seeds of malice in the spring, and it absorbs the viciousness and malice germination in the ground, gradually grows, and one day when it comes to the earth, it blooms into rotten and miserable flowers.
The flames swelled in an instant, covering everything, breaking through all the windows and staining everyone's eyes red.
Zhou Li was stunned.
He looked stunned, he could see.
At that moment, the light lit up, illuminating the side of her face, soft and charming. Flames drifted by, burning tables and chairs to ashes, and finally engulfing her.
Little by little, she disappeared into the world, in front of her own eyes.
The whole world seemed to stop, cruelly and coldly draining all of Zhou Li's strength, causing him to fall to his knees on the street, staring blankly at his past, his own memories, and his home...... Reduced to ashes in front of you.
The ashes burned slowly, with a wild smile, stretching towards the sky.
The whole city was screaming, and the crowd dispersed in an instant.
They retreated in disarray, looking in horror at the cafΓ© shrouded in flames, at the man kneeling in the street with a ring in his hand.
"Zijin, weak water ......"
Zhou Li opened his mouth, wanting to call their names, but he made a sound, only a mournful whimper.
The flames were rolling, sending gray-black embers and blood that had not dried up, Zhou Li lowered his head in a daze, stretched out his fingers, his fingers trembled and pressed in a pool of blood, and when he lifted it, he was dyed with a layer of blood red.
In that moment, he finally understood what had happened.
They're real...... Dead, right?
In front of yourself.
He lowered his head and let out a hoarse roar, like a mad wolf cornered.
It turns out that from beginning to end, the most naΓ―ve...... It's all himself.
Zhou Li laughed, his voice hoarse.
He fell to his knees in a pool of blood and let the tears fall. Scarlet blood reflected the embarrassed man, showing the world his desperate look.
"If I'm not mistaken, your name is Zhou Li?"
At that moment, a hoarse voice came from the wind, still calmly elegant.
The man who should have died had already come in a pool of blood, standing in front of Zhou Li, looking down at this man who was completely defeated by himself. Whispered in his ear:
"Pain. The best gift in the world. Hope you enjoy it. β
"βQu Qingyang."
In the pool of blood, Zhou Li finally realized that an emotion that was ten thousand times more violent than anger dominated his will. It was the killing intent that burst out of the dragon when it was touched by the scales.
That pure will was so strong that Zhou Li was lost in an instant.
It was at that moment that pure gold flashed from his eyes. Under the overlook of those eyes, the whole world resounded with the sound of glass breaking.
All kinds of scenes, bustling cities, and hustle and bustle of people have all turned into messy and broken colors under this glance.
Buildings are crumbling, the earth is collapsing. Up and down, left and right lost the standard.
Everything is destroying at a rapid pace, like a bubble.
In the end, only a pure white mist remained.
Zhou Li stood in this mist, looking at the burning white resentful spirit in front of him.
The days in his memory were just a moment of trance, and he finally remembered where he was.
- This is in his consciousness.
He is still in this burning city, and the scene after killing Qu Qingyang is an illusion of that moment. But the illusion was so real that he couldn't believe it.
The heart-rending pain still existed in his chest, like a fire, burning his reason.
"You've got a good trick."
He stared at the laughing soul in front of him and clenched the void sword at his waist. On the edge of the sword. Hideous chirps pierced.
"It's just that I didn't expect you to be able to struggle out of your own illusion, it's amazing."
Qu Qingyang looked around at the scene. Sighing softly: "You have so many things in your heart, but why is there nothing at the bottom of your consciousness?" Your heart is empty.
Is there a deeper subconscious underneath this? Let me see what you have hidden in your heart......"
He unscrupulously flipped through the defense line in the depths of Zhou Li's memory, and went deeper, eroding Zhou Li's memory, and moving forward.
"That's enough."
Zhou Li roared, and the angry voice made Qu Qingyang's body tremble, almost scattered.
Under the forced gaze of those cyan eyes,
His body shook like a candle in the wind.
"I see...... It's not these eyes. β
Qu Qingyang stared at his pupils, as if he had discovered some secret, and he was overjoyed: "Others tell me that your eyes are the windows of the soul, but why have your eyes become a cage for the soul...... With such an essence, I am not unjustly losing. β
Zhou Li was silent and drew his sword.
In the next moment, Qu Qingyang's body split into two.
The white soul fire burst and dissipated into the void.
"Are you satisfied?"
In the void, a voice asked softly.
In the next moment, the white soul fire reunited, converging into the well-dressed man. He looked at Zhou Li, who had a cold expression, happily, and reached out and patted him lightly on the shoulder:
"Konstantin's plan is truly flawless, and the World Tree's rules have been changed and you are truly the only partner in this world...... But let me teach you a lesson. β
"Everyone has weaknesses."
Qu Qingyang nodded his head: "Here." β
"No one's heart is perfect, Zhou Li, even if you claim to be steel. You still have concerns in your heart, and there are enough gaps for me to get in......"
He stared at the pair of eyes full of anger, floating in this vast mist, happy and cheerful: "You did kill me, but so what? The crack in your heart is so big that I don't even need to knock to walk into it. β
The fierce cold light tore through him, strangled him to pieces.
But his body was reborn in the next moment, and he was restored to wholeness.
"It's useless, Zhou Li."
He looked down at the young man at his feet, his eyes pitying: "I'm in your consciousness right now." As long as there is still fear and rift in your heart, no matter how many times you kill me, I can be born again. β
"Our game has just begun."
Qu Qingyang laughed: "The one just now should be regarded as a practice level, and the preferential treatment of newcomers has ended." What kind of illusion do you like next? Warlike? Killing? Or is it the peaceful life you want? I can give you ......."
Beneath his feet, a white mist rolled up, and countless memories emerged from the mist. It has been built into a huge city and a bygone era. Scenes begin to repeat themselves. Like a seed sprouting out of the dirt. Spread to the surroundings, swept towards the periphery.
A vast illusion rises from the ground.
Zhou Li stared at the countless scenes flashing in front of him, and after a long time, he suddenly whispered:
"Actually, I want to thank you."
At that moment, the world was silent and everything froze.
He stepped into the billowing mist, passing through his memories and past. Let the past pass by, and only stay in front of one of the scenes for a moment.
In the picture, the young woman is engulfed in flames and burned to ashes.
In the last moment, Zhou Li's pale face was reflected in her pupils, but there was a happy smile on the corner of her mouth.
"You know what? In that moment, I watched her die. β
Zhou Li stretched out his hand and stroked her empty cheek, and his voice was soft: "I really want to say to her, Zijin don't die." I can save you. I have the World Tree, and I can go to Zhou Jian'an. I can go to my sister...... You don't want to die, I can save anyone......"
A bitter cold spread from his feet, in all directions.
The icy despair froze the expanding illusion, just as the Big Bang of the universe had not yet ended, and ushered in a heat death of absolute zero. Everything was frozen in that moment, including Qu Qingyang in the core of the illusion.
Zhou Li watched as Li Zijin's face turned to ashes in the flames, ...... over and over again But no matter how much it is repeated, it can't undo the ending.
"But I know that I can't do anything, I can't save anything."
He watched in amazement as the woman was engulfed in flames again and again, parting with himself.
This is the most poignant despair and sorrow in the world, and it is heart-wrenching.
"βSo, I want to thank you."
Zhou Li stood in front of Qu Qingyang, looking down at his distorted expression, his voice was soft and cold, like snow falling from the sky: "Thank you for the reminder." You let me know again, my weakness, my incompetence......"
He grabbed Qu Qingyang's neck and lifted him up, the blue-gold in his eyes burned like a flame: "As you said, pain is the best gift in the world.
I am very happy to receive such a gift. β
"It's useless!"
In mid-air, Qu Qingyang, who was almost suffocated, writhed his body, but no matter how he interfered with Zhou Li's thinking, he couldn't break free from the will that bound him like iron tongs.
It's like falling from the altar in an instant, turning into a mortal. The responsive world looked at him coldly and ignored his calls.
Some kind of stronger force burned in Zhou Li's liberated eyes, taking control of his consciousness from Qu Qingyang's hands.
"It's useless, you can't kill me."
Qu Qingyang looked at him mockingly, and made a hoarse voice: "The deeper the guilt in your heart, my strength will only be stronger!" β
"So what?"
Zhou Li clamped his throat and suddenly laughed softly:
"βTime will kill everything, won't it?"
At that moment, Qu Qingyang's complexion changed suddenly.
He felt that this world of consciousness was ...... Started the crazy acceleration!
It's like gears spinning wildly, the wild horses break free of the reins, and the rivers converge into a torrent, surging! Everything is starting to spiral out of control.
Time is speeding up rapidly, just like Zhou Li has done countless times, speeding up his consciousness time, tenfold, hundredfold, tens of millions of times...... In an instant, a hundred years.
If time could be transformed into a clock, no clock in the world could withstand such crazy spinning.
Nor can anything go through such a terrible wash of time.
Love or hate, anger or madness, depravity or faith, ** or soul...... Everything has lost its meaning in the face of this terrible time scale, and everything is decaying rapidly.
The endless acceleration has finally reached its peak, but the whole world is still so empty, nothing has changed.
The only change is the rapid aging of Qu Qingyang.
In the end, in an instant, it is thousands of years.
In Zhou Li's hands, Qu Qingyang had weathered into a withered skeleton, only the shriveled eye hole still lit up with a faint light, and his thinking had weathered to the point that only the last spark of the residual candle in the wind remained, which was about to be annihilated.
But in front of him, the cold young man was still as indifferent and arrogant as in the past, and his eyes were burning with brilliant green gold, brilliant as the sun.
"You're ...... Nothing has changed at all. β
The skeleton looked desperately at the scene in front of it: "What the hell are you?" β
"Probably because of ......"
Zhou Li whispered in his ear: "I'm a monster, right?" β
"Haha, yes, that's right, you're ...... Monster. β
The skeleton decayed rapidly in the wind, weathered into dust, and death was imminent. But his eyes were full of relief and final malice:
"Zhou Li, do you think what you see is an illusion? If you embark on this path, the world will not tolerate people like you, and if you can live, others will not be able to live......"
It hoarsely uttered its final curse:
"Someday, you'll lose the things you love forever, as you see, and someday ......"
"No, they'll live well."
Zhou Li threw the shattered skeleton in his hand on the ground and looked down at him coldly: "Live a happier life than everyone else." β
In the ashes, the last half of the skull let out a mocking laugh, completely eroded.
Disappeared without a trace. (To be continued.) )
ps: Tianqi has finished the draft, the next chapter will be released tonight, let me go take a shower, cut my hair, and have a meal by the way...... When I get back, I'll post the ending, and a long, verbose speech.