Li Suchang's breathing stagnated, and her originally agile movements seemed to be stuck in a mud puddle.
She slowly walked to the bedside. The Houmu mask on the table disappeared, and a brand new Chiyuan mask was lying there.
This was Su Jue's silent farewell, and also the final blow that shattered Li Suchang's fantasy.
He is possessed by a demon.
Chapter 266 Wendy
The rules of Taixu Sect state that anyone who becomes a demon must be killed.
This was the instruction left by Fu Hua, who founded Taixu Sect. It was also the root cause of the disaster that occurred 500 years ago. In essence, it should have been influenced by the precepts of someone.
Of course, this is not important to Su Jue. As a Herrscher, he was destined to stand on the opposite side of humanity from the moment he was born. He is not possessed by a demon, but the demon itself.
As long as this rule exists, there is a natural opposition between him and Li Sushang. Even if the other party does not take action, Su Jue will definitely find a way to force her to take action. The Herrscher of Consciousness is about to be born. In order to ensure his own safety, it is necessary to experience the complete form of the Taixu Sword God once.
Tianming sent Susanna to accompany Li Suchang, which must have been an order from Otto. According to Otto's character, he would definitely deliberately mislead Li Suchang, so that Li Suchang and Su Jue would become hostile. In this way, even if Su Jue was plotted, he would definitely be held back by Li Suchang and would not be able to retaliate against Tianming.
I have to say that Otto's calculations are really amazing. Even when Tianming is so busy, he can still achieve this level of planning with just a casual layout.
But he obviously guessed Su Jue's purpose wrongly. Otto's misleading of Li Suchang played into his hands. He was afraid that Li Suchang would not take action. Originally, he was worried that the hint hidden in the game console was not obvious enough. Now with Otto's help, Li Suchang's killing intention towards Su Jue might be doubled.
But he couldn't act too hastily because his mental flaws had not been resolved yet. If he were to take on the Taixu Sword God now, the result would probably not be good.
And the [considerate] Otto seemed to have taken this into consideration for him.
"Otto Apokalis, we shouldn't be enemies..." Su Jue murmured regretfully in his heart, but the murderous intent in his eyes was not concealed at all.
He took down a cube placed in the city, held it between his fingers and raised his head towards the sun. Inside the small cube, lavender energy of destruction was constantly flowing inside the cube.
These cubes that were originally intended to be used as bait will become important props to solve his inner flaws after Su Jue's transformation.
He closed his eyes, and the long-dormant threads of control began to connect. When he opened his eyes again, his sight was already in another part of the city.
"Welcome, my god."
Ignoring the voice coming from his consciousness, Su Jue controlled the puppet to stand up from the sofa. A faint golden light flickered in the eyes of the female puppet. He came to the balcony and looked downstairs.
Downstairs, Wuliangta Jizi was slowly walking away with Kiana, who was still sleeping, on her back. As if she noticed someone was looking at her, she turned her head and waved at Su Jue.
Su Jue smiled in response, and then his expression became calm.
The irrelevant people have left the stage, and it is time to set up your own theater. In a place unknown to everyone, the authority of domination slowly begins to operate.
……
At an earlier time.
thump—
The empty can of beer formed a graceful arc in the air and fell accurately into the trash can. Passersby were startled and subconsciously looked at the figure leaning against the telephone pole.
Only what they saw was not a drunken homeless man, but a beautiful red-haired woman.
"Sorry." Ji Zi waved to the passers-by and gave an apologetic smile.
After the passers-by left, Jizi's brows furrowed. "It seems that this body can't stand this kind of torture."
Although Ji Zi has liked drinking since the past, in most cases she drank only to relieve the pain of her body being eroded by the holy marks. After becoming a puppet, her body was completely renewed, and she rarely drank.
But this time the consumption was too great, and she needed some alcohol to relieve the feeling of weakness caused by excessive consumption of Honkai energy.
Ever since Su Jue's death, Ji Zi has been serving as the guardian of the city. In addition to her daytime duties, she patrols the entire city every night.
The eastern suburbs where she was was the first site of the collapse, and the time of the outbreak was much earlier than the collapse that occurred in the city during the day. As soon as the collapse beasts broke through the protective border, Jizi discovered the abnormality and rushed to the battlefield in time. After saving Susanna, Jizi almost put all her strength into destroying these collapse beasts.
Even with a puppet body, without the Ruler of Herrscher, it will get injured and fatigued. More importantly, the energy of the core of the Thousand Herrschers is limited.
Although the reserve that Su Jue left for her was much more than that of Rita, an S-level puppet, a puppet without a master was like a rootless duckweed. After all the Honkai beasts were destroyed, there was not a drop of Honkai energy left in Jizi's body, so that she could not even walk, and could only buy some wine and slowly recover on the roadside.
"If that little guy were still there." Looking at the passers-by coming and going, Ji Zi couldn't help but think of Su Jue.
As Su Jue's main puppet, Ji Zi thought she knew him well enough. Although the child had a bad temper, he was generally a good person. But after he died, Ji Zi began to accept more work from Qian Jue, and she found that Su Jue did much more than Ji Zi thought.
"If he were still alive, Kiana would be a good match for him."
"If I had discovered it earlier..."
Unfortunately, there is no if, Su Jue is already dead.
Ji Zi took a deep breath, and punched the street lamp in annoyance, leaving a faint fist mark.
The Honkai energy in her body seemed to have recovered a little. She decided to go home first. Someone was waiting for her at home.
The place where Ji Zi lives is still Su Jue's former home. In the almost completely rebuilt Tianqiong City, that remote suburb was preserved for some reason.
Back in the residential area, Jizi's physical strength has finally recovered. In her hand, she is holding a bag of food she bought along the way, which looks quite a lot. Of course, Jizi knows her cooking level well, so these ingredients are actually prepared for another girl.
Walking along the familiar streets and through the narrow alleys, I could hear faint singing coming from my residence in the distance.
IwishIcouldwakefromthedreameachtimeIdream.
(I hope to wake up from my dream)
There's longnight coming soon, I'dshineasthelastshine.
(Soon the long night will come, I wish to become the last light)
……
This song may be more suitable for me.
This thought emerged in her mind. Just as Ji Zi arrived at the door, the people in the room seemed to sense her presence. The singing stopped and the door of the room was opened.
"Teacher Ji Zi, welcome back." The voice of the girl with short dark green hair fell into Ji Zi's ears. She looked in the direction of the voice and saw the girl sitting in the wheelchair.
The sun shines through the clouds and falls on the girl. Her emerald eyes shine like emeralds.
"Good morning, Wendy."
"Good morning, Teacher Jizi. Give me the ingredients, I'll go prepare breakfast." Although she was sitting in a wheelchair, Wendy didn't need any help at all. She turned the wheelchair and hung the ingredients in Jizi's hand on the side of the wheelchair.
Looking at Wendy in the wheelchair, Ji Zi spoke with some concern. "Wendy, how about letting me do it..."
"No need~" With a gradually weakening voice, Wendy had already entered the kitchen with the ingredients.
Jizi was silent, looking at Wendy who was sitting in a wheelchair with some inconvenience, and sighed slightly. "Her consciousness was damaged too badly. Even if she gets a new body, it will probably take a long time for her to stand up."
"Why do you have to think so much? I think she is much happier than you think." A voice as mellow as fine wine flowed into Jizi's ears. She raised her head and her eyes met with the woman with golden eyes and wine-red hair. "She has found the meaning of her life and is fighting for it. Why should she cling to the past?"
"That's right. After all, we all rely on that child to exist in this world. Being trapped in the memories of the past is probably a waste of his efforts. What about you? Have you moved on from the past, Miss Eden?"
Chapter 267 Eden
The room suddenly fell silent. Only Wendy in the kitchen was still humming the tune she had just learned, while flexibly controlling her wheelchair to prepare today's breakfast.
Ji Zi didn't know about [Eden]'s past. In fact, before she completely investigated all the files left by Su Jue, she had never thought that Eden, the most popular singer in Tianqiong City, was actually a member of Su Jue's puppet like herself.
In this emerging Sky City, everything is developing at a high speed, but the spiritual life of residents is relatively scarce. Apart from the two-dimensional works of Qianjue Group and ETStudio, there is nothing enough to support people's entertainment needs.
It was in this context that the phenomenal idol Eden came into being.
Her singing seemed to contain some kind of magic that could bring hope to countless people, just like a ray of sunshine that penetrated the thick dark clouds and activated the city's yearning for beauty. In just one month, she became the brightest star in Tianqiong City besides Kiana.
However, such a perfect idol just smiled and did not respond for a long time when facing Ji Zi's question.
“Every star needs to ignite itself before it can shine.”
In the sunlight, Eden's eyes seemed to be flowing with gold, bright and dazzling. She stood by the window, her fingers gently stroking the harp for accompaniment, and the crisp sound fell like dewdrops in the morning.
"Ms. Jizi, it's not polite to pry into other people's past."
The moment Eden made these movements, Ji Zi's pupils suddenly shrank, and she noticed the skin that the other party exposed intentionally or unintentionally.
There were long scars on his wrists, marks from being strangled still remaining on his neck, and wounds that looked like those left when his vocal cords were brutally torn apart.
"What is this...?" Ji Zi's voice trembled a little, but when she looked at Eden, she was still in that lazy look, as if these wounds had nothing to do with her.
"It's just some poor wretch's past, that's the answer you want."
Ji Zi was silent.
“When I prayed to the gods in the darkness, no god responded to me. At the end of my life, the only words ringing in my ears were “Welcome to the Domination Theater”.”
Her voice was as calm as water, as if she was telling the past of a stranger. Eden's slender fingers played an unknown tune on the harp.
"That poor creature died in the past with her own name, she changed her appearance and identity.
Now her name is Eden, and she is an idol of Kindred.
That’s where I come from, that’s all.”
The topic suddenly became heavy, and Ji Zi regretted why she had gone to the trouble of asking about other people's secrets.
But when she was about to apologize, Eden stretched out his fingers and elegantly covered Ji Zi's lips, blocking her words in advance.
"Look over there."
Following Eden's gaze, Jizi looked towards the kitchen.
Although it was not difficult for Wendy to prepare the food due to the low sink, the old stove was quite difficult for her to handle as she was sitting in a wheelchair. She even failed to light the fire several times.
But Wendy didn't even change the pitch of her humming. She just tried to adjust the angle of her wheelchair so that she could use the kitchen utensils normally.
It took a lot of effort for her to barely follow the steps of a normal person, but she still had a smile on her face, as if what she encountered was not a difficulty, but an important means for her to feel "alive".
"See? We are all lives born from destruction. No matter what happened in the past, our present life is everything to us. I don't know Wendy's past, but now that she has found what she wants to do and what she can do, let her do it."
A new life...
As Kiana's teacher, Jizi naturally knew everything Wendy had experienced. As a former Valkyrie, Wendy should have been active on the battlefield, but fate regarded her as a vessel for the Herrscher of the Wind.
Even after losing control, he still trusted Bronya and the others, but in the end, because of Cocolia's betrayal, he lost his complete consciousness and fell into the Quantum Sea along with the Gem of Desire.
When checking Qian Jue's records, Ji Zi discovered that Su Jue brought her consciousness back from the Gem of Desire and constructed a new body for her using a puppet.
However, her consciousness was too severely damaged. Not only did she lose most of her memories, but her consciousness was also unable to support the functioning of her entire body, so she could only sit in a wheelchair temporarily.
But even so, Wendy cherishes the new life that Su Jue brought her.
Wendy, who has lost her memory of the time when she became the Herrscher of the Wind, has become more cheerful and optimistic. She has never resented anyone and treats every day as a new life.
Jizi took her in to live with her, intending to take care of Wendy, but Wendy was much more capable than she had imagined. In the end, Jizi had to rely on Wendy to have a hot breakfast every night after returning from patrol.
Before they knew it, Jizi and Wendy were getting along like real teacher and student.
When Jizi asked Wendy about her dream, she told him her wish.
“Wendy wanted to sing and be on stage.”
That was the first time that Jizi realized that Wendy was not the Herrscher of the Wind, but just an ordinary little girl. When she talked about her dream, her eyes seemed to be shining.
But Wendy's legs were still unable to stand up, and she could only move around in a wheelchair, so she had no chance of standing on the stage.
So in order to fulfill Wendy's dream, Himeko found Eden, the brightest star today, and through investigation and contact, learned her identity as a doll.
Eden did not reject Ji Zi's request, and agreed to be Wendy's teacher, teach her music theory, and promised to prepare the stage for her.
Faint humming sounds echoed in the room. Eden plucked the strings as if responding to Wendy's humming. Jizi closed her eyes and listened quietly.
“Did you hear it? Her singing voice wants to fly high into the sky with the wind. This is the sound of freedom.”
……
Eden left, leaving behind a few concert tickets. These were tickets for the city-wide concert [Gold, Brilliant Song] that would take place the next day, and it was also the stage that Eden and Jizi had agreed to prepare for Wendy.
But Wendy doesn't know yet.
For her, who is in a wheelchair, being able to sing in an empty room like this is already very satisfying.
"By the way, Wendy. What was the name of the song that Eden just taught you?"
"It's 'Nightglow'. Sister Eden said this song is very suitable for Teacher Jizi, so I learned it. Teacher Jizi, do you want to sing with me?"
"The glow in the dark night?" Ji Zi suddenly thought of the flame that lit up the sky, the boy with short gray hair, and herself.
"Well, let's sing together."
Chapter 268 Illusion Array
"A new life?" After leaving Jizi's residence, Eden walked on the quiet street, bathing in the morning sunshine. But when she subconsciously reached out to touch the not-so-obvious wound on her throat, her whole body trembled as if she had been electrocuted, and her eyes revealed an indescribable fear.
