"Are you surprised? This was obviously your own choice. I was almost able to take down the Herrscher of the Sky just now, but you let this opportunity slip away." It was obvious that Mo Mo had completely fallen into madness. "Do you understand the pain of having your child killed by the Herrscher himself? Why did you stop me? Why did you shoot me?"
"I have given so much to the World Serpent, and now I just want revenge. It was you who betrayed me, and it was you who destroyed me. Do you feel the pain of loss now, Raven? The moment you stopped me, you should have understood how vicious it is to destroy the hope of an avenger."
The man's arms kept shaking, and the wound on his shoulder that was hit by the raven before was torn open again, but he didn't care at all, as if he didn't feel the pain, with a cruel grin on his face.
puff--
The bullet pierced through the body, and blood spurted out and scattered on the ashes.
But the black moth didn't even look at its own body. It was like a puppet controlled by strings, showing off its madness to its heart's content.
“Do you feel the pain? Do you feel the despair? Kill me. The World Serpent and the Ruler of the Sky are all just self-righteous people who actually do bloody things.”
"I'll be waiting for you in hell."
The resentful look was deeply engraved on the two of them, as if it wanted to drag them into hell. Amidst the crazy laughter, Mo E directly activated the Honkai bomb hidden in his body.
In an instant, a horrific explosion swept through the entire nest again, destroying everything that was left, leaving no trace of even the charred corpses.
The explosion directly blew off the floors supporting the nest, and the three people fell down with the nest in the collapsed building.
Seeing that he was about to fall into the polluted sea water, Su Jue, the only one who was still sober, used his flying ability to maintain his balance, and stabbed his giant sword into a nearby building to stop the downward trend.
He simply grabbed Kiana's hand to prevent the girl from being hit by the rubble.
At this moment, Xiora was truly like a broken wing. With the crow's nest destroyed, she also lost the strength to live. Her red eyes lost their luster, staring blankly at the sky, her body continued to fall, and the feeling of weightlessness enveloped her body.
"This is fate."
She closed her eyes and waited to be submerged by the sea.
But the next second, she suddenly felt her arm being grabbed and her body stopped in mid-air.
When she opened her eyes, she saw the white-haired girl grabbing her wrist and pulling her back.
"Don't give up. Don't... don't give up."
"The Herrscher of the Sky..."
Am I wrong? Raven's eyes were full of confusion, and then he fainted.
……
In the West City District, Yulandel, who had just picked up the survivor, looked at the message Su Jue had sent her earlier, feeling a little confused.
Beside her, Xiaokong and the children, who thought they were being captured, trembled and prayed for the teacher to come and save them. Unfortunately, they didn't know that their teacher had lost everything.
Chapter 212 Retention
The evening glow cast a hazy golden hue over the entire city. In the abandoned building, Raven was still unconscious lying on the ground.
Kiana squatted by the wall with her hands on her knees, silent. The sunset fell on her face, illuminating her blue eyes. But her eyes were dull and silent.
Time passed slowly, and the sunset was fleeing the city. Su Jue leaned in the shadow of the pillar, looking at the dazed Kiana.
drip.
The communication prompt sounded. This was the 20th communication request, but Su Jue still hung up. Tianming's experiment was about to begin, and Su Jue's disappearance must have made Otto a little nervous, but the positioning signal was still in Changkong City, so no troops were dispatched to search.
No matter what happens, the plan cannot be changed.
This is Otto's plan, and the same is Su Jue's plan.
"I'm sorry." His voice was heavy with fatigue, and no one knew what he was apologizing for.
"I should go now." He walked out of the shadows to Kiana's front, tied his bracelet around her wrist, then stood up and walked towards the direction of the Destiny warship.
But before he could take a step, his wrist was tightly grabbed. Su Jue turned around helplessly and saw Qiana with red eyes looking at him angrily.
"Don't leave! You said you wouldn't leave after you came back."
"But that was after it was over. This time I just..."
But Qiana didn't want to listen to his explanation at all. She quickly came to Su Jue and looked into his eyes.
"Are you going to be like before? Hiding in the shadows, quietly watching me, protecting me in your own way. It was like this in Sky City, and it's the same now in Sky City. I can clearly feel that you are by my side, but I can't find you."
"I don't need your protection, I don't need you to sacrifice yourself, I just want you to stand by my side."
Su Jue lowered his eyes, not daring to look into the girl's eyes. "Things are not as simple as you think. I have reasons to do this, and I can't stop."
"But you have a better choice. My teacher once said that when you are trapped in a snowstorm, the best option is to huddle together for warmth. When you are trapped in darkness and can't see what is ahead, the best option is to share each other's fire." Thinking back to what Teacher Ji Zi once said, she became much more depressed when she had no money left. Her voice was hoarse and full of regret.
"She taught me this lesson, but she still chose to sacrifice herself and passed the light to me. Now I have found a new light and have a better opportunity, but you are going to follow the same path. I don't need your sacrifice, we can move forward together. We are friends and companions."
With every word, Kiana moved closer to Su Jue, until she had said everything she had always wanted to say to Su Jue, and the two were already very close.
Facing Kiana's increasingly close questioning, Su Jue's heart was filled with ripples, but he knew very well that everything he had created was just a lie to himself. He couldn't really move forward with Kiana, nor could he put down everything and stay by her side.
In such a quiet environment and at such a close distance, the two could even hear each other's heartbeats.
Su Jue gritted his teeth and took a step back.
But every time he took a step back, Kiana would take a step forward, until Su Jue had no way to retreat and was tripped by the beam that fell to the ground, and was pinned to the ground by Kiana.
Kiana supported herself and placed her hands on Su Jue's shoulders, making him unable to move. The long white hair slid down from his shoulders, covering the boy's face. Su Jue thought the girl would say something, but he only heard a slight sob.
Tears dripped from the girl's eyes, wetting Su Jue's cheeks.
The warm tears seemed to melt Su Jue's cold expression. He sighed silently in his heart and gave up struggling.
"I have made so many mistakes. My hands are stained with blood. She, them, and the children like those today, all died because of me. It is my sins that have implicated everyone. Everyone who gets close to me will be hurt."
"When I was in Sky City, I wanted to end my life countless times to escape those nightmares. It was you who helped me and gave me the courage to face my mistakes.
Whether it's destiny, anti-entropy, or the world snake, this world has no room for me. They are all trying to use me and capture me. These are what I should face, and you shouldn't bear them for me. I don't want you to get hurt because of me anymore, so leave with me."
This was the first time that Su Jue listened to the girl's monologue at such a close distance, and it was also the first time that he truly felt her emotions. In the infinite magnification of the Thousand Rulers, his heart was touched.
At that moment, he had an urge to tell everything. However, the warning mechanism he set up before the plan kept reminding him that everything was just a dream.
The two maintained this posture in silence for a long time, until, accompanied by the sound of the soles of their shoes hitting the ground, Yulandel jumped from the roof to the floor where the two were and saw them lying on the ground.
"This is what you are doing?"
Bianca, who had been looking for Su Jue for a long time, was a little confused, but still walked up to the two of them.
Kiana's tears stopped and she quickly stood up from Su Jue and stood in front of Bianca.
"I won't let you take him away."
Youlan Dai'er didn't even look at her, but cast a doubtful look on Su Jue, but the doubt soon dissipated, and she said seriously: "Su Jue, the experiment will start tomorrow, let's go."
Su Jue, who almost fell into despair, breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the two of them hesitantly.
The experiment must be carried out. If Otto cannot observe the opportunity to revive Kallen this time, it is hard to guarantee what he will do. This is a variable that cannot be ignored, and it may even completely destroy everything Su Jue has done so far.
But now that his rationality was cut off, he felt a little shaken. Kiana's words just now made him not want to lie anymore.
"By the way, the children you asked me to save earlier have now been sent back to the Tianming transport ship. They will be transferred to a safe area for treatment in the early morning."
Kiana was stunned when she heard this. She looked at Su Jue in disbelief, and then immediately asked Bianca: "Are you saying that the children living in the nest are fine?"
"Why did the accident happen? Although my strength is not strong enough, it is not difficult to transfer these survivors." Yulandel was not aware of the subsequent explosion. Those corpses were constructed by Su Jue using dummies in advance, and it is understandable that they were exposed now.
"I thought..." Kiana had a complicated expression. Ever since she was betrayed by Tianming, her good impression of this organization had completely disappeared. And after Yulandel took Su Jue away, she had become completely hostile to the other party.
But when she heard that Yulandel had rescued the children, Kiana still felt relieved and even showed a hint of gratitude.
"It was Destiny's fault that some of the rescue efforts were missed. We will now take good care of those children. And from what we know, it is very likely that these children were left here intentionally by the World Serpent. It is hard not to consider whether this organization will continue the stigmata experiment on these children. Instead of letting them take away, it is better to let Destiny take care of them."
However, although Kiana was grateful to Bianca for saving the children, she did not trust Otto.
Facing Kiana's doubts, Bianca was very calm, "Then come with us to Tianming."
"Since you don't want Su Jue to leave with me, why don't you go to Tianming together? After the bishop's experiment is finished, you can leave together."
On the Eve of Experiment 213
In the end, Kiana agreed to Bianca's request. Although it might be a trap set by destiny, she couldn't just leave Su Jue alone, and she also wanted to confirm the safety of those children.
After they left, only the unconscious Xiora was left in the ruins. Like an exhausted raven, she was alone watching over the crow's nest that was destroyed in the fire.
After all, she was a member of the World Serpent. If she was caught by Destiny, she would not be allowed to live well because of her manipulation of Rita. But she carried out the Stigmata Plan in Sky City after all, and was her enemy. Therefore, Kiana deliberately concealed Xiora's identity from Yulandel, and did not leave any information that the children were still alive.
"Let her live with regret."
With the strength of a Stigma Awakener, he shouldn't have been unconscious for so long, but Raven suffered a severe psychological blow and instinctively didn't want to wake up and accept this fact.
After a long time, Xiola slowly woke up. At this time, the moon was bright in the sky and the night was hazy.
"Kong!" She saw the little girl sitting by the window and called out excitedly. When the girl turned around, she realized that it was a completely strange girl.
After the explosion, Delta, who arrived a step late, only saw the destroyed Crow's Nest. Delta, who had gradually become cheerful with the company of the children, became silent again.
Looking at the notebook gift that Xiaokong had given her before, Delta let out a breath, and her deep blue eyes met Raven's scarlet eyes.
"Are you their teacher?"
Xiola was silent for a long time, as if all the strength in his body had been drained away. He said self-deprecatingly, "If someone can't even protect a child, what right does he have to be called a teacher?"
What's even more ridiculous is that Raven spent half of her life seeking revenge on the Herrscher of the Void, but in the end, everything she wanted to protect was destroyed by her own people. And she couldn't even find a target for revenge, and could only regret her carelessness.
"They often mention you to me. It's you who has been teaching them to keep living no matter what happens. If you want to die now, then you are really unworthy of being their teacher."
Under the moonlight, the shadows of the lonely young animal and the dying raven gradually overlapped.
……
"We have to escape from here and find the teacher."
"But how are we going to escape? We all saw it with our own eyes just now. Such a huge dragon was beaten down by that woman with her bare hands." As soon as these words were spoken, the whole small room suddenly fell silent.
"Such a pretty big sister is actually more terrifying than Honkai beasts. It turns out that everyone out there is a monster."
While Su Jue went to find Kiana, Yulandel was responsible for cleaning up the remaining Honkai beasts in Changkong City. After most of the Honkai beasts were dealt with, Benares, who was hiding in the West City District, could no longer hide and was caught by Bianca.
Fortunately, she knew that the dragon was Kiana's follower and did not kill it. But even so, when she took Benares to rescue the children, they were still scared half to death.
The three people who came to the door heard the whispers in the room. Bianca paused and then pushed the door open. Her appearance frightened the children and they hugged each other.
Looking at the many children in the room, Qiana breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that Yulandel did not lie to her.
"Sister Kiana, save us."
Xiaokong came to her side bravely, grabbed her skirt, and whispered. However, with Bianca's strength, such whispers were meaningless. She didn't say anything more, and consciously left the room, leaving Kiana with a chance to communicate with the children.
"When will Otto's experiment begin?" Su Jue asked while standing beside her.
"At 12 noon tomorrow, 20 Hyperion-class Honkai engines will be operating simultaneously, and all Honkai energy in Changkong City will be mobilized.
What you need to do is to open the door between the tree of imaginary numbers and the intrinsic world, but you must be careful this time, because in many observation experiments, the bishop has discovered some unknown changes in the imaginary channel, and it is very likely that monsters will appear.
But don't worry, I will deal with the monsters that appear. After the observation is over, I will escort you away safely. "After so many times of cooperation, the two of them have a clear understanding of the experimental process, but Bianca still described it in detail to Su Jue.
But Su Jue was worried because he knew something would happen. This time, the Raven lost its child and would definitely pass all the information back to the organization and wait for an opportunity to retaliate. At that time, he would face the world snakes that had invaded their nest, including Kevin, the strongest warrior of mankind.
With Tianming's current combat power, he is no different from a toy in front of Kevin.
In the upcoming decisive battle, if he couldn't fight Kevin, then Kiana and Bianca would most likely die, which he couldn't accept.
A few minutes later, Kiana walked out of the room after visiting the children.
She walked in front of Yulandel and wanted to say something, but in the end it turned into a request.
"Take care of them."
After leaving, Qiyana and Su Jue came to the deck of the warship together. The moonlight was bright and sprinkled on the ship. It could be vaguely seen that the transport ships with experimental equipment had begun to evacuate in an orderly manner. By the end of tonight, Changkong City would not leave any ordinary people.
"Will you blame me for saving her?" The cold night wind blew on the warship, and the drifting clouds hit the hull like waves.
It was about rescuing Raven. Su Jue looked at the hazy clouds and did not comment.
"In this broken world, there is never absolute good or evil. Everyone is fighting for their own reasons."
His mother and Grayshu both died because of the World Serpent, and Su Jue could never forgive them.
"Everyone is struggling to survive, but some people don't even have the chance to choose. I won't forgive her, but I will respect your choice." His voice was cold, with fire mixed in with the chill of the night.
Qiana didn't say anything, just grabbed Su Jue's hand. She would not forgive the World Snake or Otto. But after going through so many things, the boundary between right and wrong has become blurred.
The world is never black or white, but a delicate gray.
This is true for Destiny, the World Serpent, and Kindred. Even Anti-Entropy, who is completely on the human side, has different ideas.
