Chapter 208: New Life
Dang! Dang! Dang…
The timbre of bells and horns came from the horizon, the sound resounding through the clouds and spreading thousands of miles, like an ominous sign described only in myths and legends, the angel blowing the apocalyptic omen.
Yu Lianyun watched as the brain at the edge of the sky continuously differentiated into one black flesh mass after another, they connected in chaotic and disorderly piecing together, gradually outlining a colossus, and at the same time, at the top of that brain which had not yet differentiated other things, it suddenly gushed forth like a spring, erupting black torrents that flowed straight down like a waterfall, forming raging currents in the steel and cement human city.
The black water roared ceaselessly in the city, charging straight ahead, everywhere it passed, all things dissolved, vitality completely extinguished, melting into part of the black water flow, those thick flesh pillars like huge candles became even thicker under the irrigation of the black liquid, at the top they spewed out intense hot fire like a volcanic eruption, accompanied by black mist, rushing straight to the clouds, covering the entire sky.
Yu Lianyun realized things had gotten big, that huge monster forming in the human city was an abnormal god.
Yu Lianyun couldn’t outrun those black torrents and could only reach the rooftop of a tall building, watching the sky dyed black by black smoke, gradually presenting a universe-like scene, illusory yet real otherworldly lights flickering endlessly in that darkness, they intermingled chaotically, combining into one dreamlike and gorgeous pattern after another.
Those scenes were irregular arrangements that humans could not understand, yet they presented a mad beauty that made humans sigh in admiration, a splendor beyond human aesthetics that only those mad artists would pursue!
“What is that… what is that…” Yu Lianyun felt her soul, her life about to sink into that mad scene, she had an impulse to leap and pounce toward that sky which she fundamentally could not reach but felt was within reach.
Vaguely, she seemed to hear some voice, thick, powerful, yet seeming to carry a hint of coquettishness?
Just like hearing an infant’s cry, that voice could penetrate the spirit, stabbing into the depths of the soul.
“Miss Yu, your current appearance is quite unsightly.” At that moment, a melodious violin sound cut like a blade through the “phishing line” that was continuously drawing away her consciousness and spirit, she felt a bout of dizziness, nearly fainting, but sat down on the ground.
Yu Lianyun didn’t dare look up again at that scene humans could neither understand nor appreciate, only looking at the “ground” that was sinking bit by bit, feeling her facial muscles stiff and unbearable, her jawbone as if dislocated, her two eyeballs as if rolled up to a place difficult to reset.
“Urgh—” Yu Lianyun heard the voice and knew who was beside her, but she couldn’t speak, not even a plea for help.
But the elegant man beside her, dressed in a neat tailcoat with hands covered in claw gloves, seemed to understand her words, revealing a regretful expression as he said: “Actually, accepting death isn’t such a difficult thing, even if you die, there’s a chance to continue doing what you want to do.”
“Urgh—”
“So attached to your human identity? Alright, I respect your choice.” Haimofen shook his head, smiling as he picked up his violin, the blade scraping the strings, performing the movement of his new work.
“Very regrettable, now even if I take you away, you probably can’t live anymore, so I think playing a relaxing piece of music to let you and this little baby both have peaceful sleep is fine, only you might be buried in the earth, He will enter dreamland.” After Haimofen said this, he said no more, only focusing immersively on performing the music, conveying the “universe-like tranquility and emptiness” theme contained in the piece.
The violin’s sound spread to the surroundings, not fast but unstoppable.
Wherever the sound spread, the black torrents became gentle, gradually turning into clear water, sinking into the muddy underground, the hot fire and black smoke erupting from the flesh pillars slowly subsided, all turmoil gradually calmed.
The incessant horn and bell sounds were covered by the beautiful violin melody, the cries and exclamations rising and falling in the city were soothed by an invisible hand, all things completely let go, as if echoing the frequency of the universe’s breathing, reaching a unified tranquility.
On the platform of a nearby tall building, Lin Ling dressed in white clothes was sitting on the rooftop’s parapet wall, eyes closed, carefully appreciating this musical genius master’s new work, as long as the other played without stopping, he kept listening quietly, suppressing his urge to applaud enthusiastically.
Da da.
Two footsteps landed nearby, Lin Ling noticed the subtle discordant sound, opened his single eye, glanced at a wedding dress woman separated into upper and lower halves, that pair of small red shoes embroidered with white chrysanthemums stood awkwardly together in front of Lin Ling.
“You want to adopt this child?” The other didn’t open her mouth, but Lin Ling seemed to hear her answer, looking at her in some surprise, one finger pointing at that huge mass forming at the edge of the sky, then grinning, “No problem, go ahead and take it, anyway its mother was always the type to give birth and not care, and now it has no mother either, who told it to look around randomly all day, got scared to death alive after seeing the blessing spreading in the universe, it was the last child its mother gave birth to before leaving, merely incubated using a group of humans’ inner brain worlds.”
Hearing this, the wedding dress woman with separated upper and lower bodies immediately bowed repeatedly in respectful and happy gratitude, then came before that naked brain flesh mass at the edge of the sky which was no longer crying, the wedding dress woman gently lifted her upper clothing, revealing her split abdomen, emitting a happy laugh with deep echo, her belly thrust out, and the unidentified flesh mass slumbering in the sky immediately began to shrink in size, until it became a light orb the size of two of the woman’s fists, shrinking into her abdomen, immediately after the woman’s belly swelled up, in the blink of an eye turning into that of a pregnant woman.
The wedding dress woman seemed to like children very much, after becoming a “pregnant woman” she was so joyful she could hardly contain herself, to the point that she actually forgot to take her lower body along, vanishing in an instant.
Plop!
With the disappearance of the wedding dress woman’s upper body, the lower body also turned into dissipating black qi that drilled into that pair of white chrysanthemum red shoes.
“Even after becoming a mom, still so reckless, really worrying about the child’s future.” Lin Ling said with some sigh, watching the gradually collapsing rooftop, the red shoes falling into the ruins along with the collapsing building, then buried by earth and stone, he stood motionless in place, the building under his feet cracking inch by inch, bit by bit approaching the ground, not fast, like a gentle hand catching his feet, sending him down to the ground.
He stood on the ground, turned his head to glance at some black water not fully affected by Haimofen’s music drilling into underground crevices like eels, disappearing, then looked up at the enigmatic colors in the sky that humans couldn’t appreciate, muttering to himself: “Look at this child crying, shitting out such a huge pile, eh—”
He shrank his head in some disgust, turned, and was already gone without a trace.
On the rooftop of a distant tilting building, that tall figure playing the violin had also disappeared, leaving only a gaunt woman leaning against the wall with a serene expression, no longer breathing.
