Chapter 135: Disappearance Case Concluded
“No! No! No!” Ma Hong looked at Drake who was trying to reclaim his human will, he was incredulous and enraged, stepped forward and glared angrily at Li Nuowei who was lying motionless on the altar, questioning, “What exactly did you do!?”
“Did everything I wanted to do.” Li Nuowei smiled calmly, he gazed up at the pitch-black sky, his pupils reflecting countless streaks of meteors tearing through the night, each brilliant, each magnificent.
That story capable of infinite loops, he could actually keep narrating it forever, in which case his life would eternally remain frozen in that instant of eye contact with Drake, he could enjoy everything in the story he narrated himself, but the price was an infinitely looping life, he would slowly forget “the original him” in the looping story.
But humans are creatures that greedily pursue “pleasure”, indulging in joy, forgetting their true hearts, that might not be a bad way to live.
But Li Nuowei felt it was enough, he had lived too long in the story world he constructed himself, and died too many times, he had long gained a deeper understanding of life and death, and he had indeed experienced the full spectrum of life’s flavors in the world he constructed, even if he now returned to the real world, back to his real age in the real world, he felt he would die without regrets.
Ma Hong read mockery on Li Nuowei’s face, rage burning within him, seeing that the Cygnus meteor shower in the night sky was about to end, he would miss the envoy from the stars, delay the great timing for the Sea God of Anhai’s resurrection, Ma Hong himself raised his sharp claws, plunged them into Li Nuowei’s chest, and dug out the heart whole.
Li Nuowei looked at Ma Hong contemptuously, the vitality in his eyes rapidly fading, murmuring soundlessly: “Your god is not great, humans are great…”
Drake, whose self-consciousness was gradually awakening, saw the scene of Li Nuowei dying right before his eyes, he instantly went mad and pounced out, interrupting Ma Hong who was holding the heart high and reciting eerie unintelligible language prayers, he retracted his claws, clenched his fist like a human, and furiously hammered Ma Hong’s false human face.
“You bastards, how dare you have the face to keep living, how dare you disregard others’ lives!?” Drake roared inwardly, but his mouth let out the merman’s voice in a high roar.
Ma Hong seemed to understand Drake’s inner voice, while taking the most brutal beating, he couldn’t help but burst into mad laughter: “Speaking of killing, you had a part in killing him too, oh our son of god.” Amid the mad laughter, his face was rapidly deforming under the increasingly forceful punches.
“Screw your son of god.” Drake clenched his fist scattered with scales and torn flesh, delivering a final full-force punch that smashed Ma Hong’s deformed head to pieces, blood and flesh and brain tissue bursting from the shattered head, human skin and flesh ragged, mixed in the complex white, blue, and red mess of bloody pulp.
The son of god’s sudden resurgence of human will, the sudden death of their Anhai Divine Society leader Ma Hong… all happened within a short few minutes, catching everyone off guard.
They blankly looked up at the sky, the Cygnus meteor shower had ended, and the storm disaster quietly brewing at sea had also silently dissipated.
The envoy from the stars did not arrive, the sea was calm, the Sea God of Anhai they called did not resurrect at the prophesied time.
They failed, the prophecy was wrong.
The prophecy told to them by the Yellow Sand Truth School back then was wrong, even if not entirely wrong, this prophecy was incomplete.
The Sea God of Anhai could not lead them to rule this world, and could not awaken as promised by the prophecy, was the “deity” they believed in just an overhyped alien minnow?!
Some Anhai Divine Society believers who could not bear the blow of reality committed suicide on the spot, without the enraged Drake personally killing them, most of them nearly killed themselves, and the remaining ones were no better off than the dead, they went mad.
Drake showed no mercy either, personally sending all those deranged guys to their deaths.
After slaughtering all those damned believers, Drake stood at the sea cliff’s edge, feeling the sea breeze coming from behind, his heart filled with indescribable numbness and melancholy.
They were all dead, he was dead too, and he couldn’t go back either… did he still have a reason to keep living?
Bang!
A gunshot rang out from the distant behind, before he could turn back, Drake felt something whiz past his shoulder, leaving a burning hot wound on it.
When Drake turned to look, a group of mystic investigators in black clothes, led by Yu Lianyun, were rushing toward him.
In response, Drake just gave them a somewhat complex glance, and ultimately chose to jump off the sea cliff without looking back, falling into the nearby sea full of reefs.
By the time Yu Lianyun and the others arrived, Drake was nowhere to be seen, below the sea cliff were crashing waves against the shore, jagged rocks, the ocean current blowing toward the shore driving the waves to constantly crash against it, in such turbulent seawater, even if Drake didn’t die, he shouldn’t be able to swim out of such a dangerous place.
“Tally the casualty numbers at the scene, search for useful clues.” Yu Lianyun saw that the sole survivor had already jumped into the sea and disappeared, she sighed inwardly with regret, and gave the order.
She turned around, looking at the youthful boy’s face on the altar, the corpse gnawed to a mangled state, her heart feeling somewhat unsettled, lamenting that a young life had just ended like this.
Li Nuowei was the person she had come to Liuhua Port for this time, specially tasked by the leader to meet, yet she hadn’t had a normal exchange with him even once.
In the recent series of mysterious disappearance cases in Liuhua Port, Yu Lianyun wanted to learn more case details from Li Nuowei who had the experience of nearly being taken away by a merman, but she didn’t expect Li Nuowei to ultimately be taken away by the merfolk and become a merman sacrifice, though the merfolk’s prophecy did not come true one by one either.
“I don’t know what happened, but thank you for contributing your power to protect humans.” Yu Lianyun thought silently toward the corpse, then she suddenly glimpsed two blessing incarnations crawling out from her shadow, heading toward Li Nuowei.
Seeing the two gluttons actually targeting Li Nuowei, Yu Lianyun quickly scolded, “You can’t eat them, absolutely not.”
Hearing this, the two blessing incarnations both wore cold indifferent bitter faces, looked at Yu Lianyun for a good while, then silently retreated, as if they had really heeded Yu Lianyun’s simple request.
Yu Lianyun breathed a sigh of relief, she feared those two guys might take the chance to extract something else important from her, resulting in more loss than gain.
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Wei Jiang, who was cleaning in the shop, suddenly felt a stab in his ear, he turned back to Lin Ling in shock, “Boss, did he fail?”
“On the contrary, he succeeded very much.” Lin Ling said with a smile.
Too sleepy today, can’t do two updates, I’ll make a note of it.
