Chapter 217: You Are Not Her
Xia Chenge gave him a gentle smile: “I am from the future, and I changed history, so naturally, I no longer exist. This was destined from the start. Ling Hanmu, forget me. There are better girls waiting for you.”
“I want you! I want Xia Chenge, I don’t want anyone else!” Ling Hanmu cried like a child, as if the screams of agony around him were none of his concern.
“Go save them!” Xia Chenge told him, “Even if I don’t self-destruct, I would still die from the virus. Evolved Humans are not immune to this virus. I don’t want to become neither human nor ghost.”
“Little Brother, what about me? You’re leaving me behind, what will I do?” Ling Hanmu’s tears streamed down his face.
“Become a better person. Goodbye, Ling Hanmu!” Tears welled up in her eyes. Xia Chenge didn’t want Ling Hanmu to see her tears, so she slowly closed her eyes. “I will use all my power to destroy these viruses, and they will be safe and sound.”
The moment history was changed, she should not have existed in this world.
This time, it was truly goodbye.
Ling Hanmu, meeting you was truly the luck of my life!
Xia Chenge took a deep breath, her entire body’s power concentrating in one spot.
A beam of light burst from her body, shooting straight into the sky, so dazzling that no one dared to look directly at it.
Ling Hanmu was forced to close his eyes.
In that instant, Xia Chenge’s body split into countless fluorescent particles, as dazzling as a sky full of stars, but they instantly dissipated into the vast night.
The night sky returned to normal, as if nothing had happened.
As Xia Chenge leaped out the window, the classroom window was also sealed by an invisible wall, and Grub and the others couldn’t escape.
When the fluorescent particles that Xia Chenge had transformed into entered their bodies, Grub convulsed and fell to the ground, letting out screams of extreme pain.
Vaguely visible through his belly, a light was darting around inside him. Wherever it went, Grub wanted to press it down.
But how could a light be held down by a person? After the light had passed through Grub’s body, his vitality began to gradually disappear, and he slowly stopped struggling, his appearance returning to normal.
However, he had stopped breathing, his eyeballs bulging, his eyes wide open in death.
The others were the same.
At the same time, the screams around them also gradually disappeared.
Ling Hanmu knelt on the ground, staring blankly up at the starry sky.
Besides the boundless universe, he could no longer see that charming figure.
He could not feel the virus, nor could he feel Xia Chenge’s presence.
“Why?” Ling Hanmu murmured, tears still on his face, but his eyes were like an ancient well, without any ripples.
The special forces soldiers who came to support them arrived and began to split up. The captain stepped forward to help Ling Hanmu up, only to find that Ling Hanmu was kneeling there as steadily as a mountain, unmovable.
He was startled, but when he saw the despair in Ling Hanmu’s eyes, his heart couldn’t help but clench.
He had seen that scene clearly just now, Xia Chenge had disappeared…
Although he couldn’t explain why, he understood that Xia Chenge would never return.
Ling Hanmu and Xia Chenge had a marriage contract!
“Young Master Ling, she wouldn’t want you like this.” After thinking for a moment, he squatted beside Ling Hanmu and said in a low voice, “Live for your mission. She was a great warrior.”
Ling Hanmu’s expression was terrifyingly calm: “But she will never come back, and no one will even know why she sacrificed herself.”
“You will remember, and we will remember too!” he said.
Ling Hanmu was silent for a long time, then slowly stood up and looked at the captain: “Don’t mention this again in the future. Tell your brothers to forget it too.”
“We will keep it in our hearts.” The captain clenched his fist and hit his chest.
Ling Hanmu forced a smile that made people’s hearts ache: “You all forget!”
When they woke up, their memories would also be erased. This was the last trace of her power.
Evolved Humans not only had evolved physical functions, but each of them possessed supernatural abilities akin to fantasy.
She was no exception.
Since she had decided to disappear, she would not let people remember her existence either. The memories of what happened tonight would be erased from everyone who experienced it…
But Little Brother, you can’t erase my memories. I will remember you my whole life.
Ling Hanmu closed his eyes, took a deep breath, his heart aching uncontrollably.
He didn’t know how he would spend every day in the long years to come!
“Captain, Miss Chenge is here!” Just then, a special forces soldier suddenly shouted.
Ling Hanmu immediately became energized. The captain had just turned to speak to him when he felt a gust of wind, and the person had already disappeared before his eyes!
“Where is she?” Ling Hanmu asked urgently.
“Here!” The special forces soldier waved.
Ling Hanmu flashed over and saw Xia Chenge lying motionless in the grass.
He squatted down and, with trembling hands, felt her nose. To his surprise, he found she was still breathing.
Ling Hanmu was overjoyed. He immediately picked up Xia Chenge and, in front of the special forces soldiers, vanished into the vast night.
“Did I see that right? Did he just walk on air?” The captain stared blankly in the direction Ling Hanmu had left and asked his brother.
“If I’m also seeing things, then he really did leave like that.” The special forces soldier was equally bewildered.
The captain said, “Am I hallucinating tonight? Why are things so fantastical?”
“Maybe I am too.”
…
Grub was dead, and the virus had been eliminated. Ling Hanmu believed that the special forces soldiers would handle the remaining matters properly. His only thought now was to rush Xia Chenge to the hospital for rescue!
He ran through the mountains with all his might, and two hours later, he appeared at the city’s downtown People’s Hospital.
However, the doctor diagnosed her as having only fainted from exhaustion and that there was no serious issue.
Ling Hanmu then stayed by Xia Chenge’s side in the hospital room for six hours, during which he frequently contacted the military to resolve Grub’s matter.
When he left Xicheng Town, the memories of Xia Chenge were erased from their minds. Now, in the eyes of the military, last night’s events were merely Grub’s failed human experiment that cost him his life!
Except for him, no one would remember anything about Xia Chenge…
While Ling Hanmu was sad, he was also somewhat relieved. Fortunately, she was still alive. It didn’t matter if others forgot!
After he finished his call and returned to the hospital room, he froze when he met the girl’s unfamiliar gaze from the bed. His heart sank bit by bit, then felt as if it had been brutally gouged out by a knife, bleeding profusely.
Ling Hanmu clutched his chest, staggered a couple of steps, and vomited a mouthful of fresh blood.
He looked at the girl on the bed. Her eyes were filled with confusion and shock.
After a while, she lifted the quilt, got out of bed, and quickly stepped forward to support Ling Hanmu: “Are you… are you alright?”
“You’re not her!” Ling Hanmu’s heart was like a knife, and he said with great difficulty, word by word.
Xia Chenge lowered her head and cried: “She’s gone! We clearly agreed that she would help me protect my family from now on, but she broke her promise and told me to take good care of you… Young Master Ling, I am not her.”
