novelones Chapter 1674 Reluctant
Chapter 1674 Reluctant
Wuji Jun's body trembled slightly.
He remained silent for a long time before finally opening his lips and answering in a hoarse voice:
"……No."
Lou Yu stood there, stunned.
His eyes were filled with confusion and bewilderment. He seemed unable to understand why things were like this... He never thought of himself as a useless person. He was just suppressed by the injustice of this era and unable to obtain the dazzling light that should have belonged to him.
He felt that his failure was only temporary, and that given a chance, he would definitely become the one who could advance human civilization... But now it seems that the reality is not what he thought.
"So, have we gotten the fairness we've always wanted?" Lou Yu asked again.
fair……
Beneath the hem of his black robe, Wuji Jun silently clenched his fists.
He looked like someone who had struggled desperately and then lost everything; his eyes held only endless weariness and desolation. He spoke softly:
"I almost... created a perfectly fair world."
If the inhabitants of the Eternal Realm did not fall ill, and if the Eternal Realm could truly be eternal, then the moment he donned that crown, an absolutely fair utopia would be born… It was a dream that had been deeply rooted in his heart since he was young.
His relentless pursuit of eternity was all for the purpose of creating a perfect world where no one would be exploited or oppressed, and where there would be no conflicts arising from unequal distribution of resources.
He gave up everything for this dream.
but now……
His dream has been shattered.
Lou Yu stared at the black-robed figure before him, a mixture of helplessness and complexity in his eyes. He couldn't accept his defeat, he couldn't accept that his future had turned out this way… For some reason, he felt a surge of anger.
"You haven't accomplished anything, so why are you coming to me?"
“Our existence is a mistake.” Wuji Jun paused for a moment. “Without us… perhaps, this world would be a better place.”
Lou Yu's pupils contracted slightly.
No one knew what he was thinking at that moment. He just stared blankly at Wuji Jun, his gaze shifting from anger to confusion, to bewilderment, to sadness... and then to resentment.
He guessed Wuji Jun's purpose in coming, and his chest heaved violently.
"Does it really have to be this way?"
"Ah."
Faced with Wuji Jun's unwavering nod, Lou Yu gave a wry smile:
"...It seems I've become even more cold-blooded."
“No one knows me better than myself,” Wuji Jun said slowly. “I know what we are pursuing. Even if I tell you now that it’s wrong, you will still relentlessly pursue it… You want to create that kind of world too much.”
“I’ve reached the end of that road; it’s a dead end… There can’t be another me in this world.”
Lou Yu lowered his head and remained silent.
Wuji looked at his former self and spoke again:
"Is there... anything else you'd like to say?"
A cold wind blew, and swaying branches tapped lightly against the window; the only sound in the quiet laboratory was this tapping...
Lou Yu did not answer. He simply walked quietly past Wuji Jun, came to the experimental table, and slowly picked up the latest issue of "Science News" from the table...
At the window, Lou Yu, wearing a research lab coat, and Wuji Jun, wearing a black robe, stood back to back, heads bowed and silent.
Lou Yu looked down at the Science Daily in his hand, his body trembling slightly as he closed his eyes.
His voice was choked with emotion:
"I……"
"I'm so unwilling to accept this..."
Wuji Jun also slowly closed his eyes. His usually deep and cold voice became unusually gentle at this moment... He spoke softly:
"Everything, for humanity."
boom--!
A cloud of blood mist burst from Lou Yu's chest.
Blood splattered all over the Science Journal, along with the pristine white lab table and walls beside it. With a dull thud, Lou Yu collapsed to the ground, lifeless.
Almost simultaneously, a figure wielding a particle holy sword descended from the sky and arrived outside the laboratory.
Xuan Yujun, who had been chasing after them, froze on the spot when he saw Lou Yu's corpse lying on the ground. Then he suddenly looked up and stared at Wujijun as if he were looking at a madman!
"Lou Yu!! You actually killed yourself in this world?! You've gone mad?!"
Wuji Jun remained silent. He merely glanced at this "long-deceased" old friend with a complex expression before transforming into a black shadow and rapidly approaching the direction of Shennongjia...
……
Tianshu realm.
Bridge arch.
A pair of ruby-like eyes slowly opened in the darkness. Chen Ling seemed to sense something, her gaze fixed on a certain direction in the sky...
"Hongxin, what are you looking at?" Jiang Xiaohua asked, leaning closer in with a puzzled look.
"It seems... it's coming back."
"it?"
"Red Star."
Jiang Xiaohua scratched her head and looked up at the sky with Chen Ling. "Why can't I feel anything?"
"Because you don't have its power within you."
When Crimson Star returned last time, Chen Ling's rank was not high enough and he had very little power to ward off disasters. But now he has reached the eighth rank and has mastered the [Breaking the Wall] technique. He has some perception of Crimson Star's aura... He can sense that Crimson Star is approaching Earth again.
It was no secret to Chen Ling that Chi Xing would return for the third time. Apart from him, the other world-destroying calamities and the Nine Lords should have been aware of it. But what Chen Ling didn't expect was that Chi Xing would return so quickly this time...
However, this is also a good thing. After all, to successfully restart everything, it is necessary to reverse the era at the moment when the Red Star passes by the Earth. The Red Star is about to return, which means that the last condition for Chen Ling's restart will be fulfilled.
He only gets one chance... and his time is running out.
Chen Ling slowly closed her eyes.
Storm of thoughts
launch.
……
"I am Chen Ling, the Red King of the Twilight Society."
The moment those words echoed in his mind, Chu Muyun, who was coughing, was slightly taken aback.
He subconsciously looked up at his side and saw that Bai also seemed to have heard the words. A look of surprise flashed in his eyes, followed by a solemn expression.
They knew that Chen Ling wouldn't speak in this tone, simultaneously in the minds of all the members of the Twilight Commune, unless it was something extremely important...
For a moment, both of them held their breath, waiting for Chen Ling to continue.
……
Ancient collection of military art.
A blood-red river flows across the frozen black earth.
Countless shattered weapons were stuck upside down in the ground, and the extreme killing intent almost froze the entire space. On a towering mountain of corpses, a figure dressed in tattered leather clothes slowly opened his eyes...
His body was covered in wounds, as if he had just survived a major battle, stained with blood. He sat cross-legged, a longsword gleaming with murderous intent resting across his knees. The moment he opened his eyes, the surrounding temperature dropped even further!
I wonder if it was because I heard a familiar voice,
A slight smile played at the corners of his mouth, where dried blood still lingered…