Chapter 23 Love is the most hurtful word

June 20, 2135, sunny

The weather is very good today. My mother told me that she bought some pork ribs and asked me to go home for dinner. I finished my work quickly and returned home with full joy.

The house was still the same, bright and warm. The pot on the stove was still bubbling with steam, and the smell of potatoes and pork ribs wafted in the air.

But mom is missing!

I can't find my mom!

I rushed out like crazy, asking everyone I met, "Have you seen my mother? Have you seen my mother?"

Passersby cast sympathetic glances at me, as if to say, her mother must have been chosen by a strange dungeon and will never survive. How pitiful!

Weird copy?!

I grasped the point and asked loudly, "What is this strange dungeon? Where is my mother?"

I don’t know, but a passerby was scared by my crazy behavior and called the police.

Two policemen took me to the police station.

A voice asked me, do you want to find your mother?

I think!

Then you should join the Weird Breakthrough Team.

good!

June 21, 2135 (Overcast)

Mom, I entered the Weird Breakthrough Training Camp.

So tired!

it hurts!

But mom, I will try my best to find you.

June 22, 2135, light rain

Training hurts! Mom!

June 23, 2135... July 5, 2135

Train, train, train.

July 5, 2135, sunny

I graduated from the Weird Breakthrough Training Camp. Together with three other classmates and a senior, I formed the lowest-level Weird Breakthrough Group.

Group D102, we are going to break through a D-level weird copy tomorrow.

Mom, wait for me to come to you.

July 8, 2135, sunny

Mom, you weren't in that copy, we got out alive, but one of my classmates permanently lost his left leg and had to retreat to the logistics team.

…………

August 8, 2136

It’s been a year, Mom. My former team leader died yesterday, and my classmates in the same group have been replaced by several batches.

Mom, I'm scared.

But mom, I want to be the team leader.

Mom, I still need to look for you.

August 10, 2136

This is a C-level weird copy. Looking at the trembling teenagers standing around me, I decided to go in alone.

Mom, I'm coming to see you.

August 19, 2136

Mom, I might die.

But there are two children around.

Mom, I have to try harder and try to keep these two children alive.

Mom, I seem to see the light...

I will lead them to the light.

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In the House of the Marriage of All Worlds

Zuo An was holding a small diary and crying as he read it.

"Brother, wipe your tears." A little girl of twelve or thirteen years old handed a tissue to Zuo An.

"Okay, thank you." Zuo An said thank you, took the tissue, wiped his tears and blew his nose.

"Come here, take care of Sister Zhao." A boy about fourteen or fifteen years old quietly pulled the little girl away.

"Brother, this big brother is a good person." The little girl turned to look at Zuo An and said worriedly, "He was crying so sadly."

"Don't trust anyone here." The boy looked around vigilantly, especially at the young man who was crying loudly.

He looked too innocent, and didn't seem like a human being who had ever survived in this strange world.

[Host, please stop crying. The first customer is about to wake up.] Yuanqiu felt that Zuo An's empathy was too strong.

If he knew that in this strange world, people were experiencing separation and death every day, he would cry himself to death.

[Give me some time, it's so pitiful.] Zuo An knew he shouldn't be so emotional.

When he came here, the ball instilled general information about this world into his mind, but cold words were not as shocking as seeing what really happened.

He had read novels like Strange Resurrection before, and he only admired the power of the protagonists in the novels, but never paid too much attention to ordinary people.

Now, the people entering his marriage house are all ordinary people, and they do not have strong means to deal with those so-called weird things.

But they also want to live. They are not the protagonists, so don’t they deserve to live?

They also have relatives and friends, they just want to survive, why is life so difficult in this broken world!

"Brother Liu!" Zhang Xiaohai woke up screaming.

Zuo An quickly wiped his face again and walked over quickly.

"Sir, how do you feel?" Zuo An wanted to smile, but he had just cried and couldn't smile now.

Zhang Xiaohai opened his eyes and saw a young man with red eyes and nose. He didn't have time to hear what he said. He took out a dagger and held it in front of him, "Don't come over here!"

"Ah." Zuo An was so scared that he took several steps back. Fortunately, there was no sofa behind him, otherwise he would have fallen on his butt.

The two siblings who were secretly observing from the side were whispering to each other.

"Hey, brother, that seems to be Brother Zhang Xiaohai."

"Yes, that's him."

"But why isn't the other veteran brother by his side?" the little girl asked curiously.

"Don't ask so many questions." The boy reached out and touched his sister's head. The missing person must be dead.

"Oh." The little girl answered obediently.

"Sir, please calm down, calm down." Zuo An raised his hands to comfort him.

"Don't come over here, don't come over here." Zhang Xiaohai waved the dagger in his hand wildly, his face full of fear.

"Okay, I'll leave first. I'll come over when you calm down." Seeing that Zhang Xiaohai was too excited, Zuo An had to leave temporarily.

Zhang Xiaohai saw the man leave, but did not put down the dagger in his hand. Instead, he looked around in panic.

It was a house similar to a coffee shop. The sofa where he was sitting was against the wall, and the four or five booths opposite were all made of transparent glass.

There is endless darkness outside the glass, with occasional red lights flashing through the darkness.

He seemed to hear the giggling sound again, and was so scared that he shrank into the corner of the sofa, holding the dagger in his hand tightly.

It seems that only this dagger can bring him a sense of security.

"Well, have some water and something to eat." Zuo An came over with a tray containing a cup of hot cocoa and a plate of pastries. He carefully placed the tray on the coffee table.

Then, under Zhang Xiaohai's fixed gaze, he slowly pushed it towards him.

Zhang Xiaohai didn't know what was going on with this young man in front of him. He was too clean, without any smell of blood, and without any vigilance.

Did they release a copy?

No!

Zhang Xiaohai glanced at the darkness outside the window. They were still in the copy.

Why, it’s still dark?!

Zhang Xiaohai's heart was filled with despair and fear.

After Zuo An put his things away, he quietly retreated, feeling a little sad. [This is such a sin! What kind of situation has this forced me into?]

[Tsk, this is already considered good. If it were you, you probably wouldn't survive a day.] The ball hit Zuo An without mercy.

[Hey, hey, hey, can't you say something nice, you heartless system?] After arguing with the system for a few words, Zuo An's mood improved.

The sweet smell of hot cocoa slowly drifted into Zhang Xiaohai's nostrils, making his stomach, which had not eaten anything proper for several days, growl.

Eat or not eat!

"Live on, you must live on." Brother Liu's voice seemed to ring in my ears.

Yes, he wants to live, he must live.

He can't starve to death!

Zhang Xiaohai reached out and pulled the tray over, then started to eat heartily.

The hot, high-calorie food flowed into his stomach, soothing his stomach, which had been cramping with hunger for a long time.

"It's delicious, so delicious, Brother Liu, it's delicious." Big drops of tears mixed with food were eaten into his mouth.

Even though he was poisoned to death, he had a full meal. Brother Liu had not eaten for a day and a night before his death.

"Brother Xiaohai, don't cry." A clear little girl's voice suddenly sounded.

Zhang Xiaohai suddenly looked up and met the clear big eyes of a little girl.

"Xiaoling, why are you here?" Zhang Xiaohai wiped his tear-blurred eyes with his sleeves.

"Sister Zhao brought us in." Wang Xiaoling considerately handed Zhang Xiaohai a tissue.

"Xiaoling, good job." Zuo An quietly encouraged the little girl. As expected, after a great tragedy, only acquaintances are most likely to open up their hearts.

"Zhao Ruya! Where is she?" Zhang Xiaohai did not put down his hand holding the dagger. He was afraid that the little girl was a strange transformation.

"Sister Zhao is lying on the sofa. She is too tired." Wang Xiaoling pointed at the sofa behind her.

Zhang Xiaohai stood up and looked in the direction Wang Xiaoling pointed. Sure enough, he saw Zhao Ruya lying on the sofa, not knowing whether she was dead or alive, with a boy standing next to her.

"Brother Xiaohai." The boy Wang Yifan waved to Zhang Xiaohai as a greeting.

"Are you really Xiaoling and Xiaofan?" Zhang Xiaohai frowned, he didn't believe it.

"Of course it's true." Wang Xiaoling nodded vigorously, "It was the shop owner who saved us."

Wang Xiaoling pointed at Zuo An, and Zuo An quickly gave Zhang Xiaohai a bright smile.

"This is a safe house. You don't have to worry about things from outside getting in."

Zhang Xiaohai still didn't believe it. It was so strange and cunning. So many people died because of their credulity.

"Then how can you trust me? If you don't trust me, your brother Liu really can't be saved." Seeing that the vigilance in Zhang Xiaohai's eyes had not disappeared, Zuo An had to use his trump card.

Humph, you've revealed your true colors.

Zhang Xiaohai sneered. When he ran away, he turned around and saw that Brother Liu had his heart dug out by that weirdo.

How can a person who has had his heart taken out still survive?

"Weird, don't try to fool me."

"Damn it, why are you so stubborn?" Zuo An was speechless and turned to look at Wang Yifan, "Lend me that talisman."

"Okay." Wang Yifan took out the talisman and handed it over.

Zuo An took the talisman and waved it in front of Zhang Xiaohai. "You recognize this, right? If I were weird, would I dare to take it?"

Zhang Xiaohai still didn't believe it. The talisman must have changed strangely, but he took out the amulet on his body and said, "If you dare to come over, I'll stick it on you and I'll believe you."

Why is it so difficult for people to trust each other?

[If everyone were as naive as you, they would have died long ago.] The ball felt that if it weren't for itself, it would have been swallowed up by the weirdness as soon as it arrived in the weird world.

[Stop talking nonsense. Who told you to find this world? It's so weird. Trust between people has been destroyed.]

Zuo An walked over and just stretched out his hand to prevent Zhang Xiaohai from stabbing him.

Zhang Xiaohai was quick to apply the talisman to Zuo An's hand, then retreated to the corner of the sofa.

After waiting for a while, there was no change in Zuo An.

"Are you really a human?" Zhang Xiaohai asked with his eyes wide open.

"Of course I am a human!" Zuo Ankuku nodded.

"You are real too." Zhang Xiaohai looked at Wang Xiaoling and Wang Yifan.

"Of course we are real."

"Is this really a safe house?" Zhang Xiaohai received a nod from several people, and the dagger in his hand fell on the coffee table with a snap.

The whole person suddenly huddled together and burst into tears.

Brother Liu, I survived, I survived.

Brother Liu, hold on a little longer. If you hold on a little longer, you can survive. You can survive.

[His lover died trying to save him. How pitiful.] Yuanqiu sniffed.

【Shut up. 】

Zuo An understood how painful it was to lose a loved one. When the puppy he had raised from a puppy to adulthood died, he cried bitterly.

"If you still want to save him, stop crying." Zuo An blinked.

The ball gave him the ability to see ghosts and gossips. He could see the shadow standing in front of Zhang Xiaohai, touching his head and comforting him, which was becoming increasingly blurry.

"Really? You can still save him." Zhang Xiaohai suddenly looked up, his face with tears streaming down his face looked a little ugly.

"Really." Zuo An handed him a few tissues.

Zhang Xiaohai didn't take the tissue at all, but grabbed Zuo An's hand tightly, not daring to let go at all.

"Of course, this is the scope of business of our Wanjie Marriage House." Zuo An, who was pinched in pain, could only grin and said to the ball on his shoulder, "Little ball, show us your talent."

The ball that was originally squatting on Zuo An's shoulder invisibly flew into the air and suddenly appeared. Then, after spinning in the air, it exhaled a long breath towards the ceiling.

"call………"

A light blue aura drifted out and spread onto the ceiling, dyeing the snow-white ceiling dark blue, and the entire store darkened.

Before Zhang Xiaohai and his companions could exclaim in surprise, they saw one star after another appear on the dark blue sky, like the stars lighting up in the dark night, which was extremely beautiful.

"Wow, that's beautiful!" Wang Xiaoling exclaimed. She looked at the ball floating in the air, "Little ball, do you know magic?"

"Huh, I know a lot." The ball proudly shook the two small tentacles on its head.

"This looks great, but how can we save Brother Liu?" Zhang Xiaohai swallowed his saliva. Is this cryptic shop owner really a magician?

"Now you need to use all your love for him to call out to the stars. As long as any star responds to you, he will be able to come back to life."

"Really?" Zhang Xiaohai stared at the stars as if he had grabbed the last straw.

"Someone of you please respond to me. I really want to save Brother Liu." Zhang Xiaohai shouted loudly, but the stars on the ceiling were just shining without any movement.

"Respond to me, respond to me."

"Brother Liu died because he was trying to save me. He shouldn't have died. It was me who should have died. It was me. If you could have saved him, you could have taken my life."

One cry after another, like the cuckoo crying blood.

Like crying and complaining!

"Wow, wow, wow." As Wang Xiaoling listened, she snuggled into her brother's arms and started crying. She missed her parents.

Mom and Dad were mysteriously killed while trying to save them.

Zhang Xiaohai shouted for a long time until his voice became hoarse, and the stars remained silent. He thought there was no hope, and he broke down and cried.

[In this world, love is the only thing that hurts the most.] Zuo An saw the blurry figure beside Zhang Xiaohai. After looking at Zhang Xiaohai with nostalgia, he rushed towards the blue sea of ​​stars without hesitation.

A deep red star moved, suddenly broke through the blue-purple light curtain, and slammed into the blurry shadow.

The moment they touched, a dazzling light filled the entire House of the Marriage of All Worlds, even penetrating the walls of the house and shooting into the darkness.

After the strange creatures in the darkness came into contact with the light, those with weak abilities instantly dissipated, while those with strong abilities were injured and fled. In an instant, the darkness within a radius of 100 meters in the entire Marriage House was completely gone.

After a few seconds, the light dimmed.

Wang Xiaoling opened her eyes cautiously and saw a translucent figure floating in the air.

"Brother Xiaohai, it's Brother Liu Jiang."