Escape from Death 99 Times (Part 9) Died in my hands.

Together they had dealt with the attacks of the angry flower vines, and together they had infiltrated the Huanxing Group which was occupied by plants.

They had fought each other over a seed, and after being exhausted, they lay head to head in a pool of blood, looking at the small piece of sky through the gaps between the branches.

Whenever this happened, most of Xuanyuan's attention would be focused on him.

Xuanyuan gave the rest of his attention to the aloe girl in his arms.

Xuanyuan always carries aloe vera with him wherever he goes.

As the most powerful psychic in the world, there is no place safer than by his side.

Even though most of the time, carrying aloe vera is like carrying a burden.

Aloe vera's special ability is useful, but it's also useless.

She is able to soothe plants.

Thanks to her abilities, they were able to infiltrate the plant-occupied Huanxing Group without waking them up.

But this ability is triggered passively and cannot be controlled, and Aloe Vera itself has a strange attraction to the plants themselves. When the ability loses its effect, the plants wake up from their slumber and will grow towards the location of Aloe Vera until they catch it.

The supernatural power failed at the most dangerous moment - that was the mission when they were detecting the huge flower grown by plants on the building of Huanxing Group.

They guessed that perhaps the flowers were the lifeblood of the plants, so they used the aloe vera's special abilities to sneak into the building.

As expected, Aloe Vera's ability suddenly lost effectiveness, and the flower went into a state of rage. If Aloe Vera had not rushed forward to block the angry vines for Xuanyuan, Xuanyuan would have surely died.

After suffering that blow, Aloe was seriously injured. Even though Xuanyuan used all his supplies to nourish her, she still suffered from the disease.

She didn't have any fighting skills and was weak, and she became even weaker after she fell ill. During the battle, Xuanyuan not only had to fight with the plants, but also had to take care of the aloe vera in her arms.

As a result, Xuanyuan suffered many unnecessary wounds.

Even so, Xuanyuan insisted on keeping aloe vera with him.

Such a weak aloe vera could not survive without Xuanyuan's protection.

So every time Lu Renjia met Xuanyuan, he could see the aloe vera in his arms.

The one who caught Xuanyuan's attention was the attacker.

Once, in an extremely dangerous situation, they trusted their backs to each other and fought back to back to resist the flower vines coming from all directions.

Aloe Vera was frightened and let out a scream. The vine sensed its location and wrapped around its calf.

The flower vine dragged the aloe vera backwards rapidly.

Xuanyuan was shocked and abandoned all defenses and ran towards Aloe.

The sharp spike scratched his cheek, leaving a bloody mark on his cheekbone.

If Lu Renjia hadn't pulled him back, the spikes would have pierced his eyeballs.

"Are you crazy?!"

Lu Renjia questioned through gritted teeth while resisting the flower vines.

Xuanyuan didn't explain. He was silent for a moment, then yelled back at the same volume, "You don't understand!"

I do not understand?

Lu Renjia subconsciously raised the corner of his mouth.

It looked like he was laughing, but also like someone was forcibly lifting the corners of his mouth to make a sarcastic expression.

His heart felt like someone was squeezing it. It wasn't painful, nor was it sad, but just a stuffy and suffocating feeling, as if someone was squeezing sour water out of it.

He almost blurted out and told Xuanyuan that aloe vera was the attacker and this plant was inseparable from aloe vera.

The remaining sanity made him shut up.

Since the plant is related to aloe vera, it means that the eyes and ears are everywhere.

The plants that cover the entire earth will not give him the chance to tell the truth.

He stopped talking and just chopped the branches around him fiercely. Tender buds on his arms appeared silently in his palms, piercing the branches of the plants and madly absorbing the vitality of the mother plants.

They broke through the flower vine cage and found the aloe vera.

Xuanyuan rushed forward, cut open the vines that trapped Aloe Vera, and held her in his arms as if she were a treasure.

Aloe Vera slowly woke up, her beautiful eyes glistening with water.

"Xuanyuan, I thought I would never see you again..."

Xuanyuan hugged her shoulders tightly, and said with force, "I said, I won't let anything happen to you."

The aloe vera's eyes sparkled like the surface of a lake blown by the wind.

Lu Renjia stood behind them and looked at the two of them.

The young shoots that absorbed too much vitality grew wildly, eager to devour their master.

The roots grew on the bones, and all the bones and blood in the body felt painful as if being strangled by a giant python.

He smiled.

He is really in the way here. If he weren't here, this beautiful scene like the ending of a movie should have ended with a kiss.

Xuanyuan stood up holding Aloe Vera, walked in front of him, seemed to want to say something but hesitated, and finally said nothing.

They went their separate ways.

In the evening, someone hung a paper bag on the camera of the exploration robot.

He took the paper bag back and saw inside the bag were the seeds he had fought with Xuanyuan for last time.

So this is Xuanyuan’s apology?

He tossed the seed up and down, ignoring the sprout's pleas, and dropped it into a drying dish.

Xuanyuan needs seeds because he wants to try growing crops.

And he fought for the seeds simply because seeds were what Xuanyuan needed.

He has long been living in symbiosis with the sprouts and does not need water or food.

In the corner of the house were the wildly growing branches and leaves of the tender buds he had cut, still stained with his blood.

In fact, Lu Renjia sometimes feels a little strange.

Xuanyuan is a very rational and well-planned person who can always maximize his benefits.

For Aloe Vera, he not only took Aloe Vera with him on every mission, but also gave up his own command advantage, and fought in groups of two with Aloe Vera on many missions.

Because Aloe's abilities and physical fitness that required care would cause trouble to the team, Xuanyuan gave up traveling with the team and chose to fight in groups of two.

This behavior is undoubtedly irrational.

Xuanyuan is the leader of the human survivors. If he dies, the entire base will fall into a state of leaderlessness again.

But some tasks are too dangerous and can only be completed by him personally.

At this time, although Xuanyuan could have left Aloe Vera at the base and let others take care of it, he still insisted on bringing Aloe Vera with him, and most of the time it was a burden.

Lu Renjia couldn't understand why the Xuanyuan he knew would do such a thing.

Until one day when he woke up in the middle of the night, he suddenly remembered the definition of this world given by the conquerors of the previous world -

Just a novel.

As a passerby, he was destined to die.

As for Xuanyuan, the protagonist, is he also given a love story?

The one who successfully becomes Xuanyuan's heroine will receive all of Xuanyuan's passion and cherishment, and will make Xuanyuan abandon his reason and love her.

After all, it's just a novel.

A passerby with little involvement in the plot, even if he has a golden finger that allows him to retain his memory after the world restarts, cannot escape the plot.

So how can the protagonist, who occupies the entire length of the book, escape his predetermined fate?

Since that collaboration, Lu Renjia has never worked with Xuanyuan again.

Every time they appear, there will be tit-for-tat and competition.

When Lu Renjia looked at Xuanyuan, he always felt like there was a fire burning in his heart.

He used every possible means to draw Xuanyuan's attention to himself, as if he was resisting the given ending of the plot.

Perhaps the world's will judged that he was too threatening and deliberately targeted him.

Or maybe Xuanyuan's luck was absorbed by the attacker and could not protect him.

In short, his luck has been getting worse recently.

He began receiving death threats again.

A dead branch suddenly appeared on the way to escape.

A huge tree that suddenly fell down while it was sleeping.

Into the teacup dripped poisonous dew.

No matter how hard he dodged, he was still careless and his arm was scratched when he was trying to avoid the falling steel bars.

So when he was tripping Xuanyuan in the afternoon, he had a circle of gauze wrapped around his left arm.

Xuanyuan saw it, paused, and asked him, "What happened? So embarrassed?"

He was too lazy to say anything more and went straight to grab the transparent ball.

Inside the sphere is an apple, a fresh apple grown in a laboratory that was preserved during the plant invasion.

Although this thing is precious, it is just an apple and cannot be used as a seed.

Lu Renjia didn't know why Xuanyuan would come personally to get such an apple.

He doesn't want to know either.

Anyway, just take it away.

But as soon as they started fighting, Lu Renjia felt something was wrong. Today's Xuanyuan's attack was particularly fierce. After just a few moves, he was on the verge of defeat.

Although the injuries and the threats of death over the past few days had made him quite weak, it wouldn't happen so quickly.

Xuanyuan wanted to kill.

An overwhelming murderous intent surged up, and a dagger pierced into the abdomen. What I felt before the pain was the coldness.

He covered his abdomen and took a few steps back. He saw Xuanyuan holding an apple in his left hand and aloe vera in his right hand. He rinsed the apple with mineral water and then handed it to Aloe Vera.

The voice was gentle, "Eat it."

Xuanyuan looked at him and said, "I'm sorry, who told you to take the apple that my woman wanted to eat?"

He didn't look back, turned around and left with Aloe Vera in his arms, his attention now fully focused on Aloe Vera.

Lu Renjia covered his abdomen, looked at the blood flowing down from the wound, and suddenly wanted to laugh.

Indeed, having compassion for your enemy is the stupidest thing to do.

He should have killed him long ago.

…

Lu Renjia is not dead.

The knife that Xuanyuan stabbed just grazed the liver and was not fatal.

Plus he had young sprouts to absorb vitality, and after ten days he fully recovered.

In fact, he thought he would die as he was seriously injured and was targeted by death threats, but strangely, after he was injured, the death threats disappeared.

I don’t know if the world consciousness feels that he has accomplished the role of advancing the love line of the protagonist group.

Lu Renjia looked at the images sent back by the reconnaissance robot.

Ever since Xuanyuan discovered his bionic robot last time, he has made a major upgrade to all the exploration robots. These robots are only the size of flies and stop on the plants, like the bumpy bumps on the surface of the plants.

In the scene, Xuanyuan and his cronies announced that he would infiltrate the Huanxing Group again to observe the giant flower that the plant had bloomed.

In the last battle, they cut down the flowers, but within a day, the flowers grew back, and it seemed that the flowers were not dead plants.

But the flower is the only special feature on the giant plant, and they speculated that the flower must have something special, so Xuanyuan decided to go on another mission to see if there is any way to deal with it.

Of course, aloe vera will go along.

Lu Renjia watched the surveillance video, sharpening the dagger again and again, and estimated expressionlessly whether he could take advantage of the chaos to kill Xuanyuan this time.

Whether you can or not, you should give it a try.

…

What Lu Renjia didn't expect was that Xuanyuan didn't even tell the truth to his confidants.

He did not bring his trusted confidants who were roaming outside, only Aloe, and rushed to Huanxing Group two hours in advance.

Lu Renjia couldn't figure out what he was thinking.

When Lu Renjia arrived, he happened to witness a fierce battle.

Xuanyuan fights the giant flower growing on the giant plant, and Aloe Vera is nowhere to be found.

If you look closely, you will see that the fruit in the center of the flower has the eyes and eyebrows of aloe vera.

Absorbed?

Or is it fusion?

Lu Renjia didn't have time to think about it, he was forced into the battle.

After half a year, they turned their backs to each other again.

Hundreds of battles had already made Lu Renjia and Xuanyuan clearly aware of each other's thoughts and combat methods. With just a glance, they could understand each other's next plan.

After a hard battle, the scarlet flower fell to the ground with a loud bang.

Even the fruits on the flowers were smashed to pieces.

Xuanyuan leaned against the wall weakly.

He was extremely weak, with an abnormal blush on his cheeks.

It's a good time.

Lu Renjia pushed him to the ground, with the sharp dagger hanging vertically above his heart.

Things have changed. Half a year ago, Xuanyuan stabbed him when he was weak. Half a year later, he wanted to return the stab with interest.

The plants around were making slight noises.

I don’t know if it’s an illusion, but the sky seems to be brighter.

He half-knelt just above Xuanyuan and looked into his eyes.

Xuanyuan's attention was not on him at all.

His pupils were out of focus and his eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of gray mist, but he was still looking in the direction of the flowers.

"Aloe vera..."

He pointed in the direction of the flower and asked Lu Renjia, "How is the aloe vera?"

A fire burned from my heart upwards.

Aloe vera.

Aloe vera again.

The aloe that tied up Xuanyuan.

The so-called fate that trapped them.

Lu Renjia said coldly, "Are you talking about the fruit that looks like aloe vera? It's broken."

After hearing Lu Renjia's words, Xuanyuan lost all his strength and lay on the ground.

He actually smiled, "I know you've wanted to stab me for a long time. You saved me once, and I stabbed you. This stab is my repayment to you."

"I won't live much longer anyway."

After knowing that Aloe was dead, he seemed to have completely lost the will to live.

But the Xuanyuan that Lu Renjia knew was clearly the one who found a way out for everyone in desperate situations time and time again.

Is the person in front of me really Xuanyuan?

He wanted to look into Xuanyuan's eyes to see if the fighting spirit was still burning in them.

But Xuanyuan closed his eyes and didn't look at him.

[Xuanyuan, look at me! ]

Anger made Lu Renjia's body tremble slightly.

He could no longer explain why he was angry.

Is it because the protagonist, who was originally supposed to live a normal life, is determined to die, wasting the life he has fought for for many lifetimes?

Or is it because it was Xuanyuan who lost his fighting spirit?

Or was it because, in his struggle with Xuanyuan, he had finally suffered a complete defeat?

He couldn't tell, he just felt angry.

[Since you don't want to live, then die in my hands. ]

The knife in his hand stabbed steadily into Xuanyuan's heart.

Fine drops of blood splattered on his cheeks.

The vines outside the window made a loud noise.

A large swath of sunlight shone down, reflecting the dagger in his hand and causing pain in the eyes.

Xuanyuan's breathing gradually weakened.

Lu Renjia stared at Xuanyuan.

From beginning to end, Xuanyuan never opened his eyes, let alone resisted.

Lu Renjia sat on the ground on one side.

The surrounding space began to collapse slightly.

He looked around.

It turns out that when the "protagonist" dies, the protagonist will not be replaced, but the entire world will collapse.

After the world collapses, will there be another restart?

Lu Renjia was lost in thought.

It has been a long time since he had his mind free like this.

He is too tired.

All along, his brain was on edge and he dared not rest for a moment.

Unexpectedly, this long-awaited rest happened next to Xuanyuan who was about to die.

He looked at his palm.

Killing Xuanyuan doesn't seem as interesting as imagined.

Instead, there is a kind of inexplicable emptiness.

Perhaps it was because he did not think that the person he killed this time was the Xuanyuan he knew, but just a puppet controlled by the plot.

Or maybe it was because killing Xuanyuan was just a goal to keep him alive. When the goal was achieved, he found that the prize at the end of the track was so boring.

The young bud in his hand felt the fear of the end of the world, let out a silent wail, and trembled inside his body.

He looked down at the sprout.

The space collapsed faster and faster, as if urged by something silent.

In fact, he can save Xuanyuan.

The buds in his palm can extract vitality and also release vitality.

Even if Xuanyuan's heart was pierced, his heartbeat could be restored under the terrifying healing power.

But does he want to save it?

The world was not good to him, and he didn't care even if he died completely.

Fate wanted him to die at the age of sixteen, so he dragged fate to be buried with him.

If the world won’t restart, then don’t restart it. Restarting it will just mean endless death anyway.

The space is collapsing faster and faster.

Xuanyuan's breathing gradually became weaker.

His gaze fell on Xuanyuan's face.

Xuanyuan still had his eyes closed.

It seemed that since their collaboration, Xuanyuan rarely looked directly at him.

Xuanyuan's eyes were not as bright as before.

His eyes fell on the dagger stuck in Xuanyuan's chest.

Bright red blood gushed out from the junction of the dagger and the wound.

In fact, Xuanyuan was wrong.

The time he saved Xuanyuan, Xuanyuan had already repaid him with seeds.

Xuanyuan stabbed him, and he stabbed Xuanyuan back.

Now, he still owes Xuanyuan a life.

He doesn't like owing people anything.

I'll give it back to him this time, and we'll be even.

No, or rather, he just wanted to survive. If he gave up now, it would be no different from admitting defeat to fate.

He hates to admit defeat.

It seemed as if giving up would mean denying all his previous efforts and being a betrayal to his former self.

As he thought about it, he cut open his arm and pressed the tender bud against Xuanyuan's wound.

Vitality flows in endlessly.

This time, they were clear.