Chapter 28 Shattered
He didn't want to explain too much to her. After saying this, he saw a hint of hope on Si Tang's face, as if branches had suddenly grown out of the withering of the past two days.
The god couldn't help but let out a low, hoarse laugh.
Then just look forward to my demise, Tangtang.
Fan Yi slowly spoke the second half of the sentence.
"But if it doesn't break, Tangtang—you'll never be able to escape. Your soul and mine will be forever bound together in the Divine Book of the Red Book."
He curled the corners of his lips, put the fish scales in his hand on her personally, looked at her deeply, and then a white light flashed, and Fan Yi disappeared in the cave.
Si Tang stroked the scales with his fingers, staring blankly at the empty space in front of him. Fan Yi's figure had disappeared.
She picked up the book that Fan Yi left for her, and when she opened it, she couldn't help but cover her lips.
It's her destiny line...
She raised her eyes in a daze, and everything in front of her was changing drastically.
Everything in the cave gradually returned to how it was when Si Tang first saw it. It was overgrown with weeds, dark and damp, with only the swing in front of the cave entrance still swaying gently.
Everything was as if Fan Yi had never appeared.
But the fish scales on his neck and the book at hand reminded Si Tang that all this was not a dream.
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On the seabed, the scattered palaces were magnificent in the dim light. Fan Yi held a trident in his hand and stared indifferently at the growing black vortex in front of him. It was like the claws of a giant beast tearing open the space. Faint black thunder leaked out, crushing the rebuilt Atlantis into ruins. The power was so terrible that it was not comparable to the one that the Lord God descended three months ago.
A golden light kept circling around him. 8856 knew that this was a message of thunder from heaven. If Fan Yi didn't go in, the thunder from heaven would forcibly involve this plane of space.
"I'm leaving. If I don't come back alive, let humans find that cave and take her away." Fan Yi looked calmly at the black hole in front of him, and did not forget to warn it, "But in these seven days, I don't want anyone to take her away from this island. Do you understand?"
"Lord Fan Yi, are you really going to do this?" 8856's voice was filled with worry and anxiety.
8856 hopes that Fan Yi can survive this thunder tribulation. After all, Lord Poseidon died here, and the truth will be revealed one day, and it cannot remain immune.
8856 regretted it deeply. If he had known earlier, he should have protested when he was chosen to be the Sea God's Supervisor, but he was too cowardly to disobey.
He even regretted not reporting to the Lord God immediately when Lord Fan Yi committed evil and abducted humans into the cave.
To the extent that the gods actually fell in love with humans, leading to such terrible consequences today.
In just three short months, no one told it that the cold-blooded and cruel Sea God was actually a romantic.
Fan Yi ignored its anxiety and instead, grasping his trident, flew straight towards the crack. The black mist instantly engulfed the corner of his inky robe.
There, a massive thunderbolt and divine punishment awaited him. In the fourth dimension.
In fact, he had already thought about it.
If he couldn't withstand the thunder of love and his soul was torn to pieces, he would let her go as she wished.
......
The other side of the island.
First day.
Si Tang immediately went to the shore to light a fire, returned to the cave, read his destiny line word by word, memorized it, and then burned the book.
Then he looked at the cave entrance cautiously, fearing that the figure would appear and say in a joking tone, "Tangtang, I'm teasing you." Thus destroying her only chance of survival.
the next day.
Si Tang began to ponder his reaction that day over and over again, his thoughts switching back and forth between "he was playing with me" and "he had a change of heart".
Day 3.
The wild fruits left by Fan Yi were piled up like mountains, as if he was afraid that Si Tang would starve when he was away. The tools for making fire were neatly arranged. When Si Tang had nothing to do, he would go to the lake in the center of the island to catch fish.
I don’t know why, but I always think of that day when the cold and gentle god held her in his arms and shuttled through the center of the lake, and the butterflies flying in the sky seemed like an unreal dream.
Day 4.
Si Tang silently counted down the seven-day countdown. The white light on the fish-scale necklace around his neck became dimmer and dimmer. Si Tang's heart tightened, and he felt inexplicably sour and uneasy.
Day 5.
Si Tang sat on the swing and swung back and forth. An unprecedented loneliness enveloped her, and she felt like she was forgotten in a corner of the world.
The fish scale necklace around her neck has gradually changed from being dazzling and colorful to being plain and ordinary. At first glance, it looks like just an ordinary object.
Does this mean... a sign of it breaking apart?
But this is the scale of a god. If it breaks, it means the owner...
There were some things that Si Tang didn't dare to think too deeply about.
Day 6.
The necklace around her neck had some cracks on its scales.
Day 7.
Si Tang got up early in the morning and sat silently on the beach, staring at the horizon, his hands tightly clutching the fish scale necklace around his neck.
She waited for the fish scales to break, and then Fan Yi appeared and fulfilled his promise to take her away from the island and back to the shore.
In the palm of his hand, the cracks on the fish-scale necklace deepened, and it seemed on the verge of falling apart.
Si Tang suddenly realized that the words he said before leaving clearly did not contain the message that "if the fish scales were not broken, he would come back to help her leave."
And when he left, he restored the cave to its original state. Obviously... he had other intentions.
Si Tang looked up and saw that dusk had already arrived. The sea was illuminated by the orange light that cut through the waves, and it looked calm, just like usual.
She wondered, inexplicably, maybe.
——He won’t come back.
......
Later, dusk fell.
Si Tang did not wait for Fan Yi's return, nor did he wait for the scales to completely shatter.
Instead, they waited for a rescue ship.
The crew told her they were part of an expedition to explore the Atlantis civilization dormant in the Atlantic Ocean. A day earlier, they'd encountered a strong wind and had been forced to detour. They'd discovered thick smoke drifting over the island, and upon investigation, they'd discovered signs of human life.
Si Tang felt complicated and thought that all this was too coincidental.
She suddenly remembered how Fan Yi restored the cave to its original state before leaving. If it weren't for that, she really couldn't explain everything in the cave.
Si Tang was in a complicated mood. She told the expedition team her identity and then followed them onto the ship.
The moment he got on the boat, Si Tang subconsciously looked back at the island where he had stayed for three months, which was also the "cage" where he had stayed for three months.
Si Tang finally got what he wanted, and freedom was within his reach.
Food, sex and nature are human nature. In fact, even if Si Tang was unwilling, she had to admit that she had a very complicated feeling for Fan Yi, a kind of secret affection, but she was also clearly aware of the huge difference between the two and could not agree with his way, so she stopped and fell deeply in love.
Si Tang didn't know what kind of feelings Fan Yi had for her, whether it was possessiveness or something else, it didn't matter.
In fact, if it weren't for the mermaid's overly morbid and paranoid possessiveness towards her, they could have truly become friends. She might even visit the island again and reunite with her old friend. Regardless, she was grateful to Fan Yi for revealing her destiny.
But she knew very well that if she came back, it might mean she would never be able to leave again.
Standing on the deck, looking at the island that was gradually blurring and shrinking in front of him, Si Tang felt a subtle sense of reluctance and melancholy.
So, just treat it all as a dream.
But she would never set foot on the Atlantic Ocean again.
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