As if sensing something, Li Yiyuan looked up in the darkness. Upon seeing the person before him, he froze, the lit cigarette falling to the ground. His eyes widened in astonishment, followed by overwhelming joy.
"Xinxin!"
He won't admit his mistake this time.
He ran his knee over the lit cigarette butt, scrambled to his feet, and gave Li Xin'er a bear hug.
"Xinxin, you're back!"
Seeing his disheveled appearance, Li Xin'er sighed, somewhat helpless.
"Brother, why are you doing this?"
Li Yiyuan didn't hear a word she was saying; he was only staring at his hand that had passed through Li Xin'er's body, his empty embrace, and his eyes filled with panic.
"What...what's wrong with you...why is this happening?"
Only then did he notice that Li Xin'er's body was transparent, radiating a soft white halo, and she was not in a normal state at all.
Li Xin'er explained, "I am currently in a spirit state, which you can understand as a soul."
"Soul?" Li Yiyuan murmured, then suddenly realized.
"Xinxin, your body is still being taken by that woman. What do we need to do to get you back?"
Li Xin'er shook her head, "No, it's not that my sister is taking over my body, my sister and I are one."
“I came into this world to find her. Now that I have found her and my memories have returned, it is only natural that I should go where I am meant to go and do what I am meant to do.”
"Sister?" Li Yiyuan was stunned. Were they originally one? Weren't they from this world? He had too many questions, but he couldn't bring himself to ask them.
Li Xin'er didn't explain further. She glanced around at the zombies kept in the basement, her eyes filled with pity.
"Brother, stop."
Li Yiyuan responded almost instinctively to her words; he nodded.
"Okay, I'll listen to Xinxin."
Li Xin'er looked directly at Li Yiyuan and said earnestly:
"I'm doing great now. I've just moved to a different place and am living a better life."
“You’ve found your family. Isn’t family what you’ve always wanted? I can sense that they are sincere towards you. You can try to accept them.”
Although she is now a spirit formed from the memories of 'Li Xin'er', she has become somewhat indifferent to this emotion due to the influence of the Heavenly Dao of her original body for so long.
It seems like a mere ten or twenty years out of millions of years, a drop in the ocean—it certainly exists, yet it cannot withstand comparison.
She acknowledges Li Yiyuan as her brother, but he is no longer the most important person in her heart.
As a celestial being, she bears even greater missions and responsibilities.
Li Yiyuan shook his head in resistance, his tone agitated, "No, I don't want my family, Xinxin come back, you come back."
"We'll live a good life with the children from the orphanage; that's what makes us family. Now I have superpowers; I can protect you all, and I can also give Xinxin..."
He spoke faster and faster, and tears streamed down his face uncontrollably, like pearls falling from a broken string.
"Brother!" Li Xin'er forcefully stopped him from speaking.
Li Yiyuan paused, then looked expectantly at Li Xin'er, and asked cautiously,
"Xinxin, where are you going? Can you take your brother with you? I'll go anywhere with you, no matter where we go. I'll go with you."
"I'm sorry, I can't take you away."
Upon hearing Li Xin'er's voice, Li Yiyuan slumped to the ground in disappointment, his head bowed, his voice terribly hoarse.
"Xinxin, could you... could you please not abandon your brother?"
"I can't live without you, brother."
His extremely humble and pleading words made Li Xin'er turn her face away in distress, unable to look at him any longer.
"There are all kinds of people in this world, and you will meet even more people in the future. No one is indispensable."
"I know you listened to your sister and believe that the will of Heaven won't wake up until the end of the world. Do you want to take revenge on Him?"
Like a trapped beast on its last legs, Li Yiyuan huddled in a dark corner, uttering a final, low growl.
"He should know how important you are to me."
After a low growl, like a wild beast's desperate struggle, he used his last strength to utter a hysterical question.
“She said He is God! The God I begged so desperately for! Why can’t He hear my prayers!”
He felt as if he were trapped in a dark and hopeless cage, and no matter how desperately he cried out, no one responded or cared.
Li Yiyuan looked up with bloodshot eyes at Li Xin'er, and was momentarily stunned.
Li Xin'er wore a pure white dress, her body radiating a glowing light, looking as divine as a goddess descending from heaven.
Her eyes held pity, reluctance, and even tenderness as she looked at him, but the unique emotion she once possessed was gone.
“He heard you, but He cannot answer you.”
Upon receiving the answer, Li Yiyuan suddenly laughed. He leaned back, his head hitting the ground with a thud, but he didn't even feel it.
He laughed wildly, with a hint of madness, "Haha... So... So you are Him... You are Him! Haha..."
I see······
I see!
As he laughed, tears streamed down his face like a burst dam. He felt as if he had fallen into a black abyss; the light in his eyes gradually faded, his gaze became lost, and he was filled with utter despair.
"Xiao Xin'er, you have no heart."
The world lost its color, and he felt as if all his strength had been drained away in an instant; he was so tired.
Li Yiyuan slowly closed his eyes.
He thought, it would be good to just fall asleep like this.
At this moment, the Heavenly Dao entity above sensed the gradual disappearance of the villain's power, and Li Xin'er also felt the entity's pull. She knew she didn't have much time left.
"I'm sorry I couldn't tell you the truth before. No matter who I am or where I am now, you will always be my brother."
"Brother, forget the past. You have a bright future ahead of you."
Li Yiyuan's eyelashes trembled slightly, his lips quivered, and his Adam's apple bobbed as if he wanted to make a sound, but it was as if something was blocking his throat, leaving only a silent sob.
Receiving no response, Li Xin'er's eyes dimmed, and she sighed softly.
"I have to go now."
There has still been no response.
Li Yiyuan did not open his eyes again until Li Xin'er completely disappeared.
Li Yiyuan lay alone in that basement for a long time, no longer hysterical. He just lay there blankly, having completed a fierce and seamless internal struggle, until all his emotions were completely consumed.
After a long while, he slowly opened his eyes, his gaze lifeless and empty.
He got up and walked out of the basement, expressionless, and threw a small flame into it. The flames burned everything inside the basement to ashes.
Knowing that He was Xin Xin, how could he possibly do anything to hurt her?
He stood there, feeling the intense heat emanating from the ground beneath his feet, and looked up at the blinding sunlight in the sky.
"Xinxin, this time, your brother will be a good boy and listen to you."
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