Chapter 114 ...
Everyone was watching the director make his decision, and they had no idea what he would do.
The director remained silent. He was really tired lately, so tired that he didn't want to move.
Wherever she stood, Nangong Qi was only half a step away from the director, her eyes fixed on him.
These people, aside from the outsiders, are like cells in a body; they die with the body, and even if they leave the body, they quickly decay. Therefore, they can only live and die with the world. But the director is different, and Nangong Qi is different too; they have a choice.
The doctor stood next to the director, staring intently at him, while Aji, Hōji, and Shōji stood together in a rare display of unity, along with the assistant and translator who watched with concern.
Just when the situation seemed to be at a stalemate, the director spoke up: "I never said I would go back with you. If you want to go back, then go back. The road is right there."
The director chose to stay! The assistant felt a sense of relief, but then realized her feelings were hypocritical. Wasn't the other option clearly better for the director?
Nangong Qi seemed to have known the answer all along and showed no disappointment. "Alright, can I hug you when you leave, Director?" She looked relieved and opened her arms for a hug.
The director had no reason to refuse, so he opened his arms to hug her back.
At that very moment, he suddenly felt the belt around his waist tighten rapidly, and his feet quickly left the ground. He felt the pressure in his abdomen almost make him vomit.
Unexpectedly, Shao Ji resorted to force. This person was grabbed by the waist by Nangong Qi and quickly flew upwards. She couldn't care less about anything else at the moment.
For her now, escaping is the only option, and she knows that escaping under the watchful eyes of so many people will not be easy.
So she just kept flying upwards without ever looking back.
She quickly felt a tremendous pulling force and felt as if her arm had been torn off. When she turned around, she saw Shao Ji. She possessed extraordinary strength and speed, so she was the first to react.
With a powerful leap, the floor beneath him shattered under his weight. He jumped upwards again, grabbing Nangong Qi's arm with a clear purpose. In this tense moment, the director's thought was, "Oh no, the floor will need repairing too."
Because of gravity and because Shao Ji herself was very strong, she pulled Nangong Qi down almost instantly.
A ruthless glint flashed in Nangong Qi's eyes. She switched the director's positions, changing from holding him with both hands to undressing him with one hand, and then increased the force of her shaking arms, adjusting the angle.
Shao Ji instantly realized Nangong Qi's intention and immediately stepped forward to grab Nangong Qi's shoulder, but she was too late. With a tearing sound, Nangong Qi and her entire arm were torn off, and with the force of gravity, they fell downwards together.
Shao Ji watched quietly, without retaliating, but the next second she landed in the thick fur. Shao Ji didn't even turn around.
Aji transformed into a giant bird and flew up, and Shaoji landed steadily on top of it. But in just a short while, the distance between the two had increased considerably.
He threw the arm he was holding aside, readjusted his posture to minimize resistance, and stared intently at Nangong Qi's position above. Suddenly, something resembling mycelium sprouted from Nangong Qi's severed arm.
The dense, terrifying-looking creatures, seemingly inhuman, were carrying the director forward, but behind them, a densely woven net stretched out, each thread coated with a reflective liquid emanating from Nangong Qi's body.
Without hesitation, he took off his coat and threw it on the surface. Sure enough, the seemingly harmless and fragile thread caught the coat steadily, showing that it was quite sticky.
While lying on top of Aji, she directed Aji to dodge and grabbed the coat she had just dropped. She pulled on it, and the upward force caused a rebound that almost pulled her down. She managed to let go in time but was still almost pulled down. Finally, she grabbed the fur on her tail and climbed back up.
It seems that this silk not only has adhesive properties but also makes things stuck to it tough and unbreakable.
In other words, even clothes and such must not come into contact with a single thread.
The beginning was fine, but it got difficult later on. The bird was already huge, and its size was magnified several times to carry people. If you go around these threads, you won't be able to catch up.
But... he has more than one alias.
A huge tongue of fire engulfed the silk thread. Below, Hu Ji aimed and fired a fireball, quickly burning the thread and making a sizzling sound.
Soon, Aji lunged forward, transforming into an even larger wolf. Using her size, she closed the distance between the two, opened her mouth wide, and bit down, trapping the person in her jaws. Shaoji seized the opportunity to jump out of Aji's air currents and grabbed the released director.
An increase in body size also means an increase in weight.
Because of its weight, Aji, carrying the person in her mouth, fell rapidly at a speed imperceptible to the naked eye, like a meteorite hitting the earth.
Bang! It smashed a crater about 50 meters in radius into the ground, dust flew up, and you could still vaguely see some of the fire that had been carried out was still burning.
As the dust settled, the people and scenes inside became clear. The director was carried by Shao Ji for a while before landing lightly on the ground. The director, who was firmly held in Shao Ji's arms, appeared to be unharmed, while the others had some injuries.
The most serious case was Nangong Qi, who vomited a mouthful of blood mixed with fragments of internal organs.
The impact was obviously significant, and falling at that speed was a considerable burden for her. Moreover, she had no intention of protecting herself and only thought about escaping and intercepting them, ultimately failing to do anything.
She lay quietly on the ground, not intending to get up. She looked at the sky, the road home so close yet so far away.
At this moment, the director staggered to his feet and rubbed his somewhat uncomfortable abdomen.
"If you want to go home, then go home. Why are you taking me with you?"
But now, Nangong Qi seems to have lost all hope and remains motionless.
The director paused, somewhat puzzled, and said, "If you want to go home now, you can go back."
Nangong Qi didn't answer him, instead turning her gaze to the others. "Why did you stop me, Shaoji? Do you also want the director to die here with you? None of you stopped me in the first place, did you?"
The director was stunned for a moment and asked Shao Ji what she was doing, but still controlled Shao Ji's body and said, "If it is the director's own decision to go back with you, I will not stop you, but the director chooses not to."
Nangong Qi sneered, "Truly great! Is Shao Ji now glad that the director didn't choose to leave? It makes her look like a despicable and shameless villain."
"What a joke! Even if the director miss, would you send him to his death? What about Aji? Does he think the same way?" Nangong Qi said disdainfully.
“Aji’s thoughts are the same as mine, what you said is not valid…” Shaoji paused for a moment, “but what if the director really doesn’t want to live anymore?”
The world must be peaceful by then, which is why she felt so tired of saying, "Then I will respect that." And then we'll die together? Nangong Qi thought of what the doctor had just said.
Who knew that the next second Nangong Qi would burst into tears, “Where am I going back to! I’m a bad person, a hypocrite! I don’t want to go back, I… do I have to be that bad person? Does the destruction of this world have to be my fault? Why don’t you all stop me from going back? I don’t even have a reason to stay.”
This left the director somewhat at a loss. He paused, trying to change the subject, "Do you remember any news about me in real life, or about our class?"
Nangong Qi sniffed. "I'm not close to you in real life, but I've heard some things and I know someone has gone missing. That person should be the director, who's been missing for almost half a year, right? Your class is pretty ordinary, just some little gossip, isn't it..."
Having lived here for over twenty years, only half a year has passed over there? And there's been absolutely no news of Yi Sheng? It seems like, "Have you ever considered that I'm not missing but dead? Have you ever considered whether I could really survive if you took me there?"
"...What do you mean!?" Nangong Qi didn't understand.
"What I mean is, I no longer have a body in the other world. This body itself belongs to this world. Have you ever thought that after you take me out, I will rot like 'that person'? In the other world, godhood may not be useful." The director patiently explained.
"So that's why you said you can't go back..." Nangong Qi was momentarily speechless. She hadn't expected that her actions had just harmed the director. This method was something only she could use from beginning to end, but what difference was there between taking away the divine spark and other outsiders and the system?
Well... that's not entirely true. The main reason is that there's no one waiting for him to go back, so it's pointless.
"Chief! Are you all alright?" came the assistant's voice.
Hmm? I didn't notice where it landed just now? I looked at it carefully for a while, hmm... good, I don't need to think about the wall or the floor anymore. It just hit the spot where the house was, and now there's nothing there. The wall that was pushed down is still relatively intact.
"It's nothing!" the director replied from afar, while suddenly glancing at the doctor who hadn't spoken.
"Or there's another way." The director gave a second suggestion, and then Shao Ji hugged the director and jumped out of the giant pit to the side of the doctor.
"So..." Before the doctor could finish speaking, he felt a sharp pain and then belatedly looked at his abdomen, only to find a knife firmly inserted inside.
As if it wasn't dying fast enough, it poked and turned several times. The doctor looked at the director with disbelief at first, then with relief.
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