Chapter 132 Say goodbye to him. The right person will wait for you in your future...
Wen Yi stood drenched in the fountain, staring in astonishment at the two slowly spinning, dark blue wormholes overhead. The energy fluctuations made the surrounding air tremble slightly.
One was undoubtedly the evacuation route Xu Xiaoyi had opened for them through the Time Anchor. And the other... she instantly guessed it was the accidental triggering of her XNA1 gene when she was on the verge of drowning, automatically opening a path to survival.
She looked around and her heart sank - Wen Chi and the groom had lost consciousness for some reason, and only Guo Qingyu was left standing conscious by the fountain.
"Gu Yifeng—!" She shouted anxiously, "Gu Yifeng! Where are you?"
The only sound in response was the sound of the fountain.
Where did he go?
Didn't he make it in time?
The energy of the wormhole is weakening and may close at any time!
"Stop shouting," Guo Qingyu said calmly. He walked slowly to the edge of the pool and looked down at her. "He's gone."
Wen Yi looked at him suddenly: "Impossible!"
"I saw it with my own eyes." Guo Qingyu twitched his lips. "He left through the passage alone, without waiting for you."
Wen Yi subconsciously retorted: "You're talking nonsense! He would never..."
"Are you afraid to believe it, or are you unwilling to believe it?" Guo Qingyu interrupted her. "I once asked you, if he didn't choose you in the end, would you regret it?"
At this point, Wen Yi calmed down. Wiping the water from her face, she asked him, "Guo Qingyu, why are you the only one still awake? Are you behind all this...?"
"You think too highly of me." Guo Qingyu sneered. "Can I open a wormhole? Or influence his decision? The fact is as you saw. He left alone."
Wen Yi raised her head and looked at the two dark blue wormholes. At this moment, they were like a pair of cold eyes, silently watching the world.
She whispered, "Guo Qingyu, you once taught me the difference between facts and truth."
Guo Qingyu was stunned.
"What you see with your own eyes may not be the whole truth. If he really did leave first, I believe he had his reasons. I believe in him and support his choice." She looked at him and smiled gently. "If it turns out that he failed me in the future, I will accept it willingly and will not blame anyone else."
Guo Qingyu shook his head helplessly: "You are really hopeless... It's hard to explain to a love-brained person like you."
"Alright," Wen Yi asked him solemnly, "Stop talking nonsense and tell me which wormhole he left through. I have to leave."
Guo Qingyu suddenly looked up: Are you leaving?
"Yes." Wen Yi nodded, feeling inexplicably melancholy in her heart, "...It's time to say goodbye."
The mission was almost complete, and she should have felt relieved. Yet, somehow, at this moment of farewell, her heart felt incredibly heavy. As she struggled in the water, the scene of her and Guo Qingyu's death in the Yunlan River resurfaced—he had sunk to the icy bottom of the river to save her, departing for another world.
Her vision gradually blurred.
Guo Qingyu seemed not to notice her tears and still had that cynical look on his face.
"Come." He opened his arms towards her. "Kiss me, and I'll tell you which wormhole he left through."
Wen Yi was stunned. Just as she was about to scold him for taking advantage of someone's misfortune, she saw him put away his smile and muttered in a low voice:
"I've been waiting for this moment for a long time."
Seeing him like this, Wen Yi suddenly raised her hands to cover her face, crying uncontrollably, tears dripping from between her fingers.
She owed him a thank you, a sorry, but she could only sob and couldn't say anything. She said in her heart, in fact, I blame myself every day, why I couldn't save you.
sorry.
In the end, it was Guo Qingyu who walked into the water, took her out of the fountain, and held her tightly in his arms.
"Love-brained," his voice came from the top of her head, with a hint of hoarseness, "The wormhole is about to close. If you don't kiss me, you will have to stay here with me forever."
Wen Yi: “…”
He tightened his arms: "...I couldn't ask for more."
"You wish..."
"I can't bear to see you go. I want to keep you all to myself and let you stay in this memory forever."
"you……"
His voice was a little hoarse, with reluctance: "Wen Yi, have you ever thought about why I am here?"
She raised her eyes and answered with a thick nasal voice: "Because you are part of this memory..."
"Really?" He asked with a smile, "Whose memory is this? Do you think Gu Yifeng would have such a deep memory of me?"
Wen Yi suddenly remembered Xu Xiaoyi's words—memories are revived by love. Love is the fundamental reason for awakening memories.
Guo Qingyu lowered his head and stared into her eyes: "Admit it, I am the obsession that you have never let go of in your heart. Maybe you don't think this is love, but for me, it is enough."
“…Stop talking.”
"As long as you never forget me, I will live in this past forever." He raised his hand and gently wiped away her tears. "Don't cry. I shouldn't be the regret you carry in your life, but the miracle you created with your love."
He lowered his head and placed a very light kiss on the corner of her lips, which was fleeting, like the coolness of melting ice and snow.
"Let's go—" He released his hand and pointed to one of the wormholes. "The right person will be waiting for you in your future."
Wen Yi tried hard to hold back her tears, looked back at Guo Qingyu for the last time, turned around resolutely in the misty water vapor, and ran towards the passage that was beginning to shrink.
Just as she was about to step into the dim light, the space around her suddenly twisted violently! An invisible force tugged at her, dragging her in the opposite direction.
"ah--!!"
“Wen Yi!!”
Amidst her uncontrolled screams, she was forcibly drawn into another dark blue vortex.
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Piping hot.
My whole body is burning.
It seems as if every cell is burning and boiling.
Wen Yi regained consciousness from the intense burning pain and found herself curled up on the cold and rough ground.
She struggled to hold up her weak body and looked around blankly.
The place was pitch black, resembling the interior of a vast industrial plant, dotted with various operating terminals and monitoring screens. A low, unidentified humming sound echoed from afar, resonating within the empty room, sometimes steady, sometimes with a heart-pounding tremor.
The red alarm lights flashed frantically, casting patches of blood in the dim space. The surveillance screens on the wall had long been dark, with only a few still stubbornly flickering garbled characters.
Where was she teleported to?
Is this the Zero Lab? How could it be so dilapidated...
Wen Yi stumbled out of the room, holding onto the wall. The situation in the hallway was even worse—broken wires dangled from the ceiling, their exposed ends occasionally emitting dangerous sparks; overhead, debris rustled and fell amidst the constant tremors. The deserted corridor, painted scarlet by the alarm lights, looked like a passage to hell.
She grew more and more frightened as she walked, until, stepping out of the corridor, the sight before her took her breath away—two massive white reactors stood side by side in the night, trembling under the violent tremors. From the tops of the towers spewed thin steam, intermittently like a dying gasp.
This... is the Qingluanshan Nuclear Power Plant!
This realization instantly sobered her up, but she fell into deeper fear.
How come she is here?
The moment this thought flashed through her mind, an unfamiliar sensation forcibly surged into her mind, as if tens of millions of sleeping souls were awakening at the same time, and layers of whispers resonated deep in her consciousness.
The scene before him began to distort. Dust particles floating in the air transformed into tiny specks of light, tracing firefly-like trails in the darkness. In the distance, at the core of the reactor, a vortex of violent, twisting energy gathered, too violent to be seen.
Wen Yi suddenly closed her eyes and opened them again, and she could actually "see" the dark blue undercurrent surging deep in the ground through the ground beneath her feet, and could even sense that some huge energy was being awakened further down.
That familiar blue light... is the ore from Qingluan Mountain!
She screamed silently inwardly, clutching her head in despair, only to discover with horror that her hands were also undergoing a strange transformation. Looking down, she saw the veins beneath her skin emitting an ominous, faint blue glow, flickering with the humming of the earth. Something was coursing through her body through her bloodstream.
Her ears were filled with countless tiny, unfamiliar, and longing whispers. They seemed to come from all directions, drilling into her cochlea and traveling throughout her body along the nerves.
"Hmm..." Wen Yi covered her ears and squatted down in pain, but found that these sounds came from her brain and could not be isolated.
"Don't be afraid."
A voice, neither male nor female, rang directly in her mind, familiar and chilling—it was the ball of light in the void.
"You're the ones who got me here!" Wen Yi roared in her mind, "What on earth do you want to do?!"
"We need you to complete the final step of the plan." The light ball's voice was calm. "You are the coordinates of the passage. Without you, energy is just a chaotic explosion. With you, we can open the door to a new life."
"I'm not some coordinate! Let me go!"
"Genes are a contract." The power within her body began to try to overwhelm her consciousness. "Feel it, accept it. Go where you should go and fulfill the mission bestowed upon you by your bloodline."
Wen Yi's legs stood up uncontrollably and she walked towards the violently shaking reactor.
"No... stop..." She desperately tried to control her steps, but her body, following instinct, resolutely walked towards the place where the energy was most turbulent. The giant white tower before her swayed in the night, its cracked concrete walls mottled and falling, and a faint blue energy continuously drilled out from the ground... A terrifying picture pieced together in her mind—the nuclear power plant was on the verge of collapse, and she was the final step to opening the wormhole!
Wen Yi gritted her teeth, using all her willpower to resist the loss of control of her body. A faint blue light flickered beneath her skin, two forces vying for control. Just as the painful tug-of-war reached its climax—her vision went black, and her consciousness faded into nothingness.
She didn't know how long it had been, perhaps only a few seconds, perhaps longer, when she suddenly woke up and found herself standing in front of the reactor. Ahead was the roaring energy core, and the scorching air waves, wrapped in radioactive dust, rushed towards her.
How did she get here? That memory was completely blank! A chill instantly ran up her spine. Who was controlling her body when she lost consciousness just now? If she could be controlled at any time, was she still the master of this body?
Can she really... contend with such a force?
When she was in turmoil,
“Thump, thump, thump—”
A series of piercing explosions erupted beside her, sparks flying, smoke and dust billowing into the air.
It's a bullet!
The moment she realized the danger, Wen Yi's mind went blank, and only the instinct of survival drove her to run forward screaming.
“Ahhhh!! Help!!!”
Who wants to kill her? !
"Bang, bang, bang--" More bullets swept towards her, leaving a row of shocking bullet holes on the ground where she had just stood.
Wen Yi used her hands and feet to flee through the ruins, screaming in despair: "Ahhh why don't you take over my body now?! Come out the fucking way! I'm about to be beaten into a hornet's nest! If I die - no one will have a good life!!!"
The superpower began to play dead.
Bullets whizzed by her ears. Behind her, she heard the distinct sound of guns being loaded and the sound of approaching footsteps. A bullet grazed her arm, leaving a streak of blood.
"Hiss!" The burning pain made her understand completely - this time, she was really abandoned.
To avoid being hunted, she ran in the opposite direction of the reactor. At this moment, she and the people chasing her reached an unprecedented consensus - stay away from the energy core!
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