.

Lin Qiye stared at An Qingyu's pale face, not knowing how to comfort her for a moment.

An Qingyu was seen weakly picking up the broken black coffin, turning around and walking out of the palace. There was no emotion in his grey eye, but his other normal eye revealed unprecedented sadness.

Lin Qiye, the Jade Emperor, and the Queen Mother of the West, no one called out to him. They just watched in silence as he walked into the rain holding the black coffin.

Outside the palace, Guangchengzi and Taiyi Zhenren saw An Qingyu leaving, and turned to look at the Queen Mother of the West in the palace. The latter nodded slightly at them, and the two of them followed closely behind An Qingyu.

When An Qingyu disappeared in the rain, Queen Mother Xi slowly spoke:

"That girl's life is doomed to be irreversible. The most critical issue now is An Qingyu... You should have sensed it, right?"

Lin Qiye looked at the departing figure without saying a word.

As early as when he rescued An Qingyu in the fog, he discovered that the other party was already tainted with an extremely strong aura of the Ke system. It was not a kind of pollution, but a huge aura emanating from the depths of his soul, even surpassing all the Ke system creatures that Lin Qiye had seen so far.

The human aura on An Qingyu's body has almost completely disappeared... He now looks more like a humanoid creature from the Cthulhu mythology.

"He took the initiative to touch the door of truth, and that eye also saw the 'truth' behind the door... The knowledge from outside the world was too huge, so huge that it could change a person's thoughts and character."

"So, you sent two Golden Immortals to watch him?" Lin Qiye turned around and looked at the Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother of the West, "Are you worried that he will betray Daxia?"

"Heaven, we must prepare for the worst."

The Jade Emperor spoke calmly.

Lin Qiye was silent for a while, without saying anything more, he walked out of the palace.

Just as he was about to walk out, several figures walked in from outside. Lin Qiye looked up and was slightly startled.

Zuo Qing, Zhou Ping, Master Chen, Lu Wuwei, Wang Mian, the [Medium] team... They had been searching for An Qingyu's whereabouts in the fog. When they heard that Heaven had brought An Qingyu back, they rushed over.

"Qiye, why do you look so grim?" Zhou Ping asked softly, carrying the black box on his back. "What happened? Why are you and Cao Yuan the only ones here? Where are the others?"

Lin Qiye looked at Zhou Ping's worried eyes, but he didn't know what to say. He could only shake his head bitterly.

"Feel sorry……"

He quickened his pace and disappeared outside the palace.

Zuo Qing looked at Lin Qiye's departing back, as if he had guessed something, and turned back to look at the Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother of the West.

"Is it Anqingyu...?"

…

The drizzle passed through the gray sky. Cao Yuan, who was standing outside the palace gate, saw Lin Qiye walk out and follow him without asking much. He heard the conversation in the palace very clearly at the door... The same went for An Qingyu.

The two of them walked quietly through the misty stone road, water droplets flowed down the tall and magnificent palace eaves, fell on the crimson cloak, and stained it with water stains.

After an unknown amount of time, Lin Qiye slowly stopped.

Not far below the stone steps was a ruined courtyard. At this moment, a figure was standing in the courtyard, kneeling in front of a broken black coffin. He used the silk thread and surgical instruments in his hands to piece together the fragments of blood in the black coffin bit by bit...

The rain soaked his clothes as it flowed down his black hair. He had his back to Lin Qiye and the others, so his expression couldn't be seen clearly, but his right hands holding the scalpel were shaking uncontrollably.

His chest rose and fell vigorously, as if he was taking deep breaths to adjust his emotions...

Looking at this scene from afar, Lin Qiye's lips trembled slightly. He slowly closed his eyes and spoke hoarsely:

"Cao Yuan..."

"Um."

"Is what I did as a captain terrible?"

Cao Yuan turned to look at him and was about to say something when Lin Qiye continued, "Jialan is asleep, Zhua Ge is missing, and Pang Pang has left the team.

.

, Qingyu is going to be sealed, and now I can’t even protect Jiang Er…

Maybe if someone else were to be the captain of Nightfall, the result would not be like this."

"But these are not caused by you." Cao Yuan shook his head. "You have tried your best. Maybe this is the choice of fate... What's more, if someone else was the captain, [Nightfall] would not exist at all.

The reason why we got together in the past was because of you, Lin Qiye, wasn't it? "

Lin Qiye looked at the wet figure in the rain without saying a word.

…

"My name is Jiang Er, Jiang of Jianghai, Er of Erhai..."

"..."

"...But, it's unlucky to carry a corpse into the battlefield..."

"..."

"...This kind of clothes seems to be very popular in this country, so I want to try it. If it doesn't look good, then... "

"..."

"...You, you just think too much. I like you, isn't that enough?"

"..."

“I was thinking about this when I first entered Klein. I can’t always be a burden… Look, I’m still awesome, right?!”

"..."

In front of the broken black coffin, An Qingyu blinked hard, his chest heaving violently. He pulled off the pair of black-framed glasses covered with water droplets from his nose and threw them aside.

Click——

The black-framed glasses hit the stone, the lenses cracked into several pieces, and fell into the puddle in a bent shape.

He wiped the wet corners of his eyes with his sleeves. His red eyes stared blankly at the bloody shadow in the black coffin, muttering to himself:

"Jiang Er... I can't seem to see you clearly..."

"Qingyu." A figure in a translucent white dress floated gently in front of him, "Don't be like this... Can we go back?"

"No, I will definitely find a way to save you. I won't let you die!" An Qingyu kept shaking her head. "You said that we still have a lot of time, and we still have a lot of things to do... I haven't proposed to you, haven't gone home with you, haven't been together happily... You can't just die like this."

"Qingyu..."

"Wait for me to sew your body up first, and then I'll think of other ways..."

"Qingyu!!" Jiang Er shouted loudly, and An Qingyu's hand movements suddenly stopped.

Jiang Er pursed her lips, opened her arms, and gently hugged An Qingyu's body, "My time...is running out. I don't want to watch you meaninglessly piece together my body in the last moments...

You've made me wait for a long, long time. Please don't keep me waiting any longer during this last period of time, okay?"

An Qingyu's pupils contracted slightly.

He stared at Jiang Er blankly, his ethereal body fading away at a speed visible to the naked eye, his eyes full of pleading.

A glimmer of light finally appeared in An Qingyu's cloudy eyes. He gritted his teeth, stood up suddenly from the ground, grabbed Jiang Er's empty arm, turned around and ran out of the courtyard!