In the darkness, Gu Huaiwei sat on a wooden bench beside the bed, her legs curled up, hugging her knees, her black hair cascading down like water, covering half of her face.
She didn't say anything, but just listened quietly to Xiao Youqi's murmurs before his death.
The faint breathing sounds and fragmented words reflect Xiao Youqi's confusion and helplessness about death.
"But I won't give up. I met you... You can walk on the ground without fear of radiation, and you can build tall buildings out of thin air... You have so many abilities, why don't you save me?"
"Why didn't you save me? Why didn't you take me away with you? Why?!"
"Is it because you think I will betray you? Is it because I did a lot of bad things before? Or is it because I earned your gold coins and stole your hair?"
"I don't really want to do this, but I'm dying. I can't stay in the Oasis Hotel forever. I have to find a way to survive..."
The more Xiao Youqi struggled and suffered, the faster the tree in his stomach grew.
Gu Huaiwei had already seen the green fruits on the tree.
Death and pain are the nourishment of the tree.
He Xueyi gave Xiao Youqi hope, but also made him realize that it was a lie when he was on the verge of death. The pain and hatred caused by this prompted the tree to grow.
“Save me…”
Gu Huaiwei got down from the chair, put on slippers on her lotus-white feet, and the shape of the bones of her exposed ankles could be clearly seen.
Xiao Youqi struggled to get up from the bed. Tears of blood flowed from his eyes, dyeing his gray pupils red. He reached out his hand towards Gu Huaiwei, trying to fight for it one last time.
"Take me with you..."
"Go to your own world..."
Gu Huaiwei walked up to him.
"Don't be afraid. In the end, everyone has only one path to take. You are just one step ahead of others."
She watched his hand drop, a little bit of rotten flesh hanging on the white bones, and as the last of the vitality dissipated, it fell to the side of the bed.
She came into this world and welcomed him as the first guest, and now she was seeing him off, making it a complete beginning and an end.
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