Chapter 326: Love Alone
A crack appeared on the black shadow's face, and a sound like a broken bellows came out.
Chen Xiao'er's lips curled up slightly, as if she had heard a long-awaited call. She pulled the shadow out of the bushes, and its back hit the tree trunk with a thud.
"Hiss." The shadow tilted its head and placed its right hand on her shoulder, gesturing in the air with its left. When it realized Chen Xiao'e couldn't see her hands clearly, it simply dragged the girl in another direction.
The black shadow's movements were agile and firm. She held Chen Xiao'er's hand and shuttled through the woods.
"Can you see clearly?" Chen Xiao'er turned her head to the side. Although it was pitch black around her, she could outline each other's outlines along the hands they held.
"Yeah." The black shadow nodded. Her voice was hoarse, low and unclear, but Chen Xiao'er smiled happily because she heard a familiar answer.
"I won't leave you."
An indifferent, calm, helpless expression flashed through her mind. Even if all her features were shattered, the vows she had made were still conveyed to her through the strength of her fingertips.
Chen Xiao'er clenched her skinny claws and looked up at the sky again. The huge moon was casting a pale and gentle moonlight.
Take a closer look...the moonlight in this world is also beautiful.
......
"No, no, no, don't show me this!" Despair growled through gnashing teeth. With the blessing of the glorious power, He could clearly see what would happen next.
Chen Xiao'er was actually walking happily in the forest with this strange human figure that looked nothing like her.
Together they gathered mushrooms and wild fruits, and Shadow would help her hunt some strange little animals... Where did you get these little animals in this dead and silent world I painstakingly designed?!
This black shadow stabilized Chen Xiao'er's wavering will and locked all her states like an indestructible anchor.
The somewhat suspicious girl was so completely trusting in her company that everything around them went incredibly smoothly.
They found cool streams, suitable crops to grow, and minerals exposed on the surface that could be used directly. They learned to make tools and sew clothes, dry fruits in the autumn, and build houses before winter came.
These exciting scenes did not require Him to invest any extra energy to deduce. Chen Xiao'er's overflowing power was constantly improving the world in the illusion.
There were no more dark forests; sunlight would bathe the fertile plains. Snow-capped mountains and volcanoes were merely embellishments, utterly harmless. Gold, crystals, and various minerals abounded, and wild fruits, taking advantage of Chen Xiao'er's fondness for them, grew wild year-round...
What a world that made Him despair - a world that did not need despair.
When Despair woke up from the heavy blow, the illusion in the wheel began to seep outward. The membranes of the two worlds were about to merge into one under the enthusiastic sponsorship of the meteorites.
"No, no, no, I will never let humans have such an utopia—"
He screamed and threw his remaining strength into the wheel of glory, like a gambler throwing away his last chip.
Guanghui looked at Him calmly.
The two power holders completely stopped fighting at some point and transformed into two human figures floating in the void.
Glory is a white-haired girl with folded hands, while despair is distorted like the human form He just created, just like the image of crying in ancient human paintings.
The final scene slowly unfolds.
Guanghui glanced down and then looked away. "Don't you have any imagination? You're actually copying the real world directly."
"Ha, haha, hahaha!" Despair laughed crazily. "Look carefully, this is the world through the eyes of other humans, not the world through the eyes of Chen Xiao'er!"
He shook the stars with urgency and poured out his heart to his opponent in the void.
"Don't you think Chen Xiao'er is cunning? She uses a cognitive filter to avoid the influence of her environment, which is why she can express such a unique personality. If she could correctly perceive her surroundings, everything would be different."
"The trials you gave her were also unfair," Guanghui's tone remained unchanged. "You didn't give her any time to adjust, and you even repeatedly interfered with her emotions and hindered her memory."
"I tried to stop her, but was it any use?" Despair retorted confidently, "She clearly recognized Lan in the second scene. She hasn't lost her memory!"
They argued fiercely in the void, and the girl woke up in the last illusion.
......
She opened her eyes and saw a dilapidated house. The surrounding walls had long since peeled off, leaving only the windows and doors tightly sealed, covered with suspicious yellow tape.
Before traveling through time, Chen Xiao'er would never have walked into such a dilapidated house, but now she was curled up in the narrow utility room with her legs hugged, not daring to leave easily.
【There are ghosts in this world.】
She was covered in sticky, cold sweat, and two different thoughts mixed together, trying to drive her to do something.
A thought was so strong that it told her to get out and find a way to escape from the house.
Another thought used memory to present facts and reason with her.
Even characters in horror movies and horror games have to carefully search their surroundings before they can successfully break out. She just kicked the door and the window, but it was useless, wasn't it?
Don't be afraid, don't be afraid.
Chen Xiao'er clapped her arms quietly to encourage herself. Although her head was aching and every part of her head complained that it didn't want to work, she vaguely remembered that someone was waiting for her... Who was it?
She searched slowly in the utility room and pulled out a beautiful short knife covered in red rust, and her nervousness immediately eased a lot.
With this, it might be a good idea to go out and try your luck.
......
It's really haunting!
With despair and unwillingness on his face, he deliberately removed all tools that could be used as weapons in order to maintain Chen Xiao'er's fear.
But the relationship between this ritual knife and Chen Xiao'er is too close. As long as the owner has the idea of "wanting a weapon", it will appear anywhere, and it is impossible to guard against it.
"Heh." Guanghui chuckled playfully. He could also see a silver-white revolver hidden on the roof. If Chen Xiao'er could get it, this scene would vanish into thin air.
However, despair still needs to be truly despair.
The light gently stirs the invisible thread.
Pusha——
A fat giant snake holding a silk thread rushed out of the sea level and crashed straight into the golden wheel.
"Oh oh oh oh! Don't even think about deceiving my sister!!" Chen Xiaotong roared and rushed into the illusion.
"You are cheating!!" Despair quickly tried to stop him.
He grabbed the giant snake that was not connected to the light and squeezed it into a ball. With a plop, a white and chubby baby fell onto the worn floor.
Phew~ That’s good, at least the baby can’t provide any support to Chen Xiao’er.
Despair felt a little relieved: Although the previous black shadow was ugly, it could provide Chen Xiao'er with various kinds of help, which is why it caused Chen Xiao'er to undergo tremendous changes.
This baby is suspicious and useless. I hope it will starve to death on the floor and scare Chen Xiao'er when she passes by.
"Ahhhhhhhhhh!"
Chen Xiaotong lay on the floor and cursed loudly, and all the words that came out of her mouth turned into the shrill cries of a baby.
Looking at her poor performance, Desperate couldn't help but raise the corner of his mouth.
Cry, keep crying.
Humans hate the noises babies make in dangerous environments. Furthermore, with ghosts and otherworldly creatures around them, no one with common sense would dare to investigate...
Snap, snap, snap.
The wandering footsteps upstairs suddenly stopped, and after a few seconds of pause, they walked towards the direction of the crying baby, making crisp notes on the worn floor.
"You," Despair said, speechless. "Who would go check on a crying baby during a haunted house adventure? What's wrong with you? You've got tons of "actually dying in haunted houses, hospitals, schools" scenarios in your head!
Guanghui smiled but said nothing.
Desperately, he cast his gaze towards Chen Xiao'er, who was holding the baby, and whispered, "Is it because she's more afraid of being alone?"
Humans fear loneliness, perhaps even more than sensory fear.
No matter how horrible the environment is, you will gradually become numb after a long period of adaptation, but loneliness will not stop before killing you.
That is not a horror that can be summarized by "living alone", "being alone" or "doing things alone", but the extreme fear caused by losing all connections with the human group and not even knowing whether there are any other people like you.
For this reason, a person will take great risks to approach a potential companion, even if it is just a baby.
"That's more than that."
[“The person I like will definitely make the same choice again and again.”]
Even if time passes, events change, and characters are different.
Even if - the world changes.
The light bloomed into a smile like melting ice and snow, and despair saw the girl in love in a trance.
"You're in a passionate love affair that belongs only to you."
"Thanks."
The golden wheel shattered with a sound. It did not wrap around Chen Xiao'er as Despair had imagined, trying to drag her into an eternal illusion.
The light unveiled the world's curtain, allowing Chen Xiao'er to fall back into the embrace of reality.
Desperately looking at the reappearing rooftop, he asked in confusion, "Why did you do this? How dare you do this?"
He seemed to have gotten answers to some of his questions, but more confusion followed.
What a great opportunity that was! Chen Xiao'er had no desire to control the world; all she wanted was a peaceful and happy life.
You can just take away her power and create an illusion for her that is dominated by you. Wouldn't that be a win-win situation for everyone?
Doing so would not only allow her to defeat me, but would also eliminate the final risk - Chen Xiao'er had no memory of the trial, she was filled with the despair I had planned, and it was entirely possible that she would jump down directly after regaining consciousness.
Don't you love her? Why do you want to watch her die in vain? You don't want me, but I do!
Desperate and disappointed, he tore apart the part of him that was fused with the light, wanting to pounce on Chen Xiao'er and end everything completely.
But the heavens swept toward Him.
One by one, the golden stars transformed into human figures, and the apostles with wings of light appeared from the light, locking up the struggling despair and forcing him to look up at the glory.
The ethereal voice echoed through the void.
"Of course I dare to do this, because I believe in Xiao Ai."
The shattered wheel reunited into a dazzling ring, suspended behind the girl's long hair. Guanghui reached out to Despair and gently grasped a wrist that didn't exist.
The skeletal figures linked by their wrists spun rapidly like a kaleidoscope, switching between different forms as they rotated.
[“What is the most powerful force in the world?”]
“Why has humanity evolved to this point today?”
What is it that brings miracles to human civilization time and time again?
Xiao Nuan couldn't help but ask Xiao Ai again and again at different times and contexts.
Curiosity? Desire for survival?
Xiao Ai's answers were different. When communicating with netizens, she was always imaginative and said whatever she wanted, and sometimes even said shocking things.
But she gave a real answer with her actions, which was also the answer Xiao Nuan expected.
I am not afraid of my loved ones giving up their lives, because——
......
Beep beep beep.
Chen Xiao'er shook her head and found that she had climbed over the guardrail without knowing when, with half of her body hanging outside, which would fall down with just a gust of wind.
Yeah, I have no reason to live anymore.
I've lost everything, so...
She moved her other foot and stepped lightly into the void, but her phone was still vibrating.
I'd better take another look, in case anyone needs to find me urgently.
Chen Xiao'er hesitated for a few seconds and opened her phone.
【Xiao Nuan】It’s Xiao Nuan calling.
She clicked the call button and heard the sound of a girl sobbing.
"Xiao, Xiao Ai! Save me——"
......
"Because she will definitely run towards me."
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