Chapter 172 Meow Meow Meow
There is one more sentence.
In the bustling world, in front of the snack stand that he was willing to die for, there were the Jian family’s housekeepers and servants, Hu Danggui, Niu Tou, and all the diners, but most importantly...
There are Taotie.
'Will you be with me at the end of it all?
This statement is too selfish.
Jian Yunlan hesitated for a long time, but ultimately did not say it out loud.
The whole world has turned into a huge polluted mouth, and now, this mouth is about to close.
Everyone stood on the edge of a sharp, jagged cliff.
Jian Yunlan thought, he was just an ordinary human being, his strength was weak, but with the innate divine power given by the Kitchen God System, maybe he could join everyone in resisting a little bit?
As for Taotie...
He is an ancient ferocious beast. He can live for tens of millions of years. In his eyes, all these vicissitudes of life are just an insignificant episode that will be quickly forgotten.
He could go back, back to the outside world, and live in his cave in the mountain and sea plane, enjoying the flowers in the spring and the snow in the winter, and continuing his leisurely life as a ferocious beast.
Taotie doesn't need to die here like him.
“…”
The sky covered with rotting flesh and blood kept lowering, and the wind blew from far away. The sound was like a raging torrent, or like someone's low cry. The wind blew sparks in front of the two people's eyes, and then they flickered away.
Taotie just looked at him with his eyes lowered, his long silver hair a little messy due to the wind.
His golden pupils were hidden in the shadow of the backlight, and it was impossible to tell what emotion he was expressing.
The sky had already pressed down on Jian Yunlan's head. He stretched out his hand and gently touched the twisted flesh and blood.
Where his fingertips touched, the flesh and blood in the sky seemed to be burned, and instantly emitted a "hissing" sound of vaporization, but more of the sky was still pressing down heavily, and was not shaken by this minor obstruction.
As the sky darkened, heavy rain began to fall with a rumble.
Fortunately, this rainstorm was not corrosive, but just ordinary rain. However, the sky and the earth were too close at this time. Even the most ordinary rain made everyone miserable, and they were forced to be soaked by the downpour like a drowned chicken.
The sky was too low, so people bent down, some sat down, and some just lay down.
There were desperate screams and cries everywhere.
At this moment, Taotie, who had been silent for a long time, finally spoke.
"Jian Yunlan."
He spoke in a low voice, with a tentative hoarseness at the end:
"If I get lost, will you come find me?"
This time, he did not call out "human", but called out Jian Yunlan's name in a dignified and serious manner. He didn't even use "this seat", but for the first time in history, he used the word "I".
Amid the whistling wind and the violent storm, Jian Yunlan couldn't hear clearly, otherwise he would have noticed the stubborn seriousness in Taotie's tone.
"Looking for it, of course," Jian Yunlan's hair was wet with rain. He took a breath, without lowering his head or bending over, but stretched out his hands to support the sky - he didn't know if it was a psychological effect, but he actually felt that the speed at which the sky was descending was slowed down.
Jian Yunlan half-jokingly continued, "You're lost. How can I, a black-hearted boss like you, find an employee as dedicated as you?"
Hearing this, Taotie looked at him steadily, his eyes turning somewhat cold.
Looks like he's sad.
He looked away, and after a long while, he smiled at himself and said softly, "I'm serious."
Jian Yunlan also fell silent for a moment and looked at him.
Wind carrying sparks and ashes of flesh and blood blew past their eyes. Because it was storming, although the flames of hell were still burning, the light was still very dim, so dim that Jian Yunlan could hardly see Taotie's face.
He couldn't help but get closer, and closer, until their breaths intertwined.
Jian Yunlan finally saw through the rain and saw Taotie's eyes clearly.
Even the famous and majestic Lord Ferocious Beast was completely drenched by the rain like a drowned chicken. His silver hair was wet by the rain and stuck to his cheeks, and his thin lips were slightly pursed.
But those dark golden eyes have not changed over all these years, and they are still staring at Jian Yunlan.
I don’t know when it started, but there is always a silver figure next to the snack stand that I love most and am willing to give everything for. This seems to have become a habit.
From the very beginning when they met at the Jian family villa, the arrogant and conceited beast ate a bowl of wonton noodles handed to him by Jian Yunlan while cursing, to setting up stalls again and again, rain or shine, whether it was in the center of a bustling city, at the entrance of a residential area, eating hot pot in the snow until falling asleep, or becoming children together to explore, falling asleep on a small camp bed in a narrow doomsday base...
There were many, many more scenes, which even Jian Yunlan himself could not remember when they happened. But at this moment, they all appeared before his eyes one by one as if it happened yesterday.
So, what if Taotie gets lost?
"……try to find."
"No matter how many times, how many years, how many parallel planes, how many changes in time and space, I will search for it."
"Master Taotie, I can't lose you."
As Jian Yunlan spoke, she couldn't help but curl her eyes and smiled.
He raised his hands high, his whole body twisted by the rain, but he was still saying such words. Jian Yunlan himself felt a little embarrassed, and two small dimples appeared on his cheeks.
The rain was still rumbling, the sky was descending, and the flames of the end of the century were burning.
Taotie wanted to keep a serious face and act mature and steady at first, but after a while, he couldn't help laughing.
Looking at the smile on Taotie's face, Jian Yunlan was suddenly stunned.
——This was the first time in such a long time that he saw such a smile on Taotie’s face. Such a happy, cheerful smile, with a bit of embarrassment, but also like a child, with childishness, he laughed for a long time, and then said breathlessly and naughtily:
"You said it's a deal, don't go back on your word."
"No regrets." Jian Yunlan nodded seriously and stretched out his little finger. "Pink?"
Taotie also stretched out his hand.
In the dim light of the rain and the fire, their foreheads were pressed against each other, their breaths intertwined, so close that it seemed like a kiss, but their lips did not touch, and they stopped.
But their hands were tightly clasped.
"Hand in hand, for a hundred years, no change..."
"Isn't a hundred years too short? We Taotie can live for tens of millions of years."
"Ten million years, then?"
"Um."
"Ten million years."
“…”
Heaven and earth are about to come together.
Many people have already laid down and closed their eyes, but they can still feel the suffocation and oppression that is coming at them, as if they were buried alive in the soil. They are still alive, but they can do nothing but watch all the air disappear bit by bit as the huge coffin lid falls.
"Are we going to die?"
“It seems so…”
Some people trembled and held the hands of their relatives and friends around them.
Some people gritted their teeth and prayed that this would all be over as soon as possible.
They are all too young.
There are still too many things that have not been completed, too many dreams, and faraway places that have not been reached, but the shadow of death has completely enveloped us, and no one can escape the sharp sickle.
Contrary to what many people believe, at the moment when doomsday strikes, what people actually feel when they are in the center of the storm is quietness rather than the noise and chaos.
It was as if all the sounds of rain and wind were blocked out, like the moment when water was boiling, all time stopped.
The silence was so empty that it made people despair.
When the silence spread, everyone closed their eyes, waiting for the coming end.
"Open the world."
Someone's voice sounded, low and scattered, like the chanting of an ancient spell.
If someone had the ability of enhanced hearing, they should have heard something unusual in the silence: like the bloodthirsty hum of an ancient divine weapon, the whistling of a sharp halberd tip breaking through the air, or the cracking sound of heaven and earth being separated.
...until, there was a loud earth-shattering noise.
Everyone was shocked.
“BOOM!!!!!!”
Along with the loud noise, there followed a tremor like the creation of the world. Countless gravel and rocks mixed with heavy rain washed down. The ground where they were standing was shaking, and the blood-red sky was also shaking continuously, but...
It did not continue to sink.
Soon, even the heavy rain that was pouring down stopped.
After a moment of silence, Murong Miao opened his eyes tremblingly and looked up at the sky——
Just now, the sky that was pressing down like a coffin lid and was already very close was split into two halves by a beam of overly dazzling light. Countless rotten flesh and blood were evaporated and vaporized by the light the moment they left the sky.
At the end of the split sky and earth is the peaceful night.
There is another figure.
"...Human figure?" Murong Miao couldn't help but rub his eyes, thinking he was seeing things.
But as a mercenary with enhanced perception, her eyesight has always been the best. Even in the chaos at this moment, she could see the figure clearly:
Against the backdrop of snow and moonlight, the figure looked a little lonely. His long silver hair was tied into a ponytail, and he was wearing armor. He held a halberd in one hand, with blood dripping from the tip of the halberd.
A beam of light seemed to come from outside the universe, shining directly in front of him, as if urging something.
There seemed to be someone in his arms.
Putting the person in his arms aside, that person leaned over and gently stroked the other's cheek, as if he was reluctant to let go.
But in the end, he turned and left, disappearing into the beam of light.
“…”
Creating the world is the most serious taboo of greed, anger, ignorance and delusion.
This is a move that can rewrite the rules of all things. When the ancient ferocious beast sacrifices itself and breaks the rules, the Greed, Anger, Ignorance and Delusion Halberd will exert its full power and deliver the final blow.
But it is not a killer move.
"In all these years, you are the first Taotie to save people by opening the heaven and earth." Tiandao's voice came faintly, and the voice was like an illusion, accompanied by the chanting of countless scriptures, "You know the consequences of doing this, right?"
"I know." Taotie frowned in disgust, "Stop talking nonsense."
"Your temper is still as bad as ever, you are worthy of being called a glutton."
Tian Dao replied with a smile.
Then, finally, as Taotie ordered, He stopped talking nonsense.
The light that enveloped Taotie suddenly retracted.
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