Shi Jinzhe hesitated for a moment: "Are you sure you can handle this?"
Shekh took out the bound golden cocoon and handed it to Shi Jinzhe: "Try it first."
"I didn't realize you'd grown so much."
Shekh paused, then asked the man lying on the ground, "Do you know me?"
“It happened a long time ago. Shuang brought you here. She asked me to reconstruct your snake molt and make you a patterned dress.”
The man smiled wryly; this was simply making things difficult for himself.
Frost asked him to use his life to reconstruct and rearrange the patterns on the snake's molt, but the molt was a solid color, and he couldn't arrange it into a flower pattern. So he had to add some life sequences of flowers, plants and trees into it and reshape it together.
Upon hearing about patterned clothes, Shi Jinzhe suddenly remembered the clothes Shehe wore when he came out of the stone statue.
Although it's worn out, the clothes have a retro pattern and are beautifully woven.
No wonder Shekh said she always wore snakeskin. Shi Jinzhe had even wondered in private where she got colorful clothes from a plain snake. So that's why.
Shekh had no recollection of this; it was yet another thing she had forgotten. She asked seriously, "Do you know anything else?"
“I’ve only met you once, but when Shuang was pregnant, you opened a portal to the world and sent her back to me.”
"I?"
“It’s you.”
The game grants advanced players many privileges, but they also use them frequently, so even those with physical disabilities still need to log in.
He would find it difficult to resist that power, and for his pregnant wife, entering the instance with such a body would certainly make her a target of everyone's ire.
The man explained, "In human terms, it means you've smuggled her to a place where the game can't find her for the time being."
At that time, I protected her from being torn apart by the spacetime turbulence, while you were responsible for breaking the passage. However, the cost of opening the passage between the two worlds was too great, and you were unable to bear it. After that, I never heard from you again.
Then our child couldn't survive, so I gave him my heart. But later, the system still found Wei Shuang. Half a month after she went back, the connection between us inexplicably broke down. By the time I found her in another world, it was too late…”
The man's empty ribs expanded twice. Speaking so much in one breath made him even weaker, and it took him a few minutes to calm down before his body recovered.
Seeing this, Shekh did not ask any further questions.
Shi Jin knelt down beside him, saying, "The skills are with me. Is there anything I can do?"
"No need, we know what we need to know. Just put the cocoons up here."
Holding the golden cocoon in his hand, he folded it repeatedly before placing it on your chest to confirm, "Is it okay to put it in your chest? Are you really alright?"
"Talking is tiring," the man nodded.
If he were to try to repair his body with his current limited abilities, even draining him dry wouldn't be enough.
Let's wait until the child has fully mastered the skill, and hopefully he can hold on until then.
Looking at the empty chest cavity wrapped in white bones and white vines, Shi Jinzhe carefully placed the cracked golden cocoon down.
The vines opened on their own, and the crack continued to widen. The golden butterfly pushed open the cocoon and struggled to crawl out.
The damp scales gradually unfurled, and the butterfly extended its mouthparts to suck the golden blood from its chest cavity.
Shi Jin, who was half-squatting to the side, curled his fingers but didn't say anything.
Golden blood flowed into his body, and butterflies with dazzling scales fluttered their wings.
The golden patterns on the scale feather flowed, and its size rapidly increased. By the end, it had completely covered the three of them.
The enormous golden butterfly, with a wingspan exceeding 100 meters, finally absorbed enough life force to sustain its long journey, and took flight at the man's signal.
Golden scales fluttered down in the flower valley, flying all the way out of the valley, creating an extremely fantastical scene.
Congratulations to player Shi Jinzhe for successfully clearing the dungeon "The Ten Thousand Mile Migration Road"!
Shi Jinzhe ignored the system's walkthrough prompts and at that moment understood why Green Vine wanted him to go east.
Because the father is the destination itself.
Find him, and you can take a shortcut to win this game.
Ignoring the system in his mind, Shi Jinzhe asked his father, who was lying in the flower bushes, "Did you create these golden butterflies?"
"Yes, they will carry the life force and seeds I give them and spread them along the way through the scales, hiding hope in places eroded by the black mist, waiting for the day when life will revive and vitality will be restored."
Shi Jinzhe: "The only way is to absorb your life force? Is there no other way?"
"You might have that after you've fully mastered the skill, so try to create more uses for it."
"I will try my best, and, I have one more question..."
"Ask away."
What's your name?
"Mu Bai".
Shi Jinzhe fell silent.
These non-human beings gave themselves names that were all incredibly concise and clear.
Mu Bai, unaware of his thoughts, said in a trembling voice, "Put the other cocoons in your hands in as well. Animals in this world haven't degenerated too much, but plants that are too far from me have all degenerated into small individuals. This has a huge impact on those herbivorous animals. In some places, the food chain has been reversed. I need more butterflies."
"I saw it on the way here; even sheep can eat wolves," Shi Jinzhe asked while releasing the golden cocoon. "Those butterflies were so small when they arrived because they ran out of energy at the end, right?"
"Yes..." Mu Bai's words caught in his throat. Seeing that Shi Jin had finished releasing the golden cocoon, he cut a line on his arm.
Sheh silently distanced herself from the father and son, unable to look at or think about the golden blood on Shi Jinzhe's arm.
As the system countdown to completing its task began, Shi Jinzhe asked one last question: "What would happen if there were no butterflies?"
"All species will become extinct, and the world will cease to exist."
"So that's how it is."
No wonder the system cares so much.
After seeing off the seventh butterfly, Shi Jinzhe had no interest in whether other players could clear the dungeon.
He took out the photo of his parents and said to Mu Bai in the last thirty seconds, "I originally wanted to keep it as a memento, but I'll leave it with you."
My father was imprisoned here for many years. He lived very close to my mother but could not see her. I will keep this photo as a memento.
Mu Bai smiled slightly, "Don't worry about this place even if you leave. I can hold on for another two or three years."
He looked at Shekh not far away and said, "Also, next time, when you use leaves to make hearts, don't use my flower vines."
"…knew."
Shi Jinzhe felt a sense of shame, like being caught in a relationship by his parents when he was seventeen and was already twenty-seven.
The main problem is that he didn't know either.
In the last ten seconds before leaving, he called Shekh over, took his hand, and prevented them from separating outside the game.
"I'll find a way to come back to this instance."
Mu Bai nodded, "Take it one step at a time, don't rush."
"I will come back." Shi Jinzhe solemnly promised before being teleported back to the space transfer station.
[Congratulations to player Shi Jinzhe for completing eight games. Your profile information will now be updated.]
Player Name: Shi Jinzhe [Cheater*]
Age: 27
Skill:**
Game sessions: 8
Number of times cleared: 7
Current points: 589
Game section: cA04…zz…2…zz…la…1…
Just as Shi Jinzhe was still regretting not being able to see his mother a little longer, he heard the system notification.
[A bug has occurred in the zone authentication process; player information will now be rescanned.]
[Information update complete. Your personal panel has been updated.]
Player Name: Shi Jinzhe
Age: 27
Skill: Empowerment
Game sessions: 8
Number of times cleared: 7
Current points: 589
Game section: cA1782
Both the name and skills have changed, and Shi Jinzhe tentatively clicked on the skills section first.
The skill that had been unresponsive for so long finally gave him feedback. He looked down and found his skill description.
Skill: Empowerment
Effect: As endowed by Heaven, all things come to life.
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