Chapter 18: The First Item: Deserted City Notes
When Ye Minglang rushed to the rooftop, he saw from afar Shen Li standing in the blood rain, screaming in pain: "No!"
He was used to seeing him calm, confident and unruffled.
So I never thought that such a person would collapse and scream, as if he had suffered an unbearable and fatal blow.
The foxes did not stop destroying the seal because of Shen Li's scream.
One after another, they tore the seal apart without hesitation, and then were bitten back by the powerful seal and their heads and bodies were separated.
The bloody rain was getting heavier.
The ancient and wise souls are leaving one by one.
Chen Li only felt a piercing pain.
He could feel that this heart came from a powerful being.
All the monsters want to fight for it.
But why, you are already very powerful, why do you still want to fight for it and want to become more powerful?
He doesn't understand!
These foxes, each one wise, ancient and powerful, have survived in their respective territories for thousands of years.
But now, they are willing to sacrifice their lives to break the seal.
When the blood moon falls, they will not be able to move in this world.
So we can only fight a desperate battle in the last darkness before the sun rises.
The five foxes' almost suicidal tearing finally caused a corner of the impregnable seal to collapse. The chain reaction that followed caused the golden lines floating in the air to dim one after another.
Eventually, the seal failed.
Mission failed.
Ye Minglang's heart was also attacked by a delayed dull pain.
He knew what it meant to fail the mission.
Zao Wu, Qian Shi, Chu Yan, these partners who have been with him for many years and whom he trusts very much, will all die.
All his efforts, along with his own, would be destroyed.
The top few names in Tianxu will all fall tonight.
The sixth fox stared at Shen Li from top to bottom.
Without the threat of the seal, this heart will belong to it sooner or later.
Chen Li held the beating heart in his palm, raised his head, and stared at it as well.
"You are already very powerful. You shouldn't covet power that doesn't belong to you."
"Your beastly body cannot bear this heart. I know that even if I persuade you to give up, you will not give up, right?"
The sixth fox nodded, its eyes full of sadness.
The death of its companion gave it this opportunity. Even if it wanted to retreat, how could it retreat when it saw the body of its companion beside it?
"Now that you've made up your mind, give it a try."
Chen Li held the heart in his hand and presented it to the last fox.
The fox lowered its head, rolled up its tongue, and swallowed the tiny heart into its stomach.
Its expression began to become painful, and Shen Li seemed to have known that this situation would happen.
He fell to the ground, lowering his head gloomily.
He still didn't understand why this so-called "power" was enough to make them willingly give up their lives to give it a try.
The fox began to roar.
The swallowed heart began to take effect, and the expanding force changed the color of its fur.
From snow-white to bright red.
Finally, its fur stretched out, turning its face into an extremely hideous one.
The beast's body disintegrated from the inside.
The huge body collapsed with a loud bang. Just as Chen Li said, its body could not bear the weight of this heart.
A tiny heart rolled out from the torn wound in the fox's chest and rose with the morning sun.
A light appeared at the end of the horizon.
A light blue electronic screen flashed above the sky.
"The current delivery mission has failed."
"The package is about to be recycled."
"10, 9, 8, 7, 6..."
As the morning sun gradually rose, Ye Minglang's vision became increasingly blurred.
In a trance, he seemed to see Shen Li holding up the heart and turning to look at him...
His head was dizzy, and he heard Shen Li seemed to be talking to him, but the voice was intermittent and he couldn't hear it clearly:
"Mission... If you want to seal this heart..."
"I also have a very powerful... seal in my body..."
Then he turned back and lowered his head, as if devouring something.
He just blinked and missed so much.
A clear announcement suddenly rang in my ears:
"Congratulations! The current delivery mission is successful!"
Someone was shaking his body.
His eyelids opened and closed, and he saw the face dimly.
Shen Li held his cheek and asked him if he was okay. He wanted to speak, but he didn't have the strength to do so.
The distance between them is still very close.
Close enough that he could see the corners of his mouth.
It was red and had a bloody stain.
Perhaps it was because Shen Li's eyes looked fragile and sad at the moment, which made him unable to help but raise his hand to touch his head to comfort him.
The hand slid down slowly and finally landed on his cheek, and the tip of the thumb wiped the corner of his mouth with difficulty.
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Everyone in the post station was going crazy.
No matter how they checked, the positioning on the arm showed that Shen Li was here, but the problem was that they couldn't find him at all!
"If the person is lost, then it's lost. Isn't the most urgent thing to do now to study the notebook and complete the delivery?"
Fengrao didn't understand why these people were so anxious.
It is very common to lose one or two teammates during a delivery mission. Compared to these, completing the mission is the most important thing, isn't it?
"No!" Li Dangxin said.
The other couriers who had returned alive from the notebook with Feng Rao all stood on Feng Rao's side, mocking them one by one:
"Am I behind the times? Are the relationships between couriers so deep these days? Losing one is like losing a child!"
The rest of the people joined in the laughter.
Fengrao's team is not large, with only four people, but they all look tough.
Li Dangxin felt that these people who had inexplicably appeared in the small post station and gathered together obviously isolated them.
These people take advantage of the fact that they have lived in the notebook for a long time and almost take over the notebook as their own.
The blind man remained silent, not knowing what he was thinking about.
Red Hair said, "I want to see it too," but was glared back at. With Red Hair's violent temper, he was bound to resort to violence.
Only when Shen Li suddenly walked out of the bathroom safe and sound did the tension in the post station ease.
"Where have you been? Why are you covered in blood? Are you injured? Did you know that Sister Sa actually asked us to search every toilet with a toilet plunger?"
Red Hair took out the two pieces of tissue paper that were blocking his nostrils, turned around and said to Sister Sa, "Tell your brother to stop looking for you and come out."
Li Dangxin went into the bathroom and came out after a while, shaking his head regretfully.
There were a lot of people in the station, and they were all unfamiliar people. Her brother was extremely socially anxious and hid in a small cubicle and refused to come out, becoming autistic.
A big guy named Wang Bin from the Fengzao team spat, "What a bunch of weirdos!"
Feng Rao quickly came out to smooth things over, "Since you're back safely, we won't ask too many questions. We don't have much time left to deliver the package."
Perhaps because he figured out that the Shenli could be used, Fengrao's attitude became much more relaxed than before.
"Then let's continue to share all the information we know. We are all in the same boat, so we can't hide anything at this time."
Chen Li kept silent about his sudden disappearance, took a bath and returned to the lobby of the inn on the first floor.
Feng Rao offered him a seat and waved to Chen Li to sit down.
Li Dangxin and Huangmao didn't want Chen Li to sit next to him, so they sat on both sides to separate Chen Li from the vicious gang.
"Fuck!"
As soon as Chen Li sat down, he heard the scarred man in the Fengyao team pointing at the electronic screen and saying a swear word.
"Quick! Come and see!"
A large group of people gathered around the electronic screen.
"The top guys suddenly gained a lot of points just now!"
"The delivery mission must have been successful."
On the pale blue screen, the names of several people kept jumping.
Top 1: Ye Minglang 999999
Second place: Qian Shi 999999
Top 3: Chu Yan 999999
Fourth place: Zao Wu 999999
[It is detected that the points of the above couriers are overflowing]
[The top position of Yunxu Ranking has been opened]
Then these four names disappeared from Yunxu at the same time.
Above the upper ranks, a new volume of the [Heaven] rank list was actually opened.
Red Hair wanted to click on the [Heaven] ranking list to see what it was all about.
[The Tianwei list is related to the operation and development of Wuliang Express, and involves a lot of company secrets. You are not authorized to view it.]
Wuling express delivery systems around the world have begun to broadcast the news of the opening of the [Heaven] ranking list one after another.
Some people say that even if you reach the heavenly level, you still have to send parcels.
Some people also say that those who enter the heavenly realm should be able to access the secrets of Wuliang Express and participate in delivery management without having to deliver the parcels themselves.
For a time, rumors spread.
Chen Li was still not interested in the Heavenly Rank list they were discussing there.
He sat there quietly, flipping through a black-covered notebook.
It turns out that this is the handwritten manuscript of "Notes from a Deserted City".
What kind of tragic plot made the author leave such a strong obsession in the book?
Page 1: Notes from a Deserted City
Author: Blue City
How great it would be to become a best-selling author one day.
The second page is the initial messy character design ideas and outline. It looks a bit messy and the handwriting color is also different.
This book is divided into three stages: upper, middle and lower.
Shen Li did not read it in detail, but just understood each stage through the outline.
In general, it can be summarized as: the tragic life of the protagonist Ren Gui.
The ending of the book describes the death of Ren Gui.
After some scribbles and corrections, the author Lan Cheng wrote a diary-like passage:
After confirming the ending of Ren Gui with the editor several times, I felt a little soft-hearted.
But the editor said that Ren Gui’s death was a great opportunity to make people cry and enhance the memory of the whole book.
Only with his death can the theme of the whole book be sublimated.
Therefore, Ren and Gui must die.
I'm sad because Rengui is my favorite character.
I continued to scribble and revise, using a blue ballpoint pen:
I had a very long dream. I dreamed that I traveled into my own book countless times, trying to save the doomed Ren Gui, but failed every time.
Turning the pages further, the handwriting on the inside began to become messy: Was it a dream or reality?
After countless times of traveling through time, Ren Gui noticed my existence! He is very smart, I should have thought of it earlier.
Ren Gui invaded the real world!
He destroyed the whole world! It's my fault!!! Many people died!
[Ren Gui imprisoned me]
【Ren Gui lost control】
[It is a monster]
It’s coming
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