Chapter 88 The Third Item: Copper Coin Dream Catcher
The Imperial Master did not speak, but just stared at Chen Li.
The little emperor knew that begging for mercy now was useless, so he instantly changed the target of his begging.
He kept struggling in the pain of suffocation and looked at Chen Li, "I know I was wrong, please ask the national teacher to let me go, please... please."
Chen Li still looked ahead calmly, "I don't know that person. Why do you think he let him go just because I told him to?"
The little emperor's eyes were bloodshot and he was no longer able to struggle.
However, the Imperial Master was broken by Chen Li's words "I don't know that person" and abandoned the little emperor.
The little emperor rolled into a ball and quickly rolled to the corner, huddling together with Jiang Lexin, who was also frightened and curled up.
"You really don't remember me?"
The Imperial Master took a step forward with some injuries, his expression becoming more urgent.
The young emperor had never seen the imperial teacher so distraught.
In his impression, the imperial teacher was always serious and stern. He was the one who personally put him on the throne amidst the bloody court struggles.
Is this still the decisive and ruthless imperial teacher he knows?
Chen Li looked at the Imperial Master's broken expression, thought about it carefully, but found nothing, and finally shook his head.
"Should I...remember you?"
The Imperial Master's eyes were filled with disappointment, and he took a few steps forward anxiously.
"Tai Xiao, I am Tai Xiao."
Shen Li searched for the name in his mind, but still had no impression of it.
"Tai Xiao?" He shook his head.
That's right. Tai Xiao recalled that day when Chen Li asked him his name.
But before he could say anything, the man came back.
He walked towards that person happily, so how could he remember who was waiting behind him?
Tai Xiao lowered his head and murmured stubbornly, "You took me to see the sun in the world of eternal night."
The little emperor curled up in the corner and could not understand what the imperial teacher was saying at all.
He vaguely felt that the Imperial Master should know the assassin, but the other party just didn't remember him.
But so what? Is it necessary to show such a sad expression?
Isn't it better to just kill this kind of person who doesn't know what's good for him? Why should I feel sad for him?
Why did he feel a little sad when he saw the national teacher was sad?
Even when the Imperial Master led him to kill his father and brother, he did not feel sad.
"Eternal night?"
Speaking of Eternal Night, Shen Li finally remembered something.
In the eternal night world of the seventeenth level of hell, he did let a strange boy walk into his memory and took him to see the sun once.
“It’s you.”
Shen Li only said three words, and all his loss was dispelled.
"Why are you here?"
"Are you the...national master here?"
Questions came one after another, and the little emperor and Jiang Lexin wanted to shrink into the corner to reduce their presence and eavesdrop silently.
The Imperial Master waved his hand and "invited" them both to leave.
"I will kill him, I will kill him!" The little emperor roared unwillingly after being asked to leave.
The imperial teacher turned around and looked at him, but the little emperor's eyes were still stubborn.
But his next words made the little emperor shut up.
He said: "If he wants, I can make him emperor, just like I supported you in the beginning."
The young emperor was always very violent and would kill anyone who stood in his way. He had no idea of the value of human life.
But at this moment, the little emperor was afraid that he would be abandoned.
Now, there are only two of them left here.
Tai Xiao, who had just wanted to kill the little emperor, was now sitting obediently in front of Shen Li, lowering his head humbly.
"Although I don't know how you ended up in this world, do you know that if you ask them to use the copper cauldron furnace to burn corpses and mint coins, it will destroy this place and kill many people?"
Chen Li seldom speaks harshly to others, but in his previous sentence, there was clearly a hint of criticism.
Tai Xiao didn't raise his head.
"It's not wandering." He corrected: "I came to this world voluntarily."
"Burning corpses and minting coins was also my idea." He knew from the beginning to the end what consequences this matter would bring, but he still did it.
Shen Li was stunned for a moment.
He thought it was an unintentional mistake on the other party's part. After all, the boy he met a long time ago was so simple and kind.
"Why?" He couldn't understand what had caused this originally kind-hearted boy to become what he is now.
"Why?"
Tai Xiao raised his head and looked into Chen Li's eyes, his thoughts being brought back to that night many years ago.
Shen Li is everyone's belief.
He led them through level after level and they had already reached the last level.
As long as we leave here, everyone can return to the normal world and live a normal life.
Completely escape from this purgatory-like world.
The first layer of hell is filled with burning magma.
Pedestrians walking on the road may suddenly catch fire.
The world is filled with screams and roars, as well as the pungent smell of burning.
Chen Li led everyone to survive here with great difficulty, and everyone was exhausted.
On such a night with flames rising to the sky, the fire dragon entrenched in front of the gate of hell felt the threat from Shen Li and woke up early.
It is the last hurdle.
No one could stand against such an ancient and evil creature.
Except for Shen Li.
That night, they had no way out and the fight was almost to the death.
He sacrificed almost everything he had with the magic of talismans, lost all five senses, and was seriously injured, but he was still forced into a desperate situation.
So he was forced by everyone to sacrifice the person he was most reluctant to part with.
The separation came too fast.
In fact, Tai Xiao should have been on the list of people who offered themselves voluntarily that day.
All of them had already understood their mission and had formed a bond with Shen Li, even if it was just a little bit.
Only in this way, when they voluntarily sacrifice their lives, can they merge with Shen Li's talismans and give him endless power.
Like that man, he had already recognized his fate and was willing to accept it.
Rather than being burned by magma in the first layer of hell and dying, it is better to sacrifice yourself.
To be his firewood.
But what kind of person is Chen Li?
Even when forced to the end, he still couldn't bear to do it.
He still remembered that night when Ye Minglang took the initiative to stand on the high tower, standing at a long distance, as if confronting him.
Chen Li was restrained by the giant dragon, and his chest and back were covered with bloody scratches, deep enough to see the bones.
He himself was dying and there was no way he could appear beside Ye Minglang immediately.
Others also climbed up the tower one after another.
In front of Chen Li, the firewood jumped down one after another and fell from a great height.
The whole world is pressing him.
No one has ever given Chen Li the opportunity to choose.
This is active sacrifice.
From the moment they jumped off the tower, they were doomed to die.
Shen Li could either watch them die in vain or use talismans to sacrifice himself and accept that part of the power.
The sky was covered with fiery clouds.
Those were the most colorful clouds he had ever seen in his life.
When the man jumped down, he subconsciously looked in the direction of Shen Li.
He should be crying.
But they were too far away, and there were sounds like dragon roars, houses collapsing, flames burning, and the painful cries of the dying.
All the noises, too many and too mixed, drowned out his cries.
The joy of victory is just around the corner.
The gates of hell are opening.
The rest of the people were immersed in boundless joy, and no one cared how much pain he was in.
"We must take the remaining people and escape from this endless hell and live well."
At the last moment, Shen Li was finally forced to use talismans.
He didn't want to see so many lives sacrificed in vain.
All the strength poured into his body continuously.
The firewood was completing their mission, turning into a ball of light and pouring into his heart.
He was like a ball of blazing light, breaking free from the dragon's restraints.
Tai Xiao followed that man and jumped down from the tower.
It's just that his fate is different from that person's.
When he was in mid-air, he was pulled off course by a hurricane, shattering the glass and falling into the tower.
"I didn't die."
Recalling this, Tai Xiao revealed a look of self-blame, "I should have been your firewood, I'm sorry, I..."
He was somewhat incoherent.
When he woke up, he found that everyone had escaped from hell and Shen Li was missing.
The surviving tribesmen said that Shen Li completely collapsed.
He opened the gates of hell for them, but left himself there forever.
"With his strength, he won't die even if he stays there. Don't worry about him."
Someone comforted him.
Since then, they have reintegrated into the normal world and lived a normal life for several years.
But one day, something unexpected happened in this world.
There was a sound of shattering coming from above the clouds, and many things that did not belong to this world fell from the cracks, causing a great impact on this world.
The era of signature delivery thus began.
He and his people, as the group of people who escaped from hell, possess extremely high physical fitness compared to normal people.
They formed small groups, traveled through various copies, earned points, and completed various delivery tasks.
Soon, he became the first human to enter the "Heaven" list and took control of everything.
Tai Xiao was extremely frank in front of Shen Li and never wanted to hide anything from him.
He honestly explained his life story, experiences, and everything he had done.
His tone was a little anxious, as if he desperately wanted to get Shen Li's approval.
Or maybe it was to make up for the regret that night when he failed to become firewood and the source of his strength.
"I am the founder of Wuliang Express. Since then, I have used all my strength to find you."
"They all said that you were so powerful, you must still be alive, but when I found you..."
That internal organ.
That stone tablet.
That flesh and blood.
It was the last thing he left behind.
At that moment, Tai Xiao finally understood.
Why did all the worlds collapse at the same time? Why was everything that was originally normal no longer maintained by some force?
Because someone as powerful as a god killed himself.
He left on the stone tablet the method to prevent himself from regenerating.
Time and again, strangling one's own existence.
How desperate he must be.
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