The woman covered Xia Linyin's eyes with her soft, sweaty hands, and said in a trembling voice, "Don't look, Xiaoyin, don't look."
Just as they were about to turn around, the shadow of death fell upon the three of them, and the enormous feet of the insect beast pressed down, blotting out the sky.
The man's eyes widened, his dark pupils reflecting the hard, wrinkled soles of the insect-beast's feet. The next second, he and the woman simultaneously pushed Xia Linyin, who was protecting them, away.
Xia Linyin fell heavily to the ground, the cold, hard surface scraping her palms and knees. She looked up and screamed, "No!"
The insect-beast's slamming foot created a rolling wave of air. When the enormous foot lifted again, all that remained on the ground was a mangled mess of flesh, unrecognizable as it once was.
Tears streamed down her face as Xia Linyin slowly crawled towards the pool of flesh. She reached out to touch it, but recoiled as if electrocuted just before she could.
These are not her parents!
These can't be her parents!
"Aaaaaahh ...
"Mom and Dad!"
"roar!!!"
The roars of the insect beasts were deafening, their enormous feet rising and falling. Under their feet, humans looked as tiny as grains of sand on the roadside.
A black shadow loomed over Xia Linyin, and through her tear-blurred vision, the enormous foot reached her head in an instant.
But just as it was about to touch her body, it suddenly stopped. A white light flashed across the insect beast's massive body, as if a god had cleaved the insect beast's body in two with a giant axe.
The insect-beast's body split in two, then turned into tiny specks of light in the wind, dissipating without a trace.
The sharp, crescent-shaped longsword exuded a chilling and murderous aura. The tall, slender man stood atop the ruins of the city, one hand in his pocket, the wind ruffling his waist-length hair.
The sky was the color of blood.
Xia Linyin staggered to her feet, "Xiao Li..."
He was still wearing the black Zhongshan suit embroidered with a golden dragon, but he had lost a lot of weight, his chin was sharp, and his hair had grown to his waist, with the jet-black strands flying and fluttering in the wind.
Suddenly, it transformed into countless points of light. In the next instant, these points of light swirled like a hurricane and arrived in front of Xia Linyin, where they reformed into the man's slender figure.
"Is this the real world that players want to return to? A happy and peaceful real world?"
Xiao Li's voice carried a strange undertone, "It looks even worse than the game world..."
Suddenly, a strange excitement flashed in his eyes, and like a child eager to take credit, he said to Xia Linyin, "Sister, I'll kill all these disgusting bugs for you, okay?"
Xia Linyin nodded blankly, looking at Xiao Li with eyes that she didn't want to blink.
All around were roaring, rampaging insect beasts. Suddenly, a white beam of light appeared in mid-air, with no visible beginning or end.
The light moved horizontally at a steady pace, slicing through the iron-hard bodies of the insects and beasts without the slightest pause. Wherever it passed, the insects and beasts turned into countless points of light.
No, it was that all living beings in the path turned into specks of light!
The light moved and moved, as if it wanted to reach the end of the world and wipe out all life on earth!
Realizing what was happening, Xia Linyin screamed, "No! Stop! Stop right now, Xiao Li!"
Xiao Li tilted her head, looking at Xia Linyin with a puzzled expression, "Why did we stop?"
He reached out and stroked Xia Linyin's cheek. "Isn't it good if it's just you and me left in this world? Isn't it good if it's just you and me?"
His movements were gentle and tender, as if he were caressing a work of art that he was utterly captivated by, but his words chilled Xia Linyin to the bone.
"Just you and me is enough, that's enough..."
He laughed, a laugh filled with a strange sense of satisfaction that sent chills down one's spine, yet was also breathtakingly alluring, like a seductive ghost that had crawled up from the depths of hell.
Xia Linyin murmured, "You're crazy, Xiao Li, you're crazy."
"Yes, I've gone mad because I lost my medicine. I've been mad ever since my sister died."
He lowered his thick eyelashes, his voice as eerie as a ghost's whisper in a tomb, "I will make the game and me pay for my sister's death..."
The hand that was pressed against Xia Linyin's face suddenly moved to her neck, her eyes surging with bloodlust, and Xiao Li's body erupted with an aura that made it hard to breathe—the aura of a demon.
It reeks of decaying bones and the pungent smell of fresh blood!
"A lie is a lie! No matter how convincingly it's fabricated, it's still a lie! She's dead!"
Xiao Li's five distinct fingers suddenly tightened, and at the same time, his body exploded, releasing a power many times greater than that of a nuclear bomb. A blinding white light enveloped the earth, and the entire world turned into tiny specks of light.
The last thing Xia Linyin saw was the scene of world destruction, and the countless tiny data characters that filled her entire field of vision.
...
Xia Linyin suddenly opened her eyes, sweat sliding down her chin and neck. She had another nightmare.
"...I am honored to be selected as one of the participants, and I believe that I will definitely be able to become a mecha warrior, for my loving parents!"
The video recorder continued to play the footage on a loop. Xia Linyin stared blankly at the recorder, her mouth agape and her chest heaving, like a fish thrown ashore and out of the water.
After a long while, she turned off the recorder, covered her eyes with her hand, and chuckled softly.
However, the voice sounded neither like crying nor laughing.
...
laboratory--
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