The last night of December.
Banxia looked up at the sky with an unreadable expression. The stars were twinkling, a sight rarely seen in a heavily polluted city.
A warm touch suddenly came from her waist. Nanxing hugged her from behind, rested his chin on the top of her head, and said with a hint of melancholy in his voice, "It will be midnight in half an hour."
Banxia relaxed her body and leaned against his chest, softly humming in agreement.
She knew what Nanxing was feeling melancholy about.
The establishment of a civilization takes hundreds or thousands of years, while its collapse often takes only a few years, or even an instant.
After thinking for a moment, she added, "Don't worry, I will protect you."
Nanxing lowered his head and kissed her ear: "Thank you, my wife."
His voice carried a gentle, tender smile.
Banxia suddenly felt her face getting hot. Every time they were fooling around, Nanxing would look at her with such a gentle smile.
But she didn't have time to think, because all her attention was easily captured by the man's kiss on her lips.
...
"Ten, nine, eight... three, two, one!"
As the countdown ended in the last second, the whole world was suddenly shrouded in black mist. Banxia felt a blur before her eyes and was instantly plunged into darkness.
"Banxia, the rewards for this mission are very generous. After I get the points, I can spend some time with you at the base!"
Nanxing's eyes were filled with anticipation for the future, clearly thinking about the sweet time they would spend together after completing the mission.
Banxia wanted to shout, "Nanxing, don't go! You're not allowed to go! If you go, you won't come back!"
But she held Nanxing's hand reluctantly: "You must come back safely. If anything happens to you, then I..." won't live anymore.
Her mouth was sealed by Nanxing; the man's kiss was both gentle and passionate.
After the kiss ended, he gently stroked her face, his eyes filled with an indescribable lingering fear: "Don't say such things, please, Banxia, no matter what, you must live well!"
Nanxing cherished her like a fragile porcelain doll since she was a child, and because she had been in poor health since childhood, he always prioritized her feelings when they were being affectionate.
Perhaps because of her disheartening words, on his last night before leaving, he was unusually indulgent, as if he had just been intimate with her after proposing, leaving many ambiguous marks on her body.
After they separated, she counted down every minute and second as she waited for him to come home. The longer the time passed, the more anxious she became, as if something bad was about to happen.
She remembered clearly that it was the seventeenth day since Nanxing left. That morning, she suddenly felt a sharp pain in her chest and fainted without warning.
When I woke up again, I was in the hospital, and there were several people wearing green clothes standing by my bed.
"I'm sorry, Banxia, Nanxing has sacrificed himself!"
"...I'm sorry we were unable to bring back his remains and belongings."
The base leader's mouth opened and closed, but she could no longer hear anything!
She remained in a daze for the rest of the days until one quiet night, when she reached out and touched the cold pillow beside her, and suddenly realized the reality: Nanxing was really gone!
In that instant, all the colors and sounds in the world faded away, leaving only deep resentment in her heart!
Why!
Why did Nanxing, who was always grateful and kind to others, end up with such a tragic fate of being completely destroyed?
Why do they have to be separated by death after they have finally overcome their illness and achieved happiness?
She was in excruciating pain all over her body, as if something inside her was trying to break free of its restraints.
She vaguely sensed that it was a power that could avenge Nanxing.
My bones felt like they were being crushed inch by inch, and my flesh and blood felt like they were being slowly tortured inch by inch, but how could the pain in my body compare to the pain of losing Nanxing?
Fresh blood kept oozing from every pore, quickly soaking the sheets and blankets, yet she couldn't help but laugh.
She gently raised her hands, and a thin, dark green vine emerged from her right palm, while a miniature tree in black and white sprouted from her left palm.
She laughed and then burst into tears, but her dry eyes could no longer shed a single tear.
She became one of the first evolved beings.
After evolving, her body fully recovered. In order to enhance her strength and seek revenge, she joined Nanxing's former mission team, working tirelessly from dawn till dusk, constantly fighting against zombies and mutated plants and animals, even if she was covered in wounds.
In the end, it was Su Yao who found her and said that her almost self-destructive lifestyle would make Nan Xing feel uneasy down there.
She began to take care of herself like Nanxing, eating well, sleeping on time, and keeping herself clean and tidy.
Gradually, almost everyone assumed that she had let go of the past and no longer mentioned Nanxing.
No one knew that her soul had long since perished with Nanxing, leaving behind a living dead corpse existing solely for revenge.
She couldn't recall exactly how she spent the next two years, but it was always either improving her skills or on her way to improving them.
Finally, one day, she had gathered enough strength, and one morning she left a farewell letter and went to Nanxing's burial place.
At the moment she perished together with the level eight mutated tree, she felt no fear, but rather a sense of relief and anticipation.
Nanxing loves her so much, he must be waiting for her in the afterlife, right?
...
As Banxia's mind became trapped in painful memories, her body also underwent continuous changes.
The moment the black mist descended, she suddenly floated in the air, her whole body glowing with a faint green light.
The hair kept growing longer and longer, climbing up the floor and walls as if it were alive, until it covered the entire room and then extended out of the window.
The hair seemed to breathe, constantly inhaling and exhaling the thick black fog in the air. Then, green leaves and red flower buds sprouted from it.
It turned out that those weren't hair strands, but rather dark green vines that were almost black!
The flower buds burst into bloom, instantly filling the room with a sweet fragrance.
Banxia seemed to have taken a super tonic. Her slender body gradually became fuller, her pale face blushed slightly, and even her facial features matured. She exuded a charming allure that only a mature woman could possess, a world of difference from her previous frail appearance.
For a moment, Nanxing even thought she had seen a magical princess from a fairy tale, and she unconsciously softened her breathing.
He reached out and caught the princess as she slowly fell. The vines on her body instantly retracted into his body, as if everything that had just happened was just a fantastical dream.
But he knew it wasn't true, because countless dark green vines suddenly sprouted from the princess's palm, slowly wrapping around his body, and a warm power flowed into his body.
He felt like he was soaking in a hot spring, so comfortable that his toes couldn't help but curl up.
He was suddenly jolted back to reality by an urgent nibble on his lips; it was the princess kissing him.
He was slightly taken aback, then hugged the princess and returned the kiss forcefully.
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