Chapter 184 The Nameless Corpse (9)
His gaze returned to Shu Ningmiao, who had burst through the door. In the depths of her dark, lifeless eyes, it was as if a pebble had been thrown into stagnant water, capable of creating ripples.
Shu Ningmiao put Arcia back in her wheelchair and turned to face him.
“Wei Sheng Qian Heng.” She placed her hand on the back of Arcia’s chair and gently pushed the girl toward Weston. “This is not over.”
"It won't end."
Wei Shengqianheng looked at her and repeated the word softly, as if savoring the absurdity: "At this point, you still think you can contend with me?"
Shu Ningmiao faced him from a distance: "No matter what you say, I will not give up killing you."
"I just want to end everyone's suffering sooner. Is there any point in living like this? Are these Manla patients happy?"
Wei Shengqianheng chuckled softly, his voice still gentle: "I give them a future that will never come again, without pain, without loss, an eternal peace, that is the greatest 'forgiveness'!"
"That's all just your arrogance!"
Before Shu Ning finished speaking, her figure suddenly blurred.
Her slender figure left several broken afterimages in the air, as if time itself had broken down around her.
The next moment, she appeared to the side and behind Wei Shengqianheng, and at some point drew a Xi Jin longsword from the fluctuating string.
Wei Shengqianheng can take the executioner's sword from the past and use it in the present; she can learn to do the same.
"A little trick."
Wei Sheng Qian Heng didn't even turn around.
Just as she was about to touch him, Shu Ningmiao's movements suddenly froze.
Without being hindered by any external force, her own time flow suddenly dropped to zero.
Shu Ningmiao remained in her thrusting posture, suspended in mid-air, even the arc of her hair being lifted was frozen in place.
Beneath their feet lay the "Forgiveness" domain, a nullification field of supernatural abilities that Wei Sheng Qian Heng had already deployed.
At this moment, they abandoned all superpowers and relied solely on the same string power as their source, using time control to engage in the most fundamental duel.
It was obvious that Shu Ningmiao would be the one to lose.
She is still a living human being, but he has transcended life and death, has no physical body, lives in the string flow, and is Pandora himself.
Wei Shengqianheng slowly turned around, his eyes devoid of any emotion: "You are no match for me at all. Your understanding of time is still too shallow. Can you feel it? This is... true power."
Shu Ningmiao’s biggest mistake was trying to defeat him with the power of the string. After Binie destroyed the foundation stone, his power was no longer restrained.
However, the moment he finished speaking, he heard a faint cracking sound.
Everything around him froze under his power; it was the hum of time.
He could sense that Shu Ningmiao was resisting his abilities in a way he had not anticipated.
She was not forcibly breaking free, but rather using her affinity for the string flow to make extremely short time jumps continuously at high frequencies.
Each jump only grants her a fleeting moment of mobility within the time-stopped space.
Although the impact is so brief as to be almost negligible, these small changes accumulate and are gradually leading to a qualitative change.
It sounded like a soft cracking of glass.
Cracks appeared in the solidified substance around Shu Ningmiao's body.
She gasped for breath, her stagnant blood began to flow again, her frozen thoughts accelerated instantly, her body suddenly broke free of its restraints, and she turned her hand and stabbed at him without hesitation.
"...Not enough."
Wei Shengqianheng's figure flickered, not moving, but appearing directly at the other end of the t, as if the intermediate process had been deleted and the result was reached directly.
She gasped for breath and launched another attack, her figure flashing as she launched surprise attacks from all sorts of incredible angles. She no longer sought to kill him with a single blow, but instead constantly interfered, probed, and looked for points of instability in his condition.
However, Wei Shengqianheng simply retreated to avoid her attack, gave a cold laugh, his black hair moving without wind, and stared at her with an expressionless gaze.
In the final step, he was completely freed from his shackles, and no one could stop him.
He slowly raised one hand, his pale palm seemingly holding up the fate of the entire planet.
"Boom—"
The earth shook violently, and the ground cracked.
The entire surface of Pinnea groaned in unbearable agony.
Shu Ningmiao looked into the distance in disbelief—
The rocks and soil turned a dark red color as if they were melting, emitting a terrifying hissing sound, and then countless cracks appeared on the earth's surface.
Deep within those cracks emanated a blue light so intense it was almost tangible—all of them were Pandora's Springs!
Pandora's energy surged wildly from the spring, extending upwards as if it had a life of its own, growing out of the cracks, clinging to the void, and swaying wildly.
Wherever these rioting forces passed, whether it was a sturdy high-rise building or a heavy single-story building, they were destroyed in an instant when they were caught up in it, and the walls around them were torn apart by an invisible force as if they were fragile cardboard.
One... ten... a hundred...
Countless beams of dark blue light, each thousands of meters in diameter and connecting heaven and earth, burst forth from the cracked earth, piercing straight into the sky.
Pinneco, the capital city that once symbolized the pinnacle of human civilization, was pierced and cut apart by countless towering, fluorescent blue pillars in just a few dozen seconds, rapidly disintegrating into a desolate inferno.
These rushing Pandoras eventually converge thousands of meters above the ground.
Countless strands of deep blue light engulfed Shu Ningmiao and Wei Shengqianheng, weaving them into a massive vortex above the sky.
Weston immediately shielded Arcia's wheelchair with his back, using it to block the raging energy shockwaves and flying debris from outside, his eyes wide with fury as he watched this scene that resembled divine punishment.
Shu Ningmiao and Wei Shengqianheng, who were at the very center of this source of destruction, seemed to be on another level.
This is a battle that no one else can participate in.
Wei Shengqianheng floated in the center of the vortex he had created, as the Pandora that had gathered surged into his body.
His skin, down to the ends of his hair, began to become transparent, revealing clearly the blue veins flowing beneath.
Those already lifeless black eyes were now completely replaced by an unfathomable blue.
He no longer resembles a human being.
Looking at the devastating scene before her, she felt the String Flow and Pandora within her body being pulled away. The balance of power she had been barely maintaining with Wei Sheng Qian Heng was broken, turning into a one-sided situation, and her movements began to spiral out of control.
"Give up, you can't beat me."
Wei Shengqianheng stared at her, as if he could see right through her: "Your heart is wavering."
Wei Shengqianheng had long known that she couldn't beat her; he understood her better than she understood herself.
She didn't believe it.
She doesn't believe in the truth of this world and refuses to accept the fact that life itself is a lie.
She ultimately... became just like Lanxi in the past.
Only he, only he, fully accepted the truth of this world, fully embraced Pandora, and became a part of this world.
He won.
When she saw Wei Shengqianheng draw his weapon, she wasn't as unwilling as she had imagined.
Yes, she was wavering. Faced with such absolute power, faced with inevitable destruction, what was the meaning of perseverance? What was the value of protecting? ...Was she also heading towards the same end? A deep weariness and sense of emptiness surged up like a tide, almost drowning her.
It seemed that no matter how much she struggled, she could not escape the predetermined trajectory of fate.
Is it over?
Shu Ningmiao thought wearily.
Bound by the string, she could not move and could only watch helplessly as the familiar executioner's heavy sword, with a slow but unstoppable motion, thrust straight toward her heart.
But just before it pierced through, it deviated by half an inch.
Shu Ningmiao raised her eyes, not understanding why Wei Shengqianheng would be in a daze for a moment at the very end.
She stared at Wei Shengqianheng's expressionless face.
His face, his features, appeared so blurred by the raging energy behind him.
Perhaps, her vision was simply blurred.
Shu Ningmiao whispered, "...Shi Yu?"
Wei Shengqian paused almost imperceptibly, his voice so soft it sounded like a sigh.
"...Didn't you say you could tell the difference?"
Pfft—
The sound of a sharp weapon piercing flesh was exceptionally clear and jarring against the backdrop of absolute silence.
The heavy sword finally pierced her chest with pinpoint accuracy.
Intense, indescribable pain instantly swept over her entire body. She felt cold all over, and the feeling of her life force rapidly draining away from her wounds was so familiar... so despairing.
In a more powerful destiny, she helplessly followed the same path.
Despite the reversal of time, she still lost to Wei Sheng Qian Heng.
What was originally a calm, almost resigned mood suddenly erupted into a strong sense of unwillingness under the familiar, cold stimulation.
Why?! Why should she accept this ending?! Why should she accept this future?!
She looked down at the sword piercing her chest, its cold blade mingling with her warm blood, making a sizzling sound as if it were burning.
Fresh blood gushed out, quickly staining his clothes red.
Her body lost all strength, she detached from the sword, and fell backward limply.
Below, there was the largest rift, gushing forth the most violent Pandora energy, like an abyss with its jaws wide open.
On the top floor of the distant United Building, Shu Changyan seemed to sense something, his heart skipped a beat, and he turned to look in this direction, his eyes showing intense shock and... panic for the first time.
They watched helplessly as she was pierced through the body and fell thousands of meters into the air.
Her figure rapidly shrank and blurred, swallowed by the dense, all-consuming, eerie blue light, and vanished.
"—Shu Ningmiao!"
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