Chapter 110 Reunion
“Brother…brother?!”
Sieflei didn't know how much Ludwig heard and saw, and he looked a little panicked. He had already used up most of his skill cards in the battle with Amber, and he had almost no chance of winning against Ludwig.
Ludwig grabbed Siffre from the ground and smashed the barrel of the gun into his forehead. His eyes were cold and seemed to contain ice: "Where's Amber?!"
Just now he was lying in ambush in the trench, ready to help Joyce delay time, but he did not expect that the nearby gluttons would suddenly rush over here like crazy, and even the mother responsible for laying eggs in the underground palace disappeared without a trace.
Ludwig temporarily handed the team over to Joyce to lead, and followed them all the way here, only to see Siffre running back in a panic. His intuition told him that he must have something to do with the other party.
Sifley's face was pressed against the uneven mountain wall, scratching and twisting. His eyes rolled and he spoke in panic: "Brother, I don't know what happened. Just now, a group of strange beasts suddenly rushed over and surrounded Lord Amber. I was just about to go back to tell you. You should find a way to save him!"
He originally thought he could trick Ludwig into going over to die together, but he suddenly felt a pain in his knee and was shot unexpectedly. He fell to his knees in pain, his face pale.
Ludwig closed his eyes and exhaled slowly. His amber eyes had turned scarlet, indicating that he was on the verge of rage. Although his voice was emotionless, the hidden danger in it made people's hair stand on end: "I'll ask you one last time, where is Amber?"
Amber's skills were countless times stronger than Severus's. The monsters swarmed over like a flood, but Amber disappeared without a trace, while Severus was unharmed. Even a fool could tell that there was a problem.
Ludwig moved the light energy gun in his hand upwards and had already pressed against Severi's temple. He bent down close to Severi's ear and spoke in a cold tone: "I don't care what method you use, immediately summon those monsters back to me, or I will kill you now. At worst, I will go directly to the monster pile to find Amber, and you will be buried with us even if you die!"
When Sieflei met Ludwig's fierce eyes, he had no doubt that he would be shot in the next second. He had finally survived the last mission, so how could he be willing to die in Ludwig's hands? He immediately hugged his legs and begged, "Brother! Don't kill me, don't kill me! I will lead the monster away now!"
He took out the whistle and blew it again. The control effect lasted for the last three minutes. Those gluttons heard the whistle and finally dispersed slowly from all sides, leaving only a mess on the ground with scattered monster body parts piled together. There was no trace of Amber at all.
Or maybe he's already dead...
When Ludwig thought of this, his hand holding the gun trembled uncontrollably for a moment, so much so that he ignored Siffre's small movement of quietly retreating and running away. When he came to his senses, the other party had already escaped to the bottom of the valley, leaving only a blurry and tiny figure.
Seeing the danger, Ludwig narrowed his eyes, raised his hand and fired a shot, hitting Siffre right on the back. There was a deep gorge next to him. The opponent staggered, screamed, and fell down like a kite with a broken string.
“Ahhhhhhhhh!!!!”
Severi's screams of pain seemed to be mixed with a sharp whistle. The alien beasts that had been retreating like a tide suddenly shuddered and rushed towards Ludwig.
Ludwig's eyes froze when he saw this, but he did not retreat but rushed straight towards the middle of the encirclement. He was eager to confirm whether Amber was still alive, but he ignored the dark bloodstain on his right leg.
It was smeared on secretly after Sivley was hit in the knee.
Human blood is extremely attractive to the monsters, making them extremely excited. The monsters rushed towards Ludwig like crazy, but he killed them mercilessly with his sharp claws. However, a small glutton suddenly squeezed out from the gap, aimed at Ludwig's right leg and bit it hard.
“Crack!”
The bite almost broke his bones and tendons. Ludwig's forehead was bulging with pain and he let out an angry roar. He stabbed out with his five sharp fingers, directly piercing through the glutton's head and throwing it heavily off the cliff.
When the pain reaches its peak, the brain becomes paralyzed and cannot feel anything.
Ludwig dragged his injured right leg and staggered to the center of the encirclement. He frantically searched for Amber in the cracks in the ground. He pulled apart the bloody remains of the alien beasts and anxiously called out the male insect's name, but there was no response.
"Amber! Where are you!"
"Amber!!"
Ludwig looked defeated and full of despair. He should not have let Amber leave alone. With so many alien beasts, it would be impossible for the other party to escape even if she had great abilities.
The sun had already risen, but the cold was all over my body.
Ludwig had just been blinded by killing intent, and the alien beasts were quick to sense that the "prey" in front of them was not easy to deal with, so they formed a vacuum circle around them, not daring to move forward and refusing to leave.
Ludwig trembled as he took out the signal device and sent a request for support to Joyce and the others. Then he continued to search for Amber in the pile of blood and flesh. After an unknown amount of time, he suddenly touched a cold and hard iron tool, and his gray eyes finally had a glimmer of light.
It's a sword! Amber's saber!
This discovery gave the exhausted Ludwig a little strength. He rolled and crawled forward to look for it, and finally found a familiar piece of clothing in a nearly three-meter-deep crack in the ground.
Amber was hit in the arm by Sivley's bullet. To prevent the smell of blood from attracting monsters, he directly covered the wound with a thick temperature-keeping jacket and hid in the deep crevice below the ground fissure. However, due to exhaustion and rapid blood loss, he fell into a semi-comatose state.
"Amber... Amber... wake up..."
Who is calling him?
"Amber...can you hear me..."
Amber opened his eyelids with great difficulty, but his eyelashes, which were frozen with blood, could not be opened. In a trance, it seemed as if someone had pulled him out forcibly, and then his body lost weight, and the sound of cold wind blew past his ears, and they fell into the abyss together.
The moment Amber was pulled out of the gap, the monsters that were ready to move all around rushed over instantly. Seeing this, Ludwig gritted his teeth silently, and suddenly jumped down holding the unconscious Amber. The clothes behind him "sizzled" tore, and suddenly a pair of light golden wings grew out, flapping with a whistling wind, and he rushed slowly downwards.
The valley is deep and the mottled stone walls are full of traces of time.
Tens of thousands of years ago, when this planet was still nameless, the ancestors of the Zerg slowly crawled across the soil, their wings bathed in sunlight.
Later, as the universe grew and the world changed, they used their wings to exchange for a higher form and wisdom from the gods, and they changed from "them" to "them"...
On the planet Alicia, it had been a long time since a female insect was born with wings. If they were to grow wings abruptly, they would inevitably suffer the pain of broken bones and blood. Ludwig hugged Amber tightly, flapping his wings behind him, and finally couldn't hold on when he was three meters above the ground. He fell to the ground exhausted, his vision went black, and he completely lost consciousness.
"Bang--!"
Their bodies hit the ground heavily, and Amber, who was held tightly in Ludwig's arms, flew several meters away and fell into a deeper coma.
【Host……】
【Host……】
Amber was finally awakened by the system. He opened his eyes in confusion, and above his head were endless black mountains. The blue sky also turned dim because of the setting sun. He felt as if he was in a huge cage and could not escape.
A black heart quietly hung above his head, surrounded by a faint blue electric current, becoming the only light before his eyes.
Amber struggled to get up from the ground. His mind was in a mess due to excessive blood loss. He only remembered that in order to avoid the attack of the alien beast, he fell into the deep crack of the ground, and then... then someone pulled him out from inside...
Amber searched everywhere like a headless fly, and finally found Ludwig who was in a coma not far away. However, he was covered in blood, all of which were wounds left by the fight with the monster. The knee of his right leg was almost bitten off, and even the white bones could be seen. There was a large pool of dark blood under his body, which looked horrifying.
Amber's breathing stagnated when he saw this. His ears suddenly became quiet, and he could only hear his own heartbeat. He stretched out his fingertips almost tremblingly to feel Ludwig's breathing. It was so weak that it was almost inaudible. He whispered a word from his pale and cracked lips: "Ludwig...?"
His voice was hoarse, as if he was afraid of disturbing something; it couldn't even cover the sound of the wind roaring in the valley.
The black heart slowly fell, suspended in front of Amber's eyes, and the cold, inorganic voice was free of any emotion: [He is dying.]
Amber raised her eyes and looked at it. In the dark night, her eyes were cold and sharp: "Why?!"
The development of the matter has gone beyond what Amber could have predicted. He did not expect that Sifley would have so many props, and he did not expect that Ludwig would suddenly come over. This feeling of being out of control made him furious and he only wanted to kill people.
The system's figure rose and fell in the darkness, like a ghost:
[In the original destiny, Ludwig was going to die. I have said it before, you and Ludwig will both end up perishing...]
It thought to itself that this game was too difficult after all. The first and second levels were easy, but no host had been able to pass the third level so far.
Sifley had gone through a hundred assassination missions, and the points he had accumulated were enough for him to redeem countless life-saving items. Many hosts had lost their lives on these missions, even Amber—
This former emperor was not spared.
"I don't believe in fate!"
Amber gritted his teeth and said this in a cold voice. He looked around and suddenly found a naturally formed cave not far away. He didn't know where he got the strength from, but he picked up Ludwig from the ground and walked in.
As the night progressed, the canyon was hit by strong winds and the temperature dropped to freezing point. If they did not find a place to keep warm, they would soon freeze to death.
Amber was so angry that his brain suddenly calmed down. He opened the combat backpack he carried with him, polished a bunch of incendiary sticks, and then searched for all the medicines that could heal the wounds and fed them to Ludwig. However, the female insect was too badly injured and was barely breathing. It was almost the same as if she were dead.
His broken right leg was exposed to the air, his knee had been bitten off, and through the bright red flesh and blood, the broken bones inside could still be vaguely seen. Because of the corrosion of the alien saliva, the blood could not coagulate and heal, and could only be allowed to flow away...
Of course, there was no more blood to be shed now, for it had almost run out.
Amber held Ludwig's cold right hand tightly, closed her eyes, and asked in a deep voice: "Sivley is still alive, right?"
The system was silent for a moment, then told him the answer: […Yes, and Sivley has another trump card, a very important trump card, you can’t beat him.]
Amber kept these words in mind, stared at Ludwig's pale face, and asked without emotion: "Tell me how to save him."
The system flew around Amber: [You still have 10,000 points, which can be exchanged for potions, but the opportunity to start over also requires 10,000 points. I suggest you keep them for the most important things, after all...]
It lowered its voice and said: [Even if you save Ludwig now, you may not be able to restore him to his original state.]
"Recovered..."
Amber murmured these words in a low voice, not knowing what he remembered, and his eyes fell on Ludwig's broken right leg. He slowly stretched out his hand, as if he wanted to touch it, but the wound was too bloody, so he finally withdrew his hand.
Siflei is not dead yet, and he is holding a trump card in his hand, the effect of which he does not know. If he starts over again now, it is still unclear whether Ludwig can recover as before. He still cannot control Siflei's life.
There is only one chance to start over.
Only once...
Amber didn't know what she was thinking. She carefully held Ludwig in her arms, tore off the cloth from the corner of her clothes and gently wiped the blood off his face until it was clean. How would this female insect in front of her feel if she knew that her right leg could not be saved?
Amber didn't know, couldn't imagine.
For the rest of the time, he did nothing but hugged Ludwig tightly. Suddenly, an unspeakable emotion surged in his heart, which rose and fell with the night, but were all sealed in his chest. Only two cold bodies pressed tightly together, trying to warm each other.
Amber is waiting to die.
Either Ludwig dies from his wounds, or Severin returns to kill him, or both.
Amber didn't know whether he had ever encountered such a powerless situation when he was an emperor in his previous life. He only felt that he was holding a handful of quicksand in his hand. The tighter he held it, the faster it flowed away, just like the dying female insect in his arms.
If there were 43,200 seconds in the middle of the night, during 43,199 seconds, Amber couldn't help wanting to exchange the medicine for Ludwig's injuries. However, his terrifyingly rational brain had been stubbornly clinging to that last second of hesitation.
Not just to live, but to live without regrets.
After an unknown amount of time, the sun slowly rose and a ray of light appeared above the canyon.
Ludwig, who had been in a coma, miraculously opened his eyes. His vision was out of focus and his fingertips were frantically grasping in the air, as if he was desperately looking for something. It was not until Amber grabbed his hand that Ludwig suddenly calmed down.
"Your Excellency..."
He seemed to have lost his sight. His golden hair fell in front of his eyes. His amber pupils looked particularly empty. He asked softly,
"Is that you?"
Amber pressed her hand against his forehead and said hoarsely, "It's me."
Even though Ludwig's thoughts were in a mess, his brain still maintained a clear analytical ability: "Did we... fall into a canyon..."
Amber didn't know what to say, as if she had turned into a robot: "Yes."
Ludwig's face was pale and he was bleeding. He clenched his hands and said with difficulty: "Hold on... hold on for another day... I sent a call for help to Joyce before I fell... He will find this place soon and rescue you..."
What about you?
Amber exhaled slowly and hugged the female insect tighter: "Ludwig, let's go out together. We haven't had time to hold the wedding yet."
Ludwig murmured to himself: "Yeah... we haven't had time to get married yet..."
He was already unconscious, and he couldn't tell whether it was the cold or the pain. His left hand tightly grasped Amber, but his right hand couldn't help but touch his knees. The feeling of broken bones and flesh made Ludwig despair. Even if he was rescued, he would probably become a cripple.
"I have won countless battles in my life... I thought I could be recorded in history like Marshal Chirley... but now I have to stop here..."
Ludwig's pale cheeks were divided in the shadow of the stone wall, just like a flawless jade with a crack, which made people feel sad for no reason. His voice was hoarse, as if he had used up all his strength: "Sir... after you leave here alive... you can find a new queen... I thought I won... but I didn't expect that I still couldn't win my life..."
"You must be careful of Sivley... Although I knocked him off the cliff, he is cunning and has many tricks... There will definitely be variables..."
Amber's dark eyes turned red due to congestion. Emperors are not supposed to shed tears. However, his chest was filled with bitterness. He said in a deep voice: "Ludwig, you are my only queen, and it will only be you."
Ludwig, your life wasn't supposed to be like this...
You will be invincible as you imagined, and you will be the marshal of God's Kingdom as you imagined. You should not fall here, nor should you bow to fate.
Hearing this, Ludwig curled his lips slightly, revealing a relieved smile. He was as happy as a child: "Your Excellency... you know... I am really happy... because once the beast leaves its original place, the treasure it is guarding will be lost..."
He took off the iris ring on his finger with great difficulty. The gorgeous gemstone was stained with blood, which gave him a sense of sadness, like a withered flower. This was made for Ludwig by Duke Bach on his coming of age day using a long-lost Panamedo gemstone. It was unique and he never took it off for several years.
Ludwig slowly put the iris ring on Amber's ring finger and whispered earnestly, "Sir, this is my most precious thing..."
Its flower language is... freedom and redemption.
They all say that military females are extremely powerful, but just like ferocious beasts that must be put in shackles, military females can only survive under the oppression of male insects. Freedom and redemption are the things they desire most in their lives.
Amber subconsciously clenched the cold ring, his eyes were red and his breathing was trembling. He slowly lowered his head and saw that Ludwig in his arms had his eyes closed, and was so quiet as if he was asleep. His amber-colored hair was stained with blood and had become dark after oxidation, but it did not diminish his spirited and high-spirited look.
Suddenly, there seemed to be a chaotic sound of footsteps and shouting coming from outside. Joyce finally led the team to search here.
"Ludwig,"
The man spoke softly in the dark light and made a promise.
"We will meet again..."
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