Its body trembled as it saw countless people descending from the sky in the distance.
Hua Anning, Gu Yujing, Luo Xuan, Lu Yanhuai, Kulai, Ryan, Mira...
Familiar and unfamiliar alike surrounded it, shouting "Monster!" and then raised their knives.
The monsters' blood stained the earth, and they cried out that it was a sacrifice to the new world.
The monster was in pain; it was being dismembered repeatedly.
The sky is red.
Golden, sculpted patterns appeared on the skin of his chest, and a warm energy, like body temperature, awakened the unconscious monster.
The monster opened its eyes, and the shouting and killing people disappeared.
Chang Le suddenly came to his senses and realized what was happening.
It turns out that she was always afraid of merging, afraid that she would mutate into such a monster and be abandoned by the whole world.
The vines and tentacles slowly disappeared, and he returned to his normal human form.
Chang Le stood in the vast, desolate expanse of the yellow sand, his still-red eyes calm yet obsessive:
"Can Heaven tolerate the karma I have accumulated?"
"If you can't tolerate me, then try it. See if you can kill me."
"I'm not afraid of death, but I have to live."
Chang Le gazed at the distant tombstone one last time, then turned and left.
"The illusion cannot simulate my inner demons. My inner demons can no longer kill me. I will struggle to live on."
"Chang Le, you have passed the test."
The top three in psychological quality training are: Chang Le, Ma Yuanhong, and Si Yehong.
...
That night, after training, in the dormitory.
In the middle of the night, the training base was completely quiet.
Hua Anning heard a faint sound in her sleep. She opened her eyes and found Chang Le sitting at the desk, writing something.
"Lele?" Hua Anning sat up. "Why aren't you asleep? You have training tomorrow."
"Lele?"
There was no response.
Chang Le was engrossed in writing something, gripping the pen harder, deepening the marks on the characters, and making the writing more illegible.
Hua Anning then realized that something was wrong with her. She got out of bed and walked over quietly, not getting too close, and did not look at what she was writing. Instead, she looked down at her and observed her appearance.
I realized she was genuinely writing seriously and consciously, not sleepwalking, but her state of mind was off.
The closer she got, the more tense Chang Le's body became.
Hua Anning stopped, leaned down, and said softly, "Lele, let's wait for you to finish writing, and then go to sleep together, okay?"
Chang Le didn't react, but stopped writing. Hua Anning noticed that her hands were trembling.
She sat by the window, her legs curled up on the stool, looking very small.
Hua Anning felt a pang of sadness, but patiently said, "Lele, do you still want to write? Don't worry, I'll wait for you."
The person huddled on the stool suddenly trembled violently, as if from the cold, the convulsions of someone waking up from a nightmare, or extreme fear.
Chang Le suddenly reached out and tore the page in front of him, snapping it in half with a "rip." Hua Anning instinctively stepped forward and glimpsed two lines of text ripped and incomplete due to the creases:
"……sleep……
...smell...rotten..."
Hua Anning couldn't understand, so she looked away, about to speak. Suddenly, Chang Le squatted down.
Hua Anning slowly walked around and saw Chang Le huddled under the table, hurriedly closing the notebook, stuffing it into the space button, and then sitting blankly in the space under the table.
The torn piece of paper lay on the ground, the writing obscured.
Chang Le's appearance reminded Hua Anning of her when they first met. Knowing that Chang Le was not in a good state, Hua Anning simply squatted down with her without saying a word.
"……pain."
The barely audible sound startled Hua Anning. She turned her head and saw Chang Le clutching his chest, curled up in a ball, his face frighteningly pale.
"Lele, where does it hurt? Let your sister take a look, okay?" Hua Anning didn't care that she might frighten her.
Chang Le's empty eyes met Hua Anning's face, and a glimmer of clarity flashed across them. She reached out and grabbed Hua Anning's hand, crawling over and snuggling into her arms: "Sister, it hurts."
Seeing her clutching her chest, Hua Anning felt anxious, unsure whether it was due to psychological factors or the high-intensity training triggering an old injury: "Lele, let's go to the medical room."
"No, no..."
Chang Le struggled, and her expression finally revealed her usual state. She smiled at Hua Anning: "It's okay, I was just... sleepwalking. I'll be fine after a while."
Hua Anning couldn't believe it, but seeing that Chang Le was unwilling, she didn't want to force her to go to the medical room, so she stayed by her side until Chang Le calmed down.
"It's alright, sis, let's rest."
Hua Anning looked at her pale face, unable to say a harsh word, and carried her to the bed: "If you feel uncomfortable anywhere, you must not bear it yourself."
Exhausted from all the commotion, Chang Le soon fell asleep. Once her breathing had calmed down, Hua Anning tiptoed back to her own bedside.
She stopped, then suddenly remembered something, walked to the table, and picked up the paper from the floor.
After hesitating for a moment, I turned it over.
The moonlight cast a pale glow on Hua Anning's face.
There are more than two sentences on the paper:
I'm afraid to sleep
I smelled the stench of decay on myself.
"—A madman."
I still miss you
I'm going crazy
Why didn't you come to save me?
"Chang Le"
The madman's handwriting was distorted, while Chang Le's handwriting peeked through the back of the paper.
Hua Anning slumped down, covered her eyes, and cried silently for a long time.
The person on the bed opened their eyes at some point, staring at the ceiling without making a sound.
...
the next day.
"Sister, I brought you breakfast."
When Hua Anning woke up, Chang Le had already brought back breakfast, looking as usual and full of energy.
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