After watching Kulei finish her playful antics, Chang Le tilted her head back, crossed her arms, and walked forward, with the others following her.
The setting sun cast its golden-red hue upon their backs as Chang Le watched them.
They were both at the street corner when they suddenly turned around and waved to her: "Lele! Come on!"
In that instant, the glow of the sea of clouds and the rosy light bathed their faces.
Their smiles were brighter than the sunset, unrestrained and flamboyant, etched in our memories, never to fade.
Chang Le smiled with relief and replied softly, "Okay, please... wait for me."
The scene indeed vanished and then reformed.
“What are my closest friends? They are the ones I love without reservation.” Chang Le gently touched his chest, which was pounding with heartbeats. “This is happiness from my friends.”
"This is hell!! Can't you hear the wails of so many innocent souls who have died?"
Chang Le looked up and saw Fu Guang, the same thin, weak, and disillusioned boy she had met when they first met, standing to her side.
Fu Guang pounded the ground in anguish, his voice shattered: "There are no gods! The gods cannot hear the cries of those who truly suffer!!"
Chang Le tried to move forward, but found she couldn't move. The ground beneath her feet was like a conveyor belt, propelling her forward.
Fragments of memories kept replaying in my mind's eye on both sides.
"I want to destroy this world!" An elegant madman, dressed in the guise of an aristocrat, danced under the dim lights, with a blood-soaked ballroom behind him.
"Captain Liang, time is precious. With you all here, I feel at ease." Despite having a broken hand and operating the code with only one hand, Engineer Liu Kang endured the pain to reassure the mecha team and race against time for the Northern Frontier Campaign.
"I'm not afraid of wind and rain, I'm only afraid of living a meaningless life." Tao Zi, a girl who was only sixteen or seventeen years old, gave up her comfortable family background for her friend and plunged into the dark vortex of Spymagor to investigate alone.
Then came a series of bloody storms.
In 032, extraterrestrial alien species descended on a large scale;
The world was thrown into chaos in 060 by the No. 001 God-Making Laboratory;
142 years later, the deification faction launched a purge;
In 298, a massive surge of alien species over the ocean and into Chaohai City occurred.
In 388, the Battle of the North began with the arrival of Bein;
400 years later, the mutants revolted, and the [Shadow of Calamity] descended...
She walked through all the fierce bloodshed and carnage of the Cataclysmic Era, and witnessed too much cruel war and the hardships of survival.
When she stood at the end, at the highest point, she reached out her hand, choosing to dispel the fog and choose to protect.
"Because my parents and relatives taught me to be kind, I dare not forget the conscience in my heart."
"I have protected that human world completely for another three hundred years."
Chang Le looked up at a certain spot: "Perhaps you don't understand, but this is roughly the happiness that comes from all living beings."
"Although I sometimes feel resentful, I have no regrets."
"Yin Tong, have you sensed any of this?"
After a moment of silence, a voice descended from the sky: "I remember, this is called 'happiness'."
Chang Le let out a long sigh of relief, closed his eyes, and said softly, "Little one, this time, it's really goodbye. I'm going home."
After saying that, she leaned back and her body sank into the seawater again, but it was no longer warm; instead, it was icy cold.
For the last time, I bid farewell to the past and send off past happiness.
...
If time could stand still, perhaps life would lose its meaning.
It is because of regrets that we understand how precious the happiness we have experienced, both in the past and in the present, truly is.
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