Island No. 03.
The feeling of weightlessness and the force of her feet hitting the ground came one after the other. Hua Changle bent her knees to absorb the force and reached out to support Hua Yuezhi. She did not let go during the teleportation.
Hua Changle looked around and found themselves in the peculiar room where the ceremony had been prepared.
The devastation left by the seawater during the last battle remains unchanged. It seems that after Dong Gui left, he has remained on the battlefield within Fuyou City and has not returned here.
"Third Brother, over here."
Hua Changle helped him sit down to the side and said, "Third Brother, you should focus on recovering. I'll go find the mechanism first. Kazmir should be here soon, so you should focus on healing your injuries."
Hua Yuezhi nodded slightly and sat cross-legged.
Hua Changle then got up and walked to the center.
In the center of the room, the pillar was still there, but the semi-circular vessel on it was gone.
After a moment's thought, Hua Changle placed her hands on the pillar. She activated the unknown energy fused within her origin, and immediately, the pillar vibrated gently.
"It's actually here!"
Hua Changle exclaimed in delight.
She hadn't expected to find the place with the strongest energy resonance so easily, which was also the place where the first Beixun whale mutated.
Therefore, the Beixun whale is the true source of energy supporting the arrival, and it is right below.
Recalling the mechanism that Salgano used to raise the central container that day, Hua Changle was about to move when a surge of energy appeared in the room, the passage opened again, and Kazmir arrived!
"drop……"
Kazmir stepped out of the teleportation portal, his slightly long black hair damp with seawater, falling over his eyebrows, and below were his cold eyes.
His body was covered in burn marks from lightning, and moisture mixed with the blood seeping from his wounds dripped down, making him look quite gruesome.
Even when Kazmir was injured, Hua Changle was no match for him.
Hua Changle's muscles tensed involuntarily, but he did not take a single step back.
As for Kazmir, the more you fear him and avoid him as his enemy, the more he will want to torture and kill you.
Kazmir glanced indifferently at Hua Yuezhi, who was healing, and then looked at the person in front of him. His anger subsided somewhat.
He simply stood firmly beside the metal pillar, unmoved as a mountain.
Hua Changle was helpless.
Kazmir is stalling for time! But she can't afford to wait!
She had to hurry and open the mechanism to determine if the hidden Northern Xun Whale was the true source. If so, the base had to eliminate it immediately.
Otherwise, if it summons more entities from the Bein, it will likely cause a catastrophe not only for the Zhumen base and the Northern Whale Islands, but for the entire northern part of Middle-earth!
“Look,” Kazmir suddenly spoke, his voice tinged with a hint of sarcasm.
"You chose the side with the lowest chance of winning. How stupid of you."
Hua Changle calmly retorted: "It's not over yet, how can we say who will win or lose?"
"Oh."
"You're so stubborn."
"Little dog, if I didn't have a sliver of forgiveness for you, do you think you'd still be standing here talking to me?"
Hua Changle did not deny it, and chuckled magnanimously: "Then I really have to thank Black King for his kind heart and for forgiving me, this...maw of dust."
Kazmir suddenly sighed softly, a look of regret appearing between his brows:
“Ah Jiu, Ah Jiu, you should have been shining alongside the gods, instead of being like a trapped beast struggling for its life, at the mercy of others.”
“You are different. You clearly have a potential a thousand times greater than others to witness the destruction and rebirth of the world. Yet you are short-sighted and misled by those hypocrites, and have fallen to this point, standing alone against me.”
"Look how pathetic you are. You've abandoned your glory, abandoned your gods, have no allies, no companions, no one to rely on... all you have left is a pitiful life."
The more he spoke, the more regretful he became, the more compassionate his expression, but the more mockery his eyes held.
Like a Buddhist disciple who has fallen into demonic possession, or an elegant madman dancing in the rainy night.
Hua Changle was momentarily stunned.
One thing Kazmir said really struck a chord with her.
Abandon...no...
Having come this far, she has faced this situation many times: with only one life, she lives hunched over and curled up in a corner of this vast world.
The wind and snow may not have touched me, but my heart is cold.
That can be called—loneliness.
But, but, loneliness does not mean pitifulness, loneliness does not mean being helpless and alone.
Loneliness is an inevitable journey of independent walking, an inevitable self-discipline.
Loneliness is a state of mind.
Hua Changle looked at Kazmir without pity or mockery, simply recounting the events calmly:
"Kazmir, you're wrong. I'm not pitiful. The pitiful one is you."
Kazmir's expression changed slightly.
She continued:
"I have no way of knowing your past, but I think you may have fallen from a noisy mountaintop, and thus fear loneliness, yet also depend on it."
But I am not.
I enjoy solitude, but I don't reject others entering my world.
"You say I should shine with the gods? Then I ask you, what are the gods? And where are they?"
Hua Changle pointed out the window, above the lake, in the sky, and the "god" he spoke of was the instigator of this war.
"That ball? Or what you believe to be something that could destroy the world and restart civilization?"
"Kazmir, that's not a god, that's what you desire, that's your selfishness!"
"Shut up." Kazmir's gaze was sharp, as if he were about to devour someone.
Instead of retreating, Hua Changle stepped forward, her clear eyes fixed on him:
"You say I'm depraved, you say I'm pathetic, you say I'm all alone?"
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