Chapter 120 A Promise Worth a Thousand Pieces of Gold (Part 8) An Era Where No One Is Happy, No One Is Miserable...
Seeds?!
After all that, the original owner actually gave the element seed to Tian Yinuo? Du Yu suddenly felt a sense of absurdity, as if he had been busy for a long time, only to find that what he wanted was right at the starting point.
But the joy in Du Yu's eyes froze the next moment.
Tian Yinuo didn't ask any questions. She picked up the silver pearl and swallowed it. After a moment, her eyes were glazed over. She shook her head in a daze, and her confused gaze seemed to focus only when it met "Du Yu".
“Miss, these orchids are so beautiful, it would be such a waste to pull them out. Shao Yan over there doesn’t even pay attention to them… Uh, Young Master Bian is very busy and may not come to visit the garden. There’s no need to turn the garden into a lotus lake.”
The familiar persuasion came again, but "Du Yu" seemed oblivious to anything amiss. The complex emotions in her eyes were as if they had never existed. She gave a nonchalant snort and said, "Fine, I'm too lazy to change it. Let the gardener restore it tomorrow."
I'm so tired.
"You idiot, you've ruined my shopping experience. I'm leaving... What are you spacing out for? Hurry up and catch up!"
Goodbye, Yi Nuo.
The familiar duet sound rang in Du Yu's ears again, but she had no time to analyze its deeper meaning. The "sound" after Tian Yinuo swallowed the pearl made Du Yu's heart sink to the bottom.
The pearl was made of pure energy. Although the total amount was not large, the purity and operation of that energy were very unique. The only similar energy body that Du Yu could think of at the moment was his own purple fire.
Du Yu had actually studied why her fighting style was simple yet effective, and the characteristics of the purple fire played a large part in it.
Although it takes the form of flame, the "burning" of the purple flame does not require any consumption. Instead, it can continuously draw energy from the surrounding environment and burn brighter and brighter without requiring much effort to control it.
Moreover, the traits of superhumans are actually incredibly diverse. If used properly, a few low-level superhumans working together can easily outwit and kill a high-level superhuman.
However, regardless of the level, the influence of traits on purple fire is very low.
Purple fire possesses a unique "purity." The nature of flame is combustion, so nothing can stop it from burning. Whether facing flames, invisibility, physical entities, or intangible entities, wherever the eye can see, that is the breeding ground for flames.
That's the feeling Du Yu got from that pearl. It had a very pure quality that was unaffected by external forces. However, perhaps because he hadn't been in contact with it for long, Du Yu couldn't yet discern the effect of this quality.
However, the unique structure of both the purple fire and the silver pearl indicates that their energy is difficult for outsiders to control. Du Yu could "see" that the pearl, which was very docile on the petals, exploded with pure energy almost the instant it entered Tian Yinuo's body. This was the cause of Tian Yinuo's dazed state. In fact, if it weren't for the protection of another strange energy, Tian Yinuo wouldn't just be suffering from short-term amnesia, but would have been blown into an idiot.
That inexplicable energy was nowhere near as pure as the silver pearl's energy, but it seemed to have reached some kind of agreement with it, only covering up Tian Yinuo's recent memories before subsiding and settling peacefully into the unfamiliar environment.
But that's the tricky part. The new energy should be Tian Yinuo's special ability that was activated and automatically protected its owner. Although it has reached a delicate balance with the silver pearl, the two energies are also entangled in the past. Trying to take out the pearl now is almost equivalent to "dissecting" Tian Yinuo's special qualities.
In other words, Tian Yinuo will also die after the seed is removed.
Moreover, it wasn't just this crack; Du Yu could sense that this pearl was "unique." If she obtained the seed here, Tian Yinuo would die from the power surge the moment she returned to the real world.
Du Yu clearly knew this, but still made the request, and Tian Yinuo agreed!
"The seeds are still very active right now, so they're easy to extract. But once we get back to the normal timeline, it'll be a bit more difficult to extract them."
You Shi's persistent voice drifted over. Du Yu turned his head slightly, and You Shi, who had somehow gotten close to Tian Yinuo's back, smiled at Du Yu, who continued forward with his back to her, completely unaware.
"You don't still retain those boring human morals, do you?"
Seeing Du Yu remain silent, You Shi's smile widened, his tone respectful yet tinged with mockery: "There will indeed be confusion in the transition from man to god, but my dear, once you decide to embark on this path, the battle to the death begins, and useless mercy will only harm everyone."
"If you cannot bear to kill one person today, tens of thousands of people will die because of you in the future."
Do you know how the rebels failed?
Yu Shi's smile grew increasingly sarcastic: "He was the closest person in history to that position, only slightly less than you are now. But you've seen his end; he was betrayed by the person he trusted most and fell from heaven to hell."
"If you're in such a hurry, why don't you go and get the seed yourself?"
You Shi's expression remained unchanged. He jumped off Tian Yinuo's back, opened his mouth to speak, but was interrupted by Du Yu: "Is it that you don't want to? Or that you can't?"
Tian Yinuo scratched her neck, oblivious to everything. Du Yu watched her back and said in a calm tone, "No matter how you got in, you still came through the back door. You probably can't even touch the core things in the rift, right?"
"You've been lying to me since you came in. You knew it was impossible to destroy the Fenglan Orchid Field in front of me, but you still did it anyway, just to make me feel a sense of urgency?"
“You clearly know more information than I do, and your understanding of spacetime rifts is also stronger than mine. You can even change the flow of time within spacetime rifts... You have no reason not to get ahead of me and retrieve that seed.”
"Then there's only one possibility: you can't do it."
Yu Shi was silent for a moment, then suddenly spoke up: "After saying all that, you're actually just trying to hide the fact that you don't really want to kill this little lackey. If only your heart were as hard as your mouth."
"Even if you want to take it, you should wait until you're gone. It's disgusting to see flies floating on your bowl while you're eating."
"The fly just wants to get some food in your bowl. It doesn't want to die in there. It's already pitiful enough. Why drive it away?"
Even though she had been annoyed by her many times, Du Yu was still taken aback by You Shi's shamelessness. She frowned uncomfortably and turned her head to look at the distance. "I can't do anything about her. Are you just going to watch her like this and let her in to disgust people?"
"Sigh, I thought I hid it well, but I haven't worked for so long that my skills have deteriorated."
Du Yu and Tian Yinuo had already left the garden and returned to the villa in a hovercar. As Du Yu uttered those words, the exquisite villa area suddenly shook, and then, like a curtain being rolled up after a movie, a corner of the "villa" was lifted up, and a figure emerged from the darkness.
"Friend, you're not keeping your word."
He clapped his hands before the deadline, not noticing Yu Shi's smile suddenly freeze beside him, and sighed again at Du Yu, only to be met with a cold, unforgiving laugh:
"Come on, you know this place better than I do. Do you think I need to let you out?"
"Tian Tian is still the cutest. I hate talking to you smart people."
"What are you doing here? Weren't you dead?!"
Yu Shi's expression shifted between light and dark, eventually settling on a strange sense of grievance—like a penniless creditor eating a cornbread when he accidentally saw a deadbeat driving a sports car and surrounded by male models.
"Smack."
However, when facing Yushi, Linqi suddenly lost the patience she had for Du Yushi. She waved her hand as if shooing away flies, and a few orchid petals, like tape, crossed and covered Yushi's mouth.
"Finally, it's quiet."
Linqi let out a long breath, and casually grabbed at the air. The space was instantly torn open like a curtain, rolling up a piece that wrapped You Shi completely.
Du Yu looked curiously at the colorful black hole revealed after the "space" was torn apart. A reminder from Linqi sounded behind him: "Be careful. Even if you are accidentally caught in the black hole of the spacetime turbulence, you can only create a new clone."
"I think my acting is pretty good, right? How did you find out?"
Can you call it good acting if someone inexplicably follows you, provides subtle guidance, or creates strange spatial rifts?
Du Yu gave Lin Qi a deep look, then shrugged. "Just assume I have exceptionally sharp hearing."
"Tsk, how unlovable."
Aren't you going to explain?
"Why are you in such a hurry? This is such a complicated matter. Shouldn't I think about how to explain it?"
Linqi shook his head, pulled out a chair from somewhere, then a cup of black tea. He took a sip before speaking, reminiscing:
"I didn't mean to hide it, it's just been too long, my memory had become rusted, and my brain only started working again after I entered the rift..."
She didn't care whether Du Yu believed her or not, and shook her head while drinking tea. "Let's talk about what you're most interested in first. The key to opening this spacetime rift was indeed entrusted to me by Du Yu."
The guess was confirmed, but a new question arose. Du Yu lowered his eyes to look at the rising steam from the teacup: "To protect that seed?"
Yes and no.
Just before his due date, he picked up his teacup and drank it all in one gulp, his voice betraying no hint that he was joking.
"Actually, you should have just killed Tiantian. That would have freed everyone."
"Aren't you friends?"
"In this world, dying is much happier than living."
Linqi casually tossed the teacup into the air, his usually lazy voice surprisingly turning melancholic: "Kill Tiantian and take the seed, the last struggle is in vain, that one fills the gap in [fate], the final judgment arrives, death will soothe all injustice, anger, and pain, no one will be happy in this era and no one will die peacefully, the living will see the peaceful bones of the dead—just like now."
As she spoke, her voice grew louder and louder. She suddenly stood up and approached Du Yu step by step. Her eyes, trembling with pain, almost met Du Yu's eyes. She stared at Du Yu as if she wanted to get a knowing but desperate answer from her.
"So, if it's so painful, why cling to the truth, chew on despair and keep going, only to fall into an abyss of no return, until even your corpse is devoured by jackals?"
Looking into those pained eyes, Du Yu was inexplicably reminded of her past life, the afternoon when she was eighteen and standing in the classroom, asking Chen Xingzhi a question, before anything had happened. She had stood there for a long time, staring at a line of chalk writing on the blackboard.
The traveler should know where the road leads, for it is a journey destined to be one of solitude and hardship.
Without answering Linqi's question, Du paused for a moment, then raised his hand to wipe away the tear stains at the corners of his eyes.
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Author's Note: I don't want to spread negativity, but if you've read this far, can you tell me what's keeping you going? [pity] I'm currently experiencing intense internal conflict. [crying]
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