Chapter 95 The Final Feast of Revelry (Fifteen) Why is there not even one behind me...?
"Are you crazy?"
Hu Tiankui could hardly believe his eyes. He felt dizzy and disoriented. All the beautiful scenes he had imagined shattered in an instant, vanishing as his hands fell limply to his sides.
And all of this stemmed from a single, calm cut made by this woman.
"What good will doing this do you?" Hu Tiankui asked blankly. The blindfold was made of the latest material. It did not slip off during the patient's struggle before death, but instead wrapped even tighter. Hu Tiankui could even clearly see the arc of the bulging blood vessels on the surface of the eyeball.
"There's no benefit to it."
Li Yueyuan spoke calmly, her expression not like that of someone who had completed a near-perfect betrayal, or someone whose long-planned conspiracy had finally succeeded.
She even bent down and slowly stitched up Gu Xi's wound, and Hu Tiankui saw sadness on that face as if he had seen a ghost.
Although the sadness was fleeting, as quick as if it had never happened.
"Then why did you do this? Do you know what you've destroyed? No... you know, of course you know, no one knows better than you damned rebels! You destroyed her, you destroyed this surgery that could have created a god!"
"fail?"
Li Yueyuan's jaw muscles twitched a few times, and the corners of his mouth curled up, revealing a mocking expression that was neither a smile nor a frown. His hands did not stop moving. He flipped the back of the scalpel that had cut into Gu Xi's brain and removed all of her brain tissue, and opened the wound. An unidentified object fell in at a speed that was almost invisible.
"Mortals cannot look directly at the gods."
Hu Tiankui subconsciously took a step forward, but before he could question Li Yueyuan about what she was doing, he saw the woman on the other side of the glass casually spread her hands. The Holy Grail, which had been swaying on one side of the scale and had not been stared at for a long time, looked like a stray dog smelling meat. As soon as Li Yueyuan's outstretched fingers relaxed, the Holy Grail suddenly landed in her palm.
"No way—"
The word "can" was still stuck in his chest, about to be uttered, but he was frozen in place due to intense shock. For a moment, Hu Tiankui's mind went blank, and he couldn't even remember where he was, because his hands, which were hanging limply at the sides of the operating table, suddenly twitched a few times.
The movement was too small, but Hu Tiankui would never ignore it. It was like the warm-up roar of a train engine before it started, a tiny tremor followed by a passionate speed like chasing the wind and the moon, the first breath that heralded a new life.
Gu Xi found it hard to describe her current feelings. Her brain had been forcibly removed, and the anesthesia had worn off. She should have felt pain—but she didn't.
The enchanting singing grew louder as it approached, and a strange warmth emanated from my heart. My muscles and bones thirstily absorbed it all, and my consciousness began to drift uncontrollably from the moment I opened my eyes after being released from the amniotic fluid, to when I started to speak, to going to school, to meeting Gu Tu, to lying on the operating table...
More than twenty years passed like flowing water, flashing quickly and vividly before Gu Xi's eyes. She not only recalled all the vague and forgotten memories, but also, in the flashbacks, she quickly examined all the memories from the perspective of a superior bystander, finding many contradictions in them.
I see.
Gu Xi suddenly realized that the melodious music in her ears was becoming clearer, as if it was telling a long-ago story.
She looked up, and the cloth strip tied to her face was still there, but Gu Xi could now clearly "see" everything around her—just like how she had been covered by a cloth strip just now, but had clearly seen the face of the gentleman in charge who was destined to be with her.
Everything has changed.
Although Gu Xi had never remembered the past as clearly as she did at this moment, in the process of viewing these memories of more than twenty years, she clearly "saw" the emotions of the past being extracted. All the joys and aversions of the girl named Gu Xi had left home and drifted away into the eternally rolling gray fog.
I'm ready.
Gu Xi sat up with her eyes covered, and all the restraints snapped instantly. Although she didn't say anything, everyone inside and outside the operating room "heard" her words through the thick protective glass.
It's a pity, this feeling is too peculiar, she wanted to savor it a little longer...
As the last vestiges of human emotion flashed through her mind, Gu Xi's lips slowly curved into a gentle smile, yet one that was inexplicably unsettling to look directly at.
She could "see" the deep sadness hidden in Li Yueyuan's eyes, but she also believed in Li Yueyuan's determination.
"All right."
The doctor, who seemed to never have much emotional fluctuation, shrugged. His eyes were deep and unreadable. The Holy Grail held in his palm swayed gently. Although it was empty, the sound of water flowing could be heard from it.
The sound grew louder and more urgent, like the tides rising on the moonlit sea, or a silent urging.
"Alright."
Li Yueyuan repeated herself, taking a deep breath, "If this continues, the two gods will become impatient."
Amidst the increasingly turbulent sound of the waves, the melodious singing in Gu Xi's ears became clearer and faster, to the point that it completely ruined the tune and almost turned into hysterical screams.
Gu Xi tilted her head and listened for a while, sensing everything. Without her urging, Li Yueyuan stared at the outer layer of the Holy Grail, at the increasingly bright patterns, as if he were calculating something. When the last circle of patterns was about to fill the halo, he suddenly raised the Holy Grail and pointed the mouth of the cup at Gu Xi's head!
Clang—
"Hmm... Humph!"
Along with the sound of the metal cup hitting the ground, there was also a muffled groan of extreme pain.
The dark brown trophy, now covered in patina and stripped of all its luster, rolled to the ground. This trophy, which had stirred up a storm of bloodshed in the lower city, had rolled into a corner and was now ignored.
Li Yueyuan clutched her left hand, which had just been holding the Holy Grail, in agony. Her hands trembled uncontrollably, emitting white smoke like red-hot metal.
Li Yueyuan's hair, which had been tightly pressed against her scalp, suddenly bristled up like a hedgehog encountering its natural enemy. She nearly gritted her teeth to pieces, then grabbed a brand new scalpel, no longer hesitating, and swung it sharply, dodging the hand whose skin was beginning to melt and had become like tentacles.
Hu Tiankui stared blankly at everything before him: Gu Xi's "resurrection," the Holy Grail's "walking into the trap," and Li Yueyuan's severed tentacle wriggling on the floor. In the midst of the chaos, a glimmer of light appeared in his mind, and he finally understood what had happened.
The Holy Grail would naturally abandon the Gentlemen's Club and resolutely follow Li Yueyuan.
After all, they had worked so hard for so long, and no matter how much they had interfered with the fate of the miners, could there be anything as bold as Li Yueyuan's single, light stroke that directly cleaved open the head of a god?
How could the ripples in the spirit world they created possibly compare to those of Li Yueyuan?
"Xi... Miss Gu, you—"
[Shh. 】
The girl held up an index finger to her lips. Although she had already gained extraordinary power, she did not leave the operating table. Those protective measures should be as ridiculous as children's toys in her eyes.
"Click, click, click..."
A rhythmic, chewing-like sound came from somewhere. It was only after this strange sound appeared that Hu Tiankui suddenly remembered a question.
Besides myself, several high-ranking members of the Gentlemen's Guild were also here at the dock.
But after all this time, why is there not even a single breath behind me?
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Author's Note: Apologies for the brevity, I've been working like crazy for the past three days. I hope this week will be over soon so I can write more.
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