Chapter 253: Scene 3 (Inverted V) The cracks slowly appeared in Shuzi's words...
"Be careful, it's them!" The girl grabbed He Yuezhe's hand and pulled her behind her.
He Yuezhe stood behind her and looked back at the eye in the crack.
That eye, with no white in it, no pupil, was completely black. If you stared at it intently, it would seem as if it wanted to suck your marrow out of you, tear you apart and devour you, as if it would devour you in the next second.
She blinked, and then the voice rang out again: "Really? Long time no see, Miss Shuzi."
"You finally found us." The girl, Shuzi, protected He Yuezhe behind her and spoke in a deep voice.
"Of course, hehehe," the eyes let out a strange laugh. "Shuzi, I didn't expect that after all these years, you still hate us and try to rebel against us."
“…”
"But do you really think you'll succeed?"
"Is that what you came here to say?"
"No, no." He blinked again, a strange energy wave emanating from him. "I'm here to warn you."
The energy fluctuation was extremely strong, so strong that almost the moment He Yuezhe realized its appearance, it had already wrapped around He Yuezhe's throat and whole body. It was baring its fangs and claws, trying to evoke the most desperate emotion in He Yuezhe's heart.
But perhaps because she had experienced a lot in different worlds, He Yuezhe found that she was not affected by this energy.
Shuzi, who was sitting in a wheelchair, showed no emotion. She said, "I say the same thing to you. After all these years, I didn't expect you to still be so despicable, so stupid, and so arrogant."
"'Despicable'? 'Foolish and arrogant'?" His eyes sneered, "Hahahahaha, Miss Shuzi is indeed the human who understands us best. She truly deserves to be our 'savior'."
“…”
"Thinking back to the past, our world was on the verge of collapse several times, but it was our Miss Shuzi who personally saved it, saved us, and showed us the way to your world."
“…”
"Hey, Miss Shuzi, we really don't know how to repay you."
"Will you watch your world fall apart, or will you become a 'thing' like us?"
"Have you said enough?"
"No, no, Miss Shuzi, have you ever regretted anything? Have you ever hated anything?" The voice in her eyes became increasingly frantic. "Tell us, tell us! Do you regret what you've done? Do you hate yourself?! It was you, you who destroyed your world with your own hands, and you actually claim to want to save it under such a banner!? You are clearly more shameless than us, more stupid than us, and more arrogant than us!!"
“…”
“…”
"Is this your warning?" Shuzi seemed completely unaffected by the words of the eyes. She said slowly, "Warning me, making me afraid and afraid to attack you again?"
"you……"
"Or are you not warning me, but just running to me like crazy for no apparent reason because you can't stop me?"
“…”
"With your means, you should have discovered me long ago, right?" Shuzi continued, "Then why did you wait until now? Are you afraid? Afraid that I would do that thing again, afraid that your world would be destroyed again?"
“…”
The crack slowly closed as Shuzi spoke.
"Despair is your usual tactic, but do you know?"
“…”
"It is despair that makes us understand the importance of unity, allowing us to be reborn, become strong, become invincible and capable of anything."
“…”
The crack closed.
In the silence, Shuzi slowly exhaled.
"Sorry, did I scare you?" Shuzi turned around and looked at He Yuezhe with an apologetic smile. "I thought they would find this place, but I didn't expect it to be today."
“…” He Yuezhe remained silent.
She looked at the girl in front of her who seemed fragile but was actually so strong.
The eyes said that it was Shuzi who saved their world and destroyed his own world. However, in the face of such words, Shuzi did not show any emotion, as if he had heard it thousands of times.
"You..." He Yuezhe spoke hesitantly.
But Shuzi interrupted him: "You want to ask me if what it said is true, right?"
"……Um."
"What it says is true."
“…”
"My initial success in saving the world wasn't just a dream; it was a real event," Shuzi said. "I did save a world, but it wasn't our world. It was their world."
"Indeed, it was because of me that they were able to invade our world and occupy it."
"I..." Shuzi frowned. "When I later learned the truth, I was devastated. At that time, I felt that everything I did was wrong. My efforts and persistence had actually harmed humanity."
"I feel like I'm a sinner. I deserve to die, be hacked into pieces, and be despised by everyone."
“…”
"But on the day I bought the medicine, explained everything, and decided to die, I opened the drawer of my desk and saw my diary inside."
Shuzi turned around and said, "On the first day, I had a dream yesterday. I dreamed that there was a tsunami in the world and everyone died. It was so scary. I hope I won't have such a dream again in the future."
"The next day, my phone actually started talking. It told me that the tsunami in my dream was really going to happen, and that I could start saving the world according to the schedule it had arranged for me."
"Hey, high school students saving the world and all that is fine in novels, but if it really happened, I don't want to save the world at all. I still have to study, I have to take the college entrance exam, I still have parents, I still have friends and classmates, hey, I don't want to be a savior, I don't want to leave them, I just want to be an ordinary student."
"'Why should such a heavy burden fall on me alone?' I thought to myself at the time, and then my phone said it would grant me one wish if I successfully saved the world."
"I asked it, can it resurrect a person and keep all her previous state?"
“It said, yes.”
"I asked again, then, is it possible to make a person immortal?"
“It paused and said, ‘That’s fine.’”
"At that time, just to revive my deskmate, I embarked on this ridiculous action of saving the world."
"Because I still had to go to school, I could only save the world at night. At that time, I almost never got enough sleep. I was exhausted from classes every day. My test scores once dropped. The teacher's criticism and my parents' concern all became a heavy burden on my shoulders."
"While bandaging my wounds, I looked in the mirror at my wounded, haggard self, then at the blood-red score on the test paper. For the first time, I truly realized the weight of this burden."
"That's everyone's life, that's the civilization of an entire world, and it all rests on my shoulders."
"But, even under such a heavy burden, I don't know why I didn't give up. Yes, I didn't give up. Step by step, I walked so far and was so tired, but I didn't give up."
"My diary records what I did every day and how I felt. As for me, I looked at all the things I had done and how much effort I put in, and tears started flowing uncontrollably."
“I asked myself, you have tried so hard, why haven’t you succeeded?”
"I asked myself, if you have come this far, why do you want to die?"
“…”
"I looked at the words 'To be continued, but I will definitely save the world!' written on the last page of my diary," Shuzi sighed. "I cried so hard, but I couldn't cry out loud because I couldn't let my parents hear me and worry them."
"But, perhaps it was telepathy, or perhaps it was due to something else, my door was knocked and pushed open, and my mother came in with a plate of fruit."
"She said, 'My dear, you look so haggard these past few days. Are you too exhausted from studying? It's okay. It doesn't matter if you can't get into a good university, but you can't exhaust yourself. Your health is your capital. If your body collapses, then you..."
"Her words stopped abruptly."
"She looked at me crying, closed the door, said nothing, and quietly put down the plate of fruit before hugging me."
"She said, 'Baby, what happened? Can you tell mommy?' And then she said, 'Baby, don't cry. Eat some fruit, eat some fruit. The newly bought watermelon is very sweet, especially sweet. It's so sweet that it will make you forget all the pain.'"
"I know she saw the medicines I bought. She herself had that disease and she knew what those medicines were used for."
"But she just gently put them aside, squatted next to me and fed me the fruit."
"One bite, one bite, that watermelon was so sweet. I still remember it now. That watermelon was sweeter than any other watermelon I've ever eaten."
Shuzi wiped his eyes and said, "It's so sweet that it can really make people forget all the pain."
“…”
"Later, I didn't die. I put the medicine in a drawer and continued to study hard and save the world."
"He Yuezhe," Shuzi turned his head and looked at He Yuezhe with red eyes, "Those things are indeed true, so if you want to leave, I..."
"No," He Yuezhe shook his head, "It's not your fault."
“…”
"So, I won't leave."
Shuzi then smiled and said, "That's great, thank you."
"You're welcome."
"Oh, by the way, I haven't told you my name yet."
"Um?"
"I'm Shuzi, Lin Shuzi, you can call me Shuzi."
"Lin Shuzi, what a nice name. Nice to meet you, Shuzi."
"Nice to meet you, too." Shuzi smiled and pushed his wheelchair toward the center of the garden. "It's a good thing you got to see them today too. How did you feel?"
"I don't feel anything." He Yuezhe followed her and answered truthfully.
"It seems to be very successful."
"success?"
"Yes, without interfering with your emotions, and without losing hope because of their energy." Shuzi turned around and said, "Okay, He Yuezhe, come here."
"Um."
"They came here today, firstly to scare us and stop us from taking any action, and secondly, to mark this place so they can occupy it someday."
"So, we don't have much time."
“…”
"He Yuezhe, you once said that you came here to save your friends, so I think it's necessary for me to let you meet them before our operation officially begins."
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The author has something to say: Shuzi is really a very strong child.
By the way, now it’s the final stage. Although I try very hard to update daily, I still get stuck sometimes, so I may take a break in the middle, but I promise it won’t end badly!
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