Uncle Fu ran to adjust the surveillance in the palace.
In the camera, from the very beginning when the boy left with the plate, everything was normal until he walked into the room with the small lamp.
The moment I opened the door, it was like opening Pandora's box, and everything started to go out of control.
The plate falling on the carpet was like a signal.
Even through the screen, they could feel the boy's struggle as he was engulfed by fear in those few short seconds.
They are no strangers to the gesture of the time lamp.
The time light is sick.
Uncle Fu felt a chill in his bones for no reason, and said in a trembling voice: "...Quick! Go to Xiao Deng's room and check!"
There was no surveillance camera in the bedroom. He watched the time light stay in there for a short while and then come out again, returning the same way he came with a strange smile on his face.
The old man's not-so-cloudy eyes could see clearly that the young man had spilled something in their food, and Yuan Ting almost ate it.
Uncle Fu had followed the time lamp back so many times, but this time was the one he feared the most.
I've never been so scared.
He no longer wanted to know what was sprinkled in the food. He only prayed for one thing:
The little lamp is fine.
Ever since Shi Ge'er disappeared, for unknown reasons, the leader lost control of the Yellow Spring. Until now, the Yellow Spring still lies across Shenhu City.
The leader could no longer perform the time reversal as before. At most, he could only use this ability on flowers and plants, or in a small area.
What if Xiao Deng really died at the hands of the leader, and the leader woke up and found out that he had killed him...
Uncle Fu simply didn't dare to think about it any further.
I'm afraid the moment he wakes up, the leader will go crazy.
When they rushed into Xiaodeng's room, everyone was prepared for the worst. When Xiaodeng fell off the bed in a daze and tried to crawl out, he looked up and saw four shocked faces.
The little lamp collapsed weakly: "The time lamp is sick."
Yuan Ting walked over nervously, picked him up and shook him: "Are you okay?!"
Xiao Deng: "... Fortunately, where is the time light?"
He tried so hard to hold his breath when his neck was being strangled that he almost passed out. He was dizzy for a while before he woke up after the light left.
Just at this moment, a violent supernatural wave came from the next room, and a time chain was pulled out of control towards the wall, and with a bang, it shattered the partition between the small lamp and the time lamp bedroom.
When everyone looked over, the scene inside Shi Deng's bedroom came into view.
The boy held his head in pain. There were water stains on the ground, scattered green stars, discarded medicine bottles, and falling pills. Everything around him was in chaos.
It was obvious that he could no longer control his supernatural powers, and the time chain was indiscriminately attacking everything around him.
“They are all dead…”
He banged his head again and again, laughing and sobbing.
The pills he swallowed started to take effect. Shi Deng was on the edge of sanity and madness, and everything he had just done emerged clearly in his mind.
Xiao Deng's flushed face, her weak struggle, the caring and trusting eyes of his companions and Uncle Fu, the medicine he put in the food...all became a huge needle, piercing deeply into his mind.
The indescribable pain split this virtual world apart, and he realized that this world was real.
So what did he do?
Shi Deng developed an escapist mentality that was almost fearful. He wanted to dig out his eyes and puncture his eardrums so that he could neither hear nor see the "shadows" around him who were laughing at him for killing the wrong person.
How could he kill the wrong person?
His consciousness was floating up and down, like a criminal about to drown in the deep sea. He pinched his own neck, letting himself experience the feeling of suffocation.
The pills dispelled the confusion in his mind, but Shi Deng became even more desperate.
He hypnotized himself that this was fake, and tried to kill himself to return to the real world. When he died, everything around him would no longer exist.
"Time light!"
"Shi Deng, open your eyes and look, we are all fine!"
Someone was calling him.
It was Xiao Deng...and the voices of Uncle Fu and the others.
fraud.
It must be those 'shadows' around him who are deceiving him.
Or maybe it's an illusion.
But the voice calling him became more and more anxious. Shi Deng slowly loosened his hand. He had already left a scary mark on his neck. His eyelashes trembled, and he finally opened his eyes.
On the other side of the wall broken by the time chain, Xiao Deng, Uncle Fu, and his friends stood together, looking at him worriedly.
"Shi Deng, we are fine."
Xiao Deng looked at him nervously: "I am your childhood! I am awesome, and I am the best at pretending to be dead."
The tear-stained boy stared at them for a long time. As if he was sure that this was not a dream, he staggered out of bed.
But for some reason, Shi Deng stopped running towards them, and two seconds later, he started to retreat.
The young man didn't seem to be fully awake. He murmured softly, "I... I can't go over there. I will hurt you..."
That's ridiculous.
He divided Xiao Deng into his own protection area, installed surveillance cameras in the palace corridors, and even set aside time to chain Xiao Deng around him to protect him.
Prevent Uncle Fu from getting tired, and protect your companions during battle to reduce their injuries...
After Shi Ge left, he didn't want to lose anyone close to him anymore. He knew that his excessive desire to protect others was a bit abnormal, but he just couldn't control it.
But in the end, he was the one who hurt them.
Shi Deng's consciousness was sometimes lucid and sometimes confused. He was on the borderline between being half crazy and half insane. The aura he exuded was extremely dangerous, like gunpowder that could explode at any time.
Uncle Fu and the others held their breath, fearing that they would irritate him again.
This kind of cautiousness can be clearly felt by the time lights.
He couldn't help but feel disgusted.
It was clearly his fault, so why did they still care about him so carefully? Shouldn't they lock up this threat so that he can never hurt them again?
This thought flashed through the boy's mind, and he felt it made a lot of sense.
A strange and crazy light ignited in his eyes, and he said to himself: "I will protect you."
He raised his eyes and smiled: "I will eliminate all threats that may harm you one by one."
Under the shocked and bewildered eyes of Uncle Fu and Xiao Deng, the young man twisted the tendons of his hands and feet, blocked two of the three major meridians through which his supernatural powers flowed, and fell limply into the water on the ground with a smile.
What happened afterwards, Shi Deng’s hazy consciousness was already a little vague.
He saw sharp pieces of porcelain piercing into his soft arms and his strangely curved limbs were soaked with water stains.
He saw the rotten sunflowers he had trampled on floating in the water, their bright golden petals now a dirty, dull black, floating up and down.
It's like his world.
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[A ray of daylight streams in from the tall window.]
In the dim room, the young man was lying on the beach with his limbs limp, his eyes were extremely dark.
The green straws scattered on the ground looked like real stars, illuminating a strange and slightly bloody dream.
Not far away were his friends running towards him.
Light and shadow clearly divide the space.
He is like a sunflower rotting in the water. 】
The updated chapter of the manga ends with this scene, where the manga reader sits up in shock from his dying illness and stabs the inappropriate bald head with a 40-meter-long sword.
[I forgot about Shizai’s illness. If he really kills Xiaodeng by accident this time, I’ll really go crazy!]
[This isn't normal now, is it?! If it were normal, he would do it to himself (screaming)]
[Is it possible to save him? Wuwuwu, Sister Le, please help! ]
[Save…save the child…save…what should I do (holding the needle and thread in a daze), this broken-down child, how should I sew it? QAQ]
[I feel so insecure after Shi Ge left. Is he really not coming back? Shi Zai has tortured himself to death.]
[Logically, since Yuan is gone and the timeline continues to move forward, this manga should be finished, right? Why is it still being serialized? I feel so uneasy. It won’t be over, will it? qaq]
[It's like a warm sunflower that has all the thorns that only roses have. Even if it's not its will, it still hurts people. When Shizi hurts himself, he pulls out these thorns that hurt people, so that he has no ability to hurt others.]
[……]
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The wheelchair that had been idle for a long time was put to use again.
Shi Deng was very uncooperative with the treatment and even moved out of the palace. Someone built a small wooden house in the sea of sunflowers under the back cliff.
Even in the coldest days of winter, this sea of flowers is in full bloom, and the first snow has fallen on the golden petals.
Under normal circumstances, this natural scene that is absolutely impossible to see was forced upon him by Shi Deng. He did not seal all of his main meridians, but left only one, so that he could still use some of his supernatural powers to keep these flowers blooming.
In order to facilitate wheelchairs to move around, a flat path was opened in the sea of flowers, paved with marble. The path was winding, and the time light isolated itself in the cabin deep in the sea of flowers.
No matter how Xiao Deng cried or how people tried to persuade him, he rarely came out to see them.
Yuanguang has dismissed many people since the Yuansui incident, and its overall image is much better than before. Occasionally, a superpower passes by this sea of flowers while performing a mission.
Seeing it so strange, I wanted to go deeper.
Shi Deng was so annoyed that he simply built a circle of time chains outside as a fence, and put up a wooden sign outside that read: [Monsters' home, no trespassing].
The time chain is so iconic that after the sea of flowers was fenced off, all the psychics knew that this was the place surrounded by the time lights.
They also saw a wooden sign saying that there were monsters living inside. Although they did not dare to get closer for fear of angering the Abyss Leader, their curiosity grew.
As the cold winter gradually passed, some people accidentally saw the shadow of the "monster" in the sea of flowers.
Some said he saw a white-haired old man who was silently mourning the passing of time under the sunset and the snow; some said he saw stars with a soft green light; some said he heard a strange tune he had never heard before; and some said that there were actually many monsters locked up in there, because he saw vague and illusory light and shadows, and whispered conversations.
As the story spread, it became more and more bizarre. This sea of flowers blooming all day long gradually took on a mysterious and fantastic hue. Some people inevitably asked for information and found out about it. They went to Yuan Ting and a few people who were familiar with Shi Deng.
Yuan Ting and other people who knew the inside story remained silent after hearing this.
There's no monster there, just a man who's locked himself up.
This sea of sunflowers also has a name, called "Monster Residence".
…
Shi Deng had an indifferent expression as he pushed the wheelchair slowly forward. Snowflakes had fallen on the ends of his gray hair and eyelashes, making him look even more old. His pale fingertips brushed away the snow on the sunflowers.
He didn't care that he didn't have the strength to do anything and just flicked it a few more times.
The desire to kill would become the cause of his illness, so he stopped killing alien beasts. Now he takes medicine every day and controls his emotions very well.
Unless it was a serious matter, he would never use his supernatural powers to stand up again, and would not give himself the opportunity to hurt his friends.
There was a glass jar on his lap.
Only half of the green star inside is left.
Wrapped in the reed leaves of the underworld are fragments of Shi Ge's memories, all of which are beautiful and can soothe his emotions.
He now understood what Shi Ge meant when he told him that the jar of stars was a "selfish" thing of his.
Shi Ge was not sure if everything about him would disappear after he disappeared, so he made a star to store his memories and gave it to him.
It is said that the moment a person truly dies is when no one in this world remembers him.
Shi Deng thought, it turns out that Shi Ge is also a little scared.
I’m afraid that after giving him this new future, I’ll forget the old future.
These green stars loaded with memories were like an addictive drug to him, and he couldn't help but open them and take a look.
Every time you look at one, a star disappears.
This seemed to be his only pleasure.
After looking at these stars, he wanted to leave. To leave in the truest sense, to disappear.
I think Xiao Deng will also be well taken care of.
Maybe he should send the lamp back...
His thoughts were drifting aimlessly, and the boy was drowsy in the snow. Lately, he had been feeling cold easily and his body temperature was also icy. It wasn't because of the weather or the temperature. He seemed to be able to vaguely feel that he would not live long.
The time chain outside suddenly trembled, and Zhize's voice came from afar, with undisguised nervousness: "Time Light, something happened!"
Above the Shenhu City, above the rushing Yellow Spring, a dark and weak mist suddenly appeared.
It was chained, shrieking curses: "I said I couldn't die! You can't kill me! When I recover, I'll see if one of you lunatics will drag me down with you!"
The young man in the sea of flowers and snow gently opened his eyes.
Very slowly, those strange eyes revealed a frightening chill and hostility, and the terrifying brutality suppressed the calmness.
The boy looked in the direction of Shenhu City.