Chapter 121. Atums, Kong...
Kong Su slowly emerged from the teleportation vortex. Her face was as pale as paper, and her clothes were soaking wet and stuck to her body, covered with nutrient solution.
The man wanted to attack Atums again, but he was trapped in a cage made of special energy. No matter how much he smashed it, the cage only shook and no cracks appeared.
Artums coughed up a mouthful of blood, raised his hand tremblingly, pointed to the distant horizon, and said in a weak voice, "Susu, go, go, leave, leave, cough, here."
Kong Su slowly sat down on the ground, laboriously lifted Atums into her arms, letting the blood on his body soak her clothes, stroked his cheek with one hand, lowered her head and pressed her face against his forehead, a faint and satisfied smile on her face.
She chuckled softly, “Atums, I’m not leaving. I have to stay with you! The moon depends on the sun for its life. Without the sun’s light, the moon cannot shine on its own.”
Artums coughed up another mouthful of blood, his eyes bloodshot. Leaning against her shoulder, his breath grew weaker. In his final moments, he overcame his inferiority complex and, for the first time, tried to express the true love hidden in his heart: "Susu, I... I love you."
Unfortunately, he stopped breathing before he could finish speaking.
The sun's love for the moon, which lasted for thousands of years, was ultimately never expressed in person.
Kong Su couldn't stop her tears from falling, streaming down Atums' cheeks and finally landing on the ground. She placed a kiss on Atums' brow and whispered the words he hadn't finished: "Atums, I love you."
A moment later, Kong Su embraced Atums, her pupils beginning to dilate. She turned to look at Lin Xiaoxiao lying ten meters away, her voice soft: "I'm sorry, Atums is actually a very good person. It's just that because of me, this burden, he has become such a villain."
Not long after he finished speaking, Kong Su breathed his last, and lay on the ground, his arms wrapped around the equally lifeless Atums.
[The Sun God's agent, Atums, was killed by Xiao, the protector of the Goddess of Fortune, Lin Xiaoxiao. All victory belongs to Lin Xiaoxiao.]
[The Moon Goddess's agent, Kong Su, voluntarily sacrificed herself and actively chose the Goddess of Fortune's agent, Lin Xiaoxiao, as the winner.]
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Lin Xiaoxiao, on the other hand, had her level pushed to near the peak of demigod status due to the deaths of Artums and Kong Su, and most of her injuries had been healed.
She scoffed at Kong Su's hypocrisy. How could someone who disregards life be a good person? Besides, Kong Su knew the truth but didn't stop it. Ha!
He then staggered to his feet, dragging his heavy body, and slowly walked to the tall, strong figure. He stood on tiptoe, stretched out his slightly trembling hands, and cupped the face with its matted beard.
Her voice trembled slightly, but she forced herself to remain calm: "Weizhi, shouldn't you be living a good life under the protection of the Xiao family? Why?"
Why did you become a protector?
Why did they become neither human nor ghost, neither spirits nor even guardians of normal beings?
Xiao Weizhi, whose height had increased from 185 to 190 and whose physique had become much more robust, looked down at Lin Xiaoxiao in front of him, his mouth opening and closing without making a sound.
Having fought alone for nearly a thousand years, and having not spoken for so long, he had forgotten how to speak.
Even the way he looked at Lin Xiaoxiao was lost in memories, staring blankly for a long time before he finally opened his mouth and tentatively asked, "Xiaoxiao?"
Xiao Weizhi stiffly reached out to wipe away the tears from the corner of her eyes, but she didn't control her strength well and left a red mark under her eye. She was immediately flustered, wanting to touch it but not daring to, for fear of adding another scar to her face.
Lin Xiaoxiao hugged Xiao Weizhi's waist tightly, buried her face in his chest, and tears streamed down her face uncontrollably.
Xiao Weizhi put his arms around her shoulders and gently pulled her into his embrace.
Neither of them noticed that just as they were embracing, a thumb-sized dot of light floated up from Artums and Kongsu and silently disappeared into an extremely thin spatial rift.
On the other side, after sitting in the dark waiting for Nuenro, he slowly opened his eyes after sensing spatial fluctuations around him, took out two specially made bottles, and put the two points of light that flew out from the spatial rift into them.
What makes this bottle so special is that this palm-sized, openwork bottle is pieced together from individual bone fragments.
After the light spot was put into the bottle, it did not fly out along the empty space, but instead stayed obediently in the bottle.
Nuenro held up the golden bottle to his eyes, shook it gently, and chuckled, "Finally got it, the soul fragments of Atumus and Kongsu."
It was worth all the effort he put in and the years he spent plotting.
After admiring it for a while, he gently waved his hand, and a huge brown wooden shelf appeared out of thin air.
The shelves were divided into small squares, and in these squares were many white bone bottles, just like the one in his hand. The light spots inside were of different colors, some very bright, and some so dim that they were almost invisible.
Nuenro placed the bottles in his hand into the empty spaces on the shelf labeled with sun and moon patterns respectively.
As the last two empty spaces were filled, the dark, fine lines carved on the wooden frame gradually began to glow with a silvery-gray light.
From a distance, you can see the lit areas on the shelves that, when pieced together, form a sinister skull image.
Ran Bai stood not far away and looked up at the shelf filled with white bone bottles. A hidden dark glint flashed in his eyes, then he lowered his head and pretended not to see it.
Five days later, Mishu, Yuan Tai, and Xing Yan, who were seriously injured, woke up one after another under the care of Cang Shu's medicine. Due to the severity of their injuries, they could only stay in bed for a short period of time and continued to soak in medicinal baths to speed up their recovery.
As for Ina, Kagome, and Tian Mier, after resting for a few days, they have almost fully recovered with the help of the medicine.
As for the guardians of Sicily, Lin Xiaoxiao also infused them with a billion units of faith power, allowing them to accelerate the body's recovery.
As the days went by, a month quickly passed.
Nuenluo and Zaoxin have almost disappeared without a trace, remaining completely silent.
The war in the City of Gods was also suppressed by the iron-fisted methods of Lau Evan, Zhong Sang, and Black Cat, and the surface temporarily returned to calm.
In the national war, the Dragon Kingdom has been gaining the upper hand time and again, and other countries rarely invade through the spatial channel anymore...
Everything seemed to be going in a good direction, but the smoother things seemed, the more nervous Lin Xiaoxiao, Ge Wei, and Xing Yan became.
While others might not understand Nuenro's personality, the three of them did have some understanding of it.
They all knew that Nuenro was the kind of crazy person who wouldn't give up until she got what she wanted, and the fact that she wasn't making any moves now felt like the prelude to unleashing a powerful attack.
Unfortunately, the three of them sent people to search for [Zao Xin]'s hideout for two years, but they couldn't find it.
If we had found them, we wouldn't be in such a passive position. We could have found an opportunity to attack them directly. Instead, we can only anxiously wait here for them to appear.
Lin Xiaoxiao stood in the garden, holding a watering can that had long been emptied, still watering the flowers, lost in thought.
Standing beside her was Xiao Weizhi, whose hair was short, whose beard was clean-shaven, who was dressed in casual clothes and was unusually silent.
Xingyan, leaning on his cane, slowly walked out of the newly renovated villa, chuckling lightly, "Crazy Xiao, aren't your hands tired? Watering the flowers with your mind?"
Lin Xiaoxiao snapped out of her daze, put the flowerpot back into her spatial storage, turned around and walked towards Xingyan, who was covered in sweat, reached out to support her, and frowned slightly: "Why aren't you resting in your room? What are you doing out here?"
Xingyan leaned to one side, using Lin Xiaoxiao for support: "I'm tired of staying in the room, I'm coming out to catch my breath."
Lin Xiaoxiao took out a cushioned chair from her spatial storage and carefully helped Xingyan sit down: "Mm."
Then Lin Xiaoxiao brought out two soft chairs, a small table, and a teapot and snacks, and beckoned Xiao Weizhi to come and sit down: "Weizhi, come and sit down."
Xiao Weizhi walked over in two steps, obediently sat on the chair, spread her legs slightly apart, straightened her back, and placed her hands on her knees.
Xingyan slumped lazily in her chair, a slight smile playing on her lips: "Crazy Xiao, Kagome had her fortune told last night, and she said she still only saw pitch blackness."
Hearing this, Lin Xiaoxiao paused in pouring hot water, then continued pouring, tossing in a tea bag, and said calmly, "Well, this has been going on for a while now, let's just take it one step at a time."
Since the beginning of Age of the Gods, Kagome has had her fate checked every ten days, and the result is always the same: it's all black.
Everyone assumed the darkness referred to the future and didn't think of anything else.
Just as the two were chatting, a large expanse of black mist overflowed from the abyss again, attacking the protective barrier of the hidden sphere of light within the space.
Streets of the capital city of the Dragon Kingdom.
There was a little girl, about 4 years old, eating candied hawthorns, with two cute pigtails, staring blankly at the sky, which looked like cracked glass with many black cracks.
The little girl pointed to the sky with her little finger and said to the woman who was cleaning the stairs, "Mommy, look, the sky is broken, there are so many black lines."
The woman swept all the trash on the steps into the trash can: "Really? Wait until Mom sweeps all the trash away before you look at the broken sky."
The little girl licked the candied hawthorn in her hand, nodded, and said in a childish voice, "Okay."
When the woman turned around, the sky had returned to normal. She bent down, smiled, and gently tapped the little girl's forehead before picking her up: "Baby, the sky is very blue, there are no black lines."
The little girl, somewhat indignant, raised her candied hawthorn stick and pointed at the sky: "I saw it, the sky is broken, hmph."
The woman, both amused and exasperated, picked up the little girl and turned to go back into the house: "Alright, alright, the sky is broken."
Similar conversations were heard from many people; some witnessed the event together, while others saw it alone and shared it with their companions…
Because these black cracks appeared only for a very short time, just a few seconds or a dozen seconds, they were initially dismissed as urban legends.
Although the high-ranking officials of the Dragon Kingdom had heard about it, they did not take it to heart until two months later, when the skies of all countries, secret realms, and even the capital of the gods were covered with black cracks that could be seen with the naked eye.
Everyone went from initial panic and frantic hoarding of supplies, to becoming accustomed to it, to being worried, and finally to having no reaction.
Like a frog being slowly boiled in water, professionals passively become accustomed to the existence of these cracks and believe that they may be harmless.
However, in reality, the top leadership of the Dragon Kingdom contacted Lin Xiaoxiao multiple times to express their concerns about these cracks.
Lin Xiaoxiao and the others kept investigating the cause of these cracks, but they were unable to reach a conclusion.
On the contrary, Lin Xiaoxiao herself visited the Omniscient Library several times and accidentally found some ancient books in the library, where she learned some secrets about the ancient gods and had a very bold guess in her mind.
Ina pushed open the study door with a livid face, and before she even entered, she started shouting, "Xiaoxiao, something's happened!"
“My subordinates in Mona City sent me a message saying that countless wild gods have formed an army of polluted beings and have emerged from the deeply polluted zone to attack all the cities.”
Lin Xiaoxiao's expression was solemn, and her voice was deep: "I roughly know where Nu Enlu is hiding."
Upon hearing this, Kagome and Hoshino, who were sitting opposite her and knew how the Wild God came to be, also became very serious.
Mishu, Yuan Tai, Cang Shu, and Tian Mier exchanged glances, somewhat puzzled as to why the three of them had such serious expressions.
Sitting next to Lin Xiaoxiao, Xiao Weizhi uttered two words in a hoarse voice: "Hei Yuan?"
Lin Xiaoxiao nodded: "Yes, Black Abyss."
No wonder I've been searching for so long and still haven't found Nuenro.
I completely forgot that this person collaborates with greed, and those wild gods in the polluted area are also his doing. It's not difficult for him to isolate a safe area in the polluted zone.
Afterwards, Lin Xiaoxiao left Cangshu, Zhong Sang, Tian Mier, and Ge Wei in the City of Divine Favor to guard the main camp.
He took Xiao Weizhi, Xingyan, Ina, Mishu, Yuan Tai, and Black Cat with him to the Black Abyss.
Upon arriving at the Black Abyss again, they found that the city gates of Mona City were closed. Along the roads inside, they could see wounded professionals, Black Abyss citizens who had come to seek refuge, and resistance soldiers hurrying along. The black fog above the sky was also growing thicker.
Outside the city, there were explosions, shouts, and the screams of contaminated creatures...
Ina and Mishu both live in the Black Abyss year-round, as do most of their subordinates. They left first to handle some matters, saying they would rejoin Lin Xiaoxiao and the others once those matters were resolved.
Lin Xiaoxiao led the remaining three people and one cat to the top of the city wall of Mona City. Looking down through the windows of the city wall, they could clearly see an army of countless pollutants fighting against the resistance forces.
Occasionally, among the polluted beasts or polluted entities, one or two strangely-looking wild gods can be seen.
Each time these wild gods appear, they inflict heavy casualties on the resistance forces of Mona City.
Suddenly, the defending forces below changed their formation again because a wild god, 4 meters tall, with jet-black skin and more than 30 arms, emerged from the corrupted beast horde.
In the blink of an eye, with a single roar, dozens of professionals' heads exploded into fragments like inflated balloons.
A faint roar could be heard from not far away:
"Quickly, there's another super boss monster here. Players below level nine, step back. Players above level nine, come up!"
"Quickly, medical support, carry those who aren't dead back immediately, they can still be saved."
"Shield Warriors, get in! Quickly, get in!!!"
"Mage, quick, use your skills! Stop using your weapon, use your skills!"
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Immediately afterwards, a middle-aged man wearing quasi-god-level diamond armor stepped up and fought against the monster BOSS with many arms, and soon gained the upper hand.
Suddenly, an unexpected change occurred, and five wild gods appeared out of nowhere.
Some of them had large heads and small bodies; others looked like they were pieced together from dozens of different parts of a demon beast... The target accurately surrounded the middle-aged man who could fight the wild god to a standstill.
Lin Xiaoxiao, holding the black cat, nodded to Yuan Tai beside her, signaling him to help deal with those wild gods.
Just as Yuan Tai was about to disappear into the darkness to deal with the six wild gods.
Xiao Weizhi, with a cold face, snapped his fingers, and thirty palm-sized, toy-like arrows made of jet-black energy appeared out of thin air, floating around him.
He put his index and middle fingers together and made a flicking motion.
The thirty arrows, as if possessing a mind of their own, flew towards the army of corrupted beasts below.
Six of the arrows pierced through the bodies of the six wild gods, sending them flying dozens of meters before creating a pitch-black, silent explosion.
Any contaminated beasts/entities that come into contact with the black blast radius will be instantly reduced to ashes in the next second, without even having time to react.
Yuan Taichao Xiao Weizhi gave a thumbs up, then disappeared into the darkness.
The next second, Yuan Tai appeared directly in the army of polluted beasts. Every time he swung his dagger, it was like a sickle cutting wheat seedlings, cutting all the polluted beasts within a 5-meter radius in half.
Xingyan clasped her hands together, cracked her knuckles slightly, and chuckled, "I haven't moved around in a long time either, let's go down and stretch my body."
After saying that, she stepped onto an invisible energy staircase and rushed down the city wall, heading straight for the place with the most pollutants.
Lin Xiaoxiao summoned the other guardians and handed the black cat in her hand to Sicily: "You all go down and help clean up the polluted beasts."
The five guardians, along with Xiao Weizhi, went down to help, leaving Lin Xiaoxiao standing on the city wall, her hands resting on the windowsill, her eyes gleaming with a faint golden light, slightly narrowed as she observed her surroundings.
With the addition of Xiao Weizhi, Yuan Tai, Xingyan, and others, the corrupted entities were eliminated at an extremely rapid pace.
Upon seeing the arrival of powerful reinforcements, the warriors of Mona City were emboldened, their morale soaring.
"Quickly, our reinforcements have arrived! Let's take them down in one fell swoop!"
"Kill them!!!"
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An hour passed quickly, and the rate at which the polluted beasts replenished their supplies slowed down, precisely because of this.
Lin Xiaoxiao saw it. Standing in the middle of the contaminated body, like a doll, with only the whites of her eyes and no pupils, her grayish-white skin covered with many cracked black lines, and a battle-damaged short skirt.
Her hands, which were braced against the windowsill, clenched involuntarily. A look of reluctance flashed in her eyes, and her heart ached with a sharp, aching pain.
To think that the girl who used to love reading, laughing, and playing around has now become like this.
The bold statement the young girl made when they first met still echoed in my ears: "I want to read all the books in the Omniscient Library before I die."
This girl is Shu Shu, the former agent of the God of Books, now a 19-year-old new agent.
Shu Shu mechanically looked up, his eyes, devoid of white, fixed on the direction where Lin Xiaoxiao was, from dozens of miles away. He slowly raised his hand, pointed to the small window on the city wall, and roared, "Ang—"
In an instant, all the polluted beasts seemed to receive some kind of command and attacked Lin Xiaoxiao's direction in unison.
Lin Xiaoxiao exhaled, picked up her lightsaber, and flew out, heading straight for Shu Shu's location.
As he drew near, he raised his hand and swung his sword. The sword light, glowing with golden light and carrying a savage energy capable of destroying everything, cleaved the polluted beasts within a 20-meter radius in several pieces.
However, they failed to cause any harm to Shu Shu, all because Lin Xiaoxiao made her move.
A silver-gray protective barrier had already been erected in front of the girl, blocking all the damage.
With another roar, all the polluted beasts abandoned the trembling professional and rushed towards Lin Xiaoxiao's location.
Lin Xiaoxiao threw dozens of experience coins, each worth 200,000, and blasted all the polluted beasts that tried to get close into dust.
Then, he raised his lightsaber and swung it more than 50 times at the silver-gray barrier.
With a few cracking sounds, the silver-gray barrier shattered, and the girl in front of him stood motionless, only opening her mouth and howling incessantly, without any other means of attack.
Seeing this, Lin Xiaoxiao roughly guessed that even though Shu Shu had been transformed into a wild god by Nu Enluo, he didn't have many means of attack and could only summon pollutants to attack by roaring.
She raised her lightsaber, placed it against Shu Shu's neck, and with a sharp pull, separated his head from his body.
[Lucky Goddess's Agent: Lin Xiaoxiao, execute [Wild God - Shu Shu], obtain: one fragment of a corrupted divine core]
Those manipulated contaminated beasts/contaminated entities instantly became like soldiers without command, standing still and allowing the professionals to attack them.
As they fought, the black fog in the sky grew even thicker.
Furthermore, a great deal of black energy was drawn from the lifeless bodies below, silently drifting into the sky and merging with the thick black fog.
Lin Xiaoxiao stared at the headless body lying on the black ground for several seconds, then silently transformed the lightsaber in her hand into a semi-transparent golden energy staff.
She held a 1.78-meter-long staff and struck the ground three times with the bottom of the staff. Immediately afterward, a golden magic circle appeared beneath her feet.
The magic circle expanded outwards from the initial 20 centimeters, to 1 meter, then to 10 meters, until it reached 3000 meters before stopping.
She held the staff in both hands, and following the instructions, waved the staff while silently chanting, her mouth opening and closing.
A few minutes later, a giant golden beam of light, more than 3,000 meters long, shot into the sky.
The pollutants, enveloped in the pillar of light, instantly dissolved into wisps of smoke the moment they touched the golden light.
All injured professionals experienced rapid wound healing within the pillar of light, and even those critically injured and on the verge of death found their breathing stabilized significantly within its depths.
Five minutes later, Shu Shu's body also turned into a wisp of green smoke and disappeared.
Before disappearing, Lin Xiaoxiao heard a soft laugh: 'Sister Xiaoxiao, thank you for freeing my soul from this disgusting body. Goodbye.'
The beam of light disappeared, and a large hole was punched in the pitch-black fog in the sky, revealing a small patch of light blue sky.
All the people in Mona City stared blankly at that small patch of sky until the black fog once again obscured the blue sky, and only then did they awaken from their daze.
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