Chapter 729: I'm Happy Soon

I stood there, fighting back my tears, and then nodded vigorously.

"Promise me, be a kind child." She reached out and hugged me, whispering in my ear, "Go do anything you want to do, go do what an eight-year-old child should do, go and love this world properly."

Her tears fell onto my shoulder, and I finally couldn't hold back—I broke into sobs.

Right up to the very end, it was Jiejie who was speaking to me... I didn't say a word to her...

"Yingxiong, I'm leaving now. You have to be happy, okay?" She stood up with red eyes, her lips pressed tightly together, as if she was trying hard not to let her tears fall.

But I couldn't hold back at all. I felt all my tears pouring out at that moment, forming the most heartbreaking waterfall I'd ever seen in my life.

Jiejie lay back down on the table, and Shenlong slowly raised the knife at that time.

"I can feel it—your ability has faded a lot," Shenlong said. "After all this torment, you can finally be free from suffering."

"Sorry to have caused you trouble..." Jiejie said with a bitter smile through her tears. "Go ahead and kill me..."

"Very well, pardon the offense," Shenlong said.

Amid my sobs, Shenlong plunged the knife down.

That knife took away the flesh from my body, the light in my heart, and the swallows by my side.

Jiejie Siwei's wound showed no signs of healing—she had given up.

She left this world of unimaginable pain and despair, finally gaining the freedom that was hers.

She went to a place where no one would hit or scold her, and no one would control her.

But I would never see her again.

I was completely drained of strength and collapsed to my knees, crying.

A few minutes later, Shenlong walked over to me and said softly, "Crying won't help."

My sobs gradually quieted, and I looked up at her.

Her face was like that of a gecko, covered in dark green scales, but I felt no fear at all.

"What did you say...?"

"Go do what she wanted you to do," Shenlong said. "Today, she brought over a thousand people to my Xian Yuanyang, risking their lives. I thought this city was about to fall completely, but she left you behind. Maybe there's still a slim hope."

Shenlong pulled a remote control from her pocket and pressed it lightly. The exhaust fans around the entire swimming hall started spinning, and the moisture in the room vanished quickly. In just a few minutes, the entire game area appeared before my eyes.

This wasn't a "swimming pool" at all—it was clearly an enormous "Yuan Guo."

In the middle of the Yuan Guo, there was a curved divider, splitting the pot into two halves like a Taiji symbol. One side was filled with red liquid, the other with white liquid, and both were bubbling away.

And inside the pot... there were masses of corpses stewing.

The corpses bobbed up and down with the gurgling bubbles, and if they hadn't all been mangled and torn, I might have thought they were still alive.

"I couldn't bear to watch her screaming in the red broth any longer, so I pulled her up to give her a quick end. But then you showed up," Shenlong said with a tone laced with sadness. "It seems you truly were her only attachment. Now that she's let go of that, she can move on."

So that's how it was—this must be the "cause and effect" of this world.

I'm not sure if "cause and effect" gave me those ten minutes, but I know Jiejie Siwei's subconscious always wanted to live. She kept activating her "Zhiliao" until I arrived.

I don't remember how I left Shenlong's game area.

All I know is that I clutched the bedsheet Jiejie had draped over me and made my way back to my little room, then lay down on the ground. I was so tired.

I held the bedsheet in my arms until the blood on it was no longer cold, and that's when I realized the coldest thing was my own heart.

The people in the building were still cheering about everyone's "ascension" success. They were loudly dreaming about what they'd do when it was their turn to ascend tomorrow. And that's when I finally understood Jiejie Siwei's thoughts.

This was already the best outcome, wasn't it?

Those so-called subjects were even more dangerous than the "Youdangzhe." The "Youdangzhe" weren't aggressive, but they were.

The next day, before anyone else woke up, I took everything Jiejie had given me and left that building.

I got on my bicycle and set off, chasing the wind.

I didn't need to worry about those people anymore...

I let the wind blow against my face, and in my mind, I kept replaying what Jiejie had said to me.

"Go do anything you want to do."

"Go do what an eight-year-old child should do."

"Be happy, and love this world."

The things I wanted to do... I wanted to ride my bicycle fast down the streets, I wanted to shout at the top of my lungs.

Yes, I wanted to shout at the top of my lungs.

"Ah!!!!!"

I shouted loudly in the street, tears streaming down my face.

"Ah!!!!!"

I didn't know why I was shouting, but I really wanted to.

I gripped the bicycle handles tightly, shouting into the foul wind. I had nothing left—I could only shout.

"Jiejie!! I'm so happy!!" I cried, looking up and shouting. "Can you see me? Jiejie! I'm especially happy!!"

I wished so much that I could be happy, but my tears just wouldn't stop.

I stopped the bicycle and dashed into a nearby building, climbed onto a table, stood up, and started jumping hard.

"Ah!!!!!" I shouted and cried while jumping, as if I wanted to smash the table. "Jiejie! Can you see? I'm doing what I want to do!!"

I'm so happy... I am...

My shouts echoed through the empty city, but no one was left to hear them.

It took me this long to realize how powerless the things I thought I wanted to do really were.

That was just my obsession, not what I truly wanted.

What I really wanted to do was decided long ago—I want to become a true "Yingxiong."

(Today three updates, concluding Zheng Yingxiong's story, tomorrow taking a leave, only one chapter, sorry about that.)