Xu Xi woke up amidst the jolts.
His consciousness was already halfway into the finality of death.
But it seemed.
Someone didn’t want him to die.
So, over and over again, they kept running with him, and in the shaking of that run, Xu Xi opened his weary eyes.
The first thing that greeted him was a night sky where the moon was absent, and the stars were exceptionally bright.
Tonight, the stars seemed to be getting brighter and brighter.
So much so that the moon gradually dimmed, almost to the point of invisibility.
“It’s so similar…”
Xu Xi’s eyelids drooped, feeling the intense pain coming from all over his body, his thoughts becoming more and more chaotic.
Just like that dim moon.
About to disappear under the illumination of the stars.
Xu Xi knew.
He was about to die.
Or rather, he should have died long ago, but the effect of the Perseverance trait kept him going, allowing him to continue slaying demons and monsters for the Army of Survival.
But this time, after the battle with the Flood Dragon, Xu Xi had truly burned out everything.
Only an empty shell remained.
He could even sense that the time until his consciousness completely dissipated was less than ten minutes.
“Yingxue.”
Xu Xi called out softly, calling to the girl who was staggering forward with him on her back.
From the beginning, it had been Wu Yingxue carrying Xu Xi, carrying the bloodied and unrecognizable Xu Xi.
It was the jolts of this journey.
That briefly awakened Xu Xi’s last bit of consciousness.
“Sir, it’s great, I knew you wouldn’t die!”
The girl was overjoyed, carrying Xu Xi forward while making excited sounds.
“Yingxue, actually I…”
“Sir, we’re almost out, following the path you made, we’ll soon leave the Ten Thousand Mountains!”
“I already…”
“Everyone is waiting for us, sir!”
Wu Yingxue said to Xu Xi with a smile.
But that smile was extremely forced, extremely like crying.
No.
It was crying.
Xu Xi was stunned, clearly seeing the tear stains on the girl’s face, her trembling voice, as if afraid of something.
The girl understood everything.
She just didn’t want to accept it.
In her heart, she still held onto some fantasy, imagining that nothing would happen.
Wu Yingxue carried Xu Xi away from the battlefield, along the path opened by Xu Xi’s fists, running towards the world outside the Ten Thousand Mountains.
She hoped.
She avoided.
Wanting to use this method to keep Xu Xi alive.
The stars were shining, the night was quiet, no more howls of demons and monsters.
Xu Xi’s battle with the Flood Dragon had intimidated all the surrounding demons and monsters, making them dare not make a sound, leaving only the girl’s increasingly hurried steps.
In the end.
Xu Xi did not lift the bloody veil.
Choosing to leave the girl with her fantasy.
Sometimes, sensitive and fragile hearts need some well-meaning lies to protect.
Lies are lies, they can never become truths, but their existence can protect the girl’s nearly collapsing heart.
“Yingxue, you’ve worked hard.”
Xu Xi said with a weak smile.
His condition was too bad, although he had just woken up, he felt an indescribable fatigue.
Not just physical fatigue.
But also mental fatigue.
So tired that he wanted to close his eyes and have a good sleep.
Wu Yingxue seemed to sense this, so she kept finding topics, trying to chat with Xu Xi as much as possible.
“Sir, what will the world outside the mountains be like?”
“Probably very harsh, but at least we can survive.”
“Sir, does a world where everyone can eat their fill really exist?”
“Yes, it exists.”
“Sir…”
The girl had many questions, more than the stars in the sky.
But she was actually a clumsy person.
Not good at finding interesting topics, just as much of a fool as Xu Xi.
Not long after.
The girl fell into self-entanglement due to the exhaustion of topics, she was anxious, her running movements becoming a bit more frantic.
“It’s okay, Yingxue.”
Xu Xi’s breathing became weaker, each breath bringing intense pain.
But he still smiled, comforting Wu Yingxue with a hoarse voice: “If you can’t think of anything, it’s fine, I have some things I want to tell you.”
Xu Xi coughed violently a few times.
Blood was coughed out.
His face turned paler, in pain, in suffocation, he told Wu Yingxue many things.
From the experience of breaking through martial realms, to the trivial matters of daily life.
He told the girl everything.
Wu Yingxue listened very seriously, very very seriously, her nose tingling as she listened to Xu Xi’s words, occasionally responding with a sob.
As time passed.
The distance of the run lengthened.
Gradually, they could see the Army of Survival.
And Xu Xi’s voice, in the howling wind, became weaker and weaker, like a thread of breath.
“Sir, we’re almost with the group, soon, we’ll be out of the mountains!”
Wu Yingxue shouted to Xu Xi.
“Yingxue, put me down, I’m a bit tired…”
“Sir…”
The girl’s smile froze.
That forced smile, that struggling smile, at this moment, became even more “fake.”
“Sir, what are you saying, we still have to leave the Ten Thousand Mountains together…”
Wu Yingxue trembled even more.
In her suppression, there was a bit of suppressed sadness.
“I will, but now, I want to take a nap.”
Xu Xi looked at the girl gently, asking her again to put him down.
“Sorry, this time I’ll be the one dragging behind.”
“Yingxue, you go ahead with the others, I’ll catch up when I wake up.”
This was a lie.
A well-meaning lie.
At Xu Xi’s request, Wu Yingxue finally stopped insisting, trembling as she put Xu Xi down on the ground.
This was the path Xu Xi had opened.
The path he had opened for everyone.
He wanted to stay here, watching the girl and the people leave, while also watching himself leave.
“Sir…”
The light of the stars still flickered, but it couldn’t illuminate the girl’s face.
It was a face that couldn’t stop crying.
She had really grown a lot, without the noise Xu Xi had imagined, without any extreme actions, just wiping her tears with the back of her hand, she asked Xu Xi a question.
“Sir, how would you rate my performance today?”
“Rating…”
Xu Xi looked at the girl’s face, at the starry sky behind her, and said with a light smile: “It’s an A, a very outstanding A.”
The girl smiled, her smile full of tears.
Tears uncontrollably flowed, wetting the ground in front of her.
“Go, the road ahead is still long.”
Xu Xi made the girl turn around, gently pushing her back, pushing her to take steps.
Until her figure completely disappeared.
The familiar crisp footsteps slowly became inaudible, and along with it, Xu Xi’s own breathing disappeared.
Under the brilliance of the starry sky, in the silent darkness, the figure of the moon completely disappeared, covered by the stars.
[You died]
[Simulation ended]
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