The Ripple Ball exploded in mid-air.
From the moment Ye De felt his chest loosen and was blown away by the explosion to the moment he fell to the ground, it seemed like only a split second had passed. It was so short that he couldn't even see what had happened, but it also seemed like it had been more than ten hours. When he landed on the ground, he began to doubt himself under the impact of all kinds of thoughts in his mind.
I didn't do something stupid, did I? Ye De crawled up from the ground and spat out the blood in his mouth. He looked back.
The next second, he sprinted towards the city wall as if he had lost his life.
… He could barely see the empty space.
Just like the arm of the middle-aged woman that had been cut off, a limb that had lost its connection with the mutated human would not regenerate. From the other half of the arm that was connected to An Ran, it was frantically tearing and spurting out layer after layer of arms.
In the blink of an eye, more than half of the platform was drowned by the surging arms and human hands. As if enraged by the explosion, they were still spreading endlessly. Whether it was in terms of speed or quantity, they were far greater than when the middle-aged woman's arm was simply cut off.
In Ye De's plan, he should run towards the city wall as soon as he landed and try to leave the platform before the spreading arms touched him. He didn't want to die together with the mutated human.
That was exactly what he was doing now. However, the empty space between him and the city wall was quickly being swallowed by the surging mutated human limbs. It was like a small piece of reef standing in the sea when the tide was rising, and it could sink and disappear at any time.
An Ran, who was standing not far from the city wall, looked as if she had seen a comedy. She laughed until she was out of breath. "What the hell are you doing? Are you afraid that you won't die fast enough and that you won't die in enough ways? You struggled for half a day just for this? "
While Ye De couldn't reply with a single word and could only frantically compete with the mutated limb for speed, he said in a calm and unruffled manner, "You're like a headless fly, so I don't really have the heart to let you die. It's because I really want to know why you're doing this. That little bomb of yours can only blow up more of me. Could it be that you — "
Just as he suddenly stopped speaking, Ye De's feet shook at the same time.
It was as if the earth had suddenly decided not to catch his footsteps. It retreated slightly, allowing Ye De's next step to step into the air. A muffled rumbling sound woke up from under his feet. When he fell to the ground, he clearly felt the ground beneath him finally give way, and in the midst of the tremors, a piece of it moved out.
He had achieved his goal, but unlike what he had planned, he did not have time to escape.
"What, what's going on?" An Ran was shocked and reacted, "The earth platform collapsed?"
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"Yes, the earth platform collapsed," Ye De thought with satisfaction.
When the Ripple Ball exploded in mid-air, the airflow only shook the platform a little. What really caused it to collapse was the endless arms that burst out from Anran's body. To be more precise, it was the weight of the arms that caused it to collapse.
It seemed that even the mutated human himself had forgotten that his mutated limbs also had weight. This platform had once collapsed because it could not support half of a house, so how could it support a mountain of mutated limbs?
An Ran now only had one arm that burst out a large number of limbs. Even if he hurriedly stretched out his other arm to grab the wall above his head, no part of his body could bear the weight — this was also the reason why Ye De deliberately blew up one of his arms. What he wanted was the uncontrollable weight of the mutated human's rapidly proliferating limbs.
He wanted to make An Ran's proliferating limbs into a weight that the latter could not resist. He wanted to make An Ran fall all the way into the void under the platform, into the layer of smoke under the void, and finally let the earth under the layer of smoke swallow him.
Ye De did not expect that today, he would fall along with An Ran.
But, perhaps this was also good.
An Ran's scream even broke through the dull sound of the collapse of the earth platform. Amidst the rocks, dust, and airflow, in the weightlessness of falling, Ye De noticed that the huge mass of twisted flesh-colored limbs was shrinking rapidly. The other arm of the mutated human was also rapidly elongating, reaching out towards the wall that was getting further and further away from them.
This guy's reaction was quite fast. He immediately knew that he had to retract his mutated limbs.
"Speaking of which, has my heart stopped beating?" Ye De thought. He had never experienced such a degree of fear in his life, but the strange thing was that he had never experienced such silence in his life.
For example, right now, he could feel his hand grabbing another Ripple Sphere. His movements were calm and at ease, as if he was still standing on flat ground. Ye De aimed at the clump of arms that had yet to completely retract, and once again, he threw it out forcefully.
"F * ck you —" An Ran's screams and curses were quickly drowned out by the sound of the explosion.
Ye De seemed to hear himself snickering, but it could also be an illusion during his rapid fall.
After the explosion, everything returned to the state it was a second or two ago. As long as the mutated human's limbs were broken, they would explode involuntarily. Once they exploded, An Ran would involuntarily fall due to the weight. The speed at which he retracted his limbs was far slower than the speed at which Ye De threw the ripple balls. Besides, Ye De did not intend to give him another chance. He did not stop for even a moment, and the ripple balls fell one after another on the huge snake mountain-like arms.
However, he did not have the chance to see the effect of the ripple balls.
Even if he fell from such a high cliff, it would only take him a blink of an eye.
While Ye De was in a daze, he suddenly felt someone grabbing his arm and propping him up so that he could sit properly. The grip was firm and gentle, as if the person was afraid that if he grabbed him too hard, he would be left with a bruise. He turned his head to look, and as expected, he saw a pair of familiar, bright eyes.
"Ye Jing," he heard himself call out.
He was already an adult, but his voice was filled with grievance and sobs.
"Sit properly." Ye Jing treated him as if he was still treating him when he was four years old. He put his hand under his armpit and lifted him up, letting him lean against the soft blanket. She carefully looked at Ye De's face for a while, and gently tucked his hair behind his head before sitting back down. She smiled and asked, "How old are you this year?"
"Thirty-four," he replied like a child, swallowing his grievances.
Ye De did not understand why he could only sit against the blanket. He wished that he could crawl over and crawl back into Ye Jing's arm. Even if he heard her complaining that "the child is dying of heat", he could still slowly fall asleep. However, Ye Jing was sitting half a meter away from him, and there was always a distance between them, so he could not touch her.
Ye Jing nodded. "We're all adults now. It's been so many years … So, you managed to survive back then? "
His voice seemed to be choked by this one question.
After so many years, Ye De never dared to think about what happened after that day. He squatted beside Ye Jing's chair and softly asked her if she still wanted to evolve.
He wanted to go back to the afternoon before he took out the Smoke Water, lean against her leg, and quietly bask in the sun with her for a while. He thought of the many afternoons that he could not bask in the sun with her due to various reasons, and he could no longer do it again.
"I'm sorry …" he whispered, "I regret it. But I don't regret it either. If I could go back in time and I could do it all over again, I would still collect the Smoke Water, I would still give it to you, and ask if you wanted to evolve. I just hope that I can return your life to you. "
"I know." Ye Jing looked at him like before, and said with a smile, "I know it all. I'm very happy. "
She paused, tilted her head, and when she was looking for the next words, time once again filled her skin. "I never thought that I would spend my life like this, and I never thought that I would receive such a form of reward … I'm very satisfied."
"No … It's my fault," Ye De said again. He reached out his hand to her, but Ye Jing did not move, as if she had no intention of holding his hand. "I don't know … I didn't know that I was infected during the process of collecting the Smoke Water Water."
Ye Jing was still looking at him with a gentle gaze.
"If I could do it all over again, I would definitely leave."
Ye De thought that he would cry, but perhaps it was because everything had come to an end, and he was finally reunited with Ye Jing. There was nothing to cry about. He only mumbled, as if reminiscing, "I imagined many times in my mind that after giving you the Smoke Water, I would immediately leave Fanjia City, and I would never return until you evolved successfully. That way, you would never know that I was infected … "
"Actually, there's nothing scary about being infected. I'm just an ordinary person with no Potential Growth Value. I can't fight against the Smoke Water, so I won't evolve, and I won't become a duoluozhong. I will just die of illness. There are so many people who die in a day, and one more is nothing. "He looked at his fingers, and said," How did you find out that I was sick? I didn't even realize it myself … I thought that I was just too tired from work. "
"I raised you little by little," Ye Jing said with a smile, "How could I not know?"
"But I'm not afraid," he said as if he was arguing, "My only wish is for you to evolve, and for you to live for yourself for once. You gave me my life, and I'm willing to use it to do something for you. "
"I didn't expect that in the end, not only did I not do anything for you," he laughed bitterly, and continued, "You gave me your Potential Growth Value in addition to the life you gave me. All of this … was to let an ordinary child like me live on. "
Just like many years ago, Ye Jing would roll her eyes when she heard something she didn't like to hear.
"I don't even know what you've done, how many difficulties you've gone through, where you've gone to find the new doomsday element before you finally handed over the Potential Growth Value to me." When Ye De spoke, he really wanted to hold her hand, but Ye Jing didn't move. "I could only lie on the bed, drowsily waiting for you to come and save me … If only I knew that the price you paid for saving me was your Potential Growth Value, and the price you paid for losing your Potential Growth Value would be …"
"That's all in the past." Ye Jing interrupted him, and said softly, "What about now? Do you feel any satisfaction or regret? "
Ye De thought carefully.
"I saved Anna," he suddenly said with a child-like pride, "She's safe, you'll be happy to know."
Ye Jing smiled. "I'm very happy."
"When I thought about the middle-aged man I saw in the city, he might have had a drink with you; the old man I saw might have given you food in the past … Most importantly, after the children you raised grew up, they had children again. Every young person I saw might have started from you, because you are the reason why they are alive and breathing …" Ye De looked at her and said, "I clearly know that they are not related to you by blood, but it is very strange. It feels like you are still here, and your life continues with the continuation of their lives. I tried my best to protect them, and I really did.
"As for regret … I've let Lin Sanjiu down. I promised her that I would help her send out a message to look for her, but it seems like I'm going to break my promise. The person she couldn't find seemed to be very important to her … This is my regret. "
"Is that so?" Ye Jing tilted her head and asked, "Are you really going to break your promise?"
Ye De didn't quite understand what she meant, so he looked at her blankly.
"Think about it again." Ye Jing pointed at his hands and said, "You, ah, have always been extremely stubborn, walking down a path until the end. When I feel like you are about to hit the southern wall, you just have to think of a way to escape at the last moment."
Unknowingly, his hands had turned red and white, and his veins were bulging as if he was using all his strength.
"No," Ye De was shocked. He raised his head and said, "You — I want to stay —"
"When that day comes, I'll wait for you here," Ye Jing said with a smile, "I promise, I won't go far."
[This chapter ended up being longer than I expected …]
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