In his previous life, games were one of the things Li Xiang was most familiar with.
Back then, he spent all his time in his workshop making guns, thinking about his sister and his first love. He had no other hobbies, and the only thing that piqued his interest was all kinds of games.
Unfortunately, he had no place to stay in his previous life, and his only hobby was gone with the wind.
Li Xiang and the three girls discussed the fairytale kingdom, and they were puzzled. They had never heard of such a strange kingdom that required players to play games to clear it!
"I heard that the kingdom evolved from the creator's heart and experience. It seems that the dead protagonist who returned is particularly fond of games?" Cecilia pursed her lips curiously. "From the feedback of the players, only by clearing the game in the kingdom can one have a chance to meet that existence."
"To know the specifics, I'm afraid we can only enter it ourselves. To understand it thoroughly, we can also try to dig up information about the era that the protagonist once lived in. I'll leave that to the research institute." Li Xiang nodded.
Regarding the final catastrophe, the research institute led by Sophia and Honey had been constantly collecting relevant information and madly deducing the trend of the catastrophe as well as the past and present.
In order to defeat these protagonists and their kingdoms, they had to understand the era that they lived in. The more detailed, the better.
"Can the research institute handle it?" Fei Yujing had her doubts. Although it was a place where the smartest people from the seven continents gathered, there was still a limit to their manpower. Li Xiang had given them too many tasks.
Li Xiang nodded, his eyes firm. He chose to trust Honey and Sophia. As long as they did not ask him, he would continue to trust them.
Just as the three girls had said, if he shouldered all the responsibilities, even he would not be able to bear it. One day, he would be crushed. He had to start trusting others and distribute the responsibilities.
The final catastrophe was not a catastrophe for one person or a group of people. It was a catastrophe for this world, and no one could escape it.
"Trust Honey. Unless it's absolutely necessary, don't enter this fairytale kingdom." Li Xiang glanced at the candy mountain. At this moment, there were still people moving around. Soon, they were absorbed into the border of the God's Kingdom. He felt a slight change in the huge God's Kingdom.
That aura was very sweet, but at the same time, it was filled with the terror of death.
Someone was inside, and he was level 10. His strength was extremely strong. A pair of eyes were faintly discernible as they sized up this side. Finally, they fixed their gaze on Li Xiang.
It should be the master of the fairy tale paradise, the returning protagonist whose name and origin were unknown.
The other party looked at Li Xiang with great interest. Unlike the other protagonists who were probing and suspicious, he was very direct and exposed his position to Li Xiang, as if he was expecting something.
This was a silent invitation.
It did not differentiate between friend and foe, but it was not pure malice like the Lord of Disaster and the Bride of the Mist.
"Since he has the ability to seal the God's Kingdom, he naturally has the ability to trap everyone who enters. You must not enter rashly, or I may not be able to save you."
Li Xiang solemnly warned the three women again.
He patiently reminded them again and again because he was worried that the three of them would not be able to restrain themselves. If they fell into the enemy's trap, he would become extremely passive.
The three women also patiently nodded in agreement, not daring to slack off. Li Xiang's concern was mixed in between the lines, and they were very touched.
After this matter was settled, he prepared to head to the Southern Land to discuss the latest information with Bai Lili. He had also completed a small cycle and reviewed the current battle situation of the seven continents.
Seeing that he was about to leave, Cecilia pouted, a little unhappy. But before she could say anything, she was pulled to the side by Ming Xu.
"Didn't you say that you have the latest mechanical creatures to show me? Since I'm free now, I'll go check it out with you. "Clone Ming Xu pushed Cecilia and winked at her.
Cecilia looked at Li Xiang and Fei Yujing, sighed, and reluctantly left with clone Ming Xu.
The two of them boarded the prepared Void Battleship and left. Standing at the entrance of the ladder, clone Ming Xu cast a playful look at Li Xiang and raised an eyebrow at him, as if asking, "How are you going to thank me?"
Li Xiang responded with a smile. After watching the two of them leave, he turned to look at Fei Yujing.
At this moment, the night wind was chilly, and the stars were everywhere. The lights of the God's Kingdom in the distance were gradually brightening. It seemed that some game had begun.
The two of them looked at each other without saying a word. The wind blew, and they stood silently. After a long time, Fei Yujing laughed softly.
"It's been more than ten years … In a moment of carelessness, more than ten years have passed." Fei Yujing stroked her hair, and her voice drifted around with the wind. "It's been more than ten years since the Unified Recruitment Exam."
This was the first thing that had troubled her.
At that time, the two of them were young. She was the young lady of the Fei Family in Hou City, and in the eyes of many, she was blessed by the heavens. She excelled in her studies and was extremely talented. In the Unified Recruitment Exam, she had also steadily awakened six Magic Circuits. Her level was not low, and she was immediately chosen by Keihoku University.
If not for the fact that the Fei Family had long been involved with the evil leader Bai Lili, she would have taken the most ordinary and common script of a young lady and risen from a young lady of a small family to a young lady of a noble family of the seven continents who could influence a certain level of power.
As for Li Xiang, it was much more bumpy and bizarre.
Once upon a time, Fei Yujing had used her marriage as a wager, wanting to bind Li Xiang to her. She loved him too much, to the point that she could not extricate herself. She loved him so much that even though she knew that as an evil follower, she would not have a good ending with him, she still threw caution to the wind and went crazy.
Until Ming Xu's appearance gave her a resounding slap in the face, and she finally came to her senses.
That young man was no longer the him in her memories. He had a girl he loved, but unfortunately, it was not her.
She had long known and understood everything, so she hardened her heart and cut off this relationship. She was willing to deceive herself and others, abandoning Li Xiang for the sake of pursuing fame and power. Even though Li Xiang still had some uncertain feelings for her at that time, as long as she was willing, she had many ways to make the kind-hearted Li Xiang feel guilty and not dare to give up on her.
But she still resolutely chose to let go.
She told herself that the person in his heart was not her. She did not want an illusory love, did not want food given to her, and did not want a humble love.
If she wanted it, she would fight with her fair and square, let Li Xiang see her true self, let him make his own choice, even if it meant a crushing defeat, even if it meant being consigned to eternal damnation, even if it meant missing him forever.
This was her.
The Lightless Empress, Fei Yujing.
The world was ever-changing. Originally, with Bai Lili's recovery, she had completely betrayed the human camp and become a Shared Eater. She had even secretly participated in the plan against Ming Xu. She should have walked further and further away from Li Xiang and no longer had any interactions with him.
However, the passionate feelings in the bottom of her heart became more and more intense, burning everything in her, forcing her to commit suicide like a moth drawn to a flame. She had thought that it was an irreversible tragedy, but at the last moment, things took a turn for the better.
Fei Yujing still could not believe that she would suddenly confess to him crazily at that time, and then say "a child, our child" in the name of a deal!
Indeed, giving birth to a blood descendant would help her stabilize her humanity, so as to prevent her from gradually losing her original self after being a Shared Eater for too long. A blood descendant could also be used as a tool to descend at a critical moment, a tool for resurrection, etc.
However, no matter how many reasons she had, she could not deceive herself. The real reason she wanted a child was to make up for her regrets, to have a memory, to leave behind something that she could miss and comfort when they might not have any interactions in the future.
That little girl, Ying 'er, was very sensible since she was born. It was probably because of the strange environment she grew up in and the single-parent family that she grew up very quickly. Usually, she would not act coquettishly to him, nor did she ask for anything.
Compared to most children, her childhood was too miserable. She trained and fought on the Lightless Island all day long, like the cub of a cosmic beast.
However, she had never complained. Sometimes, she was so sensible that it made his heart ache.
"I always thought that Ying 'er's personality and appearance were all like mine, and that you, as a cheap father, probably only inherited her extraordinary talent and mechanical talent." Fei Yujing did not wait for Li Xiang to sigh with her and immediately changed the topic to her daughter.
Li Xiang was silent and did not say anything, allowing her to continue.
He knew that the girl beside him was no longer the Lightless Empress who commanded the Seven Continents, the Eater who made people tremble in fear at the mention of her name. Instead, she was his childhood sweetheart, a beautiful girl with a ponytail, wearing a white shirt and black leather shoes.
She had been suppressed for too long, and had been silent for too long. She needed an outburst and release.
He had misunderstood her for too long. He had always thought that she was obsessed with power and fame, to the point that she did not hesitate to give up on him and leave alone.
Li Xiang still remembered the great change in Fei Yujing's emotions after she revealed his identity as an Evil Follower. She laughed without restraint, first revealing the hazy love between herself and Ming Xu, then pointing out their broken first love, and finally, her own pursuit.
That was exactly the opposite of Li Xiang's original intentions.
She had changed. She had changed so much that he could not see her clearly, or rather, he had never seen her clearly. This included the series of events that followed. Fei Yujing had walked step by step towards the situation that Li Xiang did not want to see the most, and she had even gladly endured it.
In the end, she had disregarded everything, abandoned her father and family, and thrown herself into the Calamity camp, becoming a Eater who was neither human nor Calamity.
All of this seemed to be so logical.
She was declaring her ambition and pursuit, and was willing to pay any price for it. Just as she had said, success only depended on the results, not the process. If she was invincible, so what if she put Li Xiang in the storage cabinet as an ornament?
This was only occasionally. Li Xiang still had doubts. Was this girl really his childhood sweetheart, the girl who did not hesitate to gamble their marriage in order to let him go to Keihoku University together?
The huge contrast made him feel strange. He found it hard to accept, but he did not know what to do.
If Fei Yujing was really as she appeared to be, then she had lied to him twice in both his previous and current lives. But what about the lonely figure and lifeless eyes he had seen through the reflection of the window in his previous life before he had shot himself in the head?
He could not understand, nor did he know how to explain it.
In the end, he could only let it go, and at the same time, let out a sigh of relief.
This was also what Li Xiang felt the most guilty about.
At the end of the School Championship Competition, Fei Yujing questioned him loudly, and even pierced Ming Xu's body as if to vent her anger. Her eyes were filled with the words, "Why didn't you try to make me stay!"
But in the end, he still chose to watch her leave and become a Eater. He did not ask her to stay, and let her go crazy, heading towards eternal damnation.
Why?
Perhaps at that time, he did not know how to deal with this feeling.
He still had feelings for Fei Yujing, but he had already found the girl he loved the most in his life. He would never change, and he vowed to protect her with his life. This would not change.
Rather than hurting her heart and making her uncomfortable and unable to make a choice, it was better to make a clean break and be more decisive.
What he felt guilty about was that in order to break this feeling, he had indirectly urged Fei Yujing to take a twisted path after that.
This responsibility was his. He was the one who had planted the cause and effect, and he was the one who had tasted it.
Time and time again, he was reluctant to part with her. Time and time again, he drifted outside. Time and time again, he was neither close nor distant. Li Xiang closed his eyes, and all kinds of feelings repeatedly surged into his heart.
Needless to say, Fei Yujing could also feel his feelings from the changes in his emotions.
He was worried that the three of them would become a replica of the former King of Dong Ling, the First Lady, and Bai Lili. A painful relationship had caused three generations of suffering. Therefore, Li Xiang could not be cruel to Fei Yujing, but he also did not dare to indulge her too much.
Fei Yujing was still talking about Ying 'er, from when she was crying piteously for food, to when she could crawl and walk, to the first time she spoke, the first time she called for her mother, and the first time she asked where her father was. She spoke casually, and Li Xiang listened, continuing to communicate with her emotions.
She had never told Li Xiang about these things. These were her memories with Ying 'er, bits and pieces, but now, they were the best memories.
"Only now do I realize that she is carved from the same mold as you. Both of you are enigmatic. She keeps everything in her heart and refuses to say it even if she dies. I'm so angry." Fei Yujing seemed to have thought of something to be angry about. She was angry and amused at the same time. "There was also one time when she was clearly injured so badly, but she insisted that she was fine. Then, when I went out to deal with some business, she was almost eaten by the disasters on the island!"
That was the most thrilling experience in history.
Ying 'er was just one step away from becoming food for the disasters. Fortunately, when she went back to the island to get the things she had left behind, the little girl was still holding back her tears. She was clearly terrified.
She had Li Xiang's bloodline in her, and her origin aura was very unique. She had an extraordinary attraction to the disasters, similar to Xin Yi. However, because her mother was different, Ying 'er was closer to the disasters, and it was easier for her to attract the attention of the rulers.
If Ying 'er had died because of this, she would probably have really gone crazy.
She would no longer be able to resist the rejection of her food partner and turn into a mindless monster.
"That time, I killed everything that could move on the entire Lightless Island. I didn't leave a single one behind, afraid that something would appear in the future and threaten her life." Fei Yujing smiled bitterly. "I really wasn't a good mother. I caused her to be alone for many years. Her current unsociable personality probably developed during that time."
"It's not your fault. Isn't she very close to Ai Xi now? When … the calamity is over, you can move in with her. "Li Xiang sighed. Looking at her, he finally said slowly," I think Ming Xu will be very happy. "
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