Chapter 729: Familiar Stranger
It was the first time she had seen his face.
But this face was difficult to describe with any words, because Lun Qin found that she simply couldn't remember any information about it, let alone describe it.
Her brain seemed to possess a special forgetting mechanism, preventing any of that information from being retained.
Every time she looked, it was a stranger, yet also a stranger who seemed somewhat familiar.
......
A drizzling rain began to fall from the dark clouds.
However, the color of the rain seemed a bit strange.
It was red rain, a standard blood-red.
Soon after, certain blood-red liquids also began to seep from the ground.
The air, too, was contaminated by the blood rain, taking on a rank, bloody smell.
Gusts of wind swept past, causing Lun Heping's back to chill.
The unending scent of blood was most effective at stirring a creature's fear of death.
Not to mention the pervasive, constantly encroaching fleshly tentacles.
"Who is he?"
Lun Heping asked, utterly baffled.
"He is me, and I am him."
"...?"
......
Just as the few of them remained stunned by the change in the surrounding phenomena, a river of blood, swirling with white mist, suddenly descended from the sky, sweeping straight towards their midst like a whip!
"Hoo—"
A soft exhale, followed by a deep inhale.
All the blood-tinged air around was completely drawn into a cherry-like mouth that resembled a black hole, raising a chaotic storm that seemed intent on uprooting all the tentacles.
Then came a soft whistle.
The sound was faint, yet this wasn't due to weakness; rather, it was because the vast majority of the sound waves had transformed into infrasound, imperceptible to human ears but far more terrifying in its destructive power.
The atmosphere was violently churned, the earth ripped apart by the sound, and the incessant crashing of what seemed like shattering glass echoed all around.
Within a radius of several kilometers, the blood rain falling like willow catkins was completely swept away by this soft whistle; even the thunder and lightning above the dark clouds were utterly overwhelmed at that moment.
......
The wind ceased, the smoke cleared.
The river of blood that had descended from the sky and swept forth was rent open, a hole with a radius of over a hundred meters appearing in it. As it swept across like a celestial whip, the void perfectly passed through the three individuals.
"How much longer do you plan to cling on?" Lun Qin lowered her head, looking at Lun Heping and Wu Renxing, who were each clutching one of her legs beneath her.
Just now, to allow them to hold onto her in the storm, she had to specially disperse a portion of the atmospheric armor on her legs, enabling their hands to grasp her thighs.
But at this moment, apart from the illusion caused by light distortion, she was actually completely unclothed... The two individuals at her feet were effectively clinging to her bare legs, and to avoid being blown away, they were embracing her with all their might.
"Sis... Boss." Sensing a murderous gaze directed from above, the two quickly released their grip, then glared at each other with the eyes of rivals.
"Perfect feel..." Wu Renxing, who was never a respectable person to begin with, continued to savor the exquisite sensation even after letting go.
"If you wish to die, I can grant you that wish right now." She looked down with a cold, contemptuous gaze at the fellow whose lips still held a certain smile that everyone understood.
Lun Qin's eyes could detect the slightest changes in temperature. To her, what the man, whose heat was all rushing towards his body's core, was thinking was utterly transparent.
"Beast!" Lun Heping, having transformed into sidekick number one, directly slammed an old fist into Wu Renxing's face.
She watched her brother desperately express his loyalty, even as his heat honestly converged in the same central region of his body, and let out a light sigh, then refocused her attention on the firmament above.
She slightly bent her knees, and the muscles in her legs began to coil with power like bowstrings, then burst forth violently!
Wild winds swept everything away, her leap dwarfing gravity itself. Lun Qin shot straight into the sky like an arrow, at speeds surpassing that of sound!
The air yielded for her, the air sang for her. Amidst the roaring sonic boom, she reached mid-air, confronting the heart of the dark clouds.
For a moment, their auras stood equally matched in confrontation.
......
"You are still too weak right now."
A voice came from an unknown place in the sky.
Immediately after, the next moment she regained her senses, Lun Qin found herself lying embedded more than ten meters deep within a rocky mountain dozens of kilometers away.
She didn't even know how her opponent had attacked her.
"A human-shaped deep pit..." After slightly moving her body, Lun Qin climbed out, doing her best not to disturb the scene.
The mountain's rock was simply too brittle for her; a slight exertion of force would shatter it into dust.
"I must have been directly struck into this." After a simple analysis of the trajectory, she reached this conclusion.
"But why do I have no memory at all? Was I instantly killed?"
Carrying a multitude of questions, she left the spot.
By now, the sky was covered by boundless dark clouds, through which sunlight struggled to penetrate even a sliver, turning day into an eternal dusk.
Tentacle-like roots grew rampantly across the earth, as if they had replaced the original vegetation.
The outdoor roads were almost completely covered by the tentacle roots, making it seem as though humanity had vanished many years ago.
"Could it be that I've been unconscious for many years...?"
Gazing at this scene of vast transformation, Lun Qin suddenly felt a surge of emotion.
"Unfortunately, this is only an hour later." A wisp of black mist materialized out of thin air, answering her question.
"You definitely know what just happened! And, are they alright?"
"Just now? You were instantly killed by me," the black mist said nonchalantly.
"You?"
"Or rather, another me."
"......"
Lun Qin listened, feeling utterly bewildered.
"Kill everyone else, otherwise you won't stand a chance against him."
The black mist continued to speak nonchalantly, as if it weren't talking about killing thousands of people, but tens of thousands of ants.
"What if I don't?"
"Then the other me will kill everyone, including you."
"Why?! Why?!" Overwhelmed by the cruel truth, she stomped her feet vigorously, like a child throwing a tantrum.
Unfortunately, the ground could not withstand her stomping. Faced with those beautiful legs, whose destructive power far surpassed that of a pile driver, it immediately succumbed and cracked open.
"Why do all you madmen love to destroy the world?!"
"You will understand soon, but I must remind you: the weak have no right to choose." Leaving Lun Qin, still hysterically raging, the dark shadow vanished once more.
"I just want to live a normal life... I don't want to be some savior. Besides, after killing them all, what would be left for me to save?"
Comments