Doomsday Paradise

Chapter 1761 Conversation with Ye Jing
The corrugated ball exploded in mid-air.

From when Ye De felt his chest loosen and was blown away by the explosive airflow until he actually fell to the ground, it seemed to be only a moment, so short that he couldn't see what happened; it seemed like dozens of hours. It took a long time, and when he landed, under the impact of various thoughts in his mind, he had already begun to doubt himself.

I'm not doing something stupid, am I?Ye De got up from the ground, spat out the blood in his mouth, and looked back.

In the next second, he ran towards the city wall like he was dying.

...he could barely see the clearing.

Just like the severed arm of the middle-aged woman, the limbs that are disconnected from the mutant will not proliferate; from the other half of the arm that is connected to An Ran, it is being frantically torn and sprayed out layer after layer, a group of A bunch of massive arms.

Densely packed, layer upon layer, swaying arms and hands covered most of the platform in the blink of an eye—as if enraged by the explosion, they were still spewing and spreading endlessly, regardless of speed or quantity , far surpassed the time when a 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 this platform before the spreading arms hit him - he doesn't want to die with the mutants yet.

He is indeed doing this now, but the open space between him and the city wall is being quickly swallowed by the turbulent limbs of mutants around him, just like a small piece of reef standing in the sea when the tide is high, it will sink and disappear at any time.

An Ran, who was standing not far from the city wall, seemed to have seen a comedy, and was out of breath from laughing: "What are you doing? I'm afraid you didn't die fast enough, and you didn't die well enough. How much? You struggled for a long time, just for this?"

When Ye De couldn't answer a word and could only compete with the mutated body for speed, he said leisurely: "You look like a headless chicken, but I don't even have the heart to let you die, because I I really want to know what you are doing with such a thing. Your little bomb can only explode more me, don’t you—"

Just when his voice suddenly paused, Ye De's feet trembled at the same time.

As if the earth suddenly decided not to catch his footsteps anymore, it retreated slightly, allowing Ye De's next step to step into the air.The muffled sound of rumbling revived from under his feet, and when he fell to the ground, he clearly felt that the ground under him seemed to finally be unable to stretch, and a piece of it moved sideways amidst the tremors.

His goal had been achieved—but unlike the plan, he hadn't had time to escape yet.

"What, what's going on?" An Ran was startled, but also realized: "The earth platform has collapsed?"

With just a few words, the whole piece of land fell apart completely.At that moment, Ye De's vision was completely blurred by the flying dust, a large number of arms thrown into the sky, and the feeling of weightlessness; when he fell, what he saw clearly was a scene that collapsed like a waterfall. A large number of arms poured down from the earthen platform—and An Ran fell down together by them.

That's right, the earth platform has collapsed, Ye De thought with satisfaction.

The airflow when the corrugated ball exploded in mid-air only shook the earthen platform; what really made it collapse was the endless arms erupting from An Ran's body—more precisely, it was the weight of the arms.

It seems that even the mutant himself has forgotten that his mutated limbs also have weight.This platform once collapsed because it couldn't support half of the house, how could it support the mutated limbs like mountains and seas?

An Ran now only has a large number of limbs on one arm, even if he hastily stretched out the other arm to grab the city wall above his head, any part he grasped could not bear this weight - this is exactly what Ye De The reason for deliberately blowing off one of his arms: what he was looking for was the uncontrollable weight of the limbs after the mutants multiplied rapidly.

He wants to make An Ran's proliferating limbs become an irresistible weight for the latter, and he will fall all the way into the void under the platform, into the haze layer under the void, and finally let the earth under the haze layer swallow him up.

Ye De just didn't expect that now he also fell down with him.

But maybe that's fine too.

An Ran's screaming scream even pierced through the dull and heavy sound of the collapse of the earthen platform; between the earth, rocks, powder and air currents, in the weightlessness of falling, Ye De found a large group of flesh-colored bodies that were turbulent and distorted like a mountain of snakes below. The limbs are rapidly decreasing and shrinking—the mutant's other arm is also rapidly stretching upwards, stretching towards the city wall that is getting farther and farther away from them at this moment.

This guy reacted quite quickly, and immediately knew that he was going to put away the mutated limbs.

In other words, has my heartbeat stopped, Ye De thought.He had never experienced such a degree of fright in his life, but it was strange that he had never experienced such a complete silence in his life.

For example, now, he can feel that his hand has grabbed another corrugated ball, and his movements are calm and easy, as if he is still standing on flat ground; Throw it out hard.

"I｜fuck you—" An Ran screamed and cursed, which was quickly drowned out by the sound of the explosion.

Ye De seemed to hear himself chuckle - but this may also be his hallucination in the rapid fall.

After the explosion, everything returned to the state it was a second or two ago: as long as the mutant's limbs were broken, it would explode involuntarily, and as long as it exploded, An Ran would involuntarily fall under the weight.The speed at which he retracted his limbs was not as fast as Ye De's throwing the corrugated ball. Besides, Ye De didn't intend to give him another chance—he didn't stop for a moment, and the corrugated balls fell one after another towards the big snake-like mountain. on the arm.

It's just that he never had the chance to see the effect of the corrugated ball again.

Even falling from such a high cliff is only a blink of an eye.

In a trance, Ye De felt that someone suddenly grabbed his arm, propped him up, and let him sit down.This force was firm and gentle, as if he was afraid that if he grasped too hard, it would leave bruises on his body—he turned his head and saw those familiar, bright eyes again.

"Ye Jing," he heard himself call out.

He was already a grown-up, but with just this sound, there was a cry of grievance.

"Sit down," Ye Jing treated him now, as if he was still treating him when he was four years old, put his hand under his armpit and lifted him, and let him sit down against the soft quilt.She carefully looked at Ye De's face for a while, gently brushed his hair back to his head, and then sat back again, and asked with a smile: "How old are you this year?"

"34." He swallowed his grievances and said like a child.

Ye De didn't understand why he could only sit leaning against the quilt.He hoped to crawl over and climb back into Ye Jing's arms, even if he heard her complain that "the child is dying of heat", he could slowly fall asleep-but Ye Jing was sitting half a meter away from him, always Separated by a distance, so that he can't touch her.

Ye Jing nodded. "It's all grown-ups. It's been so many years... So, you survived well back then?"

His voice seemed to be blocked by this question.

For so many years, Ye De never dared to think about what happened after that day - he squatted beside Ye Jing's chair and asked her softly if she still wanted to evolve that day.

He wanted to go back to the afternoon before he took out the smoky water, leaning against her lap, basking in the sun quietly with her for a while longer.He thought that due to various reasons, he couldn't spend so many afternoons basking in the sun with her, and he couldn't 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 do it all over again, I would still collect smoky water, and I would still bring it to you and ask you what you want Don't want to evolve. I just want to give you your life back."

"I know," Ye Jing still looked at him as before, and said with a smile, "I know everything. I'm very happy."

She paused, tilted her head, and when she was looking for the next sentence, time filled her skin again. "I didn't think I'd spend my life this way, and I didn't think I'd be rewarded in this way...I'm very satisfied."

"No...it's my fault." Ye De said again.He stretched out his hand to her, but Ye Jing didn't move, as if he didn't intend to hold his hand. "I don't know... I don't know that I was infected long ago during the collection process."

Ye Jing still looked at him very softly.

"If I could do it all over again, I would definitely go far,"

Ye De thought he would want to cry, but maybe because everything came to an end, he finally met Ye Jing again, there was nothing to cry about.He just murmured, recalling: "I have fantasized many times in my mind. After I give you the smoky water, I will leave Fanjia City immediately. Unless you evolve successfully, I will never come back. In this way Come on, you'll never know I'm infected...

"Actually, it's nothing terrible for me to be infected. I'm just an ordinary person, I have no potential value, and I can't withstand the haze, so I won't evolve, and I won't become a fallen species. I will just get sick and die in a normal way." That's all. There are so many people dying in a day, it doesn't matter if I have one more." He looked at his fingers and said, "How did you find out that I was sick? I didn't even realize it... I I thought it was just that I was too tired from work in those few days.”

"I raised you little by little," Ye Jing said with a smile, "How could I not see it?"

"But I'm not afraid," he said as if arguing, "My wish is only for you to evolve, to let you truly live for yourself once. My life is given to me by you, and I am willing to use it to do something for you .”

"I didn't expect that in the end, not only did I accomplish nothing for you," he smiled wryly, and continued: "In addition to the life you gave me, you gave me your potential value. All of this is just ...just to keep such an ordinary child like me alive."

Ye Jing, just like many years ago, would roll his eyes when he heard something he didn't like to hear.

"I don't even know what you did, how many difficulties you survived, where you found a new doomsday factor, and finally handed over your potential value to me." When Ye De spoke, he hoped to hold her hand. hand, but Ye Jing did not move. "I can only lie on the bed and let you run around in a daze, waiting for you to save me... If I knew at that time, the price you saved me was your potential value, and the price you lost potential value would be, yes ..."

"That's all in the past." Ye Jing interrupted him, and said softly, "What about now? Do you have any satisfaction or regret now?"

Ye De thought about it carefully.

"I rescued Anna." He suddenly felt a little proud like a child, and said, "She is safe. You must be very happy to know."

Ye Jing smiled. "I am very happy."

"When I think about the middle-aged people I saw in the city, they might have had drinks with you; With a child, any young person I see may have started from you, because you are alive and breathing..." Ye De looked at her and said: "I clearly know that they have no blood relationship with you Relationships, but it's weird, it feels like you're still there, your life goes on with them. I try to protect them as much as I can, and I do.

"As for regret...I'm sorry for Lin Sanjiu. I promised her that I would send her a missing person message afterwards, but I seem to be breaking my promise. The person she can't find seems to be very important to her... This is My pity."

"Really?" Ye Jing tilted his head slightly and asked, "Are you really going to break your promise soon?"

Ye De didn't quite understand what she meant, but just looked at her blankly.

"Think about it again." Ye Jing pointed to his hands and said, "You, you have always been extremely stubborn, and you will go all the way to the dark. When I think you are about to hit the south wall, but you can Figured out a way to get out at the last minute."

I don't know when it started, his hands became red and white, with bulging veins, as if he was exerting all his strength.

"No," Ye De was startled, raised his head and said, "You—I want to stay—"

"When you really arrive, I will 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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