Absolute Choice 3
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"Perhaps saying it this way is very laughable and tragic, but Shi Xiaobai, you have to maintain...your greatest value as a 'toy'. By preventing Hisith from having the desire to kill you, that will maximize your chances...of living on."
When Shi Xiaobai heard this, he felt his heart aching. If he could say something, he would probably roar and say—stop speaking.
Chen Lingcun's analysis was very accurate and very reasonable. He had used a tiny bit of information and his logical deduction to guess all that had happened, and even provided Shi Xiaobai the most reasonable way to live on.
However, he who was about to die was constantly worried about the safety of another person while leaving behind his final words. He was calmly analyzing the situation for someone else, and even calmly proposed the heartless request of pretending not to know him.
What sort of selflessness was this?
Why was he so selfless...to the person who had killed him?
Shi Xiaobai's consciousness struggled once again. He desired greatly to say, stop speaking.
As least...stop being so considerate for him.
At this moment, Chen Lingcun suddenly said, "Shi Xiaobai, I'm already dead. No one can save me. But you can still live on. Furthermore...you must live on. For yourself, and for me."
"There is a matter...I would like to request of you."
"First of all, please listen to my story."
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At a particular corner in a noisy bar.
A handsome silver-haired youth and a voluptuous red-haired beauty were sitting across from each other. No matter where these two people were, they were supposed to attract the attention of everyone. They were clearly "prey" in a chaotic bar.
But from the beginning to the end, no one disturbed them. Occasionally, a person walking by would turn ashen after seeing the red-haired beauty and leave in a panic. When they saw the silver-haired youth, their eyes will glaze over before they turned around to leave.
The silver-haired youth was constantly pouring alcohol for himself and drinking it. He did not even look at the red-haired beauty in the eye.
As for the red-haired beauty, her eyes were focused on the silver-haired youth as though it would burn through him. The way she looked at him was one of unadulterated love between a man and woman.
"Are you trying to drink yourself silly?" The red-haired beauty suddenly said.
The silver-haired youth did not respond, but continued pouring alcohol for himself.
The red-haired beauty gave an ambiguous smile and said, "Fine, once you are drunk, my chance will come."
The silver-haired youth continue drinking his alcohol.
The red-haired beauty coldly snorted and said, "I have been seducing you for five straight years without any success. I am even beginning to suspect that you have a problem down there. When I take advantage of you being drunk, I want to see if your prowess in bed is crap."
The silver-haired youth's hand paused before he said in an expressionless manner, "Virgin, shut up."
The red-haired beauty's breathing stagnated as her face turned red. She immediately cursed, "Who have I been staying chaste for? You heartless jerk. Tsk, go ahead and drink, keep drinking till you are drunk. I will let you see how rich my theoretical knowledge is."
Upon hearing this, the silver-haired youth poured from the bottle of alcohol again, but this time, the bottle was empty.
The silver-haired scanned the numerous empty bottles on the table before standing up in an expressionless manner. He was prepared to head to the counter to buy a few more bottles of alcohol.
At this moment, the red-haired beauty tugged at the silver-haired youth's hand.
"Can you stop drinking?" The red-haired beauty said softly.
The silver-haired youth gave her a light glance and said, "I want to get drunk today."
"You never drink alcohol, and you want to get drunk on the first day you drink?"
The red-haired beauty hurriedly said, "I'm very worried, because...you seem to be in great pain. If you are trying to escape your pain from drinking...I wish you would do it through another method...such as telling your pain to others."
The silver-haired youth was startled before he said with a faint smile, "After I'm drunk...I might engage in drunken sex uncontrollably."
The red-haired beauty immediately exclaimed and pinched the back of the silver-haired youth's hand and said angrily, "Why are you so shameless?" The red-haired beauty's face blushed after she reprimanded him. Following that, she said, "Do you think I'm yearning it so much? Anyway, you are prohibited from drinking!"
The silver-haired youth's eyes flashed as he suddenly took a step forward and sat beside the red-haired beauty. He extended his arm around the red-haired beauty's waist and with his other hand, raised her chin.
The red-haired beauty's eyes immediately glazed over as she stuttered, "You...you...you...are drunk..."
"Do you know...whenever your face is this red...how much I wish to..."
The silver-haired youth's voice suddenly turned extremely ambiguous.
The red-haired beauty's face blushed even redder as she slowly closed her eyes and gently pursed her lips.
The silver-haired youth gave a bitter smile.
But he did not do anything.
Because most of the time, no matter how much you desire to do something, it was impossible for you to do it.
The silver-haired youth gently turned towards the counter.
The red-haired beauty slowly opened her eyes as her blushing face turned pale, but her eyes were turning red.
"I wonder, if pain could be told to others… then, would you be willing to be that person?"
A gentle voice echoed into her ears as the red-haired beauty turned her head in surprise. She realized that the silver-haired youth had returned, and was sitting on another sofa, with a new bottle of alcohol in his hand.
"Yes!"
The red-haired beauty hurriedly responded, afraid that her response would be slower by even a second.
The silver-haired youth gave a self-deprecating laugh and said, "It is a...very silly story."
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Chapter136 A Sorrow that should be Drowned
In the pure-white world.
Chen Lingcun began to narrate his story.
"I'm both human and dragon. It can also be said that I'm a human that can 'transform into a dragon'!"
"In historical records, our race's existence is known as the 'Golden White Holy Dragon race'. After surviving the first apocalypse, due to unknown reasons, my clan was slowly forgotten by others. The form of 'forgetting' is a kind of curse. People are unable to remember our existence. They would even subconsciously ignore and forget our existence."
"Hence, we call ourselves the 'Forgotten Dragon Clan'."
"However, not only was the 'Forgotten Dragon Clan' forgotten by humans, but we were also gradually abandoned by the human world. Our clan found it harder and harder to reproduce. Over time, more of my clansmen died from age or illnesses. Our purity in our bloodline lessened, resulting in fewer and fewer of my clansmen being able to transform into dragons. Thousands of years later, in the current generation, there were only 14 of my clansmen left!"
When Chen Lingcun said this, a flash of pain appeared in his eyes.
"I was one of the only 14 remaining members of the 'Forgotten Dragon Clan. Also...I am the only one in the dragon clan that has the ability to 'transform into a dragon'."
"In other words, I am the last golden-white holy dragon!"
"My parents, my elder brothers, and my clan...regarded me as the most important existence."
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In the noisy bar.
The silver-haired youth was narrating...his "silly" story to the red-haired beauty.
"His birth was acclaimed by our clansmen as the 'Gift of the Dragon God'. This was because before his birth, there was no one
in the 'Forgotten Dragon Clan' who was able to transform into a dragon. The bloodline of the golden-white holy dragon was already snuffed out."
The silver-haired youth said with a gentle tone, "To the other clansmen, he was the last golden-white holy dragon in the world, and also the last hope of the Golden White Holy Dragon race. But to me...he was only my younger brother."
When the red-haired beauty heard this, she said softly, "You must have loved him tenderly."
The silver-haired youth flashed a tender look as he softly said, "As our Forgotten Dragon Clan distanced ourselves from humans, the fourteen of us lived in a tiny deserted village. I was the only other person back then who was not yet of age, so...He was my younger brother, as well as my only playmate. I desired greatly to share all my toys with him."
"Those so-called toys...were actually not fun at all. At least, I got sick of them early on, but...seeing how he could be so happy the whole day with a silly toy, I had a thought...that one day, I will find him the most fun and interesting toy in the world."
The red-haired beauty was started as she muttered in an inaudible voice, "I'm so jealous."
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In the snow-white world.
Chen Lingcun's face was filled with nostalgia.
"As the only clansman who is able to 'transform into a dragon', I was given strict Psionic Ability cultivation from a very young age. Do you know, Shi Xiaobai that in fact...I reached the fourth level of the Psionic Mortal Realm at the age of six."
Chen Lingcun suddenly gave a sly smile and said, "As for my present strength...it's definitely enough to beat the hell out of you. Haha."
Upon hearing this, Shi Xiaobai felt that if not for the inappropriate atmosphere and him being unable to speak, he would have said in high spirits, "Come on, let's hurt each other."
Chen Lingcun sighed and said, "A child, even if he was a so-called golden-white holy dragon, would easily feel helpless and break down when faced with strenuous training and the hopes of all the clansmen."
"But thankfully, I had my elder brother."
"Brother was worried that I could not endure the difficulty of the training, so he would find a new toy for me every day. However, in that remote mountain far from humanity, how could there be any fun toys? So all those toys were in fact very boring."
"However, every time my brother brought a new toy, I would deliberately appear extremely happy. Because, to me, what was most important was not the toy, but my brother being by my side, attempting to coax a smile from me."
"Until one day, I did something wrong and was punished to kneel by my parents. Back then, I was crying very sadly, and..."
Upon saying this, Chen Lingcun's eyes turned gloomy.
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"Then, what happened next?"
The red-haired beauty had quietly moved to a position closer to the silver-haired youth.
The silver-haired youth glanced at her and said with dull eyes, "He cried miserably. Not a single toy was able to coax him. Then...I told him I would find the most fun toy in the whole wide world, before...I secretly left the village."
The silver-haired youth gradually bowed his head in order to hide his slightly red eyes.
The red-haired beauty asked in puzzlement, "You didn't find it?"
"No, I found it."
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Chen Lingcun sighed deeply.
"In a bid to find the most fun toy in the world, my elder brother secretly left the village. I was very upset back then, so I did not stop him. I am very thankful for not stopping him. Because not long after Brother left the village...a bunch of people came to the village, a bunch of...people with weapons."
Upon saying this, he was nearly gritting his teeth while saying the words "people with weapons".
Shi Xiaobai's heart began to race as an ominous feeling spontaneously arose.
"They...were there for me."
Chen Lingcun clenched his teeth and said hatefully, "They were just like Hisith. They had used certain methods to be immune from the 'forgotten curse'. They knew of my existence, and came to the village to take me, the 'golden-white holy dragon' away."
"My clansmen who had avoided strife their entire lives...were easily taken down without much resistance. But thankfully...this bunch of people only knocked my clansmen unconscious and did not kill them."
"But...But..."
Chen Lingcun suddenly choked up as he drew a few deep breaths before he forcefully calmed himself down. He said with great difficulty, "But I was very scared back then...afraid I would lose my consciousness...then...then..."
"Then when I woke up."
Chen Lingcun closed his eyes and used all his might to say, "When I woke up, the village had been reduced to ruins. Corpses were strewn everywhere. There were those people...as well as my own clansmen."
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In the noisy bar.
The silver-haired youth looked up and took a breath before lowering his head and said with a trembling voice, "Under extreme fear, he completed his first 'dragon transformation'. Having lost his consciousness, he killed everyone."
"When I returned to the village in great excitement from the human world with a toy I found, he was kneeling in front of my clansmen's tombs. He was deadpan, with two streaks of blood across his face."
The red-haired beauty reached out her hand to hold onto the silver-haired youth's hand, while her other hand covered her gaped mouth. Her eyes were filled with pained love.
The silver-haired youth said in pain, "He was only eight years old, but he knew everything. He knew that everyone was killed after his dragon transformation. So he blamed himself, believing that he was the one who killed the other twelve clansmen."
"Can you imagine? An eight-year-old child digging twelve graves himself, moving the dismembered corpses into them?"
"Can you imagine an eight-year-old child say to you, 'Kill me, Brother. Kill me, Brother. Kill me, Brother...'"
Upon hearing this, two streams of tears immediately flowed out of the red-haired beauty's eyes. She covered her mouth, trying her best not to let out a cry. She leaned over and hugged the youth.
"He was blaming himself, but do you know...I blamed myself more than he did, because...those bunch of people...those darn bunch of people was able to find the village all because of me!"
The silver-haired youth gave a low growl as two burning hot tears rolled down his face.
The red-haired beauty muttered to herself, "So that was the case...The reason why you have been constantly looking for that organization..."
The silver-haired youth nodded and said, "All of this was not my brother's fault, but my fault. It was that darn organization's fault. I want to kill them all..."
And then commit suicide.
The silver-haired youth said in his heart.
The red-haired beauty's heart trembled because she had guessed at the silver-haired youth's thoughts. She hurriedly changed subjects and said, "Then your brother is now..."
Saying that, the red-haired beauty immediately stopped, wishing she could slap herself in the face.
The silver-haired youth quivered slightly before saying softly, "Whenever he sees me, he will blame himself. When I see him, I will blame myself even more, so...I left him. I left my most important younger brother."
The red-haired beauty heaved a sigh of relief. At least it was just him having separated from his younger brother, and nothing bad had happened to him.
The silver-haired youth suddenly said, "But my brother is about to die very soon, somewhere unknown to me. And I can't do a thing about it."
"So, shouldn't I get dead drunk?"
Some pain is not reduced in the least bit even if it was told to the world, wasn't it?
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Chapter137 Wait, you must wait!
"You have successfully infuriated me."
Hisith's expression changed.
The black eyeballs in the red blob of light also began to move.
Kali looked at Hisith with a frosty look as she coldly said, "It appears that my warning was apparently too light."
Hisith's mouth twitched as he turned around to look at the blob of red light.
The blob of red light immediately said to Kali, "Pixie, do you know who This Seat is?"
Kali turned towards the red blob of light in a deadpan manner while remaining silent.
The red blob of light sneered and said, "This Seat is the Abyss Ghost King, leading the Abyss' ghost race. I believe you must have heard of the 'Abyss', and you should know that the 'Abyss' is an existence you cannot afford to offend."
Kali remained silent, as though she was waiting for the red blob of light to continue speaking.
The red blob of light's black eyeballs were in constant motion as it minced its words, "This Seat admits that you are very powerful, and This Seat won't be able to do anything to you with This Seat's strength being sealed, but there are countless existences in the 'Abyss' that can defeat you. Hisith is a human protected by the 'Abyss'. If you touch him, you are becoming the enemy of the entire 'Abyss'."
Kali remained silent, her eyes still as cold as ever.
The black eyes on red blob of light began to move at a faster speed as it said in a deep voice, "That kid is just a human with a bit more talent. You can find them a dime a dozen in this world. Do not do something stupid for a trivial human. Stand down. This Seat knows that you will lose some face, but a bit of face compared to your life, you probably know this very well, having lived for so long."
"Are you done?" Kali suddenly spoke softly, "Then it's time to die."
The moment she said that, a holy white light suddenly burst out of the red blob of light. In just an instant, the red blob of light was enveloped by the radiating white light, disappearing completely before it could even let out a scream.
"You!" Hisith looked in disbelief at Kali and said with a trembling voice, "You actually killed the 'Abyss Ghost King'?"