This was a phone call with only incoming words but no outgoing words, and Yaqi listened quietly to the other party's statement.
The whole process lasted for thirty seconds, until Yaqi closed his phone and put it into his clothes.
“Hey, since you hate me so much, there’s no point in staying. But I hope you understand, this doesn’t mean I’m afraid of you. It won’t be long, sooner than you think. We will be back... and destroy everything here..." Yaki was laughing, a smug laugh, because the call was from Tengu, and his men had already obtained the Spear of Longinus and were now on the plane back to Japan.
The Night Parade of One Hundred Demons is actually a game of hide-and-seek between demons and gods. All the attention of the gods and demons is focused on the Xuanyuan Sword, but the other weapon that can break the seal of the Nine-Tailed Fox is forgotten - the Spear of Longinus. Then a small number of strong soldiers are sent to seize what they really want with lightning speed, minimizing the obstruction of the gods.
Obviously, their plan was quite successful. Whether it was the deployment of troops or the personnel who played the role of "Thunderbolt", the selection was flawless.
The Catholic gods only realized the ghosts' plan after the Vatican was attacked, but it was too late...
After Yaqi announced his withdrawal, the monsters behind him gradually retreated and disappeared into the air that was darker than the night.
On the wide bridge, only Yaqi, the mastermind behind everything, and his subordinate, Tongzi, were left.
"Why don't you get out of here? Do you want us to treat you to a meal?" Bai Wuchang cursed unhappily while rubbing his itchy fists.
"Of course I have to go, but there's someone I want to take with me as well." While saying this, Yaqi's eyes were fixed on Wu Qian lying on the ground.
Wu Qian only felt a big hand suddenly grabbed her chest. She didn't even have the chance to resist. She was inexplicably flown into the air and flew towards the sky at an accelerated speed.
When he stopped, the back of his neck had been grabbed by a real big hand, and his body was completely suspended in the air.
Although I couldn't see the person behind me, the fear transmitted from my palms to every cell in my body was telling me a name... Yaki.
"According to your law, Xu Zhe is a 'God' so I cannot touch him, but this girl should be a pure human, right?" Yaqi's evil smile was a mockery of God.
"Send her away..." The one who responded was not God, but a weaker voice. Supporting his shaking body and covered in blood, Xu Zhe stood up again.
Such an action has almost exhausted all the strength in the body, and the intense breathing can't make up for it.
"She means nothing to you, let her go..." Without his usual toughness, Xu Zhe's voice contained a hint of begging for the first time.
Because she could see that Wu Qian was trembling, she was very scared and tears were welling up in her eyes.
"That's right, she means nothing to me, but she does to you... Don't think that you won't suffer any loss if you fail my 'admiration' of you. You hurt my feelings, and I crush your heart... This is a 'fair deal'." As he said this, holding the trembling girl in one hand, Yaqi retreated, step by step.
"Let her go! Bastard! Kill me if you dare!!!!!" The roaring sound brought out the blood clots in his chest. Xu Zhe only rushed forward three steps, broke through the human wall that God had built for him, and fell to the ground powerlessly again.
"Kill you? I would rather torture you..." This was Yaqi's answer.
"Wu Qian!" Xu Zhe called out for the last time. The trembling Wu Qian stopped trembling after hearing this call, because Xu Zhe had not forgotten her. "Believe me... No matter where you are taken or what you become, I will definitely save you. No matter who hurt you, whether it is a god, a demon or a human... I will make them all pay the price... Believe me..."
My thoughts have gradually become blurred by my own promise, and the cold ground has become even colder.
I don’t know if it was a dream or reality, but I vaguely heard Wu Qian crying and saying “Yeah”.
Xu Zhe had no idea what happened next. When he opened his eyes for the second time, it was already noon the next day...
The King of Hell and the Black and White Impermanence did not leave, but sent Xu Zhe to an empty hospital, bandaged his wounds and gave him simple treatment.
When I opened my eyes, a completely unfamiliar ceiling appeared in front of me, and an infusion bottle on the side was dripping transparent liquid into my body.
The weather is nice today. The sunlight shines into the ward through the open windows, making the room warmer.
It’s really quiet…
There is nothing but my own breath...
There is no more Wu Qian sleeping beside the hospital bed, no more Wu Qian's endless nagging, no more Wu Qian's endless questions...
Without her...
I don’t know when it started, but this figure can no longer be erased from my mind.
Just because you owe her something
"Are you awake?" Suddenly, the tightly closed door was pushed open from the outside, and Bai Wuchang, dressed in a nurse's uniform, came in pushing a medical cart. She looked just like a nurse, only more beautiful. "Don't move. More than half of your bones are broken. Your lungs and stomach are bleeding. You need to be taken care of."
"Where is my partner?" Xu Zhe's voice was weak, but Bai Wuchang heard it.
"Come, come, I'll give you an injection. Don't move. This is my first time as a nurse." She smiled and removed the injection port on the infusion tube, and injected a syringe of medicine into Xu Zhe's body.
"Was he taken away by Yaqi?" Looking up at the snow-white ceiling, Xu Zhe continued to ask.
“I’m really sorry. Although we all don’t want to see Yaqi’s smug look, God’s agreement is an agreement. We can exploit loopholes in the agreement to save you, but we can’t stop Yaqi from taking your companions away. After all, she is 100% human life form…” Looking at Xu Zhe’s lifeless pupils, Bai Wuchang felt only guilt.
"It has nothing to do with you... I'm useless..." The hand receiving the infusion clenched into a fist. Xu Zhe was shaking, and his voice was trembling, "I was unable to protect her. It was my own fault. It was all my fault... It was always me... I watched the people around me get hurt because of me..."
"Are you still blaming yourself like this?" The King of Hell walked in through the open door. "Even God cannot do things. This is the limit of power... You have done very well..."
"How can anyone be hurt if I do well?" Xu Zhe couldn't deceive himself in this way. Even after Xue'er died, he had done this to himself countless times. But the guilt in his heart never diminished...
"No matter what, the higher-ups are very satisfied with your actions. You have reduced casualties to a minimum, and our mobile response has been praised by gods from all walks of life. But now God has become a laughing stock. His lair has been taken down by the Hundred Ghosts, and the sacred object, the Spear of Longinus, has been lost. He can't just sit back and watch. The higher-ups mean that you don't have to worry about the Hundred Ghosts anymore. Everything will be handled by the guys from the Catholic Church." If the King of Hell's words were taken as comfort, Xu Zhemuna's expression would show that they had no effect. "As a reward for you, the higher-ups have decided to let you meet the person you've always missed...
And also tell you some 'truth' about you..."
Hearing that familiar name, Xu Zhe's pupils suddenly widened. Regardless of how serious his injuries were, he supported his upper body with trembling hands and sat up.
"Are you kidding? Our agreement wasn't to find the Xuanyuan Sword?" Xu Zhe couldn't believe it and his eyes were a little dazed.
"In fact, the Xuanyuan Sword has always been under the control of God, and you have 'found' it for us a long time ago...
I'd rather let the person you've been waiting for eight years tell you the specifics..." Then, the King of Hell nodded towards the door.
The Black Wuchang who had been waiting all the time walked in, but the difference was that behind him was a person whom Xu Zhe would never forget in his life.
A snow-white wide-shouldered woolen top with long sleeves, and a pair of slender hands with only ten cute fingers exposed. The lower body is the pink plaid pleated skirt, matched with black leather shoes and white socks.
Everything was the same as that day, Xue'er was standing in front of him. Eight years of changes had not left a single wrinkle on that beautiful face, she was still as young and pure as ever...
The wind blowing in from the window playfully ruffled her shoulder-length black hair.
She still used two fingers to tuck the messy black hair behind her ears.
Xu Zhe believed that time could really go back, because on that day, the most beautiful Xue Er was standing there, proving that she was so.
Perhaps seeing Xu Zhe's excitement, the King of Hell quietly left the ward with the Black and White Impermanence, and gently closed the door from the outside...
"You've lost weight..." Xue'er was the first to speak. Xu Zhe had no idea how many times he had imagined this greeting in his mind.
"You... have become more beautiful..." Xu Zhe blushed in embarrassment. He was not as excited as he had expected, but still as shy as the high school student eight years ago.
"Really? But you look much more haggard. It's been eight years, you must have had a hard time?" As she said that, tears naturally emerged in her pair of dark eyes. She was still so affectionate and still full of infatuation with Xu Zhe.
"It's all in the past. It's good now. We can be together in the future. No matter what, we will never be separated again." This was probably the most natural confession Xu Zhe had ever made in his life.
After eight years, all the waiting becomes so worthwhile at this moment.
He pulled out every IV tube from his body, tore off all the restraints. Even though he was still extremely weak, Xu Zhe got out of bed.
He walked towards Xue'er step by step, until he opened his arms and hugged the person he missed so tightly. He wished he could melt her into his body...
"I'm sorry... I'm really sorry..." Finally, she couldn't hold it in any longer, and the tears slid across the face that Xu Zhe had always missed, and dripped onto his back.
At this moment, Xu Zhe realized that something was wrong.
It wasn't just because Xue'er kept her hands down and didn't respond to his hug, but also because he could hold her in his arms so truly.
Xu Zhe took two steps back unconsciously, feeling a little overwhelmed and even frightened.
Eight years of experience as an exorcist made him instinctively aware that something was wrong.
"What are you? Why can I hug you?" This is what surprised Xu Zhe.
According to common sense, after a person dies, only the soul remains in the world. If one is reincarnated, it is impossible for him to have the memories and appearance of the previous life.
The only creatures that can exist in the world as conscious entities and possess sexual desires, apart from gods, are monsters.
"I'm sorry, I'm really sorry. I didn't mean to be like this..." Xue'er cried and shook her head, with a look of guilt she had never seen before, "I'm not an ordinary human, but the Moon Goddess - Chang'e..."
Such a secret was enough to shock Xu Zhe's fragile heart. He could not help but take several steps back until he sat on the bed, unable to utter a word.
"Everything is arranged by the fairy world. Everything is for the existence of someone who can resist Daji. I don't want that!" Xue'er's crying did not make anything clear.
But it only made Xu Zhe realize that he was a fool who was being played.
The story begins with a divine fable that Daji will be resurrected on earth again. For a time, the immortal world was uneasy and the gods were panicked.
Because her power had been proven thousands of years ago. If it weren't for the immortal Ziya who helped King Zhou defeat the monster from the outside world, it would still be a question whether mankind would have a future...
What's even more frustrating is that the gods from all walks of life signed a wait-and-see agreement, which meant that everyone could only watch her wake up and be powerless to do anything.
Thus, the plan for God to secretly create creatures that could transcend the three realms was born...
The whole process is that the fairy world first selects a god, then finds a random reason to punish him by sending him down to the mortal world, where he reincarnates as a human and accepts the calamity of love.
Then, a life form that was destined to die in an accident was selected, and the half-god, half-human god helped it escape the cycle of life and death, escape the constraints of the three realms, and become a "pawn" arranged by the god to be used on the ground...
“Hey… hey hey…” Sitting on the edge of the bed, Xu Zhe smiled, but he did not feel the slightest bit of happiness, only indescribable sadness.
What is sad is that the budding love in one's heart eventually becomes a tool used by others, and the guilt in one's heart and the obsession with love become the fuse for being manipulated.
In the end, what a ridiculous existence that is not controlled by God is being calculated by God all the time.
"Why? Why must it be me? Why must you choose me to be your pawn? There are more than one billion people in Country Z, why me!!!!!!" Xu Zhe roared uncontrollably and overturned the medical cart beside the bed, causing metal utensils to scatter all over the floor.
The tall infusion bottle fell to the ground, and the transparent liquid slowly spread out. Xue'er's crying face and Xu Zhe's face twisted in pain were reflected on the crystal liquid.
"Because you are the most special, no one has better qualities than you." It was obvious that Xue'er was frightened by Xu Zhe's excitement.
"Ah! What's good about me?! Am I stronger than anyone else? Do I have a strong body? Or do I deserve to die?!!!" Unable to find any reason, Xu Zhe was left with only anger.
"Because you are the only reincarnation of Immortal Ziya! The soul of Immortal Ziya is inside you!"
The room suddenly fell into silence...