Lin Kong's current situation was no different from fighting with a wild animal that was more ferocious than a crocodile. In order to break free from his grip, the Insect King kept rolling desperately on the ground, swinging its heavy tail fiercely, creating several cracks on the ground.
Helemis and Xuepo had just been injured by the mental power and were already at the end of their strength. Now the only one who could fight was Jia Yan.
The insect king was covered in blood, red and gold mixed together, and it was hard to tell whether it was Lin Kong's or its own. It was like a pierced sieve, and it roared angrily: [Jia Yan! What are you doing? Kill him now! ]
Jia Yan was shocked for a moment when he heard this. He looked at Lin Kong who was covered in blood, and then at Helemis with a fierce look in his eyes. He seemed to want to take action, but for some reason he hesitated.
Xuebo covered her cheek, which was beaten blue by Jia Yan, and shouted with difficulty from a distance: [Jia Yan! Don't listen to it! The Insect King is seriously injured now, kill it quickly, otherwise we will all die! ]
The Insect King's eyes turned fierce upon hearing this, and he used his mental power to control Jia Yan's brain: [Jia Yan! If you don't want to die, do as I say! ]
Jia Yan's face turned pale with pain. He held his head with both hands and grabbed his hair fiercely: [King! Please let me go! ]
The deep voice of the Insect King kept reverberating in his mind, urging him: [Then come quickly! Kill this prey! ]
Helemis struggled to get up from the ground and tried to stop Jia Yan's steps, but his internal organs were injured. He vomited blood as soon as he moved, and fell back heavily, his pale cheeks covered with blood and mud.
The temple was already on the verge of collapse. The blood-red moon hung above the treetops, illuminating the devastation below.
No!
This prey cannot die yet! Lin Kong cannot die!!
Helemi climbed forward in a panic and wanted to check on Lin Kong's condition, but the scarlet moonlight corroded his body as quickly as the scorching sun shining on ice and snow, and he could no longer move.
[give me back…]
He is looking for the heart of the Insect King.
Jia Yan couldn't bear the mental pressure from the Insect King, so he could only walk towards Lin Kong step by step. He raised his sharp right claw high, aiming at Lin Kong's heart on the back, and stabbed him fiercely in front of the surprised eyes of all the insects.
It was only at this moment that Lin Kong realized the pain. It was really painful. He had never felt such pain in his life. Lin Kong raised his head with difficulty and looked in the direction of Helemis, only to see him running towards him, his cold and dead red eyes seemed to have something gradually collapsing. In addition to panic, he also felt despair.
Lin Kong forcibly took out the heart of the Insect King. It was a pure blue, translucent heart, stained with golden blood, and it was beating steadily.
Helemis' body froze, and he looked down at Lin Kong in disbelief, only to see that this human had his eyes closed and had already stopped breathing. Even Shang Wen's body was gradually becoming cold and stiff in the cold and snowy weather.
The hand that Helemis was holding onto Lin Kong was shaking, veins popped out on his forehead, and his face looked a little ferocious:
[I said, you can only die in my hands! ]
[Ah ...
The Insect King panicked instantly, and scrambled madly towards Lin Kong's direction, its broken body leaving a long, bloody streak on the ground. However, its speed became slower and slower, and with each step it took, a section of its long body would break off. When it was only one step away from Lin Kong, only its head was left.
"Heremis..."
Helemis, Xuepo, Jiayan, the Insect King, wherever their skin came into contact with the moonlight, it was corroded and emitted white smoke, and was forced to melt in the wind and snow.
Thus said the head,
Lin Kong had no strength left. He clenched the sharp blade in his hand and smashed it into the Insect King's abdomen. Because the weather was too cold, his palm and the handle of the blade were stuck together and could not be separated.
Lin Kong maintained that posture without moving. He was a little slow to look down at his chest, which had been pierced through by Jia Yan. When the opponent pulled out his claws, blood gushed out instantly, dripping along the corners of his clothes and staining a large area of the ground red.
“Sizzle!”
"boom!"
[Lin Kong, don't die! ]
They were both struggling to hold on, to see who could hold on until the last moment.
Seeing this, Lin Kong stumbled for a moment, and smiled with a look of relief. Then he staggered and fell heavily to the ground.
[Give me back my heart... Give me back my heart...]
[my heart…]
Helemis tightly grasped Lin Kong's hand, trying to supply vitality to this human to heal his wounds, but his energy had long been exhausted and there was nothing left to sustain his life.
Lin Kong had never done anything so earth-shattering in his life. If it were in the past, he would definitely show off, but now he was on the verge of death and had no strength left.
Lin Kong didn't know why he could still laugh, probably because he rarely saw Helemis's expression change. Lin Kong coughed up blood every time he spoke a word, and when Helemis's hands, which were corroded by the red moon and dripping with blood, hugged him tightly, he finally uttered a complete sentence:
"It... finally died..."
His fingertips explored and stirred, as if he had completely forgotten Jia Yan's existence. Finally, he grasped a warm and beating heart as the insect king twisted in pain, and then pulled it out fiercely -
The Insect King is dead.
The Insect King whipped Lin Kong viciously and threw him far away. This time, it finally succeeded in throwing its prey off, but it lost something more precious.
"… "
It twitched in pain for a moment after it finished speaking, then its body lost its strength and it fell in front of Lin Kong with a loud bang, freezing in place.
Humans will die without a heart.
The Insect King's struggling body suddenly straightened, and a deafening scream of pain erupted from his throat. Jia Yan felt as if a string in his mind suddenly broke, and then the temple behind him suddenly shook violently, and the whole mountain was shaking.
Lin Kong saw a ball of blue light coming from the other person's body.
Xuepo screamed: [Lin Kong! ]
Lin Kong opened his mouth silently, as if he wanted to say something, but only a wisp of cold air came out. His face was frighteningly pale, but his dark eyes were extremely serious. He neither cried out in pain nor struggled, but lowered his head and tightly pinched the insect king's neck, then moved his frozen purple and numb fingertips, and slowly and forcefully reached into the bloody hole in the other party's body that he had pierced with great difficulty.
The heart is the source of its power. Without the heart, it is just a moving mass of rotten meat.
Lin Kong thought to himself, I know, but plans can't keep up with changes. He let go of the insect king's stiff and cold heart, coughed up blood again, raised his hand with difficulty to touch Helemis's face, wanted to say something, but touched a drop of warm and salty liquid, and was stunned and speechless for a moment: "..."
[My heart... My heart...]
Helemis was stunned for a moment, then he shouted with bloodshot eyes: "No!!!"
It was the sound of a sharp blade cutting through cloth and piercing into flesh. At that instant, it seemed as if some warm, fishy and sweet liquid spurted out, splashing all over Jia Yan's face, causing his vision to turn blood red.
Lin Kong knew that those were tears, tears that were so common in the crew that they were cheap and even commonplace. But Helemis was a cold-blooded animal, could he actually shed tears
He really wanted to ask why, but his eyes went dark and he completely lost consciousness. The hand fell quietly and never moved again.
At that moment, the sky and the earth lost their color, and the entire dense forest shook even more violently. The scarlet moon strangely faded its color, revealing a clean and bright silver edge. The soft moonlight poured down, causing no harm to Helemis and his companions, but corroded the countless worker insects hiding in the temple.
The temple has existed since the beginning of this land. No one knows who built it. All we know is that a group of countless golden beetles are always busy wandering around the temple, reinforcing the walls with mud.
Those golden beetles seemed to be born omnipotent. They knew how to weave cloth, how to build palaces, and how to protect the eggs laid by the insect king from wind and rain.
But when the true top of the food chain emerges, they lose their function.
Because in the millions of years to come, the people who were once "born" by the Zerg King will learn to reproduce, farm, build and invent, and the mountains and valleys will be replaced by countless steel behemoths. All these past events are just an insignificant speck of dust and the opening page of the Zerg civilization.
If time starts recording from this moment, if years start leaving traces from this moment, then when this cold winter is over, the first year of the Insect Star will come.
That moon never turned red again, as if it had turned into dust along with that night and the Insect King. Lin Kong also never woke up again because he was dead.
That's right, dead.
At least that's what Xuebei thought.
The human had stopped breathing, had no body temperature, and his heart had stopped beating, which meant he was dead. The only difference between him and those prey was probably that he would not rot, because Helemis was madly supplying him with vitality every day, trying to revive him.
It is still a bit cold at the beginning of spring because the snow is gradually melting. Some things will take something away when they leave this world.
For example, ice and snow take away temperature when they melt; and Lin Kong seemed to have taken away the little remaining soul of Helemis when he died.
The towering temple had long since collapsed, leaving only half of its ruins. A tall golden statue stood in the middle of the temple. It was built with the hard work of the golden beetles who scoured the sand out of the gravel. Now it had been deformed by the collapsed beams and pillars, forming a corner that provided shelter from the rain and wind.
When Xue Pei walked in, as expected, she saw a black figure sitting on the ground condensing a magic circle. A blue halo gradually spread outward with him as the center. Any living creature that stepped into the formation would have their vitality sucked out and then continuously transferred to the corpse on the ground.
Xuebo didn't want to be a sacrifice, so he lifted his feet off the ground and flew behind Helemis with his spiritual power. He frowned and persuaded: "Hermes, Lin Kong is dead. You have given him vitality for a whole winter, but he still has no reaction. This method is useless."
Helemis closed his eyes and operated the magic circle, ignoring Xuebo's persuasion. He made frequent gestures, and the blue magic circle below became larger and larger, and even a passing ant would be sucked in as a sacrifice.
Ever since the death of the Insect King, Helemis has been sucking its heart. Now he has the spiritual power of two former Insect Kings in his body. There is no other creature in the dense forest that is more powerful than him.
But Helemis just sat in the temple, guarding Lin Kong's body day after day, frantically sending energy to him to heal his wounds.
This action is like a makeup artist in a funeral home, who tries his best to hide the scars of the dead, wanting them to be as lifelike as the living. But a broken wound can be sutured, but a stopped heart can never beat again.
Xuebo's expression was slightly grim: [Hermes, what's the difference between your current actions and the Insect King's actions?! Your hunting speed is almost catching up with it!]
[I thought you risked your life to kill the Insect King for freedom, but now you just pulled down a king and supported a new king who can't speak or move! ]
Hearing this, Helemis opened his eyes suddenly, his dark red pupils shrank into a vertical line, and he looked so gloomy that it seemed like water could drip out of it. He uttered three words coldly: [You are wrong.]
Helemis didn't exactly kill the Insect King for freedom.
[I just want to live.]
Alive.
He is alive, Lin Kong is alive too, this is what Helemis wants.
Xuepo couldn't help but glance at the corpse in the center of the magic circle: [But Lin Kong is already dead, Helemis. He is just like the prey you killed before. He will never be resurrected again. It will be useless even if you kill all the animals in the jungle! ]
When she said the last sentence, Xuebo's voice suddenly dropped: [Hermes, don't guard his body anymore. It's spring now, and Lin Kong will rot soon.] [Bury him under the temple, the gods will protect him.]
Hearing this, Helemis clenched his fingertips tightly and uttered a sentence through gritted teeth: [He does not need the protection of the gods. ]
[I will definitely bring him back to life.]
Xuebo felt that he was like a stone in a toilet, smelly and hard. Hearing this, she couldn't help but get angry: [Resurrection? Unless you become a god yourself! ]
After saying this, Xuepo snorted heavily, turned around and left, never wanting to talk to Helemis again. The half-broken temple fell silent again for a while, with only the creaking sound of the endless stream of prey being sucked into the magic circle and strangled.
"Crack—"
"Crack—"
Helemis watched all this coldly, without any expression. After a few breaths, he suddenly flicked his sleeves and retracted the magic circle. The aftermath of his mental power hit the trees not far away, and when they collapsed, a large amount of dust was splashed, making a loud bang.
Such a loud noise failed to "wake up" Lin Kong.
He lay on the ground with his eyes closed. His broken wounds had long been repaired perfectly by Helemis. He wiped his whole body clean and changed into a neat set of clothes.
He should have rotted away long ago, but because of the formation, he has maintained his appearance as he did in life.
Helemis stared at him quietly, his face grim. After a long while, he finally uttered a word:
[Lin Kong, you are really dead...]
Helemis had killed so many prey before, he should have known that, except for not being sucked dry, Lin Kong was no different from the corpses of prey piled up in the corner.
But he still didn't want to accept that Lin Kong would die like this.
Helemis stood up from the ground and slowly walked to Lin Kong. He knelt down and held Lin Kong's cold hand, then closed his eyes and put it to his lips, saying in an inaudible voice: [I will eat you...]
[When your body can no longer be preserved, I will eat you...]
He will take the other person's soul and let him and himself gain eternal life.
But Helemis instinctively didn't want to do that. He would still try his best to keep Lin Kong's body from rotting. Even if the other party could not come back to life, it would be good to check on him every day.
Lin Kong didn't leave much in the cave, and Helemis took them all to the temple, because this was the center of the dense forest, and it was more convenient to activate the magic circle. Whenever he sat alone in meditation, Helemis would think of the thing called "suicide note" that Lin Kong had mentioned, but unfortunately he couldn't use a mobile phone.
This square black object felt strange to the touch, and no matter how Helemis touched it, it never lit up. He once tried to input energy, but the screen only lit up for a moment and then went out again.
Helemis really wanted to know what Lin Kong said before he died, and whether he said anything to her.
The day this human died, Helemis finally regained his freedom, which was a new life in another sense. But the other person gave him a bad start in life, so that the days that followed were like a dead fire, lifeless and could never be rekindled.
Since Jia Yan killed Lin Kong that day, he fled alone into the harsh and cold northern land and never appeared in the dense forest again. All the Zerg knew that his skin was dyed black by the venom, and if he appeared in the sun, he would be immediately discovered and hunted, so he could only walk in the dark for the rest of his life.
At this moment, it seemed as if all the stories had come to an end and everyone had their fate, except Lin Kong.
His body is still preserved in the temple.
He was dead, but he seemed more powerful than the living Helemis, because the latter's joys and sorrows were all tied to him.
In the blink of an eye, summer is here and the dense forest has regained its lushness and greenness.
The weather was warmer and hotter than in early spring, which meant that many things that had long since died could no longer be preserved.
It is impossible for Helemis to stare at Lin Kong all the time, and the mental barrier he set up can hardly stop the small insects living in the soil. They might quietly eat Lin Kong's body when Helemis is not paying attention.
Helemis thought for a long time and finally decided to eat Lin Kong so that they could live together.
The thinking of wild beasts is always simple and cruel, yet it hides a hint of ridiculous innocence.
Helemis carried Lin Kong into the darkest inner room at the back of the temple, a place where no sunlight could reach. It was very safe and cool.
Helemis knew that Lin Kong was afraid of pain, so when he put him on the ground, he thought for a long time and didn't know how to eat him, so he had to hold Lin Kong's cold hand and rub it again and again.
Helemis' body was not as cold as before. After a long time, Lin Kong's fingertips would even be stained with some of his warmth, as if they were alive.
But it's just a resemblance.
Helemis simply lay on the ground with Lin Kong, hugging each other's body. I don't know if it's because of the continuous flow of vitality from Helemis, or because of Lin Kong's special physique, the latter's body has no signs of decay, and the skin feels almost the same as that of a living person, just a little cold.
"Lin Kong."
Helemis closed her eyes and leaned against his shoulder, muttering to herself in a human language that only the two of them could understand:
"You still didn't make it through the winter..."
The other person will no longer talk to him with a smile, kiss him, hug him, or even have sex with him.
At this moment, Helemis deeply realized the difference between living things and dead things. He subconsciously hugged Lin Kong tighter and was reluctant to eat him. A terrible thought even arose in his mind -
If only Hongyue was still there, he could hold Lin Kong and lie in the moonlight, slowly rotting together.
With this thought in mind, Helemis closed his eyes and fell asleep. He was so tired that he had never had a good night's sleep since the moment Lin Kong stopped breathing. It was only now that he finally relaxed.
Maybe not relaxation, just...
Feeling dead.
Birds chirped outside, and a bird fluttered its wings and landed on the top of the forest. Its body was a little blurry in the fragmented light and shadow, but it flew away again after a while. It flew over the mountains and passed through the clouds and mist, as if it had traveled through time and space.
Through the lush branches and leaves, you can vaguely see a yellow bus speeding through the forest, circling the rugged mountain road that reaches the sky, and the clouds are within reach.
Lin Kong was dozing off in the back seat. When the car was turning a corner, it suddenly braked. His head hit the railing hard due to the force and he was woken up immediately.
"Oh my god!"
Lin Kong covered his head and cried out in pain, with stars in front of his eyes. It took him a long time to come back to his senses. He looked carefully and saw that he was on a bus. There were only six people including tourists and the driver. It looked familiar.
Lin Kong's face changed, and he was stunned for two seconds before he realized that this was the bus that took him up the mountain. But wasn't the bus already overturned? He was also stabbed in the heart by the red-haired Jia Yan and died, so how could he come back here again
Or was everything about Helemis just a dream he had
Lin Kong looked confused and uncertain. He glanced at everyone in the car, then tilted his head to stare at the scenery outside the window. The more he looked, the more familiar it seemed. Finally, he couldn't help but stand up from his seat, rushed to the driver and shouted anxiously: "Driver! Stop the car! There are gravels on the mountain ahead. If we don't stop, we will all die!!"
The driver paused when he heard this, without looking at him: "This is deep in the mountains, and gravel falls every day, it's normal."
Lin Kong was almost dying of anxiety: "I have to pee urgently, can you please stop the car and let me go to the toilet."
His intention to get off the bus was so obvious that the tour guide who had been quietly playing with his phone nearby looked over at him, examining him with a slightly puzzled look.
The driver's answer was simpler this time: "You can't park on the mountain road."
Lin Kong groaned, stamped his feet, and almost grabbed the steering wheel: "Can you stop first? You stop first! I have a heart disease and I don't feel well now."
After he finished speaking, he lowered his head and covered his heart, frowning, looking like he was really sick. It was a pity that his previous throwing a tantrum had weakened the authenticity of the illness.
The driver finally looked at him and said, "Then we can't stop. There is a medical station on the mountain. It only takes half an hour to get there. It will take four hours to get down the mountain."
The tour guide next to him suddenly said, "Youque, why don't you pull over and let him get off first."
Lin Kong nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, let's stop the car first."
He just wanted to delay time.
The driver refused directly: "I said, you can't stop on a curve."
He stepped on the accelerator slightly, and his speed was actually a little faster than before. I wonder if he wanted to get to the medical station earlier.
Lin Kong was shocked: "Fuck, don't drive so fast!"
He hurriedly held onto the railing and tried to argue with the driver, but he didn't expect that other passengers would mistakenly think that he wanted to grab the steering wheel. Seeing this, a black-haired, white-clothed young man holding a sword grabbed Lin Kong's right hand as fast as lightning, and directly used a small grab, pressing him against the car window with a "click" sound: "Hey, don't grab the steering wheel, it's very dangerous."
Lin Kong's face was pressed against the car window and had become deformed. He uttered an unclear word: "***!!"
Hearing this, the young man in white came closer and asked in confusion: "What are you talking about?!"
Lin Kong cursed: "Fuck! Who wants to grab the steering wheel! Hurry up and ask him to stop the car, or we will all die!"
The young man frowned. "What nonsense are you talking about? Why should we die? It would be dangerous if you asked him to stop the car. A car from behind could hit him at any time."
"Anyway, let me go first!"
Lin Kong tried to struggle, but the boy slapped his head back and said, "No, I'll let you go after we get off the bus."
Aaaah!!!
Lin Kongqi turned into a mad dog: "Fuck you!"
(End of this chapter)