Lu Chu looked up.
Standing on top of the still twitching monster, 7 looked down at him against the light of the setting sun. 7's sharp-edged face was splashed with a little scarlet, against the background of the blood-red setting sun, his eyes seemed to be shining with a dangerous dark red light.
7 jumped down from the monster, and landed lightly in front of Lu Chu.
He wanted to touch Lu Chu, but found that his body was splattered with dirty blood, so he put down his raised arm and only looked directly at Lu Chu.
"Lu Chu." 7 called his name.
Lu Chu suddenly said: "Huh?"
"You can't lose your fighting spirit at any time, even if," 7 paused, looked at Lu Chu fixedly, his eyes reflected Lu Chu's bewildered face, and then said word by word, "It was when I found out that I might die. "
Lu Chu understood that he was referring to his motionless behavior in front of the centipede monster when he saw his figure being swallowed by the giant ball.
At that time, he didn't seem to feel any emotions other than despair, and he was just a little dazed in the face of the imminent danger.
Watching 7 being engulfed and the centipede rushing to attack him in this seemingly brief process, too many things flashed in Lu Chu's mind, those memories that were obviously not long ago, but seemed to have been dusty for too long ——In the dark world when he was a child, he was obedient and protected the occasionally naughty carrot, carefully and gently taught him his parents who had passed away, and that quiet and peaceful small town.
Lu Chu seemed to be separated from the hustle and bustle of the outside world by a wall, and fell into a long-term memory, until the memory was frozen in the scene when he met Qi for the first time—
At that time, he noticed that someone was following him, but he was not afraid. Instead, he stopped at the door of his house, his eyes were out of focus, and he smiled and said to the air, "Do you want to come in and have a seat?"
Then the tall, handsome, taciturn man stepped out of the shadows, with a sharp sense of loneliness and alienation that could be detected without looking.
Everything starts from that moment.
Lu Chu thought in a daze that since his parents passed away, he worked so hard to live, firstly, because his parents made him promise them to live well, and secondly, because the radish was still by his side.
Later, after realizing that the place he lived in was just a vain scene, and the carrot was buried forever in that infinite loop of death, he broke away from the original world, entered the "rules", and then struggled in different "games" In the beginning, it was just to pursue a truth.
But now, looking at the invincible and powerful man in front of him, Lu Chu finally found that the position of 7 in his heart has gradually surpassed the weight of "truth".
Parents are gone, carrots are buried.
In every minute and every second that Lu Chu himself was alive, Lu Chu really couldn't think of anyone other than 7 who could share troubles with him, deserve his trust, and love him.
Who else... could make him want to die together.
A faint light gradually gathered in Lu Chu's eyes. He couldn't help taking a step forward, and hugged the bloody man with all his strength, with a smile on his face: "Just be safe."
This hug came so suddenly that Qi, who was merciless when beheading the enemy, was at a loss for a moment, and then his cold face softened.
Because of the blood on his hands, 7 couldn't hug him back, so he could only look down at the ends of Lu Chu's hair, and said, "I can easily kill those monsters."
Lu Chu nodded: "Well, I know."
Lu Chu didn't know how powerful the countless "bureaus" endowed 7. It wasn't until that moment that Lu Chu realized that this man was already so powerful. There is no monster in this "game" that can pose a threat to him. He can come and go at will without being restrained, and even has the ability to protect Lu Chu and several others from retreating.
But he kept pressing and not sending.
Lu Chu let go of him, took a step back, looked at him and said, "I probably know the reason why you haven't done anything, is it because you want to train us?"
"Hmm." 7 replied.
Blindly being protected by others, hiding behind others will only make people weaker and weaker. The way to correctly protect a person is to let that person experience fighting within the scope of one's own wings, and then become stronger.
"Thank you," Lu Chu sincerely thanked. He raised the corners of his lips and softened his brows and eyes. "I will grow to the point where I don't need your protection."
7 Hearing this, he repeated what he said before: "Even if I may die, you must not lose your fighting spirit."
Lu Chu still smiled nicely: "I can't do this."
7 frowns.
Lu Chu stretched out his palm, and said solemnly to Qi Qi, "Sir, please give me the right to live and die with you."
———
inside the tower.
Song Gui and the others panicked.
It stands to reason that after Song Gui and Qian Zhen entered the tower, Lu Chu and Qi Li, who were not far from them, should have entered the tower soon, but after more than ten minutes passed, there was still no sign of them.
When people enter the tower, they are not allowed to go out. Therefore, even if everyone is worried, they can't do anything.
Song Gui couldn't help blaming himself: "I shouldn't have come in so soon, I should have been with the two of them."
There was also a trace of worry on Qian Zhen's resolute face.
Usually, Yuan Kejie, who likes to make fun of Song Gui, must have started to bombard him, but when she encountered a real problem, Yuan Kejie began to comfort him instead, because she knew that at this time, what is needed between the teams is not mutual accusations, It's about trusting and relying on each other.
Even Luo Qi didn't deliberately target Song Gui again, but she couldn't say any words of comfort, so she kept silent.
At this moment, a line of words appeared on the table in the middle of the tower - the tower will be forbidden to enter in 20 minutes.
This means that if Lu Chu and the others cannot enter the tower within 20 minutes, they will never come back.
The moment Song Gui saw that line of writing, he rushed to the wall, looking for a secret door that could be opened.
Yuan Kejie frowned: "It's useless, I saw it just now, it's completely a wall, there is no place to pass through."
Qian Zhen stared at the wall where they came in, and said, "They'll be fine."
Luo Qi raised her eyebrows: "Why are you so sure?"
Qian Zhen looked at her and said affirmatively, "That man is very strong."
That man named Qi Li was so powerful that it was unfathomable.
"Tick-tick-"
Time passed by, and just when the silent atmosphere of the few people was about to solidify, the wall appeared loose.
In the next second, Qi, who was covered in blood, and Lu Chu, who was stained with blood on Qi's body, appeared in the tower.
"Sorry," Lu Chu smiled apologetically at Song Gui and the others, his brows and eyes soft, "I've been waiting for a long time."