novelraw Chapter 143: Did Ruan Ruan Change Her Mind?
Chapter 143: Did Ruan Ruan Change Her Mind?
He rushed over quickly and killed all the Insect Race.But, it seemed too late.
His Ruan Ruan was covered in blood, smiling at him.
Lu Shinian held her tightly in his arms, his mind no longer thinking about whether it was an illusion or not.
He personally saw his Ruan Ruan surrounded by the Insect Race, covered in blood, right before his eyes.
Yet, he couldn’t save her.
Usually, he couldn’t bear to even touch a strand of her hair, but now, she was lying in his arms covered in blood.
Those many ferocious, bleeding wounds must be so painful.
"Ruan Ruan." Lu Shinian didn’t know where the sound came from within himself.
His body seemed to ache too, even his soul felt like it was being torn apart.
"Su Ruan" looked at him, smiling at him.
Lu Shinian’s eyes were blood red, his body cold. His spiritual power spread out, slaughtering the surrounding Insect Race, no, not just the Insect Race, but also the soldiers on the battlefield.
He didn’t distinguish between friend and foe; his headstrong spiritual power clashed with the surroundings, leaving not a trace behind.
The entire battlefield was instantly obliterated, with only the figure of "Su Ruan" magnifying again and again in his pupils.
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Outside, after Su Ruan broke free from the illusion realm, she quickly glanced to the side.
Lu Shinian’s condition was very wrong, his face terrifyingly pale, yet his lips faintly showed an unnatural flush, as if stained by true blood.
His eyes were tightly closed, brows furrowed, body tense and cold, exuding a powerful pressure.
Su Ruan’s temple throbbed painfully, and most crucially, her spiritual sea seemed to be compressed by something, causing intense pain.
Not far away, Zhao Yujie stood there, letting out a "chuckle" laugh.
Su Ruan’s pupils faintly glimmered with a trace of crimson. She grabbed Lu Shinian’s wrist at the same time as she looked at Zhao Yujie, her voice chilling to the extreme.
"If anything happens to him, I’ll make sure all of you are buried with him."
Her spiritual power tendrils surged out, heading straight towards Zhao Yujie.
Zhao Yujie seemed to realize something, he froze for a moment.
It was within this moment of hesitation that Su Ruan’s spiritual power tendrils wrapped around Zhao Yujie, with one thought she could utterly destroy Zhao Yujie’s spiritual sea.
Once Zhao Yujie’s spiritual sea is destroyed, the Insect Race will also die, but in doing so Zhao Yujie would become a complete and utter waste.
The decision was made in an instant.
But this choice concerned not just a person, or even a family, but possibly the entire Federation’s future.
Su Ruan’s pupils glowed red, she squeezed Lu Shinian’s wrist slightly, and her spiritual power tendrils had already penetrated Zhao Yujie’s spiritual sea.
They were savage and surging, baring their teeth, advancing step by step closer.
"Ruan Ruan." Lu Shinian’s voice rang in Su Ruan’s ears.
Su Ruan’s body suddenly froze.
Lu Shinian swallowed the trace of blood in his mouth and said in a low voice, "I’m fine."
But it was already too late.
Su Ruan’s spiritual power tendrils had already wrapped around Zhao Yujie’s spiritual sea, but they were no longer as savage as before; they gently probed inside, vaguely touching something.
Su Ruan had a faint intuition that this was the new type of insect.
She maneuvered her spiritual power.
The moment that thing came into contact with her spiritual power, it froze, giving her the chance to use her spiritual power to extract it.
A flash of white light, and a black caterpillar about the size of a pinky finger popped out from between Zhao Yujie’s eyebrows.
Su Ruan’s spiritual power suddenly relaxed, she took half a step back, and was pulled into Lu Shinian’s arms.
The familiar scent of Lu Shinian lingered in her nose, being held in his arms, her heart seemed to settle down.
The blood red in her eyes instantly faded, reverting back to her usual harmless, soft appearance.
The Illusion Insect, Little White, which had been staying in Su Ruan’s pocket, suddenly bounced out, hopped over to whisper in the black caterpillar’s ear, tilting its head, as if trying to identify something.
The next second, it opened its mouth and swallowed the black caterpillar.
"Little White!" Lu Shinian said sternly, "Spit it out."
That black caterpillar was most likely the new type of insect and had to be sent for research, it couldn’t be eaten by Little White.
Hearing Lu Shinian’s voice, Su Ruan collected herself, looked at Little White, and said, "Little White, you can’t just eat things, be good, spit it out."
Little White tilted its head, hopped to Su Ruan’s feet, and looked up.
Su Ruan crouched down and extended her hand for Little White to jump into her palm.
Little White contentedly jumped into Su Ruan’s palm, opened its mouth, and spat out the black caterpillar.
The black caterpillar, having no movement, seemed to have already died.
Lu Shinian took out a special container from the space button, placed the black caterpillar inside, and tucked it into his pocket.
"Ruan Ruan, I have to return to the Central Star to send this to the lab," Lu Shinian said in a low voice, "Do you want to come with me?"
His voice showed no sign of anything unusual.
But in those blood-red pupils, there hid a trace of obsessive madness.
He wanted to take Ruan Ruan back to the Central Star, hide her away, forever, never to be found by anyone.
No Insect Race, nor any person could hurt his Ruan Ruan.
He would rather have his Ruan Ruan hate him than let her get hurt.
Her blood-soaked image remained in his mind, those droplets falling into his palm, scorching hot.
Now he could still feel that burning heat on his fingertips.
The madness of losing her was growing in his heart, but the last shred of rationality gave Su Ruan one last chance.
If she agreed to go back with him, then she would never be able to leave the Lu Villa.
If she refused, he could endure it a little longer, this was rationality’s last opportunity.
Whether for her, or for him.
Su Ruan raised her little face, her beautiful eyes full of determination, yet beneath that determination lurked a trace of undetectable obsession.
"I want to stay here," she said, "I want to participate in this military league."
She urgently needed to become stronger.
The two locked eyes, one was dark and calm, the other purely determined.
Little White sprawled in Su Ruan’s palm turned into a flat pancake, its little head nodding, seemingly watching a drama unfold.
After a full minute, Lu Shinian swallowed and then said softly, "Alright."
He lowered his head and softly placed his lips at the corner of Su Ruan’s eye.
Cold and calm, it was a kind of calm beyond Su Ruan’s imagination.
Lu Shinian turned to leave.
Su Ruan felt an inexplicable panic in her heart, took a step forward, and clutched Lu Shinian’s coat hem.
Lu Shinian slowly turned back to look at Su Ruan, his lips curled into a faint smile that seemed to come and go.
"Ruan Ruan, have you changed your mind?"
Su Ruan fixedly stared at that trace of smile at the corner of Lu Shinian’s lips, her slightly pale lips slightly parted.