novelraw Chapter 122 Dear Distant Star
Chapter 122 Dear Distant Star
Chapter 122 Dear Distant Star
The tense atmosphere outside Yanxi Village in Dongtianshan finally broke down when they saw the pain on Shen Yaoxing's face.
The rat gave up invading Shen Yaoxing's mind. The indescribable images and sounds in Shen Yaoxing's mind disappeared all at once, but she also noticed that the boy in her arms had the same painful expression on his face as she had just seen.
The rat-men below were laughing, cheering, and jumping for joy, chanting in unison, "Your body, everything you have, belongs to me!"
"Get out of here, you father!"
"Stop struggling, it's useless, it's useless. I'm going to kill all your women, no, I'm going to rape your women, I'm going to do it right in front of you—"
"I raped your mother!"
"Ha, ha, your mental fortitude is extraordinary. I wasn't even confident I could influence her, but I didn't expect you to get so anxious, ha, ha!"
Shen Yaoxing, holding the boy in front of her, immediately became anxious: "Lu Ren, what's wrong?!"
The rat-men below cheered, their voices echoing through the valley: "What happened to him? It's all thanks to you! If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have been able to take over his body so easily. Look how much he cares about you! I provoked him for so long and he didn't get angry, but seeing you in pain, he immediately broke down. So affectionate!"
Lu Ren suddenly reached out and grabbed his own neck, veins bulging on his hand, as if he wanted to strangle himself.
"No, don't listen to his nonsense, he's trying to provoke you—"
The rat horde below cheered, as if performing some grand ceremony, "Give up, give up, it's no use—"
"M-Young Miss, put me down. Go and take Yuhe and the others to Hoshino Mansion—"
"Give up, give up—"
What to do, what to do?
Seeing Lu Ren struggling, Shen Yaoxing panicked.
The same thing happened ten years ago. Seeing the tragic state of their territory, the tribesmen, enraged by the rats, were also caught in a painful struggle.
Some of their people were assimilated into the rat-people, while others ultimately chose to commit suicide.
Those who have already been infected are almost impossible to save.
Lu Ren told her to give up on him and go find other companions.
Should we give up on Lu Ren? It seems like giving up is the only option.
Although it was painful, there was no other way but to give up. Lu Ren was right; they had to go back and rescue Lu Youhe and the others.
She should at least take Youhe and the others away; at least they can survive. If she continues to hesitate like this, she will only cause everyone to die in the end.
Yes, now she has no choice but to give up. Both reason and intuition tell her that she has no choice but to give up.
After all, they were bishops of the Church of the Holy Mother. Facing such an enemy, it was already a stroke of good fortune that they only sacrificed Lu Ren.
Shen Yaoxing suddenly remembered that ten years ago, after that fierce battle, when she went to find her parents crying, she found that her mother had died in her father's arms.
Her father looked at her gently, comforted her, and began to say many, many things to her.
Her father was a man of few words and not particularly talented. At 25 years old, he was only at the Fire Realm. But in Shen Yaoxing's childhood, her father was like a towering mountain.
He was usually quiet, gentle and polite. I was a very naughty child, but I never saw him get angry. He and my mother were very loving. When I was little, I asked my father how he met my mother.
During one adventure, we stayed in the virtual world for over half a month. When we came out, we were almost starving. Mom saw Dad nearly fainting by the roadside, so she took him out for a big meal—later, Dad even owed your mom a huge sum of money, haha.
The origin of her parents' love story was anything but romantic; as a child, she thought it was incredibly stupid.
But it was this incredibly stupid encounter that led to the adorable Haruki!
As a child, Shen Yaoxing thought she was the happiest child in the world.
My mother was a talkative girl. Whenever she got into trouble, my mother would pinch her ear and keep talking, while my father would just stand by and watch them with a smile.
But on that day, my father, who was usually taciturn, suddenly spoke a lot.
He seemed afraid there was something he couldn't explain clearly, so he kept saying things that came to mind, rambling on and on. She kept crying, and her father just kept talking.
I was so smart when I was a child; I could almost immediately sense that something was wrong.
Father suddenly, suddenly said so much —
Weren't all the bad guys driven away? Why do you still want to—, Father?
No, why? Father doesn't want to—
Although the Goddess Mother's Child Rat is only at the Star Cocoon Realm, the fear it inspires in the world is no less than that of those at the Burning Sun Realm.
Those infected by him will eventually be assimilated unless their mental attributes are high enough.
So even though she survived that battle, her father still decided to die rather than become a henchman of the Cult of the Goddess.
Of course, another possible reason why the father chose to commit suicide was that he didn't want the mother to leave alone.
"No, no—"
Looking at Lu Ren, whose face was full of pain, in her arms, the girl felt that she had not improved at all compared to ten years ago. All she knew was to be willful and say "no, no" as if she were begging.
"Miss, please put me down! I can't hold on much longer! Give me a quick death!"
The memories of the past merged with the present, and she could not accept that the same result had occurred again. A bitter and desperate sadness welled up in Shen Yaoxing's heart, along with an overwhelming hatred for Zishu.
But suddenly, an idea popped into the girl's mind and quickly blossomed.
wrong!
Shen Yaoxing suddenly remembered someone's talent, and realized that this time, it seemed that she wasn't completely incapable of doing nothing!
The moment she considered this possibility, and then looked at Lu Ren's pained expression, the girl's heart pounded like a drum. Then, without the slightest hesitation—
Just as Lu Ren lost his composure, he suddenly felt a soft kiss on his lips.
Even though my head was throbbing with pain like it was being pricked by needles, I felt that all the pain was suppressed by this kiss.
He couldn't help but sigh inwardly, thinking that the young lady was truly a conscientious boss. Knowing that he had never kissed a girl, she didn't let him be a virgin with his first kiss still intact before he died.
So he started sticking out his tongue, and got bitten in a fit of rage!
"Lust is a grave sin. With your talent, replicating my profession can enhance your mental strength!"
Shen Yaoxing thought that Lu Ren's sin of lust could replicate the profession of the person he kissed. If Lu Ren's current total attributes were all converted into mental attributes, he might be able to prevent himself from being infected!
Lu Ren's spirits lifted upon hearing this!
You little rat from the ditch, watch as you, the Great Tyrant, begins your second phase!
Thinking this, he hugged the young lady and kissed her fiercely.
Shen Yaoxing trembled, but still slowly closed her eyes.
"Ugh, uh-huh!!"
Lu Ren had just stuck out his tongue when he was bitten again.
The great sin of lust, activated!
Lu Ren, who had just broken through to the Flame Realm and whose total attributes were close to 5,000, had all his attributes doubled due to the amplification from the Wrathful Sin. At this moment, his total attributes were approaching a terrifying 10,000!
As the talent of the Great Sin of Lust was activated, Lu Ren's attributes began to change subtly.
All attributes began to change; suddenly, immense spiritual power transformed into a torrent, carrying within the depths of consciousness...
If he were to open the panel at this moment, he would find that the word "Passerby" in the profession line has changed to: Passerby Stargazer. But at the same time, the rage amplification that had been at 99% finally reached its limit and reached 100%!
The spirit, which had been on the verge of collapse, finally reached its limit.
"This...this is that boy's mental world—he succeeded?!"
Zishu was somewhat confused. During the struggle just now, the boy had suddenly been flooded with a massive amount of spiritual energy for some unknown reason.
That was nearly ten thousand units of spiritual power, which even he found difficult to infect. But just when he thought he was about to fail, everything went black before his eyes, and he found himself in this void world.
This is the boy's mental world, but why am I trapped here now?
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Zishu's heart sank. Just how many secrets did this strange boy still hold?
No, this isn't nothingness. He saw it. There were other people here besides him!
The rat saw five people, five people dressed in different ways, and the boy was among them.
Besides the teenager, there is a middle-aged man in his thirties who is somewhat decadent.
One was a stunningly beautiful young woman with a displeased expression.
There was also a young man wearing a bronze mask and shrouded in a black robe.
The last one was a boy who was about fourteen or fifteen years old, with a bare, muscular upper body and wearing an animal skin skirt.
When he noticed the five people opposite him, including the boy, they all looked over.
The moment their eyes met, Zishu felt that the five people were incredibly tall, like five towering, ancient giants.
At this moment, as a bishop of the Church of Goddess, he was nothing more than a filthy and despicable rat in a rice paddy.
At six o'clock in the autumn, the streets of Yanzhou were still bustling under the bright sunshine.
However, at that moment, a large area of the sky in LT County suddenly darkened. It was not the sunset, but rather the western sky seemed to have collapsed. The people in the town turned their heads to look west. Because of the proximity to the Tianshan Mountains, the people of LT County looked up at the mountains, and only when they looked up again could they see the sky.
But now, something's wrong with the weather.
It wasn't a gradual change; it was a sudden collapse. The clouds in the west sank down from mid-air, creating a huge crater. The edges of the crater were still turning outwards, revealing even more clouds.
The clouds were falling, layer upon layer, as if the entire sky was tearing itself off and throwing it to the ground.
The city suddenly darkened, as if the sky had collapsed, with towering clouds crashing down as if an avalanche had occurred.
"Th-what is that?"
"The sky is falling! The sky is falling! Run!"
"Oh ho!"
Because of the distance, the process of the clouds descending from the Tianshan Mountains looked slow. What arrived in LT County first was the wind. Suddenly, a gale swept through the entire town. When this wind blew, it was cold, so cold. It felt like the cold was coming from the walls, from the ground, and from the cracks in a person's bones.
A chilling wind raged through the city, and one could almost see the gale drawing countless white trails, with countless white lines spreading across the entire city. Anyone touched by these lines felt as if they had fallen into an ice cave.
Some residents felt something was amiss and went back inside to find clothes, while some professionals in the city immediately noticed something was wrong.
The strange wind blowing against my body felt as if my very soul was trembling.
Moreover, there seemed to be something hidden within the cascading snow mist.
In LT County, a professional candle-wielding cultivator suddenly began packing his things.
His wife, inside the house, looked puzzled. "What's wrong? Why are you in such a hurry?"
"Quickly pack your things and leave Luntai immediately, something has happened."
"What happened? Oh, I'm telling you—"
"Ah ah—"
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Just then, a piercing scream rang out from the street.
The couple inside were startled. They went to the window and looked down. The street was filled with flowing white mist, and pedestrians were fleeing in panic because of a lizard bigger than a truck!
"Rock-shelled lizards!? Why are they in the city?!"
At this moment, the city was plunged into endless chaos.
The white storm not only brought extremely low temperatures that could corrode everything, but also caused chaos at the boundary between the real world and the virtual world!
Within these Yanzhou realms, familiar faces to Yanzhou professionals, such as the Crimson Sand Scorpion and the Rock-Shelled Lizard, have launched a large-scale counterattack from the virtual world into the real world.
Each step the monitor lizard took sent a slight tremor through the street, its protruding eyes darting about as it searched for anything moving on either side.
At this moment, in front of a grocery store, a woman was so frightened that she could hardly stand, but she still gritted her teeth and held her two children behind her tightly. Although her body was trembling, she tried her best to suppress her sobs, hoping that the other party would not notice them.
Suddenly, the shaking behind her stopped, and the mother's heart leaped into her throat. A huge shadow fell on her and her children. She held her two children tightly, her body trembling uncontrollably.
"Mom, Mom—"
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid—"
Tears welled up in the mother's eyes as she turned and hugged her child tightly.
The slippery tongue, capable of piercing through houses, shot out instantly and swallowed the mother and her two children in less than a second, like swatting flies!
"Swords and shadows"
Suddenly, a soft shout rang out from the roof of the general store. The next moment, the lizard's tongue landed on the roadside, with a clean cut, even though no swords or knives appeared.
Before the ferocious beast could react, its tongue inexplicably broke off, and blue blood spurted out like ink. The delayed pain stimulated it to let out a shrill scream. However, before the rock-shelled lizard could go berserk, the boy in the general store used his skill again.
"Swords and Shadows, Part 1"
An invisible cut appeared on the lizard's body, and the giant beast hadn't taken more than a few steps before it turned into a pile of minced meat by the roadside.
The man on the rooftop gave a wicked smile, and people rushed over from afar.
"Aotian, why are you running so fast?"
"Just like the association said, a dimensional rift really has appeared in LT County. Where's that 'Listen to the Dogs Bark' squad? Didn't they show up?"
Underneath the grocery store, the mother was still holding her child tightly, her body trembling, but upon hearing the commotion behind her, she slowly turned her head to look.
In front of that pile of minced meat noodles were several young professionals.
Gu Aotian turned around and said to the woman, "What are you still standing there for? Take your child and go seek refuge!"
The mother, finally regaining her senses and overjoyed to have escaped death, wept tears of gratitude, repeatedly saying, "Thank you, thank you so much!"
"No need to thank me, it's just a task from the Professionals' Association!"
P.S.: Please don't put pressure on me to update less. I'm someone who takes all the pressure, and when I'm under pressure, I actually write even slower, sob sob. Plus, it's the Lunar New Year and the start of the new semester, so I'm really busy. But I'm not writing 4,000 words a day right now. Once I've saved up some manuscripts, I'll go back to 6,000 words a day. If you feel the updates are too slow and want to let the book sit idle, there's nothing I can do. — I still hope you won't let it sit idle!