Chapter 452 Blue Star Extra: Eli Mingzhao

This is the tenth year after Jiang Erli’s death.

The woods in the early morning are filled with the chirping of birds, and the sunlight shines through the treetops, casting a mottled shadow on the ground.

The birds were startled by the sound of the motorcycle and flew away, but soon fell back to the ground.

Jiang Mingzhao took off his helmet and walked up to the tombstones lined up on the hillside.

“Jiang Erli, you are amazing. You have been lying down for so many years, and I still have to come to see you every year and every month.” Jiang Mingzhao sat down in front of the stele and leaned back without any hesitation. “We came to this world together, and you have chosen a good place for yourself.”

Since Jiang Erli’s death, Jiang Mingzhao began to record herself frequently, but the figure in the photos was no longer herself.

While she was complaining about Jiang Erli’s aesthetics, she couldn’t help but wonder what expression Jiang Erli should have when she was putting on her clothes.

Then I cursed, saying how come someone who has lived for more than 20 years doesn’t have many photos.

The twins on the phone screen have been buried in the years. After pressing the lock screen button, Jiang Mingzhao looked at the flocks of flying birds.

The bird sounds here are different from those anywhere else, especially like the chirping of Jiang Erli in her ears, which is very pleasant to hear and not noisy at all.

She wanted to smile in front of Jiang Erli, but she couldn’t. She closed her eyes and leaned into his cold embrace.

A group of people walked out of the woods not far away. The two people in the lead already showed some signs of aging, but their postures were upright and their steps were steady, which was obviously different from ordinary people.

Seeing Jiang Mingzhao, Ke Zan and others beside Xiaojiu’s tombstone, they were a little dazed. No one dared to speak for a while, and they stopped silently a few steps away.

After Jiang Er left, Jiang Mingzhao had been a criminal policeman for ten years and his perception was far beyond that of ordinary people.

“Captain Ke, you are here too.”

Ke Zan nodded, “Come and see Xiao Jiu and Xiao Shi.”

After Jiang Erli left, the Western Region hunting falcon she raised stopped eating and soon followed Jiang Erli and was buried in the woods next to the cemetery.

Long Lingyun said nothing and sat down on the other side of the tombstone.

Compared to Ke Zan and others, she had an indelible sense of self-blame and guilt in her heart. Jiang Erli was the observer she personally selected, and she brought him into the Yaoguang team and onto the battlefield, but she failed to bring him back.

On the day Jiang Erli left, many strange things happened that could not be explained by science, but they all knew that it was Jiang Erli who exchanged his own life for theirs.

His shattered shoulder, Ke Zan’s femoral artery, the medic of the Yuheng team who had multiple fractures, the vice-captain of the Kaiyang team who died in battle…

There is also Jiang Mingzhao who clearly remembers committing suicide.

They, they, all survived and lived well, just as Jiang Erli had hoped.

“Second brother, it’s time to go.”

Long Lingyun was pulled up, and the eight members of the Yaoguang team stood in front of the tombstone in a neat row, saluted, and left.

“Jiang Erli, are you happy?” Watching the few people leave, Jiang Mingzhao forced a smile, his vision becoming increasingly blurry.

“Jiang Mingzhao.”

“Jiang Mingzhao——”

In a trance, a water curtain appeared. Jiang Mingzhao raised his hand to touch it. Ripples spread out in all directions, gradually reflecting his own figure. No, too young, this is not me.

“Jiang Mingzhao, it’s me. Have you forgotten me so quickly?”

Jiang Mingzhao sat there stiffly, staring blankly at the figure in the water curtain, “Jiang Erli?”

Seeing that she didn’t move, Jiang Erli took a step forward, walked out of the water curtain, squatted down and hugged Jiang Mingzhao.

The warm body made Jiang Mingzhao tremble all over. All this went against science and common sense… Screw science and common sense, being able to hug was real, even if it was only for a moment.

“Wait a minute, Jiang Mingzhao, do you want to strangle me?”

When he let go of her hand, her face was still smiling as it was back then, but her slightly weathered face was now covered with traces of tears.

“Don’t cry, don’t cry. Don’t shed tears in front of my tombstone, Jiang Mingzhao. I’m not dead. I’m not here. I’m watching you in heaven…”

Before he could finish his words, he was hit in the face by a punch. Jiang Erli covered his shoulder, unable to believe it: How could someone hit a dead person? !
Jiang Mingzhao looked at his slightly red finger bones and felt a slight pain. “Fuck, are you serious?”

Jiang Erli: “…”

So you’re just using me to test whether it’s real or not?
“Jiang Mingzhao, are you unhappy that I’m not dead? What, do you want to kill me?” Jiang Erli asked jokingly, but he was also aware of the impact this kind of thing would have on Jiang Mingzhao, so he sat down and explained slowly.

Listening to her explanation, Jiang Mingzhao’s eyes gradually changed from confusion to clarity: “So you are here to survive the calamity?”

If Jiang Erli came from another world and possessed powers that were beyond the reach of Blue Star science, then all the previous unreasonable things would be explained.

“Du, you can understand it this way. I have now ‘completed my merits’.”

Although she admired Jiang Mingzhao’s train of thought, she still talked about the purpose of coming here: “Jiang Mingzhao, I’m here to pick you up. Will you come back with me? Come back to the Kingdom of God with me. With me here, your future life will no longer be full of twists and turns, and you can live for yourself.”

“Am I not living for myself now? Jiang Erli, no, Nanli, are you pitying me?”

Nan Li shook his head quickly.

Jiang Mingzhao smiled, showing his teeth. “This is Southern Xinjiang. After you left, Mom went to the largest life science institute in the country to continue her career, and I stayed in Southern Xinjiang to continue being a police officer. Every time I catch a criminal, every time we work with the Yaoguang team to wipe out a new stronghold, I can clearly feel that you are still with us.”

“Everything I do is meaningful. It is not only to inherit the will of the deceased, but more importantly, seeing the people in southern Xinjiang living and working in peace and contentment, and my compatriots no longer worrying about whether they are safe, I am willing to stay here. Whether my father is still here or not, whether you are not here or not, I will stay here.”

“The world is big, and there are many bad people. In the past, I was fighting against drug trafficking, and now I am preventing cross-border fraud. I don’t know if I can finish all these tasks in my lifetime… So, Nanli, don’t mess with me. I can’t die yet.”

It’s not that I don’t want to die, it’s that I can’t die.

Jiang Mingzhao seemed to have mistakenly thought that Nan Li was going to take her to hell. “That’s not what I meant, Jiang Mingzhao. I want to take you to live in another place. I don’t want you to leave now. I can wait until you have done everything, and then I will lead your soul to the kingdom of God.”

“You can’t bear to leave me.” Jiang Mingzhao said bluntly, “I can’t bear to leave you either. But, Nanli, now that Jiang Erli’s mission is over, you are no longer her. You are Nanli now. When you go to your kingdom of God, you are the God King Nanli. You no longer look like Jiang Erli, and you no longer have the identity of Jiang Erli. You are completely two different people.”

“All I want is my twin sister from the beginning to the end. I only want my Jiang Erli, not Nanli.”

Nan Li was silent. Although she could now transform back into Jiang Erli, it was impossible for her to accompany Jiang Mingzhao like this every day after she returned to Day Island. Dad, Mom, and Yangyang would not be happy.

“Jiang Mingzhao, I just feel that I owe you an explanation. Jiang Erli’s mission has been completed, but your sister shouldn’t have left so early. You should have always…”

“Always what? Grow old together? Coming together doesn’t mean we have to leave together. Nanli, now that her mission is accomplished, her life is complete. She doesn’t need to feel guilty for me.”

Jiang Mingzhao looked at the person in front of him, who looked the same as he did back then. He felt reluctant but also sober.

“Jiang Erli is gone. Erli is bright and clear, disasters are far away, and light is revealed. Her departure has brought a bright future to me. I will continue my career, and my mother, Ms. Ye Jinan, will also continue her scientific research career. Our lives have their own meanings.”

“I will not go to the Kingdom of God with you, either now or after my death. Even if you can always stay like this, you are no longer her, no longer Xiaojiu of the Yaoguang team, and no longer my Jiang Erli. Your world does not belong to me either. What does it mean if I go there?”

Jiang Mingzhao stared at Jiang Erli for a long, long time. “It’s enough that you still want to come back to see me.”

She said, “It’s time to wake up from the dream and leave.”

Nan Li wanted to say something, but knew he shouldn’t try to keep her, so he could only nod.

“it is good.”

The red halo slowly spread out, and the water curtain and the human figure disappeared together.

Jiang Mingzhao was still looking beside her, at the direction where Nan Li had just appeared. A golden-red feather fell there, telling her that everything that had just happened was not an illusion.

“Ding Dong Dong——”

Picking up the feather, the sound of the bird chirping suddenly interrupted by the ringing of the cell phone. Jiang Mingzhao picked up the phone and the person on the other end called out to Captain Jiang: “Captain Jiang, we have a clue.”

She came back to her senses instantly, and her tall and slender figure stood up from where she was. She was still the tough and proud Jiang Mingzhao.

“Just come.”

Even if life is like a mirage, I will live every moment well.

Let disasters go away and let the light shine.

……

Blue Star Divine Realm.

“She doesn’t want to?” Seeing that Nanli was the only one there, Ling Guang understood, “She has her own way, which cannot be replaced or measured by immortality.”

Dong Yun sat next to Ling Guang and waved to Nan Li, “One day in the God Realm is one year in the human world. Several dozen years are only two or three months in the God Realm. You can leave a clone behind to watch her finish this life.”

“No need, Yangyang.”

After thanking Ling Guang, Nan Li sat down and said, “She is right. It is time to wake up from the dream. I was greedy and wanted to give her a happy ending and give myself an explanation. But the meaning of her life should not be defined by anyone. I respect her choice.”

“Yangyang, has Aunt Qingwu’s soul been settled?”

“It’s ready.” Dong Yun patted her back gently, with the tenderness accumulated over the years.

Before Madam Lan Xi passed away, she tried her best to find the fragment of Qing Wu’s soul. Dong Yun used his own soul power to nourish it for hundreds of years and completed it.

After a dream of reincarnation and the Buddha’s skull, she finally understood the law of reincarnation.

It can send the mother’s soul to the afterlife.

Dong Yun doesn’t want his mother to work anymore. He wants to give her a peaceful and stable environment so that she can live her life and live for herself.

The first thing Nan Li thought of was the Blue Star World, the place guarded by Jiang Mingzhao and Jiang Erli, so he brought Dong Yun to meet the God Lord Ling Guang.

Lingguang agreed, and Dongyun was able to place the other side of reincarnation on the Blue Star.

“Ali.”

Dong Yun handed over a white dragon tooth ring, and said in front of Nan Li’s surprised eyes: “In fact, the first soul to reincarnate was Long Lingyun. But when I first activated the law of reincarnation in my soul bone, I didn’t know where I sent her, whether it was the past or the future, so…”

“So what?” Nan Li asked.

“You live on Blue Star as Jiang Erli, and the Long Lingyun you met may be her, or may not be her. After coming to the world of Blue Star, the law of reincarnation here is not under my control. I only have the power to open the door to the law, not the power to explore.”

Dongyun can’t control it, but Lingguang can.

Receiving Nan Li’s gaze, Ling Guang said calmly: “Do you think so?”

Nan Li smiled, much more relaxed than Dong Yun and Ling Guang expected. “Whether it is true or not is no longer important. I only treat her as a friend and never have any unreasonable expectations. She can realize her dream here. As a friend, I am happy for her. Why bother her anymore?”

“The disaster has dissipated, the flower-growing family is harmonious and stable, the weather is bright and beautiful now, everything will be fine, the disaster will be gone.”

In fact, when writing this extra chapter, Mou Zhao’s original idea was to let Jiang Mingzhao go to the Sun Island and live forever in the Kingdom of God.

But thinking from Jiang Mingzhao’s perspective, perhaps, with her tenacity and her pride, she would not be willing to live in a world that does not belong to her. That is just an illusion.

Let her choose her own life.

There is also Long Lingyun. In fact, there is a foreshadowing in the text. When Jiang Erli left, Long Lingyun called out “A Li”. Was this voice calling Jiang Erli or Nan Li? Both are possible.

Are these two people in the Blue Star World and the Douluo World the same person? Maybe, maybe not. It is an open ending. You can think she is, or you can think she is not.