Chapter 172 Love is bondage, restraint and waiting

Puff.

The tip of the dagger sank into the flesh, making a sharp sound like tearing silk.

Time seemed to stop at this moment.

Qianzhi was embraced by Bo Lan’s arms, with his strong arms across her chest. Her whole body leaned over, trying to use her body to resist Rhodes’ attack in the next moment.

At the same time, Rhodes’ dagger had already stabbed towards her throat, but was blocked by a ghostly tentacle.

The tip of the sword pierced into the tentacle, black mist filled the air, and sticky black blood splashed out, splashing stickily on Qianzhi’s cheek.

The next moment, the owner of the tentacles appeared in front of Qianzhi, his tall body completely blocking the girl. The messy mist came out from behind him like countless entangled tentacles, fluttered beside her cheeks, then restrainedly shrank back and carefully curled up beside Leon.

The man completely tore off all his disguises, revealing all the spiritual bodies that once belonged to Er.

Rhodes opened his eyes wide and suddenly let out a hoarse laugh.

He dropped the dagger in his hand, took a few steps back, and covered his body with the coffin.

“Mr. Disaster, you have put so much thought and effort into making Qianzhi Guide finally get a little closer to you.”

“It’s a pity that I destroyed them all.”

He held out his arm to Leon.

“Why not kill me and Bo Lan right now, and then tamper with her memory to make everything become what you want.”

——That’s right, let everything return to the day when the interstellar was about to be annihilated.

Let the girl put the responsibility of salvation back on her shoulders, and then, in order to prevent the disaster from happening again and to keep mankind free from misfortune, kill the disaster once again.

The huge collision between disaster and hope resets the spirits of the Sentinels and Guides, allows the planetary consciousness to emerge, and may even bring the undead around her back to the world.

But the man didn’t move.

The black mist just floated quietly beside him, not angered by his words, and without even the slightest fluctuation.

There was a smile on Leon’s face, a smile of comfort, joy, and relief.

“I hide my true self, but I always hope that you can discover the real me under this skin, Qianzhi.” The man turned around, as if he was afraid that the girl would retreat, he took a few steps back before her.

“I’m looking forward to this day.” Lyon smiled.

“Do you know what my soul thinks every day before it returns to the world?”

“I want to see you, listen to your voice, smell the same air as you, and feel what the world looks like in your eyes. Then, I want to be discovered by you, and then killed by you, and truly disappear from this world.”

It seemed that at this moment, Er understood what his mother once said about “love”.

Even though he wanted to get closer to her, he went against his instinct and stayed away from her.

Even though he hated the person who had exposed everything to him so much, he still obediently retracted his sharp claws and tentacles, unable to release even the slightest murderous intent.

Love is bondage.

Love is restraint.

Love is waiting.

Love is love itself.

He knew that he loved her.

From beginning to end, I have always loved her.

So he was willing to die, that was his pure love and sweet return.

The girl did not retreat as he expected, but took a few steps towards him, her little face looking up at him, her emerald eyes like the rippling, crystal clear lake, shimmering with moisture.

“Even though you are not the real Leon Claude, you still stick to his position, remember the names of the dead soldiers, and show sadness for those who died because of you.”

“You will think about the power of emotions and suppress the urge to kill.” Her expression was so soft, so gentle that Leon’s heart sank, and his throat felt sore and itchy, as if he had walked a very long way and finally saw the oasis he wanted to see at the end.

“Uh,” Chizhi approached him, stretched out her arms to him, and smiled, just like in his dream.

“You finally found yourself.”

Just like her mother told her.

Her responsibility has disappeared,

And he, at the moment of birth, was forced to be infected with malice, and finally, through the pain of his soul being torn apart thousands of times, he slowly paid for those sins.

Now, their souls are the same as those of ordinary people, and they should experience the life of ordinary people that belongs to them alone.

The man’s throat rolled, and his dark eyes slowly became moist in the light, revealing a brilliant, bright light.

His hand trembled slightly as he reached out to her.

boom–

The next moment, the ground trembled and the whole house was shaking.

Behind them, Rhodes, who was lying on the coffin, was coughing with a desperate and crazy expression.

“I still failed, my little Xia.” He murmured, “But it doesn’t matter, Daddy will be here and stay with you forever.”

The gray-eyed man raised his head and gave Qianzhi and the others a complicated yet relieved smile.

“I have done many wrong things and killed many people wrongly, so I deserve to be buried underground and fall into hell.”

“Guide Qianzhi, I’m sorry to drag you into this chaos.” He pointed to a small open door, “Go out through the small door over there and walk along the passage, and you will be able to reach the outside world.”

“Someone is waiting for you outside.”

The people of the Empire are trying to find a way to open up this relatively enclosed space.

As he spoke, the huge room was shaking, and countless cracks appeared on the white walls, revealing the true nature of the entire house.

Countless black data tubes flashing green electricity were collapsing, oozing electro-fluid abscesses like rotten blood vessels.

As the data tubes collapsed, the entire space collapsed.

It turns out that the entire garden and the entire house are illusions composed of four-dimensional projections.

They were actually trapped in one of the underground spaces in Area 7377.

Qianzhi looked at Rhodes.

The man lay down on the coffin lid, and his always straight back bent, as if he had aged in an instant.

It was as if this goal of revenge had been supporting him until now, when it collapsed like this house.

“Xia is here, Rod, she is right next to you.”

Qianzhi suddenly opened his mouth and pointed to Rhodes’ side.

Xia’s ghost was pulling at Rhodes’s collar and hugging the man’s arm.

“Really?” Rhodes smiled faintly and opened his arms again. “Did I hug her this time?”

The man’s arms overlapped with the girl’s.

Their figures overlapped, crossing the boundary between life and death, and finally hugged each other again.

“Qianqian——” At the moment of data collapse, Bo Lan’s voice came to Qianzhi’s ears.

Bo Lan held the lightsaber in one hand, the light flashing across the dense falling rubble, and with the other hand he held Qianzhi and rushed out of the small door.

The overlapping figures in the door were completely obliterated in the dust.