SEC Chapter 71 Chen Duo: Don't look up, the road ahead is your path.
Chapter 71 Chen Duo: Don't look up, the road ahead is your path.
Inside the door, outside the door.
Just a step away, yet they are two different worlds.
Inside, the lights were dim and warm; it was the auto repair shop called "Home".
It was that rough father who would cook fish for her.
Outside the door lies a pitch-black, chaotic void, fraught with unknown risks.
It is also the real world that Su Wuxian promised, full of infinite possibilities.
Chen Duo placed her hand in Su Wuxian's hand.
Her feet stepped out of the threshold, but her body remained as stiff as a stone.
"What? You can't bear to part with it?"
Su Wuxian didn't urge her, but just quietly looked at her, gently stroking the back of her hand with his thumb, conveying a calming power.
Chen Duo didn't say anything, but tears started falling uncontrollably again.
Reason told her it was time to leave.
But emotions are like the broth of braised fish, thick and rich, clinging to her ankles.
Just then.
From the kitchen behind me came the sound of plates shattering.
"Click."
"Dor!"
Liao Zhong's voice suddenly rang out, no longer the nagging cursing, but carrying a sense of anxiety and... relief.
Chen Duo suddenly turned around.
Liao Zhong was standing in the center of the living room, still wearing his apron.
But his body had begun to become translucent, like an old television set with a faulty connection, the image flickering constantly.
The surrounding walls and furniture were turning into quicksand and disappearing at a visible speed.
"Dad..." Chen Duo instinctively wanted to rush back.
"Stop! Don't move!"
Liao Zhong sternly stopped her.
He looked at Chen Duo, and his fierce bull-like eyes were now filled with a fatherly love as deep as the ocean.
As a subconscious projection, in the final moments before this world is about to collapse.
He possessed the true soul of "Liao Zhong".
"Silly girl."
Liao Zhong took a cigarette out of his pocket.
I tried to light it, but found that the lighter had disappeared.
He gave a wry smile, threw away his cigarette, looked at Su Wuxian at the door, and then at Chen Duo:
"Looks like... we won't be able to finish this meal."
"Good."
"My skills are only so-so. I used to cook communal meals in the army, and I was afraid you'd get tired of it if you ate too much."
"I don't mind!" Chen Duo cried, shaking her head. "I want to eat it every day!"
"All you do is eat shit! You're hopeless!"
Liao Zhong cursed, but his voice trembled slightly:
"The world outside is so big, there are so many delicious things to eat! Is that all you're looking for?"
He took a deep breath, as if using all his strength, and waved to Chen Duo, just like he did every day when he took her to school:
"Alright, stop dawdling."
"Is that your advisor? He's so young, he can't be a fraud, can he? But he seems more capable than me, he can protect you."
"Follow him."
Don't look back.
"dad......"
"Let's go!!"
Liao Zhong suddenly roared, his body rapidly dissipating due to the intensity of his emotions:
"Go live your own life! Don't cling to a dead man like me!"
"Chen Duo! You better live up to your reputation!"
"Did you hear that?!"
This was his final order.
It is not an order from a superior to a subordinate.
It was a father's final wish for his daughter.
Chen Duo was startled.
She bit her lip hard until she tasted blood.
She turned around, her back to Liao Zhong, and shouted at the top of her lungs:
"I heard you!!"
"Get lost if you heard me!" Liao Zhong's laughter echoed behind them. "Hahahaha! That's my daughter for you!"
Don't look back, your path lies ahead!
boom--
With that loud laugh, the cozy little house completely collapsed.
The smell of braised fish, the dim lighting, the rough, calloused hands...
In that instant, they all transformed into countless points of light, flying into the night sky like fireflies, and ultimately returning to nothingness.
Chen Duo did not turn around.
She gripped Su Wuxian's hand tightly, her nails almost digging into his flesh.
She didn't dare to turn around.
She was afraid that if she turned back, she would be unable to resist staying in this false dream and betraying that man's last expectations.
"Let's go."
Su Wuxian said softly.
He didn't use his Qi to repair the scratches on the back of his hand, but let Chen Duo hold onto them.
This is a weighty entrustment.
"Liao Zhong is a real man."
Su Wuxian looked into the void and whispered a promise:
Don't worry.
"From now on, I'll take care of this girl's meals."
......
The scene changes.
With Chen Duo's awakening, the very foundation of the inner world was completely shaken.
The once modern city of Biyou began to twist and deform like a melting candle.
Skyscrapers turned into ruins, and flying swords became scrap metal.
"Dor!!"
Old Meng was the first to rush over.
He looked at Chen Duo, whose face was streaked with tears but whose eyes were resolute. He opened his arms to hug her, but instinctively thought there was still poison and was afraid of touching her. He stood there helplessly.
"You...you're back...that's wonderful...that's wonderful..."
"Old Meng."
Chen Duo looked at the man who had always silently protected her and wiped away her tears:
"I'm back."
"I want... to eat ice cream."
"Buy! Let's go out and buy! Buy a whole case!"
Old Meng cried his eyes out.
Zhang Chulan, Feng Baobao, Wang Ye, Zhuge Qing, Xiao Zizai, Wang Zhenqiu, Hei Guan'er...
There are also two goalkeepers, Zhang Zhiwei and Tian Jinzhong.
Everyone gathered together at this moment.
They looked at each other, some looking disheveled, some looking sentimental, but all their eyes held a deeper sincerity.
"The dream is over."
Wang Ye stretched and looked at the crumbling world around him:
"Although the school was well-run, it always felt like it lacked a bit of warmth and vibrancy."
"yes."
Zhuge Qing pushed up his glasses:
"A victory without an opponent is indeed quite boring."
Just as everyone was feeling sentimental.
"Boom—!!!"
Suddenly, a huge crack appeared in the sky.
The once azure sky turned a shocking blood red.
An immense, suffocating pressure descended from the sky, pressing down heavily on everyone's hearts.
Why...?
An angry, confused, and mad voice echoed throughout the heavens and earth:
"Why did you wake up???"
"I gave you a perfect life! I gave you everything you wanted!"
Why did you refuse my kindness???
The clouds rolled in.
A huge human face appeared in the sky; it was Ma Xianhong's face.
But at this moment, his eyes were filled with bloody tears, and his expression was as ferocious as a ghost.
In this collapsing inner world, he is the final—god.
"Su Wuxian!!"
The enormous Ma Xianhong glared at Su Wuxian, its roar shattering countless buildings.
"You ruined all of this!!"
"Since you don't want to have sweet dreams... then may you all turn into nightmares here!!"
"Nobody's getting out!!"
boom!
Countless enhanced versions of the "heavenly soldiers and generals" puppets emerged densely from the cracks.
Like locusts swarming across the land, they swept over everyone.
"Oh, getting impatient."
Faced with this apocalyptic scene.
Instead of panicking, Su Wuxian pulled Chen Duo behind him and handed her over to Lao Meng.
He took a step forward, looked up at the enormous face in the sky, and a wild, arrogant smile curled at the corner of his mouth:
"Little Ma, you have a really bad dream."
"The truth cannot be hidden, and falsehood cannot be made true."
"Since you refuse to wake up..."
Su Wuxian cracked his knuckles and called out to the crowd behind him:
"Everyone! Have you rested enough?"
"We have work to do!"
"Tear down this damn divine kingdom! And get rid of that brat who doesn't want to get out of bed..."
Su Wuxian's eyes sharpened:
"Wake me up!!"
"Oh, Old Ma, why did you do this to yourself..."
"Alright!"
"Amitabha Buddha, protect life even when killing."
"Hehe, finally we can get started!"
A boy band consisting of temporary workers, the younger generation, and older people seeking re-employment.
Everyone assembled.