AWB Chapter 145 Six times we weren't together, I'll take you away from the world and hide.
Chapter 145 Six times we weren't together, I'll take you away from the world and hide.
Jiang Liwu's eyes grew brighter and brighter, and a radiant smile blossomed on her face.
Shang Tingyan was mesmerized, a look of deep intoxication settling in his profound eyes.
However, to Shang Tingyan's surprise, Jiang Liwu, who was smiling just a second ago, suddenly had large tears fall on his face, burning his face and causing him to twitch.
Soon, tears began to fall like beads from a broken string, leaving Shang Tingyan completely at a loss.
"What's wrong? Why are you crying?" Jiang Liwu had shed tears in front of him quite a few times.
He always manages to make people cry, ever since the very first time we met.
Shang Tingyan hurriedly wiped away Jiang Liwu's tears with his fingertips, but the more he wiped, the more tears flowed, and he couldn't wipe them all away. The wetness of the tears blurred her face, and she looked like a flower wet by the rain, lonely and fragile.
"Liar." Jiang Liwu's voice was hoarse as she suppressed a sob, and the veins on her forehead became more prominent, flushed with sadness and pain.
Shang Tingyan felt even more helpless and anxious.
"Shang Tingyan, you're a liar. You've never been with me forever, not even six times."
Shang Tingyan was stunned, a look of doubt and inquiry appearing in his eyes, "Six times?"
"What are you saying, six times?"
Shang Tingyan had absolutely no recollection or memory of when they had made a promise to be together forever, and six times in total.
"Shang Tingyan, please don't die." Jiang Liwu's eyes were filled with broken tears as she stroked the man's face with both hands, her eyes filled with sorrow and grief.
She was crying so hard that there was no hint of joking in her voice. Shang Tingyan's emotions were swayed by her every smile, frown, joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness. At this moment, his heart felt like it was being fried in oil. "I'm not dead, I'm perfectly fine. Feel it, is it beating?" Shang Tingyan moved one of her hands to his heart, his heart pounding hot and strong against his chest, against Jiang Liwu's palm.
Jiang Liwu felt the vibrant life force in her palm, nodded, then shook her head. It was fine now, but every time, a bright red color would bloom here in the next second, and as the bright red spread, her heartbeat would gradually disappear.
"No, Shang Tingyan, this time I don't want to be with you forever. Let's not be together anymore. Can you please live well?" As long as you can live, it's okay if we're not together, it's okay if we don't see each other, it's okay if we pretend we never met.
Shang Tingyan was speechless. He looked at Jiang Liwu with complicated emotions, his heart felt heavy, and he felt as sad as her tears. When he heard Jiang Liwu say that she would not be with him, his heart was torn apart by a sharp pain.
In a flash, Shang Tingyan appeared different in Jiang Liwu's eyes. He had been infected and mutated, transforming into a monster with countless tentacles, cruel and ruthless, yet he retained a sliver of reason when facing her. Even though he couldn't control his bloodthirsty instincts, he would rather sever his tentacles, rather crash into hard rocks and steel, than harm her. Not only that, he protected her, having to contend not only with the hatred of humans but also with other monsters that greedily awaited to devour him while he was weakened.
Even when he was attacked from all sides, had countless tentacles severed, and was covered in wounds, he never thought of leaving her.
Jiang Liwu's shoulders trembled as she broke down in tears, touching the man's hand and sobbing uncontrollably.
"What? Why do I only have two hands now... Waaah..."
Shang Tingyan dared not say that he originally only had two arms and two hands.
"How did you get so badly injured? There's so much blood. Your healing ability isn't working anymore." Jiang Liwu pressed her hand tightly against the man's body, trying to stop the bleeding.
Powerful monsters possess regenerative and self-healing abilities. As long as they don't die, even if only a tiny bit remains, they can recover completely after a certain period of rest.
This is precisely why the end times are filled with the atmosphere of despair and death, because there is no hope, no chance of life, and the calamities are endless.
Only by traveling back in time and restarting the world can everyone be truly saved.
"Shang Tingyan, are you going to die?"
"will not."
"Really? You're not lying to me?"
"Do not lie to you."
"Are you in a lot of pain?"
"It doesn't hurt at all," Shang Tingyan continued to wipe away her tears.
Jiang Liwu's voice was hoarse, "You're lying, you're lying now, how could it not hurt?" Each severed tentacle was no different from severing an arm or a leg, because it was also a part of him.
"Shang Tingyan, let's hide away, okay? Let's not care about anything else. The world is like this, there's no hope, no cure. I'll take you to hide away, let's hide somewhere where there are no monsters and no people, and live like this forever."
Jiang Liwu hugged the man in front of her tightly, her whole body still trembling uncontrollably.
In her choked sobs, Shang Tingyan suddenly saw a vision of the apocalypse, and also saw himself transformed into a black tentacle monster.
His tentacles wrapped around Jiang Liwu's waist, bringing her to his side, into his arms. More tentacles formed a ball, firmly protecting Jiang Liwu within. In this process, countless tentacles were severed from him, but he ignored them, mobilizing all his strength to desperately split and grow new tentacles to fill the gaps. Even if it meant overdrawing his life force, it didn't matter. He had only one thought: to protect her.
Even if he dies, it doesn't matter.
However, the humans who wanted to kill him discovered this weakness. In order to eliminate him, they did not hesitate to concentrate their fire on their own kind, intending to sacrifice Jiang Liwu in exchange for the life of a powerful monster.
Shang Tingyan could only keep dodging and running away, while also dealing with other monsters that pounced on him.
Wherever he went, countless severed limbs and legs were left behind, covered in blood. In the end, he became somewhat bald, sticky, wretched, ugly, and extremely weak.
At this point, all that's needed is one more blow to pierce his heart, and that will take his life.
In the scene he saw, Jiang Liwu also hugged him and cried, saying the same words to him.
At this point, he had indeed become a monster, but he quickly regained some of his rationality and reclaimed some of the memories that had not been completely devoured during his time with Jiang Liwu. Therefore, he was able to understand what Jiang Liwu was saying to him.
But how could that be?
He could live in darkness, his whole life in perpetual gloom, but Jiang Liwu could never stay in darkness. She didn't belong there; she belonged to the light.
He wanted to send her back to the light and sunshine.
Jiang Liwu's eyelids felt incredibly heavy. As she leaned against the man's shoulder, her voice and sobs gradually subsided, and finally her breathing became even.
Noticing this, Shang Tingyan gently patted Jiang Liwu's back, and soon, Jiang Liwu could no longer hold on and closed her eyes to fall into a deep sleep.